As though driven by some instinct, Li Xian reached a trembling hand toward his pocket, where he kept the candy he had saved up, but Ji Xie caught his wrist the next second.
Li Xian struggled, but he was no match for Ji Xie's strength. Even the candy in his pocket was taken before he could get to it. In the end, he could only look over at the man beside him with tears in his eyes.
"Confiscated."
Ji Xie put the candy into his own pocket right in front of Li Xian, then pulled him into his arms before he could protest again.
"Be good."
Li Xian felt as though he had split into two halves. His remaining reason tried to rein in his struggling, but his hands refused to listen, desperate to snatch the candy back and shove it straight into his mouth-
I haven't even eaten any candy. Why am I showing symptoms like an addiction?
The lucid part of his mind mustered a flicker of confusion over this, only to be immediately drowned by the emotions surging in.
"I want... candy."
He heard himself say those words in broken fragments.
Ji Xie held down Li Xian's hands as they kept groping for the candy, tirelessly kissing away the tears streaming down his face as he murmured soothingly:
"No candy. Have this instead..."
The last sound dissolved between their joined lips. His mouth was slowly claimed, the stirring sensation growing clearer, and that enticing kiss gradually drew Li Xian's sense of himself back into reality.
Li Xian slowly stopped struggling. Ji Xie released his hands and began gently stroking his trembling back instead.
They stayed entwined like that, lips and tongues meeting, until tears no longer spilled from Li Xian's eyes and he began responding to the