Qi Gu knelt halfway down in the bathtub, his pale, slender arms braced against its rim, a few veins standing out clearly at his wrists.
Red marks of varying intensity from being gripped covered his wrists, waist, abdomen, and elsewhere, looking all the clearer and more sensual against his pale skin and the bathtub.
Much of the clear bathwater splashed up, then pattered back into the tub.
Lin Hanzhi held Qi Gu's slender waist, leaving red palm prints there from how long he had been gripping it.
"Enough..." Dizzy and lightheaded, Qi Gu scolded him softly, as though he could bear no more.
But the next moment, Lin Hanzhi sealed his lips and tongue with a kiss, kissing him until he was even more disoriented, sinking into a muddled haze.
"One more time, please?" Lin Hanzhi's voice was impossibly hoarse, making his soft words all the more moving.
Qi Gu kept a cold expression, his entire body flushed crimson, and said nothing.
Then he felt the man's fingertips linger as they traveled up from his flat lower abdomen. Soft, sharply defined lips and a tongue brushed his cheek, kissing him, before he continued to coax him at his ear. "Baby?"
Qi Gu had never heard that endearment before. Even when he was Shifu, no one had ever called him that. Along with his embarrassment, he could not help feeling somewhat pleased, and for a moment he indulged Lin Hanzhi, murmuring, "...All right."
With his permission, Lin Hanzhi curled his lips into a smile and grew all the more unrestrained.
The lights in the room swayed and tumbled endlessly in Qi Gu's eyes. He had no idea how much time had passed when he happened to turn his gaze aside and saw his and Lin Hanzhi's reflections in the large mirror