The next day.
Golden sunlight streamed through the window onto the two handsome young men sleeping in a tight embrace on the bed, gilding them in gold.
Both breathed steadily. The red plum blossom-like marks on the black-haired young man's collarbones were startling, as though some beast had gnawed on him and left its brand on his body so everyone would know he belonged to it.
The growing warmth made the black-haired young man's eyelashes flutter, and he woke to the chirping of insects and birds.
"Again! I can't keep letting Lanhe do whatever he wants! At this rate, I won't be able to show my face in public."
When Xie Huizhou woke, he couldn't help giving Zhang Lanhe, who lay asleep beside him with his arms around him, a slap.
"You're sleeping just fine, aren't you? What am I supposed to wear to the signing today, hmm?"
Zhang Lanhe had promised not to leave marks, but once he got excited, he had still left quite a few suggestive traces.
It didn't matter when Xie Huizhou stayed home drawing, but he had a signing to attend today, and he still wanted to leave a good impression on his lovely fans.
Woken by the slap, Zhang Lanhe opened the emerald-green Snake Pupils in his handsome, angled face and hugged Xie Huizhou tightly as he was about to get out of bed. "It's still early. Let's sleep a little longer. I'll get rid of those marks for you."
Zhang Lanhe was reluctant to let Xie Huizhou go and regretted that he couldn't keep leaving his marks on him.
He wanted everyone coveting his wife to understand that Xie Huizhou was his wife alone!
They weren't allowed to call Zhouzhou their wife!
"If we don't get up now, we won't make it to