Marital duties

Wait, what kind of dirty talk was that?

Did he mean go easy during their nightly exercise in the great harmony of life?

Xu Chao's little face flushed scarlet. His round almond eyes scanned their surroundings, and he said with all the furtiveness of a thief, "L-let's talk about that when we get home."

At the word "home," Fu Sichen raised his brows slightly, his voice sounding rather pleased. "All right. Let's go home."

Xu Chao breathed a sigh of relief too. As he headed outside, he tried to remove Fu Sichen's hand from its tight grip around his waist.

But the moment he moved, the man's arm tightened further.

Xu Chao sucked in a breath of pain.

Fu Sichen paused and asked, "Did I hurt you?"

For some reason, Xu Chao's mind went straight into the gutter. "N-no."

He hurried out of the private room. Noticing the two rows of servers following closely behind them, Xu Chao suddenly remembered. Oh, he hadn't paid yet!

Xu Chao stopped and explained somewhat timidly to Fu Sichen, "Boss, I'm going to settle the bill."

Fu Sichen's brows drew together almost imperceptibly. "Hm?"

That icy, knife-like stare made Xu Chao tremble inwardly. Just then, the bar manager approached with a group of servers.

Xu Chao hurried over.

The manager involuntarily took a step back. Good heavens, come if you must, but why bring a human weapon along?!

Xu Chao wanted to cry too. He hadn't expected Fu Sichen to cling to his waist like sticky candy, impossible to shake off.

But neither of them had the nerve to tell Fu Sichen to move farther away, so they could only steel themselves and talk.

"That's how it is," Xu Chao said at last.

The manager nodded cautiously.

With that confirmation, Xu Chao relaxed and exhaled. He even raised a hand beside his ear in a gesture. "Remember to call me."

When the young man smiled, his eyes curved like crescent moons, clear and lovely.

The manager was momentarily dazed and couldn't help smiling too.

But the next second, a cold, dangerous aura descended, and a deep, restrained voice sounded. "Did you understand all of that?"

The manager's smile froze on his face. He ventured, "Yes. I'll do as M-Mrs. Fu said?"

"Good." Fu Sichen's expression eased.

Once they had left, a newly hired server scoffed, "He only drugged his way into that position, and you're calling him Mrs. Fu?"

The manager was still shaken. "How he got there doesn't matter. What matters is that his position as Mrs. Fu is secure. Stop standing around and bring me the bill."

Meanwhile, the atmosphere in the private room was somewhat subdued.

They were all wondering how that idiot Xu Chao had managed to seduce Fu Sichen.

Lou Jun was still nursing a grudge over that humiliating order to shut up. Too embarrassed to stay, he grabbed Shen Xinbai and started to leave.

Just as he moved, the manager entered.

He wore a slight smile, perfectly polite.

"Hello, Young Master Lou. Your total today comes to exactly three hundred and eighty thousand yuan. Card or cash?"

Lou Jun was baffled. "Xu Chao's treating today. Go find him. Why are you coming to me?"

"The expenses for Mrs. Fu's birthday party have been charged to Young Master Fu, but these bottles of liquor..." The manager remained reasonably polite.

Lou Jun narrowed his eyes and sneered. "It's his birthday. Put everything on his tab. Didn't you understand?"

The manager smiled politely. "But that didn't mean you could help yourself to takeaways too."

Everyone's eyes immediately shifted downward.

Lou Jun and Shen Xinbai were both carrying several bottles of expensive, luxurious liquor.

Well, then. They hadn't noticed before, but on closer inspection, they really were!

Lou Jun clenched his fists and said darkly, "Xu Chao gave these to me!"

The pink-haired boy waved his phone, shaking with laughter. "It's Chaochao's birthday party. You didn't get him a present, and you expect him to give you one? Tsk, tsk, tsk."

Xu Chao had always fawned over him, humbling himself and eagerly paying his bills. He had long since grown used to it, but now... Xu Chao was using such underhanded tricks to get his attention!

Xu Chao, you've really outdone yourself! Lou Jun thought through gritted teeth.

After a moment's hesitation, Shen Xinbai spoke gently. "We ordered the liquor because Chaochao wanted it. But since he had something to attend to and left early, I'll go pay, then give him the bottles later."

His words sounded lovely, but what he actually planned was to return the liquor at the front desk. What sucker would spend hundreds of thousands buying liquor at a bar?!

But the next second, the manager helpfully held out the card terminal. "Exactly three hundred and eighty thousand yuan. Please swipe your card."

The pink-haired boy couldn't hold back his laughter again. "Haha, thirty-eight! What a bitch!"

Lou Jun glared viciously at him. The pink-haired boy stuck out his tongue and kept laughing.

Suppressing his anger, Lou Jun swiped his card. Before leaving, he fixed the manager with a threatening stare. "You bastard. Just you wait."

The money wasn't much to Lou Jun. What truly humiliated him was that he, the dignified second young master of the Lou family, had been cornered by a bar manager demanding payment. He had lost all face!

After paying, the two left with dark expressions. The pink-haired boy rolled around on the sofa in delight, then sent the video to Xu Chao.

In fact, Xu Chao had been on the phone with the manager the whole time, but listening was nowhere near as satisfying as watching the video.

Lou Jun's face had turned green!

Hahaha!

Halfway through laughing, Xu Chao suddenly realized something. He slapped a hand over his mouth and said timidly, "Sowwy."

Fu Sichen spoke unhurriedly. "That happy?"

Xu Chao's eyes darted, and he immediately clenched his little fists indignantly. "Mm-hmm! Lou Jun was spending my money to please Shen Xinbai. I wasn't happy about that."

Fu Sichen's voice grew colder. "And what about you?"

The question left Xu Chao stunned. Suddenly remembering how the original owner had spent Fu Sichen's money to please Lou Jun, he blurted, "Then how about I spend Lou Jun's money to please you?"

Ha! A complete reversal of the natural order!

Fu Sichen raised a brow. "Do I need that?"

The Fu Family's businesses spanned every industry, its wealth rivaling a nation's. Young Master Fu didn't merely have money to spare; he had more than he could spend.

Xu Chao pouted. "Sowwy. I failed to recognize greatness when I saw it."

With that, the little beauty shrank miserably into the corner, surrounded by an air of poverty and melancholy.

A faint trace of amusement flickered through Fu Sichen's eyes. "Come here."

Xu Chao blinked. "What can I do for you, boss?"

His words were obedient, but his bottom didn't budge an inch.

Fu Sichen's eyes darkened. He reached out his long arm and pulled the little beauty over by the waist.

Xu Chao's bottom slid across the leather seat, landing on the man's lap in a flash. His whole body tensed. "B-boss?"

Fu Sichen looked down at him. "Call me husband."

Xu Chao's pupils widened sharply. Huh?

Wasn't something wrong with this plot?!

The act at the bar could just barely be explained as Fu Sichen wanting to save face, pretending they were a harmonious couple in front of outsiders.

But what was happening now? This wasn't how the original story went. Had he transmigrated into the wrong book?

As he sat there in a daze, hot breath brushed the side of his face.

Xu Chao instinctively looked up and unexpectedly met the man's dark, fathomless eyes, like a demonic abyss that would swallow him the next second.

The man slowly leaned closer. "Chaochao."

As though under a spell, Xu Chao began, "H-hus..."

Just then, the Maybach slowly came to a stop.

Xu Chao snapped out of it and scrambled down off the man. "W-we're here. Time to get out. Get out."

Watching Xu Chao's hurried retreat, Fu Sichen parted his thin lips and clicked his tongue, seemingly impatient.

After Xu Chao got out, his little heart was still pounding wildly. His mind was a tangled mess, filled entirely with that moment just now.

Had Fu Sichen been about to... kiss him?

The instant that thought appeared, Xu Chao felt as though lightning had struck him. No, no, impossible!

In the original story, that unhinged boss had sliced the original owner to death, one cut at a time!

Now that he had transmigrated into the book, all he wanted was for that unhinged boss to spare his worthless life!

As he thought this, footsteps approached. He looked up to see a middle-aged butler in a tailcoat approaching with two rows of maids.

"Young master, young madam, you're home," the butler said with a smile.

Xu Chao took one look and couldn't help howling inwardly.

In his original world, he had worked himself to the bone, climbing step by step from an extra to a best actor. After decades of hard work, all he had bought was a two-hundred-square-meter apartment within the Third Ring Road.

Now, looking at the luxurious estate occupying half a mountainside, the dozens of neatly parked luxury cars, and the butler and servants standing in orderly rows...

He admitted it. He resented the rich. Sob, sob, sob.

Still, an actor's professionalism was engraved deep in his bones. Though he was nearly drooling with envy, he greeted the butler politely and warmly.

Fu Sichen got out of the car, walked straight up to Xu Chao, and held out his hand.

Without a second's hesitation, Xu Chao briskly patted the man's clean, immaculate sleeve, straightened his utterly uncreased cuff, then strode ahead on his long legs to clear the way for the boss.

With that smooth little combo, he successfully saw himself out.

Xu Chao silently gave himself a thumbs-up, but before he had taken two steps, the man's low, coldly magnetic voice sounded behind him.

"Come back."

Xu Chao stiffened and stopped where he was, stealing a backward glance from the corner of his eye.

The man who had told him to "come back" didn't remain standing there. Instead, he strode toward him on long legs.

The man's eyelashes were very long. When he lowered his gaze slightly to look at someone, they cast small shadows beneath his eyes, their depths unreadable.

Xu Chao's heart lurched. His mind raced, and he immediately adjusted his expression, took a deep breath, and turned back with a radiant smile. "Boss, what is it?"

Fu Sichen stared at him. Moonlight cast a hazy glow over his dark, hawk-sharp eyes, lending them a hint of tenderness.

The corners of his thin lips lifted. "Time to fulfill our marital duties."

Xu Chao's smile froze. "Huh?"