The man parted his thin lips, his low, husky voice winding around him. "Honey, where are you going?"
Xu Chao froze. Wait, why had Fu Sichen suddenly appeared here when he was supposed to be overseas?
The butler stood behind Fu Sichen and waved his phone somewhat helplessly. On the screen was the message he had just sent.
[Madam, the young master has returned to the country. He is on his way to take you home.]
He had been so busy drinking that he had forgotten to check his phone.
Guiltily, Xu Chao said, "I-I-I was taking Lin Yang home. It's late. It isn't safe for a boy to be out alone."
With that, he pinched Lin Yang's lower back. Bro, cover for me!
Lin Yang did not get it at all. His eyes wide with natural innocence, he asked, "Chaochao, why did you pinch me?"
Xu Chao wanted to cry. "My hand got itchy."
Lin Yang: "?"
Suddenly, Fu Sichen said in a low voice, "Come here."
This time, he remained where he stood, his dark eyes fixed on Xu Chao like a hawk's, missing nothing.
Xu Chao's lips trembled twice. He looked pitiful. "Hubby."
After holding out for half a second, Fu Sichen strode over himself, his expression cold and his eyes dark.
Lin Yang looked ahead, then behind him, belatedly realized something was wrong, and immediately pleaded, "Um, Young Master Fu, don't misunderstand. Chaochao wasn't trying to cheat or make a cuckold of you. I said I wanted to see male strippers, so he treated me."
Fu Sichen paused, his phoenix eyes narrowing slightly.
Xu Chao nearly collapsed.
Let me say thank you.
Because you warm all four seasons.
If he had not known Lin Yang was just a little idiot, Xu Chao would have wanted to sigh, Even vintage green tea from 1982 couldn't outdo your fake-innocent act!
In a flash, Xu Chao acted on instinct and threw himself into Fu Sichen's arms. Clinging tightly to his arm, he told the butler beside them, "Quick, get Lin Yang home safely."
At a look from Fu Sichen, the butler agreed with a smile. Still bewildered, Lin Yang tried to protect Xu Chao, but the quick-eyed butler whisked him away.
Holding Fu Sichen's arm, Xu Chao breathed a sigh of relief. He had genuinely feared Fu Sichen might kill Lin Yang in a fit of rage.
But the next second, Fu Sichen spoke again. "Say it again."
Xu Chao blinked. "Hubby?"
Fu Sichen answered and led him toward the car.
Xu Chao felt a little excited. One "hubby" was enough to soothe this unhinged big shot?
After they got into the back seat, the driver suddenly began slowly raising the partition. Now there were only two people in the cramped space.
Out of the corner of his eye, Xu Chao secretly glanced at the man beside him.
At that very moment, the man turned to look at him too.
The instant their gazes met, Xu Chao's heart skipped a beat.
Perhaps he had drunk too much; an inexplicable heat stirred in his body.
Then Fu Sichen asked quietly, "You like watching handsome men dance?"
Xu Chao's head cleared a little, and he immediately shook it. "Not even a little. Those dancers are all cheap trash. Pecs, abs, those V-lines-none of them could compare to a single hair on you. Not hot. Not hot at all."
Fu Sichen wore a faint, unreadable smile. "Really?"
Xu Chao nodded his little head frantically and eagerly. "Yes, yes! Boss, you're as handsome as a god, with a body as perfect as David's."
Fu Sichen's lips curved. "No wonder you lust after my body."
Lust after what?!
Lusting after my husband's body!
Posting pictures of my husband in bed!
Fu Sichen knew about all of it!
Suddenly fearing for his life, Xu Chao shouted in a panic, "Hubby, let me talk my way out of this!"
Fu Sichen watched him quietly with dark eyes. "Go on."
"Uh." The man had agreed too quickly. Xu Chao, who had been planning on a "Let me explain!" and "I won't listen, I won't listen!" exchange, was momentarily stumped.
Only after a two-second pause did he put on the look of someone humbly begging for love.
"Hubby, I'm sorry. Chaochao just loves you too much. Ever since you left, I've spent every agonizing night hugging your bedding, unable to sleep. I became mentally confused and started spouting nonsense online. Boo-hoo-hoo."
"If you missed me, why didn't you call?"
"Possibly because... I didn't have your contact details."
Fu Sichen: "..."
Awkwardness spread through the car. Fu Sichen took a deep breath. "Give me your phone."
Xu Chao promptly offered it up, then cautiously asked, "Oh, right, hubby. Fifty million landed in my account. Did you transfer it by mistake?"
"Spending money," Fu Sichen replied succinctly.
Xu Chao's mouth formed a huge O before slowly blossoming into a chrysanthemum-shaped grin.
Which little cutie gets fifty million in spending money?
Me! Me!
After finishing with the phone, Fu Sichen looked up at the young man's pretty, beaming face and heard him say, "Hubby, kisses! Love you! Mua, mua~"
Turbulent waves surged in the depths of Fu Sichen's dark eyes, as though a giant beast imprisoned in the deep sea had finally glimpsed a sliver of daylight.
Still immersed in the joy of his fifty-million allowance, Xu Chao's eyes narrowed into money slots, his little mouth impossibly sweet. "Hubby, what's wrong?"
Fu Sichen leaned closer, his low, husky voice oppressive.
"Chaochao, you can only call me hubby. You can only lust after my body. You can only smile at me. Otherwise..."
A chill rose from the soles of Xu Chao's feet.
He swallowed. "Otherwise?"
The man's cool, rough fingertip gently stroked his eyelid with a touch of sickly obsession. "Otherwise, I'll gouge out those eyes."
Xu Chao: "!!!"
Here it comes! Here it comes!
The obsessive villain was coming with his eye-gouging package!
But that package was supposed to be for the bottom protagonist. Why was he getting it?
Xu Chao's eyes wanted to pee, but when he met the man's icy gaze, he sensed no murderous brutality. Instead, there was an emotion he could neither describe nor explain.
Xu Chao could not understand it, but he could take it in stride!
Originally, he could stay alive as long as he did not cheat. Now there was one more condition: don't smile at other men, and he could keep his eyes!
Tsk. So many damn demands!
Forget it. Be generous, be generous. Just think of Fu Sichen as a ridiculously possessive little sweetheart with something wrong with his head.
A real man ought to spoil his girlfriend!
That thought made Xu Chao feel much better. He smiled ingratiatingly. "Hubby, you'll always be the only one in Chaochao's heart. Other men? What trash. I won't look, I won't look."
"Baby, don't lie to me again," Fu Sichen said quietly.
Again?
What did that mean?!
Xu Chao was about to ask when the car suddenly stopped. The driver announced, "Young master, young madam, we've arrived at the family estate."
After getting out, Xu Chao stared dumbfounded at the imposing, magnificent estate before him, its old-fashioned elegance steeped in luxury.
Not long ago, he had declared he would never set foot inside the Fu Family's ancestral home. Now he had been proven wrong. Did it have to happen so fast?
Fu Sichen took his hand. "Grandfather wants to meet you. As for everyone else, you don't need to bother with them."
Now Xu Chao understood why Fu Sichen had suddenly returned to the country, transferred fifty million, and caught him to bring him home. So this was what it had all been leading up to.
Here it comes, here it comes-the scheming and infighting of a powerful family!
Xu Chao was not nervous at all. In fact, he was a little excited.
For the sake of that fifty million, he would be sure to perform well!
As soon as they entered, the butler took Fu Sichen to the study, leaving Xu Chao and Jin Feng facing each other in the living room.
Feeling she was on her own turf, Jin Feng grew even more arrogant.
"All you know how to do is make a spectacle of yourself and swindle people. You don't even know to greet your elders. Oh, I forgot-you have no shame either. You've completely disgraced our Fu Family."
Xu Chao smiled sweetly. "You've been drinking a lot of enema solution lately, huh?"
Jin Feng frowned. "What?"
Xu Chao's smile widened. "You sure can spray."
Oh no!
A projectile-pooping warrior!
Now he could picture it!
Several maids covered their mouths to stifle their laughter. Jin Feng also realized Xu Chao was accusing her of spewing shit. Her face instantly flushed scarlet. "You ill-bred little bastard!"
Xu Chao spoke leisurely. "I can't compare to your well-bred talent for taking things out of context, slandering people, and spreading rumors. Good job, auntie."
Jin Feng's face and neck flushed with rage, but then she remembered that Old Master Fu would soon give Xu Chao a harsh dressing-down, and she smiled again!
Just then, Fu Sichen emerged with a sprightly little old man dressed in a traditional Tang suit.
Xu Chao's and Jin Feng's eyes lit up at the same time, and both rushed toward the little old man.
Xu Chao had youth, long legs, and speed on his side.
He reached the old master in a few strides and stuck out his backside along the way, sending Jin Feng, who was right behind him, sprawling.
"Grandpa, I'm Xu Chao, Sichen's new husband. Just call me Chaochao."
Old Master Fu glanced at Fu Sichen before saying to Xu Chao, "Good boy."
Watching the grandfather and grandson chat so warmly, Jin Feng scrambled awkwardly up from the floor and charged forward in a fury.
"Dad, don't let him fool you!"
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