Xu Shi: "!!!"
He had wondered why hiring male models hadn't cost him anything. It turned out the charges had gone onto Xie Yanci's card!
This damned world kept bullying him!
"Hehe..."
As the saying went, you didn't hit a smiling face.
Xu Shi backed away step by step until his back was pressed fully against the doorframe. "Hear me out first."
Xie Yanci slowly nodded, his thin lips curving ever so slightly. He stopped and quietly waited for Xu Shi's performance.
"..." Xu Shi swallowed. "It's a legitimate establishment. I just wanted to hire a muscular guy to admire. I wasn't going to do anything else."
"Just to admire, so you hired five."
"Exactly. That means it could only be innocent admiration. If all five came at me at once, they'd fuck me to death."
"Is that so?"
Xie Yanci narrowed his eyes slightly and unhurriedly rolled up his long sleeves, exposing a stretch of smoothly defined muscle on his arm.
The oppressive air around him silently closed in.
Frightened, Xu Shi instinctively pressed himself tighter against the doorframe. "You..."
Before he could finish, that large hand closed directly around his neck.
Xie Yanci didn't use much force. His warm fingertips gently stroked Xu Shi's skin, moving very slowly.
Xu Shi was forced to tilt his head back.
It tickled a little.
Xie Yanci leaned in, his unreadable gaze falling on the Beta's moist, glistening lips. "Didn't I tell you not to cheat?"
His voice was a little husky, his words deliberately drawn out, carrying an inexplicable sense of pressure.
Xu Shi had expected Xie Yanci to be angry, but he hadn't expected him to be this frightening when he was.
[Daddy, you look so hot like this!]
"?"
[Please punish your naughty little Shi, hubby.]
"..."
[Choke me, then force a kiss on me, then pin me to the bed and fuck me hard!]
[Please punish me.]
Xie Yanci immediately let go.
He had never heard anything so filthy. Frightened by the shameless Xu Shi, he took a step back.
[What?]
[I'm the one being threatened, so why does someone look like he's the one who got scared?]
[Hubby, are you still going to punish me?]
[Oh, right. I forgot you're impotent. You can't do it without pills.]
"..."
Xie Yanci didn't like that label. Narrowing his eyes, he calmly reminded him, "Keep explaining."
He needed to stop thinking things he shouldn't!
Seeing that she couldn't provoke him, Xu Shi abandoned those improper ideas and explained obediently, "I didn't go out this afternoon. You can check the security footage."
"I know." Xie Yanci was aware.
Even if Xu Shi had actually dared to go, the nightclub wouldn't have let him in.
Those male models wouldn't have made it to his bed, either.
"You knew?" Xu Shi spread his hands and looked at the impassive Xie Yanci. "Since you knew I didn't go, why were you threatening me?"
[Hello? Hubby, has your brain fried?]
[Are you still keeping up that cold, aloof persona?]
Xie Yanci knew perfectly well that he shouldn't have gotten angry over such a trivial matter.
Raised from childhood to be an heir, hiding his emotions had been his first lesson. How could he lose his temper over something like this?
He didn't love Xu Shi.
His thin lips curved ever so slightly, and Xie Yanci returned to his usual cool indifference. "It was just a reminder."
"Oh."
Xu Shi didn't call him out.
He rode home in Xie Yanci's car.
That night, lying in the same bed, Xu Shi quietly glanced sideways at the Alpha lying silently beside him.
Xie Yanci's face and physique were flawless in every way.
[Too bad he's impotent.]
"..."
He really wasn't asleep.
[Sure enough, men become useless after twenty-five.]
[He was obviously jealous earlier, yet he still managed not to kiss me. What a... loser.]
[He can't satisfy me himself, but he won't let me find anyone else.]
[Damn it!]
Ask anyone in the whole world-whose novel had an impotent top as its lead?
While Xu Shi inwardly complained, his hand had already begun sneaking toward Xie Yanci's abs.
If his husband couldn't perform, he could reward himself.
Hehe...
His fingertips stealthily lifted Xie Yanci's shirt, his movements exceptionally cautious.
[Please don't wake up, please don't wake up...]
As he silently prayed, there was a sudden smack, and someone seized his wrist.
"You're still awake?!"
Xu Shi had barely cried out before the Alpha beside him rolled over, pinning him beneath him with one knee.
Xie Yanci gripped both of Xu Shi's wrists in one large hand and pressed them above his head.
His tall frame blocked the dim yellow light, enveloping the startled Beta entirely in shadow.
Xu Shi's misty, glistening peach-blossom eyes widened, his lashes trembling slightly. He was getting scared again.
He might have been outrageously lustful, but his ass really did hurt...
Xu Shi gently shook his head, completely unaware of how seductive his pitiful appearance was.
Xie Yanci narrowed his eyes slightly, a meaningful glint flashing through their unreadable depths.
He reached out and brushed the Beta's slightly reddened outer eye corner with something like tenderness.
"Baby, tell me directly whenever you need something from now on. I can satisfy you."
Other men might not be as skilled as he was.
Xie Yanci stopped pretending.
What self-restraint and propriety? What emotional control?
He should simply be more ruthless.
He needed to f*ck Xu Shi until he couldn't get out of bed.
Make him tremble, make him cry and beg for mercy, make him never dare seek out another man again.
Another two days passed.
Xu Shi sat on the sofa, staring up at the ceiling with no will to live.
He had learned his lesson.
Now he truly believed Xie Yanci would no longer remain chaste for the novel's bottom lead.
He would never call him impotent again.
The man was an absolute lunatic.
His mouth had clearly been coaxing him, but his movements had honestly never stopped for a moment.
"Damn it!"
Xu Shi pounded the sofa hard, and a sharp pain instantly shot through his tailbone.
Hugging a cushion, he helplessly lay back down on the sofa.
He hated Xie Yanci.
"Shi." Xiao Chi pushed the door open and came in. "It's almost our turn on the red carpet."
The production of Shallow Summer had always attracted considerable attention. Although it was an original IP, its leads were Xia Shian and Wen Yu, the two people with the most shipping fans in the entire entertainment industry.
This red carpet event had specifically invited the entire cast to promote the drama and ride the couple's popularity while they were at it.
Even a cannon-fodder character like Xu Shi was on the list.
"Shi, hurry up and get ready. An opportunity like this is really rare!" Xiao Chi reached out and shook the languid Xu Shi.
His lower back hurt.
Unwilling to get off the sofa, Xu Shi reluctantly nuzzled the cushion in his arms before finally forcing himself to sit upright.
He sighed. "How much longer until I can retire?"
He was tired of being a corporate slave.
"Shh." Xiao Chi gestured for him to be quiet. "We're not going to fade into obscurity. We're going to win Best Actor and land major brand endorsements!"
Xu Shi: "..."
His assistant was more ambitious about his career than he was.
If Xiao Chi knew he had turned down the Liva endorsement Xie Yanci had sent over yesterday, he would probably kill him.
Xu Shi sat in front of the makeup mirror, lazily touching up his makeup.
The television beside him was showing a live broadcast of the red carpet.
Xu Shi glanced over, his gaze instantly drawn to the Alpha on the screen.
"Is that Xia Shian?"
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