So good, baby

Warm breath brushed his neck, making Xu Shi feel ticklish all over. "Mmph... I'll be good."

"I won't do it again, hubby."

[Why the hell was Xie Yanci so strong!]

[Waaah...]

[That felt so good...]

An inscrutable curve lifted Xie Yanci's thin lips. He gently kissed away the tears spilling from the corners of Xu Shi's eyes, his voice husky:

"So good, baby."

"..."

Xu Shi's legs went so weak that he collapsed onto the sofa, his breathing still uneven. He turned his head to look at Xie Yanci beside him.

As though nothing had happened, the man looked utterly composed, leisurely straightening his suit jacket, still every inch the restrained, distinguished CEO.

[Poser.]

[A beast in a suit.]

[Who was the one who forced a kiss on me just now? And now he's pretending to be some celibate saint again.]

The man used to be such a clean freak that he wouldn't even share a glass of milk, but now forcing kisses came so naturally to him.

He'd known there was no way anyone in an erotic webnovel would really be a celibate Overbearing CEO.

Xie Yanci, that poser!

Xie Yanci wasn't annoyed. He let Xu Shi curse him in his head. He'd already gotten his kisses anyway.

The huge box of condoms Song Zhixing had sent sat beside the piano in the living room. Xu Shi hadn't put it away, simply letting the deliveryman leave it in the most conspicuous spot.

Xie Yanci couldn't stand the sight.

He taped the cardboard box shut and put it in a corner.

A wolf whistle came from behind him. "Why did Song Zhixing send you this stuff? I'm a Beta, so I don't need it. Don't tell me you're..."

Keeping a lover on the side?

Wen Yu?

Xie Yanci turned back, his gaze lingering on him. "I'm at the office all day. What lover do you think I could possibly keep?"

The useless people he kept on the payroll at work were irritating enough, and Xu Shi was even more restless when he came home.

One little troublemaker like Xu Shi was enough for his entire lifetime.

Xu Shi whistled, looking utterly unconcerned. "Who knows?"

Even if there wasn't anyone now, the man was bound to fall for the protagonist bottom eventually.

But that would all happen after the divorce.

Xu Shi didn't care at all.

After dinner, Xie Yanci gathered up the scattered suits one by one.

Of the twelve couture suits delivered just last week, he kept none, tossing them all into the garbage bin by the door.

The clothes were wrinkled, and he didn't like that.

[What a waste.]

[These vile capitalists deserved to be gunned down!]

[When we get divorced, I'm taking all my things with me, so someone won't toss them into the trash in disgust.]

[So annoying.]

That attitude, without the slightest trace of attachment, was enough to chill anyone's heart.

No wonder he would fall in love with the protagonist bottom at first sight at his own wife's funeral.

[Xie Yanci was the most annoying person ever!]

Xie Yanci had no idea what he'd done to upset his wife this time.

He turned back and gave Xu Shi, who was standing in the hallway in a daze, a meaningful look, his dark eyes revealing nothing.

Xu Shi startled.

As though he'd been caught cursing him in his head, he felt a little guilty and hurriedly put on a fawning smile.

"Hello, hubby~"

Xie Yanci raised an eyebrow slightly.

Xu Shi pattered down the stairs, caught Xie Yanci by the wrist, and leaned close with an expectant face.

He pleaded, "Hubby, I want to learn how to play a Top Designer well. Could you be my model?"

Xu Shi blinked his exceptionally innocent eyes.

Without thinking much of it, Xie Yanci slowly nodded. "All right."

It was rare for his wife to show ambition. He ought to encourage him.

The second-floor study.

The lighting wasn't particularly bright, and the room was neatly arranged, with rows of finance-related books lining the shelves.

The breeze gently lifted the sheer white curtains, carrying a faint, fresh woody fragrance.

It was Xu Shi's first time entering Xie Yanci's study.

The atmosphere felt inexplicably solemn, and Xu Shi wasn't quite used to it. He swallowed. "I'll take your measurements first."

That was what the online instructions said. He'd made a point of studying them.

Xie Yanci nodded. "All right."

He stood beneath the light and let Xu Shi do as he pleased.

The Alpha had broad shoulders, a narrow waist, and a tall, straight frame. Dressed in a tailored couture suit, he exuded distinction with every movement.

Xu Shi wiped away his drool, eager to get started.

Today, he was going to feel Xie Yanci up from head to toe!

"First, let's measure... your chest." Xu Shi swallowed.

Xie Yanci had commissioned plenty of suits, but this was his first time seeing a "Top Designer" start with the chest.

He didn't expose Xu Shi, a faint smile playing on his thin lips. "All right."

His deep, husky voice sounded rather beguiling in the spacious, silent study.

Xu Shi's ears instantly turned red.

He shyly lifted his head, holding the measuring tape in his slender fingers as he carefully wrapped it all the way around.

"110..."

*[!]*

"Mommy."

The word slipped out of Xu Shi's mouth.

Xie Yanci didn't understand what that word meant in this context.

Was Xu Shi missing his mother?

He and Xu Shi were childhood friends who had grown up together. Their families hadn't originally been of equal standing, but Xu Shi's mother and his mother were close.

The two women had jokingly arranged a Childhood Betrothal.

Then, when Xu Shi was sixteen, his mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and his father moved his mistress and her son straight into the Xu family home.

At the time, gossip had spread like wildfire through their circle: the legal wife was dying, the mistress and her son were throwing their weight around, and the legitimate young master was merely a worthless Beta who would soon be driven out of the Xu family.

Someone had asked Xie Yanci what he thought. He'd forgotten how he'd answered.

He was withdrawn and wasn't close to anyone. At the time, he'd been focused solely on preparing to study abroad.

Later, before Xu Shi's mother died, she had specifically called him to the hospital and begged him to protect her son until he turned twenty-five.

Xie Yanci had agreed.

From then on, Xu Shi had become a member of the Xie Family.

To this day, Xie Yanci couldn't forget the expression on the bedridden woman's face after he agreed, as though she'd grasped a lifeline.

He wasn't exactly an emotionally whole person, and he had always felt that Xu Shi's mother had misjudged him back then. He wasn't capable of taking proper care of Xu Shi.

Xie Yanci reached out and pulled Xu Shi into a tight embrace, gently rubbing his slender fingers through his soft hair.

"Don't be afraid."

He soothed Xu Shi.

The person in his arms suddenly took a deep breath.

[Holy shit...]

[With pecs like these, suffocating to death would count as a happy funeral!]

He was suffocating?

Xie Yanci didn't think he'd used much strength.

He hurriedly pushed Xu Shi away. "Take a few more breaths. Deep breaths."

He slowly guided Xu Shi, breathing in and out.

Xu Shi: "???"

His high-IQ husband seemed to have turned into an idiot.

It was a little... cute.

Xu Shi raised an eyebrow, a hint of a wicked smile spilling into his shifting gaze.

"Let me measure down there..."