Young master, have some boundaries

Li Shu thought Pei Song'an sounded like a beast.

"Hey, hey, hey, where are you kissing!? Wait, did I say you could kiss me? You just keep kissing!!!"

"Pulling something like that out of nowhere-do you believe I'll get up right now and go bang-bang, punch you twice???"

Sure enough, it only took an instant to lose one's composure.

Pei Song'an covered Li Shu with the blanket again and sat beside him calmly. "Your waist is off-limits? Seems that spot is very sensitive."

Li Shu thrashed around under the blanket, hurriedly put his underwear on, and curled into a ball, scooting toward the headboard to get as far away from this man as possible.

"...Has no one seriously ever told you you're like a pervert?"

Pei Song'an considered it seriously before answering, "You really are the first."

*???*

What, you're honored now???

Was someone's waist a place you could just kiss? Even if you wanted to kiss someone, wouldn't a normal person pick their face or the back of their hand!? Stop, stop, stop. What exactly had Pei Song'an done to little Li Shu with that face of his? Why did he have to help Pei Song'an figure out where he could kiss without offending him???

The more he thought about it, the more furious he became, but he had no idea how to vent it. Li Shu pointed his index finger at the man's nose. "You're filthy!!!"

Pei Song'an hummed in acknowledgment, rose, and took a set of pajamas in Li Shu's size from the wardrobe. "I ordered from the place that delivered to your dorm last time. The pigeon soup is still hot."

"What? The food's here?"

Li Shu's eyes instantly lit up. He threw off the blanket, saying they were both men, so what was there to be afraid of, pulled his clothes on in no time, and started running out.

"Food, food, food!"

Pei Song'an's gaze swept over the beautiful body, lingering for two seconds before he looked away and followed him out.

Li Shu had already spent the whole afternoon climbing a mountain, then been ambushed, leaving him no time to eat. Now, never mind smelling it-just hearing the words "pigeon soup" made his mouth water.

He sat down, took a sip of soup, ate a couple of bites of stir-fried pork, then shoveled several big mouthfuls of rice into his mouth. The instant he thoroughly chewed and swallowed it all, Li Shu felt he could forgive every idiot in the world.

"Slow down. No one's stealing it from you. Unless you want food coming out of your nostrils like Zhaocai's kibble."

Li Shu wanted to talk back, but the spot on his waist that had been kissed still burned. It was the first time in two lifetimes someone had pinned him to a bed like a little chick and kissed his waist. Every time he recalled it, he was so embarrassed he wanted to bang his head against a wall.

He lowered his head and shoveled in rice without saying a word to Pei Song'an, but obediently slowed his eating noticeably.

Pei Song'an's phone suddenly rang twice. The man made no attempt to keep the call from Li Shu, answering it on speaker. Zheng Linchuan's voice came through.

"Young master, those two talked before we even had to use any methods."

Hearing this, Li Shu tilted his head like a little quail and stole a glance at Pei Song'an.

The man's expression barely changed, as though he had already guessed. "Who told them to do it?"

Zheng Linchuan said, "Jiang Junyi, Chen Yannan's ex-boyfriend. The two of them accurately described Jiang Junyi's appearance. I checked, and everything matches."

Pei Song'an leaned back, relaxed. Seeing Li Shu distracted from his meal, he tapped the table lightly to bring him back to his senses.

"Why did Jiang Junyi and Chen Yannan break up?"

Zheng Linchuan had already investigated. "Last October, Jiang Junyi approached Li Shu privately once. A few days later, Chen Yannan was attending other events without anyone beside him. They probably broke up for good around that point."

"Jiang Junyi has held a grudge against Li Shu ever since because of that. Those two also admitted they only meant to scare him; the other party didn't intend to cause Li Shu any actual harm. Logically, it adds up."

It sounded as though the truth was more or less out, but Pei Song'an's face showed neither the pleasure nor the understanding of someone with the situation in hand. His gaze was indifferent, and no one knew what he was thinking.

"Does it?"

"If Jiang Junyi really wanted revenge on Li Shu out of jealousy, why didn't he do anything for nearly half a year, from last October until now? Besides, given the current order of priorities, how is Xue Chen, the one who took his place, completely unscathed?"

"What do you think?"

Thinking he had been asked for his opinion, Zheng Linchuan immediately adopted a professional attitude. "I think..."

"I wasn't asking you," Pei Song'an interrupted. Then Zheng Linchuan heard something entirely unrelated to their conversation. "Wipe your mouth. You've even got grease on your chin."

Li Shu was holding his rice bowl and wolfing down his meal with his head lowered. Hearing that, he looked up in confusion and pointed at himself.

So he had a part in this too?

Before he could react, a finger pressed firmly against his lips through a wet wipe. The man wiped away all the grease from his lips down to his chin.

"I'll wipe it myself. You're still a pervert in my book. Don't touch me."

Li Shu hastily took the wet wipe. After thinking for a moment, he asked, "Why don't you suspect Shen Muwen? He was the first person I thought of."

Pei Song'an said, "Tell me why."

"He can't stand you, and now I'm on your side. Plus, I've never been nice to him when I've seen him before. Of course he'd target me!"

Pei Song'an was very satisfied. "You're on my side. Exactly."

Li Shu said, "..."

Could he stop only hearing what he wanted to hear?

So that was the most important part of his extremely meticulous reasoning?

Li Shu tried to bring the conversation back on track. "So you think it was Shen Muwen too?"

Pei Song'an said, "It wasn't him."

Perhaps because he had missed evening study hall, Li Shu's thirst for knowledge suddenly surged. "How so?"

"Shen Muwen is extreme. If he really wanted to do something to you, he'd just kill you. He stopped getting people to help scare others after he started middle school."

"..."

"He did things like that in elementary school?"

"What kind of upbringing does your Pei family give people?"

From the moment Li Shu joined the conversation, Zheng Linchuan had noticed something was off. He couldn't tell exactly what role Li Shu played here, but one thing was clear.

Li Shu was definitely even more special to the young master than anyone imagined.

"So who was it?" Li Shu put his chopsticks down, swinging both legs impatiently, his bare feet brushing against the man's trousers as he acted up. "Are you telling me or not? If not, I'm taking the dog and leaving."

Pei Song'an lowered his gaze. Li Shu's ankles were dazzlingly white. Because his bottom and thighs still hurt, even a thick cushion couldn't keep Li Shu from squirming around.

After a brief pause, he looked away and gave his answer.

"Xue Chen."

Li Shu leaned back in a tactical show of surprise, but Pei Song'an soon said something even harder for him to accept, diverting his attention.

"Finished? You'd better not walk around right now. If you're having trouble digesting, I'll rub your stomach. Come here."

Li Shu slowly picked up his chopsticks. "Young master, have some boundaries."

Pei Song'an said, "What?"

Li Shu said, "You're getting terrifyingly familiar."

Meanwhile, Xue Chen received a message on his phone that those two had been caught by Pei Song'an.

He had meant to hold back a little longer, but when he saw Chen Yannan coming down from the floor of Li Shu's dorm with his own eyes, the resentment compressed in his chest threatened to spill out.

Having someone scare Li Shu wouldn't do much to vent his anger, but it could kill two birds with one stone.

The fact that the two people Xue Chen hired had been caught so quickly already demonstrated that Li Shu and Pei Song'an's relationship was unusual. Only by identifying the danger zones could he make his future path in Hong Kong City smoother.

And another thing...

The bell rang to mark the end of evening study hall.

The moment Xue Chen lifted his pretty face, his icy expression vanished completely, replaced with tenderness and delight as he looked toward the classroom door and met Chen Yannan's eyes.

He had pinned the blame for this incident on Chen Yannan's ex-boyfriend.

Jiang Junyi had been getting a little restless lately. If Chen Yannan found out Jiang Junyi had gone after Li Shu behind his back, that little spark of restlessness would be extinguished for good.

"Yannan, let's go."

Chen Yannan nodded. Just as he turned, the phone in his pocket rang. Xue Chen watched with curved lips as the man's expression gradually worsened, then considerately asked what was wrong after he hung up.

"Nothing. Something happened, but fortunately, it was only a scare."

Chen Yannan's eyes were icy as he said this, but Xue Chen deliberately ignored that and took the man's hand, warming it between his palms.

"That's good, then. Your hands are so cold. It's freezing out. Have you been waiting long for my class to finish?"

Just as he finished speaking, both their phones suddenly vibrated at once.

In a rare occurrence, Pei Song'an had sent a message to the group.

[Come over to my place this weekend. I've put together a little show. You're all invited to watch.]

Tune in next time as Pei Daddy takes revenge for our little Li Shu.