Chu Mo arrived quickly. He hadn't seen his wife all day, and he missed him!
After getting into the car, Ji Nanshu threw himself into Chu Mo's arms out of habit and planted a hard kiss on his cheek.
"My dear sugar daddy~ I missed you so much~"
Chu Mo's heart fluttered. He wrapped an arm around Ji Nanshu's waist and pressed a light kiss to his forehead. "What made you think of visiting the Bai Family today?"
Ji Nanshu answered with complete honesty, "Liu Yanshuang told me to go back, so I did."
"You're that obedient?"
"Oh, I beat Bai Nanyu up." At the mention of this, Ji Nanshu perked right up. He shook his head regretfully. "He's no good. He can't take a beating."
Alas, if Bai Nanyu had fought back a little more, he would have had a perfectly legitimate reason to beat him some more.
Chu Mo couldn't help laughing. "Heh... what do you want for dinner?"
"I haven't decided yet."
"Then shall I take you to a private kitchen restaurant?"
"Sure~"
Not long after Ji Nanshu left, the father of the Bai Family, Bai Lin, returned, accompanied by the family's eldest son, Bai Nanzheng.
Bai Nanzheng had left on a business trip to Country M the day before Ji Nanshu arrived in this world. He had only returned to the country that morning. After dealing with company matters, he had come home with Bai Lin.
As soon as he returned, he saw his recently found youngest brother sitting on the living room sofa while the family doctor examined his legs.
His own mother stood nearby with a venomous expression, sobbing and cursing.
Bai Nanzheng pushed up his glasses and frowned. "Mom, Xiaoyu, what happened to you two?"
"Xiaozheng!!! It's all that jinx Ji Nanshu's fault!!! Look at what he's done to Xiaoyu!" Liu Yanshuang wiped her tears and immediately started spouting a load of bullshit accusations.
It was all Ji Nanshu's fault anyway!! Why couldn't he just let her hit him!!!
Bai Lin shouted angrily, "What trouble has he caused now?"
Bai Nanzheng helped Liu Yanshuang up and soothed her gently. "Mom, it's okay. I'll deal with Ji Nanshu. Stop crying for now. Let's see how Xiaoyu's legs are first."
Bai Nanzheng had also disliked Ji Nanshu intensely as a child. He shared Liu Yanshuang's view that Ji Nanshu had taken his biological younger brother's place. However, after Ji Ya took Ji Nanshu away to raise him, and he went a long time without seeing him, he no longer felt much hatred toward Ji Nanshu. All he felt was indifference.
But now that he was bullying his own mother and biological younger brother, he naturally needed to be taught a proper lesson.
Did Bai Nanzheng love this biological younger brother, Bai Nanyu, very much? No, he was simply protecting the so-called dignity of the Bai Family.
In fact, the coldest and most unfeeling person in the entire Bai Family was Bai Nanzheng.
Bai Nanyu gave Bai Nanzheng a timid glance and called softly, "Big Brother, Dad..."
His eldest brother was very gentle, but of everyone in the Bai Family, he was still the one Bai Nanyu feared most.
"Mm." Bai Nanzheng gave him a calm look, then turned to the doctor. "Doctor, how is he?"
Only then did the doctor put away his medical equipment. "Young Master, the youngest young master is otherwise fine. His knees are just bruised and swollen. I've prescribed an ointment to promote circulation and clear the bruising. Apply it for a few days, and he'll be fine."
"Understood. You can go now."
After the doctor left, Bai Nanzheng finally sat down and asked Bai Nanyu what had happened. "Why did Ji Nanshu hit you?"
The question immediately angered Bai Lin. "Why?! Do you even need to ask? He must think we're favoring Xiaoyu again. He's jealous of Xiaoyu! What else could it be? Ever since Xiaoyu came back, nothing has pleased him! If I'd known that little bastard was that sort of person, I should have left him to fend for himself back then!! Honestly, your grandmother... she just had to take that little bastard in and raise him..."
"Exactly! Who knows what Mom was thinking? Why couldn't she just have thrown him out back then?!" That old hag Ji Ya had always liked going against her!! It was that old hag who had opposed her marriage to Bai Lin back then. Good thing she'd died early!
"When your youngest brother got engaged to that boy from the He Family, that jinx Ji Nanshu came to cause trouble and even seduced your youngest brother's fiancé. What wouldn't he do?"
Bai Nanyu rubbed his legs. Recalling how Ji Nanshu had looked at him that afternoon as though he were a dead man, he couldn't help trembling. "Big Brother... I-I think Third Brother seems different from before."
"It's... it's like he's become a different person..."
Liu Yanshuang patted Bai Nanyu's hand. "Don't be scared, Xiaoyu! That jinx Ji Nanshu just saw that we weren't falling for it! When he couldn't get anything out of us, he showed his true colors!!"
Bai Nanzheng's head ached. "I understand. Dad, Mom, Xiaoyu, let's eat first. I'll handle Ji Nanshu."
After dinner, Bai Nanzheng returned to his room, took out his phone, and pulled up Ji Nanshu's number. He hesitated for a few seconds before finally placing the call.
Ring-
Ring-
Ring-
The phone rang until the call ended automatically. No one answered.
Bai Nanzheng put his phone away, his expression unreadable.
In the past, whenever he called, Ji Nanshu would always answer immediately. Now he wasn't answering at all. It seemed... Ji Nanshu really had changed, just as Xiaoyu had said.
As for exactly how he had changed, he would have to see him in person.
And what was Ji Nanshu doing at that moment?
He had just finished showering and was about to leave when Chu Mo cornered him in the bathroom.
Wearing nothing but a bath towel around his waist, Ji Nanshu looked wary. "What are you trying to do?! I have to film the show tomorrow!!"
Chu Mo forced his way into the bathroom, then swiftly shut and locked the door.
Ji Nanshu's eyes went wide. "????"
What was this bastard trying to do?!
Before Ji Nanshu could speak, Chu Mo instantly put on an aggrieved expression. His dark eyes were misty, making him look even more pitiful.
"Just once... please?"
He looked like a puppy.
Ji Nanshu could practically see a tail wagging nonstop behind him.
Ji Nanshu was so close to Chu Mo that he could clearly see his pores.
Clutching his wildly pounding, uncontrollable heart, he sat straight onto the counter behind him, grabbed the front of Chu Mo's shirt, and yanked him toward himself, wrapping his legs around the other man's waist.
It was an invitation.
Chu Mo lowered his gaze to Ji Nanshu's crimson lips and chuckled softly.
He rested one hand on Ji Nanshu's waist and pressed the other against the back of his head, drawing closer, then closer still...
Warm kisses landed on his forehead, the tip of his nose, his mouth, his neck...
All the way down.
At some point, the towel around his waist had fallen open...
Steam filled the bathroom, and the yellow light was hazy with an intoxicating air.
Ji Nanshu felt as though the steam had made him dizzy. His mind was muddled, and he let himself be handled however the other man pleased...
Every time I write, I end up going below the neck, sob sob sob. I really want to write more, but I can't-it wouldn't pass review. Darlings, use your imaginations a little (˵¯͒〰¯͒˵)!