Brothel ways

What Gu Xiao did left everyone stunned.

The scholarship student? How was he worthy?

Even if some well-informed people had learned who this scholarship student actually was, no one cared.

Ha, he was only an illegitimate son who could never be brought out into polite society.

Like a puppy, Lu Keyan trotted up to Gu Xiao and said meekly, "Young Master Gu, what would you like me to do?"

"Drink in my place."

Lu Keyan's eyes lit up. "Yes!"

Lin An, who was trailing neither too close nor too far behind Gu Xiao, naturally heard this too.

He looked uneasily at Gu Xiao's back. Could it be that Young Master Gu no longer wanted him?

"Xiao An," Feng Ji said cheerfully, patting Lin An's shoulder. "Look, you've only been away for a while, and someone's already itching to take your place. A top courtesan, no less... Not just anyone can get close to the spot beside A-Xiao."

Hearing Feng Ji's words, Lin An tugged at the corners of his mouth and said with difficulty, "Young Master Feng, you must be joking. Whoever Young Master Gu wants close to him, it's their honor."

"Is that so?" Feng Ji shook his head and sighed. "Perhaps this scholarship student's breed has become more expensive. Have you heard? He's a member of the Lu family. A whole tier above your Lin family."

Lin An's face went completely white.

In terms of breed, the current Lu Keyan was indeed nobler than him.

But-

"The scholarship student is an illegitimate son," Lin An said with difficulty, drawing a deep breath. "Young Master Gu is only playing around."

Watching Lin An's reaction, Feng Ji was truly amazed.

A-Xiao really was fucking incredible. One simple game could make those people scramble to be his dogs.

How utterly immoral. How entertaining.

But in this academy, there were very few students who got to be human.

No one dared ply Gu Xiao with alcohol, but with Gu Xiao's prompting, that was another matter.

After all, the one they were plying wasn't Young Master Gu, but the scholarship student, Lu Keyan.

As for Murong Xuan, the "dog" bestowed upon Lu Keyan, Lu Keyan had yet to let him appear before Gu Xiao.

He worried Gu Xiao would take an interest in that man.

As for Gu Xiao tormenting him...

He was willing.

Glass after glass of alcohol poured into Lu Keyan's stomach, burning his face red and making even his steps unsteady.

That face became all the more peerlessly gorgeous.

Even those who maliciously came to toast Lu Keyan had to lose themselves in that face for a moment when they saw it.

Lu Keyan had a very beautiful face.

As expected of a gong who could rival "Gu Xiao."

Even at the end, there had been no settling the argument over which of them, "Gu Xiao" or Lu Keyan, was the universally adored protagonist's main partner.

Gu Xiao knew that with Lu Keyan's mental power, he couldn't possibly get drunk.

Yet the man was pretending to be drunk.

In Ji Chuan's eyes, the alpha looked positively alive with sensual beauty.

Ji Chuan couldn't help shifting his gaze to Gu Xiao's face.

If A-Xiao were drunk, he would probably be even more beautiful.

Unfortunately, A-Xiao generally never let himself get drunk.

They were standing too close. A-Xiao would pick up that disgusting smell of alcohol.

"Baby, you're drunk. Shall I take you back?"

Ji Chuan appeared beside Lu Keyan at just the right moment, his voice gentle, his manner gentlemanly, the very picture of tender devotion.

But the person he was looking at was Gu Xiao.

As though that "baby" had been addressed to Gu Xiao.

Gu Xiao raised an eyebrow and chuckled. "A-Chuan, what are you doing? If you feel sorry for him, who's going to drink in my place?"

As he spoke, Gu Xiao took a glass of alcohol and handed it to Ji Chuan.

"If you want to take him away, you can." Gu Xiao raised his eyebrows. "Finish ten glasses, and you two can leave."

The moment Gu Xiao finished speaking, the entire room fell silent.

Everyone's eyes involuntarily landed on Lu Keyan.

Of course they all knew this scholarship student.

They hadn't expected that, with a sudden change in his status, he would actually have Young Master Gu and Young Master Ji turning against each other over him.

That face of the scholarship student's really did make him something of a beauty who courted disaster.

But could anyone present compare to Young Master Gu?

It was Fu Huai who finally broke the silence.

"A-Xiao, what are you doing?" Fu Huai said dismissively. "It's not as if you don't know what's wrong with A-Chuan. He's just having an episode. As his brother, can't you just give way to him?"

Gu Xiao still held up that glass, but this time he turned toward Fu Huai.

"Since you feel sorry for him too, Fu Huai, why don't you drink these ten glasses for him?"

Fu Huai's expression changed. He understood even less what Gu Xiao was trying to do.

His gaze still landed involuntarily on that mark on Gu Xiao's neck.

A-Xiao was willful, but he wouldn't deny the three of them face.

Could it be that A-Xiao really had taken a liking to Lu Keyan?

What made Lu Keyan worthy?

Ji Chuan's expression darkened too.

"A-Xiao, what are you doing? I only wanted to ask you for someone. If you're unwilling, then I won't take him."

Gu Xiao clicked his tongue and shook his head. "Giving up just like that? That shows you don't like him all that much."

Ji Chuan's expression grew uglier still.

Like Fu Huai, he had absolutely no idea what Gu Xiao meant by this.

"Young Master Gu, I'm willing to stay and drink in your place." A light flush covered Lu Keyan's face, rosy as a water-dappled peach blossom petal. He pulled free of Ji Chuan's hand, squeezed past Fu Huai, and stood before Gu Xiao, reeking of alcohol. "If I finish ten glasses, will you let me stay, Young Master Gu?"

A clear sheen of alcohol coated Lu Keyan's lips too. As he rested the glass against them, it looked all the more like some sort of seduction.

Brothel ways.

Gu Xiao watched Lu Keyan at his leisure. "Sure. Go ahead and drink."

In the vast club, only Gu Xiao's and Lu Keyan's voices could be heard.

Ji Chuan frowned, looking darkly at Lu Keyan.

It was less the anger of having an alpha he fancied snatched away, and more displeasure.

Who the hell did Lu Keyan think he was, daring to speak to A-Xiao in that tone?

One glass, then another...

The only sound in the room was that of Lu Keyan pouring alcohol down his own throat.

What should have been a scene of humiliation instead made everyone feel distinctly uncomfortable.

Every time Lu Keyan drank a glass, he glanced at Gu Xiao.

His drunken gaze held hooks, as though he wanted Gu Xiao to look only at him.

Throughout those ten glasses, Gu Xiao was indeed watching him.

Lu Keyan was very satisfied.

Clap-clap-clap-

After the ten glasses were finished, Gu Xiao calmly began to applaud, and everyone else hurried to follow.

For a moment, thunderous applause filled the room. Anyone who didn't know better would have thought some event was being held here.

Gu Xiao raised a hand, and silence soon returned.

"A-Chuan, since he's finished those ten glasses," Gu Xiao said, curling his lips, in quite a good mood, "you can take him away now."

Lu Keyan stared at Gu Xiao in disbelief.

Hadn't the condition for finishing ten glasses been that he could stay?

Why-

Ji Chuan smiled too, putting away every emotion on his face. "All right. Then thank you, A-Xiao."