After he finished, Wu Suowei snuck a glance at Chi Cheng, saw that his expression was still normal, and felt relieved, starting with Wang Zhen really was a wise choice.
As soon as Wu Suowei drained his glass, Jiang Xiaoshuai chimed in, “Say, how exactly do you plan to repay him? By offering yourself?”
The room’s temperature instantly dropped.
Guo Chengyu shot Jiang Xiaoshuai a sidelong glance. Seeing his flushed cheeks and glassy eyes, he knew the guy was already drunk. So he grabbed Jiang Xiaoshuai’s head, pulled him into his chest, and messed up his hair.
“Our boy here is a lightweight. Don’t mind him, let’s keep eating.”
Guo Chengyu clearly said this for the benefit of the man sitting there with a dark face, and sure enough, with his words, Chi Cheng’s expression eased up a bit.
With two drinks down, Wu Suowei was feeling woozy but still clear-headed. His eyes swept counterclockwise toward Guo Chengyu.
“Guozi, this one’s for you. Thanks for sticking with Chi Cheng all these years. Without your strong support, Wang Shuo wouldn’t have left back then, and without him leaving, there wouldn’t be me and Chi Cheng today! Cheers!”
Wang Shuo shot a dark look his way and cleared his throat. “Hey, I say, I’m still here, do you have to put it like that?”
After two drinks, Wu Suowei was even more hyped up. He turned to Jiang Xiaoshuai next.
“Master, the one I’m most grateful to is you. You were my benefactor, you gave me a second life. Without your push and whip back then, I could never have walked out of my shadow. Without your schemes, I couldn’t have successfully won Chi Cheng. Come on, cheers!”
Jiang Xiaoshuai was even more hyped than him, slapping the table so hard half a bowl of soup spilled. “Yeah! I really miss the days we schemed against Chi Cheng, that was awesome!”
Jiang Xiaoshuai’s face was full of nostalgia. “Remember how you pushed a car uphill in the rain pretending to be a poor refugee? How you made up a book list to act like an intellectual? How you pretended to be fooled by that snake factory boss to get sympathy… hahahaha, the more I think about it the funnier it gets! Cheers!”
Wang Shuo cast a sympathetic look at Chi Cheng. Guo Chengyu kept trying to pull the drunken brat Jiang Xiaoshuai back, but couldn’t stop him from pouring himself another full glass.
Hearing Jiang Xiaoshuai’s words, Wu Suowei got even more excited. “Remember when we lived together? I didn’t know you liked men, and I walked around naked all the time. Then when you told me, I couldn’t even wrap my head around it, how do two guys even do it? Remember? I even thought about trying it with you! Hahaha… cheers!”
Chi Cheng had switched from drinking to smoking by now.
“How could I forget?” Jiang Xiaoshuai almost climbed onto the table. “Back then, when Chi Cheng kissed you, you acted like it was dirty! He tried to touch you, and you refused! I was like, what’s the big deal? It’s just a guy, touch me! …Come on, drink up!”
Wu Suowei laughed uproariously. “Don’t act tough! I touched you once and you got hard! When I kissed you, you didn’t even know where you were! Come on, another one!”
Now two of them were smoking.
“You know, I really did have a bit of a thing for you back then. Seeing you with Chi Cheng, I felt so uncomfortable! Come on… refill your glass!”
“Actually, I liked you too. If I’d figured it out sooner, maybe we’d have ended up together! You’re way better looking than Chi Cheng, hahaha… cheers!”
“And you’re better looking than Guo Chengyu! I even dreamed about that big ass of yours a few times! …Another one down! How about you?”
“For our tragically missed chance, I’m drinking too!”
——-
Three days later, Wu Suowei drove to the clinic to look for Jiang Xiaoshuai.
“Doctor Jiang hasn’t gone out on calls for three days now,” the ugly guy at the front said.
Wu Suowei was surprised. “What’s wrong with him?”
“He called me and said he wasn’t feeling well and needed to rest for a few days.”
“Resting again? He’s really living a worry-free life, huh? Doesn’t seem like he intends to work properly anymore!”
Wu Suowei curled his lip as he spoke. Every day he was running around exhausted, while Jiang Xiaoshuai took time off every few days. The more he thought about it, the more unfair it felt, so he drove straight to Guo Chengyu’s house to see what exactly was wrong with Jiang Xiaoshuai this time.
When he arrived at Guo Chengyu’s place, he saw Jiang Xiaoshuai lying on the bed playing with his phone.
“Hey, you’re really living the good life, huh? Look what time it is and you’re still not up?”
Jiang Xiaoshuai froze when he heard the voice, turned his head to look at Wu Suowei, and there was a bit of surprise in his eyes. “Why are you here?”
Wu Suowei sat on the edge of the bed and casually smacked Jiang Xiaoshuai’s butt. “Came to see what’s wrong with you.”
Jiang Xiaoshuai’s eyes bulged wide and his pupils constricted. After a long moment, he gritted out a line through his teeth. “Be gentle, damn it.”
“I didn’t even use force!” Wu Suowei tried giving his butt another smack. “That’s too hard?”
Jiang Xiaoshuai really wanted to strangle him, but he clenched his teeth and endured it.
“What exactly is wrong with you?” Wu Suowei saw that his face really didn’t look right.
Jiang Xiaoshuai avoided his gaze and replied in a deliberately casual tone, “Nothing, just had a bit too much to drink that night, haven’t recovered yet.”
“It’s been days already,” Wu Suowei said, surprised. “Does the alcohol have that much of a hangover?”
Jiang Xiaoshuai cursed inwardly, no, the alcohol didn’t, but someone’s something sure did!
With nowhere left to hide under Wu Suowei’s scrutinizing gaze, Jiang Xiaoshuai finally squeezed out an excuse.
“That bar, how do I put it… side effects were too much. After drinking, my ass hurts…”
Wu Suowei was struck dumb, then burst out laughing. “Come on… who are you trying to fool? I’ve heard of alcohol going to your head, but never to your ass!”
“According to the latest medical research…”
“Alright, alright…” Wu Suowei waved his hand. “Don’t play games with me. Just admit it, weren’t you just fucked harder than anything else?”
Master Jiang lost all face and immediately snapped at his disciple, “Get out!”
Wu Suowei laughed gleefully for a while, then suddenly seemed to remember something and his expression changed slightly.
“Hey… did you really, after drinking that night, the next day…?”
Jiang Xiaoshuai exploded. “Can you not fucking bring that up again?”
“No, I don’t mean to humiliate you, I’m seriously asking, was it that night?”
Jiang Xiaoshuai was silent for a moment, then let out a barely audible “Mm.”
Wu Suowei’s face suddenly darkened, and his eyebrows furrowed.
Jiang Xiaoshuai glanced at him sideways. “What’s wrong?”
“Do you still remember what we said that night?” Wu Suowei asked.
Jiang Xiaoshuai had gotten drunk even earlier than Wu Suowei; from the moment he put his glass down, everything after that was left to his imagination.
“Why are you even asking this?”
Wu Suowei let out a sigh. “I feel like… ever since that night, after we drank, Chi Cheng has been acting a little off. I suspect I said something I shouldn’t have after I got drunk, so I came to ask you.”
“You’re asking me?” Jiang Xiaoshuai said with a sour face. “I don’t even know what you said.”
Wu Suowei sighed again. “What’s off about him?” Jiang Xiaoshuai asked.
Wu Suowei wore a conflicted expression. “I can’t quite explain it… just… lukewarm, you know?”
“That doesn’t make sense!” Jiang Xiaoshuai still clearly remembered how he and Guo Chengyu had schemed to make Chi Cheng jealous, and Chi Cheng’s “beast-mode” reaction back then. “Normally, if he’s mad, shouldn’t he be more intense with you?”
Wu Suowei also deeply felt the same, which was exactly why Chi Cheng’s sudden “coldness” left him at a loss. “He’s not seriously mad and trying to give you the cold shoulder for a few days, is he?”
Wu Suowei swallowed hard. If it was just being ignored for a few days, that was fine… but what he was afraid of was that Chi Cheng was… bottling it up… Wu Suowei wasn’t afraid of anything else, just that when Chi Cheng bottled it up, the longer it dragged on, the less safe Wu Suowei felt.
“Why don’t you ask Guozi for me?”
The moment Jiang Xiaoshuai heard that, he immediately pulled a pillow over his head. “Oh come on, spare me, bro. He just forgot about that whole thing, if I bring it up again…”
Before Wu Suowei could finish, his phone rang. When he saw it was Chi Cheng calling, his heart instantly started pounding. These past few days Chi Cheng had almost frozen him out completely, this was the first time he’d taken the initiative to call.
“I’m not coming back tonight. Staying at Guozi’s.”
And then the call ended.
Jiang Xiaoshuai asked, “What did he say?”
Wu Suowei lowered the phone with a defeated look, clearly unmotivated. “He said he’s staying here at your place tonight.”
Jiang Xiaoshuai, on the other hand, was quite pleased. “Then why don’t you just stay too? Might as well crash here together!”
——-
At night, Chi Cheng went into the bathroom alone to shower, leaving Wu Suowei outside again. Wu Suowei let out a long, forlorn sigh, pushed the door open, and stepped out, intending to pour his heart out to Jiang Xiaoshuai.
But when he reached Guo Chengyu’s bedroom, the door was tightly locked, and inside came intermittent moans.
“Mm… ah ah ah… stop already… you’re gonna break me… ah…”
Wu Suowei broke out in goosebumps. That wanton, endless voice tugged at nerves he hadn’t allowed to turn wicked for days. Unable to help himself, he pressed his ear to the door, secretly eavesdropping on the private murmurs coming from the bed.
“Breaking you is just fine… saves you from running around being a slut, getting hard just from being touched by someone else… sit on it!”
“No… ah ah ah… it’s so hard… I can’t take it…”
Pa pa pa… The sound of hard slaps landing on someone’s butt echoed, and Guo Chengyu growled roughly, “Say it out loud!”
“Wuu wuu… hubby… it feels so good I’m dying…”
It wasn’t just Jiang Xiaoshuai who was dying of pleasure, even Wu Suowei outside the door felt like he was dying of pleasure.
It had already been days since he’d gotten any, and listening to this live, X-rated performance made it feel like countless tiny bugs were licking and biting at him inside, unbearably itchy and restless.
So, Wu Suowei decided he’d better retreat quickly. If he stayed a moment longer, his legs would go weak.