At 2:40 a.m., Jiang Xiaoshuai heard the doorbell and shuffled drowsily toward the door. As he walked he wondered: Who’d be ringing this late? Could Da Wei have seen something and come running here for comfort? He looked through the peephole—felt the face was familiar, but couldn’t place it.
“Who is it?” Jiang Xiaoshuai asked.
From outside came a single word, “Caretaker.”
Caretaker? Caretaker of what? Guo Chengyu’s snake park? Didn’t Guo already arrange them a place to stay? Why would he show up here? Full of doubt, Jiang Xiaoshuai opened the door.
Wang Shuo slung an arm over Jiang Xiaoshuai’s shoulder and walked right in. “No place to sleep. Crashing at yours for the night.”
By the time Jiang Xiaoshuai realized who it was, Wang Shuo had already kicked off his shoes and gotten into the bed.
“Hey… I mean… what is this supposed to be?” Jiang Xiaoshuai was depressed. We’re not even close. You show up in the dead of night, don’t say a word, and just take off your shoes and get in my bed, why? What gives you the right to sleep in my bed?
“I like you,” Wang Shuo said.
Jiang Xiaoshuai ground his teeth inwardly. Hell, I ‘like’ Daniel Wu, too, but I still honestly sleep in my own bed, don’t I?
“Damn it, scoot over, make some room for me.”
…
Wu Suowei also didn’t go home; he spent the night at Guo Chengyu’s place. Don’t think you’re the only one baffled, Guo Chengyu was even more baffled. In the middle of the night he opened the door full of anticipation, only to find not Jiang Xiaoshuai, but his disciple.
“What’s this? Planning to sell your body to repay your master’s kindness?” Guo Chengyu asked.
Wu Suowei’s head thunked heavily onto Guo Chengyu’s shoulder and he drawled, “Something like that.”
Seriously, what is this? Guo Chengyu spread his arms, not daring to touch Wu Suowei—what if Jiang Xiaoshuai had sent him as a test?
Wu Suowei ignored all that, dove onto Guo Chengyu’s luxurious big bed and fell straight asleep. Partway through the night he stripped down, leaving only his underwear, round butt pointed right at Guo Chengyu, who hadn’t had meat for days.
Guo Chengyu remembered that rosy interior view he’d once seen on the surveillance feed; the little flames in his heart shot upward. If it weren’t for the slightly frayed edge of Jiang Xiaoshuai’s risqué nude photo curling up in his mind, he might really have lost control.
To tamp the fire down, Guo Chengyu made himself a cup of tea. While pouring the water he accidentally knocked the bottle of aphrodisiac essential oil he’d once dug out of Jiang Xiaoshuai’s drawer. It rolled and rolled across the table. Guo’s heart tightened and he lunged to catch it. Unfortunately there were two raised decorative ridges at the table corner; the bottle veered, and dropped straight to the floor.
Smack! It shattered! The essential oil splashed all over the floor!
Wu Suowei snorted impatiently. “What’re you doing?”
“It’s nothing. Take care of yourself,” Guo Chengyu said, then opened the door and walked out.
“It’s just after four… where to go?” Guo Chengyu couldn’t help thinking.
Driving from here to Jiang Xiaoshuai’s place was only a half‑hour. He’d get there around four‑thirty. With Jiang Xiaoshuai’s schedule, he’d be sleeping like a log right now, wouldn’t it be bad to go bother him? But Guo Chengyu especially wanted to see those two little tufts of curly hair all sleepy and dazed. At the moment only those two curls could push the big round butt out of his mind, so he got in the car and hit the road.
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Wang Shuo woke after just a little over two hours. He lay on his side staring at Jiang Xiaoshuai.
Jiang Xiaoshuai felt an itch on his face, raised a hand to scratch his forehead, then rolled over so his back faced Wang Shuo. After a moment he felt uncomfortable, rolled back, and in the process slapped Wang Shuo right in the face.
He didn’t do it on purpose; he was dreaming that Guo Chengyu was “hiding a beauty in a golden house.”
Wang Shuo ground his molars and got out of bed.
Hearing running water in the bathroom, Jiang Xiaoshuai woke instantly.
Cao, did I forget to turn the water off last night?
Half-asleep, he’d forgotten someone had snuck into his place in the middle of the night.
He shuffled to the bathroom door, saw Wang Shuo’s figure, and froze. It took him quite a while to react.
Now he was wide awake. He leaned on the door frame watching Wang Shuo rinse his mouth with toothpaste foam.
“I’m telling you, there’s something a little off in that head of yours, isn’t there?” Jiang Xiaoshuai said.
Wang Shuo was puzzled. “What?”
“What do you mean what? What are you doing here? Hotels and inns all over the street, you just had to come freeload at my place to save a few hundred bucks?” His tone was anything but polite.
Wang Shuo turned on the faucet to wash his hands.
“I’m warning you, I hate other people using my skincare stuff.”
Jiang Xiaoshuai was suddenly acting all precious, when in fact that half bottle of face wash he had was all stuff Wu Suowei had squeezed out.
“Relax, I’m just washing my hands,” Wang Shuo said, casual and bland. “I wash my face on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays. Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays I take a break. Sundays depend on my mood. Today’s Thursday, consider yourself lucky.”
Jiang Xiaoshuai shot back with sarcasm. “Chi Cheng sure had good taste back then.”
“Why not say Guozi has good taste?” Wang Shuo deliberately prodded.
Jiang Xiaoshuai stayed relaxed. “Because Guozi doesn’t like you.”
“That’s exactly why I came to crash here,” Wang Shuo said at Jiang Xiaoshuai’s bedroom door. “Out of all these people, you’re the only smart one.”
Saying that, he walked toward the entrance. The moment he yanked the door open, Guo Chengyu was standing outside.
Both froze.
Guo Chengyu’s face darkened instantly; his sickle‑like eyes swept inside. There was Jiang Xiaoshuai in his pajamas loitering in the entryway. Two guys who shouldn’t overlap at all were appearing together in his field of vision, so natural, not a hint of awkwardness.
“Good morning,” Wang Shuo said.
Then he walked straight into the elevator.
Guo Chengyu’s fierce, feral gaze slashed over him.
Wang Shuo tossed back another, “Bye!”
I f**king—what, is this a mutiny?
Face black, Guo Chengyu asked Jiang Xiaoshuai, “How’d he end up sleeping here?”
Jiang Xiaoshuai flicked his two little curls and shot back, “Are you mad he slept with me, or mad I slept with him?”
“What do you think?” There was a thread of anger in Guo Chengyu’s voice.
“If you ask me you shouldn’t be mad at all. You should be happy. Your love rival came here to sleep, means your lover doesn’t want him.”
The words were barely out when Guo Chengyu slammed Jiang Xiaoshuai into the corner. Those two tufts of curls were flattened under his big palm; the back of his head stamped messy lines against the wall. A heavy masculine scent flooded Jiang Xiaoshuai’s mouth; before he could dodge, his jaw was pried open and a wet tongue plunged in, instantly throwing his breathing into chaos.
A current spread from his lower belly clear to his fingertips. Guo Chengyu suddenly slid a hand over Jiang Xiaoshuai’s chest.
Jiang Xiaoshuai jolted like he’d been electrocuted; his nails nearly gouged a chunk out of the back of Guo Chengyu’s neck.
“So sensitive?” Guo Chengyu teased.
Jiang Xiaoshuai splayed his fingers, planted his hand on Guo Chengyu’s face, and shoved hard.
Guo Chengyu was about to kiss him again when Jiang Xiaoshuai suddenly blurted out, “Even Wang Shuo says I’m smart, and you still won’t admit you like Chi Cheng.”
Before, whenever Jiang Xiaoshuai brought this up, Guo Chengyu would just cycle through anger, helplessness, resentment… and then let it drop. But today when Jiang Xiaoshuai raised it again, Guo Chengyu’s expression clearly shifted.
“What did you say?”
Jiang Xiaoshuai enunciated, “Wang Shuo said out of all these people I’m the only smart one.”
As soon as he finished, Guo Chengyu suddenly released him.
He stood there stiff for a second, then without another word stomped out in a few long strides.
*Awww, their first kiss <3 So, Wang Shuo (CC ex) crashed at Shuai house (Chengyu BF) and Dawei (CC bf) stayed over at Chengyu house (Shuai BF). Everyone is so shipable! Haha ~ this scene need to show up in the series ><