However, after returning to the Chi Family, Xie Junyi was still wearing a dark expression as he cooked snail rice noodles in the kitchen. The unique smell of snail rice noodles instantly spread throughout the entire kitchen.
He felt as though that stench had completely clung to him.
Chi Anyu leaned against the sofa in the first-floor lobby with his eyes closed. Butler Ling brought over some hangover soup and said, “Young master, hurry up and drink this to sober yourself up.”
Chi Anyu opened one eye and immediately turned his head away. “No. It doesn’t taste good. It smells like ginger.”
Butler Ling was endlessly patient with Chi Anyu and coaxed him for a long time. Chi Anyu finally couldn’t stand it anymore and took the hangover soup to drink it.
He really couldn’t understand it. Butler Ling had only been at the Chi Family for a short while, yet he somehow gave him the illusion that he cared about him too much.
Just then, Xie Junyi had already brought out the cooked snail rice noodles. Even he couldn’t keep his composure anymore. The moment he set them on the dining table, he hurried straight to the bathroom to shower.
Chi Anyu clicked his tongue and sat in the dining room, eating with obvious enjoyment.
System 07’s mouth twitched slightly, and it couldn’t help saying, 『Host, how can you like eating something that stinks like this?』
Chi Anyu curled his lip. “That’s because they don’t know how to enjoy it. Once they eat it, they’ll think it’s delicious.”
Anyway, as long as he liked it, that was enough.
After eating his fill, Chi Anyu still went to brush his teeth to get rid of the taste in his mouth. He yawned. He usually had the habit of taking a nap, so today’s plot tasks would be put aside for now and dealt with tonight.
He almost fell asleep the moment he sank onto the sofa.
When Xie Junyi came out of the shower, this was the scene that met his eyes. His dark, deranged gaze blatantly stayed fixed on Chi Anyu’s face.
Thinking of something, he felt a restless itch in his heart, and that place started stirring again.
He knelt on one knee in front of the sofa, using cool fingertips to brush aside the stray hair covering Chi Anyu’s brows and eyes. Chi Anyu’s light, even breathing made the fine hairs on his face tremble gently.
Xie Junyi licked his lower lip, darkness pooling in his eyes. Faced with those tempting, full lips, he wanted to kiss them, but then he remembered that the other had just eaten snail rice noodles. He really couldn’t stand that smell, but his heart was craving it badly.
After agonizing over it for a while, Xie Junyi still bent down and kissed him, his tongue teasing lightly.
He knew Chi Anyu slept very deeply and wouldn’t wake up even if there was a big commotion, so whenever he secretly stole a kiss, he kissed very deeply, having already trained himself from initial awkwardness to near perfection.
The wet sounds of kissing rang out.
Xie Junyi kissed him for half an hour as if he would never tire of it, only occasionally stopping when the other person’s breathing became difficult.
“Young master, can’t you show a little restraint?” Butler Ling’s voice suddenly sounded faintly and eerily.
Ever since their own young master had come to the Chi Family and he had figured out the young master’s daily routine, he no longer even bothered to pretend when hiding in the shadows.
Xie Junyi suddenly opened his eyes. His lips were moist. After covering Chi Anyu with a blanket, he stood upright and looked at Butler Ling, showing no embarrassment at all for being caught.
“There’s news from over there. Young master, you go ahead first. I’ll keep an eye on the young master here,” Butler Ling said in a lowered voice.
Xie Junyi thought of something, and his expression instantly turned sharp. “Uncle Ling, I’m going out for a while. I’ll be back tonight. Help me keep an eye on Yubao, and don’t let him go to the bar again.”
Butler Ling nodded.
Chi Anyu slept straight through until three in the afternoon.
He got up and went to the bathroom to wash his face. The moment he looked up at the mirror, he froze. Touching the corner of his mouth, he felt a little incredulous; his lips seemed unnaturally red.
System 07 snorted. 『What else could it be? You got heatiness from eating that snail rice noodles. Eating something that spicy every day… only your butt can handle it.』
Chi Anyu muttered, “What happened while I was asleep? Everything was fine before I went to sleep. Why do I feel like this doesn’t seem like heatiness?”
System 07 said expressionlessly, 『When you fell asleep, I entered standby mode. How would I know what happened?』
Chi Anyu opened his phone and started looking up the symptoms of lip heatiness and how to reduce it.
System 07 felt it necessary to remind this unreliable host, 『Host, let’s put your lip heatiness aside for now. Before midnight tonight, you must finish the required plot, or you’ll be electrocuted.』
Chi Anyu curled his lips and, as always, brushed it off. “I know, I know. Isn’t it still early?”
Just as he came out of his room, he made eye contact with Butler Ling.
The other smiled brightly. “Young master, you’re awake? A brand-new figurine has just been delivered to the Chi Family. Would you like to go take a look?”
Chi Anyu looked puzzled.
Butler Ling’s smile didn’t change as he explained, “Wasn’t the young master’s figurine broken last time? The figurine that… Little Xie ordered this time is made of platinum inlaid with gemstones. It should definitely be durable.”
Chi Anyu caught the key point and narrowed his eyes. “Xie Junyi bought it? That must have cost a lot of money, right?”
From the plot he knew, Xie Junyi had saved Chi Anyu’s father’s life. After learning that Xie Junyi was an orphan with nowhere to go, Chi Anyu’s father had wanted to repay him by keeping him at the Chi Family.
Butler Ling’s heart sank. He had almost forgotten that the young master was currently playing the part of someone who was not rich at all, just a guest staying temporarily at the Chi Family. He quickly tried to fix it.
“It probably didn’t cost that much. He should… he should still have some savings, otherwise he wouldn’t have bought it.”
Fortunately, Chi Anyu didn’t dwell on it and went downstairs to look at the figurine, and Butler Ling also breathed a sigh of relief.
Chi Anyu toyed with the figurine. He wasn’t stupid; at a glance, he could tell this figurine was definitely not cheap. “System, does Xie Junyi have that much money to buy this thing right now? In the current plotline, he hasn’t even been found by the Xie Family yet, has he?”
System 07 thought for a moment. 『Maybe this figurine is a fake, a replica. He probably bought it because he was afraid you would keep making things difficult for him later over the figurine he broke, so he bought this.』
Chi Anyu nodded thoughtfully.
System 07 continued, 『Host, it looks like your arrogant and overbearing character setting has already been established in front of the villain. We need to seize the opportunity and keep pushing forward! Tonight, beat him hard with the belt again.』
Chi Anyu’s eyelids twitched. He seriously suspected that System 07 only cared about plot progression. After all, he had tormented the person terribly in the early stage, and later on he would die horribly. Yet the direction of events was impossible to resist.
Tonight he had to choose a better belt, one that wouldn’t hit too hard. He couldn’t offend Xie Junyi too much in the early stages. Maybe there would still be a chance to fix things later.
If someone slapped him, he would definitely hold a grudge for life. Yesterday, due to a bug, he hadn’t slapped Xie Junyi. Tonight, he definitely couldn’t avoid the plot.