Waking up, Shi Liang discovered that Qi Wei was no longer in bed and planned to make a run for it right now.
The system suddenly reminded him: “Host, wake up. Do you know that Qi Wei was afraid you would run away, so he directly hired bodyguards to put you under house arrest?”
Shi Liang startled, jumped out of bed, and walked over to the door. As soon as he opened it, he saw two sturdily built men standing outside.
Seeing him come out, they reached out and blocked the doorway, stopping him. “Please go back inside and rest.”
“Did Qi Wei hire you guys to watch me so I couldn’t leave?” Shi Liang asked in disbelief.
“Brother, you are overthinking it. He is simply doing this to ensure your safety,” the two men replied.
“This is a society ruled by law. Where are all these dangers that require him to protect me? The biggest danger in my life is him, yet he actually has the nerve to put me under house arrest now,” Shi Liang said with indignation.
Shi Liang stopped arguing with them. They were merely hired hands doing a job. Unless Qi Wei gave the order, no matter how much he appealed to their emotions or reasoned with them, they would not let him go. He figured he might as well save his breath.
Shi Liang turned back, collapsed onto the bed, staring blankly up at the ceiling with one heavy sigh after another.
Seeing this, the system asked in puzzlement: “So what on earth is so great about this Qi Wei that makes you like him this much?”
Shi Liang remained silent and gave no response. Suddenly, inspiration struck him: “System 741, can you just go and scare Qi Wei to death? That way, I will complete the mission immediately.”
The system replied honestly: “I am sorry, he cannot hear me. If I scare anyone to death, it can only be you.”
“I truly thank you so much.”
The system instantly shifted into customer service mode: “You are welcome, dear.”
Shi Liang angrily flipped it the middle finger.
At that moment, Qi Wei walked in. Catching the sound of footsteps, Shi Liang guessed who it was, keeping his eyes closed without turning his head.
Qi Wei walked over to the bed, sat down, and kissed Shi Liang on the cheek. Shi Liang kept his eyes shut, pretending to be asleep.
Qi Wei’s fingers stroked across his face, yet for a long time he did not utter a word.
Shi Liang felt a tickling sensation from the touch but could only endure it.
Qi Wei’s voice rang out from above: “I know you are awake, Gege. Since you are awake, come down and have some breakfast. I warmed up some milk today, and there are also shrimp and crab roe buns.”
Shi Liang helplessly shrugged his shoulders, opened his eyes, pointed a finger at the door, and voiced his dissatisfaction: “What is going on with those two people outside the door?”
Qi Wei glanced in the direction of his pointing finger. “I did that to protect you.”
“I do not need your protection. Although I may not be as wealthy as you are right now, the one thing I have never lacked since childhood is money. Even if I truly needed protection, I would hire my own bodyguards. It is not your place to imprison me under the guise of protection.”
Qi Wei smoothly changed the subject: “Breakfast is ready. Go ahead and eat.”
Shi Liang felt a sudden surge of annoyance. “I am not eating.”
“If you will not eat that, then eat something else instead.” With that, Qi Wei pinned him down. No matter how hard Shi Liang struggled, he could not break free.
Finally, he resigned himself to his fate and lay flat.
In the end, Shi Liang did not manage to leave because Qi Wei simply refused to let him go.
Qi Wei humbled himself, begging and pleading for retention, asking for nothing more than to stay together with Shi Liang.
While committing such an overbearing and tyrannical act, his words were so humble: “Gege, ever since we broke up, I have been searching for you everywhere. I miss you so much. Please stay and keep me company, even if it is just for a single week.”
Qi Wei held Shi Liang close, acting spoiled and clinging stubbornly, making Shi Liang feel that based on the plot, if he refused any further, he would go out of character.
After all, he used to love Shi Liang so deeply, but letting things drag on without resolution was not his style either.
Hesitating for two seconds, Shi Liang suddenly thought of that shocking electric sensation, which made his hair stand on end. He nodded and finally agreed.
Qi Wei told the housekeeper who was cleaning the room that she would not need to come over for the rest of the week.
Shi Liang looked at Qi Wei with a face full of confusion and disbelief.
The next second, Qi Wei began stripping off his clothes.
What an absolute beast!
He struggled, wanting to get up, but Qi Wei’s suppression of his physical strength left him completely unable to move.
When Bai Yuan called, most of Shi Liang’s clothes had already been peeled off by Qi Wei.
Glancing at the phone, the flames in Qi Wei’s eyes burned brighter and fiercer.
Bai Yuan was a staunch anti-Qi Wei hardliner who firmly believed Qi Wei did not love Shi Liang at all, yet Shi Liang loved him to distraction.
In Bai Yuan’s eyes, Qi Wei was like opium, harmful, yet he had Shi Liang hopelessly addicted.
Shi Liang answered the call. Hearing Bai Yuan’s voice on the other end, alarm bells rang loudly in Qi Wei’s heart. He wrapped his arms around Shi Liang’s waist and gave a gentle shake. “Gege, do not answer his call.”
Shi Liang did not reject him, but Qi Wei pushed his luck, reaching out to grab the phone right as he finished speaking.
“Alright, stop messing around.” Shi Liang forcefully blocked Qi Wei’s raised hand and slapped it down.
Qi Wei looked wronged, resembling a bullied little puppy as he nuzzled against Shi Liang, looking somewhat pitiful.
Yet he was not nearly as endearing as he acted, it was all a facade.
Because the next moment, Qi Wei slid his hand straight inside Shi Liang’s clothes, wandering about.
Shi Liang glared fiercely at Qi Wei, squirming uncomfortably as he held the phone with one hand and tried to push Qi Wei away with the other.
Unexpectedly, Qi Wei only pulled him tighter and pinned him down.
Shi Liang’s gaze toward Qi Wei was filled with warning.
Qi Wei remained unbothered, casting an innocent glance elsewhere while holding Shi Liang in a death grip, locking him securely in his embrace so he could not budge.
Bai Yuan’s tone was hazy, as if he had just woken up. “Liangzi, what happened to you last night? I heard from Li Qing that you left early without coming over.”
Shi Liang was utterly baffled. He did not know anyone named Li Qing and asked, “Li Qing?”
Who on earth was Li Qing?
Although Shi Liang had no idea who Bai Yuan was talking about, judging by the tone, it had to be that little club boy from yesterday.
He glanced at Qi Wei, guiltily avoiding Qi Wei’s burning gaze.
“You know, the blue-haired guy who looked so much like Qi Wei yesterday. Do you not remember?”
Seeing Qi Wei’s ashen face, Shi Liang awkwardly let out a couple of ha-ha laughs.
Bai Yuan asked, “Nothing happened, right?”
Shi Liang glanced at Qi Wei. Qi Wei kept his head down, his bangs covering his vision, making it impossible to read his emotions.
Qi Wei was lightly nipping at his body, leaving Shi Liang sitting on pins and needles.
He struggled but could not break free from Qi Wei’s restraint.
Bai Yuan on the other end was still talking to him, but Shi Liang had lost all heart to entertain the conversation: “A few things happened, but it is nothing. I have handled all of it. Do not worry. What about you, where are you?”
Bai Yuan replied: “I stayed at the club instead of going back, just roughing it out on the bed in my office for the night. No big deal.”
Shi Liang let out an mm. Through the phone, he heard the sound of Bai Yuan walking, followed by the sloshing sound of water being poured into a cup.
Shi Liang was feeling thoroughly miserable and irritated by Qi Wei. He just wanted to wrap up the call quickly and delivered the closing lines: “Is there anything else? If not, I am hanging up.”
There was silence from the other end for a long moment, and Shi Liang, truly at his wit’s end, prepared to disconnect.
Bai Yuan’s voice reached Shi Liang’s ears: “Why did I hear the security guard at the gate say that you left with Qi Wei?”
The heart hanging in Shi Liang’s chest finally died.
He just knew it. There was no way the security guards at the entrance would not report his movements to Bai Yuan. Given Bai Yuan’s personality, it was impossible for him not to ask about anything concerning Qi Wei.
It was just like watching your brain-dead girlfriend finally climb out of the quagmire and ditch the toxic guy, only for you to guide him forward just for him to turn right back around and jump right back into that swamp called man.
Shi Liang watched Qi Wei acting all over his body right in front of him, his breathing growing increasingly rapid.
Hearing his name mentioned over the phone, Qi Wei stopped. He looked pensively at Shi Liang, observing his expression as he waited to hear what he would say next.
Shi Liang was long past the point of being able to communicate normally: “Yesterday, I passed out at the entrance of the club, and Qi Wei helped me.”
Bai Yuan felt a mix of exasperation and helplessness toward Shi Liang, ultimately shifting his anger onto Qi Wei: “At least he has a conscience, but a man like Qi Wei is simply not worth it. Since you broke up, do not look back. If you do not like yesterday’s little blue-haired kid, I will scout around for you another day and find someone you like better, someone more obedient and compliant. You will eventually forget Qi Wei. The world is huge, do not hang yourself from a single tree.”
Shi Liang was currently being driven half-crazy and trembling all over by Qi Wei, his mind far from clear. He just wanted to end the call quickly, hummed and hawed for a moment, and hung up.
Hearing the flat, buzzing dial tone coming from his phone, Bai Yuan fell into deep thought.
Shi Liang’s determination to leave Qi Wei this time had seemed quite strong. So why, despite having broken up, were the two of them entangling with each other again?
Leaving with Qi Wei last night, even if things were as the phone call claimed, he should have left by the next day. It was already afternoon, so why was he still at Qi Wei’s place?
Bai Yuan felt rather uneasy.
He hated it whenever Qi Wei caused trouble and treated Shi Liang poorly, not to mention that his maternal cousin, Li Yanxiang, was also in love with Shi Liang.
Ever since childhood, the three of them had maintained a close relationship, and he had known since they were kids that Li Yanxiang liked Shi Liang. In fact, back in high school, Bai Yuan had even helped Li Yanxiang pursue Shi Liang. But Shi Liang was such a blockhead that he never suspected a thing, worrying even more than Li Yanxiang and assuming Shi Liang was simply insensitive to romantic matters.
It wasn’t until Shi Liang met Qi Wei that Bai Yuan discovered that the usually apathetic and go-with-the-flow Shi Liang could actually be so persistent.
On the very day Shi Liang and Qi Wei got together, Li Yanxiang, who had originally planned to pursue his doctorate in China, packed up and flew straight to Germany.
The three of them had not gathered together in three years now.
Bai Yuan had investigated Qi Wei and told Shi Liang that people with troubled family backgrounds found it extremely difficult to trust intimate relationships, so why on earth did he have to fixate on liking him?
Shi Liang had not been able to give a concrete reason, leaving behind only a single sentence: No choice, I just fell in love.
Shi Liang loved Qi Wei too deeply to allow anyone to speak ill of him.
Except for Bai Yuan.
Bai Yuan and Shi Liang were cousins, Shi Liang was his aunt’s son, and the two grew up together. Complaining about Qi Wei a couple of times was not crossing any lines, and Shi Liang would not say anything about it.
So Bai Yuan took every opportunity to whisper into Shi Liang’s ear about how flawed and terrible Qi Wei was, though Shi Liang usually treated it as wind passing his ears.
Bai Yuan did not mind, a lie repeated three times becomes truth anyway.
Because of Qi Wei’s objections, Shi Liang had even grown somewhat distant from him over this matter. Bai Yuan had suffered greatly under Qi Wei for a long time.
While he was racking his brain trying to figure out how to drive the two apart with no success, internal cracks had finally appeared in their relationship.
Regardless of whether their breakup had anything to do with him or not, Bai Yuan was thrilled.
Perhaps having witnessed Li Yanxiang’s love for Shi Liang, he truly felt that Qi Wei did not measure up at all.
The way Li Yanxiang loved Shi Liang could only be described as a grand, magnificent kind of love.
He held zero possessiveness or desire for conquest toward Shi Liang, acting like the most loyal fan supporting an idol without expecting anything in return, or like a shadow following the light tirelessly, with the sole wish that Shi Liang remained healthy and well.
Unlike Qi Wei’s utter selfishness.
Even though Shi Liang did not like him, upon hearing about Qi Wei’s cold violence, Li Yanxiang used every scrap of his free time to call Shi Liang and keep him company.
There is a saying often used online to describe the heavy academic load of studying abroad in Germany: The three years you spend studying in Germany will be the most unforgettable ten years of your five-year study abroad career.
Everyone was busy, but Bai Yuan refused to believe Li Yanxiang had free time while Qi Wei didn’t.
Shi Liang was suffering to the point of breaking, yet Qi Wei remained completely indifferent.
Worse still, Qi Wei would interfere and misunderstand even when Shi Liang simply chatted with Li Yanxiang, causing the contact between the two of them to dwindle significantly.
Ever since then, whenever Li Yanxiang called him, he would always bring up Shi Liang, asking how he was doing and urging Bai Yuan to take good care of him.
Such earnest affection made him look infinitely better than that manipulative corporate climber.
Seeing it all unfold before him, Bai Yuan felt deep indignation.
Qi Wei simply did not deserve him.
Li Yanxiang and Shi Liang belonged together, they were a match made in heaven.
Moreover, during his time studying in Germany, Li Yanxiang’s academic performance had been stellar, and he was scheduled to return to China for career development this year.
If the two of them could tie the knot, not only would their three families become even closer relatives, but their careers would also soar to new heights.
On top of that, Bai Yuan and Shi Liang co-owned a company where Shi Liang provided the capital and Bai Yuan handled the management.
Combined with resources introduced by both sets of parents, while their financial strength could not compare to Qi Wei, that emotionless work machine, they were still raking in a fortune.
They had recently invested in a project involving memory firewalls.
Although the project was already completed, there was still a lingering bug that needed fixing. And memory firewalls happened to be what Li Yanxiang studied in Germany.
If he could graduate top of his class from Tsinghua with a joint bachelor’s and master’s degree and complete his doctorate in Germany, bringing him onto their company team would elevate the business to a whole new level.
It was just that Bai Yuan lacked the personal pull, Li Yanxiang’s old man was grooming him as talent for the family enterprise. But if Shi Liang showed interest in welcoming him, everything would become much easier.
Li Yanxiang would be returning shortly, and with Shi Liang leaning toward leaving Qi Wei, the two of them could join forces. He refused to believe they could not squeeze out a climber like Qi Wei.
Back at the South City Villa.
The moment he hung up on Bai Yuan, Shi Liang’s face chilled, and he irritably demanded: “What do you think you are doing? What if Bai Yuan had heard?”
Qi Wei’s mood was equally abnormal, his expression dark and sinister. Twitching the corner of his mouth, he said: “Gege, if you do not make any sounds, you will not be heard.”
“You are being truly unreasonable.” Shi Liang dismissively waved a hand in annoyance.
Qi Wei took a deep breath. Shi Liang thought he was angry, but instead, Qi Wei’s eyes reddened as he said desolately: “If I do not act like this, you and him would probably never stop talking about how terrible I am. Your friends talk trash about me, yet you have never once stood up to defend me.”
His gaze resembled the chilling, late-autumn twilight over a cold pond, devoid of raging waves yet stretching into an endless, quiet ruin. This was not a sudden wave of sorrow, but rather resembled wounds accumulated over years.
Shi Liang could actually understand why Bai Yuan spoke that way, he himself now felt that Qi Wei’s behavior was indeed unreasonable. Pulling a straight face, he cast a cold, indifferent glance at Qi Wei and said sternly: “Do not ever do that again.”
Hearing those words, Qi Wei clenched his fists with reddened eyes, his body trembling slightly.
Shi Liang’s attitude and choice of words filled Qi Wei with a mixture of grief and fury.
Anger raised the tone of his voice: “Doesn’t Bai Yuan understand the principle of not driving a wedge between close relations? To tear apart a couple like this really is deserving of a wretched death.”
Shi Liang abruptly stood up from the bed, warning Qi Wei: “Bai Yuan is not an outsider. Do not speak such venomous words, accumulate some virtue.”
Looking at Shi Liang, whose indifference and cruelty ran so deep that he would not even spare him a single glance while speaking, Qi Wei felt as though his heart were being scorched by a blazing sun.
He stepped forward and tightly grabbed Shi Liang’s arm. “Bai Yuan is not an outsider, but I am the outsider, right? Now that he is dissatisfied with me, you want to dump me, is that it? Is that it?” Qi Wei’s speech grew increasingly agitated, his final words bursting out as a roar.
Shi Liang only felt that Qi Wei’s shouting was giving him a headache, and knowing there was no reasoning with this madman, he swallowed the reproaches hovering on his lips.
Whatever, it was not worth getting angry or wasting energy on him.
He shoved Qi Wei hard a few times, wanting to escape this demon. Failing to budge him, he simply lay back down and let Qi Wei press down on him like a wooden mannequin, completely motionless.
Seeing that Shi Liang remained silent, did silence mean consent?
Silence meant consent!
A sudden sense of utter despair washed over him, and his grip on Shi Liang slowly loosened. “You really do not love me anymore. Why did you suddenly stop loving me? Why won’t you love me?” As he spoke, his voice choked up, and tears slipped down his face.
“My breaking up with you has nothing to do with Bai Yuan. It is because the two of us are simply incompatible.” Qi Wei was too busy to provide the companionship Shi Liang wanted.
“How are we incompatible? I can change everything! Is there any such thing as naturally matched couples? Aren’t they all polished into the perfect match through adjustment?”
At this point, Shi Liang genuinely disliked Qi Wei. He really did not want to rekindle any romance with him.
The phrase forget it caught in his throat and refused to come out.
Qi Wei tentatively reached out, gently shaking Shi Liang. “Gege? If I did something to hurt you, tell me and I will change it all, okay? Will you please not leave me?”
Shi Liang still remained silent. “Just let me stay by your side, let me take whatever treatment you dish out, I can accept anything. Just do not chase me away, alright?” Qi Wei pleaded, looking as though he might drop to his knees.
Shi Liang patted Qi Wei’s shoulder. “You will find someone better than me.” With that, he walked away.
Shi Liang truly believed this, given how brilliant and dazzling Qi Wei was. Just a few years out of graduation, he had already achieved remarkable success in his career.
Though incomparable to the Shi family, within his chosen industry, he was already standing among the elite. Within a decade, there was a high likelihood Qi Wei’s career would catch up to his family’s standing.
As for him, Shi Liang, he was merely a wealthy, useless rich second-generation heir. That was how the original setting went, and he was well aware that he truly didn’t know how to do anything.
Qi Wei shook his head, tightening his grip on Shi Liang: “These are all excuses. I want to hear the real reason.”
Shi Liang felt a sharp pain from his grip, and a surge of anger flared within his chest as he roared: “We are incompatible! Your coldness time and time again has completely exhausted my feelings for you! I have no time and no desire to keep adjusting to you anymore, I just want to leave you. Is that reason enough?”
Qi Wei stared blankly at Shi Liang, his eyes devoid of any life while his heart felt frozen in ice, aching to the absolute limit.
Struggling once more with all his might, Shi Liang shoved Qi Wei aside, turned around, and strode toward the door. The bodyguards were standing near the entryway rather than outside the door.
Watching Shi Liang’s retreating figure, Qi Wei’s eyes filled with raw possessiveness: Even if you do not like me, do not expect to leave me. Push me too far, and I might just consider putting a chain on you.
Hearing those words, Shi Liang froze in the doorway for a long moment before walking toward another room.
He knew it was futile, but he genuinely did not want to stay in that room for another second.
Shi Liang made his way to the kitchen. There was plenty of food inside, and the refrigerator was packed to the brim, exactly matching the description of what Shi Liang’s home looked like when he was alone.
Back then, everywhere had felt empty, devoid of any human warmth.
Shi Liang couldn’t help finding it somewhat ironic and poignant.
He grabbed a bottle of yogurt and a packet of cream bread, nibbling on them as he pondered.
To be honest, Shi Liang suddenly didn’t feel quite so eager to run away from the plot anymore.
He was Shi Liang now, scion of one of the four great families of Kyoto.
According to the setting of this novel: The four most prominent families in Kyoto were the Bai family, the Li family, the Shi family, and the Shen family.
Among these four, the Bai, Li, Shi, and Shen families dominated different sectors of industry and engaged in family alliances, meaning the four families were essentially one big clan.
Shi Liang’s lifelong dream had been to strike it rich and then lie flat doing nothing until death. Now that he had transmigrated overnight, all his dreams had come true. Although it came bundled with a massive bug named Qi Wei, the flaws didn’t obscure the overall brilliance.
Shi Liang was the only son of the Shi family, treasured endlessly by his relatives. In theory, he could leverage the Shi family to put pressure on Qi Wei and see if a breakup was achievable.
If Qi Wei’s protagonist halo in the novel was too strong and he couldn’t break up no matter what, then so be it. After all, the one Qi Wei hurt was the original host, not him.
He might as well just forgive him. Even if he couldn’t break up, he could spend the rest of his life living happily ever after right here. In his original world, he didn’t have a partner, nor did he have family; there wasn’t much worth clinging to. Characters in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio could stay trapped inside mural paintings, so why couldn’t he stay inside a novel?
Just as Shi Liang finished thinking this, thud, he tripped and hit the floor.
Such a familiar feeling!
“Host, your line of thinking is extremely dangerous and has severely gone out of character. Please adjust your strategy immediately and prepare for the breakup,” the system reminded him after delivering another electric shock.
He tapped on the system: “Then if I get the Shi family to help threaten Qi Wei, will he agree to a clean break?”
“Host, do you not understand the danger this person poses? He loves you like his very life. As long as he is breathing, he will never easily agree to a breakup.”
Shi Liang had a flash of inspiration: “What if I drug him and kill him?”
The system fell silent for a long moment.
“Are you speaking, or did you glitch?”
“Of course not. Our mission is to propose a breakup to a living Qi Wei and have him stop pestering you. A dead man won’t do.”
“I recall you previously saying the task was just to break up with Qi Wei, nothing else,” Shi Liang muttered, scratching his head with his index finger in thought.
“If he is dead, how are you going to talk to him about breaking up? Stop coming up with these crooked shortcuts and follow the procedure step by step.”
Shi Liang: “I am seriously done!”
“Is this author out of her mind? Writing a half-baked novel and dumping a reader into it to clean up the mess, does she have any shame?” Exhausted, Shi Liang slumped flat.
The system explained: “Actually, it’s because the author suddenly inherited her family’s estate, becoming a wealthy little heiress, and didn’t want to update every day like an exhausted dog. She originally planned to drop the serialization abruptly, but the readers cursed her out too furiously, and since she really didn’t want to write anymore, she just threw together a haphazard ending. You could call it a sensational conclusion.”
Shi Liang: “What sensational conclusion? That’s a sloppy, rushed finish!”
The system: “Well, an ending is an ending, but this story blew up from all the hate-reading. Tell me if that counts as sensational or not.”
Shi Liang: “…So sensational can be defined that way.”
When Qi Wei walked in, Shi Liang was resting flat on the bed. Having been tossed around far too severely yesterday, his lower back was still aching.
Qi Wei had spent the entire day trying to coax him without success.
Earlier during the phone call, Bai Yuan had urged Shi Liang to leave him, and Shi Liang had actually responded with those vague humming noises instead of stepping in to defend him as he used to. The panic and unease in Qi Wei’s heart had officially hit a critical threshold.
He climbed onto Shi Liang’s bed, burrowed under the covers, and hugged Shi Liang from behind.
After finishing up yesterday, Shi Liang had fallen asleep held by Qi Wei just like this.
Qi Wei had always loved holding him this way, though Shi Liang wasn’t particularly fond of it and had simply gone along with it to humor him.
A lingering spark of annoyance still smoldered within Shi Liang. In the past, the original Shi Liang had been entirely submissive and overly indulgent toward Qi Wei, which was why Qi Wei had grown increasingly bold and unrestrained.
Shi Liang pushed Qi Wei away. “Let go of me.”
Qi Wei tightened his embrace around Shi Liang. “Gege, the fact that you are still willing to stay means you are just still angry, right? It doesn’t mean you don’t want me anymore, right?”
Sigh! To be honest, if he had anywhere else to go, he would want to get out of this place immediately.
Shi Liang believed that having money meant there was no need to buy a bunch of houses, so he only owned this single property. Now, even the bedroom doors had been replaced by Qi Wei with locks that could only be secured from the outside and couldn’t be opened from within.
Then again, according to the plot, Shi Liang loved Qi Wei so deeply that even when disillusioned, how could he withstand Qi Wei acting so humble and subservient?
If he left heartlessly, he genuinely feared getting electrocuted by the system. But if he didn’t leave, he was the one who had to suffer the consequences. The crucial part was that he didn’t even like men in the first place, yet he kept getting topped by one.
Right. The only reason he hadn’t left was because of this.
Furthermore, this Qi Wei seemed to carry a slight hint of yandere traits, possessive, obsessive, and overflowing with a desire for control.
Normally, he didn’t dare show any of that because he knew Shi Liang wouldn’t like it and would get angry.
However, once he realized Shi Liang was trying to leave him, his yandere nature would undoubtedly awaken.
At that point, things would only become much harder to handle.
After receiving no response from Shi Liang for a long time, the anxiety and unease peaking in his chest became impossible to soothe. He leaned down, showering dense, frantic kisses across Shi Liang’s neck.
Shi Liang didn’t dodge or refuse. In Qi Wei’s eyes, an unstoppable glimmer of hope flickered to life, like withered wood welcoming spring, making him see light in the whole world.
Even his voice sounded cloyingly sweet: “Gege, I know I have many flaws and that hurting you is what made you want to leave me. I promise I will change all of that in the future. I will definitely work hard to become a good partner you can proudly show off.”
He buried his face entirely against Shi Liang’s neck, breathing heavily and inhaling Shi Liang’s scent with deep attachment, his gaze brimming with such intense affection that he looked like a drowning man gasping for oxygen.