The next morning, Mo Yi was woken by the ringtone of the phone placed beside the bed.
Groggily opening his eyes, he picked up the phone and answered it, and then heard a familiar male voice from inside, “Awake, little dog?”
Maybe because it was early morning, the other man’s voice was a little hoarse, but that only made it sound even more alluring.
Mo Yi jolted awake at once, blinked away the moisture in his eyes, and said with surprise, “Bai Ren?”
“Mm.” The man’s laughter came through the phone, and Mo Yi felt his ears go weak. Bai Ren’s voice really was so nice.
Looking at the bright daylight outside the window, it was already this late. It seemed this had all been thanks to the towel. Last night, surrounded by that familiar aura, Mo Yi had slept especially deeply.
Knowing that Bai Ren had deliberately called to wake him, Mo Yi happily washed up, then ran to the room next door.
The man had already tidied himself up and was sitting in the wheelchair. Seeing him, he smiled and said, “If I hadn’t called you, were you planning to keep sleeping forever, little lazy pig?”
“I’m not a pig.” Mo Yi refuted seriously, and Bai Ren laughed at the sight.
“Then if not a little lazy pig, what is it? A little lazy dog?”
The man’s tone was teasing, but who knew the boy opposite would actually nod very seriously.
Mo Yi thought about it and felt that when it came to breed, he really couldn’t be vague. He had to make his stance clear, so he simply barked at Bai Ren, “Woof.”
That “woof” was truly full of energy. Bai Ren froze for two seconds after hearing it, then couldn’t help bursting into laughter.
After quite a while, the man pointed to his own forehead and managed to stop laughing. He beckoned to Mo Yi. “Come push me. We’ll go out together for breakfast.”
After Mo Yi obediently walked over, Bai Ren took his hand, made him bend down, and kissed him on the forehead.
Seeing Mo Yi freeze at the kiss, he even kissed his cheeks twice more with considerable relish.
He thought to himself, this little fool, his cheeks were so soft, kissing them really felt good. Then he patted his head. Only then did the dazed boy come to himself, stand up, and help push the wheelchair.
Bai Ren actually had not thought that much. He simply felt that Mo Yi was far too cute, to the point that he wanted to hold him in his arms and properly kiss and rub him. So he thought it and did it. As for hugging, he was afraid it would be hard to let go once he started, so he would kiss him twice first and feel happy for a bit.
Anyway, he was his little pet, so as the owner, couldn’t he kiss him a couple of times?
He had completely failed to realize that, if it were anyone else, he would absolutely not feel such closeness and fondness. In private, Bai Ren disliked being touched. He had his own comfortable social distance, and the threshold in his heart for letting others in was quite high.
It was just that some people, in the end, were different from everyone else and could effortlessly break through his original understanding and habits.
It was only after they left the doorway that Mo Yi reacted to what had happened. Realizing that Bai Ren had kissed his forehead and cheeks, he immediately got excited.
Bai Ren kissed him, which definitely meant he especially liked him!
What a man with taste, he knew it, he was just a dog that people liked!
So for the entire morning, the smile on Mo Yi’s face never disappeared.
Even Bai Yucheng couldn’t help but find it strange. What good thing had happened to Bai Ren’s little friend, that he was this happy.
After breakfast, Bai Ren brought up the matter of going back to Shengheng to work.
After returning to the country, he had been responsible for quite a few projects at Shengheng. Not only had he already taken part in some drug research, he also held multiple positions and served as a manager in one of the departments.
“Bai Ren, your body still hasn’t recovered. You should rest at home for a while longer,” Bai Yucheng couldn’t help persuading him.
Mo Yi thought the same. Bai Yan on the side immediately spoke up to refute it, saying to Bai Ren, “Rest? You’ve already been recuperating in Shencheng for a month. You should hurry up and go to the company to deal with all the work you’ve fallen behind on.”
That attitude was practically as if he could not wait for Bai Ren to teleport to the company right now and work like an ox for the Bai family.
The male lead still wanted to say something when he saw this, but Bai Ren stopped him. “My father is right. I’ve recovered very well while recuperating in Shencheng. Other than not being able to stand, there’s already nothing serious. It won’t affect my work, and there are indeed still many things to do in the department.
I also can’t just keep staying like this and do nothing, otherwise I won’t be able to feel at ease myself.”
Hearing him mention his own legs, Bai Yucheng felt sad. He opened his mouth, but in the end still did not try to persuade him further. He thought that perhaps work could distract Bai Ren, keep him occupied, and then he would not think about those sad things.
Afterward, Bai Ren turned to look at Mo Yi again and said gently, “When I go out to work, you stay at home and wait for me. If you’re bored, play with the tablet and phone, or watch TV, okay?”
When Mo Yi heard Bai Ren’s request, he subconsciously wanted to nod. It was 005 in his sea of consciousness who reminded him, “No! Host, hurry up and stop him! The villain isn’t going there just to work, he’s going to research the virus that will destroy the world. We can’t let him continue.”
Hearing the system’s words, Mo Yi finally remembered that he still had a mission.
These days had been too comfortable, too peaceful. He had almost forgotten about this mission!
If 005 had said anything before about destroying the world, he had not paid that much attention. Because for him, living on was only instinct, and if he really had to say whether he liked this world much, he did not. His days also carried a somewhat negative, detached air.
But now it was different. He did not want this world to be destroyed.
Because Bai Ren existed in this world! He liked Bai Ren, liked the world in which Bai Ren existed, and wanted to keep living here happily with him forever.
So he absolutely had to stop Bai Ren from destroying this world.
Only, thinking of the man’s expression just now, and with all the words already spoken by him, he could not directly say to stop Bai Ren from going to work. After all, going out to work sounded like a perfectly proper reason.
By the time Mo Yi reacted, Bai Ren had already been pushed out the door in his wheelchair by Bai Yucheng.
Their destination was the same, so they could go together just fine, but Mo Yi was not at ease.
Not only because of the mission, but also because of Bai Yucheng. Even if he now had a pretty good impression of the male lead, the male lead and the villain were on opposite sides, and he still feared that Bai Ren, who could not even walk right now, would be wronged where he could not see.
So when Bai Ren reached the car and had just opened the door to get in, he saw that Mo Yi, who should have stayed inside the house, had already rushed out.
He took three steps in two and ran to the car, grabbed Bai Ren’s hand on the car door, and said to him, “I want to go too!”
“I’m going to work, not to play.” Bai Ren patted the back of his hand and said with amusement, “Work is very boring. Wouldn’t it be better for Little Mo to stay at home and obediently wait for me?”
But when Mo Yi heard this, he shook his head hard. “No, I definitely have to go.”
After saying that, he felt that his tone might have been a little too hard, and looked at the man pitifully. “Can I really not go?”
Mo Yi’s face carried a bit of urgency, and his pair of dark, rolling eyes stared tightly at the other man, making Bai Ren’s heart unconsciously waver.
Bai Yan, who had escorted Bai Yucheng to the door, showed a sarcastic expression and poured cold water on them. “What right do you have to go, and what identity would you be going as! Do you think Bai Corporation is somewhere just any little cat or dog can go?”
Mo Yi ignored Bai Yan’s sour sarcasm. Anyway, he was not some little cat, he was a dog.
However, this person was too annoying. Tonight he would go out and catch some mice to throw on his bed. Mo Yi silently made the decision in his heart.
In the sea of consciousness, 005 asked, “A dog catching mice?”
Mo Yi said, “… Shut up!”
Just like that, they stood in a stalemate, clutching the car door and refusing to let go. Mo Yi pressed on, pleading, “Please, Bai Ren, let me go with you! I don’t want to be separated from you!”
This time, it seemed to finally work, because the moment Mo Yi finished speaking, he felt the man’s breathing seem to change.
A smile slowly appeared on Bai Ren’s face, a smile that could even be called pleased. He gave a light sigh and said helplessly, “I really can’t do anything with you. How are you so clingy?”
Then he lifted his chin, indicating for Mo Yi to get in the car.
Bai Yucheng on the side also felt that letting Mo Yi come along was quite good. He still remembered the laughter he had heard outside the room yesterday. Glancing at Bai Yan, he said, “It’s good for Mo Yi to go too. He can help take care of Bai Ren.”
As he said that, he also took the initiative to open the passenger-side door and sit inside, letting Mo Yi and Bai Ren sit in the back.
At that point, Bai Yan had no way to object anymore.