“It’s my fault. I shouldn’t have made those demands, but I just like you too much. You always go ten days or half a month without looking for me. I really like you, please don’t drive me away, I’m begging you.”
The young man was almost on the verge of kneeling on the ground.
Although such a scene was rare, Qin Yuan wasn’t too surprised after seeing it with his own eyes.
Seeing the young man stirred something deep within his heart.
Although his own situation was completely different from the young man’s, their essence was essentially the same: both of them loved someone who didn’t love them back.
Then they forced the issue, and in the end, it only brought themselves misery.
Qin Yuan quietly watched the two of them.
The man being pestered over there raised his eyes, colliding with Qin Yuan’s calm gaze. The man’s brows seemed to knit together slightly.
He reached out and pushed the young man away in front of him. He had originally only intended to keep him like a pet, and they had agreed on that from the start, but now this person was coming to him talking about love.
Xie Fengbei only found it ridiculous.
“If you want to be seen by more people, make the news tomorrow, and lose your qualification for the talent show, you can keep going.”
Xie Fengbei’s cold, indifferent words successfully made the young man let go of his hand.
The young man trembled all over, staring at Xie Fengbei with a completely shocked look in his eyes.
“People must learn to be content. If you want everything, in the end, you won’t get anything at all.”
Xie Fengbei turned and walked away. Had he known this person would be so troublesome, he never would have looked for him in the first place.
He originally just wanted someone to keep at home as a vase anyway.
Xie Fengbei had simply wanted to see if he had any interest in men; facts proved that even switching to a man hadn’t sparked any interest.
He had given the other person enough, including resources and money. Now that they were splitting up, the other person was still begging for his love.
He didn’t even know if he possessed the capacity to love himself, let alone give it to someone else.
The corner of Xie Fengbei’s mouth hooked up slightly into a trace of a cold, mocking smile.
Leaving the young man behind, Xie Fengbei walked toward the elevator.
During this time, he crossed paths directly with Qin Yuan. Xie Fengbei found this face somewhat familiar.
However, the fields their businesses involved were different. Xie Fengbei mainly operated in the internet and entertainment industry, while most of Qin Yuan’s ventures were in industrial manufacturing.
The two occasionally met at various functions, but neither was the type who needed resources from others; rather, others needed them and thus flocked to their sides.
Xie Fengbei’s handsome face remained expressionless. He originally thought Qin Yuan was also heading for the elevator, but unexpectedly, the other man walked straight up to him, tilted his body slightly, and they brushed past each other.
Xie Fengbei took another two steps, felt a trace of curiosity, and instinctively glanced back, thus witnessing a strange scene.
Qin Yuan, who was notorious for casually playing around with both men and women, actually walked up to the lover who had just been abandoned and squatted right down in front of him.
Qin Yuan took a tissue out of his pocket and handed it to the weeping young man.
The young man abruptly raised his head, a look of surprise flashing across his expression. He thought Xie Fengbei had come back.
When he saw an unfamiliar face instead, the light in the depths of his eyes was just about to dim when the handsome young man in front of him suddenly spoke to him in an extremely gentle and concerned voice: “Wipe your tears. It’s not worth shedding tears for someone else.”
The young man froze entirely.
The young man who had suddenly appeared before him possessed a face that was too handsome. Calling it gorgeous wouldn’t be an exaggeration.
Especially when his eyes smiled, they seemed to brim with endless romantic charm.
Because the other person was also squatting, their bodies were close, allowing the young man to see his own reflection in the young man’s eyes.
His figure was mirrored in the youth’s pupils.
At that moment, the young man couldn’t control it either; his heart felt as though it had been fiercely struck.
“Fine, I can wipe them for you.”
Qin Yuan raised his hand and wiped the tears from the young man’s face.
He had done this for someone else once before, only back then, that person hadn’t been abandoned by a lover. Rather, his lover had been targeted by Qin Yuan and was about to go spend a few years in a harsh prison.
Seeing how much Lin Xi cared about his boyfriend, Qin Yuan had been even angrier back then. He had originally thought that no matter how Lin Xi begged him, he wouldn’t let his boyfriend off.
Yet later on, Lin Xi suddenly broke down in painful tears, no longer pleading with words, only crying in silence.
Seeing those tears had stripped away all of Qin Yuan’s anger, leaving behind only heartache.
It was just that Lin Xi’s boyfriend still had to spend half a year inside in the end. After all, the matter had blown up too much, and no matter how powerful Qin Yuan’s connections were, he couldn’t just erase everything.
Qin Yuan’s gaze was filled with tenderness, as if the person before him at that moment was the Lin Xi of the past.
“Thank you.”
The tissue was taken from his hand, and as the choked voice emerged, a flash of a smile swept through the depths of Qin Yuan’s eyes.
This person wasn’t Lin Xi.
There was only one Lin Xi.
“Where do you live? I’ll send you back.”
“You look a bit like a friend of mine.”
Qin Yuan brought it up briefly as an explanation.
“No, I can go back by myself.”
The young man immediately refused.
This was because he suddenly noticed Xie Fengbei still standing not far away, staring at him with a cold, gloomy gaze. Once caught in that stare, the young man felt a chill run through his entire body.
The next moment, a garment radiating gentle warmth was draped over his shoulders.
The young man slowly raised his eyes and froze for a moment. He didn’t understand why this handsome young man who had suddenly appeared was treating him so well.
Did he look that much like a friend of his?
With such a gentle friend, that friend must be very happy.
“Let’s go.”
Qin Yuan wrapped an arm around the young man’s shoulders and helped him up.
As soon as he stood up, the young man snapped back to reality and immediately began to struggle.
He shoved the clothes back at Qin Yuan, refusing to look at Qin Yuan’s expression, and immediately bolted forward, running straight up to Xie Fengbei.
“Fengbei, please don’t misunderstand, I don’t know him.”
“It’s fine even if you know him. After all, we don’t have much of a relationship anyway.”
Xie Fengbei couldn’t describe what he was feeling inside at that moment. Qin Yuan had gone to comfort his former lover right in front of him, making it look as though it were deliberately done for his benefit.
Yet thinking that they had no past intersection, Xie Fengbei stopped thinking about it. Qin Yuan was simply a romantic who loved to bestow his affections everywhere.
Xie Fengbei walked into the elevator.
The young man wanted to follow him in, but a single faint look from Xie Fengbei pinned him in place.
The elevator doors quickly closed, and Qin Yuan strode over with his long legs. Standing behind the young man, Qin Yuan draped his coat over the young man’s shoulders once more. Raising his gaze, Qin Yuan locked eyes with Xie Fengbei inside the elevator. At that instant, both of their gazes turned sharp, cold, and dark.
The moment the elevator doors closed, the young man lost all strength in his body and squatted down to the ground. Qin Yuan caught and supported him just in time.
“Did you sleep with him?”
Qin Yuan asked right off the bat.
The young man’s expression flashed with shock.
Then, under Qin Yuan’s smiling gaze, the young man slowly shook his head.
“He can’t do it?”
Qin Yuan was genuinely surprised. Xie Fengbei actually couldn’t do it?
“No.”
“Then what?”
“Are you guys platonic?”
He had even kept him by his side, yet they were platonic? Anyway, the people around Qin Yuan were all meant for sleeping with.
“He…”
The young man wanted to say that he and Xie Fengbei hadn’t even kissed. He lived at Xie Fengbei’s place, but he seemed more like a tenant. Xie Fengbei often left early and returned late, and sometimes when the young man wanted something to happen between them, Xie Fengbei would directly tell him to go out.
The young man had certainly entertained many guesses, such as Xie Fengbei being impotent, but no matter what, Xie Fengbei was still the person he loved. Even though he had been abandoned, upon careful reflection, Xie Fengbei really had given him a lot.
It was he who was greedy, wanting everything.
“He doesn’t like my type.”
The young man shook his head in explanation.
Qin Yuan didn’t care much about what was wrong with Xie Fengbei’s body.
“Since you haven’t slept together, isn’t that even better?”
“Quickly switch to the next one. You’re quite decent-looking, this face is nice.”
“What type do you like? I’ll introduce someone to you.”
Qin Yuan pinched the young man’s chin, leaning in close as he spoke.
He was already handsome by nature, and with him leaning in this close, every detail of his striking features was visible.
A faint, cool scent of pine wood drifted straight into the young man’s nose with the proximity. Tears were still in the corners of the young man’s eyes, but his ears suddenly grew hot.
“Do you like my type?”
Qin Yuan joked.
“No, I don’t.”
“You don’t like me? Someone as handsome as me, and you turn your nose up at it?”
“Compared to Xie Fengbei, I seem a bit more handsome, right?”
The two of them belonged to completely different styles, but Qin Yuan definitely believed he was the more handsome one.
“Go back, take a good bath, get a good sleep, and find a new man tomorrow.”
“As for someone like Xie Fengbei, you’d better stop thinking about it.”
Qin Yuan found it hard to imagine what Xie Fengbei would be like in bed. He looked no different from a robot, probably lacking any trace of passion or playfulness.
Qin Yuan curved his lips in an amused smile, looking dashing and affectionate.
The young man had just gone through a breakup, but his heart was pounding wildly, making him feel as though he had fallen in love all over again.
The next second, Qin Yuan turned his gaze to meet the young man’s eyes.
“However, you still shouldn’t like me. I have someone I love.”
He had already died once for that person. Even though he claimed he didn’t love him anymore, just seeing someone similar crying made it impossible for him to ignore. Wanting to forget Lin Xi wasn’t all that easy either.