Chapter 25 (Part 1) Know Yourself (18N)

Si Qiang's expression turned somewhat strange, her Adam's apple bobbing up and down, as if she were lost in thought.

"Hmph, if you don't want to, then forget it." Xu Qi snorted, but showed no displeasure. Instead, he raised his head to kiss the other's slightly parted lips. Call him overconfident if you will, he simply believed that Si Qiang wouldn't disappoint him. In fact, he soon discovered that Si Qiang was more than just "not going to disappoint him"—

“For a long time… I’ve been confused about one thing.” Si Qiang turned her head away from his lips, leaned close to his ear, and whispered, “Am I gay? What is it about you that I like? Is it this face that never smiles at me? Or this tall, imposing figure that always makes people look up to me? Or perhaps… your strength as a man itself?”

As he spoke, he ran his fingers along the man's eyebrows, chest, and waist, then back to his face, gently stroking his cheeks with his palm. His gaze seemed to travel back through time, becoming somewhat lost.

Xu Qi froze, feeling an indescribable bittersweetness slowly welling up from an unknown source, filling his chest and making him speechless. These few simple words contained too many things he almost dared not think about—why did Si Qiang like him? When exactly did she begin to harbor these feelings for him? And during that time, where did he place Si Qiang? Each question was far too heavy for him to bear.

"Later... I slowly realized that I'm not gay." Si Qiang's gaze gradually hardened as she stared at Xu Qi without looking away. "I just... like you. As for others... whether they are men or women, they are not you."

These seemingly unoriginal words, coming from the person before him, somehow tugged at his heartstrings. Xu Qi felt a tingling sensation in his chest, as if something sharp had pierced his heart, and the overflowing bitterness began to slowly seep out. He looked at Si Qiang's familiar, focused expression. It was the face of a beautiful woman with light makeup, yet when facing him, she always wore that captivating, boundless affection—how could he… perhaps no one could resist it.

“…Tch.” Xu Qi frowned, moved his legs from the man’s shoulders to his waist, tightened his arms, pressed the man’s head against his side of his neck, crossed his legs behind the man’s back, and locked the man’s entire body firmly. Then he began to slowly sway his hips, and the man’s anus began to laboriously swallow and expel the hot, huge thing.

"Ugh..." Si Qiang gasped in surprise, his body tensing up abruptly. He tried to lift his head, but the man's arm held him firmly, preventing him from moving.

His fingers gently stroked the other's soft, long hair. Xu Qi turned his head and kissed the pink, rounded earlobe, even gently blowing air into the small hole, his voice low and husky: "You keep saying things to coax women... do you think I'll fall for that?"

Si Qiang was already dizzy from his rare intimacy when he heard this. He immediately grabbed his wrists and pressed them hard against his face, his face turning pale: "You?!" He finally spoke out about the feelings and pain he had buried in his heart for so many years, in exchange for the precious loyalty that should exist between lovers. However, Xu Qi completely denied it. How could he remain unmoved?

“However, I’m not the kind of person who… condemns someone outright.” Xu Qi didn’t struggle, simply turning his head to look at him sideways. “I’ll believe you this once—only once, when I caught you cheating… ahh…”

His words were interrupted by Si Qiang's sudden thrust. The overwhelming sensation made him cry out in surprise, followed by the man's increasingly forceful thrusts and Si Qiang's panting whisper: "As long as you obediently let me eat you until you're full... how can I have any appetite for anything else... hmm?"

Xu Qi felt a chill run down his spine and began to regret why he couldn't even speak properly—he was clearly deeply moved, but he was stubbornly trying to save face… He finally realized what his former friend Shawn meant by that sentence.

"Adam, your quirky personality will definitely get you into trouble... although that's kind of cute too..."

At the time, Shawn, who had always been very accommodating to him, was drunk. Under his displeased glare, Shawn uttered those words, which he dismissed as just drunken ramblings. Now, looking back... he had indeed suffered a lot because of his dishonesty, and was particularly clumsy and inept when facing Si Qiang.