Chapter 46: Henpecked

Fu Chenyu withdrew his hand, propped up his chin and asked, "Is it sweet?"

"Yeah." Ji Mian pretended to be calm, "It's okay."

"Click", the door was opened, breaking the ambiguous atmosphere in the room.

Li Jue, carrying the bag, opened his eyes wide as he entered the room, his anger uncontrollable: "Fuck!"

A single man and a single woman lived together in the same room. The old beast Fu Chenyu had obvious intentions towards his wife and took advantage of the gap between him and his mother-in-law to come up and gossip about her?

Su Luoyu came in and asked softly, "Jimian, are you feeling better?"

Ji Mian nodded: "You can go to school tomorrow."

Li Jue saw that his face was still red and asked, "What's wrong? Your face is still so red, are you still running a fever?"

Ji Mian: ...

"No."

Li Jue brought a lot of things with him. After all, he couldn't come empty-handed when he came to visit Ji Mian's home last time.

Apart from the ones for Lin Minzhi, the rest were a bunch of supplements. They bought whatever was expensive and piled them all in front of Ji Mian's bed.

Li Jue raised his head and saw the annoying photos on the bedside table. There were four photos in total. One was a photo of Ji Mian and Lin Minzhi, one was a photo of Ji Mian and Fu Chenyu when they were five years old, and the rest were photos taken at the elementary school graduation and the junior high school graduation.

Fu Chenyu was in three of the four photos. At every major turning point in Ji Mian's life, Fu Chenyu was almost always by his side.

Li Jue's eyes were heavy, his fists clenched unconsciously, and his heart was beating fast.

Su Luoyu looked at the photo for a while and said with a smile: "You still have the photo?"

Ji Mian: "My mom took this photo for me."

Su Luoyu: "It's so small. Was this taken at Liming Kindergarten?"

Ji Mian nodded: "Teacher Xiao Wang took the photo for us."

Li Jue listened to their conversation without saying a word.

Only now did he realize the gap between himself and Fu Chenyu. For more than ten years, without his knowledge, Fu Chenyu had filled Ji Mian's life.

He was a little unwilling, and a question popped up in his mind, why...

In terms of family background, conditions, background and qualifications, he is better than Fu Chenyu in every way.

He had even lived with Ji Mian in his previous life. After starting over again, what went wrong?

Lin Minzhi invited them down to eat. Since she didn't expect three older boys to appear at once, cooking took a little longer.

The table was full. Lin Minzhi was afraid that the boys would not have enough to eat, so she ordered takeout from the hotel, and finally got seven or eight dishes together.

A pot of steaming white rice was also cooked. Lin Minzhi was gentle by nature and loved Ji Mian's friends as well. She sat down and ate with them, smiling happily.

Ji Mian had just recovered from a serious illness. He drank his porridge silently, occasionally gnawing on a piece of vegetable. He looked at the squirrel fish on the table that was cooked crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and swallowed his saliva.

When Fu Chenyu saw this, he picked up a piece of tender fish belly meat with chopsticks, picked out the bones and put it into his bowl.

Ji Mian stuffed it into his mouth with joy, his eyes curved: "Thank you."

As a courtesy, Ji Mian was grateful and took the initiative to pick up a meatball for Fu Chenyu.

The next second, Ji Mian found an extra piece of pork ribs in his bowl. When he looked up, Li Jue's two attractive little fangs were right in front of him.

He was laughing like a husky, and his tail was almost shaking out of his shadow.

Ji Mian: ...

Seeing Li Jue's expectant expression, and thinking about how he had come all the way to visit her and brought a room full of gifts, she felt it was not appropriate to offend him.

Ji Mian hesitated for a moment, and had to pick a meatball that was smaller than Fu Chenyu's meatball and put it into Li Jue's bowl.

Then she just focused on eating and didn't want to pay any attention to him.

Li Jue took a bite of the meatball and looked at Fu Chenyu provocatively.

Next, the two of them seemed to be competing with each other, you took a chopstick, I took a chopstick, and soon a mountain of food appeared in Ji Mian's small bowl.

he:……

Why did I have the nerve to pick up meatballs for Li Jue just now?

Ji Mian quickly said, "I don't want to eat anymore."

He was full after drinking the porridge just now, and wanted to eat the squirrel fish purely out of greed.

Li Jue was still gesturing for the right spot, carefully placing the last chicken wing, and then stopped moving.

Lin Minzhi saw it and seemed to understand something, with a smile on her face.

Later when they left at night, Li Jue insisted on lingering until he was the last one to leave.

He was afraid that the old beast Fu Chenyu would find an excuse to stay with Ji Mian for one night. Judging from Lin Minzhi's attitude towards Fu Chenyu, this was very likely to happen!

Fortunately, Fu Chenyu still had some conscience and did not do anything beastly. He left with them.

After Fu Chenyu left, Ji Mian's excited mood finally calmed down.

Having missed a lot of lessons in the past two days, Ji Mian opened the test paper and prepared to make up for it bit by bit.

There were annotations made by Fu Chenyu on every test paper. His handwriting was elegant but casual. He liked to write in cursive, and his handwriting was unstable and lazy, just like himself.

Ji Mian wrote attentively for a while, then became distracted by looking at his phone. He couldn't help but open the WeChat interface and send a message to Fu Chenyu.

-Where are you?

-Not home yet.

-how?

-Nothing, I'm doing the test and I don't know how to do a question.

-shoot.

It was Ji Mian’s first time telling a lie, so he felt a little guilty and just answered a question at random.

Fu Chenyu took a look and sent a 45-second voice message.

Ji Mian clicked on the voice call and listened to a part of it. He didn't hear what was said clearly, he only heard Fu Chenyu's voice.

He put down his phone, leaned on the table, and sighed softly: ...You are really completely gay, Ji Mian!

Ji Mian listened to Fu Chenyu's voice message several times again, holding the phone against his chest, almost resonating with the beating of his heart.

An idea grew bigger and bigger in his mind, and he found that he might like Fu Chenyu more than he thought.

His previous inexplicable possessiveness towards him might not have come from friendship at all. He simply felt aggrieved when he saw him with others.

Oh my god! I actually had evil intentions towards the boss so early.

Ji Mian's face flushed red as he said to himself in his heart.

Maybe he really likes Fu Chenyu a little, a lot, especially...

He doesn't want to be friends with Fu Chenyu anymore!

In order to protect the security and peace of the motherland, Ji Mian wants the boss to be a police officer's wife!

Taking a deep breath, Ji Mian opened the chat window with Song Wenqi.

-Xiao Song!

-Come on, Meow Bao.

-What do you want from me?

Ji Mian knocks and bangs:

-Do you know how to chase someone?

After a while, Song Wenqi sent a string of messages:

-? ? ?

-? ??? ?

-Who is it??? Are you chasing someone?

-Oh my god! Who stole Meebao's heart?!

Ji Mian didn't say who it was because it would be awkward to say it.

Apart from Fu Chenyu, only Li Jue and Song Wenqi like men.

——Of course he couldn’t ask Ji Yao about the matter of chasing people, he was afraid that Ji Yao would beat him!

Of course Li Jue couldn't ask, because that was the protagonist, and he seemed to have some feelings for him. What if Li Jue misunderstood him?

After much thought, I think Song Wenqi is the most reliable.

-You don't need to know who it is...

Ji Mian sent it over slowly.

It's so embarrassing to say what Fu Chenyu said... He's worse than a beast to have evil thoughts about his childhood sweetheart...

Song Wenqi was silent for a moment:

-Meah.

- Come to me about this.

-Could it be that the person you like is a man?

Ji Mian didn't expect to hide the secret from Song Wenqi, so the next day at school, he went to the playground with Song Wenqi for lunch and told him everything.

Besides saying that the person he wanted to pursue was Fu Chenyu.

After being surprised, Song Wenqi accepted it quite quickly.

He looked at Ji Mian's face, puzzled. With a face like that, who wouldn't be willing to throw themselves at you? Why would you even bother chasing after someone?

Ji Mian stammered and couldn't say anything. Song Wenqi didn't force the child and immediately put on the attitude of an experienced person.

"Does the guy you're pursuing know that you like him?" Song Wenqi asked. "Is he gay or straight? If he's straight, that's fine, but it's too scary. If you can't get him, you might even get beaten up."

"I guess... I don't know." Ji Mian touched his nose: "It's curved."

Song Wenqi said, "Well, how about you let him know that you like him first?"

Ji Mian quickly rejected it: "No! It's too fast."

Song Wenqi pondered: "What should I do? Can you sense that he is interested in you?"

Ji Mian didn't know what to say either.

He and Fu Chenyu grew up together and were very close since childhood. Hugging and touching each other like lovers was a very common thing between them.

Therefore, he didn't know that Fu Chenyu's touches on him went beyond the boundaries of friendship.

Ji Mian mustered up his courage and said, "I don't know what interesting means..."

Song Wenqi: "Tell me the truth anonymously and I'll help you analyze it."

Ji Mian thought about it, picked one that he felt was quite ambiguous and said, "My friend raised a rabbit since he was a child. His rabbit died a while ago, and I saw that he was so sad, so I said I would be his rabbit from now on. After that, he often pinched my neck, saying that he was petting the rabbit."

When he looked up, Ji Mian saw Song Wenqi's torn expression.

Song Wenqi slowly uttered the word "Fuck" and said in shock, "What kind of pornographic play are you two engaging in?"

Ji Mian frowned: "I shouldn't have asked you if I had known."

The second semester of his senior year was busy with classes. Ji Mian was thinking about how to pursue someone while swimming in the ocean of knowledge.

After the midterm exam, Zhennan considered that the students were under too much pressure, so he finally organized a garden party to give all the students two days of relaxation.

Ji Mian's class cooked, and they borrowed a pot and an induction cooker from their homeroom teacher, Lao Cai. They fried sausages and chicken, each costing three yuan, and set up a stall right in front of the classroom.

The classroom was decorated a day before the evening study session. Ji Mian was responsible for coating the chicken with flour, while Fu Chenyu was responsible for standing at the door of the classroom to attract customers, like a top star.

Sure enough, with Fu Chenyu's reputation as the "school hunk", many senior students came to the experimental class to buy sausages.

A group of female classmates surrounded the classroom in three layers, making it impossible to get in or out.

Fu Chenyu walked from the back door of the classroom to Ji Mian, who was wearing an apron and wrapping flour attentively. Fu Chenyu saw that there was some flour on his face and wiped it off for him.

As soon as they touched Ji Mian's face, the female students lined up in the classroom lowered their voices and screamed excitedly.

Among the screams, there were one or two that were quite strange. Ji Mian heard some mysterious academic language such as "married woman", "little bottom", and "little top".

He often heard the student council member mention these words. The student council member was a girl in their class who wore glasses. She was introverted and shy. She loved reading comics and novels. She liked a comic called "The World's No. 1 First Love". Ji Mian inferred from the cover that it might be about brotherhood. Moreover, the student council member stared at him and Fu Chenyu with weird eyes every day and made a strange "kukuku" laugh.

The sausages were wrapped in flour and put into the frying pan, making a sizzling sound.

Fu Chenyu helped out and collected money on the side.

Ji Mian was concentrating on making snacks, but with Fu Chenyu standing next to him, he couldn't concentrate after a while.

All kinds of thoughts that made his heart beat faster came to his mind.

While Fu Chenyu wasn't paying attention, he secretly looked at him, and Song Wenqi's words popped up in his mind.

——How about you test him first?

——If he doesn’t dislike it, he must be interested in you, right?

How to test...

Ji Mian swallowed.

A female classmate in the team interrupted Ji Mian's words: "Um, senior, can I take a photo?"

Ji Mian raised his head and found that the female classmate was talking to Fu Chenyu, holding the phone with her eyes sparkling.

Fu Chenyu looked at him lazily, and the female classmate's heart was so nervous that it almost jumped out of her throat.

Fu Chenyu suddenly turned his gaze to Ji Mian.

Ji Mian was stunned by the look and tilted his head with a puzzled expression.

Fu Chenyu looked at Ji Mian with a smile, and said in a somewhat cold voice, "Take a picture." He said, "My husband at home is very strict and won't allow us to take pictures."

The female classmate exclaimed, "Huh?" and suddenly an idea struck her. She looked at Ji Mian and said, "Um... Senior, can I, can I take a picture of him?"

Ji Mian's neck suddenly turned red: "Why are you patting Fu Chenyu and asking me?"

The female classmate was even more confused and panicked: "That... that senior meant that we need your permission before we can take the photos? You are in charge, that is, strictly."

Fu Chenyu smiled cunningly, his eyes raised, staring at Ji Mian: "Can I take a picture?"

Ji Mian thought of Song Wenqi's words "test it out" and felt that Fu Chenyu's attitude was very strange. It was a good opportunity for him to test it out, so he pretended to be calm and said, "Then, we can't shoot."

He said very straightforwardly: "It's not decent to show your face in public."