There was a moment of silence on the other end before the questioning continued: "You booked a hotel room with someone else?"

Upon hearing this, Liu Nian suddenly came to his senses and replied seriously, "Brother, it's not as bad as 'booking a room.' We all share rooms, and I'm with one of my senior classmates."

Jing Baisen didn't even listen to his question and went straight to asking, "You slept together?"

Liu Nian: "There were two beds, one for each of us, and I didn't take off my clothes. I was completely covered up. Even though it's unlikely that the senior would be interested in me, I didn't let him see me."

Jing Baisen remained silent for a while.

Just when Liu Nian thought he would understand him, a sinister voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Liu Nian, do you want to die?"

Liu Nian: "...I should have told you beforehand."

Jing Baisen: "Get out of the room right now!"

Liu Nian: "It's not too late to say it now. I don't think I should go out now, otherwise it would seem like he's really interested in me, which would be too presumptuous of me."

"Liu Nian!!!" Jing Baisen practically roared.

“Master Sen,” Liu Nian murmured softly, “It was wrong of me not to tell you beforehand, but I really shouldn’t go out now. I have no reason to go out.”

Jing Baisen seemed to laugh in anger, and said, "You want another reason?"

Liu Nian: "Yes, I won't go out without a legitimate reason."

Unexpectedly, there was silence on the other end.

Liu Nian wouldn't hang up on him.

He remained silent, and Liu Nian also remained silent.

I don't know how much time has passed.

Then another voice came from the other end, but this time it was much calmer.

Jing Baisen said, "Come out."

Liu Nian: "...What's the reason?"

Jing Baisen: "...I'm outside."

When Liu Nian rushed out, he saw Jing Baisen's car parked downstairs at the hotel.

His mere presence there was enough to rival the bustling prosperity of the entire city.

Liu Nian rushed over and bumped into his arms, asking him excitedly and happily, "Why are you here?"

Jing Baisen lowered his gaze, looked at him, and said, "Business trip."

Liu Nian didn't expose him, but simply hugged him and kissed him on the lips.

Jing Baisen initially resisted him, but as they continued kissing, he couldn't help but laugh.

Liu Nian stumbled and clung to him, asking anxiously, "Where do you live? Shall we go to your place together?"

Jing Baisen couldn't stop laughing, but deliberately asked him in a serious tone, "What do you want to do?"

Liu Nian, without any sense of shyness, said, "I miss you."

Jing Baisen was very pleased and took Liu Nian directly to his luxurious presidential suite.

The two started kissing as soon as they entered the elevator.

Once inside the suite and through the entryway, the two of them were practically naked.

Jing Baisen held a grudge against him for having a hotel room with someone else and tormented him relentlessly.

Liu Nian cried and begged for mercy, saying there was a competition tomorrow and asking him to let him go.

He hadn't forgotten the competition, but Jing Baisen was deliberately making things difficult for him. If he hadn't been so concerned about his tie clip, he wouldn't have made Liu Nian stand up so early in the morning.

Whether intentionally or not, Jing Baisen deliberately left marks on Liu Nian's neck.

Liu Nian clutched his neck, unsure of what to do.

Jing Baisen, however, didn't care about any of that.

Liu Nian thought to himself, "He really is awful."

During the competition, they even lived there.

Liu Nian explained the situation to Jing Baisen, but Jing Baisen didn't appreciate it at all.

Liu Nian: "...Are you afraid I'll cheat on you?"

Jing Baisen pinched his chin and said, "This isn't the first time you've cheated on me, is it?"

Liu Nian was taken aback, then asked him, "When did I cheat on you?"

"Your ex-boyfriend? You dare say there's no such person?" Jing Baisen said, quite insistently.

Liu Nian was really at a loss for words, "My ex-boyfriend...my ex-boyfriend? Does that count as cheating?"

Jing Baisen squinted at him.

"Fine," Liu Nian was truly impressed by him, "If you insist on calculating it, then let's calculate it."

No matter how Jing Baisen thought about this, he felt uneasy.

In the end, Jing Baisen just left.

Liu Nian did not try to keep him.

After all, from anyone's perspective, he's just being unreasonable, isn't he?

It was supposed to be a business trip, but that was practically impossible.

That evening, Jing Bolin called Liu Nian.

Jing Bolin: "...A-Nian, did my older brother go looking for you? What did you do to make him so angry?"

Liu Nian said somewhat absentmindedly, "I cheated on my wife."

Jing Bolin was so frightened that he seemed to stand up abruptly. "What?! Then how are you still alive?"

Liu Nian's lips twitched, and then he told Jing Bolin the whole story.

Jing Bolin felt quite troubled after hearing this, and said, "A-Nian, you're already with my older brother now, so it's really not appropriate for you to live with someone else now."

Liu Nian felt that the conversation was getting more and more pointless. "If I were to live with a girl, she would never agree to it."

Jing Bolin said very seriously, "Well, girls aren't suitable either."

Liu Nian: "So, from now on, I'll only have your older brother. Apart from him, I don't need to have any contact with anyone, regardless of gender."

"..." Jing Bolin was silent for a long time before saying, "My older brother has a lot of money, he will definitely make it up to you."

Liu Nian didn't dwell on the topic and asked, "Where is your older brother now?"

Jing Bolin: "My older brother? My older brother is working at a nightclub now."

Jing Bolin was stunned as soon as he finished speaking.

Liu Nian hung up the phone.

Jing Baisen wanted to find someone to replace Liu Nian.

He went down one after another of the boys, but he couldn't find one he was satisfied with.

Until he saw a face that resembled Liu Nian's, he pinched the boy's chin and examined him for a long time, thinking that if this face was usable, it still needed to be fixed.

The boy was trembling with excitement, his eyes fixed on Jing Baisen with fascination.

Jing Baisen then noticed the boy's eyes, and upon seeing them, he felt extremely disgusted.

Shoving the boy aside, Jing Baisen said irritably, "Get out of here!"

On the other side.

Xiao Guai: "...Liu Nian, how can you still be in the mood to participate in the competition? Didn't you say before that if you encountered this situation, you would just rush over, tear their hair, and slap them in the face?"

Liu Nian: "It's not the right time yet."

Little Darling: "Huh?"

It was already the fifth day, and Liu Nian was going back tomorrow, so he sent Jing Baisen a message with just one sentence: "I'm going back tomorrow."