Liu Nian tried to snatch his phone back, but Jing Baisen took it directly from him.

Jing Baisen immediately turned on his phone and read the message.

Then, he lowered his eyes and looked at Liu Nian: "Uncle?"

Liu Nian lay on the bed and swallowed hard.

What could he say?

Jing Baisen pressed his thumb on the phone and sent a message for him.

"What uncle?"

News came quickly from the other side.

"Huh? (emoji)"

"A-Nian, have you forgotten?"

"Didn't you say that on the day you settled in, you went out that night to see one of your uncles?"

"I even asked you then, 'Are you going to see your lover so late at night?'"

"Didn't you say you were my uncle?"

Jing Baisen squinted and stared at the word "uncle".

Liu Nian silently reached out his hand to take his phone.

Jing Baisen let him be, then sat there, took a deep drag on his cigarette, and said, "You're going to tell people I'm your uncle?"

"I'm just afraid people won't accept it..." Liu Nian tried to find an excuse to gloss over the matter.

Jing Baisen looked at him with a dangerous glint in his eyes and asked, "Who is this person? Is he the one who booked the room with you?"

Liu Nian: "...I already said, it wasn't about booking a hotel room."

Jing Baisen ignored all of that and simply ordered, "Delete the person!"

"Are you kidding me?!" Liu Nian immediately refused. "He's a senior, how can you just delete someone like that for no reason!"

Seeing Jing Baisen's increasingly dangerous gaze, Liu Nian couldn't take it anymore and said directly, "He's just a senior, there's nothing else between us! On the contrary, who knows what you've been up to these past few days!"

When Jing Baisen heard him turn the tables on him, he was so angry that he laughed.

Liu Nian, however, became defiant and said, "If you're so tough, let me check your phone too!"

Upon hearing this, Jing Baisen's heart skipped a beat.

The two remained locked in a standoff, neither willing to yield.

In the end, Liu Nian backed down.

"Alright," Liu Nian said, uttering this ridiculous statement, "I believe you, and you believe me, okay?"

Jing Baisen looked at him, flipped him onto the bed, and tormented him for a while before finally venting his anger.

But Fang Xiao knew nothing about it and sent several more messages.

Finally, Jing Baisen, with his arm around Liu Nian and a gloomy face, sent back a message.

"I'm his man!"

Fang Xiao was completely stunned.

Man?

Does Liu Nian like men?

Likes men... but already has a man?

Fang Xiao's heart was in turmoil, and he began to feel a little curious about who this man was.

When Liu Nian came to his senses, he just stared at the message and really didn't know what to say.

Xiao Guai, however, thought it was a good thing, believing it was Jing Baisen's possessiveness.

Liu Nian looked at the message, sneered, and then threw his phone away.

Liu Nian returned as if nothing had happened, much to Jing Bolin's surprise when he found out.

When he heard this news from his older brother, he blurted out without thinking, "So Liu Nian knew you went to the nightclub, didn't he cause a scene?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Jing Bolin was stunned.

"A nightclub?" Jing Baisen's voice was sinister. "How did he know?"

Jing Bolin quickly explained, "Brother, I didn't let it slip!"

...

No wonder, no wonder Liu Nian didn't send him any messages for five days.

When he returned, she pretended to be nonchalant and asked him if she would come to pick him up.

Jing Baisen wondered, what if he hadn't gone to pick him up?

He recalled seeing Liu Nian pushing a suitcase out of the high-speed rail station when he was on the train.

He stood there, his eyes indifferent and detached, not at all like someone waiting for anyone.

Until he opened the car door and got out.

When Liu Nian saw him, her wandering eyes froze for a moment, and then she started smiling at him and rushed towards him alone.

Just now, Liu Nianming's eyes were darting around, but he said very firmly that he wanted to check his phone.

"Big brother, I really know I was wrong, big brother!" Jing Bolin pleaded.

Jing Baisen hung up the phone immediately.

"Doesn't he mind?" Jing Baisen wondered.

Liu Nian slept at Jing's house again. As soon as he got up, he turned on his computer and, relying on his recent national first prize, submitted several part-time job resumes.

"What are you doing?" Jing Baisen asked him.

Liu Nian didn't even glance at him, saying, "I'll find a few more part-time jobs; maybe I can earn some extra money."

Jing Baisen paused for a moment, then frowned and asked, "Do I need your money?"

“It’s not about money,” Liu Nian said lazily. “You have to do things that make you feel valuable so that you can get a sense of accomplishment and avoid getting bored.”

"A sense of accomplishment?" Jing Baisen thought about this.

“Yes, just like you,” Liu Nian praised without reservation, “There are always various reasons why people like you at first sight.”

Jing Baisen looked up at him and asked, "Then what do you like about me?"

Liu Nian paused for a moment while typing, then slowly resumed his typing and said, "I like everything about you—your looks, your wealth, your temperament. The moment I saw you, I wanted to have something romantic with you."

"Love?" Jing Baisen asked again.

Liu Nian smiled, then turned around and said excitedly, "I just got a job drawing engineering drawings for a company. It's 500 yuan per drawing, how about it?"

Jing Baisen looked down on him and felt that he wasn't being polite, so he suddenly asked, "Didn't you like someone else before? How can you like someone else so easily?"

As soon as he said it, Jing Baisen regretted it, feeling that he was just asking for trouble.

Liu Nian just sat there without answering, which made him even more unhappy.

At first, he didn't care, but when he realized he did, he found that Liu Nian liked him, and it seemed that his feelings were slipping away little by little.

The thought of Liu Nian standing opposite him with a detached and indifferent look in his eyes made Jing Baisen feel extremely irritated.

He seemed to have never truly understood what Liu Nian's affection for him really meant.

Such one-sided things, money, appearance, temperament...

But what about his true nature?

Indifference, indiscriminate affection.

But even if someone is indifferent and promiscuous, what does it matter?

That's just who he is. Even though he's like that, there are still plenty of people around him.