Chapter 52 "Make you feel good."
Although Duan Zhuxian is not used to being a human being, he is usually quite gentle, but today is particularly different.
It was still the same warm palm, the same caring attitude, but every touch seemed to suppress something, and one didn't know when it would break through all the calmness and swallow the person in front of him from head to toe with a suffocating wave.
Both restrained and indulgent.
This was the first time that Jiang Yao felt obvious entanglement in Duan Zhuxian, a man who was always calm. He felt as if he was hanging on a steel cable, his heart trembling uneasily. He always felt that Duan Zhuxian would go crazy in the next second, but he was also vaguely looking forward to the unknown.
In the end, restraint finally disappeared, leaving only indulgence and madness.
Jiang Yao finally fell from the invisible steel cable. The moment he was suspended in the air, he was grabbed into someone's arms. His sweaty skin and noisy heartbeat were rubbed together as if they were indistinguishable from each other.
Suddenly, he had the illusion that he was being harassed by the thugs and would never be able to get rid of them in this life.
The moon was rising outside the window, and the night light in the room was dim. After a quick tidy up, the two of them slept in the same bed, without saying a word, only the lingering fragrance flowed and spread silently.
Jiang Yao is used to checking unread messages before going to bed, and his cell phone is placed on the table not far away.
After the sage mode ended, the satisfied blush on his face faded away. He stretched his soft limbs and was about to stand up to get his phone. Just as the back of his head was three centimeters away from the pillow, the person behind him moved and held his waist with his arm.
"Yaoyao, stop running."
Ever since Duan Zhuxian unlocked the new nickname, it seemed like he had become accustomed to saying it.
In the past two hours, whenever he wanted to scratch or kick anyone, Duan Zhuxian would shout "Yaoyao" in his ear, using a coaxing tone but doing brutal things.
When he heard Duan Zhuxian calling him like this in that cold voice, his ears felt hot and his whole body from his tailbone to his scalp felt numb and tight.
"I told you it's team building!"
Duan Zhuxian hummed, as if he believed it, but the arm around his waist tightened even more.
Jiang Yao lay flat on his back, slightly tilting his head and glancing at Duan Zhuxian out of the corner of his eye.
Duan Zhuxian closed his eyes. His face, which was soaked in desire, was no longer cold and emotionless. Half of it was buried in the pillow, and his eyes were slightly closed, as if he was asleep.
Because of the side-lying posture while hugging someone, the slender neckline passed over the protruding Adam's apple and directly sank into the half of the shoulder exposed outside the quilt. There were a few red marks on it caused by his scratching. It exuded laziness and sexiness, quiet, but very alluring.
Forget it, I’ll check the news tomorrow.
Jiang Yao stared at the sleeping handsome man for a while, then forced herself to turn over under Duan Zhuxian's shackles, facing away from Duan Zhuxian.
It’s hard to fall asleep if you stare for too long.
"Yaoyao." A deep and slow voice suddenly sounded behind him.
"What are you doing?" Jiang Yao asked angrily.
You keep shouting the reduplicated word as a catchphrase, right?
"I like you." Duan Zhuxian said.
Jiang Yao suddenly froze, his heart skipped a beat, and he tensed his back, waiting for Duan Zhuxian to say the next words.
After a while, Duan Zhuxian said, "Let's have breakfast together tomorrow."
Jiang Yao said nothing, closed his eyes and forced himself to sleep.
*
Early the next morning, Jiang Yao woke up half an hour early, made two faces in front of Duan Zhuxian, and then made a provocative gesture. Seeing that Duan Zhuxian was indifferent, he tiptoed out of bed, quickly got dressed and washed, without even taking care of his hair, and slipped downstairs like a thief.
He and Duan Zhuxian have different working hours, so it is rare for them to have breakfast together. He is a very casual person, and most of the time he eats three meals a day in the cafeteria with his employees.
Duan Zhuxian suddenly and solemnly invited him to have breakfast together, and after saying "I like you", his intention was self-evident - he probably wanted to take the opportunity to get an answer from him.
But he hadn't thought it through at all.
Various things happened one after another before and after the New Year, and his emotions fluctuated like a roller coaster, all related to someone, which made him confused.
I had originally planned to use the team-building opportunity to sort out my inner thoughts, but that also fell through.
Right now, he's still a mess.
He couldn't come up with a response as passionate and straightforward as Duan Zhuxian's, but it seemed he couldn't refuse Duan Zhuxian either.
But whether he agreed or refused, he and Duan Zhuxian had to continue to be husband and wife, return to the same home, and sleep in the same bed.
They could even maintain a bed-partner relationship, albeit a slightly unethical one. But as Duan Zhuxian himself said, being friends or lovers didn't prevent them from having sex.
So he thought he could delay.
As he hurried through the living room holding the car keys, a familiar smell wafted into his nose. He suddenly stopped and almost instantly recognized the smell of xiaolongbao, the kind that was unique to the streets of his hometown. It was the most delicious food in his memory. It was a pity that he had never tasted the same flavor again after arriving in Lingbei.
Following the aroma deep in his memory, Jiang Yao walked to the kitchen door. The chef standing next to the steamer greeted him with the accent of his hometown.
Jiang Yao was curious and asked, only to find out that this chef was specially invited by Duan Zhuxian from his hometown. He had run a bun shop for twenty years and was an absolute expert.
Could it be the Hongmen Banquet?
Jiang Yao made malicious speculations, but a warm feeling arose in his heart, accompanied by a little guilt.
After walking two steps out of the kitchen, Jiang Yao couldn't help it, so he turned back into the kitchen and took a tray of dumplings away.
When he arrived at the company, the secretary greeted him and asked him why he came so early today when bringing him coffee. He said he had some work to do.
But there wasn't much work to do.
The "Ledong" project he led was already on the right track. After the general direction was determined, all details were assigned to specific people. He only needed to inspect the results regularly. Moreover, most of the backbone members of the group were still in the resort for team building, and no one had submitted reports to him.
After turning on the computer, Jiang Yao sat at his desk in a daze. His phone suddenly vibrated. He looked down and saw the words "Duan Moumou" pop up on the lock screen.
He felt guilty for no reason and clicked on the message.
Duan Zhuxian: "Didn't we agree to have breakfast together?"
Who agreed with you? I ignored you last night!
Jiang Yao rolled his eyes, but the words he typed on the keyboard were: "I suddenly remembered that there is something urgent at the company."
After that, Duan Zhuxian did not respond again.
You won’t be angry anymore, right?
Jiang Yao curled his lips and decided to ignore this petty person.
As a result, I checked my phone messages more than ten times in the morning.
At twelve o'clock, Jiang Yao was about to go to the staff cafeteria. Just as he was picking up his phone, he received a message from Duan Zhuxian and almost dropped it.
Duan Zhuxian: "I just met with the CEO of Hongle Company. I'm near your company now. Want to have lunch together?"
Jiang Yao breathed a sigh of relief unconsciously, it seemed that he was not angry.
Then his alarm bells went off.
He had contact with Hongle Company. It was in another district, at least 20 kilometers away from him, but not far from Huayan.
How come Duan Zhuxian and the CEO of Hongle made an appointment to meet near his company?
Obviously, this was just an excuse. Duan Zhuxian's real purpose should be the same as inviting him to have breakfast.
Jiang Yao replied: "I've already eaten. I'll make an appointment earlier next time."
He pinched the bridge of his nose and put the phone in his pocket without waiting for Duan Zhuxian's reply.
Escape is shameful, but useful.
In order to continue to implement this concept, Jiang Yao deliberately left the company after eight o'clock. When he got home and saw Duan Zhuxian's slippers still in the shoe cabinet, his tense nerves relaxed slightly.
After going upstairs, Jiang Yao received a message from Duan Zhuxian: "I'm working overtime tonight, wait for me at home."
Jiang Yao was stunned.
Waiting for him at home? What for?
Then, Duan Zhuxian sent another message: "I'll be home around ten o'clock."
Jiang Yao replied with an "Oh".
Thanks for the reminder, I definitely fell asleep before 9:59.
After taking a quick shower and drying his hair, Jiang Yao just sat down on the edge of the bed when he received a call for help from Chen Yiqi.
Chen Yiqi recently started a business and needed financing. He used his connections to find several investment companies, but couldn't tell which one was more suitable. He had been a second-generation rich man for more than 20 years, and now he finally tasted the bitter fruit of his previous lack of knowledge and skills, so he had to urgently seek help from his brothers.
This kind of thing was a piece of cake for Jiang Yao. After helping Chen Yiqi analyze the pros and cons and just hanging up the phone, Jiang Yao heard noise coming from the door.
He paused, the word "sleep" flashed through his mind, and then like a frightened ostrich, he buried his head in the quilt. Before his body could get in, the familiar footsteps were already close at hand.
"Are you in a cold head?" Duan Zhuxian's voice came from behind.
Jiang Yao, whose exposed body was mostly exposed, froze. He poked his head out and said nonchalantly, "I'm looking for something."
After saying that, she reached into the quilt and touched it casually twice. She actually touched something. She took it out and it was a condom in pink packaging and strawberry flavor.
Duan Zhuxian raised his eyebrows.
Jiang Yao was stunned for three seconds, then dropped the thing in his hand and his face flushed red. "Who is so wicked as to throw this thing around?"
Duan Zhuxian said, "There was only one left last night. I wanted to use it, but you stopped me and snatched it away and stuffed it into the quilt. I guess I didn't notice it when I made the bed."
Jiang Yao: "..."
Duan Zhuxian is such a ruthless person, he really doesn't give him any face at all!
Now that things have come to this, shouldn’t another matter be brought to the surface?
Sure enough, Duan Zhuxian walked straight towards him, his eyes falling from top to bottom on his face, instantly disrupting his heartbeat.
There's really no way to escape this time.
Just before Jiang Yao accepted his fate, Duan Zhuxian stopped in front of him, bent down, picked up the strawberry box he had thrown on the ground, put it in the storage box on the bedside table, then took off his coat, untied his tie, and went straight to the bathroom.
After taking a shower, I turned on my laptop and sat on the sofa to browse the news.
From beginning to end, Jiang Yao sat on the edge of the bed with his head down, seemingly browsing his phone, but in fact he didn't read anything at all.
This was not what he had imagined.
Time passed by minute by minute, and Jiang Yao could no longer bear the feeling of a knife hanging on his neck.
He quickly walked over to the sofa and asked casually, "By the way, you asked me to have breakfast last night. Did you have something to tell me?"
Duan Zhuxian said, "I just want you to taste the pastry chef's craftsmanship. If it doesn't suit your taste, you can change it in time."
Jiang Yao was stunned for a moment, then asked, "What about that time at noon? Did you deliberately go to look for me near my company?"
Duan Zhuxian shook his head: "The location was decided by Hongle's boss."
Seeing Jiang Yao stiffening his neck with an expression of disbelief, Duan Zhuxian took out his mobile phone, opened a chat interface, and placed it in front of Jiang Yao.
Jiang Yao lowered his eyes and glanced over.
It was indeed the meeting proposed by the other party.
Jiang Yao didn't believe it: "What about now?"
Seeing Jiang Yao's eyes flashing and his face almost red with anxiety, Duan Zhuxian looked puzzled.
Jiang Yao frowned and said, "Since you have nothing to say to me, why do you want me to wait for you at home?"
Duan Zhuxian said: "As your husband, I don't seem to need a reason to say this."
He said, closing his laptop and standing up to walk to the table.
Jiang Yao didn't have time to care about Duan Zhuxian taking advantage of him verbally. He turned around and stared at Duan Zhuxian's back with a scorching gaze as if he wanted to burn a hole in it.
Seeing Duan Zhuxian act as if this matter has nothing to do with him, it seems that he has been asking for trouble and being sentimental from the beginning to the end, right?
"Stop!" Jiang Yao growled, "Don't you want an answer?"
Duan Zhuxian put the computer on the table, turned around, and stared at him without saying a word.
That look was too complicated for Jiang Yao to understand.
He tried to interpret it: "Don't say anything like, liking me is your own business and has nothing to do with me. I don't like to hear that."
Duan Zhuxian smiled when he heard this.
It turned out that Jiang Yao was worried that he would ask for a confession reply, no wonder she always avoided him and was frightened all day long, but in the end she couldn't sit still anymore.
How can there be such a lovely person?
Duan Zhuxian suppressed the curve of his lips and said, "Of course, I'm not the only one who likes you. After all, it's you I like. In this relationship, you are the protagonist."
Jiang Yao's heart began to beat uncontrollably again. He didn't dare look at Duan Zhuxian at all. He lowered his eyes and said in a muffled voice, "You confessed too suddenly. There are some things that I need time to confirm. You have a high IQ, so you should understand what I mean, right?"
"No need to explain this." Duan Zhuxian's Adam's apple moved slightly, and his overly steady voice was filled with a calmness that was only concealed. "You just need to tell me if this is a rejection."
Well, Duan Zhuxian is a fool!
Jiang Yao lowered his head and uttered after a long while: "That's enough!"
Duan Zhuxian's heart trembled, and his usually calm and clear brain suddenly froze. He confirmed the meaning of Jiang Yao's words several times.
Jiang Yao's face was almost cooked, but he was afraid that Duan Zhuxian, this fool, still didn't understand, so he added: "I admit that you are attractive to me, since the first time we went to bed..."
Duan Zhuxian was stunned again. He thought that after the accident that night, Jiang Yao must have hated him to the extreme, and later because of the marriage, he had to choose to forgive him.
Jiang Yao has actually always been very tolerant towards him.
Jiang Yao was unaware of Duan Zhuxian's inner shock and continued, "So I can't figure out how much of this attraction is physical. Who told you to use the beauty trap right from the start and trick me so many times?"
Duan Zhuxian nodded: "I understand."
When it comes to going to bed, he and Jiang Yao are indeed very compatible, and he intends to use this compatibility to make Jiang Yao accept him, but he is not so presumptuous as to think that Jiang Yao will fall in love with him because of this. After all, he has been a thorn in Jiang Yao's side for so many years.
Jiang Yao thought Duan Zhuxian would refute, but unexpectedly he understood.
He suddenly recalled that snowy night ten years ago when Duan Zhuxian didn't explain anything, leaving him with only an ambiguous, cold back. He looked at Duan Zhuxian as if he were a scumbag.
And now, he seems to have become the scumbag.
He has experienced the feeling of being "scumbag" for many years, and it's quite uncomfortable. People like Duan Zhuxian, who are used to being in high positions, probably don't have as strong a heart as him.
Jiang Yao rubbed the tip of his nose, and his originally pounding heart suddenly calmed down. He raised his eyes and finally looked at Duan Zhuxian: "To sum up, I think I like you a little bit."
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Duan Zhuxian's eyes trembling like an earthquake.
"But I'm not sure if my love for you matches your love for me. Don't think it's unfair. After all, you've been secretly in love with me for at least two months, ever since you tried to test me with 'love over time'..."
Jiang Yao paused and said, "I'm done. It's your turn now."
Duan Zhuxian didn't say anything, but just pulled him into his arms and hugged him tightly.
How can there be any fairness in liking someone?
From the age of 15 to 27, twelve years, according to Jiang Yao's calculation method, it would probably take a lifetime to catch up.
Someone hasn't even grasped the basics of love, and yet he still imitated others by passing love letters and engaging in premature love.
With his lips on Duan Zhuxian's shoulder, Jiang Yao whispered, "Anyway, I will think carefully about my feelings for you, so don't rush me."
Duan Zhuxian said: "I won't rush you, but I will chase you."
Jiang Yao said, "You already liked me two months ago, and you're still pursuing me. Then my love for you may never be worth mentioning."
Duan Zhuxian chuckled: "Why don't you chase me?"
Jiang Yao paused, confused, and said in self-deprecation, "Go ahead if you want to, but you also know that we've been rivals for so long, and I have a conditioned reflex towards you. I always want to run ahead of you and let you see my back, so you may not be able to catch up."
He spoke very slowly, one word at a time, as if he was afraid the other party wouldn't understand, but also as if he was leaving himself more room for thought.
Duan Zhuxian smiled and said, "Then I will start pursuing you from now on."
As he said this, he untied the belt of Jiang Yao's pajamas.
Jiang Yao widened his eyes in disbelief, took several steps back, and his calf hit the edge of the bed. He lost his balance and sat down on the bed with a thud.
"Is this how you chase people?"
Duan Zhuxian walked towards him slowly, his actions serving as an answer.
Jiang Yao said, "Not today. I have an important meeting at the head office tomorrow, so I have to get up early."
Duan Zhuxian said: "It won't take much time."
After saying that, he suddenly half squatted down and lifted Jiang Yao's nightgown.
Jiang Yao's fingers that were supporting himself on the bed instantly tightened, gripping the sheets.
He was shocked for a long time before he looked at the top of Duan Zhuxian's head and said in a very dry voice: "Duan Zhuxian, don't be like this..."
The following words all turned into gasps, swallowed up by the incomparable satisfaction rising from deep within his heart.
Duan Zhuxian occasionally looked up at him.
He also looked down at Duan Zhuxian, feeling his nerves were infinitely magnified, but he still couldn't accept the fact.
The man before him, the cold and aloof flower of Gaoling, the respected Mr. Duan, his former mortal enemy, was giving him...
This thought flashed through Jiang Yao's mind, and he couldn't help it. After a while, he came back to his senses and hurriedly helped Duan Zhuxian wipe his face.
What a distant and mean person he is. When we first met, he was more arrogant and colder than the clouds in the sky. He would never be contaminated by the world, but he made me dirty.
A secret excitement grew in his heart, but Jiang Yao still murmured: "Duan Zhuxian, you are crazy."
Duan Zhuxian raised the corners of his moist lips, his voice a little hoarse: "You made me happy just now, now I'll make you happy."
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