Chapter 74
The moment Xiang Mingqi cursed out loud, Pei Huai slapped the man across the face. The force was so strong that Danduo couldn't stand up for a long time. He spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with broken teeth. He wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, pushed himself up, and looked at Pei Huai. He swept the tip of his tongue across the damaged mucosa and gums. He hadn't held back enough, and the roots of his back teeth had become loose.
It was different from what Pei Huai thought.
He'd assumed Dando would at least be angry, furious. If he could just provoke him and engage him, he'd have a way to create opportunities for the Bangkok Hotel. But after confessing, the situation was different. Dando's feelings toward Gyrfalcon weren't hatred or envy. Instead, they felt a twisted admiration and lustful yearning. At the very least, the way he looked at him had changed.
The so-called restraint, rationality, and elegance they had shown when they first met had now vanished. Almost instantly, Pei Huai could conclude that Dando had a desire for him that was so strong that it was intertwined with sex.
The situation is very bad.
"You seem to really dislike me. If it's because of your right hand, I apologize. I shouldn't have played dirty with you."
Pei Huai waved his hand away with a clear attitude: "Stay away from me."
"Why? Did I do something wrong to upset you? Or is it because..." He didn't even look at Xiang Mingqi, who had a gloomy face, but approached and asked, "In front of others?"
"If you dare to touch him again." Xiang Mingqi behind him raised his hand to break free from the heavy chains, his face ashen.
The person in charge of the PBL didn't care about the injured person in shackles. "He can go, and I can also release the person you want. It's just a matter of words. But the premise is that you stay." Seeing that Pei Huai was unmoved, he had to soften his stance and added, "I don't mean to embarrass you. But I want you to understand that I will not let you go easily."
"You seem to think I'm very sacrificial."
Dando continued to trace the lines of his lips with his gaze. "You've come to the PBL arena for a nameless thug, even at the risk of getting injured before me, haven't you?" He felt like they were kissing with their eyes. Even though the gaze he met was provocative, he couldn't ignore the alluring reverie those lips brought.
"Because I never break my promises." He said in a flat tone, keeping his eyes fixed on her.
"No matter who you promised or what you did, I won't let you—" His words were cut off by a hand grabbing his face. Pei Huai exerted force from his waist, and his legs slashed towards Dando's neck, his leg muscles instantly locking it shut. He turned his head and said to the man behind him, "Xiang Mingqi. What are you waiting for?"
When he called someone's name in an imperative tone, Dando was startled. He realized that he had been completely immersed in the visual enjoyment of this face, and had ignored some threats from behind. Almost at the same time, Dando felt something swung in front of his eyes and wrapped around his neck. Amidst the smell of iron, he was forcibly dragged away from Pei Huai.
Xiang Mingqi's face appeared directly above him, his dimples shallow, his dark brown eyes narrowed in a smile, a pathological expression of revenge and jealousy finding vent.
"You shouldn't have touched him. I told you you weren't qualified, and I reminded you. I was being kind and didn't want you to become another Sang Lun. What a shame, what a shame."
As he struggled, Dando glanced at the wall in surprise. The chain wasn't broken, but had somehow become detached from its fixed structure. The needle lay on the ground, its tip completely bent. It was obvious that he had used the tool left by Uncle Chen to pry open the lock and lead this attack from behind.
He should have thought of it and noticed when close contact did not induce resistance from a third person.
Xiang Mingqi still had no feeling in his legs, and dragging himself to the bed was already a stretch. So he half-sat on the ground, pulling back with his arms, trying to strangle him to death.
"How could you take him away from me?" He asked innocently, his voice getting lower and lower, "I love him so much. I love him so much that I can abandon everything and betray everything. What can you do? What can you dare to do for him—"
"You're not even as good as me, so how can you be qualified to touch him?"
"To Mingqi."
"Oh, brother, tell me!" He responded happily, a blush on his face. He continued to strangle the opponent and smiled at his senior. Veins on his forearms popped out. "I'm listening. What did you just call me for?"
"...Don't kill him. Duan Heng is still in his hands."
Veins bulged even more. "Okay, Brother Pei Huai, I won't kill him." Xiang Mingqi lowered his head, staring at the man with a cold and strange gaze, his smile undimmed. "He's already asked for this. What should I do? I can't do this to you," he muttered. "What a shame, what a shame." The excessive strength in his arm muscles subsided.
"You can't leave here, Gyrfalcon. You will get hurt." Dando coughed loudly and watched Xiang Mingqi, who was unable to move his legs and feet, pick up from the ground. "Before you find your Duan Heng, or even before you open this door, you will be subdued by the guards in an instant. It will do you no good to show off your strength with me." Pei Huai didn't even listen to these exhortations. He took one of the junior's arms and helped him to the door.
Dando struggled to his feet, the near-death experience having nearly drained the strength from his calves. He called him "Gyrfalcon" and tried to say something to keep him. But the next second, the communicator on his belt began to buzz.
—This was the news from the gate. The guards said that a group of unidentified people had entered the garden with weapons. They had guns, but there had been no serious casualties, likely intended as a threat of force. Dan Duo was ordered to intercept them immediately, but as soon as the order was given, he suddenly turned his head, as if realizing something, to stare at Pei Huai's back and asked, "What did you do?"
"Gyrfalcon."
"Gyrfalcon." He clenched the communicator in his hand in disbelief and looked at him. "Are you so reluctant to stay by my side for even a second?"
No one answered. But the sidelong glance Pei Huai gave him said it all.
The people in the corridor were basically drawn to the front yard. Pei Huai supported the injured man's arm and walked without much difficulty. Xiang Mingqi leaned on his shoulder and asked, "Brother, what were you doing while I was sleeping?"
"Oh, judging from the look in your eyes that seems to be about to criticize me at any moment, you must be doing something serious."
Seeing him silent and preoccupied, Xiang Mingqi couldn't help but wonder, "Did you call for the reinforcements outside? Who are they? I see them rushing in in a hurry. Ex-boyfriend number one, two, or three?"
"Bangkok Hotel."
"Oh, my ex-boyfriend, the Bangkok hotel is pretty good... Wait. If you call them over, they won't beat me to death, will they?" Xiang Mingqi was so scared that he trembled all over and was at a loss. "Brother Pei Huai, don't you know that Zhu Zhiyang and I are love rivals? Woohoo, he will find a chance to castrate me."
Pei Huai didn't even bother to look at him.
Seeing that he had no concern for his personal safety, Xiang Mingqi blinked hard, trying to squeeze out tears: "Brother, can you accept that I get my balls chopped off? Wuwuwu, this is too much."
As they approached the corner, Xiang Mingqi was still whimpering, "Brother's bad," like a puppy that hadn't gotten its after-dinner snack. Pei Huai didn't have time to pay attention. When Xiang Mingqi opened his mouth for another snack, the hand that was tugging at his collar suddenly yanked back, opening a door in the process. He shoved him into a corner behind the door like a sack of potatoes, then quietly hid himself. He observed the corridor through the gap.
"Dando's people are searching. They don't seem to be listening carefully." After counting the number of people, Pei Huai withdrew his gaze, stood up and walked to the side of the room: it was an ordinary office with tightly sealed windows. Apart from the bookcase, desk and chairs, there was no other obstruction.
Xiang Mingqi huddled on the ground, then suddenly blinked at him expectantly, "Wow, what should we do? That man's men are all big, burly men. Look, they fired so many shots at me here, here, and here. What if I become crippled? Brother Pei Huai, I'm scared."
"Will you shut up?"
The latter, after receiving a glare, immediately made a gesture of zipping his mouth, limped towards him on one leg, and muttered softly, "You know I'm sick, right? Why are you calling me a bad guy?"
It was indeed difficult to climb through the window with this chattering patient. So when Dando's men opened the door, the two of them had already held their breath and hid under the desk.
The space wasn't exactly spacious, at least with two grown men inside, making any movement awkward. Pei Huai was forced to lie flat on Xiang Mingqi's chest. As the flashlight swept across the room, grazing the dazzling array of decorations on the table, Xiang Mingqi mouthed a silent "wow," then put his arm around his senior's waist, a faint blush on his face.
"Hehe, brother."
——Then she was slapped on the lips, her eyes filled with tears.
The flashlight shone around the periphery, and dense footsteps moved towards the window and desk area. Pei Huai curled his legs under the table, bent his upper body, and his entire lower back was forced to lean against the inside of Xiang Mingqi's uninjured thigh.
He was so focused on avoiding the light that he didn't notice that, as he moved, that breathtaking face moved closer to Xiang Mingqi's chest, with her hands resting on his lower abdomen. The hair would occasionally brush under his nose, making Xiang Mingqi's entire body feel hot.
The flashlight perfunctorily shone back and forth by the window, the closest to the bottom of the table. Xiang Mingqi quickly grabbed his coat and wrapped it around Pei Huai's head. He rested his chin on the top of his head, leaning against his side, avoiding the light by a hair's breadth.
"It's not here." After hearing the search personnel's report, they remained silent. Only after confirming that the footsteps had faded did they breathe a sigh of relief and begin to dig out from under the desk.
However, at this time——
"Ugh!" Pei Huai flinched as if he'd hit his head. Xiang Mingqi hurriedly looked over. Only then did he realize it was the zipper of his shirt that had snagged his hair. "Hey, let me help you. With such a handsome face and such long hair, that's the price of being a stylish guy, you know? Even the zipper is bullying you. There's really nothing I can do about you." He walked over confidently, talking nonsense as he used his hands to untangle the tangled hair, but after a long time of pulling and tugging, he still couldn't get it right.
He couldn't hold back his expression and stamped his feet: "Wait a minute, wait a minute, I'll be quick, really, really quick. Oh, why is it hooked again, oh, the whiskers here are broken, ah, ah, the zipper is pinching my flesh."
Pei Huai glared at him in annoyance: "It hurts."
"I'm sorry, I'll be fine soon, uh uh uh." Xiang Mingqi blew on his injured fingers in a hurry, and was determined to rescue his senior from the zipper.
Then.
The hair is getting more and more hooked.
Xiang Mingqi was tossing his hair while being dragged out in a panic by one arm. He was really panicked, so when Pei Huai touched the handle and instantly dodged back alertly, he failed to react. His weightless body slammed into Xiang Mingqi's arms. As a result, the man limped on one leg and couldn't stand steadily, and fell backwards with his arms around his waist. But at the moment he was about to fall, Pei Huai felt someone grab his wrist, and a slightly anxious face suddenly stopped in front of him. The person looked at him with sweat and deep longing.
——Zhu Zhiyang.
In a corner where no one was paying attention, Xiang Mingqi fell to the ground, screaming in pain.
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