Chapter 131 Confession

Confession

"Where do you want to take him?" Bu Qianli stared at him closely, his face gloomy and serious as if he was catching someone cheating.

Jiang Yuzhou was confused, not knowing what his cousin was doing. Following the burning gaze, Jiang Yuzhou looked down at his arms and realized that his brother was in late winter.

At this time, Chi Dong was so drunk that he just wanted to find a warm place to sleep. He felt something long and warm beside him, so he moved closer to it in a daze.

Jiang Yuzhou's heart sank, and he hurriedly pushed him away, "Brother, this is none of my business. He, he is drunk, I just want to send him home."

Bu Qianli knew his cousin's character very well. Even if he was given a hundred courages, he would not dare to do anything illegal.

Bu Qianli stood there, his brows knitted, his heart was in a mess and he couldn't figure it out. In fact, he knew very well that his inexplicable anger was unreasonable, but he just couldn't control it.

When he saw Chi Dong staggering in front of him, with red cheeks, dazed eyes, and leaning drunkenly in the arms of a stranger, at that moment, an indescribable irritation quickly spread in his heart.

Without waiting for Bu Qianli to speak, Jiang Yuzhou looked at the drunken man leaning on him. At this moment, he seemed to have become a ferocious monster. So his brain twitched, and he subconsciously pushed him forward with his hand as if avoiding the god of plague.

Bu Qianli was startled when he saw this, and a hint of imperceptible anger flashed across his eyes. Without time to get angry, he strode forward and held the man in his arms.

"careful!"

After Jiang Yuzhou pushed Chi Dong away, he realized that he had made another stupid mistake. He wanted to reach out and grab him back, but he was still a step too late. The person had already fallen into Bu Qianli's arms.

Jiang Yuzhou shook his head awkwardly and muttered, "Brother, I didn't push him on purpose, I just..."

"Okay, go back to the old house first. Aunt Jiang just called me and asked me to keep an eye on you." Bu Qianli held Chi Dong, who was drunk like a good baby, and walked towards the exit without changing his expression. The moment he stepped out of the door, he threw down a sentence without looking back, "I'm busy, you can take a taxi back by yourself."

"Brother, where are you taking him?" Jiang Yuzhou looked at the two people's leaving backs with eager eyes, came back to his senses from his confusion, and couldn't help but shout.

However, Bu Qianli ignored him and walked away with the person in his arms, leaving Jiang Yuzhou standing there stupidly, muttering to himself.

"It's over, it's over. When did Chidong become so close to Qianli? If he knew that I was responsible for getting Chidong drunk, I'd be finished!"

Jiang Yuzhou wailed: "Ahhh, Buddha bless me, I hope Chidong will forget everything that happened today when he wakes up."

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As soon as Bu Qianli went down to the first floor of the hotel, the doorman had already driven the car over. Bu Qianli had an indifferent look and directly refused the doorman's attempt to help him. After safely placing the person in his arms in the spacious back seat and fastening the seat belt, he took the car key and drove away.

When he left, he did not notice his subordinates who were also waiting for a car to pick him up at the hotel entrance. Even if he saw them, he would not care.

The car drove smoothly on the flat road, with a faint scent of sandalwood filling the air. When passing a traffic light, a bell suddenly rang, instantly breaking the original silence in the car.

Bu Qianli raised his eyebrows slightly, and caught a glimpse of the word "mother" displayed on the mobile phone screen. He was about to pick up the phone, but a low murmur came from behind him.

It turned out that the ringing was too harsh and disturbed Chi Dong who was lying in the back seat. He frowned and groaned in an unclear voice: "Well... so noisy..." The last syllable rose slightly, carrying a disturbed uneasiness.

Bu Qianli saw this and the finger that was about to answer the call instantly moved to the hang up button. Not long after the ringing sound disappeared, the person behind him also stopped making any sound, and the car fell into silence again.

Bu Qianli glanced back and saw Chi Dong curled up slightly in his seat, like an insecure kitten, and his brows, which had been wrinkled due to the ringing, gradually relaxed and returned to their original calm state.

Bu Qianli manipulated the steering wheel skillfully. The sound of the car's engine was particularly clear in the silent night. Before long, the iconic gate of Z University came into view.

Bu Qianli randomly found a place to park the car, turned around and looked back, only to find that Chi Dong had sat up straight at some point, staring blankly ahead. If Bu Qianli hadn't known that he was really drunk, he would have been fooled by his well-behaved appearance.

"Junior? Xiaodong?"

Chi Dong's face was abnormally flushed, spreading from his cheeks to his ears. He heard a familiar voice in a trance and turned his gaze away half a beat slowly.

"Huh? That's weird. Why do you look... so much like Senior Bu-Bu?"

Bu Qianli looked at him in a daze, not sure if he would wake up, and couldn't help but chuckle and tease him, "Really?"

Chi Dong seemed to be drunk and leaned forward. He looked suspiciously at the handsome face in front of him that was magnified several times. After staring at it for a few seconds, he nodded vigorously: "Yes, yes, it seems, it's almost... exactly the same."

Bu Qianli was amused and confused by the way he came towards her foolishly. Then, seeing that he was ready to do something and wanted to touch his face with his hands, she quickly stopped him.

"Be careful, don't fall."

Chi Dong looked at his hand that had thrown in the air. He was stunned for a moment, and then he grabbed his hand with a bit of childishness, "Hehe, I won't... I won't fall. Hey, why are you moving around? Hey, hey, hey, stay still."

Bu Qianli's right hand was held tightly by him, and he couldn't pull it out. He had no choice but to compromise: "Okay, I won't move."

"Yeah. That's...that's the good way to do it. And I just, I just wanted to touch your face."

The man in front of him had bright eyes. If you look closely, you can see that he is drunk. Bu Qianli asked in a deep voice, "What's wrong with my face?"

"You...hiccup...your face hiccup, looks like my senior. I, I like him so much..."

"What did you say?" Bu Qianli's eyes flashed with surprise, and his gaze stopped on Chi Dong's blushing face, trying to find any trace of a joke, but all he saw was his unfocused eyes.

At this time, Chi Dong didn't know what shocking words he had said, and he was still dazed, so much so that when Bu Qianli continued to question him, he leaned back on the seat and fell into a deep sleep.

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The early morning sunlight shines on the heavy curtains, and the light follows the gaps between the folds, vaguely outlining a thin shadow on the ground.

There was a faint tranquility in the room. A wide bed was placed in a prominent position. Under the comfortable and soft silk quilt, a person was lying quietly.

The eyelids of the person on the bed trembled slightly. The moment Chidong opened his eyes, he felt a severe pain in his head, which made him groan.

"...Where is this place?"

He sat up with his head covered. What came into view was an unfamiliar ceiling, dark blue walls, and a cup of warm water on the bedside table. There was a faint, unknown fragrance in the air.

He looked around in a daze, trying to find a clue, but there was nothing. His brows knitted tightly, and countless doubts followed.

Where is this place?

Why is he here?

Who sent him here?

Chi Dong tried to recall what happened yesterday, but due to a hangover from the whole night and a unclear mind in the early morning, only some fragmented and incoherent images flashed through his mind, unable to form a complete fragment.

Just as he was tapping his head, trying to recall the memory quickly, he suddenly heard the sound of a door opening. He was startled and looked up in panic.

"Senior?"

"Yes, it's me." When he opened the door and saw that the person was awake, Bu Qianli's eyes flashed, but he remained calm and smiled faintly, "Who do you think it is?"

Chi Dong blushed in embarrassment, "No, no one, I was just a little surprised."

"Senior, did you meet my colleague yesterday? He promised to take me back to school..."

"Well, drink a cup of hot milk to warm your stomach first." Bu Qianli did not answer in a hurry. Instead, he walked slowly to the bed and handed the cup of milk in his hand to the person who was sitting on the bed in a daze.

Chi Dong stared at the cup in his hand, hesitated for a few seconds, and finally took it, intending to drink it in one gulp.

However, he had just taken a sip, and before the milky taste had completely spread through his taste buds, Bu Qianli snatched the cup away from him, "Don't force yourself. It doesn't matter if you don't like it."

Bu Qianli sighed and patted his head gently, "This is my home. I've already put the clothes in the bathroom. Go wash up and change your clothes first. I'll wait for you in the living room outside."

"...Yeah, okay." Chi Dong never refused Bu Qianli's request, so after Bu Qianli left the room, he jumped off the bed immediately and ran straight to the bathroom, regardless of the slight headache he still had.

After closing the door, he prepared himself mentally and slowly raised his head to look at himself in the mirror, a pale, drunk and out-of-control man.

Although Chi Dong wanted to hide like an ostrich and not be seen by others, he couldn't avoid going out no matter how much he didn't want to face it.

He thought about it in his mind while speeding up the process of getting dressed. After he was ready, he mustered up the courage to open the door and walked out carefully.

"Xiaodong, you're out?" Hearing the door opening, Bu Qianli looked up, the corners of her lips slightly raised, and she put the still steaming coffee in her hand back on the table while speaking, "Are you hungry? Come and sit down, and have breakfast together."

While still in the room, Chi Dong looked around through the window. This house was located in a high-end residential area about 200 meters away from the company. The land was very expensive and the people who lived here were either rich or noble.

He had never thought that one day he would spend a whole night at Bu Qianli's residence. When he thought of this, he couldn't help but look at Bu Qianli, his eyes filled with complex emotions.

"Ah? Oh oh." After Bu Qianli's repeated reminders, Chi Dong came to his senses. He sat down a little embarrassedly, then resisted the urge to look directly at the person opposite him and started eating in silence.

When he had almost finished eating, Chi Dong's movements gradually slowed down. He raised his head slightly, his gaze seemingly casual, but in fact the corner of his eyes was still firmly focused on the person opposite him.

The other party put down the cutlery in his hand gently, and it was obvious that he had finished eating. At this moment, Chi Dong's heart suddenly started beating faster, which made him even more uneasy.

He hesitated for a long time, but finally couldn't help but asked the question that he wanted to know very much.

"Senior, did I do anything...strange to you last night?"

"Hmm?" Bu Qianli narrowed his eyes slightly, put down the tissue he had used for wiping with an ambiguous expression, and looked over there.

"Strange...thing?"

Chi Dong's body tensed up instantly when he was stared at by his ink-black eyes. He could clearly feel that gaze, which seemed to be real, as if it was examining the meaning of what he had said before.

Chi Dong's face began to heat up rapidly, spreading all the way to the tip of his ears, and a light blush appeared. Without waiting for Chi Dong to speak, Bu Qianli withdrew his gaze, lowered his eyes slightly, and tapped lightly on the table with his slender fingers. The sound was neither fast nor slow, but it was clearly transmitted to Chi Dong's ears.

"No, I saw you drunk last night, sitting alone in a corner with no one around. I was worried that something might happen to you, so I wanted to take you back to school."

He paused, raised his head, looked directly at Chi Dong, and continued, "But when we got to the school, it was closed, so I brought you back."

Hearing this, Chi Dong opened his mouth and was about to speak when suddenly a certain fragment flashed through his mind.

Wait, what…are these?

He raised his head suddenly, a look of shock on his face.

Why does he have such a picture in his memory?

How come this stupid, babbling drunk looks so much like him?

Could it be that...he really...confessed to me last night?

Chi Dong frowned, his mind was in a mess, he tried to piece together all the fragments of what happened last night. However, when he recalled that he had "said he liked her", he could no longer remember what they said afterwards.

At this moment, he wished that time could go back to the moment before he drank yesterday, so that he would not listen to the advice and drink that glass of wine stupidly.

However, since it was already a foregone conclusion, he could only accept it. He just wanted to know how Bu Qianli reacted after he confessed his love last night.

Will it be annoying?

Or...accept?

"Senior, thank you for taking care of me yesterday." After saying the polite words, Chi Dong took a deep breath and straightened his back. At this moment, his heart was beating like a drum, "thump, thump". His eyes looked uncontrollably at the person opposite him. All his previous careful disguises and all his pretense of calmness were revealed at this moment.

"I like you."

The huge living room was so quiet that even the sound of a pin drop could be heard, and the air seemed to have frozen. Chi Dong lowered his head after he finished speaking, not daring to look the person in the other person in the eye. His fingers unconsciously tugged at a corner of the tablecloth, his lips tightly pursed, like a lamb to be slaughtered, waiting for the butcher to raise his knife.

Chi Dong vaguely heard a barely audible sigh in the air, and then he heard that familiar voice. He looked up in a daze.

Bu Qianli's eyebrows moved slightly, and the look in his eyes when he looked at him became very obvious, indifferent and calm, as if the tenderness he had revealed before was just an illusion.

"…I'm sorry, I only see you as my younger brother."

His words were like a knife, piercing Chi Dong's heart. In fact, before that, just the moment he raised his head and saw the sigh and regretful expression on the opposite side, his heart seemed to be gently touched by an invisible hand.

A bad premonition quietly surged into his mind. At that moment, he secretly had the answer in his heart, but he was still lucky and hoped to get other answers.

After a long silence, Chi Dong pretended to be indifferent. He tried to raise the corners of his mouth slightly, raised his head and looked straight over. However, anyone with eyes could see how forced and weak the smile in his eyes was.

"Senior... Don't worry, I'm not confessing to you to force you to agree. I just don't want to regret it..." Chi Dong's pale face showed a trace of embarrassment, "In the future, I will adjust my mentality and won't cause you any more trouble."

When Bu Qianli heard this, his eyebrows immediately tightened, his face unconsciously darkened a little, and he spoke subconsciously, "I don't mean to chase you away, don't think too much."

Although Bu Qianli rejected Chi Dong, he didn't know that when he spoke, there was a hint of tenderness and helplessness in his eyes that he himself was not aware of.

"Xiaodong, you are still young, and it is not suitable for you to fall in love yet." Bu Qianli's eyes never left Chidong's face, trying to put some comfort in his eyes.

He raised his right hand slightly, wanting to touch his head and comfort him as he did before, but his outstretched hand stopped in mid-air. After a few seconds, it changed direction and patted his shoulder like a good brother.

Bu Qianli was worried that overly intimate behavior would give him fantasies.

Seeing Bu Qianli's worried look, Chi Dong suddenly loosened his clenched hands, lowered his eyebrows, pursed his lips, tried to force a smile, and whispered: "I understand, senior, it's getting late, I'll go back to school first."

"I send you."

“No, no.” Chi Dong shook his head hurriedly, “This place is not far from the school, I can go back by myself.”

"..." Bu Qianli ignored his refusal and insisted on driving him there. Her attitude was very strong, so Chi Dong had no choice but to follow her to the parking lot.

When he got in the car, he very consciously opened the back door and prepared to sit in. As a result, Bu Qianli, who had just opened the driver's seat, noticed something was wrong and frowned at him, "Xiaodong, get in."

“…Oh, okay.” Chi Dong didn’t dare to retort. He awkwardly withdrew one foot, slowly opened the car door, and sat in the passenger seat.

In fact, Chi Dong was right. Bu Qianli's community was not far from Z University. It only took about ten minutes to drive there, so it was completely fine for him to go back alone. However, his suggestion was not accepted by the landlord.

Chi Dong sat in the car, and he no longer had the same anticipation as before. Instead, he felt restless and uneasy.

Now he just wanted to get back to the dormitory as soon as possible and didn't want to stay in the same space with Bu Qianli anymore. It wasn't that he didn't like him, but he was afraid. He was afraid that he would get closer and closer to Bu Qianli, and that he would become the kind of person who would cling to him because of a little kindness from him.

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