Chapter 28

Chapter 28

Jiang Chen put Ling Sheng’s suitcase in the trunk before getting into the car. Seeing him get in, Ling Sheng said, “Find a hotel.”

Jiang Chen’s heart, which had been pounding, paused for a moment: “Huh?”

Ling Sheng glanced at him: “Book a room. While Xia is staying with me, I’ll stay in a hotel.”

Jiang Chen’s heartbeat slowly cooled down. After holding back for a while, he slowly spoke: “This matter is a bit complicated. I need to contact my senior, find a lawyer, and collect evidence. It’ll take at least a month or so. You staying in a hotel… that’s expensive.”

How could Ling Sheng not see through his thoughts? He said in a slow tone, “Oh… so you won’t let me stay at home, and you won’t let me stay in a hotel. Where am I supposed to stay?”

Jiang Chen swallowed. Just as he was about to answer, he felt a hand touching his thigh. He shuddered all over. He looked down and saw Ling Sheng’s fingers already moving from his thigh to his lower abdomen. The fingertips seemed to carry a tiny electric current, making him tense all over even through the fabric. He grabbed the offending hand and said in a hoarse voice, “What are you doing?”

Ling Sheng chuckled softly, “If I go to your place, what if I can’t control myself? Especially since my boyfriend is so tempting.”

He said flirtatious things so easily. Jiang Chen’s thoughts had already flown to indescribable places, and he was almost unable to hold back. He felt a little parched and couldn’t help but reply, “Since I’m your boyfriend, what does it matter if you can’t control yourself?”

Ling Sheng smiled, wanting to pull his hand back, but found that Jiang Chen was holding on quite tightly, not letting him.

“I have a spare bedroom, and new bedding, everything.” Jiang Chen held his hand, “Don’t waste money.”

As long as Jiang Chen asked him for something, except for going public with their relationship, Ling Sheng was willing to grant it. The car drove directly back to Jiang Chen’s house.

He was excited all the way, like he was moving into a new house, or even more like he was moving into a new marital home. He was even considering whether to change the furniture at home, or put up some wallpaper or something. It was already past eleven o’clock. He found a 24-hour convenience store and dragged Ling Sheng to pick out daily necessities. Ling Sheng kept his hands empty the whole time, while Jiang Chen was excitedly choosing things non-stop.

Ling Sheng was happy to see him happy and didn’t stop him. He watched him busily buying things for him, dragging his suitcase, and even giving him a kiss before getting out of the car.

Jiang Chen was even more excited and looked forward to their soon-to-be “cohabitation” life.

This was Ling Sheng’s first time at Jiang Chen’s house. The apartment was quite large, over 120 square meters. The overall tone was white, with mostly wooden furniture, giving it a bit of a Japanese natural style. It looked simple yet very warm. The entire apartment only had two bedrooms and two living rooms, which made the space feel very large. A cleaning lady came regularly, usually on weekends. Today was Thursday, so things in the apartment were a little messy, but very clean.

Jiang Chen put the suitcase in the spare bedroom, then put the toiletries in the bathroom one by one. He came out and saw Ling Sheng already sitting on the sofa, leaning back with his eyes closed, looking sleepy.

He looked at the time, it was almost twelve o’clock. He had to go to work tomorrow.

Jiang Chen walked over and pounced on him, hugging him tightly and taking a few deep breaths. Ling Sheng had a faint scent of rain on him, cool and not yet warmed by the heater in the house, so he hugged him tightly, wanting to warm him up with his body temperature.

Ling Sheng, being hugged like this, suddenly felt like he was a toy being carried back to its nest by a big dog, and chuckled twice.

Jiang Chen raised his head from his shoulder, “What are you laughing at?”

Ling Sheng tapped his forehead with his fingertip, his eyes full of smiles, “I feel like I’ve accidentally wandered into… a doghouse.”

“So you’re saying I’m a dog!” Jiang Chen quickly seized the opportunity, biting him lightly on the face. After letting go, he realized that a little red tooth mark was left on his white skin. He clearly hadn’t used much force.

“You really are a dog.” Ling Sheng pushed him away.

Jiang Chen didn’t let go, kissing the spot where he had just bitten him twice, “Woof woof.”

Ling Sheng laughed, his fatigue greatly relieved.

Jiang Chen looked at his smiling face and leaned in to kiss his lips, “When you told me not to show my face when taking pictures before, were you worried about this too?”

He had just looked at the chat history. In the beginning, when Wu Xia transferred money to Wang Zhiqi, although he hesitated, he was coaxed into doing so. Later, when he really had no money, Wang Zhiqi said that he had pictures and videos of them in bed, threatening Wu Xia to transfer money to him. Before, he had sent Ling Sheng a picture of himself lifting up his shirt, and Ling Sheng had told him not to show his face when taking pictures.

If there was no face in the picture, even if it was exposed, there would be countless excuses to say that it wasn’t him. But Wu Xia was more miserable, those pictures were clearly taken when he wasn’t paying attention, his face even directly facing the camera, it really looked like a screenshot from a video. What he sent to Wu Xia was only his upper body, if there really was a video, then it might even include his lower body.

“Yeah.” Ling Sheng touched his face, his fingers tracing from his brow bone to the corner of his lips, “You’re really well-behaved, I told you to send it and you sent it.”

“I study law, I have basic legal knowledge, and that level doesn’t meet the standard for pornography.” Jiang Chen was very confident in his major, “Besides, you’re not Wang Zhiqi.”

Ling Sheng couldn’t help but laugh, “What if the phone is lost? What about fixing a computer?”

Jiang Chen nuzzled his neck, Ling Sheng was tickled and laughed softly. Jiang Chen raised his head again and looked at him, his eyes full of affection, “You told me to send it, I was just dating you at the time, of course I wanted to please you.”

Ling Sheng smiled and looked at him, his fingers slowly stroking his ear, his voice becoming even lower and sexier, with a hint of seduction, “I told you to send it, what if I ask you to take even more explicit pictures in the future?”

Perhaps because he was at his own place, Jiang Chen was more relaxed than usual. Without scruples, he was naturally bolder. He pulled Ling Sheng’s hand down and placed it on his chest, “No pictures, no sending, wherever you like, I’ll show you directly.”

Ling Sheng’s hand, even through the clothes, could clearly feel the outline of the muscles under the fabric.

Chest, abdomen, waist, every part was perfectly pleasing to him.

The atmosphere gradually heated up. After a kiss, both of their bodies clearly sensed the changes in themselves and the other. Jiang Chen was still a virgin after all, wanting to continue but afraid that Ling Sheng would think he was horny, after all, he had just arrived, so he jumped up with a red face, “There are two bathrooms, which one do you want to use?”

Ling Sheng wasn’t embarrassed at all, and stood up calmly, “The guest bathroom, I guess.”

The sound of water in the bathroom soon rang out. Jiang Chen’s face was still burning hot. The cleaning lady also cleaned the spare bedroom regularly, it was very clean, but he had to remake the bed. Jiang Chen was making the bed while thinking about the kiss just now.

Ling Sheng felt it, he felt it just now.

If… if he continued just now, what would Ling Sheng do?

When he kissed him just now, he touched his waist, it was so narrow, different from the solid muscles of his abdomen, the feeling was soft and resilient, his hand pinched his waist and kneaded it, and he felt his body tremble slightly.

Is the waist a very sensitive place?

Damn it!

Can’t think about it anymore!

Jiang Chen quickly finished the work in his hands. After making the bed, he went into the master bathroom. At the end of November, the water temperature had to be adjusted to be cooler. When he came out, Ling Sheng had already finished washing and was pouring water in the living room. His hair was soft and drooping after washing, and his pajamas were changed into a pair of rice-white cotton pajamas, looking a little well-behaved.

He poured half a glass of warm water and drank it. Jiang Chen pulled his hand and drank the remaining half glass. Ling Sheng reached out to wipe the water stains from the corner of his lips. Just as Jiang Chen was about to lean over, he skillfully avoided him, “Good night.”

Jiang Chen lay in bed fantasizing about their cohabitation life, including but not limited to:

Getting a good morning kiss every morning after waking up, being able to wash up together, seeing the two of them side by side in the same mirror, being able to have breakfast together, and he could also take him to the company, without having to detour. In the evening, they could go home together, and they could also go to the supermarket together. If possible, he wanted to cook for Ling Sheng, but he couldn’t, but if he tried hard, he should be able to cook noodles.

It was time to put learning to cook on the agenda.

He didn’t know when he fell asleep, dreaming of cooking noodles all night long, either too much noodles or too little water, or he forgot to put salt.

As a result, when he woke up the next day, he felt a splitting headache, and his whole body was weak.

Miscalculation, the water temperature for the shower last night was still too low.

He struggled to get out of bed. When Ling Sheng saw his appearance, he reached out to touch his head, and sure enough, he felt a burning heat.

“You have a fever.” Ling Sheng frowned slightly, “Where’s the thermometer? Where’s the medicine?”

Jiang Chen sat on the sofa and was wrapped in a blanket by Ling Sheng. Ling Sheng first ordered breakfast, then gave him the thermometer to put under his arm, and then went to wash up. After he finished washing and tidying up, he took out the thermometer to check, 38.8 degrees.

“I’ll be fine if I take some medicine, I’ll go change my clothes first, and I have to take you to the company.”

“Can you drive right now?”

Ling Sheng’s tone was cold, he was like this when he was a little angry. He pressed him down on the sofa and boiled him some water. At this time, the doorbell rang, breakfast had arrived.

Ling Sheng accompanied Jiang Chen to finish breakfast, and watched him take the medicine before Ling Sheng picked up his bag, “If you don’t have classes today, just rest at home, you don’t need to pick me up in the evening, I’ll take a taxi back myself.”

Jiang Chen pointed to the keys on the coffee table, “Take my car.”

Ling Sheng didn’t take it, “It’s not convenient, I can just take a taxi.”

Jiang Chen knew what he meant by inconvenient. It was indeed inconvenient for people to see him driving his car, so every time he picked him up, he would try to park the car in a hidden place.

Although they had reached a consensus long ago, Jiang Chen still felt uncomfortable, and today was their first day of “cohabitation”, he didn’t get to do any of the things he had planned.

Ling Sheng reached out and touched his hair, the short hair didn’t need to be deliberately styled and was still the same, but his sick appearance lacked the enthusiasm he usually had, and looked a little pitiful.

“Be a good boy and wait for me to come back at home, send me a message if you want to eat something in the evening, I’ll bring it back for you.”

After Ling Sheng left, Jiang Chen leaned on the sofa for a while, feeling a little dizzy, but he hadn’t dealt with the matter properly, so he was worried. So he took out his phone again, first sent a message to Wu Xia, telling him to stabilize Wang Zhiqi, let him call him, and say that he was looking for someone to borrow money, and give him some time to raise the money, and then called his senior and told him the general situation. At this time, the medicine also started to work, so he went back to bed and slept for a while.

When he woke up, his senior had already replied to him. While he was chatting with his senior, Ling Sheng called. Jiang Chen answered immediately.

“Take your temperature and take a picture for me to see.” Ling Sheng’s tone wasn’t like usual, it had some of the sharpness and efficiency he had when he was working.

Jiang Chen obediently went to the living room to take his temperature, it had already dropped to 38.2 degrees.

After seeing the picture, Ling Sheng’s voice softened slightly, “Eat something first, then take the medicine again.”

He didn’t know if it was because he was sick, Jiang Chen felt that he was a little too dependent, and didn’t want to hang up the phone, “Um… I want to eat with you.”

His voice was hoarse, with a nasal sound, like a spoiled whine from a big dog who had had enough of the sun, Ling Sheng loved this, he was simply defenseless.

He ordered a takeaway, and when the food arrived, he made a video call to Jiang Chen. When he answered, Jiang Chen’s takeaway also happened to arrive.

Ling Sheng ordered a stir-fried pork, while Jiang Chen on the other side had a bowl of beef noodles. The two of them watched each other eat through the video, and they both ate more deliciously than usual.

After Jiang Chen finished eating, he took the medicine under Ling Sheng’s watch, and took his temperature, it had dropped to 37.9 degrees, and Ling Sheng hung up the phone to go to work.

When it was time to get off work in the evening, Jiang Chen’s fever had already gone down. It was raining lightly outside, he put on his coat and drove to pick up Ling Sheng from work. Tonight they were also going to find Wu Xia.