AMTBYIGA Chapter 48
by VolareGu Nian paused, actually a little hesitant.
It wasn’t that he didn’t want to… it was just that the moment he lay down, his mind was filled with images of Lin Sui stealing kisses. Because he hadn’t been able to see it at the time, his imagination ran wild. If he let Lin Sui touch him all over again, he was really afraid he’d just pin the man down and kiss him right there.
Lin Sui blushed just from him applying sunscreen. If he actually did that, he might just be too shy and bury himself in the blankets like a little snail again.
But…
Gu Nian met Lin Sui’s sparkling, expectant eyes and swallowed the words of refusal. “Okay.”
Lin Sui’s eyes lit up. He eagerly helped Gu Nian lie down on the lounge chair, poured a handful of sunscreen, and plopped it onto Gu Nian’s body—on his front.
Yesterday, he didn’t have a chance to properly feel Gu Nian’s abs. This time, he had to feel them enough!
Lin Sui happily took advantage of his position, thinking about when he could have muscles like that too.
Then he could princess-carry Gu Nian to watch the sunrise! Hehe, just thinking about it made him happy.
The corners of Lin Sui’s mouth curved up, more radiant than the sun in the sky.
Gu Nian, on the other hand, lay stiffly, every muscle tense like a string. His neck was held at an awkward angle as he stared at the support of the parasol overhead, a suspicious flush on his face.
Gu Nian swore it wasn’t that he was overthinking things, but the way Lin Sui was rubbing him with hands full of white sunscreen was just too suggestive.
The key was that Lin Sui looked completely innocent and naive, just earnestly applying sunscreen, without any other intentions at all.
The combined effect of this contrast was explosive. Gu Nian felt like he was being seduced, but the sad thing was that the person seducing him didn’t have that intention at all. He could only awkwardly raise his head, afraid that if he looked one more time, he wouldn’t be able to resist grabbing the man and kissing him.
By the time Lin Sui had had enough fun and contentedly closed the sunscreen bottle, Gu Nian’s neck was as stiff as dead wood. It creaked as he lowered his head, his voice so hoarse that it startled Lin Sui.
“Did you catch a cold this morning?” Lin Sui frowned and pressed their foreheads together to check. He breathed a sigh of relief. “Fortunately, you don’t have a fever. I’ll go get you some hot water. It’s all my fault, I should have brought you an extra blanket.”
Gu Nian knew exactly why his voice was hoarse and guiltily didn’t respond.
Besides, he couldn’t speak right now anyway.
He focused on Lin Sui’s worried face and felt a wave of thirst.
He had just been imagining some unspeakable things, and the object of his imagination was suddenly only a few centimeters away. Gu Nian didn’t think he had the self-control to do nothing.
Gu Nian suddenly reached out, pressed the back of the young man’s head, and forced Lin Sui to be close to him. Under Lin Sui’s bewildered gaze, he slowly turned his head and leaned in, gently kissing the corner of Lin Sui’s lips.
The touch was fleeting, as light as a touch of hot wind.
Lin Sui’s face visibly turned red.
“You you you you you you you…” Lin Sui stammered, unable to say a complete sentence. After holding back for a long time, he covered his burning face and whispered, “How can you do that… there are so many people here.”
Gu Nian didn’t know why, but even though he had taken the initiative, he was now a little embarrassed. He coughed and pretended to be calm and domineering, “We’re married.”
So even if they really hugged and kissed, it would be reasonable and legal.
“That doesn’t mean we can do it in front of so many people…”
Lin Sui muttered softly, seemingly complaining, but his eyes were filled with joy.
This fleeting kiss wasn’t as beautiful and shocking as the sunrise, and it wasn’t even as sweet and bold as Lin Sui’s midnight steal kiss, but Lin Sui was very happy, very, very happy.
Because this was the first time Gu Nian had kissed him in public.
Gu Nian even took the initiative to say that they were married.
Did this mean that Gu Nian was really prepared to spend the rest of his life with him, until they both became toothless old men, and would still hold hands and go out for a walk, becoming a golden wedding couple in the eyes of others?
Lin Sui covered his face and secretly glanced at Gu Nian through his fingers, then quietly added in his heart.
Even if Gu Nian didn’t think that way now, it didn’t matter.
He would strive to become a qualified partner, and then make Gu Nian willingly stay with him for the rest of his life!
Lin Sui was filled with ambition until the three-day vacation ended. When he returned to the familiar villa and packed his luggage, he suddenly deflated.
Lin Sui curled up in bed wrapped in a blanket, staring at the empty, large room with only him in it. He was so sad that even the big, soft bed couldn’t comfort his heartbroken little heart.
He had too much fun at the beach, he forgot that Gu Nian didn’t sleep with him at home!
Lin Sui touched the cold sheets and felt that he might need a body pillow to transition and adapt to a bed without Gu Nian.
He couldn’t steal kisses at night anymore. Lin Sui turned over in frustration.
Lin Sui lay in bed like a sad little salted fish. Suddenly, the phone on the bedside table rang, screeching like a vengeful ghost. Lin Sui shuddered and instinctively answered.
“Lin! Sui!”
A familiar tone and an unfamiliar voice suddenly combined.
Lin Sui sat up, his head buzzing.
“Where are the concept drawings from last time! My inbox is still empty!” The Follower changed his artistic persona and became a ruthless boss. “I need to see the finished product by tomorrow at the latest, do you hear me!”
“But, but.” Lin Sui timidly interjected, “Isn’t the deadline this Friday? Today is only Tuesday.”
The Follower: “So confident in yourself that you think the client will approve it on the first try and won’t need any revisions? Did you understand the style the client wanted? Did you meet the client’s unspoken requirements? Did you make backup plans, in case the client proposes additional conditions? Did you make any related preparations?”
Lin Sui couldn’t say a word in response, as if he had done something heinous. He scrambled to grab his drawing tools. All thoughts of love and kisses were squeezed out of his mind by the word “client.”
Lin Sui, working for the first time in two lifetimes, deeply understood what it meant to be ansubordinate that even a dog wouldn’t want to be.
In the following days, Lin Sui stayed in his room all day, working diligently as an Party B. The days were uneventful. After experiencing the colorful shades of black, the color was too bright, the color was too dark, and the torment of twelve revisions still using the first version, he finally completed the work on time before Friday.
After receiving the Follower’s “ok” message, Lin Sui stuffed his phone, computer, and drawing board under the bed. With dark circles under his eyes, he collapsed onto the bed like a wandering ghost, not wanting to see any messages for the rest of the day.
Even the notification sound of money entering his bank account couldn’t soothe Lin Sui’s spirit, which had been ravaged by the rush.
Lin Sui lay there and somehow fell asleep. When he opened his eyes again, it was broad daylight—it was already the next morning.
He took out his phone and saw that it was seven in the morning.
He had fallen asleep around eight o’clock last night and had slept for almost half a day.
Lin Sui woke up with a slightly dazed mind. He put on clothes, washed up, and went downstairs on pure instinct. He saw Gu Nian sitting on the sofa and gradually woke up, breaking free from the pain of being forced by the client.
“Come eat breakfast.” Gu Nian saw Lin Sui, and his expression relaxed slightly imperceptibly.
Lin Sui seemed to have been avoiding him these past few days. Gu Nian had wanted to ask Lin Sui to move into his room, but he hadn’t had a chance to say it. Gu Nian smiled wryly, thinking that Lin Sui probably still didn’t want to.
Gu Nian was sad but didn’t want Lin Sui to see it, so he sat on the sofa all day, wanting to wait for Lin Sui to come to him, just to have a chance to see Lin Sui.
Lin Sui sat down next to Gu Nian with a sandwich in his mouth and leaned on Gu Nian’s shoulder habitually, saying vaguely, “Thank you, it’s good.”
Gu Nian reached out and put his arm around him, and Lin Sui curled up in his arms, completely trusting and dependent. The loss in Gu Nian’s heart was still there, but it was instantly filled with more sweetness. He didn’t know what to do with Lin Sui.
The two were enjoying breakfast in a loving atmosphere when the doorbell suddenly rang shrilly. Lin Sui was stunned and asked, “Are Jiang Sheng and the others coming today?”
Besides Jiang Sheng and his group, Lin Sui couldn’t think of anyone else who would visit them here. He silently sat up straight from Gu Nian’s arms, sitting upright with a strange feeling welling up inside.
Even if they were coming, how could they come so early in the morning?
Gu Nian stared at his empty arms with dissatisfaction for a while, narrowed his eyes, and said coldly, “They didn’t tell me.”
Lin Sui frowned, inexplicably feeling a sense of familiarity. He got up and walked to the door, saying as he walked, “Let’s see who it is, so we don’t delay anything.”
After saying this, Lin Sui opened the door. The moment his view widened, he took a step back, wishing he could turn back time to a minute ago and beat himself to death for opening the door.
Help, why would Gu family’s illegitimate son suddenly come to visit!
Lin Sui finally remembered why he felt familiar. This was a key plot point before Gu Nian completely darkened in the original novel! It was after this plot that Gu Nian completely became a gloomy and cold business tycoon, until he met the protagonist shou and was warmed and influenced again. But compared to everything before it happened, he could never go back to the young man who was youthful but glowing all over.
Putting aside the protagonist shou part for now, Lin Sui thought of the photo of Gu Nian in his student days that he cherished in his bedroom and felt distressed. He became even more disgusted with this illegitimate son, and for the first time, he had a gloomy face at their first meeting.
“Who are you, why are you here at my house?”
“You don’t know who I am?” Gu Zhong widened his triangular eyes, looking even more sinister. “This house is mine! Don’t you know who I am?”
Lin Sui’s face darkened, and he had a deep understanding of this person’s shamelessness. “What do you mean your house? The true legitimate heir of the Gu family is Gu Nian.” Lin Sui retorted powerfully. “Are you a repeating machine, or is there nothing else you can say besides that one sentence?”
“That’s right, besides that stolen bloodline, what else do you have that can compare to Gu Nian. Gu Nian is a hundred times better than you, no, ten thousand times!”
Gu Zhong was angry enough with the first sentence, and the second sentence made his stomach hurt. In a fit of anger, he actually wanted to attack. Lin Sui stiffened his neck, not afraid at all, and flexed his muscles, preparing to put the results of his fitness efforts to practice.
Just at this critical moment, a full-bodied female voice rang out, before her person was seen, her voice was heard first.
“Hey you over there, what are you doing, so big and burly, bullying our Xiao Lin in broad daylight? Security, security, someone’s come in to beat someone!”