OVTTGTBE Chapter 48

A Brief Period of Peace

A Brief Period of Peace

In the end, Liu Yucheng chose the silver necklace.

Because the desserts displayed on the stand all had cream, which Bai Yao couldn’t eat; and the wet wipes, light bulbs, and sockets didn’t look like they were of good quality.

Before they left, the host even encouraged him, saying, “It’s okay to be dumped. I hope this gift can help you out of the shadow of heartbreak.”

“This necklace suits you very well. Your collarbones are beautiful and perfect for wearing a necklace,” Bai Yao said while checking into the hotel lobby.

“Don’t say that anymore,” Liu Yucheng pursed his lips. “It’ll make me overthink.”

Bai Yao booked a king-size bed room. Even if the hotel receptionist said that only a business king-size room was left, he believed that if Bai Yao really didn’t want to sleep with him, booking two rooms would be his style.

Even if the two of them ended up sleeping in the same bed in the middle of the night, because it was going to rain heavily tonight, and the wind was already picking up outside.

“I didn’t want to bother, so I only booked one room,” Bai Yao said as they entered the elevator. “We’ll sleep chastely.”

“Okay.”

After closing the door, Liu Yucheng asked him, “I have a request.”

“Go ahead.”

Liu Yucheng hugged him directly.

“Bai Yao, thank you.”

He leaned against the door, his arms wrapped so tightly as if he never planned to let go.

“You’re already having a reaction,” Bai Yao pushed him slightly, but couldn’t push him away.

“You’re the same, aren’t you?”

Liu Yucheng murmured in his ear, “I’m not going to do anything, I just want to hug you for a while.”

…

Bai Yao lay on one side of the king-size bed, tossing his phone aside in frustration.

Liu Yucheng had been in the bathroom for almost an hour. Besides showering, Bai Yao could probably guess what else he was doing in there.

But it had been so long, wasn’t he done yet? He even took his phone in with him, so he wasn’t really doing it…

Bai Yao was feeling the urge to pee as much as he had drunk beverages while shopping.

After enduring another five minutes, the sound of water in the bathroom still hadn’t stopped. Bai Yao really couldn’t sit still any longer and went to knock on the bathroom door.

“Liu Yucheng, I need to use the bathroom, hurry up.”

“Liu Yucheng?”

Why was there no response? Had he fainted inside? Come to think of it, Liu Yucheng hadn’t rested well last night and the night before, and the bathroom was so hot…

Bai Yao suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, twisted the doorknob, and rushed in.

The hotel bathroom had a wet and dry separation. Through the misty glass, Bai Yao saw him standing there, holding the wall, not moving at all.

“Are you okay?”

Bai Yao walked over and directly opened the glass door of the shower. “Why were you showering for so long?”

He stood naked under the showerhead, the overhead light illuminating his fair and flawless skin, water droplets constantly falling down his dark, short hair. Even though Bai Yao had seen this scene many times before, he still couldn’t help but be captivated every time he saw it.

Especially, Liu Yucheng was wearing a silver necklace that he didn’t have before.

“Who told you to come in?”

He asked in a low voice, and this time Bai Yao heard the displeasure in his tone.

“I knocked, and you didn’t respond. I thought you fainted inside.”

“I’m fine.”

Liu Yucheng held onto the glass door frame, turned his body slightly, and greedily breathed in the coolness from outside. “Get out.”

It would have been fine if he hadn’t turned around, but once he did, Bai Yao saw everything he should and shouldn’t have seen.

Visually, it was shocking. Liu Yucheng looked like he was about to explode. Could it be that he hadn’t been able to… since the hug?

As a man himself, Bai Yao felt uncomfortable and even painful just thinking about it.

“You… I’ll just use the bathroom and leave immediately.”

Bai Yao stood by the toilet, wanting to quickly finish and leave.

Every second he stayed here, Liu Yucheng would probably be in pain for another second. He didn’t want to torment Liu Yucheng in this way.

“It’s been a minute already. Are you really here to use the bathroom?”

Liu Yucheng was still holding onto the glass door frame, looking at him expressionlessly.

Bai Yao: “…”

Damn it!! He couldn’t pee!!

“Bai Yao,” Liu Yucheng looked at him and smiled helplessly. “It seems you’re very interested in my body.”

Bai Yao took the opportunity to turn his head and stared at him intently. “You’ve really been secretly working out. You have more abs than before.”

Liu Yucheng felt uneasy from his gaze and quickly hid behind the glass. “I’m not looking at you anymore, hurry up and get out after you’re done.”

The next second, Bai Yao, still wearing his clothes, rushed into the shower.

Liu Yucheng, with nowhere to hide, instinctively leaned against the wall. “What do you want to do?”

“Let me guess, you’ve been in the bathroom for so long…”

Bai Yao approached him, his clothes instantly soaked by the shower. “The fire can’t be suppressed, and you can’t release it, right?”

Liu Yucheng gritted his teeth and looked up. “Bai Yao, you’re playing unfairly.”

“Shh.”

Bai Yao’s thumb gently touched his Adam’s apple, his eyes fixed on his collarbone and the necklace against his skin. “Don’t you want me to help you?”

“Of course, I want…”

Liu Yucheng was in unbearable agony. He suppressed his impulse and hugged Bai Yao tightly, only taking a deep breath at his neck. “But I’m starting to want more… You’re just overwhelmed by desire, you haven’t really forgiven me. I don’t want to force you at a time like this.”

“So, I’m begging you, please go out first, okay?”

…

After taking off his wet clothes, Bai Yao sat on the bed and drank half a bottle of cold mineral water in one gulp to suppress the fire from just now.

Liu Yucheng was already drying his hair now and should be out soon. Then he could use the bathroom.

He really needed to pee more now; but it was also true that he had almost lost his mind just now.

If Liu Yucheng hadn’t kicked him out, Bai Yao wouldn’t dare to guarantee that he wouldn’t become like him, not satisfied with using his hands or mouth, but craving more.

A friends-with-benefits ex relationship, now that he thought about it calmly, Bai Yao didn’t like that.

That’s good.

“I’m done showering,” Liu Yucheng said after coming out. “The water is very hot now, take a quick shower and don’t catch a cold.”

“Okay.”

Late at night, the two of them listened to the howling wind and rain outside the window, leaning against the headboard side by side, watching the cartoon that Bai Yao was projecting onto the TV from his phone.

Just like the night they first got a room to escape the rain. Except this time, Liu Yucheng didn’t kiss him until he was flushed, and they didn’t talk about topics like “Are we officially dating now?” and “Is it a bit too fast to do it tonight since we just got together?”.

“Mid to late May,” Bai Yao deliberately avoided the sensitive dates in May. “Do you have time?”

The first thing that came to Liu Yucheng’s mind was the concert ticket he had given Bai Yao, which was valid on May 20th or 21st.

But just to be sure, he asked, “What’s up?”

“It’s nothing. Come with me to sign up for an English class then,” Bai Yao changed the subject. “I’ll have to take the CET-4 and CET-6 in the future.”

Damn it, he originally wanted to ask if he had time to go to the concert together. What was this about? He didn’t want to sign up for any English classes.

Liu Yucheng chuckled softly and said, “I might not have that much money to pay for tutoring classes.”

“If it can be solved with money, it’s not a problem.”

Bai Yao suddenly remembered Liu Yucheng’s previous suggestion and said, “Didn’t you want to teach me how to cook? You can take some time every week to teach me, and I’ll pay you. Did you make the porridge I drank before? It tasted just like Aunt Yang’s, I’ve already approved you.”

“Because I asked Aunt Yang from your house for the recipe.”

Liu Yucheng nodded. “If you’re willing, of course, I can. I have a lot of time.”

Now, besides recording audio novels, he didn’t have any other part-time jobs.

The matter was decided like this.

Around half-past twelve in the middle of the night, Bai Yao turned off the TV and wriggled into the blankets, nestling closer to Liu Yucheng. “We’re going back tomorrow.”

“Okay.”

Liu Yucheng naturally put his arm around him and whispered, “Good night.”

After going back, he might rarely have the chance to hold Bai Yao like this while sleeping again.

…

At the same time, in Bai Junyi’s office.

[I didn’t expose you because I still liked you back then.]

[But now, the speech is over, and we’re over too.]

Assistant Zhou stood to the side, carefully observing Bai Junyi’s increasingly ugly expression, not daring to say a word.

“What is all this???”

Bai Junyi shut off the speech video with a dark face and threw the tablet in her hand with a “swoosh.”

“Am I still in a dream? Haven’t I woken up yet?”

“Those two brats, they… they actually…”

Bai Junyi couldn’t accept this fact. “I always thought they were just bickering like friends, but they…”

They actually got together!!!

“Um… President Bai, they’re still children. Maybe they don’t understand anything…” Assistant Zhou said softly.

“Where are Qianqian and Manman? Call them back here for me. How dare they not report such a big thing to me?!”

“President Bai, what are you calling them for? If they didn’t report to you, it must be the young master’s intention.”

Assistant Zhou said carefully, “In the video, the young master said that they had broken up. I think this matter, maybe…”

Just pretend you don’t know about it.

“Xiao Zhou, go help me contact Qianqian and Manman.”

Bai Junyi said with a dark face, “Don’t alert DuDu and Xiao Liu for now.”

…

The campus life after the holiday allowed Bai Yao to spend an extremely peaceful time.

After the trip, his relationship with Liu Yucheng became much more normal. At least, they could cooperate normally during the experiment class every Tuesday, which greatly relieved Teaching Assistant Xu.

A few days later, the apron and kitchen utensils that Bai Yao bought online were delivered. As soon as class ended, he went home with two bodyguards, waiting for Liu Yucheng to come home after class to teach him how to cook.

What Bai Yao didn’t expect was that even though Liu Yucheng was standing at the door, the two bodyguards put on a posture that wouldn’t let him in.

“What are you two doing?”

Bai Yao asked, “I said, he’s coming home this afternoon to teach me how to cook.”

Qianqian: “We’re sorry, he can’t come in.”

Manman: “Young Master, President Bai said that she has something to tell you later, and it’s not convenient for others to be present. So please ask him to leave quickly.”

“This is really strange. If my mom has something to say, can’t she just tell me directly? Why does she have to go through you?”

Bai Yao asked.

The two bodyguards were silent.

“Bai Yao, how about we call it off for today?” Liu Yucheng said quietly, “Don’t cause them trouble because of me.”

“No, something’s not right.”

Bai Yao frowned. “I’ll say it one last time, you two, get out of the way and let him in!”

After hesitating for a moment, Qianqian couldn’t help but advise, “Young Master, I really don’t recommend you do this. If you insist on letting him into the house today, we can’t guarantee that you… won’t get hurt.”

Bai Yao was dumbfounded – what did this mean??

During class these past few days, especially during experiment class, they hadn’t strongly blocked Liu Yucheng from getting close like this!

Liu Yucheng pursed his lips and asked her, “Did Aunt Bai, find out about what happened between him and I?”