TLCBITAR Chapter 111

Chapter 111: Being Naive is Good, I Like It

“Knock knock knock.”

Hearing the muffled knocking, Zhou Zhou frowned and twitched his ears.

“Zhou Zhou, Zhou Zhou, wake up, why have you been in the game pod for so long?” A familiar, kind female voice faintly drifted over.

Zhou Zhou suddenly opened his eyes. Through the glass door of the game pod, he saw a beautiful woman, about forty years old, standing there with a somewhat anxious and helpless expression.

“Mom…”

Zhou Zhou called out softly, not caring why he was in the game pod at this moment. He quickly disconnected the game connection cables attached to his head, stood up, and ran over to open the door of the game pod, but no matter what he did, he couldn’t open it.

He became anxious, banging on the door while shouting, “Mom, Mom, I can’t open the door.”

The beautiful woman outside the door quietly watched the person inside the game pod. She opened her mouth but couldn’t make a sound. A minute later, she started to cry, turned around, and walked away, disappearing from Zhou Zhou’s sight.

“Mom! Don’t go, Mom! Don’t leave me!” Zhou Zhou felt so desperate for the first time in his life, feeling an unbearable ache in his eyes and nose.

“Zhou Zhou, wake up.” A low, hoarse male voice filled with obvious concern played repeatedly in his mind.

Zhou Zhou pressed himself against the door and raised his arm to bite down hard, but felt no pain, which meant he was in a dream.

The person calling him was Pei Yanlie, the male lead of “Yearning in the Sea of Desire”.

Zhou Zhou hung his head low, his messy hair obscuring his thick eyebrows. He shook his head and muttered to himself, “If I stay here and don’t wake up, will I not have to face him?”

However, a dream is just a dream. Even if the surrounding environment is too real, it cannot change the fact that he can no longer return to the future Starry Sky era.

“Zhou Zhou?” Pei Yanlie reached out and touched Zhou Zhou’s forehead. The temperature was normal, and he didn’t have a fever.

Zhou Zhou’s eyelids fluttered a few times, and he cracked open his eyes to quickly glance at Pei Yanlie before immediately closing them again, pretending to still be unconscious.

Pei Yanlie, with his sharp eyes, noticed his small action, and the heart that had been raised finally settled down. The hand that had been lingering on his forehead gradually moved to the top of his head, gently ruffling his messy hair.

Thinking of the sleep-talking Zhou Zhou had unconsciously uttered earlier, he pursed his lips tightly, his eyes dark, and asked in a low voice, “Zhou Zhou, do you want to go home?”

Zhou Zhou twitched his ears but didn’t respond.

[Yes, how could I not want to? I dream about it all the time, dreaming of returning to the future, dreaming of being forever free from your control.]

Pei Yanlie’s face darkened. He leaned down and gave him a heavy, punishing kiss on his lips, hoarsely saying, “I want you to stay by my side, forever and always.”

Zhou Zhou couldn’t withstand his actions and overbearing words. He opened his eyes and forced a cold smile, “Don’t ask such nonsense if you won’t let me go home.”

He turned his body, not wanting to pay attention to the male lead’s wild words.

[Silence is golden. From now on, if I pay him any attention, I’m not Zhou!]

His waist was clasped by a strong, powerful arm. Before Zhou Zhou could react, he was pulled into a broad, solid embrace. Pei Yanlie held him very tightly, pressing his nose against Zhou Zhou’s ear and taking a deep breath, saying as if sighing, “Zhou Zhou, are you an adult yet?”

“What do you mean? Are you indirectly calling me childish?” Zhou Zhou couldn’t keep silent for even three seconds before snapping back.

“Being naive is good, I like it.” Pei Yanlie chuckled softly, the vibration of his chest clearly transmitted to Zhou Zhou’s back.

He stiffened his body and muttered softly, “Does Pei Yanlie have a pedophilic tendency? What’s with that look? I’m a perfectly normal male college student, and he says I’m childish? As expected, love makes people’s IQ drop to zero, blinding their eyes.”

Sensing the movement of the person behind him, he wanted to move his butt but was afraid of adding fuel to the fire, so he could only endure it, grinding his teeth. “Pei Yanlie, is your energy always this strong? Can’t you control Pei Shidi properly?”

Pei Yanlie lightly rested his chin on the top of his head, teasingly saying, “Admitting that your energy isn’t as good as mine?”

Zhou Zhou struggled a bit, a flame of anger rising in his eyes. “Speak directly, don’t indirectly say I can’t do it!”

[Yes, yes, yes, you’re amazing, with your superhuman kidney strength.]

[Stop, stop, stop! I promised myself silence is golden! What am I even thinking right now?]

The ambiguous atmosphere instantly dissipated. Pei Yanlie stopped teasing him and dropped a kiss on his soft hair.

“Don’t defile my hair,” Zhou Zhou protested softly.

Pei Yanlie’s eyebrows showed his delight. He got out of bed and casually said, “Get up and wash up first, it’s getting late.”

Zhou Zhou picked up the phone placed on the bedside table and started looking at it, ignoring Pei Yanlie. It was exactly 7:30 a.m., and if he dawdled any longer, he would definitely be late.

He slowly climbed up, his eyes glancing towards Pei Yanlie, his gaze quickly skimming over the other man’s crotch.

[What are these sleeping pants? Is Pei Yanlie doing this on purpose? Wearing such see-through pants!]

[Pei Shidi, give up on that idea, don’t even think about ravaging my butt.]

…

Pei Yanlie silently recited in his heart: “Just get used to it.”

[Hey, hey, hey, don’t stare at me with such a scary look! What, you want to force me again? ]

Thinking of the passion in the dark car compartment, Zhou Zhou shuddered and immediately got out of bed and rushed into the bathroom.

[Pei Shidi, I’m afraid of you. You can even abuse legs, is there anything you wouldn’t dare to do?]

Pei Yanlie’s eyes were fixed on the bathroom door, and he whispered in a hoarse voice, “Zhou Zhou, you’ve used up your chances, don’t repeatedly challenge my bottom line.”

Zhou Zhou scratched his ear, vaguely hearing Pei Yanlie’s voice, but he couldn’t hear what he was saying.

There were still five days left until the end of the competition training, which meant that he would have to live with Pei Yanlie for these few days.

He raised his eyes and looked at the tired-looking boy in the mirror, sighing softly.

“I’ve lived for nineteen years, and I never thought that one day I, Zhou Zhou, would be liked by the male lead in a novel.”

A “beep” vibration interrupted his thoughts.

He took out his phone and looked at it. It was a call from his eldest brother, Zhou Jin.

“Xiao Zhou, did you need me for anything important last night?” Zhou Jin’s voice was hoarse and gentle.

Zhou Zhou said directly, “Yeah, you and Brother Gu had a lot of fun last night.”

Zhou Jin: “…”

Zhou Zhou cleared his throat and said, “Is there any way for me to disappear from Yucheng without anyone noticing?”

Zhou Jin frowned and questioned, “What bad thing did you do?”

Zhou Zhou muttered softly, “Tsk, don’t think of me so badly.”

Zhou Jin asked, “Is it because of Pei Yanlie?”

Zhou Zhou mumbled vaguely, seeming to admit it.

Zhou Jin asked curiously, “Don’t you like him? Why are you hiding?”

Zhou Zhou retorted without thinking, “Brother, don’t force such terrifying love on me. There’s absolutely no way I’ll ever be with Pei Yanlie in this lifetime.”

Zhou Jin frowned tightly and asked in a low voice, “Did he bully you?”

“No, don’t think too much. Do you think your brother is someone who would be bullied!” Zhou Zhou said one thing and meant another.

“To tell you the truth, if you want to disappear without a trace, you can only do it this way…”

Zhou Zhou listened attentively until Pei Yanlie knocked on the door, then he closed his mouth and stopped talking.

On the other end, Zhou Jin sat in the passenger seat, turned his head to look at the man in the driver’s seat, raised his hand to adjust his glasses, and said in a low voice, “Zhou Zhou knows.”

Gu Yuanci curled up his lips, “He’s an adult, he should understand everything. Don’t be too nervous.”

Zhou Jin: “After all, he has to face Pei Yanlie, and I’m afraid he’ll be bullied.”

Gu Yuanci raised an eyebrow and teased, “Good brother, if it’s something you both want, there’s no need to worry so much.”

Zhou Jin shook his head and denied, “Forget the good brother part.”

He didn’t think he had fulfilled his responsibility as a brother. Thinking of the question his younger brother had asked, he turned his head to look at Gu Yuanci and said, “He had a conflict with Pei Yanlie and is thinking about how to run away from home.”

Gu Yuanci smiled, “Yeah, I heard. Isn’t the method you just mentioned just fooling him? The Pei family is such a behemoth, even if he hides, he won’t be able to hide for more than three days.”

Zhou Jin said helplessly, “It’s rare for him to ask me for help. Let him hide for as many days as he can.”

Zhou Zhou’s eyelids twitched wildly, and he couldn’t help but open his mouth, “Brother, the call isn’t off yet.”

Zhou Jin: …