WSIDIILMBOCIR Chapter 17

Chapter 17: He Likes Men

After Qiao Gongyu took an interested tour of Qin Yuanging’s “territory,” he sat comfortably on the sofa.

“Come here.”

Clearly Qin Yuanging was the one standing, but he didn’t exude a commanding presence at all.

“Hmm?”

“The drawstring of your hoodie is asymmetrical, let me fix it for you.”

Qin Yuanging really wanted to tell him that it was a deliberate design.

But being looked at by Li Chongge like that, it was really hard for Qin Yuanging to say the words of refusal.

Qin Yuanging’s body involuntarily moved closer to Li Chongge, bending down slightly, offering his upper body.

Li Chongge tugged at it left and right, then leaned back to examine it from side to side.

The result didn’t seem satisfactory, he let out a soft “tsk,” then raised his hand again.

Qin Yuanging could smell the indescribable but pleasant scent on him, taking the opportunity while Li Chongge was concentrating on wrestling with his drawstring, to greedily sniff it.

“Okay.”

Li Chongge was finally satisfied.

Qin Yuanging glanced at the two drawstrings that were now almost perfectly aligned, and reluctantly retreated.

He opened the window and invited Li Chongge to the balcony for a smoke.

The setting sun in the sky cast its last rays, a line of warm orange-red against the blue-black sky.

But this bit of light couldn’t even cast a shadow.

“When did you learn to smoke?”

Qin Yuanging lit a cigarette for Li Chongge, still unable to resist asking him.

Li Chongge’s smile didn’t seem genuine, obscured by the smoke around his lips.

“Is it important?”

Qin Yuanging opened his mouth, took a hard drag of his cigarette, his tone unchanged.

“I’m just curious, did you… did something happen to you back then?”

The sky darkened quickly in the evening.

The setting sun released its last trace of light, and darkness hurriedly took its place.

Li Chongge’s face was shrouded in the night, and Qin Yuanging couldn’t help but lean closer, wanting to see something clearly.

“I did encounter something that I couldn’t let go of, but it’s all in the past.”

“Very troublesome?”

“Yes, very troublesome.”

So troublesome that he was thrown into chaos and lost all reason.

“Then how did you solve it in the end?”

Li Chongge paused for a long time before speaking, “Qin Yuanging, it’s all in the past. If you ask again, it will only make me recall that memory that wasn’t pleasant for me.”

Qin Yuanging was stunned for a moment, and quickly apologized.

Li Chongge was right, the thing that made him uneasy had already passed, and it was useless to ask more.

At that time, Li Chongge bore all the pain alone.

Qin Yuanging was far away in Canada, completely unaware.

“You don’t have to apologize to me, my mental strength is very strong, and I won’t hold it against you.”

Yu Keci walked to the garden and called up to them to come down for dinner.

During the meal, Qin Yuanging once again refreshed his understanding of Li Chongge’s endurance.

Li Chongge elegantly and politely finished the full bowl of soup that Yu Keci gave him, and was still able to praise her for the good soup and her good cooking without changing his expression…

Qin Haoting’s admiring gaze towards Li Chongge suddenly mixed with a hint of respect.

Li Chongge was really not simple!

After dinner, Li Chongge still had things to do and didn’t stay any longer. Qin Haoting and Yu Keci personally sent him out the door.

“Didn’t you say you were going out? I’ll take you there?”

“No, no, I’ll have Uncle Ge take me there. You have things to do, don’t worry about me.”

Going out tonight was just an excuse for Qin Yuanging. He was tired all day and didn’t want to go out again.

Qin Yuanging refused too quickly, so quickly that Li Chongge couldn’t even say words to persuade him to stay.

“Okay, then goodbye, Uncle and Aunt.”

Li Chongge politely said goodbye to Qin Haoting and Yu Keci and drove away.

Hearing that he was going out tonight, Yu Keci instructed him: “Xiao Yuan, don’t play too late, come back early.”

Qin Yuanging took Yu Keci’s arm and walked back.

“Plans have changed, I’m not going out tonight.”

Yu Keci: “?”

Then why didn’t he just say that to Li Chongge just now?

Li Chongge drove to Kewei, took a copy of the contract to be used tomorrow, and then prepared to return to his residence.

Even though it was already nine o’clock in the evening, the bustling Jing City was still lively. Li Chongge shuttled through the traffic of the city, but the laughter and joy outside had nothing to do with him.

The street he was currently on was several times more lively than ordinary streets, simply because there were so many bars of all sizes located here.

Jing City’s colorful, extravagant nightlife unfolds here.

Li Chongge was stuck in the traffic and couldn’t move. He regretted choosing this road to go back tonight.

He opened the car window, and the noisy sounds instantly poured into the car, but fortunately, the cool night wind could smooth out his irritability.

Li Chongge glanced casually, and his pupils suddenly shrank.

Many lonely men and women were scattered around the bar, either frolicking or embracing and kissing, which was not surprising.

But he knew the female lead who was kissing so passionately closest to Li Chongge.

Jiang Muyuan!

Li Chongge rubbed his eyebrows, suppressing the emotions churning in his heart.

She was Qin Yuanging’s girlfriend, how could she be kissing and hugging someone else!

The traffic slowly started to move, Li Chongge released the brake, but turned back at the next intersection.

No one could be sorry to Qin Yuanging.

By the time he parked the car, Jiang Muyuan had already disappeared.

Li Chongge called Qiao Gongyu.

“Ask Jiang Muyuan which bar she’s in.”

Qiao Gongyu spat out the wine he had just swallowed, and asked him in disbelief, “Are you really going to steal Xiao Yuan from him!”

“No, I have something to find her for.”

After hanging up the phone, Li Chongge stood on the street, his face covered with a layer of frost.

How could anyone ruin Qin Yuanging’s sincerity?

When Li Chongge found Jiang Muyuan, she was almost sitting on that man’s lap.

She had drunk a lot of wine. When Li Chongge took her out of the bar, her mind was still not very clear, but she instinctively felt a little dangerous, so she refused to go with Li Chongge to a place where there were few people.

“What will Qin Yuanging think if you’re like this?”

Jiang Muyuan quickly replied with a slur, “He always knew.”

Jiang Muyuan was a veteran in love affairs, Qin Yuanging knew it from beginning to end.

“He doesn’t mind?”

Li Chongge doubted whether he was really so busy that he had become out of touch with this society, otherwise why didn’t he know about such a fresh and refined way of dating?

“He doesn’t mind, he even said that if he meets someone suitable for me, he will introduce them to me!”

Li Chongge was so angry that he wondered what messy things Qin Yuanging had learned in Canada.

Love is pure and sincere and should not be used to spoil it.

Li Chongge sneered, standing as far away from the drunk Jiang Muyuan as possible: “You guys really know how to play.”

“Hehe, it’s okay, they play even wilder!”

“Then Qin Yuanging, how many girlfriends does he have?”

Jiang Muyuan squinted her eyes and stretched out five fingers.

“Five?”

Li Chongge’s tone was very deep, and his expression was very calm, but the bulging veins on the back of his hand still exposed his uneasy heart.

Jiang Muyuan waved her hand and smiled again.

“No, he doesn’t have any.”

Li Chongge let out a breath, but expressed doubt: “Then what about you, you should count as one, right?”

Jiang Muyuan blinked her eyes, her mind slowly turned, and then she was a little confused.

“Me? I’m not his girlfriend!”

“We are friends, very, very good friends.”

Li Chongge lowered his eyes to look at the swaying Jiang Muyuan, but he could not analyze whether she was speaking drunk or telling the truth.

But Li Chongge thought about it carefully, Qin Yuanging never seemed to have said that he and Jiang Muyuan were in a relationship.

“Just friends?”

But they were clearly very close.

Qin Yuanging looked like he could chat with anyone for a few words, but in fact, he had clear boundaries, was very measured, and would not have excessive physical contact with others.

Jiang Muyuan’s body was on the verge of collapse, but a flash of clarity flashed in her eyes.

“I’ll tell you, Yuan Yuan won’t have a girlfriend.”

“He doesn’t like women, hiccup~”

“Like me, he likes men.”