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The restroom was so quiet that I could even hear a needle drop. Although the statement was true, it still made my scalp numb with embarrassment.

In the past, I have also accompanied my ex-girlfriends to watch some TV dramas with plot twists that have some incredible similarities in certain plots. For example, once a woman is suspected of losing her virginity, she will tearfully pull her husband’s arm and swear to him that he was the only man in her life. The lines are very similar, and they are seven or eight points similar to what I just said.

I regretted it the moment I said it. I regretted it so much that I wanted to erase this memory and never think about it again in this life.

“So, is this your charity?”

When I was feeling so regretful for saying such shameful words, Ji Chenfeng’s reaction was completely out of my expectation. There was no joy or gratitude, and he maintained his previous indifference when he spoke, and there was even a hint of anger in his voice.

Well, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call it “charity”. But what I’m giving you are all significant things, so why did you say it as if it was only my problem? A beggar can also refuse the food that is offered to him. If he feels uncomfortable from the beginning, why did he accept the “charity”? After all, didn’t you enjoy it too?

“I’m very sad to hear you say that, Dr. Ji.”

Feeling that the words alone might not be enough to coax him today, I struggled while considering whether to give him more “rewards” to redeem the relationship.

But we are outside after all, and it’s still in Zheng Jieyuan’s mother’s company. If any strange rumors spread outside, it will be more harmful than good. So I can’t do anything much, leaving me only one choice.

Stroking Ji Chenfeng’s side face, I inserted my fingers into his hair, and before he could react, I pressed his head down and kissed him.

It wasn’t a gentle kiss with our lips pressed against each other, but a kiss full of desire and possession with the tip of my tongue thrusted between the other’s teeth, while exchanging saliva and biting his lips.

I closed my eyes and tried to imagine that this was a woman taller than me, but got pulled back to reality by the faint smell of tobacco in Ji Chenfeng’s mouth and the short and hard hair in my palm.

As soon as I thought that I was kissing a man, my tongue became stiff, and I couldn’t continue to entangle with him smoothly. It seemed as if there were ants crawling all over my body, starting from the touching lips and quickly spreading to my whole body, causing it to feel numb and painful, resulting in a severe allergic reaction.

I can’t believe that I actually kissed a man. I stuck my tongue in another man’s mouth. I actually ate a man’s saliva.

If this is called “charity”, then it should be at the level of “feeding a tiger with one’s own body”.

It’s just a pretense to deceive the other party, but just as I was intending to let go and retreat, my waist was grabbed by a powerful arm, making my upper body unable to move.

It was as if the dynamite buried under the ice had finally been ignited, causing the entire ice surface to fall apart, and the previous calm also shattered in a blink of an eye. Ji Chenfeng kissed back eagerly, breathing heavily and rapidly through his nose.

This kiss was different from all the kisses I had ever experienced. Ji Chenfeng’s flexible tongue licked my gums somewhat pleasingly, scratching the palate, as if trying to reach into the depths of my throat, constantly probing and teasing.

I opened my eyes in some panic, and unconsciously struggled, pushing against his shoulder, filled with a fear of being invaded and pierced.

Ji Chenfeng didn’t blink as he grabbed my wrist, pulling me even closer to him.

My heart was about to be pulled out of my mouth… I obviously didn’t engage in any intense exercise, but breathing through the nose seemed to have become a bit difficult.

Enough……

Can’t go on like this….

I’m about… I’m about to run out of oxygen.

“Strange, is it broken? Why is it locked?”

The voice from outside pulled me out of the dizzy feeling of hypoxia, and cold sweat broke out on the back of my neck.

“Is anyone inside?” The person outside knocked on the door and didn’t leave.

I turned my face away to avoid Ji Chenfeng’s kiss.

“Someone, someone outside….” Because of my chaotic breathing, my speech was somewhat broken.

Ji Chenfeng gave a low “hmm” but didn’t let go of my hand.

He even leaned closer to me, as if still wanting to continue.

I’d be crazy to let him continue.

“Don’t…” I raised my hand to cover his lips and said weakly, “Wait…I still have some work to do.”

He didn’t move again and remained silent for a while as the lust in his eyes subsided, and he slowly let go of his arms.

“Okay.” His lips pressed against my fingers, and as he spoke, his breath fell all over my fingertips, hot and damp.

Leaving his arms, I turned around and quickly walked over to the sink, and in order to get myself out of the dizzy state as soon as possible, I bent down and washed my face with cold water.

The water, which was colder than usual, hit the skin, like a bayonet, piercing straight into the brain.

I instantly woke up and supported the countertop with both hands, looking at the huge mirror in front of me.

Although my lips were still a bit red and swollen, it wasn’t too obvious. Except for the wet clothes and hair that made me look a bit embarrassed, everything else was the same as usual.

“Aren’t you angry?” I turned my gaze to Ji Chenfeng in the mirror.

“I’m not angry.” He took out two sheets of paper towels from the paper dispenser and handed them to me, while talking nonsense without changing his expression.

Not angry, then what was that just now? Was there too much vinegar in your lunch at noon?

As I took the tissue and wiped my hands, I stared at Ji Chenfeng’s lips, which were rosier than usual, and suddenly remembered a very important thing.

“Wait…” I turned to look at him and asked, “Don’t you understand lip language? Am I flirting or cursing? Can you tell right now?”

Ji Chenfeng seemed to be taken aback by my question, and it took him a moment before he spoke: “I…”

“Huh? Is anyone inside?” The person at the door went away and came again, while a new voice also sounded, turning the doorknob to try and open the door.

Ji Chenfeng and I looked at the closed restroom door at the same time.

I am afraid if I don’t go out now, the repairman will bring a lockpicking tool next time to pry open the door.

“I can’t understand if you talk too fast.” After casually replying to my question, Ji Chenfeng brushed past me and ran to open the door first.

The person outside gave him a strange look, and muttered, “Why did you close the door?” and came in. But as soon as he saw me inside, he became nervous and respectful in an instant.

“Hello Hello!”

This person’s appearance looks a bit familiar, he should be one of the staff in the studio.

With a perfunctory nod, I threw the toilet paper into the dustbin and walked outside.

Ji Chenfeng was waiting outside. When he saw me coming out, he went back to the studio with me.

Along the way, I explained the previous situation to him – of course, the violence and swearing parts were removed. He seemed to have been really appeased by that kiss and fully accepted my explanation, without any doubts.

My threat was very effective as Lu Sui finally put on that outfit and successfully completed the filming.

“You’re still the best.” Cai Congcong secretly gave me a thumbs up as he looked at Lu Sui, who had a stiff expression in front of the camera but was still posing obediently.

When it was almost six o’clock, Xin Hezi’s secretary came down and said that he had already reserved a seat in the restaurant.

“The restaurant is just next to a five-star hotel. You can take people there first and President Xin will come as soon as the meeting is over.” The secretary said.

Glancing at Ji Chenfeng who was sitting in the lounge and slowly flipping through fashion magazines, I politely declined, “Tell President Xin that I happen to have a friend who came to see me, so we won’t have dinner together…”

“Since it’s Mr. Sang’s friend, let’s go together. President Xin insisted on treating you to dinner. The food at the hotel has already been ordered, just waiting for us to go over.” The secretary said quickly.

“Mr. Sang, let’s go together. It will be more lively with one more person.” Cai Congcong leaned into my ear and whispered, “I can’t have dinner alone with President Xin at my level.”

Frowning, I thought for a moment and couldn’t think of a better excuse. If I just leave like this now and it reaches Xu Xi’s ears, maybe she will be curious about who this “friend” is who can make me refuse Xin Hezi’s dinner.

Forget it, it’s just a meal, and it’s not like I am bringing him directly in front of Sang Zhengbai, so what I’m afraid of?

As I pushed open the glass door, Ji Chenfeng raised his head when he heard the sound.

“Are you done?”

I stopped in front of him and told him about the dinner in a very apologetic tone.

“Dining with your colleagues?” He closed the magazine and looked up at me with a somewhat surprised expression.

I sighed and said, “Colleagues are secondary, elders are the main. If it wasn’t for that, I would have rejected it long ago.”

Originally, I thought that he might be unwilling and would have some concerns, but I didn’t expect him to stand up directly and put the magazine back on the shelf, expressing that he didn’t mind dining together.

The troubles that had bothered me all afternoon were easily resolved, and while my mood became cheerful, the impact of breaking through the defense line of the lips and tongue also subsided a lot.

If a kiss can make him so obedient, then it’s not too much of a loss.

Although the hotel where we are having dinner was not far from Xin Hezi’s company, and it was only a five minutes walk away, Cai Congcong and I still planned to drive there separately.

When passing by the only red light, I saw Ji Chenfeng rubbing his left wrist unconsciously, as if there was something there.

“What’s wrong with your hand?” I asked directly.

Ji Chenfeng paused and looked down at his wrist.

“This? I accidentally got it scratched.” He slowly untied his cuffs and lifted them up, revealing the three bright red scratches on his wrists.

Although a blood scab had already formed, the wound was relatively deep, so it looked the same as if it had just been scratched.

“It turns out that heartthrobs will also get scratched.” I joked.

“It’s something you come across as a veterinarian. You just need to get used to it.” He said as he lowered his cuffs again, “I’m not a heartthrob. If I was a heartthrob, I wouldn’t be bullied all the time when I was a kid.”

Well, I already know all of this because the private detective has written all these details in his report. But the one sitting here is not Sang Nian who is familiar with all of his affairs, but Sang Nian who is hearing this for the first time.

“Were you bullied?” I pretended to be curious, “You were probably not small when you were a kid, how could you be bullied?”

“In nature, disabled cubs always get expelled from the pack. I was also cast out of the human cub pack because I wore a strange hearing aid and looked different from all the other children.” His voice was indifferent as if he had completely let go of the past, without a trace of resentment, “They not only excluded me and robbed me of my things, but also pushed me down and locked me in the toilet.”

“What a bunch of… little scumbags.” Swallowing the word “bastards” back, I chose a more civilized curse word.

“But not everyone was like that. I had a… friend who lived near my house when I was a kid. Every time I was robbed of my things like school bags, shoes, hearing aid, etc, he would help me get them back. Thanks to him, I saved a lot of money. Later, because everyone was afraid of him, they gradually stopped bullying me.”

My hands holding the steering wheel tightened slightly, and I could tell something was wrong.

What friend, isn’t that your first man? You think I don’t know that you’re talking brazenly about your ex in front of me, but you still have the nerve to say that I’m a playboy?

Fuck, then why don’t you go to him and ask him to reward you with a lollipop? Fucking gay!

The thought of being kissed by the mouth that has licked other men made me sick to death.

I was full of malice as I exposed his scars: “Such a good friend, are you still in touch with him now?”

Ji Chenfeng fell silent and didn’t speak again until the green light came on.

I should be happy to stab him, at first I thought so. But for some reason, when he really got stabbed, I started to get annoyed again.

This unknown fire has been burning me all along, making me feel stuffy in my chest, so much so that I wasn’t even in the mood to question him anymore.

I drove the car into the hotel’s rain corridor, and was about to get out of the car to ask the valet to help park the car, when Ji Chenfeng suddenly spoke after a long silence.

“He got tired of me, and also tired of the day to day life with no end in sight. Six years ago, he went abroad…he has never contacted me again after that.” With that, he opened the door and got out.

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