Chapter 76
In the evening, Zong Mo went out alone to scout the way for their date.
Downstairs of the apartment building was still calm, but as soon as he walked out of the complex gate, he came face to face with a person squatting furtively by a trash can across the street.
Zong Mo: …
He immediately turned back and changed his route to the underground garage. But Ruan Chi had already been photographed “three ins and outs,” and the car parked in the garage had naturally been targeted by the paparazzi long ago. Zong Mo saw at a glance that there were people hiding behind several cars.
The feeling of being stuck with a dog-skin plaster made him irritable. They had finally finished their fight, but now they couldn’t go out on a date!
He rushed over, grabbed a paparazzo, and made his attitude clear.
“Stop filming! There’s nothing to film!”
The paparazzo was not afraid of him at all and even asked, “Are you and Ruan Chi for real? Is he still at your place now?”
Zong Mo quickly denied it three times, “No! He’s not! We’ve BE’d!”
The paparazzo was silent for a while, not knowing if Zong Mo was imitating a solo fan.
“Then have you broken up? Why is Ruan Chi’s car still here?”
Zong Mo: …
“This is a breakup fee. You guys can leave now. Go home and eat early.”
Paparazzo: ?
The confused paparazzo decided to continue squatting and waited until Zong Mo came home alone, carrying two large plastic bags.
Seeing that getting angry didn’t work, Zong Mo decided to change to a soft policy. He handed the cooked food and drinks he had bought to the paparazzo and asked, “You guys must be hungry, right? Want something to eat?”
Paparazzo: …
The paparazzi, who were used to being treated like street rats, received a considerate feeding. They gathered together with complicated feelings and talked.
“Zong Mo is really just like he is in the variety show.”
“So overbearing CEOs all like this type?”
“It’s over. I think he’s actually a little cute…”
But their personal attitude towards Zong Mo and their follow-up work were two different things. Zong Mo also didn’t expect the paparazzi to let him off so easily.
He returned home and said to Ruan Chi, “I bought some more ingredients. Let’s just stay at home these few days and not go out. There are paparazzi downstairs.”
Ruan Chi: “Okay.”
Zong Mo thought for a moment and asked, “Don’t you have to go to the company?”
“It’s not urgent these few days. Most of the work can be handled online,” Ruan Chi said.
Zong Mo nodded and handed over the cleaned computer. Sometimes, when he was free, he would listen in on CEO Ruan’s meetings and lectures.
Tsk tsk, how does it feel like a boss’s wife?
Zong Mo: …
Pah, it’s a boss’s husband.
After living together for a few days, Zong Mo also figured out the reason why Ruan Chi didn’t live in the same bedroom with him before. One was probably that Ruan Chi was a light sleeper, and the other was…
“You wrote this trash in a month? If you’re only going to waste my time, you can scram.”
“Was your brain kicked by a donkey? Oh, I almost forgot. You don’t have a brain at all.”
“Cherish these few days. I can’t even be bothered to slap you.”
“Scram.”
Zong Mo: …
Is this an online meeting or a remote craniotomy?
After Ruan Chi finished his online meeting, he pulled him over for a hug, his face changing 180 degrees, and even called out, “Baby.”
Zong Mo was silent for a few seconds and complained on behalf of the poor employees, “You’re too fierce.”
Ruan Chi was not ashamed at all, “It’s not that I’m fierce, it’s that they deserve to be scolded. They are all paid to do things. They should be grateful even if they are scolded.”
Zong Mo: “…You should probably not give me the house.”
He didn’t really dare to take this money.
“This is a gift for you. It’s different,” Ruan Chi said.
After staying at home for a few days, the paparazzi who should have left had mostly left. But driving Ruan Chi’s car out would probably be targeted again. So Ruan Chi called a driver and had another car from the villa come and pick them up.
Zong Mo: …
He had almost forgotten. How could an overbearing CEO only have one car?
The two of them took a car to the reserved dinner restaurant, a private kitchen in a newly developed area. Zong Mo noticed that there were still a few streets left on the navigation. The scenery outside the window no longer had tall buildings, and what he saw was a refreshing green.
Zong Mo had an idea and suggested, “CEO Ruan, shall we get out a little earlier and walk over?”
Ruan Chi didn’t ask why and crisply ordered the driver, “Stop the car.”
Zong Mo got out of the car with satisfaction and only then said, “It always feels like something is missing if we just take a car to eat and then take a car back…”
A date shouldn’t just be about eating.
Unfortunately, they were both public figures now. Zong Mo looked around for a while and said with relief, “We shouldn’t be pestered by paparazzi this time.”
“It’s fine even if we’re photographed,” Ruan Chi said.
Zong Mo nodded. He thought to himself: After all, CEO Ruan is inhumanly rich. Buying a few photos is of course a small matter!
Although he thought so, Zong Mo still did not hold that hand. The two of them walked side by side, keeping a distance of a few centimeters, intimate but not too clingy.
After walking for about ten minutes, Zong Mo noticed a small park by the street in front. The green shade was dense, and it was quiet and peaceful. It looked very suitable for a date.
Zong Mo stopped and said, “I’m tired. I can’t walk anymore.”
It’s a good time to go and rest on a park bench.
Ruan Chi looked at him quietly for a while, trying hard to guess the meaning behind his words. After half a day, he finally said, “Then shall I carry you on my back?”
Zong Mo was stunned, “Hmm?”
“Isn’t that what you meant?”
Zong Mo: …
He did not deny it. His suspicion was mixed with a little anticipation. He asked, “CEO Ruan, can you carry me?”
Ruan Chi: “Can I not carry you?”
After speaking, he squatted down and showed his back to Zong Mo.
Zong Mo looked at his hands, not very reassured, “Your hands are still injured.”
“Get on,” Ruan Chi said. “Carrying a person mainly relies on the strength of the waist and legs.”
Zong Mo: …
Mm, a real man’s waist can’t be weak! And his legs can’t be weak either!
He didn’t quite believe it but got on Ruan Chi’s back with great anticipation. He only felt his two legs being held up and pulled apart, and his whole person became light.
Although this posture was a bit strange, but…
“This is the first time someone has carried me,” Zong Mo hooked his arms around Ruan Chi’s neck and said close to his ear, “Maybe my parents also carried me when I was a child, but I don’t remember it very well.”
Ruan Chi was silent for a moment, “It’s not the first time.”
Zong Mo: “Hmm?”
“Who do you think carried you to the hospital when you were sick? Could An Lan and Little Wan carry you?” Ruan Chi said as he recalled. “And on New Year’s Day, you were drunk. I carried you to my room.”
Zong Mo: …
“Why didn’t you tell me earlier?”
“Couldn’t you have guessed?”
It wasn’t that Zong Mo couldn’t have guessed, but he had never thought in that direction at all. From the hotel to the hospital, he could have had someone carry him. As for at home…
He had thought that a person could still walk on their own even when they were blacked out.
He had always thought of himself as a kept golden canary, but he had not noticed that Ruan Chi’s tolerance and patience for him were far beyond ordinary.
It wasn’t that he hadn’t noticed at all. When he was with Ruan Chi, he was always being his truest self. Besides the matters related to the plot of the book, he had never hidden anything.
He could see Lu Bo’s kindness to him, both because Lu Bo was the official main gong, and more because he did not like Lu Bo, so he could observe and think with particular calmness.
The reason he had not been able to see Ruan Chi’s kindness to him was because this guy was only verbose when he was possessed by a drama queen. He never said any pleasant words that could please people.
Thinking of this, Zong Mo pressed his cheek against Ruan Chi’s and reprimanded in a low voice, “Anyone but me would definitely be angered away by you.”
Ruan Chi immediately replied, “Anyone but you, I wouldn’t like either.”
Zong Mo: ?
This mouth of his CEO Ruan has been like it’s eaten too much honey lately. It’s so sickeningly sweet.
Zong Mo uncomfortably changed the subject and asked, “CEO Ruan, when you were alone before, did you feel very lonely?”
“No.”
Zong Mo: ?
“Stubborn!”
“I was busy with work. I had no time to think about those messy things,” Ruan Chi said, his tone softening. “But compared to after you came, it was indeed very lonely.”
Zong Mo: …
He quickly covered Ruan Chi’s mouth.
So embarrassing!
Then he thought for a moment and said, “What else have you done for me? Can you tell me proactively? Don’t always make me guess.”
“How would I know what to say if you don’t ask me?” Ruan Chi said. “I’ve told you everything you’ve asked.”
Zong Mo: …
“For example, the matter of you liking me,” Zong Mo said persuasively. “I was always afraid to ask because I was afraid of getting a negative answer. If you had told me directly, we wouldn’t have had a fight, and I would have been very happy.”
Ruan Chi let out a “mm,” “I see.”
“Is there anything else you haven’t told me?”
“I haven’t thought of anything for now.”
Zong Mo reminded him, “The matter of Sister Qiao being rumored to have cheated… you knew she would clear her name, but you still spent money to help me withdraw the trending topic.”
Ruan Chi said with certainty, “You were so pitifully staying at my place. Wasn’t that what you meant?”
“No,” Zong Mo said. “You said she would clear her name, and I believed you. It was just because I was being scolded so badly that I didn’t want to be alone, and you weren’t willing to comfort me.”
“…How would I know if you don’t say it?”
Zong Mo: …
They had been guessing each other’s thoughts back and forth. Although it was inevitable that they would argue, the final result was not bad.
Ruan Chi quickly learned by analogy and asked, “Then you saying you were tired wasn’t to make me carry you?”
Zong Mo did not make a sound, to avoid exposing himself.
Ruan Chi was suspicious but still continued to carry him.
After walking down a street, he suddenly spoke, “Are you happy, wife?”
Zong Mo was stunned for a moment, had a flash of inspiration, and returned the favor in kind, “Am I heavy, wife?”
Ruan Chi: “It’s husband.”
Zong Mo: “What is it?”
Ruan Chi: “Your husband.”
Zong Mo: “What is it?”
Ruan Chi: “It’s your husband.”
Zong Mo: …
No, it’s impossible to trick him with the method Ruan Chi had created!
Zong Mo simply said directly, “You should call me husband!”
Ruan Chi: “I’ve never seen a husband who acts cute and asks to be carried.”
Zong Mo gritted his teeth and made up his mind, “If you call me husband once, I can promise you anything.”
Ruan Chi immediately called out, “Husband.”
Zong Mo replied happily, “Ayy~”
Ruan Chi continued with his request, “From now on, you have to call me husband every morning when you wake up, before you go to sleep, and at lunch.”
Zong Mo: “…What?”
Ruan Chi: “You just said you could promise me anything.”
Zong Mo: …
“No, I take it back!”
“Wife,” Ruan Chi chuckled. “How can you not keep your word? You’re not obedient at all.”
Zong Mo: “…You’re so annoying!”
After being carried for half a street more, Zong Mo knew he was not light. And as a peerless Big Fierce 1 good husband, he naturally couldn’t let his wife carry him all the time. So he patted Ruan Chi’s back and asked him to put him down.
To fulfill his husbandly duties, Zong Mo said with solemnity, “My turn to carry you.”
Ruan Chi was also suspicious, “Can you carry me?”
Zong Mo: “Of course I can!”
Not only could he carry him on his back, he could also do a princess carry!
He was a Big Fierce 1.
Ruan Chi had a well-proportioned figure. After all, he was tall, so he was not light to carry.
But Zong Mo’s steps were not affected by the heavy weight on his back at all. He could even easily ask for credit, “Am I carrying you very steadily?”
Ruan Chi smiled, “Hmm~ Big Fierce 1?”
Zong Mo: …
Although he was praised by CEO Ruan for being a Big Fierce 1, he always felt he was being mocked.
Thanks to his habit of exercising, carrying a big man was not too strenuous.
He felt he could try more different positions in the future…
Wait.
In broad daylight, what was he thinking?
Since he had thought of this, Zong Mo took the opportunity to ask, “CEO Ruan, the first time, you didn’t know me well. Why were you willing…”
Although this was the first step that had started their ill-fated relationship and caused the script to collapse, thinking back now, it was a bit unpleasant. What if the person who had come was not him? Could Ruan Chi have casually slept with someone else?
“The way you looked at me was very strange,” Ruan Chi said.
Zong Mo: …
Yes, he had been moved by his beauty.
“If you were trying to take advantage of me while I was drunk, I don’t understand why you would go and cook congee first,” Ruan Chi continued. “I wasn’t very drunk to begin with. Even if I was, I should have woken up after so long.”
Zong Mo: …So his silly image had been deeply rooted in people’s hearts since the first night?
He wanted to quickly make Ruan Chi stop talking, but he also wanted to know what was so special about him.
“It was the first time someone had fed me.”
“…So that was my reward for feeding you?”
Couldn’t someone else have fed him!?
“The feeling of kissing you was very good,” Ruan Chi continued. “And then, I don’t know why you didn’t just go for it. You were rummaging through my room, probably looking for a condom? It was so noisy that I couldn’t even sleep.”
Zong Mo: …
Isn’t this kind of safety measure something every adult should follow!
Although in the end, he hadn’t found one and had just gone for it… at that time, he had never thought that this extra move would make a drunk person even more sober.
Ruan Chi smiled and whispered by his ear, “And then, it was like a primary school student’s first experiment class. Very interesting.”
Zong Mo: …
Ruan Chi rarely spoke directly and instead used a metaphor. But to compare his first time to a primary school student’s experiment class… this seemed even more shameful.
“Alright, stop talking!!”
“I still have to ask you,” Ruan Chi changed the subject. “Why did you sleep with me?”
The answer was simple. Because he was moved by his beauty, and because he treated Ruan Chi as a paper-thin person.
He probably couldn’t trick Ruan Chi, so Zong Mo simply told the truth, “Because… I didn’t treat this place as a real world at that time, and I thought you were very lewd.”
Ruan Chi: “Hmm?”
Even though it was a shallow reason of being moved by beauty, Zong Mo tried hard to find an excuse for himself and added, “I only think you’re lewd!”
“Me too,” Ruan Chi didn’t seem to mind his shallow reason and even said, “Especially when I was giving you a blowjob…”
Zong Mo quickly interrupted, “Stop talking, stop talking!”
He was so ashamed he wanted to crawl into a hole!
His face could avoid Ruan Chi’s direct gaze, but his two red ears were exposed to Ruan Chi’s eyes.
Ruan Chi couldn’t help it and gently touched the tip of his ear, which was even hotter than his warm lips.
Zong Mo trembled and reprimanded, “Why are you kissing my ear?”
“Can’t I kiss your ear?” Ruan Chi said, then was slightly stunned. “…How can your ear move?”
Zong Mo said in confusion, “Does it? How can an ear move?”
The moment he finished speaking, he couldn’t help but tremble slightly again.
Ruan Chi: “It moved again.”
Zong Mo shouted, “It’s too itchy!”
But shouting was useless. Ruan Chi, as if he had discovered a new toy button, kept teasing him by turning it on and off.
Zong Mo could only beg for mercy, “Big brother…”
He finally quieted down. Zong Mo continued the previous topic, “CEO Ruan, if I hadn’t taken care of you before we did it… would I still be in one piece now?”
Ruan Chi: “Hehe.”
Meaning no.
Zong Mo: …
Although he inexplicably felt a chill in his lower body, his mood was exceptionally good.
“Whether you were drunk or not, I would have made you something to eat first. I also wouldn’t have taken advantage of you. I only did it because you didn’t refuse me.”
Ruan Chi: “Mm, I know.”
Zong Mo continued to emphasize, “Only I would treat you like this!”
Ruan Chi smiled, “Mm, I also know.”
Carrying each other on their backs was not a solid proof of a relationship. It could also be explained as playful banter between friends.
Moreover, the two of them had carried each other for three or four streets in turns, without any reservation, which in turn made it seem like the onlookers were overthinking it.
It was definitely too late to have a colleague bring a camera over. A certain paparazzo who had accidentally passed by and had an unexpected gain could only use his phone to take pictures. The photos on the phone screen were magnified several times, making them even more blurry.
But, as a leader in the paparazzi world, his eyes were his ruler.
He was watching the perfect exposé material with his own eyes but felt powerless due to the limitations of his tools.
And, his eyesight was really too good, so good that it made him feel pain.
After casually recording a short video and taking a few low-resolution photos, the paparazzo took the initiative to give up and sent a message to his colleague: [I don’t want to follow Zong Mo and Ruan Chi anymore.]
Colleague: [What’s wrong?]
Paparazzo: [I can’t get a single good shot, and it’s too damn sweet. From now on, whoever wants to come can come :)]
Author’s Note:
The paparazzi, as long as they persist, will sooner or later get a big fat sheep~
