Chapter 56: Busy Part 1

No.

Could Fu Si Heng really say something so outrageous?

Tao Zhi found it hard to comprehend. He stared in disbelief, his mind seemingly displaying a loading icon that spun round and round.

It took a good while before he looked back at Fu Si Heng in front of him.

The two were very close, their foreheads pressed together, Fu Si Heng’s hand still cradling the back of Tao Zhi’s head.

He had just come up from the pool not long ago, and a damp watery mist clung to his body. Water droplets from his bangs dripped onto Tao Zhi’s eyelashes.

Ice-cold.

Just like Tao Zhi’s heart at that moment.

Tao Zhi’s face suddenly flushed bright red. He hurriedly twisted away from Fu Si Heng’s hold and covered his lower body at the same time, pleading, “No, no, no.”

“Please don’t say things like that anymore, Brother Fu. Let me off the hook, I really won’t dare do it again.”

“Really, don’t joke with me like this.”

He was going to die from listening to it.

“I’m not joking with you.” Fu Si Heng said seriously, “Want to give it a try?”

Tao Zhi still shook his head.

There was no way he could accept Fu Si Heng’s proposal. Turning someone else gay was also a very immoral thing. He had already done one bad deed; he couldn’t keep doing bad things.

…And even more so, he couldn’t just let the mistake continue!

What kind of thought process was Fu Si Heng using?

From the corner of his eye, Tao Zhi glimpsed the maid outfit nearby, and his gaze shifted away as if scalded, trembling.

He did feel truly sorry for Fu Si Heng, especially after his earlier talk about marriage and such, which made him feel even more guilty. He really did want to make it up to Fu Si Heng.

But! Absolutely!

He shouldn’t compensate him with those things.

Fu Si Heng wasn’t gay, and neither was he. The two of them couldn’t turn gay together.

Tao Zhi’s mind buzzed, and he turned to run.

He didn’t make it two steps before Fu Si Heng scooped him up by the waist and tossed him back onto the bed.

He landed right on top of the maid outfit.

The belt of Tao Zhi’s bathrobe had long since come loose. His exposed knees rubbed against the fabric of the clothes, and cat ears still framed his cheeks. He shivered and shifted his gaze, instinctively looking forward.

In front of him was Fu Si Heng.

Tao Zhi was dressed scantily, but Fu Si Heng was even less clothed.

His wheat-colored skin and chest muscles looked powerful and intimidating. Water droplets from his bangs trailed down the lines of his body, disappearing below his abdomen.

Fu Si Heng wore only swim trunks all over his body, scattering Tao Zhi’s gaze. At that moment, Fu Si Heng actually called his name and walked toward him.

It seemed like he really planned to forcibly…

“I-I-I confess! I confess everything!”

Terrified, Tao Zhi buried his face in the clothes, squeezed his eyes shut, and shouted loudly, “It was all Fu Zheng who made me do it! I don’t have a crush on you! I’m not gay either! It was Fu Zheng who told me to dress as a girl to get close to you!”

“I-I-I was just following Fu Zheng’s orders the whole time!”

Tao Zhi’s loyalty to Fu Zheng lasted right up until his own innocence was about to vanish.

That was probably what a plastic brotherhood amounted to.

Fu Si Heng raised an eyebrow.

…

Five minutes later, Fu Si Heng came out of the walk-in closet wearing a bathrobe.

Tao Zhi sat primly on the sofa.

Perfectly straight-backed, hands placed neatly on his knees.

Even more proper than a kindergarten kid who had just learned about order.

Hearing footsteps, he looked up.

Just now, he had sold out Fu Zheng.

Fu Si Heng had been “shocked” upon hearing the truth and wanted to ask more, but Tao Zhi had pushed against his chest with both hands, telling him to get dressed so they could talk properly. Fu Si Heng had complied.

Now, with Fu Si Heng dressed and seated across from him, he asked, “All dressed now. Let’s talk properly. How did Fu Zheng threaten you into doing things for him?”

Tao Zhi pursed his lips.

They had finally reached this step.

A scene that used to make his hair stand on end whenever he thought about it now actually made Tao Zhi feel relieved that they could sit down and talk properly.

No more being forced to wear the maid outfit, and no more risk of…

Losing his innocence.

His innocence from before was still innocence.

Tao Zhi’s face reddened again.

“It wasn’t really threats, just a small part of it.” Although he had already betrayed Fu Zheng, Tao Zhi still tried to minimize the impact. “He just, gave me money.”

As expected.

Silly little money-grubber.

Fu Si Heng acknowledged it with a sound. “How much did he give you?”

“A lot.” Tao Zhi thought for a moment and confessed everything honestly. “At first, he gave me fifty thousand, that time at the club.”

“Then New Year’s, he gave me sixty thousand… and ten thousand for the photos.”

Tsk.

Not a small haul.

Fu Si Heng rubbed his fingers together and said, “Pretty profitable.”

“…I-It was okay.” Tao Zhi felt a bit embarrassed by his words and curled his fingers.

“So what was his purpose in doing all this?” Fu Si Heng had a rough guess in his heart, but in this confession session, he had to pretend not to know and ask everything he should, so the little fool wouldn’t get suspicious.