Seeing the word “bonus,” Shen Leyuan didn’t feel happy at all.
Quite the opposite—he was seized by a surge of rage that shot straight to the crown of his head. He couldn’t calm down, his mind fixated on one single phrase:
Is this about the money???
He was indeed angry at Lin Yao, but compared to the young man’s rebellion, Lin Yuan’s concealment chilled him even more—he hadn’t known before going over that Lin Yuan had once broken his son’s leg!
The big one, the little one—neither was any good.
Shen Leyuan was exhausted beyond measure, without even the energy left to lash out.
He sent the money back amid the other’s constant “typing…” hesitations and typed: 【I appreciate the gesture, but I didn’t do anything worth it, so no bonus. Don’t send more, or I’ll have to pay fees to return them.】
The reply came a bit quicker: 【You’ve been working hard.】
Yeah, yeah, I know I’ve been working hard.
I even know I need cooperation from rebellious parents, but a certain parent isn’t fit for it at all.
Shen Leyuan replied with a smiling emoji: 【It’s my duty. No big deal.】
Then added: 【Lin Yao’s injured. Don’t withhold food from him.】
Lin Yuan stared coldly at that message for a moment before precisely long-pressing and deleting it.
Compared to Lin Yao’s well-being, he cared more about Shen Leyuan’s mood. He wanted to ask if the young man was feeling down now, but figured he’d keep protecting Lin Yao and insist he was fine. He also feared asking too much would make him disliked.
Money wouldn’t work either?
Fair enough. He doesn’t love money much anyway.
As he pondered, a new message popped up: 【I’m a bit tired. Thinking of a nap. You should rest too, sir.】
Lin Yuan replied: 【Okay.】
Then swiftly withdrew it and changed to: 【Sweet dreams.】
His fingers lingered on the screen. He frowned in thought for a long while before his brows gradually relaxed. He ordered his subordinate, “Pull up Teacher Shen’s creditor info and pay off all his debts for him.”
“Don’t tell Teacher Shen yet. Have the creditors keep quiet too.”
Shen Leyuan doesn’t want me helping him with money, Lin Yuan realized inexplicably.
The bodyguard accepted the order stone-faced, then turned around and excitedly posted in the Madam Group. The core message boiled down to three words: 【He! Totally! Loves! Him!】
No one knew that Shen Leyuan had already prepared to resign.
It wasn’t just because of Lin Yao’s hurt, nor solely Lin Yuan’s attitude. It was that he realized once more his abilities weren’t enough to resolve the current mess.
Staying longer would only make things worse.
Soon, Shen Leyuan contacted the elder who had slipped him the note with the tip-off before.
“Yes, Director Hao, the one who’s friends with Mr. Lin. Could you help me get his contact? …No, no, it’s not about reporting him again. It’s for some personal matters.”
“No hard feelings. It’s not really about Mr. Lin or Lin Yao. It’s my own issue… No, no need to tell them… Three days? Okay, I’ll wait for your good news.”
He hung up and couldn’t help sighing again.
What kind of mess was this?
A sudden “whimper” came from his feet. He looked down to see the little milk dog glaring fiercely at him before shrinking back under the bed.
Shen Leyuan: …
First coax the big one, then the little one—now even the dog needs coaxing?
Listlessly, he opened a can of milk and pushed it under the bed. He lay on the bed staring blankly, not teasing or cuddling the little dog like usual, nor pulling it onto the bed to pet it while scrolling his phone.
The little dog was very unaccustomed to this.
He! Just! Let me off! This lightly?!
Normally he takes every advantage of me to death, calling himself daddy while kissing and hugging and nuzzling me, even wanting to stuff me under the covers to sleep together?
Does he have another dog outside now?
Crisis surging through him, the little dog abandoned its earlier dodging and bounded onto the bed like a cannonball. Its little paws pawed at Shen Leyuan’s arm, then it plopped roundly onto his chest and dragged his arm back over itself.
“Oh my god, my little dog wants cuddles!”
In that instant, the entire Lin family was thrown from Shen Leyuan’s mind. He scooped up the little dog and planted a fierce kiss: “My treasure, you’re so good! Did you come to comfort daddy on purpose? Do you know daddy got bullied today? Wuwu, daddy got scolded so bad!”
Huo Tingfeng had thought he was tricking him onto the bed for kisses and struggled in terror. But hearing a certain keyword, he froze.
Bullied? By who? How could you get bullied?
You’ve bullied me like this, but get bullied by others outside? Doesn’t that make me look incompetent?
He let out an angry “whine”: Who did it?!
Shen Leyuan smooched its little forehead again: “Okay, okay baby, don’t get mad, or you’ll faint again.”
Huo Tingfeng: …
A lively little dog went instantly still, as if dead.
His heart had died.
Why care so much about competent or not? He didn’t even care about sexual impotence anymore. He just wanted to die early and reincarnate into a better next life.
Unfortunately, there were always jerks trying to stir things up.
Early the next morning, Shen Leyuan and Huo Tingfeng were both assaulted by Little Deer’s ear-splitting excited racket.
The boy knocked eagerly: “Teacher! Teacher! Teacher! We’re visiting the patient today, right? The bodyguards said no class today, so it must be to visit the patient, right?”
Shen Leyuan yanked open the door and got smashed in the face by a massive fruit basket.
Little Deer’s eyes sparkled, grinning smugly: “Little Deer studied hard this time! I bought apples for safety; oranges for wishes coming true; peaches for longevity; and pomegranates for many sons and many blessings~”
The blessed dog let out a howl: Can many sons from a gay be a blessing?!
Shen Leyuan looked at him wearily: “Ever think no class today is because teacher’s tired and needs rest?”
Little Deer blanked out, his gaze sliding past his arm to fixate on the little dog.
Teacher won’t let Little Deer be his little dog, won’t let Little Deer on the bed… but now how can…
Shen Leyuan gazed at him calmly, lacking the energy to speak.
But Little Deer didn’t go crazy.
The boy huffed sulkily, quickly looked away, and shoved the fruit basket at the teacher: “Th-then Little Deer wishes teacher safety, wishes coming true, longevity, joy, and many sons and many blessings?”
Shen Leyuan’s mood brightened a bit. He couldn’t hold back a laugh and teased meaningfully: “Wishing teacher many sons and many blessings, huh?”
Little Deer: !!!!!!
His face flushed red: “No no no, teacher can’t have many sons and many blessings!”
Shen Leyuan kept teasing: “Little Deer doesn’t want to wish that for teacher?”
Little Deer: “I-I…”
He finally wailed with a mournful face: “Teacher can have many sons and many blessings, but even if teacher has a thousand kids, he has to like Little Deer the most!”
Shen Leyuan: “What if teacher says he can’t do that? Will Little Deer get mad?”
Little Deer nodded then shook his head, on the verge of real tears: Wuwu, teacher just said yesterday he only gave him a chance, and today he’s giving others more? A thousand kids—that’s how many dads?!
His common sense was woefully lacking; he didn’t know men couldn’t get pregnant.
This wasn’t Shen Leyuan’s fault for not teaching—who could’ve guessed an eighteen-year-old teen would be this clueless?
Thinking of those gay pregnancy play pornos he’d seen before, Little Deer substituted the teacher and bawled even harder, but still lied against his conscience: “N-not mad, wuwu Little Deer not mad. Teacher can choose who he likes. Little Deer has no right to stop it…”
The words barely left when his head felt a slight weight—patted twice.
The fruit basket was taken from his hands, and he heard the teacher say: “Teacher really can’t have a thousand kids and still like Little Deer the most, because—”
The boy looked up. The teacher’s bright eyes winked at him: “Teacher won’t have a thousand kids.”
Not until the door shut did Little Deer snap out of it, clutching his face.
“Aaaaaaaaaah!”
Mindful of the teacher resting, Little Deer didn’t yell too loud. His eyes watery, face red, he murmured to himself: “Teacher’s so… so… so tempting!”
Wuwu, looks super sweet. Wanna eat him up.
The earlier pregnancy play shifted flavor. Little Deer imagined the teacher in loose home pajamas, telling him his belly felt so bloated, asking hubby to rub it… then… then they’d…
Little Deer covered his face tighter: “Aaaaaaaaaah…”
Inside the room, Shen Leyuan lay flat on the bed with the little dog on his chest, all prior gloom swept away.
“You know what?”
He lifted the little dog: “This is why I became a teacher in the first place.”
What exactly? The little dog rolled its eyes at him.
Watching the little lunatic go nuts, or watching him get horny?
Its ears were sharp; the outside “aaaaaaahs” were nearly deafening him, while “tempting” lodged firmly in his mind, making him scrutinize Shen Leyuan.
Top or bottom is this guy? The little lunatic couldn’t top at all.
And that first meeting, the little lunatic’s brother was super hostile to me, jealous of Shen’s ample fondness for me, and walked with a slight limp, like his butt was hurt…
In summary: Shen’s definitely the top!
A top praised as “tempting” by a soft sissy retard? Tsk tsk.
Before he could tsk more, new kisses rained down. He desperately pawed them back with his little paws: Tops don’t kiss bottoms, get off me!
Shen Leyuan pinned his paw and kept kissing.
Ah… so happy!
Little Deer had really improved a ton.
That evening, the kid didn’t make a fuss either. He just clutched his phone sending messages: asking if there was class tomorrow, and if not, would they visit the patient? He stressed Little Deer wasn’t urging—just if they went tomorrow, he’d prep the fruit basket in advance.
He clearly wanted to go to the hospital badly but was actually making excuses now.
Shen Leyuan didn’t tease further and replied directly: 【We’re going tomorrow. Little Deer, get the same fruit basket as today. Wear long sleeves and pants, got it?】
Seven times a month—who knows who’ll accompany the rest.
Little Deer: 【Mm!】
Little Deer: 【Teacher wear long sleeves and pants too, okay?】
Little Deer: 【That patient’s a bad guy. Bad guys wanna take advantage of teacher—no letting him!】
The spectating little dog couldn’t hold back and chomped viciously on the phone.
When Shen Leyuan tried to reply, it kept biting until he came to kiss and coax and play with it.
Who’s taking advantage of who?
Little lunatic really should see how cheap Shen Leyuan looks!
—Truly cheap roadside-picked corgi, thinking disdainfully and coldly.
These days, Shen Leyuan’s highest favor wasn’t with Little Deer or the bodyguards, but this little dog that seemed to sense his mood shifts and comfort him more than once. Seeing this, he hastily wrapped up the chat, hugging the dog to coax and kiss it.
This time it’s him initiating, so Huo Tingfeng didn’t resist too much.
“Good boy!” Shen Leyuan ruffled the dog’s head with a laugh: “Then daddy won’t leave you home tomorrow. We’ll stay away from Huo Xiaoqi, and I’ll hold you in the ward too, okay?”
Huo Tingfeng: …
Rage flared, hot tears in his eyes. He howled and bit Shen Leyuan’s wrist: One of us surnamed Shen or me dies today!!!
Shen Leyuan gave him a puzzled look.
Does Huo Xiaoqi jinx my pup? Can’t even mention the name?
Perhaps from the massive stress, that night Huo Tingfeng had a nightmare.
In the dream, he was terribly nervous, like he was heading somewhere, waiting to board.
But the plane was delayed. After endless waiting, he somehow wandered onto the runway and saw a pretty boy who inexplicably made his heart crawl with dread.
The boy smiled at him, waving a flag, shouting crisply: One! Two! Three—
What one two three?
Huo Tingfeng had a bad premonition.
The boy grinned excitedly and yelled: “Liftoff!!!”
The next second, amid the roar of engines, a sharp pain stabbed below. He looked down to see something flash from his crotch, shooting straight into the sky.
