The Crematorium’s Scum Gong Gets to Clock Off After Being Replaced 24

Chapter 24: Dog-Blood High Society

【Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!】

007 let out a sharp, explosive sound.

Gu Xiu was also dumbfounded.

Lu Shichen might have slipped and lost his footing, or he might have passed out from being too drunk… He had just convinced himself of this when he saw the other party reach out a finger, first removing the glasses that were in the way, then rubbing them a couple of times before opening his eyes and slowly backing away.

It even seemed like he was savoring the moment.

Without the glasses, the deep gray eyes were like an ice lake on a winter night, misted over by Gu Xiu’s nervous, hot breath.

Lu Shichen watched him quietly, offering no explanation for his transgressive behavior.

There wasn’t even a hint of surprise on his face. He was self-righteous, even politely apologizing, “Sorry, I was just trying to help you up. I’m a little drunk.”

Only a ghost would believe that! And you looked so skilled! Gu Xiu’s IQ came online.

He also remembered the two times Lu Shichen had “kindly” come over to cover him with a blanket.

Gu Xiu’s throat bobbed, but he couldn’t make a sound. He asked 007 in his mind: 【Speaking of which… did Ninth Uncle ever do anything to me while I was sleeping?】 The slow-witted straight man’s mind suddenly connected a nerve.

007’s useless system persona was consistent from beginning to end. The small ball of light shook its head and thought for a long time before finally saying, 【I have to rest when you’re sleeping, so I don’t know…】

In the tense and stagnant atmosphere, the small ball of light was the only thing moving, like a heavy, floating snowball, glowing white under the street lamp.

It happened so suddenly that 007 wasn’t too sure about the answer it had given. It pondered, thinking back to the last time Lu Shichen had come home late. Gu Xiu had cooked and fallen asleep on the sofa waiting for him. In the instant their mouths were about to touch, the host privacy protection system had been triggered…

Just then, Lu Shichen’s gray eyes flickered, and a faint glance swept towards the orange halo under the street lamp.

Many people walked under the street lamp, and the snow had long since melted into water, revealing the dark, wet ground. It was like a shadow. There was clearly no one standing there, but he inexplicably felt like it was a shadow.

He’s been sensed again!

007’s alarm bells went off. The small silver ball of light “whooshed” back into Gu Xiu’s sea of consciousness, obediently lying in a corner, silent as if it had been powered off.

Gu Xiu: 【007?】

007: 【…】

No matter how many times Gu Xiu called him, there was no response.

Gu Xiu, who was bound to a useless system, could only accept his fate and face Lu Shichen alone.

Fortunately, Lu Shichen’s expression was normal, as if nothing had happened. He said naturally, “Let’s go in. Don’t catch a cold.”

Only after he was reminded did Gu Xiu feel a little cold.

He had been shivering in the cold wind while waiting for a taxi by the roadside earlier. He had finally warmed up in the warm SUV, but after standing outside for a while, it now felt like he was inhaling ice through his nose.

He belatedly shivered and replied with a nasal voice, “Mm, okay…”

After saying that, he walked straight ahead. Although his head was down, he was clearly not looking at the road. He also didn’t notice that Lu Shichen, who was the same clothing size as him, was half a head taller.

The tip of his shoe unexpectedly hit a step that was not illuminated by the street lamp, and his body lost its balance in the instant the sharp pain hit. Gu Xiu could have easily handled this small problem, but unfortunately, Lu Shichen was standing too close to him and didn’t give him the chance. He caught him with his arm a step ahead.

The two of them embraced in the deep winter night, with annoying steps and snow water under their feet. A beam of street light brushed past them, and in the background was the bright and dazzling revolving glass door of the hotel.

Gu Xiu sniffled again.

This time, he smelled the strongest cold wood scent. The falling leaves danced like snowflakes, floating all around him, light and gentle, yet impenetrably, enveloping him.

Lu Shichen released the hand that was supporting his lower back, pushing him gently before moving away, and urged in a warm voice, “Hurry up and go in. Be careful not to catch a cold.”

Gu Xiu sniffled as he quickly walked into the warm hotel. A thick warmth also spread in his heart, and for once, he didn’t complain about the daddy-type gong’s concern.

He wasn’t completely used to the feeling of being cared for yet. He had been unexpectedly kissed, and his heart was in a mess.

In the elevator going up, Gu Xiu deliberately stood staggered from Lu Shichen, with a person’s distance between them. He then pulled out the 007 that was playing deaf and dumb and whipped it with a whip made of mental energy, forcing it to explain itself.

007 stammered, 【How would I know? Every time you’re asleep, I’m asleep too. If the privacy system detects that there might be 18+ content, it will also force me to shut down…】

Gu Xiu clicked his tongue. 【Anyway, you help me keep an eye on him next time. Report any problems in time.】

As if to convince himself, he muttered to himself, 【This time it was just an oolong. It’s a necessary plot in a dog-blood novel after the protagonist gets drunk, I get it. It seems that this kind of cliché plot not only has no logic but also doesn’t distinguish between targets. It just forcefully kisses whoever it bumps into…】

“Achoo!”

The internal theater was interrupted.

Lu Shichen behind him quickly took a step forward. “…Did you really catch a cold? I’ll have someone send some cold medicine over.”

Gu Xiu dodged and quickly shook his head. “No need, no need.”

The conditions of this hotel were quite simple. There was a faint strange smell in the enclosed elevator space, yet here stood Lu Shichen, who was completely out of place with his surroundings. It was as if all these trivial matters in the outside world could not disturb him. His expression was focused, and his concerned and worried gaze was fixed on Gu Xiu’s face.

Don’t sneeze on him again… Gu Xiu turned his head to avoid him.

But he could still clearly smell the woody scent on the other person, the reassuring and calming scent of a forest.

His messy mood calmed down, and the elevator arrived. Gu Xiu turned his stiff neck to the person behind him and said dryly, “Ninth Uncle, which room are you in? I’ll walk you back.”

The current Lu Shichen’s steps were steady.

In the quiet and dim hotel corridor, only the footsteps of two people, one in front and one behind, could be heard. Every step was a clear knock on the heart.

“Here,” Lu Shichen finally said.

Gu Xiu looked up and saw that it was diagonally opposite his room.

He saw the Buddha all the way to the west. He walked Lu Shichen to his room door, watched him swipe his card and go in, and his heart, which had been pounding all the way, finally settled.

He pursed his lips.

The moment he pursed them, he remembered the accidental kiss by the car. He had to say that the daddy-type gong’s care was really meticulous. He was afraid his mouth would get cold, so he even took care of his mouth.

Gu Xiu randomly convinced himself and took a big detour back to his room.

But Lu Shichen knew very well which room he was in.

Just now, a message from his assistant informed Lu Shichen that Jiang Yuan Yao had bribed the hotel staff and had secretly entered Gu Xiu’s room.

Lu Shichen sat up with a carp-like leap.

His usually calm and cold face actually showed a hint of obvious anxiety.

Gu Xiu felt that something was wrong as soon as he returned to his room.

He had hung a “Do Not Disturb” sign in advance. When he went out, he had accidentally kicked up a corner of the carpet. Now, the carpet under his feet was flat and smooth.

His footsteps paused. His vigilance, which he had trained in the Qidian small worlds, made him not insert the room card to turn on the power immediately. He held his breath and walked in slowly.

A little moonlight shone through the window. On the clean and spacious hotel bed, the quilt seemed to be in the same messy state as when he had gotten up in the morning.

He frowned. When his eyes adjusted to the darkness and he looked closely, the raised quilt was obviously strange. The raised part was in the shape of a person.

At the head of the bed, a few strands of black hair were exposed from the edge of the quilt.

If Gu Xiu hadn’t been careful, he probably would have just lifted the covers and gone to sleep. Once he was in bed, whether he refused or not, half of his innocence would be gone.

【007.】 He called the system calmly. 【Is there someone in my bed?】

【…Huh?】 007 woke up as if from a dream, then shouted in alarm, 【Why is the protagonist shou in your bed??】

【…】 Gu Xiu had already gone native in this dog-blood world and said calmly, 【It’s normal to go to the wrong room when you’re drunk.】

Then he quietly went back the way he came, not forgetting to check with his eyes to see if he had woken the person on the bed.

Finally, he gently closed the door.

This night was thrilling. When he got to the corridor, his heart was still pounding, in case he ran into any other emergencies.

Not far away, Lu Shichen’s room door was still quietly closed.

Suddenly, footsteps came from behind him.

Gu Xiu turned his head, his bright black eyes showing a hint of astonishment. “Ninth Uncle… you went out?”

And he was travel-worn, looking quite anxious. His hair was a mess.

Gu Xiu asked him again, “Ninth Uncle, are you sober?”

This question made Lu Shichen fall into deep thought for a few seconds.

After a moment, he nodded slightly, still the steady, self-disciplined, and gentlemanly elder in Gu Xiu’s memory.

Gu Xiu let out a big sigh of relief. He looked left and right. There was no one around, and it was getting late. So he said his goodbyes, “Then, Ninth Uncle, you should rest well. I’ll be leaving now.”

When Lu Shichen saw him walking towards the elevator, he quickly called out to him, “Where are you going?”

Gu Xiu’s eyes flickered. “Mm… to get another room.”

This kind of action in the middle of the night was really abnormal. The excuse Gu Xiu had come up with on the spot also seemed clumsy. “I spilled a drink all over the bed. I can’t sleep.”

Lu Shichen was very considerate. “It’s fine. Just have someone come and change the bedding. Do you need me to take a look?”

Gu Xiu quickly refused, “No, no… no.”

“Mm, the cleaning staff also works hard. It’s really not good to bother them in the middle of the night.” Seeing his resistance, Lu Shichen immediately and considerately changed the option. “It’s a waste to get another room. You might as well sleep here. This is a deluxe king-size room.”

After saying that, he immediately went to open the door, not giving Gu Xiu any time to react or refuse.

Gu Xiu was about to speak when he was suddenly interrupted by a sneeze. This time, Lu Shichen didn’t ask for his opinion either. He directly grabbed his arm and took him into the room. “Hurry up and take a hot shower. I’m afraid you’ll get a fever.”

“…”

There was no reason to refuse, either emotionally or logically.

Besides, Gu Xiu really didn’t feel well. His head was groggy, dizzy, and heavy.

After living together for a few months, Gu Xiu had almost gotten used to this kind of care. But the accidental kiss after drinking tonight made him awkward and cramped again.

Lu Shichen, on the other hand, was calm and composed. He handed him a bathrobe. “Go take a shower.”

Gu Xiu was as if he had been pardoned. He quickly jogged to the bathroom and locked the door.

A comfortable hot shower restored Gu Xiu’s body temperature. He came out of the bathroom refreshed.

The main lights in the room were off, leaving only the bedside lamp and the floor lamp. Lu Shichen was not yet asleep. He was holding a book and sitting upright at the head of the bed, waiting for him.

Gu Xiu almost subconsciously pulled at the collar of his bathrobe. Fortunately, he stopped himself in time. A perfectly good straight man almost stole the protagonist shou’s shy scene.

He walked generously to the empty side of the bed.

There was a steaming water glass and a box of cold medicine on the bedside table.

“While you were taking a shower, I had someone send over some medicine. Take it now while the symptoms are not severe. You’ll suffer less.”

A cool breeze was leaking from under his bathrobe. Gu Xiu sniffled again and did not refuse this kindness. He sat down with a plop, his knees slightly apart, to air out the moisture inside.

Lu Shichen suddenly got out of bed. He quickly closed his legs and turned his head to look at him warily.

Lu Shichen stopped and glanced at him, instructing, “I’m going to turn up the heat. You take your medicine.”

Gu Xiu did not suspect him and silently swallowed the bitter pill, then drank half a glass of warm water, feeling completely reborn.

The quilt still held a little of Lu Shichen’s body temperature. It was particularly warm, and there was a faint woody scent. Every one of his nerves relaxed. He wrapped himself up, like a tired little animal returning to its nest.

“You go to sleep first. Tell me anytime if you’re not feeling well,” Lu Shichen tucked him in, then took out a laptop and sat next to him, saying seriously, “I’ll work for a while.”

He also put on his glasses, and the faint blue light looked very distant.

Gu Xiu grunted a few times, pulled the quilt up to cover his lips and nose, and observed him for a while with suspicion and curiosity.

Then he turned over and faced away from him. Before closing his eyes, he didn’t forget to warn 007: 【You, a data-brain, don’t sleep. Keep an eye on him for me.】

007 was already feeling guilty, so it naturally and honestly agreed.

After falling asleep, Gu Xiu’s brainwaves stabilized. The small silver ball of light carefully floated out and hovered above the king-size bed, its silver light illuminating the surroundings as bright as day.

Afraid of being detected by Lu Shichen, he didn’t dare to get too close. This angle was just right, and he could see both of them completely.

Lu Shichen worked for two hours.

He knew it. A standard Jinjiang protagonist gong like Lu Shichen would definitely keep his word. A gentleman’s word is his bond!

The small ball of light swayed, bored, and just wanted to lie down in the host’s sea of consciousness.

His host turned over.

007’s eyes immediately lit up.

Lu Shichen was focused on his work, but he also noticed the movement beside him at the first moment. Gu Xiu, who had only been showing him his back for two hours, had turned over, revealing his sleeping face to him.

Based on his previous experience of covering Gu Xiu with a blanket, this person was not a quiet sleeper. He didn’t wear a shirt, only half of the quilt was covering him, and he liked to sleep on his stomach.

After staying on the edge of the large bed for two hours without moving, to be honest, Lu Shichen was quite surprised.

The sleeping Gu Xiu was oblivious to the other’s observation. Lu Shichen’s gaze was unrestrained. He looked at him again and again, and finally, even the laptop on his lap became a nuisance. He gently closed it and put it aside.

The heating was on high. Gu Xiu pulled two arms out from under the quilt, and the collar of his bathrobe also slipped open a lot.

Lu Shichen’s breathing hitched, and he didn’t dare to move.

After a long while, he reached out a hand. At a dangerous distance of one centimeter, his fingertips traced the young man’s handsome and exquisite features, lingering reluctantly.

Finally, he followed the jawline to the neck and lightly dotted the small mole on his Adam’s apple. While 007 was watching in confusion, he very gentlemanly pinched the two sides of Gu Xiu’s collar and gently pulled them together.

【What kind of misunderstanding does Jiujiu, a straight man from Qidian, have about the protagonist gong from our Jinjiang…】 After complaining about the overly cautious host, 007 entered standby mode, leaving a low-power monitoring system, and fell asleep like a human.

Gu Xiu was hot from sleeping and kicked off the quilt again.

Lu Shichen had just come out of the bathroom after relieving himself when he saw the messy quilt piled up on the side of the bed. Gu Xiu was sleeping sprawled out, the hem of his bathrobe had slipped up to his waist, and his long, straight legs were full of masculine power.

But under the bathrobe was not the sensual vacuum he had imagined. Gu Xiu was still wearing the boxer shorts he had worn all day.

Only now did Lu Shichen get a glimpse of its light gray, three-dimensional cut.

After a long while, Lu Shichen got into bed from the other side, his eyes fixed, his movements slow, afraid of accidentally waking Gu Xiu.

Perhaps the cold medicine had a sleeping effect. Gu Xiu was sleeping very soundly.

Having a cold was really uncomfortable. Gu Xiu would turn over from time to time to relieve his stuffy nose, and his cheeks were flushed with a sickly red. Seeing this, Lu Shichen felt both love and pity, and also desire.

Finally, the unbreakable boat of rationality of 28 years was overturned once again. As calm and self-restrained as he was during the day, his heart was as turbulent as the tide at night.

He stared at his cousin-nephew’s face without blinking, covering his waist and legs with a corner of the quilt. The thin quilt heaved, and the muscles in his forearm constantly tensed and relaxed. Finally, he couldn’t help but tilt his neck back, his vision blurred. The overflowing impulse and sweat were scattered, staining the double quilt he shared with his cousin-nephew.

A dreamless night.

Gu Xiu was woken up by his nose, which was as stuffy as if it had been sealed with cement. He could hear a clear hoarseness when he cleared his throat. His body was warm and hot, even too hot, as if he were being held by a heater.

Or rather, he was holding the heater.

Only a small section of the large quilt was covering his legs. The rest was piled up behind him. Lu Shichen in front of him had his quilt stolen and was sleeping in the air, relying on a set of pajamas for warmth.

He was cold, and Lu Shichen was even colder. The two human bodies, lacking fur for insulation, naturally huddled together in their sleep, holding each other for warmth.

“Uh…”

Gu Xiu had just tried to move slightly.

A strong, strange sensation came from a certain place, so shocking that his nostrils instantly cleared.

It was hotter than the arm around his waist, and harder than the shoulder his chin was resting on.

In the early morning, a man’s natural reaction.

It was not normal for two men to greet each other like this. And he wasn’t wearing outer pants. The size was not to be underestimated, and the distance was inseparable.

In the past, Gu Xiu would certainly not be bothered by such a small detail. He might even whistle and tease the other party, asking if he wanted to take it out and compare sizes.

He had seen the cheerful life of a male dormitory in a novel. Everyone ate and washed up together, and they could even huddle under one quilt and play games together, exchanging theoretical love experiences. He had never experienced it himself, but he was very interested in this kind of lively group life.

—Only before his first kiss was stolen by a man.

And, the man who was now pressing against him was the same one from last night.

Gu Xiu immediately pulled away from Lu Shichen’s embrace and quickly backed away.

Lu Shichen was woken up by him. He first frowned, his eyes flickered, and it seemed that he had noticed his body’s reaction. But his expression did not change. He put on the composure and stability of an elder and slowly sat up.

Gu Xiu was embarrassed for a long time and couldn’t say a word.

Lu Shichen, on the other hand, moved closer to him, lifted the corner of the quilt on his leg, and took in his cousin-nephew’s morning embarrassment.

Even so, his expression did not change in the slightest, just like when Gu Xiu usually encountered trouble at work. He asked him in a rigorous and steady voice, “Do you need help?”

Huh? Help?

Gu Xiu was stunned.

“Ahem, ahem, ahem…”

The itch in his throat came at just the right time.

Lu Shichen got out of bed and naturally took a set of his own clothes and put them back on the bed. “Hurry up and put on some more clothes. I’ll call room service to bring breakfast. After breakfast, you can take another cold pill.”

Gu Xiu’s handsome face was flushed from coughing.

“Ahem, ahem… thanks, ahem, thanks, Ninth Uncle.”

Lu Shichen curled his lips, revealing a gentle and scholarly smile, like a caring and considerate elder.

“You’re welcome,” he lowered his eyes and quickly glanced at Gu Xiu’s crotch. “I didn’t help you either.”

“Ahem, ahem, ahem, ahem!!!”

Gu Xiu choked on his own saliva. The physical and magical double attack made him cough his lungs out.

Lu Shichen finally stopped his intentional and unintentional teasing and harassment, turned around, and went to the bathroom. The two of them were in their own space, waiting for breakfast to arrive.

Gu Xiu quietly waited for his morning reaction to subside naturally.

Although the current Lu Shichen was out of his sight, he really couldn’t pretend he didn’t exist. So he sat quietly cross-legged on the bed, closed his eyes, and meditated, trying to calm his heart.

Gu Xiu tried his best to ignore the faint noise from the bathroom, observing his nose with his eyes and his heart with his nose.

His phone screen lit up.

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