Chapter 47: The Vicious Rich Family’s Fake Young Master · 47

The first section of the rafting course was fast, but man-made, so it was relatively smooth.

Once Su Wenyu adjusted to the speed, he reined in his excitement a little, gripping the handles on either side tightly. He nudged Shen Yi’s leg with his own, his eyes sparkling. “This is so thrilling!”

The spot where Su Wenyu had touched him felt warm, but Shen Yi could act. He gave him a faint smile. “It really is.”

“What about them? Are they behind us?” Su Wenyu looked back, but they had turned a corner, so he couldn’t see anyone.

When the raft hit a turn, it slammed into the side wall uncontrollably. Bang! Water splashed everywhere.

The spray rained down on Su Wenyu, triggering another excited yell.

At the same time, a sudden burst of short screams came from below, abruptly cut off.

Su Wenyu immediately tightened his grip on the armrests. “Why are they screaming down there? Are we about to drop?!”

Shen Yi reassured him, “Hold on tight, don’t be afraid.”

Su Wenyu: “I’m not afraid, I’m just excited! Ah! I can see it—we’re almost there—ahh—”

The first big drop of the rafting course arrived. Shen Yi felt the sensation of weightlessness first, followed by Su Wenyu’s excited shout. The raft slammed into the water with a boom, the resulting splash so huge it seemed to swallow the raft whole!

Water splashed right into Su Wenyu’s face, and for a moment, he couldn’t even open his eyes, hearing only the gurgle-gurgle of water rushing past his ears.

When the raft resurfaced, Su Wenyu wiped the water from his face and let out a long breath of relief, thankful he’d had the sense to shut his mouth right before the drop. Otherwise, he definitely would have swallowed a bellyful of water.

“That was so fun!” The thrilling rafting had only pumped Su Wenyu up even more.

Shen Yi wiped the water from his eyes. When he opened them and saw the lively, vivid smile on Su Wenyu’s face, the corner of his own mouth curved up too.

“Shen Yi, Shen Yi! The people ahead are splashing water!” Su Wenyu noticed a cluster of rafts bunched up ahead, everyone dousing each other. He immediately warned Shen Yi that they were entering a combat zone.

After the drop, the first section was a wide, relatively calm stretch of water—a place for people to enjoy the natural scenery and fool around.

Because they had to queue up for the next rafting point, there were quite a few people in this area.

Following the current, Su Wenyu and the others naturally drifted right into the middle of the water fight.

Most of the people splashing here didn’t actually know each other, but they held nothing back. Screams, battle cries, and loud laughter mingled into a cacophony.

Su Wenyu started on the defensive, just stretching his arms out. In the end, he just dove headfirst into the fray.

“Shen Yi, hold onto me!” Su Wenyu leaned more than half his body out of the raft, head bowed and eyes shut, using his helmet to wildly scoop and fling water with such force that the people opposite couldn’t even open their eyes.

Shen Yi clamped his hands firmly around Su Wenyu’s ankles to keep him from tumbling into the water from his wild movements.

It was then that another boom of a splash echoed from behind, followed by Xia Yehang’s voice, shouting at the top of his lungs, “Su Wenyu!”

Su Wenyu immediately whipped his head around, water droplets clinging to his eyelashes. Squinting, he knelt in the raft and waved at them. “I’m over here!”

Xia Yehang and the others quickly paddled their raft closer.

“How was it? Was it fun?” Once they were near, Su Wenyu braced his hands on the side of his raft and loudly asked about their experience.

Zhou Xu and Xia Yehang actually thought it was just okay. Mostly, seeing the person sitting across from them sapped their interest in having any fun at all.

But looking at how happy Su Wenyu was, the two could only force a smile and say, “Pretty fun.”

The rafts floated along with the current. Because they weren’t deliberately controlling their speed, Su Wenyu and the others unconsciously drifted right into the center.

At first, Su Wenyu could chat with Zhou Xu and the others now and then. But once they were in the middle, perhaps because their group of four was just too good-looking, they almost instantly became the target of water attacks from every direction.

Su Wenyu let out a battle cry, scooped up water with his helmet to fight back, and at the same time, sneakily pretended to accidentally splash Zhou Xu and Xia Yehang.

“Hehe.” After splashing them, Su Wenyu turned his head aside and snickered. But every one of these little moves was seen by Zhou Xu and the others.

Xia Yehang didn’t hesitate for a second. He immediately started playing along, cupping his big hands and flinging water at Su Wenyu so fast that Su Wenyu didn’t even have time to scoop water with his helmet.

Seeing Su Wenyu having so much fun, Zhou Xu joined in too. After that, Zhou Xu and Xia Yehang, with perfect tacit understanding, only occasionally splashed water onto Su Wenyu to keep him laughing. The vast majority of the water, they deliberately aimed and hurled right at Shen Yi.

The speed was so fast, it looked like they were trying to drown him.

Eyes closed, head slightly tilted, Shen Yi felt like two fire hoses were trained directly on him. He couldn’t open his eyes at all, and even finding a moment to breathe without choking on water was a struggle.

In no time at all, the four of them were soaked through.

When they neared the next drop-off point, Zhou Xu and Xia Yehang stopped, reminding Su Wenyu to put his helmet on.

Su Wenyu obediently donned his helmet and sat properly in the raft. Maybe it was the excitement of the moment, but he no longer felt the same awkwardness he’d had sitting with Shen Yi at the start. Instead, he casually bent his legs and rested them against Shen Yi’s, while also reminding him, “Hold on tight, we’re almost up!”

This sight made Xia Yehang and Zhou Xu jealous all over again.

Zhou Xu, in particular, regretted agreeing to go out with Su Wenyu back in the dorm. He should have refused and secretly taken him out during the break. Then they could have had their own world for two!

Too bad Su Wenyu’s eyes had bewitched him that day, leading to a complete miscalculation.

Now, all Zhou Xu could do was watch helplessly as the staff member hooked Shen Yi’s raft with a pole, sending the two of them sliding down again and out of his sight.

The second rafting course was no longer a purely man-made, relatively smooth waterway. It was a path surrounded by jagged rocks with a raging current. Every collision sent their bodies lurching uncontrollably.

The current was so ferocious the raft even spun in circles with the water. When Su Wenyu found himself facing backward, he realized the ride was most thrilling when you couldn’t see what was coming.

The entire rafting experience was about fifty minutes, but Su Wenyu and the others ended up playing for over an hour before finally reaching the end point.

The landing area was piled up with rafts. Staff members used long poles to hook them to shore. It took about five minutes of waiting before it was Su Wenyu and Shen Yi’s turn.

After getting up, Shen Yi instinctively reached out, wanting to help Su Wenyu down from the raft.

But Su Wenyu hadn’t noticed at all and had already hopped off by himself.

The water near the shore was shallow, but the sandy, muddy bottom had been stirred up, making it slightly murky. Su Wenyu didn’t mind. Wading through the water onto the bank, he took off his shoes, poured the water out, and put them back on.

When Shen Yi and Zhou Xu and the other came ashore one after another, what they saw was Su Wenyu removing his helmet, then his life jacket—soaked from head to toe—facing them without a hint of guard.

The three men’s gazes instantly froze.

Xia Yehang even covered his traitorous nose and slowly cursed under his breath, “…Fuck.”

Su Wenyu was wearing a white T-shirt that day. Because of the hot weather, he had deliberately picked a thin, breathable fabric.

And now, with the life jacket off, the shirt underneath was thoroughly soaked. The thin, airy T-shirt he’d carefully chosen was understandably plastered to his body, perfectly outlining the curves of his upper torso.

In the three men’s line of sight, they could even clearly see, through the sheer, semi-transparent wet fabric, the outline of two pink points.

With perfect synchronicity, all three of their Adam’s apples bobbed.

Su Wenyu already had a rather slender build. Now, in that semi-transparent shirt, half-revealed and half-concealed, he inspired an overwhelming urge to protect and… to destroy.

Yet Su Wenyu himself was completely oblivious to his current state. He even called out for them to hurry up.

Shen Yi, walking in front, reacted first. He quickly stepped ashore and positioned himself in front of Su Wenyu, blocking him from the view of any strangers.

Zhou Xu’s brain seemed to have crashed. For a ‘straight man’ who had only just been turned, seeing his crush like this made his eyes feel scorching hot.

Xia Yehang was still holding his nose. Only after confirming it wasn’t bleeding did he let go. Ashore, he barely dared to glance at Su Wenyu, offering a tactful reminder, “You’re soaked through. Aren’t you cold? Want me to give you my shirt to wear?”

Su Wenyu looked down at his own clothes. Seeing they’d turned semi-transparent, he didn’t care. “No need. The sun’s strong right now, it’s pretty hot. Being wet actually feels cooler.”

He glanced at Xia Yehang’s clothes and added, “Your clothes are wet too. Wouldn’t make a difference if you gave them to me or not.”

The three had assumed Su Wenyu would feel embarrassed or self-conscious seeing his semi-transparent front. They hadn’t expected him to be completely nonchalant, not feeling his current state needed any covering up at all.

In Su Wenyu’s mind, it was pretty normal for men to be shirtless. Plenty of male tourists around them, their clothes soaked, had simply taken them off entirely and were walking along the path half-naked, without anyone giving them a second glance.

Even if the three in front of him were gay… he was wearing clothes. It was just that they were wet and you could see his body a little. Su Wenyu didn’t consider it a big deal.

Su Wenyu was completely unaware that gay thinking was different from his own.

Compared to full nudity, what actually made their mouths dry and hearts race uncontrollably was precisely this kind of… wet, alluring temptation.

“Let’s go, get our backpacks and change,” Su Wenyu said, looking in the direction other tourists were heading. He pointed to a spot up the stairs next to the ticket booth. “There’s a bathhouse over there. We can rinse off and then change.”

Zhou Xu and the others desperately wanted Su Wenyu to cover his upper body, but they felt deliberately pointing it out would seem odd. They could only do what they did at school—sandwich Su Wenyu between the three of them and take him to get their bags.

The three thought this was the biggest test they would face.

But then, after retrieving their backpacks, buying bathhouse tickets, and entering the men’s locker room, they looked at the wide-open, unobstructed space and the shower area practically connected to the changing area. Suddenly, they discovered a problem even more serious than the wet-body temptation.

The locker room had no private changing stalls—that was standard. Bathhouse locker rooms were all rows of lockers packed together.

But this place’s shower area… also had no dividers…

The moment Zhou Xu and the others stepped into the locker room, they turned their heads and saw several men showering with their bare backs facing them in the shower area.

Almost subconsciously, three hands simultaneously reached out to block Su Wenyu’s line of sight.

Before Su Wenyu could see anything, multiple hands appeared in front of his eyes. He tilted his head in confusion. “?”

“What’s wrong?”