KC | Chapter 85

“Today was the first time I properly closed a key client, after coming out of Gulin, it felt like the whole world had changed.”

“I wanted to stand in the middle of the road and shout, but I was afraid people would think I was mentally ill; I wanted to chase the sunset and run into the sun, but I hadn’t eaten all day and was too weak to move; I wanted to tell the whole world, ‘I signed Gulin,’ but after thinking it over and over, the thing I most wanted to say was only to you.”

Chen Xi leaned against Lin Yiran’s shoulder, the curve of his upturned lips almost reaching his ears, the light in his eyes bright and fierce, like the warm sun of early autumn shining into the dim, colorless years of Lin Yiran’s life.

“I wanted to tell you last week, Lin-ge, how I negotiated Gulin, but it always felt like showing off my clumsy skills before an expert, so I held it in until now. I’m saying this not to take credit, just to share this joy. Signing a key client and having you are both dreams I’ve had for years and failed at over and over. Those vague, unreal beautiful dreams have come true, I’m really too lucky.”

Chen Xi took Lin Yiran’s hand, as if he wanted to pass that joy through their joined palms.

A life full of twists and turns, he did not mention the hardship he had suffered; signing a key client was not easy, he did not say how many scoldings he had taken; secretly loving him was very hard, he did not speak of those past days… Chen Xi attributed everything to “luck,” but these were actually all things he deserved.

Lin Yiran felt Chen Xi’s joy as if it were his own, no one understood this kind of ecstasy better than he did.

Life is short on a spring night, better enjoy it while you can, Lin Yiran’s eyes flickered as he raised an eyebrow and said, “You dreamed of me, dreamed for ‘years’ huh?”

Chen Xi: …Damn it, he had blurted it out in a rush.

Originally it was supposed to be Lin-ge confessing first, with me holding the initiative; now it had become me secretly loving him, the identities swapped, the client became the one providing service.

Lin-ge could even fall asleep right after confessing, liking someone with complete righteousness, not caring about dignity at all. Now that he knew I secretly loved him, who knew how he was going to bully me o(╥﹏╥)o

The expected “bullying” did not come. Lin Yiran even, contrary to usual, did not seize the question that could have raised his status and keep pressing it.

He held the back of Chen Xi’s head and tilted his head to kiss him.

The sudden kiss made Chen Xi a little at a loss, but he still obediently accepted it.

The more obedient he was, the more he wanted to ruin him.

Lin Yiran pulled him down onto his lap, locked his waist, lips pressed to lips, flesh against flesh, going from shallow to deep, wantonly invading. Chen Xi closed his eyes, his arms tightly wrapped around him, his body leaning back 45°, kissed until he was a little out of breath.

Most of their kisses before had been limited to a brief taste, only when Chen Xi was aroused would he take the initiative to offer a deep kiss. Chen Xi felt that compared to kissing, Lin Yiran seemed to like kissing his body more, but only on the first time did he leave deep and shallow marks.

Lin Yiran had a tendency toward sadism, and after they got together he had not let Chen Xi get hurt because he had been restraining himself, because he cherished him, but now he seemed unable to hold back anymore.

The kiss was still going on, draining all the oxygen from his brain. Chen Xi’s mind went blank, completely unable to think, and could only passively endure it, instinctively hugging the person kissing him tighter. His neck curved into an elegant line, and compared to gentle lingering, he seemed to enjoy this loss of control more.

No one knew how long had passed. When they separated, both of them were already aroused.

Bathroom, showerhead, foam.

Water splashing out of the tub, breathing growing heavier and heavier, the five scratches on the back.

The sound of water in the bathroom rose and fell with crying and shouts.

Chen Xi was soaked, drenched, filled to the brim. Lin Yiran wiped away the tears at the corner of his eyes and asked in a low voice, “Are you made of water?”

Water vapor from the ceiling dripped onto his shoulders, and Chen Xi tilted his head and gave a light laugh. “Lin-ge, this time it was so fast.”

Their bodies linked again, Lin Yiran pinched his slender waist and pushed down in the water, and Chen Xi gasped and tightened from the pain. Lin Yiran kissed his back, as if soothing him, fine sweat breaking out on his forehead, his gaze dark and unreadable. “Don’t keep teasing me, you’ll get hurt.”

Chen Xi shook his head, rolled over, facing him directly, his waist pressing down again, his palm stroking his face, his gaze drifting, his voice slightly trembling. “After signing with Gulin, I felt like I was stepping on cotton, so cool, so thrilling. That feeling was like a continuous climax, so floaty and unreal, only pain could pull me back to the ground.”

His long lashes trembled and dropped tears. Chen Xi bit his lip and frowned, his arm resting on Lin Yiran’s shoulder, his chest rising and falling in the water.

“I want Lin-ge to be even rougher, to make me hurt more, ruin me, dirty me, break me, if I cry you still shouldn’t stop, I like you doing that.”

Bedroom, dim lights, the lubricant fallen by the bed, two bodies overlapping.

His calves were arranged in different positions, his thighs and chest covered in mottled red marks, the sides of his waist blue and purple, the snow-white body stained with two colors, the colored area constantly expanding and spreading to his neck, the invasion following one after another, fast, fierce, with no rhythm.

Today was exciting and long for Chen Xi, and when the excitement climbed to the peak once again, the wall clock struck, and after midnight it was a new day.

After two rounds, Chen Xi shrank at the end of the bed, his lips dried and peeling from dehydration, not a single whole patch of skin left anywhere on his body, his whole person wrinkled and crumpled, like a sponge that had been wrung dry.

Lin Yiran poured him a glass of water. Chen Xi drank half of it and licked his lips. “Lin-ge, I want to smoke.”

The two of them leaned against the headboard, and in the slowly rising smoke, they both looked up at the ceiling, their gazes empty.

Chen Xi tilted his head against Lin Yiran’s shoulder, blew out a smoke ring, and laughed. “This feels fucking amazing.”

Lin Yiran was a little helpless. “You had lubricant and didn’t use it, you had to insist on pain, what kind of problem is that.”

Chen Xi pulled his arm away and draped it over his shoulder, letting him hold him, giving himself a sense of safety, then deeply inhaled from the cigarette and tested, “I… I might really have some kind of problem, my mind isn’t quite normal.”

Lin Yiran thought he was joking and did not think much of it. He crushed out the cigarette, bit hard into that soft, squishy cheek, and his palm pinched Chen Xi’s waist again, declaring the end of the halftime break.

The person in his arms let out an “ouch” as if he had been bitten badly. Chen Xi wiped his face and said unhappily, “I’m being serious.”

Lin Yiran did not know the twists and turns in Chen Xi’s heart, and took it all as coquetry. He pressed down on him and bit him again, lazy dirty talk coming naturally. “You can say yours, I’ll do mine.”

Chen Xi wanted to be honest, but you could not reason it out with a hooligan, so the topic he had just raised could only be dropped. He thought, there was still a long way to go, and he would find another chance to say it later.

But if he had the chance to do it over, he would definitely push Lin Yiran away firmly and explain the words he had not finished saying. That way, they would have taken fewer detours, and there would not have been misunderstandings and missed chances.

Although Chen Xi had the idea of “fighting until dawn,” he was overestimating himself and underestimating his strength, and tonight was a little too rough, so he was afraid he would not be able to work tomorrow.

“Lin-ge, my college classmate got married on the 28th last month. I was doing event execution for Pinsheng then and couldn’t attend his wedding. He just came back from his honeymoon yesterday and said he changed jobs.” Chen Xi’s voice was a little hoarse, curled up in Lin Yiran’s arms, weak and listless.

Lin Yiran lifted his leg. “You couldn’t even get to the point in three sentences of negotiation, the client would directly cut you off.”

Chen Xi clawed hard at the bedsheet with his nails, enduring the discomfort, and continued, “That college classmate of mine is a招商经理 at Aolai Real Estate. I often saw Aolai on taxi ad screens, so I figured I’d meet up with an old classmate and ask him about Aolai by the way.”

“Fine.” Lin Yiran got out of bed to take his phone. “KA values efficiency, and news about key clients can’t be delayed either. Compared with meeting in person, phone efficiency is higher, so, do you want to call him right now?”

Other people did this kind of thing for mood, Lin-ge did this kind of thing and talked negotiation skills, even acting as a teacher in bed, you’ve really got it.

The situation was not good. Chen Xi pushed away the person on top of him and kicked his legs to run. He had just darted out twice when he was grabbed by the leg and dragged back.

Chen Xi turned back with red eyes and cursed angrily, “Do you fucking have a problem, doing this and still wanting to find someone to listen in, do you want to turn my classmate into part of your play.”

“You want stimulation, you want roughness, so why are you cursing me instead?”

Chen Xi cried out in misery, his intestines practically turning green with regret, wishing he could go back to yesterday and rip out his tongue.

“Lin-ge, no more, I really can’t take it. Work always comes first for a penniless office drone. If being hard doesn’t work, then let’s be soft.” Chen Xi decisively begged for mercy, “I already made plans with my old classmate to have lunch together tomorrow noon. If we keep going, I’ll definitely not be able to get up tomorrow. Let’s stop here for today, I can make up what I owe tomorrow, okay?”

Lin Yiran seemed not to hear him, and continued doing push-ups.

“Lin-ge, if it were only the old classmate thing, I could still push it off, but Xu Dongxu asked me to drink with him this afternoon, and I definitely have to go.” Chen Xi appealed to his emotions and reason, adding more fuel to the fire. “How about this, we’ll do it more times tomorrow, I’ll be on top, I’ll be on top, okay?”

Lin Yiran broke the connection between the two of them, draped a blanket over Chen Xi, and leaned against the headboard while scrolling on his phone.

Afraid he was angry, Chen Xi clung to him and burrowed into his arms, carefully reciting the Buddhist scripture he had just learned from Wang Yaohua: “Form is emptiness, emptiness is form, and so are sensation, perception, formation, and consciousness…”

Then he was lifted by the neck and pushed away, and Lin Yiran replied with, “Get lost.”

I’m about to die from exhaustion, trying to coax you nicely and you still told me to get lost.

Fine, get lost then.

Chen Xi’s eyelids fought each other, and just as he was about to fall asleep, Lin Yiran asked, “What time are you going to Aolai at noon tomorrow?”

“12 o’clock.”

Lin Yiran’s expression was light. “I’m going to meet a client nearby tomorrow anyway, I can give you a ride.”

Chen Xi rubbed his eyes and thought, Aolai isn’t in the city, and there aren’t any big companies nearby either, this client you suddenly made an appointment with is a little too coincidental.

Oh, I get it, Lin-ge saw that I had plans and didn’t want to be an old lonely man at home.

After being tossed around for half the night, the humble little Chen completely surrendered under the leader’s obscene power, seeing through it but not saying it through, and no longer dared to provoke him, obediently answering, “Okay.”

Lin Yiran put away his phone and pressed Chen Xi’s head downward.

Chen Xi: …

So this bastard suddenly became so easy to talk to because he was diverting attention, huh.

He dodged below, but he couldn’t dodge above, help!

“Lin-ge, I’m sleepy, so sleepy. Experts say that if you don’t sleep for 8 hours, you’ll die.”

Lin Yiran chuckled softly. “Experts also said that to sign a key client, you first have to know how to lick, and only if you lick well can you sign it.”

Chen Xi: mm

“You can lick the client, but not me?”

Chen Xi: wu

“Let me come back, I’ll push off the client’s gathering and come back immediately, and then you fell asleep; you said we’d spend the weekend together, so I squeezed time in on weekdays and rushed over, and then you had plans; and you said you’d light candles, but you didn’t even buy a lighter, where was your sincerity?”

Chen Xi: wu wu wu

“You don’t even send me a message on ordinary days, only think of me when a key client hits a bottleneck; borrow clothes, borrow belts, borrow underwear, and when you’re unhappy you push back at me; I drive you and cook for you, don’t give me money and still ask me for it, do people like you even exist?”

“Go deeper with your mouth, if you can’t get it out, then don’t sleep tonight.”

Lin Yiran dumped all the fire he had held back these past days in one breath, and Chen Xi got stuck in his throat, choking until tears streamed down his face.

“Don’t cry, crying is useless, I can’t see it.”

“Hey, you just said crying wouldn’t make me stop, that can’t be blamed on me.”

They were just past halfway, and saliva involuntarily surged upward, unable to be swallowed, completely unable to be swallowed.

Chen Xi grabbed Lin Yiran’s hand and gently pinched it once. Last week in Zaowang City, when Chen Xi and Director Zhang could not drink any more alcohol, he had also secretly pinched Lin Yiran’s hand under the table.

This was a signal for help.

Lin Yiran finally could not bear it, let go of his head, and said in irritation, “Last week you wanted me gentle, this week you wanted me rough, and just now you fucking told me to stop, can this kind of thing even stop? Every time you finish enjoying yourself you run off, not considering me at all, is that how you date someone? Even a fuck buddy gets better treatment than this, right?”

“I’m fucking doing the work of a laborer.”