KMYB | Chapter 27

Zhou Zeqi laughed.

"How do you want to make me feel good?" He was actually rather curious, how had Xi Shui managed to be this confident when he said that?

Xi Shui was neither servile nor overbearing, and very modest.

"I said it already, I still need to learn."

Zhou Zeqi moved closer to him. "Are you the top or the bottom?"

Xi Shui felt his gaze collide with Zhou Zeqi's, sparks flying in the middle.

"Either works," Xi Shui said.

"What do you mean, either works?"

Xi Shui realized Zhou Zeqi had misunderstood.

Not that kind of either works.

It was that kind of either works.

But he couldn't bring himself to say it out loud, he was a little shy.

"Let's not talk about this kind of thing anymore." Xi Shui's face was red, his voice as faint as a mosquito's buzz.

"You started it," Zhou Zeqi said, staring at Xi Shui's eyes, not letting them out of his sight for even a second.

Xi Shui made an "ah" sound. "Then I'll be the one to end it, ba."

Zhou Zeqi looked at Xi Shui for a long time, then said with a smile, "Fine." He bit each syllable hard, and somehow it sounded faintly like he was grinding his teeth.

–

After wandering around for a while, night fully fell. On the mountaintop, the tourists waiting for the meteor shower and sunrise were either outside rolling up their sleeves and making food, or playing games, while some hid in their tents with the lights on, still playing games.

Xi Shui walked over the grass, wearing the grass ring Zhou Zeqi had given him, and came back with a face full of happy little pride.

Ever since he got together with Zhou Zeqi, he had been happy every single day.

Wu Fengyi and the others were playing Truth or Dare.

Zhou Zeqi tugged at Xi Shui's sleeve and asked if he wanted to play.

Xi Shui looked up at Zhou Zeqi. "Do you play?"

As soon as he asked, Wu Fengyi had already spotted the two of them and shouted over, "Come over here!"

Zhou Zeqi took Xi Shui by the hand and walked over. Meng Kewen was tilting his head back, hugging a bucket of water and guzzling it down. He had refused the truth question, "How long is it?" and his dare was to drink a liter of water. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught Xi Shui looking at him with such seriousness that he couldn't hold it in anymore.

He already couldn't keep it down, and the water in his mouth sprayed out all at once.

"Fuck, where did this flower fairy come from?" Meng Kewen said.

"Play?" Wu Fengyi held up a bottle of mineral water.

His expression was just too much, full of挑衅. Not only did Zhou Zeqi find it unbearable.

Even Xi Shui couldn't stand it.

"Come on." The two of them spoke at the same time.

Xi Shui sat cross-legged beside Zhou Zeqi. He had seen classmates play this game in high school before, but no matter what they played, they never brought him along.

Wu Fengyi and the others had set up a little table in the middle, and a tree branch was used as a spinner. Whoever it pointed to was the one.

The rules were simple, but whether it was fun or not depended mostly on the people playing.

After Xi Shui joined in, the first person pointed to was Zhang Kan.

Zhang Kan had a bag of spicy strips in his mouth. "Dare."

Meng Kewen said, "Back into a parking spot, back into a parking spot, back into a parking spot!"

"Fuck you, then I'll pick truth!" Zhang Kan immediately changed his mind.

"Truth is so boring. Makes it sound like you have some huge secret," Wu Fengyi said, biting into a piece of melon. "You, take off your shirt, go to the middle, and dance, wipe the glass."

"What glass?" Zhang Kan asked.

"The one you like watching the most."

"…"

"Go on then." Zhang Kan put down the spicy strips and after some discussion, he didn't take off his shirt, but he did tie it up in a knot to expose his belly.

Zhang Kan had abs too. Their builds were all pretty similar.

A guy on the team named Ding He immediately pulled out his speaker.

"Meow-sic!"

In front of a bunch of brothers, Zhang Kan had nothing to be shy about, but the problem was, there wasn't just their group up on the mountaintop.

And Old Zhou's wife, that gaze was a little too serious too.

"Dance, my Kan!"

Zhang Kan raised his hands. "Besties, now with me, raise your right hand to your chest, and let's all, wipe the glass~ wipe the glass~ wipe~ wipe the glass~"

A burly man well over six feet tall twisting his hips was painful to watch, and yet Zhang Kan had fully let go, his expression incredibly on point. Not only could he dance, he could even sing in a strained little voice.

"Wipe~ wipe the glass…"

"Enough, stop fucking wiping it, come back!" After Meng Kewen finished recording the video, he stuffed his phone away.

Xi Shui laughed so hard he collapsed onto Zhou Zeqi's shoulder. Zhou Zeqi lifted a hand to wrap around his waist, his thumb pressing into the hollow there.

!

Xi Shui sprang upright at once.

His eyes widened, like a startled cat.

"Can you dance?" Zhou Zeqi asked in a low voice.

Xi Shui thought back to Zhang Kan's exaggerated, greasy dance moves and nodded. "It's really easy. You can learn it after seeing it once."

You could say anyone could dance it.

Because there wasn't really any movement to it.

Wu Fengyi kept spinning the branch. Zhang Kan finished dancing and acted like nothing had happened.

The next person pointed to was… Lin Xiaojin.

Lin Xiaojin himself hadn't even reacted yet when he performed a full smile disappearance act for everyone.

He glanced at Wu Fengyi. He knew this group was close, and they got especially unrestrained when they played, but he still cared about his face. After thinking for a few seconds, he said, "I'll pick truth."

Then Meng Kewen got excited.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!" Meng Kewen lay on the grass. "Back when we were in high school, were you really together with that school heartthrob, and even kissed? If you're lying, you'll gain fifty jin!"

Lin Xiaojin's expression froze almost instantly.

Xi Shui leaned into Zhou Zeqi's ear and said softly, "Gain fifty jin, how vicious."

Zhou Zeqi laughed and shoved a strawberry into Xi Shui's mouth.

Lin Xiaojin shot a glare at Meng Kewen, who was enjoying the show way too much.

Meng Kewen pretended not to understand.

Lin Xiaojin nodded.

And so Wu Fengyi performed the smile disappearance act for everyone once more.

Meng Kewen laughed so hard he couldn't get back up from the grass.

Xi Shui didn't know either, Lin Xiaojin had never told him.

Truth could only be asked by Meng Kewen, because aside from Xi Shui, none of the others were familiar with Lin Xiaojin.

Wu Fengyi tossed the branch to Zhang Kan. "You spin it. I'm going to piss."

Zhang Kan caught it. "Alrighty!"

He gave it a spin, and the branch pointed straight at Zhou Zeqi.

"Oho, Old Zhou!" Seeing where the branch pointed, Meng Kewen got even more excited. He jumped up and started heckling along with the others.

"Isn't it boring if you pick truth?" Ding He said.

Zhang Kan nodded too. "Yeah, yeah."

"Then dare." Zhou Zeqi pushed Xi Shui, who was leaning on his shoulder, away.

Xi Shui leaned back over again, like a little cat. "You have to dance wipe the glass too?"

Zhou Zeqi bit close to Xi Shui's ear. "Dance my ass."

Meng Kewen was dying of jealousy watching them, dying of jealousy!! Plenty of people on the team had dated, broken up, and then dated again, he didn't even feel much about it anymore, he was used to it. But Old Zhou and Xi Shui had only been together for less than half a month, and Meng Kewen felt like his eyeballs were about to turn red.

It was a vibe completely different from every other couple. The way they looked at each other was like melting marshmallows, pulling out soft, sweet strands of sugar.

"What do you want me to do?" Zhou Zeqi asked.

"Wait," Meng Kewen said solemnly. "We need to discuss this."

A dozen people huddled together to discuss it.

They discussed for less than ten seconds.

They made their decision.

"Go tongue-kiss someone for five minutes. Five minutes is nothing for you, Old Zhou. With your lung capacity, kissing someone to death wouldn't be a problem."

Zhou Zeqi looked straight at Xi Shui, who was already preparing to watch the fun.

Xi Shui was still a little blank.

"Who are you going to find?"

This time Zhou Zeqi was really angry. He grabbed Xi Shui by the wrist and dragged him in front of him in one pull. "Who do you think I should find?" His tone was slow and measured, and there was something a little nasty in it.

Xi Shui reacted instantly this time. "Me, find me."

"Right, find you." As he spoke, Zhou Zeqi pressed his lips to Xi Shui's.

The cheering around them exploded at once.

Xi Shui was thin-skinned. The moment he heard people cheering, he wanted to hide, only for Zhou Zeqi to firmly cup the back of his head.

Zhou Zeqi's tongue easily pried open the seam of Xi Shui's lips. Xi Shui kissed with a softness and heat that made him feel pliant, and he had no real kissing experience at all, so he was completely led by Zhou Zeqi. Every reaction he gave was the most honest one.

When Xi Shui's fingers climbed up Zhou Zeqi's waist and abdomen, Zhou Zeqi pulled away in time, even covering his mouth.

Xi Shui's wet eyes looked at Zhou Zeqi anxiously.

Zhou Zeqi let out a breath, slowly taking his hand away. "Xiao Xi, come back to your senses." His voice was so hoarse it was almost unrecognizable.

Meng Kewen, standing nearby, was blushing hard. "Old Zhou, you're probably kissing so hard your dick's rock hard. Do you want to go deal with that?"

Xi Shui might lack experience, but with Meng Kewen being this blunt, he almost immediately snapped back to attention.

He instinctively lowered his head to look at Zhou Zeqi's crotch.

Before he could even see clearly, Zhou Zeqi stood up and turned to leave.

Meng Kewen grabbed Xi Shui. "Hurry up and follow him, go help him out."

Xi Shui was so muddled by the whole thing that he asked, "Can I help?"

"…"

Meng Kewen was done for.

He couldn't bear to look at Xi Shui right now.

How should he put it, Meng Kewen felt like he'd seen plenty of beautiful girls and handsome guys, and after spending all day with Old Zhou, he was already aesthetically numb. Old Zhou was ridiculously good at looking cool.

But Xi Shui's looks were the kind that nearly crushed ordinary mortals like them, every feature, every line, every part, there wasn't a single flaw to find, and yet he seemed to have no idea just how stunning he really was.

The reason he was popular at school was because Xi Shui had never once used his looks to bully anyone. Even though he seemed too aloof, too otherworldly, the moment you actually got close to him, you'd find that he was pure and down-to-earth.

And now Xi Shui, after being kissed by Zhou Zeqi, had wet eyes and no sharp edges left at all.

Meng Kewen pointed in the direction Zhou Zeqi had gone. "You can. Go on."

Xi Shui stood up and went to look for Zhou Zeqi.

Ding He, seeing the red on Meng Kewen's face by the light spilling out from inside the tent, let out a whoop. "Meng Kewen, you got way too bold, blushing at Xi Shui's face."

Meng Kewen immediately spat, "This is a normal reaction to seeing a handsome guy, what the fuck do you know."

"Then why don't you blush when you look at me?"

"What kind of handsome guy are you supposed to be?"

–

Xi Shui walked into the big black tent where he would sleep tonight.

He bent over as he went inside, and just happened to meet Zhou Zeqi's gaze looking over at him, that gaze like a wolf that had been starving for a long time.

Xi Shui wanted to run.

And he really did.

But before he could even step out of the tent, Zhou Zeqi, who had gotten back up, caught him and shoved him into a corner.

Xi Shui looked at the damp strands of hair falling over Zhou Zeqi's forehead and stammered, "I came to see if there was anything I could help with."

Zhou Zeqi held him in his arms. "What do you want to help with?"

Xi Shui didn't know either.

How would he know.

"I don't know, Meng Kewen said I could help, so I came." Xi Shui answered honestly.

"He was teasing you." Zhou Zeqi's eyes were pitch-black. "Besides, even if you could, you wouldn't be willing to help."

"How could that be?" Xi Shui was a warm-hearted person.

Zhou Zeqi was amused by his dead-serious tone. After laughing, he felt like Xi Shui really might not understand, so he leaned close to his ear and asked something.

Xi Shui's face turned red all at once.

"I… haven't… done that… myself."

Xi Shui didn't know how to say it. He had spent his adolescence with ballet, had very few friends, and his parents certainly would never have taught him those things.

He himself didn't seem to have liked anyone either, and his need in that area rarely came up. As long as he had ballet in his life, that was already enough to make it full.

Xi Shui came to his senses. "So that's what Meng Kewen meant by helping."

"Then I guess I can't." Xi Shui couldn't help.

Zhou Zeqi listened to Xi Shui ramble by his ear.

"Mm." His reply was lazy and drawn out.

Xi Shui kept rambling in his arms.

"It was just a kiss, after all, Qiqi, you're really useless." Xi Shui thought the corner was too cramped, so he tried to wriggle out. The moment his hand reached out, it was pulled back.

What greeted him was another forceful deep kiss.

More lingering and deeper than any before.

Zhou Zeqi's aggressiveness today was unusually strong. Xi Shui already couldn't handle him on a normal day, and today there was no need to mention it.

Zhou Zeqi bit Xi Shui's earlobe. Xi Shui couldn't dodge. The fresh air around them had already been used up. He held his long swanlike neck stiffly, the blue veins under his skin clearly visible, and with every breath it looked as if the swan were crying out for help before death.

Only when Zhou Zeqi finally stopped on his own did Xi Shui manage to breathe in broken gasps, his eyes even going a little dazed.

Like a little swan that had been bullied so badly it no longer knew how to react, stripped of all its aggression.

Xi Shui stared blankly. "So this is helping?"

He had been bullied so badly he looked a complete mess, pitiful beyond words.

Zhou Zeqi pulled a tissue out to wipe his fingers clean, his eyes full and satisfied, then leaned over to kiss Xi Shui's eyelids. "Mad?"

Xi Shui shook his head.

Zhou Zeqi had kissed him for so long, he'd burned off a lot of calories. He wasn't angry, he was very happy.

"Then baby, let me kiss you a little longer." Zhou Zeqi pried open Xi Shui's lips and teeth again. This time he didn't kiss so fiercely, and the tenderness of it made Xi Shui dizzy.

Zhou Zeqi thought that being unable to let go of someone was probably the best way to describe how he felt right now.

At this point, Xi Shui couldn't even guess how long they had been kissing.

All he knew was that Zhou Zeqi kept kissing him without end, touching his face, his neck, and his back.

When it was over, Xi Shui pulled up the zipper on his jacket and saw Zhou Zeqi about to stand up. He grabbed him at once, holding on with pleading eyes. "Teach me how to climb the ladder."

Zhou Zeqi: "Now?"

"Later, when we're sleeping, I'll take out the computer and teach you." Zhou Zeqi stroked Xi Shui's head.

Xi Shui's eyes showed an anxious look. "No, teach me now. I need to learn right now."

Zhou Zeqi crouched down and looked straight at Xi Shui. "Why does it have to be now?"

Xi Shui mumbled and wouldn't say.

Zhou Zeqi simply reached his hand over.

!

Zhou Zeqi looked helplessly at Xi Shui, who was about to blush himself to death. "Come here, I'll help you."