Chapter 35

The next day wasMonday. In the morning, small classmate Tong Yan had a little trouble gettingup. Zhuo Xiang Ming called out to him for a long time, and finally, he sat up. Hiseyes still couldn’t open, and his toothbrush was just hung from his mouth. He gavehimself up to Zhuo Xiang Ming’s embrace, his hands and feet soft, half awake, halfdozing off.

”Hmm …”The snowflakes were still fluttering around outside, and the temperature wasonly getting lower and lower. Zhuo Xiang Ming embraced Tong Yan’s shoulders andpondered.

”You have toadd clothes today, a pair of long johns or fleece trousers, you choose.”Zhuo Xiang Ming said.

Tong Yan’s eyes immediatelysnapped open; his expression incredulous: “!”

Zhuo Xiang Mingstraightened out the toothbrush in his mouth: “Brush your teethfirst.”

On the way to thebathroom, Tong Yan kept looking back at Zhuo Xiang Ming pleadingly, but aftershowering, long johns and a pair of fleece pants were placed on the bed.

Tong Yan hadn’t changedout of his pajamas yet, his recklessly blow-dried hair in chaos, standing atthe bathroom door, he put his hands on his hips and glared: “No!”

Zhuo Xiang Ming reasonedcalmly: “Don’t do it if you don’t want to, but what degree is it outside today?Last week was already cold, if you don’t want to wear it, does that mean thatyou want to catch a cold?”

Tong Yan opened hismouth, but had nothing to say, only thinking that Zhuo Xiang Ming’s face flippedfaster than a book.

”How thick canit be?” Zhuo Xiang Ming used the policy of employing both strictness and gentleness,his tone softened a little, and he held up the “cool” black longjohns he’d tried so hard to pick out, earnestly persuading, “Your winteruniform was already baggy, adding one more undergarment has no effect at all.”

Because of whathappened last night, Tong Yan originally woke up with a love-struck mood, butnow, running all the way to the North Pole, where was their room to reminisce.

But after standinghis ground… He really couldn’t logic his way out of it, completely overruledby Zhuo Xiang Ming in a sentence or two. In the end, he was pressured byauthority, and put on the fleece trousers in humiliation.

Because of thesefleece trousers, Tong Yan had no spirit that morning, listlessly walkingdownstairs and listlessly eating breakfast. After getting into the passengerseat, Zhuo Xiang Ming held the car door open, lowering his head to pinch Tong Yan’smouth: “It’s just missing a hanging box of banana milk.”

Tong Yan turned hisface away: “I won’t drink your banana milk.”

”It’s snowing,who would only wear one pair of pants?”

Tong Yan couldn’t thinkof someone, so he could only remain silent.

The early winter morningsun shone on the boy’s stubborn face, illuminating a little bit of fine, silkyhair and somewhat immature thoughts. His nose, eyes and mouth were obviously allbeautiful, but they were unfortunately wrinkled in a scowl, making Zhuo XiangMing both slightly frustrated and amused, rubbing the top of his head.

Arriving at theschool, it was time to get out of the car. Usually, at this time, Tong Yan wouldlook very reluctant to part, asking for a kiss was common, and saying a fewsweet words was even more necessary. But today, he just took the school bagfrom Zhuo Xiang Ming’s hand and said: “Goodbye, brother.”

Zhuo Xiang Mingendured all morning, finally, he couldn’t help but laugh. Reaching out, hepoked Tong Yan’s cheek: “Are you that unhappy?”

”I don’t likeyou.” Tong Yan snorted out, turning his head towards Zhuo Xiang Ming’shand, he made a chomping motion, looking ferocious.

”You obviouslyloved me so much yesterday.” Zhuo Xiang Ming was aggrieved.

This Tong Yan wasunambiguous: “I also love you very much now.”

Zhuo Xiang Ming wassweetly choked up for a moment, then gently asked: “Then why did you sayyou dislike me?”

Tong Yan choked forhalf a day, his face was flushed, fiddling with his fingers, but he still hadto enumerate Zhuo Xiang Ming’s criminal charges: “I dislike you going backon your word, you broke your promise.”

Last night, atfirst it was just some light back and forth teasing between them, but later,the two fell onto Tong Yan’s bed. Tong Yan slept on that bed every day; Zhuo XiangMing’s rationality was forced into ruthlessness by pheromones again. Unable tocontrol his ferocity and strength, his arms became a prison cage, hoopingaround Tong Yan. His lips and teeth only wandered around his nape, slowly butforcefully nibbling, not stopping, his hands also groping wherever they wanted.Tong Yan felt like his body was going out of his control, a French kiss positionwas almost stronger than a real knife, real spear.

Naturally, the lambwas played with to tears. After snapping out of it, he was both ashamed andscared. His mouth was red, his eyelids were red, and his neck was also red. Aggrievedlydangling his thin arms around his alpha’s neck for comfort, the extremely arousedand enduring alpha naturally agreed to anything. To say that he would immediatelydie for Tong Yan wasn’t an exaggeration, the matter of adding or not addingclothes was completely out of his range of consideration.

Love him, love himforever, mark him in winter vacation, don’t make him wear long johns, these wereall Zhuo Xiang Ming’s willing promises.

Zhuo Xiang Ming was momentarily struck speechless. Seeing Tong Yan’s seething appearance, he found it cute, but there was nothing he could do. Tong Yan had always been sensible and obedient, only revealing a defiant look when it involved secretly staying up late to watch horror movies or adding clothes.

But this was onlyrecently discovered, and it wasn’t a big problem. Zhuo Xiang Ming just thought thathe was cute. He still hasn’t noticed that, no matter what Tong Yan did, he foundit cute.

Zhuo Xiang Mingreached out to grab Tong Yan’s hand. They quietly held hands for a moment, TongYan only speaking up when he noticed the time: “I really need to go, classis starting.”

”Ok.”Zhuo Xiang Ming said, “See you this afternoon.”

Tong Yan hesitated,still holding Zhuo Xiang Ming’s hand. Imitating Zhuo Xiang Ming’s style, hekissed his fingertips: “See you this afternoon.”

After his morning conference, Zhuo Xiang Ming received a text from Tong Yan:

It was just an emoji,but Zhuo Xiang Ming immediately laughed, replying: “Not mad anymore?”

Tong Yan: My desk-matesaid she didn’t notice [Proud] [Proud]

Tong Yan: Sorry, Ishouldn’t have lost my temper this morning, maybe it’s because I was too sleepy[Kiss]

Could that becalled ‘losing temper’? Zhuo Xiang Ming swiped his phone, typing out a fewwords then deleting them. His heart was very soft, finally, he just returned TongYan’s kiss emoji.

Zhuo Xiang Ming putdown his phone, still a little confused, why did Tong Yan always think he lookedfat? He recalled his school days, thinking of what kind of thoughts he had at thattime, but he didn’t seem to have felt troubled over something like this.

Not confident in hisappearance, lacking self-confidence? Did he not give Tong Yan enoughencouragement?

The more he thoughtabout it, the more Zhuo Xiang Ming felt like he was going crazy. But when he pickedup Tong Yan that afternoon, watching him run all the way from the school gate,lively and excited, completely different from this morning’s listlessness, ZhouXiang Ming breathed a sigh of relief, realizing that he was overthinking. Heasked, “How was your day?”

”Super good.”Tong Yan said.

Usually, Tong Yan wouldsay “very good” or “OK”, this “super good” hasonly appeared once or twice, the frequency wasn’t very high.

Zhuo Xiang Ming:“Did something good happen?”

”Nah.” TongYan sat upright to allow him to fasten his seatbelt, pondering, “I just feelvery happy.”

He apparently didn’twant to say it, but it was a happy thing, so Zhuo Xiang Ming just hummed, and thetwo went home.

That evening, TongYang called and said that he would pick Tong Yan up after school tomorrow, sothey could go out to eat. Originally, Tong Yang proposed directly returning to theTong family house after dinner, but Zhuo Xiang Ming had just come back from hisbusiness trip, Tong Yan really didn’t want to separate from him. After hemmingand hawing, he finally rejected, saying that he still had homework to do andschool the next day.

”Why are youlooking at me?” After hanging up, Tong Yan also felt guilty.

”I can’t look?”Zhuo Xiang Ming turned around, “Then I’m leaving.”

Tong Yan chased afterhim and hugged him from behind, wrapping his legs around his legs. Zhuo XiangMing couldn’t move, so he had to halt. Putting on a helpless look, he looked downat Tong Yan: “I can’t look, but I also can’t leave, what’s going on?”

Tong Yan laughedand said, “Look, look, look, you can look, look until you’re annoyed.”

”Do I dare getannoyed at you? I haven’t gotten annoyed and you already dislike me.” ZhuoXiang Ming bent over and easily lifted him up by his buttocks. He took a fewsteps, then suddenly remembered, “I have something for you.”

”What is it?”He’d finished his homework a good while ago, but Zhuo Xiang Ming was busy withwork, only finding time to take care of him after he was finished. Tong Yan justwanted to wrap around him, lying in his arms, and rubbing his hair.

Zhuo Xiang Ming effortlesslycarried Tong Yan, as if he was a large hanging ornament that smelled of capejasmine, carrying him out of the living room.

He pulled out a fewpieces of paper from his briefcase and handed them to Tong Yan: “Here.”

Tong Yan received it,then he carried Tong Yan back to the living room, and sat on the rug, dragging overthe Lego set Tong Yan had been working on for several days.

Tong Yan lookeddown at the papers, discovering that it was a letter of appointment. Zhuo XiangMing’s company was Party A, and Party B was vacant, the position was Zhuo XiangMing’s senior assistant, the salary … “This is for me?” After reading theannual salary and job benefits, Tong Yan asked.

Zhuo Xiang Mingpointed to where he needed to sign: “Write your name here.” He joked,“You’ve been a legal adult for five months, you don’t need a guardian to sign foryou.”

”What…” Tong Yan grinned and rubbed against him, flipping through the pagesof the contract, “I still want to look to make sure you haven’t set a trapfor me. There are many money cheats, and beauty cheats are no good!“

Zhuo Xiang Ming hugged him frombehind, lowering his head to sniff behind his ears. He kissed Tong Yan’s cheeks,again and again, before reluctantly stopping to say: “Beauty still needs tobe cheated? I kiss when I want to kiss.” He asked seriously, as if debating,“What can you do to me?”

Tong Yan felt ticklish,shrinking his neck away: “In the end, is your company rich or poor? Youdon’t even have an RV, but you can hire an assistant for so much money. Howmany zeros are there? I’ll count.”

He deliberately teased,and Zhuo Xiang Ming replied, still with a deadpan expression: “How’s thatthe same? This is for my wife.”

Tong Yan cried outin surprise: “Then it’s too little!”

He avoided Zhuo XiangMing’s interference and climbed to another side. He looked at the proof ofincome Zhuo Xiang Ming gave him like he was looking at a treasure. Afterreading front and back, there was a letter signed by Zhuo Xiang Ming and thecompany’s financial affairs manager, and an attached bank statement: “Isthis really useful?”

Zhuo Xiang Ming:“At this income level, even buying a villa will be simple, forget aboutrenting an RV.”

Tong Yan didn’twant him to mention the RV renting event, although Zhuo Xiang Ming alwayswanted to say, “Renting to kiss is very serious business.”

However, Tong Yandidn’t raise his hackles this time, so he generously pardoned him, stillsmiling.

This thing wasn’t very useful, but Tong Yan still liked it. It was like the needs of a child playing house, others might find it childish, but why was Zhuo Xiang Ming so earnest about it? Tong Yan put away the contract and said contentedly, “Now I’m also a working adult!”

Zhuo Xiang Mingreached out and pulled him closer: “Look at the contract, there’s a trialperiod.”

Tong Yan noticed itjust now, but he didn’t take it seriously, asking: “How can I pass thetrial ah?”

Zhuo Xiang Ming rolledhis shoulders, as if he was very uncomfortable: “Begin by massaging myshoulders.”

Tong Yan held backa smile, moving behind him and asking in a very serious tone: “Boss, doyou want a general massage, or focus on your key points?”

Zhuo Xiang Ming:“Key points.”

Tong Yan gave hisbest massage, but after a few squeezes, both of them laughed. Zhuo Xiang Ming pulledhim into his arms and kissed him, saying: “Very unsatisfactory.”

”Eh?” TongYan looked panicked. “On no, what do I do boss, I really need this job.”

Zhuo Xiang Ming wasa very serious boss, what else could he do? He could only kiss and kiss him,again and again, hoping that he could manage to earn his wage.

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T/N:

real knife, real spear- 真刀真枪, idiom meaning “very much forreal”, but that doesn’t work in this context, so I left it literal

beauty cheats-騙色, pianse, to trick someone into having sex

What can you do to me-你能把我怎么着?, unsure of translation

Well, that was adorable

I was smiling the whole time, so mundane yet so sweet

🥰

Ahh more details on last night please 😛

Thank you for the chapter and for translating this beautiful story. This chapter was so adorable 😭😭

And so they live, happily wrapped around each other’s little fingers…Thank you very much for the chapter!