The wind picked up at night, and it was getting a little cold, so the outdoor barbeque came to an end. Mu Chuanbai was tired, and took the car back directly. Lu Qi blushed and patted his belly, expressing that he wanted to walk back in order to digest.

Two people walked back along a small road that was different from the traffic lane. This trampled path had a different kind of wild charm. Small, unknown wildflowers were blooming in the last remaining warmth of summer, and the fluffy dog’s tail grass were like natural cat teasers.

Lu Qi plucked them as he walked, holding small handfuls of the fluffy things in his hands to take back to Xiao Sanhua and the little black pig.

“Okay, that’s it.” Lu Qi clapped his hands. “They will dry up in a couple of days. If the cats scratch them and drop seeds all over the ground, it won’t be fun.”

Mu Nanqiao saw that he had stopped plucking grass. Bending down, he motioned for him to come up, and carried him safely on his back.

“I told you I want to digest, ah.” Lu Qi rubbed Mu Nanqiao’s ear with the dogtail grass. “How can I digest with you carrying me?”

Mu Nanqiao hefted him, and Lu Qi hurried to hold him tightly.

“Your foot isn’t healed yet, so you can’t walk back.” Mu Nanqiao laughed and hefted him again. “Does this count as digestion?”

“Isn’t this for your digestion?” Lu Qi grasped Mu Nanqiao’s shoulders in surprise. “I’ve gained some weight, but you still have no trouble carrying me, ah.”

Lu Qi had indeed gained some weight, but it was hard to tell because of his height. It was just that he was finally not so thin anymore. His cheeks had gained some flesh, and his overall complexion had improved visibly to the naked eye.

Mu Nanqiao was very satisfied with the results of his feeding. He placed his hand at the bend of Lu Qi’s knee and squeezed his calf.

Plop—

A drop of rain fell and Lu Qi touched his hair. “Ah…..Mu Nanqiao, it’s raining, run quickly!”

Mu Nanqiao: ……

If he must run quickly, he would run quickly, but something didn’t feel right.

The rain came quickly and heavily, and there was no shelter from the rain on the path. When the two people entered the house, they were soaked by the rain. Auntie quickly put blankets on the two of them, and Mu Chuanbai urged them to go upstairs and take a hot bath. Mainly, he urged Lu Qi.

Mu Nanqiao seemed to be accustomed to this fatherly kindness and filial piety, and took Lu Qi up to his room. 

Lu Qi thought that since Mu Nanqiao didn’t come home often, there wouldn’t be many things in his room. But unexpectedly, the room was full of traces of life. There were comics and novels on a bookshelf, a big white goose pillow on the bedside, and on the windowsill was a small villa model made of glued chopsticks……

As if time was frozen here, Lu Qi suddenly saw a young boy walking around the room.

He turned his head curiously, and his vision was blocked by a goose-yellow towel. Mu Nanqiao rubbed his head and stuffed him into the bathroom.

“Take a shower first, don’t catch a cold. Then come out and look again.”

What replied to him was a loud sneeze that echoed throughout the bathroom.

Mu Nanqiao went to a guest room to shower. When he returned, Lu Qi had not yet come out. There was the gurgling sound of water in the bathroom, along with the faint sounds of fighting and dialogue.

Lu Qi liked to listen to a radio drama recently. He listened to it while showering and hummed along with the ending song.

Mu Nanqiao sat on the chair in front of the table, listening to the rustling sounds in the bathroom. The corners of his lips curled up uncontrollably.

The things here were all used by him before he entered high school. The previous house was sold for Mu Chuanbai’s medical treatment, but Talia stored all these things away and put them in the new house later on.

He almost never stayed here. The warmth of this bedroom gave him a sense of separation, and he sometimes felt that time was strange.

But tonight seemed different. Wind and rain howled outside the window and the world was dark, but bright light shone from the window and the person he liked was bathing comfortably and humming a song.

After a while, he would come out enveloped in hot and humid moisture and softly ask for a kiss or a hug.

Everything was beautiful, as if those two years never existed. He studied, worked, lived beside his parents, and fell in love. Now he took his little boyfriend back to the room where he had stayed for many years.

For the first time in many years, he relaxed in this room. His eyes fell on those old things again, but his thoughts were on how to introduce these things to the curious little deer so that he wouldn’t be bored.

The bathroom door opened a crack and the little deer stuck out his wet head. His cheeks were a pinkish white from the steam, and his moist lips were slightly open as he looked out.

Mu Nanqiao stood up. “What is it?”

“It feels so hot.” Lu Qi hid behind the door, revealing half of his pink-white shoulders. “I don’t have a change of clothes.”

Mu Nanqiao understood. He turned around and went to the dresser to get some for him.

He had changes of clothes here, so when he took a set and handed them through the crack in the door, he said purposely: “They’re new.”

Lu Qi held the dark blue pajamas in the bathroom, thinking that it didn’t matter if they were new or not. When he opened it, he found a piece of black fabric, and almost threw the clothes away.

When he changed clothes and came out, Mu Nanqiao was crouching by the window sill, holding small tweezers to repair the small house. He turned around when he heard the sound of the door opening.

His clothes were too big for Lu Qi, and the trouser legs and sleeves had to be rolled up. The neckline was also large, and his collarbones were distinct and beautiful, his cool white skin like porcelain against the dark blue stain.

Mu Nanqiao’s Adam’s apple rolled, and he lowered his gaze with restraint.

But Lu Qi came over and crouched with him, looking at the small house. “Is something broken?”

“No.” Mu Nanqiao coughed, but his voice still sounded hoarse. “The glue has opened in some places. I’ll just re-glue them and it will be fine.”

“Oh.” Lu Qi asked, “Did you make it? I know this, it’s a manual homework assignment from kindergarten.”

Mu Nanqiao gave an “en” and smiled. “Does your foot still hurt? Don’t crouch down, I’ll pick it up and show it to you.”

Lu Qi said “oh” and got out of the way obediently.

Mu Nanqiao picked up the small house and placed it on a taller cabinet nearby. He didn’t need to bend down, and Lu Qi could just see it when sitting on the edge of the bed.

But Mu Nanqiao had more important things to do now. He went to the bathroom to get a towel and came back to wipe Lu Qi’s hair.

Lu Qi raised his head in an agreeable manner and looked at Mu Nanqiao’s waist through the swaying gap in the towel.

Mu Nanqiao was wearing pajamas of the same style, but black in color. It seemed that because he put them on his body before wiping off, the clothes stuck to his waist and abdomen from time to time. Lu Qi looked for a while and couldn’t help but stretch out his finger to poke it.

Before the finger could retreat, it was caught by Mu Nanqiao.

“Are you teasing me?” Mu Nanqiao lowered his eyes and looked at him.

“I’m not.” Lu Qi said earnestly: “I’m just curious. You seem to not have exercised for a few days, but you still have eight-pack abs?”

Mu Nanqiao laughed in spite of himself.

“That little abacus is clacking. In the end, it turns out you are greedy for my body.” He tossed away the towel and lowered his head, hooking Lu Qi’s chin. “You can look, but there is a charge.”

He kissed Lu Qi, but on his palm.

Across the palm of his hand, Lu Qi’s round deer eyes curved with a smile. “I’m looking at my boyfriend, why are there conditions being put forward? No kiss for you.”

“No kiss?” Mu Nanqiao raised an eyebrow.

Lu Qi regarded him warily. “What are you going to do?”

Mu Nanqiao smiled, his fox-like eyes gleaming. His arm around Lu Qi’s waist suddenly exerted force, and he picked him up and placed him on the cabinet. Wedging his waist between the other’s legs, he lowered his body.

Behind him was a wallpaper-covered wall, and there was no way for Lu Qi to evade. Mu Nanqiao’s kiss was a little fierce today. He struggled and pushed a couple of times, and his lips were bitten fiercely. He couldn’t help but groan in grievance.

Then the kiss became restrained and gentle, like a wild beast retracting its fangs. The tip of a tongue soothed that bitten place and then lingered, deep and entangled.

Lu Qi liked when Mu Nanqiao kissed him like this. He hooked his hands around the back of Mu Nanqiao’s neck and chased him with some eagerness, unknowingly hanging in his arms.

Their breaths were mixed and heated. Mu Nanqiao became fierce again. Lu Qi couldn’t breathe, and turned his head to shy away, but Mu Nanqiao simply changed his target and brushed Lu Qi’s earlobe with his teeth, sliding down little by little to linger on the side of his neck.

“Hot…..” Lu Qi moaned dizzily, feeling a little oxygen-starved. Something seemed not quite right. The heat made him dizzy, and an indescribable hotness spread along his spine.

“Wu…..” His eyes widened in a panic, and he reached out to push Mu Nanqiao.

But it was already too late. They were so close that the change was clearly noticed. Mu Nanqiao stopped kissing and raised his head. His lips were slightly open as he panted a little. With crimson eyes, he lowered his head.

“Don’t look!” Lu Qi grasped his chin to prevent him from looking down. He was really embarrassed and said, “I…..I…..”

Although he usually felt this way while kissing him, this was the first time he had a direct reaction. Lu Qi pulled his legs back a little and pressed his knees against Mu Nanqiao’s waist and abdomen.

“You move away…..” Mu Nanqiao refused to move, and even pushed his knees away.

“Be good, it’s okay…..” Mu Nanqiao coaxed softly, his voice low and seductive, his desire suppressed to the extreme. “You like me, right? Lu baby? You like me…..so this is normal…..”

Lu Qi buried his head between the other’s shoulder and neck and whispered: “I know…..but it’s so embarrassing. ah…..”

“There’s nothing to be ashamed of.” Mu Nanqiao tilted his head to kiss his earlobe, and moved his waist. “I like you too. I like you the most.”

That shocked Lu Qi into forgetting his embarrassment, and he looked at Mu Nanqiao blankly for a moment, his lips trembling. “Why are you so…..”

Mu Nanqiao kissed him and didn’t let him say a word, otherwise the night wouldn’t end. He kissed Lu Qi, took him off the high cabinet, and sank onto a soft quilt instead.

What happened next was hot and chaotic. Dark hair was creased from being kneaded. Lu Qi tried to push that hand away, but another hand grasped his wrists and pressed them above his head gently but unyieldingly. The tips of his eyes were red, and his temples were wet with physiological tears. His legs bent uncomfortably and were pinched by the waistband of his trousers, creating red marks.

Mu Nanqiao kissed his tears away and coaxed him in a low voice.

It actually felt really good, but he felt like he could drown in it. 

Lu Qi tried to curl up, but the big fox pressed forward forcefully and held down his wrists.

“Детка…..” His kisses fell lightly, and he begged movingly, but his movements were very forceful. “Help me.”

His deep features, immersed in desire, were astonishingly handsome. Lu Qi was dazzled by his beauty and blinked his wet eyelashes in a daze with a soft nod. “Okay, hurry up.”

Mu Nanqiao acquiesced ambiguously.