SFBF CH74

“Of course,” Shen Qing said.

He was speaking with impassioned fervor, but Gu Huaiyu suddenly interrupted him to ask if he wanted a big shot who explicitly and clearly expressed his affection.

Shen Qing’s answer was, of course, to nod without hesitation.

“Shen Qing,” Gu Huaiyu called his name again.

The hand supporting the back of his neck slowly moved forward. His fingertips, which had turned icy cold again from being exposed to the air, brushed past Shen Qing’s ear and gently stroked his cheek.

Gu Huaiyu said, “You didn’t understand my question.”

“What question…”

His voice stopped abruptly.

—Gu Huaiyu suddenly leaned forward, his tall, straight nose almost touching the tip of Shen Qing’s nose. This made Shen Qing uncontrollably hold his breath once again:

“…!”

The other man continued to gently stroke his cheek.

Shen Qing still maintained his slightly upward-tilted posture.

Feeling the scorching heat of Gu Huaiyu’s breath, Shen Qing, not quite understanding the situation, blinked at him…

His long eyelashes fluttered like little brushes.

In the night breeze, Gu Huaiyu’s eyes were profoundly bottomless.

…

After that, Shen Qing couldn’t see anything clearly, nor did he notice anything else.

—A low-key and elegant woody scent immediately rushed against his face, and a pair of dry, slightly cool lips pressed against his.

Probing and touching time and time again, like a dragonfly skimming the water’s surface, it was completely different from the previous two times when Shen Qing had taken the initiative to kiss him.

Shen Qing: “…”

He had to blink again, but he didn’t move.

After all, at the same time, his waist was being hugged. As if not allowing him to break free, the big shot was holding him a bit tightly.

…

Shen Qing saw Gu Huaiyu’s eyelids twitch again.

As if he was narrowing his eyes.

He had to admit, the other man’s eyes were truly beautiful—double eyelids, long lashes, thin eyelids.

Yet, they were so cold and aloof.

He always carried a sense of standing high above the rest. When he looked down at people, the outer corners of his eyes still tilted upwards, giving off a chilling, indifferent, and alienated vibe.

But at such a close distance, combined with their posture and movements, it felt…

The aloofness was gone.

The fiery heat, however, was real.

…

Realizing what they were doing, and that it was Gu Huaiyu who had taken the initiative to kiss him…

Shen Qing subconsciously took another deep breath.

Because their thin lips were pressed together, he could only inhale through his nose. But holding his breath for so long still made him feel breathless. Finally, when his brain felt like it was about to suffocate, he subconsciously parted his tightly pressed lips.

“…Mm?”

And driving straight in along with the air was a strange sensation…

Scorching breaths intertwined, his waist embraced, forced to press tightly against the other man’s chest, Shen Qing: “…!”

Fuck.

A… a French kiss?!

…

A straight guy plus a virgin, someone who hadn’t been romantic in eight hundred lifetimes, suddenly making out with someone by the river… When he realized this, Shen Qing’s ears instantly burned hot. Something in his chest felt like it was about to explode, and his heart pounded uncontrollably…

He really couldn’t hold it in anymore.

He let out another “Mm” sound.

The sound was laced with a hint of unbearable tension.

“…”

Hearing this panting-like sound, Gu Huaiyu subconsciously lifted his head and pulled away to create some distance between them.

His eyes briefly darted elsewhere. Rare for him, there was a hint of constraint in his gaze, and the arms tightly wrapped around the young man’s waist gradually loosened.

Gu Huaiyu: “Sorry.”

He spoke first, his voice low and hoarse.

Gu Huaiyu’s fingers, which were resting beside the young man’s cheek, slipped down. Averting his gaze, he said, “I lost control.”

But Shen Qing, who could now breathe heavily, smacked his lips, seriously savoring the kiss from just now…

It felt… pretty good.

Shen Qing: “Want to try it again?”

“…?”

Gu Huaiyu’s gaze immediately fell back onto the young man’s face, and the hands that were about to leave his waist tightened in an instant.

“What did you say?”

He looked down at the young man in front of him from close range. On his handsome face that was usually upright and expressionless, his current expression bordered on madness and paranoia.

Gu Huaiyu tried his best to control the strength in his arms.

He didn’t want to press the other person too tightly.

Because the opposing force of his restraint was too obvious, his muscles trembled ceaselessly.

But unexpectedly, Shen Qing’s response was…

To suddenly lean forward.

Smooch.

Gu Huaiyu: “?!”

Pressing his thin lips against the big shot’s once more, Shen Qing even nudged with his tongue.

It was out of a spirit of exploration…

However, the first probe completely failed to achieve the effect he had imagined. All he could feel were Gu Huaiyu’s dry, cool lips…

Shen Qing couldn’t help but blink, feeling a bit awkward… How did Gu Huaiyu do it just now…

As he thought this, he subconsciously straightened his back, no longer sticking so close.

However, the hand resting on his waist suddenly tightened, and Gu Huaiyu’s other hand once again came up to support his neck.

The palm held his slender neck, but the fingers cradled the back of the young man’s head.

With extremely gentle movements.

Just as the young man was about to pull away, Gu Huaiyu once again took the lead and deepened the kiss.

…

It started again!

Even though he was prepared this time, Shen Qing still found it incredibly stimulating. With his whole body burning hot, he subconsciously pushed the big shot backward, making his back press against the railing again, trying to pin him down in this position and seize control of the situation.

However, he still failed.

—The height advantage meant that even if Gu Huaiyu was pressed backward with his long legs slightly bent, their positional relationship could only shift from Shen Qing being held in the arms of the slightly bowing man, to Shen Qing resting on the other’s chest like a little bird seeking shelter.

…?

Just how tall was the big shot anyway!!

…Alright, maybe it was a good thing Gu Huaiyu didn’t stand up straight…

During a moment of distraction, the situation where they were barely evenly matched suddenly changed, and Shen Qing’s territory was utterly conquered.

His air was plundered once again.

Losing all the strength in his body, he had to cling to the other man just to maintain a sliver of breath.

It turned into him completely nestling in the other’s arms.

Shen Qing was a bit unresigned at first.

But later, when he could only hang over the other’s shoulder and pant, he thought like a true salted fish: forget it.

Anyway, when it comes to kissing, isn’t it the same whoever kisses whom…

He stopped struggling.

The cool breeze blew gently.

The turbulent surging by the riverbank gradually returned to calm.

Shen Qing heard Gu Huaiyu call his name again.

“Shen Qing.”

“Hm?”

“You…”

Lowering his thin eyelids, Gu Huaiyu looked at the young man still leaning against his chest, his gaze flickering and his expression unpredictable.

“Ah?” Shen Qing was still stuck in the daze from just now and responded with a mumble.

He still felt like his whole body was devoid of strength right now, half-leaning and half-relying on the big shot, his head buried.

…Alright, it was actually more because he felt embarrassed, awkward, and humiliated, lacking the face to look up.

…He had tried to French kiss Gu Huaiyu just now, and he actually failed!

Sob sob sob.

How could this happen!

You couldn’t blame a salted fish for being so hung up on this. …If he was comparing himself to anyone else, failing would just be failing.

After all, he wasn’t some veteran in the field of romance.

But this was Gu Huaiyu!

The overachiever and top student least likely to understand these things, and the Gu Huaiyu who hadn’t even hugged or gotten intimate with anyone before!

And he was even worse than him in this aspect…

His twenty-five-year-old virgin soul had suffered a heavy blow.

At this time, it was really hard for him to immerse himself in the role of a young man just in his early twenties.

Besides, a guy in his early twenties would probably be better at it than him anyway!

…

He felt like he had been shot in the chest with another arrow.

Shen Qing couldn’t help but start feeling glad. Thank goodness the big shot had ED.

Otherwise it would be hard to handle. When the time came, he wouldn’t know how to do anything… Fuck, that would be even more embarrassing.

…

Perhaps he was destined for a platonic relationship.

No, he should say that a platonic relationship was his ultimate fate!

…

After clearly recognizing and accepting this fact, he surprisingly didn’t feel bad anymore.

Anyway, he was determined to be a salted fish who lay flat in all matters, so Shen Qing decided to continue expanding his horizons—he might as well simply admit and accept that he couldn’t match the big shot in this aspect either.

…

Right, it wasn’t like he was losing a house or land.

Besides, the big shot wasn’t laughing at him.

He lost nothing, so what was he fretting about?

Shen Qing: Suddenly perked up again!

Like regrouping his forces, he straightened his back and stood up again.

“What’s wrong?”

He pressed the other man for an answer.

In the dark night, his gaze remained crystal clear and bright.

And Gu Huaiyu, who had been observing him from beginning to end, paused and slowly said, “You don’t mind me kissing you.”

“…”

His face immediately turning red again, Shen Qing said, “I don’t mind! …We’re family, what’s there to say about minding or not minding. It’s all the same, the same.”

Unexpected, right? He had already figured it out: whoever kissed whom, it was all the same!

But upon hearing this, Gu Huaiyu abruptly furrowed his brows. His expression became dangerous, and a surge of hostility suddenly flashed between his eyebrows: “…All the same??”

“Yeah.”

Shen Qing: “Then… if you don’t mind, let me kiss you next time, yeah?”

Gu Huaiyu: “…”

His eyelids twitched unconsciously as he lowered his eyes to look back and forth at the young man, his eyes full of coldness and aloofness.

Gu Huaiyu just observed him with a scrutinizing look on his face.

A moment later, narrowing his eyes again, he said, “Okay.”

“You can kiss me.”

Shen Qing: “…Ah? Now?”

Gu Huaiyu’s answer was to twitch his eyelids again and conveniently raise his chin.

Shen Qing: “…”

So the big shot liked kissing this much?…

It must be because he had never kissed before.

This guy had finally tasted meat!

But Shen Qing really felt tired right now… His tongue was sore!

Besides, it was cold outside, and he couldn’t get into the mood. He felt that if they kissed again, it would be just like before—he wouldn’t be able to take control at all.

“…How about we go back first?” He suggested. “Aren’t you cold? I’m a bit cold. Besides, you can’t stay outside for this long…”

Gu Huaiyu continued to scrutinize him, his pale and thin handsome face tense, without saying a word.

—Since Shen Qing said to go back, he nodded and said, “Okay. Let’s go back.”

His voice was faint.

After that, pushing up with his long legs, he stood up straight.

Shen Qing: …

Staring at the big shot’s thin but straight figure, he felt that the way he looked wearing that thick cashmere coat was simply too handsome… Thinking about it, he couldn’t resist after all. He leaned over and planted a smack on the corner of the other man’s lips.

Gu Huaiyu: “…”

His tall but lean figure suddenly paused. Gu Huaiyu’s previously extremely sharp phoenix eyes were no longer sharp.

Instead, they widened abruptly.

Shen Qing had already come over to link his arm.

Gu Huaiyu slightly raised his hand, allowing his arm to be hooked by the young man, and heard him say, full of energy, “Let’s go, time to head back!”

Gu Huaiyu pursed his lips.

Still honestly following along.

President Gu’s physical exertion for the day was temporarily enough. They returned to where the wheelchair was, settled the big shot onto it, and Shen Qing turned back toward the hotel rooms with him.

Returning from the small path by the riverbank to the wide main road, several hotel managers who had been waiting on the side for a long time trotted over.

“President… President Gu.”

He wiped his sweat. “You came over, why didn’t you give us a heads up in advance…”

They had received news long ago that the Madam would be coming today. All the managers responsible for running the hotel had come to work today, worried that any unsatisfactory or inadequate performance would displease President Gu and the Madam.

But the message had said the Madam didn’t like being disturbed, so they hadn’t shown their faces.

And throughout the entire day, the Madam’s side hadn’t contacted them at all. Up until now, when the people in the private room had all left, the managers thought their main task for the day was completed.

Who would have thought that someone would suddenly tell them that President Gu had arrived? First, he went straight upstairs to find the Madam, and then he brought the Madam and the little young masters downstairs. They were currently outside looking at the little ducklings… ah no, the little cranes.

…

With this, they couldn’t not show their faces and greet him!

But when the managers trotted out and wanted to go up and say hello, from afar, they only saw President Gu’s wheelchair.

The person was nowhere to be seen.

Instead, by the riverbank far away from the wheelchair, they saw two slender figures.

It was dark and hard to see clearly, but many people in the hotel had seen the Madam today and knew what style of puffer jacket he was wearing.

…The only person who could wear such a long coat and still look so tall and slender had to be the Madam!

Combined with the fact that he was supporting another very tall person while walking, they could deduce that those two were President Gu and the Madam.

But the question was…

President Gu could stand? He could walk??

Well, whether President Gu could stand or walk wasn’t their business to manage. So despite their surprise, these people still intended to go up and say hello.

But right at that moment! President Gu and the Madam, for some unknown reason, suddenly pressed close together!

Cough, since it was so dark over there, they couldn’t see clearly what was happening… but it felt like, with President Gu and the Madam pressed so closely together, it wasn’t suitable for people like them to go up and disturb President Gu.

So they waited and waited.

They finally waited until the two seemed to separate a bit…

However, before they could even take a step, visibly to the naked eye, the Madam actually stuck to President Gu again! And then the two were inseparable once more…

Cough, cough, cough!

Understandable, understandable…

President Gu actually wasn’t that old either; he was right in his prime, full of vigor…

Everyone quickly backed away automatically a little further, terrified of interrupting President Gu’s good time.

An unknown amount of time passed before the two finally separated.

But just as everyone was about to step forward, they saw the Madam suddenly pounce forward and kiss President Gu one more time!…

Hiss.

Cough, also normal, very normal.

The Madam was even younger than President Gu.

Besides, a President Gu who had used a wheelchair consecutively for two years, whom hardly anyone had heard of leaving the house, and who had long since cut off contact with the outside world, had suddenly appeared here and was even standing up—could this be an ordinary situation?

…

Thinking of it this way, everyone completely understood.

—That must be the power of love!

Everyone definitely had no intention of going straight up to them anymore. Who knew if President Gu and the Madam would suddenly start hugging and holding each other again?

Waiting out here in the cold wind was nothing; it was refreshing. As long as President Gu and the Madam weren’t cold, it was fine.

They finally waited until President Gu and the Madam returned normally before the managers approached. When greeting them, they also saw clearly the Madam’s peerlessly handsome face at this moment—a melon-seed-shaped face, lips curled up, radiant as a spring breeze.

His almond eyes were gentle and smiling, shimmering with water.

…

No wonder he could enchant their President Gu so much, so full of vitality!

And at this moment, from the body of the energetic President Gu, a child’s electronic voice suddenly rang out.

…

It sounded like a children’s song?

While everyone was suspicious, they saw President Gu suddenly raise his wrist with an elegant and noble movement, then slowly lift his sleeve, revealing an exquisite…

Children’s smartwatch??!

Gu Huaiyu looked down at the caller ID as if no one else was there, then turned his head to tell Shen Qing, “It’s Aozai.”

Hearing this, Shen Qing first reached out to touch his pocket, then said, “I think I forgot my phone… Answer it, see what’s up.”

Gu Huaiyu directly answered the call.

The managers: “…”

Fortunately, the little young master didn’t seem to have any pressing matters. He was simply playing with his smartwatch and accidentally dialed out, calling his Big Dad.

After some communication, Aozai clarified the reason for his call, and then asked in passing, “Then when are Little Dad and Big Dad coming back?”

The tender, clear child’s voice sounded through the smartwatch, making the managers who had never interacted with the little young master clutch their chests from the cuteness.

President Gu continued talking into the kids’ watch as if no one else was around: “We’re on our way back now.”

Aozai: “Oh.”

Shen Qing added from the side, “We’ll be right back.”

“Okay then.” The milky child’s voice sounded again, full of innocence and purity: “Then Aozai is gonna hang up first!”

At that, with a click, the little young master’s adorable little voice disappeared.

Everyone watched as President Gu calmly lowered the wrist wearing the children’s smartwatch.

“…”

Everyone exchanged glances: So, President Gu was truly, truly so energetic right now!

Feeling like President Gu’s side didn’t have any further interruptions, everyone finally succeeded in greeting President Gu.

And by extension, officially met the Madam.

A couple of days ago, Assistant Li from President Gu’s side specifically came over to instruct them on the various arrangements for the Madam holding a family banquet here today. Everyone knew that the Madam’s status in President Gu’s heart was out of the ordinary.

Now seeing that President Gu even showed up in person…

That wasn’t just “out of the ordinary.”

That was extremely out of the ordinary!

Previously, they hadn’t dared to disturb the Madam.

Now that they were face to face, out of politeness, the normal procedure would be for everyone to give a self-introduction.

But this hotel had been established for five years. From the very beginning, President Gu had participated in its construction as the main investor. The key managers present were all familiar with him.

…Everyone knew that President Gu had a cold face and a cold heart, disliked speaking, and had an eccentric temper.

He didn’t like any form of useless effort outside of work, nor did he ever privately contact subordinates…

So everyone was unsure whether taking the initiative to introduce themselves to the Madam would displease President Gu.

The people present were all shrewd individuals, and as managers hired to run the hotel, every one of them was highly skilled in PR.

But even shrewd individuals had moments of pulling their hair out.

For example, when running into the unyielding President Gu.

And encountering for the first time President Gu’s Madam, who appeared beside him due to a private relationship…

However, there’s always the first to take the plunge.

This person felt that no matter how much President Gu disliked hollow pleasantries and formalities, he probably wouldn’t take issue with them introducing themselves to the Madam out of politeness.

So he took the initiative to bow to Shen Qing and introduced his name and position.

…

A man in his forties, with a clearly uncommon temperament and attire—someone who absolutely would have been Shen Qing’s boss in the past—suddenly bowing to Shen Qing and introducing himself, looking quite formal.

It made Shen Qing feel a bit unaccustomed for a split second.

But upon realizing that he was no longer his original corporate wage-slave self, he quickly regained his composure. Without even letting anyone notice anything unusual, he smiled and nodded: “Hello.”

And the other managers opposite them hadn’t expected that after this first-to-take-the-plunge manager introduced himself, President Gu actually nodded and suddenly said to the Madam: “Might as well. Since everyone is here, get to know them first.”

The shrewd subordinates: “?”

Get to know what?

What did President Gu mean by this?

But whatever it meant, since President Gu had spoken, everyone could finally stop overthinking. Those who needed to introduce themselves hurried to do so, and those who needed to hand over business cards did so.

After everyone had completely finished introducing themselves.

They saw President Gu, maintaining his usual cold and serious style, solemnly introduce: “This is Shen Qing. From now on, he is the largest shareholder here.”

Everyone: “…???”