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Previously: When Tianlin was a bit farther away, he popped right back up and complained unhappily. “Hmph. I’m no coward, but I can only be coquettish to Second Young Master alone!”

Li Dong almost choked again as he laughed in surprise. Damn, this little guy is too funny.

“Why are you laughing at me~ I’m telling the truth!” Xingling insisted. He declared this about himself, not caring at all that people like him often came up in conversation in the Han brothers’ circle as coquettish and coy.

In truth, so long as you are a shou, even if you not at all flirty, people will claim that you are coy and amorous.

Although Xi Xingling in reality really was incredibly flirty and coy.

Li Dong was beginning to feel even more uncomfortable now, and so he wasn’t in the mood to continue chatting with Xi Xingling. “Okay, I’m getting sleepy now. Please let me sleep for a while.” He coughed a few times, and then closed his eyes and drifted asleep.

The medication he took seemed to be working, making his sleep a lot calmer than before.

Xi Xingling: “...” he kept quiet obediently, but stayed and sat quietly beside Li Dong’s hospital bed. He went on his phone for a while, then stared at the bottle of water for a while, thinking of how fast the time was passing by even if he didn’t have much to do. After all, there weren’t many opportunities like this for him to guard over Second Young Master in this manner.

“I really want to secretly kiss you…”

Seeing that Li Dong was dead asleep, neither glaring at him nor telling him to go, Xi Xingling leaned over his bed and kissed him again.

Xingling happily kept watch over Second Young Master all afternoon. Just watching over his sleeping figure and face made him feel very satisfied, so much so that he even forgot to eat.

It wasn’t until the sun had long gone down and night had arrived that Xingling realized how hungry he is.

“What should I eat? Second Young Master still isn’t awake yet…” Xingling muttered to himself, picking up his phone and scrolling through his takeaway app.

Just then, Li Dong opened his eyes quietly, and spoke up in a hoarse voice. “Pour me some water.”

Xi Xingling was startled when he heard Li Dong speak up. “Oh, Second Young Master, you’re awake!” He became very happy. “Want to drink water? Okay, I’ll pour it for you…” There was a water dispenser in the room, so Xingling went over to it and filled up a cup. “Second Young Master, how are you feeling now?” Xingling held the cup as close as possible to Li Dong.

“I feel much better,” Li Dong said as he sat up from the bed himself, and leaned on his pillow as he had Xingling help him drink the water. After finishing the entire cup, he glanced up at Xi Xingling with a sleepy expression. “It’s so late now, do you want to go back home?” Xingling had been guarding him for most of the day right?

Xingling: “Where would I go? Second Young Master is here, so where else would I be?” He playfully hit Li Dong’s leg like a distressed little wife. “After sleeping all afternoon, are you sore anywhere? Does your back hurt?”

“...” Li Dong really felt like he had married a coquettish young wife.

“Isn’t it very uncomfortable?” Xingling asked, distressed. He raised his hand to touch Li Dong’s forehead, and then touched his own forehead to compare. “You don’t feel like you’re burning up anymore. Does your head still hurt?”

Li Dong shook his head. “I’m okay.” He felt fine now, and most of the symptoms of the cold as well as the fever were gone. “Have you eaten yet?”

“Not yet,” XIngling said, slightly annoyed. “I can’t choose what to eat.”

“How is this an issue? Just choose something you like?” Li Dong paused, and then offered, “I’ll pay.”

“Really?? Second Young Master is so kind!” Xingling chirped, and leaned toward Li Dong. He gave him a peck on the cheek, and then quickly made a takeout order of food that he wanted, which was a very expensive combo meal. “Second Young Master, do you want anything?”

“Something light.”

Xingling stayed beside Li Dong all night, taking care of him.

While Li Dong was asleep again, Yubai’s phone lit up with Han Tianlin’s call. Xingling quickly picked up the call and paced over to the window as he answered.

“Eldest Young Master, Second Young Master fell asleep,” he whispered quietly.

“It’s you?” Han Tianlin sounded annoyed, not at all hiding his dislike for Xi Xingling. “Has my brother’s fever gone down?”

“It’s gone…” Xi Xingling sounded sullen.

Han Tianlin looked at the time, “I’ll come by at 11, you can leave when I arrive.”

Xi Xingling argued back in a hurry. “What? I’m not leaving, I want to stay with Second Young Master!”

“...” Han Tianlin held back his anger as he warned the coy Xingling. “Stop pretending to be courteous in front of Yubai, I’m repulsed by your kind. Are you not disgusted by your behavior?” This Xingling liked himself, but at the same time also became infatuated with his brother. Does he think everyone can be played like a fool?

“I’m really honestly taking care of Second Young Master, not pretending!” Xi Xingling felt wronged.

“Do you think I believe you?”

Xi Xingling took a deep breath, he was still afraid of Han Tianlin, but managed to pluck up the courage to say over the phone. “Young Master, I gradually stopped liking you. I think Second Young Master is my one love.”

“Hahaha,” Han Tianlin found this funny. “Are you joking? You think someone like you can like Yubai?” He didn’t elaborate, just hung up out of annoyance.

Xi Xingling was hung up on just like this, but thinking about Han Tianlin’s last two rhetorical questions, he felt very depressed.

There was another bed in the ward for family members, and XIngling laid down on it. He tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep. He was only about an arm’s length away from Li Dong, but he still felt as if it was too far away.

So Xingling got up again, and pushed the two beds together. He then got back on the bed and cuddled close to Li Dong, hugging his arm. He then fell asleep soundly.

In the dead of the night, at around eleven, Han Tianlin hurried into the hospital as promised. He quietly opened the door of his brother’s room and saw this image of Xingling snuggling up against his younger brother. Both were asleep.

“Yawn…” When Li Dong woke up the next morning, he found a person cuddling against him, resting their head on his shoulder. He was confused, when did the other bed get moved over? “Huh?”

Xingling gradually woke up as Li Dong shifted around. He had his bangs tied up in a cute braid on front, which brushed Li Dong’s nose as Xingling raised his head.

Li Dong: “get off, my arm is numb.”

Xingling ignored this. “Second Young Master, are you feeling better today?”

“I’m okay, get off.” Li Dong found that not only was his arm numb—half his body was numb.

It was eight in the morning. After washing up a bit,  Li Dong went through the discharge procedures himself.

Xingling also tidied himself up a bit, and came over to reattach himself to Li Dong’s arm. “Second Young Master, Eldest Young Master said he would come to visit you last night, but I don’t know if he actually came. I told him that I was taking good care of you and liked you very much. Since you are being discharged now, why don’t you ask him to come pick you up?”

Li Dong couldn’t be bothered to answer. He was distracted by the leech that kept latching onto him. “Do you have no hands or feet of your own? Why do you constantly need someone else to stand up?”

“Are you angry?” Xingling asked? “Don’t be, at that time, you were already asleep, and then I fell asleep as well…”

“I don’t care about all that.” Li Dong grabbed Xingling’s collar and looked him deeply in the eyes. “Do what you want, but do not go to Han Tianlin expressing your determination towards him or me.”

Xingling shook his head blankly, and he blinked innocently. “Okay, whatever you say, I will do it.”

“...”  It seemed like his backbone and confidence were all swallowed by Li Dong.

"Second Young Master, it's almost ten o'clock. I have to call a cab and go to work. I can't ask for leave today." Xi Xingling looked at Li Dong reluctantly. Second Young Master's handsome profile made him unable to look away. "What should I do? It hurts my heart to think that I won't be able to see you even for one day."

Xingling’s white and slender fingers clasped at Li Dong’s hand, entangling him and sticking to him. Honestly, to date this kind of person is kind of torturous.

In the book, at the end, Han Tianlin was still able to stomach all of this and have passionate sex with Xingling. Li Dong really wanted to give Han Tianlin an award—it seemed to honestly be an act of heroism. “Okay, okay, go outside yourself and call yourself a car. I’m going to go have breakfast nearby.”

“...I want to have breakfast too…” Xi Xingling said, pouty. He really wanted to join Li Dong.

“Aren’t you going to be late for work?” Gosh, could Xi Xingling get anymore clingy?

“I’d rather be late and be deducted my salary than leave you.” Xi Xingling grabbed at Li Dong’s fingers, swinging his arm back and forth before turning away to convince himself to go to work, but he appeared to be struggling. He hesitated for a long while.

“Just go, okay? I don’t want to tell you again.” Li Dong ordered. He shook off Xi Xingling’s hand and walked towards the door alone. He began walking towards a breakfast shop, but glancing back casually, he saw that Xi Xingling was still there in front of the hospital, looking forlornly at him.

“...” Is this guy an idiot? Li Dong found a new understanding of the word idiocy today.

Xi Xingling lost sight of Li Dong, so he finally went to work. But he remembered that today is Friday, and Second Young Master and him had dinner plans for tomorrow. He wondered if Second Young Master still remembers?

When he arrived at the company, he first went to inform his boss that he had returned from leave, and then sat down at his desk to casually draw a sketch. He slowly sipped on a cup of soy milk and ate a small snack for breakfast, and sketched with his pencil carelessly. But even with such low efforts, the sketch he produced was capable of making his coworkers jealous.

Xi Xingling took a break to send Li Dong a message, full of expectations. “Second Young Master, I’m starting work, what are you currently doing?”

Li Dong answered patiently. “I went home to rest, you concentrate on your work.”

Xi Xingling smiled happily at this reply. He hugged his phone and kissed the message, and his lipstick left a beautiful lip print on the screen. “Of course, don’t worry Second Young Master. I will work obediently. Love you~”

After this, Xi Xingling had plenty of motivation for work. The revision of the draft he needed to complete, which had been so difficult to find inspiration for before, was much easier now, and only took one morning to finish.

He himself felt very satisfied looking it over, and immediately took it to his boss, Ms Zhang’s, office to show.

“Finished so fast?” Teacher Zhang was surprised. She picked up the paper without high expectations. She knew that Xi Xingling had taken many days off in succession. But as she picked it up and looked it over, she was surprised by this modified version. “This…”

It was such an effective design that it made her both emotional and obsessed with it at the same time. How did he come up with it?

“Director Zhang, are you satisfied?” Xi Xingling asked, optimistic. “When I drew this sketch, I felt full of love, so I think this design is really suitable for a wedding ring.”

“Indeed…” Teacher Zhang smiled softly, and then her smile grew bigger and bigger. “This one can be the final design, I don’t think there is anything that needs to change.

Xi Xingling was ecstatic to hear this. “Thank you, Teacher Zhang, I’m so happy!”

After leaving the director’s office, he immediately texted Li Dong to share the good news. “Second Young Master, I’m so happy! My sketch has finally been approved, and I want to see you later on to celebrate. Let’s have sex again.”

Li Dong: “...”

Xi Xingling: “I miss the feel of Second Young Master’s big XXX” He included a string of kissy, bute, and crying emojis. “I know this is really forward, but I really want it~”

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translator notes: extra long chapter to celebrate my return! i'm so overworked--i'm not even earning minimum wage with the research position i'm in right now, but i'm ofen workgin 8-12 hour days :(. helppppp. hope you guys are still enjoying this story! let me know if y'all have any translation requests!

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