After two or three smokes, Hua Zhendan retired to his bedroom. He had expected Xuan Tianyi to be asleep by the time he got there. To his surprise, the aforesaid was sitting on the bed, reading a book.

Without saying a word, he stepped into the bathroom. When he returned, Xuan Tianyi didn"t speak to him. He settled into bed and turning away from Xuan Tianyi, prepared to sleep. This kind of drama was very familiar to him. And frankly, he didn"t miss it one bit.

"Zhendan," Xuan Tianyi snuggled up to him.

"En?" he answered without turning around.

"Please, let"s not fight. I can"t stand it."

"Are you gonna return the wrist.w.a.tch?"

"If that"s what you want."

Hua Zhendan turned around and took Xuan Tianyi into his arms. He kissed his head, then his lips. As he pulled away, Xuan Tianyi pulled him closer and deepened the kiss.

Hua Zhendan moaned softly, then pushed Xuan Tianyi onto the bed. He straddled his boyfriend, leaned down as if to give him a kiss, then whispered in his ear, "Good thing your body doesn"t hurt as much anymore. I can do what I want with you and not feel bad."
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Despite the air conditioning in the room, two sweaty, naked bodies sat nestled in each other"s arms on Hua Zhendan"s bed.

"We should take our baths," Hua Zhendan suggested.

Xuan Tianyi nodded in agreement, but neither of them made any move to get up.

"If we don"t go now, the sweat will dry on our bodies. And that"s so dirty," Hua Zhendan persisted but made no move to stand up.

Again, Xuan Tianyi nodded in agreement but buried his head deeper in Hua Zhendan"s chest.

"I"m so tired though," Hua Zhendan said, then kissed Xuan Tianyi"s head.

"Me too," Xuan Tianyi spoke for the first time since they finished making love.

Hua Zhendan tightened his hold on Xuan Tianyi then informed him, "You"re too hot for your own good."

Xuan Tianyi gave a small embarra.s.sed laugh.

Hua Zhendan smiled because he had found that he loved it when Xuan Tianyi laughed like that. He would ask if Xuan Tianyi had enjoyed the s.e.x, but then, the other man"s moans had being a clear indication that he had. At the risk of being redundant, he kept quiet.

"Baby," Xuan Tianyi said.

Hua Zhendan smiled. "It"s not Zhendan anymore, it"s now baby, Huh?"


Xuan Tianyi nodded in agreement.

"Since when?"

"Since now."

Hua Zhendan laughed, then kissed his head for what might very well be the hundredth time. "What"s it?"

"I want to ask you a question."

"What"s it?"

"How... How many people have you been with before?" Xuan Tianyi asked.

Hua Zhendan was quiet for a moment, then replied with a question of his own. "Do you mean, like s.e.x-wise? Or relations.h.i.+p-wise?"

"Bo... Both."

Hua Zhendan cleared his throat. "You"re my second boyfriend. And the third person I"ve had s.e.x with."

Xuan Tianyi laughed, then freed himself from Hua Zhendan"s embrace so he could look into his eyes. "That"s not true."

Hua Zhendan stared at him. "Why? Is it so unbelievable?"

"Yeah. You"re so handsome and… And—"

"Well-behaved," Hua Zhendan raised himself.

Xuan Tianyi placed his head on Hua Zhendan"s chest again. The latter wrapped his arms around him. "Tell me about the other two guys."

"Well," Hua Zhendan started. "The story of one is really the story of the other. And is also the story of why I don"t get along with mum."

Xuan Tianyi nodded enthusiastically, "I wanna know."

"Okay," Hua Zhendan said. Then he started his tale. "My ex, Qiu Dawei, was my first boyfriend. We met at Bulang University, and well, dated for the four years I was a student there?"

"Then, what happened?"

"After our final exams, there were a lot of emotions running around. His family lived in Singapore and he didn"t want to go back home yet and frankly, I had no desire to be that far away from him. You know, without knowing when next we"d see. I had a business to run here in the city and knew I wouldn"t be able to travel so leisurely.

"After a couple of talks and some backs and forth, he came home with me. To stay for a while. I was still living at my mum"s."

"Did your mum know about you guys?"

"No. Not initially. After a lot of pressure from Qiu Dawei though, I opened up to her. She laughed it off as a joke. Then one day, she walked into us about to get on with the nasty. Qiu Dawei was… Well, sucking me off."

"Oh my G.o.d!" Xuan Tianyi said with a laugh.

"It"s not even funny. I was embarra.s.sed. But I was in my room, and she had come in without knocking. I believed she violated my privacy and was pretty p.i.s.sed at her. Most especially since Qiu Dawei was too uncomfortable to continue."

Xuan Tianyi laughed.

"I remember it vividly as it was the single most embarra.s.sing moment of my life."

"I can imagine," Xuan Tianyi said. Still laughing.

"Qiu Dawei and I got into a big fight afterward. He wanted me to go after her. Talk to her. I refused. I already came out to her. I didn"t see any need to do it all over again because she saw me in a precarious situation.

"She didn"t speak to me about it either. Actually, for like two days, she didn"t really say anything to me. And this was weird for everyone because outside Qiu Dawei, back then, she was the only friend I had. And I would talk to her about everything.

"Qiu Dawei thought it was crazy that I wouldn"t speak to her, so he went to talk to her himself.

"When he returned, his eyes were red and swollen. Like he had been crying. And he told me he wanted to break up.

"I asked him why, and after a lot of pressure, he told me my mum had tried to pay him off so he"d break up with me and generally, just stay away from me.

"I begged him to stay but he said he was leaving. He didn"t want to be the reason my relations.h.i.+p with my mother got ruined.

"He moved out of my house and into a small room in town.

"We talked on the phone and I went there to see him from time to time.

"When my mum saw I was depressed, she told me Qiu Dawei had accepted money to leave me alone. And that just broke my heart because I knew it wasn"t true. Vexed at my mum, I moved out of her place, and into this apartment.

"He told me he wouldn"t get back together until I moved back."

Xuan Tianyi felt his heart tightened as Hua Zhendan"s story progressed. Just how much did Hua Zhendan love that man?

"I held off on moving back because I felt he"d give in to me. We had dated for four years after all and I thought I knew him that well. We had s.e.x a couple of times, but that was it.

"One day, I went to visit him, and some other man, a younger man, that was wearing nothing but a towel opened the door. Asking me who I wanted to see. Like that was his apartment.

"Well, I did the next best thing I could do then. Find comfort in a brothel. Then snapped pictures of myself and the man I had slept with to him."

"How"s that the next best thing?"

"I was young and stupid."

"Ah!"

"I felt really stupid though because Qiu Dawei didn"t reply me. He just acted like he didn"t see the pictures.

"Anyways, Cheng Jian was the second person I ever had s.e.x with and was my go-to person whenever I needed a f.u.c.k."

"Up till now?"

Hua Zhendan glanced at Xuan Tianyi. "No. Till a couple of months ago. After our first night together, I never f.u.c.ked him again."

"Don"t tell me you were keeping yourself for me," Xuan Tianyi grinned.

"You wish."

"So?"

"Well, after our particularly adventurous night together, after you left, I felt very cheap. Like I was used and dumped. So I decided I didn"t want to do that to someone else." "Oh!"

"Yeah… Anyways, what about you? How many people have you been with?"

"Ah! Do I have to answer?"

"Yes. You have to."

"Well, s.e.x-wise, I don"t know. A lot. Relations.h.i.+p-wise, Just you."

"Just me?"

"Yup."

"No relations.h.i.+p at all?" Hua Zhendan asked in disbelief.

"No. The closest I had was when I was at the orphanage. At the age of fourteen, I discovered I was kind of turned on by boys. So, I would stare at them a lot.

"There was this guy, I guess he noticed me staring at guys a lot. One day, he took me to the bathroom and kissed me. I liked it so I kissed him back. With time, we just tried out a lot of stuff together. Any time we were alone.

"One day, he wanted me, but I wasn"t in the mood, so for the first time since we started exploring with each other, I turned him down.

"He asked if I turned him down because there was someone else, and I told him he was never my "someone" in the first place and he got mad at me. I really didn"t see him as more than a f.u.c.k buddy.

"Next thing I knew, people were talking about how there was a f.a.ggot in the orphanage. And I was the f.a.ggot. The administration gave me a las.h.i.+ng for it too."

"Wow!"

"Yeah. The only person who really stood by my side through it all was Xuan Tianmei. She told me it was okay to like what I liked and that everyone turned against me only because they were jealous of how handsome I am."

Hua Zhendan smiled. "For a fourteen years old girl, that was some forward-thinking."

"That"s how she started calling me Xiao Shuai as a pet name. And I would call her Pretty Pretty, which is more like a play on her name.

"After that incident though, sometimes, a guy would just come up to me and propose to have something s.e.xual with me. If I tried to refuse, they would threaten to tell everyone that I came onto them. So I just went along with it every time."

"That"s terrible."

"I know. They weren"t always like that though, some of them were really nice. But I never really got attached to anyone.

"I was pretty, people wanted me. It was all really about my beauty and nothing else. That was what I thought."

"So c.o.c.ky."

"You know, after being with a lot of guys, I developed an almost 100% accurate gaydar. So that first day I saw you at Xuan Tianmei"s office, I knew you were gay.

"When it seemed you didn"t want me, it concerned me. Bothered me so much that I wouldn"t stop thinking of you. You were in my head so often, it was as if you became a part of me."

Hua Zhendan smiled.

"Then in those moments your eyes showed me you cared, I just couldn"t stop myself from falling in love with you. I didn"t really know what I was feeling though. I was nervous around you all the time and just thought that I was intimidated by you. That day you gave me your credit card was the day I realized I was in love with you. The next day, the day you had me arrested, I was going to ask you out."

"You would never let me live down the fact that I had you arrested, would you?"

"No, I wouldn"t."

"I deserve that."

Xuan Tianyi got serious and continued, "Now that I"m here, I don"t even remember the things of the past. All I know is that I wanna be the best me I can be and make you happy anyway I can. If that"s okay with you."

Hua Zhendan kissed his head as his reply.

"The wrist.w.a.tch I got you. I didn"t get it for you because it was expensive. I know that"s what you think. That I"m trying to buy your love. I got it for you because when I saw it, I thought it would look good on you. Admittedly, it"s pricey but I really wanted to see you wearing it."

"Fine, I"ll keep it."

"Really?" Xuan Tianyi disentangled himself from Hua Zhendan"s arms again and wearing a smile, stared into his eyes.

"Yeah. But don"t buy me something so expensive next time. Ill rather you got it for yourself instead." Hua Zhendan stole a small, quick kiss from Xuan Tianyi.

"Unless I like it for you, right?" Xuan Tianyi asked with a hopeful smile on his face.

Hua Zhendan smiled. "I guess that"s a reasonable loophole."

Xuan Tianyi smiled again and nestled himself in Hua Zhendan"s arms one more time.

"Can I ask about your family?"

"There"s not much to tell. It"s just my sister and me."

"Like, right from time?"

"Well, we had our grandmother but she pa.s.sed away when we were still kids. It was more like, she went out one day and didn"t return. No one really knew what happened.

"Xuan Tianmei would go out, then come back with food. I guess she used to go out to beg. She"s a lot more mature than I could ever be."

Hua Zhendan smiled. He was almost in love with Xuan Tianyi"s sister. "She"s the older twin, isn"t she?"

"She is. And most times, I don"t like that, but I pretty much don"t have a choice."

"So, how did you and your sister get into the orphanage?"

"I think one of the neighbors called social service or something. One day, two people just showed up, put us in a car and took us to the orphanage."

"No one adopted you guys?"

"People did. But never together.

"Earlier, Xuan Tianmei and I vowed to never separate, so when someone adopted one of us, we always tried so hard to be bad kids so they"d bring us right back to the orphanage.

"At some point, the orphanage stopped trying to separate us because they knew that would never work. But no one wanted to adopt twins.

"At the age of 17, we were required to leave the orphanage. It was overdue anyway. We lived on the street for about two years, then we lived in a dorm. When we started doing literally any job we could find, we were able to afford an apartment around Pingjing, so we took that."

"The first day we met, you told me you finished from the University."

"It was a lie. I stopped at highschool. I was trying to pick you up. Was I supposed to tell you I don"t have a university education?"

Hua Zhendan smiled.

"You don"t mind it very much, do you?" Xuan Tianyi asked cautiously.

"I don"t mind it at all. You had a difficult childhood. You deserve a break." Hua Zhendan kissed his head.

"To be honest with you, I didn"t like college very much and would"ve dropped out after my first year. I mean, I already owned part of my mum"s business when I turned 18. I didn"t need it."

"Then why did you go?"

"At first, my mum wanted me to just try it out. She was the one who gave me the option to drop out after my first year if I didn"t like it."

"And you still didn"t like it?"

"No. Not at all."

"Why did you continue?"

"Qiu Dawei and I were already together and it was the only way I could be with him."

"Oh!" Xuan Tianyi"s chest tightened at the mention of that name. He disentangled himself from Hua Zhendan once more. "Well, I"m sleepy. Aren"t you?"

"Are you sleepy? Or jealous?"

"Very sleepy. I"ve got to be at the gym before 7 am tomorrow. Need to get up early." Xuan Tianyi lay down, with his back facing Hua Zhendan.

"Xuan Tianyi," Hua Zhendan called out to him.

"En?" he answered.

"Everybody has a past. Qiu Dawei is my past and I can"t do anything about that. Right now, the only thing that matters is the present. You are my present and I am madly in love with you."

Xuan Tianyi turned around. It was the first time Hua Zhendan had openly confessed his love to him. With a big grin on his face, he replied. "I love you too."

Hua Zhendan chuckled at Xuan Tianyi"s big smile. He leaned over and kissed him on the head again. "Let"s go have our bath, you dirty thing."

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