However, reality seemed to deviate from what he imagined. Qi Jinran carried him to the bathroom and put him in the bathtub, without a change in expression. While preparing the warm water, he brought shampoo over and lathered it on Wen Yuan’s hair. As soon as Wen Yuan looked up, he saw Qi Jinran’s pale upper body, with slightly undulating muscle lines, beautiful and powerful. He thought of some scenes last night, and his cheeks flushed.
“That… I’ll just wash it myself.” Wen Yuan curled up, not quite used to Qi Jinran taking care of him like this.
Qi Jinran didn’t force it. After preparing the bath water for him, he went to the side to wash. Soaking in the bathtub, the pain in his whole body was relieved a lot by the hot water. The curtain of the bathroom was not drawn, so after Qi Jinran washed his face, he saw Wen Yuan’s lazy and sexy look in the blink of an eye.
His throat moved, and he walked over with difficulty, and closed the curtain.
After Wen Yuan finished bathing, Qi Jinran applied medicine for him again. Wen Yuan was so embarrassed that he clutched the bathtub and refused to assume that shameful posture. Qi Jinran patiently comforted him for a long time before he reluctantly gave in.
Back in the room, Wen Yuan shrank under the quilt, utterly embarrassed. Qi Jinran asked Xue Rong to bring breakfast in directly. Smelling the fragrance of wontons, Wen Yuan swallowed, and couldn’t help lifting a corner of the quilt to look out.
He thought that Qi Jinran would go to work, but as soon as he sat up, he found him standing at the head of the bed, watching him quietly.
“You…Aren’t you going to work?” Wen Yuan was taken aback.
“I’m working from home today, and don’t need to go to the office.” Qi Jinran changed into a light-colored striped shirt, rolled up his cufflinks, and put the small table on the bed. “You get up and eat first, don’t be hungry.”
Qi Jinran accompanied him for breakfast in the room. After Xue Rong packed up the dishes and went out, Wen Yuan looked at his handsome profile, suddenly remembered something, and said cautiously, “Jinran, I have a question to ask you.”
“Ask.”
“That night on the island before, was it… the first time for you?” Wen Yuan didn’t know why he was so bold now, and even dared to ask Qi Jinran such a question.
As he expected, Qi Jinran’s expression froze for a moment, and a pale red flashed across his jade-like face.
“Yeah.” He replied firmly, as if feeling ashamed, stood up uncomfortably, and took out a book.
Hearing Qi Jinran’s answer, Wen Yuan simply burst into laughter. In fact, he didn’t mind this kind of thing. But knowing that Qi Jinran was as clean as he thought, his heart was still sweeter than eating honey.
“Then you are so powerful the first time, it’s really rare.” Wen Yuan couldn’t help sighing.
Qi Jinran didn’t want to continue this topic. In fact, he thought that his performance on the island was really bad. Several times he saw Wen Yuan breaking out in cold sweat, but the boy didn’t complain. He still feels guilty about it now.
“I asked the housekeeper to buy English copybooks, you can rest for a while and then practice calligraphy.” Qi Jinran changed the subject.
Hearing that Qi Jinran wanted him to practice English, Wen Yuan suddenly frowned.
“Ah, didn’t you ask for leave for me to practice calligraphy?”
“I promised Professor Wu, and I will definitely do it.” Qi Jinran put a copybook in front of him and said in a gentle voice, “Look over it first. I will teach you the letters you don’t know how to write.”
“Then you don’t have to work?” Wen Yuan took the English copybook, flipped through it, and yawned sleepily.
“The company has nothing right now. I’m not busy, and will be in the reading room on the first floor. You can come anytime if you have any questions.”
Hearing that Qi Jinran was going to teach him, Wen Yuan was no longer sleepy, and his whole body was full of energy. “Okay, I’ll practice well.”
He promised, but as soon as Qi Jinran left, Wen Yuan began to feel sleepy. Putting the copybook over his face, he was just about to read for a while, when the phone suddenly rang.
It was Zhang Huaite who called to tell him about going to S City to participate in the baking preliminaries next week.
“What have you been up to lately? Coming to school but not practicing diligently. You don’t want to participate in the preliminaries?” Zhang Huaite hated iron for not becoming steel.
“No, there was a basketball game at school recently, and it just finished.” Wen Yuan had no strength, his eyelids drooping as he spoke. “Huaite, how many days are there for the preliminaries? Do we have to go to S City?” Their relationship just progressed, and he didn’t want to be separated from him for a moment.
“Three days. What do you want to do if you don’t go to City S? Expect the Organizing Committee to move the contest to Wancheng for you? City S is relatively close, and we will go to City B when we enter the finals. That’s even farther away! You are young, why are you so homesick?”
Wen Yuan smiled bitterly, “I’m not a family lover, I just… I have a wedding to attend at the end of the month.”
“Wedding?” After understanding, he questioned, “Whose wedding is it?”
“Me and Jinran, we got the certificate, but we haven’t held a wedding yet.”
Zhang Huaite cursed under his breath. “Don’t tell me that the time of the match conflicts with your wedding?”
“That’s not true, the wedding is right after the match.”
“That’s okay, don’t worry blindly. It won’t delay your life-long affairs.”
After chatting with Zhang Huaite about the baking competition, Wen Yuan’s eyelids became heavier and heavier. After hanging up the phone, his head tilted, and he fell asleep.
When Qi Jinran walked in, what he saw was the scene of Wen Yuan sleeping all over the place. He smiled helplessly, put the copybook on Wen Yuan’s body aside, covered him with the quilt, and left the room lightly.
Two hours later, Wen Yuan woke up, yawned, and was a little puzzled to see himself covered with the quilt. Could it be that Jinran came in and covered him with a quilt?
Thinking of that scene, Wen Yuan felt sweet in his heart. Glancing at the copybook by the bedside, he got an idea and sat up.
He changed into his home clothes, put on plush slippers, held a copybook, tentatively went to the reading room next door, and knocked on the door.
“Come in.” Qi Jinran’s voice was low.
“I’m not bothering you, am I?” Wen Yuan was embarrassed.
“No, you want to practice writing, right? Go and sit at the table over there.”
There was a slightly smaller desk by the window, Wen Yuan nodded, sat down in front of the desk, took out the pen in the pen holder, and started practicing. After a while, he smelled a faint lemon scent behind him.
After realizing that Qi Jinran was watching him practice, Wen Yuan’s feet moved uneasily under the desk, and he almost forgot how to write.
“Why does your m look like a w?” Qi Jinran frowned slightly, and his eyes fell on the English words he wrote. “Don’t add that extra swipe at the beginning.”
“Oh, I’ll change it right away.” Ashamed, Wen Yuan started a new line and began writing. Maybe it was because Qi Jinran’s eyes are too oppressive, but he was more nervous, making the “m” even more like a “w” and even uglier than before.
Qi Jinran clicked his tongue softly. “Give me the pen.”
Wen Yuan stuck out his tongue and gave him the pen. Qi Jinran took the pen, and bent down. His right arm almost wrapped around his waist, as he slowly wrote a round and beautiful “lemon” on a new blank line.
Feeling Qi Jinran’s warm breath in his ears, Wen Yuan’s heart tightened. He didn’t even dare to breathe hard.
“Do you understand how to write?” He tilted his head slightly. His delicately carved facial features were close at hand, and his voice was low and warm.
Wen Yuan only felt that his heart was about to jump out of his chest. Qi Jinran’s beauty was really distracting. If he continued to teach like this every day, he would die sooner or later because of his racing heart.
“Understood… I understand. I’ll practice for a while myself.”
“Practice well, I’ll check later.” Qi Jinran’s dark eyes floated with a glimmer of light. After speaking, he returned to his long and large desk and a serious expression on his face.
Halfway through the meeting with the partner, the other party seemed to notice that there was a figure sitting there in the corner, and he couldn’t help smiling. “Mr. Qi, is that your assistant next to you?”
“No.” Qi Jinran paused and said again , “It’s my partner.”
His business partner heard that he was married, but he always thought that Qi Jinran and his marriage partner were in a business marriage, and had no real relationship. But Qi Jinran, who was always focused on business and wouldn’t be distracted during meetings, actually let his partner sit in his study? This is a first!
After expressing some envy and emotion, the two continued to chat about business affairs, finalizing the timeline for the new contract, and Qi Jinran ended the video conference.
Wen Yuan copied two pages seriously. Seeing that Qi Jinran’s meeting was over, he took the copybook and walked over. “Jinran, what do you think?”
Qi Jinran took the copybook and looked through carefully. Compared to the previous handwriting, these two pages are indeed an improvement.
“This ‘merry’ is well written.” Qi Jinran tapped his finger on it, with an approving smile in the corner of his mouth.
Wen Yuan was overjoyed at the compliment. Leaned his head over and squeezed in front of Qi Jinran’s desk. “Then look at this ‘watermelon’, isn’t it also well written?”
He rested his elbows on the desk, his posture bent over. When he wanted to turn the page and show it to Qi Jinran, his body suddenly lost balance, and he fell onto Qi Jinran’s lap.
Wen Yuan’s cheeks were flushed, and he quickly got up from Qi Jinran’s lap. “I’m sorry.”
Seeing Wen Yuan’s red ears and cheeks, his chest seemed to be scratched by a kitten’s claws, itchy with a subtle pleasant pain.
He was about to say something when the phone on the table suddenly rang. Glancing at it and seeing that it was Yu Heng’s call, his brows raised slightly.
Making an M look like a W… that’s impressive. A+ for doing something I didn’t know was possible, WY.
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