Chapter 111: Drunk Confession and Chaos
Because the preparation had been thorough, the negotiation went even more smoothly than expected.
They successfully signed the contract with the Gu Corporation.
After hearing the news, Father Ling even called specifically to praise him. “Lingling, you were amazing, so outstanding, my precious son, wuwuwu…”
In the system world, any achievement would normally be converted directly into points as a reward. It would not come with such emotionally intense feedback.
It was the first time Ling Ling had been praised by an elder, and he felt very happy.
Who said intern systems were all useless little failures?
Hadn’t he done a great job?
He had even been praised by his human father while on vacation.
“Thank you, Dad.”
Following human social customs, Ling Ling answered modestly, “It was all because Senior taught me so well.”
That only made Father Ling happier. “Nephew Shen is truly capable. Keep following him and learn everything you can. If these old bones of mine could still handle it, I’d want to learn from him too!”
“…Maybe not.”
Ling Ling could not bear to shatter his father’s fantasy, so he only said, “Dad should just rest. Learning everything would only hurt you.”
He thought of the thing he had learned the most.
A faint blush rose across the little boy’s thin skin.
Under Senior’s careful “instruction,” even his kissing skills had improved. Now he could kiss continuously for over ten minutes without panting hard!
Senior had taught him that when your face felt burning hot, that meant you were shy.
And shy things could not be told to your father.
Ling Ling pursed his lips and added, “Dad, tonight I want to celebrate with Senior, so I’ll be back late.”
“It’s fine even if you don’t come back!”
Father Ling desperately wanted his son to spend more time around the talented young man from the Shen family, so that he could retire in peace sooner.
The future of the Ling family depended entirely on his precious son!
“Go, go, have fun! Don’t be stingy—if you need money, Dad will give it to you!”
“There’s no need. Senior won’t let me spend money…”
Ling Ling himself was also a rich second-generation kid, so he was not short on money. But ever since staying with Senior, he had not found a single chance to spend any.
Even “tuition” had been paid by scanning mouths…
After finishing the call with his father,
Ling Ling hung up and rubbed his burning cheeks.
When he turned around, his eyes met the man’s gray ones.
Because of the cool-toned color, those eyes looked somewhat cold at first glance. But once Ling Ling remembered the heated gaze the other always gave him after every kiss, his face grew even hotter.
While he was on the phone, had Senior been looking at him like that the whole time?
Such a deep, burning look…
Could it be that he wanted to praise him too?
Feeling shy yet full of anticipation, Ling Ling blinked at the man.
His eyes clearly said: If you want to praise me, go ahead. I’d love to hear it!
Shen Si did not understand what the little system meant. Unable to resist, he lowered his head and pecked him lightly on the lips. “We’ll kiss more when we get back.”
The little one was so enthusiastic that it was hard to do anything with him.
“???”
Ling Ling was baffled after being stolen a kiss, his almond eyes widening. “I wasn’t asking for a kiss…”
“Then why were you looking at me like that?”
Shen Si sounded completely reasonable. “If you look at me like that, what else could it mean except that you want a kiss?”
Ling Ling’s thoughts got completely tangled up in kissing. He shook his head and argued on firm grounds, “You were the one looking at me first!”
The man did not deny it and continued staring at him. “Yes. So?”
The conversation was about to drift toward the classic “What are you staring at?” “I’m staring at you, what about it?” territory.
Ling Ling quickly dragged it back. “I thought you wanted to praise me!”
“Is that so?”
The main system had no habit of praising anyone.
Whether something was done well or badly, points should have been enough to explain everything.
But since the little one wanted it, the all-capable main system could certainly satisfy such a tiny request.
Shen Si cleared his throat and rubbed the little system’s silky soft hair. “You did very well. Keep it up.”
Because he had no experience praising others, the words came out dry and stiff.
They were nowhere near as emotionally rich as Father Ling’s.
But receiving praise from Senior made Ling Ling even happier. He stretched a hand out to the man. “High five!”
In human society, people often used this kind of fun gesture to celebrate victory.
He had wanted to try it with someone for ages!
“Childish.”
Shen Si complained.
But looking at the little one’s bright, sparkling eyes and that pale soft hand, he still cooperated and slapped his hand against it.
Then, after the high five, he drew his hand behind his back and closed it into a fist.
As though he were hiding the little system in the palm of his hand.
Just then, Gu Tang and Gu Qinian walked over from behind Shen Si.
The man’s lingering little movement after high-fiving his little one was caught red-handed.
“Pff—”
Gu Tang struggled to hold back his laughter.
Gu Qinian showed absolutely no mercy: “Heh.”
Shen Si’s face darkened. “What the hell are you laughing at? The big iceberg smiling like that is enough to break your whole character setting.”
President Gu gave no particular reaction. “I’m just happy for you.”
“…”
You weren’t supposed to hit someone who was smiling at you.
Since Shen Si could not pick any fault with Gu Qinian, he said irritably, “What are you two doing here?”
You’re ruining the atmosphere!
“Mooched dinner.”
Gu Tang answered with complete confidence. “You’re celebrating, right? How about adding two more people?”
Shen Si answered without hesitation, “No.”
Ling Ling said at the same time, “Sure, sure!”
The two spoke almost together.
Which was extremely awkward.
Shen Si glared at the silly little system and gritted out, “Didn’t you say you wanted to celebrate with me?”
Ling Ling blinked at him innocently. “But with two more people it’ll be livelier, and Baby Tang will be there too…”
The moment he heard the little system affectionately call Gu Tang “Baby Tang,” Shen Si got a headache.
He turned to Gu Qinian. “Aren’t you going to manage your own person?”
President Gu wrapped one arm around his little partner’s slender waist and touched his own ear with the other. “Sorry. My ears are soft.”
His ears were soft, which meant he listened to his wife.
Things like whether to eat with friends could be arranged by his wife however she wanted.
Shen Si rolled his eyes. “You’ve got a lot of nerve laughing at me when you’re like this.”
Gu Qinian smiled faintly. “We’re not the same.”
Shen Si asked, “How are we not the same?”
“The relationship isn’t the same.”
Gu Qinian carried the obvious sense of, if I don’t show off, I’ll suffocate, and said, “Gu Tang and I have a marriage certificate. What about you? What do you have?”
Shen Si: “…”
The main system felt like a dog who had been walking along minding his own business, only to get kicked for no reason.
Gu Qinian patted his friend on the shoulder. “Keep working at it.”
Shen Si: “…”
Wonderful. After kicking him, the man had also force-fed him dog food.
And it was lemon-flavored!
In the end, they still went to celebrate together.
Ling Ling and Gu Tang were cheerful the whole time, while the other two men were completely numb.
Gu Qinian wanted to go home early and have some private time with Gu Tang.
Shen Si, meanwhile, radiated gloomy energy because his one-on-one time with Ling Ling had been ruined.
That night, Ling Ling drank quite a bit. The alcohol rose to his head, and he excitedly lifted his glass. “Cheers!”
“Let’s celebrate…”
After several rounds of toasting, he suddenly could not think of a reason.
The pitiful little system without a number thought for a long moment and finally declared, “Let’s celebrate that I’m not useless!”
“Of course you’re not!”
Gu Tang was very encouraging and clinked his glass against Ling Ling’s. “You’re the best!”
The two crystal glasses rang out with a crisp clang.
Ling Ling boldly drank the whole glass in one go. “I’m the bestest!”
Shen Si reached over and took his glass away. “Stop drinking. You’re already slurring.”
“Give it back…”
Ling Ling protested, waving his little arms around. “Baby Tang’sh also drinking. Why ish he not slurring?”
Shen Si lifted the glass to a height the little boy could not reach. “He’s drinking juice!”
At the side, Gu Qinian was busily topping up his little partner’s strawberry juice, one glass after another.
Gu Tang rested his chin on his hand, smiling as he watched the two men bicker and fuss with each other. In a small voice, he said, “See? This vague, ambiguous stage of being in love is the very best part.”
“Every stage with us is the best…”
President Gu bent down and murmured something in his little partner’s ear, turning Gu Tang’s face bright red.
Gu Tang poked him in the chest. “Don’t make trouble. We’re outside.”
Gu Qinian curved his lips. “Then let’s try it when we get home. We’re legal, after all. There’s no need to envy other people.”
Gu Tang nodded with a red face.
On one side of the table, the married couple were full of private longing; on the other, Ling Ling had gotten tipsy again and was still trying to wrestle the wine glass back from Shen Si.
“I’m not drunk! Not drunk!”
“And I’m not slurring either!”
Ling Ling widened his eyes and tried hard to straighten his tongue, solemnly emphasizing every word.
But the moisture in his eyes betrayed him.
Shen Si did not believe him at all. “Heh.”
Since he couldn’t get the glass back, Ling Ling became anxious. “Then inspect me if you don’t believe me!”
As he said it, he parted his rosy lips and, with zero caution, opened his mouth wide for the man to look. He even stuck out his tongue on purpose. “Look!”
“…”
Shen Si’s gaze instantly darkened.
“Can you shee yet?”
Ling Ling, slurring badly, tugged on the man’s sleeve.
If Senior finished checking, then he could take his tongue back in. Holding his mouth open was tiring!
But the man said nothing at all, only kept staring fixedly at his mouth.
“Hey! You’re so slow!”
“If you can’t shee clearly, you’ll know after a kiss!”
With his mind completely fuzzy, Ling Ling simply wrapped his arms around the man’s neck and kissed him directly.
Shen Si’s gray pupils shrank abruptly.
Other than that one time when the little system had been drugged, he had never seen the little guy take the initiative like this.
Unlike his previous clumsy kisses, after recent “training,” the little system had actually learned how to?? tease his tongue. He was still adorably slow and clumsy, but soft and sweet.
More than enough to stir up Shen Si’s interest.
Unfortunately, before Shen Si could savor the kiss properly, the little guy suddenly stopped moving.
Literally stopped moving.
That soft little tongue just drooped there lazily, and he even forgot to pull it back.
Shen Si: “?”
When he drew back a little, he realized the little guy had actually fallen asleep while still holding the kissing posture.
Shen Si: “…”
The Gu couple at the side were practically dying from suppressed laughter.
Because Ling Ling had drunk himself into sleep, the celebration had to be paused.
They casually agreed to meet another day, and Shen Si carried the little boy away in his arms.
He carefully set him in the car.
Fastened his seat belt. Started the engine.
Shen Si swore that his original plan had been to act like a complete gentleman and send him home.
Although he had developed human emotions, the main system did not really have many human desires. If the person in front of him was not the little system, he would be utterly frigid.
And even when it came to the little system—for the main system, consciousness still mattered more than the body.
The little system had discarded their shared memories and could not even remember who he was. And right now, he was drunk on top of that.
What was the point of taking advantage of someone in that state?
He really could use the chance while the boy was drunk to bring him back, trap him in a room—no, on a bed—and take from him as he pleased, until the little thing’s legs were so weak he could not even stand.
But no matter how many times he did it, if the little system’s heart was not with him, it would all be meaningless.
And it was not as though he had never tried before.
He had tried using physical pleasure to make the little system dependent on him, unable to leave him—in previous small worlds, he had pet and toyed with the little system while he was a kitten until his tail could not even lift anymore.
When the little system turned into a shell, he kneaded him until the shell would not close again.
When the little system turned into an angel, Shen Si gave him his first embrace as a vampire and possessed him again and again, making him dependent on Shen Si’s body and blood, so that he could only be imprisoned by him.
And yet every time, he failed.
The first two times, the little guy tried to run away.
The last time was even worse. After taking the reward points, he directly chose to forget Shen Si completely.
Even in the current small world.
They had already slept together. They had kissed.
So what?
That heartless little thing still only treated him as “Senior”!
Shen Si pressed harder on the gas, driving with an increasingly irritable mood.
They were already halfway home. In less than ten minutes, they would reach the Ling residence.
After a nap, Ling Ling woke up.
The sleep had only slightly restored his energy. It had not sobered him up completely.
The flush brought on by alcohol was still present on his face.
Ling Ling rubbed his misty eyes blankly, then turned to look at Shen Si. “Senior…”
Hearing the little one call him, the man gave a low “Mm.”
Still dazed, Ling Ling asked, “I did well today, right?”
Shen Si answered with another “Mm,” in the tone one would use to placate a child.
He needed to hurry and get the little one home.
That clingy, soft little tone of the system’s had too much effect on his emotions.
He was already close to losing control of his heartbeat.
“If I did well, then why didn’t I get a reward?”
Ling Ling suddenly remembered something and frowned unhappily.
Do well, get rewarded—that was a system’s habitual way of thinking.
Shen Si sighed helplessly. “What do you want?”
“I want a hug!”
The little boy enthusiastically stretched his arms toward him.
If he had not been buckled in by the seat belt, he probably would have pounced on him already.
Shen Si sucked in a sharp breath. “Behave. We’re still on the road. We’ll be at your house in a minute.”
As he spoke, he stepped harder on the gas.
He needed to separate from the little system as quickly as possible.
The feeling that he was about to lose control made every nerve in Shen Si’s body tighten.
Unable to reach him, Ling Ling drooped his head and called again in a somewhat disappointed voice, “Senior…”
“What?”
Shen Si’s voice had gone slightly hoarse.
Ling Ling lifted his head, tilted it, and looked at him. Then suddenly he said, “I like Senior…”
“!!!”
Shen Si nearly drove straight into the bushes.
For one instant, he actually heard the sound of his own nerves snapping.
Ling Ling, still drunk and muddled, kept talking nonstop. “Senior’s the best, I like you…”
The car was pulled over into a safe spot near the greenery.
Shen Si’s chest rose and fell as his heart hammered wildly. “Say… that again?”
Since he could not get the hug he wanted, Ling Ling tilted his head and leaned against the man’s broad shoulder, rubbing against it like a kitten. “I like Senior the most. I like you, like you, like you!”
He repeated it again and again, each time louder than before.
The last “like you” was practically shouted.
In contrast to the little system’s emotional excitement, Shen Si’s ears seemed to hear nothing else in the whole world except that repeated “like.”
Lowering his voice, he asked carefully, “What do you like about me?”
“So many things!”
Ling Ling started counting them out on his fingers. “Senior is handsome, can make money, is gentle and kind, and can make me feel good too, hehe…”
When he reached that last point, the little system’s face became even redder.
“…”
Shen Si fell silent for a moment, and felt rather guilty.
Everything else aside—who on earth was he talking about when he said “gentle and kind”???
Shen Si could not understand how he had somehow left the little guy with such a completely absurd impression of him.
“Baby Tang and President Gu look so happy,” Ling Ling continued, dreaming wildly. “After getting married, they live together, see each other every day, and will never be separated.”
“I want to marry Senior too!”
Human rules obviously meant nothing to a system and the main system.
Whether they got married or not was, in theory, not important at all.
And on top of that, the little one was clearly just babbling nonsense while drunk.
But even so, Shen Si could not help asking, “Are you serious?”
Ling Ling nodded.
The man’s heart began racing even faster.
But very soon, Ling Ling shook his head again. “But we can’t get married…”
That was no kind of sugar to place right by someone’s lips and then snatch away again.
Shen Si’s Adam’s apple rolled. “Why can’t we?”
“It just can’t happen…”
How could a system marry a human?
They did not even exist on the same dimensional layer of time and space.
Thinking of that made Ling Ling sad, and his head drooped.
Shen Si, however, guessed what the little one was getting tangled up about and said in a low voice, “There’s nothing that says we can’t.”
The power to make the rules was in his hands.
If he said they could, then they could.
Restarting the car,
Shen Si turned it in the opposite direction and drove toward his own home with Ling Ling in the passenger seat.
Ling Ling drowsed off again in the car and never even realized that he had been taken somewhere else entirely.
In his haze, he felt the car come to a stop.
The door beside him opened, and then he was lifted out.
His eyelids were too heavy to stay open, but out of instinct, afraid of falling, he wrapped his arms around the man’s neck.
Only after they were already inside the house did he lazily force his eyes open. “…Where’s my dad?”
“Sleeping at home.”
Senior’s voice sounded from above him, vibrating through his chest.
Ling Ling raised his head and looked around. Instantly, he sobered up by seventy percent. “This isn’t my house!”
Shen Si answered calmly, “That’s right. This is my house.”
“Your dad is sleeping at home. We’re sleeping at my place.”
There was still alcohol in Ling Ling’s system.
So for the moment, he did not even detect anything wrong with that statement, and only nodded foolishly.
Senior’s logic seemed pretty sound.
Seeing that the little system was nestled obediently in his arms without making a sound,
Shen Si simply carried him into the bedroom and tossed him directly onto the bed.
The mattress was soft and springy.
Ling Ling did not hurt himself at all. Instead, he bounced twice on it and burst into delighted laughter. “That’s so fun! Throw me again!”
The little system’s innocent appearance was extremely cute.
Shen Si curved his lips. “There’s something even more fun.”
“Really?”
“But aren’t we supposed to go to sleep?”
Ling Ling blinked blankly.
If they were already in the bedroom, then what else was there to do besides sleep?
Right after that, he watched the man take off his own coat.
Ling Ling looked even more confused. “Why are you taking your clothes off here? Aren’t you going back to your own room to sleep?”
“This is my room,”
Shen Si answered truthfully.
Ling Ling, who barely understood human living habits in the first place and was even slower from alcohol, just gave a dazed little “Oh.”
That answer was so adorable that Shen Si lifted his chin and kissed him once.
The kiss lasted a little too long.
By the time Shen Si let him go, Ling Ling was so dizzy that he suspected the alcohol had surged up again.
Released at last, he collapsed weakly against the bed. His body had turned soft and limp, and his head swam.
“So tired…”
Ling Ling forced open his misty eyes.
He saw the man remove his tie and start undoing the buttons of his shirt.
As each button was loosened one after another, the shirt opened downward from the collar, revealing a sexy neck and collarbones, and there was a pendant hanging there.
The pendant rested against a firm chest, and lower down were abs with exquisitely defined lines…
Though the shirt was still draped on his shoulders, opening only a narrow strip, the half-covered look somehow made it even more sensual.
Ling Ling hurriedly covered his face with both hands.
Then, between his fingers, he stared with wide, round eyes. “Ah! You have no shame!”
“If you’re so shy, then why are you still peeking?”
Shen Si laughed, amused by the little system. “You’ve learned a few concepts and now you’re using them carelessly. This doesn’t count as shamelessness.”
As he said that, he began undoing the belt at his waist.
“This is what counts as shameless.”
Ling Ling let out a sharp scream. “Aaaaaahhh—”
“What are you yelling for?”
Shen Si slowly tossed his trousers aside. “Good thing this is a villa district. Otherwise all the neighbors would’ve woken up from your screaming.”
Ling Ling’s pupils expanded. His face became so red it looked ready to catch fire. “Senior, y-y-y-you, what are you doing?!”
His good Senior had not only taken off his own pants—he had immediately turned around and started stripping his off too.
Poor Ling Ling was still half-drunk, his body limp and weak.
He put a hand on the man’s shoulder and tried to push.
The man did not move.
Instead, the motion only seemed to help peel his clothes away.
With that weak push and pull, the shirt that had merely been hanging over the man’s shoulders slipped down onto his arms.
Ling Ling gasped. “Sorry!”
“It’s fine. It was in the way anyway.”
Shen Si simply took the shirt off completely.
Without the cloth hiding him, his broad shoulders, narrow waist, and lean strong body were revealed all at once. The visual impact was overwhelming.
Help—
Ling Ling heard a loud boom go off inside his own head.
His CPU seemed to have exploded.
“Hey. Wake up.”
His cheek was lightly patted twice.
Ling Ling stared blankly. “Mm… mm??”
The second he came back to himself, he realized that he had been stripped completely bare. Terrified, he immediately curled up his two pale legs and tried to burrow under the blanket.
Like a startled little rabbit that couldn’t find a hole.
Unfortunately, before he could crawl fully inside, his ankle was caught.
“You said you liked me. Was that a lie?”
Shen Si’s voice was low.
Ling Ling hurriedly shook his head. “No, no, it wasn’t a lie…”
He did like Senior.
But he could not use drunkenness as an excuse to act insane again.
As a system, although he had taken on a human body and could be influenced physically by alcohol, he would not black out completely just because he was drunk.
He was fully aware of every crazy thing he had said and done.
Even the last time, when he had been influenced by drugs, he still remembered very clearly how he had used Senior as his antidote.
And honestly, he had worked pretty well.
But that kind of shameless thing—doing it once was enough. How could he keep taking advantage of Senior again and again…
No, no, no, no!
“Since it wasn’t a lie, then be good.”
Even as he said that, the man did not issue him any specific order. He simply reached out and pulled him back out from under the blanket.
“!!!”
Ling Ling only had two hands, but his whole body was exposed.
He did not know what to cover, so in the end he just covered his face, ostrich-style, thinking: if I can’t see Senior, then Senior can’t see me either.
In reality, Senior had already seen everything clearly.
Shen Si’s gaze darkened further. Reflected in those gray eyes was a beautiful human body.
So human bodies could really be this beautiful…
Only because his little system lived inside it.
Seeing that the little system was so embarrassed even his toes had gone red, Shen Si felt incredibly happy.
In the past, what he felt most often were negative emotions. Pain. Headaches. Misery.
This was the first time he had ever felt this happy, this joyful—so much so that he was actually grateful for the fact that he possessed emotions at all, because without them he would never have been able to perceive something this beautiful.
Even Shen Si’s voice carried a smile now. “If you like me, then prove it.”
No one had even touched him anywhere yet, but just from being looked at, Ling Ling was already panting weakly.
In a tiny voice, he asked, “…How do I prove it?”
Then he heard the man’s deeply magnetic voice murmur at his ear—
“Don’t be afraid. I’ll teach you.”
“…”
He had heard that sentence somewhere before.
In a very distant place.
From someone who had seemed very important.
But the harder he tried to remember who that person was, the deeper the emptiness became.
Ling Ling regretted it now.
He should never have traded his memories to the main system for a discount on the small world.
It had been far too bad a bargain!
He felt as though he had lost something extremely important…
The hands covering his eyes were pulled away. It seemed the other was determined to make him watch the whole process.
But all Ling Ling could see was a blur of light.
The figure bent over him against the backlight.
The long pendant hanging around the other’s neck dropped against Ling Ling’s chest and swayed again and again.
Panting with difficulty, Ling Ling grasped at the pendant like a drowning man clutching a piece of driftwood.
Shen Si’s gaze darkened. In a hoarse voice, he asked, “Do you want it?”
Inside the pendant was his memory.
Their past.
Yet the little system only shook his head in confusion.
Ling Ling: “No…”
His thinking was very simple.
How could he casually take someone else’s belongings?
Especially something worn so close to the body, hanging at the neck and resting near the heart.
It had to be a treasure of the utmost importance…
Seeing the little system shake his head, Shen Si narrowed his eyes dangerously.
So incredibly…
unwilling to remember me?
Ling Ling had no idea why Senior suddenly became even more forceful, as though he were angrily gambling over something. The man held his waist so tightly that he could not escape…
The next day,
Ling Ling woke up with his hair sticking out in every direction like a bird’s nest.
The moment he sat up, he discovered he was in an unfamiliar room.
Something like this had happened before.
Only last time it had been a hotel. This time, it was Senior’s home…
Taking a deep breath, he turned to look beside him—and unlike last time, this time the other man was still sleeping beside him.
The man’s face looked clean, composed, and handsome, completely devoid of any trace that he had spent the entire night indulging himself…
Maybe he had only dreamed it?
But once his gaze dropped lower, he quickly realized that was impossible.
The man’s broad back and side ribs were covered in scratch marks, and there were even several round bite marks on his shoulders.
Memories of all the over-the-top things they had done last night rushed back.
Ling Ling’s pupils shook violently.
This was bad!
He had gotten drunk and taken advantage of Senior again!
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