Chapter 47: Bullied and Missing!
What had he been about to do again?
Right—lecture the little monster for eating recklessly!
“Cen Miaomiao, if you eat random things again, I’ll tell your classmates that you have ten pounds of poop inside your stomach,” Qin Zelin leaned close to Cen Miao’s ear and whispered.
Cen Miao’s mind went blank for a moment. He froze, his eyes widening in shock.
“???”
“Ahhh~~~ You can’t~~~” His face filled with panic, and he burrowed frantically into the crook of Qin Zelin’s neck. “You said… you said you wouldn’t tell anyone.”
Qin Zelin reached out and pinched Cen Miao’s soft cheek, lowering his gaze to look at him.
“Didn’t you also promise me that you wouldn’t eat recklessly anymore? Did you keep your promise?”
“I won’t eat recklessly anymore. I really won’t.”
Cen Miao pouted pitifully. From struggling against Qin Zelin’s grip, the corners of his eyes had turned faintly red, and his raven-feather lashes trembled.
Qin Zelin’s eyes darkened for an instant.
After releasing him, he rubbed his fingertips together and said in a low voice, “Enough. Stop acting spoiled.”
“You can’t tell anyone.”
“Mm. You can eat these things occasionally, but not every day. Do you understand?”
“I understand.” Cen Miao hurriedly nodded obediently.
“Mm, good. Sit properly.”
Once Cen Miao turned around, Qin Zelin took out his phone. He pressed his thin lips together and sent a WeChat message.
[Qin Zelin] What are you doing?
[Qin Zelin] Off work?
[Qin Zelin] ?
[Qin Zelin] Another surgery?
[Shao Siheng] Jerking off.
[Qin Zelin] At this hour???
[Shao Siheng] Is that a problem?
[Qin Zelin] Are you sick? You’re still replying while doing that?
[Shao Siheng] You were messaging like someone was dying. I thought it was urgent.
[Qin Zelin] He’s far too clingy with me now. Whenever he gets the chance, he tries to kiss me and keeps acting spoiled.
[Shao Siheng] I said I’m fucking jerking off.
[Qin Zelin] Mm. The moment he got into the car just now, he kissed me. He must have spent the entire day thinking about me.
[Qin Zelin] I’m worried that he’s fallen so deeply for me that even after his PTSD improves, he won’t be able to pull himself out.
[Shao Siheng] Are you sure you want to discuss him with me while I’m doing this?
[Qin Zelin] But if I don’t treat him well and show him care, how will his PTSD ever heal?
[Qin Zelin] Message sent, but rejected by the recipient.
“…”
The following afternoon after school, Cen Miao stared at the familiar fork in the road.
After hesitating for a long while, he ultimately didn’t dare turn into it.
On the way home, while waiting for the traffic light to change, Cen Miao suddenly saw a black-and-white puppy dart out from the flower bed beside the road.
“!!!”
It was Maomao!!!
The puppy was about to be run over by a car turning out of the intersection, and the vehicle showed no intention of stopping to let it pass.
Cen Miao abruptly accelerated his electric scooter and rushed forward.
By the time the Mercedes driver saw Cen Miao, it was already impossible to avoid him. Although he sharply turned the steering wheel, the car still collided lightly with the scooter.
The owner stormed out of the car. Seeing Cen Miao fallen on the ground, he immediately began cursing.
“Are you fucking stupid? You saw my car was expensive and deliberately threw yourself in front of it to scam me, didn’t you? Can you afford to pay if you damaged it?”
Cen Miao rubbed his aching wrist. After confirming that Maomao hadn’t been hit, he turned around and said softly, “I’m sorry. I only did that because you were about to hit Maomao.”
“I can pay you.”
The owner froze for a moment when he saw Cen Miao’s face.
Then he looked over Cen Miao’s electric scooter and glanced at the ordinary mixed-breed puppy beside him. The anger vanished entirely from his face.
Changing his attitude completely, he stepped forward and grabbed Cen Miao’s arm, attempting to help him up.
“You definitely can’t afford to pay for my car. How about you spend one night with me, and I won’t make you compensate me?”
The man’s hand slid down Cen Miao’s arm until it gripped his wrist, his gaze glued to Cen Miao’s face.
Although Cen Miao didn’t understand what he meant, he instinctively detested the way the man looked at him.
He struggled to pull back his hand, but the grip only tightened.
“Let go of me.” Irritation entered Cen Miao’s voice.
“Let you go?” The man sneered. “It only costs me a little money to hire a male escort. Repainting my car will cost two hundred thousand yuan. What are you going to use to pay?”
“Spend one night with me obediently, and I won’t pursue responsibility for the accident. How about it?”
As he spoke, the man raised his other hand, intending to touch Cen Miao’s cheek.
Angry and anxious, Cen Miao lifted his free hand to stop him, but the man easily restrained it.
Furious, Cen Miao opened his mouth and viciously bit the man’s arm through his suit jacket.
“Fuck!”
The man hissed in pain. His grip on Cen Miao’s wrists abruptly tightened, and his gaze turned vicious.
“You fucking dared to bite me?”
“Hey, he already told you to let him go and said he’d compensate you. Why are you still grabbing him? If you keep this up, I’m calling the police!”
“Exactly. If he hit the car, just handle the compensation according to the rules. In broad daylight, he’s actually trying to molest someone.”
“Call the police. Call them.”
Several bystanders who could no longer stand watching began speaking up one after another.
The man’s face alternated between green and white, but his attitude remained arrogant.
“Go ahead and call! Whoever doesn’t is my grandson! I know people at the police station too!”
“He just bit me. Now I don’t only want compensation for the paint—I’m also pressing charges for intentional assault!”
The police car soon arrived at the scene.
Cen Miao boarded it while holding the puppy, and the man was taken in another vehicle.
Cen Miao took his phone from his pocket, intending to find Qin Zelin, only to discover that the screen had shattered in the fall. Pressing the side button produced no response either.
Ever since arriving in the human world, Qin Zelin had always been with him at home, while Chengcheng was with him at school.
Now he was suddenly surrounded entirely by strangers, and he had no idea where they were taking him.
Cen Miao was terrified.
“I want to find my husband,” he said softly, his voice trembling with tears.
“Once we arrive at the station, we’ll notify your family,” the officer replied evenly.
Cen Miao’s eyes turned red.
“But I want to find my husband now.”
“…We’ll notify him when we get there.”
Seeing that he was frightened, the officer softened his voice and patiently repeated himself.
Not long after they arrived at the station, a man came out of the office and instructed the officer beside Cen Miao, “Take him inside and lock him up for now.”
The young officer froze.
“Team Leader Liu, we haven’t investigated what happened yet, and we haven’t notified his family.”
“What else is there to investigate?” the car owner immediately interrupted. “He hit my car, refused to compensate me, and bit me. I want a medical examination!”
“Little Li, take him to the nearby hospital for an injury assessment first,” Liu Jian ordered another officer in a tone that allowed no argument.
The young officer beside Cen Miao now understood.
The man probably had some unusual relationship with the team leader.
With no other choice, he took Cen Miao to the temporary holding area. Seeing how timid he was, he specifically arranged an empty room for him.
“I don’t like it here. I want to find my husband.”
Cen Miao stared at the room before him.
It looked very similar to the room where his caretaker daddy had hidden him when their base was destroyed.
He didn’t like it.
The young officer took pity on him and softened.
“Then tell me his phone number. I’ll call him for you.”
Cen Miao shook his head blankly.
“I don’t know.”
At the villa, when Qin Zelin arrived home, his gaze habitually swept toward the sofa.
The television was off, and the person who usually sprawled there watching it was nowhere to be seen.
He turned to Little Li.
“Cen Miao hasn’t come home yet?”
“No, Young Master. Sir hasn’t returned. He usually gets home before you. I don’t know whether his class ended late today.”
Qin Zelin’s brows immediately furrowed.
A strange, inexplicable unease surged through his heart.
He took out his phone and called Cen Miao.
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