The Max-Level Boss Just Wants to Be a Slacker [Apocalypse] – CH50

Chapter 50: Awakening

“What?” Mo Xiu was stunned when he heard that, not quite understanding what Mo Qi meant.

Seeing the dazed look on the other person’s face, Mo Qi curled his lips into a smile and said, “I’m talking about that professor. Weren’t you looking for him? I’ve already found him for you.”

As he spoke, the man was about to tell Mo Xiu Professor Frank’s exact location. But before the words could leave his mouth, the person opposite him suddenly pulled him into a tight embrace.

“You’re saying that all the discomfort you felt just now was because you were helping me find someone?” Thinking of the man’s pale face earlier, and how he still tried to comfort him despite clearly feeling unwell, Mo Xiu felt a sharp pain in his heart.

Mo Qi had too many secrets and unknown abilities. The fact that he could locate that so-called professor through some special method didn’t surprise Mo Xiu at all.

But judging from what had just happened, it clearly came with a price.

“Why are you so foolish? At worst we’d just spend more time searching. Why would you hurt your own body like this?”

There was obvious anger on Mo Xiu’s face. It wasn’t that he didn’t know Mo Qi did all this for his sake. But compared to that professor, he cared far more about Mo Qi.

What Mo Xiu didn’t know was that Mo Qi actually loved seeing him worry about him like this.

Even Mo Qi himself didn’t know when he had developed such a strange preference. He liked how much Mo Xiu cared about him, and he wanted to occupy an even greater place in the other person’s heart.

So when Mo Xiu said those things, Mo Qi didn’t feel uncomfortable at all. On the contrary, he felt secretly pleased.

However, seeing that his future partner was genuinely getting angry, Mo Qi naturally had to show the right attitude and calm him down quickly.

He hurriedly wiped the smile off his face, stood up, and hugged Mo Xiu back. Rubbing his cheek lightly against the young man’s, he coaxed him in a placating tone.

“Don’t be angry. I was wrong. I really know I was wrong. I just couldn’t stand seeing you so anxious.”

Of course Mo Xiu understood the man’s intentions. But he still had to make his stance clear—he would not allow Mo Qi to do something so dangerous again.

If anything ever happened to Mo Qi, Mo Xiu felt that he simply wouldn’t be able to accept it.

“Don’t ever do something like this again. And if you really have to, you must tell me beforehand. Mo Qi, how many times do I have to say it before you remember?”

Seeing that the person in front of him was truly angry, Mo Qi finally became a little nervous.

He quickly pressed his face against the person in his arms in a somewhat fawning manner, then kissed his forehead and coaxed him softly.

“I know I was wrong. I really know I was wrong.

“Mo Xiu, I promise this will be the last time. If something like this happens again, I’ll definitely ask you first. I just wanted to give you a surprise. I just wanted you to be happy.”

Mo Qi kept speaking, apologizing again and again. Seeing the man’s still pale face, how could Mo Xiu bear to make him worry any further?

Especially when he said he only wanted him to be happy.

Those words filled Mo Xiu’s heart with both bitterness and a faint sweetness.

His emotions were indescribably complicated. Looking into the man’s eyes as he stared at him so carefully, Mo Xiu felt his heartbeat quicken.

And this feeling of his heartbeat losing its rhythm had not happened for the first time when he faced Mo Qi during this period.

No matter how slow he was, Mo Xiu could sense that something was different. Looking at the man in front of him, a thought appeared clearly in his mind for the first time.

Had he already developed feelings for Mo Qi that went beyond the ordinary?

Not just because of what the other person had done for him in his previous life, nor out of gratitude or dependence.

With every day they spent together, Mo Qi had become more and more important to him. And that importance had already reached the point where he wanted to spend his entire life with him, even to the extent of wanting the deepest kind of closeness and intimacy with him.

Realizing this, Mo Xiu was shocked.

So this was how he felt about Mo Qi?

It wasn’t that he rejected men being with men. He had met same-sex couples before. It was just that love had always seemed like something very distant from him.

Mo Xiu had never been in love in either of his two lifetimes. His experience in that area was zero. This was the first time he had experienced such intense emotional fluctuations—and he hadn’t expected the person to be Mo Qi.

But although it surprised him, it didn’t seem like a bad thing.

In the past, Mo Xiu had actually thought about something. Although he hoped he could stay with Mo Qi forever as the closest friend and family, what if Mo Qi fell in love with someone else in the future?

If Mo Qi ended up with someone else and even had children connected by blood, would he still be the most important person to him?

Mo Xiu had never wanted to think too deeply about this before, almost as if he had been avoiding it. In this world, he had no other relatives left. Only Mo Qi remained.

He didn’t want to imagine them becoming distant or estranged for various reasons.

But now, the problem seemed to have a solution.

Wouldn’t it be enough if he and Mo Qi simply got together?

If he and Mo Qi became a couple, they would never have to separate again.

In that case, no matter what happened in the future, no one could surpass his place in Mo Qi’s heart.

Thinking of this, Mo Xiu felt a trace of secret delight and a sense of sudden clarity.

But then he looked at the man staring at him with complete focus and suddenly felt a little guilty.

Mo Qi still knew nothing about the fact that he had started “eyeing” him like this.

Wasn’t his current behavior basically the same as that classic joke: “I treat you like a brother, but you want to make me your wife”?

But now it was the apocalypse.

Before the apocalypse, some people might still have had prejudice against same-sex relationships. But now, what could possibly be more important than survival?

Life was counting down every day. Pursuing what you truly wanted was the only sensible choice.

Fortunately, Mo Qi hadn’t been very sharp in the past. They had talked about it before, and Mo Qi had said he only started getting better after meeting him. In other words, Mo Qi had no romantic experience either, and Mo Xiu was the closest person to him.

So what if he took advantage of being close to the water and caught the moon first?

Thinking of this, Mo Xiu looked at the man who seemed uneasy because of his anger and was trying hard to please him. He sighed softly and hugged him back.

“Mo Qi, I just hope you won’t make me worry like that again. I really can’t lose you.”

He didn’t know whether the other person would understand or accept the feelings he was revealing now. But he would definitely try his best—try his best to make Mo Qi fall in love with him.

As for certain words…

Hearing the noisy commotion coming from outside the room, the exhausting mission was still ongoing. Mo Xiu suddenly felt that having so many people around was really… inconvenient.

It seemed they would have to finish the mission quickly. The rest of the matters could wait until they returned to the base.

“I know. I won’t let you lose me. We’ll always be together. This time was my fault.”

Mo Qi made the promise earnestly. Making his future partner worry like that had been his mistake.

The man reflected seriously. He had probably been used to acting alone for too long. In the future, he would have to think more from Mo Xiu’s perspective.

Hearing that, Mo Xiu’s expression finally relaxed a little. He leaned forward and, for once very proactively, kissed the other man’s cheek.

Seeing the look of joy that appeared on Mo Qi’s face, Mo Xiu felt greatly encouraged. He cautiously kissed his cheek two more times, suppressing his chaotic heartbeat as his lips brushed past the corner of the other man’s mouth as if by accident.

When he saw that Mo Qi still showed no sign of rejection, Mo Xiu felt secretly delighted.

He raised his head, his ears slightly red, pressed his lips together in a smile, and then finally said:

“Alright. Now continue—where exactly is the professor you found?”

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