EHEWASS CHAPTER 91

Chapter 91: Ye Zeqian

Thinking back on it, for a long, long time his impression of this world’s shou male lead came straight from what was written on the page. There was nothing he had truly felt for himself.

All of a sudden, from the moment they registered their marriage, Li Dong felt as if he could reach out and touch the real person. He was facing someone living and breathing, not a virtual character.

“What are you staring at?” Ye Zeqian dodged Li Dong’s surprised look. He had no idea how he had the nerve to say something that shameless. “You never seen anyone better looking than you?”

“Ah.” Li Dong touched his own face. “Can’t say I have.”

Propping his cheeks with both hands, Ye Zeqian suddenly did not feel thick-skinned at all, because the man in front of him was thicker.

“Come on. The staff are off the clock. Let’s not block the door.” Li Dong took his newlywed spouse by the hand and started forward. “Are you going back to the company?”

“No.”

“Then let’s hit the market and go back to my place for dinner. Any objections?” Li Dong looked at him.

They had just gotten married. Sharing dinner on their first night as registered partners felt like the most natural thing in the world.

“Mm.” Ye Zeqian nodded. “Do you live alone?”

“Yes.”

“When do you plan to make the marriage public?” His questions came one after another, calm and self-possessed on the surface.

“We will pick an auspicious day,” Li Dong answered one by one, the ends of his brows carrying the proper degree of newlywed joy.

“Good.” Ye Zeqian said, “No matter what, we have to admit we rushed the decision. It is not the right time to announce it.” In his view, they should allow a buffer, let things settle.

“General Manager Ye is right,” Li Dong said, opening the passenger door. “Please get in, General Manager Ye.”

Standing by the door, Ye Zeqian glanced at him, uneasy. “Before we got married you called me ‘baby.’ After we got the certificate I am ‘General Manager Ye’?”

“Well, does that not feel a little fake to you?” Li Dong remembered the earlier times, calling him baby and darling left and right. He honestly did not know whether Ye Zeqian liked that style.

“…” Ye Zeqian frowned and let it go. They had agreed at the start that this was a marriage built on personal and family conditions, not feelings. He got in.

“Seatbelt,” Li Dong reminded him.

“I know.”

A noisy wet market, dirty floors, all kinds of smells. For Ye Zeqian, this was a death zone. He feared wet markets.

Watching the way the shou male lead tensed up, Li Dong finally understood why people thought he was aloof and restrained. In many down-to-earth parts of life, you simply could not find him. It was as if he lived in a different dimension where there was no mess, no bad odors, no unpleasant sights.

Could such an environment exist in the real world?

Not really. The world Ye Zeqian tried to maintain stood a long distance away from reality, and he had been carefully protecting himself all along.

“You can wait in the car. I will go on my own?” Li Dong asked.

“I will think about it.” Ye Zeqian peered out, and Li Dong’s voice came at his ear. “Stop looking. You probably will not be able to handle it.”

“It is not that dirty.” He unfastened his belt. “I will go with you.”

“I think you can do it too,” Li Dong said in that always-pleasant way. He got out and waited so they could face the market together.

Ye “the floor is filthy” Zeqian stepped through the doors and was hit by that special layered market smell. Instant regret.

“Come on.” Li Dong took his hand and threaded through the crowd like a fish. “With all these fresh ingredients, do you not feel your appetite picking up?”

“…” One glance at the raw pork on the chopping block and he shut his eyes at once. Otherwise there would be no meat on his plate tonight.

“Two jin of ribs,” Li Dong told the butcher.

“Got it.” The butcher kept sneaking looks at the handsome pair. “Done with work and shopping together, eh?” He smiled. They looked like a couple.

“Yes. Has business been good today, boss?” Li Dong pulled out his wallet.

Listening to Li Dong chat so easily with a pork seller, Ye Zeqian felt as if he were watching a foreign film. He probably had never said a single word to a butcher in his life.

“Here you go. Steaming or braising?” the butcher asked.

“Thank you, boss.” Ye Zeqian reached out to take the bag. A pampered young master’s hands next to the butcher’s made a stark contrast.

“…” Li Dong blinked, then rubbed his nose. Ever since meeting Ye Zeqian, he had been shocked again and again by things that were perfectly ordinary for other people, but not ordinary at all for Ye Zeqian.

“Give it to me.” Li Dong took the bag. Maybe next time he would let him do more.

They loaded the groceries into the trunk.

“Feel like you survived a disaster?” Li Dong asked as they got back in.

“Why not call it a new life?” Ye Zeqian said.

“That is fair,” Li Dong thought. Marriage is the start of a new life. It can be very exciting. He hoped the other man was ready.

Traffic was still soul-crushing on the way back. “Lean back and close your eyes,” Li Dong said. “It’ll be dark before we get home.”

“I am not sleepy.”

“Close your eyes anyway. It helps.”

“Do I need President Xu to schedule whether I lie down or sit up and chat?” Ye Zeqian muttered.

“…” Moments like this, Li Dong found him not cute at all.

Ye “said the wrong thing” Zeqian: “…” The sudden silence was the worst.

“Do you want to kiss me?” Li Dong kept his eyes on the road.

“Sure.”

“Then wait for the light up ahead,” Li Dong said.

It was about a hundred meters away. Ye Zeqian stared without blinking, waiting for the stop.

“When I say kiss, I mean on the mouth. Please note.” Li Dong turned, cupped the back of his head, and leaned in.

“…” His lashes fluttered, then he shut his eyes like a hero heading to the gallows.

It came like a whirlwind, swept him up, and retreated. The one impression left behind was warmth and dampness.

“Disgusting?” Li Dong asked.

“No.” Staring out the window, Ye Zeqian thought of something entirely unrelated to kissing. When he was a kid, he once flew with his father to Siberia to see the snow. He was too young to appreciate ice and sky then. All he remembered was looking like a ball in his coat, and the cold.

By the time they pulled up below the apartment, the sky was fully dark.

“Come in,” Li Dong said, taking him upstairs.

Curious and conflicted, Ye Zeqian stepped into the flat. He did not feel any sense that this space also belonged to him.

Li Dong told him to sit. He sat on the sofa, stiff with propriety.

“Zeqian,” Li Dong called. No “baby,” no “General Manager.” Just his name.

“Mm.” Ye Zeqian lifted his eyes, waiting.

“You feel this marriage is not quite real, and part of you regrets it or does not know what to do,” Li Dong said. “I will give you time to think things through. Until then I will treat you as a friend.”

He carried the groceries into the kitchen and got to work. White shirt sleeves rolled to the elbow, forearms firm, knife moving with clean focus.

“That is a hurtful thing to say,” Ye Zeqian stood in the doorway. “I do not want to be someone you can take or leave.”

The knife paused. “…” So they were going to have their first newlywed fight tonight?

“Xu Chaoyan,” Ye Zeqian said.

“When did I say I can take or leave you?” Li Dong asked. “Can you start from your own needs and ask whether you need me?”

“Where did you get the idea that I do not?” Ye Zeqian said. When Li Dong turned back, he looked away.

“…” Li Dong suddenly felt like the bully here.

First night of marriage, following him alone to a stranger’s home, with no blessings from family or friends, and a husband with no foundation of feelings. When you thought about it that way, it was pretty miserable.

“Forget cooking.” Li Dong put down the knife and washed his hands.

“…” Lips pressed tight, Ye Zeqian turned and walked out.

“Where are you going?” Li Dong came out and found the living room empty, the balcony empty. He stuck his head out. “Crap…” There he was, just leaving the building.

“Hey!” Li Dong shouted from the balcony. “Stop right there!”

Ye Zeqian heard him, glanced up, and walked twice as fast.

“Drama king…” Li Dong hurried back inside, grabbed his keys, and rushed out in house slippers. The floor was not high, so he took the stairs at a run.

“Do not touch me,” Ye Zeqian said with a cold face.

The next second he yelped. “Hey—” The world spun. He thumped at Li Dong’s back, slung over his shoulder. “Xu Chaoyan!”

A family out for an after-dinner stroll came toward them. Ye Zeqian’s pale face went red, then dark, as if he would explode. “Ah—”

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Carrying a man well over a hundred jin back upstairs left Li Dong a little winded. “Stop wriggling. If I drop you it is not my fault.”

“Put me down!” He pounded at him.

“Not yet.” Li Dong opened the door, went straight to the bedroom, and stopped by the bed. “Now.”

He tossed him onto the mattress.

“What are you trying to do?” Panic-stricken, Ye Zeqian tried to crawl up, but the soft bedding dragged him back down. “Xu Chaoyan.”

Then he watched the man at the bedside strip with brisk efficiency.

“You said I can take you or leave you,” Li Dong said as he unbuckled, trousers dropping. Ye Zeqian’s long narrow eyes were round as coins. “That is not true.”

“You do not have to…” He broke off and clicked his tongue. Li Dong had stripped bare, a clean, powerful body in full view. “Put your clothes back on.” He tried to sound commanding.

If his face had not been so red, it would have worked better.

“This will not do and that will not do. What do you want then?” Li Dong said. “If you want me, say it. There is no shame in it.”

Speechless, Ye Zeqian lay back and covered his eyes with one hand. He felt like a baked fish, burning hot all over. He wanted to get off this unfamiliar bed, and at the same time he did not want to.

There is a saying, that anyone over 25 who has not dated either has impossibly high standards or problems in personality or body. It is not always true, but still…

He was 27.

“I will help you undress,” Li Dong said. Of all things, he was not great at undressing another person.

“When you dated before…” Ye Zeqian began.

“I did not do this,” Li Dong said. If it made him happier, he would say it.

“Hmph…” Ye Zeqian lifted his hips to make it easier to pull off his pants.

Long straight legs stretched over white sheets. The effect was intensely provocative.

Li Dong could not help stroking along one thigh, hand drifting up to the waistband as if to tug the underwear too. He thought for a beat and decided to leave the last layer for now.

“General Manager Ye, the most important thing in living together is mutual trust.” Li Dong braced one hand by his ear and lowered his weight. “If you trust me, I will not let you down.”

“…” Looking away, Ye Zeqian gave a tiny nod.

“What are you staring at over there for? Is that nicer than my face?” Li Dong pinched his chin back and kissed him.

He traced the shape of his lips, coaxed them open, slid in and tangled his tongue. The wet sound of kissing filled the room. Cheeks burning, Ye Zeqian let a small, helpless sound escape his throat.

Li Dong rolled them so that Ye Zeqian lay on top, still in only a shirt and underwear, hands braced on Li Dong’s shoulders, restrained and flustered, trying not to melt.

“Smack.”

Li Dong swatted that perky butt once, then kneaded the firm curve in his palm.

“Ah…” His face went scarlet, shame and heat making his voice waver.

Li Dong kissed down the elegant line of his neck, leaving little red marks, like plum blossoms on snow, startling and lovely.

“Baby.”

“Mm…” Under that fierce, tender attention, his eyes turned hazy. Clothes crooked, sprawled on top like a rose opening in the wind, painfully tempting.

To spare him any feeling of being overpowered, Li Dong kept him on top throughout the foreplay, teasing until his breath turned rough. When the time came to move things to the bathroom and get him ready, they went, half coaxing, half insisting.

They came back to bed with two bright red scratches across Li Dong’s face. A souvenir from the preparation just now.

Both were men. After the friction and bumping in the bathroom, both of their belows were achingly hard. This time he could not leave Ye Zeqian on top. He was forced to lie on the bed, legs lifted up, forming an M-shape toward Li Dong.

“Breathe…” At this point neither of them had much left to say. All of their focus fell into one place.

Li Dong pressed one hand on the other’s leg, one hand caressing around the other’s entrance, then sending two fingers in, slowly entering and exiting, continuing preparation.

“Ah...” Ye Zeqian cried out uncomfortably.

First time being touched there, he truly had no pleasure. Even the erect place in front wilted because the entrance was being fingered.

Li Dong before was only preparing, hadn’t deliberately looked for where Ye Zeqian’s spot.

Now seeing the other’s front had softened, he began searching for the spot.

“Better like this?” he asked, somewhat unable to find it.

“No…” Ye Zeqian truly couldn’t feel pleasure. Through clenched teeth, Ye Zeqian kicked him once. “Forget it. I do not like this…” Him allowing Li Dong to touch with fingers was already very incredible.

“Let me find it.” Li Dong frowned. “Be patient, alright?” How to live a lifetime with incompatible sex life?

“…” The look he got for that was murderous. “Easy for you to say when you’re not the one being topped.”

“If you want, you can top me,” Li Dong said. He simply withdrew his hand, body leaning up. Supporting his own ferocious-shaped treasure, he slides in without warning while Ye Zeqian stared, dumbstruck.

“Ah…” Ye Zeqian gaped, with incredulous eyes staring at Li Dong, he just went inside him.

“It should not hurt much,” Li Dong said. “I did the prep very well.” But first time would still hurt and feel very full. So he started very gently.

Fingers had been too short to find what he wanted. This was long enough. When the tip brushed it, Ye Zeqian’s whole body shivered. That place desperately contracted, squeezing until Li Dong gasped.

Been too long since he’d done this. He really feared lasting three seconds.

“Relax…” he said, panting.

Ye Zeqian could not hear him anymore. All he felt was numbness flooding his lower body, a completely different kind of pleasure.

It got tighter and tighter around him. Li Dong held his hips and moved. Slow, steady, learning what worked.

“Ah… ah…” Ye Zeqian gripped the sheets and moaned, eyebrows tight, the room filling with rhythmic slapping sounds and his breathy cries.

“You are this loud at this speed…” Li Dong could not help speeding up. His strong waist snapped forward, thick length surging in and out of the tight heat.

“Ah… ah… ah!” Tears prickled in Ye Zeqian’s voice. It was much faster and harder now.

Li Dong lifted him against his chest and stood, taking the weight and driving up into him. This position tested the gong’s stamina. One careless move would drop the partner to the floor.

Ye Zeqian fearfully hugged the man’s shoulders tight, legs forcefully clamping the other’s waist.

“Here?” Li Dong tried different positions just to find what made his partner most comfortable.

The answer came as a sharp bite to his shoulder, hard like he’d been stimulated. “Ugh, ah! Ah!”

From his reaction, he could tell he really liked this position.

“You’re comfortable but still bite me!” Li Dong most hated this kind of selfish, show-off person. Who doesn’t know you’re comfortable?

But standing took it out of him. Three minutes was already a victory. He set him back on the bed.

Drenched in sweat, dazed and flushed, Ye Zeqian looked up at him. “What is wrong?” More?

Li Dong had a dead-ox expression, picking up his weapon and drove in again.

“No…” Ye Zeqian shook his head. This ordinary angle did nothing for him. “Mm… this isn’t comfortable Stand up…”

“I am tired…” Have some self-awareness. Think your husband’s a sex machine?

Li Dong pulled over two pillows, propping up Ye Zeqian’s lower back, standing on the bed pressing down.

“Ah, ah, ah!” That one hit, and it was intense. He liked this position too. Very stimulating.

They kept it up for about three minutes.

“Turn over,” Li Dong said, supporting his waist, making him kneel with butt raised.

“This one is no good either…” Hoarse and red-eyed, he still fussed.

“Smack!” Li Dong brought his palm down hard and kneaded. His pace doubled. Finally, there were no more complaints.

Continuously like this was also tiring. Li Dong lay back, brought him on top, and held him steady, letting him ride. Now they both got to enjoy the view, especially Li Dong, who could watch every flicker across his face.

“You are this uninhibited in bed. Do you not feel ashamed?” Li Dong raised his hips thrusting up while pressing Ye Zeqian’s butt down. The friction and collision of their private parts made scalps tingle.

Ye Zeqian never knew that place behind could take so much. He went crimson and refused to answer, lashes low over his eyes as he rose and fell. “Mm… ah… ha…” Finally, he let go and moaned without holding back.

Li Dong anchored him by the waist. “…” Every partner first tasting carnal desire was like this, once touching fish-water intimacy, you couldn’t stop.

“You are so skilled… I… I do not believe this is your first time…” His face was a mess of pleasure and tangled feeling. He really liked this man.

“It is,” Li Dong said, pulling him down and loving him hard. “You chose to trust me. I will not let you down.” Every new world was a new life.

What he could give Ye Zeqian was a lifelong promise, and sincerity.

“Alright, I believe you.” Holding Li Dong’s shoulders, while Ye Zeqian is sinking into desire’s ocean, happily roaming until there was nothing else left.

By the time the battle ended, Li Dong had paid for it. Scratches marked his back and face, and along his arms too. He made sure Ye Zeqian paid as well. A scratch earned a hickey. One bite extended five minutes. He could tally it up himself.

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Author's Note:

【Manager Ye: After five minutes I'll bite again, eek】【Try for second update!】

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IsitRo: Umm, I seriously didn’t see this coming. Literally proofread and edited this chapter with my mouth agape.

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