CHAPTERS
The month hadn’t even ended when Chen Ang was sent on a business trip. It wasn’t something only he could handle, but there was a case in a small northern city he had never even heard of. It was an investigation into tax violations, boring and tedious but necessary. No one else wanted to take it, so the responsibility naturally fell on the least experienced Chen Ang. "Ah, youth is such a blessing, unlike us old folks, with bad backs and families to worry about. If I went, I'd be so worried, my…- 62.6 K • Completed
- Xu Heng had always considered himself an independent person. He really was. He rarely cried, not even in difficult times. But for some reason, ever since meeting Chen Ang, he found himself shedding tears more often than ever before. More than the sum of all the past years combined. He thought he had drawn a clean line, cut Chen Ang out of his life with ruthless precision, convinced himself that everything would go back to how it was before. During the New Year, Xu Heng was invited to spend it at Zhang…
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- The crowds along the coast slowly dispersed like receding tides. Smoke from the fireworks lingered over the sea, drifting like mist under the heavy night sky. A new year had begun, and with it came everything anew. None of it reached Xu Heng. After whispering that soft “Happy birthday,” the spacious hotel room filled with the sounds of panting and gasps. Xu Heng's bare skin pressed against the cold floor-to-ceiling window, making him shiver. But that chill disappeared quickly, replaced by the…
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- This time, it was Chen Ang who fell silent. Words like “keep it up” or “try your best” felt hollow. He wanted to ask Xu Heng to stay, to not leave, but even that felt like it had no ground to stand on. In his current mess of a state, what right did he have? The two of them were still pressed together, skin against skin. Even the stickiness between their lower bodies hadn’t completely cooled, but the atmosphere already had. It took a while before Chen Ang finally spoke, his throat painfully…
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- The next morning, when Chen Ang woke up, Chen Jing was in his kitchen making breakfast. It smelled pretty good. Chen Ang reached for his phone, opened WeChat, and found that the chat with Xu Heng still only had that one line of poetry from him, sitting there all alone. He slumped onto the sofa, hugging a pillow, and grumbled, "You planning to just live here now?" "Just two days," Chen Jing replied as she flipped an egg in the pan, her hair tied up. She turned to look at him and frowned. "What’s…
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- Chen Ang was sick. Not sick enough to go to the hospital, but clearly unwell enough to need rest. Naturally, that meant going home. He wanted to go to Xu Heng’s place, but Xu Heng said the heater at his place was broken. "My place is freezing. It won’t do. Let’s go to yours," Xu Heng said. Chen Ang stood still. "You’re coming?" Xu Heng sighed. "Let’s go." Xu Heng initially planned to call a cab, but Chen Ang told him there was no need. Though Xu Heng had a driver’s license, he had…
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- The two of them fell into a sudden and inexplicable cold war. Neither spoke to the other, like two children sulking over something petty. More than once, Chen Ang caught himself absentmindedly opening the WeChat chat window with Xu Heng, only to find himself unable to type a single word. Occasionally, he would catch the status above the text box saying "Typing…" but after waiting a while, nothing ever came through. The weather was getting colder. The year was coming to an end. Soon, it would be…
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- Chen Ang had started to sense that something wasn’t right. When they were together, Xu Heng would occasionally zone out, frowning slightly with a blank look in his eyes, as if his mind had drifted somewhere far away. Whenever that happened, Chen Ang would try everything he could to pull his attention back. He felt like a traveler wandering through a desert, finally finding a water source, only to watch the water slip through his fingers, slowly but surely. He had finally made the decision to set off…
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- Chen Ang was bisexual, but he said it in a way that felt like he was just throwing in the towel. In that split second, he had already pictured what might happen next. Lu Yiran might look completely shocked, then all the fragile peace they had been maintaining would shatter. What followed would be endless arguments. She might even talk about him at work. But anything was better than the current struggle. It was like pulling the pin on a ticking time bomb before it exploded on its own. All he would have…
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- Chen Ang had work the next day. He had to get up early, go home to change clothes, and head to the office. When he woke up, Xu Heng was still curled up naked under the blanket, sleeping soundly with his brow slightly furrowed, like something was bothering him even in his dreams. Chen Ang bent down to kiss the space between Xu Heng’s eyebrows while picking up the shirt he had tossed on the floor beside the bed. Xu Heng didn’t wake up. His frown softened, and he shrank deeper into the…
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