LBOT-62

His stomach was turned upside down, and his head hurt like it was going to break. He barely opened his eyes, so he couldn’t be bothered to move.

He moved so much that the bed sheets were messed up and he was lying on his back.

Xiao Zhan, who had only just gotten up, opened his eyes wide.

A couch was stacked in front of the door.

“Huh…?”

He rubbed his eyes wondering if he was seeing it wrong.

He even remembered drinking in the living room with Kim Joon and Kim Yaan last night, but the memory stopped after that.

He got out of bed and looked around, but he didn’t see anything unusual.

He wondered what had happened.

First, he went into the bathroom to get some rest. Standing in front of the sink, he lifted his bangs while looking at his face. A bruise was clearly visible in the middle of his forehead.

What’s this? Did I fall? There were also bruises on his knees and arms.

What the hell did I do?

After taking a shower to wake up, he put a patch on the kiss marks left by Wang Yibo and changed his clothes.

After moving the sofa and putting it in place, he opened the door with a little fear.

Despite his concerns, the living room was as usual. The sofa and table where they had a drink yesterday were also cleaned.

He exhaled a sigh of relief and proceeded to the first floor. He heard Kim Joon and Kim Yaan’s voices from inside the dining room as he passed by the living room.

Before going to them, the house chef approached and asked kindly.

“Are you okay?”

Xiao Zhan nodded his head awkwardly. Yes.

“Do you want me to get you hot water?”

“No, I’ll have the usual.”

Kim Yaan and Kim Joon were eating at the table when he arrived. Their expressions were strange to say the least.

‘Why?’ Xiao Zhan asked with his lips, but they only shook their heads in response.

The house chef approached and handed him honey water instead of juice.

“It’ll be fine to soothe yourself before a meal. Breakfast will be ready soon.”

Xiao Zhan sat down with his cup.

Kim Yaan, who was eating bread with soup, curled his lips and twitched as if he was trying not to laugh.

An uneasiness creeps up behind his back. Before Xiao Zhan could ask why, he heard voices from outside the living room.

Wang Yibo came inside despite the fact that it was past rush hour.

When Xiao Zhan turned to say hello, his eyes widened slightly. There was a band-aid on the bridge of Yibo’s nose.

Wang Yibo made eye contact and smiled brightly.

“Good morning.”

He pulled out the chair next to Xiao Zhan and sat down.

Kim Yaan and Kim Joon stood up and picked up the bread as if they had agreed.

“Thank you for the meal, Mrs.”

Looking at the Kim brothers, Yibo motioned for them to sit down.

“The witnesses can’t run away.”

Witness?

Wang Yibo changed his posture and looked directly at Xiao Zhan, and put his arms behind the chair.

Xiao Zhan gradually moved his upper body backward to avoid him, who was coming close.

“Why, why?”

“Do you have anything to say to me?”

What do I want to say?

“Your nose… What’s wrong with it?”

When Xiao Zhan asked, Yibo wrinkled the bridge of his nose as if in pain.

“I was attacked by a crazy cat last night.”

Xiao Zhan made a confused expression. What crazy cat? No way…

Xiao Zhan moved his gaze to the Kim brothers sitting in front of him, but both were fidgeting. He must have done something wrong, based on the atmosphere.

Was he involved in a drunken fight? No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t remember anything.

He looked carefully and asked carefully.

“I… Did I do it?”

Wang Yibo did not respond.

Xiao Zhan couldn’t recall anything, so he was at a loss for words.

Soon after, Yibo pulled on his tie and unbuttoned his shirt. It was red around his neck.

“You don’t remember this either?”

Xiao Zhan opened his mouth and tilted his head.

“No way, did I…?”

Wang Yibo called Li Bowen and gestured as soon as he finished talking.

Li Bowen, who was standing close to the sofa, brought something with him. It was a tablet with a video on the screen. When the button was pressed, images of the two appeared on the CCTV screen.

It was recorded and the time shown below was last night.

In the living room on the second floor, the two of them grabbed each other, shoved each other, and squabbled with each other.

Xiao Zhan punched him first. Wang Yibo lightly avoided it, but the problem came after that.

The two got tangled up and fell on the floor when Xiao Zhan put his legs on top of Yibo’s shoulders, crossed them, and strangled him.

Wang Yibo rolled on the floor for a long time, as if he lacked the strength to resist the stranglehold with Xiao Zhan’s legs rather than his arms.

Xiao Zhan runs away to his bedroom as soon as Yibo frees himself from the leg that was strangling him.

Wang Yibo stood up and stood in front of the door, putting one hand on his hip and brushing his flowing hair.

Xiao Zhan could feel Yibo’s rage even as he watched it on the screen. With a bite of bread in his hand, Xiao Zhan stared at the screen, speechless.

Wang Yibo smiled softly from the side.

“Would you like to hear your voice? It’s even hotter.”

As he opened the next file, two voices alternated.

[Don’t act like this, tell me exactly why you’re angry.]

The low, deep voice belonged to Wang Yibo.

[Go away! You son of a bitch! If you dare to come closer. I’m not going to let you go!]

Xiao Zhan’s voice was full of spite.

[I kept calling you pretty, so you’re taking liberties now, don’t you?]

[When did I ask you to call me pretty!]

[Come here while I still speak nicely.]

[No! You old pervert!]

Xiao Zhan’s eyes and mouth widened.

Silence flowed in the same way in the audio file he was listening to. After a while, he heard Wang Yibo’s bewildered voice in the audio.

[Old… what?]

[Old bastard!]

Wang Yibo gnashed his teeth as he held the tablet.

Xiao Zhan placed the bread he was biting on the plate and placed his hands on his knees. Fuck. I’ve committed a heinous sin.

Wang Yibo looked back and called Bowen.

“Bowen, do I look that old?”

Li Bowen responded immediately that he was not.

Xiao Zhan sighed and rolled his eyes. Bowen did a great job, but he was dishonest.

When Yibo asked the house chef and the Kim brothers the same question, they both gave the same answer.

Everyone was lying. When Xiao Zhan first saw him, he couldn’t believe Yibo was only twenty-nine. He looked a little younger now that he was 30. He’ll look his age when he’s about thirty-five.

But that was not the point now.

Wang Yibo pressed the button again just as Xiao Zhan was about to apologize.

Yibo could be heard gasping for air. Xiao Zhan broke out in cold sweat. Yibo’s murderous voice could be heard as if he had just barely escaped.

[Honey, are you really going to do this?]

Xiao Zhan didn’t give up and screamed in anger.

[How is it? You also feel awful when you’re strangled! Strangle me one more time! I will also shove it into your ass and step on your neck!]

Oh, I can’t hear any more.

Wang Yibo paused and set the tablet down. At the same time, he rested his chin on his palm and smiled gently at Xiao Zhan.

“Do you remember now?”

“Sorry…”

“I almost died because of you yesterday.”

“I’m really sorry…”

“You don’t have to apologize. Thanks to that, I came to see my dead mother for a short time.”

“…”

“Your face looks better than when you were drunk. That’s great.”

Xiao Zhan was speechless as Yibo smiled sadly. With that temperament, it’s strange he didn’t kill Xiao Zhan yesterday. His head was gradually falling down as if he had become a treasonous criminal.

There was silence around the table as if no one was there.

Xiao Zhan couldn’t even hear the breathing of the Kim brothers sitting in front of him.

Wang Yibo lightly tapped his fingertips on the table before reaching out and tucking Xiao Zhan’s side hair behind his ear. The touch was gentle.

“Stop with the apology, why don’t you tell me in your own words what happened yesterday?”

Xiao Zhan held on tightly.

“If you speak honestly, I will forgive you.”

“… Sorry. I don’t remember…”

“Think carefully. There must be a reason.”

“…”

“I don’t think you’re a crazy person who gets drunk and fights with anyone.”

That’s strange. He seemed to be in a good mood, despite the fact that he was clearly accusing Xiao Zhan of wrongdoing. He was smiling, which made him even scarier.

Xiao Zhan moved the fork and knife away from him quietly.

“I… don’t remember…”

A strange air current flowed in his gaze with a sense of playfulness. Xiao Zhan hastily made an excuse.

“It’s just… it happens when I drink, my brothers know.”

He made up words that did not exist in order to avoid a crisis. There was only one case in which Xiao Zhan became drunk and his memory was cut off, it was when he was eighteen years old.

Xiao Zhan thought that the bread he had just eaten had gotten stuck in his stomach, so he grabbed a glass of cold water.

Gulp, the moment he took a sip,

“Are you so upset that I went to a hotel with a girl?”

Pooh! He sprayed the water in his mouth onto Wang Yibo’s face.

Wang Yibo smiled happily as Li Bowen handed him a handkerchief to wipe his wet face.

Xiao Zhan was speechless and stared with his mouth open before turning his head to face Kim Joon and Kim Yaan, who sat in front of him.

The two averted their gazes simultaneously.

Yibo leaned in closer to Xiao Zhan as he wiped his face.

“Tell me. What made you so angry that you wanted to strangle me?”

A grin spreads across his face.

The upper lip of the perplexed Xiao Zhan quivered. It was true that he was angry. However, he wasn’t angry with Wang Yibo because he was with a woman; he was angry with himself for being in a bad mood when he saw them. So it was definitely not jealousy.

“I understand because if it was the other way around, I would have torn you apart on the spot.”

A murderous intent flashed in and out of Wang Yibo’s eyes.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about….”

Wang Yibo picked up the tablet again.

“This won’t do, I’m going to have to show you the proof.”

“You’re lying…”

Xiao Zhan muttered, and his face became pale. There was no way he would have said such a thing even when he was drunk.

“You’ll know when you hear it.”

Xiao Zhan jumped up from his seat when  Yibo attempted to press something on the tablet. He then grabbed the tablet and ran to the second floor. He slammed the door shut behind him, locked it, and sat down while panting heavily.

He checked the screen, but there was nothing but the video and audio files he had seen earlier.

He listened to the audio file just in case, but there was no mention of jealousy. Xiao Zhan trembled as he gripped the tablet, a defeated expression on his face.

After some time, a message from Wang Yibo arrived on the cell phone he was carrying in his pocket.

[Since you seem embarrassed, I’ll send you breakfast.]

Wang Yibo’s happy face flashed before his eyes. He clenched his teeth in frustration and the next message arrived.

[Tell me in bed tonight how jealous you were♥]

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