Zhou Minghui suddenly felt something was wrong. He turned around and saw Xie Duo opening the back door of the car. He was dragged into the car by a slender white hand holding his tie, and then the car door slammed shut.
"Fuck him!"
Zhou Minghui made a stern face and pretended to walk back, but Chen Xu grabbed his waist and forcefully pushed him away.
Inside the car, Shen Antu put his arms around Xie Duo's neck and asked him to kiss him from above. He kissed the base notes of Xie Duo's woody perfume obsessively, and let out an unbearable sigh through his nose.
He deliberately asked Xie Wenxuan to secretly bring him to Xie Duo's company, and hid in the car for half an hour, waiting to give Xie Duo a surprise. Although Chen Xu unexpectedly appeared halfway, after his "coercion and inducement", Chen Xu promised not to make any report to Xie Duo, waiting for Xie Duo to come down and find out.
He rubbed his nose against Xie Duo and said incoherently, "Mr. Xie, you've worked hard at work. I'm here to take you home."
Xie Duo looked down at him in between kisses. Shen Antu had a pair of particularly charming eyes, and it was easy to have the illusion of being deeply loved when being stared at by such eyes.
But Xie Duo only wants deep love, not illusion.
So he reached out to cover Shen Antu's eyes and continued kissing him.
As Shen Antu was kissing, his bad habits came back. He stroked Xie Duo's spine with his palm and tried to pick at his belt.
Xie Duo grabbed Shen Antu's wrist and said, "This is a public garage. Every few minutes someone will come down to pick up the car. Do you want me to strip you naked and fuck you while others watch?"
Shen Antu was panting softly under Xie Duo, his expression actually showing a hint of anticipation.
Xie Duo was so angry that he laughed: "Don't even think about it."
"Then ask me." Shen Antu faced Xie Duo's burning gaze and reached out to rub his body a few times, "Go home quickly, these pants are too tight, they make me uncomfortable."
Xie Duo covered his hand and squeezed it hard, almost crippling Shen Antu. Shen Antu complained angrily: "I came to pick you up and you treat me like this?"
Xie Duo sat back in the driver's seat and asked him, "How did you pick me up? You asked Xie Wenxuan to bring you here, and then you took advantage of me and asked me to drive you home?"
"Who's taking advantage of whom?" Shen Antu slumped in the back seat, looking like he had lost all hope in life. Suddenly he remembered the bouquet of roses from the afternoon, and sat up and leaned against the driver's seat, "Do you like the roses?"
"I like it." Xie Duo answered quickly and frankly.
Now it was Shen Antu who felt a little uncomfortable. He turned his head and looked out the window. The black building of the Xie Group headquarters stood tall, far taller than the surrounding office buildings.
Shen Antu turned his gaze and looked at Xie Duo in the rearview mirror: "Then I will go to give you roses myself next time. Will you let me enter the gate of your company?"
Xie Duo drove seriously, his hands holding the steering wheel steady: "Call me when you come, and I'll pick you up."
Shen Antu was satisfied. He began to tell Xie Duo what he had done this afternoon, from the flower shop to the piano store.
Xie Duo had been listening quietly until he heard that he had spent 400 yuan to buy three musical instruments. There were so many complaints that Xie Duo didn't know what to say for a moment. In the end, he chose to start with the erhu: "Can you also play the erhu?"
"No, I just want to learn because I don't know how to do it. After I learn it, I will find a busy commercial street and perform under an overpass. The subway seems to be good too..."
Xie Duo: “…”
Shen Antu became more and more excited as he spoke, and he was even going to perform a piece for Xie Duo on the spot, but his playing was so awful that he couldn't stand it, so he had to settle for the next best thing and put away his erhu and played the xiao instead.
Maybe it was because he had some musical background, but Shen Antu played the xiao correctly on his first try, and the sound was pretty good, so he gained confidence. He found a simple score on the Internet, and stumbled through the first two bars of "Daughter's Love", insisting that Xie Duo praise him against his conscience.
Xie Duo was helpless, and when the light turned red, he looked back at him and asked, "When did you become interested in musical instruments?"
"I guess I've always been interested in musical instruments? Haven't you ever heard me play the piano?"
Xie Duo paused.
The green light came on, Xie Duo restarted the car, and in an instant he thought of his words: "You seldom play the piano, at least not in front of me. Maybe you learned it abroad."
"Maybe he lost interest later on." Shen Antu was still fiddling with the cheap xiao that he bought for twenty yuan, and he didn't seem to notice anything unusual about Xie Duo.
The two of them stayed up very late at night again. Shen Antu fell asleep almost as soon as he touched the pillow. Xie Duo cleaned him up and applied anti-swelling medicine on his back. Then it was his turn to take a shower.
When Xie Duo returned to the bed, covered in sweat, Shen Antu still had his eyes open.
"Having a nightmare again?"
Xie Duo turned off the lights, and Shen Antu automatically leaned into his arms: "Hmm..."
Shen Antu had nightmares almost every day when he just came back from the hospital. Then he gradually got better, but tonight he had nightmares again.
"What did you dream about?" Xie Duo never asked Shen Antu what nightmare he had in the past, because Shen Antu would look very bad when he woke up. But today Shen Antu was in good condition, at least on the surface.
Shen Antu was silent for a while, then said, "I dreamed of a car accident between me and my mother."
Xie Duo rubbed the top of his head: "It's okay now."
The affairs of the Shen family are not a secret. Outsiders know a little about it, and because it is related to Shen Antu, Xie Duo knows even more.