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Is he an instructor or the school hottie?
Zhao Yunlan had no preference between men or women, and what’s more, he’d been single for a few months. His suspicious gaze changed as lust crept in. His heart, despite the inappropriate timing, skipped a beat.
Zhao Yunlan, but the man seemed oblivious; he didn’t even blink, just continued to study Shen Wei, deep in thought.
There was a kind of gentlemanly righteousness to the way Shen Wei lowered his head. Just
looking at him was so pleasant that it was nearly impossible to suspect him of anything.
The corners of the professor’s eyes gently tapered into a line, slender and elegant, like a delicate brushstroke trailing off. The way his gaze slanted out through his glasses verged on seductive, in an otherworldly way.
There was a dark distance in that intense gaze. His expression held both a sort of restrained yearning and an affection that was almost palpable…but at the same time, there was deep, crushing pain.
“I hate everything that circles around and around—life and death, again and again, unending.”
“Are you blind, you gay fool?”
he met Shen Wei’s eyes and saw himself in their depths—himself and, somehow, the night sky, impossibly intermingled. For some reason, looking up into those eyes, Zhao Yunlan instinctively let go and placed everything, including his insignificant little life, in Shen Wei’s hands.
Shen Wei’s awkward reaction had betrayed that he too had felt a certain…pull. A certain attraction…
The burgeoning desire Zhao Yunlan had been feeling turned into a lit firecracker. It exploded spectacularly, leaving behind a sea of red paper that spelled out “love affair.” Every nerve in his body was alight. But the dance of romance was
one he knew well; there was an art to its push and pull. After that delicate overture, he pretended not to notice anything.
It wasn’t until they were out of everyone’s sight that he subconsciously pressed his fingers to his collarbones. Something like a pendant’s outline was faintly visible through his thin shirt. He closed his eyes and drew in a deep breath, then hurried to catch up.
The other is to die for someone who truly knows you.
Shen Wei’s eyelashes were very long. With his head bowed, his features appeared delicate. The shape of his eyelids was so perfectly defined that they might have been drawn on. With every
blink, his lashes fluttered ever so slightly, and Zhao Yunlan’s heart fluttered along with them.
Zhao Yunlan had extraordinary self-confidence, but he wasn’t confident enough to think he could make anyo...
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Zhao Yunlan felt a sudden pang of disappointment, as though his hopes had been lifted just to be let down gently.
“Shen-laoshi, are you married?”
“A man is willing to die for the one who truly understands him.”
Accuracy, steadiness, fierceness—he possessed them all in spades. While everyone around him was still frozen in fear and unsure what to do, he’d already gained the upper hand, striking first and smashing the thing into seven or eight pieces.
“There is someone I met only by chance. There are no connections between us; to him, I must only be a stranger with whom he’s exchanged a few words.” Shen Wei spoke gently
against the background noise of scratching nails. “But I very much want to see him one more time.”
No need to worry. We just have to hold out a little longer until he comes to save us.” Shen Wei frowned. “By himself? Is that safe? How will he get in?”
That was the part the professor focused on?
Shen Wei sighed and held on to the waistband of his pants to keep Guo Changcheng from dragging them down and costing him his dignity.
Every time you get stingy with details and hide something, it means you’ve definitely met a beauty. Will you at least tell me if this Shen Wei is a man or a woman?”
Zhao Yunlan had an arm around Shen Wei’s waist, drawing him half a step to the side. The lighter’s glow illuminated his face: handsome and cold with sculpted, if slightly gaunt, features. His eyes gleamed from bottomless shadows, reflecting the tiny flame.
Zhao Yunlan’s expression was shadowed with impatience, but he remembered Shen Wei’s presence in time not to fuck up his good-tempered act. Rearranging his features into a smile, he said, “Just about.”
As he spoke, he walked past Guo Changcheng and touched Shen Wei’s elbow. “You’re
really not injured? I’m so sorry for dragging you into this. We should still ...
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He fell right into Zhao Yunlan’s waiting arms. Zhao Yunlan caught him effortlessly and then, half kneeling, slipped one arm under the crook of his knees.
Zhao Yunlan carefully avoided them as he took Shen Wei back to Li Qian’s room, where he removed the man’s glasses thoughtfully and set them aside. Then Zhao Yunlan tucked him into bed and turned the heat up.
After a moment’s thought, he took hold of Shen-laoshi’s right hand and drew an invisible calming charm on the back of it with his forefinger. That done, he grinned smugly and planted a light kiss in the same spot. Having allowed
himself this indulgence, he said gleefully, “Good night, sleeping beauty. When I’m done with the case...
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“You believe hearts to be fickle because your own feelings change so casually."
My lord, you have performed your duties meticulously for centuries, each day like the one before. You’ve avoided the person enshrined at the tip of your heart much as you’d avoid raging floods and savage beasts. To all appearances you are the epitome of self-control, but don’t you truly fear being unable to control yourself?”
You keep saying he’s secretly in love with you. Every single day you harass the man with all your flirting and asking how he is, but you’re only now asking him out for a meal?”
The cat laughed so hard that he nearly rolled onto his back and off the table. “Grade meeting! A grade meeting! So much for your big talk! Didn’t you say you can land anyone you set your sights on? Something about how when girls see you, their eyes light up, and when bottoms see you, they drool? Look how gently he let you down! Tell me, Zhao Yunlan, does rejection hurt?”
He was tired of people throwing themselves at him, so Shen Wei’s behavior was a turn-on. The more reserved and passive the professor was, the hotter Zhao Yunlan’s heart burned.
He stepped on the gas and drove off without giving Shen Wei a chance to speak. The plan had worked beautifully: he’d given the gift and scored a date. He even started to whistle.
There was such a tinge of loneliness and melancholy about him that Zhao Yunlan’s breath caught in his throat.
“Officer Zhao, you’re always teasing me.”
It was also clear to him now that his feelings for Shen Wei were sincere.
For no reason he could discern, his heart flooded with familiarity and fondness.
“In a city this large, two people could live in the same neighborhood and never meet. That’s what it means to not share fate, I suppose.”
Maybe he’d overdone it while coming to a certain beauty’s rescue,
leaving him lounging casually in front of Shen Wei in pajamas that revealed most of his chest and chiseled abs. Shen Wei’s face changed color as if it had been boiled.
