Contractual Marriage: We’re Meant to Be Together

113. Chapter 113 All that Glitters is Not Gold

Translator: Gilbert

Yan Chuyang looked away and ignored Wei Qing. After a while, he suddenly remembered something. He turned his head and asked, “What did you talk about with Senior outside?”

Wei Qing gingerly avoided Yan Chuyang’s gaze. He pulled the stool closer to Yan Chuyang and took his hand. He gently tore away the bandage on the back of the hand and saw the bruise caused by the penetration of the needle, caressing it with distress and pursing his lips.

“We didn’t say anything. He tried to offend me, but I ignored him as I’m more refined.”

Yan Chuyang pouted, “Would a gentle person like Senior come to offend you?”

Wei Qing’s face darkened, and he snorted coldly, “All that glitters is not gold. You are too young to see the darkness in those people’s hearts.”

Yan Chuyang sniffed without saying anything. After a while, he said cautiously, “You didn’t tell him about our marriage, did you?”

Wei Qing paused, but he regained his composure in an instant, saying seriously, “No. I promised you that I won’t tell anyone as long as you don’t like it.”

Yan Chuyang sighed with relief, “That’s good.”

Wei Qing felt irritated. After a short moment of depression, he whispered softly, “When will you graduate?”

Yan Chuyang looked down and calculated, “I’m in the first semester of my junior year. There’s still one and a half years left.”

Wei Qing said indifferently, “When you graduate, can I announce our marriage?”

“No!” Yan Chuyang abruptly looked up.

Wei Qing’s face froze with evident coldness in his eyes. “Why do you change your mind again? Just now, you told me that I can announce when you graduate.”

Yan Chuyang grunted softly and looked down, clutching the corner of the blanket with his fingers. “When I graduate, I will be only twenty-one, not legal to get married.”

“And then?”

“I promised my grandmother that I won’t get married before I reach the legal age.” Yan Chuyang sighed as he said, “Although I want to announce it to the public earlier, I can’t get distracted by affections as a man. I have to study hard now and tell everyone about marriage when I turn twenty-two.”

Wei Qing was touched by Yan Chuyang’s ambivalence. He stifled the urge to laugh and kissed fiercely on Yan Chuyang’s forehead. “Okay, I don’t force you. Let’s announce it to the public when you are twenty-two. Alright?”

Yan Chuyang’s ears reddened, and he nodded slightly.

Wei Qing took off his jacket and put it on Yan Chuyang. He straightened Yan Chuyang’s collar and said, “I went to the inpatient department to ask the doctor just now. He said that you’re fine now, and you don’t have to stay in the hospital for the time being. The environment here is not good. Let’s go home and recuperate, okay?”

Yan Chuyang nodded and obediently raised his arm so that Wei Qing could help him put on the big jacket. He buckled the buttons and looked up. “I haven’t done the discharge procedures yet. Can I leave now?”

“Yes.” Wei Qing pursed his lips. “I called my assistant and asked him to help handle it tomorrow.”

Yan Chuyang replied, “Okay.”

By the time they drove home, it was already past ten in the evening.

Wei Qing placed Yan Chuyang on the sofa and went into the kitchen to cook. Yan Chuyang wrapped the blanket around himself and watched TV on the sofa. After the fever was gone, he felt too weak to do anything else.

It was not good to have greasy food at night, so Wei Qing made a bowl of vegetable congee and brought it out.

Yan Chuyang hated vegetable congee the most, thinking vegetables had a weird taste after being stewed in the pot. However, he was too hungry to mind it after a long day, so he took the bowl and finished all the congee.

Wei Qing fed him the medicine and put away the bowl, saying, “Do you have the strength to wash up? If not, just rinse your mouth and go straight to bed today.”

“No.” Yan Chuyang held the blanket and shook his head. “I got this fixation with cleanliness. I will feel terrible if I sleep without brushing my teeth.”

Wei Qing chuckled and shook his head. “I’ve been with you for so long, but I really haven’t noticed that you have a fixation with cleanliness.”

Yan Chuyang pursed his mouth. “Help me up. I’m going to the bathroom to brush my teeth.”

Wei Qing held his shoulder and pulled him up from the sofa, supporting him to the bathroom.

Wei Qing turned on the tap, squeezed the toothpaste onto the toothbrush, and handed it to Yan Chuyang. “You wash up first. I’ll go upstairs to help you make the bed. I’ll come over and carry you to sleep later.”

Yan Chuyang took the toothbrush and took a sip of cold water from his cup. He gargled and spat out. “Got it. Help me take out the thin blanket from the cupboard. It’s hot tonight. I want to sleep with that one.”

Wei Qing nodded and got out of the bathroom.

Yan Chuyang brushed his teeth in the bathroom while Wei Qing walked upstairs to make the bed for him.

In fact, Wei Qing seldom went upstairs to Yan Chuyang’s bedroom. On the one hand, he was too lazy to go. On the other hand, when he entered Yan Chuyang’s room, he always had a strange feeling.

Just like now, looking at the white cotton bathrobe being casually thrown on the bed, Wei Qing suddenly felt hot.

Yan Chuyang had a habit of wearing bathrobe after the shower and going upstairs. In other words, when he was sleeping, he would be naked, revealing his shoulders, chest, long legs, slender waist, and round butts…

Well…

Feeling the warmth in his nose, Wei Qing quickly raised his head and touched his nose. Fortunately, there was no bleeding.

He took a long breath to calm down. He slowly paced to the bed and sat down, touching gently on Yan Chuyang’s pillow.

It was soft, just like his hair, warm and comfortable.

Wei Qing stole a glance like a thief. When he confirmed that there was no one, he took off his slippers and lay on Yan Chuyang’s bed.

A very fresh mint fragrance came over.

It was the smell of Yan Chuyang’s shower gel. He seemed to like mint and chose shower gel or shampoo with this fragrance, which was pleasant and refreshing.

Wei Qing buried his head in the soft pillow and took a deep breath. In an instant, his lungs were filled with the scent of Yan Chuyang. This feeling was strange, as if he was hugging Yan Chuyang and rubbing him into his arms. It was sick but exciting.

‘If only I could hold him to sleep.’

This sudden thought came to his mind like a ghost. Wei Qing’s face froze.

Hold him to sleep?

His eyes darkened. He pursed his lips, turned over and stared at the ceiling, thinking, “Why do I let Yan Chuyang sleep upstairs? Why do we sleep in separate rooms? Why do I hold his pillow like a pervert, imagining that I’m hugging him? I have good reasons to hold him to sleep.”

The two of them were married and even got their certificates. If Yan Chuyang had been a girl, they might have had a child now.

Wei Qing’s jaw suddenly tightened. Yes, he couldn’t continue like this. He had to tell Yan Chuyang that from today onwards, they would sleep together!

Not only did they have to sleep together, but he also wanted to see what Yan Chuyang looked like without clothes.

Wei Qing’s Adam’s apple moved and he suddenly stood up from the bed. But when he reached the door, he stopped.

How could he bring this up?

He couldn’t just say, “You have to sleep with me. I want to hold you to sleep.”

It was embarrassing. He was the CEO of a listed company, and he couldn’t bring himself to tell a boy who was still a student that he wanted to hold him to sleep.

No, no, no!

Wei Qing put his hands on his waist and paced back and forth by the bedside impatiently. He had to think of a way to sleep with him with a plausible excuse. He couldn’t let Yan Chuyang see that he wanted to hold him to sleep.

As he racked his brains, he heard Yan Chuyang shouting downstairs.

“Wei Qing! Wei Qing! ”

“What?”

“I’m done. When can you make my bed? I’m going to sleep.”

Wei Qing clicked his tongue and roared impatiently, “Go to the sofa and lie down for a while. Come upstairs when I call you.”

Yan Chuyang muttered a few words and slowly paced to the sofa to lie down. He had just recovered from his fever, and he felt dizzy.

Wei Qing stared at the white bathrobe on the bed for a while. He looked around casually and saw a glass of water on the bedside table.

Yan Chuyang drank it every night.

Wei Qing’s eyes darkened. He suddenly walked over to the bedside table and picked up the glass. His eyes narrowed as he shook the water in the glass before he turned his wrist, pouring all the water into the center of the bed.

The water instantly soaked the white bed sheets.

Wei Qing exhaled and turned to go downstairs.

Seeing Wei Qing coming downstairs, Yan Chuyang grumpily pulled on the blanket and said, “Does it take so long to make a bed? I am very sleepy.”

Wei Qing walked to him and removed the blanket from his leg. He stooped and held Yan Chuyang’s slender waist, carrying him up with his arms. Yan Chuyang blushed, but he obediently raised his hands to wrap around Wei Qing’s neck.