MWMM Chapter 29: Weren’t You Just Begging for It Last Night?
by justmisty
The air inside the car was cold and thin. The driver, Xiao Wang, instinctively wrapped his clothes tighter, regretting that he hadn’t brought a jacket today.
Shen Ci’s fingers tapped rhythmically on his knee. Though he seemed indifferent, his eyes were filled with icy coldness.
Outside the window, Yan Yuzhou, in the midst of a dispersing crowd, walked over to a sweaty boy with a bright smile and handed him a jacket. The boy gratefully accepted it, smiling widely at Yan Yuzhou.
Seeing that smile, Shen Ci couldn’t muster a smile himself.
After handing over the jacket, Yan Yuzhou waved at the boy and then turned to head towards the school gate. When he saw the Rolls Royce parked at the main entrance, he paused for a moment before quickening his pace and running towards it.
Opening the car door, he was met with the chilling cold air inside, making him shiver and instinctively lower the car window.
The atmosphere in the car dropped to freezing due to Yan Yuzhou’s action.
Although the window was down, the scent in the car didn’t diminish. Instead, it seemed to intensify.
Completely confused, Yan Yuzhou looked at Shen Ci sitting to his right with wide, perplexed eyes.
“Can you tone down your pheromones?” Yan Yuzhou asked, his face stern and his tone a bit harsh. He hadn’t forgotten that they had had a fight starting from yesterday.
“Weren’t you just begging for it last night?” Shen Ci raised an eyebrow, his words enough to be wildly misinterpreted.
Driver Xiao Wang’s hands trembled on the steering wheel, causing the car to swerve slightly on the straight road, jolting the two people in the back. Yan Yuzhou lost his balance and fell into Shen Ci’s arms.
His nose hit Shen Ci’s hard chest, the cold scent invading his nose, lungs, and every part of him, triggering his glands and making all his pores open up.
That feeling of sinking from last night returned, making Yan Yuzhou panic for a moment.
Supporting himself on the car seat, he hurriedly crawled out of Shen Ci’s embrace. Before he could speak, his ears turned red.
Xiao Wang apologized, “I’m sorry, Mr. Shen, Mrs. Shen. There was a little dog in the road just now.”
Shen Ci didn’t reprimand him, and Xiao Wang silently breathed a sigh of relief.
There was no dog at all; it was purely Shen Ci’s shocking comment of “begging for it last night” that startled him!
Yan Yuzhou adjusted his slightly disheveled collar from falling into Shen Ci’s arms. Unseen by him, Shen Ci was quietly staring at the half-exposed shoulder and sunburned collarbone, swallowing involuntarily.
When Yan Yuzhou looked up, he met Shen Ci’s deep, unfathomable eyes, making his heart skip a beat.
Avoiding Shen Ci’s intense gaze, Yan Yuzhou scooted away from him, looked out the window uncomfortably, and dryly said, “Could you please speak more clearly? Last night I wanted your jacket, but you didn’t give it to me…”
He glared at him and continued to mutter under his breath, “If it wasn’t for my heat, I wouldn’t even care about your jacket.”
Then he heard Shen Ci ask in his ear, with a tone full of questioning, “So is this why you ask others for clothes? Is it just about getting the pheromones you want, and it doesn’t matter whose they are?”
Yan Yuzhou felt confused by his words. If he didn’t want to lend it, then fine, but why mock him out of nowhere? His temper flared up, and he straightened his back, saying, “I just wanted to borrow your jacket. Is it such a big deal? I won’t borrow from you again, okay?”
“If not from me, then who do you want to borrow from?” Shen Ci suddenly leaned in, his right arm crossing in front of Yan Yuzhou’s chest and resting on the car door, trapping Yan Yuzhou in an uncomfortably small space. Yan Yuzhou’s heart skipped a beat.
“What are you talking about? Why would I borrow clothes from someone else?” Yan Yuzhou asked, completely bewildered by Shen Ci’s sudden closeness.
Shen Ci’s lips moved, but he didn’t continue his questioning. Instead, he just stared at Yan Yuzhou intensely, as if trying to see through him, to understand his true nature, not moving his gaze for several seconds.
After a moment, he seemed to believe in Yan Yuzhou’s innocence. His eyes softened slightly. He let out a light snort, withdrew his arm, and sat up straight, facing forward.
Yan Yuzhou watched this perplexing series of actions, his mouth twitching. What was this about? One moment cold, the next warm, like the unpredictable weather in June, even more changeable than his three-year-old nephew’s moods.
What a big kid Shen Ci was.
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When the driver Xiao Wang pulled the car up outside the villa, Yan Yuzhou was nearly asleep inside the car.
In his original world, he was someone who loved to sleep. After coming here, he seemed to sleep even more, perhaps because this body was weaker. Half-asleep, he felt as if he were floating in midair.
This feeling was very comforting, making him instinctively sink into it and rely on it.
Then he felt himself being placed onto a soft bed, and someone kindly covered him with a blanket. He let out a comfortable sigh, turned over, found a pillow, and fell into a deep sleep.
Why did he smell the refreshing, dream-like scent of mountain snow in the air? It was so fresh and comfortable, the perfect sleeping aid.
His last bit of consciousness told him it must be a dream.
His biological clock woke him up promptly in the morning. Yan Yuzhou groggily opened his eyes, stretched lazily, and then, feeling his fist hit a hard body, he instantly woke up, nearly jumping out of bed.
Who could tell him why Shen Ci was sleeping in the same bed with him?!!!
Shen Ci was awakened by Yan Yuzhou’s sudden movement. As soon as he opened his eyes, he was met with Yan Yuzhou’s panicked, deer-like gaze.
Fully awake now, Yan Yuzhou realized that he was actually in Shen Ci’s room.
Last night, he remembered falling asleep in the car and then… it seemed Shen Ci had carried him out of the car.
“You!” Yan Yuzhou pointed a finger at Shen Ci, fuming at Shen Ci’s infuriatingly calm demeanor, “You, you, you, what right did you have to carry me to your room?”
Shen Ci propped himself up on one arm, sitting up halfway. The blanket slipped off, revealing his bare chest to Yan Yuzhou without any hesitation.
Yan Yuzhou, for some unknown reason, instinctively covered his eyes with his hand.
But quickly, he angrily took his hand down.
He was a grown man, after all, and had bathed with many other men in public bathhouses. What hadn’t he seen before? Shen Ci was just shirtless; why was he acting like a shy girl?
Then he saw Shen Ci lazily stretch his neck, raise his arms in a stretch, and with half-lidded eyes and a casual tone, said, “It was for your sake.”
T/N: Mr. Shen, it was for whose sake exactly? lol