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drunk.
I will straighten him up later, so please go to sleep and don’t be offended, he truly doesn’t know what he’s saying.”

“Mmm, mmph… Darling!” Shi Jin struggled, wanting to continue speaking.

Gua Two wished he could just beat him to death.
He tightened his hold on Shi Jin to completely stop him from moving and stretched his hand to secure the phone.

Just as Gua Two thought Lian Jun should’ve hung up, his voice could be heard again: {Bring him back and come to see me immediately.} Only then the call disconnected.

Gua Two finally managed to grab the phone, but it seemed to be of little use now.
He lowered his head and looked at Shi Jin, who was struggling to get free even as his eyes kept closing sleepily.
Feeling both exasperated and helpless, he let him go.
“You just had to make trouble.
Even if you cry later, this big brother won’t be able to help you.”

When they returned to the clubhouse, Shi Jin was completely unconscious and Gua Two had no choice but to carry him to see Lian Jun.

Lian Jun was wearing a nightgown and waiting in his study.
Seeing Shi Jin being carried in, his eyebrows wrinkled.
He eyed Shi Jin’s toy boy getup and asked: “How’s the mission?”

“We’ve already come into contact with our target, Xu Huai, Shi Jin also managed to pry some information from him.
It was tentatively confirmed Xu Huai is the person sent to make the trade and the trading place should be on a cruise ship,” replied Hua Two.
Seeing Lian Jun looking at Shi Jin again, he added, “It was thanks to Shi Jin the mission was accomplished so smoothly.
He was drinking in order to get close to the target, not because he wanted to.”

Shi Jin, who had been thrown on the sofa, turned over suddenly and mumbled, “Darling… Drink soup…”

Alarm bells started to ring in Gua Two’s mind.
He hastily increased the volume of his voice and continued to report the incident with Long Shi, trying to drown out Shi Jin’s muttered ‘Darlings’.

However, Lian Jun’s hearing was completely fine.
He moved his wheelchair towards the sofa and studied Shi Jin’s ugly and silly-looking sleeping face, then, unexpectedly, slowly reached out and pinched Shi Jin’s slightly open mouth closed.

Shi Jin felt uncomfortable and twisted his face in a grimace, looking even more silly.

Gua Two: “…”

“Investigate this Long Shi.” Lian Jun let go of Shi Jin’s lips, removed the diamond stud from his ear and threw it to Gua Two, then continued, “Check the information Shi Jin obtained, and after verifying if it’s true hand it over to the authorities.” After that, he waved his hand toward Shi Jin, signaling Gua Two to take him back to his room, turned his wheelchair away and left.

Gua Two stared openmouthed, not daring to believe this was the end of the matter.
Looking at Shi Jin, who kept sleeping without a care in the world, a strange thought flashed in his mind—when it came to Shi Jin, didn’t it seem as if Jun-shao was exceptionally… um, forgiving?

Shi Jin woke up suffering an agonizing headache from the hangover, not knowing what time it was and what happened.
The first thing he did was to head to the bathroom and take a bath, the gray color of his hair washing away, then he ran to Gua Two’s door and knocked.

When Gua Two opened the door and saw him, his gaze turned sympathetic.
“If you have woken up, go to the dining room, Jun-shao is waiting for you.”

Shi Jin was slow to respond, only nodding after a few seconds have passed.
He asked a bit nervously, “I vaguely remember calling Jun-shao last night, but, uh… I didn’t say anything weird, did I?”

Gua Two sighed and patted him heavily on the shoulder.

“I, I did?” Shi Jin gulped.

Gua Two couldn’t quite look at him.
“You did.
You called Jun-shao ‘darling’ and scolded him for being a picky eater… You, well, I will pray for your well-being.”

Shi Jin had the urge to burst into a river of tears.
He stiffly turned away, whining in his mind, “Xiao Si, you actually deceived me…”

Xiao Si felt extremely wronged:

“Then why didn’t you stop me last night…”

One person and one system faced each other in silence for a long time.
Finally, Xiao Si softened and tried to comfort Shi Jin, albeit without much confidence:

“You don’t understand, this isn’t about drinking…” It’s about calling him ‘Darling’… Shi Jin sighed quietly, plucked up courage and headed towards the dining room.

After opening the door, what appeared in front of Shi Jin was a table filled with cucumber dishes.
Lian Jun was sitting behind the table with a bowl of soup in front of him, reading something on a tablet pc.

“Jun-shao,” Shi Jin called out weakly.

“Sit down and eat.” Lian Jun didn’t lift his head.

Shi Jin sat down and looked at the pickled cucumbers, cucumber salad, cucumber stir-fry, stuffed cucumbers, egg cucumber soup, and many more cucumber dishes… Remembering the original ‘Shi Jin’s’ hatred of cucumbers, he could deeply feel Lian Jun’s malicious intent.
He tried to speak.
“Jun-shao, yesterday…”

“You shouldn’t be picky.” Lian Jun put down his tablet pc, picked up the soup in front of him and took a sip.
“You shouldn’t eat greasy food after a hangover, so the chef prepared this especially for you.
Eat, don’t waste his kindness.”

This kind of ‘kindness’ is too hard for me to bear.

Shi Jin glanced at the soup in front of Lian Jun and picked up his chopsticks—it seemed Lian Jun was really angry, angry enough to force himself to drink soup… Fortunately, even though the original ‘Shi Jin’ couldn’t stand cucumbers, current Shi Jin didn’t really mind their taste.

First, he scooped up some of the egg cucumber soup, then picked up an egg and stuffed it into his mouth.

“Rong Zhouzhong posted something on his microblog this morning.
He wrote, ‘Looking for a young man dancing in the bar last night’, and added they wanted to recruit him into their company.
Below is a video of this young man on the dance floor,” Lian Jun said suddenly.

Pff—the egg Shi Jin just ate has been sprayed out all over the table.