DILLYH Chapter 21

TL: Hua

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Chapter 21: Surprise

This statement did hold some credibility. Yu Haozhou found it hard to imagine just how drunk Han Jin was, completely oblivious even when doing that.

Thinking of some details inappropriate for children, he hesitated and asked, “Did he force you?”

Cheng Qianyu pursed her lips, looking down at her hands, answering obliquely, “Do you know how many years Zhou Zizheng has liked you?”

Yu Haozhou’s heart skipped a beat. He masked his unnecessary nervousness, his thoughts following her completely: “Why bring that up suddenly?”

Cheng Qianyu raised her head, looked at him sideways, and smiled: “Because I’m very envious of you.”

At the age of first love, her mind was already completely consumed by Zhou Zizheng.

To follow Zhou Zizheng’s footsteps, she didn’t choose the liberal arts, which she excelled at, but forced herself to tackle the incomprehensible sciences. She expended more energy than the average person to reach the mountain peak she desired.

All the hardship was worth a thousand taels when she successfully got into the same university as him. Cheng Qianyu always thought that if she accompanied him for a little longer, she would eventually occupy a small place in his heart.

However, at the gathering on the night of their high school graduation, she saw it with her own eyes. How Zhou Zizheng consumed Yu Haozhou, how tightly he held the person in his arms. The subconscious intimacy, comfort, and reluctance when he left. It all flashed before Cheng Qianyu’s eyes like a kaleidoscope.

Her unrequited love did not have a happy ending.

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Yu Haozhou went back. As he was leaving, he sent Han Jin a message: [Confirmed. The child is yours.]

Finding it a bit abrupt, he added an explanation: [The night of August 9th, you blacked out. Cheng Qianyu took care of you.]

After sending it, he tossed the phone onto the passenger seat next to him. The home address was already entered into the navigation. After two seconds of deliberation, he changed it to Zhou Zizheng’s company address.

He would give him a surprise, begrudgingly. He’d better show a happy expression. If he showed even a tiny bit of reluctance, Yu Haozhou would turn around and leave immediately; he wasn’t going to put up with that nonsense.

When he arrived at the company, everyone in the lobby recognized him. They immediately opened the door and were about to call the internal line to the executive assistant’s office on the top floor, but Yu Haozhou stopped them: “It’s fine, no need to call. I didn’t tell him beforehand.”

They nodded. After the CEO’s private elevator arrived, they consciously didn’t follow him in. Watching the continuously jumping elevator floor numbers, Yu Haozhou tilted his head and scratched his forehead.

Whoa, he was actually a little nervous. What was going on?

They had already done things so intimate. Why would he still be nervous about the impending meeting?

It wasn’t until much later that Yu Haozhou understood. This was probably his expectation. He didn’t want his expectation to fall flat; he hoped Zhou Zizheng’s first reaction upon seeing him would be happiness.

“Mr. Yu?”

As soon as he stepped out of the elevator, he ran into Xu Yi, who was carrying a stack of documents.

Yu Haozhou nodded: “Is he in the office?”

“Oh.” Xu Yi raised his chin in a certain direction. “He’s in a meeting.”

“Would you like something to drink?”

Xu Yi invited him into the office.

“Plain water is fine.”

Yu Haozhou sat down, thinking of Zhou Zizheng’s recent complaints. He turned his head, resting his elbow on the back of the sofa, and called out to Xu Yi, who was pouring water nearby.

“Little brother, do you think Zhou Zizheng is easy to get along with?”

Xu Yi lightly furrowed his brow, unable to guess what he was trying to figure out. He brought the glass of water over and said with official politeness, “Mr. Zhou has a great leadership style. I admire him very much.”

Yu Haozhou curled his lips: “I can hear a hint of gritted teeth in your voice.”

Xu Yi smiled politely and said calmly, “You must have misheard.”

“So…” Yu Haozhou took a sip of water, his tone frosty. “If he got his dressing changed, and the wound still bled, you weren’t trying to get back at him, were you?”

Xu Yi’s bending posture paused. His attitude was frank: “It’s not about revenge, but I certainly don’t see eye-to-eye with him.”

Yu Haozhou frowned, just about to ask about his relationship with Zhou Zizheng, when he heard him say, “After all, no ‘bull and horse’ doesn’t dislike his boss.”

Yu Haozhou: “……”

Xu Yi continued with a major revelation: “Mr. Zhou’s hand is fine.”

“I was indeed a bit clumsy the first few times, but today I changed Mr. Zhou’s dressing with twelve points of effort, not daring to be neglectful in the slightest.”

“He was so comfortable he almost fell asleep. If you don’t believe me, you can unwrap it tonight and see. See if his wound has reopened.”

Yu Haozhou massaged his forehead in exasperation. He had intentionally come to demand an explanation, only to find himself on the receiving end of a counter-accusation.

He apologized somewhat awkwardly: “Sorry, I didn’t check clearly beforehand.”

Xu Yi shook his head and smiled: “It’s nothing. You and Mr. Zhou look very happy together. I’m quite envious.”

Yu Haozhou looked up sharply at him, his gaze filled with scrutiny.

Someone else had just mentioned being very envious of them this morning. Why was there another one now? Could it be…

Xu Yi nodded under his scrutiny: “I like men.”

Yu Haozhou nearly had a heart attack. He hesitated: “You…”

He doesn’t like Zhou Zizheng too, does he?

Xu Yi said calmly, “I have a boyfriend.”

Yu Haozhou let out a huge sigh of relief. He was spending all his time chasing after imaginary love rivals.

Xu Yi remembered Wu Yichen, who was locked up somewhere unknown, and his eyes held a trace of sadness: “But we haven’t seen each other in a long time. I wonder if he’s scared of being alone.”

Yu Haozhou found a comfortable position, lying on the sofa, unconcerned: “Just pick him up, then.”

Yu Haozhou had expected him to say that he didn’t have enough money, or that his family disagreed with them meeting, or various other realistic factors. But he heard Xu Yi look confused: “I don’t know where he is. I can’t contact him.”

…….

Wu Yichen regretted it for the umpteenth time. He shouldn’t have been so foolish as to come to the capital city to ask his biological father for money. The people here were even scarier than the gossiping old women in the village. They kept tying him up and locking him in some unknown room.

The day Wu Yichen got out of the car, he was immediately tied up again by a group of people.

To be honest, after being tied up by several groups of people over two days, Wu Yichen was a bit numb. Should he say he was quite sought after? Why else would so many people be after him?

On the first day of being locked in the strange house, Wu Yichen’s hands and feet were tied, and his eyes were covered with a cloth. He was starved for a day and a night.

Only on the second day did someone come to untie him and deliver savory food. Wu Yichen devoured the food greedily, even hiccupping from being so full. After eating, he began to examine the room he was confined in.

There was a bed, a table, and a toilet. The rest was walls. There wasn’t even a window. The group of people had some unknown goal, but after thoroughly searching him, they left him alone.

They delivered meals three times a day and left immediately afterward. Wu Yichen tried to talk to someone, attempting to chat with the person who brought the food. However, the person only used sign language, which Wu Yichen couldn’t understand. Locked in this room where he didn’t know the time of day, he was truly going crazy.

No, he wasn’t going crazy. Wu Yichen felt that if Xu Yi didn’t come soon, he would truly lose his mind. He managed to get by each day just by cursing Xu Yi.

…….

Yu Haozhou wasn’t very interested in Xu Yi’s offer to exchange a secret. But seeing that he was only just an adult, he figured he must have run into some difficulty to be speaking like this. He offered him an opportunity: “Is there anything you need help with?”

Xu Yi scratched his head in frustration. He was truly at his wit’s end. He didn’t know anyone in the capital city. He couldn’t rescue Wu Yichen by himself and needed to find someone to help. But the choice of person was difficult: “Can I trust you?”

Yu Haozhou shrugged: “Believe it or not, it’s up to you.”

Before he could think of a reason, there was a sound at the door. Xu Yi immediately stood up from the sofa. When Zhou Zizheng entered, Yu Haozhou on the sofa was perfectly shielded from view by Xu Yi.

Xu Yi called out, “Mr. Zhou.”

Zhou Zizheng raised his eyelids and glanced at him, a warning in his eyes: “What are you doing in my office at this hour?”

“Because he’s entertaining me,” Yu Haozhou’s voice sounded out of nowhere. Xu Yi saw Zhou Zizheng’s eyes instantly light up like light bulbs. He quickly left the office, thoughtfully closing the door behind him.

Zhou Zizheng genuinely hadn’t expected him to come. The back-to-back meetings had already drained his energy. He had planned to take a quick nap on the sofa, but Yu Haozhou’s arrival instantly made him feel invigorated.

“Zhouzhou.” Zhou Zizheng instinctively moved to embrace him.

“Hold on, hold on, wait.” Yu Haozhou pressed against his chest, stopping him from coming closer, then sat down on the sofa, adopting a posture that suggested no hugs until things were clarified. Although Zhou Zizheng’s immediate reaction made him quite satisfied.

Zhou Zizheng lightly frowned: “What is this…?”

“Didn’t your hand bleed again?” Yu Haozhou pretended to be caring, “Avoid large movements to prevent straining it and affecting recovery.”

“It’s fine,” Zhou Zizheng said, trying to hug him again. Yu Haozhou held up a finger and waved it in front of his eyes: “No, no. I don’t want to have to run all the way here every day to change your dressing.”

Zhou Zizheng gritted his teeth. Was this a case of lifting a rock only to drop it on his own foot? What was he supposed to do? He missed him so much, like he had some kind of skin hunger. Seeing the person in front of him, he just wanted to pull him close and cling to him. Now, because of his own doing, he could only look but not touch.

Just as he was about to find an excuse to be a rogue, he looked down and saw the slight curve of Yu Haozhou’s lips. He suddenly remembered that when he first walked in, he seemed to be chatting with Xu Yi. As soon as he arrived, he immediately stopped talking. Zhou Zizheng narrowed his eyes when he realized this. So, he was being baited.

Yu Haozhou was still secretly chuckling, finding Zhou Zizheng so easy to fool. The next second, he was tackled onto the sofa, crying out in surprise, “Holy hell, Zhou Zizheng!”

“Zhouzhou, is it fun to trick me, huh?” Zhou Zizheng grabbed his two slender white wrists and pinned them above his head.

Yu Haozhou’s abdomen arched slightly, and his tightly clamped legs were forcibly pushed apart by Zhou Zizheng, who squeezed in between.

Yu Haozhou’s face turned completely red. He scoffed: “Who started the deceiving?”

He made no attempt to hide his mockery: “Pretending to be in pain—how childish of you, Zhou Zizheng.”

Zhou Zizheng wasn’t embarrassed at all. His gaze lingered on his face, then slowly moved downwards. Zhou Zizheng reached out his hand and gently poked the area over his heart a few times: “What about you? Did you feel any heartache here?”

Yu Haozhou was instantly speechless, as if his throat had been squeezed.

Zhou Zizheng’s smile deepened: “Don’t want to say?”

The index finger continued to move downwards, lightly grazing his exposed abdomen, making Yu Haozhou’s whole body feel electric and ticklish.

His waist arched even tighter, as if trying to cling to something. The veins in Yu Haozhou’s neck bulged. His voice was husky: “What… what do you want? Let go of me!”

Zhou Zizheng’s hand finally stopped at the position of his belt buckle, and he hooked it forcefully: “Zhouzhou, how long has it been since we last did it?”

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