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Jiang Yu finally spoke, his voice hoarse:
“But you must wait until you get the money back before giving it to me. Before Zhang Chunfeng repays, I can’t take your three million plus.”
Li Xiao stared at him for a few seconds, then suddenly let out a cold laugh:
“Fine. Don’t transfer the money then. But you must agree to clear the two hundred fifty thousand debt between us.”
“When Zhang Chunfeng pays back, I’ll directly deduct two hundred fifty thousand from it.”
Jiang Yu knew that Li Xiao was trying to lighten his burden in another way.
He didn’t refuse again and nodded:
“……Okay.”
Li Xiao’s expression softened a bit. He called Lawyer Wan and Zhang Chunfeng in.
Lawyer Wan quickly drafted the debt transfer agreement.
Jiang Yu carefully read the terms.
He would transfer his three million six hundred twenty thousand yuan claim against Zhang Chunfeng to Li Xiao. Li Xiao promised that after receiving repayment from Zhang Chunfeng, he would deduct two hundred fifty thousand yuan and pay the remaining amount to Jiang Yu.
All three parties signed.
Zhang Chunfeng’s hands were trembling as he signed.
After signing, Lawyer Wan put away the documents and left with Zhang Chunfeng first.
Only Jiang Yu and Li Xiao remained in the private room.
Jiang Yu looked at the copy of the agreement in his hand, a complex emotion surging in his heart.
Five years.
The compensation he thought he’d never get suddenly had hope.
And the one who brought this hope was Li Xiao.
“Thank you.”
Jiang Yu looked up and said sincerely:
“Really.”
Li Xiao leaned back on the sofa, swirling the wine glass in his hand, his tone flat:
“Don’t thank me. I’m just helping myself collect a debt.”
Jiang Yu could feel that Li Xiao was still angry.
Angry at him for drawing the line before, angry at him for returning the gifts.
Jiang Yu remembered the things he was still carrying.
He placed two luxury paper bags on the coffee table:
“These two…… you left at the bar last time and didn’t take away.”
Li Xiao’s gaze fell on the paper bags, and his eyes instantly turned cold.
“Jiang Yu.”
He put down the glass, his voice suppressed with anger:
“Do you have to be so clear with me? Do you have to push me so far away?”
“That’s not what I meant.”
Jiang Yu explained, but his tone unconsciously hardened:
“I just can’t accept such expensive gifts from you. Between us……”
“What about between us?”
Li Xiao stood up and walked in front of him:
“Jiang Yu, I did all this for you, not to hear you say ‘can’t accept’ or ‘have to pay back.’”
“Then what are you doing it for?”
Jiang Yu also stood up, looking up at him:
“To make me weep with gratitude? To make me willingly become your kept canary?”
“You!”
Li Xiao’s face turned pale with anger, his fingers clenched:
“Is that the kind of person I am in your heart?”
Jiang Yu looked away, his chest heaving.
He knew he had spoken too harshly.
Li Xiao helping him with the compensation matter was clearly for his own good.
But he was scared.
Scared that accepting these kindnesses would make him fall deeper.
Scared that one day Li Xiao would get bored, and he would crash and burn.
“Whatever you think.”
Li Xiao finally dropped this sentence and turned toward the door:
“The account is settled, the agreement signed. You can leave now.”
He pulled open the door and left without looking back.
Jiang Yu stood there, looking at the empty room, then at the paper bags on the coffee table.
In the end, he left the bags on the table and walked out of the room.
Li Xiao was already gone from the corridor.
Jiang Yu walked out of the club, and the cold autumn wind hit him in the face.
He took out his phone, opened Li Xiao’s WeChat, typed and deleted words in the input box.
Finally, he only sent one line:
[I left the things on the coffee table in the room.]
No reply.
Jiang Yu put away his phone and walked toward the bus stop.
He knew that this time Li Xiao was truly angry.
……
Over the next few days, there was no news from Li Xiao.
Jiang Yu went to work, came home, and took care of his sister as usual.
Friday night, the bar was especially lively.
Jiang Yu was busy behind the counter, mixing more than a dozen cocktails in a row until his wrists ached.
Around ten o’clock, a commotion came from the entrance.
He looked up and froze.
Li Xiao had arrived.
Not alone.
He was accompanied by four or five flashily dressed men and women, and…… two young, handsome boys.
Those two boys were clearly not ordinary customers. They wore tight tops, had slender figures, delicate features, and stood on either side of Li Xiao, smiling brightly.
Li Xiao wore a black shirt, its collar open, sleeves casually rolled up.
He had a careless smile on his face as he chatted with the people beside him. When his gaze swept over the bar, it paused on Jiang Yu for a moment.
A very brief moment.
Then, as if he hadn’t seen him, he looked away.
The manager greeted him like a long-lost ancestor and led the group to the best booth—the most prominent spot right in front of the dance floor.
The music was deafening, the lights flashing.
Jiang Yu saw one of the boys sit close to Li Xiao, eagerly pouring him a drink.
Li Xiao didn’t refuse. He took the glass and clinked it with his friends.
He laughed freely, a kind of unbridled laugh Jiang Yu rarely saw.
“My god, Mr. Li’s really going all out tonight……”
Wu Qi leaned in, lowering his voice:
“See that? Those two beside him are the most expensive male models in the city. Their appearance fee is this much.”
He made a gesture.
Jiang Yu looked away and continued wiping the glass:
“None of my business.”
“How is it not your business?”
Wu Qi winked:
“Isn’t it obvious? He’s doing this for you to see. Feeling jealous?”
Jiang Yu’s hand paused, and the glass almost slipped.
He caught it steadily, his expression blank:
“You’re overthinking it.”
Even so, his gaze uncontrollably drifted over there.
In the booth, the boy in the silver top said something, and Li Xiao laughed, reaching out to ruffle his hair.
A very intimate gesture.
Jiang Yu felt a sharp pang in his chest.
He abruptly lowered his head, furiously wiping the already gleaming shaker.
For the next hour, Jiang Yu forced himself to focus on work.
But in the corner of his eye, he could always catch glimpses of the scene at the booth.
Li Xiao was surrounded by the group, drinking and laughing, the two boys practically plastered against him.
At one in the morning, Li Xiao’s table started playing dice.
The boy in the silver top lost and was penalized with a drink.
He giggled and dodged into Li Xiao’s arms. Li Xiao didn’t push him away but instead took the glass and drank it for him.
Cheers erupted around them.
Jiang Yu stopped wiping the glass.
He stared in that direction, his fingers unconsciously tightening.
“Jiang Yu, three margaritas, table A3.”
A colleague handed him the order.
Jiang Yu took it and started mixing drinks.
His movements were still fluid, but his eyes were vacant.
After the drinks were ready, the server took them away.
Jiang Yu leaned against the counter, looking toward Li Xiao.
Li Xiao happened to look up, and their eyes met across the crowded dance floor.
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To the ML of this novel: Maybe if you hadn’t made his first ever sexual experience bloody awful and fucked him til he passed out from pain he would have been more receptive to your future advances. I know that this being BL, this nasty bygone will be like it never happened but if it was real life he would retch every time he saw you for the rest of his life. I can’t even with this anymore. Like why don’t you get down on your knees and apologize for his first time being godawful because you are a terrible lay.