Chapter 47

Outside, the sound of rain filled the air.

Yang Yunran saw that Jiang Yi didn’t resist. Jiang Yi’s gaze was slightly lowered and focused, caressing his own ears and cheeks, clearly enjoying the moment as well.

So he became more enthusiastic, licking and sucking on his lips as if he had mastered it himself. Jiang Yi’s breathing clearly changed rhythm, holding onto him tightly, almost as if trying to merge their bones together. Jiang Yi’s breath sprayed on Yang Yunran’s cheek. “Like a little puppy, who taught you this kissing technique? Was it Fan?”

Jiang Yi knew it wasn’t appropriate to bring up his ex at a moment like this, but he did, watching Yang Yunran’s reaction.

Yang Yunran gently nudged his nose against Jiang Yi’s, his eyes somewhat hazy. “Fan? I’m not on drugs. This is something Harry taught me, isn’t it fun?”

Jiang Yi didn’t respond verbally. His fingers pressed on the back of Yang Yunran’s head, urging him to continue. Yang Yunran wanted to kiss with his tongue but didn’t know how, so he continued licking until Jiang Yi suddenly opened his mouth. He accidentally pushed his tongue inside, touching something soft and moist. Startled, he quickly pulled back.

Perhaps it was Jiang Yi’s tongue; Yang Yunran wasn’t entirely sure, feeling dazed. Jiang Yi suddenly rolled over on the sofa, shifting from the position where Yang Yunran was lying on top of him to lying on his side, pressing Yang Yunran against the inner side of the sofa. Jiang Yi seemed to know how to kiss now, a genius at learning everything quickly. His voice low and husky, he instructed, “Open your mouth, like you just did.”

“W-what… like how?”

“Lick me, puppy,” Jiang Yi said.

Yang Yunran’s cheeks flushed red, breathing becoming difficult as he tilted his head up hesitantly, “Why are you suddenly okay with this? Weren’t you against kissing…”

“Just against others kissing me,” Jiang Yi replied, feeling his tongue at his lips, so he took it in, lips and tongues intertwining. Yang Yunran really had no experience, so tears welled up instantly, constantly swallowing them back into his throat. Due to having had his eyeballs removed, his eyes were naturally very sensitive, prone to tearing up when sad, excited, or emotionally unstable.

Moisture dripped onto their cheeks. Jiang Yi noticed this and wiped away his tears with his thumb, “You always cry like this.”

Yang Yunran sniffled, but before he could speak, Jiang Yi kissed him again, knees bent pressing against his legs, hands caressing down his neck.

Yang Yunran felt overwhelmed, so…

Yang Yunran blushed so deeply that it looked like blood, suggesting, “Jiang Yi, maybe I could help you too. If you’re over your kissing phobia, maybe you’re over the other one too. I told you sleeping naked would help, right?”

Here’s the translation of the continuation:

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“It has nothing to do with sleeping naked,” Jiang Yi murmured softly, not resisting as Yang Yunran’s hand came down. Yang Yunran touched him through his underwear for the first time, and it was beyond what he could handle, causing him to abruptly pull his hand back, as if startled.

Then Yang Yunran looked up to see Jiang Yi’s furrowed brow. “Do you still not like it?”

“No,” Jiang Yi suppressed, resting his forehead against Yang Yunran’s, gripping his fingers. “Together.”

Jiang Yi’s finger joints were thick, but his large hands made them look slender. These were hands used for experiments, very precise, now holding Yang Yunran’s hand at the same time.

Yang Yunran, who had just dried his tears, started crying again. He was afraid Jiang Yi would notice the inorganic cornea’s halo caused by his tears, so he tightly closed his eyes and buried his head in Jiang Yi’s shoulder. But he also wanted to be kissed with his tongue, so he closed his eyes and tilted his head up to find Jiang Yi’s lips.

With this opening, Jiang Yi’s composure dissipated.

Plus, he had drunk quite a bit of champagne and wasn’t as calm as usual.

Yang Yunran was weak from the kiss and didn’t react in sync with Jiang Yi. Then Jiang Yi paused for a few seconds, taking advantage of the liquid to continue. But it was also much faster than usual.

It was after it ended that he realized.

“The sofa’s dirty,” Jiang Yi said. “I’ll get some detergent to clean it.”

“Don’t go.” Yang Yunran hugged him, his arms tightly around his back, stroking the grooves of his spine.

He looked completely satisfied, lying against Jiang Yi, sniffing the smell of his skin, tasting it on his chest. Jiang Yi’s scalp tingled, poking his cheek with a finger. “Where do you want to lick? Don’t be naughty.”

Jiang Yi felt once a day was enough; more would affect his mental state and health.

Yang Yunran lifted his face. “So you rinsed your mouth just now to kiss me?”

“Yeah, that was the plan,” Jiang Yi said. But actually, he had thought about how to take the initiative all the way and found it a bit difficult. Fortunately, Yang Yunran liked him very much, and his affection was evident.

Jiang Yi couldn’t resist this.

Yang Yunran’s eyes sparkled. “So business trips have so many benefits. Just one trip and you’ve cured two major problems. Can I touch you now? Does that mean I can come in?”

Jiang Yi’s temples throbbed. Sometimes children were so straightforward; that it was hard to imagine what kind of texts he usually read or what kind of influence he received.

Yang Yunran was oblivious. “Can you tell me the specific size? I’ll go buy a set.”

Jiang Yi remained silent.

Yang Yunran said, “I think there should be a 20? 6.5? I’m so nervous.”

His expression didn’t look like he was nervous.

“Not 20, I’ll buy it myself,” Jiang Yi replied. He learned things quickly; it was easy to look up online, watch a video at triple speed for five or six minutes, and understand. After watching, he felt that if the object was Yang Yunran, he didn’t seem so averse. Perhaps there was nothing in this world that could stump him (except singing).

Yang Yunran asked, “When is your next business trip?”

Jiang Yi lowered his head. “You really want me to go on a business trip?”

There were academic conferences everywhere, many of them international, and Jiang Yi could secure a spot at any of them, as long as he wanted to.

Yang Yunran said, “I just feel like when you go on a business trip… things change, they change quickly. It’s like you’re ice, going from Antarctica to New York, melting in New York, and then coming back, like the greenhouse effect in Antarctica, so you become water.”

Jiang Yi chuckled at the metaphor. His lips curved slightly. “Are you suggesting you want to separate from me?”

“I don’t want to,” Yang Yunran shook his head.

Jiang Yi replied, “Then I won’t go on any business trips.”

Yang Yunran had been busy the past few days and hadn’t searched online for the conferences Jiang Yi was attending. He asked about the content of the conferences, and Jiang Yi explained a lot of things that Yang Yunran didn’t understand. Despite this, Yang Yunran listened attentively, occasionally making sounds like “Wow” and “Wow—” while looking at him with admiring eyes, saying, “Brother, you’re so amazing, you’re bound to win awards!!”

Even though he was praising him, Yang Yunran genuinely thought Jiang Yi was very intelligent.

The two of them found it a bit cramped on the sofa, so before long, they moved to the bed. Yang Yunran incessantly asked for kisses, and Jiang Yi indulged him. In just a short span of tens of minutes, Jiang Yi’s kissing skills improved rapidly, progressing from hesitant exploration to confident probing and attacking, requiring only a few minutes to learn from him.

Jiang Yi kissed Yang Yunran until he was dizzy, his brain lacking oxygen as he asked, “How many people have you kissed before?”

“None,” Jiang Yi replied. “And you?”

“I haven’t either,” Yang Yunran said.

Jiang Yi lowered his gaze, meeting Yang Yunran’s eyes. He didn’t entirely believe those words. Yang Yunran had exes; that was certain. Did he and his exes maintain the same manners and rules as he did?

They hadn’t been together for even two months, yet they both wanted to make love with each other, let alone anyone else.

Jiang also did not question him, calmly glossing over the topic of “early promotion.” But in fact, she couldn’t help but think of what Professor Chen had said about that XX Fan.

Does the accompanying male have this name?

He wanted to confirm, but seeing Yang Yunran’s carefree appearance right now, he didn’t ask.

Then Yang Yunran came up again, his face close to his: “I want another kiss.”

Isn’t this move learned from a dog? When Jiang occasionally walked Harry, he would feel that Samoyeds were cute even if Harry rubbed against him like this. Not to mention if it were on a boy he liked…

Night fell, rain pattered against the window.

The faucet flowed in a thin stream, washing over Jiang Fan’s ten fingers. Jiang Fan dried his hands, picked up a bottle of skincare cream, and gently applied it to his face, revealing a surprised expression.

“Translucent white, naturally extracted, I choose Yuduo,” he recited the ad slogan.

“Cut—” the director said, “Fan, redo it, your tone is too contrived.”

An advertisement was inserted into a talent show, and Jiang Fan had to redo it five or six times. Under the studio lights, Jiang Fan wiped off the cream from his face with a tissue and saw staff moving cardboard boxes, distributing small kits from this skincare brand.

“Thank you, everyone,” the staff quickly handed one to Jiang Fan and also to his agent, “Thank you, Teacher Fan, for shooting our Yuduo advertisement. This is our best-selling kit, with essence and eye cream, all…”

“Surprisingly, there’s also a gift box, thank you! Your stuff is really good, I’ve been using it privately.” Jiang Fan praised, seeking to gain favor with the rich father.

The agent whispered to him, “Do you see the person behind the director? That’s Yang Yunran, the founder of Yuduo. She keeps a low profile. If you want to endorse Yuduo, you can start with her.”

Jiang Fan lowered his voice: “I’ve never heard of this brand before. It’s not domestic? And the endorsement fee won’t be much.”

The agent said, “Don’t underestimate domestic brands. Yuduo got Series E financing this year and has advertisements everywhere. They’re very wealthy. Traditional Chinese medicine skincare is their big concept.”

Jiang Fan didn’t want to rely on older women; he preferred Yang Yunran because the Yang family was wealthy. Yang Yunran could provide him with more resources. The trouble was that Yang Yunran completely ignored him now, as if they had broken up six months ago.

I wonder if it aired, did he watch the show? Seeing himself and someone else as a CP in the show, would he be angry with himself?

But he had a successful plastic surgery, maybe Yang Yunran would be less angry?

Jiang Fan took the skincare gift box back to the dormitory and found everyone had one.

“Everyone has one? I worked hard on the advertisement, but everyone has it. What’s going on?” Jiang Fan a little annoyed, opened the gift box to see what was inside. After all, the advertiser was the main sponsor, and he still had to use it in front of the camera.

After opening the box, he saw a mysterious small card stuffed inside.

“What is this?” He picked it up and looked at it. “Missing person notice?”

The card was slightly smaller than a normal business card, with a blurry headshot of a three or four-year-old child on the front, and below it was a line of text: “On this journey to find someone, we need your help.”

On the back were the name, birthplace, date of birth, place of disappearance, birthmark, and other physical characteristics.

A short person from the dormitory who shipped with him came over.

“Fan, do you not know the history of Yuduo?”

Jiang Fan had a bad feeling because the cameraman came over, and this short person was trying to pit him. He wanted to grab his advertisement!

The short person put his arm around his shoulder, having obviously done his homework on all the big dads, and said, “I heard that Yuduo’s founder, Yang, used to run a beauty and hair salon. Many years ago, her child went missing, so she started making traditional Chinese yellow face cream in her own shop and sold it widely at low prices, printed with her child’s missing person notice on the packaging box. Later, the product grew, the Yuduo brand was registered, and the original intention of Yuduo remained unchanged: every packaging will have a missing person notice. I bought a lot of Yuduo products for myself and friends on Double Eleven last time and saw the missing person notice, so I deliberately posted it on Weibo.”

Jiang Fan said, “I’ve bought Yuduo before and saw it, but I didn’t know there was such a story behind it.” He pretended to read the card information seriously. “Is this Yang’s child?”

The dwarf smirked, “Of course not! Yuduo is a conscientious company! They randomly insert missing person notices verified by them into any skincare product packaging sent nationwide. I once received a canvas bag with a missing person notice printed on it, which I found very meaningful. I would often carry it on the subway, hoping to be seen and help children find their parents. I heard they’ve helped many parents reunite with their lost children and often trend on social media. Didn’t you know?”

Surprised by his knowledge, Jiang Fan, still a fan, suddenly felt inferior. Would his next commercial break be a disaster?!

Without giving him a chance to defend himself, the dwarf continued, “And Yuduo really has a good conscience. Their masks and creams are my go-to purchases, very absorbent and super affordable! A gift box is only 120 yuan, and it includes a sample eye cream, a full-size cream, and lotion! Such great value!”

He immediately looked moved, saying, “What Yuduo is doing is really meaningful. I’ll immediately rally all my relatives and friends to help spread this missing person notice card on WeChat Moments and Douyin. I sincerely hope that all separations in the world can reunite again.”

Jiang Fan was stunned into silence. Was this guy also a poet?

After all, Jiang Fan graduated from a normal university and attended summer school at MIT. Compared to these trainees who may not have finished middle school, there was still a difference.

The first episode of the show aired this Friday, but because Yang Yunran was very busy and had no interest in any talent shows, he did not see a handsome guy who was quite outstanding in the program, named Jiang Yifan.

The barrage was all arranged by Zhou Kai.

Brush: “Yifan!! Handsome!!”

“So handsome Evan!!!”

“Not many are watchable, but this Jiang Yifan is okay.”

Even Jiang Fan himself didn’t know he was so popular. He was a small internet celebrity before his debut, and his casual selfies could get two to three thousand likes.

Because he had always planned to debut as a star, he had never broadcast live or slept with fans. Yang Yunran just liked his photos, and the two got in touch.

Jiang Fan knew his identity and family background and knew that he was very well exposed on the internet, in a period of loneliness. The two dated online for a while and went to the United States for more than a month.

Because he was preparing to debut, he went to Korea for training and makeup. Unexpectedly, he was blocked in this way.

The program was finally recorded at the end of June, and Jiang Fan returned to Beijing. He was finally able to touch his phone and the Internet and continued to send messages to Yang Yunran, even thinking of leaving the United States to find him.

“Jiang Fan.” The company’s older brother, Zhou Kai, found him and asked, “What is your relationship with Yang Yunran?”

Jiang Fan was shocked: “…… Kevin, you, you ask this, what does it mean?”

“I know you two have been in love.” Zhou Kai opened the door and saw the mountain, “You are about to debut as a pet, and you are not allowed to contact Yang Yunran again, and you are not allowed to open a small account to send him a message. Before the show is broadcast, you contact him again. I will eliminate you directly on the night of the group formation.”

The show was recorded on the night of the group formation, but when it comes time to stage again, there can be changes at any time.

“I, I… I and him…” Jiang Fan didn’t expect it to be so serious! I don’t know how Zhou Kai knew about this. He was all confused and couldn’t say anything. For the sake of his future, he could only promise, “Okay, Kevin, I won’t contact him…”

Zhou Kai said condescendingly, “It’s good to know. What’s the point of harassing the ex with a small account, really sick.”

Jiang Fan wanted to say that it wasn’t his ex, he hadn’t broken up at all, he was just blocked, Yang Youran had never explicitly said that he had broken up! How could he be so sick?

Because he was forbidden to contact Yang Yunran, Jiang Fan could only control himself. He secretly watched Harry and Ye live, made plans in his heart, and wanted him to see the program and become handsome, and take the initiative to contact himself.

In the warm eyes under Yang Yunran’s mask and in the soft voice, Jiang Fan felt that he had been very sweet recently.

Would he change his boyfriend?

Yang Yunran’s graduation thesis defense is scheduled for next week.

He has been really happy and busy recently. Sitting on the school bench waiting for Jiang Yi to come, Jimmy, with his black hair dyed back, hugged him from behind: “Roy, waiting for your boyfriend?”

“Jimmy?” Yang Yunran took off his headphones and noticed he was alone, “I’m waiting for him, yes. Why are you alone? Where are your friends?”

“I have an exam coming up, they’re all studying. Without passing the exam, there is no diploma. Haha.”

“Why are expressed?”

“Haha.” Jimmy wanted to slap himself for getting involved in love-related nonsense.

He couldn’t continue talking with Yang Yunran, and as soon as Jiang Yi drove over to pick up Yang Yunran, Jimmy left.

Soon after, Jimmy drove his Hummer next to Jiang Yi’s run-down yard, pulled out a large children’s water gun, squirted Jiang Yi, who was wearing sunglasses and burst into a disdainful laugh.

Yang Yunran stuck his head out the window and shouted loudly, “Jimmy!!! Stop fooling around!!!”

Jiang Yi wiped the water off his face with a cold expression, “Where’s my gun?”

He reached under the seat to search, making Yang Yunran even more panicked, “Don’t start a fight!!”

Yang Yunran urged Jimmy to leave quickly, and Jiang Yi hit the brakes. Although Jiang Yi looked good with wet hair and water-drenched eyelashes, Yang Yunran reached over and used a tissue to wipe the water off his face, sniffing, “Luckily it’s just water.”

Jiang Yi had endured Jimmy many times, but this time he had had enough.

Seeing Jiang Yi drive away, Yang Yunran feared he was going to buy bullets and tightened his seatbelt anxiously, “Where are you going?”

“To the store.”

“Why? What are you impulsively buying—”

Jiang Yi drove to a children’s toy store, bought two oversized water guns, filled them with water, and threw them in the back seat. He said to Yang Yunran, “Next time, shoot him with me.”