Early the next morning, Shi Sheng was awakened by the fluorescent lights coming back on.

Lu Lin had already left, and he hadn’t come back yet.

Unable to tidy up, there were several crumpled tissues scattered on the ground. Shi Sheng flexed his wrist joints, feeling a bit sore. He circled the sizes from memory and fell into contemplation. Hmm… trouble.

The headquarters had received many inexplicable complaints again, most of which were about them promoting bad behavior. As firefighters, behaving intimately in public at rescue scenes was criticized the most.

The commissar again asked Lu Lin to properly guide Shi Sheng’s thoughts. Although it wasn’t his fault, these opinions had some influence on the headquarters. But Lu Lin couldn’t let Shi Sheng bear all of this alone.

So he took advantage of his day off to go house hunting.

In the car, Shi Sheng silently opened the map app, sliding his fingers across the screen to zoom in.

Lu Lin leaned over to look, “Are you using the map to find a house?”

“Whichever neighborhood is closer to my home and the headquarters, that’s where you should buy.” Shi Sheng grinned. “Anyway, we have money.”

Surprisingly, Lu Lin found his reasoning somewhat sensible.

Shi Sheng’s home was in the villa area of Xinjia Community, not far from the studio. If driving to the headquarters, it would take about twenty minutes without traffic. He used an iPad pen to draw lines, marking a circle from his house to the headquarters, considering any neighborhood within this circle.

“This neighborhood’s houses are too old, not good.”

“Next to this one is a square, and the dancing grannies might disturb your rest at night.”

“This one looks good, let’s check the cost-effectiveness at the real estate agency later.”

While he looked, he wrote down several neighborhoods that met the requirements in his phone’s notes. He seemed even more attentive than Lu Lin himself. Seeing Shi Sheng’s focused expression, Lu Lin couldn’t help but pinch his ear.

“What?” Sheng turned to look at him.

“You look cute.”

“Oh.” Shi Sheng turned back, his ears turning slightly red.

For the rest of the afternoon, they went to the real estate agency, looked at a few houses, and then boasted about six pounds of crayfish at the crayfish restaurant. They returned home exhausted.

Yes, Shi Sheng’s home.

Shi Sheng came back in the morning, turned on the water, removed the dust cover, opened the curtains, and aired out the room. This house was much larger than the command center dormitory. With classical-style furniture, the entrance hall led to a living room with a grand piano. He designated one room as a recording studio, knocking down a non-load-bearing wall and replacing it with a single-pane glass, allowing visibility from the studio to the living room, but not vice versa.

Lu Lin filled the refrigerator with food while Shi Sheng sat at the piano.

Castle in the Sky.

His slender fingers looked elegant as he played the piano. Lu Lin finished his tasks and hugged him from behind, placing his left hand over Shi Sheng’s. Shi Sheng left only his right hand, and they started playing together.

But when did Lu Lin learn to play the piano?

In the next moment, his fingers danced across the keys, playing a flurry of notes.

Shi Sheng turned his head, seeing Lu Lin whistling as if nothing had happened. He closed the piano lid, and the dim yellow light from the ceiling shone down. It was already dark outside, and the entire living room was filled with a warm and peaceful atmosphere.

And the faint smell of sweat from their busy day.

“It’s so late,” Lu Lin glanced at his watch, “mind if I stay overnight?”

Shi Sheng considered, realizing Lu Lin didn’t have work tomorrow either, so it wouldn’t hurt. “The bathroom is—”

“In the room on the second floor, I know,” Lu Lin snapped his fingers, grabbed his luggage, and went upstairs to the guest room.

He had bought this house after starting work, and seeing how familiar Lu Lin was with it, it seemed he had been here before. Shi Sheng pointed out while closing the piano cover, he wondered if there was anything else they needed to do since they were both at his place. He waited for a while but didn’t see Lu Lin coming out.

He casually grabbed a glass of lemon water and went upstairs, only to see Lu Lin opening the closet and hanging his clothes.

Leaning against the door, Shi Sheng shook his head. “Simply staying overnight, and you came this prepared?”

“Tonight is just one night, there will be many more in the future. Can’t stay during workdays, so staying over on weekends isn’t too much, right?” Lu Lin closed the closet door. “Besides, it’s much better than the dormitory.”

“So, are you sleeping in this room?” Shi Sheng approached.

“Oh, are you able to sleep alone at night?”

“Then why are you putting clothes in this wardrobe?” Shi Sheng frowned, slightly discontent.

“My clothes need a place too,” Lu Lin leaned against the closet with his hands. “So you won’t bring home strays while I’m not around.”

“Am I that kind of person?”

Lu Lin chuckled. Someone probably didn’t remember inviting Wu Nan er and those guys to sleep in this guest room during his birthday party.

He sniffed the smell of sweat on himself.

“Let’s go take a shower,” Lu Lin pushed him towards the door. “Didn’t we agree to take it step by step? The first step, to be honest.”

Shi Sheng hurriedly put the lemon water aside and stumbled as he was pushed out. “I-I’ll go wash downstairs.”

“The water heater downstairs is broken and hasn’t been repaired yet.”

“That’s impossible, you’re lying!”

…

The showerhead sprayed water, but Shi Sheng’s hands remained cold despite waiting for a long time, eventually accepting this “misfortune.”

“Then you go shower first?”

“What are you afraid of? Let’s shower together. Hurry up.” Lu Lin patted his butt, urging him to fetch clean clothes.

Shi Sheng reluctantly went, while Lu Lin quickly went to the other side and quietly turned on the water heater.

Shi Sheng slowly climbed upstairs with his hands behind his back and saw Lu Lin immediately retract his head after turning on the water heater.

After a long time, steam filled the second-floor bathroom, and the mirror gradually became foggy. Shi Sheng took off his shirt, looking at his blurry figure in the mirror. Lu Lin stood behind him, towering over him.

He tilted his head back, and Lu Lin leaned down to kiss him.

Lowering his head again, Shi Sheng’s pants dropped.

The shower sprayed water, drenching them both. Shi Sheng stood in front of him as Lu Lin rinsed him off, licking his lips. He leaned in to kiss him, touching his nose, kissing his lips, and the water droplets fell spontaneously, wetting his cheeks.

“This water tastes a bit sweet,” Shi Sheng rolled his tongue to taste.

“Does it?”

He was pushed all the way to the wall, pressed against the cold tiles, shivering as his skin contracted. Shi Sheng frowned and moaned softly, taking advantage of the situation to lift his legs around Lu Lin’s waist, moving slightly away from the wall. Lu Lin immediately supported his hips with his rough and calloused palms, radiating warmth. Shi Sheng turned his head away, leaning against Lu Lin’s shoulder as if sitting in his embrace.

With a firm grip, Lu Lin squeezed and kneaded his ass, the heat between their organs rubbing against each other, causing Shi Sheng to hook his shoulder and pant against his ear. Lu Lin hugged his waist with one hand, in the blurry mirror, their figures trembling and overlapping.

The unmistakable heat and hardness couldn’t be ignored, seeming to grow larger, while water splashed down, Lu Lin released Shi Sheng, letting him turn around and pressing his shoulder blades against the wall.

Lu Lin whispered softly in his ear, “Tighten up.”

Forced to close his legs, Lu Lin pinned his hands to the wall, one hand on his waist, the hardness rubbing against the inside of his thighs, simulating thrusting and penetration. Shi Sheng, pressed against the wall, could feel the large organ teasing the inside of his legs, seemingly fitting closely, the dull and crisp sound coming through the water, indicating their impact.

Even though it hadn’t entered, his entire face was flushed, and his legs were hot. It felt as if he could sense the sensitive tremors between the thrusts and impacts. In the foggy atmosphere, Lu Lin’s heavy breaths came from behind. Shi Sheng subconsciously tightened his legs around the hot, long organ between them, rocking his hips back and forth to quickly seize pleasure.

Lu Lin took a sharp breath, then groaned and embraced him tightly.

Nipples rubbing against the smooth tiles, they were stiffened by the cold, and Lu Lin just used his fingertips to tease them a few times, causing Shi Sheng to arch his body, trembling and moaning, lowering his head. He could see Lu Lin’s organ protruding and disappearing between his legs, Lu Lin hugging his waist, thrusting more vigorously and crisply against him, the sound of impact resounding. With one hand, he grabbed Shi Sheng’s organ, stroking it.

With a stroke of the calloused hand over the shaft, Shi Sheng couldn’t help but whimper from the overlapping pleasure and pain, water splashed onto Lu Lin’s back, and droplets fell between Shi Sheng’s neck. Each of Lu Lin’s thrusts matched the rapid frequency of his hand movements, causing Shi Sheng’s body to tremble. Pleasure climbed up his spine, and tiny electric currents spread throughout his body.

Grasping Lu Lin’s waist, biting his lip and moaning intermittently, he felt like he was about to be engulfed in a storm.

“Don’t… stop… aaah…”

Unable to hold on anymore, he leaned against the wall with one hand, his legs trembling and aching, whimpering for Lu Lin to stop teasing, but Lu Lin pressed harder against him, thrusting more urgently, his palm moving quickly.

“Ah ah ah ah ah ah——”

Suddenly, he couldn’t hold it anymore. White liquid spurted out from beneath Shi Sheng, trickling down the wall in small streams, indulgent and winding its way down.

The intense pleasure, almost uncontrollable, stimulated him, as Lu Lin pressed against him. When Shi Sheng’s tense body softened, he cried, his shoulder blades tightening, Lu Lin still stroking him.

“What’s the rush,” Lu Lin’s voice hoarse, licked the red corners of his eyes, “I haven’t cum yet.”

After a long time, with the mirror completely blurred by the mist, Shi Sheng was cleaned, touched his reddened thighs with distress, and only wore Lu Lin’s white short-sleeved shirt, the length just reaching his thighs, empty inside, swaying out of the bathroom.