Chapter 91: Out of Everyone in the World, Lin Huaizhi Only Likes Huo Chen
As Huo Chen started to pull back, Lin Huaizhi suddenly leaned forward. He pressed his hand against the back of Huo Chen’s head and initiated a kiss that was devoid of lust but filled with a lingering, warm intimacy.
After a long while, Lin Huaizhi let go. His cheeks were flushed and his breathing was ragged. “Do you want me to help you distract those paparazzi?”
Even though he was the one who turned a passive moment into an active one, Huo Chen appeared much more composed than Lin Huaizhi. Even his breathing wasn’t as heavy as Lin’s.
“No need.”
The man brushed back the young man’s bangs, his gaze tender. His cold face actually looked soft and affectionate.
“As you said, turning one person’s pain into two people’s pain isn’t a good deal. A bad deal is a loss, and I never do business that results in a loss.”
Lin Huaizhi remembered; those were the words he had said to Huo Chen during the filming of the second episode of the dating show.
It was when Auntie Caiju had mistaken him for her son at first, and then for a bad person, chasing him with a cane. Huo Chen had been hit several times while protecting him.
Thinking of this, Lin Huaizhi suddenly smiled. He reached out and pinched the man’s ear, teasing, “Speaking of which, did you already have feelings for me back then?”
“After all, you said you don’t do business that results in a loss. Auntie Caiju was coming for me; it had nothing to do with you. Yet you still protected me…”
Lin Huaizhi leaned closer to Huo Chen. He rubbed his nose against Huo Chen’s, his triumph unable to be hidden. “So you definitely moved your heart back then, didn’t you?”
Huo Chen didn’t give a direct answer.
Instead, he asked, “Since you’ve already reached your own conclusion, why are you asking me?”
Lin Huaizhi hooked his arms around Huo Chen’s neck, his manner somewhat seductive as he openly teased him. “Because the conclusion I reached myself is boring. Only the answer you give has meaning.”
Huo Chen was silent for a moment. “I don’t know.”
“The truth is, even now, I don’t fully understand what ‘love’ is. So I don’t know if my heart was ‘moved’ then.”
Lin Huaizhi also fell into silence. If he said he was satisfied with this answer, that would be a lie. But he knew what kind of person Huo Chen was. Lying wasn’t in his nature; Huo Chen said exactly what the truth was.
He also knew that given Huo Chen’s upbringing, it was very difficult for him to have normal emotional perceptions. Lin Huaizhi understood. But he still couldn’t be happy with that answer; he even slightly regretted asking.
Just as Lin Huaizhi was about to speak, he was suddenly pulled into Huo Chen’s embrace. The man’s voice came from above his head.
“But back then, my only thought was that I didn’t want you to get hurt.”
“Lin Huaizhi, I don’t understand—does that count as being moved?”
All of Lin Huaizhi’s awkwardness vanished with those two sentences. He hugged Huo Chen’s waist and buried his face in the man’s chest.
“Would you be like that for anyone else?”
“Like what? Not wanting them to get hurt?” Huo Chen thought seriously for a moment. “If it were Zheng Xiu’ang, I would probably think that way.”
Lin Huaizhi asked him, “Then, for Zheng Xiu’ang, is it just not wanting him to get hurt? Or is it like how you are with me—where you smile unconsciously when you see me, and feel happy, joyful, or blessed when you are with me?”
Huo Chen considered Lin Huaizhi’s questions one by one. Finally, he shook his head.
“I wish for him to be happy. But only when I see you do I want to smile. And only being with you makes me feel happy, joyful, and blessed.”
Lin Huaizhi felt a sharp sting in his heart. He held Huo Chen tighter and said, “So Zheng Xiu’ang is a friend, and I am the boyfriend.”
The word “boyfriend” touched Huo Chen. He was silent for a long time before asking, “Why me?”
Lin Huaizhi understood what he meant and asked back, “Why not you?”
Huo Chen spoke truthfully. “No one would like me. Neither my looks, my height, nor my temper are the type people like.”
He paused. “Everyone is afraid of me.”
Yes, everyone was afraid of him—because of his methods, because of his position, because of his looks, and because of his temper. Everyone felt he wasn’t a good person.
Huo Chen didn’t consider himself a saint, but he didn’t think he was evil either. He did charity every year, donating to hospitals and schools. To date, the money he had donated totaled more than nine figures.
But he was still treated as a “bad seed.”
The people who did business with him looked polite on the surface, but behind his back, they cursed him more than once, wishing him dead. His employees seemed respectful, but it was never true respect; they viewed him as a heartless capitalist, a “skin-flayer,” and believed his charity was just a facade.
Actually, no friends cursed him—because he had no friends.
His parents felt he should study hard and shouldn’t waste time on “useless” things and people, such as friends or socializing.
Yet in his parents’ eyes, he still wasn’t anything good. As a child, he was a useless waste who only knew how to eat and sleep; as an adult, he was a disobedient son who never stayed home.
But Huo Chen was used to it.
He didn’t know when he had stopped expecting gentleness and love from his parents, nor did he know when he had grown into the person that no one liked.
Huo Chen didn’t feel sad, but in that moment, a breath of sorrow seeped out of his soul and was caught by Lin Huaizhi.
“I am not ‘everyone.'”
The young man held his lover, his voice so gentle it could almost bring one to tears.
“I am Lin Huaizhi.”
“Lin Huaizhi likes Huo Chen. Out of everyone in the world, Lin Huaizhi only likes Huo Chen.”
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