Chapter 17
Lin Zheng looked at himself in the photo, then at the rabbit ears, and immediately felt a surge of shame.
This…what kind of strange fetish is this?
“No rabbit ears, change it!” he protested.
However, Gu Lin didn’t hear his protest. He directly saved the picture and quickly sent it to his phone.
Lin Zheng pressed down on Gu Lin’s arm, trying to grab his phone and delete the picture, but Gu Lin, taking advantage of his height advantage, raised his arm high, leaving Lin Zheng helpless.
Lin Zheng blushed. “You’re cheating.”
Gu Lin laughed. “Alright, I didn’t just take your photo for nothing. In return, I’ll buy you drinks?”
Upon hearing about alcohol, Lin Zheng’s expression softened slightly.
“What kind of drinks?” he asked.
Gu Lin gestured for him to look at the refrigerator. “Anything in there.”
Lin Zheng was thrilled.
You know, the drinks in a five-star hotel like this are incredibly expensive, even a single bottle.
Anything? He had struck gold!
Thinking this, he got up and excitedly went to get the drinks.
Gu Lin watched the man whose excitement was written all over his back, and the corners of his lips curved even wider.
Drinking alone always lacked something, so Lin Zheng got two glasses, giving one to Gu Lin, intending to have a drinking competition between men.
They would each ask the other a question, and whoever couldn’t answer would drink. Whoever answered correctly wouldn’t drink.
Gu Lin agreed.
At first, Lin Zheng passed all of Gu Lin’s questions. While his desire to drink was a factor, the questions Gu Lin asked were ridiculous: what was the surname of his former neighbor, was it a man or a woman, who was the first person he saw when he went out yesterday, what he thought when he saw the stars in the sky, and so on, a series of incredibly boring questions.
Completely lacking in substance.
When it was his turn to ask Gu Lin, he asked seriously about Gu Lin’s first love and embarrassing childhood stories, but Gu Lin still wouldn’t answer.
Later, they both drank a lot.
Lin Zheng was always confident in his alcohol tolerance, but he didn’t expect that even with low-alcohol red wine and his good tolerance, he would still get drunk after drinking too much.
He also didn’t expect Gu Lin’s tolerance to be so good, even better than his.
Lin Zheng heavily put down his glass, sat on the carpet, tilted his head, rested his arm on the table, and lightly held the stem of his wine glass with his index and middle fingers. Two distinct red blushes appeared on his face.
He burped, “Okay, now it’s your turn, ask.”
Opposite him, Gu Lin poured wine into his empty glass, controlling the amount and not pouring too much.
Then he slowly spoke, “When was your first love?”
Lin Zheng thought carefully. First love, that’s a really distant term. Thinking back to his first love, it was when he was in his teens. He really liked his first love; it was so sweet back then. He would sleep with his first love every day. Oh, no, he slept with a pillow with his first love’s face printed on it.
His first love was the supreme national male god!
Lin Zheng’s mind was hazy; he equated his first love with a pillow with his first love’s face on it.
So when he opened his mouth, he said, “Twelve, I couldn’t sleep without him every night.”
Gu Lin paused slightly. “You…were elementary school classmates?”
Lin Zheng waved his hand, “He’s ten years older than me.”
Gu Lin raised his voice, “Twelve years old? Sleeping together?”
Lin Zheng smiled sweetly, holding his glass, “That’s nothing, I even gave him my first kiss.”
He gave his first kiss to that pillow.
Gu Lin’s hand holding the bottle tightened unconsciously, before loosening slightly after a few seconds. He said in a low voice, “Is that so?”
Lin Zheng buried his face in his arms. “Hey, you’re making me embarrassed.”
Speaking of the embarrassing things he did chasing stars back then, Lin Zheng was quite shy.
After a while, Gu Lin took the glass from his hand, his expression displeased. “Okay, that’s enough for tonight. No more drinking.”
Lin Zheng clung to the base of the glass, preventing Gu Lin from taking it away. “Why? You said I could drink whatever I wanted!”
Although he was drunk, his instinct to pursue good wine remained.
“I said no more, then no more.” Gu Lin’s tone allowed no room for negotiation.
Lin Zheng reluctantly let go, muttering softly, “What are you angry about? You asked me first; otherwise, who would want to talk about such an embarrassing star-chasing history?”
Even though Lin Zheng’s voice was low, Gu Lin still heard him.
After pausing for a few seconds, he confirmed with Lin Zheng, “Chasing stars?”
Lin Zheng snorted at him, stubbornly refusing to answer.
Understanding what happened.
Gu Lin coughed, put the glass back on the table, and said, “Okay, I’ll keep my promise. Tonight, drink whatever you want.”
Lin Zheng looked at him with disdain, quickly taking the glass back and complaining, “Heh, you change your face faster than you turn a page.”
The next morning, Lin Zheng’s head was dizzy. He lifted the covers, sat up in bed, rubbed his eyes, and looked at the clock on the bedside table. His sluggish brain instantly cleared up.
Ten o’clock!
My god, how did it get to ten o’clock!
Gu Lin had a meeting with a business partner this morning.
Lin Zheng stumbled out of bed, changed out of his pajamas, quickly put on his suit, turned off airplane mode, and was about to call Gu Lin when the doorbell rang.
Upon opening the door, the first thing he saw was a food trolley laden with a sumptuous breakfast, and then a waiter in uniform with a smiling face.
“Good morning, sir. This breakfast was ordered for you by Mr. Gu from next door; he asked us to deliver it at ten o’clock.”
Lin Zheng’s brain froze for two seconds, then he asked incredulously, “Mr. Gu from next door?”
The staff nodded. “Yes.”
“Where is he?”
“He went downstairs around eight o’clock this morning; he must have gone to work.”
“Then I…”
“Oh, and he also asked me to tell you to have a good rest this entire morning.”
The staff placed the food from the trolley onto the table one by one, politely bowing to Lin Zheng. “There will be someone to collect the dishes after you finish your meal, and you can call the front desk if you need anything.” Then they left.
Lin Zheng reacted for a while, then looked at the table full of delicious food, and thought that he didn’t have to work this morning. His heart was instantly filled with happiness.
At this moment, he just wanted to hug Gu Lin’s legs and call him a good person.
Hey, what’s that?
Lin Zheng saw a small bottle next to a pile of plates.
He picked it up and saw that it was a hangover remedy.
He sighed, Wow, what luck I had today. Gu Lin was so considerate to him.
After enjoying a delicious meal and finishing the hangover remedy, Lin Zheng lay on the large, soft sofa and stretched vigorously.
So comfortable.
After eating and drinking, he had some free time. Thinking that he would be leaving for Yinlu County in the afternoon, but hadn’t had a chance to explore the area, Lin Zheng decided to go out for a walk.
He took off his suit, changed into casual clothes, put on the cool sunglasses Gu Lin bought for him on the way back yesterday, and went out.
But unexpectedly, shortly after entering the elevator, he ran into an unexpected person—Zhao Yi, the heir to the KW Group.
He was going down from the 26th floor, and Zhao Yi was getting on the elevator from the 25th floor.
The upper floors of the hotel were used to receive VIP guests, and the elevator Lin Zheng was currently in was also for VIPs. All the way down, only he and Zhao Yi were in the elevator.
Lin Zheng was sweating profusely.
He forgot, he forgot that he had offended the KW heir. How could he have forgotten?!
And then, ill-fatedly, the two of them ended up in the same elevator.
Lin Zheng had already imagined various ways he could die in his head: assassination, murder, staged accidents…
“I have a pair of those sunglasses too.”
Hearing the male voice next to him, Lin Zheng jolted.
“The Yuior brand, a newly launched luxury brand in recent years, taking a fashionable route aimed at young people.”
“Oh, oh…”
Lin Zheng didn’t know how to respond.
“I know their fashion director. If you want, I can take you to meet him.”
After hearing this, Lin Zheng’s forehead was sweating profusely.
Damn, this guy wouldn’t be using this as an excuse to lure him out and then silently eliminate him, would he? After all, this was their territory!
Damn it, I shouldn’t have worn these sunglasses.
Gu Lin, Gu Da Tui (Gu Big Leg), where are you? Your assistant is about to be killed!
Lin Zheng looked at the numbers on the elevator display.
They were about to reach the first floor, and Lin Zheng yelled in his heart.
Faster, faster, faster!
A moment later, the person beside him took out his phone, “Right, I didn’t have time to…”
Ding.
As soon as the elevator doors opened, Lin Zheng darted out like a squirrel.
Zhao Yi’s hand holding his phone hung in mid-air, and he said the unfinished sentence to the air, “Add your contact information.”
Then, tilting his head, looking somewhat puzzled and amused at the figure of the person who had almost fled away in the distance, he reflected in confusion, “Am…I that scary?”
As soon as Lin Zheng rushed out of the hotel, he bumped into Gu Lin who was returning, instantly seeing him as a savior. Ignoring everyone around him, he rushed towards Gu Lin regardless, complaining, “Gu Lin! I almost lost my life just now!”
Gu Lin was taken aback and caught him.
Next to them, Zhao Ming, who had entered with Gu Lin, was stunned.
Gu Lin glanced at Zhao Ming, then raised his hand to cover the head of the person in his arms, and gave Zhao Ming a smile. “My partner isn’t very sensible; please bear with him.”