Chapter 8: The Small-Time Star and His Short-Tempered Sugar Daddy (Part VIII)
They were both men.
From the moment Xiao Ji left the house, Fang Yinnian had already started to regret it.
Seeing the way Xiao Ji left without dragging his feet or haggling, Fang Yinnian felt that what he had done was a bit stupid. It was somewhat a case of damaging the enemy by a thousand but hurting himself by fifteen hundred.
He got up and walked around the room naked for a while (“aired the bird”), drank a large glass of cold water, and was just planning to deal with some work emails to suppress his frustration when he received Xiao Ji’s message.
Xiao Ji had no experience, and neither did Fang Yinnian.
He knew some basic knowledge, but he really hadn’t looked into advanced tricks.
He assumed Xiao Ji was preparing a post-battle fruit snack for him. He curled his lips, thinking he might have misunderstood Xiao Ji over the past few days—maybe he wasn’t just a blockhead who only knew how to eat.
So he thought about it and replied: [A fresh-cut fruit platter is fine.]
Receiving the reply, Xiao Ji frowned.
He ran all the way to the convenience store and stood before the shelves, studying the products.
Not only were there “umbrellas” (condoms), but there were also many things that looked like face wash placed on the same shelf, also in various flavors.
The clerk on duty was a young boy. Watching the tall, long-legged Xiao Ji enter, his gaze locked onto him.
Seeing Xiao Ji staring solemnly at the family planning counter in a daze, he couldn’t help but ask:
“Hello, the sizes on the shelf aren’t complete. If you don’t see what you need, I can check the stockroom for you.”
Xiao Ji was stunned. “There are sizes?”
The clerk was also stunned by the response and explained somewhat awkwardly, “It’s written on the back of the packaging.”
Xiao Ji looked at the abundance of S and M sizes on the shelf, casually picked one up to compare the model standards, pondered thoughtfully for a while, and said euphemistically:
“This might be too small.”
The clerk looked Xiao Ji up and down. “I’ll go find the models in the stockroom. Which one do you want?”
Xiao Ji asked, “Do you have a fruit platter?”
The clerk went “Huh?” and asked, “Fruit platter?”
Seeing that he didn’t understand, Xiao Ji considered a more reasonable term: “Assorted set?”
…….
Fang Yinnian waited a long time. He processed three documents and became impatient when he still didn’t see Xiao Ji return.
Just as he picked up the phone to dial Xiao Ji’s number, he saw Xiao Ji walking in from outside carrying two large, stuffed plastic bags.
“Did you go to restock a store?” Fang Yinnian said sarcastically. “It’s the middle of the night; what aroused your shopping spree?”
However, when Xiao Ji laid the items out in front of him, Fang Yinnian’s face instantly became a picture.
“Xiao Ji, maybe you should go to the hospital and check your head.”
Xiao Ji explained, “They didn’t have a fruit platter.”
Fang Yinnian looked at the pile he had poured out—strawberry, cantaloupe, pineapple, mango—and felt dizzy. He couldn’t pick out any mistakes, but he really couldn’t find a point to praise Xiao Ji either.
He even felt that Xiao Ji had bad intentions, and his backside started to ache preemptively.
Most importantly, Fang Yinnian felt that Xiao Ji’s brain was indeed filled with nothing but this shady business.
“Did you do this on purpose?” he asked.
Xiao Ji was also unhappy hearing this. Fang Yinnian was the one who wanted the stuff; Fang Yinnian was the one who said fruit platter. Now that he bought it, Fang Yinnian wasn’t willing.
What made Xiao Ji even angrier was that he had hit the brakes halfway through the act, ran a long distance, and came back only for Fang Yinnian to refuse to use them, saying the pile of stuff was an eyesore.
It seemed purely designed to torment him.
Both of them were in a bad mood. Doing the deed felt like a fight—dark, chaotic, and a life-or-death struggle.
In the end, Fang Yinnian couldn’t handle it. After struggling to no avail, he kicked Xiao Ji off the bed in a fit of rage.
Xiao Ji looked at Fang Yinnian’s disheveled state and didn’t argue with him. standing by the bed, he said:
“Give me a room.”
Fang Yinnian, gasping for breath, said, “Get out of my house.”
Xiao Ji found this aspect of Fang Yinnian very annoying. He was always cursing, telling people to roll away. He was the one who asked him to come, and he was the one throwing him away after eating.
If Xiao Ji really just patted his butt and left now, Fang Yinnian would probably be angry at himself all night again, complaining that he left just because he was told to.
So, Xiao Ji simply put on a pair of shorts, turned around, walked into the bathroom, and started filling the bathtub.
Halfway through filling it, he came out to carry Fang Yinnian.
Fang Yinnian refused to let him touch him. Just as he was about to curse, Xiao Ji spoke first to warn him:
“Shut up. Behave.”
Then, while Fang Yinnian hadn’t reacted to being scolded, he hoisted the man off the bed and carried him into the bathroom.
Fang Yinnian had grown up being held in the palm of everyone’s hand.
His parents and older sister doted on him. When he grew up a bit, the people around him either flattered him or fawned over him. In his twenty-eight years of life, no one had ever dared to tell him to “shut up.”
But looking at Xiao Ji’s cold expression at this moment, Fang Yinnian subconsciously didn’t talk back.
He sat obediently in the bathtub, allowing Xiao Ji to scrub and wash him.
After cleaning Fang Yinnian, Xiao Ji began to clean up the battlefield. He changed the bedsheets with his own hands, then took a shower standing in front of Fang Yinnian, and conveniently washed the intimate garment Fang Yinnian had just taken off.
After doing all this, he silently fished Fang Yinnian out of the bathtub, dried him off, and carried him back to the bed.
Finally, he didn’t forget to tuck the corner of the quilt for Fang Yinnian and, with a straight face, kissed him on the forehead.
Fang Yinnian was stunned by the whole process.
The dissatisfaction in his heart from earlier had largely dissipated.
Just as he was about to speak and tell Xiao Ji to stay—to find a guest room upstairs to sleep in—he saw Xiao Ji finish dressing. With his hair still wet, Xiao Ji stepped out of Fang Yinnian’s door.
His unhesitating stride made Fang Yinnian suddenly feel a bitter taste in his mouth.
At this time, the sky was just turning the color of a fish’s belly (pale white of dawn). Xiao Ji walked slowly and unhurriedly back along the road he came from toward the exit of the villa area.
When the wind blew, a faint scent of flowers hit his nose.
037 tried to probe Xiao Ji’s emotions but found nothing, so it could only ask:
[Are you truly angry or just fake angry?]
Xiao Ji said indifferently: [Not angry.]
Although he sometimes felt Yin Nian was annoying, this was part of his mission. He had understood Yin Nian’s temper long ago, was mentally prepared, and wasn’t so easily emotionally triggered.
037 didn’t understand: [Then why act like this? His mood swings are quite large.]
Xiao Ji wasn’t surprised by this.
[His large mood swings don’t necessarily mean he likes me; it’s just because I didn’t follow his wishes, causing him a sense of loss of control.]
[I completed my job according to his requirements, but that doesn’t mean I have to continue satisfying him emotionally.]
It was simple logic: one cannot let emotional investment devalue.
Whether emotional or material, things often cannot escape a law: the more value you invest, the easier it is for the other party not to care about you.
If you send a bouquet of flowers to someone every day, at first, the other party will definitely feel happy or even surprised. But over time, they will get used to it, become numb, and feel no waves in their heart. They might even nitpick that today’s flowers aren’t as pretty as yesterday’s and casually toss them aside.
But if you send a bouquet today, a pile of sh*t tomorrow, a slap the day after, and then send another bouquet the day after that…
At that moment, the bouquet becomes precious.
To get Fang Yinnian’s true heart, blindly obeying and being a simp is obviously useless.
Only by making the other party unsure if you actually care about them will they put in the effort to figure out this relationship and speculate about you.
Of course, the premise of all this is that there is already a certain attraction between the two.
037 digested this routine: [But you still need something from him. Can you guarantee he’ll fall for your trap? Will this trick work on him?]
Xiao Ji actually didn’t know either: [I’ll try. If I mess it up, I’ll think of other ways to salvage it.]
037 hesitated: [I have something to say, but I don’t know if I should say it.]
Xiao Ji usually adhered to the principle that if you don’t know whether to say something, don’t say it. But with others, he was a bit more lenient: [Speak.]
037 said: [Although tricks are useful, people aren’t fools. Love and lack thereof can be felt. No matter how perfect your superficial work is, to capture the Little Phoenix’s true heart, I’m afraid you have to trade your own true heart for it.]
Xiao Ji didn’t understand what a “true heart” was.
He could treat Fang Yinnian well without reservation; whatever Fang Yinnian wanted, he would give.
Honestly, if the mission requirement was just to replace the scumbag and dote on Fang Yinnian for a lifetime, Xiao Ji guaranteed he could do it perfectly and complete the mission successfully.
But the mission requirement was Fang Yinnian’s true heart.
Xiao Ji wasn’t confident about this point, so he could only study hard and use tricks first.
Listening to 037’s words, he fell silent himself.
Fortunately, facts proved that right now, Fang Yinnian really fell for this.
Before Xiao Ji even reached the gate of the villa area, the sound of a horn honking came from behind him.
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