Chapter 60: I Can Attend the Wedding
“Cru, uise, ship, wed, ding…”
Le Can repeated the words with difficulty and slowness.
At a certain moment, he abruptly looked up, staring intently at the person in front of him. “When?”
The agreement was signed, the certificate was obtained; one more wedding didn’t sound like much… my foot!
Le Can’s hand, resting on Xi Yun’s shoulder, slowly clenched into a fist.
Under his hand, the muscles tensed through a layer of fabric. The silver-gray eyes in the center of his vision flickered rarely.
An ominous premonition instantly shrouded his heart.
“The date… is very close?”
“…”
Twice asked, no timely answer received.
Le Can’s right knee, sinking into the sofa, pushed forward forcefully. His left leg, stepping on the floor, curled up and moved onto the sofa as well.
Thinking changed from single-knee kneeling to double-knee kneeling. With legs straddled front and back, he pressed forward step by step until his knee pressed against the side of the other person’s leg.
“Xi Yun, answer me.”
A gentle voice rang in his ear.
A pair of hands, slender as jade… traced up the contours of Xi Yun’s neck. The touch, half-real and half-imagined, birthed a tingling itch, and within that itch was a thread of coolness.
The silent man, following the young man’s movements, gently tilted his head back.
The Adam’s apple under the palm rolled slowly, and Le Can finally got the answer he wanted. “The time is, in one week.”
One week?!
Le Can nearly cursed.
“Why such a rush? Wait!”
Le Can furrowed his brows, looking at Xi Yun with shock and uncertainty. “One week later, isn’t that the official auction phase of Weiyuanjing’s Spring Auction?”
Which auction house boss gets married during a major auction period?
[What is this? Taking my own heat?]
Xi Yun looked deeply at the young man close at hand.
Because of his unauthorized action, he put on the cold posture of a controller, yet Le Can still softened his heart to worry about things related to him.
Guilt and indebtedness surged up in Xi Yun’s heart like the tide…
“Le Can, I’m very sorry…”
The magnetic, low voice carried a trace of suppressed huskiness. Le Can was stunned after hearing it.
He instantly figured out the connection inside and asked hesitantly, “This hurried wedding… is it to catch up with the final official auction?”
If not for this, there was no need to be so hasty.
Don’t look at how Le Can verbally sent out who-knows-how-many wedding invitations outside. In reality, he was just running his mouth; in his heart, he didn’t think there was a possibility of those invitations actually going out.
A wedding with a predestined ending—either don’t hold it, or keep it small and low-key. Wait until two years later, and the impact it would have on Le Can and Xi Yun would be minimized.
Doing the opposite now could only be because… this wedding had value.
[So it’s not taking my own heat, it’s stepping on me to climb up?]
Le Can fell into thought.
In the corner he didn’t notice, Xi Yun, who had half a person pressing on him, wore a helpless and dumbfounded expression.
Aligning the wedding and auction time—such a big spectacle—was unsurprisingly to build momentum for the auction.
Le Can thought, So the location is on a cruise ship at sea…
[Is it to further lock down the identity of the person behind the scenes?]
In the moment of thinking, his hands consciously or unconsciously toyed with the object at hand.
A silky tactile sensation carrying a slight chill. Before his consciousness realized what it was, he had already fondled it lovingly over and over.
“Right,” Le Can suddenly asked the question he had wanted to ask for a long time. “Do you have a suspect for that ‘yù’ I mentioned?”
“Active around me and Yuan Cheng, there are forty-three people who meet the criteria. Regardless of age, twenty-nine males, fourteen females.”
As the mouth spoke, moving the jaw, Le Can simultaneously felt the vibration in his palm.
A flash of insight, and Le Can, snapping back to reality: “…”
His gaze moved down slowly, meeting a sharply defined, handsome face. The moment the unreasonable beauty rushed into his eyes, Le Can’s breath hitched.
Not because he was stunned by beauty, but because he… saw his daring paws that had climbed onto someone’s face.
Eh? Shouldn’t his hand be stuck on… Xi Yun’s neck?
Le Can shifted his gaze, replying in a nonchalant tone, “Oh, really? Isn’t forty-three people a bit too many?”
One can only say, the original author was insane!
The fingers clinging to the sharp, perfect bone structure began to retreat discreetly, trying to pretend the small action of touching the face never happened.
Xi Yun lowered his eyes to look at the slightly trembling, slender white fingertips, a shallow smile rising in his eyes.
“Forty-three is indeed a lot.”
Using elimination one by one was not only time-consuming and laborious but also prone to startling the snake. The failure of the fake Ru porcelain plan, the exposure from risking stopping Xi Ziyu… Xi Yun couldn’t give the opponent a chance to hide deeper.
Clearly opponents, yet the other side always hid one person in the dark. It made the duel lack fairness and interest.
What Xi Yun wanted to do was hand out an opportunity, give a reason to come into the light. No matter what kind of demons and monsters they were, they ought to meet once.
Le Can continued, “So, the wedding location being limited and isolated can help us.”
Xi Yun was very satisfied with the use of “us.” He narrowed his eyes slightly and nodded, like a large feline lazily surveying its territory after a full meal.
“Aren’t you afraid the other party won’t board the cruise?”
After asking this question, without waiting for Xi Yun to answer, Le Can shook his head with certainty. “No, the other party will definitely go to the wedding scene.”
A meticulously prepared, almost foolproof plan failed. Originally thinking the opponent would have a vacancy for the final lot, unexpectedly, Xi Yun played a chain of ultimate moves.
First, the legendary origin of picking up a leak at a low price. Immediately after, a fifth Jian Kiln Yohen Tenmoku Tea Bowl popped out of who-knows-what corner, when only four were known to exist.
Add the wedding of the young, promising auction house owner who was the person involved in the find… One didn’t need to think to know how eye-catching this auction would be.
Also, wasn’t this like stabbing a knife into the throat of the person behind the scenes!
If they could really swallow this anger, then they wouldn’t be a human possessing seven emotions and six desires.
“The plan is feasible. I can attend the wedding.”
Le Can nodded with a calm expression, looking every bit like an excellent collaborator who considered the big picture, rational and clear-headed.
Xi Yun’s brows couldn’t help but furrow.
For this wedding, Xi Yun notifying Le Can last… his biggest fear wasn’t him getting angry. It was… like now, calm as if he were an actor who could break character at any time.
“I…”
The man’s thin lips just touched together when the person pressing half his body weight on him dumped his entire weight down without reservation!
The hand that had left his cheek returned to where it should have been, tightening on Xi Yun’s neck.
The wide spread of the tiger’s mouth gripped the rolling Adam’s apple, thumb and forefinger pressing the two sides under the jaw, slowly applying pressure downward.
“Guilty?”
A voice carrying a chill came close to Xi Yun’s ear.
The man with half-lowered eyelids slowly looked up, framing the young man separated by a finger’s distance in his eyes. Even while his vital part was controlled, he didn’t reveal a single bit of distress.
“It was my fault.”
Xi Yun admitted his mistake with a sincere attitude.
The decision for the wedding was hasty, the purpose impure, and it was mixed with Xi Yun’s own selfishness that he knew clearly in his heart.
Because of the hesitation in his heart, even though Le Can was one of the protagonists, he became the last person to know the news of the wedding…
Even if their marriage was just a paper agreement, this way of acting, which seemed to exclude Le Can in Le Can’s view, lacked propriety.
Whether publicly or privately, Xi Yun’s approach was inappropriate.
Admitting fault cleanly and crisply, it was evident the speed wasn’t perfunctory. Le Can stared at him for a second, then slightly relaxed the strength in his hand.
“Next time, say it directly if there’s something. I don’t like being kept in the dark, and I don’t like being deceived.”
Hearing ‘kept in the dark’ and ‘deceived,’ the pupils of Xi Yun, who was looking at Le Can, contracted slightly.
Emotions set off stormy waves in an instant.
Silver light flashed past in the silver-gray irises. Because the colors were too similar, Le Can, being so close, only thought his eyes were blurred from fatigue for a second.
Ability out of control!
The clothes wrapped around the young man seemed to be erased by a magical eraser pen; dazzling, warm white filled Xi Yun’s eyes after a long absence.
Xi Yun closed his eyes instantly.
Seeing this reaction, Le Can’s face immediately took on a suspicious look, and he leaned in closer. “Are you still hiding something from me?”
[That eye closure—there’s something fishy!]
Bits of bitterness spread quietly under Xi Yun’s tongue.
Xi Yun knew Le Can’s suspicion, but he couldn’t confess his abnormality.
An X-ray vision that would go out of control when emotions went out of control, a mind-reading ability that could perceive the human heart—yet both currently targeted only Le Can…
It wasn’t that Xi Yun hadn’t looked for a solution.
But, perhaps due to frantically pushing himself to level up recently, Xi Yun could clearly feel his ability improvement had hit a bottleneck.
A problem that couldn’t be solved temporarily had to be forcibly shelved.
Barely stabilizing his mood, those strange double pupils that had been covered were revealed to Le Can’s eyes once again.
“Yes.”
Le Can’s eyes widened abruptly. “You!”
Xi Yun lowered his eyes. “I will tell you later… Yao Yao.”
Le Can felt like a balloon that had been filled with air and then deflated—there was air, but because it was let out, he wasn’t that angry.
And to be honest, Le Can felt a bit guilty himself. Because in this current space, the person hiding things wasn’t just Xi Yun…
Cough cough, lenient with oneself, strict with others—normal, normal. But, Le Can felt he couldn’t take this anger for nothing!
So, the young man thought for a moment and broke the silence first. “Since that’s the case, then I need compensation.”
Righteous and bold, face not red, heart not racing. JPG
The person who couldn’t hear the inner voice looked up, waiting for the specific details regarding compensation.
The moment he met Xi Yun’s gaze, Le Can knew it was in the bag.
He cleared his throat and began to pave the way. “Although you confessed candidly to the situation of hiding things from yourself, it still caused trauma to my soul.”
Xi Yun was silent for two seconds. Under Le Can’s scrutinizing gaze, he slowly nodded.
“How do I make up for this… trauma?”
Le Can instantly straightened his back, replying solemnly, “I need the monthly pocket money to increase by ten…”
“In the future, on top of the base two million per month, add another five hundred thousand.”
[10k, burp!]
The lion’s mouth he prepared to open wide was stuffed until full. Le Can slowly swallowed the words he was prepared to say, suppressed the corners of his mouth that attempted to rise, and nodded steadily.
“Five hundred thousand is passable.”
[Yes! Hehehehe…]
The lively inner voice echoed in his mind. The only person who could hear it silently hooked the corner of his mouth.
“Besides that, there is one very small request.”
“What else?”
Under the night lights, the young man with shining eyes suddenly lowered his head. “Give me another…”
[Kiss.]
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