Chapter 429: Yu Xi Side Story (1)

"Whoosh—" The curtains were pulled open.

A wide expanse of light flooded in from outside, extremely dazzling.

The boy's pretty eyes narrowed slightly against the glare. Just then, a figure leaned over him from behind and wrapped its arms around his waist and belly.

"Mmm~ You're leaving already?" The woman behind him tried to hold him back with reluctance, her hands firmly circling Yu Xi and refusing to let go.

Yu Xi's eyes darkened.

He pried her hands away and turned his head.

The woman before him weighed three hundred catties in total, rolls of fat everywhere, flab all over her body, and her face was pudgy too. Her eyes gazed at Yu Xi greedily.

Yu Xi was utterly disgusted.

What had happened last night had already left him with psychological scars.

Everything that had happened—he wished it were nothing but passing clouds and smoke, that it had never happened at all.

Yet he couldn't expose his disgust. He could only stroke that greasy, plump face and say, "Mm, I have to go. Don't you still have a lot of work to deal with? I can't get in the way of that."

"It doesn't matter, I had such a hard time flying all the way here. Can't you keep me company a little longer?" The fat woman started acting coy, her massive body almost crushing the breath out of Yu Xi.

Yu Xi couldn't afford to be impatient with her. After all, she came from a high-ranking official's family and owned a very wealthy foreign trade company. She was also someone his adoptive father and mother had specifically instructed him to entertain well.

"I still have to go to class." Yu Xi's tone was gentle. Enduring the urge to vomit, he gently rubbed the fat woman's face with his finger and smiled faintly. "Otherwise it'll easily affect my grades."

"Oh right, I forgot you're still so young." The fat woman said that, but still gave Yu Xi a kiss on the mouth.

The fat woman's mouth was sticky and carried a foul odor. Yu Xi could only hold his breath and quietly let her kiss him. Only when she was satisfied did she stop, but she still didn't let go of Yu Xi.

She kept hugging Yu Xi and refusing to release him, her obese body twisting and squirming the whole time.

Yu Xi's body was groped by her hands time and again, yet he could only keep up a smiling face.

After coaxing the fat woman, Yu Xi finally dragged his weary body out of the Presidential Suite.

By the time he sat back in the car, Yu Xi's adoptive father glanced at him as he leaned against the passenger seat and closed his eyes, and said, "Taken care of?"

Yu Xi gave a faint nod, obviously not wanting to chat much with the other party.

"Good, you're worthy of being my good son." His adoptive father said with a smile, "Ms. Liu is flying over tonight. You'll go accompany her?"

"Turn it down." Yu Xi refused decisively.

His adoptive father's eyes narrowed, staring coldly at Yu Xi. "Why? She's a very important client of ours. You don't have the right to refuse now."

"I'm out of strength." Yu Xi's gaze turned toward his adoptive father as he said coldly, "I'm exhausted too, and I still have someone else's scent on me. Do you think Ms. Liu, who's a neat freak and has a keen sense of smell, won't notice anything? If I slight her, the one who loses out is you."

Yu Xi's stubborn, cold demeanor made his adoptive father's eyes darken. He laughed. "Then I'll give you one night off, but tomorrow you have to go accompany her."

"I need to study." Yu Xi answered with a chill in his voice.

"Yu Xi, you've gotten bold, daring to haggle with me? Who was it that got you out of the orphanage back then! What, planning to wander the streets with nothing to your name? Or do you want to be locked in a dark room and beaten soundly!" His adoptive father berated Yu Xi.

Hearing this, Yu Xi gave an absurd laugh. "Whatever."

"What?"

Yu Xi took out a pack of cigarettes, put one in his mouth, and lit it with a lighter. "It doesn't matter anymore. You'd best beat me to death."

The smoke curled upward, gradually obscuring Yu Xi's pretty face.

He lowered his eyelids forlornly and blew out a beautiful smoke ring. That noble yet gloomy air of his was captivating.

His adoptive father was clearly berating Yu Xi fiercely. "Are you insane! Daring to talk to me like that. Fine, I'll lock you in a room and starve you for a few days. Think it through—are you going to defy me or obey me!"

His adoptive father drove off in a rage, while Yu Xi leaned against the window as if nothing mattered.

His smoke-tainted hand quietly stretched out the window. His eyes carried melancholy and indifference as he watched his fingers about to brush against someone else's vehicle, even about to be snapped off, drawing the curses of the driver on the other side.

Yet he didn't realize how dangerous his action was. Instead, he smiled eerily.

"Click—" Yu Xi was shoved into the room.

It was his usual residence.

A small room of less than thirty square meters, cramped and cold.

The windows were shut tight, the curtains drawn completely.

As if it couldn't bear to be seen.

Yes, just like how he couldn't bear to be seen.

On Yu Xi's pretty, resolute face was the silence of death.

He quietly made his way into the bathroom.

No hot water.

Only cold water.

But for him, it was enough. At least it could keep him awake.

Yu Xi unbuttoned his clothes one by one.

He stripped off his clothes, revealing his body.

By the dim light, he saw himself in the mirror.

A beautiful face that was hard to tell male from female, with sharp, distinct features and exquisite facial structure. At first glance it looked like a girl's, yet it carried a boy's shadow—feminine and alluring.

Especially his eyes. They were good enough—peach-blossom eyes, excellent romantic fortune, just like his situation now.

Both men and women loved him.

And that had become his fatal wound.

His body was beautiful, without flaw, but what was eyesore was that his shoulders were covered in the kiss marks the fat woman had left behind, even teeth marks.

Last night the fat woman's affected coyness, and that nauseating entanglement, had given Yu Xi a despairing suffocation.

"Blergh—" Yu Xi rushed to the toilet and threw up.

He felt terribly nauseous.

There was clearly nothing in his stomach at all, yet he just wanted to vomit.

Yu Xi nearly vomited out his stomach acid, miserable, his insides churning with a sour, bitter ache.

After throwing up, Yu Xi immediately went to shower.

He wanted to wash away the disgusting marks on his body over and over.

But no matter how he scrubbed.

The woman's touch was still vivid before his eyes.

Those greasy fingerprints had bored into his flesh.

"No—" Yu Xi scrubbed frantically.

Didn't he want to stop those disgusting memories from tormenting him?

His skin was completely rubbed raw by Yu Xi, yet Yu Xi still felt himself dirty.

He was utterly exhausted. In the ice-cold water he shivered, curling up his body, hugging himself and weeping silently.

Just die, then.

That was the thought that flashed through his mind.

No, it should be the thought that had been circling in his mind for years.

He stared at the silent surroundings, despairing until dawn.

By the time he fainted and then woke again, he realized he was already in the hospital.

The veins on his hand were already purple, an IV needle stuck into it.

His adoptive father and mother looked at Yu Xi coldly. "Have you thought it through?"