14.5

Xue Zixuan’s face had never looked so ugly before, and his body even exuded an extremely restless and uneasy aura, so much so that the housekeeper and assistant who came to greet him were startled, thinking that something big had happened.

“Keep an eye on Xiao Yi in the future, don’t let him come into contact with strangers.” Only after the teenager hopped up the stairs did Xue Zixuan droned in a deep voice.

“He caused trouble?” The butler’s eyes slid across a stern color. If he were to say so, Huang Yi should have been put under house-arrest a long time ago, instead of being fed with good food and drink as he was now.

“No, had a few words with Xue Yan on the green.” Xue Zixuan took off his jacket and pulled off his tie, the feeling of anxiety never fading. The teenager lay on his back on Xue Yan’s knee, gazing at him with eyes full of attachment, a scene that could still sting his heart when he thought about it now.

He sat on the couch, covering his chest in thought.

The butler let out a horrified cry and hurriedly asked, “How could Master Yan have the leisure to talk to a stranger? Don’t think he’s discovered something?” On second thought, he realized that it wasn’t right, changing hearts wasn’t a big deal, even if Master Yan found out about it, he wouldn’t have obstructed it, not to mention who would have thought that Xue Jingyi had a twin brother who looked exactly the same.

Xue Zixuan shook his head absentmindedly.

“I won’t let him go out again.” The old butler promised.

“Why don’t you let him go out? As long as he’s practiced his zither well, let him go wherever he wants to play, you guys just need to follow him and make sure there’s no danger.” Xue Zixuan subconsciously responded. The teenager especially liked to spread his joy on the emerald green lawn, laughing as if it were the most beautiful notes, making the air around him come alive, he couldn’t bear to make him lose this joy.

The old housekeeper wanted to ask Xue Zixuan if he had forgotten the original purpose of bringing the teenager back, but chose to remain silent after a brief thought. Even if he had forgotten, Mr. and Madam would never forget.

Zhou Yunsheng hurriedly ran back to the bedroom, untying the suit jacket tied around his waist, put it on the end of his nose and took a deep sniff, the faint scent of cologne and the sooty smell of cigars mixed together, the intense familiarity of the difference made him fall into tears. He lay down on the bed with the jacket in his arms and rolled around twice in exuberance before he began to check his pockets inside and out.

Without handkerchiefs, lighters, business card holders and other sundry items, this jacket was clean and excessive, no wonder it dared to take it off and casually throw it to a stranger. Zhou Yunsheng sighed in frustration, which shook off the jacket and hung it neatly in the closet.

He composited a photo of his lover with 008 and used Facebook search software to look up his lover’s identity on the Internet, but to his great disappointment, there was nothing on the Internet.

He turned off the computer and slipped to the living room. Xue Zixuan was very abnormal today, he didn’t even go back to his room to take a shower and change clothes first time, but sat there staring blankly. Xue Jingyi leaned peacefully and quietly by his side, suppressing an extremely deep love in the bottom of her eyes. The weaker her body was, the stronger her emotional agitation became, this was unavoidable, when the human body was bound, the mind would let fly out infinitely.

The corners of Zhou Yunsheng’s lips curled slightly as he walked into the kitchen and brought out a basket of fruits, placing them on the coffee table in front of the two.

“Jingyi, would you like some fruit? I’ll peel it for you.” He held a large apple in his left hand and gestured with a fruit knife in his right.

“Don’t, you eat it yourself.” Xue Jing Yi immediately put away the emotions under her eyes, her smile forced.

Xue Zixuan, however, snapped back to his senses and snatched the fruit knife from the teenager’s hand, his tone stern, “Don’t touch knives in the future.”

“Why?”

“To stay out of danger. The artist’s hands can’t withstand even the slightest bit of damage.” Xue Zixuan said as he held the teenager’s white and slender fingers and gazed at them with an infatuated gaze. He fitted his palm to the teenager’s palm, measuring the size of his hand, and realizing that the teenager was slightly shorter than his own, he couldn’t help but reveal a gentle smile, and then his knuckles curved slightly, interlocking his fingers with his, and spoke slowly, “Don’t think that I’m making a fuss. Know Roger?”

Zhou Yunsheng tried to pull his finger out, but the man clasped it more tightly, so he only nodded and said, “I know, I have watched him play basketball online, he’s great, he’s the best in the world.”

“He used to be even better, throwing for 801 TP3T when he was in top form, now he’s at 341 TP3T, any idea why?”

“Could it be because I cut my hand while peeling an apple?” Zhou Yunsheng stared at the fruit knife and hesitantly opened his mouth, obviously his brain was comparable to Google, but he still had to pretend to be an idiot in front of people.

“It’s not apple peeling, it’s cigar cutting. He accidentally cut the ligaments in his right index finger, which prevented it from bending thus affecting pitching hits. Our hands are about to perform more delicate work than pitching, so you must protect it well.” Xue Zixuan was unable to restrain his love for these hands, kissing each of the five pink rounded fingertips as he spoke.

Zhou Yunsheng, as if he had been electrocuted, forcefully pulled his finger -out and put it into his coat pocket, cursing Xue Zixuan for being a pervert.

Xue Jing Yi’s cheeks turned white and her lips trembled, as if she couldn’t believe what she was seeing. The older brother who had to beg so hard to give even a hug or a handhold when he was a child had now taken the initiative to kiss Huang Yi, and did so with such a tender and loving expression. What kind of feelings did he harbor for Huang Yi? Is it really just admiration?

Xue Zixuan was obviously also stunned by his own behavior, but he did not regret it, instead, he kept recalling in his mind the touch of the teenager’s slightly cool fingertips when they were close to his lips. Like a gentle breeze brushing by, and like a snow-white feather falling, it felt wonderful.

However, that deep feeling of fluttering and joy turned into unspeakable pain and disappointment when he saw the boy’s expression of resistance. Xue Zixuan put away his light smile and forcefully gathered the teenager into his arms, stroking the soft top of his hair that he had wanted to caress for a long time, and said word by word, “You’re not allowed to avoid me in the future, do you hear me?”

“But you once said that you don’t allow me to touch you.” Zhou Yunsheng barely suppressed his struggling lust-arousal.

It turned out that the teenager was not rejecting himself, but was too well-behaved and obedient, Xue Zixuan was first stunned, then laughed lowly in pleasure, “Of course you can touch me, you are the most special.” It was the most precious gift he had ever gotten.

Zhou Yunsheng tried desperately to keep his cheeks red and put on a flattered look, and the moment he hung his head, he quickly swept a glance at Xue Jingyi. She was curled up on the sofa, hugging a huge cushion tightly, her cheeks buried in the pillow, unable to see her expression.

But Zhou Yunsheng knew that she must be in great pain, because her knuckles, which were clasped tightly on the pillow, were already pale in color and trembling slightly. In the past, Xue Zixuan was only special to her, and when this specialness was suddenly transferred to another person and intensified, there was no telling what kind of psychological torture she would go through.

Xue Zixuan hugged the teenager like a little boy finally getting the toy of his dreams, his face full of novelty and pleasure that he could not suppress no matter what. He tentatively used his fingertips to curl up a strand of hair on the side of the teenager’s cheeks, watching them bounce loose and swing back into place over and over again, unable to get enough of it. He even wanted to press his lips against the teenager’s pink bead and taste it.

The impulse came so violently and inexplicably that he did not know what to do with it for a moment. Fortunately, the butler said that dinner was ready, so he didn’t dwell on it.

Finally leaving the man’s embrace, Zhou Yunsheng breathed a huge sigh of relief and picked up his chopsticks to ruthlessly plow through his rice. Xue Jing Yi also got relieved, sitting silently on the chair in a daze, not moving a single bite of the food in the bowl.

“Miss, are you not feeling well?” The housekeeper walked over to inquire.

“It’s fine.” Xue Jing Yi waved her hand in denial, but stared at her brother with a hopeful gaze, hoping that he would pay some attention to her. The result disappointed her greatly, Xue Zixuan was giving the teenager food in an awkward gesture, not caring about anything else. He was always like this, only looking at what he wanted to see, only listening to what he wanted to hear, if he wanted to gain his favor, he must have to impress him with supremely beautiful music.

Xue Jingyi never possessed this ability, but Huang Yi could, his zither sound was getting more and more perfect every day, and if he wanted to, he could capture anyone with it.

An unprecedented sense of crisis and jealousy took over Xue Jingyi’s thoughts as she put down the spoon with a clang and stumbled up the stairs. The housekeeper fixed the teenager with an icy gaze and immediately followed her.

Only then did Zhou Yunsheng start to ask Xue Zixuan about the identity of his lover.

“You don’t need to know who he is, in the future when you see him avoid him from afar, he’s dangerous.” Xue Zixuan seemed to have remembered something, his face showing a mixture of fear and embarrassment.

Zhou Yunsheng tried to side-step the question, failed to ask for any valuable clues, and had to give up.

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The next day, Xue Rui and Xue Li Dani hurried back to say that they were going to attend a banquet organized by the family. The Xue family is a centuries-old clan that still retains the traditional clan system, where the rules of the clan are far above the law, and no one dares to disobey them.

Don’t look at Xue Rui in the outside world, in fact, the Xue’s Foundation that he founded was only dipped in the light of the Xue Family’s original family, and its scale was not worth mentioning compared to the wealth of the Xue Family’s original family. If he left the family’s patronage, he would be nothing.

In order to break into the center of power of this family, he had spent a huge amount of money to purchase this villa he was currently residing in, simply because the patriarch of the Xue Clan would come here every summer for a vacation, and as for where he usually lived, no one knew.

This term’s patriarch was Xue Rui’s uncle, named Xue Yan, yet he was only two or three years older than Xue Zixuan, and was the younger son of the previous patriarch, Elder Xue. Elder Xue died when he was twelve years old, and because he favored him the most during his lifetime, he left half of the family’s assets to him. However, Master Xue was a flirt by nature, and married four wives and had many mistresses, so not only did he have six sons and four daughters at home, but he also had a dozen illegitimate children outside.

As soon as he died, the Xue family was immediately plunged into a tragic battle for the property, and Xue Yan, who had half of the country all to himself, became the target without any doubt. I do not know whether it was an accident or man-made, Xue just six months into the ground, he had a car accident, due to the untimely rescue, the lower half of the body paralyzed.

His several brothers ate very ugly, not only dividing up his family fortune, but also making him crawl out of the Xue family like a dog. Growing up, Master Xue only saw him in his eyes, and they naturally hated him to the bone.

No one saw how Xue Yan gritted his teeth and climbed out of the house at that time, all the onlookers knew was that he returned ten years later, broke the legs of all the brothers with his own hands, and made them crawl from the living room all the way to the asphalt road one kilometer away. The bloodstains left behind by these people as they crawled across the ground scared the onlookers silly, and from then on, the Xue family became Xue Yan’s one-man house.

But he was a very capable person, it was not an exaggeration to describe him as ‘more wise and close to the devil’, just three years after taking over the Xue family, he had supported a rotten clan that was already in decline into the number one prestigious clan in the country of China, both the first branch and the side branches were all relying on him to live by his shade, so even though his temper was becoming more and more brutal, no one dared to show a single look of dissatisfaction.

He sent word that he would hold a banquet, knowing that the hope of being invited was very slim, Xue Rui still rushed back with his wife in a hurry.

“Sir, Master Yan sent an invitation over.” The butler looked slightly agitated.

“Why are there two?” Xue Rui was overjoyed, he opened the first letter and looked at it, it was normal, it was an invitation for him to attend with his wife and children, the second letter was very strange, it even listed Xue Jingyi’s name separately, inviting her to attend in full splendor, what did this mean?

Xue Rui was dumbfounded and handed the invitation to his wife.

“Dad, I don’t want to go!” Xue Jingyi shouted in panic. She had actually met Xue Yan before, in the year when he won the position of the family head. At that time, he had invited a lot of people, including Xue Rui, who had heard that Xue Rui’s son was a rare musical genius, and he had gotten excited together to have Xue Zixuan play a song.

Xue Zixuan had no dust in his eyes, and only played in sacred music halls or piano rooms, and extremely detested the practice of using music to curry favor with the powerful and the rich, in his opinion, it was a kind of blasphemy. He coldly refused, Xue Yan surveyed him with an interested gaze and softly spoke, “Since you don’t want to play it’s fine, don’t play it in the future either.” The words fell pressing Xue Zixuan’s palms onto the table and breaking them off one by one.

When he broke the third one, Xue Zixuan had to give in, and Xue Li Dani had long since knelt at his feet, crying and begging him to spare his son.

Xue Yan let go of Xue Zixuan with a light laugh, tapped the piano with his cane, and ordered, “Play, keep playing until I’m satisfied.”

So Xue Zixuan endured the severe pain of his broken finger and played for two whole hours, and just after the banquet was over, he fell head over heels on the floor, unconscious. Dani Xue Li hurriedly sent him abroad, and it took a year or two to get his fingertips back to their former flexibility.

This was the first time that Xue Jingyi had seen her noble and elegant mother and elder brother reveal such a messy side, while her omnipotent father didn’t even dare to say a word of reprimand, and even sent a lot of gifts to make amends after this.

Since then, Xue Yan had become Xue Jingyi’s nightmare, while Xue Li Danni and Xue Zixuan had never forgotten the feeling of utter terror they felt at that time. For a virtuoso, destroying their hands was more unbearable than destroying their lives.

“I’m not going, I’ll be scared.” Knowing how deferential her father was to Xue Yan, Xue Jing Yi covered her chest and repeated loudly.

“Don’t let Jing Yi go, her heart can’t handle it.” Xue Li Dani hurriedly took her daughter into her arms and patted and caressed her, her heart equally filled with fear and anxiety.

“Master Yan sent her an invitation alone, is it possible to just say no? This is slapping Master Yan’s face, and I won’t have to mix in the Xue family in the future.” Xue Rui’s tone was extremely gloomy.

“Good for nothing, how could he send an invitation to Jing Yi alone, it must be a mistake, send someone to ask.”

“Maybe it’s not a mistake.” The butler, who had remained silent, gave a brief account of Huang Yi’s chance encounter with Xue Yan.

“So it was him who caused the trouble!” Xue Li Dani gritted her teeth in hatred and immediately wanted to ask the butler to bring the teenager down to teach him a lesson, but was stopped by Xue Rui.

“Since Master Yan wants to see him, take him there.”

“Is it possible that Yan has discovered something?” Xue Li Danni thought of a certain possibility and was instantly chilled, but in the way of her daughter’s presence, she couldn’t say a lot of things explicitly.

“No, not only do they have the same appearance, even their voices are similar, Master Yan only saw Jing Yi once when she was 9 years old, how could he possibly recognize the difference between them. Don’t think nonsense, bring the person over to show Master Yan and you’ll know.” Xue Rui made his decision with a wave of his hand.

So that night, Zhou Yunsheng received a pure white floor-length dress and a pair of high-heeled shoes, and the butler told him that the Xue family clan was going to hold a banquet, and that the young lady couldn’t afford not to attend, but that the noisy environment would have an extremely bad effect on her health, so he made sure to take the young lady’s place once.

As Xue Jing Yi’s good brother, Zhou Yun Sheng obligingly agreed, and as soon as the housekeeper left, he immediately threw the long skirt on the ground and stomped on it fiercely a few times.

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“Yi?” Seeing the teenager (young girl?) who slowly walked down from the rotating staircase, who was as beautiful as an elf, Xue Zixuan Xue Zixuan’s eyes widened in shock.

“It’s me.” Zhou Yunsheng struggled to maintain his balance, since this morning, Xue Li Dani had been tossing him around non-stop and making him practice in high heels for hours. He swore that when the game was over, he would make these people pay dearly.

Xue Jingyi pursed her lips and smiled, “Xiaoyi looks so pretty when she dresses up, she has a kind of Mori girl flavor, especially fresh.”

Zhou Yunsheng did not say anything, lowered his head and kept tugging at the hem of his skirt, walked two steps and found that the hem of his skirt was too long, and then gathered it into a ball and held it in his arms. Xue Zixuan naturally walked over, wrapped his slender waist, half dragged and half carried him into the car, and also used his palm to cushion the top of his head for fear that he would bump into something.

Such an attentive and gentle brother was something that Xue Jing Yi had never seen before, as if he had suddenly changed from a deity with no desires from on high to a mortal with seven emotions and six desires. If this change was because of her, then she would be ecstatic, but this change came from Huang Yi, so she could never accept it.

Staring at the distant car, she gradually tightened her expression of light laughter to reveal a somber look.

This area of mountains and forests, together with the golf course, are all the Xue family’s properties, Xue Yan lives on the highest mountain with the best scenery, and it takes at least twenty-five minutes to drive from the gate to the mansion to get there, and most of those invited to the banquet are the most prominent figures of the first branch and the side branches, and Xue Rui is still far from being able to reach that level.

When he appeared with his wife and son, many people did not even recognize him, but there was still a little recognition of Xue Zixuan’s face, and these people nodded their heads slightly in a nonchalant manner.

As soon as the car traveled to the foot of the mountain, Zhou Yunsheng sensed that his lover was getting closer to him. He stepped into the banquet hall with excitement and firmly refused Xue Zixuan’s assistance.

There were people everywhere, but not the figure he sought, and he tried to step out, then wobbled his hands and nearly fell.

“Watch out.” A strong arm came up from the side in time to brace his hips and give him a few malicious kneecaps on his resilient ass flesh.

Zhou Yunsheng rounded his eyes and turned his head to look back with a ferocious expression of ‘you seek death’, and subconsciously revealed a look of surprise when he saw his lover’s handsome face that smiled with an evil and reckless smile.

Sensing the teenager’s change in mood, Xue Yan felt more and more pleasant. He sat in the wheelchair, his right hand still resting on the teenager’s hip, and his left hand reached out and gracefully shook Xue Rui’s hand.

“This is your precious daughter, Xue Jingyi? She’s grown so big after not seeing her for a few years.”

“Yes, children, they all grow when they see the wind, and if they don’t pay attention, they’ll be taller than us. Jing Yi, Zi Xuan, quickly greet uncle.” Xue Rui pushed his son towards the front.

“Good day uncle.” Zhou Yunsheng forced a smile, not realizing that his lover in this life was Xue Jingyi’s uncle, this generation was really big.

Xue Zixuan pulled the teenager to his side before he nodded his head in greeting at Xue Yan in a cold manner.

Xue Yan’s sinister gaze flicked around his hand holding the teenager and laughed, “I’ve heard that your zither skills have grown again in the last few years, the guests are all here, so why don’t you perform a piece for everyone.” This was treating Xue Zixuan as if he was a traveling entertainer.

Xue Zixuan revealed a humiliated expression, and his once broken fingertips twitched nervously. Even if he desperately tried to make himself forget those unpleasant memories, his fear of Xue Yan had long since been engraved into his bones, and whenever he saw him, it was as if a nightmare was repeating itself.

He struggled to adjust his breathing and took one slow step towards the piano placed on the stage under the tearful gaze of Dani Xue.

“Wait, let me play for brother, I’m pretty good at the piano too. Uncle, what do you want to hear?” Zhou Yunsheng was unsteady on his feet, bending down to inquire with his hand supported on the armrest of his lover’s wheelchair so that he could maintain his balance.

Xue Yan glanced at him with dark eyes and said faintly, “Forget it, I don’t want to listen.” He didn’t want the teenager to play in plain sight, and if there was no one here, this proposal was quite to his liking.

Xue Li Dani was greatly relieved and hurriedly hugged her son to pat and caress him, and at the same time passed a grateful look to the teenager. Xue Rui, however, was displeased, thinking that the teenager had ruined his son’s chance to show his face in front of Yan. After all, he was not an artist and could not understand the artist’s innocence.

“I like Jingyi a lot, mind keeping him company?”

Xue Yan’s next sentence made Xue Rui overjoyed and immediately nodded in agreement. Xue Zixuan wanted to chase after him, but he was pulled back by his mother, and when he saw the young man waving his hand back and smiling lightly, he gave up helplessly. This was the second time he tasted powerlessness, all thanks to Xue Yan.

“The first time I saw you without pants, the second time I saw you in a skirt, do you remember your true gender?” Walking over to the lounge area, Xue Yan stroked a large portion of the teenager’s exposed backside with reckless abandon, moving his fingertips up and down the line of his slightly indented spine in a rather loving manner.

Zhou Yunsheng was not at all surprised by his lover’s omniscience, glaring over with watery peach blossom eyes before relaxing his body against his shoulder. A sixteen year old teenager was the very species that was most susceptible to falling in love.

Some people want to come over to talk, saw this scene smiled and raised his glass and consciously walked away. The girl’s name is Xue so what, not to mention the bloodline has already been out of the five services, even if it is a direct lineage, Yan wants who can stop?

Xue Rui’s heart strings were violently taut at the sight of the situation, and he seemed to think of something and quickly revealed a joyful color. Xue Zixuan stood in a dark corner, and for the first time in his life, he understood what hatred and jealousy were.