Chapter 94   - Fuck, this boy was so handsome.

Yi Chen had never felt his heart beat so fast.

He was like a drowning man who had been suddenly pulled out of the water with great effort, and could only gulp in deep breaths of air now.

Noticing that something wasn’t right with him, Yu Yan froze, raised his hand, and patted his back. “What’s the matter?”

Yi Chen smelled the scent of milk on his body and quickly recovered from his gaffe.

“Nothing.” He still held him and asked, “Why didn’t you say a word about coming here? I would have had someone pick you up.”

“If I had said something, then it wouldn’t be a surprise .” Yu Yan laughed. “Why did you get off work so early?”

He had had it all planned out. If he arrived before 5 o’clock, Yi Chen would definitely not be at home. A few days ago, he had surreptitiously probed around a bit and had found out that Yi Chen wouldn’t have any other celebration feasts today.

Originally, he had thought that all these conditions had made the situation favorable for him, but in the end, there was still a screw-up.

However, that was fine. He just wanted to celebrate Yi Chen’s birthday, whether or not it was a surprise wasn’t that important.

Yi Chen had just reflected on what Yu Yan had just said.

He frowned. “Birthday?”

“Yes .” Yu Yan asked, “You left work so early, have you eaten yet?”

“Not yet.” Yi Chen paused. “How did you know that today is my birthday?”

Yu Yan and seemed to be very proud as he answered, “I checked it on Baidu.”magic

Yi Chen raised his eyebrows, lifted his hand, and rubbed his neck. He didn’t say much and just asked, “Tired from the flight?”

“That flight was how long , I’m not that delicate.” Speaking of this, Yu Yan suddenly thought of something and hastened to pat Yi Chen’s shoulder. “Wait…You let go first.”

Yi Chen didn’t move and instead said, “Hug for a while longer.”

Yu Yan laughed. “No. The cake… it has to go in the fridge.”

The embrace was then over. Yu Yan picked up the big cake and said, “I’ll borrow the refrigerator for a bit.”

Yi Chen raised his hand to untie his tie, his fatigue from earlier now completely gone because of the hug. “What borrow, this whole house is yours. Why did you buy such a big cake? And carry it all the way from Manyang?”

“No, I picked it out in advance at a cake shop in Jincheng.” Yu Yan said, “Hasn’t Yi Ran also been living in your house recently? I was afraid that if it was too small, there wouldn’t be enough to eat.”

Yu Yan opened the refrigerator and was stunned.

He wasn’t very good at cooking, but because he was at home all year round, he would buy some frozen cooked food to put in the refrigerator. However, the refrigerator in Yi Chen’s house was too empty. There was nothing in it but two bottles of beer.

Seeing his doubtful look, Yi Chen said, “Auntie buys fresh ingredients every day, and I let her take the remaining ones back with her. Did you eat anything on your way here?”

“Had a little airplane dinner,” Yu Yan replied.

Yi Chen walked behind him and curved his hand around his neck. “Let’s go.”

Yu Yan turned his head and asked, “Go where?”

“Restaurant.” Yi Chen met his eyes and said, “Or the supermarket?”

Yu Yan soon understood what he meant. “…But I can only make noodles.”

“Noodles are very delicious too.”

Yu Yan fell into a little bit of a daze, and soon the two of them went out.

They just so happened to leave at the time when everyone was getting off work, and thus encountered a few traffic jams, which resulted in them taking half an hour to reach the supermarket.

When they entered the supermarket, the two of them first went straight to the grocery section.

“How long are you staying this time?” Yi Chen picked up a shopping basket casually with one hand. The supermarket had changed the color of the baskets to red since New Year’s was coming, completely unaware of the fact that this new color made their customers look like the people who carried vegetable baskets to buy vegetables in a village. However, Yi Chen would look fantastic even if he was walking down a catwalk carrying such a basket.

“Don’t know yet, I haven’t booked the return tickets yet.” Yu Yan found the brand of noodles that he often cooked, put it in the basket, took out his cellphone, and opened a ticket booking app.

Yi Chen thought he wanted to look at airplane tickets now, so he directly grabbed his cellphone away from him and said, “Don’t go back.”

“No.” Of course, Yu Yan was also reluctant to go back so early. He said, “…I forgot that the room from before is now being occupied by Yi Ran ? I just wanted to see if there are any hotel rooms available nearby.”

“That’s your room, what would he be doing staying there? He stays in a different room.” Then Yi Chen stated with a frown, “No, you don’t have a room, you will sleep with me.”

The middle-aged woman who was shopping nearby heard their conversation, raised her head abruptly, and stared at them with extremely strange and unfriendly eyes.Yu Yan replied, “….I’m done.”

The cashier showed a perfect smile, full of professionalism and said in a gentle tone, “Please come again soon.”

——Fuck, this person with such an high appearance value even does gay relationships only with people with the same level of appearance as his own??

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They went all the way back to the car. Yu Yan had just breathed a sigh of relief and was just about to fasten his seat belt when he heard a question from the person next to him.

“Did you get it?”

Yu Yan’s actions paused. “What?”

“Didn’t you say you were going back to buy something?” Yi Chen started the car, turned on the heating, and gave him a sideways glance as he asked again, “Did you buy it?”

“…… Yes.”

“What did you buy?”

Yu Yan replied with a poker-face, “Some daily necessities.”

Yi Chen laughed and stretched his long fingers into the plastic bag.

Then in front of Yu Yan’s dazed eyes, he accurately took out those daily necessities, held them in his hand, and carefully looked at them—

“Ultra thin, skin-friendly, and comfortable.” Yi Chen read its description seriously before looking at the other item. “Long-lasting, tasteless, easy to clean…”

Then came to the conclusion—”Pretty good.”

“…………” Yu Yan had fallen into a daze.

Yi Chen threw the things back into the bag. Seeing Yu Yan’s appearance, he couldn’t help but laugh.

How had he picked up such a treasure?

Yu Yan only snapped out of this daze after awhile.

Now that he had been discovered, he took a deep breath and said with a red face, “I just… am preparing for any contingency. Don’t laugh.”

Yi Chen replied, “I didn’t laugh.”

Yu Yan took a few deep breaths, reached out to turn down the heating, pulled down the window a bit, and tried to change the topic. “…did you turn on the heat too high, it’s a little stuffy.”

“Don’t blush, and you won’t be stuffy.” Yi Chen asked, “Did you watch some videos secretly?”

Yu Yan acted as if someone had stepped on his tail. “No! What videos?!!”

Seeing him get all puffed up, Yi Chen stopped teasing him and used a lot of effort to hold back his laughter. “Nothing… Let’s go home.”

Who knew that before the car could even drive some distance away from the supermarket, he would hear Yu Yan say in a low voice, “I watched a little.”

His voice was too quiet, and Yi Chen was startled. “What?”

“I said-” Yu Yan looked out of the window, and his voice was as small as a mosquito’s as he repeated, “I watched a little, just some videos.”

Yi Chen: “….”

“I also checked, so there shouldn’t… the ones I bought shouldn’t leak.”

Now it was Yi Chen’s turn to take a deep breath.

He couldn’t help but laugh, and stretched his hand out to hold Yu Yan’s. “What’s the matter?”

“Nothing.” Yu Yan forced himself to pretend to be calm, but in fact, his heart had nearly flown up into the heavens during this back-and-forth.

He still kept looking out of the window and put on an old driver’s voice as he said—

“…… We’re all adults anyway.”

—Acting as though the one who had sneakily gone off to buy contraceptives wasn’t him at all.

Yi Chen was caught so off guard that he almost didn’t stop at the red light.

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Juurensha: Hahaha, poor Yanyan at the grocery store (although Yanyan, I’m willing to bet Yi Chen already has you guys covered there 😉

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