Synopsis and Starting Chapter Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66 - The Chaotic Opening Ceremony
Chapter 67 - Winner I
Chapter 68 - Winner Ii
Chapter 69 - Winner Iii
Chapter 70 - Designing Objects Other Than Jewelry
Chapter 71 - Needless Doubt
Chapter 72 - The Miserable Si
Chapter 73 - Moonlit Manacles
Chapter 74 - Jewelry Case
Chapter 75 - To Be A Self-Aware Hamster
Chapter 76 - The Correct Way To Use ‘A Man Of His Words’
Chapter 77 - A Special Way Of Confessing
Chapter 78 - Insomnia Is Also Contagious
Chapter 79 - The End And The Sequel
Chapter 80 - Weather Change
Chapter 81 - What It Was Like Having Split Personalities
Chapter 82 - An Unexpected Need To Break-Up
Chapter 83 - It Would Be Great If He Could Be Exposed Immediately
Chapter 84 - But It Would Be Awesome
Chapter 85 - Nannan’S Whispers (Ii)
Chapter 86 - Nannan’S Whispers (Iii)
Chapter 87 - Heart Lock
Chapter 88 - The Modelling Hamster
Chapter 89
Chapter 90 - What Goes Around Comes Around
Chapter 91 - It Was Over Just Like That
Chapter 92 - En Route
Chapter 93 - Revisiting Four Seasons Manor
Chapter 94 - How Misunderstandings Are Created
Chapter 95 - Who’S Paying For It?
Chapter 96 - Trump Card
Chapter 97 - Being Taken Advantage Of As Usual
Chapter 98 - Hacked
Chapter 99 - The Strongest Public Relations Team
Chapter 100 - A Tie-Break In Twelve Hours
Chapter 101 - Chairman Yan Plays A Game
Chapter 102 - The Wish Of A Lifetime
Chapter 103 - One Week
Chapter 104 - Battling Wits And Courage For Nothing
Chapter 105 - To Those Who Cannot Take Advice
Chapter 106 - Before Lunar New Year
Chapter 107 - There Are No What Ifs
Chapter 108 - How To Say Goodbye
Chapter 109
Chapter 110 - Omen
Chapter 111 - New Year’S Worries
Chapter 112 - New Car
Chapter 113 - Making Glutinous Rice Balls
Chapter 114
Chapter 115
Chapter 116 - The Truth Will Still Lead To Death
Chapter 117 - Mastermind
Chapter 118 - More Troubles Ensues
Chapter 119 - It Could Not Get Any Worse
Chapter 120
Chapter 121 - The Meeting Of The White Cat And Hamster I
Chapter 122 - The Meeting Of The White Cat And Hamster Ii
Chapter 123 - Discovering The Mystery Of Life
Chapter 124 - Panic
Chapter 125 - Forget It Then
Chapter 126 - (Real) Exposed
Chapter 127 - Twists And Turns I
Chapter 128 - Twists And Turns Ii
Chapter 129 - Twists And Turns Iii
Chapter 130 - The Light At The End Of The Tunnel
Chapter 131 - Wrapped In Happiness
Chapter 132 - Do You Want To Become A Flaw?
Chapter 133
Chapter 134 - Come To Yl
Chapter 135 - “Lifetime” Contract
Chapter 136 - The Hideously Adorable Design
Chapter 137
Chapter 138
Chapter 139 - The Little Tail That Was Forgotten
Chapter 140 - What Could Happen In Two Weeks
Chapter 141 - The Smitten Scoundrel Who Forgot His Friends
Chapter 142 - The Unusual Faye
Chapter 143 - Earth Day
Chapter 144 - First Attempt At Drunk Play
Chapter 145 - So It’S Okay
Chapter 146 - The World Really Is Small
Chapter 147 - The Genius’ Shortcomings
Chapter 148 - It’S Not A Confession
Chapter 149 - An Unexpected Acquaintance
Chapter 150 - Something Feels Wrong
Chapter 151 - The Man Called Yan Jin
Chapter 152 - The Ups And Downs Of The Past Two Months
Chapter 153 - Discussion
Chapter 154
Chapter 155 - Settling In
Chapter 156 - : I Already Understand
Chapter 157 - Bad Friends
Chapter 158 - The Evolved Incapable Ruler
Chapter 159 - Chairman Yan’S Mark
Chapter 160 - Holding One’S Head High
Chapter 161 - Assets That Could Not Be Given
Chapter 162 - The Person He Should Have Thanked
Chapter 163 - At Every Step
Chapter 164 - About His Elders
Chapter 165 - Improvement
Chapter 166 - Nan Wei Starts His Job
Chapter 167 - The Person In Control I
Chapter 168 - The Person In Control Ii
Chapter 169 - The Person In Control Iii
Chapter 170 - The Aftermath Of The Dismissal
Chapter 171 - The Price Of A Bowl Of Noodles
Chapter 172 - Business Trip
Chapter 173 - A Storm Approaches
Chapter 174 - Explosive News
Chapter 175 - Sense Of Security
Chapter 176 - Outside The Cubicle
Chapter 177.1 - Retribution (I)
Chapter 178 - Retribution (Ii)
Chapter 179 - Retribution (Iii)
Chapter 180 - An Unexpected Development
Chapter 181 - A Powerful Comeback (I)
Chapter 182 - A Powerful Comeback (Ii)
Chapter 183 - A Powerful Comeback (Iii)
Chapter 184 - Cancelling The Engagement And Coming Out Of The Closet
Chapter 185 - An Inescapable Past (I)
Chapter 186 - An Inescapable Past (Ii)
Chapter 187 - An Inescapable Past (Iii)
Chapter 188 - Chasing Memories
Chapter 189 - From Triumph To Sorrow (I)
Chapter 190 - From Triumph To Sorrow (Ii)
Chapter 191 - From Triumph To Sorrow (Iii)
Chapter 192 - An Unprofessional Abduction
Chapter 193 - Escape
Chapter 194 - Surveillance
Chapter 195 - Planned And Unplanned
Chapter 196 - Alice’S Insanity (I)
Chapter 197 - Alice’S Insanity (Ii)
Chapter 198 - Alice’S Insanity (Iii)
Chapter 199 - The Result Of Overlooking The News
Chapter 200 - Marriage And Honeymoon
Chapter 201 - He’Ll Be Back
Chapter 202 - The Final Week
Chapter 203 - Problems Exposed And An Appeal
Chapter 204 - Emergence Of The Dead
Chapter 205 - Post-Wedding Realizations
Chapter 206 - Chess (I)
Chapter 207 - Chess (Ii)
Chapter 208 - Chess (Iii)
Chapter 209 - Seeing Is Believing
Chapter 210 - Not Taking Visitors
Chapter 211 - Summer Springs Third Clinic
Chapter 212 - Will Never Bloom Again
Chapter 213 - Blood Type Confusion
Chapter 214 - The Gene Project
Chapter 215 - External Help
Chapter 216 - Hard To Say (I)
Chapter 217 - Hard To Say (Ii)
Chapter 218 - Hard To Say (Iii)
Chapter 219 - The Rotten Family
Chapter 220 - Finally, The End
Chapter 221 - The Life That Could Be Saved
Chapter 222 - The Cat Clan (I)
Chapter 223 - The Cat Clan (Ii)
Chapter 224(End) - Epilogue
Categories Genre: All, Completed, Romance, Shounen Ai, Slice of Life Status: Completed ______
Total Chapters in book: 224
Estimated words: 535798 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2679(@200wpm)___ 2143(@250wpm)___ 1786(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 535798 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2679(@200wpm)___ 2143(@250wpm)___ 1786(@300wpm)
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Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-two: Do you want to become a flaw?
When Xiao Yu awoke the next day, Yan Jin had already left the room.
Xiao Yu opened his eyes and stared at the ever-familiar ceiling for a second before proceeding to the first order of business. Raising his hand, he verified: indeed there were five fingers.
Ah, I’ve changed back to normal.
Xiao Yu dropped a hand over his eyes.
The folded clothes from last night were still sitting on the bedside table, but right now Xiao Yu was already wearing a set of new pajamas as well as a pair of underpants.
It didn’t take a genius to realize who had dressed him.
Covering his burning cheeks, Xiao Yu buried his whole body deeper into the blankets.
The surrounding sheets’ soft down released a faint fragrance, perhaps from the laundry detergent or Yan Jin’s personal scent.
Xiao Yu rolled around in the blankets from the suffocating embarrassment.
Aaah! What to do, what to do?! I’m not ready yet — how can I face Yan Jin looking like this?!
*Rolling around*
Aaah! What should I even say first?! Maybe I should introduce myself first?
*Rolling around*
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!
But while Xiao Yu was rolling around in indecision, he missed the slight
knock
on the door.
The door opened, and Yan Jin came in carrying a meal platter.
Yan Jin didn’t see anyone on the bed though. All he could see was a curled blanket that was rolling around.
“You’re awake?”
At this point, Xiao Yu had already rolled to the edge of the bed and upon hearing Yan Jin, shot up like a startled bird. And then…
Thud.
“Fishy?!”
Yan Jin watched helplessly as both the blanket and Xiao Yu tumbled from the bed. There was no time to even help.
“Fishy, are you alright?”
Woozily, Xiao Yu twisted his head free of the blankets. Before he could do anything else, he was swept into Yan Jin’s stout embrace.
Xiao Yu blanked out.
What am I doing here? Where am I? Who am I? Am I alive??
Only when Xiao Yu’s entire face was buried in Yan Jin’s broad chest did Xiao Yu remember what had happened and how he had ended up in such a situation.
One thought occurred to Xiao Yu amidst all the mental turmoil.
That pleasant smell from earlier, it’s indeed from Yan Jin.
“Fishy?”
When there was no response forthcoming, Yan Jin started to feel somewhat anxious. Instinctively, he pushed Xiao Yu’s bangs aside to feel his forehead temperature.
“H-hey stop, stop, it’s – I’m fine.”
Xiao Yu was only startled out of his reverie when a lukewarm palm pressed against his forehead. However, it was already too late to avoid it. With his bangs parted, Xiao Yu’s teary eyes and blushing cheeks were clearly evident.
Yan Jin immediately understood Xiao Yu’s situation. He couldn’t help but laugh at Xiao Yu’s cute reaction, “It’s the first time we’re seeing each other like this. Are you nervous?”
“A-as if!” His rebuttal lacked any conviction, but Xiao Yu ploughed forward nonetheless. “
Your
blankets were too thick. I was dying from the heat, so I fell off the bed.”
“Sure, the blankets are too thick. Let’s go buy new ones tomorrow,” Yan Jin promptly played along, his deep voice resonating in Xiao Yu’s ears. “I’ll be fine with anything – pick your favorite.”
Xiao Yu’s tender earlobes suddenly suffused with blood. He looked so pitiful, yet so adorable.
Between the bed and the bedside table, the trapped Xiao Yu’s only way out was blocked by Yan Jin’s sturdy frame. In spite of the almost one hundred square meter bedroom and study, Yan Jin had somehow contrived a narrow space with not an inch of space for Xiao Yu to maneuver.
Even the surrounding air seemed to be dyed with ambiguity.
“H-hey, don’t stand so close.” Xiao Yu tried to nudge Yan Jin back to no avail.
Under the sunshine, the stark contrast between Yan Jin’s dark shirt and pale skin blinded Xiao Yu. That handsome ice-cold face that utterly infatuated all the females in SI’s design department was now tenderly gazing at him. There was no way Xiao Yu could look up and meet his eyes.
So, it wasn’t really fair to fault his hand for being unable to find the strength to push Yan Jin aside – it was just that his enemy was really too exceptional.
“What’s not good?”
“Y-you, this position, it’s too close…”
They were close enough to kiss…
Xiao Yu wanted to retreat, but the table was already at his back. There was nowhere to go.
But even the unspoken words in Xiao Yu’s heart couldn’t escape Yan Jin’s hearing. Yan Jin continued to press, “Why is this not good?”
“This is the first time we’re seeing each other…”
“Lies. How could the chief designer of SI not have met with me before?”
“Business-related meetings don’t count. And we didn’t see each other much even then since you don’t go to large meetings. You scarcely so much as respond to video conferencing requests.” Xiao Yu finally found an opening and seized the opportunity to criticize Yan Jin instead.
“… Last February, you confronted me outside the meeting room for an entire ten minutes. My losses were enormous.” Yan Jin deadpanned.
“What! You still want to bring this up?!” Xiao Yu couldn’t suppress his thoughts any longer and exploded. “I’m simultaneously your pet that cheers you up and your mystery designer working for free, all while posing as your boyfriend, and you still dare to nag me?!”
Yan Jin sported a confused, innocent expression. “Really?”
“You’re still denying it!”
All the words Xiao Yu was unable to cry out from long ago came tumbling out in a torrent of fury. “You said my talents were lacking, that I lacked capability, that I was jealous and arrogant, that only companies like SI would recruit such a person, that if I were at YL I wouldn’t last a week before being fired, that…”
In spite of Yan Jin’s usual evil habits which should have merited him an early death, Yan Jin really was innocent here. He allowed Xiao Yu’s tirade to subside before indulging his fancies and prodding Xiao Yu’s seething cheeks. Just as he saw Xiao Yu gather himself for another explosion, he interrupted. “But I seem to remember quite clearly that I said, ‘You’re a very interesting young man – much more interesting than all the other complacent people in the industry.’”
Xiao Yu’s eyes widened in shock. Those weren’t Yan Jin’s own words. They were the words Xiao Yu had used when he impersonated Yan Jin through [Fish and Hamster – You Can’t Have Both] while talking to Lin Zhou.
“Y-you, you already found out…”
“Like I told you last night, I already know everything.”
Yan Jin smirked a little evilly, “Back then you hadn’t changed back to this form, so both of you can be considered as two separate individuals. You can’t really blame me for insulting you then, right?”
“You even know this?” Xiao Yu was stunned. Even now, he himself didn’t comprehend the principles from which his two selves were derived.
“I have a friend who happens to be researching this. After we realized you had issues, we made an international call that night to the leading experts in the field. If you still don’t understand, I can refer you to him. Although there’s a bit of Einsteinian relativistic space-time theory you should be familiar with first. That, at least, I can help with.”
“…No. I’m not curious at all.” Xiao Yu wiped the sweat off his forehead in admiration and fear. It reminded him of his school years when he saw the school genius’ perfect exam scores.
“Plus, we had an online relationship as a foundation,” Yan Jin paused, directly taking the conversation into dangerous waters. “Nowadays when youths meet in real life, don’t they directly become a couple?”
“But there’s also cases where online photos don’t match physical appearances or differences in family status cause them to leave one another on the spot.”
Xiao Yu hadn’t entirely thought through his last statement before speaking, and before he was even halfway done, he’d wanted to face-palm. As expected, Chairman Yan sneered with the absolute self-confidence befitting a chairman, “It’s obvious that those situations don’t apply to me.”
True, someone like Yan Jin at the apex of society would always be the one to choose others, no matter how anyone looked at it.
Xiao Yu let out a squeak as if he’d gone back to being a hamster. “That’s true, but – but it was clear that my designs had been plagiarized back then. Not only did you deny it, you also insulted me back.”
Against this accusation, Yan Jin hid nothing and honestly admitted, “That’s true.”
Just as Xiao Yu’s petty streak was about to ignite again, Yan Jin added his next statement.
“On the flip side, this also shows how protective I am of others’ flaws.”
His voice was both dangerous yet tender, just like the Siren’s song.
“So, do you want to become a flaw?”
……
That afternoon, Xiao Yu laid on the sofa playing on the new iPad Yan Jin had bought, just like every afternoon. Inserting a piece of fruit into his mouth, Xiao Yu still felt as though something wasn’t quite right.
Maybe things had moved a little too quickly?
When Xiao Yu stretched his head from the sofa, he distantly saw Yan Jin with his sleeves rolled up in the kitchen washing and preparing food.
Sensing Xiao Yu’s stare, Yan Jin opened the sliding glass door and asked, “Something wrong?”
Xiao Yu felt a little silly for not having anything concrete to ask. After staring blankly back for a bit, he asked a meaningless question. “What’s for dinner tonight?”
“The groceries I ordered yesterday are a little lacking. There’s only enough to make Kung Pao chicken, stir-fried prawns, mixed root vegetables, ground pork with peppers, garlic fried mushrooms, barbeque pork, fish with eggplant and pickled cabbage, and pigeon soup. If there’s anything else you’d like to eat you can just order takeout. I already activated and authenticated the card I gave you yesterday.”
“……”
In this instant, the enlightened Xiao Yu finally understood why Yan Jin needed to begin preparing dinner at half past two. Although he still thought it was strange, Xiao Yu felt moved, but also at a loss.
Things were still happening too quickly for him.
It felt physically and mentally different to face Yan Jin as a human than as a hamster.
As a hamster, he had no qualms about acting cute and depending entirely on Yan Jin. This was the socially acceptable way for a hamster to survive – Yan Jin spoiling him was a given.
But as a human, no matter how you looked at it, proceeding so easily and quickly from stranger to boyfriend was strange.
“Hmm?” Yan Jin was curious after seeing Xiao Yu not reacting for a while.
“… I don’t have any dietary restrictions. Cook whatever you please.”
Xiao Yu retracted his head behind the sofa and absentmindedly fiddled with his lips.
It was as if he could still feel the warmth from that sudden imprint.
Total Chapters in book: 224
Estimated words: 535798 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2679(@200wpm)___ 2143(@250wpm)___ 1786(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 535798 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2679(@200wpm)___ 2143(@250wpm)___ 1786(@300wpm)
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