Lu Qi didn’t expect that Mu Nanqiao was so capable. While eating wontons, he received a call from Mu Nanqiao’s assistant, saying that he had contacted a retired professional racer to coach him.

Lu Qi was simply flattered. He was worried that he wasn’t worthy of such great talent, so when he went to meet and the appointed place, he got there forty minutes early and sat at the coffee shop, drinking two cups of coffee by himself.

The other party arrived. Lu Qi’s position was on the second floor. When the doorbell rang, he glanced down subconsciously. It was a tall man with mid-length hair tied casually in a small bun at the back of his head. Wearing a pair of old jeans, he looked up the stairs as soon as he entered the door and immediately met Lu Qi’s eyes.

Lu Qi saw his face clearly. This person was a bit unkempt and unshaven, but he didn’t look very old, about thirty-five.

Retiring at this age…..

Lu Qi understood that the coach had most likely been injured, so he should be careful to avoid sensitive topics when conversing with him.

The man shuffled upstairs, raised his swollen eyelids, and looked at Lu Qi. “Young Master Lu?”

“Please just call me Lu Qi.” Lu Qi smiled and reached out to shake the other’s hand. “Hello, Teacher.”

The other party shook his hand perfunctorily and sat down opposite Lu Qi.

“You have a foundation…..” He took out a cigarette and held it in his mouth. He was not in a hurry to light it, and said in a hoarse voice: “Then let’s go to a professional venue this afternoon. My employer said that you need to learn to protect yourself…..”

He chuckled, his tone frivolous. “Young Master, if you are afraid of bumps, don’t play with motorcycles. The coin-operated rides in the amusement park are safe.”

Lu Qi frowned, a little annoyed by this man’s enigmatic aura.

“I haven’t asked your surname yet?” he asked with restraint.

“Meng. Meng Li.”

He thought he would see an expression of surprise and admiration on Lu Qi’s face, but it didn’t happen. The tender-skinned boy blinked his eyes and said without any superficialness: “Oh, hello Mr. Meng.”

Meng Li was out of sorts.

However, what made him even more unhappy was what came next.

The boy opposite, who was as clean and well-behaved as a little sheep, took a sip of coffee. When he set it down, the bone china cup and plate made a ding. He raised his head and looked directly at Meng Li with his clear black and white eyes.

“Mr. Meng, I don’t want to preach to you…..” His tone was gentle, unhurried, and sincere, as if he was attempting to reason with an ignorant child. “You may have had some bad experiences, but those things have nothing to do with me and were not caused by me, ah, so I shouldn’t suffer from your attitude.”

Meng Chi was stifled, and stared at him.

Lu Qi continued: “I believe that before hiring you, my boyfriend explained what sort of services we need and paid you part of the deposit first. If you feel that the teaching content makes you uncomfortable, you should have refused before you got paid instead of complaining now.”

This was well-founded and hard to refute.

Meng Li chuckled and looked Lu Qi up and down again. This time, his frivolous expression was much more restrained.

His friend had come to him and said that a very powerful boss wanted him to mentor someone. He didn’t want to take care of a child and didn’t want to embarrass his friend, so he made up his mind to go through the motions. This sort of young master from a wealthy family could not bear to be wronged. If he just put on an unfriendly expression, he would probably make a fuss and go home to find his parents.

But he didn’t expect that the other party would have a gentle attitude and a soft face, and still have a good temper.

Sure enough, Young Master Xiao Lu said: “If you are unwilling to teach me, you can terminate our employment relationship now.”

“I am willing.” Meng Li raised his eyebrows. “I think you’re quite interesting.”

Lu Qi: ……

He was embarrassed to say it, but he found this person quite uninteresting.

. . . . . . .

When they went back in the evening, Lu Qi and Mu Nanqiao made complaints about this matter.

One of them sat behind the desk and worked overtime, and the other sat in a small corner of the study and drew. Lu Qi chatted while drawing: “So would you say that this person is strange and inexplicable?”

Mu Nanqiao stopped typing, raised his eyebrows, and looked at Lu Qi.

The little friend really didn’t think that anything was wrong. After saying this, he scribbled and corrected on his tablet as usual, and from time to time picked up a piece of snowflake cake from the snack rack. When he didn’t hear a reply from Mu Nanqiao, he looked up and said: “But his skills are really good and he’ll teach me a lot.”

Mu Nanqiao took a deep breath, put down his work, and stood up.

When he saw him coming over, Lu Qi closed the tablet with a snap. The roots of his ears were suspiciously red as he stuttered, “What…..what are you doing?”

“Baby.” Mu Nanqiao leaned over and kneaded his earlobes, then slid down around his jawline. He gently grasped his chin and shook it, then narrowed his fox-like eyes and said dangerously: “You said he was what. Really. Good?”

Lu Qi blinked, realizing that there was ambiguity in what he just said.

“You know I’m talking about motorcycles…..” His face also turned red, and he retorted in a low voice: “Don’t deliberately seek out trouble……”

“But you haven’t praised me, ah.” Mu Nanqiao came over, unconvinced. He lowered his head and kissed Lu Qi’s lips gently, starting from the slightest taste at the corner of his lips and then their breaths intertwined. When Lu Qi tried to shy away, he raised his hand and pressed the back of Lu Qi’s neck, kneading it twice like a kitten.

When they separated, both of them were panting a little. Mu Nanqiao raised his hand and used his thumb to rub away the suspicious glimmer at the corners of Lu Qi’s lips, then asked in a low voice: “Is my technique good?”

Lu Qi saw through everything and blushed with a soft snort, “You’re just looking for an excuse to kiss me…..”

“Lu Baby is so smart. You can see everything.” Mu Nanqiao was not ashamed, and squeezed onto Lu Qi’s sofa. The single sofa was obviously not big enough, so he simply picked him up, placed him on his lap, and weighed him lightly.

That Meng whatever Li might have a crush on Lu Qi, but Mu Nanqiao did not intend to warn Lu Qi, nor did he intend to fire Meng Li.

Because Meng Li was indeed an experienced veteran racer, and as far as he could see, there was no one in Shanghai who knew motorcycles better than him. It was also because in Lu Qi’s few words, he sketched out a man who “couldn’t speak well” and treated awkwardness as fun. Lu Qi could not get along with such a person.

Even though he knew clearly that his boyfriend could not be poached, Mu Nanqiao was still unhappy. The hand holding Lu Qi dishonestly squeezed his waist twice.

Why did people have thoughts about his boyfriend? He really wanted to print “owned” on Lu Qi’s forehead.

“Ticklish.” Lu Qi held down his hand and patted it twice in dissatisfaction. “Okay, you’ve kissed me. Go to work quickly, I haven’t finished painting yet…..”

Mu Nanqiao pretended not to hear and put his chin on his shoulder and his hands around his waist, asking him in a lazy tone: “What is wifey drawing? Why won’t you let me see it? Is there anything that I, the Governor, cannot see?”

When he finished speaking, he looked sideways at Lu Qi.

The soft, cute lines on that face clearly showed signs of restlessness, and the redness at the base of his ears was fainter. Looking around with his round deer eyes, he finally touched the tip of his nose and said: “It’s just that…..the commission the financial responder requested, they asked that I don’t show it to anyone…..”

“Oh~” Mu Nanqiao smiled meaningfully. “So that’s it…..”

Touching that narrow waist with his finger, Mu Nanqiao said, “Forget it, I won’t look anymore.”

Lu Qi breathed a small sigh of relief.

Mu Nanqiao found him so cute that he couldn’t help but laugh. He leaned forward to kiss his ear, running his wet tongue across it and feeling the slight shiver on the back of the person in his arms with satisfaction.

Lu Qi was so ticklish that he hid. After struggling a couple of times, he felt something move and didn’t dare to move anymore. He opened his eyes wide and looked at Mu Nanqiao. “Are you…..”

“En.” Mu Nanqiao nodded without blushing.

His calmness left Lu Qi speechless for a moment. When he reacted, the hand that was originally lingering on his waist had slipped away.

He gave a hum and grasped Mu Nanqiao’s wrist.

“Baby……” Mu Nanqiao chuckled in his ear. His voice was low and lazy, enough to make a person muddle-headed.. He said with certainty: “You want me too.”

Both of them were caught red-handed, and Lu Qi was unable to refute. Mu Nanqiao’s hand moved neither fast nor slow, and his mouth was not idle. “Детка, are my skills good?”

Lu Qi bit his lip and refused to speak. Mu Nanqiao’s free hand intertwined with his fingers, then grabbed them and kissed his hand twice, naturally leading it down until it touched something cool. 

Beep—

The tablet lit up as it was unlocked by the fingerprint.

The drawing had been completed as a line draft. It was a bionic man lying in a large, opened gift box. Behind him were intricate red and blue lines, and the opened bow ribbon fell over the key parts. One long leg was bent, the joints and slender calves were covered with black metal, and a price tag hung on his ankle.

The lines and textures were perfect, with even some artistry.

Mu Nanqiao raised his eyebrows and chuckled.

The two-dimensional creation was not just a sketch. There was always a difference between such a thing and a real person, but the face of the android was very easy to identify. It was clearly his face.

“Baby…..” He leaned over and asked lightly in Lu Qi’s ear, “You’ve been caught doing bad things.”

Lu Qi was so embarrassed that he couldn’t look at it. He raised his hand to cover his eyes, but Mu Nanqiao tapped his wrist to stop him, coaxing him to look.

. . . . . . .

That night, Lu Qi threw Mu Nanqiao’s pillow out of the bedroom and locked him out.

Holding the pillow, Mu Nanqiao exchanged glances with the little black pig. The little black pig was still waiting for a chance to get in, but he was always implicated by this canine. Last time he lost his balls, and this time he was rejected by the big-eyed shit-shoveler and his calico wife. This was really unfair!

He stepped forward and mew, mew mewed like a baby. After a moment, the door opened a crack.

Overjoyed, the little black pig scurried into the bedroom. Mu Nanqiao wished he was a cat, but he was too big to fit through the crack in the door.

He looked like a big, abandoned fox dog, crying pitifully: “Lu Baby…..”

The door was closed mercilessly.

Unresigned, Mu Nanqiao pressed against the door and asked: “Why can the cat come in?”

Lu Qi’s slightly hoarse voice came from inside: “Because he has no balls. If you cut them off, I will let you in too.”

Mu Nanqiao: ……

He hugged the pillow honestly and went back to his bedroom.

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