AM Chapter 49

For Liang Jingren, “satisfaction” is paramount. It has been too long, too long, too long since he’s been intimate with anyone.

When Chen Mo is in sync with him, he can feel so good that he forgets himself, responding to every kiss Chen Mo offers.

Although he’s accepted Chen Mo, this can’t go on for too long. Liang Jingren thought.

So he issued a “no sex” order to Chen Mo.

But in reality, this is about managing and controlling his own desires—Liang Jingren is truly worried that because of him, Chen Mo might one day not be able to handle it and become unable to perform.

Although Chen Mo is still very young, young people should pay more attention to conditioning and caring for their bodies. Chen Mo might not understand this yet, but Liang Jingren, as an “adult,” has the authority to say so. Since Chen Mo listens to him anyway, he simply took it upon himself to make the decision.

In the days since the “no sex” order, not only has Chen Mo been busy with work, but he’s also been very troubled. He’s attended the same project meeting three times without a decision being made. The two people in charge, one primary and one secondary, not only have their own opinions but also very distinct personalities. They even started arguing in front of him. He, as the CEO with a fiery temper, was forced to act as a mediator, which he found truly absurd.

Therefore, for two days, when he returned to the Villa and saw Chen Mo, he had an impulse—to drag him into the guest room and vent his frustrations.

But Liang Jingren isn’t stupid. Considering it’s a workday and Chen Mo has been working overtime lately, he let Chen Mo off the hook.

As a result, less than a week into the “no sex” order, Friday night arrived, and Liang Jingren couldn’t resist going to Chen Mo.

Chen Mo looked extremely happy, excited, even with tears of gratitude, desperate pleading, and wish fulfillment starting to well up in his eyes.

After they finished, it was late at night. Liang Jingren stretched luxuriously, feeling refreshed and relaxed, and immediately propped himself up with a pillow to smoke.

Chen Mo, on the other hand, was truly exhausted. Lying next to him, his eyelids began to droop, but he stubbornly refused to close his eyes.

He’s probably afraid that if he falls asleep, I’ll run away. Liang Jingren guessed.

He used the hand that wasn’t holding the cigarette to touch Chen Mo’s head, wanting to soothe him to sleep quickly. But Chen Mo instead struggled to open his eyelids and sat up, supporting himself on the bed.

“What’s wrong?” Liang Jingren asked, taking a puff of his cigarette and exhaling to the side while glancing at him.

Chen Mo looked at him earnestly and asked, “Was I okay?”

Liang Jingren also looked at him, simultaneously pinching the cigarette and taking a deep drag.

Then, Liang Jingren laughed, suddenly “ha” exhaling all the smoke and continuing to laugh.

“Did I not do well?” Chen Mo still stared at him eagerly, but his voice was slightly lower.

Liang Jingren flicked ash with one hand outside the bed, while the other hand covered his head and rubbed it hard. “Wasn’t it pretty good? Why are you so insecure?”

Chen Mo pursed his lips and leaned forward slightly.

Liang Jingren stared at his approaching lips, handed the cigarette from one hand to the other, and finally shoved the cigarette butt into his mouth.

Chen Mo blinked, and 0.5 seconds later, he frantically grabbed the almost-falling cigarette, his face full of confusion.

Seeing this, Liang Jingren burst into laughter again.

Chen Mo was stunned for a moment and whispered, “Brother Ren is so bad.” Then he smiled, picked up the cigarette butt, and started smoking the secondhand cigarette Liang Jingren had given him.

Liang Jingren wasn’t sleepy. Seeing that Chen Mo was also awake, he simply started chatting with him.

But Liang Jingren really didn’t know how to find a topic. He actually said to someone who had just slept with him and said a lot of sweet words, “Did your foreign girlfriends or boyfriends ever praise you?”

“Did you practice it one move at a time, one game at a time?”

Chen Mo was quite speechless at his question. He complained in his heart: One move at a time, one game at a time? Is this a game?

At the same time, Chen Mo’s improved mood began to become chaotic again. He didn’t like Liang Jingren’s questions, and he didn’t like Liang Jingren asking him like this.

“Isn’t Brother Ren even a little jealous?” Chen Mo asked.

Liang Jingren’s answer was almost without thinking, “No.”

This made Chen Mo even more frustrated, and his stomach began to churn uncomfortably.

And at this time, he still wanted to prove his innocence to Liang Jingren, biting his lip and saying, “I didn’t like them… the relationships were just out of necessity, not what you think…”

“Oh?” Liang Jingren seemed suddenly interested, raising an eyebrow to signal him to continue, with the mindset of wanting to hear a story.

Chen Mo opened his mouth, his throat, sealed tight by the previous lie, becoming dry and unbearable.

“I just… wanted you… to care…”

This sentence was true.

One of the reasons he had his first sexual relationship after going abroad was this factor.

“Oh.” Liang Jingren responded very casually, and then said, “Then I’ll care a little bit.”

Hearing this, Chen Mo immediately raised his head and perked up, his eyes shining as he stared at the person next to him, completely oblivious to the fact that the ash from the cigarette in his hand was falling onto the bed.

“How many people have you slept with?” As a result, Liang Jingren tilted his head, looked at him, and asked with a smile.

Chen Mo instantly cooled down, his hands and feet as stiff as millennia-old ice.

In sight, Liang Jingren’s faint smile didn’t carry a trace of threat, as if he was purely asking out of curiosity, but he was stiff and cold all over because he couldn’t calculate the exact number in his heart for a moment.

—How can I betray Brother Ren?

Chen Mo’s pupils trembled, and following the stomachache was an uncontrollable stabbing, scraping heart pain.

What have I done? With how many people…?

How could it be…

So dirty… so dirty…

“Wuu…”

In Liang Jingren’s eyes, Chen Mo was crying for no reason at this time.

“Uh…” Liang Jingren didn’t quite know what to do. He noticed that the cigarette in Chen Mo’s hand was almost burned out, so he simply took it away and threw it off the bed.

Chen Mo, with both hands now free, suddenly pounced on him, grabbing his arms, two tear tracks reflecting light on his beautiful face, and desperately confessing and promising to him, “Brother Ren, I won’t do that kind of thing with anyone else again, absolutely not… wuu… don’t dislike me, wuu wuu… don’t abandon me…”

As he spoke, Chen Mo cried again, his forehead pressed hard against the chest in front of him.

Liang Jingren hesitated for a while, raised his hand to hug him, patted his back, then swallowed and said a sentence that he had thought hard for several seconds to come up with, “You have to love yourself, Chen Mo.”

Chen Mo cried even louder.

The next morning, Chen Mo opened his sore and swollen eyes and found that he had woken up late—outside the window, the midday sun turned the sky a pale white, and Chen Mo’s mind followed suit.

He hurriedly washed up and hurried downstairs. When he was two or three steps away from the ground floor, Liang Jingren’s voice came from the dining room:

“Finally awake, I was about to starve to death waiting for you to cook for me.”

Chen Mo walked to the dining table, where Liang Jingren had already prepared two dishes and a soup and was waiting for him.

Ever since the two of them decided to eat dinner together at home, cooking and washing dishes had almost always been Chen Mo’s responsibility. But this week, he didn’t seem to have cooked a single meal.

“Did you brush your teeth and wash your face? Hurry up and eat, eat some donkey meat to replenish yourself, after all, you expended a lot of energy last night…” Liang Jingren considerately picked up a slice of stir-fried donkey meat for him.

Chen Mo stared at the steaming white rice in front of him, as well as the donkey meat that was suddenly placed on top of the rice. For a moment, his excited mood was difficult to calm down.

“Delicious!” Chen Mo picked up the bowl, grabbed his chopsticks, stuffed the rice and meat into his mouth, and chewed it vigorously.

He was really hungry, but of course, even if he wasn’t hungry, he would say it was delicious.

Liang Jingren was good at seasoning, but the meat was a bit overcooked and got stuck in his teeth.

During the meal, the two of them chatted about extremely trivial things in their daily lives, like before, or even more so before.

Of course, Chen Mo was the one who talked the most. Even with his cheeks stuffed full, he couldn’t stop talking. He had too many complaints about his work and his speechless colleagues this week.

“By the way,” of course, he didn’t forget to care about Liang Jingren’s situation at the company during this time, “Brother Ren, have you been eating alone in the cafeteria these days?”

Liang Jingren nodded, “Yeah.”

“Doesn’t anyone keep you company? Won’t you be lonely?”

“Ha… it’s not that easy to be lonely.”

“But I always feel like something’s missing when I can’t eat with Brother Ren.”

“Am I your appetizer?”

“You are my dish.”

“…”

Liang Jingren was silent for a while, and after swallowing the food in his mouth, he immediately laughed a few times.

After laughing, Liang Jingren calmed down and said, “Actually, it’s not entirely eating alone…”

Chen Mo opened his mouth, the tips of his chopsticks and the slice of meat he was about to put in his mouth stopped at the same time.

Then, he heard Liang Jingren continue to say, “I’ve run into Xu Yilin in the cafeteria these past few days, so I ate with him at the same table.”

Xu Yilin, this name hadn’t appeared in a long time. The moment it appeared, Chen Mo could still immediately recall that the other person liked to drink special caramel hazelnut-flavored coffee and hated the pearls in pearl milk tea.

But, “Why…”

“Hmm?”

“Why is it Xu Yilin…”

Liang Jingren keenly caught the strangeness in his tone. He raised his head and found that the person who had been sitting opposite him and eating the meat happily was now suddenly looking gloomy.

“What do you mean why is it Xu Yilin?”

Liang Jingren obviously hadn’t understood the meaning of his words, or the meaning had become too convoluted and twisted in the opposite direction, so he actually said to him, “Do you like Xu Yilin that much?”

Chen Mo’s breath caught, his pupils dilated.

“Well, I asked you to pursue him at the beginning, and you really ran after him with excitement, you must have some good feelings for him.”

“Uh… uh… uh…”

“You liked Xu Yilin, right? Am I right?” Liang Jingren said these words with a smile on his face, “I know, I still understand you! You avoid people, things, and things you don’t want to do at all costs, and vice versa, then…”

“Brother Ren.” Chen Mo interrupted him.

Liang Jingren narrowed his eyes slightly, still smiling and said, “You don’t admit it? I didn’t blame you for being flirtatious.”

“It’s just that, I didn’t expect it at the beginning… I’m really sorry for Xu Yilin, it must have been annoying to him at that time, I have to find him again sometime to talk and apologize.”

“Don’t go!” Chen Mo suddenly said loudly.

Liang Jingren looked at him in surprise.

Chen Mo lowered his chin, and his dense eyelashes also drooped down, fanning out like fans to cover most of the light in his eyes.

The lips that had been bitten by the upper teeth several times slowly opened. After a long time, Chen Mo made some sounds:

“I will apologize to him, don’t you go…”