AM Chapter 55

55th Anniversary

Chen Mo clearly remembered that Liang Jingren first kissed him thirty-seven days ago, and that he and Liang Jingren shared a bed until dawn thirty-five days ago.

Although the two-month anniversary of living together happened to fall on a workday, it didn’t affect his enthusiasm for preparing for this day at all.

However, just as he was enthusiastically making plans, he ran into the bedroom with his phone in hand, showing the pre-ordered restaurant menu to Liang Jingren, who was sitting on the bed reading a book. Liang Jingren didn’t even glance his way, simply uttering a light “I can’t that day, I have to go out for social engagements,” neatly sinking his expectations.

“Seriously?” Chen Mo was a little disbelieving and asked again.

Liang Jingren then finally looked up from his book, turned to him, and said, “Of course. What good would it do me to lie to you?”

Hearing this, Chen Mo put down his phone, and the originally bright and delicate features on his face drooped down.

After returning to China, Chen Mo found that Liang Jingren’s social engagements were much, much fewer than they had been four years ago, almost reduced by more than half. He was curious and had questions about this, so he asked Liang Jingren.

Liang Jingren said it was because he had quit drinking, and everyone stopped hanging out with him.

Chen Mo didn’t believe it.

“Haha, of course, it’s still because I’m the boss!” Liang Jingren finally gave a seemingly plausible, yet somewhat pretentious explanation with a smile, “I can just find an excuse to turn down any drinking session I don’t want to go to, who can bother me? If it’s necessary to set up such a meeting to discuss business, it doesn’t necessarily have to be me. There are plenty of people in the company who can eat and drink, and who are eager to take my place to do business and earn performance!”

So, Liang Jingren could always find an excuse to withdraw from social engagements that he didn’t want to go to or didn’t need to go to.

Chen Mo knelt by the bed, clutching at the legs of the person on the bed, who had already made the bed, pouting and saying, “Can’t you not go? Who is so important that they need you to go and keep them company while drinking?”

“Who said I was going to keep them company while drinking? What do you take me for?” Liang Jingren held down the book with one hand, freeing up a hand near the bed to vigorously rub the black-haired head that was close to his leg, “I don’t want to drink, who can force me? On the contrary, I can even make the whole company drink cola with me!”

Chen Mo tilted his head obediently, rubbing the hand that was pressing down on him with his head, and smiled, “Drink less cola, it’s easy to stain your teeth yellow.”

“…”

Liang Jingren punched him lightly, gently pushing his head away.

Chen Mo still grinned foolishly.

Liang Jingren sighed, absentmindedly flipping through the pages of the book, his eyes lost in some line of text, and said, “It’s not a commercial engagement, it’s the old partner of the group who is retiring this year and celebrating a big birthday. He was acquainted with your father back then, and they’ve been friends for many years, I have to go and make an appearance.”

“Besides, they sent the invitation first. You came later, so do you think I should follow you or go there and drink cola?”

“Jingren Bro,” Chen Mo stroked his leg through the quilt, not answering, but asking, “Did you quit drinking because of me?”

As soon as he said that, Liang Jingren “slammed” the book shut, and then immediately “slammed” it onto the bedside table.

He waved away Chen Mo’s hand, tugged at the quilt, and then, amidst Chen Mo’s expression that was three parts surprised and seven parts puzzled, said in a dull tone, “I’m sleepy, I’m going to sleep first.”

Chen Mo stood up by the bed in a daze, quietly watching the person who had already covered themselves with the quilt and lay down.

Recently, Liang Jingren had basically waited until he got into bed before lying down to sleep himself — saying that he was afraid that his movements in bed would wake him up.

Just as Chen Mo was struggling and troubled, wondering if he had just said something wrong and upset the other party, suddenly, Liang Jingren, who had not been lying down for long, “whooshed” and sat up.

Chen Mo was startled again. He blinked blankly and asked, “W-what’s wrong? I’m here…”

Liang Jingren turned to him, looking at him deeply.

Chen Mo felt as if he was about to be sucked into those dark and deep eyes, and he swallowed unconsciously. At the same time, his eyes were also deeply fixed on Liang Jingren’s lips, which were opening and closing.

Liang Jingren opened his mouth and said, “Remember to cancel the restaurant reservation for the day after tomorrow.”

The wreckage of Chen Mo’s sunken expectations underwent another crushing destruction. He nodded stiffly, and Liang Jingren’s lips in his eyes became dim, simply because the light in his eyes was gone.

“If you really want to celebrate that anniversary so much…” Liang Jingren spoke again, this time, he picked up the expectations that had turned to dust and tossed them upwards — “It’s okay to make it up at home on the weekend.”

The light reappeared in Chen Mo’s eyes.

If he wasn’t busy checking the design menu with the restaurant and hadn’t taken a shower yet, he would want to climb onto the bed right now and kiss this cute-to-death Jingren Bro, who was fighting off sleep.

Chen Mo finally kissed Liang Jingren hard on the face, and then ran out of the bedroom to take a shower, laughing and shouting, “I love you to death, Jingren Bro!!”

Liang Jingren looked at the half-open door that had been forgotten to be closed, speechless for a moment.

Anyway, Chen Mo would be back, and he would definitely close it then.

However, there were only the two of them living in the villa, and they were sleeping in the same room, so it was almost the same whether the door was closed or not.

Liang Jingren closed his eyelids and fell backward, his head hitting the pillow directly.

Facing the beige, pure ceiling, he opened his eyes and thought: Although I ordered a period of abstinence this week, Chen Mo’s mood is particularly high, so that’s why…

What anniversary was it? Two months of living together? What’s so special about that? What a stupid lovestruck brain.

Heavy eyelids slowly dropped down. Before he completely closed his eyes, Liang Jingren reflected on himself a little: I seem to be a little too indulgent with Chen Mo… Why am I pampering him so much…

Give him an inch and he’ll take a mile…

Does he love me… How long can he love me?

When Chen Mo returned to the room after taking a shower, his body radiating heat, Liang Jingren was already asleep.

He tiptoed to the bedside after cautiously closing the door, and then squatted down by the bed on tiptoe, carefully scrutinizing the face of the sleeping man for a long time.

He wanted to kiss every part of this face, but he couldn’t, he restrained himself.

Chen Mo thought: Just bear with it, anyway, I can kiss as much as I want on the weekend!

After carefully climbing onto the bed from the end of the bed, Chen Mo turned off the lights with the remote control, and then entered dreamland with his beloved in the darkness.

The next day, Liang Jingren drove out an SUV that Chen Daxiang had bought before his death, which was the latest model at the time. That car had carried many old friends of Chen Daxiang, and later they all became powerful shareholders of Daxing Group.

Liang Jingren occasionally drove this car, but not often. Anyway, it was the first time Chen Mo had seen it come out of the garage since he returned to China.

It was parked in a corner of the garage away from the skylight, and the dust that had accumulated on it was not obvious. It wasn’t until Liang Jingren moved it into the sun that he immediately decided to send it to the car wash, so he could drive it out to see old friends in the evening.

At around 9 or 10 p.m., Chen Mo saw the reflective white SUV roof under the streetlights from the window on the third floor, and immediately put on his coat and hurried downstairs.

The car might have been driven back by a designated driver. He was worried that Liang Jingren had drunk too much, so he specially took a bottle of mineral water and a plastic bag before going out.

However, the one sitting in the driver’s seat was indeed Liang Jingren. He hadn’t drunk a drop of alcohol, and even stretched his left hand out of the car window to wave hello to him, followed by performing a one-handed maneuver of the steering wheel to reverse into the garage.

When Liang Jingren got out of the car, Chen Mo, who followed into the garage, quickly ran forward, “Didn’t you drink?”

Liang Jingren saw the water in his hand, immediately snatched it and twisted it open, “Didn’t drink.” After saying those two words, he raised his head and gulped down half a bottle of water.

“Hah! I did drink a lot of soda though, it’s so sweet!” After moving the bottle away from his mouth, Liang Jingren smacked his lips comfortably.

“How sweet is it? I want to taste it too~” Chen Mo opened his pure and flawless big eyes, and tiptoed closer to him.

Liang Jingren noticed when he lowered his eyes that he was wearing slippers and no socks. The north wind was blowing south, and it had been cold and windy at night for the past few days. Chen Mo’s heels turned red after being outside for a short while.

Perhaps he was distracted for a second and a half, Liang Jingren was successfully ambushed by Chen Mo —

Chen Mo tasted his lips. Although they only tasted of water and cold air, Chen Mo seemed to savor it with relish.

Liang Jingren opened his mouth slightly, and he was overjoyed to taste the sweetness.

Before long, the two of them entered the villa together.

While taking off his shoes in the entrance hall, Liang Jingren suddenly remembered that he had forgotten his briefcase in the car. He mentioned it, not intending to go get it right away, but Chen Mo volunteered to get it for him.

“The hot water is already running, and the pajamas and bath towels have been hung in the bathroom. Jingren Bro, hurry up and take a shower! After I come back and wash my feet, we’ll go to bed together!” Chen Mo said happily.

However, he immediately realized that he seemed to be too happy and had said what was on his mind.

Chen Mo was afraid that Liang Jingren, who had issued a mandatory abstinence order, would be unhappy after hearing what he said, so he quickly explained, “Go to bed to sleep! I didn’t mean to do anything else! I know Jingren Bro must be very tired today…”

Liang Jingren interjected, “We can do it today.”

“Ah?” Chen Mo was stunned.

“Hmm? You don’t want to?”

“Uh, but, isn’t this week abstinence week?”

Liang Jingren squinted at him for two seconds and said, “Isn’t it up to me to decide whether to abstain, and when to end the abstinence?”

“!!!”

— Chen Mo excitedly rushed out the door.

Immediately afterward, his shout came from outside: “Jingren Bro, go take a shower! I’ll go get your briefcase right away!”

At the same time, there was nothing in the open arms of Liang Jingren standing at the door, and even the open door brought in a gust of cold air.

The corner of his mouth twitched, thinking: Damn it, shouldn’t he hug me? What’s with the lack of priorities? What happened to the lovestruck brain?

Just a stupid brain left.

Chen Mo, who ran out of the villa and towards the garage, was extremely happy, not only because he could sleep with Liang Jingren and sweat together again tonight, but also because Liang Jingren let him go and get his briefcase.

Liang Jingren’s briefcase might contain important documents of Daxing Group, or at least personal items. It was rare that he could trust him to touch it.

However, unfortunately, when he walked to that familiar white old car, Chen Mo sadly discovered that he had been too hasty and forgot to take the car key.

But Liang Jingren was also forgetful, and forgot to close the driver’s side window.

The SUV had a high chassis, so Chen Mo supported himself on the bottom edge of the car window to lean his body in from the driver’s seat. Then, he used the advantage of his long limbs to successfully reach the briefcase placed on the passenger seat.

But that was all he could do.

The leather surface of the briefcase was too slippery. Chen Mo tried his best to straighten his fingers, but the more he tried to hook it, the further the bag slipped away.

He held his breath and stood on tiptoe, his upper body almost completely falling into the car.

Just then, the car suddenly sounded.

Chen Mo was so scared that he jumped, and while his body was falling inward, his right hand directly slapped the briefcase up —

The black briefcase hit the glove box in front of the passenger seat, and the glove box of the vehicle, which had not been inspected for a long time, opened with a “bang” at this moment.

“Are you kidding me, hahaha! You didn’t even take the car key and ran here to do acrobatics, hahaha…” Liang Jingren’s heartless laughter came from behind him, echoing throughout the garage.

At this time, Chen Mo’s eyes were only on the medical record that was folded up in the glove box, and he could vaguely see the red cross logo of a certain hospital.