AM Chapter 66

[Adolescence 4] A Youth with a Budding Heart [Bonus Chapter]

[Adolescence 4] A Youth with a Budding Heart

When Chen Daxiang was still around, Liang Jingren’s subordinates would also come to the Villa to find Liang Jingren, but they usually wouldn’t come inside.

Chen Mo remembered that he wasn’t familiar with them at first. One time after school, he saw a few people lurking around outside the Villa, peering this way and that, so he called the police. Later, the police arrived and took those people and him to the Police Station in the same Police car.

In the end, it was Liang Jingren who came to the Police Station and took them all out together.

From the police, Chen Mo learned that those guys who looked like gangsters really were gangsters, and some of them really had criminal records.

But while those gangsters were nonchalant in front of the police, their Big Brother, Liang Jingren, seemed very uneasy, as if he was the one who had done something wrong, and he kept apologizing to the officers for wasting their time.

It was then that Chen Mo discovered another of Liang Jingren’s weaknesses besides his fear of heights: the police and the Police Station.

This made it hard not to think that Liang Jingren, whom the gangsters respectfully called “Bro Ren,” had actually committed some crime, some big crime.

But so what if Liang Jingren had committed a crime? Liang Jingren had already taken him to the Amusement Park at that point, and Chen Mo felt that this didn’t change Liang Jingren’s image and status in his heart at all.

Even if Liang Jingren was bad, in Chen Mo’s heart, he was good.

After Chen Daxiang passed away, the Villa belonged to Liang Jingren.

Chen Daxiang could have donated it for auction, but in the end, he left this “home” to him and Liang Jingren.

After that, Liang Jingren’s subordinates often rang the doorbell. After Liang Jingren opened the door, they would swagger in – those people often came in without changing their shoes, which Chen Mo found very annoying.

But when the bald, sunglasses-wearing Strong Bro rubbed his face and greeted him with a smile, he didn’t dare swat his hand away, let alone curse at him. He could only smile politely, pretending to be a well-mannered child from a wealthy family, and say cheerfully in a bright voice, “Hello, brothers!”

Liang Jingren at least knew that he had a phobia of uncleanliness, so he didn’t let that group of rowdy people make a scene in the Living Room. They often gathered in the Resturant to discuss matters.

Chen Mo once heard them talking about upgrading and renovating the bar storefront.

He went to join in the fun, but someone fed him a mouthful of a special cocktail – of course, with Liang Jingren around, no one could force him, and they didn’t want to make things difficult for a kid. He was the one who wanted to drink it himself.

After drinking that mouthful of fruity wine, he immediately got a buzz. His face turned red, and his mind was both clear and unclear: he could remember every word everyone said without missing a single one, but when he looked at Liang Jingren, his eyes couldn’t help but sparkle with all sorts of little stars.

– The filter Liang Jingren had in his eyes was too flashy. Chen Mo even silently complained about it in his heart.

He asked Liang Jingren, who was leaning against the side of the Wine Cabinet drinking plain water from a glass, “Bro Ren, aren’t you drinking?”

Liang Jingren took a sip of water and took the glass away from his mouth, answering him with a smile, “I have a social engagement tonight. I’ll drink the strong stuff then.”

Liang Jingren was looking at him when he said the word “strong,” and perhaps it was the alcohol, but Chen Mo felt that even his breathing became awkward.

He tried hard to move his gaze away from Liang Jingren’s face, but instead, he stared at the glass in his hand.

The colorless, transparent glass was filled with colorless, transparent water, but Chen Mo was thinking: that water must be strong.

He really wanted to taste what real liquor tasted like.

Chen Mo didn’t know when he started to like Liang Jingren. One night in the second semester of his freshman year of High School, when he came to his senses, he was already standing in front of Liang Jingren’s desk, staring at the lips of the person who was dozing off at the desk for a long time.

When he first entered the room, tiptoeing quietly, those lips and their owner were deep in sleep, motionless.

But now, after five minutes or ten minutes, it moved – the lower lip exerted a little force, making the upper lip’s cupid’s bow even more erect.

Although Liang Jingren still hadn’t woken up, Chen Mo panicked.

Swallowing the saliva that wasn’t even there, all that was left in his mind was three words: “I’m done for.”

After that, he fled in a flurry of panic, flustered and disoriented.

Back in his room, his violently beating heart couldn’t calm down for a while.

In the room that should have been quiet at night, Chen Mo leaned against the door with his chest tightly covered, his pupils staring fixedly at the chandelier on the ceiling of the room as if it was shaking. He felt several times that there was an earthquake, the walls were cracking, and the ceiling was about to collapse…

But none of this happened.

Just as he was standing in the room downstairs, standing beside Liang Jingren who was sleeping soundly at the desk, just watching, nothing happened.

What if, he wasn’t just watching?

Liang Jingren looked like he was sleeping very soundly. If he approached him lightly enough and did something, Liang Jingren wouldn’t seem to wake up, nor would he realize what he had done.

But… what if?

What if Liang Jingren woke up when he kissed him…

Thinking of this, Chen Mo’s pounding little heart suddenly jumped up, becoming nervous.

You should know that when he was standing there, he didn’t even dare to think so directly.

After a few more deep breaths, his brain started working again, and he started thinking: what should he do?

Should he turn himself in?

No, that’s not right, he hasn’t done anything yet.

Then… should he tell Bro Ren?

…

Is he crazy?!

No, he can’t tell him… this is his own business, yes, it’s private! There’s no need to tell him!

…

Just forget about it.

Yes, it’ll be fine if he just forgets about it. Anyway, nothing happened, and he hasn’t done anything yet.

Just pretend that this strange, inexplicable feeling that makes his brain feel dull doesn’t exist…

It’s simple! Just sleep on it!

So, after waking up from a sleep, Chen Mo turned back into the usual Chen Mo, and Liang Jingren was still the same Liang Jingren as before, only he had been busier lately.

The Villa they lived in was also the same as usual, except that Chen Daxiang’s master room was gradually being emptied.

When he was in the second year of High School, the traces of Chen Daxiang’s life in this Villa had basically disappeared, and only two family members lived in the Villa – he and Liang Jingren.

Except for going out to social engagements, Liang Jingren basically came back to have dinner with him.

They would talk about many things at the Dinner Table, such as his interpersonal relationships and academic performance at School, as well as his random, self-centered complaints and wild fantasies, which always made Liang Jingren laugh.

If he woke up quickly in the morning, he could also pour out a torrent of complaints about not wanting to go to School in the car.

– Liang Jingren directly fired the driver who took him to and from School in order to reduce unnecessary expenses. He personally drove him to School.

Although it wasn’t on the way, it didn’t take too much time. After dropping him off at School, Liang Jingren would go back to the Company, just in time to catch the time for Daxing Group employees to clock in for work.

As for after School, Liang Jingren would pick him up if he had time, and if he didn’t have time, he would make a phone call to the bar, and whichever lucky subordinate answered the phone would be sent on this errand.

The days passed so plainly until the second semester of his second year of High School, when Chen Mo’s grades in the Rocket Class ranked at the bottom for two consecutive monthly exams. He worked even harder, running back to his room to do exercises and practice questions as soon as he finished eating, but in the third monthly exam, there was some progress in the scores, but the ranking was still uncomfortable.

Liang Jingren comforted him many times, saying that it was already amazing to get into the elite class, and that his IQ was undoubtedly among the best in the School, but Chen Mo just shook his head repeatedly.

Liang Jingren asked him several more times if he wanted to go back to School for evening self-study, or if he should hire a tutor for him, but he refused.

At that time, Chen Mo’s mentality had changed. He felt that the harder he tried, the more tragic it became. If things continued like this, he would become tired of studying. He had a plan in his mind, but he didn’t know how to tell Liang Jingren – he wanted to quit the Rocket Class.

He was afraid that Liang Jingren wouldn’t agree, afraid that he would fail Liang Jingren’s expectations, and afraid that Liang Jingren would be sad about it.

He deliberately chose to forget at this time: his Bro Ren never liked to interfere with other people’s decisions. Liang Jingren was a mature person who understood respect better than he did.

… Although Liang Jingren often couldn’t control himself from swearing when he got emotional.

Since the idea of Chen Mo dropping out of the Rocket Class sprouted, he had been finding reasons and excuses for himself from beginning to end.

All of his inner struggles stemmed only from his inner self. In this regard, Chen Mo and Liang Jingren were very similar – they were both very independent-minded people.

Finally, one night close to the end-of-term exam, Chen Mo figured it out.

He heard the sound of the downstairs gate closing outside the window. He put down his pen, stood up from the sea of questions, pushed open the door, and walked out.

He walked from the third floor to the second floor, and then continued down from the turning point on the second floor.

Then, he saw Liang Jingren sitting on the Sofa, with a woman with long, wavy hair, mature and curvaceous, straddling him face to face.

Liang Jingren’s black suit jacket was draped over the back of the Sofa, and the woman’s fingernails, covered with reflective glitter, were unbuttoning the last two buttons on Liang Jingren’s white shirt.

Don’t do it.

Without any of the embarrassment he had felt when he stumbled upon a couple kissing in the classroom during gym class, Chen Mo didn’t turn around and leave with a flushed head. On the contrary, he stood on the stairs, on the stairs that were five steps away from the ground floor, staring straight at the direction of the Living Room Sofa as if he was in a daze.

The miscellaneous thoughts related to academics were instantly cleared, and in his heart, he repeatedly repeated over and over and over again:

Don’t do it, don’t do it, don’t do it, don’t do it, don’t do it, don’t do it, don’t do it, don’t do it, don’t do it, don’t do it, don’t do it, don’t do it, don’t do it, don’t do it, don’t do it, don’t do it, don’t do it, don’t do it, don’t do it…

Then, he heard Liang Jingren say to him:

“Go up first.”

Chen Mo didn’t remember how he got to the third floor. His feet didn’t seem to exert any force, and in the blink of an eye, the door had already closed behind him.

After returning to his private space, a wave of aftereffects suddenly surged into his heart – he suddenly felt hot all over, and his mind was full of the scene he had seen downstairs not long ago: a man, a woman, overlapping bodies.

Although they hadn’t done anything yet, he seemed to have completed what they would do next.

He could fully imagine how seductive the woman Liang Jingren brought would be – even if she hadn’t taken off a single piece of clothing, her figure had already shown everything.

Yes, he should have been excited by the beautiful woman’s good figure like most underage boys in a special atmosphere.

Then, he would also make some special first attempts at some point in his life like all boys do.

Although he felt disgusted with himself.

– He actually wanted to touch a dirty part of his body that was sticking out.

But he was too uncomfortable.

His sense of disgust was finally defeated by his overheated brain that seemed to be starting to have a fever. Chen Mo did something he had never done before in a daze.

And the only reason that his mind could come up with, he had to find something to “eat with,” so that it would be more reasonable.

So, in order to pursue rationality, in order to make everything more logical, he staggered and hurriedly sat in front of the computer, turned on the computer, and began to search for the files uploaded in the small group that he didn’t know which classmate group had accidentally dragged him into.

But, what he watched was A★V, and what he fantasized about was the female body, and he successfully completed his “coming-of-age ceremony,” but in his dream, what he saw was Liang Jingren’s well-built chest, which seemed plain compared to Bai Xuefeng’s.

When he got up the next morning, he found that he had had a wet dream.