MAPF Chapter 64

Chapter 64: Dream, Gentleman’s Agreement

Monday, Xie Shiwei and He Qin took a plane together, transferring for twenty hours to Turkey.

Jiangcheng was already in deep autumn, but October in Turkey was still warm and hot.

When they landed, it was evening, and the sunset was magnificent. Someone was there to pick them up at Istanbul Airport, dressed in a neat suit, with European features but able to speak Chinese.

“Mr. He, Mr. Xie, I am your exclusive liaison for this summit. You can call me Smith. Please, follow me.”

Xie Shiwei and He Qin followed Smith into the car, which took them to the hotel. Smith helped them check in. Xie Shiwei, with his sharp eyes, noticed that Smith had chosen a deluxe king-size bed room for them instead of a presidential suite.

He quickly stopped Smith and asked why he hadn’t arranged a presidential suite for them.

“Mr. Xie, the presidential suites are all single rooms, shared by individual participants. You two are a married couple, so according to the requirements, you are uniformly arranged in a deluxe king-size bed room.” Smith handed them the room key cards. “Mr. Xie, rest assured, this is a diamond-level hotel, and the rooms with deluxe standards are all good.”

“The hotel has a buffet for breakfast and dinner, and various fitness and entertainment facilities. The opening ceremony of the summit is the morning after tomorrow. We have arranged outings for you for today and tomorrow, which you can participate in. I wish you a pleasant evening.”

Smith spoke very quickly, yet seemed polite. Xie Shiwei didn’t want to interrupt him, and was even more embarrassed to tell him that he and He Qin were in a marriage of convenience and that single rooms would actually be fine.

Okay. It wasn’t like they hadn’t shared a bed before.

Xie Shiwei yawned wearily: “The room is on the top floor, let’s go.”

He Qin grabbed Xie Shiwei’s suitcase and strode forward.

While in the elevator, an attractive foreign woman rode with them.

The girl struck up a conversation with He Qin, immediately inviting him to have a drink at the hotel bar and have a good time.

Xie Shiwei understood and consciously took a step back.

Then, he saw He Qin politely raise his hand, showing her the wedding ring on his ring finger, and saying in English, “Sorry, I’m married.”

The girl said “Oh” and turned to look at Xie Shiwei, asking if he was interested in going with her.

Xie Shiwei thought to himself, “Wow, these Westerners are really open.” But he just wanted to take a shower and sleep, and had no interest in going out, so he politely shook his head to refuse.

Before he could finish speaking, his hand was taken by He Qin, and He Qin slipped his own wedding ring onto his ring finger, forcibly interlocking their fingers.

“He is my husband,” He Qin said to the girl, holding Xie Shiwei’s hand.

Xie Shiwei was stunned for a moment, his palm burning.

The girl raised her eyebrows, laughed, shrugged to indicate “ok”, and wished them a happy marriage.

When they reached their floor, the girl left first, but Xie Shiwei’s hand was still firmly held by He Qin, feeling…

“Why did you take my ring?”

He Qin replied, “To deal with similar situations.”

Their fingers were intertwined, the temperature rising, and the ring on He Qin’s finger rubbed against the side of Xie Shiwei’s finger. Just as he wanted to pull his hand away, He Qin held it tightly.

“Didn’t you like holding hands at the ball that day? Why do you want to let go now?” He Qin said.

Xie Shiwei’s breath hitched.

He blushed as soon as he thought of the shameless way he had taken advantage of him that day, and hurriedly pulled his hand away without saying anything.

He Qin smiled when he saw his eyelashes drooping. The elevator arrived, and they went out one after the other, swiping the door open to their room.

Xie Shiwei was dumbfounded.

It was indeed very luxurious, but it was also too open.

The bathroom was open-plan, with a round bathtub in front of the large floor-to-ceiling windows, outside which was the bustling city and the beautiful lights of the Bosphorus Strait in the distance.

“How can I take a shower like this?” Xie Shiwei was a little frantic, cursing in his heart why the summit organizers hadn’t booked standard twin rooms.

“Gentleman’s agreement, just don’t look while the other person is washing. Besides, this is just for taking a bath, the shower is in the bathroom.” He Qin pointed, and Xie Shiwei saw the shower room not far away, and went crazy again: “Why is the partition in the shower room made of frosted glass!”

Everything in the bathroom was vaguely visible, and it was easy to imagine what it would look like when someone stood inside!

“Don’t worry, I won’t look at you,” He Qin said. “Go ahead.”

He Qin kept his word and immediately turned around and walked to the living room, took out his laptop, sat down with his back to the bathroom, and started working.

Xie Shiwei had no choice but to open his suitcase, pick up a change of clothes and toiletries, and slowly moved to the shower room, hesitantly taking off his clothes, while peeking at He Qin’s back, and doing countless psychological constructions before finally opening the shower naked.

He lathered himself all over, rinsed clean, quickly grabbed a bathrobe and put it on. Xie Shiwei checked himself up and down several times, making sure the clothes were tightly fitted to his body, not revealing any skin, and then shyly went out to blow-dry his hair.

He was a little sleepy, yawning as he blew, his body swaying involuntarily.

Suddenly, he felt the weight in his hand lighten. He looked up and saw He Qin standing behind him, blowing his hair for him.

The hairdryer whirred, and He Qin’s fingers inserted into his half-wet hair, standing close behind him.

“Are you sleepy?” He Qin lowered his voice, enticing Xie Shiwei to relax. “Let me help you.”

Xie Shiwei was really sleepy, and couldn’t muster the energy to refuse. He even slowly lowered his guard in He Qin’s touch, and finally leaned softly against He Qin’s body.

Like a soft lamb.

After drying his hair, Xie Shiwei fell headfirst onto the bed. He Qin finished reading the speech sent by his assistant, confirmed the clothing for the forum the day after tomorrow, and quickly took a shower. In order not to disturb Xie Shiwei’s sleep, he went to the public bathroom to find a plug to blow-dry his hair.

When he returned to the room, Xie Shiwei had already occupied the entire bed in a very arrogant posture.

In fact, the sofa in the room was large enough to lie down on for two people, but Xie Shiwei didn’t tell him to go sleep on the sofa, so he didn’t want to go.

He Qin gently grasped Xie Shiwei’s slender ankle, and moved him in a direction extremely gently, placing him on the right side of the bed like arranging a small toy, and covering him with the quilt.

Although He Qin had recently been trying to seduce Xie Shiwei, he was still an absolute gentleman at heart. There was no need to take any action when Xie Shiwei was asleep, because this person slept very soundly and would not remember anything.

After he lay down, he turned off the wall lamp, and the room fell into darkness, with only a sliver of moonlight leaking through the gap in the curtains.

Just as he was about to fall asleep after closing his eyes, he heard a rustling sound in his ear.

He Qin reopened his eyes and found that Xie Shiwei was moving closer to him little by little in his sleep. He rubbed against him like a kitten, nuzzling his shoulder, his breath warm, and then slowly moved his entire head into his neck, followed by hugging his arm.

In the darkness, Xie Shiwei’s face was blurred, but the warmth of his body was unmistakable.

He Qin curved the corners of his lips, unable to resist, and turned sideways to bring Xie Shiwei closer to his chest, thinking that this person was only willing to be close to him when he was asleep.

At this moment, in the seconds that Xie Shiwei didn’t know about, they embraced each other, like true lovers, couples, spouses.

He Qin wanted to kiss Xie Shiwei’s hair or forehead, but he didn’t. He was afraid that taking a step forward would backfire, shattering Xie Shiwei’s unintentional dependence. In the end, he just reached out and touched the tip of Xie Shiwei’s nose, and closed his eyes to sleep.

The next morning, Xie Shiwei woke up first, contrary to his usual self, with a flushed face and a slightly sticky feeling in a certain area.

The reason was that he had had a particularly outrageous erotic dream last night. In the dream, he was like a pervert, clinging to He Qin and kissing him all over. The two of them were like dry firewood meeting a blazing fire, and they didn’t sleep all night, fighting several rounds, ending with him begging for mercy first.

Everything in the dream was particularly real, and it happened in this hotel.

Xie Shiwei didn’t dare to breathe loudly, feeling like the sky was about to fall, especially when he opened his eyes and found that he was lying in He Qin’s arms, his fingers through his pajamas, tightly (tiē) on the other’s tight waist.

He Qin was still sleeping, and Xie Shiwei’s fingers quickly heated up. He tried to pull his hand out without disturbing He Qin, so he raised his fingers one by one, supporting his upper body, intending to retreat completely when He Qin suddenly opened his eyes.

His eyes were dark as ink, and Xie Shiwei had seen this pair of eyes in his dream, immersed in desire.

He retreated guiltily, not caring about whether it was natural or not, and slipped away into the bathroom.

Fortunately, he had packed two sets of disposable underwear when he left, otherwise it would have been difficult.

After tidying himself up, Xie Shiwei came out. He Qin was brushing his teeth and washing his face in front of the open washstand. When he saw him, he automatically made room for one person.

Xie Shiwei went to brush his teeth with a messy hair. The two stood side by side, holding toothbrushes in their right hands. In the mirror, it looked like two people were copied and pasted.

He Qin seemed to be waiting for him, intentionally keeping the same rhythm as him, picking up the water cup to rinse at the same time, making them look even more like two clones.

Xie Shiwei couldn’t help but laugh, and He Qin laughed along with him. He didn’t know why, but Xie Shiwei just wanted to laugh, probably because he had just had an outlandish dream, and was amused by the funny actions of the two of them now.

After laughing, Xie Shiwei finally had the courage to tentatively ask He Qin if he had done anything abnormal last night.

“What do you mean by abnormal?”

“Like offending you, or something like that,” Xie Shiwei scratched his head awkwardly.

“No, you were very well-behaved, you just liked to hug me to sleep.”

Xie Shiwei continued to be embarrassed: “Then next time, push me away.”

“Why push you away?” He Qin leaned leisurely against the wall, watching Xie Shiwei tidy his hair.

Xie Shiwei raised his eyebrows: “Wouldn’t it be very ambiguous if you didn’t push me away? Admit it, you still have ulterior motives towards me.”

“Don’t forget, we are attending the summit as a couple. Once we leave the hotel, everyone will think that we are a couple with a good relationship. To prevent you from forgetting, why not start cultivating that from inside the room?”

Xie Shiwei was speechless for a moment.

He felt that He Qin still liked him, shamelessly taking advantage of him under the pretext of work.

Well, he was so good-looking and motivated, it was perfectly normal to fall in love with him.

Thinking like this, He Qin suddenly took a step closer to him, standing behind him, spreading his arms to support the washstand on both sides, completely enveloping him in his arms, leaving no space.

“Shiwei, I’m very happy when you hug me,” He Qin said in a low voice.

The heat sprayed on the back of Xie Shiwei’s neck, and Xie Shiwei looked up at the mirror, not even bothering to question why He Qin was happy, but quickly lowered his head, blinking his eyes frantically.

It made him think too much.

This pose had also appeared in his dream yesterday.

Xie Shiwei was even more ashamed. He Qin keenly noticed the change in his expression and asked him what was wrong.