Tit For Tat (Beloved Enemy) - Chap 99
GuQingPei felt that he had not slept so comfortably for such a long time; his entire body is cocooned in a soft and warm environment. Every one of his toes are completely stretched and relaxed.
This drowsiness and comfort feeling fought with him for self-awareness. He struggled for a long time before opening his eyes.
His senses quickly returned to his body.
Someone is lying next to him!
GuQingPei suddenly sobered up. He turned his neck strenuously and sees a familiar face, a face with thick dark black eyebrows, long eyelashes, and a high bridged nose. This is a face that nobody could forget after seeing once. It is also a face that GuQingPei was once used to seeing with all kinds of expressions. He is a little flustered at the moment, looking at YuanYang’s face in close proximity. YuanYang had his arm straddling GuQingPei’s waist.
Why is the color of the blanket on him so familiar? And that…that light!
GuQingPei raised his head and looked up. Sure enough, he sees the chandelier from his “dream” last night.
That was not a dream. He was really in his former home. Just like many times in the past, like any ordinary early mornings, waking up with YuanYang holding him naked.
For a moment, GuQingPei felt that the many things that have caused him to suffer painfully have never happened. He just had a very long dream and when he wakes up… YuanYang would still be within his reach.
YuanYang opened his eyes, with deeply dark black pupils dilating, looking at him without blinking.
GuQingPei propped his body up to try and put some distance from YuanYang. But it was useless; YuanYang was still straddling his waist.
“You finally woke up,” YuanYang held his hand behind GuQingPei’s head, “I’ve been up once already this morning. You slept like a pig.”
It was shockingly inconceivable for GuQingPei to even imagine that he actually appeared in this condo. He subconsciously tried to justify it, “I really drank too much…”
“Not only did you drink too much, last night you were causing a big ruckus and vomited all over me.” Even though YuanYang’s mouth was complaining, his mood was good. His hand patted GuQingPei’s bare buttocks and jokingly said, “I’ve stripped you naked but seeing you like this, I’ve no appetite to fuck you at all.”
GuQingPei was somewhat agitated, but he didn’t show it. His head is about to explode. Finally, he asked the question he was most concerned about, “Why am I here?”
“Bullshit, of course, I brought you back.”
GuQingPei furrowed his brows, “You know exactly what I want to ask.”
“Huh? I don’t know,” YuanYang looked at him mischievously.
“How did you know that I was at the restaurant and how am I in this condo?”
“I bumped into you at the restaurant.”
“Bullshit,” GuQingPei certainly didn’t believe him. There had been too many coincidences, so much that he began to suspect whether YuanYang had him tracked. Otherwise, how could it be possible that he would run into YuanYang wherever he went?
YuanYang sat up, exposing the appealing strong abs on his upper body, “Believe whatever you want.”
GuQingPei glanced over at YuanYang’s bare chest muscles. He quickly refrained from looking longer, “Fine, what about the next question? Why am I here?”
“Talking about that, you should be thanking me. I come back here to help you check on the condo occasionally. The restaurant yesterday is nearby, so of course we’d come here. What’s the problem?”
GuQingPei said hoarsely, “At the time, I said for you to leave the key and stop coming here.”
YuanYang’s eyes turned gloomy as he coldly responded, “Did I agree to that?” He reached his hand out to clench onto GuQingPei’s chin, “Even if I agreed to it, I can retract that.”
GuQingPei swatted his hand away, “I’m the owner of this condo. I’m asking you to give me back the key right now. That is not too much to ask right?”
YuanYang raised the corner of his lips in a smile, “Not giving it.”
GuQingPei wrinkled his eyebrows.
YuanYang stretched his arm out and looked at him, “Hungry?”
GuQingPei thought for a while, “Yeah.”
YuanYang jumped out of bed completely naked. It seems that he is still accustomed to sleeping in the nude.
GuQingPei had never felt that he lacked in sexual gratification. Once a man has devoted himself entirely to his career, his desire for sexual desires will be much weaker. Therefore, in his two years in Singapore, he can even count the number of times he masturbated. Even when he had vented his lust on some young boys two to three times, he did not fully enjoy it, leaving him unsatisfied. It is almost as if…… It was not essential. But when he saw YuanYang’s naked, beautiful muscular body, and seeing the big manhood in between his legs, GuQingPei felt his face blushing and his body’s arousal that can’t be ignored.
YuanYang seemed to have felt GuQingPei’s line of sight on him. He turned his head and stared at him.
GuQingPei shrugged and said in a very calming manner, “You don’t wear clothes yourself. It’s a waste not to look.”
YuanYang raised his eyebrows, “Are you hard?”
GuQingPei laughed, “You’re thinking too much.”
YuanYang looked at him teasingly and continued to walk out. When he passed the bathroom, he grabbed a towel and wrapped it around his waist. This made GuQingPei sigh in relief.
When YuanYang walked out of the bedroom, GuQingPei also got up. He opened the walk-in closet door to look for some clothes to wear. But when he saw his and YuanYang’s clothes all neatly arranged inside, looking as it had from the past, he was stunned. His hand gently brushed through a piece of familiar clothing; his fingertips trembled uncontrollably.
It seemed like nothing had changed in this home from the time left. In fact, many of the details seem to have alluded to the fact that the condo was meticulously taken care of in his absence.
He took out a set of casual clothes and put it on. Then quickly walked out of the walk-in closet and closed the door.
YuanYang, what are you really thinking?
GuQingPei composed his emotions and went into the bathroom to wash up. When he was done, YuanYang pushed the door opened, “Breakfast is ready, come out and eat.”
GuQingPei stood at the door and looked at him, his body is a bit stiff.
YuanYang grimaced at him, “Aren’t you hungry?”
“Um…” GuQingPei secretly clenched his fists and forced himself to eliminate all the unnecessary images from the past in his mind.
Always thinking of the past, what’s the point?
Going into the living room and seeing the familiar objects in the home, all the nostalgia feelings instantly encircled GuQingPei’s body, the past memories penetrated every cells in his body, making it impossible for him to avoid nor escape.
GuQingPei suddenly felt a bit furious. He looked darkly at YuanYang, “You bringing me here, what is the meaning of this?”
Yuan Yang came to the table and took a sip of soymilk, then sneered, “I wanted to know, the days that we lived here together, how much do you still remember?”
“I’ve forgotten it all,” GuQingPei looked directly into his eyes.
The hand that YuanYang used to hold the soup spoon slightly paused. Then, he gently put the soup spoon into the bowl. His actions were so light that it didn’t even make a sound. His deep gaze looked as if he wanted to engulf the person in front him. He says, “I will make you remember it one by one.”
“What’s the meaning of remembering it!?” GuQingPei suddenly shouted, “What’s the fucking point! What is it that you want? If you just want to sleep with me, then I’ll fucking sleep with you now. After that, stop coming to bother me again! And don’t appear in front of me! Beijing city is so big, even Chang’an Street have ten blocks, there has to be one where we won’t bump into each other! There has to be one where we won’t see each other. Can’t you just let me go?! Let me go!!” GuQingPei’s temper erupted explosively without warning, so much that he couldn’t even control it. He only felt that something in his body had ignited and finally exploded. All his negatively distressing emotions started pouring out. He couldn’t even stop himself from fiercely kicking the small steel glass table, flipping it over, spilling the soymilk and scattering all the foods.
YuanYang was still sitting in a chair, staring at GuQingPei with his bloodshot eyes.
“Get out, get the fuck out! Two years already! It’s been two years! What the hell do you still want from me?! You just can’t stand me living a steady life? You fucking already have a girlfriend. Your life is going smoothly. What are you provoking me for? What did I, GuQingPei, owe you? You fucking tell me. What the hell do I owe you? Because of you, I lost my job, lost my family and friends, and even to this day, my photos can still be on someone’s computer like a ticking time bomb hanging on my neck. I can’t even stay in Beijing City and had to escape to another country. You have forced me to such end, what the fuck do I still owe you?”
YuanYang quickly stood up and shouted even louder, “You owe me a lifetime!!” He hurried to the glass display beside the wall, forcefully opening the glass door and took out an exquisitely crafted iron box from the inside and threw it on the ground.
The contents of the box poured out, falling directly onto GuQingPei’s feet. GuQingPei lowered his head and sees a pile of photos on the ground. They were all photos of him. There was at least two to three hundred, all are from the time that he was in Singapore. Some of them, he can’t even remember where and when it was.
Each one of the photos, spread out between him and YuanYang, forming a path that seemed to be short but pebbled with endless obstacles.
GuQingPei lowered his head, his body shaking continuously.
YuanYang pointed at the photos, his voice trembling, “GuQingPei, you owe me two and a half years. You owed me more than 900 days and nights. You also owe me a lifetime. You dared to cast me away and left at that time, not even in the least bit concerned about leaving me here. I fucking waited for you like a dog… just waiting for you. It’s not that I can’t go look for you, but I was afraid that once I see you, I won’t come back. Then at the time, you will despise me for being too weak, too useless. Now that I have the power and ability, do you think I will let you go? I will make you regret leaving me. I need you to not be able to escape from my grasp!”
GuQingPei raised his head and stared blankly at YuanYang, softly muttering, “YuanYang, did you ever feel any guilt toward me?”
YuanYang clenched his fist, “I’m willing to make it up to you, but you didn’t give me the chance.”
“Then there really isn’t any (guilt).”
YuanYang looked at him. His eyes are blood red, “There was. Up until the time before you left, I had wanted to beg for your forgiveness. But in the end, I realized that whether or not you blamed me was not the point. You just didn’t want me.” YuanYang’s voice trembled, “You really just didn’t want me. From that time on, I can’t wait to strangle you to death. GuQingPei, however long you had left me, I have… hated you for that long.”
End of the Chapter
