Don’t Be a Kept Man

rson could clearly see them being so intimately close, as if they were kissing.
Chen Zi Qi’s hand was tightly gripping on the curtain and had gone almost completely white, to the point where tight crackling sounds from his bones could be heard.
The expression on his face leaked out the viciousness inside him and it was only after a long while did he finally let go, hatefully flipping down the curtain and leaving.

The summer season was almost at its end, and there was a big pond in the middle of the courtyard where the lotus flowers had already started to bud.
Birds would occasionally fall onto the tiny leaf petals, generating splashes and splashes, and even still, with the bedroom door and window tightly closed, nothing could block the slight moans and gasps coming from inside.

Qin Ming Yue sat in Xiao Feng Wu’s embrace, face to face with the other.
His clothes were in disarray and his pearlescent like skin was slowly being covered with a thin layer of sweat.
He bit on the tips of his fingers, swallowing down his moans that were about to escape his mouth, his lips so red it looked like blood was about to drip down from them.

Xiao Feng Wu wiped the tears dripping out of the corners of his eyes and folded Qin Ming Yue’s small and thin body into his embrace.
Like the strings of an instrument, he plucked them over and over, but unfortunately this man would gasp and cry but he would not let out his voice.

“Six….Sixteenth Master……”

Qin Ming Yue’s voice was trembling terribly, broken, and in their movements, his hair was let loose, tumbling all the way down.
Dark, black inky hair laying on his shoulders creating a picture that was so beautiful that it could not be described.
The tip of Xiao Feng Wu’s tongue slightly passed over the other’s Adam’s apple before he flipped them over to change to a different position.
Not expecting what just happened, Qin Ming Yue’s eyes immediately widened and he let out a loud groan.

“Sh—-“

Xiao Feng Wu covered his lips, his voice playful, 

“Qin Lao-ban’s voice is too loud, don’t scare the neighbours.”

Qin Ming Yue’s eyes and face couldn’t hold in their trembling, his thick eyelashes so thick they were the envy of anyone who saw them.
He used his long and lean legs to hook around Xiao Feng Wu’s waist, forcing them to be closer, tighter, and as if he was a seductress, he stuck out his tongue and licked Xiao Feng Wu’s palm.

Xiao Feng Wu let go and plundered into Qin Ming Yue’s lips.
Forcing through the barrier of teeth, tightly intertwined, letting out suggestive moans and teases.
With no more strength in him, Qin Ming Yue took in large stuttering breaths as he lay in the other’s embrace.
His fingers gently hooked up Xiao Feng Wu’s chin, arrogantly raising up his eyebrows and saying, 

“Sixteenth Master, it seems as if you wanted to eat me just now.”

The bruises and teeth marks on his shoulders could prove that this was not just something he made up.

Xiao Feng Wu didn’t know why he was like this either, but upon the other’s words, his long and lean fingers lightly massaged Qin Ming Yue’s waist from the back, making the other moan once.
Only then did he lazily say, 

“Perhaps it is because you were born as a creature so seductive that even I cannot hold on.”

And then he rose up, grabbing his outer robe to get out of bed.
He went to the back kitchen to fill a tub of bath water before heading back and lifting Qin Ming Yue up.
He threw the other into the bath as part of a joke, but who could have thought that he would be the one to suffer from his own joke instead, splashing himself a bucket’s worth of water.

Lying on the edge of the bathtub, Qin Ming Yue was laughing so much he was trembling all over.
But then he saw droplets of water slide down from Xiao Feng Wu’s face, looking so much like it was carved from jade, so ethereal and pretty, sliding all the way from his throat down into his clothes, and he became dazed.

Xiao Feng Wu wiped the water off his face and then Qin Ming Yue came back to his senses.
He grabbed Xiao Feng Wu’s hand, and like before, he brought it into the water.
Xiao Feng Wu lightly chuckled and bent his body, holding onto the other’s waist.
He could see Qin Ming Yue’s thin eyebrows furrow and then loosen, loosen then furrow again and he wondered if it was from delight or pain.

Xiao Feng Wu smiled with something behind the expression, 

“Why are you still unable to learn how to take care of yourself?”

Qin Ming Yue was getting better and better at igniting a fire in Xiao Feng Wu.
He leaned against his embrace and whispered into his ear, 

“No matter what, I cannot learn.
Sixteenth Master, you have eaten me up so thoroughly, should you not take care, clean up the mess you made.”

His voice was slightly hoarse, shapelessly seductive.

Qin Ming Yue said, 

“Hoh, you have ruined me like this.
I will not be able to sing on stage for many a day.”

“Wah-La—-“

Xiao Feng Wu pulled him up from the water, 

“If you don’t want to sing, then don’t.
I can provide for you for the rest of your life.”

Upon hearing this, Qin Ming Yue wrapped his arms around the other’s neck, not willing to let go.
Burying himself in his embrace for a very long time and not making a noise.
Xiao Feng Wu could only sit on the edge of the bed with Qin Ming Yue in his embrace and pull a thin blanket over his body.

After a long time, Qin Ming Yue’s quiet quiet voice rang out, 

“Is Sixteenth Master speaking only of the truth?”

Xiao Feng Wu’s lean and long fingers floated around Qin Ming Yue’s body, but it held no sexual desire.
Instead it was more to comfort, 

“Lies.
Don’t believe them.”

The moment his voice dropped, he felt a sharp pain at his waist.
Qin Ming Yue lifted his head up from his embrace, and as if in revenge, pinched him again before settling back on his shoulder.
Very lovingly and in a trusting sort of way, he nuzzled against Xiao Feng Wu and quietly said, 

“Truthfully, I don’t even want to sing…… Since I was young, I had to practice and warm up my throat, and if I didn’t do well, I would get a whipping from my master.
It was so painful that I would cry immediately, but if I did, I wouldn’t get food.
I could only hold a brick on top of my head as I completed exercises held in a horse stance.
At that time, I had really wanted to die, but at the end of it all, humans are meant to live…… In the end, it was by that mentality that I was able to survive all the way up until now.”

Xiao Feng Wu swirled his fingers around Qin Ming Yue’s injured, broken finger, and he brought it to his lips and kissed it.
Qin Ming Yue lifted his eyes, a smile on his face and looked at him, 

“Weren’t you always scared and disgusted by injury wounds.
Why are you kissing one now.”

Xiao Feng Wu held onto his hand and then kissed it a few times, 

“I don’t despise you nor find you below my class.
This should comfort you now hmm.”

Qin Ming Yue was a bit embarrassed, and the tips of his ears were blushing red, but he was also not willing to pull his hand back.
He leaned closer into Xiao Feng Wu’s embrace and said quietly, 

“Sixteenth Master, I would still be willing even if you tell me to die right now……”

Xiao Feng Wu patted him, 

“Life is yours to live.
It’s the norm to live well.
If you die, then nothing will be had.”

Qin Ming Yue pushed him onto the bed and lay himself right by him, 

“That is true.
If I am dead, who would spend so much energy on making dumplings for you, to feed you…… Tomorrow, I’ll make some for you, how about that?”

Xiao Feng Wu lazily said, 

“Not singing tomorrow?”

Qin Ming Yue said, 

“The district magistrate has a banquet for an esteemed guest tomorrow and forced us to sing at his estate.
I said my throat wasn’t in the best condition so I cannot go and Fan Yun Fang will take my place.”