Addicted: Book Two - The Raging Flames of Passion

Chapter 69 - Xiao Bai, Publicly Embarrassed

Suddenly, Gu Hai recalled the Bai Luo Yin of that time—carrying a torn backpack, wearing a windbreaker-type of school uniform with a head of hair that looked like a bird's nest after he had slept all day, and occasionally wearing slippers to class... the more he thought about it, the more amused he was. With that, he couldn't help but to reach his hand out to grip the little monster lying at Bai Luo Yin's crotch.

"'The monkey steals a peach' technique!"[1] Gu Hai shouted, followed by a burst of laughter—a nefarious laughter of a mischievous man!

Taken aback by that abrupt and obscene action, Bai Luo Yin became apoplectic with rage as he turned around and punched Gu Hai's ass a few times. Then he fished out something small from his pocket and passed it over to Gu Hai.

"Put this inside the dumpling."

Gu Hai took a close look at it and asked, "What is this?"

"A new army recruit gave me this small jade pendant and said that it was blessed in his hometown... so if you wear it, it can keep you safe and sound throughout your life."

Narrowing his eyes into a thin line, Gu Hai said, "Why did he give you this thing?"

"Isn't it normal for a lower ranking person to give their superior a gift?" Bai Luo Yin urged, "Hurry up and put it in the dumpling. When I was younger, my grandmother would always put steel in one and say that whoever ate it would be blessed. Let's try it and see who will be more blessed."

Unable to persuade Bai Luo Yin to change his mind, Gu Hai had no other option but to wash the jade and put it into one of the dumplings.

While they were eating the dumplings, Gu Hai looked at Bai Luo Yin and said, "I wanted to tell you, there's a surplus of funds in my company so I purchased a mansion over at the Olympic Village—it's for you."

The chopsticks in Bai Luo Yin's hand suddenly came to a halt as he lifted his head to look at Gu Hai. His eyes were overflowing with a dark fire that beckoned to blossom into a raging firework.

"Are you crazy?! I have my own place, my parents have their own place and you have your own place! What did you buy a house for?"

Gu Hai looked at Bai Luo Yin with a faint smile, "If we break up one day, for good or bad, you will have something to fall back onto..."

Bai Luo Yin picked up a dumpling and threw it at Gu Hai, who surprisingly reacted quickly enough to catch it with his chopsticks.

Holding a smile, Gu Hai shoved that dumpling in his own mouth and returned to the topic. "We can use it for our retirement."

"Why would we need such a large house for our retirement? We have no children..."

At those words, Gu Hai put his chopsticks down as his bright eyes exposed his vision of their future. "I've thought about it already. That house has three floors altogether and each floor has more than ten rooms. We can live in one room and use all the other rooms to raise dogs—all kinds of dogs. And then there's the piece of land outside, we can design something for it; maybe build a few sheds and use it to raise donkeys. What do you think?"

To speak the truth, Gu Hai's unreasonable vision of their future was something that Bai Luo Yin sincerely thought was... very good. When the two of us retire, we can go for a walk every day. Then, the moment we return home, a group of dogs will run toward us just as we enter the house. Just thinking about it made him think that it was exceptionally beautiful!

"Change the title to your name," Bai Luo Yin said, "What am I going to do if one day the military investigates my personal assets, discovers that I have a mansion, and suspects that I'm corrupted and was accepting bribery?"