Seeing Wu's butt is healing perfect fine, Chi has loosened up his guard on Wu, he doesn't step into any Wu's affairs outside of bed, as long as he returns home after work.
Like that, Wu can finally take a rest, even though he has been bumped into by Shuai and it's still so awkward, Wu doesn't want to hide anymore. Because they hadn't really chatted in a really long time, all the awkwardness has been diluted by the eagerness of their meeting.
After a long time, after asking around, he finally got Shuai's location.
In Guo's private club's restaurant, the two are busy eating while chatting away, it helps with the awkwardness.
'So you have been staying here?' Wu asked.
Shuai sounded helpless, 'If not where else can I stay? Can I step out and let your man dice me into pieces?'
'We're already together, I don't think he will do anything to you?'
'Who knows?' Shuai swirled the spoon around in the soup, 'The Guo is fucking dark! If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be sitting in this shit hole now!'
Wu cleared his throat, 'You really should use the word now, we're eating for goodness sake.'
'What's wrong?' Shuai clinked the plate with his spoon, 'Our food is all in reds and greens, you can even imagine about that?'
Wu said, 'I'm colour blind.'
'......'
Wu doesn't even want to start a fight with him, he asked, 'What did Guo do to you?'
'If he didn't keep me in dark, do I need to hide here still? Will I bump into you two in the clinic in the middle of the night? Will I be knocking on his bedroom door and...' Shuai couldn't continue.
Wu couldn't get it, 'I thought you're quite witty, how exactly did you get cheated by Guo? Do you believe in whatever he said? Why don't you just switch on your damn phone and ring me? If you were to contact me earlier, will any of this happen?'
Shuai said lifelessly, 'Chi told me to get you within five days, I could only do something against my conscience. In the end, you two didn't even end up together, our deal even got revealed, who dares to contact you by then?'
'Chi told you to get me in five days?' Wu repeated the words one by one.
The room immediately fell into dead silence.
After a few minutes, Shuai boldly asked, 'After all this, you don't know?"
Wu's expression stiffened, 'Who told you I knew about this?'
Shuai's features all crumpled together, who told me that? Who else other than the evil and malicious Guo? He must've guessed that Wu and I will have this conversation, he must've guessed that I will accidentally spill the tea, then misunderstandings will come rolling in. In the end, our relationship will be broken, I can't go anywhere, I can only hide under him then.
In fact, that day Guo did hint him in the car, but it's just that Wu's reflex arc is too long to react from it, he then realized long after he has been subdued by Chi.
As expected, Wu dropped the plate hard onto the table, a loud bang roared across the room.
'What's going on exactly?'
Even though Shuai's blood is boiling as well, he must calm the mister in front of him first, he thought once they two meet every misunderstanding will be cleared. Who knew there's still a time bomb right here, now he has been cremated into ashes.
'Wei, listen to me...'
Shuai grabbed Wu's arm, then spilled everything out, he especially exaggerate the parts where Chi had threatened him so to earn some sympathy from Wu.
At this very moment, Wu then understood, Chi did everything to stop him and Shuai meeting isn't just because he's jealous, it's because he wanted to hide all the bad deeds that he did.
'Wei,' Shuai carelessly probed, 'Do you really hate me now?'
'I don't hate you, you were being forced to; if it was me I will give in to him either.' Then Wu's tone immediately changed, 'Now I'm fucking regretting already! Why did I fall into his trap so easily?'
Shuai couldn't help but say, 'We two can be counted as small dough fritters, Chi is definitely a huge dough fritter, Guo is then a mother fucking oily pastry!'
Forget it, it's useless to even say whose responsibility it is now. In the past, I used to hook him up with all sorts of tricks, now I've been counterattacked, we are considered equal now.'
Shuai looked surprised, 'You're really not going to sort things out?'
'I will! Why won't I?' Wu said with bulging eyes, 'Now I can clearly state the motive of getting close to him in the first place, so he will apologize for what he did, I will reflect in my acts, isn't it fair now?'
Now that Wu said it, Shuai suddenly brightened up.
'Oh yeah! Why didn't I think of that? This is definitely a good chance! If you clear this problem now, you won't have anything to worry about in the future!'
Wu smiled then continued eating his meal.
Shuai stuffed the greens into his mouth, his eyes are on Wu again.
'Your body is doing well.'
Wu doesn't understand, 'Why did you say this suddenly?'
Shuai smirked, 'That night...after using so much energy, now you're eating and chatting with me right here, it isn't that simple!'
Wu forcefully pushed the food down his throat, then said, 'Now I'm just regretting, why did I pull him out of the club that day? I should've let him play all he wants, if not I wouldn't have....' Wu felt emotional talking about this memory again.
Shuai, on the other hand, has no sympathy, he still took this topic to joke about Wu.
'I say, I see you're quite enjoying yourself that day!'
Wu suddenly chocked.
Then he forced out the words, 'I was enjoying at that moment, but I suffered the next morning! You don't know, your butt was like burning...' Then he suddenly stopped, 'Oh, right, you should've more experience in this than me.' Then he continued eating.
Shuai boasted, 'Excuse me, I really don't have such experience, I have always been the top.'
The rice grains flew out from Wu's mouth, then placed his chopsticks down. He pulled Shuai's arm and placed his arm beside Shuai's, his arm is significantly much thicker than Shuai's.
'How girly is the man under you?'
'...fuck off.'
After a while, the two finally finished their meal, then headed to the resting area beside the restaurant. Wu laid on the sofa, eyes staring at the ceiling, his mind is all over the place, he has a lot thing to say but he doesn't know where should he start.
Suddenly, Shuai said something.
'Wei, that night after I left the clinic, I returned to Guo's house again, then...I spent a night in his house.'
Wu suddenly sprang up straight, sitting on the sofa and staring at Shuai.
'You two...did it?'
Shuai took a deep breath, his expression is unreadable.
'I didn't know either, I was feeling so drowsy I immediately fell asleep, then it was morning when I woke up.'
Wu told Shuai based on his experience, 'Even if you don't remember a thing, your behind should hurt! You...that part, don't you feel a little discomfort?'
Shuai explained, 'I think I felt something, but it wasn't that obvious, I thought it was my mind playing tricks. Hm, I didn't do such things for 2 years now, I have long forgotten how it felt.'
'2 years?' Wu was shocked, 'Can you take it?'
Shuai said happily, 'You never did those for the past 20 years in your life, how did you take it?'
Wu was in loss for words.
Shuai then added, 'I've always felt that Guo doesn't really like me.
Wu smirked, 'How much do you consider 'like'? Just to be closer to you, he rather hurt himself and visits your clinic; he gave you everything you wanted, he just gets rid of everything you don't like. Just take the snakes for an example, that time you asked him for a few snakes, he just gave you without saying anything. Based on his wits, when we went to snatch the snakes, he should've known it's my trap? But still, he brought his underlings to help out. When I was hurt, he could've taken back his snakes, but then he insisted on sending me to the hospital. You think, he could put down all the hate just for you, what do you want more?'
Shuai is thinking about a whole other thing.
'He wanted to get closer with me, so to grab Chi's attention, so they two could continue to fight; I wanted the snakes, he gave me so generously is because he knew very well that those are to exchange for Chi's snakes; he knew your plan but still he brought his men over, that's because he really wants to help out; he sent you to the hospital is because he doesn't want someone to be worried, and that someone isn't me...'
Wu interrupted him, 'What exactly is your point?'
Shuai snickered, 'Don't you think that he likes Chi?'
As if a lightning struck on Wu's head, his head is getting numb.
'Bro, can you stop making such jokes?'
Shuai is still standing strong on his opinion, 'Let me say something, you think, that time I asked for a few rare snake breeds, but Chi has all them, not only he has them, all of them looks almost the same as Chi's.'
Wu was taken aback, he couldn't say anything.
Shuai continued, 'You think about it again, one person could remember every single breed in someone else's sanctuary, then he got them all, plus it's after Chi lost all of his snakes. You say, doesn't it seems like his sanctuary is a backup storage forChi? Whether or not those snakes are meant to be kept as pets, they're destined to be sacrificed.'
Wu thinks that this is going too far off the tracks, he quickly stopped Shuai from continuing.
'So like you've said, from the day he built this sanctuary, he knew that the snakes are hiding in the military camp base, and he knew that Chi will use this tactic? Shouldn't he be a fortune reader instead?'
'What do you think?'
'......'