28 : Older man won't do

 W-what?

Did Lu Ran say this last night?

System: [Yes...but you were very sleepy, host, so you probably didn't hear it.]

A warm breath washed over his face, and Yin Luo roughly guessed that Lu Ran had already assumed he and Duan Muze were in that kind of relationship.

It seemed to have deviated slightly from the original plot.

"I didn't..."

Yin Luo was afraid Lu Ran would cause some misunderstanding with Duan Muze, affecting the subsequent plot, so he tried to explain. However, he hesitated for a long time before finally saying those two words. He pursed his lips for a while, then changed his words.

"I'm still a virgin."

His voice was deliberately suppressed, but you could tell he was both annoyed and embarrassed.

Lu Ran was stunned.

Even though they lived in the same dormitory every day and he was used to Yin Luo's appearance, he was still caught off guard by her stunning face.

Her snow-white skin was like mutton fat jade, looking delicate and soft, turning pink with a light touch.

Seeing no response for a while, Yin Luo assumed the other didn't believe him and nudged him hard with his elbow: "Did you hear that? Don't talk nonsense outside."

Lu Ran said "Oh."

After a while, he belatedly realized he was starting to feel a little fluttery—simply because Yin Luo admitted he was a virgin.

This feeling of gain and loss made him feel lost, and he told himself he couldn't continue like this, but when he saw Yin Luo starting to doze off, he unconsciously leaned his shoulder against hers.

*

After finishing the poster shoot for Shen Qing, he considered it a major task accomplished, and Duan Muze's favorability rating reached 85, so Yin Luo started to slack off. Except for going to class or the cafeteria, he rarely left the dormitory.

Moreover, he discovered another advantage—Lu Ran seemed to enjoy staying in the dormitory lately, making it easy to take advantage of him.

That day in class, Yin Luo woke up late and only found out that Lu Ran had already saved him a seat after entering through the back door of the classroom.

The seat was inside, not easy to get in.

The teacher and most of the students had already arrived. Afraid of attracting attention, Yinluo didn't let Luran get up, instead slipping through the gap between Luran's thighs and the doorway.

The gap was quite large, but for some reason, Luran's leg suddenly moved, sending a shiver down Yinluo's spine and making his legs go weak. He ended up sitting in Luran's lap. He glared at him, saying, "Don't move around."

Luran hadn't actually intended to move, but Yinluo's fragrance and

proximity to him, rubbing against his legs, was torture.

Their movements weren't loud, but there was no one in the front row. The teacher saw them and jokingly remarked, "You two seem to get along quite well; you should sit together in my class."

As soon as he finished speaking, the entire class turned to look at the two.

Some even secretly took photos.

Yinluo, called out by the teacher, slowly blushed and, enduring the tingling sensation, got off Luran's lap.

Luran was distracted for the entire class.

After class, Luran saw Yinluo looking down at his book, his chin resting on his hand, intently watching.

He was tall and long-legged, and his posture was very possessive, almost completely surrounding Yin Luo, leaving the other party no chance to escape.

"Still angry with me?" Lu Ran looked nonchalant, but he was very serious when talking to Yin Luo. Seeing that Yin Luo ignored him, he reached out to pinch his cheek.

The delicate and soft feeling made Lu Ran reluctant to let go, so he was about to pinch it again.

This time, Yin Luo dodged, his face fierce: "What are you doing?"

"What do you want to eat later?"

"I don't eat..."

"Are you also on a diet?" Lu Ran chuckled, "I don't have much meat on my bones, what's there to lose?"

Yin Luo felt that Lu Ran was more like a troublemaking villain than himself, and looked at him irritably: "How am I not meat on my bones?"

Lu Ran was about to say something when his phone rang.

It was a message from Zhao Xinyan.

Zhao Xinyan: [You and your roommate are famous!]

Lu Ran: [?]

Zhao Xinyan sent him a video directly— 【

The Cool and Arrogant School Prince X The Noble and Beautiful Girl: Those Years】

Lu Ran clicked on it and glanced at it. It was a collection of various photos of him and Yin Luo. The first part was an advertisement they filmed at Shen Qing's place a while ago, and the latter part was photos of them in various places on campus, even including a picture of Yin Luo bringing him water during the last basketball game.

He thought it was pretty normal, but the comments section was already going crazy—

【Tell me this is real?!】

【I'll prove it, I'm their blanket, they never cover me!】

【My wife is so fair-skinned, I want to lick her.】

【Wife prpr!】

【Goes to the same school as me!!! I always see them together! I'm in, no, I'm in love.】

…

There were even more explicit comments, which shocked Lu Ran. But after the shock, he found it

extremely reasonable.

…Indeed, Yin Luo was very fair-skinned, so fair that you wanted to lick his whole body.

…You wanted to see him cry.

Just as Lu Ran was about to show it to Yin Luo, the phone on the table suddenly rang.

—It was the "old man" calling.

Shang Chengnin?

Yin Luo hadn't seen him in a long time.

Although Shang Chengnin didn't like to send messages, he especially liked to buy him things. Every now and then, the dorm supervisor would notify him to come downstairs to pick up a package.

The packages were all sorts of things: flowers, necklaces, books, clothes... and so on.

It made his roommates ask him if a girl was pursuing him lately.

Yin Luo didn't think Shang Chengnin was pursuing someone; maybe it was some kind of spending spree? He wasn't a domineering CEO and didn't understand these spending hobbies. He

originally wanted to tell him to stop buying, that the dorm was too small to hold all those packages, but every time he accepted a package, he would gain a few points of bullying value, so he simply accepted them all in the end.

"Not answering the phone?" Lu Ran suddenly reminded him.

Yin Luo snapped out of his thoughts and pressed the answer button.

"Hello."

"Yeah, no classes."

"Then I'll wait for you at the school gate."

After hanging up Shang Chengnin's call, Yin Luo got up, packed his bag, and prepared to meet him at the school gate. He couldn't miss this opportunity since the other person was finally free today.

After all, Xiao Yangmao was at school every day; he could take advantage of her anytime.

So, Yin Luo decisively abandoned Lu Ran.

However, Lu Ran seemed inclined to go with him: "Are you going to the school gate?"

"Yeah."

"I'll go with you."

Why should he go with him?

Yinluo was puzzled and turned to ask the system when the third and second male leads met. The system told him it was at school.

That shouldn't affect the plot.

Lu Ran insisted on going, and Yinluo couldn't dissuade him. She slung her backpack over her shoulder and left the classroom with him, not noticing his dark, almost scathing expression.

When they reached the school gate, Yinluo saw Shang Chengnin standing beside a luxury car from afar. She turned to Lu Ran and said, "I have to go."

Lu Ran followed her gaze and saw the man not far away—he

looked much older than Yinluo and didn't match her at all.

He felt a pang of jealousy, but he couldn't stop Yinluo from going to find someone else: "What time will you be back tonight?"

Yinluo didn't catch the probing in his words. She licked her lips and thought for a moment: "I don't know, maybe I'll be back in the afternoon."

Shang Chengnin had only invited him to dinner; it wouldn't be long.

Lu Ran's cold aura finally subsided slightly, but his expression was still incredibly sour. Seeing him dawdling and refusing to leave, Yin Luo finally got annoyed: "Don't you have class? Go back now."

Lu Ran's eyelids drooped, looking listless.

Yin Luo suddenly felt a little guilty. Since entering school, even though he often bullied Lu Ran, the other had never held it against him and had even taken good care of him.

Now, he seemed like the ungrateful one.

His tone softened a bit: "Go to class obediently, I'll bring you something delicious tonight."

Lu Ran didn't care for delicious food, but if it was brought to him by Yin Luo, it would be a completely different story. After a moment, he reluctantly said, "Then I'm leaving. Call me before you come back."

Yin Luo was in a hurry to find Shang Chengning, so he didn't waste any more time, simply nodding and quickly walking towards Shang Chengning.

*

Lunch break.

The man wearing gold-rimmed glasses pressed his temples, wanting to ask his assistant about the afternoon's schedule.

He called several times, but no one answered.

Although it was lunch break, his assistant usually stayed in the adjacent office area. Shang Chengnin got up and went to the break room himself.

Before he even got there, he heard his female assistant's excited voice coming from inside—

"Ahhh, I'm going to die! How could they possibly match like this!"

Shang Chengnin: "..."

He remained expressionless and then saw her talking to the employee next to her while watching a video on her phone.

"Looking at it this way, even though he has a bad temper, he's got the looks to back it up."

"Good looks and a bad temper are called personality, he should be born with a bad temper and be pampered."

"So isn't he being pampered, hahaha? I heard the other one is the campus heartthrob from Wuda University, a modeling major, and he happened to shoot an ad with the young master of the Yin family at the same time, so he got to eat food..."

"By the way, did that young master of the Yin family come to our company?"

"Really? I didn't see him. Did you see him?"

"Of course I saw him, President Shang even brought him to the office! He's even more handsome in person, okay!" "

President Shang even brought him to the office? But... could it be..."

"Shh... keep your voice down."

"But

President Shang seems to be a full twelve years older than him, calling him 'uncle' would sound quite right."

"Isn't that even more exciting, hehehe..."

After the two finished chatting, they turned around and saw the cold, handsome man a few meters away from them, and were so frightened that they stood there speechless.

The female assistant nearly threw her phone away, stammering, "Mr. Shang... Mr. Shang..."

Shang Chengnin remained calm, as if he hadn't heard the gossip behind their backs. "What other schedules are there this afternoon?"

The female assistant steadied herself. "Only one, a dinner with Mr. Zhang from Qiyao Group."

"Postpone it to the day after tomorrow."

Shang Chengnin turned around after saying that. The female assistant had just breathed a sigh of relief when she saw him turn back again, still shaken.

"Also, send me the video we were watching earlier."

The female assistant: "?"

She was quite capable at work; after arranging the dinner, she immediately sent the video to Mr. Shang's email. However, she was still trembling with fear, wondering when Mr. Shang had stood behind them and whether he had heard the gossip. Would he fire her...?

In the office, Shang Chengnin opened the video that the two employees had just watched. It had over three million views and a huge amount of data. After opening it, a cold smile gradually appeared on his lips.

He knew that Yin Luo had been chosen by Shen Qing to shoot an advertisement. The entertainment industry was a small place, and besides, he had been paying special attention to Yin Luo's movements lately.

When the poster came out, the tall, handsome boy's arm around Yin Luo's waist was particularly jarring to him, but it was work, and although he was unhappy, he couldn't use it as a reason to restrain her.

But he didn't expect that the two of them were still so close at school.

The screen was filled with comments like "The two are a good match," "You're going to make your wife cry," and "They seem to be roommates."

Shang Chengning's narrow eyes behind his glasses became deep and dark. He remembered the unfamiliar male voice he had accidentally heard when he called Yin Luo a few days ago.

The young voice was unconsciously doting: "Yin Yin, I brought your clothes in for you, and I just poured you some hot water."

Was this the person?

Didn't Yin Luo dislike others touching her things? When did she become so close to other people?

He quickly turned off the video, called Yin Luo, and drove to the school gate, only to finally see the roommate who was clinging to Yin Luo.

A tall, handsome young man. Shang Chengnin's expression instantly softened into a gentle, gentlemanly one

the moment Yin Luo arrived : "You came faster than I expected." Yin Luo had run over, still slightly out of breath, her eyes soft and moist: "Don't you have work?" "I'm done." Shang Chengnin opened the passenger door. "I saw you didn't have any classes today, so I thought I'd ask you out." Yin Luo was slightly taken aback. System supplementary explanation: [Host, you are a third-year student in the Performing Arts Department at Wuda University; your class schedule is easy to find.] Yin Luo got into the car, and Shang Chengnin then sat in the passenger seat. The weather wasn't great today, with intermittent overcast skies. Soothing, low-pitched folk music played in the car. Yin Luo leaned back in her seat, and after a while, she started to feel sleepy . He was completely unsuspecting while sleeping, and it wasn't until they stopped in front of a restaurant and Shang Chengnin helped him unbuckle his seatbelt that the boy stirred slightly, his eyes still closed, muttering, "Lu Ran, stop bothering me, I don't have class..." Shang Chengnin's fingers paused slightly, and his expression darkened. "Who is Lu Ran?" A hot breath brushed against his earlobe, his voice trembled slightly, and then he half-opened his eyes, vaguely smelling a cold scent. Shang Chengnin was very close to him. So close that his eyelashes could touch his skin. "Is he the person who came to the school gate with you today?"

The danger lurking in Shang Chengning's voice instantly snapped Yin Luo back to reality, but he was already powerless to struggle.

His hands were pinned to his lap by the man's overlapping fingers, the warmth of his breath making half of the boy's body flush pink.

"How did he bother you?"

Yin Luo, intimidated by this unfamiliar man, dared not speak loudly, his voice becoming soft and sweet: "What did he mean by bothering me?"

Shang Chengning patiently repeated his earlier sleep-talking: "You said you told Lu Ran to stop bothering you, how did he bother you?"

Yin Luo didn't even realize he'd talked in his sleep… After a moment's thought, he truthfully replied, "Well, I couldn't get up in the morning, and he would come and scratch me."

Realizing he didn't need to answer, his attitude instantly turned fierce: "Why are you asking this? Let me go first."

Shang Chengning released one hand.

But the other hand remained, still pressing down on that slender wrist.

Normally, the man was a gentleman, completely different from his current demeanor, restraining Yin Luo with one hand; he was like a dangerous wild beast, gripping its prey's neck tightly.

Yin Luo was a little scared and unconsciously bit his lower lip, which

quickly turned bright red and glistening.

He could feel Shang Chengning's gaze fixed on his neck. Having his

most vulnerable spot stared at so intently, and being powerless to resist, would terrify anyone. Yin Luo, being easily frightened, was even more so; he trembled, his lips shaking.

Suddenly, Shang Chengning spoke: "Yin Yin."

"You're not wearing the rose necklace I gave you."

"Don't you like it?"

Yin Luo froze, not even having a chance to say whether he liked it or not, when he felt his chin being pinched.

The next moment.

Shang Chengning lowered his head, burying his face in the sweetly fragrant skin of his neck, and bit down hard.

The dull pain from his chin and neck made Yin Luo let out a soft, muffled "uh," as if he couldn't bear something.

Shang Chengning… why was he acting like a dog?

But his hands were held down, his body strapped to the seatbelt, completely unable to break free, and he could only submit to the man's actions.

Gradually, the pain subsided, replaced by a tingling sensation.

Shang Chengning was licking his neck.

...Is he a pervert?

Yin Luo endured the discomfort, squeezing out every last bit of strength from his body and channeling it all into Shang Chengning's face. A sharp

"slap" echoed in the car. Shang Chengning paused, finally releasing him. 

He hadn't expected the one who hit him to cry even harder than the one who was hit. 

The person in his arms trembled uncontrollably, their cheeks wet with tears, their lips slightly parted, revealing their tender red tongue. 

Despite looking terrified, they still stared wide-eyed: "It was...it was you who...it was you who did this first..." 

"You're not allowed to hit back..." Shang Chengning steadied his breathing and softened his voice: 

"I'm sorry." He seemed unperturbed, even apologizing proactively. 

Yin Luo breathed a slight sigh of relief, but still felt rather resentful today. 

He had been studying peacefully in the classroom, letting his little lambs pluck at will, yet he had to come and challenge Shang Chengning. He licked his lips, his voice nasal, "I want to get off." 

"I'm sorry." Shang Chengnin realized he couldn't appease Yin Luo and apologized again. 

He usually had good self-control, but his emotions had been unstable ever since he saw that video at noon, especially after Yin Luo said those words. 

He looked at the boy's reddened eyes, his pitiful appearance, and went over to straighten his collar. 

Staring at the obvious teeth mark on his neck, Shang Chengnin felt a morbid sense of satisfaction and couldn't help but say, "Because I like you so much." Yin Luo was stunned. 

The sudden confession made him forget his anger, staring at the man opposite him with his disheveled hair and serious expression. 

Shang Chengnin continued, "You might not believe it, but from the first moment I saw you, I felt you were special. Although it's a blind date, I will never be perfunctory with you. Give me a chance to pursue you, okay? Yin Luo." 

The person being confessed to still had reddened eyes and looked dazed. The man thought he was startled by his sudden confession, but little did he know, Yin Luo was already frantically calling out to the system: [What's going on?] Shouldn't he hate me?! How did things suddenly turn out like this?! The system was also bewildered: 

[Perhaps, host, your attitude towards him is too good, resulting in low oppression points. You can be a little harsher on the second male lead!] But he's already so bad]… 

After a moment of contemplation, he bit his lip and squeezed out what he considered the most vicious sentence: "But you're old." 

"I've heard that old men aren't good enough." 

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