Damn it, I'm surrounded by insane Alphas!

Shi Ran stood up, supporting herself on the table, and swayed slightly.

Wen Yiheng immediately stood up to help, and Fu Yanshen also looked over.

"It's okay, I can manage on my own."

Shi Ran waved his hand and walked dizzily toward the suite's private bathroom.

The door closed gently, leaving him alone in the bathroom.

Shi Ran splashed cold water on her face, which made her a little more awake.

He looked at his flushed face in the mirror and sighed. He shouldn't have drunk so much, but he hadn't been this happy in a long time, and he couldn't control himself.

As he was thinking, the light above his head suddenly went out with a "buzz".

Suddenly, everything went dark.

Is there a power outage?

Shi Ran paused for a moment, then groped her way toward the door in the darkness. Just as her fingertips touched the cold doorknob, the door was pushed open from the outside, and a figure nimbly squeezed in.

"who--?"

Before he could even gasp, one hand covered his mouth, and the other wrapped around his waist, pinning him against the wall.

Just as he was about to struggle, the familiar scent of sea salt, accompanied by warm breath, landed on his ear:

Shh...it's me.

It's Cheng Ye.

Shi Ran's tense body instantly relaxed. He frowned, raised his hand to pry Cheng Ye's hand away, and lowered his voice: "Why are you here? You scared me."

Cheng Ye didn't let go; instead, he moved even closer.

The bathroom was pitch black, with only the faint light from the occasional phone screen on the sink barely outlining Cheng Ye's silhouette, which was very close to him.

"Why is the light off?" Wen Yiheng's voice came from outside. "Shi Ran, are you alright?"

My breath hitched for a moment.

Almost simultaneously, Cheng Ye lowered his head and kissed his lips.

The unexpected touch made Shi Ran stiffen. She instinctively tried to dodge, but the other person grabbed her lower back and pressed her against the cold tile wall.

In the darkness, all senses are amplified.

Shi Ran could clearly feel the temperature of Cheng Ye's lips, as well as the Alpha aura that almost completely enveloped him.

The kiss was not hasty, but rather gentle, yet it carried an air of irresistible force.

Shi Ran's mind went blank for a moment, and her fingers unconsciously gripped the fabric at Cheng Ye's waist.

"Shiran?"

Wen Yiheng's voice rang out again, seemingly closer to the door.

Shi Ran suddenly came to his senses and subconsciously tried to push Cheng Ye away, but Cheng Ye did not let him go. Instead, he looked down at him by the light of his phone.

He was clearly waiting, waiting for his reply.

Outside the door, Fu Yanshen's calm voice broke in: "Zhou Jin, go check the circuit... Shi Ran, are you alright?"

"I'm fine!"

Shi Ran quickly raised her voice, trying to make it sound steady, "It's a bit dark, I'll be right out."

A brief silence fell outside.

Inside the door, no sooner had he finished speaking than Cheng Ye's kiss landed on him again.

This time, Shi Ran did not dodge immediately.

The darkness acted as an ambiguous protective layer, separating the two from the outside world.

This secret kiss, witnessed only by the dim light of a cell phone, carried a kind of indescribable stimulation, reminding Shi Ran of many kisses she had shared with Cheng Ye in the past.

Cheng Ye's kiss deepened, trapping Shi Ran between the wall and his chest. Shi Ran's legs went weak from the kiss, and his breathing became erratic.

I don't know how much time passed, maybe only two or three minutes, when Zhou Jin's voice came from outside, saying that the call would be back soon.

Cheng Ye then slowly released him, his forehead pressed against Cheng Ye's, his breathing a little unsteady.

He raised his hand and asked in a hoarse voice, "Shall we go?"

Shi Ran was still not recovered from the dizziness and stared at him blankly.

"Let's go to the beach."

Cheng Ye chuckled softly, grasped his wrist, and carefully opened the bathroom door.

In the living room outside, Fu Yanshen and Wen Yiheng were talking by the window, and no one noticed what was happening here.

Cheng Ye pulled him along, crouching low, and slipped out of the entrance hall silently, quickly walking downstairs.

It wasn't until Cheng Ye shoved him into the passenger seat and the night wind blew on his face that his occasionally muddled mind cleared up a bit.

He then realized what he had done.

He actually ran away with Cheng Ye right in front of Fu Yanshen and Wen Yiheng.

The neon lights outside the car window rushed past, and I would occasionally glance at the driver next to me, my heart still pounding like crazy.

He suddenly realized something, "Can you drive?"

"What, you don't believe me?" Cheng Ye raised an eyebrow. "Don't worry, I didn't drink a drop."

"I meant after your car accident..."

Shi Ran's words came to an abrupt halt, but Cheng Ye, who was standing nearby, had overheard them. He looked sharply at Shi Ran and demanded, "What did you say?"

She avoided his gaze somewhat flusteredly, "No, I didn't say anything."

Cheng Ye, however, wouldn't let him off so easily. He suddenly realized something, "It was you, wasn't it? The person who came to save me when I had my car accident that night, it was you... right?"

"I……"

Cheng Ye recalled that night when he was on the verge of collapse and found that his attending psychiatrist was not there. He really lost the will to live, especially when he was trapped under the wreckage of the car.

But at that very moment, he heard Shi Ran's voice.

He had always thought it was his own hallucination, that his longing for Shi Ran was so obsessive that it had deceived his mind. But now he knew...

That was not an illusion.

Shi Ran knew she couldn't hide it from him anymore, so she could only nod and say, "Yes, it's me."

"Then why didn't you come to find me? That way I could have seen you sooner... It's okay, I've already found you, I won't let you get away now."

Shi Ran leaned back in her chair, smiling helplessly. "You've already kidnapped me, where else can I run to?"

"You got on the bus voluntarily, don't talk nonsense." Cheng Ye laughed confidently. "Besides, didn't you kidnap me once too? We're even."

What he said was true. In the dungeon, Shi Ran had also "tied" him once, on Cheng Ye's twenty-second birthday.

He finished filming early that day, and few people knew his real birthday.

What fans and most people are celebrating is simply the date that was altered on his ID card.

He didn't expect that as soon as he returned to the hotel and opened the door, Shi Ran would be standing in the middle of the room.

She was holding a huge bouquet of flowers, her eyes crinkling with laughter.

He asked blankly where the flowers came from.

Shi Ran said it was a gift from the brand, just a way of giving something away.

Otherwise, why would I buy you flowers? That would be too ambiguous for a casual sex partner, wouldn't it?

He didn't care where the flowers came from; what mattered was that the time had come.

Actually, he really wanted to see Shiran from the moment he woke up in the morning.

But after sending several messages, no one replied, so he felt inexplicably irritable all day.

I didn't expect Shi Ran to come all this way.

She would throw the flowers aside, lean in, and kiss him.

Halfway through the kiss, as if suddenly remembering something, her eyes lit up and she said, "Shall we go to the beach?"

Shi Ran didn't give him a chance to refuse at all, and sped off with a throttle.

The sea breeze at the end of October was so cold it could scrape your bones.

He would occasionally complain that he needed to smoke to keep warm, and then he would say that he was out of cigarettes and needed to go buy some.

When he ran back, he was holding a small, somewhat cheap cake in his hands, his face red from the cold.

Cheng Ye's eyes immediately stung, but he retorted, "This is the Zhongnanhai you bought?"

Shi Ran leaned over, smiling as she handed over the cake: "The birthday person is the most important, whatever you say goes."

"Nonsense," Cheng Ye raised his chin, "I'm the oldest even if I'm not the birthday boy."

The two exchanged a knowing glance.

Shi Ran took out a lighter and clumsily lit the candle, muttering, "The most expensive cake in the convenience store."

But the wind was too strong, and the flames were blown out time and time again.

He couldn't help but laugh and scold, "Is it because you have such bad character that even the wind can't stand it?"

Cheng Ye didn't retort, but just stared at Shi Ran's hair, which was ruffled by the wind, watching him stubbornly protect that little bit of firelight.

At that moment, he had only one thought in his mind.

He wanted to kiss him, to go public, to tell everyone: he was loved.

Finally, the candle was lit, albeit shakily.

Shi Ran's eyes lit up, and she quickly urged him, "Quick! Make a wish!"

Cheng Ye closed his eyes and, without thinking, made the only wish that was in his heart at that moment.

When I opened my eyes, the candle had already been blown out by the wind.

He felt a moment of emptiness, as if he had been stabbed by something.

But Shi Ran laughed heartily, smeared some cream on his face, and asked with a grin, "What did you wish for? To win Best Actor or to make a fortune?"

Before Cheng Ye could answer, he nudged him and said, "Don't worry, I've already spoken to the gods. Whatever you wish for, they'll arrange it for you. How about it?"

He stared blankly at Shi Ran, the sea breeze ruffling her bangs, her laughter unrestrained and carefree. He whispered, "Okay."

His wish was to be with this person forever and ever.