My father's inheritance is my mortal enemy.

Li Bo clicked his tongue. "What nonsense are you talking about? Hurry up and go back to change your dressing."

"Okay." Zhou Yanshao stood up and touched Li Bo's hand while packing his things. It was freezing cold. He grabbed it and warmed it for a while. "It's freezing cold, and your feet are freezing too. I'll wake you up when I go for a run tomorrow morning."

Li Bo pulled his hand away: "You're still touching the ice?"

Zhou Yanshao gripped his hand tightly: "Here, let me warm it up. Don't move around."

Li Bo's hands, constantly resting on cold documents and desks, were indeed a bit icy. Especially during his time at Platinum Refurbishment, which was a small company without underfloor heating, rented office space in a decent location but not cheap, though of course it couldn't compare to a conglomerate like Zhihuai.

Zhou Yanshao's hands were warm and large, with rounded and full fingertips and thin calluses on his knuckles. They were long and beautiful, and Li Bo stared at them for a while.

Zhou Yanshao rubbed Li Bo's hands and began to explain, "She's a female instructor in the team. She took leave with me to go back to Beijing this time, and she called me when she heard I was injured."

Li Bo stared blankly: "Her?"

"It's the one who answered the phone this morning." Zhou Yanshao was a little angry. "If you say he's my friend again, I'll—"

Zhou Yanshao's eyes were threatening, and he didn't continue. It was a possessive and dangerous look, as if he could see through Li Bo's shirt and into the still-present hickeys on his skin.

Zhou Yanshao was probably born in the Year of the Dog.

The hickeys on Li Bo's body never faded. Whenever they did, he would force his head down onto the bed and have them reapplied.

They wanted to leave their mark on Li Bo's entire body, so that everyone Li Bo met would know that Li Bo had a partner.

Li Bo picked up his coat from the table. "Alright, I'll take you home."

"It's cold outside, you should stay here."

Li Bo stared at Zhou Yanshao's clothes. Zhou Yanshao wasn't wearing much; he was dressed in a black tracksuit with a jacket over it and a black baseball cap.

"It's much colder in Northern Europe than in Beijing, and I'm not as afraid of the cold as you are." Zhou Yanshao released Li Bo's hand, reached out and unbuttoned Li Bo's shirt at the collar, bent down, and bit Li Bo's shoulder blade.

What started as a bite turned into a kiss.

From shoulder blades to neck, and then to lips, the young master kissed Li Bo while holding his waist to prevent him from running away. Only after he was satisfied with the kiss did he straighten up and say fiercely, "It's not like I'm not going to coax you. If you throw a tantrum and don't come home for dinner next time, don't come to work the next day."

"I didn't..."

Zhou Yanshao took his phone out of his pocket and handed it to Li Bo.

Li Bo: "?"

Zhou Yanshao: "Put it here."

Li Bo: "No need..."

Zhou Yanshao: "Here, I'll pick you up from get off work tonight."

Zhou Yanshao left with the lunchbox, his back view dashing, his silver bangs standing out prominently under his black baseball cap.

Li Bo touched the lingering warmth on his lips and realized they were a little swollen. He smiled and thought to himself, "I really am a dog."

Li Bo continued working. At four o'clock in the afternoon, Zhou Yanshao's phone rang. This time it was Sun Shengyang.

Li Bo didn't answer, but it rang again after a while, and Li Bo answered it.

Sun Shengyang: "Brother Shao, are you in Xizi Bay?"

Li Bo: "Yan Shao isn't here. I'm Li Bo."

Sun Shengyang paused for two seconds, then asked, "Li Bo, did you lose Brother Shao's phone?"

Li Bo: "..."

Sun Shengyang: "Are you in Zhihuai?"

Li Bo: "Mm."

Sun Shengyang: "I found a thousand-year-old ginseng in my dad's study. I'm going to visit Brother Shao in Xiziwan later, and I'll stop by Zhihuai on the way to give Brother Shao my phone back."

Li Bo: "..."

Sun Shengyang hung up the phone after speaking, and soon arrived in Zhihuai. Uncle Zeng led Sun Shengyang into the office. Sun Shengyang glanced at Zhou Yanshao's phone, picked it up, and said, "You're welcome."

Just as Sun Datian was about to leave, he suddenly stopped, turned back, and asked, "Why is Brother Shao's phone here?"

Li Bo: "He just came over and had a meal."

Sun Shengyang: "Oh~ I knew it!"

Sun Shengyang suddenly leaned closer to the table. "Have you been taking care of Brother Shao lately?"

Li Bo nodded.

Sun Shengyang asked curiously, "Do you know that Brother Shao is pursuing someone?"

"?"

Seeing Li Bo's confusion, Sun Shengyang said, "You don't know? That person was also on the Australian island before. He should be back in Beijing now. Brother Shao said he's from Beijing... You were also on the Australian island at the time. I thought you had met him."

"..."

Sun Shengyang sighed, "Brother Shao is injured like this, and no one has even gone to see him. It's probably all over. I wonder which little fox dared to toy with Brother Shao's feelings! Please, I hope I don't find out who it was!"

Sun Shengyang looked indignant, as if he were standing up for Zhou Yanshao.

Li Bo took a deep breath: "Sun Shengyang."

Sun Shengyang tilted his head: "Hmm?"

Li Bo: "Peking University, did you get in on your own?"

Sun Shengyang slammed his hand on the table: "Now that you mention this, I have to have a serious talk with you! You have no idea, I was at the bottom of my class in my junior year of high school! I studied like crazy for a year in my senior year and got into Peking University! Although I barely made it in, and it was a major I was assigned to, it's still Peking University!"

Li Bo sighed and rubbed his forehead in exasperation: "The Sun family has really good educational resources."

"Isn't it because I'm smart?" Sun Shengyang said somewhat discontentedly, but then suddenly realized that the person in front of him was the top student in his grade in the prestigious major at Peking University, and immediately restrained himself. "I can't reason with a top student like you."

"But you have good taste to be friends with me."

Sun Shengyang walked away with a smile, holding his phone. When he arrived at Xizi Bay, he handed the phone to Zhou Yanshao: "Brother Shao, you left your phone in Zhihuai, I got it back for you."

The veins on Zhou Yanshao's forehead bulged out.

Sun Shengyang: "By the way, you said you were pursuing someone, did you succeed? I just asked the housekeeper, and he said there haven't been any customers at Xizi Bay lately... That guy isn't good enough, he doesn't even come to take care of you, so you mustn't be fooled!"

Sun Shengyang was very insistent on the point that Zhou Yanshao should not be misled.

He used to be best friends with Zhou Yanshao. Then Li Bo appeared, and Zhou Yanshao treated Li Bo very well, so well that even his brother was a little jealous. Love doesn't care about who came first, but friendship should at least exist, right?

Sun Shengyang thought about it and realized that Li Bo was having financial difficulties, so it was normal for Brother Shao to help him take care of him.

But Sun Shengyang was still somewhat dissatisfied. There are so many people with miserable lives, why does Brother Shao have to hang out with Li Bo? Until Sun Shengyang heard that Li Bo grew up in a Miao village, he felt it was perfectly normal.

Li Bo is definitely capable of using witchcraft!

For a time, Sun Shengyang was very persistent in trying to exorcise evil spirits from Zhou Yanshao, but it was no use, so he gave up.

Having someone like Li Bo who knows how to use Gu poison is already bad enough; we absolutely cannot allow a second little devil to appear!