As he hung up the call, silence again descended in the room. Fang Bai thought about something and then looked for the contact of Li Jin in his phone.
[Fang Bai : Hey Li Jin! I'm Fang Bai. Tomorrow we are having a small party in our home in the evening. Are you going to join us?]
The other party was still offline.
Putting his phone on the table, Fang Bai finally stood up from the chair. He stretched himself and moved his stiff muscles from sitting for a long time. After getting freshed up in the washroom, he left his room and knocked on the door of the room next to him.
Not hearing a reply for some time, he directly entered the room. Inside, Fang Junjie was sleeping cozily in the blankets. The room temperature was just right for someone sleeping that he began to doubt if his ge-ge had woken up in the morning and set it himself. Maybe Tang Rong or Duan Wei did it.
Looking at the deeply sleeping Fang Junjie, Fang Bai decided to first cook some breakfast and before coming back and waking his gege up.
Last night, he was just inches away from shooting Long You who had come to drop a sleepy Fang Junjie in his arms on the door. He just couldn't help but doubt that beast's intentions. It was the bodyguard he set up who told him that Long You had instead taken care of gege who was so tired that he fell asleep in the car. Although it was odd for gege to fall asleep in an unknown location, he did not find any abnormality in Fang Junjie's health or any signs of drugging from his pulse rate. Adding to the fact that he, Tang Rong and Duan Wei were totally wet, he could only watch as that villainous man carried his ge-ge all the way to his room. He even got on his ge-ge's bed!!!
What was this excuse of tucking the blankets?
That Long You was definitely trouble.
Yeah, Fang Bai was just childishly finding faults in Long You. After all, that man was stealing his gege away from him.
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As Fang Bai got out of the room to cook in the kitchen, he did not know that a figure suddenly appeared out of the thin air in the previously empty floor. That figure, Long You walked to the bed and looked at Fang Junjie's crumpling face for a last time before dropping a quick kiss on his pale cheeks.
"I'll meet you later, my love."
The crumpled face of Fang Junjie eased as he seemed to have gotten some assurance and his restlessness stopped.
In the kitchen, Fang Bai took out the ingredients with practiced ease as he made a morridge of just right consistency with practiced ease. There were already a few dishes in the kitchen which he had prepared earlier for Tang Rong and Duan Wei in the morning before they went to the uni. Carefully arranging the bowl of hot porridge on the dining table, he went to Fang Junjie's room with a glass of lukewarm water and a glass of orange juice.
"Ge-ge, wake up. Have some juice. Ge-ge."
"Mmm... Xiao-Bai?" Fang Junjie's voice was muffled.
"Yes. Ge-ge don't sleep hungry, eat something." Fang Bai put the juice on the table and seeing that Fang Junjie was getting up, he went to open the curtains of the room to allow sunlight to pour in and naturally light up the room.
Fang Junjie opened his eyes in slits. At one point he just wanted to whine and bury himself in the blankets so that someone, or maybe Long You would pamper him, coax him, and carry him out of the blanket. But before he could make some noise he realised that the person waking him up was Fang Bai. Controlling his disappointment he got up fast from the blankets and drank the warm water first then the juice to appreciate his little brother's hard work.
After he was fully awake, he realised what his thoughts were earlier and blushed slightly. How could he think about Long You like this?
He suddenly found something he had overlooked earlier.
'How did I get back into my bed? Who put me there?'
Fang Bai who got back looked at the doubtful face of Fang Junjie.
"Ge-ge Long You dropped you back home last night."
Hearing this, Fang Junjie was a bit stunned. "H-he? How-"
"Yeah, he carried you here since you were fast asleep."
Fang Junjie's face grew hot as he tried hard to control his emotions.
"Why didn't he just wake me up? It would be difficult to carry me all the way here."
"Forget it ge-ge. You were sleeping so well that anyone would be reluctant to wake you up. By the way, ge-ge, yesterday…"
Fang Junjie understood what Fang Bai wanted to say. He knew Fang Bai's concern for him. Yesterday both he and Long you had decided to give the relationship a try so that at least they won't have regrets in the future about not giving a chance to themselves. He knew that it was a very bold move that he did but Long You was the only unpredictable person in his life who kept on giving him surprises. Like how he would automatically get defenseless in his presence, he would try to look his best as if he was conscious about the other person's opinion of himself, and like yesterday, he would fall asleep peacefully when he was near. He seemed to have always felt Long You's presence since he could remember.
Fang Bai was quiet for a long time after hearing Fang Junjie. But inside, he could feel his heart breaking like a glass very slowly. He had always been fearless when it came to living his life. He would be fearless in the face of the devil training, fearless in the face of death, fearless in the face of betraying acquaintances; always acting arrogantly and enjoying the love of his friends and brother.
Because he knew that those people would always be there protecting his back. He was always assured that he had a home with his family where he could go even if the whole world left him. Because they were his world.
But now, his world was shattering, breaking into pieces. The control he had over everything seemed to be getting out of his grasp. Very calmly, on the outside he gave a smile to his brother.
"Ge-ge, you are right. If you don't try, how would you know if the two of you are compatible? I wish you a very happy future!"
Fang Junjie blushed a little and buried his face in the porridge.
A typhoon was blowing in Fang Bai's mind and when he saw Fang Junjie's dreamy expression, he felt cold, as if plunged into a deep, icy sea.
Getting up from his seat naturally, he made an excuse and went back to his room.