Chapter 16: Not That Naïve
The words Hu Xiaoyu had shared with Ah Jiu soon reached Yu Tan’s ears, carried verbatim. Ah Jiu didn’t consider himself a kind man, but he owed the boy. Hu Xiaoyu’s sincerity toward the boss, coupled with the fact that his old wrist injury no longer ached on rainy days—thanks, he suspected, to Xiaoyu—was reason enough. He wouldn’t dare question Yu Tan’s decisions, but dropping the occasional kind word felt permissible. Yu Tan brushed off Xiaoyu’s naive declaration about “only sleeping with him,” barely sparing it a thought. No one dictated his choices. Still, that other line—“As long as Yu Tan’s happy, it’s fine”—pleased him. After a quiet moment, his expression softened, ever so slightly. Though his face remained unreadable, the oppressive chill that usually made others’ scalps prickl
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