No Money to Divorce

Zhong Yan stopped struggling. He wondered if he was having an illusion from missing him too much. His reasoning told him the facts of what happened, but his immense joy he felt made it so he actually didn’t dare to turn around to verify it for a while.

Seeing him remain unmoving, the person behind began to get anxious.

“What’s wrong, baby?” Adrian helped Zhong Yan up from the sofa and held his face anxiously, asking, “Sorry, did I frighten you?”

Zhong Yan looked at the handsome face right in front of him and suddenly pounced over. “Ade!”

The two of them held each other tightly on the sofa while Zhong Yan asked in disbelief, “Why are you here?”

“Institution Star is in a stable condition now. I wouldn’t have anything to do even if I stuck around, so I thought I’d come see you.” Adrian stroked the corners of Zhong Yan’s pleased eyes lovingly and said, “I missed you so much.”

“Me too.” Zhong Yan lightly punched him on the chest. “Why didn’t you tell me earlier? You scared me earlier. I thought it was one of Pearson’s boys.”

Adrian held his hand to his chest in an exaggerated manner and said, “I plead innocent! You were the one who told me not to say too much in our text messages.”

“Then did I tell you to play out the role of a space pirate as well?” Though he said that, Zhong Yan could hardly feel angry with Adrian’s actions. He reached out to help Adrian smooth out his clothes that had been wrinkled during their contact. “How many people did you bring here?”

He did not ask Adrian how he came in. Nowadays, when two citizens became legal partners with each other, certain permissions in the system would be shared by default, including the permissions for the houses and cars owned by the couple. You could turn off the permissions manually, but neither Adrian or Zhong Yan had done so. They even shared many others. So of course Adrian had the permission to enter his house. Only, Zhong Yan never expected Adrian to have the opportunity to use these permissions so soon.

“Uh…Your house is smaller than I expected. Why don’t you buy yourself a bigger house?” Adrian spoke guiltily, “How many square meters is this place? Does it even have fifty?”

Zhong Yan narrowed his eyes. “You wouldn’t have come alone without bringing anyone else, would you?”

Since the last attack, Adrian had greatly increased the security forces around him. On the surface, he would say that he learned a hard lesson from it, but in truth, Adrian did not find it that important. He might as well become more alert himself. However, it was mainly due to the strong demands of Zhong Yan and some other senior officers that he increased his number of guards and brought them everywhere with him.

“No, honey. Listen to me, I came here secretly, didn’t I? It wouldn’t be convenient if I brought my men. I had to keep my identity blocker on the whole trip here just to get away from ‘Butterfly’…”

“How could you act alone!” Zhong Yan grunted in dissatisfaction. But since Adrian was already here, it was useless to say anything. Not lingering on useless things was also one of Zhong Yan’s strong points. Also, he was particularly indulgent towards Adrian. Take for example how Adrian always liked throwing his clothes everywhere as soon as he returned. After trying one time to mention it ten years ago without any results, he never mentioned it again. Instead, he would always follow behind him and clean up himself. Zhong Yan did not continue complaining about it and instead asked, “Does anyone know you’re here?”

“Yeah. Several colonels do. Fayn and the others in Navi know as well. I haven’t been here long myself either. I just reported to them right before you came in.”

Only then did Zhong Yan feel relieved. When he saw how travel-worn Adrian looked with his jacket still on and his hat and sunglasses thrown onto the sofa, he figured that he must have come in disguise and couldn’t help but feel pity. “Did you have a rough journey here? When did you last eat? Are you hungry?”

When Adrian saw that delicious looking face that he had not been able to see for so many days, his eyes turned dark. “I really am…rather hungry.”

“Really? Then, let me make you some—Oh, I’ve never cooked in this house before.” The kitchen he had at home was just for decoration. There was no kitchenware inside at all. Thinking that Adrian must be hungry, Zhong Yan said anxiously, “I’ve always bought food from outside so there’s nothing to eat at home. I’ll go buy you supper now. The delivery services in the Capital are really quick, they’ll definitely be able to arrive within ten minutes of…Mh!”

Adrian sealed his mouth with his lips and held one hand behind his head to deepen their first kiss in a while. It wasn’t until Zhong Yan’s body went soft under his arms did he finally pull back.

“What do you mean there’s nothing to eat at home?” Adrian kissed his cheek and murmured, “This right here looks pretty good.”

They were both men with normal functioning bodies, so it was natural for them to have their needs. It would’ve been fine in the past, but once you have your first taste of meat, it’s hard to stop. After being forced to go vegetarian these days, Zhong Yan really did miss that taste. Adrian reached his hand inside his clothes from the hem of his shirt and stroked the smooth skin of his waist, causing Zhong Yan to shudder. He couldn’t help but feel aroused and his breath grew heavy as he kissed him. Lower down, his hands were already beginning to unbutton Adrian’s shirt.

If they’re going to do it on the sofa then the sofa it is, Zhong Yan thought. The house is pretty small anyways, and there’s nobody…

Ding.

The gentle beep of the elevator caused the semi-aroused couple to freeze. They looked at each other, and Zhong Yan was the first to recall that he had pressed on the emergency help button when Adrian pounced on him from behind. But, before he had any time to react, several fully-armed men rushed out of the elevator with their guns brandished in the very next second. When the two men at the lead saw the scene in the living room, their feet stopped.

Adrian had a stare down with two of his most powerful guard captains.

Before anyone could say anything, the guard standing at the very back who was unable to see Adrian’s face, and only saw Zhong Yan being pressed down by a man on the sofa, shouted out without hesitation, “Let him go! Are you tired of living? How dare you touch our boss’s man!”

Their boss, Adrian, “…”

Zhong Yan, “…”

The other guards, “…”

Two minutes later.

As if nothing had happened, Adrian buttoned up his shirt buttons that were half-undone by Zhong Yan earlier. Two of the six guards he assigned to Zhong Yan were captains, and at this moment, the two of them were sitting on the sofa together with Adrian and reporting to him the recent days’ events. Even though they didn’t really know what they should say themselves, it didn’t really matter. Adrian wasn’t listening at all. They were just trying their best to create a normal atmosphere and drown out the blunder they made earlier.

The guard who shouted out and escalated the situation to peak embarrassment was currently shrunk into the corner of the living room by himself with his back to everyone. He was too embarrassed to face everyone and was just trying to hide his existence right now.

On the other hand, Zhong Yan who had his clothes straightened out by Adrian and helped off the sofa, ran off to hide in the room after leaving behind a quick “I’ll get everyone water”, and no longer came out, leaving Adrian behind to face his six guards.

After hiding for a few minutes, Zhong Yan finally calmed down from his embarrassment. He said he was going to get everyone water, but there was actually only one cup in the house so he couldn’t really do that. So, the only thing he could do was order a few bottles of juice from the 24-hour convenience store downstairs and quickly brought them in through the platform outside the window.

Originally, when he was living alone, he felt like the living room for his apartment was pretty big, but coming out now with eight grown men sitting in his living room, everything instantly became crowded. Zhong Yan distributed juice to them, and the guards didn’t even know whether they should accept it or not as they looked at Adrian with hesitation. Adrian waved his hand and said, “If Mr. Zhong is offering you a drink, just drink it. What are you looking at me for?”

Only then did the guards accept the drink. Zhong Yan had originally planned to sit down with them, but when he saw that the sofa was already taken up by three people, leaving no space for him, he could only stand around and find something to talk about. “Sorry, my house is a little messy since I haven’t been cleaning up lately, it’s quite embarrassing…”

The entire house was as clean and tidy as if someone had just done some spring cleaning before they came in, but nobody could care about the discrepancy. The two captains responded with a few polite remarks, both still scared witless.

Zhong Yan had only pressed on the emergency call button because of how Adrian teased him. Then, as Adrian began getting way too excited, he completely forgot about it. But in the end, it was their own fault that they made them come all this way for nothing, and they were Adrian’s capable subordinates too. Embarrassed, Zhong Yan invited them to stay for a meal. “Why don’t you all stay for supper before you go? Since you’re all here…”

The two guard captains on the sofa looked at Adrian again. Adrian stood up and went to stand next to Zhong Yan, but he couldn’t argue with Zhong Yan’s kindness, so he could only say with his arms around Zhong Yan’s waist, “Yeah, stay for supper. Are you guys…” With dangerous and meaningful eyes, he swept his gaze past each and every one of their faces, “Hungry?”

All the guards in the living room jumped with a start, and they all hurried to refuse, “No no, we’re not hungry.”

“We just ate, commander.”

“Thank you for your kindness, Mr. Zhong. I think we’ll…skip for today.”

“Oh, that’s fine then.” Adrian said, “I’m sorry we troubled all of you to rush over here. You should go back and rest. Also, there’s no need for any of you to stay on guard tonight. Oh, that’s right. I’ll be living here these days so you won’t need the permissions for the door anymore. Just cancel it.”

The guards all obeyed his order. If Adrian himself were to stay in this house, then he would become the strongest guard. There really was no need for them to keep his door permissions for emergencies.

After sending the guards away, Adrian and Zhong Yan looked at each other in front of the elevator door, and both laughed at the same time.

Once bitten, twice shy. Zhong Yan locked the elevator door from the inside with his permission. After all that happened, they really did feel a little hungry. So, the two of them ordered some supper and sat at the small square table Zhong Yan usually ate alone at in the kitchen, and ate their food facing each other.

“You didn’t bring any of your luggage, did you?” Zhong Yan’s voice was a lot more lively than usual. Even if the current situation was quite severe, he still couldn’t help but chatter away happily. “Then, I’ll choose out some clothes for you. I saw a nice coat in the Central Business District last time I went there. You’ll definitely look good in it—Oh, do you know about that place? It’s…”

“Of course I do. Your husband’s been living seventeen years of his life in the Capital,” Adrian laughed. Then, he reached out a loving hand to Zhong Yan and brushed his hair behind his ear. “Anything you pick out is nice. Come, let’s eat.”