The Emperor’s Runaway Lover

Bai Mo lowered his eyes to look at the other man, his long lashes trembling imperceptibly.

After a long moment, the young man said coldly, “Don’t say ‘sorry’ to me, I don’t want to hear it.”

Fu Yucheng opened his mouth. He tried to say something, but found that he really had nothing to say.

Although, at the time, he had done it as a last resort, he had indeed left the other behind.

He had handed over the boy, who trusted him and felt very attached to him, to the White Rose Laboratory, which was the place the boy hated most and the one he’d been desperate to leave.

And even if that action could have been considered reasonable, over the next few years, while he did inquire about the boy’s whereabouts, he had never considered looking for him.

He had even reassured himself, thinking The brat’s doing well, he has already passed the dangerous awakening period, and he even developed S-class psionic powers… And, as for his hazy affection, there’s a good chance that it gradually faded and disappeared.

As for me, I still have something very important to do.

After the dust settles and everything is set straight, perhaps I’ll go find him, explain everything clearly, and apologize for being late.

However, at that moment, facing those cold, dark eyes, Fu Yucheng could do nothing but remain silent.

Seeing that Fu Yucheng refused to say anything, Bai Mo’s heart gradually sank.

Everyone else had already run out of the small bathroom, leaving just the two of them inside. Everything remained rather quiet for a long time.

The dim light bulb above the sink hummed with a low electric current, flickering from time to time.

After a long moment, Fu Yucheng sighed helplessly. “Little Mo, what do you want?”

Bai Mo stared at him and replied sharply, “Come back with me.”

Fu Yucheng raised his head and looked at the magnificent Blue Sea and Sky1 Grand Hotel in front of him. It was one of the best hotels in the entire Ninth Industrial Region.

On both sides of the gate, there were two bronze pegasus, their dramatically huge wings spread wide. A large area of ​​real, soft grass spread like a carpet in the front garden and, in the middle, a white statue of Venus held a water jug in a pool, an endless stream of clear water gushing from the jug’s mouth…

Fu Yucheng couldn’t resist remarking, “Tsk, the water resources in the Industrial Regions are so tight right now. It really is true that when you can smell meat and wine from a noble mansion, the roads outside are littered with bones…”2

“You’re talking so much nonsense, don’t you think you’re conspicuous enough?” Bai Mo glared at Fu Yucheng and reached out to pull the cap of the man’s hat lower. Then, he pushed him to enter through the hotel’s side entrance and they took a separate elevator to the top floor.

Naturally, the room was the best presidential suite, located on the topmost floor of the hotel. The wallpaper had a gorgeous black and gold print on it, the scarlet carpet was thick enough to absorb noise, there was a large, extravagant curtain wall…3 Standing in front of the parlor’s floor-to-ceiling windows, it was possible to see the bizarre, three dimensional night view of the Industrial Region.

Before Fu Yucheng had time to look more, Bai Mo insisted on pushing him into the bathroom. “Wash off that gross smell.”

Fu Yucheng raised his arm and sniffed his armpit. “It’s not that bad, just a little sweat.”

Bai Mo stared at the messy marks on his neck and the faint bite marks on his earlobe. The sight, coupled with Fu Yucheng’s indifferent look, made him feel extremely suffocated. He wanted to take matters into his own hands and strip him naked, press him under the shower and scrub him clean, and then, then…

Then……

He felt taken aback by his own thoughts and quickly turned his head away, asking sullenly, “What are you waiting for? Do you still want me to wash you?!”

Fu Yucheng raised his eyebrows and couldn’t help but laugh on the inside.

He really knew this kid too well. He was obviously feeling shy and awkward enough to die… was he even trying to threaten him with that stern look?

Heh, it was just so pathetically cute… and entertaining.

Fu Yucheng stared at the young man for a while, and the bits of evil in his bones came out again.

He narrowed his eyes, deliberately approaching the other, and lowered his voice. “You want to wash me? Okay. How would you help me wash? Where are you thinking of washing me? Hmm?”

He said the final ‘hmm’ while raising his tone slightly.

“Where am I thinking…?” Bai Mo blinked blankly and suddenly his entire face went red, his body practically emitting steam. “You- you-!!”

“Hahaha, what are you- look at you, what are you thinking about? Oh my God, hahaha…” Fu Yucheng smacked the wall, bending over with laughter.

Bai Mo was so mad at him that he couldn’t do anything but force himself to put on a blank expression and then he very stiffly walked out.

Fu Yucheng shouted behind him, “Hey, you’re walking like a robot!”

Bai Mo said nothing and closed the bathroom door with a bang.

“Tsk, so angry.” Fu Yucheng continued to laugh for a while, then slowly stopped, stretched out his arms and turned on the shower.

A large stream of warm water poured down on him; it was very refreshing.

Fu Yucheng hadn’t enjoyed this sort of luxury in a long time. He hummed and rested for a while, leaning against the wall to relax, and then he sighed softly.

Even if you can laugh and play like normal, you’ll have to face that troublesome issue one day.

Bai Mo likes you.

Moreover, his innocent and sincere ‘liking’ doesn’t seem to have faded to nothing with time as I had thought.

This kid is way more stubborn than I anticipated.

Things won’t be easy to handle, eh?

Fu Yucheng sighed, rubbing the foam in his hair in a rare, anguished mood.

He was good looking and had a pleasant personality, and he had always been very popular ever since he was a child, both with the opposite and same sex. He always had a lot of experience rejecting other people’s affections, and he had always been able to do so gently, not making others feel embarrassed nor causing trouble.

However, for some reason, he didn’t want to use his rejection skills on Bai Mo.

That kid… was special.

But he had also never thought about accepting the other, either.

He couldn’t afford to give what Bai Mo wanted at that moment, but he also didn’t want to be superficial about it. He still had very important things to do, and he didn’t really have much time to spare to think of love affairs.

So in the end, how can I…?

He finished the shower absently. Then he changed into a snow-white bathrobe, took a towel, and slowly walked out of the bathroom while rubbing his wet hair.

Illuminated by the dim table lamp, Bai Mo was sitting on the bed, holding a faintly blue object in his hand.

He was looking down at the object with a complicated expression, a mixture of hate and doubt. Judging by his face, it seemed as if he wanted to break it.

“Hey, what are you trying to do?” Fu Yucheng couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow.

Hearing his voice, Bai Mo set down the ‘Silent Blue Moon’ in a panic. “You, you finished showering… I saw you set the blade down on the table, so I picked it up to take a look.”

“Oh.” Fu Yucheng didn’t pay it much mind, and sat down graciously on the edge of the bed.

While drying his hair, he asked, “Little Mo, why did you only book one room with one bed…? Where will you sleep?”

Bai Mo got up and grabbed a hair dryer, and then stood by the bed to blow Fu Yucheng’s hair dry.

He worked in silence for a while before muttering, “You… you’ll sleep with me.”

Fu Yucheng asked amusedly, “Why did you stammer? What do you want to do?”

Bai Mo answered anxiously, “No! I don’t want to do anything!

“I’m just… afraid that you will run away again,” he whispered after a slight pause.

Fu Yucheng said nothing. He understood that the kid was likely very insecure and wanted to keep him right under his nose.

He sighed to himself and stopped teasing the other, saying, “Let’s sleep together then. Anyway, I’m not a good sleeper, so you’ll be the one who will suffer.”

Neither of them said anything else, and the huge bedroom went quiet.

Bai Mo’s slender and strong fingers moved carefully through the other man’s thick, soft hair, and he continued to dry it carefully.

Little by little, Fu Yucheng’s hair went dry and his eyes grew sleepy and dimmed. “Alright, it’s almost dry, let’s go to sleep.”

The suite’s double bed was large enough for two adult men to lie down.

Under the soft light, the two lay side by side quietly.

Fu Yucheng felt that the atmosphere seemed a little weird. He wanted to say something, but didn’t know what. The only thing he could come up with was, “How have you been doing these past few years?”

For a long time, Bai Mo didn’t say anything. Just when Fu Yucheng thought that he would not answer, he muttered, “I’ve been okay.”

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He paused, then pretended to speak indifferently. “What about you? What have you… been doing all these years?”

Fu Yucheng brushed against the soft pillow and replied casually, “I… I didn’t do anything. I just wandered around. I was originally an exiled prisoner, and I ended up doing so much in the Twilight Belt that I feared the Imperial family would find me. So I just left, and I ended up here without even knowing how. Then I thought that, since I was already here, I should go visit Senior Lin. Who would have known that you two had set up a trap for me.”

“Since you thought to go visit him, then why didn’t you… why didn’t you come for me?” Bai Mo whispered after a long time.

Bai Mo waited for a long while, but he didn’t hear any answer from the other man. He couldn’t help it but slightly turn his head around nervously, only to find that Fu Yucheng was asleep.

Bai Mo looked at him blankly.

In four years, this man had not changed at all. Smooth and wide forehead, thick dark eyelashes, pale lips, a beautiful, smooth jaw… There was a little rose-colored mole on his thin earlobe.

Hateful and cute,4 fickle and bewitching.

Full of emotional, unbelievable promises that he had been deceived by… he was a liar, and Bai Mo was a fool.

Bai Mo looked at the sleeping man with a complicated expression on his face, his eyes dark and deep. However, he ended up doing nothing but turn off the lamp.

The yellow sand extended for thousands of miles, and the sun was scorching hot.

The man lay limply in his arms, his lips pale and chapped, his eyelashes drooping weakly, appearing lifeless.

He hurriedly put the spout of the canteen to the man’s mouth, his voice cracking. “Yu-ge, there’s water here, you can drink a bit, please, please…”

But the other man shut his eyes tight and didn’t respond. The clear water ran down the corners of his lips, without him swallowing any at all.

Bai Mo suddenly thought of something and he took a sip of the water, lowering his head to pass it to him.

He frantically pried open the pair of dry lips and gently poured the life-saving water down the man’s throat.

After taking a gulp of cool water, the man seemed to wake up slightly, and he let out a low hum from his throat. Then, his dark eyelashes trembled slightly, and he opened his mouth in a daze, trying to ask for more water.

Before he realized, the situation was out of control. He was kissing the man underneath him fiercely and passionately, and the other man was responding with enthusiasm… In this frantic entanglement, the only thing he was aware of was the way his heart was beating like a wild horse off the reins. His blood was screaming and boiling in his veins, the world was spinning and the two of them were the only ones left in it.

Fu Yucheng let out a low hum and gradually came back to his senses.

And the one over his body was desperately trying to get something from his mouth as if he were a thirsty traveler after spending three days and three nights in the desert, and Fu Yucheng was a life-saving, sweet water spring.

Fu Yucheng moved his head to the side, struggling faintly, and his arm hit the button of the lamp.

With a soft click, the room lit up.

The eyes of the young man on top of him were closed slightly, his face was like a snow statue, and he was kissing his cheeks, eyes and the corners of his lips indiscriminately. The kisses were almost vicious yet clumsy, like that of a hungry tiger cub.

Fu Yucheng blinked slowly, finally fully awake. He was still a little dazed, and the other was already impatiently trying to go further.

Fuck! Fu Yucheng gasped in a cold breath, grabbed the misbehaving hand, and smacked the other’s shoulder. “Little Mo, wake up! Wake up!”

He struck him several times. Bai Mo shook a bit, his eyelashes trembling lightly, and he finally opened his eyes slowly, his expression still a little dumbfounded.

He didn’t seem to understand the situation as he lay on top of Fu Yucheng blankly, with a silly smile on his mouth. After a long moment, he gradually recovered, and his entire body seemed to freeze immediately.

“Little Mo, what are you…?” The man stared at him angrily. His sweaty black hair was messy, his lips were indescribably flushed, his eyelids were slightly red, and there was still a faint shine of tears in his eyes.

Bai Mo felt as if something in his head had exploded. His face suddenly flushed, and he didn’t know where to put his hands and feet. Helplessly, he tried to defend himself. “I, I didn’t… I saw you were thirsty, I wanted to give you water…”

He paused, and suddenly realized that the other being thirsty hadn’t happened in reality and that he could not use it as his reasoning. He was so embarrassed, ashamed, anxious and worried that he was close to tears.

Fu Yucheng, pressed tightly under him, looked at the ceiling silently.

The kid had a pitiful expression of panic on his face, looking as fragile as if he could disperse at the slightest touch. However, his two strong arms had him fixed firmly under Bai Mo’s body like two iron hoops, not even remotely relaxed.

At that moment, Fu Yucheng finally came back to reality a little—Bai Mo, this kid, has really grown up. Tall and heavy, strong and… fuck.

Fuck.

The situation was awkward enough to explode. Even someone as thick-faced as Fu Yucheng couldn’t help but struggle.

Bai Mo was laying on him, his eyes even darker than normal, and his voice was so hoarse that it almost didn’t sound like he was speaking words. “Don’t move around… if you move, I will, I will…”

Realizing something, Fu Yucheng immediately stopped his movements and straightened his body, staying still like a dead fish while looking at the other blankly. He thought desperately of random things, the ticking wall clocks at the watch shop, the messy alleys behind the nightclubs covered in piles of rubbish, the fat mouse that always bothered him when he tried to sleep, the terrible singing of that fat auntie next door…

Bai Mo lowered his head and looked at him with fascination. “Your… your face is so red.”

Author’s note:5

Hey hey hey I’m begging to pass the audit! I really followed the principles for below the neck6 strictly!

Today, a friend asked me if Little Mo would have already done it if, instead of being so shy, he had chased and shot straight in the first book.

I said no, his chances would be pretty cold…

Although it’s all danmei, this is not like those that seem like male gods from the outside but are a little naive victim inside. Although Chengcheng, this man, seems easy-going, down below he actually has a pretty strong and dark personality. He likes to be in control. To get his heart, the best way is to make him feel guilty… just like Little Mo, haha.

Important note!!

So, as the author’s note implies, this novel has undergone some censorship and all the chapters had to be edited to make them more decent. Specifically, there are a couple chapters that were blocked for a long time in the site and have now been edited and turned very short because the content, while not explicit, was non compliant with guidelines.

However, I have the original version of those chapters and I will be translating them. I’m trying to decide whether to stick to that one or present first the current, censored one and then the original as the second version or something like that. Any thoughts? The edited chapters, for what I’ve seen, are basically the same except with chunks removed, there’s no extra content to make up for the cuts or anything.

As for the remaining chapters, such as this one, I haven’t been able to find if there was a pre censorship version.

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Footnotes

碧海青天 literally “jade green sea and blue sky”, with the meaning of the sea and sky taking the same shade, it illustrates the image of a lonely widow looking towards the sea.朱门酒肉臭，路有冻死骨 the full expression is cut out in the raws, Bai Mo cuts him out at “the roads outside”. I chose to translate it in full because it’s likely too unfamiliar for English speakers to get the meaning without it.I learned something new today, if anyone’s curious they look like this.This reads a bit like a pun, 可恶又可爱.I always struggle to translate these because they tend to have way more slang ah I did my best.Webnovels in China have to adhere to very strict guidelines for “below the neck” contact, otherwise they can be banned.