Chapter 126.1

Editor: Sahloknir

Everyone in the room was shocked by Shi Qing’s ‘boytoy’.

But the fair-featured little master was quite smug. He seemed pleased with the reaction his boytoy elicited from the others.

“So? What do you think?”

He raised his eyebrows like an amateur trying to feign experience. His long white and slender fingertips prodded at Jiang Bieyu’s body through his clothes.

The young masters present were quite familiar with this action.

After all, their hands did the same thing with the prostitutes they went out to have fun with.

Yet the familiar and ambiguous motions of Shi Qing’s hand for some reason appeared wrong to them, no matter how they looked at it.

The little master’s posture, his appearance and his hands…

He looked more like he was being enveloped in the arms of that tall and strong ‘boytoy’, okay?!

Especially because of how muscular the ‘boytoy’ was in contrast to Shi Qing’s delicate and spoiled figure. Even the nails on the little master’s extended fingertips had obviously had brightening cream applied to them.

He looked like the weaker party any way you cut it.

But the little master was still so proud of himself regardless.

“You guys are never picky enough. You would take anyone into your arms, but how can any of them compare to my boytoy? Just look at how sturdy his body is.”

Are you using him as a table? What does it matter how sturdy he is as a boytoy??

Even though they were grumbling on the inside, no one dared to say anything out loud. They all went against their conscience and went along with the Shi family little master’s nonsense with stiff expressions.

“Yes, yes, yes. You have a good eye, Shi Qing.”

“Indeed, he is different from all the other boytoys.”

“As expected of you, you’re indeed someone special.”

The little master was delighted by their compliments. Smugness was practically written across his fair and comely face.

Jiang Bieyu looked at him from behind and thought, “It’s a good thing he’s a human. If he had a tail it would be raised to the heavens by this point.”

As soon as he thought of this, the man unconsciously thought a bit more.

If Shi Qing really had a tail, according to his delicate nature, it would be a big fluffy and soft tail.

Wouldn’t the parts underneath become exposed when it rose?

Jiang Bieyu suddenly felt a little tickle in his throat. He coughed dryly and swallowed as he tightened his grip on the little master leaning into his lap.

Shi Qing might’ve gotten carried away, because he didn’t scold the man. Instead, he even let himself be dragged back and continued to look at Jiang Liye with glee.

Other people could ignore their conscience and kiss up to Shi Qing, but Jiang Liye would never do this.

He looked at this big, tall, rough man in front of him, who looked like he was used to doing hard labour, and almost laughed out loud.

“I was right to call you an unweaned baby before now. If you want to imitate our playboy lifestyle, you still have a way to go. What kind of boytoy looks like this? He’s probably some random peasant farmer, right?”

Jiang Liye made no effort to conceal his mocking. The other young masters, who were still racking their brains for ways to compliment Shi Qing and make him happy, all shut their mouths.

What bad luck they had today. Why did they get caught up in another one of these two’s squabbles?

Whose side were they supposed to take if things escalated again?

However, Shi Qing was not as angry as he was before. Last time, a few insults from Jiang Liye provoked him to fight.

The smugness on his face became even more apparent. The look he gave Jiang Liye seemed to say, “I’m so happy that I pulled off my scheme”.

Jiang Liye: “…”

Shi Qing couldn’t have actually thought of a method to deal with him, right?

He was debating whether he should continue his taunts for reputation’s sake or take a step back and observe the situation first when he saw the little master lean even further into that tall man’s arms. Shi Qing’s expression was filled with condescension.

“Raise your head. Let our Young Master Jiang take a good look at you.”

The man immediately lifted his head obediently.

His face was none other than Jiang Bieyu’s.

With some effort, Shi Qing raised a hand to the man’s cold cheek and stroked it ambiguously. His beautiful eyes gave Jiang Liye a meaningful look.

“Wow, I didn’t even notice before. Brother-in-law, you seem to resemble my boytoy quite a bit.”

Jiang Liye: “…”

He finally figured out what was going on.

Shi Qing wasn’t showing off his boytoy at all.

This was clearly a deliberate attempt to disgust him by bringing Jiang Bieyu out.

He got up with an ashen face. “Shi Qing! How dare you humiliate me like this! You…”

“Who humiliated you?”

The little master became even more pleased at his outburst. He casually leaned into Jiang Bieyu’s arms even more.

His soft voice grated on Jiang Liye’s ears like sandpaper.

“You were the one who personally gave Jiang Bieyu to me. I still remember the tune you were singing yesterday. ‘Oh, he was the one who pushed this young master into the water and almost killed me’. You told me to do as I like with him. You said your Jiang family won’t say one word even if I kill him.”

“But I’m a kind-hearted person. I also happen to like his looks. Thus, I didn’t beat him or scold him, much less kill him. I just kept him around as a boytoy. Brother-in-law, how could you get angry at me for that?”

As he said that, Shi Qing circled an arm behind the neck of the man he was leaning against.

Jiang Bieyu obediently lowered his head.

Then he felt a soft sensation against his cheek.

Jiang Liye looked at the little master who slowly pulled his lips away from Jiang Bieyu’s cheek. He was angry enough to implode on the spot.

Who didn’t know that a man being subservient was disgraceful?

Being a boytoy was even worse. It was like putting your dignity on the ground for everyone to step on.

Of course, Jiang Liye wasn’t this incensed for Jiang Bieyu’s sake.

Rather, he was angry that Shi Qing had taken Jiang Bieyu, who resembled him, and made him his boytoy.

What did that make Jiang Liye, who looked like Jiang Bieyu because they shared a father?

Was this Shi Qing trampling on Jiang Bieyu? No!

He was trying to disgust Jiang Liye!

Jiang Liye was far from the only one who thought this. The other young masters present did too.

No one thought that Jiang Bieyu was really Shi Qing’s boytoy.

Ahem, ahem.

After all, Jiang Bieyu was a bit tall…and his looks were, well, not exactly ugly, but certainly fierce enough to make people subconsciously wary of him.

Shi Qing has always been petulant and particular about everything. How could Jiang Bieyu possibly fit his high standards?

He was definitely using Jiang Bieyu’s resemblance to his brother to provoke Jiang Liye.

No one in the room cared about how shameful this might be for Jiang Bieyu.

For someone like Jiang Liye, who had always remained above even the clouds, everyone would think he had been wronged if he suffered a single insult.

But if it was Jiang Bieyu?

No one would care about what someone born in the depths of the abyss was thinking even if he was trampled to death.

Jiang Bieyu himself cared even less.

After all, no one knew better than him that Shi Qing really had no intention of humiliating him.

Rather than deliberately stepping on him, it was more like the little master intended to make use of him. Jiang Bieyu found his openness refreshing.

He looked at the little master in front of him, who was smirking at Jiang Liye. His expression clearly conveyed something like, ‘if the Heavens are number one in the world and the Earth is number two, I’m definitely number three’.

“Brother-in-law, you don’t look too good. Are you not feeling well? It’s really pitiful that your body is already so weak at such a young age.”

Jiang Liye’s face was ashen. “Don’t play dumb, do you think my Jiang family will take this insult lying down—”

“What does this have to do with your Jiang family?”

Shi Qing’s expression was full of righteousness. The word ‘innocent’ was practically written across his face. “Brother-in-law, Jiang Bieyu was personally handed to me by you. How is it an insult for me to keep him by my side and cherish him for his good looks?”

Jiang Liye: “You call treating my Jiang family’s sons like boytoys not an insult?!”

“I really don’t understand what you mean by that. I was genuinely attracted by his appearance, and he’s also willing to follow me. How can you call that an attempt to insult you? If you ask me, wouldn’t the real insult be how brother-in-law gave away your own brother to others?”

The little master who usually relied on his background to act domineering apparently had quite the infuriating silver tongue when he got serious.

Jiang Liye was at a loss for how to respond to that. He could only bring up Father Shi. “I gave him to you in order to make amends, but you’ve trampled all over my good intentions! Even Uncle Shi couldn’t possibly agree with you using him as a lowly servant.”

Shi Qing leaned lazily into the arms of the tall man behind him, his soft voice staunchly self-righteous.

“Don’t try to intimidate me by bringing up my father. In that case, does Uncle Jiang agree with the Jiang family’s eldest young master giving your younger brother away to be a boytoy for someone else?”

“You!!!”

Jiang Liye never realized that Shi Qing had such a vicious and merciless tongue until now.

He grit his teeth and glared at Shi Qing viciously. “Do you have any proof that I gave you Jiang Bieyu to use as a boytoy?”

Shi Qing raised an eyebrow and met his gaze head on. He raised his chin proudly. “Do you have any proof you didn’t?”

Actually, Jiang Liye really didn’t.

He looked back and scanned the people in the room.

The young masters who had been peeking at the two of them were suddenly very interested in the ceiling or the ants crawling on the ground. Not one dared to meet his gaze.

Pretending that they didn’t see Jiang Liye pushing Shi Qing into the water was one thing, but testifying on Jiang Liye’s behalf was a whole other can of worms.

Shi family’s little master became more and more arrogant.

He proudly patted Jiang Bieyu’s shoulder. “Let’s go behind the curtain and have a good time. Carry me there.”

Obeying his command, the tall man leaned down slightly and silently picked up Shi Qing by the waist.

Despite being held in such an unmanly manner, Shi Qing was not at all ashamed. He even seemed proud.

By relying on Jiang Bieyu’s tallness, the little master was able to enjoy looking down at several people from a high position. He gave Jiang Liye an especially contemptuous look and deliberately leaned into Jiang Bieyu’s arms.

“Hurry up and carry me over. Your older brother looks like he wants to pounce over and eat me. I’m too timid to stay here much longer.”

Jiang Liye: …Fuck!

Now the expression on his face really looked like he was about to eat someone.

His gaze towards Shi Qing dimmed in intensity, but when he looked at Jiang Bieyu, his eyes all but pronounced his desire to throw the brother who had brought humiliation unto him into the bottom of the ocean.

Jiang Bieyu didn’t pay him any mind. He just slightly tightened his hold on the delicate little master in his arms and walked over on his long legs to the curtain.