Chapter 3 Part 1
It was late at night, and the activity around the swimming pool had also ceased.
The doctor, Dr. Xu, who had been called by phone, stood at the villa's doorstep, yawning.
The next moment, he stretched and became energetic again.
With a twenty-fold salary, there was no grumpiness about being woken up in the middle of the night.
Dr. Xu pressed the doorbell, and the villa door opened a few seconds later.
The one opening the door was not the butler, but his employer - Yan Shiting.
"Mr. Yan Shiting," Dr. Xu greeted with a smile.
"Mm." Yan Shiting was as cold as ever.
In the dim light of the living room, Dr. Xu vaguely noticed a bite mark on Yan Shiting's collarbone.
He paused for a moment, but his professional ethics quickly made him avert his gaze.
Yan Shiting led Dr. Xu upstairs, to Yu Li's room.
At the moment, Yu Li was buried in the bedding, already deeply asleep from exhaustion.
His soft black hair was slightly disheveled, his thin eyelids flushed, and his lashes still glistening with moisture, appearing even thicker.
Yan Shiting approached the bedside and gently extracted one of Yu Li's arms from the blanket.
"He was drugged with two substances tonight. Draw some blood to test for any remaining drug residues and check if it will have any impact on his health."
This was the most Dr. Xu had ever heard his employer say.
He hesitated for a moment, then quickly regained his composure and took out the equipment to draw blood from Yu Li.
Dr. Xu's movements were gentle, but Yu Li still let out a soft hum when the needle pierced his skin.
The next moment, Dr. Xu felt an icy gaze on him.
He swallowed, doing his best to maintain a composed expression as he finished the blood draw.
Afterward, Dr. Xu subtly let out a sigh of relief.
However, immediately after, he saw Yan Shiting extend his arm, "And me."
Dr. Xu: "..."
Two people drugged, the bite mark on the employer's collarbone.
It seemed he had discovered some earth-shattering secret.
Dr. Xu wiped the nonexistent cold sweat from his forehead and took out a new set of equipment, efficiently drawing Yan Shiting's blood as well.
"I'll send these to the hospital for testing right away, and the results will be available by morning."
Dr. Xu packed up the medical kit, then hesitated and took out a tube of antibiotic ointment.
"Ahem, Mr. Yan Shiting, the antibiotic ointment, or else the person may develop a fever."
Yan Shiting seemed to pause for a moment, then nodded and took the ointment. When sending Dr. Xu off, he also handed him the ice bucket to be tested along with the blood samples.
...
Yu Li woke up to the chirping of birds.
His head and eyelids were heavy, accompanied by a sore back and an indescribable pain.
After much effort, he finally managed to open his eyes, only to be startled by the strikingly handsome face so close to him, and quickly shut them again.
Yan Shiting!
Why was he lying on the same bed as Yan Shiting?!
In a flash, some scenes from last night suddenly surfaced in his mind.
He had gotten drunk, Yan Shiting had brought him back to the room, they had drunk some more, he had looked at Yan Shiting's Adam's apple, and then...
Bad news, he had a drunken one-night stand.
Worse news, he was the one who initiated it, and the person he jumped was someone who didn't like him very much.
Recalling the rumors about Yan Shiting and Yan Shiting's cold gaze when he had warned him, Yu Li couldn't help but shudder.
He had pondered the reasons why Yan Shiting would warn him like that - it could either be because of his family background, or because Yan Shiting disliked homosexuality and didn't want his beloved brother to be pursued by a homosexual.
Both possibilities were quite plausible.
And now, having been slept with by this homosexual he disliked, when Yan Shiting woke up, would he... silence him?
Silencing him would be too extreme, but it's hard to say he won't retaliate.
Yu Li's face turned pale, and he cautiously opened his eyes again.
Yan Shiting was still sleeping, his brows relaxed, his breathing steady.
Yu Li let out a sigh of relief.
If he hasn't woken up yet, he can make an escape first.
Yu Li carefully got up from the bed, but accidentally pulled something, letting out a soft hiss.
He turned to search for his clothes, and upon seeing the scattered, intertwined pile of clothes by the bed, his face flushed again.
He didn't dare to think too much about it, quickly put on his clothes, and quietly slipped away on his weak legs.
When he went downstairs, Yu Li saw the butler hurriedly heading upstairs, seemingly looking for something.
He didn't give it a second glance and, ignoring the discomfort, quickly ran out of the manor and took a taxi to leave.
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What Yu Li didn't know was that the moment he gently closed the door, Yan Shiting had already opened his eyes, his gaze clear and lucid.
Soon, Yan Shiting sat up, looking at the messy pillows and blankets beside him.
The lingering warmth of a person's body was still there.
Yan Shiting retracted his gaze and pinched the bridge of his nose.
He got up, put on the robe by the bed, and just as he was about to return to the third floor, he ran into the descending butler.
The butler's forehead was beaded with sweat, and upon seeing Yan Shiting, he quickly heaved a sigh of relief: "Mr. Yan, I finally found you."
The butler hesitated for a moment, then said, "The security guard caught a suspicious person in your room, and after checking the surveillance, we found that he had put something in the ice bucket."
He paused for a while, then guiltily added, "It was my negligence."
He was in charge of the security management, and usually patrolled the villa. But after Yan Shiting returned last night, to avoid disturbing him, he had made fewer trips upstairs.
Yan Shiting's steps faltered slightly.
He frowned, then turned and headed towards another guest room on the second floor.
"It's not your fault."
His room was usually locked, but last night when he went downstairs, he hadn't locked it, allowing that person to sneak in - it wasn't entirely the butler's negligence.
"Bring a new set of toiletries, have the housekeeper go up and clean the room, throw away anything that needs to be discarded."
"Bring the person to the living room and wait there. Oh, and - go wake up Yan Sui and have him come to the living room as well."
Hearing his icy instructions, the butler's heart, which had been in his throat, slowly settled back down.
"Yes, sir."
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