With a "Go out and reflect on your actions", Yan Qin, along with his blanket, was kicked out the door by the young master.

Deep in thought, Yan Qin laid out his bedding at the door, still distracted as he lay down.

In the darkness, he touched his lips, his face full of perplexity.

Lin Sui was entirely filled with unpredictable factors, disrupting his original plans. Time and time again, he did things that Yan Qin couldn't understand; even he was completely unable to see through his thoughts.

Even though this little young master was a year younger than him, he was like a black vortex, impossible to read or figure out.

He thought Lin Sui might like men, and just happened to like his type. However, aside from those frivolous actions, he clearly couldn't feel any affection from him.

Moreover, from beginning to end, he wasn't shocked or disgusted by the possibility that Lin Sui might like the same sex. It was probably because, for someone like Lin Sui, no matter what he did, it seemed perfectly natural.

Unlike Yan Qin's tossing and turning, Lin Sui—the one who had thrown his mind into chaos inside the room—slept quite well.

After a day passed like this, his family finally heard about Lin Sui skipping a grade. Finding that his phone couldn't be reached, they immediately sent Lin Min over to ask what was going on.

Lin Min was welcomed in by a servant. At a glance, she saw an unfamiliar, handsome young man sitting in the living room doing homework.

She handed her handbag to a nearby servant and asked rather curiously, "Who is he?"

The servant chose his words carefully and replied, "Young Master Yan Qin."

He didn't dare speak out of turn to say that this was Wu Yun's replacement kept in the villa by the young master, for fear of saying the wrong thing.

Lin Min quickly recalled that illegitimate son of the Yan Family. She didn't usually pay much attention to such things, but this scandal of the Yan Family was truly a joke, so she had quite an impression of it.

But why would this illegitimate son of the Yan Family be sitting in her younger brother's house? Furthermore, looking at the posture of the people around, it seemed he had been staying here for quite some time?

Yan Qin noticed the newcomer and stood up. Looking at the woman's elegant and aristocratic dress, the servant's attitude, and those facial features that somewhat resembled Lin Sui's, it wasn't hard to guess her identity.

He greeted her neither humbly nor arrogantly, "Hello, Miss Lin."

"Hello."

Unclear about Lin Sui's attitude towards Yan Qin, Lin Min also responded politely.

She asked the surrounding servants, "Where is your young master?"

"The young master is sleeping."

The one who answered was Yan Qin. Lin Sui had become drowsy as soon as he returned from school and told him that from now on, he should go to school by himself, and they would talk after he woke up.

"Then I won't wake him up for now. Do you know why he suddenly skipped a grade?"

Hearing how Yan Qin addressed Lin Sui, Lin Min had quite a few speculations in her heart. She sat down and inquired about the matter.

Yan Qin shook his head. He was too embarrassed to say 'it might be because of me'; it would sound a bit strange and inevitably make people overthink.

Lin Min didn't ask further and let Yan Qin continue doing his homework. She observed him for a while, feeling that this illegitimate son of the Yan Family was quite interesting. At the very least, he looked more promising than Yan Zhou.

Lin Sui slept for an hour and got up with a slight headache.

The original owner's schedule had been too chaotic, so much so that after waking up early for just one day, he felt sleepy by the evening. He rubbed his temples, only realizing Lin Min had come when he stood in the hallway.

"Sister," Lin Sui greeted her listlessly. "Why are you here?"

Lin Min asked with concern, "Mom and Dad couldn't reach your phone, so they asked me to come take a look. If you're feeling unwell, should I call a doctor?"

Lin Sui shook his head. "I muted it while sleeping. I'm fine."

A servant nearby asked if he wanted to eat, and Lin Sui nodded. "Make something light."

Lin Min watched him take a sip of water and saw his complexion improve before continuing to ask, "Why did you suddenly skip a grade? Do you need the family to make arrangements in advance?"

There was less than a month left before the college entrance examination. Lin Sui suddenly pulling such a stunt caught the family by surprise.

"No need. I'm taking the college entrance exam myself, you guys don't need to worry."

As soon as these words came out, not only was Lin Min dumbfounded, but Yan Qin beside them was also inwardly surprised.

Lin Min was a little anxious but didn't know how to express it. With a subtle expression, she said, "Have you really decided to take the college entrance exam?"

If there wasn't an outsider present, Lin Min would have straightforwardly told him not to push himself; this wasn't a matter to throw a tantrum over.

"Don't question my decision. Just tell the family exactly that. Rest assured, I know what I'm doing."

Lin Min originally wanted to persuade him a bit more, but thinking of the Lin Sui who had discussed projects with her that night, she suddenly felt that perhaps Lin Sui really had a plan in mind.

Moreover, she knew her brother had always been used to being domineering. Since he had already said this much, there was clearly no possibility of him changing his mind.

They had no choice but to let Lin Sui have his way. At worst, they would just cover for him in the end. In any case, they couldn't let Lin Sui end up with no university to attend.

The current atmosphere was becoming a bit stiff, so Lin Min hurriedly changed the subject.

"Right, An'an, what about the priceless treasure you said you would bring home to show us last time? Giving the Yan Family so much profit, I want to see what kind of treasure caught your fancy."

As soon as she said this, astonishment surfaced in Yan Qin's eyes.

The phrase 'priceless treasure' pierced straight into his head, making him dizzy as if deprived of oxygen.

Lin Sui looked towards Yan Qin and said casually, "Him? After Wu Yun left, I needed a new dog. He's not bad, right?"

The youth's tone was flat, making it hard to tell whether this was a disparagement or a compliment, but it obviously carried an insulting implication. If Lin Min hadn't seen Yan Qin, she would have thought the subject was an object.

Lin Min furrowed her brows, looking at Lin Sui with some helplessness. "An'an, this kind of joke goes a bit too far."

Although she personally felt there was nothing wrong with her brother keeping a plaything, displaying it so openly, she felt there was no need to insult people like this. Furthermore, even if Yan Qin was the illegitimate son of the Yan Family, he was still a member of the Yan Family.

Lin Min then thought of the deal between Lin Sui and the Yan Family and sighed in her heart. Forget it, even Yan Qin's own father didn't care.

She couldn't help but look at Yan Qin, only to find Yan Qin's expression was calm without a hint of abnormality, making her feel a strange, faint unease.

Lin Sui didn't talk back to her, simply asking, "Sister, have you eaten? If not, let's eat together."

"I've already eaten, so I'll be leaving first. I'll go home and tell Mom and Dad about you taking the college entrance exam."

As for this so-called priceless treasure, Lin Min didn't plan on disclosing it.

Lin Sui watched Lin Min leave, then quietly ate the seafood porridge brought from the kitchen.

Yan Qin also had a bowl. He sat opposite Lin Sui, carefully observing his reaction.

They didn't usually eat together. He was very self-aware and would only go to the kitchen to eat after Lin Sui had finished his meal.

This was the first time they sat together at the table to eat. He was even prepared for Lin Sui to viciously smash his bowl and mockingly ask how a master and a dog could eat at the same table, but Lin Sui didn't do so. He didn't even spare him an extra glance.

Once again, he had guessed his thoughts wrong.

After quietly finishing his food, Yan Qin couldn't help but touch the thin chain around his neck.

This chain was on his neck, and the bracelet that belonged to Lin Sui was also on him.

The day before yesterday, when Lin Sui was angry, he took it off and threw it at him, and hadn't asked for it back since.

Yan Qin didn't know if the young master was already tired of him. Thinking of that phrase 'priceless treasure', he felt a bit dazed again.

How could such words come out of the young master's mouth? Lin Sui was too contradictory of a person, so much so that his own thoughts also fluctuated unpredictably.

Lin Sui went upstairs with a poor complexion. Due to his sleep, his head was still faintly aching, and his mood was extremely unpleasant.

Because he had just eaten something and his blood was circulating to his stomach for digestion, drowsiness washed over him again. However, he didn't want to sleep, furrowing his brows in annoyance.

Just then, someone began massaging his temples. Lin Sui's brows relaxed a bit, and without even lifting his eyelids, he let the person continue servicing him.

He was too familiar with Yan Qin's scent; he knew it was him without needing to open his eyes.

Watching the tyrannical aura around the young master weaken, Yan Qin silently massaged him. He used to do this often for his mother when she had headaches, so he was still quite skilled at it now.

Just as Lin Sui was being massaged into a drowsy state, he heard the young man's slightly hoarse voice.

"Young Master, can I go see my mother?"

As soon as Yan Qin discovered that his mother had been transferred to another hospital, he wanted to see her as soon as possible, otherwise he wouldn't feel at ease.

Lin Sui had long known that Yan Qin would bring up this request, but he hadn't expected him to hold it in for so long and choose such an opportune moment.

Comforted by the massage, Lin Sui gave an affirmative sound.

The next day, he took Yan Qin to the hospital and watched as Yan Qin entered the ward.

He wasn't very interested in their tender, loving mother-son reunion, so he sent a bodyguard to go buy him something.

Yan Qin spoke for a while with his mother, whose condition was a bit better than before. After she fell into a deep sleep, he examined the ward and left quietly.

The little young master was sitting outside, holding a drink in his hand.

Yan Qin watched him take a sip and swallow it down, an unbearable expression showing on his face, but he still took a second sip.

"Do you want a taste?" Lin Sui shook the cup in his hand towards Yan Qin, curving his lips at him. "It's sweet."

Yan Qin sat down beside him, looking at the passion fruit in the cup, and silently took a sip.

It was the unique sourness of passion fruit, and because a lot of it had been added, the taste was even sourer than usual. It had absolutely nothing to do with being sweet.

Yan Qin swallowed it and responded, "It's very sweet."

Lin Sui laughed heartily, seemingly very pleased with his answer.

He knew there was passion fruit inside, and he also knew it was sour.

Lin Sui was very afraid of eating sour foods, and he couldn't accept sour fruits even more so, with the exception of passion fruit.

The very first cup of milk tea in his life was bought for him by a kind-hearted older sister. She teased him, saying, "This is sweet."

Lin Sui had never eaten candy, nor had he ever eaten sweet foods. In that home, he could only eat leftovers. He didn't know what sweetness was, so he defined this taste as sweet.

After he was switched back by his parents, he was pranked into eating a cake containing so much lemon and passion fruit juice that it was bitterly sour.

When they asked if it was delicious, he said it was too sweet.

Those people were laughing, and he was also laughing.

Withdrawing from his memories, Lin Sui looked at Yan Qin holding the cup in front of him. Using his hand, he smeared the whipped cream topping of the milk tea onto the tip of Yan Qin's nose.

He leaned close to Yan Qin, swept the cream he had just smeared onto him into his mouth, leaving a slight moisture on his own lips.

"The feeling of pointing at a deer and calling it a horse is really not bad."

Lin Sui sucked the remaining cream off his fingertips. His words carried a hidden meaning as he looked at Yan Qin with rippling, lustrous eyes.

The faintly visible milky color between the youth's lips and teeth highlighted his bright and stunning expression. Combined with the lingering moisture on the tip of the nose, melding together in the scorching summer heat, it was like a sharp blade carving a cut into Yan Qin's heart.

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