[曦澄 | XiCheng][MDZS Modern AU]: All The Things I Never Told You [~PART 2~]

〽️👁‍🗨 Chapter 231: Cor[e]-Relations.

Link:  https://www.facebook.com/raisedgoodblog/posts/795996592087269

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It was a weird and needy Thursday.

Lan Huan  was pouting, because he didn't know, he couldn't even guess why Jiang Cheng was sulking all of a sudden.

Jiang Cheng  himself was sulking mostly because he hated doctors of any sort,  and he still shuddered helplessly, remembering the stranger's touch on his skin, albeit through latex gloves.

But he approved, deep down inside  –  he approved of Brent's plan, of his idea to keep this secret from A-Huan. It was better so.

Of course he noticed it. The dark circles, inevitably forming under Lan Xichen's eyes. The fact that he was working late on most days, reading more than ever before, typing variants of his opening speech for the trial over and over again... His guilty conscious was telling him that the fact that Lan Xichen had turned his whole routine upside-down so that their daily schedules could coincide was actually more exhausting for the young lawyer. And Lan Huan had not complained about it, not even once.

And now, on top of all of this, there was his neediness for sex, for constant intimacy, for urgent reassurance that they were close, that things between them were alright,  that they were together, and would always be together. It was extra strain, extra exertion, extra stress.

- Fuck.  –  he mumbled to himself; the bar was far too busy today for some weird, illogical reason.

He was stealing seconds, from time to time, every half an hour or so, to go to the staff room and check his phone.

No.

No messages.

Just one  –  from Wen Ning, asking about how the renovations had gone.

- Huh?  –  he was totally baffled: there had been nothing different about the place when he came to work today.

The only different thing now was the tracker in his mouth. A tracker, connected to some complicated device on Brent's notebook, ready to be activated. In case of an emergency.

Damn, the boring blonde was good! He drove him to work today without a single comment. Jiang Cheng also noticed that he had put on some ridiculously cliché pitch-black clothes today, and he had managed to cut his hair very short. Magically. Overnight.

Did he sleep at all?!

He suspected he was some sort of an alien android in human form, void of emotions and the capacity to be upset, or love.

- Dammit, San San would have loved that! I must make sure those two meet and watch them drive each other crazy and tease each other to the death.  –  he grunted, mildly amused while having his lunch break.

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Still no messages. It was already almost 6 in the evening. Lunch came late today because he had to wait for the fucking cement to get better hold and stiffen in his mouth.

Damn! Such a fucked-up day!

He bit his lips. He could not go on like this for too much longer. So he did something he had never done before.

He got to be the first one to call.

He dialed the familiar number, and his heart was pounding. Was he going to pick up? Or ignore his call? Was he very busy? Very mad at him now? The typical thing, on a typical day, was that Lan Huan would be spamming him with messages and photos of his day, babbling about boring stuff whenever he had time in his hectic routine.