Professional Body Double

Chapter 20

As expected, Yan Mingxiu and Zhou Xiang had a falling out, and Yan Mingxiu didn’t come home for consecutive days,.

    Zhou Xiang didn't feel anything at first, especially when he was busy with work. However, after a few days passed, he started to feel uncomfortable, and kept feeling that the house was empty and missing a person. There were traces of Yan Mingxiu everywhere in the house. It was only when Zhou Xiang woke up to reality, that he discovered he really missed Yan Mingxiu.

    Zhou Xiang had a good temper but that didn't mean that he didn't have his own principles. With the exception of Yan Mingxiu, he had never been so patient and accommodating with anyone before, and although he felt that he hadn't done anything wrong, Yan Mingxiu’s indifference was too much for him to bear. Yan Mingxiu said that he wouldn't come back and really didn’t come back; he didn’t answer his calls, and didn’t reply to his messages.

    The food was dull and tasteless when Zhou Xiang was eating dinner alone. He put down his chopsticks and looked at the empty seat opposite him. His heart started to fill with fear. He finally had no choice but to admit that Yan Mingxiu had entered his heart a long time ago.

    A man his age needed an enormous amount of courage to admit that they liked someone, especially if that person they've fallen for is a boy who’s ten years younger. If the two of them had continued living together like this, Zhou Xiang would have been happy with the way things were. However, Yan Mingxiu suddenly disappeared from his life without a word, making Zhou Xiang experience an unprecedented sense of crisis.

    They had been getting along very well the entire time. He had never thought about how he would feel if Yan Mingxiu decided to break things off with him one day.

    He knew now. It felt extremely bad.

    How many years had it been since he had experienced relationship like this, where he would keep himself at arm’s length and worry unduly about personal gains and losses [1]? Zhou Xiang felt as if he was like a teenager who experiencing love for the first time, unable to restrain himself from approaching Yan Mingxiu, impulsively inviting him to live with him, being infatuated by him, compromising for him, and realising in the really end that every abnormal thing he did was all because he had started liking Yan Mingxiu for real.

    It was no wonder he handled his relationship with Yan Mingxiu so unwisely.

    Zhou Xiang sighed. His heart was a bit heavy, but he was also somewhat excited.

    He was a person who took responsibility for his own actions. It wasn't easy to find a person he liked so he shouldn’t give up so easily. Besides, they were already living together; so long as he worked hard, perhaps Yan Mingxiu will return his feelings too, and everyone will be happy.

    Zhou Xiang didn’t feel like eating anymore, and started to ring and send texts to Yan Mingxiu again. For the past few days, Zhou Xiang had pretended nothing had happened and his texts generally contained stuff like jokes or words asking about Yan Mingxiu’s health. Today, Zhou Xiang finally folded, and said to Yan Mingxiu, "Mingxiu, don't be angry anymore. I really miss you, come home, let's have a proper talk."

    If Yan Mingxiu still won't come back, he will have no choice but to go into the study see if he can find out where Yan Mingxiu worked, and find him directly. They couldn't keep dragging out things like this.

    To his surprise, past ten in the evening, Yan Mingxiu came back.

    Zhou Xiang was thrilled. He went forward, hugged him and kissed him fiercely, "Precious, has your temper cooled? The house didn't feel right without you here these past few days."