Mansion of Desires - Chapter 17
The boss said seriously to Kayoshi:
“Stay in bed with me until you are satisfied. That way, I’ll let you go back to school.”
The teen then turned his head indifferently:
“Bullshit argument.”
“……” anticipating this reaction, the boss looked at him with interest “What do you mean?”
“Let’s not talk about whether I can accept the conditions you proposed, even if I roll into bed with you, if you always say ‘unsatisfied’, there’s nothing I can do about it.”
Boss Black nearly laughed out loud:
“You’re still quite smart.”
“No need for compliments.”
He then stood up:
“The conditions have been clearly stated, whether you accept or not is your problem, if you don’t trust me and miss the opportunity, don’t cry and say you regret it. Think about it.”
With that, he stepped back to the door:
“I will have someone bring you some food, I hope you remember your lesson and don’t hurt my guests in the future.”
Walking out of the room, Bin was waiting at the door as he took the ceramic bowl from his boss:
“There’s no need for the boss to do this kind of thing himself…”
Boss Black played with what had just happened──he had wanted to punish him for longer, but the obsession disappeared when he saw the youth’s haggard appearance. The man’s last hesitation vanished in a flash when his thin palms were gathered around his face.
“Xiao Bin,” the boss asked his sidekick “Do you think I’m scary?”
Binh thought for a moment:
“Many people are afraid of the boss, I’ve followed you for ten years and I really can’t remember how many people have died at your hands.”
“That’s an exaggeration.”
Bin scratched his hair:
“Indeed, the boss never does those cruel things directly, he only needs to issue an order, and will naturally force the good people to go into the wrong path, and eventually betray themselves or commit suicide.”
“Am I that bad?”
“Did you think it was reasonable to do all those things? Looks like I’m going to have to take my knowledge of my boss to the next level.”
“……” the boss teased “You’re a man who can’t please.”
Kaioshi watched the black crocodile exit the room before letting out a long breath, the man’s oppression was amazing, it really took extra effort to have a calm conversation with him.
Just screwing around like that consumed more energy, and the empty city song in his stomach sang even more fiercely.
There was still the sweet aftertaste of glucose in his mouth, and on his lips was the gentle touch with the man’s lips. I thought that kiss would be as cold and stiff as the man himself, but it was so gentle…
Hyatt had kissed him more than once, and each kiss had left him puzzled, unable to draw any more resentment from the kiss at all.
He brushed the contours of his lips, immersed in an inexplicable sensation.
A few days later, the boss asked Bin while he was dealing with business:
“How’s Kaiyue?”
“Ah…” Bin hesitated for a moment, “It has recovered a lot.”
The boss laughed softly:
“You don’t like that kid?”
“It’s not ‘I don’t like the kid’,” said Beam, “it’s ‘I don’t like the boss thinking about the kid’. ”
The boss took off the cigar from his mouth and exhaled the smoke:
“You said I always had a special ‘concern’ for Kaiju, I think it was probably because of what happened back then…”
“‘Back then’?”
The boss then explained:
“Three years ago, I once paid a visit to Old Five’s house. That was the first time I saw Kaiju.”
Bin was a bit surprised:
“How could I not know about this? What would you do if you were in danger without my protection, boss?”
The man waved his hand:
“Just once in a while. Old Five said he had a rare animal and invited me to see it and offer a price. That’s when I first met Kaikoshi.
“Kaikoshi, of course, didn’t know what I was about, but thought I was a friend of Old Five’s and entertained him for a while. He was very clean and simple, not to mention a child, but with just the right amount of attitude without being overbearing. Although he had not yet grown up, I could already see that he was going to be very handsome in the future.
“So I said to Lao Wu, three years, as long as he can wait three years, when this young man grows up, I will spend a lot of money to buy him, of course, during these three years, you are not allowed to touch him half a finger. And also gave Old Five a sum of money as a deposit.”
Xiao Bin listened to the boss’s narration without surprise, and said half a day later:
“So you’ve been targeting that kid for a long time…”
The boss continued to smoke:
“That kid is very fond of…or should I say very ‘respectful’ of Lao Wu, his whole attention is on Lao Wu…can you experience how I feel, Xiao Bin—he doesn’t look like an illegitimate child who was abandoned by his parents at all, not like a sophisticated and smooth kid who survives on his own… He doesn’t look like a bastard child abandoned by his parents, not like a child who has survived on his own, sophisticated and smooth, and in front of Lao Wu, he crouches down like a lamb, making people think evil thoughts at first sight.”
Beam nodded:
“But in front of us, it turned into a wary hedgehog, careful everywhere.”
The boss laughed:
“He trusts the person who betrayed him from the bottom of his heart, or should I say, he desperately needed to trust and rely on someone when Old Five took advantage of the situation.”
“So what,” said Beam, “you want to see how this peculiar lamb can survive in the Public House of Desire?”
The boss clipped his cigar and gathered his temples:
“I’m interested in him, think about it, the bastard son of a whore, he must have had a difficult upbringing, but it’s amazing that he has that kind of character, clean and strong, unchanged even in the three years he’s spent with Old Five. I’m curious to know what magic he has…”
