My Brother's Arranged Marriage Partner Is My Boyfriend - Chapter 60

After leaving the hotel, Bai Nanxing returned to school and collapsed onto his bed. His body had been pushed too hard by Mo Leyang; there wasn’t a single part of him that felt functional. Every cell seemed to be in protest, and he felt as if he had been physically dismantled—pain radiated from every inch of his being.

Inwardly, he felt a twinge of regret for being so indulgent with Mo Leyang. If this happened again, he truly might not be able to get out of bed for an entire week.

“Yan Mo, can you get me a glass of water?” Bai Nanxing asked, his voice rasping and hoarse.

Yan Mo immediately poured a glass of warm water and handed it over. “Star Baby, are you okay? Can’t he be a little gentler with you? What if he actually breaks you?”

“Cough, cough, cough.”

Bai Nanxing held the glass, remaining silent.

Technically, he couldn’t really blame Mo Leyang for this. The reason the other man was able to be so relentless in bed was actually due to his own tacit permission. Otherwise, forget being rough—it would be a question of whether Mo Leyang could even preserve his dignity as a man.

“He wouldn’t have the guts to treat me like this otherwise,” Bai Nanxing said, unwilling to explain further. He pivoted the conversation immediately. “While I was away this past week, did Bai Ruoning come looking for you?”

Yan Mo answered honestly, “You’re asking about him? Yeah, he came by. Just talking about Bai Ruoning makes me angry. He didn’t just come alone; he brought those two ‘simps’ of his. Not only that, he warned me to stay away from you, saying you’re a jinx and that anyone who gets close to you comes to a bad end. The whole thing was just bizarre. He’s just acting high and mighty because of who’s backing him. What’s there to be so proud of?”

This aligned perfectly with Bai Nanxing’s long-standing perception of Bai Ruoning: empty-headed, tyrannical, and foul-mouthed, with absolutely no upbringing.

However, that was a sin committed by Bai Yi; it had nothing to do with him.

“Did he make things difficult for you?” Bai Nanxing asked.

Yan Mo shook his head and snorted. “He wouldn’t dare! If he dared to give me trouble, I’d step up and slap him right then and there!”

Although his family background couldn’t compare to Bai Ruoning’s, and he didn’t have a flock of followers, he believed that being poor didn’t mean being spineless. If Bai Ruoning actually tried something, he wasn’t afraid.

“Don’t worry, Star Baby, he won’t do anything to me.” Yan Mo stepped forward and lifted Bai Nanxing’s arm to inspect him. “But as for you… he didn’t lay a hand on you, did he? Let me check.”

Before Bai Nanxing could react, Yan Mo hiked up his sleeve, instantly exposing a large area of red and purple intimate marks.

Yan Mo’s eyes widened. He slowly turned his head to look at Bai Nanxing with an expression of pure shock, as if he had never seen the world before. For a moment, he didn’t know whether to be envious or stunned.

“Star… Star Baby, he, he, he…” Yan Mo lowered his voice and asked, “That guy of yours… is he really good in bed?!”

Bai Nanxing said nothing, which served as a tacit admission.

Yan Mo’s eyes sparkled with envy. “I can see it. Mixed-race, a model’s physique… but then again, has he confessed his feelings to you yet?”

Asked this, Bai Nanxing didn’t know how to respond. After hesitating for a long while, he finally told Yan Mo the truth: “No.”

“No?!”

Yan Mo truly couldn’t wrap his head around it. They had slept together twice, and as for kissing, it had probably happened hundreds of times. After all that, he still hadn’t confessed?

Could it be that the two of them were really just having a pure physical fling?

“Then what are you thinking, Star Baby? Are you going to keep up this ambiguous relationship forever? Or is it that he’s unwilling to give you a formal status and just wants you to be his little lover?!”

Bai Nanxing quickly cut off his vivid imagination and shifted the topic back. “So, besides warning you to stay away, what else did Bai Ruoning say?”

Seeing that Bai Nanxing had no intention of continuing that topic, Yan Mo didn’t press further. “Oh, right. Besides the warning, he left a parting threat. He said that if you’re dreaming of turning from a common bird into a phoenix, you’re dreaming. He said his dad won’t let you actually marry into that Mo family, so you should forget about it. But when I thought about it carefully, that sentence felt very wrong.”

Yan Mo continued, “Wasn’t it your scumbag father who pushed you into the marriage alliance in the first place? For him to turn around and say something like that now… could it be that your scumbag father is brewing some new scheme?”

Bai Nanxing’s first reaction mirrored Yan Mo’s. He knew Bai Ruoning too well; if something—especially something negative regarding Nanxing—wasn’t happening, Bai Ruoning wouldn’t be so desperate to announce it to the world.

Therefore, Bai Yi must be doing something behind his back.

What Bai Nanxing didn’t understand was that Bai Yi had always wanted a powerful backer, and the Mo family was undoubtedly the smartest choice. Although Mo Yuncheng had said at the Mo ancestral home that Nanxing marrying into the family had nothing to do with Bai Yi, and had warned Bai Yi not to harbor unrealistic fantasies, if he did actually marry into the Mo family, it would be impossible to remain completely disconnected from Bai Yi.

In that scenario, Bai Yi’s goal would be achieved.

So why would he give up such a golden opportunity so easily?

Or was Mo Yuncheng truly intending to do as he said—cut ties with Bai Yi completely once the marriage happened?

But why would Mo Yuncheng choose an “useless” illegitimate son like him for a marriage alliance?

Bai Nanxing was self-aware. He never allowed himself to harbor hope for things he shouldn’t, not even a shred. As long as there was no hope, there would be no disappointment.

Besides, the idea was simply unrealistic.

Consequently, he never believed Mo Yuncheng had done all this specifically for him.

But now, it seemed like that was exactly the case.

But why?

This reminded Bai Nanxing of his first visit to the Mo ancestral home, when he had accidentally stumbled into Mo Yuncheng’s private study. He recalled Mo Yuncheng’s strange attitude toward him, and the expressions on the faces of the Mo siblings when they found out. It turned out those reactions weren’t faked.

No wonder that pervert Mo Leyang had behaved so out of character toward him after that.

But why would Mo Yuncheng go this far?

He didn’t even know Mo Yuncheng; they were worlds apart. There was no reason for Mo Yuncheng to do this for him.

At that moment, a painting suddenly flashed before Bai Nanxing’s eyes. He bit his lip in disbelief, his mind becoming a chaotic mess. All his thoughts tangled together, making his head thrum.

Mo Yuncheng wanted him to break ties with the Bai family entirely—no, he wanted him to sever the father-son relationship with Bai Yi.

Only by cutting ties with Bai Yi could he truly escape the cage of the Bai family.

That painting… that painting likely had something to do with his mother.

That was why Mo Yuncheng had mistaken him for someone else at first, thinking he had seen an old friend. It explained why he was so incredibly tolerant of Nanxing’s later disrespectful behavior.

Thinking about it this way, everything suddenly connected. All the abnormal behaviors finally had a logical explanation.

Combined with the harsh words Bai Ruoning had said to Yan Mo, it was enough to prove that his hypothesis was correct.

“Star Baby, what’s wrong?” Yan Mo noticed that Bai Nanxing was spacing out and asked worriedly, thinking he had been frightened by Bai Ruoning’s words.

“It’s nothing.” Bai Nanxing snapped out of it, a bitter smile touching his lips. He asked, “Yan Mo, tell me… if there was something where you could almost guess the truth, but that truth might be very painful, would you still keep investigating?”

Yan Mo paused. He didn’t know why Bai Nanxing was asking this, but he knew there must be a reason behind it. He answered honestly, “Emm… if it were me, it would depend on what that truth means to me. If the truth is cruel, I’d rather never know. Even though deceiving oneself is wrong, it’s better than living in pain for a lifetime. But if the situation isn’t that cruel, and the truth is important to me, then I would definitely get to the bottom of it. It’s a way of giving myself closure, don’t you think, Star Baby?”

Those words were indeed sensible. Bai Nanxing nodded seriously. “You’re right.”

What he had always cared about wasn’t actually whether Bai Yi was his biological father, but whether he could escape the prison of the Bai family. Even if the eventual truth was that Bai Yi was his biological father, he wouldn’t feel pain or complain about how unfair the heavens were.

As long as he could escape the Bai family, nothing else mattered to him.

Once he worked through this, the psychological pressure on Bai Nanxing lessened significantly. If everything was as he suspected—that Mo Yuncheng knew his mother, and based on the act of keeping a personal portrait in a private study, their relationship was far from ordinary.

At the very least, from the perspective of a male-female relationship, Mo Yuncheng was deeply infatuated with his mother, whom Nanxing had never met. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have looked at him as if seeing someone else the first time they met, nor would he keep a painting of a woman who wasn’t his wife in his private space.

The most important point was Mo Yuncheng’s immense tolerance for his impolite behavior of intruding into the study.

So, this was the opportunity Heaven had given him to flee the Bai family.

Bai Nanxing felt he absolutely had to meet Mo Yuncheng once to confirm his suspicions. If Mo Yuncheng wasn’t angry about his nonsensical behavior, then he could take advantage of the situation and let Mo Yuncheng help him break away from the Bai family, becoming a free person from then on.

If Mo Yuncheng was angry… then he would simply accept his fate.

Just then, Bai Nanxing’s phone suddenly rang.

He tapped it to check; it was a call from Mo Yichen.

But at this hour, Mo Yichen should be busy with company affairs. Why would he have the time to call him?