My Brother's Arranged Marriage Partner Is My Boyfriend - Chapter 62

For some reason, Bai Nanxing suddenly felt uncomfortable with this behavior. He broke free from Mo Yichen’s grip with force and muttered an apology.

Mo Yichen’s eyes grew visibly despondent, yet he said nothing. Instead, he stood up and pulled Bai Nanxing down onto the bed, pinning him down with his entire body.

By the time Bai Nanxing reacted, he was completely unable to move. Mo Yichen’s full weight was pressing down on him, and their fingers were tightly interlaced and pinned down, leaving him no chance to struggle.

Bai Nanxing’s eyes widened in disbelief. He looked into Mo Yichen’s eyes and then turned his head away to remind him: “Brother Chen, you’re drunk.”

Mo Yichen stared at him, repeating his previous words: “I’m not drunk.”

The air suddenly became awkward. The two were so close that they were face-to-face, feeling each other’s breath, nearly pressed against one another.

Bai Nanxing broke free from the restraint of their interlaced fingers and tried to push him away, only to find that Mo Yichen’s strength was astonishing—exactly like Mo Leyang’s. His own strength was simply not enough to move him, so he eventually gave up.

“Brother Chen, you really are drunk.”

Mo Yichen rested his head in the crook of Bai Nanxing’s neck and whispered in his ear: “I’m not drunk. I knew it was you the moment you walked in.”

Sensing that something was wrong with him tonight, Bai Nanxing tried to push him again, but he remained as immovable as a mountain.

Then he heard Mo Yichen say: “Star, don’t move. Just let me hold you like this, just for a moment.”

If this had been the past, Bai Nanxing wouldn’t have resented this behavior, but things were different now.

Everything had changed, though Bai Nanxing couldn’t pinpoint exactly what it was; he had simply grown to loathe the feeling of being touched by men.

“Brother Chen, if there’s something on your mind, we can get up and talk about it slowly.”

Mo Yichen gave no reaction, ignoring the suggestion and suddenly asking: “Star, what do you think of me?”

Stunned by the question, Bai Nanxing fell silent instantly.

Actually, it was an easy question to answer; it just depended on whether the other person wanted to hear the truth or a lie.

But judging by the temperament of the Mo family, they didn’t like hearing the truth, and if he told a lie, they would claim he was being dishonest. Neither path would lead to a favorable outcome.

Seeing Bai Nanxing hesitate for so long, Mo Yichen’s tone carried a hint of sadness. “Does Star find this question so difficult to answer?”

Bai Nanxing didn’t deny it. Following Mo Yichen’s lead, he asked back: “Does Brother Chen want to hear the truth, or a lie?”

Mo Yichen didn’t make a sound.

In reality, he didn’t want to hear either, but Bai Nanxing clearly didn’t understand the underlying meaning of his words.

Or perhaps Bai Nanxing did understand, but didn’t even want to offer him a word of comfort.

“If I said I wanted to hear both, would Star tell them both to me?”

“Brother Chen…”

“Star will tell me, right?”

“…”

Bai Nanxing suddenly wondered if everyone in the Mo family suffered from this same affliction—always forcing others to say things they didn’t want to say.

But this tone of Mo Yichen’s… why did he sound so aggrieved?

Wasn’t he the one who should be feeling aggrieved right now?!

Bai Nanxing truly felt he must have committed some great sin in his past life to encounter these two Mo brothers in this one.

One was a perverted madman, and the other was a pathological madman.

They were both straight out of a psychiatric hospital!

“Brother Chen, you can only choose one between the truth and a lie. You can’t have your cake and eat it too; even a three-year-old understands that logic.”

But this logic clearly didn’t apply to the future heir of the Mo family.

Mo Yichen immediately retorted: “The reason people say you can’t have both is because they lack the ability to achieve both. Once a person’s capability reaches a certain peak, the choice of whether one can have both ceases to exist. So, Star, can I choose both?”

“If I say you can only choose one, will Brother Chen get angry?” Bai Nanxing asked tentatively.

Mo Yichen suddenly went quiet and didn’t answer.

The two lapsed into silence in that position.

After about half an hour, Bai Nanxing was starting to feel a bit suffocated by the weight and had to reach out to push Mo Yichen.

“Brother Chen, I’m feeling very uncomfortable. Can you get up first?”

Mo Yichen could feel Bai Nanxing’s breathing becoming hurried; he knew he wasn’t lying. He finally propped himself up with his hands and moved off Bai Nanxing.

However, once Bai Nanxing sat up, Mo Yichen had no intention of letting him go. Instead, he hugged him tightly from behind and whispered by his ear: “Star, I want to hear the truth.”

Bai Nanxing didn’t struggle. Mo Yichen’s strength was far too great; struggling would only result in his own discomfort, so he simply gave up. It was easier this way. He said: “The truth is, Brother Chen, you are very good. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be so many people who like you, would there?”

Mo Yichen’s face remained expressionless, his emotions unreadable. After hearing Bai Nanxing’s words, the look in his eyes became even more melancholy than before.

These words were clearly meant to appease him; they weren’t his true thoughts.

Perhaps he was afraid of making him angry, so he didn’t dare speak the truth.

Whatever the reason, Mo Yichen felt as though his heart was blocked by something, an indescribable discomfort—a feeling no one else could understand, known only to himself.

Pursing his lips, Mo Yichen stopped dwelling on that question and asked another: “Then what do you think of Ayang? Between me and Ayang, which one is better?”

Bai Nanxing’s heart skipped a beat. He didn’t understand what Mo Yichen meant by this question. Although he knew the two brothers were not on good terms privately and competed over everything, why was he asking him about this?

Had Mo Yichen discovered that he and Mo Leyang were already involved?

But if Mo Yichen already knew, shouldn’t he be angry?

Everyone believed he was Mo Yichen’s future fiancée, but now he was finding out that his supposed fiancée was involved with his own younger brother. Even if there was no official engagement, in a sense, he had been “cuckolded.” He should be furious.

Bai Nanxing asked tentatively: “Brother Chen, why are you asking this all of a sudden?”

Mo Yichen rested his head on Bai Nanxing’s shoulder, tightening his hold around his waist. “Everyone thinks that as the future heir, I shouldn’t compete with Ayang for anything, because I will inherit the entire Mo family, while Ayang at most has shares in the Mo Group. If I compete with him, it makes me look short-sighted. But they don’t know—it’s true that I am the future heir, but I am also a man, a man with emotions and desires. I also have things I want to fight for, things that have nothing to do with the position I occupy.”

Bai Nanxing subconsciously gripped the hem of his jacket. His intuition was correct; Mo Yichen’s words were loaded with hidden meaning.

Before he could speak, Mo Yichen preempted him: “Star, at the Gu family banquet that day, I saw you kiss Ayang.”

Bai Nanxing’s eyes widened. Just as he was about to argue, Mo Yichen continued: “You must be wondering why I saw you kiss him. It’s because the Old Master called me suddenly; he was worried you’d be bullied by the Gu family, so he asked me to keep an eye on you. I had a drink with that old man from the Gu family, and when I turned around to look for you, I searched the entire hall and couldn’t find a trace of you. Ayang was gone too. So, at that moment, I had a feeling that if I could find Ayang, I would surely find you. And sure enough…”

Mo Yichen paused, his voice sounding somewhat pained. “Star, do you know how I felt the moment I saw you kiss Ayang? You were right just now—plenty of people like me and pursue me, but none of them are sincere. They only like me because of my status as the heir to the Mo Group. If I didn’t have this status, they wouldn’t give me a second glance, just like the fourth brother.”

Bai Nanxing had met Mo Fei at the old residence. He was good-looking and had a gentle personality—he seemed like an honest person. Compared to the two eccentrics, Mo Yichen and Mo Leyang, he seemed remarkably normal.

However, Mo Yichen’s words confused him. Even if Mo Fei wasn’t favored by Mo Yuncheng, he was still the fourth young master of the Mo family. With that status, there should be plenty of people wanting to forge a connection with him.

Or was it that in the Mo family, if you didn’t have power, you were treated like a discarded concubine in the cold palace?

…In a family as twisted as this, it wasn’t impossible.

“But Brother Chen, there are no ‘ifs’ in this world.”

If there were, he wouldn’t have been born, he wouldn’t have had a father like Bai Yi who didn’t deserve the title, and he wouldn’t have had to struggle to survive in the dark cage that was the Bai family.

But there are no “ifs.”

Just as there will never be a Doraemon in this world.

It is nothing more than human wishful thinking.

Mo Yichen was stunned by Bai Nanxing’s response. It was only then that he suddenly understood what Bai Nanxing meant earlier about not being able to have both.

So that was what it meant.

“Since we were children, I’ve never seen Ayang like anyone, and I’ve never seen anyone able to act so recklessly in front of him. The last person who kissed him without permission is still in the hospital receiving treatment.” Mo Yichen spoke word by word, “But I know very well that his tolerance for you isn’t because you are good-looking. In terms of looks alone, you can’t compare to the one still lying in the hospital bed. So, there must be another reason.”

Another reason…

Bai Nanxing smiled. “Then what reason does Brother Chen think it is?”

Mo Yichen shook his head. “I don’t know. Ayang’s personality is perverted. Even the Old Master doesn’t know what to do with him and has even given up on finding him a marriage partner for fear that he’ll send the person to the hospital the moment he’s unhappy.”

Bai Nanxing completely agreed with that statement. It was exactly the kind of thing that pervert Mo Leyang would do.

So, was he essentially performing an act of charity?