Winning the male lead

A suffocating silence spread across the study. Shen Lixing crossed his long legs, lowered his eyelids, and his thick eyelashes acted like a door that blocked the entire world. The faint red mark from the broken corner of his lip seemed out of place on his otherwise composed face, almost a bit comical.

Le Tian lowered his head, glancing at him secretly. He thought to himself, this really is a handsome, exceptional bastard, worthy of bowing my head to.

“Uncle, I’m sorry,” he said.

He was clearly not at fault, but after long periods of submission, it had become a habit for him to apologize. In the past, when he apologized, it meant everything was over, and all the previous conflicts would be erased.

This time, he wanted to use the same trick, hoping to escape and not think about the terrifying things hidden beneath Shen Lixing’s overwhelming emotions. Deep down, he was still a cowardly child.

But Shen Lixing refused to let the false veil between them remain intact. If he wanted someone, it had to be real, not ambiguous.

“Come here,” he said softly.

His voice was calm, no different from usual, and Le Tian cautiously took two steps forward.

To his surprise, Shen Lixing mischievously patted his thigh and said casually, “Sit.”

Le Tian’s eyes widened like a startled rabbit, thinking, “Damn, you really know how to play, I like it!”

Shen Lixing’s big hand rested on his thigh, his eyes calmly watching Le Tian, moving at a leisurely pace.

Le Tian’s delicate face struggled. No matter how scared he was of Shen Lixing, he still retained some sense of shame. He went against his wishes and sat down on the small sofa to his left, carefully forcing a smile and saying, “Uncle, I’m really sorry.”

Shen Lixing turned his head slightly, his gaze calm but sharp, like his mood—on the surface composed, but hiding a hidden edge. He slowly reached his hand towards Le Tian’s face.

His movements were slow, seemingly giving Le Tian time to avoid him.

Le Tian indeed tried to move back, shrinking his shoulder and leaning away. Shen Lixing’s hand paused in mid-air, only an inch away from his delicate skin.

“Le Tian,” Shen Lixing maintained his posture, “You really don’t know what I want?”

Le Tian knew exactly what he meant. At over twenty years old, he certainly understood that Shen Lixing pressing him for a kiss meant something.

But he was genuinely troubled and couldn’t understand why he suddenly had such feelings for him.

Shen Lixing was a solitary man.

As the head of the Shen family, he was excessively indifferent to desires. His life consisted only of managing the Shen family’s business and taking care of Le Tian, without any romantic entanglements.

Le Tian frowned and said, “Uncle, I’m a man.”

Shen Lixing’s expression didn’t change, and his hand remained stubbornly in the air. However, the corner of his mouth curled into a faint smile. “I can see that.”

Le Tian had no other choice but to shrink his neck, speaking in a very low voice, “I like Yu Miao.”

Shen Lixing’s finger, suspended in the air, slightly curled. His well-defined fingers suddenly burst with power.

Le Tian, still with his head lowered, was unaware that Shen Lixing was burning with anger. He continued talking, “I also like Uncle. I know you like me too. I’ll never leave you, but my feelings for you and Yu Miao are different. I can’t really say which is stronger…”

His words were sincere, full of heartfelt emotion, but Shen Lixing’s fingers were tightening more and more.

“What if I force you to choose?” Shen Lixing’s voice was deep.

Le Tian lowered his head and said nothing. He couldn’t make a choice—he wanted both. He wanted Yu Miao, his fiancée, and he wanted Shen Lixing, his uncle.

Shen Lixing’s behavior, trying to compete with Yu Miao for the position, was clearly unacceptable to him.

“You can’t choose, so I’ll help you choose.” Shen Lixing’s hand, still suspended in the air, finally landed on Shen Le Tian’s shoulder, pulling him down to kiss him again.

Le Tian naturally resisted, but the difference in strength between them was too great. His small resistance was no more than an ant trying to shake a tree, merely adding some extra amusement for Shen Lixing.

Shen Lixing truly was the strongest man in this world.

Le Tian was left dazed by the kiss, his breath coming in quick gasps. He wanted to kiss back and fight back, but he couldn’t. Instead, he opened his mouth and bit the scar on Shen Lixing’s lip.

The pain stimulated Shen Lixing, and his assault became even fiercer.

The two grown men were entangled in the small single sofa, both tall, with long arms and legs. Their neatly pressed shirts became wrinkled and disordered in their struggle.

Shen Lixing was ruthless. Le Tian was no match for him, and the strength to push Shen Lixing away gradually diminished. Faced with overwhelming power, he couldn’t resist and, as usual, chose to submit.

Sensing his compliance, Shen Lixing’s kiss became gentler, lingering like lovers in love. After the kiss, Le Tian’s face was flushed, his silver-framed glasses crooked on his nose, his lips slightly swollen, his expression dazed. He looked both disheveled and pitiful.

Shen Lixing smiled and leaned down, quickly kissing his lips again. “A dog, huh?”

The scar on his lip was bitten open again, and a small trickle of blood dripped. He carelessly wiped it away, continuing in the same dominant position, enjoying himself. “Baby, you belong to me.”

Le Tian slowly came back to his senses after the mental shock. His eyes moved in circles like a stuck tape, his glasses crooked and his vision unclear. Shen Lixing’s stern face was blurry in his eyes, almost unfamiliar. He suddenly opened his mouth, as if he had lost his tongue and couldn’t speak. Then, he slowly burped… too much cola! He quickly covered his mouth.

Seeing Le Tian’s aversion to their intimacy, Shen Lixing’s expression grew even darker. He let go of him, stood up, and turned his back on him. “I won’t make things difficult for someone unrelated, as long as you behave.”

His footsteps slowly faded, and the door was gently closed. Le Tian raised his hand to remove his glasses and curled up on the sofa, weakly covering his face with his arm.

He sighed, “I’m so disappointed in him.”

System: “You don’t like him?”

The system quickly suggested, “Even if you’re attracted to men, you don’t have to be with him. You should leave him for the female lead.”

It was still convinced that, despite the lack of attraction between the male and female leads in this world, someone as outstanding as Shen Lixing would surely attract the female lead.

Le Tian lowered his arm, his face filled with resentment, “He said today he would sleep with me, he lied!”

System: … It didn’t remember Shen Lixing ever saying anything like that.

Le Tian lamented, “I’ve been so clueless, and yet he didn’t explode in anger and force himself on me. Could it be that I misjudged his character?” After a moment, he suddenly had an epiphany and clapped his hands. “I get it now! It’s because he likes me so much, he can’t bear to hurt me! Hehe.”

System: … Whatever. Just let this elephant go into exile; it’s beyond saving.