Seize the Throne

Chapter 44.2 Follow Up: Xiao Shu’s birthday

Bian Yi was happy and nodded, “Yes, that’s right, we made him that way.”

Kou Li looked at the smile in his eyes and laughed with him. Then he asked, “Do you remember what you looked like just now?”

Bian Yi’s smile disappeared in an instant, and his tone was not friendly at all, “What did I look like?!”

Kou Li replied, “Like when we were doing math problems together during the summer vacation of our senior year.”

After getting into a relationship with Kou Li, Bian Yi was more prone to losing his temper in front of him than when they were just friends. Of course, an important reason for this was that Kou Li had spoiled him too much. At the time, the young Kou Li even darkly thought that he wanted to spoil Bian Yi’s temper, so that even if Bian Yi broke up with him someday, he wouldn’t find another person because no one could tolerate his bad temper.

Later, the narrow-minded Kou Li gradually learned from Bian Yi’s actions that Bian Yi wasn’t deliberately spoiled by him. He just showed his temper in front of him because he trusted him completely. Bian Yi felt safe with him and could do whatever he wanted.

Responsive love will make each other love better.

Bian Yi followed Kou Li’s words and recalled.

Senior year summer vacation? Doing math problems?

After thinking for a while, Bian Yi remembered what happened.

That year, Kou Li participated in a math competition and spent the summer solving various types of math problems at home. Bian Yi had been in a relationship with Kou Li for almost half a year at that time, although it was early love (kids, don’t do it, it will affect your studies), Kou Li really liked studying, and even during the summer vacation, he didn’t want to go out and play.

There was nothing Bian Yi could do. He couldn’t make Kou Li give up studying and couldn’t throw a tantrum. He had to go find him and study together.

So Kou Li gave him a problem to solve, saying that there would be a surprise when he solved it. Bian Yi didn’t think much about whether it would be surprising or not, he just started working on the problem.

But he wasn’t as smart as Kou Li, and he still couldn’t solve the problem even after an hour, with Kou Li watching him the whole time. He became angry and cursed Kou Li for being annoying, and making fun of him with a problem he couldn’t solve.

Kou Li didn’t want to delay any longer and quickly solved it for him. The final solution was a heart-shaped pattern, which was the kind of romance that only a science student could come up with.

Bian Yi was almost crying with anger that day, he was mad at himself. Kou Li just wanted to express his feelings, but he scolded him instead. After returning home, Bian Yi covered his head with a blanket and didn’t want to come out, even sweating profusely.

Now thinking back —

Bian Yi gritted his teeth and still felt embarrassed. Why was he so foolish?

He also remembered how Kou Li had half-hugged him, and he gave Kou Li a push and said angrily, “Get away from me!”

“Alright, Ah Yi, calm down,” Kou Li let go of him a little and then gently asked, “Do you want me to teach you?”

Bian Yi snorted.

After snorting, he subconsciously listened carefully as Kou Li explained the differences and meanings of the card patterns.

It was like when Kou Li taught him the correct problem-solving process after solving the problem, to ease his embarrassment.

Time passed, but some things never changed.

Bian Yi was being led by Kou Li and was not in a hurry to win the game. He seemed to hear Xiao Shu’s cheering voice outside the maze.

Jiang Shi, who was several paths away from Bian Yi, was diligently looking for the symbols.

He had played the “test version” of the game in the laboratory before, so he roughly knew how to play the game. However, the “test version” was nothing compared to the “official version”, which was much harder. He didn’t know how long it had been, but he hadn’t found a single correct symbol yet.

What was even more distracting for Jiang Shi was that Jian Yi was following him, but was not talking much.

Now that he heard Kou Sen’s cheering, he felt really embarrassed, he couldn’t even beat a kid. He was so proud of his academic performance, but now he felt like he was losing face. In order not to embarrass himself any further, he had to ask Jian Yi for help: “Um, Dr. Jian, which card do you think I should choose?”

“Um…” Jian Yi rubbed his chin, scrutinized the cards for a moment, and then pointed to one of them and said to Jiang Shi, “This one.”

“Okay,” Jiang Shi followed his advice and made his move. After a few more questions from Jian Yi, Jiang Shi suddenly realized that all four paths were blocked and there was no card he could play.

“Ah…” Jian Yi approached him with regret and said, “We’re stuck. Let’s wait for Kou Li to come and rescue us after he gets out.”

Jiang Shi blinked his eyes a few times, and then stared at Jian Yi with widened eyes. Even though he was not smart when it comes to women, he finally realized that Jian Yi had been deliberately tricking him.

He knew better than to be fooled, having had an education that combined biology and mathematics. Even if Jian Yi made a mistake, it was impossible for him to make such a coincidental error.

“Dr. Jian, why…” Jiang Shi tugged at the zipper on his own clothes and felt a bit lost.

Meanwhile, Jian Yi looked at him with a smile and said, “You seemed to be avoiding me all the time, but I wanted to talk to you. If you run away from me, I have no choice but to…”

He looked around at the trap and shrugged with a hint of innocence. “But you asked me to help you.”

“How was I supposed to know that you were lying?” Jiang Shi felt a bit aggrieved, but he really was trying to avoid Jian Yi.

“Okay,” Jian Yi coaxed him. “What I wanted to say is very brief. Would you like to try to find another way out after listening to me?”

Jiang Shi suddenly felt nervous.

The next moment, Jian Yi took two steps closer to him, but not close enough to make Jiang Shi instinctively back off.

He maintained that distance and asked Jiang Shi straightforwardly, “Mr. Jiang, would you like to be in a relationship with me?”

Jian Yi chuckled softly, although he was standing on the edge of a safe distance, his words were full of aggressiveness: “Xiao Shitou also has a good impression of me, right? And as for my impression of you, it’s as high as 98, do we still need to consider it?”

“I…I…I…” Jiang Shi’s tongue was tied, and his eyes were wandering in confusion. “Uh…I’m, I’m just fond of your face.”

Jiang Shi intended to say that, but his endangered intelligence suddenly kicked in. He looked up at Jian Yi and asked with doubt, “How do you know that the affection level is 98?”

Jian Yi’s confident smile suddenly froze, and he stumbled for words, caught off guard by his own arrogance.

Jiang Shi sat on the ground, turned his head away, and said, “Forget it, I’ll wait for Teacher Bian and the others to rescue us. I don’t want to bother you anymore, Dr. Jian.”

“Hey, wait, listen to me explain…”

Kou Sen stood at the exit of the maze and laughed out loud, “Dad, I won! Grandma, we won!”

“Well done, Xiao Shu! Let’s go rest over there. They are not as clever as Xiao Shu and don’t know when they can come out,” Grandma replied.

Kou Sen raised his chin and thought, “That’s right!”

However, time passed little by little and the smile on Kou Sen’s face gradually disappeared.

He had not yet seen his two fathers, Jian Yi, and Jiang Shi.

He didn’t believe that Kou Li and Jian Yi would take so long to solve the maze and come out.

There was only one reason why they had not come out, and that was because they simply did not want to come out.

Kou Sen looked again at his grandma, who had been lying beside him, and found that she was also typing on her phone with her boyfriend.

In that moment, he suddenly realized.

Kou, the Maze Master, had won, but Kou Sen had lost.

Wasn’t it his birthday? Why didn’t he feel happy?

Kou Sen looked down at his short legs and suddenly realized a sad fact.

He was only just four years old and wanted to fall in love. He had to wait for more than ten years!

Kou Sen lay flat on the sofa and suddenly felt like crying. He had never thought of this before, and now he couldn’t stop crying!

Ah… It has been tough for poor Kou Sen. Anyways I need a 4 book in-depth analysis of Jiang Shi and Jian Yi’s relationship, the tension is so high.