Their Love Made People Jealous

"Haha!"

Watching Chu Haoling flurry downstairs in fear, Yang Huaien and the guys rolled in the aisles because the set-up they designed had succeeded. He must have interrupted the chief and Yun Che's private moment.

"Shit! You set me up! I'll kill you lot!"

Chu Haoling wasn't stupid, it was just he was thinking about food all the time. Knowing that he was set up, Chu Haoling pounced on them in anger. Zhou Zeyu and the other guys had come home for quite a while, they smilingly watched the bunch of dudes scuffling on Yun Che's couch. Even Chenchen, who was busy playing with his new pet, stood on the couch, clapping hands while watching those grown-ups dancing and hopping.

"Chenchen, watch out. Don't fall off."

Ye Xingche reached out to be ready to catch Chenchen with a smile. The little fox was turned over to Jiang Shang.

"OK. Come on, Uncle Chu, Uncle Yang, and Uncle Shen…"

Chenchen cheered for everyone in turns with excitement after a quick reply. The whole house could hear the noise they were making. The brawl was still ongoing when Xing Feng and Yun Che went downstairs. After darting a look at Xing Feng, indicating that he needed to control his people, Yun Che walked into the kitchen. Xing Feng lost his daily composure, walking up to those men in a grouch.

"Shit!"

Thud!

Chu Haoling, who fought so hard to get on top of Yu Wenqing, suddenly felt the menace behind his back. When he looked back, he was scared and fell to the ground because the look on chief's face was really horrid. Regardless of the pain, Chu Haoling held himself up with a whiny face. "Sorry, chief. It won't happen again. No, I promise."

"Who planned the whole thing?"

Ignoring Chu Haoling, Xing Feng bypassed him to find himself an armchair. He scanned every one of his good brothers with his piercing eyes. Gu Mingxuan and others all tensed up. They all put on an innocent look on the face but none of them dared to look into Xing Feng's eyes.

Xing Feng, sophisticated and insightful, had figured it all out.

"Starting from tomorrow, every squad will be handing in one extra thousand low-level crystal nuclei in addition to daily quests."

"What?"

Xing Feng's order stunned everybody. The so-called low-level crystal nuclei were Level-0 and Level-1 crystal nuclei. To them, killing Level-0 or Level-1 zombies now was as easy as sweeping the floor. But the problem was Xing Feng asked them to hand in one thousand crystal nuclei and some low-level zombies didn't even drop crystal nucleus, which meant they had to kill at least 1,500 low-level zombies every day. Say there were 12 people on each squad, everyone needed to kill 75 a day, not calculating the zombies that they needed to kill during the daily quests. This was too much of a punishment. Did Xing Feng want to toil them or what?

"One thousand zombies are not enough? How about two…"

"No, no, no. Plenty enough."

As soon as Xing Fen opened his mouth with a cold glance at the boys, they waved their hands to say no. If it went on, they'd die of tiresome due to killing zombies. And they knew their chief well, he'd definitely double the number if they didn't cut him off. The prank backfired greatly on them, they'd better not cockblock their chief again.

"Uh, chief, if we hand in level-2 crystal nuclei, can the number go down a bit?"

Humans were leveling-up, so were zombies and at a faster speed. Although the zombie population was still made of low-level ones, there were a decent amount of Level 2 zombies now.

"One Level-2 crystal nucleus for 50 low-level ones."

Fortunately, Xing Feng didn't insist on giving them a hard time. In fact, the punishment was more meant to help Yun Che collect crystal nuclei.

"Phew. Good."

Everybody was kind of relieved. They could collect half of the total amount during the quests and would spend a bit more time for rest.

"If it happens again…"

"No, it won't. No next time. We promise."

Before Xing Feng finished talking, everybody promised in chorus. The lesson had been taught, and they wouldn't dare look for trouble again.

After intimidating the guys with another warning look, Xing Feng finally looked away to give them a break. Zhou Zeyu admired chief in secret. Chu and the other guys seemed tough, but they acted like meek kittens in Xing Feng's presence. Chief Xing was indeed respectable.

"Sorted? Come and have dinner."

Yun Che took a glance at the living with dishes in his hands. The smile on his face seemd somehow sly. The table was a bit small, so Yun Che put the dishes on the cabinet for now. He put the small table away and got a long table that could serve more than twenty people. Thankfully, the dining room was big enough for the table.

"I'll help."

Finally having got a break, Chu Haoling immediately went to help Yun Che out. Others also successively got up. Chenchen didn't forget to take Xiaobai with him. He bore in mind the promise he made that he was going to look after and eat and bathe with Xiaobai.

The dinner tonight was unquestionably a feast. They got meat and fish, and even crabs that Yun Che had got from the freezer. He never had the time to cook the seafood. Today, they were finally served on the dinner table. Even before the doomsday, this dinner could be considered luxurious.

"Just tuck in, you guys."

All people sitting around the table were old friends, so Yun Che cut the formality and gesticulated with the chopsticks.

"I have to say, fresh chicken beats everything. Che, can I eat at yours every day?"

With a piece of chicken drumstick meat in mouth, Chu Haoling the forgetful seemed to have put what happened earlier behind him. Eyes full of hope, he looked at Yun Che while chewing the meat.

"You? Nuh-uh. You can't even stay quiet when having dinner."

Darting a look at Chu with a smile, Yun Che said no without thinking. There was already a nagger at home, he couldn't live with another one. And this one would do anything for food.

All the other people had seen it coming. They snickered and shook their heads. Chu Haoling, the foodie, however, was still persistent. "Come on, Che. I'll eat more and talk less, okay?"

"The sky would rain blades if you could talk less. For the sake of everyone's safety, just don't give yourself a hard time."

With one big gulp of the prawn that Xing Feng put next to his mouth after he peeled its shell, Yun Che ruthlessly teased Chu Haoling.

"Haha!"

The whole room burst into laughter. Chu Haoling looked at him with an aggrieved look as if he was bullied. But of course, his mouth hadn't stopped working, which made him look more pitiful.

"The oily prawn is perfect. You're getting better at cooking, Yao."

On the other side, Ye Xingchen, too, was enjoying Jiang Shang's service, chewing the delicious prawn in his mouth with satisfaction. After hearing his compliment for the prawn, Jiang Shang scraped two-thirds of the prawns into Ye's bowl with the chopsticks. Zhou Zeyu, who was about to go for the prawns, was dumbfounded. His chopsticks froze in midair. He hadn't eaten one prawn yet.

"Chenchen, have more fish. It'll make you smart."

Seemingly unaware of Zhou Zeyu's expression, Ye Xingchen put a slice of fish into Chenchen's bowl.

"Thank you, Uncle Ye."

After politely accepting the kindness, Chenchen munched on the meat. Jiang Shang hastily put more fish into Ye Xingchen's bowl. "Please."

"Sure. You have some, too, Jiang."

Replying to Jiang Shang with a smile, Ye Xingchen picked the fish up to his mouth.

"Yeah, yeah."

Jiang Shang nodded with joy while ceaselessly peeling prawn shells to feed Ye Xingchen the meat. Ye Xingchen spontaneously caught the prawns with his mouth.

"The chicken soup is tasty as well."

"Jeez, Ye. If you keep giving compliments, there'll be nothing left for us."

Before Ye Xingchen continued, Zhou Zeyu shouted dramatically. "Don't you see Jiang Shang's gaze fixed on that pot of chicken soup? We know you love each other, but do you really need to show off? And it's unfair to starve the rest of us! You'll be punished by God for discriminating against single people."

"Uh, hehe, sorry."

Ye Xingchen finally noticed Zhou Zeyu's discontent. He smiled and turned to Jiang Shang. "Enough, Jiang. I can't eat that much anyway."

His Jiang became cuter and cuter to him. Ye Xingchen found that he couldn't leave him anymore.

"If you don't eat, I will!"

Jiang Shang still didn't have a clue about what was going on, trampling the single guys' dignity. The bachelor party wished they could set them on fire.

"Hehe. If you're envious of them, just find your own love. Just look at Jiang Shang, find yourselves a sweet one."

Ye Zhou had noticed the sulking group. He teased with chopsticks pointing at them.

"Yeah, as sweet as me. Good."

Jiang Shang unexpectedly picked up the conversation, but he had really caused an uproar. Everybody darted mean looks at him. Can't you just shut up? You're lucky that Ye Xingchen can stand you because no one else could.

Their sweet love was like sour grapes to the jealous crowd.

"Yeah, Jiang is sweet. I like him a lot."

Regardless of the hateful looks on Jiang Shang, Ye Xingchen petted his head as a reward. Jiang Shang's beaming face seemed brighter. If he had a tail, it would have been wagging by now without doubt.

"Christ, how I wish to set you two on fire!"

Zhou Zeyu spoke out everybody's mind in a grouch. All the single guys took it out on the food, crazily ransacking the dishes. In comparison, another couple was having a better time. They calmly watched the single guys suffer all along. From time to time, they also showed off their love, making the single crowd feel worse.

The dinner then went on in the clamors of the joyous family. After dinner, everybody chatted for a while. It was not until bedtime that everybody went home.

"Do you want to sleep with me tonight? I'll wait for you."

At the front door, Xing Feng cornered Yun Che against the wall. After several days of hard work, he really didn't want to miss the opportunity to make out with him.

"Not tonight."

Yun Che also had needs. And the current mood between them was intense. He, too, wished he could spend more time with Xing Feng. But Yun Cheng was still in Jade Spring. He had to go back into Space tonight.

"Tomorrow night?"

Xing Feng suggested, lowering his head to nibble on Yun Che's lip.

"Um, Cheng is coming out of Space tomorrow. Heiyu, too. Do you think I'll get the chance to sneak out?"

Wrapping arms around Xing Feng's neck, Yun Che laughed wildly. His man seemed desperate.

"Uh…"

Without knowing how to reply, Xing Feng just bit Yun Che's lip harder. He couldn't wait to devour his boy. Jeez, why is it so difficult to sleep with my Che?