Winning the Male Lead - Chapter 16

In no time, every servant of Shen’s family had fully digested Le Tian’s new role as a madam.

The attitude of these people made Le Tian even more uncomfortable, he really wanted to run away from this Shen’s residence and flee from all this ridiculousness.

Finally, when Shen Lixing wasn’t around, Le Tian found an opportunity to sneak out. The moment he escaped from the Shen’s residence and ran onto the highway, Le Tian heaved a sigh of relief, ‘Shen Lixing deliberately made this easy.‘

Just a few days ago, there were many people guarding the front gate strictly, and today they all suddenly removed. Isn’t this basically telling him to run away?

During this period, Shen Lixing often touched his face thoughtfully. Others might have cigarettes after s*x, but Shen Lixing treats Le Tian like the cigarette. Le Tian takes a non-violent non-cooperation attitude: you want to sleep with me, but I can’t resist, so I won’t respond to you.

Although Le Tian feels really happy in his heart, he holds it back from expressing it out loud.

He really tried his best to not break his character.

Now, Shen Lixing can’t hold back anymore, he is going to play a big one.

Le Tian already knew that Shen Lixing wanted him to come out and see something.

The system had given him a prompt: Xu Tao and Yu Miao had already confessed their love for each other, and they have become a lovely couple. You received the ‘Ordinary Green Hat’ achievement.
Even though it does not meet the system’s requirements, it is green enough.

But Shen Le Tian didn’t know that he had been secretly fully monitored since the moment he stepped out of the Shen’s residence.
Just as Shen Lixing had anticipated, he called his only reliable friend, Xu Tao.

“Xu Tao,” Le Tian bit his lip, with trembling voice, “Can you come and pick me up?”

Xu Tao’s heart tightened, he was also perplexed by Le Tian’s disappearance for almost a month, and immediately came after receiving the call.

Le Tian was wearing thin pajamas and fluffy slippers. He looked much thinner from the side. When he saw Xu Tao’s bright red sports car, he smiled, but Xu Tao sensed endless desolation from his smile.

“Get in the car.” This time, Xu Tao didn’t say anything silly about the pajama look. Anyone with eyes could see that Le Tian was not in a good state.

Le Tian got into Xu Tao’s car and forced a smile, “That’s right, I mentioned before about selling you a yacht…”

Xu Tao started the car, “I want to buy it, I can learn how to drive it later.”

“As expected, you’re my real bro.” Le Tian tightened his neck and whispered, “I’m so tired, I’ll take a nap first…”

For the past few days, he has been staying closely with Shen Lixing. He couldn’t sleep well at night, always waking up from nightmares. Every time he woke up, he would disturb Shen Lixing next to him, and then Shen Lixing would coax him back to sleep, only to end up doing another round (of s*x) again.

Shen Lixing thinks that Le Tian has slept enough at home during the day, so it’s okay to sleep less at night. But what he doesn’t know is that Le Tian never slept during the day back then.

Xu Tao glanced at him and found that Le Tian had fallen asleep, leaning against the car seat, with his smooth hair covering half of his face.

Whether it was Xu Tao’s illusion or not, he suddenly felt that Le Tian… was like a very beautiful fragile porcelain.

The two of them went to Xu Tao’s apartment in the city.

The car that had been following them to monitor Le Tian also stopped, and the person inside it sent a message to Yu Miao according to Shen Lixing’s instructions.

In the midst of an audition, Yu Miao suddenly received a text message claiming that Xu Tao was having a secret rendezvous with another woman in the apartment. Her relationship with Xu Tao was very secretive, even her manager didn’t know. So, how could the sender of the message know?

Yu Miao panicked, not caring whether the content of the message was true or not, she just wanted to know who sent the message. She paused the interview and hurriedly hid in the restroom stall to make a call to Xu Tao, and trying to calm her racing heart.

Xu Tao was pouring water for Le Tian. When he saw the incoming call from Yu Miao, he quickly hung up and put his phone on silent mode.

Le Tian looked up with a puzzled expression, “Whose call is it? Why didn’t you answer?”

Xu Tao brought the water over and casually said, “Just spam.”

Le Tian thanked Xu Tao and held onto his glass of water with his drooping eyelids for a while without saying anything. Xu Tao sat quietly with him.

After a while, Le Tian softly said, “Miaomiao… is she okay?”

Xu Tao already knew about the contract relationship between Le Tian and Yu Miao. Xu Tao believed it, but he didn’t expect Le Tian would play some love games with a stranger just because he didn’t want to be pressured into marriage.
Based on his understanding of Le Tian, he must have developed feelings for Yu Miao but didn’t know how to approach her, so he used such childish ways.

Le Tian’s concern for Yu Miao as soon as he appeared confirmed his guess.

Xu Tao struggled between revealing the truth or concealing it for a while.
But eventually he chose the latter, “She… is doing fine. You don’t need to worry. But you, you look so pale.”

Le Tian touched his face, as he raised his hand, the silky robe pajama he wore slid down, and Xu Tao saw the red marks on Le Tian’s arm.

Le Tian smiled wearily and said, “Really? I haven’t been feeling well lately, a bit tired.”

“Do you want to go to hospital?” Xu Tao asked with concern.

Le Tian frantically refused, “No!”

Xu Tao was startled by his reaction and quickly said, “Okay, we won’t go then…”

“Right, why did you call me? Let’s do whatever you want”, he said that out of guilt for snatched Le Tian’s girlfriend.
And consider Le Tian indeed seemed to be in a very bad mental state, terribly sensitive and fragile.

Le Tian also realized that he was overreacted, and trying to cover it up, “I hate the smell of hospital disinfectant the most.”

Xu Tao rubbed his hands and didn’t know what to say anymore.

Le Tian wondered why Yu Miao hadn’t come yet. How long did he have to awkwardly chat with Xu Tao?
Shen Lixing would force him to give up, he knew that Shen Le Tian must see it with his own eyes to believe it. Yu Miao really had to come, or should he ask Xu Tao to call Yu Miao?

Just as Le Tian was about to speak, there was finally some movement at the door. The rings of the password lock opening entered their ears.

Xu Tao immediately stood up, wanting to block Le Tian’s line of sight, but it was too late. Le Tian completely saw Yu Miao with her shocked and flustered face.

Le Tian criticized, “Classic love triangle setup. The Alliance really love throwing in cliché plot twists.”

Le Tian immediately went into action. He first showed a look of joy, then gradually showed skepticism. “Yu Miao, how do you know Xu Tao apartment’s password?”

From the moment Yu Miao appeared, Xu Tao fell into panic. Upon hearing Le Tian’s question, he immediately tried to answer first, “It’s like this, you know, you asked me to take care Yu Miao. Sometimes she comes to discuss with me about Aunt’s matters. She’s a public figure, and it’s inconvenient to discuss it outside, so I told her the password. Please don’t misunderstand, we…”

“We’re together,” Yu Miao interrupted Xu Tao’s words and said firmly to Le Tian, “Let’s cancel the contract.”

Le Tian was thunderstruck. Yu Miao stepped forward and grabbed Xu Tao’s hand. Xu Tao lowered his head and remained silent, clearly acquiescing.

Le Tian pursed his lips, he had a lot to say, but in the end, he didn’t say anything. He walked away from the apartment step by step.

Le Tian ran down the stairs with red eyes, and as soon as he reached bottom, he saw Shen Lixing. His long and powerful arm draped in a suit jacket, and rare sight of a cigarette in his mouth, the smoke shrouding his deep eyes.

Le Tian: ‘Damn, so handsome! Come ravage this baby now!‘

Shen Lixing extinguished his cigarette and opened his arms to his pitiful little nephew. “Le Tian, come to me.”

Le Tian acting hesitated, then not long, he threw himself into Shen Lixing’s arms.

Shen Lixing held his precious baby and sighed, “I’ve said it before— only the two of us understand each other, and I will never betray you nor leave you alone.”