Saving the Heartthrob Frenemy-Chapter 116: "You little scam artist."

The family of three ate dinner together and the conversation was about Qie Xieling’s projects. As they got deeper into programming Qie Ranzhe felt his brain overloading.

After dinner, he left them to discuss this foreign language. He could understand the basics but when they started taking a deep dive he would drown easily.

He decided to go to his study and bother his brother-in-law or something but Wen Qinxi soon followed.

"Your pa seems lonely. I will go accompany him, okay? Just don’t sleep late," said Wen Qinxi and Qie Xieling was left alone with his thoughts which wasn’t a good idea right now.

He decided to call Bo Ailun so they could play a game together when his cell phone buzzed. While walking up the stairs, he unlocked it.

There were tons of notifications coming from one of his apps. When he opened it, he found that Lee Ya had uploaded that picture and it had caused a stir.

Qie Xieling scrolled down the comments. Plenty of them was begging to know if they were dating but Lee Ya shut them down. Since she replied he didn’t have to.

He lay on his bed and mindlessly scrolled down his ’for you page’. Five scrolls in and his thumb paused. That boy from earlier had uploaded again and this time it was a picture taken secretly of Luo Muchen’s hand with the thumb ring Qie Xieling gave to him clearly visible.

The caption was ’the hand of a hard-working man’. Innocent enough, right? But when he clicked more, Qie Xieling’s lips twitched.

Right at the bottom it read ’I wonder how it feels to have my wand wrapped around by this hand with that ring rubbing against my skin’ with a monkey covering its eyes emoji next to it.

Qie Xieling wasn’t good-tempered to begin with so one could only imagine what he did next. He went straight to his DMs and wrote a few words. Since it was a public profile he sent this;

FoxyLin: He has someone he likes.

Qie Xieling should have stopped writing anything after this. He should have gone to play games with Bo Ailun, which he did but while logging in he received a notification from the app. It was a reply and the young man was very unpleasant.

BagerZ: Who the fuck are you?

Qie Xieling, "..."

A rational person would either ignore it or respond politely to de-escalate things but at this point, we have already determined that Qie Xieling was no rational person.

FoxyLin: His best friend since kindergarten.

FoxyLin: Does he know you are lusting over him on your page?

BagerZ: How is that any of your business?

BagerZ: I can lust over him however I want. What’s that got to do with you?

Qie Xieling bit his lower lip aggressively while typing.

FoxyLin: It’s still not okay since he is unaware of what you are doing and he has someone he likes. What if she misunderstands?

BagerZ: I don’t give a fuck about a has been that won’t even date him. I am with him all the time. it won’t be long before we are dating so back off.

Qie Xieling ruffled his head in annoyance before typing aggressively.

FoxyLin: That ring, I gave it to him and you writing that disgusting stuff is fucked up.

This time BagerZ didn’t reply immediately. He took some time before a response popped up.

BagerZ: You bitch. You just want him to yourself, is that it?

BagerZ: Don’t worry, I will buy him another ring and replace the trash on his finger.

BagerZ: I can even get him to remove it right now.

Saying that just added fuel to the flames and Qie Xieling lost his shit. He honestly thought he was bluffing but ten minutes later BagerZ sent him a picture of Luo Muchen without the ring.

FoxyLin: You know what? Fuck you, dude.

After sending that Qie Xieling threw his cell phone and it hit the wall with a loud bam. Good thing it was an excellent brand. It didn’t crack or dent.

He went into the bathroom to wash his face which was so red from anger. While cooling his face down the chain around his neck shifted and a pendant hanging on his neck dangled revealing itself.

Qie Xieling paused staring at it for a moment before he took it off and dangled it between his fingers.

’So much for friendship,’ he thought before tossing it into the bin his heart beating fast.

He wiped away the water on his face before walking out of the bathroom. When he stepped out his cell phone was ringing. For a moment he was hopeful having forgotten that he had blocked all calls from Luo Muchen.

When he picked it up and found it was Bo Ailun he slumped on the bed while answering it.

"You haven’t logged in yet. What’s wrong?" asked Bo Ailun and Qie Xieling apologised.

"I am sorry. I can’t play today. I am going to bed."

After saying that he hung up not waiting for Bo Ailun to respond. He changed into his sheep onesie and went knocking on his parent’s door. If he wears this his dad would never refuse him to sleep over.

"Dad," he called out and Qie Ranzhe who was brushing his teeth grunted.

He spat out the toothpaste and said, "He is a grown man XiXi. Send him away."

"OMG, you act like you weren’t his age before. He is lonely," said Wen Qinxi supporting his kid’s childish habits.

"I was but I never ran over to sleep over in my mother’s room when I was lonely and sad," he whispered angrily but it went in one ear and came out the other.

"Aww my little sheep. Come, who made you sad?" said Wen Qinxi when he opened the bedroom door.

"I am not sad. I just miss Dad," he said before crawling underneath the covers like he was ready to face off if his father attempted to kick him out.

"Let me wear mine and we can be twins," said Wen Qinxi before getting his sheep onesie. He even brought the papa sheep one as well. They could have been the three bears if it weren’t for Qie Xieling who said sheeps were cute.

Qie Ranzhe, "..."

He was forced to put it on but that didn’t stop him from complaining. He was excited when Qie Xieling went to university and he even bought him a condo close to school so he didn’t have to come home but it seemed he celebrated too soon. He should have sent him to the university one city over.

"Move over," he said to Qie Xieling and Qie Xieling complained,

"Pa, you always sleep on the left side. Why should I move?"

But the glare he got had him moving away so fast you would think he was being chased. Luckily enough the bed was huge. In fact, it was huge for this reason. Wen Qinxi had tricked him into getting a bigger bed and when he realised it it was already too late. It wasn’t an everyday thing but once in a while, Qie Xieling would show up with a pillow acting all cute.

"You little scam artist," said Qie Ranzhe and Qie Xieling covered his head with the quilt concealing the smile on his face.