Saving the Heartthrob Frenemy-Chapter 131: Did we kiss?

The pair stumbled into the corridor with Luo Muchen walking behind Qie Xieling ready to catch him if he falls. Qie Xieling looked back chuckling softly while saying, "Bobo is going to love his cake. I put a looooot of thought into it."

Because he was looking back while talking Qie Xieling didn’t look where he was going. He didn’t see that there was a waiter carrying a tray full of glasses. Too distracted to notice, continued walking straight towards the collision course.

Panic surged through Luo Muchen’s veins as he instinctively reached out, his hand gripping Qie Xieling’s waist, pulling him away from disaster. Qie Xieling stumbled slightly from the sudden movement, his speech slurring as he tried to apologize.

Luo Muchen didn’t say anything, but the intensity between them was palpable. They stood there for a moment, locked in a gaze that spoke volumes.

Luo Muchen curled his fingers slightly increasing his grasp on either side of Qie Xieling’s waist. In one swift motion, he pressed Qie Xieling against the wall.

Qie Xileing’s speech slurred as he apologised again to the waiter, his eyes clouded with confusion. He couldn’t comprehend why Luo Muchen was holding him so tightly against the wall, their bodies pressed together intimately.

Luo Muchen leaned in close, his breath hot against Qie Xieling’s ear.

Qie Xieling could feel Luo Muchen’s heartbeat against his chest as he clung to him in that narrow corridor. It was a moment suspended in time, a moment that Luo Muchen had dreamt about countless times.

"Be careful," he said before holding his hand and leading the way.

Qie Xieling, "..."

His brow furrowed trying to make sense of what just happened but before he could comprehend it, they reached the kitchen doors.

Qie Xieling was too flustered to speak properly so Luo Muchen spoke for him the entire time without letting go of his hand.

The chef went back inside the kitchen and the door swung back and forth several times before it stopped. Luo Muchen turned to look at Qie Xieling and found that Qie Xieling was staring at him with a dazed appearance.

"What?" asked Luo Muchen his thumb rubbing the back of Qie Xieling’s hand as he turned his entire body to face him.

Qie Xieling’s lips parted feeling like he had been hallucinating or something. After thinking about it he decided to ask.

"Did we kiss?" he said and Luo Muchen smiled softly while scratching his arm.

"No, we didn’t. Are you that drunk already? We just ate a pretzel stick together and our lips didn’t touch," said Luo Muchen and Qie Xieling waved his hand while shaking his head.

"No no no no not now but before. It’s crazy but I keep thinking we did," he said and Luo Muchen’s throat bobbed. He gently squeezed Qie Xieling’s hand that he was holding and opened his mouth to say something when the kitchen door was swung open.

Thinking it was the chef, Luo Muchen turned only for his gaze to be met with a man dressed in a chef outfit but his sleeve was rolled up with a peculiar tattoo on his arm.

Luo Muchen’s eyes narrowed intending to take another look when Qie Xieling tried to free himself from his grasp.

Qie Xieling was absentmindedly leaning against the wall while pinching the bridge of his nose saying, "I should lay off drinking. Now I am hallucinating."

Luo Muchen glanced in the direction the man had disappeared to one more time before taking out his cell phone. He sent his mother a message describing the tattoo he saw but because Luo Shih was on a private jet back home she didn’t get the message immediately.

Ten minutes later the two of them walked in with the cake. Qie Xieling really put some thought into it. It was a single-tier cake decorated with small bottles of hard liquor and a tiny figure of a man slumped over the cake vomiting out glitter after drinking too much. The glitter formed a waterfall down the cake.

Bo Ailun laughed so much that his eyes crinkled at the corners reflecting the sparkles on his cake. After singing happy birthday to him, Bo Ailun excitedly waited for the sparklers to die down before cutting it.

His body swaying side to side in excitement he waited for the knife only for someone to press the back of his head down. He screamed not wanting to ruin the masterpiece Qie Xieling got for him.

Before his face could be plastered into the cake he was released. Qie Xieling was grasping Lee Ya’s hand with a glint of anger in his eyes.

Lee Ya was embarrassed but she laughed shyly pretending to be drunk. She leaned on Qie Xieling while saying, "Gege, I was just joking," in a coquettish tone.

Qie Xieling still didn’t give her any face. He was about to reprimand her again when Luo Muchen placed his arm around Qie Xieling’s collarbone pulling him back while taking a sip of his beer.

He lowered his head and whispered something to Qie Xieling and Qie Xieling finally shifted his attention to Bo Ailun.

He took out a gift and gave it to Bo Ailun. Bo Ailun pulled back his party hat before opening up his gift. He tore the packet to shreds in excitement.

He opened the blue velvet box and when he saw the watch he was so excited. "It’s from the both of us," said Qie Xieling while helping him put it on.

Qie Xieling knew Bo Ailun would like the watch but he just didn’t expect him to break down in his drunken haze. He got up and hugged the both of them while wailing like he had been bullied.

"... I don’t have a dad but now I have two. I love you guys so much," he said making Qie Xieling’s shirt wet from his crying. He was obviously drunk and talking nonsense.

Qie Xieling was at a loss. He could only stroke his hair while coaxing him. Luo Muchen let him hug all he wanted because of what he said.

Bo Ailun stopped wailing after a while and opened his other gifts. He looked like a kid in kindergarten having his first birthday with his friends. His excitement was so infectious that no one made fun of him but actively participated.

Luo Muchen rested both his arms on Qie Xieling’s collarbone and whispered in his ear. "We raised him well."

Qie Xieling, "..."