This was the first time in Fu Rangyi’s life that he experienced taking a bath while driving. Literally driving, sitting in the driver’s seat, holding the steering wheel, completely drenched.

He called that unscrupulous angel a second time, and the other party directly rejected the call.

While waiting at a red light, he could even feel the wet, slippery shower gel being applied to his body. A hand rubbed him all over, especially his lower abdomen. Fu Rangyi couldn’t figure out what had happened to make Zhu Zhixi so obsessed with a cotton doll’s lower abdomen.

The doll was soaking in water, but he was about to catch fire.

Just as he was thinking this, that hand suddenly came to the back of his neck. Usually, Zhu Zhixi would at most just stroke and gently knead this area, but now, what he felt was a hundred times more stimulating than usual.

Beep beep—the car behind him honked. Fu Rangyi clutched the back of his neck and came to his senses. He started the car and had just driven through the intersection when a sharp pain came from the back of his neck.

He had been bitten.

Zhu Zhixi sat in the bathtub, looking at the doll he had “marked,” and soothingly licked the wound that wasn’t even visible. There was a tiny mole there. He couldn’t resist when he saw it.

Afterwards, Zhu Zhixi repented with a bit of guilt for a few seconds.

I can even bring myself to bite a cotton doll. I’m so bad.

“It doesn’t hurt, does it?” Zhu Zhixi murmured. “It hurt a lot more when I was marked, you can’t even imagine. And I couldn’t even cry out, otherwise a certain someone would be afraid of hurting me and wouldn’t mark me. A few times he didn’t even inject pheromones, thinking I didn’t know.” The more he spoke, the more he sank into the bathtub. His chin submerged in the water, his lips making gurgling sounds. Bubbles floated up, pushing away the little yellow duck on the water’s surface.

The doll also soaked in the water, half-submerged. Zhu Zhixi went to great lengths to tie its hair into a wobbly bun.

Zhu Zhixi came up a bit, shaking his wet head, and asked the doll about its experience. “How’s the water temperature? Is it hot? I like to soak in a hotter bath, until my whole body is red. It’s very comfortable.”

“But he doesn’t like such hot water, he’s afraid of being scalded. Every time we bathe together, he complains it’s too hot. Well, we haven’t really taken a proper bath that many times… the water gets cold while we’re playing…” As Zhu Zhixi muttered, his voice got smaller.

He found that when he talked to the doll, the topic would somehow drift to Fu Rangyi. It was too funny. Zhu Zhixi stopped and checked the doll. “Will it be clean after soaking for a while? This strawberry juice actually seeped through, I even…”

Before he could finish, the bathroom door was slammed open.

Zhu Zhixi jumped and turned his head, looking toward the other end of the white steam. A tall figure stood at the door for a moment, then strode over.

“How did you get here so fast…” Before Zhu Zhixi could finish, Fu Rangyi strode over, knelt by the side of the tub, and grabbed the back of Zhu Zhixi’s neck, which was pink from the soak. He pulled him in until their noses were almost touching and kissed him.

“Mmph…” The kiss was without warning. Zhu Zhixi’s eyes widened, his eyelashes heavy with water vapor.

Fu Rangyi’s kisses were usually patient and gradual, but today they were a bit rough, invading directly as if in a fit of pique, which made Zhu Zhixi feel unaccustomed. But physiologically, he kind of liked this occasional roughness; he felt his body turn into a piece of butter, melting in the hot steam and the kiss.

“Miss me? Your kisses feel so good…” He had been kissed too many times.

Zhu Zhixi, having savored the taste, quickly fell into a daze. He instinctively wrapped his arms around Fu Rangyi’s neck, panting as he held him tight, pressing closer and responding more actively to the kiss. Their tongues licked over sharp teeth, intertwining. His drenched skin soaked Fu Rangyi’s shirt.

He was so absorbed in the kiss that his hands lost their strength. He couldn’t hold onto the doll and just let it go. Splat. The doll fell onto the bathroom floor.

Somehow, Fu Rangyi suddenly stopped. He pulled back, lowered his head, and held his head with his hand.

“Hmm?” Zhu Zhixi was dizzy. He also lowered his head to look at him and patted him. “Husband, what’s wrong?”

“Dizzy…” Fu Rangyi glanced at the naked, soaked doll on the floor, sighed, and gently moved it aside, wrapping it in a bath towel and setting it down properly.

“Who said you could play with my doll?” Zhu Zhixi looked up, his face slightly flushed, his eyes moist and steamy.

Hearing this, Fu Rangyi laughed out of anger. He ran his hand through the hair falling to the side of his face, pushing it all back, and stared down at Zhu Zhixi, saying in a low voice, “You’ve been playing for so long. It’s my turn now.”

As he spoke, he undid his buttons one by one, took off his wet clothes, and entered the warm water. Like catching a slippery little fish, he pulled Zhu Zhixi into his arms, with his back against his chest. In this embracing posture, he sniffed his way from his lips to the side of his neck, lightly biting his collarbone and shoulder.

“Why are you biting me? Your teeth are so sharp, it hurts…”

Zhu Zhixi tried to push him away, but Fu Rangyi held him tighter. “Mmm… I can’t breathe.”

“I’m cold,” Fu Rangyi whispered, kissing his ear.

“The water is so hot, how can you be cold?” Zhu Zhixi was dazed, letting him kiss him.

“You got the doll wet, of course I’d be cold.” Fu Rangyi pinched his chin and bit his lips, listing his crimes. “You also kept rubbing him, right here.” As he spoke, his hand reached into the warm water and found the corresponding spot on the troublemaker’s body, rubbing it.

“Ngh!” Zhu Zhixi couldn’t dodge. Fu Rangyi even deliberately pressed on his mole.

But he didn’t understand. “How did you know…”

“How would I know?” Fu Rangyi repeated, laughing softly in his ear. His hand moved up to the next crime scene. “You also messed with this spot.”

“Mmm… don’t…” Zhu Zhixi was so uncomfortable he curled up in his arms, his arched back pressing against Fu Rangyi’s chest.

But Fu Rangyi didn’t stop. He gently pinched and kneaded with his fingertips.

“Zhu Zhixi, can you really bring yourself to do that to a doll?”

“I…” Zhu Zhixi was drowsy, his whole body tingling.

His mind turned slowly. Why did Fu Rangyi know everything? When did he install a camera? Or was it…

A thought flashed through his mind. Zhu Zhixi’s eyes widened. He stretched out his hand, reached for the doll Fu Rangyi had wrapped up, and quickly bit its hand.

At the same time, the hand causing trouble on his chest suddenly flinched. He also heard Fu Rangyi’s muffled grunt of pain.

“This is an empathy doll?” Zhu Zhixi held up the doll, turned to face Fu Rangyi, his face full of shock.

Fu Rangyi’s expression, however, was a little unhappy. His lips were pressed into a straight line, looking exactly like the doll. “You’re only just figuring that out?”

He didn’t quite believe it.

“Yeah,” Zhu Zhixi said, utterly delighted.

He really didn’t know. And he still did so many bad things. I almost couldn’t finish my group meeting.

“Alright, put this away properly.” Fu Rangyi reached out to grab it, but Zhu Zhixi hid the doll in his arms first, turning his back to him to unwrap the towel.

Fu Rangyi felt a wave of coldness, but soon, the sensation of fingers followed.

Zhu Zhixi’s fingertips pressed against the wet cotton, and he began to be truly mischievous.

“Ngh…” Fu Rangyi grunted, subconsciously arching his back, his muscles tensing. “Zhu Zhixi, I advise you, you’d better not…”

“Do you feel it?” Zhu Zhixi said. He turned around in the tub, still playing with the doll in his hands, while his foot had already stepped over, grinding against him in the water. “More than this?”

Fu Rangyi: …

He could bear it no longer and once again started driving while taking a bath.

“Keep going,” he said, kneeling in the tub, holding Zhu Zhixi’s waist, looking at his fingers that were gripping the edge of the tub, already flushed red. “Didn’t I say it? However you play with that doll, that’s how I’ll play with you.”

Zhu Zhixi was whining and whimpering, unable to form a complete sentence, as if begging for mercy.

“Finally getting warm,” Fu Rangyi tilted his head back, taking a deep breath. His soaked long hair stuck to his face again, uncomfortably. He complained as he slicked it back, “Long hair is really troublesome. If it weren’t for you liking it…”

He looked down, staring at Zhu Zhixi’s waistline, his hand caressing upwards, and tousled his short hair stubble. “Why don’t you grow yours out too? It feels good to grab.”

“Huh? I’ll take that as a yes.”

Zhu Zhixi really wanted to roll his eyes. “Is… mmm… is this me subjectively… agreeing? You’re clearly doing it on purpose…”

Fu Rangyi laughed. He glanced at the doll set aside, pulled the rubber band off its head, his own scalp getting pulled in the process.

He gathered his hair and tied a small braid, leaned down, and held the doll in front of Zhu Zhixi’s face, commanding gently, “Be good, kiss it.”

Zhu Zhixi took the doll. While panting and cursing him as a “pervert,” he obediently did as he was told. However, as Fu Rangyi lowered his head to mark him, he also flipped the doll over and bit its neck hard.

The two of them were marked by each other at the same time, moaning together in pleasure.

Unfortunately, after being played with for a night, the doll lost its effect and became an ordinary doll. Zhu Zhixi had wanted to get revenge, but no matter what he did to it afterwards, Fu Rangyi couldn’t feel it anymore.

So he cursed Xiao Yu in his heart. The cursed Xiao Yu sneezed, and it all landed on Fu Rangyi.

Fu Rangyi looked down speechlessly but held back, even forcing a smile like someone asking for a favor. “So, is it a yes or a no?”

“You two are really annoying,” Xiao Yu said with a blank face.

“Mm,” Fu Rangyi accepted it gracefully. “Now that you’re done scolding me, can you give me the doll?”

He finally got it, the day before he left for the field. He even took the doll with him. Liang Yi’en heard about this, which meant Zhu Zhixi immediately found out too. It’s over. Zhu Zhixi thought, Isn’t he going to get his revenge back fiercely? I… I…

He didn’t even dare to go out to work. He simply took a day off and hid at home, afraid he would lose control in public like an Omega in heat.

But to his surprise, throughout the day, the most he felt… was someone constantly pulling at the hem of his shirt, pulling it down, many times. Before pulling, they would first kiss the mole on his hip bone.

Because the doll’s shirt was a bit short, its belly button was exposed. Fu Rangyi was very concerned about it.

According to the statistics, the mole by his eye was also kissed twenty-one times, his cheeks were lightly bitten eight times, and the tip of his nose was kissed five times. Zero marks, but the back of his neck was touched many times, and his hand was held from time to time. Did he put the doll in his bag? In the evening, Zhu Zhixi was pulled into an embrace early.

His fingers were squeezed one by one, his forehead was kissed, and his back was repeatedly caressed by fingers. He soon grew sleepy.

“Goodnight baby, miss you.” As his consciousness faded, he vaguely heard the most familiar voice, and the tip of his nose and his lips were lightly touched.

Other than that, Fu Rangyi did nothing else to the Xiao Zhu doll.

(This is an if-line where the parents are alive, but I tried changing the whole extra to Huo Rangyi (or another name) and it was just too weird, so in this world’s setting, his surname is still Fu (no need to go against heaven, decided to follow the suggestion of a reader in the comments to have Xiao Fu take his mother’s surname!))