Whether Wen Bai was a scumbag or not, Sun Qi, standing opposite him, the original body's boyfriend, naturally knew.
He and Wen Bai had met purely by chance, a game played with friends out of drunken boredom.
The loser of the game was randomly assigned to hit on someone, to get their contact information, or to have them buy them a drink.
And Sun Qi, in that game, happened to be the one who lost.
When he approached, Wen Bai hadn't paid him much attention.
He knew he wouldn't be able to get the phone number. Facing the other person's expressionless face, for some reason, he felt a pang of fear, even though the person in front of him looked like a delicate doll-faced individual with no apparent aggression.
He still mustered the courage to ask if the other person would buy him a drink.
The other person didn't speak.
Just as he glanced at his wicked friends watching the show from a distance and wrestled with his thoughts about retreating,
Wen Bai, after a cold, even somewhat indifferent, phone call, unexpectedly invited him for a drink.
Not only did he buy him a drink, but he also gave him his contact information.
Later, when he discovered Wen Bai's identity, he was undoubtedly shocked.
Sun Qi had never imagined that a stranger he had casually approached would be someone of such status. But this didn't stop him from wanting to seize every opportunity to change his life.
He had made many requests to Wen Bai and had begun to test the waters step by step.
However, in front of Wen Bai, he always felt as if he were being seen through.
He could sense that Wen Bai didn't actually like him, and with Wen Bai's powerful background, his one-sided interest seemed to be of no use.
They had never engaged in any intimate actions.
In fact, he found that Wen Bai detested his closeness.
Even so, he stayed, simply because Wen Bai kept him around and didn't kick him out.
Sometimes he even wondered what kind of existence he was in Wen Bai's eyes.
He gradually began to ponder this question.
Was he a pet that Wen Bai could casually toy with when he remembered, or merely a tool Wen Bai used to provoke and manipulate his fiancé?
Yes, he had done extensive research, digging through news articles and investigating in secret, only to discover that Wen Bai had a fiancé.
Whenever Sun Qi requested something he wanted to buy, Wen Bai would buy it for him without hesitation, or rather, without much thought.
He hadn't actually wanted more. It was just that his friends were always egging him on, and he thought he deserved more.
People are like that; desires only expand slowly. What they couldn't obtain before, even a little of it, makes them want more.
Sun Qi's friends would always ask him, "Why not take advantage and get more? Do you really expect to stay by his side forever?"
When he accidentally saw Wen Bai's mocking and icy expression while talking about inheritance, he jokingly asked, "Then am I one of the beneficiaries?"
He had merely been joking and had never harbored any expectations, yet Wen Bai had smiled and asked, "You want to be a beneficiary?"
For some inexplicable reason, he nodded at that moment, with no hope whatsoever.
But he truly had no idea what Wen Bai was thinking. He actually agreed.
He summoned a lawyer and had his name written on the inheritance notarization document in front of him.
Why would someone who didn't love him, didn't even like him, and didn't seem to care much about him, be willing to bequeath his property to someone as irrelevant as him after his death?
He didn't understand.
How did it all begin?
It was from here that things started to spiral out of control.
Sun Qi began to feel that what Wen Bai gave him was not enough. Why could Wen Bai, by birth, have everything that others lacked?
Simply because of his good upbringing.
Whoever could please him and make him feel comfortable, just like Sun Qi himself, could receive a trickle of immense wealth from the gaps in that person's fingers.
Enough to live a life without worry for a lifetime, or even several lifetimes, with plenty left to squander.
Sun Qi felt he must have gone mad to have done such a thing.
In fact, when he was certain that Wen Bai had met with an accident, he experienced a moment of confusion.
Actually, among everyone he had ever met, Wen Bai was the one who had truly treated him the best.
Yet, he had done what he did.
But he felt no guilt. Compared to the negligible torment in his heart, he was more anticipating the distribution of Wen Bai's inheritance.
But he waited and waited, anxiously, restlessly.
He didn't receive the inheritance distribution; instead, he received news that the person was not dead.
For wealthy magnates like Wen Bai, with their extensive connections, finding the culprit was too easy. Even though he had acted with extreme caution and believed he had left no trace.
Sun Qi began to hide, but Wen Bai didn't come looking for him.
People are always like this: greedy and clinging to a sliver of hope.
Faced with a huge fortune, he began to harbor a侥幸心理 (jiǎo xìng xīn lǐ - wishful thinking), wondering if Wen Bai hadn't found out after all.
So, when he unexpectedly saw Wen Bai again at the entrance of the robot research center, he started to entertain ideas, even though someone else was now by his side.
Could he still get many things from Wen Bai, just like before?
He had felt guilty when he followed Wen Bai into the center today, but now that he saw him, and Wen Bai was asking him how much he wanted,
If Wen Bai had discovered that he was the one who had nearly killed him, would he still be talking like this?
No.
Sun Qi concluded.
Sun Qi immediately straightened his chest and lifted his head, no longer feeling guilty. His back straightened.
His once rather delicate face now showed a shrewd and calculating expression.
Sun Qi mentally calculated how much would be appropriate, and in the blink of an eye, time slipped away.
Seeing that the person in front of him remained silent, Wen Bai's cold face betrayed his impatience.
Wen Bai had always been unwilling to bother with such insignificant people.
"Take your time to think. I'm leaving now."
Sun Qi, having finally cornered the person and with Wen Bai offering money, could not bear to see him leave now.
As they brushed past, he reached out to grab Wen Bai, but his hand was intercepted by a powerful one.
Sun Qi looked up with extreme annoyance, only to meet a pair of blue eyes.
It was then that he realized that there was no newcomer by Wen Bai's side.
The one accompanying Wen Bai, dressed in matching couple's outfits, was clearly a robot.
Since Wen Bai was alone, Sun Qi's heart couldn't help but stir with a new, bolder idea.
Could he return to Wen Bai's side, to his former position?
Sun Qi shook his hand, trying to break free from the one holding him, but to no avail.
Then, he changed his tune and shouted at Wen Bai's unhesitating retreating back, "Actually, I don't want anything. I just can't leave you~"
The tall robot firmly held the human in front of him until his master walked away.