Chapter 511: The Challenge

After Bai Liu's calm but firm refusal, Fang Dian regrettably gave up on the idea of Bai Liu wearing the red trousers in front of her.

Fang Dian helps Bai Liu pack the uneaten food into a stainless steel lunch box: "You can take it back to the fridge and put it in the fridge for two more days, no need to cook, saves time."

Lu Yizhan helped Bai Liu pack up his birthday presents: "There's a lot of stuff, it's hard to carry, so I'll call a taxi for you to take it back with you."

"What kind of car?" Fang Dian gave Lu Yizhan a strange look, and finally her eyes fell back to Bai Liu, "Are you going straight back?"

Bai Liu paused: "I don't have any clothes, I can't stay here overnight."

"No." Fang Dian asked suspiciously, "Where are your friends from before? It's your birthday, aren't you going to go out with them and have some fun?"

Bai Liu is quiet for a moment.

To be honest, he'd forgotten this birthday himself, not to mention his teammates, and Bai Liu had never said his birthday, so I guess they didn't know either.

"They don't know." Bai Liu replies.

Fang Dian was increasingly confused: "How could you not know? The Muke kid even came to me to check if your birthday matched the one on your CV."

" Jiayi also asked."

Bai Liu's movements were eerily still as he slowly turned back to Fang Dian: "Did they ask you?"

Fang Dian didn't think anything of it: "Yeah, I just called to confirm that you were eating at my place."

Bai Liu: "......"

Bai Liu suddenly remembered the subtle sounds of recent renovations on both floors of her house and a sense of foreboding came over her.

On the other side, outside Bai Liu's rental house.

Du Sanying, squeezed in the middle as if he were being held hostage, watched in horror as Muke scanned the room indifferently and turned to a housekeeper behind him, dressed in a smart suit, and said, "Have you got the title you were asked to take by the landlord who contacted you about this room?"

"Got it." The butler said respectfully, "We offered a price a little higher than the market price, and the other party was very quick to sell, and the formalities were completed yesterday."

"The house is now in Mr Bai Liu's name, just need to wait until he has time to go to the title department to get it transferred."

"In addition to this, we have bought out the upper and lower floors as well as the next door to facilitate your conversion operation."

Muke nodded: "You're almost done with the upstairs and downstairs modifications, aren't you?"

"Almost there." The butler said, "And in that old block you mentioned, we've also bought all the third floor neighbours and the second and fourth floors as you ordered, and are renovating them, so by then Mr Bai Liu can live wherever he wants."

Muke waved his hand with some boredom, "Where's no need to pretend for now."

He bought the house in Lu Yizhan's neighbourhood before because Bai Liu seemed to have a good rapport with Lu Yizhan and Fang Dian when he took him over for dinner last time, and said he might be inclined to live with his friends, so he had someone go and buy it.

But now that the killer sequence has happened, Muke's heart is filled with a sense of resentment.

Lu Yizhan cheated Bai Liu, who was sick enough to send Bai Liu next to Lu Yizhan himself to make things worse for himself.

These two had better be as far apart as possible!

"Good." The housekeeper took kindly to the offer, "So we are now simply decorating this room for Mr Bai Liu's return for his birthday, are we?"

Muke returned to his senses and he gave a reserved nod: "A simple renovation will do."

"I just contacted Sister Dot and asked her to stall for me, Bai Liu just went over and will not be back for about three or four hours, you clean the whole house, replace the stove top and water heater, put up wallpaper, install some isolation doors, move in the appliances that have been in there for eight hours, and you can use them straight away. Pull them together when you're ready, and don't use solid colours for the wallpaper, Bai Liu doesn't like ......"

Muke ordered it down in an orderly fashion and the whole house was instantly up and running, with workers everywhere.

Mu Sicheng, a nearby onlooker, watched in disbelief.

Is this a simple renovation? This is already finely decorated!

Du Sanying weakly raised his little hand and watched tearfully as Muke did a major renovation of Bai Liu's old, dilapidated rental house: "So, when Mr. Bai Liu comes back and finds out you've done this, and I gave him the key, he won't kick me out, right?"

Liu Jiayi, who was watching the show from the side with his chest clasped, tsked twice: "The power of money."

It was Tang Erda who frowned: "Won't Bai Liu be angry if we move his things like this? Should we call him first and let him know?"

As he was about to lift his phone to make a call, Liu Jiayi stopped him as quickly as she could and looked up at Tang Erda speechlessly: "Do you know what a surprise is?"

"We've been racking our brains to get this for Bai Liu, hiding it from him for most of the month, and you've ruined it on the doorstep."

Tang Erda still doesn't agree: "What if he doesn't like it?"

Liu Jiayi shrugs indifferently, "Surprise surprise, surprise is part of it."

Tang Erda: "......"

"Don't worry." Liu Jiayi muttered in a small voice, " Bai Liu wouldn't dislike a place that looked like it was getting rich."

Tang Erda: "...... That's true."

"Where's the cake?" Muke asked, "Is everything ready for the birthday party?"

Muke was so fast at remembering things and giving orders that even the trained butler had trouble keeping up with his thoughts and was now wiping cold sweat from his forehead with a towel, barely smiling, "On my way young master."

"Didn't I tell you to bring the ingredients straight to me in the fridge?" Muke's brow furrowed lightly as he stepped forward and pushed open the fridge door, "It's too empty to look good."

"...... A lot of the ingredients over there just arrived and didn't make it in time." The butler whispered, "Do you want me to buy something back to fill it?"

Muke wrote down a list of things to do: "Go and get these things for me, Bai Liu, they are not working well, get him something better."

The butler took the list, and when he looked at the number of items on it, his eyes widened and he stammered a little: "Young, young master, towels and toothbrushes and slippers, do you need five sets of these things?!"

"Well." Muke replied calmly, "Except for Jiayi, me and the others are moving in with Bai Liu."

"We don't want to get too far away from him."

The butler looked up sharply, his face curiously glancing behind Muke at the top class of handsome men of all heights, types and temperaments, then lowered his head with a subtle look and asked Muke in a shaky voice, "...... Do they all live with Bai Liu? Do you mind, Master Muke?"

Muke frowned, "As long as Bai Liu doesn't mind, I don't mind... what, no?"

With a shudder, the butler silently retrieved the list, "...... will do."

...... Muke Young Master, what a strong Shogun aura.

"How about ...... getting six sets?" Liu Jiayi suddenly voiced a reminder as she said, a little glumly, "I think there's another guy back there who's going to come over and sleep with Bai Liu."

"You might as well buy him another set too, he probably doesn't have anything."

The butler's whole body literally cracked when he heard it:!!!

All this and one more to come!

Can Bai Liu take it!!!

The housekeeper began to wonder from the bottom of his heart if he had been too nasty and had thought wrongly about Master Muke, and about the relationship between these big, handsome men and Bai Liu.

...... Although Young Master Muke says his soul belongs to Bai Liu and doesn't want to leave Bai Liu too far away because Bai Liu's heart can only beat again, but what if, what if they are not in that kind of relationship!

Just in case these four big and little dudes with different styles all live here in Bai Liu to run a studio and make it easier for everyone to do things together and such ......

Just as the butler was about to convince himself, Muke's expression sank for a moment when he heard Liu Jiayi's words, and then almost gritted his teeth as he ordered, "...... is also right, Bai Liu has given Spades coordinates, so I guess he will come out to pester Bai Liu too ......"

"Then let's get six sets." Soon Muke steadied himself and said, after a pause, with a rare bit of gloom and helplessness, "If he's coming to live with Bai Liu, there are a few other things that should be handled."

Muke swiped to fill in two more items on the list, his lips pursed and his face reddened a little, "...... you remember to buy some more of these supplies, get the best ones that won't be uncomfortable to use."

The housekeeper took one look at Muke's two new additions and his pupils quaked and his eyes fell open.

Condoms !!!!

Lubricant !!!!

Holy shit!!!

Is it really what I think it is!!!

The butler left in a trance with the list.

Fortunately, the house was a clean house when Bai Liu got it and hadn't been renovated much, and it was relatively clean when he lived there.

Looking at the new house, Muke breathed a sigh of relief, and even Tang Erda, who had been tense, relaxed.

The house is not luxurious, but practical and everyday. After the installation, the whole house is bright yellow, which looks very warm and makes you want to sit at the table and eat a meal or sleep on the sofa for the afternoon, a very relaxing style.

No sooner had the decorators left than Muke received a call from the butler: "Master, I saw Mr Bai Liu coming up the stairs, so get ready to push the cake out."

"OK." Muke gave a look to Mu Sicheng, who quickly got and pushed the cake slowly to the door.

Tang Erda stands by the door with a tense and cold look on her face, holding a firecracker in her hand, her eyes too stern to look like she is celebrating Bai Liu's birthday, but rather like she is an undercover agent holding a gun to kill him on his birthday.

Muke: "......"

Muke mouthed a quick word to Tang Erda: smile.

Tang Erda gave a cold tug at the corner of her mouth, which had stiffened with tension.

-- looks more like an undercover agent with murderous intent, but with a false sense of humour now.

Muke gave up as the door lock turned.

"Bang Bang-!!!"

" Bai Liu, Happy 25th Birthday!"

Bai Liu stood in front of a completely different rental house, and even though he had already guessed part of it, he raised an eyebrow at this point and smiled back, "Am I in the wrong room?"

The circus group stayed up until midnight, with a drunken Mu Sicheng hanging on Bai Liu's back, howling and screaming about a night to remember.

It was Muke who kept his wits about him and called a taxi one by one to take him home.

Du Sanying was also drunk and ran around the house, imitating the beeping of a go-kart as he did so. Muke put him to bed with the housekeeper in a furnished room on the lower floor to prevent the man from running out to the misfortune of others.

Then the housekeeper broke his foot on the way up and went off to hospital in tears of pain.

Muke: "......"

He also got drunk and forgot that Du Sanying is an indiscriminate attack.

When Muke finally left, Bai Liu called Mu family's driver to come and pick him up for him.

Muke, also drunk, sat in the car with a layer of tears in his eyes, looking up at Bai Liu, reaching for his shoulder, his voice breaking, crying with great sadness.

"It won't lose again."

"We're never going to let you lose again."

Bai Liu gave Muke's shoulder a very gentle hug and spoke in a calm tone, "Me too."

--and I won't let you lose again.

By the time Bai Liu had finished packing up his room, it was almost 1am and he opened the fridge to put in all the leftovers, only to find it was full.

Bai Liu: "......"

Although I know they mean well, they do have a bit of a lack of common sense in life.

With so many leftovers, Bai Liu had to clean out the fridge one by one, taking out some things he didn't need to put in there to make room for them, and when he got to the freezer, Bai Liu suddenly stopped.

To fill Bai Liu's freezer, Muke had the housekeeper buy a lot of ice creams, most of which were expensive brands, costing over ten dollars a pop or a few dozen dollars a tub, but there was a "cheap" Lovato mixed in.

Strawberry flavoured.

Bai Liu slowly removed this lovely multi as he remembered that afternoon.

That afternoon when he waited so long for the cuteness to melt and no Spades appeared.

The streetlight outside the window suddenly flickered twice, and Bai Liu, as if pulled by something, subconsciously looked beneath the dim light of the streetlight.

There stands Spades.

Bai Liu stopped at the window as if it were standing still.

--It was like a magic spell across time and space when Bai Liu was again holding a strawberry-flavoured Lovato in his hand seven years later, the one person he hadn't waited for in the first place.

Appearances.