My ex-boyfriend is looking forward to my bankruptcy

"No, don't even think about it."

After Qu Tao finished speaking, he almost ran back to the bedroom. When Xi Mozhou followed him, he heard the sound of a door being locked from inside.

It seems that I am destined to sleep in the guest room tonight. Xi Mozhou was sighing when he heard his father's voice from the corner of the stairs.

"Mozhou...come here."

Father Xi lowered his voice and shook the key in his hand at him. Xi Mozhou's eyes suddenly lit up and he walked over.

"How did you know I needed this?"

He was okay at running the company, but his relationship life wasn't quite up to par. Xi's father looked at him with disdain and stuffed the key into his hand.

Seeing Xi Mozhou holding the key and walking towards Qu Tao's bedroom happily, Xi's father sighed and called him back.

"Silly boy, are you going in now, expecting to hand in your keys and be kicked out?"

"Come in later. Wait until Taotao finishes his shower and goes to bed, then you can come in."

"Oh...I see."

Xi Mozhou first went to the guest bedroom to take a shower. Feeling that it was almost time, he tiptoed to Qu Tao's bedroom.

As the door was gently pushed open, the curve of Xi Mozhou's lips became bigger and bigger.

Just as he stepped into the room, there was a sudden sound of a balloon popping above his head, and water splashed on his head.

Qu Tao was startled by the explosion. He thought of something, sat up from the bed and looked towards the door.

"Xi Mozhou, how does it feel to be washed by cold water? Is it comfortable?"

Qu Tao's face was full of pride, and Xi Mozhou shook off the water stains on his pajamas.

"How did you know I would sneak in?"

"What do you think?" Qu Tao raised his lips, his face becoming even more smug. "Xi Mozhou, I've been with you for so long, I know what you want to do as soon as you lift your butt."

After Qu Tao finished speaking, he yawned.

"Alright, don't worry about getting sick even in this cold weather. Hurry up and leave the key and get out."

Xi Mozhou was unwilling to give in and stood there motionless. Qu Tao put on his slippers, walked over quickly, snatched the key from his hand, and pushed him out the door.

"Okay, go back to bed."

Old people sleep less. In the morning, Xi's father sat on the sofa in the hall, staring at the stairs from time to time.

Seeing Xi Mozhou coming down from upstairs, he glanced behind him, and after not seeing Qu Tao, he whispered, "Did you coax her?"

Xi Mozhou's spirit, which had just been raised, wilted again when he heard his question.

"Don't mention it."

"The key can't open it?" Xi's father then shook his head and denied it. "That shouldn't be the case. When you slept alone before, I often sneaked in in the middle of the night."

Xi Mozhou instantly stood up, "What did you say?"

"I..." Father Xi realized that he had let something slip and quickly changed the subject, "I was asking why Taotao hadn't come downstairs yet?"

After the car accident, Xi Mozhou always had complaints about him. When he came back from school during the rare holidays, he never saw him, let alone said a word to him.

As a parent, who wouldn't want to chat with their children and take a few more glances at them? He could only sneak in and sit for a while in the middle of the night when Xi Mozhou was asleep.

Seeing Xi Mozhou sleeping soundly and thinking about how he clung to me when he was a child, I felt both satisfied and sad.

"You just said..."

Before Xi Mozhou could finish his words, his father interrupted him immediately.

"Where's the key? Give it to me. I'll go up and try it later when you guys are having dinner."

"The key was taken away by Taotao."

Seeing the question mark in Xi's father's eyes, Xi Mozhou was not afraid of embarrassment and told him what happened last night.

But when he saw Xi's father trying hard to hold back his laughter, he regretted it a second after he said it!

"Laugh if you want to. You're already old, don't hold it in any longer."

"Then I'm welcome...haha..."

With a hearty laugh that was half mocking, Xi Mozhou looked at his father with disdain.

It seems that he was really trying to hold it in, and he even swallowed the ending sounds of the last few words.

Xi Mozhou ignored him, went to the kitchen, ordered a few side dishes that Qu Tao liked, and then turned back.

Father Xi had stopped laughing and when he saw him, he waved at him, offering advice.

"Come, Daddy's got another tip for you. While Taotao's still asleep, hurry back to your bedroom and tidy yourself up. The dirtier the better."

"Why? He already disliked me, and you asked me to smear him even more."

My son's emotional intelligence is really hard to describe. No wonder he came up with such a bad idea to mess with the company when he came back from abroad.

Fortunately, Qu Tao has never let him go. If it were someone who had already forgotten him, they would have broken up with each other long ago and would not have given him a chance to explain or forgive.

Father Xi looked at him for a few seconds as if he were the stupid son of a landlord, and then raised his voice.

"Didn't you get wet last night? You're not pretending to be sick. You'd better go upstairs and lie down for a while. Wait until Taotao comes up to call you, then come down."

"A self-torture scheme?" Xi Mozhou's eyes lit up, and he showed an admiring look to Xi's father, "As expected of you, you are so cunning and sly."

".......", cunning and sly? Is there anyone who praises others like that?

In order to perform the trick well, Xi Mozhou took a cold shower after returning to the guest bedroom.

He waited for a long time, until he felt dizzy and about to fall asleep, when he heard the sound of the doorknob turning.

"Xi Mozhou?"

"Xi Mozhou, why aren't you getting up yet?"

Hearing the sound coming from far away, Xi Mozhou opened his eyes, his eyelids drooping a little heavily.

"Taotao, I'm not feeling well. The water in the balloon last night... I seem to have caught a cold."

Qu Tao stretched out his hand, wanting to touch his forehead, but thought of something and retracted it.

"Xi Mozhou, stop pretending in front of me. When did you become so weak?"

"I'm really not pretending. It's really uncomfortable."

As he spoke, Xi Mozhou coughed twice, which even scared himself.

It’s over. It’s winter now and this cold shower really got him into trouble.

Qu Tao seemed to have noticed something was wrong, and without hesitation he reached out and touched his forehead.

"It's over, you have a fever."

Qu Tao regretted that he had gone too far last night, and immediately stood up and walked out.

"Just lie down first. I'll bring you a bowl of porridge. Once you've finished, take your medicine quickly."

Qu Tao no longer rejected getting close to him. When Xi Mozhou was secretly celebrating the success of his self-torture plan, Qu Tao saw that he had finished taking the medicine and stood up to say goodbye.

"Don't go to the company today. Rest well at home. I'm going to the company first. If you need anything, please call your uncle up."

If Qu Tao wants to go to the company, then what’s the point of having this illness?

Xi Mozhou refused and immediately raised his eyebrows.

"Are you still going to the company?"

Why can't I go to the company? Qu Tao raised his eyebrows slightly, and the end of his words rose.

"Ok?"

There was a hint of grievance in Xi Mozhou's words.

"I am sick."

So what? I'm not sick, Qu Tao nodded.

"Ah."

"..."

After Qu Tao left, Xi Mozhou regretted turning the fake into reality. In order to recover quickly, he covered himself with a thick quilt despite the floor heating.

He broke out in a sweat and the fever he had just started quickly subsided as he wished.

It was almost lunchtime, and thinking of having lunch with Qu Tao, Xi Mozhou excitedly rushed to Yuanhang with the food, but was stopped by the front desk.

"Boss Xi, I'm sorry, but Boss Qu gave an order yesterday not to allow you to go up."

"Yesterday was yesterday, today is today."

"Boss Xi is right, but today, we haven't received any order from Boss Qu to revoke it."