Chapter 1 - The Secret (Part 1)
(NOTE: This chapter takes place between 15 and 16 of “Bed Friend”)
Each of us has secrets, those embarrassing things that are difficult to tell and ask others for their opinion. Everyone has one or two. Jadnipat, who had experienced 28 years of ups and downs in human relationships, could better understand this feeling.
When it came to his “best friend”, however, it should be emphasized that the so-called “best friends” were actually only two people, and it should also be emphasized that these two friends had been arguing non-stop for many years, but since they had returned from the trip , the behavior of the two of them had suddenly changed, as if they were hiding some secret. It was no surprise that Jade, who loved listening to his gossip, immediately aroused curiosity.
It all started one night after leaving work…
“I’m going home.” a low, melodious voice rang out, and his colleague, college roommate, and best friend stood up, picked up his bag, and was about to leave, while Jade was shutting down the computer at the same time.
“Hey, wait a minute, Uea!” Jade immediately grabbed the arm of the person who was about to leave, and the owner of the name turned to look at him with his big eyes. That delicate and beautiful face often made Jade think that he should have become a celebrity instead of a graphic designer. The boy, at that moment, was expressionless, waiting for him to continue speaking.
“Uh… there’s something I want to ask your opinion on.”
“Speaks.” The interlocutor’s voice was monotonous and his expression did not change.
If other people had heard this, they would have thought he was very unhappy, but Jade knew him from when he was 18 until he was 28. He knew that Uea wasn’t as indifferent as others thought.
“Do you think it would be weird if… I acted like a child with Mai with my body?” The speaker reached out to scratch his cheek, his little eyes obviously embarrassed.
A few days earlier, his boyfriend, who was 6 years younger than him, had joked that he was always the only one who acted flirtatious, which meant that Mai wanted him to act that way too, but Jade felt that he was older, if he acted weak like the others, it would be more funny than cute. After thinking for a long time he still couldn’t understand it, so he had to find someone to consult.
Of course he wouldn’t go and ask that friend named Khunakom, because that guy would just laugh at him and not give him any useful advice, so Jade had waited until after he finished work, after King returned, to ask the other friend. When he was in trouble, he always proved to be a good friend he could count on.chap
Mr. Anon was very popular in the company and there were many suitors around him. He had a cold attitude and always politely rejected people thousands of miles away. But anyone who knew him well would discover that he was actually a good and kind person. The perfect person to ask for an opinion.
“Do you want to act like a spoiled child with Mai?” There was a playful look in his indifferent eyes, and a smirk appeared on his plump lips. Jade’s cheeks were hot with embarrassment.
“He said I don’t act like a child around him, so I… well, I just wanted to make him happy, but I’m so much older than him, it would be too funny to act like a child!”
“No, do it! This kind of thing has nothing to do with age. If you act like a child with Mai, he will be very happy.” Uea was so kind that he even encouraged him. If he had been King, he would surely have laughed, or expressed strange opinions.
“So how should I behave as a child? Do you also act like a child with your boyfriend when you have him?”
“Certain.”
“Huh? So how do you behave as a child?”
“Just lean on his shoulder, hug him, sit on his lap, etc...” Uea continued to explain in his monotone voice, but the interlocutor was already stunned. At first, Jade couldn’t imagine that he would do such a thing. Secondly, he couldn’t even imagine that Uea would do this. Even though they had known each other for ten years, Uea had never shown a sweet expression when he got along with his boyfriend in front of him. Uea didn’t like to show affection in front of other people.
“You can actually do whatever you want without thinking too much about it, just like when you acted like a child with your mother.” A person with rich love experience summed it all up.
Jade nodded in slow motion, trying to think according to Uea’s meaning, his focused expression making the person watching him smile.
“All right! I will do my best! Thank you!”
“Not at all. I’m going now, see you tomorrow.”
“All right! Be careful when you get home!” Jade waved goodbye, looking thoughtfully at the slender back of his good friend leaving the IT department, and he tried to imagine Uea with an indifferent face acting like a child to others.
He must be expressionless even when he acts like a child with his boyfriend… Oh, I can’t imagine!
Even he who had a rich imagination couldn’t imagine it, it was too difficult! But whatever Uea’s expression was, he was still beautiful!
Jade shook his head to clear the thoughts in his head, and began to gather his things and prepare to go back to the apartment. Now he was the only one left in the entire department, and the other colleagues had already left at the speed of light, because there was neither overtime pay nor compensatory leave for overtime work. If the work wasn’t truly urgent, generally no one was willing to stay at the company and work overtime, wasting precious private rest time.
The white palms pushed the back of the chair towards the desk. As Jade was about to turn off the air conditioner, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a brown wallet sitting calmly under the desk next to hers. He bent down to pick up the wallet, thinking of the owner who had left not long ago.
Uea definitely didn’t know he had lost his wallet. He could put it away and return it to him tomorrow, but since he had just left, there still had to be time for him to get to him, or, if he couldn’t, he could call him and tell him.
Jade hastily turned off the lights and air conditioning, ran out of the ward and pressed the elevator button. He saw that the elevator next to him was stopped at the parking level and he guessed that the person who had just taken it must be Uea. At that moment his elevator also arrived, Jade immediately entered and pressed the button for the parking level.
The elevator door opened, Jade quickly stepped out and looked for Uea’s silver Toyota Yaris in the mostly empty parking lot. Other companies in the same building had stopped working one after another. Jade looked left and right, and his eyes remained fixed on the corner of the parking lot where his friend’s slender figure appeared.
He was about to open his mouth to call out to Uea, but all he could do was open his mouth and stare blankly as he got into a car, not his usual silver Toyota Yaris, but a black Honda Civic, which quickly drove away. Jade, who stood in the distance and had witnessed the whole process, was stunned.
Although several people in that building were driving black Honda Civics with black anti-peeping film, there was only one black Honda Civic with auction plates and that was the one that had just left. Jadeniphat was 28 years old and had a good memory. He would never remember it so badly. That car must have belonged to another close friend of hers.
Isn’t that King’s car? And Uea got into his car? But didn’t King leave a long time ago? Uea recently came down, which means King waited for Uea to come home together? Damnation! What is happening?!
Seeing that shocking scene, he forgot to return his wallet. It was nothing unusual for his friends to go home together, but it was absolutely impossible for King and Uea to argue all day! They exchanged less than ten words and at the eleventh they started arguing. Uea didn’t like King and he thought he was a playboy. He tried to avoid King as much as possible, but just at that moment he took the initiative to get into his car!
Buddha! Is it snowing in Thailand?! What the hell happened?! There must be something underneath that I don’t know!
Jade stood there for a while, then came to. He wanted to go home as soon as possible and he could no longer dwell on the parking lot incident. He walked groggily to the market near the company, then he stood in line to take a motorcycle taxi and waited. During this time, Jade remembered the past relationship between the two good friends.
They hated each other. Since Uea had joined the company three years earlier, they had always argued about trivial and trivial things. Around the middle of the previous year, when Mai had just become an intern, he remembered that this was the first time they had argued badly. They hadn’t spoken to each other for several weeks, even now he didn’t know the reason for their argument, because no one had told him. At the time, he also thought that they had slept together after getting drunk at a party like in TV dramas or novels, and that they were probably so angry that they wanted to set fire to each other’s house. But after talking to them again, he had put that extravagant thought behind him.
But come to think of it, the relationship between the two of them had undergone subtle changes after that incident. Although there were occasional arguments, the number of times was gradually decreasing. Instead, he and King argued more often. They had never argued during the company trip and Uea had agreed to sleep in the same room with King without even contradicting himself. He wouldn’t have accepted easily before, and King had become increasingly nervous about Uea. Two or three days earlier, when Uea had cut his nails and injured his finger, King had immediately helped Uea put on a band-aid, not to mention that Uea himself had stood still and asked King to help him cure the wound.
HEY! There’s definitely something strange going on! Why is King so protective of Uea? And why didn’t I notice this before?
Jade was very happy that his good friends had finally stopped arguing, and that a middleman like him no longer had to face a dilemma, but for some reason he always had a strange feeling that these two people seemed to be hiding some secret from him.
Possible? Could it be that they are secretly dating?!
Beep Beep-!
“Phi, you can go!”
The irritated tone of the motorbike driver immediately brought the person who was losing his mind back to his senses, only to realize that his turn had already come.
“Let’s go! Go to Pengpeng Station!” Jade quickly got into the motorcycle taxi. If he had moved more slowly, he could have been eaten by the driver and the people behind the queue!
The driver took him through the crowd of cars on the crowded streets in the evening. Jade frowned slightly along the way, his expression thoughtful. It seemed a little contradictory to say that those two were secretly dating, because King had said that he met the person he liked in a bar and slept with that person. He had said that that person was cute and nice and also that he liked them a lot. He had known him for almost 20 years and this was the first time he had seen him like that. King had such infatuated eyes when he talked about it, and he said that he would never let that person go easily.
But for King, ‘sex’ and ‘love’ were separate, he might like that person, but what about Uea? His mother had asked him to go on a blind date again, and judging by King’s appearance, he would have to go again. If he went out with Uea, he wouldn’t have to say he liked someone else, or agree to a blind date, etc…
It’s complicated...so what happened between them? Or am I just thinking too much?
From taking the Airport Express to taking a motorbike taxi from the station to Mai’s apartment, Jade had been at a loss the entire journey. He was very worried about the people around him, especially those two good friends. One was the karmic creditor he had met in kindergarten, and the other was the best friend with whom he had shared good and difficult times since college. He of course felt very worried!
Basically, he was 51% nervous about Uea. If they were really dating or in a relationship, he didn’t know if King was sincere with Uea or simply wanted to find a partner to ease the loneliness. Jade had known King since they were children and he had watched him throughout his life. He had broken so many hearts since middle school. The number of his fingers and toes was probably not enough to count. If King wasn’t serious, he didn’t want Uea, disappointed in his love, to meet such a bad guy again.
Furthermore, the remaining 49% just wanted to gossip: the scene of Uea returning home in King’s car had completely awakened their detective spirit. He had to find out what happened between the two of them!
“P’Jade, what are you thinking?” he rang out a gentle, deep laugh. At this moment Jade was angrily stuffing the shrimp dumplings into his mouth, secretly vowing to find out the truth!
“Mai.” Jade looked up and looked at the boy younger than him with a very serious look: “I want to ask you something.”
“Hm?”
“When you went to Ko Samet, did you notice if anything happened between King and Uea?”
“Why do you ask me that?” Mai’s dark brown eyes flashed brightly, surprised that his boyfriend suddenly mentioned other people.
Jade popped another shrimp dumpling into his mouth, chewed it quickly, and then explained, “I suspect those two are weird.”
“…Why?” Mai asked with a superficial smile pretending not to understand, but in his heart he began to worry. He happened to find out King and Uea’s secret earlier. King hoped that he would keep it a secret and that he wouldn’t tell anyone, but it seemed that Jade had noticed something unusual anyway.
“It’s like this. After the trip, King and Uea no longer argue as before, and their relationship grows closer. King follows Uea’s wishes in everything. Uea, who is usually covered in thorns like a wire brush, doesn’t want to argue anymore. He even agreed to sleep in the same room with King, and today I saw him coming home in King’s car.”
“It’s not unusual for friends to travel together.”
“Of course it’s strange! First they had the knife pointed at their neck! Uea definitely wasn’t going to get back in King’s car! He hated King’s guts, but suddenly they made up like family. King also takes unusually good care of Uea. The day before yesterday, Uea just hurt his finger and King immediately helped him treat the wound.”
“...”
“So I wonder if the two of them are secretly dating or something happened, Mai, do you think it’s possible?” Jade blinked, looking at his lover with excited eyes. He was super excited when he talked about the gossip of the people around him. If someone joined in on the topic and gossiped together, he became even more excited.
Mai raised his eyebrows slightly, expressing his disapproval with his eyes: “I don’t think so.”
“Really?” The older man’s eyes widened. He thought Mai would agree with him, but the response wasn’t what he’d hoped for.
“P’King and P’Uea like to fight because they don’t have the same values, right? I think they just had a chance to sit down and open up and get to know each other better.” Mai expressed your opinion of him.
Ah! What he said made sense, but even though his thoughts seemed to be just his opinion, Jade insisted on his opinion.
“Oh! So why did they go home together?”
“Um… Their apartments are not far from each other. P’King may have simply decided to give a ride, or P’Uea’s car broke down, so he asked for P’King’s help.” Mai tried to come up with all sorts of reasonable reasons and the effect seemed to be quite good because the older boy started to calm down.
“Um…” After hearing a more convincing idea than his, Jade swallowed the words silently. Mai’s words seemed really possible, but it seemed abnormal that King and Uea were on the other side. Thinking in Mai’s words, it seemed like it was really nothing, but there was a strange and indescribable feeling in his heart.
“I don’t know, but I just think they’re weird.” Jade clicked his tongue without admitting defeat. After being friends for so many years, why did he not seem to understand their personalities? Two people who had always been at odds with each other wouldn’t have become close that quickly, right? “I don’t think my idea is wrong, there must be something!”
“But if you also thought I liked P’Uea.” Mai dismissed his thoughts with a smile.
These words were like a knife thrust into the heart of Jade, who was once extremely proud of his keen observation skills. In the end, everything was just a one-sided fantasy of hers. Jade looked at a certain boy who was laughing until his shoulders were shaking, and a blush began to appear on his cheeks.
“Stop that! Do not laugh! I didn’t know it then, but this time it’s different!” he snorted, confident in his own thoughts and never wavering: “This time it’s some kind of intuition, I’m sure they’re hiding a secret. I am very confident, I will wait for the real answers tomorrow!”
“Okay okay.” He never raised the corner of his mouth and then continued to eat dinner with his head down.
Jade ate the last of the shrimp ravioli and immediately got up to wash the dishes. His eyes were full of fighting spirit as he washed the dishes and prayed for him to come early in the morning.
The secret SS-level mission is about to begin. Although there were some small mistakes before, I thought Mai liked Uea, uh… It’s not a small mistake, but still, human beings always make mistakes.He tried to trust his intuition again, taking it for granted that King and Uea were really strange and that he could regain his lost dignity!
Wait and see! Tomorrow he will do his best to expose them, so that they have nowhere to run!
But what Jade didn’t know was that while he was plotting to grab his friend’s tail into his heart, his little boyfriend was silently looking over his shoulder with a troubled look, mixed with a hint of apology.
Mai had promised King to help him keep the secret that the two of them were friends with benefits. He had to keep that promise. He felt sorry for Jade, but right now he absolutely had to keep it a secret.
*******
Jadeniphat Tangtragan wasn’t exactly a workaholic. If it weren’t for the fact that he wouldn’t have food if he didn’t work, he would definitely choose to stay at home and lie down, reading manga and watching anime until he got old. Jade had never tried to rush to work with so much anxiety, and he had never tried to return to the company as soon as the rooster crowed and the security guard’s door was open.
But there are exceptions to everything, especially when you really want to understand something. So this morning Jade had arrived at the empty IT department at 6.45am, carrying a bag of breakfast, purchased at a market near the company, and Banranjishi coconut bread and soya milk. In the silent environment, only the roar of the air conditioner could be heard.
It must have been too early and obviously no one had arrived. The working time was 8:30, now only the cleaning lady would come to the company, but it was still nice to arrive early: he didn’t have to act as an intermediary for other people, even delivering gifts to King and Uea was considered a good daily action. During breakfast, he took advantage of the quiet environment and tried his best to find a way to learn the secret of his two good friends.
“Oh! P’Jade! Why are you here so early today?” A yawning voice called his attention. Jade was devouring his breakfast and Gun, who entered with a helmet in his hand, was very surprised to see the boy sitting there.
“I’ll ask you too: why are you here so early? Are you a ghost?” Jade raised his eyebrows and looked at that boy who was always late for work, and today he had arrived so uncharacteristically early.
“The two spouses next to my house have been arguing since five in the morning. I got annoyed and thought it would be better to come to the company to catch up on sleep.” he said as he sat down at his desk, wearing a neck pillow. It seemed that he had really fallen asleep, but Jade, who had a very lazy mouth, didn’t want to stay silent any longer, so he came over and sat in King’s place, inviting the younger one to chat.
“Gun, do you think King and Uea are acting strangely after the company trip?”
“Huh? What’s so strange?” Gun opened his eyes strangely. To be honest, Gun thought Jade was always full of strange topics, 90% of which were gossip and 90% of which were incorrect assumptions. Sixth sense had always been inaccurate, and everyone in the company knew it.
“They probably don’t argue as often as they used to. Yesterday I saw Uea returning to the apartment in King’s car.”
“Oh~ In the morning, P’Uea’s car battery was dead, while P’King left a message saying that they needed to get the brochure to upload to the website, so he stopped by and picked up P’Uea... Maybe he drove him home and helped him charge the battery.” Gun spoke in a lazy voice, but the listener felt as if a skyscraper in his heart had collapsed in an instant.
OH! I was wrong? No one told me, so did I think too much? NO! The issue of returning home together has been clarified, but there is another rather suspicious issue!
“But the two of them didn’t argue after the company trip, right? Don’t you think it’s strange?”
“Is not beautiful? Do you really want to see your friends fight? P’Jade, you’re so weird!” Gun looked at the older one with a ghostly look and Jade took a deep breath, trying to explain to the younger one.
“No, but do you understand? They’ve been arguing for many years and suddenly they stopped. I think there’s something fishy between them!”
“One more time: P’Jade, stop guessing. How can P’Uea fall in love with P’King?”
“...” Seeing the younger man’s tenacity, Jade couldn’t continue arguing. Uea hated those men who were superficial and played with his feelings, and King was exactly the type he hated the most. Even if there were no more arguments after the trip, a person’s values could not be changed easily. Uea could not easily be tender towards King…
“P’Jade, you’ve been too busy with work lately. Get some sleep, your mind should be much clearer when you wake up.” Gun patted the older one on the shoulder and thoughtfully handed him another neck pillow. Jade took the pillow and hit Gun’s head, then sat down in his place.
Could it be that I’m thinking too much?…
So he began to fall into contemplation, and was very entangled until it was nearly eight o’clock, and the other colleagues arrived at the office one after another. When the clock on the wall read eight o’clock, Uea’s tall figure entered the office holding a glass of lemon tea and looking less than energetic.
“Oh, U…”
“Have you seen my wallet?” the other person asked as he moved his chair to look under the desk. Jade’s eyes widened and then he realized that he had forgotten to tell Uea that he had found his wallet.
“I have it. Yesterday you accidentally dropped it. I originally wanted to tell you about Line, but I forgot because I was too busy.” Jade smiled dryly, and at the same time took a wallet out of his pocket, handing it back to its rightful owner, immediately relieved.
“Thanks, I thought I lost it somewhere else. I didn’t want to waste time getting a new card.” After complaining, Uea breathed a sigh of relief. When he returned to the apartment the day before and couldn’t find his wallet, he became very worried, thinking that maybe he was in King’s car.
“Ah, Uea!” Jade called out to him suddenly. The owner of the name sat down, put the lemon tea on the countertop, looked up and found a pair of his friend’s little eyes staring at him.
“What?”
“Yesterday I saw you get into King’s car, why did you go home with him?”
Jade’s tone seemed casual, but his eyes were full of curiosity. When he saw the change in his good friend’s gaze, Uea’s heart skipped a beat. It seemed that Jade had begun to doubt his relationship with King…
“My car was empty and at that moment he called me on the phone, so I explained the situation to him, he accompanied me to the company in the morning and I returned with him in the evening.” he replied calmly and without expression.
“Oh~ I was very surprised. I didn’t expect you to know each other so well that you would talk on the phone...” Jade continued, a pair of small eyes rolled around his friend, trying to find clues on the other’s face, but he remained still, returning the gaze without emotion. Jade wanted to get more information and hoped that Uea would show some errors.
“But aren’t you usually reluctant to go with him? King doesn’t make you angry?”
“I had no other choice at that moment. I had to rush to work and I could save some money by traveling with him, so I had to be patient.”
Uea’s response began to shake Jade’s assumptions. No matter the expression, the eyes or the line of his voice, he had no change. Besides, Gun had said that Uea would never like King, and he was right, even if there was only him left in the world. It was absolutely impossible to soften his heart towards King.
So am I really thinking too much? Oh, hey! It’s not funny at all!
“Hey! It is a great improvement for you to be able to bear to be with him!” Jade murmured softly, and began to believe his friend’s words in his heart, but he still had a little doubt in his heart. “Sleeping in the same room and being able to go home together means you really won’t argue anymore.”
“Yes.” Uea responded briefly, sat down in his place and at the same time turned on the computer, thinking in his heart that luckily he had arrived at the company first. If King had gotten there first and Jade had run to ask him, he didn’t know what the unpredictable King would have said.
Although King would not reveal their relationship according to the agreement, he liked to say some ambiguous words to arouse suspicions of those around him. It was possible that King might say something that Jade would associate with and Uea was sure that was definitely not a good thing.
“So what did you do to make things better?”
The one who was drinking lemon tea almost choked on this sentence. Uea looked at Jade, hesitating on how to respond.
Actually… I’ve done a lot of things, but if I told the truth, Jade would definitely faint from shock!
“Jade!”
Just when Uea hesitated to speak, Big Sis Fai’s hoarse voice rang out in time like a life-saving bell.
“P’Toon said the salary certificate you want has been prepared. You can go to the human resources department to get it!”
“All right!” Jade replied, then looked at Uea, got up and went to the human resources department to get the documents.
Uea really hasn’t changed its face! So he’s actually not hiding anything… but he’s expecting me to continue observing over the next two or three days. If there really is nothing, then I will admit that my intuition is wrong again, and I will admit that I am not suited to be a detective.
Just as one person fell in disappointment, the other breathed a sigh of relief. Uea watched as his best friend’s back gradually disappeared from his sight. He blinked and stared intently at the computer screen.
Feeling inexplicably irritable, he decided to grab his cell phone and immediately send a text message to his “bedmate.”
Uea: Don’t enter the company after getting the card, meet me at the fire exit, I have something to tell you.
*******
The office building in Pengpeng District was 32 stories tall. Unless the elevator had broken down, no employee in their right mind would have chosen to take the stairs. It was a good place to avoid the stares of everyone in the company, so whenever Uea had something to say to King they met there.
“What’s going on, Mr. Anon, what do you want to tell me?” When the fire door opened, a low, light voice sounded.
King’s figure approached him and joyfully brought the Americano he was holding to his lips and took a sip.
“Or simply… did you miss me?”
“Jade saw us go home together yesterday.” The thin man ignored the other’s joking words and continued: “He began to wonder why we don’t fight like before.”
“It’s not necessarily a problem. Your car really broke down. It’s normal to come back with a friend.”
“That said, if you ask me like that it means you’ve started to doubt our relationship.” Uea sighed deeply, with a worried expression on his face: “I’m afraid that he will find out…”
“That we go to bed together.” A smirk curved at the corner of King’s mouth.
Uea pursed his lips tightly. Seeing him say that sentence so casually, a trace of anger flashed in his big round eyes, and he was even more annoyed when he saw the other person’s indifference.
“The secret is about to be revealed, don’t you feel anxious?”
“So he was exposed?” the other party asked aggressively and Uea clicked his tongue in dissatisfaction. Seeing that Uea was getting angry, King quickly remedied it and said, “Don’t be so serious, Uea, you also know how slow Jade’s reaction is, he won’t notice.”
King chuckled and reached out to pinch his cheek, but the sweet-faced man turned his head away, showing with his eyes that he wasn’t joking.
“That’s why I’m worried. Even Jade, who is slow, has started to wonder, so how could others not be suspicious? You’re going on a blind date soon, right?”
“...”
“I’m serious. I don’t want other people to notice us. Let’s stay apart for a while now. We try not to talk in the company if it’s not necessary.”
“It must be so?” The tall man raised his eyebrows and suggested with a smile, “How about we put on a show and pretend to fight like before for everyone to see?”
“Okay, I’ll ignore you from now on.”
“HEY!”
“Don’t talk to me all day today.” After speaking, Uea opened the door and returned to the office, leaving a certain programmer standing there expressionlessly. King, seeing the “bedmate”’s cute little expression out of the corner of his eye, a bright smile appeared on his wavy lips, and then followed the other person into the office.
The agreement between them was that they had to keep that friends-with-benefits relationship a secret, only talk about sex and never about feelings, and never fall in love with each other. However, King intended to destroy the last two agreements. At first he just thought that Uea was very compatible with him, but since he returned from Koh Samet, he really liked Uea. He wanted to court Uea openly, hoping that everyone in the company knew that the boy belonged to him.
But he had recently found himself in a bit of an embarrassing situation. He had suddenly been invited by his mother on a blind date. The matter was related to the interests of the family business, and King could not refuse. Obviously he would never agree to marry someone else, but it would take time to address the issue. During that time, he would work hard to improve the relationship between himself and Uea. King believed that Uea liked him, but the other party was too suspicious, he considered him superficial, and also cared about the eyes of people around him.
If you use too much force, the snow-white kitten will definitely turn around and run away.
Now that Uea didn’t want others to doubt their relationship, King had no choice but to follow his order first.