Shen Yi moved closer with a sponge, dipped it into the water, and was just about to start cleaning him when Jiang Qi grabbed his wrist.

“What now?” Shen Yi asked, already bracing for more nonsense.

“Why don’t you... join me? Mm?” Jiang Qi said with a grin so bright it could power a small city.

Shen Yi blinked slowly and replied without hesitation, “No.”

He dipped the sponge again and began scrubbing Jiang Qi’s chest. Just as the sponge touched skin, Jiang Qi groaned, a strange sound, halfway between a sigh and something far less innocent.

“You sure you don’t want to join me?” he asked, lips curling mischievously.

“I’m sure,” Shen Yi answered flatly, continuing his task.

But Jiang Qi didn’t stop. Every time the sponge moved across his chest, he let out a new noise, some more dramatic than others.

“Oh... there,” he said, eyes fluttering. “Careful, I’m sensitive.”

Shen Yi paused mid-scrub and stared at him in disbelief. “Stop... making those sounds.”

“I can’t help it,” Jiang Qi replied, smirking. “Your touch does things to me.”

Shen Yi rolled his eyes and resumed scrubbing, silently promising himself he wouldn’t fall into this man’s chaos. But Jiang Qi only leaned back in the tub like he was in a spa, letting out another exaggerated moan that echoed through the bathroom.

Honestly, if someone were passing by at that moment, they’d probably call the cops.

*****
Shen Yi is a black-market assassin who undergoes a memory wipe after every job. He is clean, professional, and impossible to trace,until one day, he is assigned to kill the heir of the Jiang Mafia clan, Jiang Qi, and fails.

Instead of dying, Jiang Qi captures Shen Yi and discovers something impossible. Why does this man, who has tried to kill him six times, look so much like the boy who saved him seven years ago? Not just that, why does he seem to remember nothing? Absolutely nothing, including the several times he has tried to kill him.

What will happen when a man with no memories and a man who refuses to forget are bound together by blood and obsession?

Shen Yi left the bed despite Jiang Qi's resistance, and as his bare feet touched the cold floor, he didn't stop even when Jiang Qi softly called his name; instead, he walked slowly toward the window and pulled aside the curtain. Jiang Qi followed his gaze but didn't get off the bed, and his eyes quietly searched Shen Yi's figure with a flicker of hope that he wasn't going to walk away from him again, not when he had just begun to breathe easier.


Chapter 31 - Again