They haven't had any chance to finish their 'later' on that day because he was needed urgently for reshooting his new drama the next day in Hengdian, so they flew him out after the filming, and did not see Xiao Zhan again until after a week passed. They just got off the plane and into the car, when he told Anji, his manager, to let him off at Xiao Zhan's place.

"You sure you don't want to stay at the hotel? Or back to your own apartment?" Anji asked him again.

"Mm. Better like this, I'm so fucking exhausted and I need a good 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep. They did not know about Xiao Zhan yet, so I might as well use that to my advantage." He shrugged nonchalantly.

His manager eyed him suspiciously, but finally gave up. "Fine, you can take tomorrow off, then we will continue filming the day after tomorrow."

Yibo felt giddy from all the excitement that he will see Xiao Zhan again, but his face showed nothing.
 

About an hour later, the car dropped him in front of Xiao Zhan's apartment. He went out and broke into half run, and not 2 minutes later he reached his destination. He stopped, calmed himself, and knocked on the door. 

No answer.

He frowned, and knocked again. 

5 minutes later he heard scuffling from the other side, and the door opened to reveal Xiao Zhan. Sleepy, messy hair, half closed eyes, and sexy as hell. Yibo gulped once. Twice.

"Yibo? What are you doing here? I thought you were still filmi....hmppff" Yibo suddenly kissed him, fast, hot, just like everything else that he did. He cupped Xiao Zhan's face, and pushed him inside the door, not wanting other people to see him devoured this beautiful man. 

"Zhan ge, I missed you." he looked deeply into the older's eyes, and just when he was about to kiss him again, he heard his stomach rumbled. He groaned and dropped his head to Xiao Zhan's shoulder.

"I guess we need to put something inside you first..." Xiao Zhan chuckled as he held the younger's hand and lead him into the kitchen. "Sit, I will make something for you." He rummaged the fridge, try to find ingredients to Yibo's favorite beef noodles. "When was the last time you had food?"

"I don't know, this morning? They have food on set, and I kinda eat something there." Yibo shrugged, his eyes followed Xiao Zhan's every move.

"Yibo! That's really not healthy, at all! You have to take care more about yourself, you know?" He started to heat the pan to make the rice noodles. "Go clean yourself up first, you still have glitters and hair gel. This will be ready when you are."

"I love it when you fussed over me, ge." He winked and disappeared to the bathroom, leaving a smile on Xiao Zhan's face.

He was just about to taste the hot broth, when a pair of arms was encircling him. "That smells so good." He can smell the shampoo and the soap on freshly showered Yibo. And his unique scent that's keep making him thirsty. "I really need you to be my private chef, and took care of me, ge, I love your cooking so much...and this smells heavenly." He sniffed...Xiao Zhan's neck.

"Cut it out, and sit down, I will bring this over to you." Xiao Zhan giggled because of the way Yibo's sniffing him, it tickled. "Food first."

Yibo was inhaling the noodles, while Xiao Zhan looked at him fondly. "You're such a big baby, no wonder you had geges everywhere, taking care of you."

He stopped slurping, and looked at Xiao Zhan. "But there's only one gege that I want. To take care of me." And then resumed his eating, leaving Xiao Zhan with heart palpitation. Thankfully before he could think of an appropriate answer, not that there is one, the door bell's rang. Xiao Zhan frowned, and looked at the clock. 11 pm. 

"Were you expecting someone, ge? It's very late already" 

"Not that I remember. Stay here, let me take a look." He walked to the front door, and gasped. Then he opened the door. "Ziyi! What are you doing here? Don't you know it's late already?" But the newcomer did not respond, instead, she waltzed into the apartment, like she owned the place. 

"I see you're still fond of that online cooking class of yours. If only you had listened to me years ago, you will be cooking for the Kings and Queens, alongside of me." She looked around the place, and her gaze stopped on Yibo. "You kept a straggler here? How typical of you. But that's my Zhanzhan, always did good for other people." She flipped her hair, and put down her suitcase, that Xiao Zhan just now noticed. 

"Why are you bringing suitcase?" He asked her, still confused as of why she, of all people, decided to come to his place, after their rather... hostile separation.

"Oh, did I forget to tell you? Me and Ming had a fight, and maybe this time it's for good, so, I ended up here, back to the arms of my loveliest fiancee." She slids her arms to Xiao Zhan's neck and kissed his cheek.

Fiancee? 

"EX fiancee, please Ziyi, you're being difficult, it's like what, 3 years already since YOU left me? And now all of the sudden you came back without warning just because you had a fight with your boyfriend? I can smell your bullshit from a mile away. Now spill." 

"Later, I'm tired. I will sleep in your guest room tonight. Or you prefer I sleep with you? For old times sake?"

"Guest room. You know the way."

"Suit yourself." She looked at him, then Yibo, the shrugged and went upstairs.

"So...does this mean that I need to book a hotel room? Since your FIANCEE is here?" Yibo looked at him. Eyes unreadable. 

"I'm really sorry Yibo, I really don't know what to do with...all this." 

"You could just NOT let her stay, you know? But then again, she is your fiancee... while I am...what am I to you again? A pupil? A childish idol? A straggler? I don't even know if you like men, since your fiancee was obviously a woman."

"First of all, she was my EX fiancee, and I can't really have this conversation right now or my head's gonna explode. You go to sleep in my room. We'll talk in the morning." Xiao Zhan then took the leftover noodle and dumped it on the sink, and cleaned up the rest.

"And where are YOU going to sleep? With your EX fiancee? with me? Both? We can always share, you know, given the rooms were only few feet apart."

"I will be sleeping on the couch tonight. Satisfied?"

"This is your place, I should be the one sleeping on the couch tonight." 

"Stop sulking, Yibo, it's not attractive. We both know you need the sleep, and I need sometime alone to think. Please?"

Yibo looked at him for a long time, then he grabbed his backpack, and left.

 
Xiao Zhan felt the edge of a headache coming fast. He took out his phone, and dialed Yibo's manager, to tell her that Yibo's gone.

"It's okay Xiao Laoshi, he just called me to take him back to his apartment. Is everything okay? Did you have a fight or something?" She asked curiously.

"No, it's nothing, only a simple misunderstanding. I'm sure we'll sort it out tomorrow."

Anji felt skeptical, but it's none of her business.

"Okay, Xiao Laoshi, I will keep you updated with the next schedule. Thank you and sorry to bother you."
Xiao Zhan clicked his phone off, and sighed loudly, then he proceeds to his kitchen, to cook something. Anything. Since he's pretty sure he will not be sleeping anytime soon.

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"Holy Mother, Zhanzhan, did you 'angry cooked' the whole night, last night? I'm telling you, I'm not going to eat it." Ziyi sat on the chair, hair still wet, and she was only using a button down shirt with nothing inside.

"...was that my shirt? Did you go to my room?" Xiao Zhan looked at her in disbelief.

"Relax, I do nothing else except stealing one of your shirt, not to be nosy, but where is pretty boy? Did he leave you last night? Someone's got jealous..." she said in a sing song voice, teasing Xiao Zhan. 

"I'm really not in the mood for your chatty self today, Ziyi, now, will you please just say what you came here to say? I got filming to do this afternoon, and I'm going to be busy tomorrow."

"You mean with Wang Yibo?" She smirked.

Xiao Zhan only lifted his brow.

"What? You think I did not know that the male god you had in your kitchen last night was Wang Yibo? Please, even I can appreciate such a beautiful creature, you know?"

"The problem was, you appreciated it too much. Now spill."

"Fine, fine, geez, you really are becoming more pushy these days. Fine! I want you to come back to France with me. I NEED you to be there with me."

"You know that I'm not in capacity to do anything about what you need anymore, didn't you remember? 3 years ago? When you ran out on me, with Mingjue?"

"You're still mad about that?"

Xiao Zhan sighed. "Xiyi, it was like a week before our wedding. And you ran without telling me anything. Anything. For three whole year. And now you came back here, asking...no, DEMANDING me to go with you? What the fuck?"

Ziyi looked around, nervously, so unlike her confident self just now. "I have cancer, Zhanzhan."