First thing he noticed was that he woke up in the dark, head spinning. He tried to make out his surroundings, but had a hard time to do so since everything was dark.

He shook his head to clear his muddled mind, and felt that he was being restrained. Fully. He tried to take a look at what kind of restraint it was and found it strong enough to render him immobile. Including the gag in his mouth.

Shit.

He was trying to remember when and where they got him, and how he got so stupid to let his guard down with everything that happened around him.

I guess love is what making me stupid.

He sighed, wondered how long it would take for his bodyguards to find him. 

It's been quite a while, when he heard a rustling sound from the top of the building or whatever structure he was held into. He heard a thud sound of someone dropped on the floor in front of him from quite a height, then a familiar chuckle.

"I was wondering where you went, baobei, thought you ditched me." 

He looked at the general direction of where the voice came from, but still couldn't make head or tail because of the absolute darkness. He also couldn't answer because of the gag.

"You look really good in this… getup. We should try it sometimes… of course in the privacy of our bedroom, I really don't want anyone to see you like this, you know?"

That gremlin! He made a sound from his throat that was almost feral.

The gremlin in question sat on his lap, wriggling his butt while taking off the gag and kissed him.

"Are you alone?" He asked him after being thoroughly kissed.

"Ge, really? Like I could ever go anywhere alone? Please…" he scoffed, and Xiao Zhan saw the infrared google on top of his head. 

Suddenly he ceased all movement, then shushed Xiao Zhan when he started to speak.

"You know ge," he put his arms around the older's neck. "On second thought, we can continue what we left off this morning, especially since you're… tied up. Quite prettily as I may say."

Although it's dark, Xiao Zhan could feel the huge grin on the younger one's face.

"Yibo, don't you dare… hmpff" 

The force of the kiss was so hard, it took them both down, including the chair. It knocked Xiao Zhan's head, although Yibo cushioned the landing with his hand.

"What the fuck…?" But Yibo shushed him again and pointed at the wall behind him.

"See that?"

"Yeah, well, I can see shit!" He hissed, followed by another chuckle, then Yibo put the infrared google on his eyes.

The eerie green light illuminated his sight, and he could make out the basic outline of the place they were in, and also Yibo's eat-shitting grin. He looked at the wall where he was pointing earlier, and found an arrow… with a countdown on it.

"Well, fuck."

"Yeah, fuck." Yibo moved aside and took the infrared google from Xiao Zhan before putting it on himself again and took out something high tech from his pocket, then slapped it onto the arrow. The countdown stopped immediately. 

"My new invention, a signal blocker." He fiddles with the arrow for a bit then tugged it off the wall. "Done. I'll trace this shit to the owner. Later." His eyes then went back to Xiao Zhan, who was trussed like a turkey ready to be slaughtered.

"Damn, this fucker really knew how to knot a shibari, how kinky." Yibo flashed his shit-eating grin, while tracing the knots one by one, making no move to free him. "You know, ge, we should learn to make shibari. This will come in handy in… roleplaying." He winked at Xiao Zhan, who groaned because he knew exactly where the little gutter mind's mind went.

"Really, Yibo? Now?"

"Well, ge, now is the best time to talk about our… kinks. Don't you think?"

"Right. How do you find me anyway?" He was trying to distract Yibo from manhandling him too much, because it seems like… he just discovered a new kink and he didn't want Yibo to find out. He wouldn't hear the end of it.

"And here I thought you're smarter than me." He scoffed and his hand grazed his dick… on purpose. "Do you really think I will let you go without putting a tracker on you?" He traced his hand on the outline of his ass and squeezed it hard, making him squeaked.

"Yibo!" 

He was half aroused now, and it showed.

"Zhan-ge… hmm… you like that, huh?" He continued to fondle Xiao Zhan's ass, making him involuntarily moan. 

"Fuck, Yibo you sex crazed boy, don't you think we have more important things to do?"

"Ge, nothing's more important than you, but as you wish." He flicked his knife and cut the rope while still fondling everywhere he could touch. 

"Fuck, that's hot baby, maybe we can continue later… much later." He groaned, and willed his erection to stay calm. "By the way, have you found what you were looking for?"

"If you meant the love of my life, then yes. If you meant that bastard who ruined my name, it's also an affirmative. And you won't believe who this dump belonged to."

"Lan Qiren, huh?" Xiao Zhan walked around the warehouse, inspecting the stolen goods from the five families. "He was the most vocal in his hate toward me."

"His lost shipments were all in that warehouse. Don't you think it's suspicious?" Yibo kicked one of the big crates and yelped when it didn't move.

"Careful, baobei, the crates filled with precious things." He looked around for his Cerberus. "Xue Yang, tell Yubin to go get QingYang here."

"On it, boss."

"Do you think that it's one of Lan Qiren's sons? Lan Jingyi or Lan Shizui? The fake Red King?" Yibo asked Xiao Zhan.

"Oh? You're familiar with the Lans?" Now it's Xiao Zhan's turn to be amazed.

"Well, yeah I had to do my research before I met you." Yibo shrugged noncommittally. "Besides, Jingyi and Shizui were my classmates, once upon a time."

"And you're just telling me now?" Xiao Zhan frowned. "Holy crap, I dated a literal baby." He groaned mockingly, earning a swat from the said baby.

"Why are you so fixated with our age differences? I hate you." He smacked the older one.

"No, you love me." He caught the hand and kissed it.

"Yes I do, unfortunately. And I think, this was not the Lans' doing."

"Yeah, I gather so much. Lan Qiren hates me, but he's not the type to do this kind of sneak attack. More likely he's just going to stab me in front of at least five witnesses." He chuckled remembering the death glare from the Lan's patriarch that seemed a long time ago.

"You know what? I think this is more like Jin Guangshan's doings." Yibo bit his lips while he did his things on the phone, typing frantically. "The tracker I planted on that fake bitch also showed that he was at least somewhere in the Jin's vicinity."

"Did you plant spy cams everywhere? " Xiao Zhan gawked when he realized what the young prince was doing. "Isn't that illegal? " He glared at him. "Wait. Did you put spy cams in my place too?"

" Ge, shut up. No spy cams, are you crazy? Xichen will kill me if he finds out."

" If he finds out. Please, I'm familiar with your word play. Now tell me, did you plant spy cams on all of the Five Families?" 

"Uhm…"

"Think before you answer." Xiao Zhan looked at him dead in the eyes. "Or I won't let you fuck me for at least a month." 

Yibo groaned.

"That was preposterous! I did not put any spy cams anywhere in your vicinity! What do you think I am? A brute?" He scoffed. "I have a military satellite right here in my hand, why would I need spy cams?" He smirked evil-y.

" The fuck?" Xiao Zhan moved closer and looked in the younger's phone. 

And there it was. A military satellite, locked and loaded on the Jin's compound.

" Jesusfuckingchrist , Yibo, you can obliterate the whole compound with that controller in your hand…" Xiao Zhan was hyperventilating now by the fact that this little rascal, his little rascal, was practically controlling a war machine in his hand.

"I know, cool right? Anyone you wanna kill before I'm returning the satellite?"

"Did you just hack the military?" Xiao Zhan felt a huge headache coming.

"Technically, no. Military works for the King, right? And I'm the Prince. So it should be mine anyway." He shrugged casually.

"Well, if you put it that way…"

"Relax, I'm not doing anything bad with it, except peeping on you sometimes when I was lonely…" and he had the gall to actually pout at Xiao Zhan, as if it was his fault. 

"What?? Peeping … oh God." He slid to the chair in front of him, his legs suddenly turned to jelly.

"Be nice to me, and maybe I'll make you see God, later at home." Yibo winked then continued browsing the Jin's compound like playing some kind of a game.

Xiao Zhan only shook his head in disbelief.

"Hmm, that lone building is kinda suspicious." He pointed at a lone structure, a bit far from the rest of the lavish Jin's residence. It's hidden so well that no one without a high tech military satellite wouldn't be able to detect that.

"Switch to infrared." Xiao Zhan told Yibo, who rolled his eyes before doing it.

The phone's wide surface turned into grey, with patches of green, blue and red. Some of them were moving around, but in one particular spot, there was one unmoving red thermal signal. The one in the hidden building.

"It's suspicious as fuck but we can't barge in and demand a search there. Jin Guangshan has a tight connection with your brother, with his son being his advisor and all."

"Well, I guess it's time you see the real Red King in action then."