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Kong Hongjun will reach his adulthood in two months. He had been troubled recently by something that he is too embarrassed to tell his parents. So he can only talk to his cousin, who is much older than him, during the summer holiday.
"My parents say they will find me a fiancee when I come of age." Hongjun was lying on the bed holding a pillow and said listlessly.
"Well." Qiu Yongsi sat next to him with a Popsicle in his mouth staring at the television screen without blinking, pressing the console and saying nothing.
"I said my parents are getting me engaged." Hongjun repeated.
"Yes, congratulations." He said.
"Congratulation for what, I don't even have a girlfriend." Hongjun said.
"Damn! The teammates suck so bad! I almost won! Come up here and play with me."
"Don't ask me to play the awful course with you." Hongjun said, "Did you listen to me at all?"
"I heard, just find a girlfriend." said Qiu Yongsi, restarting the game.
"Stop playing and hear me out." Hongjun got up and turned off the TV. "I feel I'm not doing well there." he told him.
"What?" Qiu Yongsi looked puzzled.
Hongjun whispered, "I haven't gotten hard it in a long time."
"... Even in the morning?" "Asked Qiu Yongsi.
"Occasionally."
"That can still be normal......" Qiu Yongsi thought for a while, and said: "Is it because you have nothing to turn you on? Do you feel anything watching porn?"
"I used to, but NOW I can't get any." Hongjun said worriedly, "I won’t go on like this forever, will I? What if I eventually become ED? How will I get married in the future!"
"Don't worry don't worry, you may be just under too much pressure from school, after all you have to study for the College Entrance Examination." Qiu Yongsi soothed.
"How could I not worry, Chong Ming is already preparing to make me engaged......" Hongjun said, "But I don't seem to feel anything towards women at all now."
"It’s just engagement, it’s not like you have to do that right away, take your time to deal with it." Qiu Yongsi thought for a moment and said, " doesn’t your uncle have a friend owning a nightclub? There gotta be many girls, do you want to go there and try it out tonight? Maybe you just need a little bit stimulation."
"Are you crazy?! Hongjun said in a low voice, "If my parents find out I go to solicit prostitute, I will be killed!"
"Just don't let them know." Yongsi quipped, "There can’t be so many prostitutes in our legal society, mainly just people who want to drink and have fun, you can get to know a few mature sexy girls, just chat them up, maybe you will be cured."
"I said already now I have no such feeling for women." Hongjun rejected Qiu Yongsi's offer at once.
"Do youhave such feeling for men then?" Qiu Yongsi took off his shirt and showed off his muscles in front of Hongjun, winking at him.
Hongjun got goosebumps seeing this and confirmed: "No, put on your clothes quickly."
"Then try it tonight, or I'll tell your mother to take you to the hospital." Youngs threatened.
"All right, I will." Hongjun compromised, "Make it clear, I’m not calling escort girls, just to check the place out."
The police force in Town X has a Special Operation Squad. The team leader and four members are all with extraordinary abilities, but they usually do not go on mission together with other divisions, only operates when they meet difficult cases, and more often just pick up some trivial cases, so they do not have high salary either, except the Leader, Li Jinglong.
As soon as Li Jinglong graduated from the police academy, his cousin, who was a high ranked officer, got him this job through some connections in the force as the leader of such a group with little risk. This Special Operation Squad was set up for him. At the same time, he sent several police officers with good ability, but disengaged personality and hard to manage, for Li Jinglong to command.
The four police officers did not like to obey orders, seeing Li Jinglong was an outsider made them more unconvinced, although they had not given him any hard time, they became more disengaged than before.
"Commander is out again?" Mo Rigen took Lu Xu back from outside, see Li Jinglong is not in the office, asked.
"Another case." A-Tai said, "Guess what is it this time."
"What else could it be?" Ashina Qiong played with his phone, without looking up, answered: "Either looking for stolen bike or looking for lost wallet, or this time it could be to help grandma across the road...... How can we, with our superior abilities, be assigned to such a department?"
"You wish you had a big case to work on. I say it's safe and easy here, dawdle away the time." Lu Xu said, "If you want to get physical, Mo Rigen can fight with you outside."
"But this Li Jinglong is very smart, even the stolen bike case he could catch out a small gang, this month's bonus is thanks to him." A-Tai said.
"How cheeky of you to say that, let you go on a mission and you sneaked away for a date, I should let Li Jinglong deduct your bonus." Ashina Qiong sneered.
"Ehm... I was just testing our commander’s ability......"
Shortly after Li Jinglong went in with a pile of files, called a meeting.
"How come there’re so many paper this time?"
"It’s a big case……" before Li Jinglong even finished, Ashina Qiong interrupted: "We have big case? Since when did they take us seriously?"
"Cut the waffle now and listen to me." Li Jinglong took a deep breath, he is used to get interrupted by his subordinates, "we found out recently that in Yuan Kun’s nightclub there is…"
"The gangster so-call Kun God? How come they suddenly want us to investigate that now?" Lu Xu asked.
Li Jinglong exhaled silently and said, "that’s him, let me finish first."
Everyone knew the gravity of Yuan Kun’s case, so they remained in silence.
"We got information that the bar opened by Yuan Kun last month is involved in prostitution and minors are involved as well. They have been staking out for half a month but couldn’t find the den, they want us to go under cover……what do you all think?" Said Li Jinglong.
"Pretend to be soliciting?" Suggested A-Tai.
"You go then?" Said Li Jinglong.
"No no no I can’t." A-Tai refused, "My wife would kill me even though it’s work!"
"Then you go, Qiong." Said Li Jinglong, again.
"Leader! You know I’m allergic to women, how can I pretend?"
Li Jinglong looked at Mo Rigen and Lu Xu, seeing these two sticking together again made him somehow frustrated, yelled: "We are having a meeting here, get a room!" Three gays in one department……four counting himself, and one married, nobody wanted to go under cover in a nightclub. Although the order from his is direct order and they had to obey, Li Jinglong knew that it would work well merely giving order to these people, those small cases before he could deal with himself, with such a big case he wanted everyone to work together.
Li Jinglong thought for a moment and spoke: "Yuan Kun’s subordinates and his guests will be transported to a place after they meet up at the bar, there should be other illegal stuff going on, if we could catch them altogether, we might be able to throw him in prison.
"How do they develop new members?" Asked A-Tai.
"We don’t know, if we can find the place we can interrogate it out." replied Li Jinglong, "It’s Summer now, we have to be quick as there could be many minors involved."
"If we get a woman to chat up a minor, would Yuan Kun make a move?" Asked Mo Rigen.
"Possibly, but we have to find a woman first……" Li Jinglong contemplated for a while, "Lu Xu, you are the smallest, you can dress up as a girl?"
"I’m not going, you go yourself." Lu Xu disagreed.
"I think it’s a good idea." Mo Rigen smiled, "you have the best ability among all of us, you’ll be safer to go under cover."
"I agree." Said A-Tai, "I know how to do makeup, I can do it for you."
"Then you can go yourself……" Li Jinglong refused.
"Come on, it’s a big case, Leader you will have the honor and we dare not take the credit for it."
Li Jinglong had no better choice but to compromise.
8 p.m.
Qiu Yongsi brought Hongjun to the Yuan Kun’s newly opened nightclub, with a sign at the entrance: NO MINORS. Hongjun hesitated when he saw the sign: "We’d better just go back…… it’s so late now, I can’t let my parents find out."
"Come on, we are already here! No need to scare, I told them you are at mine tonight, they won’t find out." Qiu Yongsi pushed Hongjun into the door.
"Show me your ID please." The bouncer said, seeing Hongjun looked underage.
"Eh……I didn’t bring……" Hongjun said in a flurry.
"I didn’t bring mine either." Said Qiu Yongsi, "nowhere else ever asked for it, how come your place is so exclusive?"
The bouncer looked at Hongjun with suspicion, but let them in anyway.
This is the first time Hongjun came in a bar, he couldn’t help looking around and saw men and women canoodling, coloured beams shone on the dance floor and ceiling and walls. Teenagers’ shouting and laughter was mixed with the loud music from the speakers, gave Hongjun a headache and couldn’t even hear what Qiu Yongsi was saying.
They found a place to sit down and called beverages, and started talking and drinking.
"Check out the girls, if you are interested in anyone just go buy her a drink." Said Qiu Yongsi loudly.
Hongjun looked again and thought of nothing other than this place is too loud. After playing with his phone for half an hour he wanted to go home. As soon as he raised his head and looked up he saw a tall, slim lady with long black hair like silk passed his seat and sat down at the bar behind him. When that lady passed by, Hongjun smelt something really fragrant, but nothing like perfume or freshener, Hongjun took it as the scent of hormones, seduced some sort of impulse within his body. He turned around and glanced at that lady, and immediately flushed when he realized that lady was also looking at him. He turned back and tapped on Qiu Yongsi, who is on his phone.
"I have it!" He shouted to Qiu Yongsi excitedly.
"Have what?"
"I have that feeling now! Look at the girl sitting at the bar behind me!" Hongjun said.
It was too far away for Qiu Yongsi to see clearly, so he walked Hongjun to the bar and said: "Then go talk to her."
After Li Jinglong went in the club wearing a dress, he realized people came in all wore similar clothes, it was hard to tell one’s age unless they look extremely young—like the teen sat near the dance floor, even though he was on his phone and his head was low, Li Jinglong could tell he is still in school. In order to make sure, he walked by the boy and sat behind him for closer observation. He soon made a conclusion at said to his teammates via communicator: "There really is a minor, I’ll see if I can get any information off him."
"Leader, be careful with your voice!"
Li Jinglong cleared his throat, wanted to meet the young man, but the young man and his friend came to him first before he made any move.
"Hey, you came alone? My cousin wants to buy you a drink." Qiu Yongsi started a conversation, smiling, but was distracted for a second when he saw Li Jinglong’s face.
Li Jinglong pulled his little scarf up to hide his Adam’s Apple, started speaking with a thin voice: "Yes I am, you can sit here if you want."
"I won't sit, let my cousin accompany you." Yongsi wondered how come Hongjun liked a mature type, but he didn't want to do anything about it. He pushed him down on the seat next to Li Jinglong and quickly walked away to find someone else to spend the night with.
Hongjun is a little nervous and blushed: "What would you like to drink?"
Li Jinglong noticed his uneasiness, guessing this is probably the first time he comes to a bar, said with a smile: "Maybe it should be on my treat."
"No need to." Hongjun seemed to remember something and said, "Wait for me." He ran back to his seat and picked up the coke, then sat back beside Li Jinglong.
"How old are you?" Li Jinglong asked.
"Guess." Hongjun was afraid to reveal his real age, but he was not very good at lying and could only talking vaguely.
"Just started college?" Li Jinglong asked again.
"Kind of......" Hongjun said guiltily.
The bartender handed Li Jinglong a glass of cold beer, Li Jinglong took a sip and they fell silent.
"Leader, find a topic to chat with him!" Ashina Qiong called into his earpiece. Li Jinglong wanted to take off his earphone, and he didn't know what to talk about. Glancing at Hongjun, he noticed that he was drinking coke and peeping at him. So he turned his head sideways, propped his hand on his face and joked, "Are you looking at me?"
Hongjun immediately panicked, flushed and faltered: "You are really pretty."
The subordinates on the other side of the communicator started laughing, Li Jinglong said: "Thank you, you are very pretty too."
"My name is Kong Hongjun, what is your name." Hong jun asked.
"Li..." Li Jinglong hesitated and said, "You call me Lily."
They started laughing again in the earphone and called him ‘Lily, Lily’ restlessly. Li Jinglong was frustrated but restrained.
"Do you come here often?" Hongjun carefully picked a topic to talk about.
"I came here for the first time today. I heard that this place is nice." Li Jinglong said.
"This is my first visit too......" Hongjun asked again, "What do you do?"
"I just graduated and haven't looked for a job yet." Li Jinglong thought for a while and then said, "I just broke up with my boyfriend and came here to refresh."
What she said convinced Hongjun, then asked, "Do you want to add my WeChat? I have a lot of free time during the summer, we can hang out together."
Li jinglong didn't expect that, his WeChat moments were all about his life, which would expose his gender. So he asked the bartender for a pen and paper and scribbled his phone number to him, said, "This is my phone number, we can add WeChat when we know each other better."
"All right." Hongjun was a little disappointed, but felt the way this beautiful girl acted was so cool and charming.
"Leader! No progress? How about something productive?" The others urged again, "Seduce him! Bring him to a hotel!"
Li Jinglong looked at the boy with such an innocent face, so unconvinced that he would participate in such obscene activities, but since he already came to this stage, he would have to investigate more. Li Jinglong finished his beer, pretended to be dizzy from the alcohol and ran his finger through his hair, proned on the bar counter and said: "it’s so hot in here......"
Hongjun saw Lily leaning over the table looking at him in a drunken manner, and his heart beated wildly. He boldly stood up close to Li Jinglong and patted him gently on the face with his finger, saying to himself, "How come you get drunk even quicker than me?"
Li Jinglong’s breathing was interrupted for an instant by Hongjun’s action. Then Hongjun said, "Shall I take you home?"
Li Jinglong hurriedly said, "No, I won't go home!" The whole night would be for nothing if he got home.
Hongjun wanted to take Li Jinglong home for real, but his words sounded likesomething else in the bartender's ears. The bartender was convinced that this woman is looking for a one-night stand, so he told them, "We're having a carnival right now. I wonder if you guys are interested."
"Yes!" Li Jinglong secretly cheered.
"What carnival? Where is it? Is it fun?" Hongjun asked.
The bartender smiled strangely and said to Hongjun, "This is a place where young people like you can have fun. You and the young lady can go together or alone, and there will be someone to accompany you. It won’t be boring at all, you can get tickets from me."
Li jinglong listened carefully to the bartender, afraid to miss the key information. Hongjun asked Li Jinglong, "Why don't I call my brother and the three of us go there together?"
Li Jinglong nodded without objection.
Hongjun paid the bartender and took several electronic keys and three tickets, then took Li Jinglong to find Yongsi.
As Soon as Li Jinglong stood up, Hongjun found that she was nearly seven inches taller than himself.
"You are so tall! Hongjun exclaimed.
"... I hope you don't mind my height." Li Jinglong said.
"I don’t mind...... It feels like you're about the same height as my cousin." He took her to Yongsi and estimated by eyes, that she was even taller than him. "We're going to the carnival. Are you coming?" Hong jun asked.
"Carnival? I won't go." When Yongsi heard this, he sensed something was going on and tried to ask Hongjun not to go, but seeing that Hongjun and the girl seemed to hit it off, he smiled and said, "You two go and have a good time. I'll go home first. I'll leave the door unlocked and you stay up until midnight...... Or come back at dawn all right, get to know each other better, your brother I will cover for you."
"?" Hongjun did not understand, also did not think much, took Li Jinglong to follow the bartender from the bar side door to leave, on a vehicle with curtains pulled tightly.
Several young people were already in the car waiting for them, and a teenager was canoodling with a woman dressed very sexually. Li Jinglong took a glance, and Hongjun got into the corner of the last row and they sat next to each other. Their legs were touching, and their bare arms were pushed together. Hongjun blushed nervously.
After that, a man who looked like a tour guide got into the passenger seat, made a few brief introductions, and the car started. It was a long drive to The Carnival, and although the windows were all covered, Li Jinglong's keen sense of direction convinced him that the car was just driving around the city. He saw a few people in the car got bored and took out their phone to play and no one cared, he also took out his phone and sent a message to A-Tai, ordered him to contact the headquarters for support, and then deleted the chats, and to Lu Xu he started a real-time location sharing.
Li Jinglong’s arm unconsciously rubbed against Hongjun's when he was using the phone, Hongjun was froze there after being rubbed several times and dared not move. Li Jinglong saw the boy's reaction that he thought was too cute and couldn't help laughing.
"What are you laughing at?" Asked Hongjun curiously.
"I see you are a little nervous...... Relax." Li Jinglong patted Hongjun’s stiff hand on his lap. "Aren't you tired of sitting so upright? Come closer to me."
To be honest, Li Jinglong quite liked this kind of clean and innocent young men, if they had not gotten acquainted with in such an occasion, and hadn’t known he came to pick up girls, Li Jinglong thought he would have liked him very much.
After being patted by Li Jinglong, Hongjun felt even more awkward, and spoke hesitatingly: "Is this really okay......"
Li Jinglong listened and did not insist, only felt that such a pure teenager if met some bad guy instead of him, he would likely to be involved the illegal activities committed by the criminals and fell for the erotic temptation. The criminal organization who reached out to minors must be put down, and these minors should be given a good education.
The van circled around until it came to a stop in an underground garage. The crowd followed the "guide" after getting off, came to a locker outside the entrance, the "guide" asked everyone to put their communication equipment in the locker, and then through the door security, and then into the elevator up to the 17th floor.
"I feel like I have been here before." Hongjun looked around in the underground garage and murmured.
"You've been here? Where is this?" Li Jinglong asked.
"I have to think about it." Hongjun said
"You two come over to put the phone, don't dawdle." The rest of the group had already gone through security when a man in a dark suit urged them both.
"Why to put the phone?" Hongjun didn't understand. "I want to take photos with it."
The man in black listened to show a strange smile, said: "There will be photography equipments upstairs, guests can't take a mobile phone up."
Hongjun didn’t really want to hand in his phone. He also wants to take photos of the carnival to show Yongsi, saying, "I will take photos of your carnival to promote the carnival. I will send you a red envelope on WeChat if you let me pass?"
"Rules are rules. Don't go up there until you do." Said the man in black impatiently.
"What kind of rule is that, I want to complain!" Hongjun also got annoyed.
"Are you crazy? Are you looking for trouble?" Several more security guards came to round up Hongjun and Li Jinglong.
Li Jinglong saw the situation is not good, just before he tried to tell Hongjun to hand in the phone, a deep voice came: "who is making a scene?"
"Qing Xiong? !" When Hongjun saw that the person was Qing Xiong, he suddenly realized, "I knew it, why does this place look so familiar? It was Golden Peng!"
"Yes, it's the 17th floor of Golden Peng Hotel. Take immediate action." Li jinglong turned off his headset when he heard his teammate's voice.
Obviously surprised to see Hongjun, Qing Xiong asked, "Why are you here?"
"I came to join the carnival, so your hotel is holding a carnival? Why didn't you tell me? Making it a secret?" Hongjun asked.
"Just a small event...... Did you go to Yuan Kun's bar?" Qing Xiong frowned.
"I went secretly, don't tell my parents!" Hongjun said.
"Can't bear loneliness so learned to pick up girls?" Qing Xiong looked at Li Jinglong, disguised as a female, jokingly said to Hongjun.
Hongjun denied immediately: "No, I just saw there is a carnival, so I brought friend......" Halfway through, Hongjun realized what this so-called carnival was all about. "What are you up to, Qing Xiong?" he said sternly. "Is this place not a normal hotel?"
"It's just for some extra money. Not you kid’s business." Qing Xiong turned to Li Jinglong, looked for a while, found this woman is almost as tall as himself, and said to Hongjun: "I did not think you would like this type...... But since you are here, take your friend up and have a good time."
"I... I'd rather not go, Lily. I'll take you home." Hongjun said, attempting to drag Li Jinglong away.
If Li Jinglong had gone with Hongjun at this moment, he would not have been able to meet his teammates and take action together. He insisted on staying and said, "Isn’t it you who brought me here. How can we leave now?"
Qing Xiong also smiled and said to Hongjun, "You are a boy, don't be shy. You've grown up. It's nothing. If you like her then to go take her upstairs and have a chat, even the girl is not shy."
"......" Hongjun hesitated a little and asked Li Jinglong tentatively, "Do you really want to go upstairs with me?"
Li Jinglong said in a coquettish way, "Are you not a man who keeps his word?"
Seeing Lily's willingness, Hongjun felt that she is a little unreliable, but it is rare for him to have such crushes on women, so he wanted to go upstairs and have a chat and get to know each other and be friends. He said to Qingxiong: "Don't tell my parents......I will take her home when we get together......"
Qing Xiong said nothing, let people take them into the elevator, Li Jinglong saw the security pressed the button that goes to the top floor, asked: "is not the 17th floor?"
Security guard expressionlessly said: "The young master has a special place."
"Master?" Li Jinglong was puzzled.
Hongjun whispered to him, "The boss here is my uncle. Take you to the presidential suite on the top floor, where the interior is better."
"......"
Li Jinglong wanted to go up to the 17th floor, but was inexplicably taken to the top floor, where the room was right there outside the elevator.
Hongjun wanted to show Li Jinglong around the room, but as soon asLi Jinglong saw the security guard left, he began to press the elevator, no matter how many times he pressed the elevator made no response, which maked him a little anxious.
"Do you want to leave? Hongjun asked.
"I want to go to the 17th floor." Li Jinglong said hurriedly.
"You have to swipe authority card to get to the elevator. Why has your voice changed?" Hongjun asked.
"This is my voice." Li Jinglong was too busy to pretend any more. He took off his high heels and walked barefoot around the room looking for a safe passage. He couldn't find it.
"Er... Are you a man?" Hongjun was startled and immediately alerted: "What do you want to do?"
Li Jinglong shouted: "Police! Sit there and don't move!"
Hearing that it was a policeman, Hongjun was too scared to move. He sat on a chair motionlessly and merely watched Li Jinglong communicate with others for a good while. Finally he remembered what he had come to do and asked, "Do you want to arrest Qing Xiong? !"
Li Jinglong was afraid of Hongjun tipping off Qing Xiong, so he rushed over to take his phone away. Thinking that Li jinglong was trying to catch him, Hongjun hid himself. There were many obstacles in the room and Hongjun was a small man. It took Li jinglong quite some time to catch him.
"Behave." Li jinglong took Hongjun's phone and handcuffed him to a chair. The instant the cold handcuffs touched his wrist, Hongjun bursted into tears: "Uncle police officer please don’t arrest me, I really don't know the things here......"
Group members sent a message, colleagues have arrived at the scene in action, Li Jinglong is finally relieved, reported his position, let people send clothes to him. He moved another chair and sat down next to Hongjun: "How old are you? Which school?"
Hongjun cried: "I didn't take part in illegal activities. I just went to a bar with my cousin to play...... They tricked me into having a carnival."
"Are you of age?" Li Jinglong asked.
"After birthday will be." Sobbed Hung-jun.
"There was a sign at the entrance saying that minors not allowed to enter did you not see?"
Hongjun stoped talking, remained silence for a long while and said quietly: "I also have my difficulties......"
Li jinglong was amused and said, "What worries does a high school student have that he needs to go to a nightclub and meet girls to solve?"
Hongjun blushed and said angrily, "I only wanted to make friends with you. You set me up to come here!"
"If you didn't have any attempt would you be here in handcuffs?" Li Jinglong looked at the message sent by his colleagues, stood up and began to undress, said: "I really have no idea what high school students nowadays are thinking, can’t believe we caught so many of them.......
Seeing him undress, Hongjun became nervous again and shouted, "What are you doing? ! I'm a decent person!"
Li Jinglong was speechless. "I'm a policeman! What would I do!" Then he went to the bathroom to wash his face and remove makeup.
A-Tai and Qiong brought the clothes to the top floor for Li Jinglong, out of the elevator they saw Li Jinglong half-naked sitting there waiting for them, there was a boy handcuffed to the chair, his eyes were red.
Not daring to joke about serious things, they handed the clothes to Li Jinglong and asked in all seriousness, "Commander, is this one of them too?"
Li Jinglong put on his clothes and said, "Take him back and call his parents. He is the nephew of the boss here."