diff --git a/clickhouse-client/src/main/java/com/clickhouse/client/data/ClickHouseEmptyValue.java b/clickhouse-client/src/main/java/com/clickhouse/client/data/ClickHouseEmptyValue.java
index 36a847aa7..0cbc58d29 100644
--- a/clickhouse-client/src/main/java/com/clickhouse/client/data/ClickHouseEmptyValue.java
+++ b/clickhouse-client/src/main/java/com/clickhouse/client/data/ClickHouseEmptyValue.java
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 import java.math.BigInteger;
 
 import com.clickhouse.client.ClickHouseValue;
+import com.clickhouse.client.ClickHouseValues;
 
 /**
  * Wrapper class of Nothing.
@@ -26,27 +27,27 @@ public BigInteger asBigInteger() {
 
     @Override
     public byte asByte() {
-        throw new IllegalStateException("Empty value cannot be converted to byte");
+        return (byte) 0;
     }
 
     @Override
     public double asDouble() {
-        throw new IllegalStateException("Empty value cannot be converted to double");
+        return 0D;
     }
 
     @Override
     public float asFloat() {
-        throw new IllegalStateException("Empty value cannot be converted to float");
+        return 0F;
     }
 
     @Override
     public int asInteger() {
-        throw new IllegalStateException("Empty value cannot be converted to int");
+        return 0;
     }
 
     @Override
     public long asLong() {
-        throw new IllegalStateException("Empty value cannot be converted to long");
+        return 0L;
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -56,7 +57,7 @@ public Object asObject() {
 
     @Override
     public short asShort() {
-        throw new IllegalStateException("Empty value cannot be converted to short");
+        return (short) 0;
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -76,7 +77,7 @@ public ClickHouseValue resetToNullOrEmpty() {
 
     @Override
     public String toSqlExpression() {
-        return toString();
+        return ClickHouseValues.NULL_EXPR;
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/clickhouse-client/src/main/java/com/clickhouse/client/data/ClickHouseStreamResponse.java b/clickhouse-client/src/main/java/com/clickhouse/client/data/ClickHouseStreamResponse.java
index 38de95503..f11964190 100644
--- a/clickhouse-client/src/main/java/com/clickhouse/client/data/ClickHouseStreamResponse.java
+++ b/clickhouse-client/src/main/java/com/clickhouse/client/data/ClickHouseStreamResponse.java
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ public static ClickHouseResponse of(ClickHouseConfig config, ClickHouseInputStre
     protected final List<ClickHouseColumn> columns;
     protected final ClickHouseResponseSummary summary;
 
-    private boolean isClosed;
+    private boolean closed;
 
     protected ClickHouseStreamResponse(ClickHouseConfig config, ClickHouseInputStream input,
             Map<String, Object> settings, List<ClickHouseColumn> columns, ClickHouseResponseSummary summary)
@@ -91,30 +91,28 @@ protected ClickHouseStreamResponse(ClickHouseConfig config, ClickHouseInputStrea
             }
         }
         this.summary = summary != null ? summary : ClickHouseResponseSummary.EMPTY;
-        this.isClosed = hasError;
+        this.closed = hasError;
     }
 
     @Override
     public boolean isClosed() {
-        return isClosed;
+        return closed;
     }
 
     @Override
     public void close() {
-        if (input != null) {
+        try {
+            log.debug("%d bytes skipped before closing input stream", input.skip(Long.MAX_VALUE));
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            // ignore
+            log.debug("Failed to skip reading input stream due to: %s", e.getMessage());
+        } finally {
             try {
-                log.debug("%d bytes skipped before closing input stream", input.skip(Long.MAX_VALUE));
+                input.close();
             } catch (Exception e) {
-                // ignore
-                log.debug("Failed to skip reading input stream due to: %s", e.getMessage());
-            } finally {
-                try {
-                    input.close();
-                } catch (Exception e) {
-                    log.warn("Failed to close input stream", e);
-                }
-                isClosed = true;
+                log.warn("Failed to close input stream", e);
             }
+            closed = true;
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/clickhouse-client/src/test/java/com/clickhouse/client/data/ClickhouseLZ4InputStreamTest.java b/clickhouse-client/src/test/java/com/clickhouse/client/data/ClickhouseLZ4InputStreamTest.java
index 2ca7d2528..7b934e101 100644
--- a/clickhouse-client/src/test/java/com/clickhouse/client/data/ClickhouseLZ4InputStreamTest.java
+++ b/clickhouse-client/src/test/java/com/clickhouse/client/data/ClickhouseLZ4InputStreamTest.java
@@ -1,12 +1,104 @@
 package com.clickhouse.client.data;
 
 import org.testng.Assert;
+import org.testng.annotations.DataProvider;
 import org.testng.annotations.Test;
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.EOFException;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 
 public class ClickhouseLZ4InputStreamTest {
+    private InputStream generateInputStream(String prefix, int samples, StringBuilder builder) throws IOException {
+        builder.setLength(0);
+
+        byte[] result = null;
+        try (ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+                ClickHouseLZ4OutputStream lz4Out = new ClickHouseLZ4OutputStream(out, 1024 * 1024)) {
+            for (int i = 0; i < samples; i++) {
+                String s = prefix + i;
+                lz4Out.write(s.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+                builder.append(s);
+            }
+            lz4Out.flush();
+            result = out.toByteArray();
+            // Assert.assertTrue(result.length < builder.length() / 2);
+        }
+
+        return new ByteArrayInputStream(result);
+    }
+
+    @DataProvider(name = "prefixes")
+    private Object[][] getPrefixes() {
+        return new Object[][] { { "test" }, { "萌萌哒" },
+                { "1😂2萌🥘" } };
+    };
+
+    @Test(dataProvider = "prefixes", groups = { "unit" })
+    public void testReadByte(String prefix) throws IOException {
+        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
+        boolean readAll = false;
+        try (InputStream in = generateInputStream(prefix, 10000, builder);
+                ClickHouseLZ4InputStream lz4In = new ClickHouseLZ4InputStream(in);
+                ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();) {
+            try {
+                while (true) {
+                    out.write(0xFF & lz4In.readByte());
+                }
+            } catch (EOFException e) {
+                readAll = true;
+            }
+
+            out.flush();
+
+            Assert.assertEquals(new String(out.toByteArray(), StandardCharsets.UTF_8), builder.toString());
+        }
+        Assert.assertTrue(readAll, "All bytes should have read without any issue");
+    }
+
+    @Test(dataProvider = "prefixes", groups = { "unit" })
+    public void testRead(String prefix) throws IOException {
+        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
+        boolean readAll = false;
+        try (InputStream in = generateInputStream(prefix, 10000, builder);
+                ClickHouseLZ4InputStream lz4In = new ClickHouseLZ4InputStream(in);
+                ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();) {
+            int result = 0;
+            while ((result = lz4In.read()) != -1) {
+                out.write(result);
+            }
+            out.flush();
+            readAll = true;
+
+            Assert.assertEquals(new String(out.toByteArray(), StandardCharsets.UTF_8), builder.toString());
+        }
+        Assert.assertTrue(readAll, "All bytes should have read without any issue");
+    }
+
+    @Test(dataProvider = "prefixes", groups = { "unit" })
+    public void testReadBytes(String prefix) throws IOException {
+        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
+        boolean readAll = false;
+        for (int i = 1; i < 1025; i++) {
+            byte[] bytes = new byte[i];
+            try (InputStream in = generateInputStream(prefix, 10000, builder);
+                    ClickHouseLZ4InputStream lz4In = new ClickHouseLZ4InputStream(in);
+                    ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();) {
+                int result = 0;
+                while ((result = lz4In.read(bytes)) != -1) {
+                    out.write(bytes, 0, result);
+                }
+                out.flush();
+                readAll = true;
+
+                Assert.assertEquals(new String(out.toByteArray(), StandardCharsets.UTF_8), builder.toString());
+            }
+            Assert.assertTrue(readAll, "All bytes should have read without any issue");
+        }
+    }
+
     @Test(groups = { "unit" })
     public void testLZ4Stream() throws IOException {
         StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();