521 saw that its Senior was numb with shock and poked him with the tip of its wings: "Senior, are you okay?"
Lin Yuan simply pretended to be dead.
521 thought that he was deeply affected by the situation and decided to give its Senior some time to digest. It disappeared with a swish.
Lin Yuan's mind was in chaos even after the morning ended. For lunch, he randomly ordered some takeaway. After eating, Lin Yuan felt that he should clearly sort out his thoughts.
First of all, he had a husband, and he really, really liked Huo Chen. While humans said that when two people stayed together for a long time, they would get used to the other and their feelings would die down, but Lin Yuan didn't experience this. Even before he left the last world, he still liked Huo Chen as much as ever.
It was really bad of him to cheat.
He remembered that Huo Chen's body had always been very strong, so even if Lin Yuan's death had impacted the other, Lin Yuan believed that Huo Chen was living on. He thought of how Huo Chen was still alive in the other world, and was grieving for him, but he had actually kissed and did those things with someone else in a new world.
Fu Cheng and Lin Yuan didn't do it until the last step, but they were only one step away from doing so.
The worst thing for Lin Yuan is that he had some of the same feelings he had for Huo Chen, for Fu Cheng.
Last night, his physical comfort could be explained that it was just because of the human body. But when he and Fu Cheng did intimate things, he didn't feel a trace of disgust. As long as he recalled the situation last night, he would feel a little shy.
If it was anyone else, he couldn't accept even thinking about it. He would only feel very, very repulsed.
Is it because he stayed with Fu Cheng every day that he developed feelings?
Lin Yuan doubtfully rubbed the place over his heart and thought that even if he was in a human body now, his essence was still a machine program.
Would a machine like the new and hate the old? Would a machine be scum?
Lin Yuan wasn't sure if other systems were scum, but he was sure that he was a scum man. Right now he really really liked Huo Chen, but he also kind of liked Fu Cheng.
Wuuu, scum man. He was a scum man.
521 woke up and saw its Senior still on the sofa, curling up and holding his knees. It flew over and rubbed against him: "Senior~"
Lin Yuan had no energy to rub back. He suddenly burst into tears and sobbed sadly: "521, I'm a cheater..."
521 expressed that it already knew.
Lin Yuan grabbed 521 and kneaded it: "521, I'll only tell you, but I seem to like Fu Cheng a little."
521 felt like he didn't understand human language anymore and typed out a question mark: [?]
521: "Senior, what do you mean? 521 might be malfunctioning and heard wrong."
Lin Yuan didn't want to be a scum man, but he couldn't change his feelings for Fu Cheng. Moreover, it was impossible for him to stay away from Fu Cheng because he had to do the task. If he spent time with Fu Cheng everyday, Lin Yuan felt that his affection for the other would grow.
"I said, I'm a scum man. Although I still really like my husband, I also kind of like Fu Cheng." Even in his sadness, Lin Yuan still felt shy saying these words out loud, and his ears were red.
521 couldn't deceive itself a second time: "!!! Ahhhh! Senior, how can you be like this?"
521 thought about how in the last world, its Senior only cared about his husband and not about points, and tears burst out: "Wuuuu… Senior, do you remember that you promised to not refuse to leave the world because of the mission target? You said that you'd only have one husband, and you also said that I would be able to be number one."
"Senior, you already had a husband, you can't have a second one. 521 wants to be number one!! You can't have a second husband! Wuuuu..."
When Lin Yuan heard 521 say 'second husband', he inadvertently recalled the video that 521 had shown him in the morning. Fu Cheng's bare upper body, with pale skin that glistened underneath the light, and abdominal muscle lines that were smooth and beautiful, and his waist was thin and powerful.
Lin Yuan's hand was held by Fu Cheng's and held something hot. His hand moved up and down and Fu Cheng gasped heavily next to his ear, and bit and licked his earlobes. Fu Cheng then kissed the side of his neck, and kissed him on the shoulder.
Fu Cheng kissed him for a long time, and their lips collided over and over again.
After Fu Cheng was done kissing, he released with a groan onto the sofa.
Obviously, the other was just a teenager, and his body was not as mature as a full grown adult, but at that moment, desire was a catalyst that allowed Fu Cheng to exude an aggressive attractiveness.
Lin Yuan blushed wildly and whispered to 521: "He isn't my second husband yet. I still haven't figured out what to do."
Hearing this, 521 thought that its evaluation was saved. It hugged Lin Yuan with its little wings and said: "Senior, wuuu… having one husband is enough, you really don't need a second one. Cheating is not right. Senior, you already cheated once, you can't cheat again!!"
Lin Yuan said with some distress: "But I have to be by his side in order to reduce the blackening value. Since I already like him a little, if I continue to be by his side, then I will definitely like him more and more."
521 despaired enough to lose its fur. Being a furball was so hard ah.
If its Senior didn't cheat, then the task would fail. But if the Senior cheated, then the task would be completed but once the Senior got a second husband, he would stay in this world for decades.
Wuuu, seems like it can't ever be number one.
While 521 was sad, it suddenly had an extremely terrible thought. It trembled: "Senior...521 just had a really, really scary thought."
Lin Yuan held his breath and asked: "What really, really, scary thought?"
521 sobbed: "Wuuu, Senior, say do you think the future mission targets will also like you? And then... then you'll have a third, fourth, fifth, or countless husbands..."
Lin Yuan thought to himself that although he liked two people now, he would never be that scummy. Changing husbands in every world was too exaggerated.
"I won't, don't worry." Lin Yuan said confidently.
521 was still a little afraid: "Senior, in the next world, you should stay away from the mission target so that they will definitely not like you."
Lin Yuan thought that 521 was asking something difficult: "If I don't get close to the mission target, how can I reduce the blackening value? How will I complete the task?"
521: "Whatever. We'll see in the next world."
If the mission target in the next world fell in love with the Senior, then...521 could only cry.
The next morning, Lin Yuan found that Fu Cheng had sent him a text.
It was sent at 4 o'clock in the morning, in which Fu Cheng asked him if they would still go to school together.
Lin Yuan felt that Fu Cheng probably didn't sleep last night. He hesitated for a moment, and then replied with one word: Together.
The other party quickly responded: Okay, I'm waiting for you.
Lin Yuan stared at this message and thought of Fu Cheng's dark eyes and his face sank slightly.
Probably not, Fu Cheng shouldn't be...
Lin Yuan thought of a possibility and washed and dressed as fast as possible in five minutes.
Spring mornings were still a little cold. Lin Yuan rushed through the chilly air to the intersection and sure enough, under the dim dawn light, a thin and slender teenager stood at the intersection.
His figure crisscrossed with light and darkness.
As Lin Yuan walked closer to the teenager, he could no longer see anything else. He could only see the person in front of him.
"... Fu Cheng."
Yesterday, after Fu Cheng had closed the door, Fu Cheng sat back on the sofa where he and Lin Yuan had hugged and kissed each other.
There seemed to be some residual warmth on the sofa. Fu Cheng sat from morning until late into the night. At 3 o'clock in the morning, he finally couldn't sit still anymore.
His body had long gone numb and stiff, and he could hardly stand up straight. Fu Cheng struggled to balance his steps and staggered into the bathroom.
After taking a shower, he changed into his school uniform, picked up his backpack, and left the silent and rotten house and walked to the intersection where he waited for Lin Yuan every day.
The yellow light from the street lamp pulled out a long, distorted shadow at Fu Cheng's feet.
This was who Fu Cheng really was. On the surface, he was a beautiful and excellent teenager, but inside he was dark and malicious.
Fu Cheng told himself that he had to hide himself, he had to carefully plan so he could keep Lin Yuan by his side.
But, he didn't know how to keep someone.
When he was a child, no matter how hard he begged or cried, he couldn't keep his coldhearted parents. Now, he didn't know how to keep the person he liked.
He only knew how to wait, just like when he was young.
Fu Cheng stood on the vacant sidewalk.
It was 4 o'clock in the morning, and he saw the thick ink of night slosh around him, and he saw the gray concrete extend into the depths of an abyss. He saw himself, a pitiful person that no one wanted.
The amount of time Fu Cheng had left to live was too short compared to other people who would live to seventy, eighty, or one hundred years old. For him, he would die when he was 18, the time he just turned into an adult.
Eighteen years was short, and time warped Fu Cheng into perceiving the world in extreme black and white. His love was just as extreme as his hatred. And just now, he started to hate Lin Yuan.
At five o'clock, peddlers came out. Some of them noticed the teenager standing on the sidewalk, some of them didn't.
At six o'clock, more people had gotten up. The city gradually woke up from its sleep.
Fu Cheng didn't move a muscle, as if he could not feel the passage of time. It wasn't until he felt a vibration from his phone that he jolted awake from the terrible nightmare.
He took out his phone and read Lin Yuan's reply.
Together...
They could still be together.
Fu Cheng wanted to smile, but he finally didn't seem to have the strength to wear his mask.
He waited, like he used to do. But this time, he waited for Lin Yuan. He saw the teenager run towards him, wearing the same school uniform.
Fu Cheng looked at Lin Yuan, and his vision suddenly seemed to distort. The person he liked became a monster-like abyss, and swallowed him little by little.
He couldn't run away.
Lin Yuan ran to Fu Cheng and panted, and his eyes were full of worry. He started to raise his hand to touch Fu Cheng's face, but when he thought of what happened between them, his movements stopped.
Fu Cheng saw that the hand that wanted to touch him was going away and grabbed it and forced it to cover his face.
Lin Yuan was stunned by the coldness of Fu Cheng's skin. The other's hand and face were not as hot as they usually were, and they felt like another person, like his Huo Chen.
Fu Cheng was no longer going to hide himself, fake himself, and he didn't need to anymore. He lightly rubbed against Lin Yuan's warm hand and said hoarsely and brokenly: "...Lin...Lin Yuan…"
Lin Yuan hadn't realized before, but because of the lingering memories of their kiss and their touches, he realized that Fu Cheng's voice was extremely alluring.
His heart beat faster and he inadvertently made eye contact with Fu Cheng. He inexplicably felt the same feeling from two nights ago, and his throat felt dry.
"En…" Lin Yuan stammered: "What… what's wrong?"
Fu Cheng stared at the teenager and continued to lean against the warm palm of the other party. He liked its temperature to the point of infatuation and addiction.
"Lin Yuan..."
Fu Cheng lowered his eyes. His long, slender eyelashes covered his eyes with a shadow and concealed his feelings. He started to press kisses onto Lin Yuan's palm, and his cold lips felt like a snake that was slowly climbing over the skin.
Lin Yuan's breathing stagnated. When he reacted, he wanted to pull away his hand: "Fu Cheng! You can't一"
Fu Cheng didn't give him a chance to refuse. As long as the other didn't say anything, or as long as he didn't hear anything, then he could deceive himself.
No refusal, no hate, nothing.
Alleyways littered the city and could be found everywhere. Fu Cheng pulled Lin Yuan into a cold and dark alley where the light didn't reach, a place that was most familiar for him.
Fu Cheng placed his hand behind the teenager's head and pressed the other onto the brick wall. When he kissed the other, Fu Cheng felt everything was how it should be.
It was already clear to Lin Yuan that Fu Cheng liked himself. What they did before was half because Lin Yuan was insistent, but also half because of Fu Cheng's willingness. Since Fu Cheng was sober, if he really didn't want to, then they would not have done those things with each other.
Now that they were both sober, they shouldn't continue.
Lin Yuan struggled, but his resistance was not comparable to Fu Cheng's strength.
Fu Cheng had stood outside for too long and his tongue was chillier than before. He licked Lin Yuan's soft and heated lips, but when he was about to go deeper, he found that Lin Yuan's teeth were shut tight.
Fu Cheng curled his lips and moved his hands downwards and rubbed someplace.
Lin Yuan's eyes widened in disbelief. They were outside! In public!
"Fu Cheng…" As soon as he spoke, Fu Cheng took the opportunity to dive into his mouth and lick Lin Yuan's tongue.
Only then did Lin Yuan realize that Fu Cheng rubbed himself intentionally and he had been fooled.
Fu Cheng's kissing skills were much more skillful than before. His lips and tongue entangled with the other while his slender fingers caressed Lin Yuan's waist and stimulated the other's body.
Lin Yuan's ability to think was stolen by the teenager's intense kiss and he was kissed into a daze.
The kiss was long and deep to the point that Lin Yuan felt as if he had been invaded by Fu Cheng inside and out. His whole body was marked with traces and the other's breath.
His tongue faintly hurt, and there was a faint taste of blood in his mouth.
But Fu Cheng didn't want to let Lin Yuan go. Even after he withdrew, he pecked Lin Yuan's lips and said: "Lin Yuan, you like it. You like me kissing you, I know, I can feel it."
Lin Yuan's breathing was in disorder and the stimulation had made his eyes red and eyelashes wet: "I…I…I don't like… don't like…"
Wuuu, really want to be a big, bad scumbag and kiss Fu Cheng.
He used to tell his husband that he didn't want others to kiss him, he only wanted to kiss his husband. Who knew he accidentally set up a flag, wuuuu.
No wonder humans say that men's mouths are deceptive ghosts, and there were humans who would rather believe that there were ghosts in the world than believe in what men say. Sure enough, men were all words no actions, same as him.
Fu Cheng wasn't convinced by Lin Yuan's words. The other was not firm at all, and it completely didn't seem like he was rejecting himself.
The hand on Lin Yuan's waist moved down a little and pinched the softness thoughtfully. He gently bit the other's earlobe and said charmingly: "I don't believe a word that you say. Lin Yuan, you like it. When I kissed you, you felt good."
Lin Yuan didn't expect Fu Cheng to act more rogue and he blushed and grabbed the other's hand. He looked up with misty eyes and said anxiously: "You… don't touch it! You also can't kiss me later… I… I can't…"
He can't cheat.
He liked Fu Cheng a little bit, but he still liked Huo Chen more.
"Why?"
Fu Cheng didn't understand. "You took initiative that night. You were the one who called me husband, who wanted to kiss me, and you were the one to let me help you."
Lin Yuan couldn't tell Fu Cheng that he mistook the other for Huo Chen. It was too strange, why did he regard Fu Cheng as Huo Chen? Was it because when drunk, the brain was too confused and recognized the wrong person?
"That night, I was drunk..."
Lin Yuan tried to awkwardly explain. He said in a small voice: "My mind was confused, so... so…"
Fu Cheng interrupted with a dry chuckle: "So you called me husband, asked to kiss, and let me help you feel good. Lin Yuan, even if you want to find an excuse, can you find a good one? Listen to yourself, would you believe it?"
Lin Yuan felt more embarrassed. He didn't believe it, but he could only continue to be stubborn: "I believe it ah. Facts show that it's not surprising that people do unexpected things when they're drunk. It seems like my situation... is also quite normal."
Fu Cheng looked at the teenager who kept rejecting him, and his eyes darkened completely and became bloodthirsty. In their depths, the stench of death and decay surged.
[Di! High risk warning! The villain's blackening value has risen to 99%!]
[Di! High risk warning! High risk warning! The villain's blackening value has risen to 99.99%! 99.99%! The value is approaching the critical point...]
Lin Yuan: "!!!"
521: "!!!"
521 collapsed once again, and he shook Lin Yuan vigorously: "Ahhhhh! It's over, over! 99.99% again! What to do? Senior, quickly think of something ah!!"
It thought to itself that the mission target probably became this way because the Senior kept on rejecting him, and it directly evolved from a furball into a screaming chicken: "Ahhh Senior, quickly cheat! Just go and cheat! Please, if you don't cheat in the next second, the task will fail!"
Lin Yuan: "..."
521, yesterday you were telling me not to cheat!
You also told me I couldn't have a second husband!
Your words change quicker than men's.
Compared to the panic of 521, Lin Yuan was much calmer.
The dawn had not yet completely broken. Lin Yuan looked at the beautiful and exquisite teenager under the remaining darkness of the night, and for the first time, he faced the real Fu Cheng. The dark and empty Fu Cheng.
Lin Yuan had pretended not to notice the other's abnormality that night. He pretended to not think of how the other exceedingly depended on himself.
"Fu Cheng."
Lin Yuan called the other softly, and then switched their positions. He pressed the blank and unresisting teenager onto the wall.
"Fu Cheng…" Lin Yuan approached Fu Cheng and cruelly tore away the cover of deception between them: "The person I called that night wasn't you. You're so smart, you probably guessed it right?"
Fu Cheng's eyelashes trembled, and his pair of gloomy eyes stared at Lin Yuan. For the first time, he felt that the simple and harmless teenager was more cruel than those two.
"I… I don't know what you're talking about." Fu Cheng tightened his hold on Lin Yuan and wanted to kiss him to block his mouth.
Lin Yuan raised his hand and pressed it over Fu Cheng's cool lips, and his heart felt tangled: "Fu Cheng, I'm saying, that night, I thought I was doing those things with the person I like, not with you."
[Di! Warning! Warning! The villain's blackening value has risen to 99.999%!]
Lin Yuan was actually very, very nervous, but he still had to pretend wuuuu.
"Fu Cheng, to be honest, I do like you a little. But the person I like should still be alive, so I can't be with you now."
For the blackening value, he could lie, but this time he said the truth: "20 years okay? Wait until we're 30 years old, and if you still like me, we will be together for the rest of our lives."