“What did you say!” Li Yu widened his eyes, looking at Yuan Ling in disbelief.
“The boss said to have you leave the base.” Yuan Ling ignored Li Yu’s pale face and calmly repeated Xiahou Shaoxuan’s order.
“No! This isn’t true!” Li Yu shook his head, retreating again and again, his face filled with terror. His older brother was already dead. He had no supernatural ability, and now he had lost the protection of the base as well. He would not be able to survive. No! He could not leave the base, absolutely not!!
“I want to see Big Brother Xiahou! I want to see Big Brother Xiahou!! He wouldn’t treat me like this, he wouldn’t!!” Li Yu screamed hoarsely and lunged toward Yuan Ling like a madman, but the two soldiers behind him restrained him.
Looking at the crazed Li Yu, Yuan Ling slightly furrowed his brows.
“Li Yu, I told you before, don’t set your sights on Sister-in-law. Who in the entire base doesn’t know how important Sister-in-law is to the boss? Sister-in-law is the boss’s final bottom line.”
“It’s all that bitch’s fault! I’m going to kill him! He bewitched Big Brother Xiahou!! I know it! It must have been that bitch who ordered you to do this, right?! You’ve all been bewitched by him, that bitch!!” Li Yu had lost his mind, cursing wildly.
“Big Brother Xiahou!! Save me! That bitch wants to kill me…”
“You’re about to die and you still don’t know to repent.” Yuan Ling sneered coldly. “Throw him out. Don’t let him approach the base.”
“Yes!”
“Bitch! I definitely won’t let you off! Big Brother Xiahou! Save me…”
Because he had slept for too long yesterday, Lian Qiguang did not become sleepy until nearly morning.
At noon, Lian Qiguang murmured, curled up under the blanket, turned over, and slowly opened his eyes.
“Awake?” A deep voice came from above his head. Lian Qiguang somewhat blankly raised his head, only to see Xiahou Shaoxuan sitting on the bed. One hand was holding him while the other was using a computer to deal with work. Seeing Lian Qiguang open his eyes, Xiahou Shaoxuan curled his lips into a pampering smile, put away the computer, and lifted Lian Qiguang up, letting him lean against his chest.
“Sleep well?”
“I thought you had gone out again.” Lian Qiguang narrowed his eyes and lazily rubbed against Xiahou Shaoxuan’s embrace.
“There isn’t much work today. I’ll stay with you.” Looking at Lian Qiguang, who was lazily acting like a little kitten, the coldness in Xiahou Shaoxuan’s eyes completely disappeared, replaced by warm tenderness.
Regarding this, An Yi, who had just been urgently called back from his vacation and was immediately stuffed with a huge pile of work, could only shed tears.
“I had a dream last night.” As his mind gradually cleared, Lian Qiguang nestled in Xiahou Shaoxuan’s arms, playing with his fingers.
“What dream?”
“……” Lian Qiguang fell silent.
“…I can’t remember.” The blood that had covered the sky and earth in the dream, along with the miserable, heartrending cries, made him feel somewhat cold. It had been tragic like hell, yet it was not the apocalypse he was familiar with. Was it merely a dream, or was there another revelation?
“Here, this is for you.” As though thinking of something, Lian Qiguang took two crystal-clear, jade-like rings out of his space.
“What are these?” Xiahou Shaoxuan took the rings. The moment they touched his hand, he felt a clean, rich, gentle power lingering around him.
“This is jade. The books say that jade is a spiritual stone capable of driving away evil and avoiding misfortune, an extremely precious kind of treasure. Later, after the apocalypse, people discovered that the older the jade stones were, the stronger and purer the energy contained within them. I bought these jade stones from the market a few days ago. Judging from the energy inside, they are at least tens of thousands of years old. I told you I would show them to you.”
Lian Qiguang picked up one of the rings and held it before Xiahou Shaoxuan’s eyes. Xiahou Shaoxuan looked carefully and saw that two tiny characters had been carved on the inside of the ring.
Xuan. Guang
“Three thousand years ago, in the era where I lived, when two people got married, they had to have rings, and then wear them on the ring fingers of their left hands. According to the books, it seems to mean that the left hand is connected to the heart, with hearts joined together.” As Lian Qiguang spoke, he picked up the larger ring and slowly slipped it onto Xiahou Shaoxuan’s left ring finger.
Looking at the ring on his hand, Xiahou Shaoxuan smiled slightly. Then he picked up the other ring and, following Lian Qiguang’s actions just now, put it onto Lian Qiguang’s finger.
“Like this, we’ll have to be together forever?” Xiahou Shaoxuan held Lian Qiguang and buried his face against his neck, speaking in a low voice.
“Forever…” Lian Qiguang looked at the ring on his hand. Not knowing what he had thought of, a trace of darkness flashed through his eyes as he murmured softly.
“You don’t want to?” Xiahou Shaoxuan looked at Lian Qiguang’s profile, tightening the arm around him.
“There’s something I just remembered that I forgot to tell you.” Lian Qiguang was silent for a long time before turning his head toward Xiahou Shaoxuan and speaking quietly.
“What is it?”
“I don’t know why I came to this world, but one thing is certain: I can still return.” Lian Qiguang told Xiahou Shaoxuan about the several times he had dreamed of returning three thousand years into the past, returning to the apocalypse, although he had only stayed there as an observer.
There was also that time in the training area, when he had fallen into a dream yet had truly returned there, and had actually coincided with his future self. All of this, which he could not control, suddenly made Lian Qiguang somewhat panicked. Perhaps one day, he might suddenly return to the past in a dream and never be able to come back again.
“No.” Xiahou Shaoxuan tightly held Lian Qiguang in his arms, his forceful movement seemingly wanting to merge him into his own flesh and blood. After hearing Lian Qiguang’s account, Xiahou Shaoxuan suddenly felt an overwhelming helpless panic. At the thought that perhaps one day in the future, he might open his eyes and Lian Qiguang would suddenly have no breath, or that the Lian Qiguang of that time would no longer be the Lian Qiguang he knew now, Xiahou Shaoxuan felt a bone-deep chill.
“If I really return, I will definitely destroy the apocalypse and then die. Without humanity, there will be no future. Without a future, there will also be no you.” Lian Qiguang looked seriously at Xiahou Shaoxuan. His calm voice nevertheless made one feel a bone-chilling coldness.
“I don’t want you to hold that Lian Qiguang the way you’re holding me now.”
“No.” Xiahou Shaoxuan leaned down and kissed Lian Qiguang’s lips, gentle and lingering. “If one day the two of us really separate, I will definitely find you. You must not give up either. You must come find me too.”
Feeling Xiahou Shaoxuan’s tenderness, Lian Qiguang turned around from his embrace, knelt on the bed, wrapped both arms around Xiahou Shaoxuan’s neck, and responded to his affection.
Lian Qiguang’s clumsy response made Xiahou Shaoxuan pause slightly, followed immediately by a sudden eruption of agitation and desire.
Xiahou Shaoxuan embraced Lian Qiguang, sweeping over Lian Qiguang’s scent like an invader. His callused hand moved over Lian Qiguang’s body, slowly slipping inside his clothes.
Xiahou Shaoxuan’s kisses moved downward, stopping at Lian Qiguang’s exquisite collarbone, and then his teeth gently bit down on Lian Qiguang’s throat.
“Mm…” Lian Qiguang instantly raised his neck. A pair of hazy eyes looked blankly upward. The strange sensation he had never experienced before left his mind completely blank. It felt as though a ball of fire was burning inside his body, making him tremble.
“Wifey.” Xiahou Shaoxuan raised his head with difficulty. His bloodshot eyes were like those of a beast hunting its prey, making anyone unable to help but tremble. And now, Lian Qiguang was that prey.
“Do you know what I’m doing right now?”
Xiahou Shaoxuan’s sudden pause made Lian Qiguang feel the flames inside his body burning even more fiercely, along with an unbearable emptiness.
Lian Qiguang’s clothes were half undone, already unable to conceal his body. Ambiguous red marks covered his jade-like skin, further stimulating Xiahou Shaoxuan’s sight. He only felt his mind roaring. If not for that last thread of consciousness restraining him, he would have already pounced over, pressed Lian Qiguang beneath him, and fiercely entered his body, making him cry beneath him.
In his hazy eyes were glistening traces of tears. Lian Qiguang looked blankly at Xiahou Shaoxuan and slowly reached out to embrace him.
“Boss, there are several orders here that need your authorization,” Xuan Lang’s voice came through the intercom outside the door. Xiahou Shaoxuan jolted, and the sudden interruption of the intimate atmosphere cleared his mind considerably.
“Wifey…” Xiahou Shaoxuan looked at Lian Qiguang in his arms, feeling utterly helpless. He reached out to help Lian Qiguang straighten his clothes.
But…
Lian Qiguang caught Xiahou Shaoxuan’s hand. Under Xiahou Shaoxuan’s puzzled gaze, he slowly leaned over, bit Xiahou Shaoxuan’s neck, and gently rubbed against it. His other hand, while Xiahou Shaoxuan was completely unprepared and had no time to stop him, suddenly pressed against his lower body.
Xiahou Shaoxuan groaned, his body going taut. The agitation and desire he had finally suppressed erupted once again. His eyes quickly burned with intensity as he stared wildly yet restrainedly at Lian Qiguang.
“I looked it up on the computer.” Lian Qiguang’s murmured voice carried a hint of soft sobbing, making Xiahou Shaoxuan swallow.
“There were lots of good people on the computer who told me what I should do.”
“They said if I do this, you’ll be happy.”
“…Shaoxuan, want me.”
‘Boom!!’ The final trace of reason instantly collapsed. Xiahou Shaoxuan, his eyes completely red, forcefully pressed Lian Qiguang onto the bed. With strength in his hands, he fiercely tore apart the clothes on Lian Qiguang’s body.
Damn it! If he could still endure now, then damn it, he wouldn’t be a man!!
“Boss! You…”
“Get out!!”
Poor Xuan Lang became the next victim following Yuan Ling and was thrown out.
“Ow! That hurts like hell! The boss’s temper is getting more and more explosive.”
Xuan Lang rubbed his painfully aching back and, very wisely, chose to flee just like Yuan Ling had.
*An hour of love is worth a thousand pieces of gold~~~~~~~