Chapter 42 Chapter 42 My Lord, this is...

My Lord, this is truly unfair!

A huge pot fell from the sky, and the two men spat out blood almost at the same time, and their suits were stained with blood. It didn't look like they had broken skin in their mouths, but rather as if they had been beheaded.

"Not them."

Fang Shimian hurriedly explained that he didn't know that the two slaps on his face would leave marks.

But it would be embarrassing and laughable to say it out loud now, so she tried to get away with it under Huo Zhongshan's cold gaze, answering vaguely, "It was just an accident. This is really not theirs."

Huo Zhongshan stared at Fang Shimian for two seconds, but did not ask any more questions. He was too lazy to pay attention to the two young men who were already scared out of their wits. He turned his head and glanced at Huo Yue, "I'll leave these two to you. I'll take him away first."

Huo Yue was not surprised at all. He nodded slightly and said nothing more. However, when he turned his eyes to the two young men who were almost kneeling down, he seemed a little dissatisfied.

Fang Shimian got in the car and was a little surprised when he found Huo Zhongshan also got in. "Brother Huo, you want to go back too?"

He turned his head to look at the old castle which was still lit. He thought Huo Zhongshan's words 'take him away first' meant that he would get in the car and go home while Huo Zhongshan would continue to attend the dinner. He didn't expect that they were actually going to leave together.

"The person you met in the small building is my cousin, Huo Yue, Huo Jun's biological brother." Huo Zhongshan explained, "The three of us rarely go back to the old house now. I didn't know he would come back tonight. Did you get scared?"

Huo Yue and Huo Jun are both children of the previous patriarch of the Huo family, Uncle Huo Zhongshan. However, according to family tradition, children of direct bloodline are ranked together, so even though Huo Zhongshan has no brothers or sisters, he is still called the second young master in the family.

Fang Shimian shook his head. Huo Yue was quite polite to him.

Huo Zhongshan looked at Fang Shimian, a soft light flowing in the depths of his eyes. He asked first, "Does it hurt anywhere?"

Fang Shimian didn't feel a single hair touched by those two men, so he shook his head.

"Let's talk about this when we get back." Huo Zhongshan paused for a moment, his face showing no sign of it. He just said calmly, "I have something to tell you."

This sentence instantly brought back the memory of Fang Shimian's previous fight. He lowered his head, touched his still wet cuffs, and said, "Okay."

Fang Shimian didn't know what Huo Zhongshan would say to him, but he silently made up his mind that he would go find a job and rent an apartment after today. If it was difficult to find a job in Hai City, he would go to another place. When he died in the future, he would come back and bury himself. It was the same.

After making up his mind, Fang Shimian felt relieved. In fact, he still felt a little regretful when he thought that he would never see this person again. After all, they were still friends who saved his life.

Fang Shimian thought about what happened just now. In fact, he was a little impressed by those two people. They were not afraid of danger, did not make any excuses, and just admitted it directly. To be honest, he would never do that if he made a mistake.

"Why didn't those two people explain themselves?" Fang Shimian pondered to himself, a little confused.

"Defense?" Huo Zhongshan's eyes were indifferent. "Defense is useful because there are people willing to listen and protect them. If the person they offend has already shown a clear bias, making further defenses would be courting death."

Fang Shimian pondered over this for a while, then suddenly came to Huo Zhongshan and looked at him seriously, "I didn't lie, I really heard them scolding you, so I went up there."

"I know." The coldness in Huo Zhongshan's eyes quickly melted away, turning into a faint apology. He raised his hand and touched Shi Mian's red forehead below him. "You stood up for me and spoke up for me. I saw it."

He got out of the banquet to look for someone. The bodyguard said Fang Shimian was waiting for a car in the back garden. He walked to the side of the road and saw Huo Yue asking the bodyguard on duty outside the small building about the situation. The two of them went into the back garden with the bodyguards to look for someone.

In fact, they vaguely heard someone talking in the flower corridor at that time. Huo Zhongshan had excellent hearing and heard most of what was said, but he didn't care and didn't take it to heart. When they saw Fang Shimian running up the flower corridor quickly and followed him, Fang Shimian had already poured wine and was beating people.

It would be a lie to say that they were not touched at all. The Huo family was good at pretending. They hoped that Huo Zhongshan could bring the family to a higher level, and they insulted and belittled him by saying that he was a product of a laboratory. Everyone tried to find balance in this way.

If there were any areas where he was not as good as him, those people would just brush it off with a simple comment, “How can a human compare to that kind of thing?”

"It's just a monster."

Even though the experimental data was clearly laid out there, that doctor's level was only able to study genetic diseases. Unfortunately, those people were unwilling to believe it. Even his father, the person who directly promoted this experiment, only believed in the perfect human being that the doctor talked about, who would never get sick and had top IQ.

No one would ever be distracted by these common rumors, even Huo Zhongshan himself was used to it.

But Fang Shimen didn't. He was even hurt by the concealment and deception. Such a cautious person raised his fist for him and firmly protected him when he was isolated and helpless.

When he first saw him tearing his heart apart for Zhao Shun and wanting to die together with the abuser, he was heartbroken and jealous to the point of going crazy. He even felt disgusted with the Zhao family. He didn't handle his own family affairs well, put Fang Shimen in danger for nothing, and shed so many tears.

But this time, the person Fang Shimian was protecting became him, and Huo Zhongshan's original rationality instantly turned to ashes.

How can he let go of such a person?

Can't let go.

He's not a good guy anyway.

I'll never let go in this life.

Whether he likes it or not, happy or not.

The Huo family was born with the predatory gene in their blood. Unfortunately, the doctor did not eliminate it.

Fang Shimen felt a little embarrassed by what Huo Zhongshan said, as if he was a child seeking credit. "Just know that I didn't wrongly accuse anyone..."

Huo Zhongshan stroked the red marks on the boy's forehead and eyes. After an unknown amount of time, Fang Shimian was about to fall asleep when he heard the man sigh inaudibly, "Don't get hurt again in the future."

The car drove straight to the Yunjin basement. Fang Shimian kept staring at the monitoring room as he passed by it. It was the first half of March and Xu Long should be working the day shift.

The car was parked opposite the familiar parking space 186. Ever since the car-smashing incident, Fang Shimian would check the surveillance footage of this parking space every day before going to work to feel at ease.

This was the first time. He walked to parking space 186 and stood there to watch the surveillance. Fang Shimian felt a little curious. He looked at the surveillance camera, imagining that maybe Ma Ge saw it, and then...

Then Fang Shimen was pulled away by Huo Zhongshan.

Fang Shimian's attention was elsewhere at the moment, and he didn't notice Huo Zhongshan holding his hand. He looked around the empty parking lot, wondering, "Are there still so many parking spaces left here?"

Yunjin is a prime location, and its basement parking spaces are in high demand. Except for a special temporary parking area on the second floor, all other parking spaces are sold out. The parking spaces are full every day. It is the first time that Fang Shimian knows that Yunjin still has such a large number of vacant parking spaces.

Moreover, there was only surveillance in the area 186, and there was no surveillance at all in the other large open area.

It was not until he was led into the elevator that Fang Shimian came back to his senses from his shock. The bodyguards had not come up yet. In the space where there were only two of them, he lowered his head and saw Huo Zhongshan holding his hand.

He gently pulled it out, but as expected, it didn't come out. Instead, Huo Zhongshan held it even tighter. Fang Shimian looked at the bulging blue veins on Huo Zhongshan's hands. His palms were warm and a little moist.

Fang Shimian suddenly had a feeling that Huo Zhongshan seemed nervous.

The elevator opened and Fang Shimian was led out. He found that the floor was no longer the familiar carpet. Then he looked up and saw the silent night sky and the full moon in the sky.

Fang Shimen then belatedly realized that Huo Zhongshan wanted to talk to him.

This is a rooftop, which is very interesting. There is a large lawn, one-third of which is covered with wooden boards. A wooden house is built on the boards, just like the ones in the wilderness survival programs that Fang Shimian watched, where the guests used local materials and built shelters with logs.

There was a big tent on the lawn, and there was a little light inside the tent, but it was not clear.

Fang Shimian was taken out of the elevator by Huo Zhongshan, walked on the wooden planks, and entered the wooden house. The wooden house was warmly decorated with thick carpets and a fireplace with flames. Fang Shimian was pulled by Huo Zhongshan and sat on the soft dark brown leather sofa.

It's like a fairy tale world.

"Shi Mian."

Fang Shimian's face was still filled with curiosity and a desire to explore. His watery eyes opened wide and looked at Huo Zhongshan, unconsciously curving his eyes, "Brother Huo?"

The mature and steady man couldn't take his eyes off the childishness of the pretty boy. Huo Zhongshan laughed and asked, "Do you like it here?"

Fang Shimian nodded hurriedly, "It's like the most advanced version of the secret base I imagined when I was a child."

"Then I'll give this place to you." Huo Zhongshan said calmly, as if he was commenting on the moonlight tonight.

Fang Shimian sat up straight all of a sudden. Seeing that Huo Zhongshan didn't seem to be joking, he quickly shook his head and even tried to pull back his hand that was grabbed, but unfortunately he failed.

"Do you know what I want to say to you?" Huo Zhongshan stared at him quietly.

Fang Shimian actually had a vague feeling in his heart, but his brain began to become strange and a little erratic, as if it was swollen due to lack of oxygen, but it didn't hurt. The weird feeling of dizziness was even a little addictive.

Huo Zhongshan didn't seem anxious as he didn't get an answer. He pulled Fang Shimian closer to him, and with his other hand, he held the boy in his arms, gently rubbing the boy's shoulders in a soothing manner.

"Can't you guess at all, Mianmian?"

The man's voice was low and hoarse, with a hint of temptation and deliberate seduction.

Fang Shimian sat a little stiffly. This was not the first time that Huo Zhongshan held him in his arms, but it was the first time that he had a very, very strange feeling. "Brother Huo..."

"Mianmian." Huo Zhongshan stroked the red mark on the boy's white forehead again and whispered, "I did meet you a long time ago, but it's not what you think."

Fang Shimian looked up at him, his eyes full of confusion.

"I only lived in the compound for a short period of time, and my life was... not very good. I was locked in the study room for most of the time to reflect on myself. At that time, I had no will to live. Just like they said, I felt like a monster at that time because I never died."

Fang Shimian unconsciously placed his other hand on the back of Huo Zhongshan's hand.

"One day, I suddenly had an idea. I wanted to know if I was really immortal, so I climbed onto the windowsill of the study room one night," Huo Zhongshan paused for a moment, as if lost in memory, "Just as I was about to jump, I heard someone crying, as soft as a kitten. I searched for a long time before I saw you. You were very small, squatting beside the flower bed and crying."

"You kept crying, and I kept watching you. I thought at the time, children have so many tears. They cried for so long, so they must have encountered something very sad. If I jumped down again and fell to the ground with blood, wouldn't I scare you to death?"

"I waited and waited, then I climbed down from the windowsill, reached for a piece of paper on the desk, thought for a long time, wrote three words, and then folded them into an airplane and flew to you."

Huo Zhongshan's eyes slowly showed a soft smile, but with a little regret, "It's a pity that the plane was not folded well. The paper was too soft and it fell somewhere else halfway. You didn't see it."

Fang Shimian seemed to remember something, and he didn't know when his face was covered with tears. He sobbed softly, looking at Huo Zhongshan with wet eyes.

Looks very aggrieved and pitiful.

It makes people want to hug the person tightly, take a bite, and hate that their bones and blood cannot be mixed.

Huo Zhongshan stared at Fang Shimian for a long while, then viciously tightened his arms around the young man, holding him tightly, and asked slowly, "Do you know what those three words are?"

The answer was beyond Huo Zhongshan's expectations.

Fang Shimian's words were vague because he was crying, but Huo Zhongshan still heard him say, "I know."

Huo Zhongshan was stunned for a moment.

"Don't cry because of what you wrote." Fang Shimian cried so hard when he said this, Huo Zhongshan was afraid that his eyes would be damaged, so he loosened their hands, wiped his tears with a piece of paper, and coaxed him gently, "Yes, this is what I wrote, don't cry, baby."

Fang Shimian also used his sleeve to wipe his eyes, but was blocked by Huo Zhongshan without leaving a trace.

"I found the paper airplane. I thought it was a wounded bird that had fallen into the bushes. It was too dark and I couldn't see clearly. I went in and searched for a long time. It was really hard to find. I got dirty before I found it."

Fang Shimian looked really aggrieved, with endless tears, "They didn't come to see me that night. It was already daybreak, and I saw an auntie coming out to buy groceries, but they didn't come to see me either."

"I didn't run far. I was just downstairs. They didn't come downstairs. Woo..."

That was the first time young Fang Shimian tried to run away from home, and also the last time.

Running away from home when no one cares about you is being abandoned.

Fang Shimian was afraid of being abandoned, even more than being beaten, so he stopped trying, but the paper plane with the words "Don't Cry" written on it was his unexpected gain and also his secret.

At that time, Fang Shimian firmly believed that it was a little surprise given to him by the gods, asking him to be strong.

"I will never let you suffer any injustice again." Huo Zhongshan lowered his eyes slightly and wiped the tears from the crying boy. He pried the boy's loosened heart and his eyes were full of tenderness. "I still have something to tell you now. This time I won't fold it into a paper airplane so that you can't find it. I will tell you in person, okay?"

Fang Shimian's crying gradually subsided, and he suddenly reached out and touched Huo Zhongshan's face, his fingertips sliding across the corner of the man's lips. His movements were slow and light, like a test, or some kind of tacit consent.

"Let's be together forever, Shi Mian." Huo Zhongshan leaned over and hugged Fang Shi Mian. In the quiet wooden house, there was the slight sound of burning firewood. The two people hugged each other tightly and exchanged heartbeats.

He said forever.

together.

After a moment, Fang Shimian gently pushed Huo Zhongshan away and asked, "Is it because you like me that you want to be with me?"

"More than just like."

Huo Zhongshan has been in this position and has witnessed many true and false vows of love. Before meeting Fang Shimian again, he had always sneered at something as illusory as feelings.

Because a person's life is so long and full of unpredictable variables, only the power and wealth in one's hands are real and can bring happiness to people, so he only believes in things that he can absolutely control.

However, human hearts are the most difficult to control, so he rejects them and even feels disgusted.

But Fang Shimian was too special to him, so special that he was sure that from now on no one would be able to shake Fang Shimian's absolute position in his heart. He was inseparable, more precious than life, unique, and more valuable than power and wealth.

His tears made him realize again that he also had a beating heart.

You will be constantly influenced by the boy's joys, sorrows, anger and happiness, whether fast or slow.

"It's love, right?" Huo Zhongshan heard himself say, "I really love you, Mianmian."

Monsters want to love you too.

I also dream of having all the good things.