Chapter 107 Teasing Me

Xie Xingchen felt nauseous and wanted to vomit; his stomach was churning with stomach acid.

He physically loathed everything he had received, and understood that no matter how much he tried to make amends, he could never fill the hole left by Lin Yao's past wounds.

"What are you thinking?" Cheng Boyan sighed. "Do you really want to show it to him?"

"Here you go." Xie Xingchen nodded slightly. "I'll give it to him after the first snow."

Lin Yao had just come out of the operating room and his body had not fully recovered. He was afraid that the report would have too much of a shock to him and leave him with aftereffects.

Cheng Boyan raised his hand and grabbed a handful of hair in frustration: "I really can't imagine how Lin Yao will react."

Xie Xingchen gave a slight twitch of his lip: "I don't know either."

“Actually, this has nothing to do with you. I think he’s so sensible, he must understand.” Cheng Boyan paused. “It’s just that emotionally speaking, it’s hard for him to face you in the short term.”

Xie Xingchen hummed in agreement, his voice hoarse, "I'll consider how to handle it. Have the reagent comparison results come out yet?"

The calmer he was, the more uneasy Cheng Boyan became: "Well, the Z7035 you asked someone to buy last time partially overlapped with Lin Yao's blood test results, but only partially. There are many types of stimulants, and adjusting just one component can lead to vastly different results."

"But actually, with this report, we all have the answer in our hearts, don't we?" Xie Xingchen said in a low voice.

Cheng Boyan moved his lips: "There is no evidence. Uncle Yun... released all the reagents in compliance with regulations and laws. Even the Z7035 sold privately to the rich has been approved."

"Then let's find it." Xie Xingchen stubbed out his cigarette.

“This experiment has lasted for more than ten years, and it can’t be completed in just a few days.” Cheng Boyan looked at him with concern. “I know you and Uncle Yun have a good relationship, so don’t do anything extreme.”

On one side are doting parents, and on the other is a lover with whom they have finally tied the knot. This choice is heartbreaking no matter which one you choose.

Xie Xingchen lowered his head, forwarded the electronic report to his own phone, and deleted it for him: "Thank you."

Cheng Boyan watched him walk towards Lin Yao's ward, hesitant to speak, but ultimately said nothing.

Xie Xingchen pushed open the door and went in. He gently lay down next to him, wrapped his arms around him, and pulled him into a tight embrace.

"Xie Xingchen..." Lin Yao murmured in his sleep.

"You were asleep and you were still calling my name." Xie Xingchen rested her chin on his shoulder, her eyes stinging with tears. "Yaoyao, baby, I really don't know what to do."

For the first time, he felt bewildered and helpless, as if every step he took would lead to an abyss.

Lin Yao instinctively hugged him back.

Xie Xingchen closed his eyes and felt the slightly warm body against him, and the stiffness that had just dropped to freezing point finally began to slowly warm up.

Lin Yaojue slept intermittently, but felt very peaceful and comfortable, a long-lost feeling of comfort.

He opened his eyes; it was still dark. There was another person in front of him, muttering, "When did you get here?"

There was no reply from the other party. Xie Xingchen looked very tired and exhausted. His eyes were closed, and his arms were like steel clamps that couldn't be moved, tightly gripping his lower back.

He raised his hand, his fingertips tracing the other person's eyebrows and eyes, down from the eyebrows to the high, straight nose, the thin lips, and the way he often said things that made people blush.

When he's not talking, he's still quite presentable.

Further down, there's a sharp Adam's apple, very angular, with a strange kind of sexiness.

Lin Yao leaned in and lightly touched his lips to hers.

Just as she was about to back away, a hand suddenly grabbed the back of her neck, lifting her up slightly, and her lips were firmly sealed.

"You're pretending to be asleep..." Lin Yao mumbled a complaint, the rest of his words drowned out.

Very fierce, very urgent, as if confirming something.

Lin Yaowei raised his chin slightly: "Are you having another episode?"

Xie Xingchen kissed him without saying a word, pulling him into the soft pillow as if embedding himself into his very bones.

"Xie Xingchen." Lin Yao finally managed to turn his head to get a little fresh air, and raised his hand to press on Xie Xingchen's forehead. "Are you feeling unwell?"

Xie Xingchen looked down at him and whispered, "No, I just wanted to kiss you."

Lin Yao stared at him for a few seconds, feeling something was off: "You...you had another nightmare, didn't you?"

"Yes, it was a terrible nightmare," Xie Xingchen said softly. "I really hope I can wake up and find that it was all a dream."

Lin Yao was certain he was terrified by a nightmare, so he curled up his lips and mocked him, "You're such a grown man, can't you tell the difference between dreams and reality? You've got an infection that's made your brain stupid, like you've been soaked in formaldehyde."

“Keep cursing,” Xie Xingchen said.

Lin Yao: "......."

Lin Yao thought to himself, "Could he really be stupid? Who would go out of their way to invite being scolded?"

“Go ahead and curse.” Xie Xingchen looked down at him and said seriously, “Record me a cursing wake-up call. I’ll listen to it every morning to wake myself up.”

As he spoke, he pulled out his phone from his hospital gown, quickly unlocked it, his gaze lingered on the electronic report for a moment, then swiped to open the recording: "Come on, yell at me."

Lin Yao looked at him as if he were mentally challenged.

For a moment, I didn't know whether to go along with it or stop it immediately.

Xie Xingchen pressed her finger against his lips: "Why aren't you saying anything?"

"Are you so frustrated with your sexual desires that you've become mentally impaired?" Lin Yao's expression was a bit serious. "Did you ask Director Cheng if this is a normal symptom?"

Xie Xingchen remained silent, stared at him for several seconds, then lowered his head and kissed him.

Lin Yao felt that things were a bit serious.

Normally, he would definitely say a few flirtatious things to make people blush, but today he didn't say anything at all.

When he was about to die, Xie Xingchen released him and whispered, "I'm going back. I'll be checking the rooms later."

“Okay, you…” Lin Yao looked at him with concern, “I’ll come find you after I finish checking the rooms.”

Xie Xingchen said softly, "No need, you should rest well and not wander around."

Damn, this is really disrespectful to Xingchen.

Lin Yao watched him leave with a very serious expression, and began to review the events from the video to this moment, which had only lasted a few hours, with the only thing mentioned being that nightmare.

Did Xie Xingchen project himself onto the character, and because the infection period amplifies perception, thus creating a shared sense of pain?

That can definitely make people feel bad.

He Li came over in the morning and chattered for a while. Lin Yao asked cautiously, "You said you want to adjust your mood, besides fighting, what else can you do?"

"Are you unhappy?" He Li looked up.

"It wasn't me." Lin Yao moved his lips, then mumbled, "Someone else."

"Others? Who? Your godfather? Or Pei Xiang?"

He Li couldn't think of many people Lin Yao would care about. "But Xie Gou was acting strangely today. When I came over, I ran into him in the hallway, and he was actually spacing out. I almost slapped him in the face, but he didn't react."

This was, of course, an artistic embellishment; it simply involved waving his hand in front of his eyes.

Lin Yao frowned slightly: "Right? He's been acting strangely since last night."

"Last night?" He Li caught the key word. "Weren't you two in separate quarantine? How did you see him?"

Lin Yao reached out to unbutton his hospital gown, his eyes darting around: "We bumped into each other while I was in the restroom."

He Li turned his head blankly, looking at the amenities of this luxury ward: "But doesn't your room have a toilet?"

Lin Yao is truly beyond redemption.

Before she could say anything more, she saw Xie Xingchen standing openly at the door of the room, waving the breakfast in his hand. Unlike before, he didn't try to hide it at all.

Fearing that the other party might say something revealing, Xie Xingchen came over and placed the breakfast on the bedside table.

Then I bent down and helped him undo the misaligned buttons and fasten them back up.

"You two... were able to meet during your infection period?" He Li found Lin Yao's obedience at this moment very unbelievable. "The one you just said was in a bad mood, could it be Xie Xingchen?"

Lin Yao said in a serious tone, "Yes, because it's easy for two infected people to mutate when they get together. For your safety, you should go out first."

He Li nodded and said repeatedly, "You're right, but why are you two getting together?"

“Let’s discuss our symptoms.” Lin Yao used the same tactics he used on Pei Yizhong to deal with He Li, and it was incredibly easy. “For example, we both experience dizziness, hallucinations, fever, and so on.”

"Okay, you two talk, I'll go out first." He Li was still very afraid of being infected, so he ran out of the isolation ward in a flash.

Xie Xingchen opened the porridge on the bedside table, waited for it to cool down a bit, and then brought it to Lin Yao: "Open your mouth, I'll feed you."

That's all, it's really just feeding him, very seriously, spooning him over one spoonful at a time.

Lin Yao followed his movements, his back stiffening for a minute, finding his silence unsettling.

He realized that he still preferred the Xie Xingchen of the past.

"Say something flirtatious to me, or even sexually harass me."