Chapter 99 Chapter 99 Do you like it?

The voice-activated lights in the corridor went out in silence, and darkness spread across the short distance of a few meters.

The heartbeat was particularly clear in the silence.

Chen Luan had imagined the scene of their reunion countless times, but he never thought it would be like this. On an extremely ordinary night for him, he returned to his residence with an extremely ordinary dinner, and was about to spend an extremely ordinary day. When he opened the door, he was suddenly filled with memories.

At this time, the corridor was dim, and the room was also dim. Only the street light coming in from the window could barely illuminate two familiar yet unfamiliar outlines, standing on the left and right of the door, staring at him with those two familiar yet unfamiliar light amber eyes.

Waiting for him to come home.

“…”

The fingers gripping the key tightened slightly. Chen Luan gathered himself, his Adam's apple rolling. The two names he had chewed over and over again in the past two years slowly rolled out of his throat in a hoarse tone:

"Jiang Ling, Jiang Xun."

The sound was much calmer than expected.

So, in the atmosphere that was gradually surrounding him, Chen Luan walked into the house between the two tall figures of the alphas and closed the door behind him.

There was a slight "click" sound and the light came on.

Amid the sound of plastic bags rubbing against each other, Chen Luan placed the things in his hand on the small dining table and turned around.

After not seeing each other for two years, Jiang Xun and Jiang Ling have both lost a lot of weight.

The moment their eyes met, Chen Luan immediately averted his gaze, his gaze dropping from Jiang Xun's white fleet uniform epaulettes to Jiang Ling's black combat uniform chest. He pursed his lips, raised his eyes, and smiled casually, "Not bad, you've been promoted quite quickly."

After saying that, he lowered his eyes and fiddled with the plastic bag, his voice pounding like his heartbeat: "...Why are you here?"

"Compared to someone who leaves without saying goodbye the day before their birthday—"

As Chen Luan lowered his sight, a pair of military boots stepped over and stopped in front of him. A shadow covered the front, blocking out part of the light.

Jiang Ling leaned in closer, wrapping his arms around Chen Luan as he leaned on the edge of the table behind him, their breaths almost inaudible. "Isn't it reasonable for us to come uninvited now?"

The alpha's crisp scent and warm body temperature trapped him in a small space.

It was only then that Chen Luan discovered that Jiang Ling had a familiar-looking ruby ​​earring on her left ear.

They were made from the pair of cufflinks he gave them that year.

Thinking of his irresponsible departure without saying goodbye, Chen Luan's throat rolled. He pinched his palm lightly with his fingers, and when he lowered his eyes, he saw a flash of deep blue on Jiang Ling's chest.

It was the necklace he had worn for many years and left behind before he left.

My throat started to feel dry and a slight soreness spread across my chest.

The alpha in front of him raised his hand.

Chen Luan couldn't help but tense up, but Jiang Ling didn't touch him. Instead, he opened the plastic bag beside him.

A bottle of sweet rice wine, two steamed buns, and two or three side dishes.

"Only one pair of chopsticks?"

The alpha's voice, tinged with laughter, sounded overhead. Jiang Ling picked up the bottle of rice wine and waved it in front of Chen Luan. With half-closed eyes and a curled lip, she smiled at him, "Not bad. After more than two years, you've learned to drink?"

"I live alone, what do I need so many chopsticks for? To eat with a ghost?"

Chen Luan raised his hand to take the bottle from Jiang Ling's hand and pushed him away: "It's just sweet rice wine with low alcohol content, I'll just drink it casually."

He took a few steps back and put the bottle of rice wine back on the table, but his back bumped into another warm chest.

A pair of hands were placed on Chen Luan's shoulders to steady him, and then quickly let him go.

"elder brother."

“…”

Chen Luan's throat tightened, and he turned around. Sure enough, he saw the same blue earrings made from cufflinks on Alpha's right ear, and the familiar blue on his wrist.

The broken watch glass has been replaced with a new one, reflecting bright colors.

He looked up at Jiang Xun's eyes, which had become much quieter, and sighed softly, "Jiang Xun."

He has matured, become thinner, and his temperament has become colder.

If Jiang Xun was a soft and cold jade before, he was now more like a silent glacier, standing in front of him with a silent sense of oppression.

Jiang Xun's voice, a bit deeper and colder than it had been two years ago, filled the air. His pale golden eyes stared at Chen Luan without blinking, "They said you were getting married, brother."

marry?

Me?

With whom?

Chen Luan was stunned for half a second, remembering Jiang Ling's words before he entered the room, which made him feel baffled: "...? How come I didn't know I was getting married?"

Jiang Ling sneered from behind.

Jiang Xun pursed his lips: "..."

An arm slung across Chen Luan's shoulders as a lit phone screen flashed before his eyes. Every word was pronounced with gritted teeth: "Snow, mountains, theme, wedding photos. I'm afraid if we don't come, you won't have kids next year, right?"

Jiang Ling lowered her eyes and looked at the face that was still as charming, beautiful and lazy as ever, even though she was wearing very ordinary clothes and her slightly long hair was sloppily tied behind her head. She hated it so much that her teeth began to itch.

After all these years, this guy's ability to attract attention hasn't diminished at all.

When I was in military school, I often saw explicit and covert confessions on the forum. It was fine with those messy alphas before, but how come even when I traveled around the world, I could still get involved in scandals with people in such a remote town.

Sometimes he felt that Jiang Xun's ideas were really easy to understand.

They should have locked him up and hidden him away so that no one could covet him.

Chen Luan frowned as he looked at the explosive headlines on the screen that were so abstract that he began to wonder if he was getting old and behind the times.

What a mess!

How come he's been rumored to be the eldest son of a wealthy, hidden consortium family...

What kind of wealthy family?

He hadn't been home for a long time, so the door of his shabby rental house, which cost 980 yuan a month, could be pried open without anyone noticing.

Is there such a shabby wealthy family?

"Do you believe the attention-grabbing tactics of marketing accounts?"

Chen Luan put away the phone with the offensive content and threw it on the sofa. He folded his arms, raised his eyebrows and looked over, smiling: "Remember not to use the door clamp when eating walnuts next time. It's better for your brain."

Jiang Xun: “.”

Jiang Ling: “…”

Very good, this mouth still speaks very nicely as always.

"Have you eaten yet?"

Chen Luan opened the bag he brought back and took a look, then spread his hands and said, "I only bought one person's portion, but it's not enough for three people."

“…I didn’t eat.”

Jiang Ling stared at Chen Luan's lazy and relaxed eyes: "Is this what you eat every day?"

Steamed buns and pickles, how has he managed to eat whatever he wants in the past two years without killing himself?

Look at this chin, it’s so thin because of hunger.

His hair had grown longer and was trimmed very sloppily.

It's like a house cat that ran away from home and wandered around, and then exhausted itself to the point where it became skinny and emaciated, with its fur matted and dull.

“Not really.”

Chen Luan opened the bottle of sweet rice wine and took a sip. He leaned back into the sofa like a boneless person, half-closed his cat-like gray eyes, and said casually, "Sometimes I also eat some noodles."

Of course, when I was driving around, I basically just had compressed dry food and water, and only when I got into the city would I go to a restaurant to eat something like normal people eat.

These were nothing to Chen Luan. The times in the underground base were much harder than this. He was not that rich, and he could not make do with just eating good food for a few years in the new world.

Jiang Ling was furious when she saw Chen Luan who didn't take taking good care of himself seriously at all.

He stepped forward and snatched the bottle of rice wine from Chen Luan's hand. Amidst Chen Luan's cry of "Hey, my rice wine," he put the bottle mouth that Chen Luan had just touched to his lips and drank it all in one gulp as if in a fit of anger. Then he casually threw the bottle away, grabbed Chen Luan's wrist, and stood up to leave.

Chen Luan was pulled by him and tripped over the sofa leg. He staggered two steps before he could steady himself.

"Jiang Ling??"

“…Where are you going???”

The alpha walking in front didn't stop. He pinched Chen Luan's wrist and squeezed out a sentence through his teeth: "...Go out to buy groceries."

Cook for the cat.

The nights in Shixi Town are actually quite lively, after all, it is considered a pillar of tourism.

It was just past eight o'clock and the vegetable market was still open.

Chen Luan, dressed in gray, was squeezed in between two tall alphas in uniforms, who pinched his wrists one by one as if they were afraid that he would run away.

It was like escorting a prisoner.

Chen Luan even felt that if he put on a yellow vest, he could directly become news material for the social and legal program team.

Perhaps both tactical uniforms and military uniforms were too rare in the small town, and many people along the way cast inquiring or curious glances at me.

Chen Luan couldn't stand the onlookers, so before entering the more crowded vegetable market, he simply took the two of them and found a men's clothing store in a small town and threw them in.

Fifteen minutes later, the gray creature with two eye bags turned into three gray creatures that were no longer noticeable except for their faces.

Chen Luan was satisfied.

Jiang Ling tugged at the black, cheap Nika cotton jacket with white stripes on the arms, tugged at the gray drawstring sweatpants on his legs, and stepped on the pirated Abibas sneakers that were slipping when he walked, almost biting his back teeth to pieces.

He has never worn such low-quality clothes in his life! !

Even the silent Jiang Xun was secretly frowning because of the poor quality of the fabric.

But when he raised his eyes and saw Chen Luan's half-closed eyes, which clearly meant "shut up and keep it to himself", he pursed his lips and said nothing.

Never mind, as long as he is happy...

Chen Luan raised an eyebrow and glanced at the two alphas who were feeling awkward after being so noble for over twenty years and now looked like energetic young men in the county. "Who told you not to bring any clothes before you came? You can just make do with what you have."

The corners of his mouth couldn't help but turn upwards.

"Chen Luan."

The sound of Jiang Ling gritting his teeth came from the side.

"Um?"

Chen Luan glanced at Jiang Ling quickly and pursed his lips hard.

“…Ahem. What?”

“…Stop laughing.”

"I'm not laughing." Chen Luan blinked.

"Your teeth are showing!"

"My teeth are afraid of the dark. What's wrong with letting them out to see the light?"

The two of them walked while bickering, and Jiang Xun followed silently behind.

It seems as if everything has returned to the way it was before.

There weren't many people in the vegetable market at this time, and some owners were already preparing to close their stalls.

Jiang Ling picked and chose and bought some vegetables and meat, Jiang Xun bought some mixed rice and shrimp and seafood, Chen Luan——

He went to the food stall next door and picked up a portion of shrimp tails and a bunch of grilled skewers.

It was almost nine o'clock when we got back to the rental house.

Chen Luan turned on the TV and ate some barbecued steamed buns as a meal. Soon, a sumptuous dinner was served.

The dining table was too small, so the three of them simply sat on the sofa around the coffee table to eat.

Chen Luan sipped the porridge with a familiar taste and ate dishes with a familiar flavor. There were familiar people in front of him and familiar smells all around him. Amidst the sound of his slightly rapid heartbeat, a sour feeling gradually spread from his chest and rushed into his nose and eye sockets.

I can't tell whether it's a surprise or a shock.

But now, sitting together again after a long separation, Chen Luan suddenly realized,

His ease and calmness are actually fake, and his words that he doesn't miss you are also fake.

It was like the empty space in my heart was suddenly filled up again.

Warm and soft.

His throat rolled a little dryly, and Chen Luan suddenly lowered his head and rubbed his eyes.

"Hiss, there seems to be something stuck in my eye... maybe a bug."

It seems like the attempt to cover up something only makes it more obvious.

The rental house is very small, with only a small living room and a small bedroom, so it would be a bit crowded for three people to share the same room.

Car lights flickered outside the old glass window, and the breath of winter seeped in through the gaps in the window.

Chen Luan sipped his juice and watched the two alphas cleaning the kitchen and the table just like they did when they were in Qiwei City. Suddenly, he had the illusion that they had never changed and he had never left.

But time always leaves some traces.

Even if the broken watch glass is replaced with a new one, it may look the same as the original one, but it is no longer the original one.

It was like his chest had gotten used to the weight that was gone, and like the scar on his wrist that once existed was no longer visible.

Something has actually been quietly changed.

After everything was cleaned up, Chen Luan was already drowsy.

Everything in the small rental house was small, the sofa was small, the bed was small. Chen Luan was considering whether to open a hotel for the two of them, but the half-drunk juice in his hand was taken away by a bony hand.

A shadow covered his front, and Chen Luan looked up with some confusion.

"Are you full?"

Jiang Ling stood in front of him, leaning down, with a hint of smile in her light golden eyes, and the scent of cedar and amber permeated the air.

"……What's wrong--"

Before he could finish his words, a warm hand grabbed his thin chin.

The alpha's fingers gently pressed against the lips that were soft and moist with juice.

"Okay then."

The next second, the body was in the air.

“??!!!!”

Jiang Ling pulled Chen Luan up and carried him on his shoulders: "Jiang Ling?! Put me down!!"

There was a soft "pop" sound.

Chen Luan's waist was patted lightly and said, "Behave yourself."

The bedroom door opened and closed again. Chen Luan was thrown onto the soft bed while the world was spinning. Before he could get up, shadow and warmth covered him.

My wrist was grabbed and tightened, and a slight metallic clanging sound rang in my ears.

There was a light "click" sound, and a slight chill came from near the wrist bone.

Chen Luan looked up and saw the handcuffs that handcuffed his hands to the head of the bed. He gritted his teeth and almost laughed out of anger.

“…little bastard.”

"Where did you get this thing?"

In response, the alpha kissed his ear and chuckled:

"I prepared this especially for you. How about it? Do you like it?"

"If you don't like it, there are still some at home—"

The warm breath fell on the sensitive ears with a hint of deliberateness:

"Other colors, other materials, whatever you want."