Long Xun led Yin Chen to the residence assigned to him, and Yin Chen followed quietly behind him.

They entered the room, Long Xun released his hand, closed the door, and turned around to see Yin Chen's face filled with unconcealed panic and paleness, his head tilted as if listening, with one ear pointed in his direction.

Even though they had entered into a partnership contract, the way Long Xun disappeared before his eyes still left a deep psychological scar on Yin Chen. Now, even though he could sense that Long Xun was right in front of him, Yin Chen's eyes were too wet from crying so much that he couldn't keep them open for long. He couldn't see Long Xun and could only confirm his presence by touching and listening to him.

So when Long Xun let go, a feeling that he was about to disappear gripped Yin Chen's heart, making him involuntarily tense.

But the sounds and smells indicated that Long Xun was still there.

As long as it's still there, that's good.

"Your eyes are damaged?" Long Xun walked over, took his hand, and led him to the red jade coral bed, gently covering his eyes with both hands.

His long eyelashes fluttered like butterfly wings in my palm, causing a slight itch.

"...It's just a minor injury, it'll be fine in a few days," Yin Chen said with a gentle smile, tilting his head back.

"lie."

Under Long Xun's intense gaze, a blindness debuff was prominently displayed on the system health bar above Yin Chen's head.

Fortunately, this debuff is not completely incurable.

Yin Chen stiffened slightly, then his smile suddenly turned excited and grotesque: "I lied. Are you going to punish me? Hold me down here and spank me? Or... have sex with me?"

"Nonsense." With a slap, Long Xun slapped him on the back of the head, but the force was so light that it was more like a stroking.

After a faint green light flashed, Long Xun withdrew his hand and said calmly, "Alright, open your eyes and try."

Yin Chen's eyelashes trembled slightly, and she slowly opened her eyes.

At first, it was a little blurry, but soon the world in his eyes became clear and distinct again. There was no longer that feeling of not being able to see anything clearly as if there was a layer between them, and there was no more intense pain when he opened his eyes.

The moment Yin Chen could see him, he turned his head to look at the dragon beside him, his gaze fixed on him with a greedy look, staring at him without blinking.

He now looks like the adult male I saw once before, but unlike then, he has two winding dragon horns flying backwards on his head, and a golden teardrop-shaped mark on his forehead that shines brightly, instead of just a dragon tail behind him when he lived in the Mystic Bar, without revealing the dragon horns and the golden mark on his forehead.

At that time, Long Xun was perhaps temporarily transformed into an adult form using a talisman, and his appearance was quite different from his original form.

The facial features are still the same, but it is the difference between a god and a mortal.

After a sudden and brief farewell that Yin Chen would never forget, the sharp and aggressive aura that had always filled their interactions as adults vanished.

They stayed together quietly, and even without speaking, a warm yet bittersweet feeling permeated their space.

Yin Chen sat on the coral bed, looking up blankly at the man standing next to him. His black eyes had blood-red whites, making him look somewhat like a monster.

Long Xun gently lifted a strand of silver-gray hair that had fallen by his temple with his fingertips, his eyelids lowered slightly, half-concealing his pale golden vertical pupils.

"I should have told you sooner that I was fine."

"It's okay." Yin Chen snapped out of his daze, gently scratching the side of his face with his index finger, concealing all the abnormal expressions on his face. He blinked and smiled like a complete idiot: "I think you were right on time~! Hmm, let's see..."

His lips moved, but he still couldn't utter the words "go," "disappear," or anything related to them, as they involuntarily filled him with fear.

So Yin Chen paused for a moment while maintaining his smile and continued, "Judging from the days you've been here, you contacted the Mirage Platform as soon as you woke up, right? Only in this way could I have seen it so quickly."

Long Xun slightly raised his eyes, quietly gazing into his strange red and black eyes, as if trying to see into his heart.

"You...you don't blame me?"

"Ah Xun didn't do it on purpose. I'm not that unreasonable, am I? Do you really think I'm just a fussy fish? This really hurts me!" Yin Chen exaggeratedly covered his chest with his hand, making a sad face, then chuckled, "I think it's enough to see you again, especially since I'm the one who benefited..."

The golden partner contract pattern on his forehead appeared faintly and then disappeared: "Look, look, we have already concluded the partner contract in front of everyone and the Fish King! Hahaha, this time, even if you want to escape, you can't escape."

Yin Chen was clearly trying to liven up the atmosphere, but unfortunately, no matter how funny and cheerful he was, it was all ineffective against a completely emotionless person with no sense of humor.

The expressionless dragon looked at him, seemingly lost in thought.

Yin Chen laughed for a while but finally couldn't laugh anymore. He hadn't forgotten that he had been forced to sign this partnership contract. If the dragon didn't acknowledge it, even if the contract still worked, they wouldn't be legal partners.

Don't you want to?

Don't you want to?

Why didn't you open my app?

Do you think I don't know? If you want to, I absolutely can't bite you!

I couldn't beat you when you were just a kid, but you can freely turn into an adult and then back into a child, so how could I not resist?!

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