Chapter 55

That eye looked at Lan Yexing, a strange obsession slowly emerged in the pupil. Countless scarlet tentacles stretched out from the two-dimensional display screen and spread towards Lan Yexing's face. The sweet and pungent smell of blood spread in the three-dimensional space. Lan Yexing's face became more and more cold and solemn: What exactly is this thing that can break through the spatial dimension?

At this moment, those strange and extremely sticky tentacles were about to touch his face. Lan Yexing frowned in disgust and took a step back.

The eyes were not angry. It seemed to know Lan Yexing's question and said in a strange and ethereal voice, "I am a creature born naturally in the universe, a dimension higher than yours. Therefore, I can travel through all spaces lower than my own dimension, and I can also do many things that you cannot do."

Eyes: "For example, I can allow some people to have what you call spiritual power. I can also, on a whim, bring you back to your hometown from another world."

It just accidentally turned over the brain of the most cunning "Song Wen" and accidentally discovered the existence of Lan Yexing who was sent away. Just because of curiosity, it can go directly to another world to see him.

He witnessed the impending car accident. When he saw the boy choose to push others away and face the danger himself, he felt that his existence was trembling. So, he paused time and gave him a choice, and Lan Yexing chose to go with him...

Afterwards, it handed him over to the king, hoping and curious to see if he could pass the cruel and bizarre tests that had been passed down through the generations of the royal family. In the end, he really lived up to its expectations and passed...

She stared at the cold disgust on the boy's face with her eyes obsessed, which sounded like she was acting like a spoiled child and complaining at the same time, which was extremely weird: "Xiao Xing, you still hate me as always..."

Just like in that year, every time the boy tried to commit suicide during the king's moral tests, it was it that saved him - it was obvious that it had saved him more than three hundred times, and according to its shallow understanding of human nature, the boy should be grateful to it, fear it, or admire it and be conquered by its power, but every time he woke up and saw it, no matter how tortured he was and how close he was to death, it would look at him with this cold gaze that was not afraid but full of disgust.

In that kind of life-and-death moral test, Lan Yexing would commit suicide more than 300 times in order to let others survive. It was obvious that none of the people he saved could save him, but it could, and he hated it.

Every time Lan Yexing looked at it with disgust, it trembled all over because it felt too pitiful - a high-dimensional creature like it has extremely high and pure spiritual needs, and it likes pure minds the most. Only by parasitizing a pure mind can it feel that its existence itself is valuable and meaningful.

Its long-cherished wish is to spend a long time with a human being with a pure heart. Even if that human being dies, it is willing to guard his (her) body until the end of time - this is the form and meaning of its existence.

However, it felt that it was too pathetic. It liked the girl back then, it liked Lan Yexing, and it was willing to use all its strength to help them and please them, but they just hated it; it hated selfish and greedy souls, but those people just followed it and were crazy and obsessed with it.

It's really, so pitiful...

Thinking of this, the eye on the display screen blinked in self-pity, shedding strings of scarlet tears that continuously hit the desktop in three-dimensional space.

Lan Yexing watched this scene with a tingling scalp, and felt the hairs on his back stand up:

Even though he couldn't remember everything before the age of five, he always forced himself to remember that his parents were murdered, and he never forgot it for more than ten years.

He lived a good life, cherishing every day and every bond, but he never forgot the hatred.

The moment the car accident happened, he saw a dizzying black spot in front of his eyes, and then, a strange voice rang in his ears, asking him to choose whether to follow it. At that time, his heart almost jumped out of his chest. He couldn't tell whether it was because of the fear of encountering danger and creatures beyond human cognition, or because he recalled the blood when he was young again... He just had a hunch that if he followed the other party, he would be able to touch the truth of his parents' death, so he chose yes with great determination...

And now, he finally knew why his parents died and who were the murderers behind the scenes.

Qiao You would definitely kill the king, so he would have to figure out what to do with the eye - this was what he thought the moment he entered the room and saw it.

However, this eye is a creature that humans cannot recognize or understand at all. How can we kill it...

Lan Yexing was tense all over. He stared at that eye and asked tentatively, "What is your purpose..."

The scarlet eyes suddenly lit up, filled with obsession and sincerity, which made people shudder. Its voice contained ethereal innocence: "My purpose? I only have one purpose. I just want to be with you forever..."

Lan Yexing's pupils shrank.

A distant nostalgia slowly emerged in his eyes, and he began to confide his origins to Lan Yexing: "You are the second human who makes me feel this way..."

When it met the beautiful girl, it was the first day it came to this world from the universe. In order to save her mother, the girl would rather risk her life to swallow an unknown monster like it - it was deeply attracted by her brave and kind soul and was deeply fascinated by her.

However, the girl never used her second power again after that.

It was inside her body, so it could feel that the girl only feared and hated it, and her only wish was to make it disappear completely from this world. It was very sad about this, but it didn't want to disappear just like that. It just wanted to be with her forever, so it hid the method of making it disappear from her.

It watched her feel guilty and tremble in fear for using this power, admired the endless pain she suffered due to her noble character, and saw her efforts to make this power disappear from the human world. It was fascinated by all of this - it needed to coexist with such a pure and noble life in order to realize its own value.

Later, the girl died of old age, but the fox still couldn't bear to leave her and was willing to stay with her in the cold underground. If some nasty person hadn't dug her out later, it would have been willing to stay there forever.

The guy who dug it out was a human being who was completely opposite to the girl. It saw bottomless greed and ambition in him, and so it developed a second emotion towards the human species: unlike the crazy desire for pure souls, it felt a kind of cold curiosity towards humans like that man.

It really wanted to see what impact it would have on the group if the dark side of an individual in the group was allowed to expand to the limit. It could be an observer and spend the long, endless time it would have to face after the girl's death.

So, it let the man eat the girl's body and gained all the mental power from it.

In order to make things more interesting, it made a slight change to the human's [precognitive] mental power by stripping away its own [precognitive] power. That is, it did not allow this directed inheritance, but allowed it to be randomly born among psychics, in order to maximize the stimulation of human greed and fighting spirit from generation to generation - the limit of mental power that the human body can withstand is barely enough to travel through space, but their fragile bodies cannot use any [time]-related mental power. Therefore, for humans who desire to hold power and wealth from generation to generation and who desire to overthrow the former and become the new owners of power and wealth, the [precognitive] mental power is particularly important.

As long as the spiritual power of [precognition] is born randomly, the human world will always be shrouded in this cause and effect fostered by greed and ambition. It really wants to observe and see what the end of this cause and effect is.

Since that man, psychics have been passed down from generation to generation, and human society has been completely shrouded in that kind of cause and effect as it wished. In some periods, even if the lower-class people were starving and in agony, they had never overthrown the royal regime - this is the terrifying thing about the [precognitive] psychic power.

However, as time went on, in order to reduce the energy required to maintain their rule, the royal family began to learn smarter and more greedy ways of ruling. While they were more harsh and cold-blooded in purging the so-called "heretics" that affected their rule, they began to manage their reputation, modify history, and hide themselves deeper and deeper, while their control over society became more and more perfect and subtle.

Everything went as it had predicted. The causal spiral of spiritual power spun deeper and deeper in human society, as if it would forever be rooted in all of human history. One day, the randomly born [precognitive] spiritual power also began to get out of control as it had predicted. Soon, the country would be in chaos as the nobles fought for [precognitive] spiritual power. After that, it was the third stage -

If the nobles who pursued the power of [precognition] knew that they could obtain all the power by eating the body of the current king, if the common people who did not have power knew about the slavery they had suffered for generations, knew that the power was powerful and totally inconsistent with the propaganda, and knew that even an ordinary person could obtain those powers by eating the king's body, what would the world become?

The climax of development in this sandbox that it has been looking forward to is about to come.

However, after Lanyexing passed the cold and twisted moral tests of the royal family, it suddenly lost interest in that outcome...

While observing human society, it was also missing the original girl with a pure soul. So, when the royal family passed it down to a certain generation, in order to completely control the "Precognizer", after directly peeling off the baby's brain, it stood up and told them that it could help the royal family "control" the Precognizer's brain and use the power of precognition to allow the royal rule to continue, but the condition was that the royal family had to offer it a human with a pure heart.

It really missed the girl so much. Although it had been observing human life for thousands of years, it strangely felt that no moment had made it happier than when it was with the girl.

Even it cannot resurrect a person who was eaten after death, so it can only desperately look for someone who is similar to her.

It doesn't care that the royal family's moral tests accumulated from generation to generation are too cruel for humans and break the bottom line of human nature, which will only lead a good person to distortion. It just wants to find someone who can make it tremble and is similar to her as soon as possible.

It feels that anyone who can pass even this kind of test must have the purest mind and soul without any flaws or shadows.

It has been waiting for such a person to appear, and now, it has finally arrived at Lan Yexing.

Lan Yexing is a person who, in a harsh competitive survival environment, is willing to die in order to let his opponents survive. He is a person who can commit suicide more than 300 times for the sake of others.

His soul was so pure that it made it tremble. It really wanted to be eaten by him, to parasitize deep in his heart just like it had parasitized on the body of that girl, and to be with him forever and ever - after all, it no longer had any interest in the game of the royal family.

However, after Lan Yexing passed the test, he was on the verge of a mental breakdown due to too many suicide attempts. He would look at it with hatred and disgust, trying desperately to kill it. He could not even distinguish between reality and dreams and kept hurting himself. In order to keep him alive, it had to extract all his memories of that year, and then used the king to send him to campus to recover his body and spirit.

It didn't care whether he had completed the royal mission or not. It just wanted to find an excuse to give him the spiritual power and let him gradually get used to using it. After all, one day, they would merge into one, and he would have to get used to the spiritual power...

It has also been trying to please him and make him like it. For example, it knew that he cared about his friends the most before his memory was taken away, so it made his best friend into a system to accompany him, and let the system gradually regain consciousness to get closer to people and give him better company; for example, it knew that Lan Yexing fell in love with Qiao You, even though it wanted to punish him with electric shocks because of possessiveness, it did not stop him when Qiao You helped it escape punishment; in order to make Lan Yexing happy, it even guided him to know Qiao You's life experience...

It truly felt that it could give everything for Lan Yexing. When the offspring of Qiao You, the precognitive psychic, was born, it would swallow the baby and take back the precognitive psychic power, and could even give that psychic power to Lan Yexing as well.

It can make Lan Yexing the new master of this world, and can give Lan Yexing everything that the royal members who have been kneeling at its feet for generations have been pursuing at all costs.

Its only wish was for him to eat it and stay with it forever.

But why did he still have such a look of disgust when he saw it again?

I feel so wronged...

After narrating everything in human language and tone, it looked deeply at Lan Yexing, with more blood-like tears oozing from its pupils. It said, "You can fall in love with a filthy and greedy soul, but why do you hate me?"

Does Lan Yexing think that Qiao You is a good person?

Eyes: "I love you too. Why can't you look at me the same way you look at him? I can fulfill any wish for you."

It really will do everything for him.

As long as Lan Yexing swallows it now...

Lan Yexing's expression became increasingly cold. The excessive amount of information made his face turn pale and his temples ached slightly. Before today, he could never have imagined that countless people would die and that ominous karma would be passed down from generation to generation in human society. After desperately tracing back to the source and lifting the curtain, he discovered that the real culprit was actually just an eye, and everything was caused simply by the curiosity of this eye.

And this perverted and hypocritical monster now says he loves him.

Are you kidding me, this is absolutely disgusting.

Lan Yexing looked at it with almost hatred. He thought for a moment and said expressionlessly: "What if I let you die?"

She looked at him with extremely obsessed eyes, and a terrifying smile of success slowly emerged in her scarlet pupils. Just like how she had seduced and deceived the girl back then, she said softly, "As long as you swallow me, I can die for you. I didn't tell her how I disappeared back then, but now, I'm willing to tell you..."

Back then, the girl also wanted it to die, but it hid the method from her, making her hate it all her life. Lan Yexing now has the same wish. If it fulfills his wish, will he love it?

Staring straight at the young man, he said lightly, "As long as you eat me now, you can obtain all the spiritual powers except [precognition]. You can use the ability of [erase] to completely [erase] my existence... And even if humans gain spiritual power by devouring corpses, I will still be the source of all spiritual power. As long as I disappear, all the spiritual power in this world will disappear, and humans will be able to slowly free themselves from the cause and effect that has imprisoned them for countless generations..."

He narrowed his eyes, and countless scarlet tentacles pierced through the display screen again and stretched out towards Lan Yexing: "Xiaoxing, how about it? It's very tempting to you, right? And I just want to be eaten by you..."

There is endless obsession and expectation in its pupils.

Lan Yexing was not moved at all. He just looked at it expressionlessly. After a while, he said, "Did you tell a similar lie to that girl back then? She must not have believed you either."

The tentacle that was about to touch the boy's cheek suddenly stopped in mid-air. Its pupil almost filled the entire eye socket, staring at him in a strange manner. The room suddenly became so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

A cold light flashed in Lan Yexing's light-colored eyes: the existence and ability of eyes are beyond human understanding and cognition. When being shocked by this incident, it is easy to ignore the loopholes and details in that almost perfect story.

For example, how could the brave and intelligent girl in the story believe the strange eye that said it could help her save her mother and eat it? The eye must have concealed many details.

At the same time, the girl was so kind, how could she not have any gratitude towards the god-like existence that saved her mother, but only pure fear and disgust - even if there was fear and disgust, at the same time, her inherent kindness would make her mix some gratitude between those two emotions, and her struggle would be in line with the logic of human nature.

But in the eye's story, the girl only felt disgust and hatred for it from beginning to end, without any transition in between. Moreover, she spent her entire life guarding against and preventing the leakage of the eye's power as if atonement, even at the cost of her entire life.

That eye must have done something unforgivable to her back then...

Staring at Lan Yexing without blinking, looking at him with an extremely strange gaze, it said aggrievedly: "I never lie to anyone."

It is just a habit of telling only part of the facts, or telling the facts in the wrong order.

For example, the complete fact that has not been reversed is that the girl really swallowed it in order to save her seriously ill mother - but, as Lan Yexing expected, when it initially used the reason of gaining power to persuade the girl to swallow it, the girl did not agree.

So it told her that if she swallowed it, she would save the old man, but if she didn't, it would kill the old man.

The girl finally gave in, swallowed it, saved her mother, and spent the rest of her life keeping the secret and trying to make it disappear.

When it told this to Lan Yexing, it changed the order of the facts.

For example, it was it that lured the girl's mother to tell her grandson about the girl's secret, and it was it that lured the man to eat the aunt's body. It concealed many similar details from Lan Yexing.

However, it never felt that it was wrong - after all, it really did not lie.

Moreover, it has only given humans a small tool (mental power) from the beginning to the end, and other than that it has been watching most of the time. It is humans themselves, generation after generation, who have built this world into the terrible state it is today. How can Lan Yexing blame it?

Lan Yexing should love it...

The eyes emphasized again: "Xiaoxing, the spiritual power of [Erasure] can really kill me. Come, swallow me, and you can realize your wish to kill me. And for a creature like me, being able to die like this is also a kind of poetic happiness."

It was like a human courting, extremely humble and self-pitying, saying: "What are you still hesitating about? Xiaoxing, come and swallow me, kill me..."

Lan Yexing looked at it expressionlessly. Suddenly, as if sensing something, he reached out and covered the dial on his right wrist. A faint electric current spread faintly in his palm...

Perhaps because it consumed too much power to block the control of the host computer in front of him, the dial almost stopped moving after the current spread, and only the weakest current spread on the boy's right wrist. Lan Yexing lowered his eyes thoughtfully, looked at Xiao Song with heartache, took it off for the first time, and placed it on the table beside him tenderly and reluctantly.

At this time, the eye that didn't care about the dial stretched countless scarlet tentacles into its body. It broke itself apart from the middle, revealing a beating scarlet heart. The moment a tentacle touched the heart, an empty, small black hole appeared there. Its voice was ethereal and strange, like a devil bewitching people: "Look, this is the power of [Erasure]. As long as you eat me and get this power, you can really make me disappear... and all I want is that moment with you."

Lan Yexing looked at this scene with a cold expression - on the surface, the scene described by his eyes was indeed very tempting, and it was also a very cost-effective deal. As long as he ate it, he could kill it, and after it died, its spiritual power would disappear from this world, and humans would always slowly walk out of those causes and effects to build a new world - he didn't know whether the new world was good or bad, but the power inherited only through blood was a privilege, and it would be a good thing if this privilege disappeared from this world.

In a new world, he will still be with Joe, and they will be happy.

Really, this deal is so tempting...

Unfortunately, this eye that was so used to deceiving humans was still deceiving him...

But even so, he took a deep breath, stretched out his hand without hesitation, and allowed those scarlet tentacles to wrap around his fingers.

Its eyes suddenly lit up, and countless tentacles spread across the display screen. The eye that was cut in half slowly closed and remained intact. It excitedly crawled out of the display screen and placed its body in the boy's warm palm.

When holding the eye, a sticky feeling spread in his palm. Lan Yexing endured the nausea and did not let go. He slowly raised his arm and put the extremely weird eye into his mouth.

At this moment, the dial on the table was desperately emitting electric current, trying to let the weak electric current climb up to the boy's other palm, but in the end, because most of the power was consumed in transmitting the information just now, the current slowly disappeared.

It almost wanted to scream, but because of its exhaustion, it couldn't even make a sound:

Before that, it used electric current to transmit information about two kinds of mental power in Lan Yexing's palm: [Parasite] and [Erasure].

To a certain extent, it was transformed into a clone of the eye and could originally share some of the eye's moods and thoughts. However, it did not have a complete self before and was completely unable to recognize and understand this strange existence that controlled and influenced it, so it was unable to convey host-related information to the host.

After recovering, it was still controlled by the eye and could not recognize or understand it. However, the eye's emotions were so violent that they were almost human-like, so it could see and interpret some of them. Then, like that night, it used all its power to shield the host for a moment and pass on the key information to the host.

That eye was indeed not lying. The mental power of [Erasure] could really kill him. To be exact, only this kind of mental power could kill him.

But the eye did not tell the host that this was conditional, otherwise the kings of generations who possessed all the mental power would have used this mental power to control the eye long ago.

The prerequisite for humans to kill him with the mental power of [Erasure] is that they can eat him; and only if he recognizes them, will he actively use a mental power called [Parasite] to allow this recognized human to eat him.

This is why generations of royal family members have been unable to swallow him like the original girl - he has never recognized them, so naturally he will not use the power of [Parasitism] for them.

Only after being [parasitized] can Lan Yexing use the power of [Erasure] to make him disappear, but at the same time, as the host being parasitized, Lan Yexing himself will also disappear.

This is different from suicide, which cannot kill him, just like he was still alive after the lady died.

The meaning of "Erasure" that can get rid of him is that from then on, Lan Yexing and this eye will completely disappear from this world. At the same time, all the causes and effects related to them (including mental power) will slowly disappear, and eventually no one will remember them.

This eye seemed to believe that after falling in love with Qiao You, Lan Yexing would not be willing to let his lover forget him. Therefore, he deduced that after Lan Yexing swallowed him, he would not use the mental power of [Erasure] even for Qiao You.

In this way, his goal was achieved - he could parasitize Lan Yexing's life just like he parasitized that girl, and gain the meaning of his existence from his pure soul - there was one thing he did not lie about, his desire for humans who met his aesthetic standards surpassed everything else...

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The dial flickered, and he tried desperately but in vain to mobilize all his mental strength to stop Lan Yexing and send him away.

It just tried desperately to block the host from telling Lan Yexing all this, hoping that Lan Yexing could escape and get rid of this disgusting parasite.

But it still watched Lan Yexing close his eyes, slightly raise his head, and put the eye into his mouth in a self-sacrificing gesture - it really didn't expect that Lan Yexing would give up Qiao You for something else...

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As the eye got closer, a strange, sticky smell of blood filled his nose, and Lan Yexing felt like vomiting.

He suddenly began to miss his cat, the grandfather and all his friends here.

He even thought of his adoptive parents and their twins in another world. In fact, the twins liked him very much and called him brother. Even though his situation in that family was a bit awkward later, they still had warm times together.

And now, he was about to disappear, and he didn't even have time to say goodbye to them - the parting was more hasty and cruel than he had imagined.

He also thought of his biological parents...

His parents were really good. In the blurred and fading memories, their love for him was always shining. He vaguely remembered that no matter how busy they were at work or how many troubles they encountered, they would still take time out every day to accompany him and tell him bedtime stories every night. Even though the time he spent with them was too short, these daily bits and pieces of pure love still penetrated into his life like spring rain and continued to influence him.

They really love him, and they will protect him together when facing death.

Now he finally knew why they died, and he was proud of their noble courage.

He will be a kind and upright person as they expect...

Xiao Song would not lie to him. After eating the eye, he could use the mental power of [Erase] to kill it.

Even if he himself will disappear in the future, he still protected many people, and his parents will definitely be proud of him...

Finally, he thought of Qiao You...

He really wanted to miss Qiao You so much, wanted to hug him tightly, kiss him, and never separate. He really didn't want him to forget him at all...

What is Qiao You doing now? Will Qiao You blame him?

Will Qiao You be happy after losing him?

Qiao You will definitely be happy. In a new world where spiritual power disappears, he will forget himself, but he will definitely be happy...

If there is a real god in this world, he will pray to him most devoutly, let Qiao You be happy, let him be happy...

He is willing to be an upright and noble person, willing to make sacrifices for the world, and the only thing he hopes to get in return is that Qiao You will be happy...

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The corners of Lan Yexing's eyes gradually turned red. He raised his head and took a deep breath. Finally, he was about to put the eye into his mouth. His scarlet pupils glowed with excitement and strangeness. Countless tentacles moved towards Lan Yexing.

The star spread out - it was using the power of [Parasite], and soon, Lanye Star would be its...

However, just as the tentacles were about to touch Lan Yexing, a terrifying loud noise was heard outside the room - as if the entire underground space had been blown up by someone and was unstoppable.

The next moment, the door was kicked open with a bang, and the deafening sound of explosions from afar and the nearby gunpowder filled the air. Before Lan Yexing could even open his eyes, someone violently pulled him into his arms from behind.

The muscular arm was wrapped possessively around the boy's waist, and the other hand tightly grasped Lan Yexing's wrist with such force that veins popped out on the back of his hand, severely hurting the boy's wrist bone.

The big hand was so powerful and domineering that it blocked all the opponent's movements, but it was still shaking slightly.

The tall and handsome young man was in a mess because he had passed through the explosion. He placed his lips on Lan Yexing's with a cold look and said in a hoarse voice, "If I hadn't accidentally run into that idiot Song Wen, would I never see you again?"

Perhaps in order to destroy the evidence one day, the king buried countless explosives in this huge underground laboratory, which just happened to make it convenient for him to blow up the king and this dirty place to pieces.

Even though the two men did not like this overly violent plan, they were powerless to object and could only return to the school and try to find a way to evacuate the people in the school.

After receiving the signal from the two men that the crowd on the ground had been evacuated, he personally ignited all the explosives starting from the room where the king was...

When the smoke began to spread and the ground began to collapse, all his blood feud began to come to an end - at that time, his only thought was that he had to leave here quickly, return to Lan Yexing, and hug him tightly.

However, before leaving, he saw "Song Wen" running away. He was almost driven by instinct, and a huge and terrifying sense of uneasiness arose faintly. So he controlled "Song Wen" without hesitation and forced him to reveal this room that was hidden deeper than the king...

When he really saw Lan Yexing in this room, and saw his posture as if he was about to sacrifice himself in the next second, he felt like he was going crazy...

At this moment, Qiao You pulled Lan Yexing into his arms from behind. His emerald eyes were filled with terrifying coldness and hostility, and his voice was so deep that it seemed like water was about to drip down: "Lan Yexing, tell me, what do you want to do..."

The tip of his nose was filled with the extremely familiar cool scent of lime. Lan Yexing opened his eyes wide in shock, and felt his heart aching so much in an instant. He quickly calmed down and looked at the eye in his hand that had almost grown into his palm since Qiao You came in.

The pupil still glowed with a faint scarlet light, and it was using its parasitic spiritual power. Now that it could not be eaten by Lan Yexing because of Qiao You, it simply sank into the boy's flesh and blood bit by bit - this was much less effective than swallowing him, but as long as the boy agreed to be parasitized by it, it could still parasitize him. It wanted to merge with the boy no matter what.

It stared at the blond young man who was trying to stop it with an extremely cold and threatening look. If that woman hadn't used the power of [Word Spirit] to plant a cause and effect that even it couldn't break, and if it hadn't been for the purpose of recovering the spiritual power of [Precognition], this human would have died long ago.

It really wants to kill him...

Lan Yexing came back to his senses with a stern expression. He clenched his hands tightly, blocking the eye from looking at Qiao You - no matter what the cost, he would never let this monster hurt Qiao You.

The explosions outside continued to ring out, Qiao You's expression became even colder, the anger in his body roared, he tightly grasped his wrist, narrowed his eyes dangerously - Lan Yexing actually dared to hold that disgusting thing...

It was Lan Yexing who drove him crazy...

Lan Yexing was completely unaware of the madness that was about to erupt from Qiao You. He tried desperately to keep himself calm and composed - he had to come up with a flawless excuse as quickly as possible to make Qiao You leave him behind.

He didn't know what the explosion outside was, but he knew that the explosion was as dangerous as this eye. With a buzzing sound in his ears, he had only one thought at the moment: protect Qiao You, protect Qiao You...

He took a deep breath, and lied and begged in a hoarse voice: "Qiao You, you, you believe me, take Xiao Song away now, okay... I have something I have to do no matter what, I swear, after I finish it, I will definitely come back to you, then, we will be together forever, I swear I will never break my promise and lie to you-"

The sound that followed seemed to be swallowed up by something and disappeared completely. Lan Yexing's beautiful light-colored eyes slowly lost focus, and his body fell limply into the young man's possessive embrace. Afterwards, he closed his eyes weakly, leaving only his slender eyes trembling slightly.

Qiao You slowly removed the big hand that had just been placed on the back of Lan Yexing's head - this was the first time he used his mental power on Lan Yexing, and used his mental power to quickly interpret the boy's memories.

Qiao You hugged him tightly, lowered his eyes and looked at him with deep affection and extreme paranoia, his green pupils were filled with terrifying madness. He put his slightly cold lips to the ear of the unconscious boy and said in a hoarse voice: "Baby, you are really good at lying..."

At this moment, the eyes that were about to be completely absorbed by Lan Yexing's flesh and blood were completely aroused by this scene: even if it couldn't kill Qiao You, it wanted to teach him a lesson and torture him. However, now was the time when it was completing the parasitism. When it completely possessed Lan Yexing, it would definitely -

The next moment, it paused in shock.

Qiao You held Lan Yexing in one hand and tightly grasped the tentacles with the other hand. He concentrated his mental power of "extraction" in his hand, and then he pulled the eye with a scarlet glow out of the flesh and blood of Lan Yexing's palm bit by bit.

Countless blood-red tentacles with bared fangs and claws immediately wrapped around Qiao You's hand, trying to pull the eye out of Qiao You's palm - the strange thing was that it had countless ways to directly cut off Qiao You's palm, but it didn't use any of them.

Qiao You smiled as he looked at it, his face full of chill, his voice icy and frightening: "It seems that I guessed the first thing right. When you were [parasitizing] him, you couldn't use any mental power."

The sound of explosions outside was almost at his ears, and a large area of the ground collapsed. More smoke and dust mingled with fire filled the deepest room, but Qiao You didn't care. He tilted his head morbidly, and a terrifying and cold light like a wild beast surged in his green eyes: Lan Yexing was his and could only be his. He would never let him sacrifice himself for any reason - not even the most noble reason.

But he knew Lan Yexing. When he woke up, even if he locked him up, he would still sacrifice himself for others - because, if he wanted to kill this eye, this might be the only way.

He had always been extremely afraid of the selfless and noble part of Lan Yexing's personality, but he also loved this part of him, he loved all of him.

Therefore, he would not force Lan Yexing to become a selfish person, but he would not allow him to sacrifice himself so cruelly and without leaving any way out - how cruel, Lan Yexing was, he actually planned to make him unable to even think about him.

Lan Yexing is selfless, but he is selfish. He will not allow Lan Yexing to treat him like this——

So, how do you stop him once and for all?

A look of complete and uncontrolled madness finally emerged on Qiao You's face, his green eyes were frighteningly bright, and he stared at that eye with superiority, arrogance and extreme disdain. Then, in the rare look of shock in that eye, the young man pressed it into his palm with ruthless force, breaking the skin on his palm without mercy and pressing the monster into his flesh.

The flesh on his palm suddenly exploded, blood dripping all over the ground, but Qiao You still cruelly continued to press the eye into the flesh.

The eye finally let out a shrill, almost animal-like scream, and countless tentacles tried to escape like crazy, but were eventually forced to [parasitize] Qiao You's body along with the eye.

Blood flowed from Qiao You's lips because of the parasitism, but he showed an even crazier and colder smile.

He guessed the second thing correctly:

[Parasitism] Once it starts, it cannot be stopped.

The monster was halfway through its parasitic behavior when he forcibly pulled it out of Lan Yexing's hand. Even if it left the host it had chosen, it had to continue this parasitic behavior - at this time, it was no longer its turn to choose a host. Anyone could press it into his or her flesh and blood, and no matter how much it hated and resisted this person's soul, it had to be bound to this person.

——Oh, isn’t it going to be a parasite?

Then, come and parasite him.

How could he allow such a disgusting monster to infect Lanye Star? Monsters like it deserve to be wasted and tortured by another kind of monster.

As long as this monster is inside him, Lan Yexing will never have the chance to sacrifice himself.

The sound of the explosion finally spread closer, and the ceiling of the room finally began to tremble precariously. Countless dust fell down, and it seemed as if the place was about to collapse into ruins.

In this doomsday-like scene, Qiao You let the eye struggle hysterically in his left arm. His skin undulated strangely, flesh and bones burst out, and his entire left arm was almost unrecognizable. However, he didn't care about the nausea and pain that seemed to be swallowing him. He just used his clean arm to hold the unconscious Lan Yexing tightly and sat on the ground with him.

In this position, he can hold Lan Yexing tighter and deeper in his arms.

He put his lips close to Lan Yexing's ear with a cherishing and extremely morbid attitude, and said in a paranoid and joyful tone: "Baby, what should I do? I really want to die here with you, so that you will never run away again."

"But I still can't bear to see you die."

He kissed the boy's neck obsessively. "If you wake up and find that I have turned into a monster and am so selfish that I don't intend to use the power of [Erase] to disappear with this monster, what will you think? Will you be sad? Will you blame yourself? Will you be disappointed in me?"

He is different from Lan Yexing. He is selfish and cold-blooded. He doesn't care about any grand narratives or anyone other than the people he cares about. What the world will become has nothing to do with him. He will not erase his own existence for the sake of others and let Lan Yexing forget him.

Then, he can only coexist with this monster and torture each other. The spiritual power will still continue to exist in this world, just like a curse.

What would Lan Yexing think about this?

Qiao You laughed out loud, as if he was talking to himself: "Look at me, I know the answer, but you still stay with me."

Lan Yexing would blame herself, feel pain, struggle, feel sad for the world and for him, but she would still stay by his side and love him.

This is Lan Yexing...

Qiao You held the boy tighter, obsessively and persistently, as if he wanted to squeeze him into his bones. He closed his eyes and buried his face in the boy's neck, quietly sniffing the boy's warm and pure fragrance in the collapsing smoke - isn't this great? They can be together forever, and he can get him forever.

This is really good...

only--

Qiao You suddenly raised his head from the boy's neck, and a more uncontrollable madness surged in his green eyes - but he couldn't bear Lan Yexing to see something as dirty as that eye again, he couldn't bear that eye coveting Lan Yexing through his body, he couldn't bear that he existed in front of Lan Yexing as a monster...

What he couldn't bear even more was that Lan Yexing was hurt and had to live with the moral burden for the rest of his life.

Something was still surging inside the young man's left arm. There was no more good skin on the surface, and even the bones were faintly visible. However, he slowly lifted it up:

A person possessed by the Eye can obtain all mental powers except [precognition], which naturally includes... [space].

The horrifying explosions sounded more violently, the collapsed ceiling kept falling with a rumbling sound, and the room was almost engulfed in flames and smoke. At this moment, a clean and strong space distortion appeared at Qiao You's bloody left hand. In that bright space, there were prosperous high-rise buildings, and the sound of cars and people could be heard faintly. The city was operating in an orderly manner, without any pollution from mental power and distorted cause and effect. It was peaceful and quiet as if it was a paradise.

Qiao You took a deep look at that place - is that where Lan Yexing grew up? Compared to here, that place is indeed more suitable to be his hometown...

After remembering the scene in his mind, Qiao You lowered his eyes and bit the boy's neck fiercely, leaving a hideous mark there. Then he kissed him gently on the lips. He looked at him tenderly and morbidly, casting a deep shadow on the boy's pale face. He said, "You must not forget me, understand?"

"…Even if you fall in love with someone else and find someone else, you are not allowed to forget me."

"No, you are not allowed to love anyone else, and you are not allowed to find anyone else."

Finally, he hugged him and said, "Xiaoxing, even if we can never meet again, you must love me all your life..."

Hearing these selfish and morbid words, the unconscious boy frowned slightly, as if he wanted to struggle to wake up, but he did not wake up in the end.

Qiao You's green eyes were filled with ruthlessness. He forced himself to send the boy back to his hometown.

The moment the young man's figure and the distorted space disappeared, the entire Xingdu University collapsed, completely crushing the lonely blond young man in the room under the ruins.

…

One year later.

Many major events took place in this country this year:

For example, the king died inexplicably.

For example, after a huge explosion of unknown cause at Star City University, the entire campus collapsed and became a complete ruin. Only the remaining King's Lake and the river became a tourist attraction open to the public. After that, the university announced its complete dissolution and no reconstruction or reorganization. Teachers and students will receive special subsidies from the royal family and can apply to universities in various places with the help of the government's green channel to continue their work or studies.

For example, the second prince of the royal family disappeared, the princess succeeded to the throne and announced that she would no longer have offspring, and that she would be the end of the throne and the royal family. Each county also began to slightly reform its political system and gradually weakened the political power of the nobles. The queen and the governors of various places were extremely careful to avoid large-scale wars while carrying out reforms.

Even though a year has passed, the aftershocks of these major events are still affecting the residents of Xingdu District in Central County, and this topic is still a topic of conversation among them before and after meals.

In a villa in the core area of Xingdu District, a gray-haired old man was sitting in a rocking chair on the balcony of the master bedroom, staring blankly outside. A cute Corgi dog squatted at his feet obediently and lively, and on his knees lay a beautiful little white cat with blue eyes. Like the old man, it tilted its head and stared blankly at the bright spring light outside the glass window.

The old man's nephew pushed the door open, walked past the double bed still covered with a cotton candy quilt, and walked towards the balcony. He looked at the old man helplessly and said, "It's time to eat, uncle. It's time for Litchi Maoqiu to eat too."

The old man came back to his senses, wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes implicitly, and said "Ah" in a daze.

The sunny alpha smiled helplessly, then stepped forward and placed a letter in the old man's hand, saying, "Same as before, it's also from him."

He simply squatted down in front of the old man and said, "Ever since you called me to study at Xingdu University and told me to look after him on campus, although I haven't gotten to know him very well, at least we can be called friends and I know him a little bit. Don't worry, that guy will be fine outside."

Alpha: "What happened underground at Xingdu University is still a mystery, but I can feel that the situation has begun to change. All parties are looking for his whereabouts. It's better for him not to appear in Xingdu District. So don't blame him for not coming to see you."

The old man did not answer, but opened the envelope which only had the recipient but no sender, and a quiet, distant and clear blue postcard was revealed.

It is a beautiful, vast and free grassland with sea of lights.

On the back of the postcard was a simple sentence: [An. by Qiao You.]

The old man sighed heavily and put away the postcard with great care. He stroked the kitten on his lap and replied, "Not only Master, I just miss Xiaoxing just like this little guy."

Alpha was startled, with a look of distant loss on his face. He smiled and said, "Don't worry, no matter where my little brother is now, he will be fine." Lan Yexing has the ability to be happy no matter where he is or who he is with.

After the explosion, Lan Yexing and Qiao You disappeared together.

Even if the old man had other relatives, he still treated Qiao You as his own grandson. Qiao You also cared about the old man very much. Fearing that he would worry, he quickly got in touch with this place. He only revealed the whereabouts of Lan Yexing to the old man.

As for the whereabouts of Lan Yexing, no matter whether the heir of the Jian family or the missing second prince came to inquire, the old man refused to talk about it. In fact, the old man did not reveal a single word to his own nephew.

The old man's eyes showed a distant and sad nostalgia. He gently rubbed the cat's head in his arms and murmured to himself: "You are right. Xiaoxing will be fine no matter where she is. The young master will be fine too."

He gently put the cat down in his arms, and then stood up with the help of the alpha: "Let's go, let's go eat. I want to live another two years with my old bones."

The old man's lonely figure disappeared in the master bedroom, and the Corgi dog and the snow-white kitten followed him obediently and affectionately.

…

Two years after the explosion and collapse of Xingdu University, the missing Yan Min and Nuo Ang met the blond young man on the Denghai grassland.

A tall and handsome young man wearing a black windbreaker appeared on the open grassland, his aura became even more cold and imposing. His bright golden hair grew very long and was tied behind his head with a hairband, making his face even more handsome and colder.

His left hand hung below his body, wearing an airtight black leather glove. With an expressionless face, he handed a watch dial to Yan Min with his right hand.

After Yan Min took it, the blond young man turned and left.

Yan Min frowned and called him: "Where is he?! Where did you hide him? What did you do to him?! We just want to see him, just a glimpse of him from a distance!"

Qiao You only left them with a cold back view. As he walked away, he said in an extremely cold voice, "It's not necessary."

He met them today just because he thought that Lan Yexing cared a lot about this person named Xiaosong.

Xiao Song's parents had been secretly detained by the royal family. After the king died, the princess released those people who were imprisoned in the secret prison as experimental reserve materials, and said that the royal family would cooperate with the investigation of relevant departments, compensate these people and take lifelong responsibility, and she would never cover up when the former king needed to be tried.

After Xiao Song's parents returned to Denghai Grassland, the watch face that had not lit up since Lan Yexing left lit up for the first time. Xiao Song begged him to remove all the memories of him and the prison from the couple.

He said that the couple should forget all the misfortunes and live a good life. They would have a new child again, form a good family of three, and live happily on this grassland.

Qiao You had no opinion or view on these words. He only knew that Lan Yexing cared about his friend Xiao Song, so he agreed.

Now that everything is done, he judges that this watch dial is more suitable to be given to old friends like Yan Min than to stay with him.

Yan Min frowned in worry and dissatisfaction. Just as he was about to say something, the dial suddenly lit up with a cold light, and it said: [He is right.]

In another world, Lan Yexing must be living a good life. His spiritual power has not disappeared yet, so the fewer people in this world know his whereabouts, the better.

Yan Min's pupils shrank, and he came back to his senses. He gently covered the dial and watched the young man's solemn back walking further and further away. Even though he was still unwilling, he did not ask about Lan Yexing's whereabouts. He just asked another question loudly: "Qiao You, in the end, he didn't think about that year anymore, right?!"

Qiao You paused, his black windbreaker rustling in the wind. He did not turn around, but said indifferently, "Yes." He had interpreted Lan Yexing's memory, so he knew that even if the eye mentioned that memory to Lan Yexing sporadically, Lan Yexing would not remember it. This was what he was most grateful for.

After saying this, Qiao You left in an almost cold manner.

Yan Min looked at his back and finally let go of his obsession. His eyes turned red and he said in a hoarse voice, "That's good, that's good."

Nuoang, who was standing by, patted his shoulder gently and said, "Next stop, let's go back to Central County. I want to see if I can help my sister. She is under a lot of pressure right now."

In the past two years, he and Yan Min have been living a life of wandering around incognito. People like them who have been reformed are indeed suitable for this kind of life.

Now, Xiao Song has joined this wandering team.

This is actually very good.

Yan Min nodded. Nuo Ang and Yan Min stood side by side, watching Qiao You’s back gradually disappear into the distance that almost merged with the sky.

They all vaguely realized that this might be the last time they would see Qiao You in this life.

…

Five years later, the nobles discovered to their surprise that their spiritual power was gradually disappearing.

Countless people have a vague sense that tremendous changes are taking place in this country.

For example, the young new omega leader of the Jane family announced that the Jane Group will carry out drastic reforms, split and reorganize its businesses, gradually withdraw from the inhibitor market, and transform into a broader biopharmaceutical field. At the same time, a large amount of assets will be used to support public charities...

For example, a private experimental team successfully developed an affordable inhibitor and opened a public patent.

For example, an entrepreneur founded the country's first civil aviation company and put new aircraft with better performance into use, while at the same time beginning to develop more civil routes with the support of the government.

…

Countless changes and reforms are taking place subtly beneath the still waters.

…

That autumn, the blond young man finally stepped into the Xingdu District of Central County and walked into the villa.

The starlight and the moonlight poured down gently. The old man lying on the bed on his deathbed held the young man's left hand, which was still wearing a black leather glove, with his bony hand. He looked at the young man, who had become more handsome and mature, but had a colder and more aloof temperament, and wanted to say something with a distressed look on his face, but he could not utter anything because he was too weak.

Qiao You looked at him tenderly, and he said calmly in a cold and hoarse voice: "Grandpa, I'm fine."

The old man still looked at him anxiously.

Qiao You lowered his head, leaned over and whispered in the old man's ear: "Don't worry, I will go find him, I can find him."

The old man was startled, and finally a relieved smile appeared on his face. He used his last bit of strength to say lovingly: "I will help you tell the young lady and your father this good news..."

After saying that, his hand slipped down, and he finally closed his eyes happily.

In the moonlight, Qiao You's tall body stiffened. He was still half-kneeling beside the bed like a sculpture, holding the old man's hand. His cold and bright golden hair blocked his eyebrows, but cool tears fell on the old man's face.

…

After the funeral, Qiao You returned to the villa. In the cold moonlight, he sat at the dining table and talked with Alpha. There were two glasses of red wine on the table.

The alpha had a sad smile on his face, as if his loved ones had passed away. He said, "The mental power of those guys disappeared because of you."

Qiao You looked at his left hand coldly and did not answer.

That eye has been slowly committing suicide over the past two years.

This extremely twisted creature craves the nourishment of a pure soul. Being imprisoned by such a selfish and greedy dark soul is nothing short of a painful torture for the eye.

Even though human life is very short compared to it, it cannot stand this kind of torture at all - in less than a few years, it is on the verge of collapse, so it starts to commit suicide.

No wonder this monster was so cautious in choosing its host and using the mental power of [Parasite] to parasitize the host - throughout the long history and time since its appearance, it only chose the young girl and Lan Yexing.

And now, because the eyes, which are the source of all spiritual power, are slowly disappearing, the spiritual power of the psychics in this world is also slowly disappearing.

Qiao You didn't answer, and Alpha wasn't angry either. He smiled brightly at his friend: "If you really make those privileges inherited by blood disappear, you'll be the savior - you know what? I'm trying to be a novelist now, do you want me to write your story to praise you?"

Qiao You looked at him with a strange expression when he heard this. He said indifferently but seriously: "Lan Yexing is the savior."

It was obviously his little star who wanted to save the world.

It was because Lan Yexing decided to sacrifice himself that this eye used the mental power of [Parasite]. He had the opportunity to force it to parasitize himself and accidentally found a way to kill it.

He was very selfish, and even though this eye might very well drag the world back into that ominous cause and effect after his death, he never thought of using the mental power of "erasure" to make it disappear - he had obsessive desires, his only family, and his only lover, and he would absolutely not "erase" his own existence and make them forget him in order to save the world.

Only his little star would do this.

So he looked at Alpha indifferently: "If you want to write about a real hero, you should write about Xiaoxing." He paused and looked away, and said reluctantly: "I can reluctantly tell you some of the things he did."

The alpha was dumbfounded and said "OK".

…

As the conversation went on till late at night, Qiao You finally stopped wanting to share any private memories about Lan Yexing. Even though the alpha who took notes wanted to know more, he wisely did not continue to press the issue.

He just talked about the deceased again with sadness, and said: "Although my uncle has us as real relatives, he has always regarded your family as his own. Qiao You, he would want you to be happy." Alpha looked at the cat and dog curled up together on the sofa, and asked: "What are your plans for the future?"

Perhaps because it was rare for him to talk to others about Lan Yexing, he looked at the cold moonlight spreading infinitely outside the window, and the coldness in his pupils faded a little. Coming back to his senses, he drank the glass of red wine expressionlessly, his voice indifferent but extremely firm: "Go find him."

As the eye gradually died, all his mental power gradually disappeared. He spent a lot of effort to put the mental power of [Space] at the end of the disappearance sequence...

He would bring his dog and Lan Yexing's cat to find him, and then he would never let him go again. Never.

Alpha was startled, then smiled carefreely. He raised the glass of red wine, touched Qiao You's empty glass, and drank it all. He sighed sincerely, "I wish you and Junior Brother happiness."

Qiao You raised his glass elegantly and replied, "Yeah."

…

"A-choo."

In the bright early morning of spring, Lan Yexing got up from the bed in the apartment. He half-sat with a handkerchief covering the tip of his nose, waiting for the itch caused by the sneeze to pass, but his light-colored eyes were lost in thought as he looked at the vibrant flowers and trees outside the window.

The light shadows of flowers outside the window cast on the boy's messy black hair and fair and pretty cheeks, reflecting his light-colored, slightly dazed eyes like a pool of still water.

After a while, the alarm clock for seven in the morning rang suddenly, and Lan Yexing came back to his senses as if awakened.

He took a deep breath and began to unbutton his white shirt - five years ago, he returned to this world and studied aircraft design and engineering at the university where he received the admission letter. He was then successfully admitted to graduate school.

He is now in his first year of graduate school and has a lot of experimental data to collect. He has to get up and rush to the laboratory at 7:30.

So Lan Yexing took off his white shirt neatly and put on his clothes to go out. When he was adjusting his collar, his fingers accidentally touched the back of his neck. It was smooth and there was nothing unusual there, but he was stunned.

After a long time coming back to his senses, he stood in the middle of the empty room filled with morning light, looking down at his fingers with an extremely gentle expression on his face.

He took another deep breath, finally straightened his clothes, and walked towards the bathroom.

After quickly washing up, he made a quick breakfast and ate it before picking up his canvas bag and rushing to school.

City A is in the south. The air after the rain is moist and fresh. Lan Yexing walks under the dense flowers and trees on campus. A series of light shadows pass by his body, and from time to time students pass by him on bicycles.

Lan Yexing just walked quietly.

When he reached the only oak tree on campus opposite the laboratory building, he paused and quietly looked up at the beautiful green branches. A fleeting and obscure emotion flashed across his light-colored eyes:

This is the most common tree in the university in the other world.

It's been five years.

He hasn't seen Qiao You for five years.

After looking for an unknown amount of time, Lan Yexing finally lowered his eyes and looked at his left palm: there was a shallow scar there.

Qiao You made him lose consciousness at that time. He didn't know everything Qiao You did, but he guessed that he pulled the eye out of his hand...

Then what? Then what happened to Qiao You?

Is his Qiao You okay now?

He asked this question to the void countless times when he woke up from a dream in the middle of the night, but no one gave him an answer.

…

Lan Yexing clenched his hands, took a deep breath, and walked into the laboratory building - he wanted to cherish his life and live well.

He was always devoted to his experiments, and soon it was noon. Other students went to eat and the room gradually became empty.

Lan Yexing changed his clothes and was going to eat. A handsome young man from the same laboratory patted Lan Yexing's shoulder from behind. Lan Yexing was startled, turned around at the window in the corridor, and looked at him quietly and puzzledly.

The face looked even more beautiful and cold in the light.

The young man blushed as he looked at you: "I, I was serious when I said I wanted to pursue you."

Lan Yexing's face slowly showed helplessness and distress. He said, "When I said I reject you, I mean it."

This person was originally his roommate, and he moved out and rented an apartment just to avoid suspicion.

The young man's face fell: "Why can't you try to like me? What's wrong with me?"

Lan Yexing looked away coldly: "I have someone I like."

The young man shrugged. "How is that possible? I asked about you. You never had a relationship in college. You were single when you entered the first year of graduate school. How could you possibly like someone?"

Lan Yexing thought of something, and an extremely gentle thought flashed across her light-colored eyes, causing the young man opposite her to stare in amazement.

Lan Yexing lowered his eyes and said, "We talked about it very seriously."

After saying that, he no longer paid attention to the young man, turned around coldly and walked outside.

The young man came back to his senses from the amazement, but still chased after Lan Yexing without giving up.

But when the young man reached the door of the laboratory building, he suddenly stopped - Lan Yexing was standing stiffly on the steps at the door, looking across with wide eyes.

The young man was about to call him, but stopped in shock:

At this moment, crystal tears were rolling down the beautiful face that had haunted his dreams.

Lan Yexing, who usually kept his emotions to himself, actually cried...

The young man was startled and looked in the direction Lan Yexing was looking. Then he saw a tall man with a cold and imposing temperament standing under the tall oak tree opposite.

The man was wearing a solemn black trench coat, with long, bright golden hair tied behind his head, a pair of beautiful and fierce green eyes, and a face more handsome than any popular star nowadays. He was originally looking at Lan Yexing, but at this moment, as if sensing something, he smiled at him, his face full of a high and arrogant chill and warning - that gaze was even more terrifying than that of a wild beast.

The young man was so frightened that he took a step back and fell to the ground.

Lan Yexing didn't notice it at all.

He just strode forward trembling all over, fearing that it was an illusion he had seen countless times in the past five years.

With a clear "bang" sound, Lan Yexing was hugged tightly by a strong muscular arm. The invasive scent of lime surged to his nose, and Lan Yexing finally confirmed that this was not an illusion.

He reached out and fiercely grasped Qiao You's collar, burying his face in his broad arms until his whole body was enveloped by the scent of lime. He took a deep breath and said in a hoarse voice that was almost aggrieved: "I miss you so much..."

Qiao You embraced him possessively. He smiled and looked down at him. His green eyes were filled with countless dark and terrifying emotions. However, he just gave Lan Yexing a gentle kiss on his hair. In a low and charming voice, he said, "Me too, baby."

He will never, ever let Lan Yexing go again.

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