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◎In a Dream◎
When Mu and Qing opened the door, Bao Yan was already sitting on the only small sofa in her house, which was left by the landlord.
His tall and muscular body sat on the small sofa, making Mu and Qing feel sorry for the sofa.
The Nightmare had one arm draped over its leg and the other supporting its face, looking like it had been waiting for a long time.
He was incredibly fast, much faster than a bus.
Upon seeing Mu Heqing return, he patted the scarce space next to the sofa and said, "Heqing, come, sit here with your brother."
"No." Mu Heqing refused without even thinking.
Bao Yan raised an eyebrow, not insisting, and leaned back on the sofa. His posture was relaxed, and black characters flowed slowly across his well-defined chest. Despite his tall stature, he looked at Mu and Qing with an upward gaze while sitting on the sofa.
Mu Heqing's breath hitched. She had an urge to sell the Nightmare to a nightclub for money, which would just make up for her emotional distress.
"Can't you just wear a shirt?" Mu Heqing couldn't stand Bao Yan's exhibitionism.
The Nightmare shrugged, "I don't have any clothes."
Speaking of clothes, Mu and Qing remembered that she had one.
She went into the bedroom, rummaged through the room, and sure enough, she found the black silk shirt that Jiang Mu had given her.
I had nowhere to put these clothes, so I just gave them to Nightmare.
"Put these on." Mu Heqing handed the clothes to Bao Yan.
Bao Yan obediently took the clothes and put them on. He barely managed to button up the front, saying, "They're a little small."
Even though the clothes were loose-fitting, Bao Yan was at least 20 centimeters taller than Jiang Mu, and the clothes made his figure stand out even more.
Even stranger, Mu and Qingji both got goosebumps. It would have been better if Baoyan hadn't worn this outfit at all.
"Take it off." Mu Heqing sighed, rubbing his forehead.
Nightmare refused: "No, I really like these clothes, they're so smooth."
He felt uncomfortable with the buttons fastened, so he simply unbuttoned them all.
Mu and Qing turned their heads away; even a single glance felt offensive to her.
"Huh?" Bao Yan asked in surprise, "I can fit into these clothes, He Qing, these shouldn't be your clothes, right?"
"Don't ask," Mu Heqing replied quickly.
Bao Yan looked at the clothes again, but still didn't ask. He couldn't smell anyone else's scent on the clothes.
"Where is Yu Hai?" Mu Heqing asked. She had known Yu Hai since she met Bao Yan.
These two usually appear at the same time.
If the Nightmare appears, Feathered Skeletons will surely appear as well.
“He’s not in this country, but he’ll be here soon. He said he needs to get some kind of passport or something, otherwise it’ll be too slow for him to get here,” said Nightmare.
It's really jarring for the Nightmare to say the word "passport".
How did you find me?
Without hesitation, Bao Yan betrayed Li Shi, saying, "Shi told me."
Li Shi?
Mu and Qing hadn't seen him for a long time.
He and Bao Yan weren't on good terms, so why would he tell Bao Yan her location?
"Really?" Mu Heqing narrowed his eyes.
Bao Yan laughed heartily: "Why would your brother lie to you?"
"You just said you didn't know my house, but you do." Mu Heqing exposed his lie. "If you had known my location first, would you have told Li Shi?"
"Then I remembered it wrong, it's Consort Si."
“That’s even more impossible.” Sifeiping despised everything.
Despite her girl-next-door appearance, she gets along poorly with everyone.
"Oh! Someone said they'd seen you, and they told me your location." Nightmare came up with another excuse.
Mu Heqing said, "You might as well just say that you found me by following Yin Yin."
Bao Yan nodded: "That reason seems more reasonable."
"Just how many people know my location?" Mu Heqing closed his eyes.
The Nightmare seemed unwilling to tell the truth and didn't bother to find a reason.
It's okay, she can ask slowly.
“I really don’t know,” Bao Yan laughed.
Mu and Qing chuckled a few times. "What are you planning to do?"
Bao Yan stood up, his tall body casting a shadow. He placed his hand on Mu Heqing's head, patted her head, and said, "Brother will play with you."
"Are you alone?" Mu Heqing then asked.
"We can go together, it would be really fun." The Nightmare couldn't stop smiling, as if he'd just thought of something.
He didn't even try to cover it up.
Mu and Qing nodded in agreement. Okay, now it's confirmed, they really want to do something together.
She now needs to determine exactly how many guys are involved.
She knew that what they wanted to do when they got together must be incredibly boring and absurd, but it would make her feel like she was dying.
She took a step back, moving out of the range of the Nightmare's palm.
The Nightmare was slightly disappointed.
Touch her head? She's quite beautiful.
Mu and Qing returned to the bedroom, closed the door, and left Bao Yan in the living room.
Bao Yan knocked on the door a few times, but when Mu and Qing ignored him, he gave up.
Mu and Qing lay on the bed, hugging a fluffy duck plush toy in their arms, a feeling of exhaustion rising from their limbs.
She shouldn't have fallen asleep so quickly, but she was really tired.
Perhaps it was because of the nightmare outside the door, or perhaps it was because she had experienced too much recently, but she dreamed of the past again.
The past scenes gradually became clearer in her mind. She frowned, but she couldn't stop her brain from automatically recalling them.
It was probably less than a year after she entered No. 13 Middle School. She was eating lunch in a corner. Her lunch was just an ordinary sandwich, but it was a rare delicacy for Mu and Qing at that time.
The cafeteria at No. 13 Middle School is probably just for show; those guys either don't eat or eat strange things. One of the difficulties in getting into No. 13 Middle School is that there's nothing normal to eat.
Everyone prepared their own food, including Mu and Qing.
The food she brought from home had long been gone. No matter how much her mother prepared for her, she never imagined that there wouldn't be any normal food at school.
She wanted to go back, but she didn't even know how to leave.
Mu and Qing met a guy who said he wanted to see the Nightmare suffer a setback, and if Mu and Qing could do that, he would provide Mu and Qing with food for three whole years.
That was Mu and Qing's first contact with the Nightmare. She couldn't resist; the temptation was just too great.
She was really hungry and really wanted to go home.
She made that guy make a bet with the Nightmare, betting that someone could defeat the Nightmare. The Nightmare's strength was terrifying, and that guy definitely couldn't beat him. Mu and Qing didn't intend for him to face the Nightmare.
She wanted to do it herself.
The guy naturally didn't believe her. After mocking her for a while, he asked her what she wanted to do.
Mu and Qing said, "You have to lend me your abilities."
The guy laughed so hard he bent over, and as he laughed, he lent his abilities to Mu and Qing.
Mu Heqing approached Sifei again. At that time, Sifei was not like she is now; she was cold and ruthless to the point of being terrifying. When Mu Heqing asked to borrow her abilities, she was extremely disdainful.
"Get out of my way, don't disturb my painting," said Sifei.
Mu Heqing said to Sifei, "I can use your abilities even better than you do. Do you want to give it a try?"
A strange light appeared in Sifei's eyes; she was furious. Mu and Qing's words were nothing short of a provocation.
Mu Heqing was neither afraid nor evasive. With that guy's abilities, she endured the nausea and mental disorientation, and looked directly into Sifei's eyes.
Perhaps it was the first time someone had looked directly into her eyes, because Sifei smiled. She pulled Mu and Qing in front of her painting, pressed her head down, and made her look at the painting in front of her.
Even with that guy's abilities, Mu and Qing couldn't look directly at the painting, but Si Fei held her tightly, preventing her from leaving and forcing her to just look at it.
Various lines flooded her eyes and invaded her mind. Just when she thought she was going to die here, Sifei suddenly released her hand that was pressing on her head and told her that she could now borrow her power.
Sifei stood in front of Mu Heqing, who was lying on the ground in pain, and said coldly that if Mu Heqing could not do it, she would make him suffer worse than death.
And so, Mu and Qing acquired Sifei's abilities.
One day, Mu and Qing had that guy arrange to meet Bao Yan, and it was the first time she had ever faced Bao Yan directly.
Are you afraid?
Of course, she was trembling all over, but if she didn't do it, she would starve to death at school.
That would make Mom sad, and she wouldn't want to make Mom sad.
The Nightmare was too high; at first, he didn't even see Mu and Qing in front of him.
When he looked down, he saw the strange look in Mu Heqing's eyes. In that instant, Mu Heqing cast aside her fear, rushed forward, and hugged Bao Yan tightly.
Her classmates couldn't connect with each other, but she could connect with them.
Of course, the Nightmare wanted to get rid of Mu and Qing, but in that instant, his contempt made him bewitched, and he actually agreed to establish a link.
Black characters flowed from Bao Yan's naked upper body onto Mu Heqing's body. When Bao Yan came to his senses, he was pinned to the ground by Mu Heqing, whose entire body was covered in black characters.
He was defeated by his own strength.
The guy appeared, bent over, and laughed heartily, mocking the Nightmare mercilessly.
Mu and Qing did it. Although the Nightmare withdrew its power very quickly, she still managed to do it.
The violent demon threw Mu and Qing to the ground and was about to crush her to death when the principal appeared.
He said, "You can't kill your classmates now."
After giving Mu and Qing a disdainful look, Bao Yan gave up.
Mu and Qing were injured, and this was the only result they could achieve after giving it their all. But at least they could eat something.
Even though what that guy gave her wasn't normal food at all—it was dark and impossible to bite—she wasn't hungry anymore.
She ate this kind of food for a long time, and then one day, the guy had a change of heart and gave her a sandwich.
She hid in a corner, slowly eating her sandwich.
The Nightmare appeared in front of her, squatting down in front of Mu and Qing, his fingers pressing against Mu and Qing's forehead.
"It's all because of you, you lowly insect, that I've made such a fool of myself. If you dare to secretly use my power again, I'll blast a hole in your head."
Despite being threatened by the Nightmare, Mu and Qing remained silent and continued eating their sandwiches.
She ate her sandwich silently for a minute.
"I'm sorry for doing this to you." Mu and Qing finished their sandwiches and apologized sincerely.
It was wrong of her to do something like that to her classmate for food. She should apologize properly. She is a polite person, and her mother said that if you do something wrong, you should apologize.
Mu and Qing stood up and bowed deeply to the Nightmare.
"Who cares about you? You'd better pray you live to see that day, or I'll be very disappointed," the Nightmare sneered.
"Which day?" Mu Heqing asked.
A wicked smile curved the corners of Bao Yan's lips as he said, word by word, "The day I killed you."
His face suddenly froze on that nasty expression.
The dream is about to end.
Mu Heqing twitched her brows, exhaled, and slowly opened her eyes, where Bao Yan's handsome face loomed large before her.
She was startled.
Bao Yan had been bending over to look at Mu Heqing's sleeping face. Seeing that Mu Heqing had woken up, he straightened up and smiled, "Heqing, it's dawn. Your brother came to see if you were awake. I missed you so much last night. Did you dream about me?"
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