The staff didn't know why Xie Chen took the anti-lost rope, but Fu Bai knew perfectly well.
After saying goodbye to the staff, Xie Chen still didn't untie the anti-lost rope and led Fu Bai's hand toward the stairs.
Xie Chen chuckled and said, "I just asked the staff, and they said all the cameras in our room have been removed."
It's been a week since Xie Chen and Fu Bai came to Xiamen to film "Expired Lovers." Due to the ongoing filming and the presence of cameras everywhere, their intimacy this week has been kept to a minimum, without going too far.
For Xie Chen, who was young and impetuous and had developed a taste for the finer things in life, this was nothing short of torture.
Now that they've finally managed to remove all the cameras from the room, Xie Chen can't wait to drag Fu Bai back to the room and give him a good show.
Fu Bai lowered his eyes to look at the anti-lost rope connecting their wrists, smiled gently, and quickened his pace to match Xie Chen's.
748 echoed in Fu Bai's mind.
I get it, I'm going to be blocked all night again.
The nine-tailed fox in the sea of consciousness stretched and lazily hummed, its face full of smugness.
748：::::::
This vixen is as unreserved as ever.
748: [Have a pleasant evening.]
After saying that, he very consciously shut himself off.
While Fu Bai and 748 were talking, the two had already returned to the third floor.
However, an uninvited guest appeared at the door of the room.
What are you doing here?
Xie Chen stopped in his tracks, his brows furrowed, and looked at Chen Lan with displeasure.
Chen Lan lowered her gaze and saw Fu Bai and Xie Chen's tightly clasped hands, as well as the anti-lost rope binding them together. A mocking smile appeared on her lips.
"So you're not welcoming me at all?" Chen Lan raised an eyebrow and said, "Or did I disturb your peaceful evening?"
Xie Chen said impatiently, "I know, now get out of here."
"Don't worry, I won't stay here for long," Chen Lan said, opening her phone. "I'll show you a video, then I'll leave."
After Chen Lan finished speaking, she handed her phone to Xie Chen and pressed play on the video.
The video shows a beautiful middle-aged woman looking at the camera with teary eyes, her voice choked with sobs, looking pitiful.
"Ah Chen, do you really not want your mother anymore?" the woman cried into the camera. "You haven't come home to see your mother for almost two years. Your mother misses you so much."
"Please come back. Mom can't live without you."
Women are fragile, like crystal that breaks at the slightest touch, but as she cried, her expression suddenly became distorted.
In the video, the woman raises her hands, holding a fruit knife in her right hand.
She placed the sharp blade of the fruit knife on her left wrist, her beautiful face becoming increasingly distorted.
The woman said hysterically, "Xie Chen, why don't you listen to me? I gave birth to you and raised you, what right do you have to defy me?"
"I want to see you within three days, or you can come back to see my dead body."
The video abruptly ended.
Chen Lan put away her phone and looked at Xie Chen confidently: "So, are you coming home with me tomorrow?"
Veins bulged on Xie Chen's forehead, and he suppressed extreme anger in his throat: "Chen Lan!"
"I'm here." Chen Lan smiled gently, but his eyes were cold, like those of a venomous snake. Once he set his sights on you, it's a fight to the death.
"Xie Chen, I'm giving you a choice."
"Whether you choose your mother's life or your love is entirely up to you."
Xie Chen clenched his fists tightly, his anger raging in his chest.
Until someone walked in front of him and shielded him from behind.
Xie Chen lowered his eyes in surprise.
Fu Bai squeezed his hand comfortingly, his fox-like eyes staring directly into Chen Lan's eyes.
"Chen Lan".
Fu Bai spoke softly and calmly, his tone utterly flat and devoid of any emotion.
But it was this very voice that, as if by magic, made Chen Lan uncontrollably look into Fu Bai's amber eyes.
A strange thing happened at that moment.
The amber color in Fu Bai's pupils gradually faded, and a clear blue, like the sky and the sea, spread across Fu Bai's eyes.
Chen Lan's mind went blank for a moment.
He saw himself reflected in Fu Bai's eyes.
More accurately, it's Chen Lan after being seen through a lens.
In Fu Bai's deep blue eyes, Chen Lan's body became transparent, and a ball of light floated on his chest, radiating a lustrous glow.
The next second, as if summoned, the ball of light began to move from Chen Lan's chest, appearing somewhat restless.
Fu Bai raised his hand and opened his palm in front of Chen Lan.
The summoning power of the orb is intensifying.
Chen Lan's eyes were blank, like a puppet that had lost its soul.
He stiffly raised his hand and placed it over his heart, and the luminous ball of light in his chest burst out.
Chen Lan clenched his fist and held the ball of light in his palm.
"come over."
Fu Bai spoke, and the ball of light seemed to shrink back, wanting to escape. However, an air wall appeared around it at some unknown time, cutting off all of the ball of light's escape routes.
The ball of light could only reluctantly fly to Fu Bai's outstretched palm.
The lustrous light grew brighter, as if demonstrating its power to Fu Bai and trying to persuade Fu Bai to become its master.
Fu Bai scoffed lightly, saying with utter disdain, "You think you can take me on?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he clenched his fist.
An invisible, surging force pulled the ball of light into it. A few seconds later, the shimmering light on the ball of light became fragmented, like scattered starlight.
Finally, it went out and turned to ash.
Immediately, the azure color in Fu Bai's eyes faded.
The stagnant spacetime resumed its rotation, and Fu Bai watched Chen Lan continue to say what he had just wanted to say.
“Chen Lan, you don’t need to force Xie Chen to go back in this way. I will go back to Xie Chen’s house with you tomorrow.”
Chen Lan was stunned for a moment. He suddenly had an ominous premonition, as if something inside him was leaving him.
He felt inexplicably uneasy.
Under these circumstances, he was unable to investigate why Fu Bai had said that, and only left with the words, "You'd better keep your word," before hastily departing.
The third floor returned to quiet.
Fu Bai opened the door to the room and pulled Xie Chen inside.
Xie Chen's silence was somewhat eerie.
Fu Bai assumed he was in a bad mood.
Just as she was about to reach for the light switch, Xie Chen suddenly grabbed her hand tightly.
His voice was hoarse: "Don't turn on the light."
Before Fu Bai could answer, Xie Chen pulled and dragged him to the bedside.
The anti-lost rope on his hand had been untied at some point and was instead fastened to Fu Bai's other wrist.
By the time Fu Bai realized what was happening, his hands were already bound and then wrapped around the bedpost.
This was the first time in this little world that he had been tied up by Xie Chen.
Tsk, I kind of miss it.
Little did they know, in the darkness, Xie Chen's eyes were deep and dark, like an abyss, unfathomable.
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