Chapter 116 One-Night Stand
[I had never seen his face, never heard his name, but I made love with him all night until dawn...]
In the luxurious hotel suite, the dim bedside lamp cast a shadow, and clothes scattered on the ground could be vaguely seen. Lu Yan sat on the sofa, wearing a loose white bathrobe. Through the half-open neckline, his muscular chest flashed by, and an ambiguous breath lingered. His eyebrows were half-closed, and his inquiring eyes were always on the opposite side. He frowned slightly, and I don’t know what he was thinking about——
It's a bit tricky in the end.
Because he accidentally slept with someone.
Sitting on the double bed opposite was a man whose face could not be seen. He lowered his head in silence. He was pale and thin, and looked like a college student. The purple kiss marks on his shoulders silently foreshadowed what he had just experienced. His fingertips were tightly clenching the sheets, and veins were visible on the backs of his white hands.
He clearly didn't say anything, but the humiliation and forbearance he felt were transmitted to the other side without a second thought, making people feel particularly embarrassed about him.
“…”
After a dead silence, Lu Yan was the first to break the silence. His voice was very low and sexy. Because of his indifferent emotions, he gave people the illusion of being kind and gentle: "Are you still in school?"
He saw a slightly old-fashioned casual backpack on the ground. It was pure black in appearance and had a silver zipper. It was an old item that had long been eliminated from the market.
The man on the bed moved when he heard this, and finally raised his head slowly from the shadows. It must be said that he had an exceptionally clean and handsome face. The overlong black hair on his forehead almost covered his eyes, making his gaze look gloomy. He had a high nose bridge, and his lips were pale from years of malnutrition. His eyes were mostly white with less black, and looked cold and unpleasant.
Tang Rufeng spoke calmly, his voice very hoarse: "I don't know you."
Why did it appear in your bed?
Lu Yan heard the other party's hidden message. He took out a thin mint cigarette from the cigarette box on the corner of the table, but did not light it. Instead, he put it to his nose and sniffed it to wake himself up: "My friends and I were having dinner at the bar. I accidentally drank too much and checked into a room... As for why you are here, I don't know. If you need it, I can ask the waiter to check the surveillance."
Even though the suite had good soundproofing, it still couldn't drown out the noisy music downstairs. This was the largest entertainment venue in City A, "Elysium". The first three floors were bars, and the fourth floor and above were hotels. The man's words didn't sound like anything wrong.
Tang Rufeng's face turned pale. He used to be a part-time waiter in the Elysium Lounge. He didn't expect to encounter a customer making trouble when he was off work. He was forcibly dragged into a private room by several strange men and forced to drink several bottles of red wine. Then he passed out drunk.
When I woke up again, I was already in bed...
Even though the young man opposite did not say anything excessive, his noble temperament made it easy to tell that he was worth a lot of money. Tang Rufeng was just a poor student, and he didn't even know what had happened, so how could he be held accountable?
The bed was a mess, and the indescribable pain behind him made him sweat. Despair gradually penetrated into his heart, sinking deeper and deeper. Tang Rufeng pursed his lips tightly and uttered two words coldly: "No need!"
He just wanted to escape from this nightmarish place as soon as possible.
Lu Yan stood up from the sofa and saw the other party's embarrassment at a glance. He picked up the clothes on the ground and put them at the end of the bed, and said sympathetically: "You put on your clothes first, I'll go to the bathroom for a while."
As expected, he went into the bathroom. Tang Rufeng heard the door close and stood up to get dressed despite the pain. He didn't even bother to clean up the mess left by the man. He put on his clothes hastily and blinked his sore eyes. He had never wanted to go home so badly.
When Tang Rufeng walked to the door, a deep voice suddenly sounded, interrupting his steps:
"Do you want me to take you there?"
Lu Yan happened to push the door and walked out of the bathroom. He had changed out of his loose bathrobe and put on a low-key and luxurious casual outfit, which formed a sharp contrast with Tang Rufeng's slightly shabby old shirt. His reserved eyebrows looked particularly beautiful under the light. He was handsome and gentle, and was definitely the type that appealed to both men and women.
Tang Rufeng didn't react at all. He didn't even look at the man. He lowered his eyes and tightly grasped the strap of his schoolbag with his fingertips. He refused indifferently, "No, I'll take the bus myself."
Tang Rufeng opened the door and left, using his work card to take the elevator downstairs. His phone was running out of battery, so he looked down at the time on the screen and realized that it was already late at night. He panicked and ran to the roadside to stop a car, but it was almost dawn and the road was empty. Most of the cars parked in front of the bar were luxury cars and business cars, waiting to pick up the drunk rich young men and big bosses inside.
Tang Rufeng had just run too fast, and the cold wind filled his lungs, causing him to cough several times. He held onto a tree trunk by the roadside, and his body slowly slid down uncontrollably. His stomach was filled with alcohol, and he felt a tingling pain, and he couldn't help vomiting.
“Tsk——!”
What happened today was far beyond everything Tang Rufeng had known in the past twenty years. He vomited heart-wrenchingly, and his face was cold. He didn't know if it was tears or something else, but he felt uncomfortable.
At this moment, a black sports car drove past the curb like a ghost and stopped quietly in front of him. The car window slowly rolled down, revealing Lu Yan's dignified and elegant face, frivolous and decadent, like a dream of decadence.
"Where do you live? I'll take you there."
Tang Rufeng squatted on the ground, smelling of alcohol and the ambiguous atmosphere left after sex. For a moment, he could only think of the word "trash" to describe himself. He raised his eyes and looked directly at Lu Yan. His pale face was almost transparent in the dark night. He was dead and gloomy, which was not suitable for his age. His tone was cold: "I am not here to sell myself."
Lu Yan tapped the steering wheel with his fingertips and smiled, "I know."
The man's words more or less brought some comfort.
He finished, "Get in the car. I'll take you home first."
The worst thing had already happened, so he was not afraid of what would happen next, unless the other party wanted to kill him. Tang Rufeng was silent for a moment, and finally climbed onto the car with no choice but to report a place so remote that even the navigation was difficult to accurately locate.
Lu Yan didn't ask much. The expensive sports car drove in the dark and finally arrived in front of a cheap rental building. It was outside the Third Ring Road, remote and far away, and Tang Rufeng had to cross the river. If he walked, he might not be able to get there before dawn.
Lu Yan parked the car on the side of the road: "We're here."
Tang Rufeng opened the car door and got out without saying a word, but his movements were still a bit stiff and uncomfortable. Seeing this, Lu Yan remembered something and opened his wallet to take out a hot stamped business card, and handed it over through the car window: "My phone number is on it. If you need any help, feel free to contact me."
This is an exquisite yet simple business card, with nothing else except the name and phone number.
If Lu Yan had given money, Tang Rufeng would have felt insulted, but he only gave a thin business card, and it was difficult to guess what the meaning behind this move was.
"Need not."
Tang Rufeng felt that if nothing unexpected happened, he would never have any contact with the man sitting in the sports car in front of him again in his life, and the business card was just a burden and a shackle. He refused calmly, turned around and walked into the dark alley with his schoolbag on his back, stepping through a muddy puddle, and the shadows spread over the sky and almost drowned him.
Tang Rufeng's family only has a mother who is in poor health. Now that he is about to graduate from college, he simply moved out of the dormitory and prepared for future internships while working part-time at Elysium Bar to supplement the family income.
Tang Rufeng usually gets home at nine o'clock at the latest, and now it is three o'clock in the morning. He is worried that his mother will stay up late waiting for him, so he goes upstairs in a hurry. When he finally reaches the door, he opens it with his key quietly, but sees that there is a small desk lamp on in the living room, and Tang's mother is dozing off on the sofa with her coat on.
The elderly always slept lightly, and even though Tang Rufeng tried to make his footsteps as quiet as possible, Tang's mother still woke up. She opened her eyes dazedly and looked at the wall clock. She suddenly sobered up a little: "Rufeng, it's three o'clock in the morning. Why did you come back just now? The food in the kitchen is cold."
Tang Rufeng didn't dare to let her smell the alcohol on him, so he lowered his head to change his shoes and said vaguely, "There was something going on at the company today, so I accidentally made it late. I'm going to take a shower first, so you should go to bed early."
He did not dare to tell Tang's mother that he worked in a bar, and lied that he had found an intern position in a company. After saying that, he hung his schoolbag on the wall and went into the bathroom without looking back.
Tang's mother knocked on the door outside, worried that he was hungry: "Rufeng, are you hungry? How about I heat up some food for you?"
Tang Rufeng's vague voice came from inside: "I'm not hungry, go to sleep."
Upon hearing this, Tang's mother shook her head, without any doubt, she put on her coat and went back to her room.
Tang Rufeng took off his dirty clothes in the bathroom, turned on the shower and started to rinse his body. He didn't feel it when he was in the car, but when he got home and relaxed, he found that his back was in severe pain. The gurgling water wet his hair, which stuck tightly to his skin, and he felt suffocated.
Tang Rufeng closed his eyes, leaned against the cold tile wall, wiped his face fiercely, and was so desperate that he couldn't even cry. There were too many things in life that he had to bear, poverty, tuition, medical expenses, rent. In front of these things, shame and self-esteem could only be ranked last.
Tang Rufeng's first experience with love was only pain and humiliation. He closed his eyes silently, cleaned himself tremblingly, and then changed into pajamas. However, he found that he could not cover the kiss marks on his neck, so he put on a turtleneck inside and went back to sleep.
The ghostly black sports car was still parked downstairs and had not left. Lu Yan closed his eyes and leaned back in his chair, rubbing his temple slowly with his right index finger. He couldn't understand how he ended up in a hotel suite and slept with a strange young man.
【Do you really want to know what just happened? 】
A strange mechanical sound suddenly rang out in the air. It was a dark and windy night, so it was a bit strange. Lu Yan opened his eyes suddenly upon hearing this, but saw a black heart appear in front of him without knowing when. A thin blue-purple electric current was lingering around the other party, just like a scene in a science fiction movie.
"What are you?"
Inexplicably, Lu Yan was not panicked at all, as if he had seen this dirty heart in front of him countless times.
[Me? It doesn’t matter who I am. What matters is that I can help you survive.]
The system landed silently above Lu Yan's head, and a faint blue light flew into his mind, beginning to instill memories into him. Lu Yan only felt a splitting headache, and countless images suddenly flashed before his eyes. Finally, a handsome man in a suit and leather shoes pushed him against the wall and whispered, "Ayan, are you willing to donate a kidney to him?"
Would you be willing to donate a kidney to him?
To whom?
Who wants to take out his kidney?
A flash of surprise flashed across Lu Yan's eyes, but before he could come back to his senses, the next second the image in his mind instantly switched to a familiar face filled with hatred -
It's really familiar.
Inky hair, pale cheeks, clean and handsome eyebrows, who else could it be but Tang Rufeng, who had just had a one-night stand with him in the hotel. However, at this moment, the other party's eyes were red, and the look he gave him was full of hysterical hatred and despair. He asked in a hoarse voice, word by word: "For so many years...you just treated me as his substitute, right?!!"
substitute?
What substitute?
Before Lu Yan could ask this question, his body suddenly lost weight the next second, and he was dragged down from the tall building by Tang Rufeng. He widened his eyes in horror, the sound of the wind whistling in his ears, and he struggled desperately, but was held tightly by the other party, and finally fell to the ground.
Everything in front of my eyes was blood red.
The memories instilled by the system were too realistic. Lu Yan shuddered violently and suddenly sat up straight from the back of his chair. He panted heavily, his back was covered with cold sweat, and he stared at the system in doubt: "What kind of mess is this?!"
【Destiny.】
The system whispered: [These are your future fate. ]
Lu Yan frowned: "What do you mean?"
The air trembled quietly, and a photo of a man in a suit and leather shoes appeared in front of Lu Yan. The man had a handsome appearance and was obviously a cold-hearted superior.
[This man is Duan Jiyang. You have been infatuated with him for five years. You finally got engaged to him last month. Unfortunately, he likes your brother Lu Bing who lives abroad.]
Lu Yan asked without being able to tell the emotion: "Then what?"
[You were jealous and used all means to deal with Lu Bing, wanting to kill him, but you didn't expect that the truth would be revealed and Duan Jiyang would abandon you. At this time, Lu Bing was suddenly diagnosed with kidney failure, and you were the most compatible kidney source.]
Lu Yan silently took a cigarette from the box and put it in his mouth. His hands were shaking as he lit it. He thought to himself that he shouldn't be so despicable as to donate a kidney to his love rival. However, the system's next words completely shattered his luck.
[In order to be with Duan Jiyang, you used this incident to threaten him to marry you. Duan Jiyang had no choice but to agree, but he didn't expect that not long after you had your kidney transplant surgery, you were hugged by Tang Rufeng and jumped down from a tall building.]
A piece of cigarette ash fell quietly, and was particularly noticeable on the black pants.
Lu Yan raised his head slowly: "Why?"
Just because I accidentally slept with him in the hotel just now?
[Because Tang Rufeng and Duan Jiyang were somewhat similar, you looked at him twice more while drinking in the bar. In order to please you, your friends deliberately got him drunk and sent him to your suite, and you had a one-night stand.]
[You were obsessed with Duan Jiyang but couldn't get him. Tang Rufeng happened to be a poor student, so you supported him. But he never expected that you only treated him as a substitute for Duan Jiyang. His mother passed away at that time, so Tang Rufeng treated you as his only support...]
Lu Yan interrupted, "So he killed me out of hatred for me?"
The system said: [You are the last straw that broke the camel's back. ]
“…”
Lu Yan smoked in silence, not knowing what to say for a moment. He tilted his head in the swirling smoke and looked at the street outside the car window. The walls were mottled and faded, and the only source of light was the old electric lamp on the side of the road, which was eroded by wind and rain and was about to fall down.
Lu Yan frowned and put out his cigarette without saying a word: "Why are you telling me this?"
There is no good, no bad, and no hatred in the world without reason. He and the system have never met before, but the other party suddenly appeared and told him this shocking secret. It can't be to protect him, right?
The system's black body floated up and down, the electric current crackled, and it slowly uttered three words: [Protect you.]
Lu Yan: “…”
The system flew around Lu Yan, and the cold mechanical voice carried a subtle sternness: [Now there are people who want to dig out your kidneys, and there are people who want to die with you. You must survive, do you understand? ]
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