Chapter 16 I died in my sleep, not really dead
Ning Yan turned around suddenly, his eyes fierce, and raised his hand to go straight for Yu Chengbai's throat.
His grappling techniques are swift, accurate and ruthless, and his close combat skills are difficult for even the top agents trained by the royal family of the Northern Continent to contend with. Especially in such a sudden force situation, almost no one can dodge his attack.
The Royal Agent couldn't hide, and Yu Chengbai couldn't hide either.
However, Yu Chengbai didn't seem to want to hide.
Ning Yan's hand was already on his neck, but he didn't react at all, not even the subconscious movement to step back.
Yu Chengbai lay in his original position, quietly watching Ning Yan turn around.
That quiet, gentle, harmless, even fragile look... Ning Yan suddenly felt like a domestic violence man.
Yu Chengbai was the little white flower who threw herself into someone's arms but was almost beaten.
“…”
Ning Yan was not used to Yu Chengbai sleeping next to him. He was like a cheetah that walked deep in the jungle all year round and was very sensitive to the surrounding environment.
Especially when sleeping, if there is a strange smell around you, you will become alert instantly.
Even full of restlessness and anxiety.
And his way of fighting this restlessness is a deadly counterattack.
But when he turned around and saw Yu Chengbai's face clearly, Ning Yan's wildness suddenly subsided by three points.
The hand that was pinching Yu Chengbai also slowly lost its strength.
Become light and soft.
"Yu Chengbai." Ning Yan looked into his eyes, neither tightening nor loosening his grip on his neck. He suddenly asked, bewildered, "Why don't you take me back to the capital?"
What Ning Yan said to Lan Ze before was all true.
He accepted Lan Ze as his apprentice because he wanted Lan Ze to take over his job. He wanted to return to the capital and return to a life where he no longer had to live on the edge of a knife.
He missed his friends in the capital.
He endured his temper and was thrown to the Northern Continent by Corey to endure the cold wind for three years, just to escape from 735 forever and return to the capital safely.
"Yu Chengbai." Ning Yan's hand was still pinching his throat, but his eyes and voice softened unconsciously. He lowered his eyes, and suddenly leaned his head towards him unconsciously, sniffing lightly with the tip of his nose.
He said, "You smell... nice."
It feels like home.
The Yu family is in the perfume business in Beijing. When Ning Yan first met Yu Chengbai's younger brother Yu Li, Yu Li was a perfume-making genius.
The perfumes he mixed were always used first on his three friends, including Ning Yan.
Those three young masters were younger than Ning Yan. When Ning Yan was 19 years old, they were still in junior high school.
While they were in school, Ning Yan was acting as a gangster outside the school, collecting protection fees with a smile on his face.
The feeling of snatching a few dollars from the students made Ning Yan even happier and more excited than when he robbed a wealthy man's safe of millions of jewels in Continent M. Then he took the money to buy popsicles and brought one for each of the three young masters.
When the winter and summer vacations were about to end, Ning Yan would go to help the three young masters who were having too much fun with their homework, and the location was usually at Yu's house.
The three young masters were arguing in the yard with the rich second generation who mocked Ning Yan as a gangster without parents. He sighed, took out the untouched homework from their schoolbags, and imitated their handwriting to help them with their homework.
"Alright, alright, three young masters, I'm actually fine. He just gave me a slight push, it's nothing serious."
The three of them turned around in tacit understanding and said in unison—
"Shut up! Write yours!"
"……oh."
The sun rises and the moon sets, cold and hot come and go.
During the five years in the capital, Ning Yan memorized every kind of incense that Yu Li had blended, and then hurriedly covered the jar, sealed it with plastic, and buried it.
It seemed as if it was buried under the pear tree in the Yu family compound in my memory.
Later, as Yu Li suffered from amnesia, serious illness, severe allergy to perfume, etc., there was no possibility of him being dug out again.
Until now——
Ning Yan smelled the fragrance that Yu Li had once blended on Yu Chengbai.
Exactly the same taste.
“It smells so good.”
Ning Yan completely forgot about the "threat" Yu Chengbai had just put behind him, and like a drug addict who had rushed into a poppy field, he grabbed Yu Chengbai's collar tightly.
Like a gangster, he sniffed, smelled, and inhaled his skin.
Yu Chengbai indulged him, just as gently and generously as he had just indulged him to lock his throat. He lay flat on the bed, supporting his waist, and asked him with a chuckle, "What smells so good?"
Ning Yan was still smelling, recalling, and wondering which incense Yu Li had blended.
Why does this fragrance appear on Yu Chengbai's body?
"Did you wear perfume?" Ning Yan looked up and asked him.
"No." Yu Chengbai's eyes were gentle, and his voice was also gentle, "I haven't used perfume this year. My brother is allergic to perfume."
Yes, Yu Li is allergic to perfume.
"But you smell of perfume."
"Is there?" Yu Chengbai tilted his head slightly and sniffed the left shoulder he had just sucked so hard. He didn't know what he remembered. After a moment of hesitation, he said hesitantly, "Maybe... body odor?"
Ning Yan raised his eyebrows slightly, but didn't say anything, but he was obviously curious about why men could have body odor?
It feels weird.
He leaned over and sniffed it carefully. It didn't seem like the scent was stained on his clothes, but more like it was emitted from his skin, as if it had been soaked in body temperature.
They used the same shower gel, so logically, they should have the same smell, but it was strange that the smell on Yu Chengbai's body was not the scent of shower gel, but the scent of a perfume that Yu Li had once mixed in Ning Yan's memory.
Very similar. Very similar.
The closer you get to your skin, the clearer the scent becomes.
"Go to bed." Yu Chengbai seemed to have finally lost interest because of him. He smiled helplessly, reached over his shoulder, and carefully pulled the quilt up.
No more words were asked of him to 'help'.
Ning Yan also calmed down and was half-held in Yu Chengbai's arms, gently patted on the back, with no intention of making a fuss.
He opened his eyes, but suddenly he couldn't sleep anymore. His mind was full of the five years of peace and stability in the capital, which seemed like a lifetime ago.
"Yu Chengbai." Ning Yan suddenly called him.
"Hmm?" Yu Chengbai had already closed his eyes, the hand on his back still patting him gently like a child. Hearing him call her, she responded subconsciously, then smiled softly, "You didn't call me that before."
"Then I will call you sir in public from now on." Ning Yan knew that he should give face to men in public. After all, he was also a man.
After saying that, he reached out to grab Yu Chengbai's shoulders and shook him gently, acting like a girl, "Next time you go back to the capital, can you take me with you? I haven't even met your family. What if they don't like me?"
Ning Yan is not a person who cannot lower himself. On the contrary, he can be shameless in order to achieve his goals.
The reason why he ignored Yu Chengbai and acted stupid was that he didn't think that this person could be used.
"Sir, please say something and nod your head."
Yu Chengbai had already opened his eyes, but he didn't say anything, just looked at him quietly.
Watch him act coquettishly towards me, watch him shake my shoulders, watch him suddenly become as bright and active as usual.
The light from the small floor lamp reflected in his eyes, warm and cozy.
Yu Chengbai reached out and hugged him, and finally spoke in a gentle tone: "Okay, I'll take you back with me next time. Wherever you go, I'll go, and we'll never be separated again."
The next day, Ning Yan was woken up by someone while feeling groggy.
He turned over several times but couldn't avoid the hand that was shaking him stubbornly. Finally, he opened his eyes with a gloomy and irritable look on his face and sat up in bed.
Seeing Lan Ze's serious and worried expression, he was stunned for a moment, a little confused: "Why are you in my room?"
Lan Ze looked at him with a complicated expression and said, "Brother Ning, it's already noon. I saw that you haven't gotten up yet, and I'm a little worried."
Ning Yan's eyes suddenly widened, and he grabbed his hair, almost unable to control his voice: "It's noon?"
After shouting this, he realized that his voice had returned to that of a man.
"You guys..." Lan Ze looked at him and hesitated, "Did you sleep very late last night?"
"No." Ning Yan supported his head with one hand and rubbed his sleepy head vigorously. He himself felt strange, "I went to bed quite early, two hours earlier than I used to go to bed. How come I woke up at this time..."
He suddenly paused, and in an instant realized what the other party meant.
For a moment, I was a little shocked: "No, what are you thinking? I'm a man pretending to be a woman, do I dare to sleep with him? Can I sleep with him?"
Lan Ze didn't say anything, but the meaning in his eyes was very clear——
Then why did you wake up at this time?
The killer's schedule was more punctual than an alarm clock. This was the first time Ning Yan had slept so soundly in all his years in Continent M.
Ning Yan scratched his hair hard, trying to recall, frowning and hesitantly saying, "I suspect Yu Chengbai gave me sleeping pills. This is the first time in my life that I've slept so soundly. If you hadn't called me, I would have been able to sleep even longer."
Lan Ze was slightly stunned, and then again showed an expression of wanting to say something but hesitating.
Ning Yan sighed and said, "Aze, just say whatever you want to say. Don't be so hesitant. I won't hit you."
Lan Ze's eyes were cold and his tone was serious: "Do you think he has any special hobbies?"
Ning Yan didn't react for a moment and frowned, "What?"
Lan Ze said two words.
“…”
Ning Yan took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and sighed: "Aze, I am sleeping soundly, not really dead."
"Besides, he's different from you." Ning Yan said firmly, "He's not a pervert."
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Ning Bao, please don't open the hidden version.
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