Arc 8: Chapter 7
Nightlight, a club in Jiang City.
This was a private club and one of the most famous places to play among Jiang City’s upper circle.
The box was full of smoke, mixed with the scent of alcohol. Both men and women were entangled together on the sofa.
When Qi Lei entered, he pushed Jin Ran to the front of the room and shouted: “Hey! This is Young Master Lin’s dog. Young Master Lin hates this dog the most, anyone who wants to can play with it first. After an hour, I’ll call Young Master Lin to let him take a look, he’s guaranteed to be happy hahaha!”
Jin Ran had thought Lin Yuan was also here. But now that he knew that Lin Yuan wasn’t here, he inexplicably felt a little relieved, yet also ridiculous for feeling this way. Wasn’t it also Lin Yuan’s fault that this group of rogues would target him?
Jin Ran’s dark eyes were cold and indifferent. He looked at Qi Lei with the steadiness and calmness of a hunter, and said: “My relationship with Lin Yuan is now very good. You can call him to ask.”
Qi Lei guffawed, and everyone else snickered. It was no secret that Lin Yuan abused Jiang Chen worse than anyone. Right after the car accident, staring at Jin Ran whose life and death were uncertain, Lin Yuan only commented: “My car was wasted.”
Qi Lei took a swig of alcohol and looked straight at Jin Ran jeeringly: “Your relationship with Lin Yuan is good? This is interesting, really interesting! Can you prove it?”
He tilted his chin towards a buff dude next to him: “Go get two buckets of ice water. I heard people with injuries feel even more pain in the cold. Let’s experiment today!”
Jin Ran glanced at the bodyguards stationed in the box and concluded that the chance of escaping was negligible. If he was caught and beaten, he would only be humiliated more by these rich people.
The only other option was to call Lin Yuan.
But the moment he thought of this, Jin Ran suddenly felt like a dark haze shrouded his mind. How could he… how dare he rely on the culprit of all of this…
Why did he expect the demon who tortured him to help him…
Jin Ran felt unprecedented panic, chilling his blood. There was nothing between him and Lin Yuan…
The moment the ice water poured over his head, ice cubes hailed down his face and body. It was like a loud slap to his face, tearing apart the numerous nights of intimacy. To Lin Yuan, kissing was nothing more than a means to disgust him. Lin Yuan only snuggled into his arms because he was useful to drive away nightmares. Lin Yuan was only taking advantage of him.
Lin Yuan thought he was disgusting…
【Di! Please pay attention host, the villain’s blackening value has risen to 93%】
【Di! Please pay attention host, the villain’s blackening value has risen to 96%】
【Di! Please pay attention host, the villain’s blackening value has risen to 98%】
【Di! High-risk warning! Please pay attention, host!! The villain’s blackening value has risen to 99.99999%, which belongs to the range of high risk! Please eliminate the villain’s blackening value and resolve the crisis!】
This whole time, Lin Yuan was cooking soup and healthy dishes in the kitchen. Although Jin Ran’s injuries were all healed, he still wanted to help Jin Ran to gain a few pounds.
While waiting for his husband to come back, Lin Yuan sat on the sofa with a clear view of the front door. On the surface, he looked like a lazy young master, but only he knew his heart was thumping with anticipation. Today was Saturday, if per usual, his husband would finish two practice exams in the evening and then they could kiss for the rest of the night.
Lin Yuan sat on the sofa unmoving for an hour but he didn’t see a shadow of Jin Ran. He wanted to call Jin Ran, but he was worried that Jin Ran was in the middle of studying.
As he was still conflicted, the system’s alarm suddenly blared.
521 jumped out, screeching in despair: “AHHH, WHO DID IT? Which ****** provoked the villain?!!!”
Lin Yuan couldn’t comprehend. Technically, Jin Ran’s source of blackening was only himself, but they weren’t together right now, so why did it rise? Was it because of studying? But wasn’t his husband very good at studying?
Lin Yuan didn’t care for anything else at this point, he immediately called Jin Ran’s number.
Lin Yuan nibbled his nails anxiously and murmured: “Pick up, pick up! Husband, answer the phone!”
After twenty seconds, the call finally connected. The anticipation and joy in Lin Yuan’s voice couldn’t be more obvious: “Jin Ran, why haven’t you come back yet?”
But what answered him was a strange voice: “Lin Yuan? I’m Qi Lei.”
Qi Lei? Lin Yuan searched his memory and finally realized who this person was. His brows wrinkled and his voice chilled in an instant: “Qi Lei, why do you have Jin Ran’s phone? Where is he?”
As if hearing a joke, Qi Lei laughed and then took another swig. His voice was a little slurred: “Jin Ran is with us, we’re giving him some nice hospitality.”
Lin Yuan immediately stood up and began to leave the villa. The original warm light darkened like an incoming storm, with the shadows elongating like a gloomy wraith.
“What did you do to him?”
In Qi Lei’s drunken state, he didn’t pick up on Lin Yuan’s mood and said casually: “Nothing yet. I just gifted him two buckets of ice water and then you called.”
Lin Yuan was so angry he was about to explode. Because of too much force, the knuckles on his hand began to turn white. He said to Qi Lei through gritted teeth: “Qi. Lei. I’m going there right now, don’t you dare touch him! If he has a single injury on his body, I’ll settle the score with you!!”
He got the location from Qi Lei’s mouth, and then ran upstairs to Jin Ran’s room, stuffing some clean and warm clothes into his bag. He randomly took a coat from Jin Ran’s wardrobe and put it on, then went down to the garage.
Qi Lei felt that something was off, but he couldn’t pinpoint what. But he definitely wouldn’t oppose Lin Yuan’s words for someone as insignificant as Jin Ran. He hung up and threw the phone at Jin Ran’s feet. He smirked and said: “Lin Yuan is coming now, just wait.”
Lin Yuan arrived at the club in forty minutes.
He was really angry. He was angry at himself for not considering enough, angry that he gave others a chance to hurt Jin Ran, and angry at the original Lin Yuan.
Lin Yuan pushed open the door to the box, and the smell of smoke inside choked him, making him even more furious. When he saw Jin Ran’s appearance, his heart suddenly seemed to fall into an abyss.
Jin Ran’s whole body was soaking wet, with his dark hair drooping and sticking to his face. His face was almost pallid, and his lips seemed to have completely lost all blood. Under his feet was a puddle of water, darkening the carpet, making it seem like a pool of blood. It was like Jin Ran had completely broken.
Lin Yuan’s eyes felt sour. In addition to anger, he also felt hatred. He hated the original body, and even hated himself. He couldn’t protect the person he loved, he was useless, absolutely useless…
Lin Yuan’s mood had never been so chaotic. He was supposed to be a system made of cold and unfeeling data, yet warm blood flowed through his body. With the essence of a human identity, his thoughts and emotions were complex and changing, but his heart was overtaken by a wild beast, one with no reason.
521 keenly sensed the danger of Lin Yuan going out of control. It rushed to hold Lin Yuan back, shouting: “Senior, senior! Calm down, don’t be angry! Your husband is fine, really! I just scanned his health and they’re all fine! He can roll with you for three days and three nights without stopping!!”
“Senior, your husband must be unforgettable wearing wet clothes right now! Hurry up and help him change clothes, this is the most important! Your husband is the most important!”
Lin Yuan’s bloodshot eyes calmed down a little. He took a deep breath and controlled his instincts.
At this time, Qi Lei finally noticed Lin Yuan and walked over with a wide smile: “Oh, Young Master Lin, you’ve come!”
Lin Yuan ignored Qi Lei and walked straight to Jin Ran. He grabbed the other’s cold hand and pulled him outside into an empty box. After Lin Yuan closed the door, he began to silently undress Jin Ran.
Jin Ran was forced to sit on the sofa and looked at Lin Yuan without a word. His dark eyes seemed to contain an abyss, darker and colder than the bottom of the ocean.
Lin Yuan took off the other’s shirt, revealing a thin body but with light scars. Just as he was about to untie Jin Ran’s pants, Jin Ran held his wrist.
“Lin Yuan, why are you angry? You liked to do what Qi Lei did too.”
Jin Ran’s voice was like a piercing icicle: “Did you forget? You used to do much worse.”
He showed a burn scar on his right arm. Under the club lights, his handsome face was like being lit with hellfire, burning with hatred.
“Do you remember this? The first month you came, you poured boiled water on my arm. It hurt like hell.”
Lin Yuan stroked the scar, his fingers trembling faintly. He swallowed difficultly: “Jin Ran, I…”
Jin Ran interrupted him, showing the back of his hand: “On my sixteenth birthday, you stepped on this hand, saying it was too dirty to touch you.”
Lin Yuan’s eyes filled with tears. He shook his head desperately and said shakingly: “It’s not dirty, not dirty. It’s me, the dirty one is me…”
Jin Ran had never seen Lin Yuan like this, but his hardened heart refused to soften. He pressed the other’s hand on his chest: “Lin Yuan, because of you, these bones broke. In that moment, I had never been in so much pain, you really…”
Do you know? You really hurt me so, so much…
Lin Yuan let out a small broken cry. He held Jin Ran’s face and wanted to kiss the other, but Jin Ran turned his head to avoid it.
Lin Yuan didn’t care about the other party’s resistance. His lips fell onto Jin Ran’s skin, like rays of the morning sun.
“I’m sorry.”
“I’m sorry, Jin Ran. It’s all my fault.”
“I shouldn’t have hurt you. I’m sorry, Jin Ran, I’m sorry.”
“It’s all my fault. It’s all my fault.”
Lin Yuan kissed the teenager’s Adam’s apple, and felt the other’s party tremble slightly. Thinking he had hurt Jin Ran, he hurriedly pulled back and said softly: “Did I use too much force? I’m sorry, I’ll be more gentle.”
At this moment, Jin Ran felt like he had gone crazy. Obviously his body was already scarred and bruised, but he couldn’t help but feel Lin Yuan was soft and sweet. Every place Lin Yuan kissed was warm and content, as if he was being filled with vitality and hope.
Why?
Jin Ran didn’t understand. He didn’t understand Lin Yuan, and he didn’t understand himself.
Suddenly, Jin Ran wished that Lin Yuan would just abuse him like before. That way he could hate Lin Yuan wholeheartedly and take revenge. He wished he could erase these complicated feelings.
He hated him…
Lin Yuan was the worst person he had ever met.
Jin Ran cupped Lin Yuan’s face and kissed his lips fiercely. The warmth was too comfortable and enticing. He madly swallowed the liquid from Lin Yuan’s mouth, but he still wasn’t satisfied. He wanted Lin Yuan to warm him entirely, he wanted Lin Yuan.
Jin Ran’s hands reached into Lin Yuan’s clothes and probed into the hidden place.
Because it was so sudden and with no preparation, Lin Yuan hissed in pain. He hugged Jin Ran’s neck and coaxed next to the other’s ear: “Jin Ran, we can’t do it here. There’s a hotel nearby, be good, when we get to the hotel, you can do whatever you want.”
Jin Ran sneered: “Did you bring your ID? I didn’t bring it, how are we supposed to open a room?”
Lin Yuan didn’t think about this. Fortunately, he remembered that Father Lin gave him a house on his 18th birthday that was closer.
Jin Ran thought about it and finally nodded: “Okay, then let’s go.”
He put on the wet clothes Lin Yuan had just taken off, even though Lin Yuan wanted to stop him. Jin Ran said lightly: “I don’t want to dirty my clean clothes.”
The two left the club and got into Lin Yuan’s car. They both didn’t speak a word during the drive. Only when they passed by a 24/7 convenience store did Jin Ran say stop.
Five minutes later, Jin Ran came out with a bag.
The house was actually a sixteen-story high-rise, with a duplex layout. The living room was extremely spacious, and through the floor-to-ceiling windows one could see the bustling night view of Jiang City.
On the bed, Jin Ran’s were deep and cold, and he began to tear off Lin Yuan’s clothes.
He wanted to hurt Lin Yuan, and stain the sheets with blood. Pain for pain, blood for blood, this was equal.
But the moment he removed Lin Yuan’s shirt, he suddenly paused. On Lin Yuan’s thin back, he saw criss-crossed scars layered on top of each other, like the wounds made by a cruel whip over many years.
Jin Ran felt as if a pair of invisible hands clenched his heart, making it hard to breathe.
Three years was enough to make him hate someone to the bone.
But what about eleven years? The scars left on Lin Yuan’s skin, wasn’t there one of them that pushed him to the brink of death?
Lin Yuan originally thought that this time would be very painful, because Jin Ran looked at him like he wanted to take revenge on him. So when he heard the sound of plastic being ripped, he was stunned.
Lin Yuan suddenly felt like he wanted to cry. He knew how much pain Jin Ran had experienced, but even when Jin Ran’s blackening value was so extreme, Jin Ran still didn’t hurt him, but subconsciously protected him… and loved him.
The moment they connected, Lin Yuan felt a little uncomfortable, but he finally got the feeling that Jin Ran was really holding him with cherishing.
Jin Ran didn’t know why he felt so satisfied and addicted. He even had an absurd thought, that it would be good to hold Lin Yuan like this forever, and he could forgive everything.
Jin Ran was like a wild beast. In the end, Lin Yuan didn’t have the stamina and fainted.
Looking at the sleeping Lin Yuan in his arms, the roar of the caged beast in Jin Ran’s heart changed.
If the future was like this night… then he could abandon himself…
【Di! Congrats host, the villain’s blackening value has decreased to 96%.】
【Di! Congrats host, the villain’s blackening value has decreased to 93%.】
【Di! Congrats host, the villain’s blackening value has decreased to 88%.】