Arc 8: Chapter 20
Six o’clock in the morning, Jin Ran woke up, brushed his teeth, got dressed and went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast.
521 followed behind Jin Ran the entire time and filmed the whole process. It flew into the bedroom right after and shouted actively: “Senior, your husband put a pill in your milk! He’s drugging you! This video is proof!!”
On the projected system screen, Jin Ran wore homely gray pajamas, but there was no expression on his face. His dark eyes seemed empty, and the air around him was dead and silent.
While he heated the milk, Jin Ran went up to the study room and opened a safe, taking out a bottle of pills. He dropped a few pills into the milk, and as he watched the pills dissolve, Jin Ran showed his first smile of the day.
Lin Yuan felt chills from Jin Ran’s smile that didn’t exude any happiness. Seeing Jin Ran like this made Lin Yuan’s heart sting, as if there was a blade stirring up his insides. He buried his face into the pillow, holding back in his tears and trying not to cry.
Lin Yuan heard the sound of the doorknob being twisted, and pretended to have just woken up. He sat up on the bed and rubbed his reddened eyes.
Jin Ran thought Lin Yuan’s red eyes were just from waking up. His long fingers stroked the young man’s soft cheeks: “Sui Sui woke up early today.”
Lin Yuan’s voice was a little nasally: “Is it early? What time is it?”
Jin Ran looked at the time: “It’s ten o’clock. Time for Sui Sui to get up.”
Lin Yuan nodded and obediently hugged Jin Ran’s neck: “Husband, can you carry me to the bathroom?”
Jin Ran found Lin Yuan’s softness unbelievably endearing. He hugged the young man’s waist with one hand, and supported his butt with the other, carrying him to the bathroom.
In the bathroom, Lin Yuan suddenly thought of something and said to 521 in his mind: “521, take a look. Check this entire house for surveillance.”
If Jin Ran could drug him, then he wouldn’t be surprised if there was surveillance too.
521 bobbed up and down and flew away. A minute later, the furry ball said with awe: “Senior, you’re right! The bedroom has a total of 22 cameras that cover all angles, and in total across all of the living room, kitchen, etc, there are 118 cameras.”
Lin Yuan almost choked on his toothpaste.
Jin Ran looked at him worriedly: “What’s wrong?”
Lin Yuan rinsed his mouth and said with the largest smile he could muster: “It’s nothing, just an accident.”
In his mind, Lin Yuan was completely panicking. Lin Yuan imagined all of these cameras filming them every night with no angles spared. Lin Yuan thought with dread that if… if these videos were accidentally seen by others…
Lin Yuan didn’t want to think about it. He said with unprecedented seriousness: “521, you must make sure these videos are never leaked! I believe in you, you can definitely do it! Right?!”
521 was proud of being entrusted with this heavy responsibility, and patted his nonexistent chest: “Don’t worry, Senior! 521 guarantees that no one will see these videos except for your husband!”
With 521’s promise, Lin Yuan was relieved.
After washing up, Jin Ran carried Lin Yuan out of the bathroom and put him back on the bed.
Seeing the messy bed, Lin Yuan’s ears turned crimson and the flush spread down to his neck.
Jin Ran was a little confused by Lin Yuan’s reaction and asked: “Why are you blushing?”
Lin Yuan hooked Jin Ran’s pinky and said shyly: “It’s just… I realized that after we met, we… we did it every night…”
Jin Ran’s lips curved and his handsome face approached Lin Yuan. He said teasingly in a hoarse voice: “Sui Sui is wrong, I don’t do it every night. If I had my way every night, then…you would’ve been broken long ago.”
Jin Ran’s fingers slipped underneath Lin Yuan’s pants and touched a swollen place.
Lin Yuan’s whole body softened and he gasped uncontrollably. He said quickly: “I know, I know. Husband, don’t…. Aren’t we going to eat breakfast?”
Jin Ran wasn’t done teasing: “What do you know? Sui Sui say it, who f***s you?”
Lin Yuan’s neck arched like a swan and he looked up at Jin Ran with teary eyes: “Jin Ran. Jin Ran f***s me…”
After saying that, Lin Yuan thought of the 22 cameras and covered his face in shame.
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At the dining table, Lin Yuan looked at the cup of milk without any strangeness. He decided to drink this cup and then figure out his next steps after.
Lin Yuan didn’t know that while he was drinking the milk, Jin Ran’s nervous eyes never left him. Only when Lin Yuan put down the finished cup, did Jin Ran’s tense body obviously relax.
The sleepiness hit again, making Lin Yuan yawn. He went back to the bedroom and lay down. Gradually, Lin Yuan’s consciousness was blurred and hazy by the drugs. In a daze, Lin Yuan suddenly remembered something.
Jin Ran still hasn’t given his phone number. He and Jin Ran have already had the deepest entanglement, but they didn’t even have the most basic connection.
When Lin Yuan woke up at five in the evening, he washed his face with cold water to sober up.
Lin Yuan sat down on the sofa to ponder. He felt like he couldn’t indulge Jin Ran like this. Jin Ran obviously had a psychological problem that had to be addressed as soon as possible.
At around seven, Jin Ran came back from work. Jin Ran wasn’t surprised that Lin Yuan hadn’t made dinner. He had seen from the surveillance how Lin Yuan was sitting on the sofa ever since he woke up, with a serious expression.
Jin Ran changed into his pajamas and sat down next to the young man, saying gently: “I’m back.”
The two sat very close to each other, so close that the heat from the other’s skin could be felt through their thin clothes. Jin Ran raised his arms to hug Lin Yuan, but there was only empty space.
Lin Yuan dodged Jin Ran’s hug and looked at the man quietly. His amber eyes were focused and clear: “Jin Ran, I’ve been sleeping for most of the day and can’t wake up at all. I wasn’t like this before, did you do something? Did you drug me with something that makes me sleep?”
Jin Ran didn’t expect Lin Yuan to find out about the sleeping pills so soon. His large hand held the young man’s thin ankle and pulled the other towards him forcefully: “Sui Sui found out so soon?”
Lin Yuan couldn’t struggle at all against Jin Ran. Jin Ran’s thumb pressed on Lin Yuan’s lips, slowly reaching in, teasing the other’s lips and tongue: “Yes, I put sleeping pills in the milk you drink in the morning. And this house is full of cameras. Whenever I have time outside, I will watch Sui Sui. Watch you sleep, watch you cook for me… Sui Sui won’t be angry, right? I’m just too afraid you’ll suddenly disappear like before…”
Lin Yuan desperately avoided Jin Ran’s finger and glared at him with red eyes: “Jin Ran, I already said I’m back and I won’t disappear. Don’t do this!”
But Jin Ran’s dark eyes couldn’t accept any light: “I believe Sui Sui…”
He just doesn’t believe in anything else, including himself.
Jin Ran carried Lin Yuan over his shoulder. Lin Yuan struggled but he wasn't willing to hit Jin RAn. He just twisted his waist and shook his legs.
But Jin Ran’s strength easily suppressed his movements. Lin Yuan was thrown and bounced twice on the bed. Jin Ran kissed his face, and his voice was deep and hoarse: “Sui Sui only belongs to me…”
Over the many consequent hours, Lin Yuan felt like he was really going to be broken.
In the next period of days, when Lin Yuan was awake, he was suppressed by Jin Ran, enduring Jin Ran’s heat. Otherwise, he was forced to drink the drugged milk and fell asleep for an unknown amount of time. He seemed to be completely controlled by Jin Ran, in both body and mind.