Arc 2: Chapter 14
521 saw that its Senior was numb with shock and poked him with the tip of its wings: “Senior, are you okay?”
Lin Yuan simply pretended to be dead.
521 thought that he was deeply affected by the situation and decided to give its Senior some time to digest. It disappeared with a swish.
Lin Yuan’s mind was in chaos even after the morning ended. For lunch, he randomly ordered some takeaway. After eating, Lin Yuan felt that he should clearly sort out his thoughts.
First of all, he had a husband, and he really, really liked Huo Chen. While humans said that when two people stayed together for a long time, they would get used to the other and their feelings would die down, but Lin Yuan didn’t experience this. Even before he left the last world, he still liked Huo Chen as much as ever.
It was really bad of him to cheat.
He remembered that Huo Chen’s body had always been very strong, so even if Lin Yuan’s death had impacted the other, Lin Yuan believed that Huo Chen was living on. He thought of how Huo Chen was still alive in the other world, and was grieving for him, but he had actually kissed and did those things with someone else in a new world.
Fu Cheng and Lin Yuan didn’t do it until the last step, but they were only one step away from doing so.
The worst thing for Lin Yuan is that he had some of the same feelings he had for Huo Chen, for Fu Cheng.
Last night, his physical comfort could be explained that it was just because of the human body. But when he and Fu Cheng did intimate things, he didn’t feel a trace of disgust. As long as he recalled the situation last night, he would feel a little shy.
If it was anyone else, he couldn't accept even thinking about it. He would only feel very, very repulsed.
Is it because he stayed with Fu Cheng every day that he developed feelings?
Lin Yuan doubtfully rubbed the place over his heart and thought that even if he was in a human body now, his essence was still a machine program.
Would a machine like the new and hate the old? Would a machine be scum?
Lin Yuan wasn’t sure if other systems were scum, but he was sure that he was a scum man. Right now he really really liked Huo Chen, but he also kind of liked Fu Cheng.
Wuuu, scum man. He was a scum man.
521 woke up and saw its Senior still on the sofa, curling up and holding his knees. It flew over and rubbed against him: “Senior~”
Lin Yuan had no energy to rub back. He suddenly burst into tears and sobbed sadly: “521, I’m a cheater……”
521 expressed that it already knew.
Lin Yuan grabbed 521 and kneaded it: “521, I’ll only tell you, but I seem to like Fu Cheng a little.”
521 felt like he didn’t understand human language anymore and typed out a question mark: 【?】
521: “Senior, what do you mean? 521 might be malfunctioning and heard wrong.”
Lin Yuan didn’t want to be a scum man, but he couldn’t change his feelings for Fu Cheng. Moreover, it was impossible for him to stay away from Fu Cheng because he had to do the task. If he spent time with Fu Cheng everyday, Lin Yuan felt that his affection for the other would grow.
“I said, I’m a scum man. Although I still really like my husband, I also kind of like Fu Cheng.” Even in his sadness, Lin Yuan still felt shy saying these words out loud, and his ears were red.
521 couldn’t deceive itself a second time: “!!! Ahhhh! Senior, how can you be like this?”
521 thought about how in the last world, its Senior only cared about his husband and not about points, and tears burst out: “Wuuuu… Senior, do you remember that you promised to not refuse to leave the world because of the mission target? You said that you’d only have one husband, and you also said that I would be able to be number one.”
“Senior, you already had a husband, you can’t have a second one. 521 wants to be number one!! You can’t have a second husband! Wuuuu……”
When Lin Yuan heard 521 say ‘second husband’, he inadvertently recalled the video that 521 had shown him in the morning. Fu Cheng’s bare upper body, with pale skin that glistened underneath the light, and abdominal muscle lines that were smooth and beautiful, and his waist was thin and powerful.
Lin Yuan’s hand was held by Fu Cheng’s and held something hot. His hand moved up and down and Fu Cheng gasped heavily next to his ear, and bit and licked his earlobes. Fu Cheng then kissed the side of his neck, and kissed him on the shoulder.
Fu Cheng kissed him for a long time, and their lips collided over and over again.
After Fu Cheng was done kissing, he released with a groan onto the sofa.
Obviously, the other was just a teenager, and his body was not as mature as a full grown adult, but at that moment, desire was a catalyst that allowed Fu Cheng to exude an aggressive attractiveness.
Lin Yuan blushed wildly and whispered to 521: “He isn't my second husband yet. I still haven’t figured out what to do.”
Hearing this, 521 thought that its evaluation was saved. It hugged Lin Yuan with its little wings and said: “Senior, wuuu… having one husband is enough, you really don’t need a second one. Cheating is not right. Senior, you already cheated once, you can’t cheat again!!”
Lin Yuan said with some distress: “But I have to be by his side in order to reduce the blackening value. Since I already like him a little, if I continue to be by his side, then I will definitely like him more and more.”
521 despaired enough to lose its fur. Being a furball was so hard ah.
If its Senior didn’t cheat, then the task would fail. But if the Senior cheated, then the task would be completed but once the Senior got a second husband, he would stay in this world for decades.
Wuuu, seems like it can’t ever be number one.
While 521 was sad, it suddenly had an extremely terrible thought. It trembled: “Senior……521 just had a really, really scary thought.”
Lin Yuan held his breath and asked: “What really, really, scary thought?”
521 sobbed: “Wuuu, Senior, say do you think the future mission targets will also like you? And then…… then you’ll have a third, fourth, fifth, or countless husbands……”
Lin Yuan thought to himself that although he liked two people now, he would never be that scummy. Changing husbands in every world was too exaggerated.
“I won’t, don’t worry.” Lin Yuan said confidently.
521 was still a little afraid: “Senior, in the next world, you should stay away from the mission target so that they will definitely not like you.”
Lin Yuan thought that 521 was asking something difficult: “If I don’t get close to the mission target, how can I reduce the blackening value? How will I complete the task?”
521: “Whatever. We’ll see in the next world.”
If the mission target in the next world fell in love with the Senior, then……521 could only cry.
The next morning, Lin Yuan found that Fu Cheng had sent him a text.
It was sent at 4 o’clock in the morning, in which Fu Cheng asked him if they would still go to school together.
Lin Yuan felt that Fu Cheng probably didn’t sleep last night. He hesitated for a moment, and then replied with one word: Together.
The other party quickly responded: Okay, I’m waiting for you.
Lin Yuan stared at this message and thought of Fu Cheng’s dark eyes and his face sank slightly.
Probably not, Fu Cheng shouldn’t be……
Lin Yuan thought of a possibility and washed and dressed as fast as possible in five minutes.
Spring mornings were still a little cold. Lin Yuan rushed through the chilly air to the intersection and sure enough, under the dim dawn light, a thin and slender teenager stood at the intersection.
His figure crisscrossed with light and darkness.
As Lin Yuan walked closer to the teenager, he could no longer see anything else. He could only see the person in front of him.
“... Fu Cheng.”
Yesterday, after Fu Cheng had closed the door, Fu Cheng sat back on the sofa where he and Lin Yuan had hugged and kissed each other.
There seemed to be some residual warmth on the sofa. Fu Cheng sat from morning until late into the night. At 3 o’clock in the morning, he finally couldn't sit still anymore.
His body had long gone numb and stiff, and he could hardly stand up straight. Fu Cheng struggled to balance his steps and staggered into the bathroom.
After taking a shower, he changed into his school uniform, picked up his backpack, and left the silent and rotten house and walked to the intersection where he waited for Lin Yuan every day.
The yellow light from the street lamp pulled out a long, distorted shadow at Fu Cheng’s feet.
This was who Fu Cheng really was. On the surface, he was a beautiful and excellent teenager, but inside he was dark and malicious.
Fu Cheng told himself that he had to hide himself, he had to carefully plan so he could keep Lin Yuan by his side.
But, he didn’t know how to keep someone.
When he was a child, no matter how hard he begged or cried, he couldn’t keep his coldhearted parents. Now, he didn’t know how to keep the person he liked.
He only knew how to wait, just like when he was young.