Suddenly, Su Lin’s pupils turned red.
His sense of hunger, which was physically unstoppable, nibbled at his intelligence.
“You’re crazy…” He furrowed his eyebrows, and looked like he was in pain.
“I’m not.” At the sight of him trying to restrain himself, Xu Qichen recalled Mu Yao in the second world. His chest was a little uncomfortable. He kissed Su Lin’s mouth with his bloody lips. “You are going mad with hunger. Why don’t you admit it?”
His words were like the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Su Lin kissed Xu Qichen’s lips. Their lips, one pair cold and the other warm, were sealed together by blood, like ice falling into burning wine. Driven by his appetite, Su Lin directly skipped the usual considerations of a first kiss. The tip of his tongue tasted the sweet taste of Xu Qichen’s blood as he licked Xu Qichen’s wound before flexibly squeezing through the half-closed lips and going deeper into the mouth.
This was beyond Xu Qichen’s expectations. He had only accounted for Su Lin’s extreme desire for blood at the moment, but Su Lin’s behavior was not purely driven by appetite.
Perhaps because he felt his doubts and rejection, Su Lin’s movements became more intense. The blood from such a small wound could not meet his needs at all, but aroused a greater desire in his heart. He ended the kiss. At the moment of separation, Xu Qichen saw his pale lips stained with his own blood, his head began to feel dizzy, his heart rate became higher and higher, and he became more and more panicked. He did not know whether these symptoms were caused by fear of blood or by the sight of his face, twisted with desire.
In order to relieve the panic, Xu Qichen tightly grasped Su Lin’s cold skin, as if holding a piece of driftwood in the endless sea. His fingertips fluttered on Su Lin’s white shirt, almost touching his body. Su Lin’s cold lips, stained with his blood, left a trail of delicate kisses from the soft cheeks to the cartilage of the ear, from the line of the jaw to the smooth and side of his white neck, like a prayer before dinner.
The faintly beating pulse was his final target.
Feeling Su Lin’s increasingly rapid breathing, Xu Qichen was scared for a moment. It was clearly his own initiative, but knowing that his artery would really be bitten made him want to chicken out. After all, he was not really Lu Xuan, and he was not truly willing to sacrifice.
His hand habitually patted Su Lin’s back, like a reassurance, “Su Lin, be gentle…” It was originally a very normal tone of begging for mercy, but because Su Lin was licking his neck, his voice shook and accidentally sounded a bit ambiguous.
Before Xu Qichen could begin to feel embarrassed, sharp teeth suddenly pierced his skin and went deep into his flesh. Xu Qichen groaned with pain, and his fingers grasped Su Lin more tightly. His breath hitched for a moment.
The pain was mixed with an indescribable emotion.
The cold tips of Su Lin’s teeth were soaked in Xu Qichen’s warm blood, hunger and pleasure washed over him, making every pore in his body tremble.
Xu Qichen felt that the blood in his body was attracted by a powerful external force and was being pulled out of his body uncontrollably. The pain kept him awake despite his dizziness. He felt that his soul and life were pouring into the other party’s body.
He was sucking too fast.
Xu Qichen was quickly losing the ability to breathe.
“Hurts… Su Lin…”
Xu Qichen’s muffled voice somehow cut through the fog of Su Lin’s desire and reached him. He stopped and gently licked the wound until it stopped bleeding.
Xu Qichen seemed to be in a semi-coma. His body was trembling slightly, and a thin layer of sweat had formed on his skin. These were all symptoms of blood loss. Su Lin was very upset. The reason why he had always resisted close contact with him was that he was afraid that he could not control himself. The color of his pupils gradually settled down and became darker, as he licked away the residual blood on the corner of his mouth.
When he was once again in full control of himself, Su Lin picked up Xu Qichen, gently placed him on the bed in the bedroom, soaked a towel with hot water, and wiped the blood off his face.
He looked like he was simply asleep. Su Lin sat on the floor beside the bed and watched quietly for a while. The night wind came in slowly through the window and gently touched Xu Qichen’s forehead, making him itch and frown slightly.
Su Lin reached out and gently moved his hair away from his face. As he withdrew his fingers, Xu Qichen rubbed his face against them.
He thought he had woken up, but he simply shrank back into the quilt after the movement, leaving only half of his forehead exposed.
After watching for a while longer, Su Lin left the room.
When Xu Qichen woke up, his mind was blank. He lay in bed for a long time before recalling what had happened. He looked at the clock on the bedside table and found that it was ten o’clock in the night.
The quilt was soft and warm. Xu Qichen turned over and lay lazily, staring at the crack of the bedroom door, not wanting to get up
There was the sound of water outside, like that of a shower.
Now that his mind was clear, Xu Qichen realised that he was very hungry, so he got out of bed and hopped towards the semi-open kitchen with bare feet, supporting himself against the wall the whole way. He opened the refrigerator, and found nothing but drinking water inside.
So much for his plan to make something to eat.
Xu Qichen closed the refrigerator door in disappointment and hobbled to the living room. He found a beautiful box on the sofa. Xu Qichen sat down and observed the box, but did not open it.
Su Lin came out of the bathroom in a dark bathrobe, covered with a layer of fine droplets, with his hair wet and half stuck on his forehead. Seeing this scene, Xu Qichen was somewhat embarrassed. He had to turn his head away and pretend to look at the night scene outside the landing window. “The view here is very good…”
Just as he said that, his stomach growled loudly.
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Xu Qichen was so hungry that he gobbled down all four cakes in one go. The feeling of fullness made him feel good. When he saw Su Lin come out again, his hair, now dried, looked very soft, and he no longer seemed as cold and distant as before.
“Dr. Su, can I stay over tonight? It’s already so late, so it would be difficult to go back to school…”
Su Lin didn’t give an answer, and Xu Qichen didn’t wait for one. He stood up directly and walked to him. “I’ll take your silence as consent.”
Su Lin accidentally glanced at the tooth marks on his neck and walked past him into the bedroom without saying a word.
Xu Qichen did not mind his indifference. He turned around and hopped to the entrance where he had left his bag, took out a change of clothes and went into the bathroom. His face in the mirror was a little pale, but his bitten lip did not appear to have a terrible blood scab. The wound was much smaller than he had feared.
Was it because of the healing effect of a vampire’s saliva?
His neck was still sore. He turned his face and examined it in front of the mirror. There were two obvious small holes and a slight bruise.
He had really bitten down mercilessly.
However, Su Lin drank his blood earlier than in the original text, and Xu Qichen still felt very successful.
Due to his legs, he could not take a shower, but luckily, there was a large enough bathtub in Su Lin’s bathroom. Xu Qichen poured hot water on himself and lay down comfortably.
It had been a long time since he got to relax in a bath. Looking up at the ceiling of the bathroom, Xu Qichen’s thoughts began to drift away.
Why did Su Lin kiss him earlier?
Was he also fond of Lu Xuan now? Xu Qichen was not sure. In the original text, Su Lin’s feeling for Lu Xuan were very weak, and his heart was like an ice wall. Lu Xuan hit and chiseled at it with all his power, and was even converted into a vampire like him, before finally making a crack in it.
But Su Lin in this world seemed to have more human feelings than he imagined.
As he recalled Su Lin’s restrained expression when he was pressed on him, Xu Qichen’s cheeks begin to heat, and he shook his head, attributing it to the normal reaction of soaking for too long.
The water had already cooled. Xu Qichen tried to get out of the bathtub, but found it was not so simple when one of his legs could not bear any weight. He tried to hold the edge of the bathtub with his palm and stand up with one foot first, but there was water on the ground and on his body, so he could not hop out of the bathtub with one foot.
What should he do?
“Dr. Su!”
Su Lin, who was reclined on his bed, removed his glasses upon hearing his voice.
“Dr. Su~ Help me!”
Su Lin was left with no choice but to approach the bathroom, and saw Xu Qichen, in nothing but a bath towel, standing in the bathtub with one foot against the bathroom wall, like a young flamingo.
Seeing Su Lin just leaning on the door frame of the bathroom and not coming in, Xu Qichen couldn’t help saying, “Dr. Su, I have a bad leg and dare not jump out. Can you… come and help me?”
The flower of the high mountains remained still, not even blinking or sighing.
Xu Qichen began to feel anxious, “Hey, I even let you drink my blood, are you really going to leave me like this?” He added in a small voice, “So merciless.”
Su Lin finally came over and stood in front of Xu Qichen. Xu Qichen held out a hand, expecting Su Lin to support him as he climbed out. However, he came closer and picked Xu Qichen up directly by the waist. He held him horizontally and carried him out of the bathroom without saying a word.
“Ai, ai… that’s enough, that’s enough,” Xu Qichen felt embarrassed, “Dr. Su, you can put me down.”
Su Lin put him down.
Xu Qichen pick up the clothes by the bathroom door, hopped to the living room and sat on the sofa, leaving a trail of wet footprints, like a cat that had been pulled out of the bathtub by the owner. Su Lin did not stay, and turned back to his bedroom.
In his embarrassment, Xu Qichen had forgotten Lu Xuan’s character settings.
How could Lu Xuan have felt embarrassed? Upon being carried by his crush, Lu Xuan would have been so excited that he should have been jumping out of his skin. Had he exposed himself? Did Su Lin suspect anything? Xu Qichen changed his clothes while wondering, then he hopped to the bedroom door.
Su Lin seemed to have fallen asleep.
Xu Qichen crept into the quilt. Su Lin had his back to him. The defined outline of his shoulders, arms and waist were undulating like a continuous mountain range.
“Dr. Su, I’m cold,” Xu Qichen said, shifting closer to him.
Su Lin’s voice reminded Xu Qichen of the pine trees in the snow.
“You’ll only be colder if you come closer.”
Xu Qichen was stunned for a moment. He had forgotten about that. After a while, he smiled and stuck to Su Lin’s back. “Then, let me warm you up.”
“No need.”
Xu Qichen smiled wider and lay down on Su Lin’s shoulder, peeking at his profile, “Dr. Su, look at me.” Seeing that Su Lin did not respond, Xu Qichen arched up like a small loach, half of his body pressed on his shoulder and arm, “Dr. Su?”
Still, there was no response. Xu Qichen simply climbed over him like he was a wall. After struggling to turn around, he looked at Su Lin face to face and gave him a sweet smile.
“Dr. Su, how did my blood taste?” He moved his face closer, “Did you enjoy it?”
“Answer me ah, Dr. Su.”
Before Xu Qichen could say anything more, Su Lin turned around, leaving him to stare at his back again. He moved to the edge of the double bed, deliberately avoiding him. Xu Qichen grabbed Su Lin’s arm and pulled him back. “Oh, don’t fall off.”
His voice was light and gentle, like the whisper of a lover at bedtime.
Xu Qichen couldn’t fall asleep. He made his fingers walk up Su Lin’s shoulder bit by bit along the edge of the quilt. “Dr. Su, are you sleepy?”
There was no reply, but from his breathing, Xu Qichen thought he was not asleep yet.
Xu Qichen didn’t do anything else. He looked at his back from a distance of about ten centimeters and said good night quietly after a long time.
The deeper you sleep, the clearer the disconnect your body and consciousness will be. Consciousness drifted to a certain cloud layer and can no longer control anything, while the body can only spontaneously generate actions by virtue of conditioned reflex and long-term accumulated inertia.
When Xu Qichen was hospitalised, he almost always couldn’t sleep well. He dreamed about high school all night and sometimes couldn’t wake himself up. Strangely, he didn’t dream that night, and slept until dawn. When he opened his eyes in a daze, he found himself in Su Lin’s arms. His arm was placed under Xu Qichen’s neck and wrapped around his back.
Xu Qichen almost thought he was dreaming.
He tried to move. Su Lin, who was still asleep, frowned and didn’t open his eyes. Instead, he held Xu Qichen closer and patted Xu Qichen on the back with a dry, cool palm.
This position, and that action, were all too familiar.
Just like that, Xu Qichen’s sleepiness evaporated.
He remembered that he had seen a suspense movie. He watched it too inattentively the first time, and finally became the audience deceived by shooting skills and script arrangement. Because he was not satisfied being deceived, he watched it for the second time and found that it was not because of the complexity of the plot of the film, but because he always ignored the details.
The details never lied.
Xu Qichen closed his eyes. After a long while, he felt that the person holding him woke up. He gently pulled out his arm and released Xu Qichen. Hearing his footsteps getting further and further away, Xu Qichen opened his eyes, froze for a while, and got out of bed as if nothing had happened.
After washing up, Su Lin spoke first, “I’ll send you to school.”
Xu Qichen thought for a moment, smiled and said, “OK, thank Dr. Su.” He put on his socks, looked up and asked, “By the way, do you still have a band-aid? My neck…”
“Let’s go buy one.”
Xu Qichen followed Su Lin. He probably asked for leave today and dressed casually. He wore a black sweater with dark blue jeans and a black baseball cap on his head.
The view of his back really resembled…
Watching him drive the car out, Xu Qichen leaned on his crutches, opened the door and got in.
After driving for a while, Su Lin saw a drugstore, got off and bought a box of band-aids and threw them in Xu Qichen’s arms.
“I’m hungry, Dr. Su.” Xu Qichen looked at Su Lin, “I want to eat wontons. There’s a stall there.”
Though he did not reply, Su Lin glanced at the direction he pointed and saw that there was indeed a wonton stall, 3 shops down from the drugstore.
He opened the door, and Xu Qichen immediately understood his meaning. He got out of the car and walked quickly with crutches. When he entered the restaurant, he said to the boss, “Two bowls of small wontons.”
“With everything?”
Xu Qichen nodded. Seeing Su Lin enter as well, he quickly found a table and sat down.
“Dr. Su, can you eat wontons?”
Su Lin nodded.
“That’s good.”
Although the shop was small, the boss was very nimble, and soon came up with two bowls of fresh and hot wonton. Xu Qichen took two small spoons, handed Su Lin one, and then looked at the bowl of wonton, which was sprinkled with scallions and corriander. It looked very delicious.
He glanced at Su Lin, stretched out his hand, skimmed the coriander and scallions in Su Lin’s bowl with his spoon, and put them in his own bowl.
“Done.”
In Su Lin’s bowl, there was nothing but wonton and clear soup. He looked at Xu Qichen, and Xu Qichen laughed very sincerely, “Eat ah, Dr. Su.”
Su Lin didn’t eat much, unlike Xu Qichen who ate it clean and drank half of the soup with chili oil. After breakfast, Su Lin drove Xu Qichen to the school gate. Xu Qichen untied his seat belt and suddenly saw the band-aid. He took out one, tore open the package and handed it to Su Lin.
“Dr. Su, I can’t see the wound. Please put it on for me.” Xu Qichen slightly tilted his chin and exposed the smooth side neck to Su Lin’s eyes.
Such an act of exposing one’s weakness always carries a bit of subtle temptation.
When he pleaded, he unconsciously used a softer tone, which made the other party unable to refuse.
Su Lin hesitated for a moment, took the band-aid in his hand, tore off the adhesive strip behind it, and put it to his neck. Seeing the two tiny holes, his fingertips froze.
He covered the wound and gently smoothed it with his fingers. Sticking a band-aid in this location inevitably made it look conspicuous.
Just as his fingers were about to leave the band-aid, Xu Qichen gently grasped the cold, slender hand and held Su Lin in a sideways position.
“Dr. Su, I like you so much ah.”
After saying this, Xu Qichen quickly jumped out of the car and left hopping on his crutches,
Leaving behind a stunned Su Lin.
As a freshman, Lu Xuan didn’t have many classes. Xu Qichen ran to the orthopedics department of the Third Hospital whenever he was free, but he often didn’t get to meet Su Lin. Instead, he often met Dr. Wang, who had removed the plaster for him last time. Dr. Wang was like a worried father. Whenever he saw Xu Qichen, he made him go to the rehabilitation department.
Xu Qichen could only follow the nurse there helplessly, “Then, Dr. Wang, when Dr. Su comes by later, you have to tell him I came to visit!”
“Yes, yes, of course.”
There were many patients in the rehabilitation department, most of whom were injured like Xu Qichen. When Xu Qichen went there, he was assigned a male nurse, who was pretty handsome and tall. The most important thing was that he was gentle enough. No matter whether Xu Qichen walked well or not, he was always smiling and was generous with all kinds of encouraging words. He almost exuded the aura of the Holy Father.
After four days in a row, Xu Qichen had begun to sincerely admire the training staff of the rehabilitation department. If all the service industries had such training, it would truly be a blessing to the society.
“Slowly, yes, that’s right, step by step…”
Watching the nurse Xiao Zhang standing at the end of a row of horizontal bars waiting for him to walk, Xu Qichen suddenly felt like a toddler.
“That’s great, Xiao Xuan, don’t put too much pressure on your injured leg…”
Finally, following the crossbar to the end, Xu Qichen’s back was drenched with sweat. Xiao Zhang was more excited than him and hugged him all at once. “That’s great!”
Xu Qichen was a little embarrassed. He had only walked ten meters, with his hand on the bar the whole time. How could Xiao Zhang be so excited as if he had won the gold medal in the Paralympic Games.
He forced a smile and patted Xiao Zhang on the shoulder, “Thank you, it’s all thanks to you…”
Xu Qichen suddenly had an ominous premonition, because according to the general plot of the novel, the other protagonist should appear at this time.
He glanced at the door.
As expected, he never learnt to stop putting up flags for himself…
Looking at Su Lin’s gloomy face outside the rehabilitation department, Xu Qichen swallowed involuntarily.
The sweat on his back turned cold.
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..he really was there ah…guess qichen jinx himself..?haha