In the end, Yao Yue finally killed Yao Qi—
Of course this was impossible!
Squatting on the ground, the girl weakly groaned.
She really couldn’t control herself anymore, but as soon as she thought of attacking Yao Qi, even before she could imagine what it would be like, she felt the throb of pain coming from every inch of her body. The pain came crashing like a rushing tide, instantly clearing up her mind.
But even after she regained her senses, her body was still hurting. It hurt so much she reflexively squatted down, wanting to ease the pain. She wasn’t being beaten, but she clearly felt the pain.
What an idiot! How could she still think of doing such a thing even after all the warmth Yao Qi had given her!
The moment Yao Yue thought so, the pain intensified.
She cried without tears.
Damn, had she developed a trauma because of the slut’s constant beating?!!
How great!
Nonono, that wasn’t right! Even if it could stop her from committing such a stupid act, feeling this kind of pain was not great at all!
It hurt so much…
Yao Yue felt that Liu Lin did the right thing, that she deserved it, but at the same time, she couldn’t help wanting to beat him up to give him a taste of this pain.
She had genuinely stopped wanting to kill Yao Qi, but she still couldn’t restrain her impulse. Now that Liu Lin’s method successfully brought her under control, she didn’t know whether to cry or laugh.
Someday, she should tell her brother to bring her to a psychiatrist.
She really needed to find a cure for this uncontrollable impulse to kill him!
Now that she recalled it, it had been quite a while since the last time she was sent to the hospital. Even the frequency of the ‘sparring sessions’ had decreased by a lot. Lately, the reason Liu Lin dragged her to a spar was mostly because she kept trying to peck Yao Qi or get him to pat her head—she really hadn’t thought of killing her brother at all.
Hence, she didn’t realise her fear of Liu Lin had grown to this extent.
So much so that it could suppress her mental instability—although the trauma she had now developed was another kind of mental ailment.
Despite feeling glad for this outcome because she could finally restrain herself from harming her brother, Yao Yue was furiously cursing Liu Lin and his ancestors. She wanted to pay him back tenfold for the trauma, but challenging such a big boss was way too difficult for her, so she could only keep the thoughts to herself.
“What’s the matter, are you alright?”
The gentle voice in her ears made her want to rush over and beg for comfort.
That slut is really terrible, he actually gave me a whole trauma—of course she didn’t say this out loud. She wasn’t that stupid. She merely looked at Yao Qi with a tearful gaze.
“…I’m fine.” Yao Yue grabbed the corner of his shirt and stood up. “What’s the next stop?”
“No more, I’ve already collected everything.” Yao Qi patted her head as if to console her.
Yao Yue wasn’t so stupid as to tell him about it, and similarly, Yao Qi wasn’t so dull that he failed to notice her symptoms.
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But regardless of the reason, Yao Yue managed to control herself, affirming that he could adopt her for real.
This outcome was much better than giving her an anaesthetic injection.
Yao Qi was not a person who would gamble with his life.
He dared to move apart from Liu Lin because he was fully confident he could safely return to the man’s side.
But he had indeed done Liu Lin wrong by making him worry.
“Let’s go,” he took Yao Yue’s hand, “We’re going home.”
After this, he should begin to treat Yao Yue’s illness.
After all, she would become a part of his ‘family’ soon.
But right now, they really had to return quickly. Ah-Lin was probably worried to death.
This was indeed the case. Just as they started to rush back, an unknown number made a call to Yao Qi’s phone.
Glancing at the unfamiliar number, Yao Qi ultimately answered the call after some thought.
“Hello?” Who could it be?
“Xiao Qi, are you alright? Where are you now? Is that girl with you? Did she do anything to you? You—”
An onslaught of anxious questions pierced Yao Qi’s eardrums, momentarily dazzling him. Then a burst of warmth spread inside his chest, his lips unconsciously curling into a smile.
“Good boy, don’t worry, I’m fine. Xiao Yue is with me. I’m alright, don’t worry. Take a deep breath…” He softly comforted the man on the other end of the call. After telling him the address of their current location, he stopped moving further.
Slut. Yao Yue pursed her lips, internally cursing Liu Lin. Why did he have to ruin her rare chance to be alone with her brother! Just as she thought so, a warm hand promptly stroked her head. Yao Yue knew that this was Yao Qi’s way of consoling her. Once again, she couldn’t help angrily lamenting the fact that her brother had such a lover.
Because Liu Lin was afraid that something might happen before he arrived, Yao Qi kept on talking to him without ending the call.
Left with nothing to do, Yao Yue was so bored she started chanting in her heart; one dead madman, two dead madmen, three dead madmen…
But in truth, it didn’t take long before they saw a figure rushing towards them. The man was running so fast it was as if he was being chased by some kind of wild beast.
“Whose phone is that?”
Yao Qi ended the call while Liu Lin gave him a full-body inspection.
After making sure that Yao Qi was indeed fine, Liu Lin finally put the weight off his mind and replied to him, “I borrowed it from the security guard.”
He probably snatched it.
Both Yao Qi and Yao Yue came to the same conclusion in their hearts.
Liu Lin shot the girl a disdainful glance. “What are you looking at?!”
Seeing him in the flesh, Yao Yue was instantly reminded of her newfound trauma. She really wished she could just tackle and bite him to death!
“Look at this little bitch, you actually behaved well this time. Seems like I don’t need to send you to the hospital again,” Liu Lin nonchalantly said.
“Stop calling me bitch, you slut! Why is sending me to the hospital the first thing that comes to your mind, are you a fucking sadist? You’re looking for excuses to beat me up, don’t you? You violent madman!” Yao Yue exploded.
“So noisy.” Liu Lin picked his ear with his little finger, still scornfully looking down on her. Without waiting for Yao Yue to finish yelling, he pulled Yao Qi’s hand and started walking. “If you can behave, do you think I’d bother wasting my time to teach you a lesson? Also, I don’t need any reason to beat you up if I want to.”
Yao Qi just smiled, already used to their banter. Once again, he felt that adopting Yao Yue was actually the most correct choice. What kind of child would be able to accept a father like Ah-Lin? Had they adopted a normal child, that child would probably end up hating Ah-Lin to death.
He listened from the side as they kept on arguing.
In fact, he didn’t like hearing these crude words at all. He felt they were simply unpleasant to hear. But then again, it wasn’t something he needed to pay too much mind into, so he forced himself to get used to it.
In the middle of the way, Liu Lin’s voice abruptly stopped.
He stared straight at the forked road in front of them.
Yao Qi followed his line of sight and saw nothing out of the ordinary.
“What’s wrong?”
“Nothing,” Liu Lin snapped out of his trance, his expression relaxing. He faintly narrowed his eyes, “I just saw a huge rat.”
“Hmph, did you get scared?” Yao Yue mocked him.
“Of course not, I was just disgusted.” Liu Lin tugged on his own hair and sighed, “I really hate rats the most.”
Yao Qi squeezed his hand, “Then let’s get a cat. That way there won’t be any rats at home.”
Liu Lin chuckled when he heard this. “Alright.”
The first thing he did upon reaching the apartment complex was to let Ah-Lin apologise and return the phone to the security guard. Although he also tried giving him money to compensate for the phone bill, the guard refused to accept it.
Yao Qi handed the paper bag he was carrying to Liu Lin, freeing his hands to unlock the door. At last noticing this thing, Liu Lin became curious of its nature.
“What’s this?”
Just as Yao Qi opened the door, he saw Liu Lin taking out the gift box from the bag. He didn’t make any move to stop him and candidly answered, “A novel.”
“Oh.” Liu Lin had never been interested in books, so he put back the box after hearing Yao Qi’s answer.
Not wanting to be stuck between the greasy couple, Yao Yue swiftly changed into her indoor slippers and raced to the sofa, turning on the television to watch it.
Yao Qi took back the paper bag and motioned Liu Lin to change his shoes.
“It’s my first new year’s gift for you.” He waited for the man to finish changing his shoes before closing the door and slowly speaking, “But it seems like you don’t really like it, so I’d better throw it away.”
“For me?” Liu Lin was taken aback for a moment. Hearing what Yao Qi said, he immediately snatched the bag regardless of his previous apathy. “Who said I don’t like it? I like it! You already said it was for me, and I never said I don’t want it, so you can’t throw this away!”
Yao Qi smiled at the man and pulled him to sit on the sofa, watching as he excitedly unwrapped the box.
Inside the box lay a book with a white base colour. The four corners were lined with a thin golden border and its title was written in traditional characters using the Song typeface. On the cover, there were two little people sitting on a throne-like sofa, peacefully leaning on each other with their eyes closed.
But the shadows reflected behind them were showing a different picture. One shaped like a monster and the other shaped like an angel, the two shadows were holding hands, their necks connected with something akin to a black thread.
Liu Lin flipped through the book and found that the quality of the paper was very good.
He also thought that the cover looked rather familiar.
“Angel and… monster?” he raised an eyebrow and laughed, “Which idiot named this? So childish. Is it a fairy tale book?”
Liu Lin’s interest was piqued—he was quite fond of fairy tales. Although they were too unrealistic, they were simple and beautiful, something you could finish reading in a short time due to the compact plots and lack of conflicts.
Life was already hard, so why not read something nice and dreamy instead?
“It’s a novel, not a fairy tale book… But you can also take it as one.” Yao Qi paused for a moment. Seeing Liu Lin staring at the book in such high spirits, he finally held back and didn’t tell the man that the one he just called an ‘idiot’ was his own boyfriend.
Yao Qi was not a writer, but he had read a lot of books and had enough knowledge to put words together and depict a story. Moreover, the main outline had been provided by Liu Lin, so it wasn’t difficult for him to write this book.
He initially wanted to tell Liu Lin that this was a book he wrote for him, but looking at it now, he decided to wait for the man to realise it by himself.
Small theatre
Doctor: *feeling relieved* She has finally stopped coming here.
As soon as he finishes speaking, Yao Yue staggers into the room with her eyes covered.
Doctor: Really now?? Again?
Yao Yue: I was blinded by them *aggrieved* why is my brother so nice to that slut? He even wrote him a book, meanwhile I didn’t get any present.
Liu Lin: Screw off! You clearly know that Xiao Qi will give you a red packet.
Shao Qing: That’s smooth of you, Xiao Qi. But the title of this book—ahahahahaha! Very simple and straightforward, alright.
Yao Qi: *warm and gentle* Does Ah-Lin like it?
Liu Lin: I do!
Yao Qi: *glancing at Shao Qing with a smile* Then that’s good.
Shao Qing, force-fed a mouthful of dog food out of nowhere: …fuck!
T/n: Happy Chinese New Year’s Eve! It’s completely unintentional, but somehow the release schedule I’ve set for this novel has so far always falls on the day before a holiday I celebrate lol. Talk about coincidence 🤭
Thank You for the new chapter (๑˙❥˙๑) Happy CNY! ( ˘ ³˘)♥
Thank you for reading! Happy new year hehehe 😊😊😊
Interesting! Happy New Year!
Happy new year! Thanks for reading 😊😊😊
Happy New Year! Thank you so very much for this chapter! 🥰
Happy new year! Thank you so much for reading 😊💝💝💝
I really appreciate people who writes for the people they love. It feels so sincere — I don’t know. Yao Qi is the best!
Me too! That’s a really thoughtful gift, some sweetness before we get to the main conflict hhhh
It’s like eating a candy and then be snatched away by someone else T-T I’m not ready for the main conflict yet!