Su Miao’s funeral was held on the day of the championship match. Since he had almost no relatives, the only ones who came were Xiao Shengyu and Gu Xingjie, who had a complicated relationship with him.
On the day of the burial, the sky was gloomy, with drizzling rain falling softly. Xiao Shengyu knelt in front of the cold tombstone in a daze.
His eyes filled with heavy darkness. His beard had grown in the past few days, and his face showed deep exhaustion. He didn’t even have the energy to groom his hair, which he used to care about so much.
With trembling fingers, Xiao Shengyu gently caressed the photo on the tombstone, which captured the shy smile of the young boy.
It was taken on a whim when he took him out to play during the time he was on vacation.
The pinkish cheeks looked dull in the black-and-white photo, but the pair of bright eyes remained crystal-clear and beautiful.
Gu Xingjie, holding an umbrella, saw the desolate state of the man in front of him, and his usually witty tongue seemed to be silenced. After a while, he finally uttered two words.
“My condolences.”
Xiao Shengyu didn’t speak. The raindrops wet his hair, dripping onto his clothes, leaving one water stain after another.
“Have… they found the person?” His voice was hoarse and unlike his usual self.
Faced with this question, Gu Xingjie remained silent.
He knew that Su Miao’s death had caused a great impact on Xiao Shengyu, especially since they had also discovered the culprit behind this tragedy, Lu Zhiyu.
Finding a person in the city might be difficult for others, but for Gu Xingjie, who had a vast network of connections, it was not a problem. However, in the current state of Xiao Shengyu, he dared not tell him that he had found the person.
Although they had connections, openly killing someone would also lead to legal consequences. So Gu Xingjie hesitated for a moment and said, “I know you want to kill him now, but you can’t do it so openly. He…”
“Give him to me.”
“Shengyu…”
Suddenly, Xiao Shengyu stood up and grabbed the collar of Gu Xingjie’s clothes. Like a furious beast, his eyes turned bloodshot, and the veins on his forehead bulged as he roared, “I damn well told you to give him to me!!!”
As the roar echoed, the black umbrella fell from Gu Xingjie’s hand nearby into a small puddle on the ground, splashing the rainwater and creating an indistinct haze.
Behind that haze, there were a pair of bloodshot eyes filled with ruthless and almost insane fury.
If it weren’t for that cell phone, if it weren’t for that text message, Xiao Shengyu would never have known that the promise he made to protect that obedient and beautiful young boy was the most ridiculous and ironic joke in the world.
There was actually a pinhole camera installed in his room by that scumbag Lu Zhiyu!
That scum actually threatened the young boy to kill him, hoping to retaliate against Xiao Shengyu for “stealing” his position. But that silly little mouse couldn’t bring himself to do it, and he ended up attempting suicide twice for him!
As for the reason for the threat… even though that beast was strong, he didn’t dare to touch Xiao Shengyu in the slightest. He just wanted to hold that young boy in the palm of his hand, the boy, he, Xiao Shengyu, cherished so much.
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Piercing cries, desperate calls that crumbled into despair, a body covered in blood. That plate of sweet grapes that he had carefully prepared for the boy, placed on the bedside table, waiting for him to wake up and eat, crushed into a mess on the floor.
Right in his own room, on his own bed, the boy he cherished in his heart, had his whole world collapsed.
Seeing that scene, Xiao Shengyu grabbed his hair, his mind filled with the memories of the past two months—the boy’s resistance to that bed, the scar on his lifeless body that left a permanent white mark, the sight of him secretly watching as Xiao Shengyu left, hugging himself and crying in despair…
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Kill?
Killing isn’t enough? Even if he tortured that scum slowly and painfully, it wouldn’t be enough to alleviate the hatred in his heart, not even one in a millionth.
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Gu Xingjie looked into the eyes of the man opposite him, the eyes that were completely enraged by the loss of his partner.
He had never loved anyone like this before, so he didn’t understand what kind of bone-deep pain could turn the usually worldly Xiao Shengyu into his current state—dejected, furious, and engulfed in darkness as if he wanted to drag this unfair world to accompany that person in death.
Perhaps it was because he had never experienced love that he truly didn’t understand this heart-wrenching feeling.
Thinking back to the two times they met, the innocent and silly young boy who made people inexplicably want to ruffle his hair, Gu Xingjie closed his eyes lightly and said, “…Alright.”
He brought the person to a small villa on the outskirts, a property in his secret business. Gu Xingjie said, “He is tied up in the storage room on the ground floor.”
In the passenger seat, Xiao Shengyu’s eyes flashed with a crimson glimmer, and he pushed open the car door and started to walk out.
“Xiao Shengyu!”
The sudden voice momentarily interrupted his action. Gu Xingjie looked at the hunched figure that seemed to have bent overnight and clenched his teeth, saying again, “…Even if you kill him, Su Miao won’t come back.”
So, please don’t ruin yourself for him.
Time seemed to stand still for a long while. Just as Gu Xingjie thought he had convinced him and was about to say something else, a cold statement came.
“But if I don’t kill him, I’m afraid I won’t be able to resist killing myself first.”
I made him believe that I would protect him, and he believed me. I broke that promise.
Lu Zhiyu targeted me from beginning to end. I didn’t go home, and he suffered irreparable harm.
Lu Zhiyu wanted to kill me, but I’m still here while he’s gone forever.
Suach me, what right do I have to replace him, the purest, most beautiful, and unique person in this world?
Every breath of air I take now is given by him, exchanged with his life for mine.
What right do I have to stand aside?
Watching the man’s figure behind the closed gate, Gu Xingjie sighed and slowly closed his eyes.
The quiet villa was filled only with monotonous footsteps, echoing in the empty space with a somewhat eerie feeling.
The footsteps stopped in front of the storage room door, and Xiao Shengyu, with lowered eyes, raised his hand and twisted the doorknob.
A few days ago, after Lu Zhiyu sent the message, he had been waiting for Su Miao to take action. He was confident that Su Miao would obediently comply because he had sent him certain recorded scenes.
Based on what he knew about Su Miao, who lacked independence and was timid, threatened like this, he only needed to watch Xiao Shengyu die without a burial place. However, Lu Zhiyu never expected that the same Su Miao, who was so timid that he wouldn’t dare to argue back, someone who could be easily manipulated, would suddenly choose to jump from the rooftop.
He had intended to go trouble Su Miao, but he happened to witness the scene downstairs. Amidst the shattered glass and blood, Xiao Shengyu, who should have gone abroad, was embracing the bloodied person, crying in a state of unprecedented despair and pain.
Seeing that scene, he should have felt triumphant and should have laughed coldly, but at that moment, fear and only fear filled his heart.
Fear that the other person knew about his small actions, fear stemming from the fact that he would face the man’s insane retaliation.
Escape, hide, conceal. An entire week had passed, and Xiao Shengyu hadn’t made any moves. He thought that the man hadn’t noticed anything, but just when he let out a sigh of relief, he was suddenly captured by a group of unknown people and thrown into this place.
Was this Xiao Shengyu’s revenge finally arriving? Or did he offend someone in the past who was now coming to settle the score? Or was this simply a straightforward kidnapping?
No one told him.
This small room had no windows. It was quiet, eerie, empty, dark… But what truly tormented Lu Zhiyu was the fear that came from the unknown, the uncertainty, and the suspicion.
Lu Zhiyu didn’t know how many days he had been kept here. In the darkness without sunlight, he felt like he had endured centuries. Just when he thought he would die in this place the next second, the door that had remained tightly shut suddenly swung open.
As the door opened, the dazzling sunlight flooded into the dark storage room. In that moment, Lu Zhiyu, who was already scared to tears, raised his head abruptly.
Almost instinctively, he blurted out, “It’s not me, it’s not my…” Before he could even finish the last word, ‘fault,’ as soon as he recognized the man with a gloomy aura standing in front of him, he collapsed again, this time completely, onto the ground.
Xiao Shengyu.
His gaze slowly lowered, tears and mucus streaming down, and Lu Zhiyu’s eyes fixated on the glimmering bone-cutting knife in the man’s hand.
Fearful tears gushed out as he dragged his almost completely limp legs backward, mumbling incoherently, “Not… not my fault, not my fault, not my fault…”
Silently, Xiao Shengyu watched the scene unfold without uttering a word. He simply raised his hand and closed the door behind him.
“Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!” A piercing scream shattered the gloomy sky.
Lu Zhiyu died, a death marked by extreme pain and misery.
Gu Xingjie, who believed he had witnessed countless bloodshed and cruelty, realized that he couldn’t fathom the depths of madness one could descend into after losing a loved one.
The storage room was filled with dark-colored blood and scattered body parts. The corpse itself could no longer be described as flesh and blood, as it was almost completely stripped of any trace of meat. Only a twisted head remained.
Gu Xingjie wondered what kind of excruciating pain the person had endured before gouging out their own eyes and violently biting off their own tongue.
Perhaps such revenge was beyond his imagination, having never experienced the profound loss of a loved one himself.
After the end of the championship, Hengqian, deprived of its main fighting force, suffered a devastating defeat. The coach returned from abroad with a grim face, intending to dismiss Shengyue for his escape during the match. However, he ended up being sent to the hospital by a woman named Wang Xiu, whose son had turned out to be gay after joining the national team.
Before the police could detain the assailant, the woman mysteriously disappeared.
Only Gu Xingjie, who had investigated Su Miao’s past, knew that she had been sent away to reunite with her son by the man who had become an unfeeling executioner.
When Gu Xingjie found Xiao Shengyu covered in blood, he only heard him repeat one phrase with bloodshot eyes, “This is what they owe Xiao Miao, this is what they owe Xiao Miao!”
It was the first time Gu Xingjie felt that Xiao Shengyu, with whom he had played together and lived in the world of games since childhood, had become a stranger.
As time slowly passed, everything began to change, including Xiao Shengyu. He changed, becoming unrecognizable to Gu Xingjie.
He had become like those ruthless individuals in the industry, devoid of compassion and merciless.
Years later, at a charity event, Xiao Shengyu, a renowned philanthropist, made a multi-billion-dollar bid to acquire a small shop. When he met Gu Xingjie, the organizer of the event, they exchanged cold, formal greetings as “Chairman Xiao” and “Chairman Gu.”
That night, unable to sleep, Gu Xingjie retrieved the investigative materials from the bottom drawer.
He wondered why, despite having almost identical childhoods, Xiao Shengyu changed. He became the scum and bastard in the eyes of everyone, a merciless executioner in the past, and now a cold-blooded figure of authority. But Su Miao remained pure and untainted, preserving that touch of purity within him from childhood to adulthood.
After pondering the question all night, he still couldn’t find an answer.
The next day, Gu Xingjie, who suddenly remembered it was the anniversary of someone’s death, bought a bouquet of flowers and went to the cemetery. To his surprise, he spotted a familiar figure from a distance.
“That shop went bankrupt, but I bought it. From now on, it will only make cakes for Xiao Miao, different, unique, just like… before.”
Raising his hand, gently stroking the soft, chubby face of the young boy in the small photo, Xiao Shengyu lightly pressed his forehead against it, closed his eyes, and in a hoarse, trembling voice, whispered, “Xiao Miao, I miss you so much…”
I really miss you so much.
Around the gravestone, almost as far as one can see, was filled with exquisite and adorable little cakes, each with a unique design.
Looking at the flowers in his hand, Gu Xingjie closed his eyes and smiled. He took a step forward.
Perhaps it wasn’t Xiao Shengyu who had changed, but rather his true heart had died. The only heart that remained alive, warm, and beating was solely because of that one person.
T/N: Finally, the second arc has also come to an end. I hope you’re liking the novel so far. ᕙ(^▿^-ᕙ)
even though he’s scum, this chapter still made me tear up…
Thsts how I’ve felt since last chapter. I feel like he might not have been all bad anyway; just screwed up bc of his mom n family pressure. The cousin n aunt were wholly scum though n deserved pain.
That’s quite the torment he got…mostly deserved…but still….😔
I don’t feel sorry… I didn’t even tear up, not because it’s not angsty but because I rlly think everything is just right. They deserve it. Even the ml… I’ve never forgotten about what happened to the MC and what he experienced.
I wish I could be like that. I’m too empathetic n cried anyway partly for ml but prob mostly for the og su miao n wat “he” had to go through just to be loved by ml.
Me too! Glad I’m not alone haha
Hello fellow cryer. I always wet my pillow from it but it is what it is lol.
Og su miao?? Uh, wait I thought what they’re showing as “su miao’s” past experiences(first life) are all the things mc went through since he had been forced to not ooc before? What happened to “og su miao” is actually what happened to mc before right?
So I felt the mc have the right to torment the ml.
I’m pretty sure b4 mc became su miao n was forced to not oocthere was an original. Besides, my point is that it’s sad how su miao couldnt get his feelings recognized before. I never said ml didnt deserve to suffer by mc’s plan.
Aaahhhhh i agree with you 😭😭 the pain he felt during the previous time makes this feel deserved but I am still sobbing my eyes out in sadness and wishing for a happy ending LOL. I can’t stop reading dogblooded novels hahahah
I really love how cruel the MC is😂I just love this abuse.
Hm, finally this arch ended
Thank you for your translation 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍
The ML in this arc is really not a scumbag but still ended in tragic romance.
MC revenge so hard
😅
Can’t stop crying 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 brorr I want to know if there’s ML, it kinda reminds me of scum gong story ,if the ML really the one his target. AHHHHHHH I CAN’T STOP READING ITT
Looking at the remaining chapters, I can foresee my despair in the future too 😀
I cried so hard ughh
Damn I’m crying at 4 am😭
Damn, I don’t know what I feel, but it hurts, it’s enchanting, and it’s definitely cool
im not crying ….definitely not…….