Huo Chen was once broken. Broken from top to bottom, inside out.
After... the body was pieced together with time and medicine, like shattered porcelain glued back piece by piece. But a gentle push would make him fall into the endless abyss and hell.
There was no exception to Huo Chen's ending. He broke again and again.
Huo Chen didn't know how long he endured near-death pain. He only felt that every night was a reappearance of his past, and a reenactment of death.
He had bruises that couldn't dissipate from his body like the fingerprints on his neck. He had bloody cuts from a knife, that weaved into an iron net, cold and hard
Huo Chen had thought more than once, what was the use of living like this? Why did he continue to live?
The mother who gave birth to him was a dodder flower that only relied on absorbing nutrients and life force from his father. She wanted to use her child to bind the man she loved, to exchange for the man's attention. In the end she bound her own throat and took her own life.
His father, when he needed him, pushed him out to use as a chess piece and squeezed out his value. In the name of their father-son relationship, he required the chess piece to have no thoughts. He wanted Huo Chen to be an obedient puppet, only when he moved did Huo Chen deserve to move.
Huo Huai An was afraid of him, jealous of him, and deliberately calculated to stimulate him and aggravate his condition.
For this name Huo, Huo Chen used 30 years of his life. t/n fuck the rest of the Huo family ｡°(°◜ᯅ◝°)°｡
[Di di di! Warning! Danger warning! The villain's blackening value has risen to 93%.]
Lin Yuan was stunned and had no idea what was going on. Huo Chen's blacking value increased from 54% to 93% in one go, and the value was nearing the critical point. The task might even fail in the next second.
521 shouted anxiously: "Ahhhhhh! What to do, Senior? It's 93! 93!! Senior, quickly think of something, the blackening value of the mission target is 93!! A little more and the performance evaluation will be gone, and 521 will be at the bottom this year..."
Lin Yuan was already anxious, not only because of Huo Chen's sudden rising blacking value, but also because Huo Chen was in a terrible state. Lin Yuan had been unable to understand why the plot described Huo Chen as a fragmenting, living corpse, but at this moment, he seemed to understand a little.
So being urged by 521, he was a little angry: "Don't shout anymore, shut up! Go disappear quickly!!"
Lin Yuan was always smiling at everyone, as if he wouldn't get angry no matter what. 521 was so scared by his wrath that his small wings didn't know how to fly anymore.
"Yes...Senior...521 will….will disappear now..."
There was nothing about Huo Chen's childhood in the plot. It only said that because of childhood trauma, Huo Chen's personality was gloomy and paranoid to the point of morbid madness. Lin Yuan couldn't find clues from such a short description, and he also had no time to waste.
He was fine before, Huo Chen even apologized to him because he got hurt. Why did such an earth-shattering change occur in such a short time period? Although Lin Yuan didn't know the details, he felt that there must've been a trigger. He had to find that trigger.
He remembered after turning off the light, he wanted to hug the other party. Huo Chen stopped him, which he had never done before.
Didn't he like hugs?
Lin Yuan could only step away from Huo Chen, only to see him shaking all over, his pupils still empty, and there seemed to be no sense of security. Underneath his thin layer of skin and flesh, it seemed he could see the bones.
"Huo Chen..."
Lin Yuan stretched out his hand to touch him. As soon as he touched the other, Huo Chen trembled even harder and he couldn't hide away. He was like a child who didn't know how to avoid pain or injury.
He was clearly scared, why didn't he avoid it?
"How can I help you..."
Lin Yuan's voice quivered: "How can I help you..."
He came to this world for Huo Chen, and the meaning of his existence was to save this person. But right now, he couldn't even touch the other party.
Lin Yuan felt powerless for the first time, he felt like he was drowning in a tide.
He got up from the bed and went into the bathroom to take out a damp hot towel. Lin Yuan wanted to wipe the sweat from Huo Chen's body. He hoped the other would feel a bit more comfortable, even by just a little bit.
In the bed, Huo Chen suddenly covered his mouth tightly. Lin Yuan saw that he seemed to want to cough but restrained himself. His tight and arched body reminded Lin Yuan of a dying butterfly, each inch of his bone and flesh was in pain and suffering.
Lin Yuan stood by the bed, careful to not touch Huo Chen, and gently wiped his face and neck. Huo Chen didn't refuse or resist this time. Lin Yuan unbuttoned his dark pajamas, revealing his snow-white and thin body, like porcelain.
"Mom..."
Lin Yuan, who was wiping his body, was stunned when he heard this broken whisper. The plot only stated that Huo Chen's mother was the daughter of a rich family and was Elder Huo's deceased wife. Because he remarried quickly, Huo Chen and Huo Huai An were only five years apart.
Was Huo Chen in pain because he missed his mom? Lin Yuan wondered. He remembered that in the plot, Huo Chen's mother passed away when he was only a few years old.
Lin Yuan coaxed him in a soft voice: "En, baby, mom is here. It doesn't hurt. Baby doesn't hurt~"
"Good baby, good baby. No more pain, there's no more pain~"
"Good boy~" Lin Yuan didn't know how to coax children, and could only copy others: "Baby, good baby, it doesn't hurt----"
Huo Chen faintly heard a voice, unlike that woman's voice, it was too clean and pure. But he had heard those words many times. That woman was always like that, hurting him, and then coaxing him with those words as if she was really a gentle mother.
He waited for the usual pain, to be choked or to be cut with a knife, but after a long time, he didn't feel anything. It was only that voice.
"Good baby..."
"It doesn't hurt anymore..."
For the first time, Huo Chen was not hurt after those words fell. He felt confused and bewildered, but not feeling pain was good, really good.
Lin Yuan didn't expect coaxing him would work. Huo Chen, who was just shaking and struggling, slowly calmed down.
He was a little happy and tried to touch Huo Chen. He found that Huo Chen no longer resisted as much as before and immediately held him in his arms and patted him on the back: "Baby, it's okay now. Don't be afraid, our baby isn't afraid..."
Huo Chen's vision and hearing slowly recovered. He looked at the tightly pulled curtains and felt like he was being hugged by a large stove, with one hand patting him on the back to comfort him.
"My baby is going to sleep..."
A clear and soft voice, Lin Yuan's voice, sprinkled gently.
Huo Chen belatedly came to his senses, and suddenly realized that Lin Yuan's baby was himself.
CEO Huo, who was called a baby: "..."