Lin Yuan didn't know why Huo Chen's blackening value would soar from 20% to 99%, and he had even less of an idea of why the blackening value, which was at a critical point, would slowly drop to 0%.
He only knew that Huo Chen was healing.
The pain was being eliminated, the scars were recovering, and Huo Chen was becoming whole.
At this moment, Lin Yuan had completely forgotten about his task. His eyes, heart, and body were completely preoccupied by the man in his arms. The palm of his hand gently patted the other's trembling body, and his soft voice comforted him: "Everything's okay... Huo Chen… don't be scared… it's okay…"
You walked out of the abyss that fate had written for you, and escaped the dark whirlpool of destruction. Regardless of how heavy your past was or how deep your nightmares were, you were now alive and your soul was free.
Huo Chen, you walked out of the nightmare that haunted you for more than 20 years. When you open your eyes again, you'll see the bright sky and spring-like winter, everything will be alright.
From now on, each season will be like spring.
Huo Chen vaguely heard a voice, Lin Yuan's voice. He thought that it was because he missed him that he had such a beautiful hallucination that intoxicated him.
But soon, Huo Chen found that he wasn't hallucinating. His senses recovered, and he could feel himself being held in someone's arms. The young man's hands and voice were comforting him.
"Everything's okay… Huo Chen… It's okay…"
The warm sunshine was scattered around them. Huo Chen felt the heat from the light falling on his body, and he felt Lin Yuan's temperature flowing to his body where they were in contact.
Finally, the residual pain and illness healed until it completely disappeared.
Huo Chen's vision was restored fully, and he saw his Lin Yuan in front of his eyes, bathed in sunlight.
"Sui Sui..."
Huo Chen silently moved his lips. He raised his arms and eagerly hugged the person tightly, with a little obsessiveness.
Lin Yuan didn't hear his voice, so he was shocked when Huo Chen suddenly hugged him, but he quickly reacted. Huo Chen was conscious.
He was so happy he wanted to spin in circles. He loosened his hold on Huo Chen to get ready to look at him, but as soon as he moved, Huo Chen hugged tighter.
Seeing him like this, Lin Yuan didn't move anymore and obediently let the other party hold him. He just put his hand on the man's back again and patted gently and said: "Huo Chen, it's okay, everything's okay….."
Huo Chen listened to Lin Yuan's gentle, clean voice over and over again, and finally he felt that he was a little cleaner and more worthy of his lover.
The body was worthy and the heart was worthy.
"...En, I know." Huo Chen said seriously.
After a long time, Huo Chen reluctantly let go of Lin Yuan. His eyes were stuck to the other, and they were unwilling to even blink. He noticed the dust on Lin Yuan's body, and looking at himself, he was much dirtier than his little partner.
Regardless, he reached out and patted away the dust on Lin Yuan's clothes. Huo Chen whispered: "The clothes are dirty."
Lin Yuan didn't care about himself, but he reached out and patted Huo Chen too. Suddenly, the rims of Lin Yuan's eyes redded from some lingering fear and he devotedly hugged the other party. He sniffed and whispered: "Huo Chen, you really scared me to death."
Huo Chen wrapped his arms around the young man tightly: "I'm sorry I scared you. I won't do it again. I promise."
Lin Yuan thought of the pale and fragile Huo Chen just now, and his eyes couldn't help feeling sour and hot.
Death can be contagious, Lin Yuan realized. The death of Huo Chen's mother was passed to the young Huo Chen. For more than 20 years, his body was suffering from this disease of death until he became terminally ill.
He had always seen the terminally ill Huo Chen, who was like a living corpse.
Thankfully, now, Huo Chen regained his vitality.
Lin Yuan hummed aggrievedly and said nasally: "You have to keep your word..."
Huo Chen kissed his forehead and smiled: "I promise to keep it."
The two hugged for a while before letting go. As Huo Chen looked around the room, he realized he could really look at this place calmly.
The nightmare had turned into an ancient memory.
A memory he would never think of again.
Huo Chen grasped Lin Yuan's hand and enjoyed the warmth of his palm, and said with hidden intentions: "Let's go home..."
Back to our home.
Housekeeper Yuan was guarding the room outside ever since Huo Chen regained consciousness.
When Huo Chen saw the housekeeper he was a little surprised: "Why are you here?"
Housekeeper Yuan concisely summarized what happened.
Lin Yuan also complained: "Husband, your eldest nephew has something wrong with his brain. When he was talking to me, he suddenly turned on a horror movie and almost scared me to death!"
Huo Chen guessed what Huo Huai An wanted to do. His eyes became dark and gloomy. He rubbed the back of Lin Yuan's hand and said in a magnetic voice: "He is sick. Don't worry, when I have the time, I will help him cure this illness."
Housekeeper Yuan understood the meaning behind Huo Chen's words.
Lin Yuan couldn't read between the lines and just thought in his heart, the Huo family might have problems with feng shui, so many people were sick.
Elder Huo's legs were paralyzed, Huo Chen used to be a madman (but now should be okay), and Huo Huai An, who Lin Yuan thought was the only healthy person in the family, was also sick.
Huo Huai An thought he could see a completely crazy and broken Huo Chen. He followed Housekeeper Yuan up to the third floor and glimpsed at how Huo Chen was unconscious and trembling, and his heart was beating in excitement.
He had no idea why Huo Chen took the initiative to enter that room. But he believed that Huo Chen's behavior was tantamount to ripping open the wound, and he would only hurt himself more.
Huo Huai An waited in anticipation and excitement, which was a completely different feeling from bodily pleasure, but more like excitement from the bone marrow.
But then-- --
He waited and saw a covered in dust, but an incomparably elegant Huo Chen come out, who was more like a living person than ever before.
Huo Huai An couldn't believe it, how… did it turn out like this?
Huo Chen looked at Huo Huai An as if he was looking at a clown, and said to Lin Yuan beside him: "You and Housekeeper Yuan go wait in the car first. I have something to say to this person of the younger generation."
Lin Yuan smiled softly and obediently: "Then hurry up ah."
The old and young man walked away. Huo Chen watched them leave and then looked at Huo Huai An and slowly approached him with a smile that was not a smile: "Huai An, you really like to steal your uncle's things, don't you?
Huo Huai An was slightly shorter than Huo Chen, but he was more fit. But although Huo Chen was thin, his momentum was more aggressive and extremely dangerous. When he approached Huo Huai An, he was like a wolf who was ready to attack.
Huo Chen stopped in front of Huo Huai An, and he was too lazy to say anymore nonsense, and directly punched the other to the ground.
Huo Huai An never expected Huo Chen to strike him. It wasn't until he felt the pain that he realized he was punched.
He staggered up but couldn't stand firmly before Huo Chen punched him again. When Huo Huai An fell to the ground again, Huo Chen kicked him a few times until he couldn't get up. He could only gasp on the floor.
After shaking off the blood on his knuckles, Huo Chen snorted disdainfully and stepped on Huo Huai An's back, making him lie on the ground in submission.
Now, Huo Chen was no different from a beast, but he had one shackle, and the other end of the chain was connected to the warm and clean young man.
"Huai An, did you know, a madman is extremely possessive. Since you know that I'm a madman, don't try to steal things from me."
Huo Chen grabbed Huo Huai An's hair and pulled hard, not caring if he tore hair off the scalp directly. The pain made Huo Huai An struggle desperately, but he couldn't move under Huo Chen's foot at all.
"Huai An, I won't give you any more chances. Just wait, I'll take what you want the most. Don't you like taking other people's things? Do you like this kind of retribution?"
Huo Chen smirked like a beautiful evil spirit: "It doesn't matter if you like it or not, you must accept it."
After saying this, Huo Chen was ready to leave. When he turned around and saw the TV in the living room, he pushed it off the stand and it shattered into pieces.
Housekeeper Yuan didn't know how to drive, so this time Huo Chen drove the car with Lin Yuan sitting in the passenger seat. Housekeeper Yuan sat in the back seat and was a little embarassed internally.
Back in the villa, Huo Chen couldn't wait to pull someone into the bathroom. Running water sounded and steam gradually filled the room. The sound of entangled lips and tongues was blurred with the sound of water.
Lin Yuan was pressed against the wall by the man, and the coldness of the tiles on his back made him a little cold. Simultaneously, Huo Chen, who had always been chilly like jade, was burning hot at this moment.
Huo Chen bit Lin Yuan's lips and sucked the tip of his tongue fiercely.
His wet clothes were sticking to his body, but Huo Chen didn't have the mind to take them off. He lifted Lin Yuan against the wall, their foreheads touched, and their lips stuck together. The man's voice was as deep as an abyss when he gasped: "Lin Yuan, I love you..."
Huo Chen did his best to sink himself into the depths of Lin Yuan's body, until he felt that he became completely attached to Lin Yuan, as if only by connecting with him could he live.
"I love you…"
"You said that if I died, you would also die... Me too. If you die, I will also die..."
"Let's die together, Lin Yuan..."
"I will listen to you. I will be healthy, happy, and live life with you like an ordinary person..."
His obsession and love turned into countless dark tentacles that tightly wove around the young man and deeply embedded themselves into his blood and bone marrow.
"I love you, with time as my witness..."
With life and death as my witness