The door hissed open with a hydraulic sigh, and Yu Xi stepped into the secure room. The air was thick with tension, the kind that clung to skin and made breath feel like glass. Across the room, violet eyes blazed with fury. They were feral and unrelenting.
His hair was a wild tangle, sweat-damp and clinging to his temples. Veins pulsed along his neck and arms like coiled serpents, his body taut with rage and restraint. He looked less like a man and more like a beast cornered, waiting for the moment his prey would step too close and Yu Xi was that prey.
The restraints bit into Jian Ci's wrists and chest, though Jian Wei had designed them to be as humane as possible. But there was no kindness that could contain Jian Ci in this state. Sedation didn't work this time. Jian Wei had pushed the dosage to its limit. Any more and Jian Ci's health will be put to risk. This was the only way now. They could only restrain him until Yu Xi came.
