TL: Hua
The thermos cup in his arms rolled down to the side of the pillow, and his thin body was trapped in the slightly cool embrace.
Ye Rongxu struggled frantically, raising his hand to resist with all his might. His legs, which he had previously feigned immobility, lightly pressed against the sheets. The contrast between his pale, slender insteps and the dark sheets created a striking visual.
But his strength was really limited, and his body was too soft. After struggling a few times, he was out of breath; his hands and feet were all restrained.
Then his sight completely disappeared as the silk tie covered his eyes, wrapped around the back of his head, and tied into a knot that was neither loose nor tight.
Ye Rongxu was completely panicked, and the disappearance of his sight brought him unknown fear. He was so anxious that tears came out of the corners of his eyes, soaking the tie.
“Qin Chaoyan, you dare!” He threatened with a trembling voice.
Just when he said these words, he was lying limp and being held in Qin Chaoyan’s arms, with his cheek pressed against the slightly cool sleeve of his suit, unable to move his hands and feet.
Qin Chaoyan’s fingers stopped at the back of his head, paused, and then traced to his ear and the side of his face.
“If you really dare, I, I…” He was so scared that he almost cried while stretching out his hand to pull off the tie covering his eyes.
The next moment, his wrist was held.
Qin Chaoyan’s hand was very broad, and with a gentle flick of his five fingers, he easily wrapped around his slender, fair, and beautiful wrist, gently rubbing it with his slightly calloused fingertips.
Ye Rongxu froze for a moment as a slight numbness came from the place where he was touched; his thin skin soon tinged with red.
For a moment, his mind flashed through countless images of being tossed around in his dreams.
Just when he was trembling with fear, Qin Chaoyan suddenly pulled away from him, but soon, the slightly cool embrace returned, still holding him in his arms.
A bit of coolness suddenly touched the back of his hand, then it spread. Ye Rongxu froze slightly. Qin Chaoyan’s fingertips seemed to gently rub the back of his hand, and the faint smell of medicine quickly spread to the tip of his nose.
Ye Rongxu was stunned for a moment and finally came to his senses, realizing that the other party was applying medicine to the small black and blue spot on the back of his hand.
“I know you hate me, don’t like me, and don’t want to see me.” Qin Chaoyan suddenly spoke up with his hoarse voice, and after applying the medicine, his fingers gently traced his beautiful eyebrows through the tie.
“I originally thought that I would stand in front of you again after I had completely dealt with Xie Yunming and would not bring you any danger. If you cannot forgive me, I will just watch you from afar and not disturb you.”
“After knowing that you were going to marry Qin Jingxu, I realized that I had overestimated myself.” His voice suddenly trembled, stained with depression as he hugged Ye Rongxu tightly, “I simply cannot accept you being with someone else.”
“Xuxu…” There was madness between his handsome eyebrows; his eyes turned red without him knowing when. He began to tremble and then devoutly and gently kissed Ye Rongxu, but dared only to kiss his eyes through the tie.
“Xuxu, your engagement is with me; you are originally mine.” He repeated in a low murmur over and over again, his slightly cool lips pressed against the silk tie, finally unable to suppress the frenzy in his heart.
He tightly embraced the person he missed day and night, the one who had haunted his dreams countless times. The one he loved, so beautiful and soft, so attuned to him when he took him fully into his arms. He is destined to be his; they are born to be together; they’re supposed to be married.
“You are mine; you should marry me, Xuxu…” Qin Chaoyan kissed him through the tie, his eyes slightly red, and his voice was unstable due to suppression.
Ye Rongxu’s eyelids, covered by the tie, trembled slightly, his eyelashes fluttering beneath like butterfly wings.
After a long time, he finally took a deep breath, tremblingly reaching out to push Qin Chaoyan.
“Who told you that I don’t like you and hate you?” He shouted with all his strength, but because of the tremor, his voice was soft and had no deterrent power at all.
Qin Chaoyan froze, and after realizing something from his words, his eyes suddenly flashed like sparks, and a light of disbelief appeared.
“Speak!” Ye Rongxu shouted again; his tone was fierce, and his sobs were clearly audible.
Qin Chaoyan’s Adam’s apple rolled, his voice trembling, still in disbelief: “Xuxu, you mean, you don’t hate…”
“I’m asking you, who told you that?”
So that’s Qin Chaoyan’s own assumption. No wonder he ignored him when they met before, but why didn’t he ask him first?
Ye Rongxu felt choked up and angry.
Qin Chaoyan stood still for what felt like an eternity. Finally, his eyes flickered with a mix of emotions. With great difficulty, he found his voice and began to speak. “I found a breakup text message sent to you by Xie Yunming on my phone. I tried to contact you again, but I couldn’t get through. I ran back to see you, but you had already left the country. I thought you were sad and disappointed with me, so…”
He pursed his lips and continued with difficulty: “I met you at the airport when you just returned to the country, and I heard you say… you don’t like me anymore.”
Most importantly, he knew that Ye Rongxu already knew those things that Xie Yunming had done. There was hatred across the board between the Ye family and the Xie family, and Xuxu was harmed by Xie Yunming. How could he dare to hope that the other party wouldn’t be angry or hate him at all?
Qin Chaoyan’s voice was low.
Ye Rongxu froze at his words and realized that after he left the country, the other party had actually chased him back to the country. And the words he said at the airport when he just returned to China half a month ago were also heard by the other party.
What kind of coincidence is this?
“Is all you do listening without asking any questions? Being abroad for a few years, have you forgotten to grow a mouth?” Ye Rongxu was so angry that he wanted to cry, and after slowing down, he asked again, “I also sent you a message through Xie Yu; why didn’t you listen?”
Qin Chaoyan froze and murmured, “Did you really ask him to bring me a message?”
Ye Rongxu: “…”
“If it’s not me, who else can it be?” He was so angry that he clenched his fist and wanted to hit the other party, but because his eyes were covered, he hit the other party’s suit button, which hurt his hand instead.
Ye Rongxu became even angrier and wanted to cry for no reason.
It must be the pain in his hand, not the pain in his heart.
Qin Chaoyan hurriedly grabbed his hand and rubbed it gently for him, his voice bitter: “I’m sorry, I didn’t know; I thought…”
He whispered to himself, “I thought he was helping Xie Yunming test me.”
At that time, he didn’t dare to believe anyone in the Xie family after he was forcibly taken back to Country E by Xie Yunming’s people. What the other person said about being able to hypnotize him was true.
It was then that he realized Xie Yunming was really a mentally disabled madman.
Whether the other party really knew such a doctor or whether modern psychology could really do this, such threats were very effective.
He didn’t want to be sent for hypnosis and didn’t want to forget Ye Rongxu. He was even more afraid that if he insisted on contacting Ye Rongxu, it would bring danger to him.
Who knows what a madman is thinking? Qin Chaoyan didn’t dare to gamble at all.
As for the Xie family… Xie Yunhua and Xie Yunming grew up together. Xie Yi and Xie Yu lived with Xie Yunming since childhood.
Compared to him, they all have a closer relationship with Xie Yunming. He was alone, far away in a foreign country, unable to trust anyone around him, let alone the Xie family.
He deeply buried his true emotions. Over the years, he had grown accustomed to masking his true feelings, concealing his emotions behind a well-crafted façade.
“You think you can shoulder everything by yourself, then just keep doing it.” Ye Rongxu was so sad that he wanted to cry when he heard this.
He didn’t know if the tear was for Qin Chaoyan, or for himself, or for both of them.
After going around in circles, these turned out to be the reasons.
He felt inexplicably wronged, and the emotions buried in his heart for years finally erupted, so sad that he twisted his head and collapsed on the pillow, curled up into a ball and sobbed.
Probably feeling too ashamed to be seen crying, he didn’t remove the tie covering his eyes.
Tears quickly soaked the silk tie, leaving deep marks.
Qin Chaoyan, flustered and anxious, quickly approached him and pulled him into a tight embrace, coaxing him, “Xuxu, don’t cry.”
Pursing his lips, he said, “I’m sorry, it’s all my fault.”
Ye Rongxu choked: “It was your fault in the first place.”
Qin Chaoyan: “…I’m sorry.”
Ye Rongxu was sad: “Do you think that once you explain it clearly, everyone will be happy? You don’t know how uncomfortable it was when I sent you a text message and received your breakup text message in return that day. I told myself not to be angry with you, but during my recovery and rehabilitation, I couldn’t stop thinking or controlling my emotions. I sent you a message through other people, but you ignored it. I finally saw you at the company that day, but you still ignored me. I thought you were really brainwashed.”
Even if he knew it was all a coincidence and misunderstanding, the scars have already been left. How can they heal immediately just because the misunderstanding was explained?
But he knew very well that Qin Chaoyan must have had a hard time in the past three years. He even had to hide his emotions under Xie Yunming’s nose, which was more repressive than him.
“Is your uncle sick?” Ye Rongxu couldn’t help sobbing.
Qin Chaoyan took off the tie on his eyes, kissed away the tears on his eyelashes, and whispered distressingly, “Yeah, he’s sick.”
Ye Rongxu choked and sobbed: “Don’t think that I will forgive you just because you scolded him for me.”
Qin Chaoyan hugged him with distress and shook his head: “I’m not scolding him. It’s the truth.”
Ye Rongxu stopped sobbing, opened his misty eyes, and asked stupidly, “What do you mean?”
“He is mentally ill, has bipolar disorder, paranoia, and may have other mental problems.”
Ye Rongxu was surprised: “Really?”
Seeing that he had stopped crying, Qin Chaoyan suddenly changed the subject and asked carefully, “Xuxu, are you… as like how I’m still in love with you, are you also…”
Ye Rongxu suddenly turned his head away and said in a muffled voice, “No. Why bother asking? Isn’t that what you thought?”
It sounded like an angry remark.
Qin Chaoyan’s eyes immediately showed tiny shadows, unable to hide his joy and excitement, and his slightly red eyes were even a little wet.
“Xuxu, I know; I’m sorry.” He lowered his head and kissed Ye Rongxu, this time without the tie in between, kissing his trembling eyelids and then kissing his red ears.
Ye Rongxu felt sour and bitter in his heart, but also a little sweet and happy.
Yet the more Qin Chaoyan kissed him, the more he panicked; his whole body turned red, and his toes curled up subconsciously.
As his Adam’s apple was bitten, he whimpered softly. Tears filled his eyes again. His fingers subconsciously grasping the other’s hair, trembling and choking: “No, no.”
Qin Chaoyan suddenly gathered his arms and pressed Ye Rongxu’s slender frame towards himself; his clear and handsome eyes were colored with thin red, and he murmured in a hoarse voice, “Xuxu, Xuxu, you’re so well behaved.”
Ye Rongxu was so ashamed that his fingertips were red. He bit his lips and said in a panic, “Ten, ten o’clock. I want to go to bed and take care of my health.”
Qin Chaoyan raised his head; his black eyes were no longer cold as before but replaced by an indescribable… desire.
He stared at Ye Rongxu for a while, suddenly lowered his head, and said something in his ear.
Ye Rongxu instantly looked like a shrimp that had been boiled red, with smoke coming out of his head. He said shamefully, “You, you’re the one who gave birth.”
After saying that, he got angry again and pushed him away, saying, “Get out. I haven’t forgiven you yet.”
Qin Chaoyan knew that he was angry and embarrassed, so he blinked his eyes, suppressed his desolation, and asked, “What should we do then?”
Ye Rongxu turned his back and said in a muffled voice, “I’m going to sleep.”
After a while, he heard a rustling sound behind him. Thinking that Qin Chaoyan was leaving, he hesitated and turned his head again. “Wait.”
Qin Chaoyan halted his movement of unbuttoning his suit with one hand and stared at him intently, without blinking.
Ye Rongxu: “…” Why are you taking off your clothes?
He hurriedly turned his eyes away and said awkwardly, “I… You said many things today, so now I can’t fall asleep.”
Qin Chaoyan’s eyes lit up: “Then should I tell you a story to lull you to sleep?”
Ye Rongxu said “hmm,” then came back to his senses when he realized that it was a method used to coax a child. Feeling embarrassed and annoyed, he said, “I mean, I haven’t washed yet.”
Qin Chaoyan’s eyes visibly turned brighter. He said hoarsely, “I’ll carry you then.”
Ye Rongxu said with arrogance, “If you insist.”
Qin Chaoyan’s lips curved up. He then bent down to pick up the other party.
Ye Rongxu hurriedly hooked his neck tightly, his cheeks flushed.
Arriving at the bathroom, Qin Chaoyan lowered his head, his voice raspy, “Xuxu, I want to help you take off your clothes.”
Ye Rongxu widened his eyes and immediately grabbed his collar: “What do you want to do?”
Then he bluffed: “I haven’t forgiven you yet.”
Qin Chaoyan looked away unnaturally, pursed his lips, and explained, “I don’t like this suit.”
This is the suit Ye Rongxu wore for the wedding with Qin Jingxu today. He has long thought it was an eyesore and wanted to tear it off and throw it away.
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Finally, they talked😭