Probably because he was really tired, Ling Fan slept very soundly.
By the time Ling Fan woke up, Chu Xiao was already out of bed…
Staring at his own arm, Ling Fan fell in a trance…
The clothes on his body had been changed. The dust during the day had been washed off, and even the wound on his arm had clearly been carefully treated.
So… these were all done by Chu Xiao while he was sleeping?
Ahem! There seemed to be no other possibilities.
At that thought, Ling Fan couldn't help curving up his lips.
There was only one expression written on his face--smug.
Although he had yet to figure out how to explain the wound on his arm to Chu Xiao, Ling Fan was still very excited and got out of bed.
As he passed the hallway and saw a box on the table beside and the things in it, Ling Fan suddenly stopped.
A tie?
Although Ling Fan did not have much research on things used by rich people, he could confirm that this new tie should be a very luxurious one just by looking at it.
There was no need for further speculation. Subconsciously, Ling Fan confirmed that this tie was prepared for him.
"So…is this a birthday present?" Looking at the tie in the box, Ling Fan suddenly raised his eyebrows and asked himself.
If Lei Wu, Leopard, or any of the subordinates of the Gang Gang were present, they would be surprised to find that their boss, who had always worn a paralyzed cold face, actually had a silly smile on his face now.
Ling Fan was not a person who would express his emotions. Uh, if you wanted to get to the root for that, maybe because he had been in prison for too long, so he got a paralyzed-like face.
So…the true emotions in Ling Fan's heart were probably much stronger than the silly smile on his face.
For the first time, someone remembered his birthday. For the first time, someone celebrated his birthday and even prepared a birthday present for him!
This feeling was fresh for Ling Fan, and at the same time…very good.
In particular, this person was Chu Xiao, the one he fell in love with in his two lives.
If it were not from Chu Xiao, Ling Fan wouldn’t have been so excited…
Without batting his smile, Ling Fan carefully put the tie into the box, then took it up and walked downstairs…
Should he go say thank you to Chu Xiao for his birthday present?
Yeah, maybe.
However…the most important thing was that he really wanted to see Chu Xiao now.
So…what was Chu Xiao doing now?
Just like two weeks ago, he started to deal with all kinds of company matters when he woke up?
Or…was he preparing his morning love breakfast?
Ling Fan guessed randomly in his heart.
Ahem…forget about the last one. Chu Xiao preparing breakfast? Such a thing would never be possible.
However, this did not affect Ling Fan's good mood.
But…
As he went down to the living room…
The overly quiet atmosphere was clearly different from what Ling Fan had imagined a second before.
Yeah, completely different.
The atmosphere in the living room could no longer be described as quiet, but cold…
There was some kind of terrifying silence and coldness.
As he saw Chu Xiao sitting on the sofa with a cold expression and a string of keys on the coffee table, Ling Fan's heart skipped a beat and a bad feeling started to ferment in his heart.
"What's wrong?" Ling Fan opened his mouth and asked dryly, he even didn't know how he uttered those words.
Hearing that, Chu Xiao finally looked up at him.
However, the expression on Chu Xiao's face almost made Ling Fan's heart sink to the bottom in an instant.
Suspicious, repulsive, cold, irrepressible anger…
That kind of expression...Ling Fan probably had seen only seen it when he did that thing to Chu Xiao in the bar…
However, now, there seemed to be a lot more complicated feeling within those complicated emotions.
Bitterness that he tried to hide…
And…
Was that disappointment? Disappointment with him?
Thinking of this possibility, Ling Fan's hand holding the present box suddenly tightened. He meant to walk over to Chu Xiao.
However, just a few steps away, he suddenly realized that he couldn't even move his legs…
"Don't you have something to tell me?" Chu Xiao stared coldly at Ling Fan. His voice was a little hoarse, but with some kind of undisguised irony.
"What do you want to hear?" Ling Fan asked with difficulty.
It was hard to believe that the current feeling Chu Xiao gave him was even scarier than when the truck hit him in his previous life…
“Hehe…” When he heard Ling Fan's words, Chu Xiao suddenly smiled coldly and sarcastically.
"What were you doing that night three months ago, on the 16th?" Chu Xiao asked with a stern look in his eyes.
Facing Chu Xiao's questioning gaze, a bitter smile climbed on Ling Fan's face.
Did he finally know...
Something that he had tried his best to hide was eventually found out. This feeling was not good.
"I was planning a kidnapping," Ling Fan said in a hoarse voice.
It was not like he had never thought about whether to make another lie.
But...was there any point in telling a lie now?
Actually, from the beginning, he knew that maybe he should confess to Chu Xiao, and he had countless opportunities to confess to him.
However, the lack of self-confidence in his bones, no, to be precise, his inferiority, and the fear of losing Chu Xiao finally made him drop that thought…
Actually…with Chu Xiao's sharpness, he should have discovered that the kidnapping and even the drug was his doing.
So, did he get everything that happened during this period of time by a flake?
Ling Fan's answer was very simple, and an outsider would think that it was rather baffling.
However, he and Chu Xiao both understood it.
Sure enough, after hearing Ling Fan's answer, Chu Xiao suddenly closed his eyes and started to shiver uncontrollably.
He closed his eyes because he didn't want to see Ling Fan at all.
As for his shivering…
Even Chu Xiao himself did not know if it was because of more anger or more sadness…
No matter what, Ling Fan was really trapped in this relationship…He even started to consider their future…
But now, all of this had become a laughable lie.
Deception…
What he couldn't tolerate the most was deception.
Previously, Ling Fan had concealed his identity as 'Fan Ming', and even lied to him about everything he had done in that month he was at his home, and he could let go of all those…
Hadn’t he been indulging Ling Fan enough?
He could forget about all those things, or even treat it as some kind of spice to their relationship, but he never imagined that the one who kidnapped him and even drugged him was Ling Fan too...
Someone he even wanted to tear apart was actually Ling Fan!
Hehe, isn’t it ridiculous?
This should also be what Chen Feng had wanted to tell him that right…
Sure enough, after meeting Ling Fan, he had lost all his judging ability.
Except him, no one else had the keys to his house, not even Chen Feng and others…
Except that time when he was kidnapped by a group of people, who took all his belongings away, including his keys...
Ling Fan had been to his house in those three days? However, he actually ignored how Ling Fan got into his house…
If it hadn’t been that he found the keys when he helped Ling Fan clean up his clothes this morning...
But if he didn't find out, was it possible Ling Fan would never confess to him?
About this question, Chu Xiao thought that he no longer needed Ling Fan's answer.
But what exactly did Ling Fan want?
Chu Xiao could not imagine…
"I'll give you a chance to explain," Chu Xiao said coldly with his eyes closed.
Explain?
Explain what?
Ling Fan suddenly wanted to laugh.
Explain that he did those things that hurt Chu Xiao only to retaliate against him? Explain that he had already found a buyer and planned to sell Chu Xiao to the underground nightclub to let him taste the humiliation and torture? Explain that if Chu Xiao hadn't escaped, he wouldn’t change his mind however regretted he felt?
Or…
Explain that he hadn’t regretted about that thing even till now?
If…if it hadn’t been that kidnapping, he wouldn't have met Chu Xiao at that time. Without that drug, he wouldn't have the ability to keep Chu Xiao stay, right? And he even slept with him…
Without all those things, what were he and Chu Xiao now?
Suddenly, as if he had made up his mind, Ling Fan looked at Chu Xiao seriously.
Long ago, he had secretly told himself that except this, he would not hide anything from Chu Xiao. Since Chu Xiao already knew it, there was no need for him to lie anymore...
"Well, I arranged the kidnapping, and the drug, also me. If given me another chance, I think... I would still do it. However, I won't make you feel so uncomfortable again, because…" As I watch you suffer, I would only feel worse.
Unfortunately, when he heard the first half of Ling Fan's sentence, Chu Xiao felt that he was about to explode and didn't give Ling Fan the chance to say the last half at all.
"Get lost!" Chu Xiao interrupted Ling Fan and snapped.
"Listen to me…" Ling Fan stepped forward trying to pull Chu Xiao into his arms.
Because he knew that if he didn't do it at this time, he might lose this person forever...
"Take one more step forward, I'm not sure if I'll shoot you," Chu Xiao suddenly opened his eyes and looked at Ling Fan coldly.
This glance finally shattered the last hope in Ling Fan's heart like ice water.
"Don't you want to hear me?" Ling Fan suddenly asked.
'Loser', yeah, that was to describe him now…
"I said get lost."
"Okay," Ling Fan said without further argument.
He didn't argue anymore because he knew about Chu Xiao and also himself.
Calm down! Not only Chu Xiao, but also him.
…
As he watched Ling Fan leave, the coldness in Chu Xiao's eyes finally collapsed in an instant...
The sudden pain in his heart made Chu Xiao almost unable to hold it.
This kind of feeling...it only appeared the moment when they saw the Chu family being swallowed by the fire, but this time it was only stronger...
"Hehe, you should be glad that I can't kill you…" Suddenly, Chu Xiao smiled sarcastically and bitterly again.
Even at this time, even if he knew those things, Chu Xiao didn’t have the heart to kill Ling Fan.
However, Ling Fan was…
"See what you have done!"
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