“You went out? Where did you go?”
Could You Chumu have followed him?!
He couldn’t help thinking so darkly… after all, in the original manga, this was very common, and it was absolutely something You Chumu would do!
But he hadn’t seen You Chumu anywhere along the way just now.
You Chumu looked at him, a strange flicker in his eyes, then smiled again. “I can’t tell brother.”
“Why?” Xu Chi blurted out instinctively, then immediately felt that he had truly asked too much.
He watched as You Chumu’s exceptionally beautiful face showed a conflicted expression, his thin lips pressed together, as if he were struggling to decide whether to answer Xu Chi’s question.
Xu Chi didn’t want to ask anymore. He was restless and distracted, thinking only about when he would get news that the superpowered individual had returned.
He kept cooking, completely ignoring You Chumu beside him.
Yet You Chumu kept staring at him the whole time, helping him fetch vegetables, helping him wash them, and even helping him cut the uneven pieces of meat into uniform slices.
Xu Chi was amazed by how quickly he learned. Yesterday he had still been clumsy, as if his hands and feet were not his own, but today he was already so fluent, and the meat he cut was astonishingly even… at a level that seemed only a machine could achieve.
Somehow, though, while You Chumu was helping him cook, Xu Chi sensed a hint of ingratiation… though he wasn’t sure whether it was just his imagination.
After the meal was done, Xu Chi carried the dishes to the table. You Chumu stood behind him and suddenly said, “Because brother is too cute, I can’t tell brother.”
“!”
What? Cute?! What nonsense was You Chumu saying?! Not to mention that he was a man… he was 25, and he was being called cute?!
Most importantly, You Chumu praising him like that was even scarier than following him!
Xu Chi was so shocked that he froze, every muscle in his body going still. He stared at You Chumu in stunned silence.
The two of them stared at each other.
After speaking, You Chumu blinked, sat down at the table, and bowed his head to eat.
Xu Chi stared at him for another two seconds. His shocked expression calmed down a little, and he sat down to eat as well.
His mind was still a total mess.
He was never calm when he was with You Chumu.
Halfway through the meal, he suddenly stopped and realized that this time, You Chumu had not asked him to taste the food first.
Had You Chumu started trusting him?…
Because he had eaten too much in the morning, he was already full after only a few bites. He put down his chopsticks and said to You Chumu,
“I’m full. You eat.”
“Oh.” You Chumu agreed and kept eating.
Then someone else’s neighborhood radio suddenly switched channels, leaking out a woman’s complaining voice:
“I’m not eating. Don’t you know how to put some on my plate?! You just keep eating by yourself!”
“…”
After that, there was another burst of static, and then no sound at all.
“…”
The atmosphere somehow became a little strange. You Chumu looked toward the window as if he had taken it seriously; his expression was very earnest. The next second, he looked back at Xu Chi.
He asked, “Brother, are you full?”
Xu Chi hesitated for a moment. “I’m full.”
You Chumu picked up a large chopstickful of vegetables and put it into Xu Chi’s bowl. “Brother, you’re not full.”
“…”
Xu Chi looked at the food in his bowl, then at You Chumu, whose beautiful eyes were fixed on him. After hesitating, he firmly refused.
“I’m full.”
You Chumu picked up another chopstickful.
“…”
Leaving aside the fact that Xu Chi had a bit of a cleanliness obsession and didn’t want to eat someone else’s saliva, he really was full.
What was he supposed to do? Refusing once had already used up all his courage. He didn’t have the nerve to refuse a second time.
He was still hesitating when the phone rang. Xu Chi felt as if he had been granted amnesty. He sprang up and walked to the TV to answer it.
“Hello?”
On the other end, someone was raging so hard that even through the phone, the roar blasted directly into his ear, forcing him to hold it a meter away.
“Xu Chi! Do you not want this job anymore?! Two days of no-show! You aren’t even answering the phone. Are you trying to die?!”
A dull pain struck his head, and then a huge stretch of memory suddenly surged back. Xu Chi slapped his own head hard and abruptly opened his eyes…
Holy crap! He had a job!
And even more terrifying…
Damn it!!! That night, he had wanted to kill You Chumu!
He was actually a hidden assassin!
What the hell?!
Holy crap!
Damn it!!!
You Chumu’s head had been the one he hit with a stick!
Holy crap!!!
Xu Chi was hit by the completely mind-shattering memories until he felt dizzy and lightheaded, almost fainting.
His vision blurred, and he barely managed to steady himself by grabbing the table.
The person on the phone was still yelling so loudly that even from a meter away, Xu Chi could hear every word clearly!
“Xu Chi, don’t think that just because someone above you has your back you can run wild! Even if you do nothing, I can still fire you! If you don’t come now, I swear I…”
Xu Chi’s head throbbed again, and he slammed the phone down.
It took him a long while to recover. Gradually, the memories in his head became clear.
On the surface, he worked as a researcher at a VR tech company.
In secret, he was an assassin for a national research organization.
And the organization he belonged to was the very one that had been studying You Chumu all along.
The very night You Chumu escaped, he had been sent to eliminate You Chumu.
“…”
What the hell! An assassin?! He was just a decent young man! How could this be so insane?!
It was enough to drive someone crazy!
He had thought he was just cannon fodder! He never expected that he was actually an assassin!
No, even if he was an assassin, he was still cannon fodder!
The scariest thing was…
He had brought home the very person he was supposed to kill!
He had originally thought there was no grudge between them, and that he could figure out a way to avoid it! But now it looked like there was! They had a grudge! You Chumu had every reason to kill him!
Damn it! Could it be that heaven had sent him here just so he would die?!
A head suddenly popped up beside him. Xu Chi tilted his head and met his gaze, so startled that he nearly stopped breathing.
“Brother, did he bully you?”
Xu Chi was still trying to digest reality, but at the same time, he couldn’t accept reality.
He stared at You Chumu, as if he could already see his own future fate.
“Brother, I won’t let him bully you. Who is he?”