Chapter 23

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Chapter 23, Shock

On the day before the college entrance examinations, Hare would occasionally head over to Ye Zi’s apartment for a break. That evening, both of them stood side by side on the balcony, enjoying the city view after dinner. Suddenly, the doorbell rang. Ye Zi went to open the door. It was his mother.

Han Yao was standing at the door, eyes wide staring at the tall boy walking over from the balcony.

Ye Zi hurried to introduce them. “Mom, this is…”

Before he could finish, Han Yao interrupted, exclaiming, “Are…Are you Cheng Xi?”

Hare nodded. “Yes, I’m Cheng Xi, Auntie Yao.”

Han Yao was clearly quite surprised. She went over to stroke his head. “You’ve grown so tall! Time really flies. Are you in college yet?”

“I’m in senior high. I’ll be graduating soon.”

“Then wouldn’t it be the college entrance exams soon? So, do you think you’ll do well?”

“Ah Zi helped me a lot, so I’m quite confident,” Hare answered, smiling.

While his mother was off to the kitchen, Ye Zi grabbed the underwear on the sofa and hid it in the bathroom. Hare looked at him with a meaningful smile on his face. Grabbing his hand, he planted a small kiss at the back of his neck. Ye Zi pushed him away and eyed him threateningly, signaling him not to get ahead of himself. After that, he even buttoned up his shirt in case his mother saw the red marks on his chest and collarbones.

During the evening, Ye Zi sent his mother off to the station alone.

Throughout the way, Han Yao had a rather gloomy look on her face. Ye Zi asked a lot of questions about his little sister, Yan’er, and even said that he bought a super big doll for her, but she didn’t really respond.

After a long time, she finally said, “So the two of you really did meet again.”

“Huh?”

“Is Cheng Xi doing well? How is his mother?”

“He’s staying alone. His mother’s not doing so well, I heard she’s been ill. Mom, were he and I close in the past?”

Han Yao’s eyes trailed to the yellow streetlights in the distance and said, “I really can’t say, but I don’t think you liked him very much. He really stuck to you back then, though. He liked you a lot since he was very young. He was six when I took you away, he cried so loudly. Running down from the second floor, he kept on banging on the locked doors and windows, shouting out your name. I felt bad just watching him.”

“…When you say that, I think I’m starting to remember a little bit.”

“Hey, Ah Zi…”

Han Yao looked at Ye Zi, seemingly wanting to say something.

Puzzled, Ye Zi asked, “What is it?”

At this time, the bus arrived. Han Yao shook her head and left after saying goodbye to Ye Zi.

※ ※ ※

Since they graduated, the two of them began cohabitating at Hare’s villa.

Since living together, Hare would cook and do the housework while Ye Zi helped occasionally.

In the summer after their graduation, since both of them were free, they spent each day together in a rather bliss(lust)ful life.

One time, Ye Zi saw Hare laying a sheet of plastic on the bed and he asked, “What’s this for?”

Of course, he regretted it as soon as he asked the question because he understood in the next instant.

Hare looked at him, cheeks slightly red. “Every time we do it, there’s always a lot of…and sometimes there’s even…Uh, it’s hard to clean so…”

Ye Zi’s cheeks were completely red. He pouted. “Is that my fault?”

Smiling, Hare came over and kissed him on the cheek. “It’s my fault.”

“Hmph, good that you know.”

One night, Ye Zi looked at himself naked in the mirror. With a displeased face, he said to Hare, “Next time, you’re not allowed to suck on me here anymore!”

Hare who had just finished his shower and come out in a bathrobe went over to stand behind him, asking, confused, “Where?”

Ye Zi pointed to his nipple with flushed cheeks. “You bastard, look what you did to me!”

In the mirror, both Ye Zi’s nipples looked red and swollen. The color was quite dark and was much larger than the average man’s. There were even teeth marks above the left side.

Hare turned his head over to look at him, sliding his palm down his chest all the way down to his belly. He said with a happy look on his face, “If this place bulged up, then it’d look like you were pregnant.”

“You’re the fucker who’s pregnant…Hey! …Didn’t we just do it just now?”

Hare’s voice became deep as he fished up the bottom of his bathrobe, then he nudged Ye Zi’s butt with his hard-on. “I could go for another round.”

Ye Zi’s sensitive body responded immediately. When both sides of his butt were peeled apart, the red entrance actually loosened up, causing a white fluid to flow down his thighs, the juices that Hare had ejaculated into his body just half an hour ago.

Even though he was clearly trying to get away, his body still took him out of instinct. Shuddering, he grunted, “You bastard! What the hell did you do to me…It feels strange…My body’s been changed by you!”

Hare narrowed his eyes and smiled, corners of his eyes turning slightly red. Once he entered Ye Zi, he squeezed on his red and swollen nipples, speaking in a husky and sexy voice, “That’s right, your body’s been changed by me. You belong to me alone now.”

“Nn…I told you not to touch me there…”

“Hey, Ah Zi. Do you think you could lactate?”

“You bastard! One more word and I’ll castrate you…Mm…Ah…”

…And thus, how fulfilling their life was could be imagined.

Of course, the two could not just stay in bed all day and night. In fact, they had only indulged themselves for half a month before order came back to their lives. They went grocery shopping in the morning, then they would eat breakfast together. Hare would cook and do the housework while Ye Zi helped occasionally. They looked just like a pair of newlyweds living a calm and blissful life. By this time, Ye Zi no longer saw those strange visions and his ears stopped ringing.

How wonderful would it be if this life could continue? To be able to spend every day in a peaceful way, enjoying a life of exclusive romance between two people.

However, something happened. Like a stone breaking through the calm surface of the water, interrupting their peacefulness and becoming a hidden problem that was difficult to get rid of.

On that day, Ye Zi was in a good mood, cleaning the villa alone. He planned to clean every corner, including under the bed. He had to kill off every last cockroach.

Under the bed, he found a large case locked with a passcode.

The case had completely aroused his curiosity. After a few failed guesses, he tried putting in his own birthday, and the case actually opened!

The large case contained several large boxes, and next to them were a variety of electronics.

There was a black cubic object with a camera at the center; a small, grey, old-fashioned cell phone with an antenna, similar to a walkie-talkie; a small box of what seemed like pills, all made of metal…

What are these?

Ye Zi opened the large boxes in turn and his blood gradually ran cool. His heart was thumping.

When he opened the black box, he could see a pistol inside with bullets, as well as a series of blades ranging from large to small, all shiny and silver. Ye Zi remembered the way Jiang Wen seemed to want to say something to him but stopping, at the description his friends gave him about the culprit, and to Jiang Wen’s fear towards Hare. His pupils shrank.

Opening the white box, he could see that it was filled with photos, all of them of himself. Some were blurry, but others were exceptionally clear. There were photos of him walking, standing, sitting, smiling, crying, when he’s young, old, with clothes, without, innocent ones, sexual ones…None of them were photographed up close or from the front, meaning all of these had been taken in secret.

Ye Zi’s face went red a moment, then white another, fingers trembling.

He took out the laptop underneath the box and turned it on.

A force seemed to be guiding him in the dark, and he smoothly found his way to a series of folders. Opening them in turn, he was shocked and disgusted beyond words at what he found.

The folder contained videos and audio clips, all relating to him.

In the audio clips, he could hear the voices of his family and friends talking.

And in the videos…

Ye Zi naked and taking a shower in the bathroom; Ye Zi using the toilet; Ye Zi sitting topless on the bed in a daze; Ye Zi in front of the computer, pleasuring himself.

There was also a video of Nie Haixia in her nightgown, laying on top of Ye Zi.

Ye Zi in long sleeves and pants with a shower cap covering his hair, face hidden behind a mask, grabbing onto Jiang Wei’s hair and stabbing her frantically with a sharp knife in his right hand, blood splashing everywhere.

Ye Zi laying on the bed, body covered in red marks, a thick fluid covering his chest, belly, and his chin, panting with an insatiable expression on his face…

Ye Zi stood up abruptly and rushed into the bathroom, gagging and vomiting intermittently for more than ten minutes.

Then, he could feel himself go all out of sorts like before. His ears had begun to ring again, and it was deafening.

He wanted to phone his friends and call for help, but he suddenly remembered that his phone was being tapped. How could he drag someone else into this mess? He just wanted to cry. He really wanted to cry. However, he didn’t shed a single tear. Turning on all the lights, he began looking carefully for the cameras, and he found them. In this bedroom alone, he found eight of them.

He didn’t pack up Hare’s things.

He didn’t eat dinner at night either. He just sat alone in the living room with the lights off, thinking in the dark without saying a word.

At 9 p.m., Hare returned.

When he turned on the lights to see Ye Zi sitting on the sofa, he frowned. “Ah Zi, why didn’t you turn the lights on?”

Ye Zi didn’t look up, he just mumbled, “Hey, what exactly do you want?”

Hare laughed. “What’s wrong? What are you saying? Have you eaten? If you haven’t, then why don’t we go out and grab dinner together?”

But it was as if Ye Zi didn’t hear him. He just continued speaking in a cold voice. “What on earth am I in your eyes? A toy? An experiment subject in a cage? Does it make you feel good when you see me being broken little by little?”

“Ah Zi?”

“You’ve been filming me in secret, fine, but aren’t you seriously sick? Do you have to watch me using the toilet as well? And you didn’t let me go with what happened with Haixia either. Do I seriously have no fucking privacy? Hey, tell me. When did you start filming me? And what is up with that gun and those knives? You’re the one who cut Jiang Wen’s mouth, right? Where’d you get the gun? And what on earth is up with you filming me when I killed Jiang Wei? Huh?”

“Ah Zi, you…”

Ye Zi suddenly looked up, veins popping on his forehead and his eyes bloodshot. He looked just like an angry lion, and his voice almost seemed loud enough to shatter glass. “What are you still pretending for?! Say it! Tell me!! What the fuck do you want?! What do you want…You said you love me? You actually said you fucking love me? Hahaha…hahaha…hahahahaha…”

Ye Zi suddenly began to laugh. He couldn’t stop. The laugh pouring out from his throat was muffled and intermittent. He threw his head back and laughed, a distorted smile over his face. His face was scrunched up and tears fell down his cheeks in the end, drop by drop, dripping down onto his pants.

Hare was so scared that he didn’t know what to do. He fell to his knees in front of Ah Zi and grabbed his trembling arms, speaking softly, “I’m sorry…I’m sorry…It’s my fault, so don’t cry…okay? You can hit me, you can do whatever you want, but don’t cry, please? Don’t cry…I’m sorry…”

“Cry?” Ye Zi’s laughter came to a halt. He stared wide-eyed at him, tears still flowing constantly from his eyes, but he wasn’t self-conscious at all and sneered. “Who’s crying? Cut the shit and tell me, why did you take those disgusting videos? ”

“…I just like you too much, I wanted to see everything, so I…”

“So you put a tapping device on me? That’s why you’re secretly filming me every single moment of every single day?”

“…”

“Is that why you recorded the whole process of me killing Jiang Wei as well? Just so you could admire it? And when you cut my friend’s lip, was that also because you liked me?”

Hare had just nodded his head when Ye Zi sent a slap right over. A cut instantly appeared on Hare’s right cheek which began to swell.

Ye Zi laughed. “You think I’m stupid? You’re planning something, aren’t you? You wanted to threaten me with that video, didn’t you? So tell me, what do you want? You’re going to hand it to the police, right? Oh, maybe you’re actually a spy? What a fucking world, huh??”

“Ah Zi!!!”

Hare latched onto his legs anxiously. No matter how Ye Zi tried to kick him off, he wouldn’t let go. “That’s not how it is, you have to believe me! There’s no way I’ll hand it over to the police…It’s true, I took that video to threaten you into getting into a relationship with me…but things went more smoothly than I imagined. I wasn’t going to use it anymore! As for Jiang Wen…It was because he kissed you…How could he kiss you? You’re mine, you obviously belong to me!!”

“You’re fucked in the head!”

Ye Zi threw another slap at him. Hare’s nose began to bleed, dripping down onto his jaw in an awful sight.

He was kneeling on the ground, sad, scared, and anxious like a child who had done something bad. With red eyes, he said in a hoarse voice, “Ah Zi, I’ll delete all the videos, I’ll get rid of all those things that you hate, so please forgive me, all right?”

Ye Zi did not say anything.

Hare assumed he had agreed. He immediately ran to the bedroom, dragged the suitcase out, took out the laptop, and deleted all the videos in front of Ye Zi. Then, he took out the memory stick and threw it into a garbage bag along with all the cameras in the room.

Then, he went out to the balcony, started a fire in a large metal basin, and tossed all the shameful photos inside. In just a moment, smoke rose up and debris danced in the air, shreds of ash flying high and far along with the wind.

Ye Zi sat in the room, looking at the flames on the balcony. It was like he was gazing at the flames of hell. He muttered under his breath, eyes lost in thought, “How could this happen…I owe Jiang Wen so much…I owe Haixia as well…I was wrong…I was wrong from the very start…This is too much…”

After Hare had finished everything, it was already past midnight.

Ye Zi was already half asleep at that point. He was slumped onto the sofa with tear marks running across his face.

Hare carefully walked over and kneeled in front of Ye Zi placing his cheek on the back of Ye Zi’s hand laid over his knee, nudging it gently and repeating over and over again in a soft voice, “I got rid of everything…I swear I won’t do it again…So don’t hate me, all right? Don’t hate me, please…Don’t hate me…I can’t live without you…”

After a long, long time, so long that several centuries seemed to have passed.

Ye Zi finally moved. He propped himself up and lightly touched Hare’s wet and swollen cheek, asking softly, “Does it hurt?”

Hare immediately looked up at him. The bleeding of his nose had already stopped and the right side of his face was swollen and tear-streaked. He was a mess. Ye Zi’s words seemed to have come as a big surprise to him. He quickly shook his head. “No, it doesn’t hurt at all. If it helps you vent, it doesn’t matter how you hit me.”

Ye Zi looked down at the bloodstains on his clothes. “You soiled my clothes.”

“I’ll wash them for you! I’ll make sure they’re nice and clean…”

Ye Zi looked down at the person kneeling on the floor from the sofa, eyes hidden away under the shadows.

“Ah Zi?” Hare asked worriedly.

Ye Zi sighed. He grabbed a tissue and wiped away the blood from Hare’s nose. He felt complicated. “Hey, tell me. What should I do with you?”

“…”

“What should I do with…us? ”

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