Despite their worries, they reached their destination by the night. For some reason, Wang Mu Chen was feeling too stuffy as soon as he saw their accommodation.
"Snowball, how about we stay in the same room?"
Wang Mu Chen suggested as he didn't want to be separated from the smaller when he was feeling anxious for no reason so that he could relax if Xiao Bo was with him all the time.
But Xiao Bo on the other hand didn't want to take any chance. Though the present Mu Chen was nothing like the past one, who knew what might happen if they stayed together?
He didn't want to experience Mu Chen's anger again in this life if they somehow ended up sleeping together.
So to avoid it, Xiao Bo decided to stay with his friends.
"No, I will share the room with Xin Yi and Shen Yu," Xiao Bo was firm with his answer.
"Right, Mu Gege, he will stay with us. He still has a month to turn eighteen. What are you even thinking, huh?" Xin Yi glowered at Mu Chen standing in front of Xiao Bo in a protective stance.
"That's right, Mu Ge! I didn't know you were such a hungry wolf ready to devour our little rabbit. Xiao' Er will not sleep with you, go away!" Shen Yu too came between and glared at his cousin.
Wang Mu Chen almost got a headache hearing their whining. He rubbed his forehead and stared at the three.
"I never said I will sleep with him, what do you guys think of me? I just want Snowball to stay with me so that I can protect him if something happens. What the hell is wrong with your brains?" Mu Chen snapped at the both of them.
"Ah... um, don't be angry at them. It's not like that. I just want to spend time with my friends cause I never had the chance to do this. I also want to experience a sleepover party with my friends, so... can I stay with them, please? Sorry..."
Xiao Bo stepped in front and explained which was also the truth. He never knew what it'd be like to have a friend's night in the past because in his first life, he was bedridden and in his past life his Father didn't let him make any friends.
Hearing that Mu Chen felt guilty for thinking so selfishly. Even though he was worried for the younger he shouldn't control Xiao Bo as he wished cause it would make him the second Song Yi Ming.
"You don't have to apologize to me, Snowball. It's alright, you do whatever you wish to do. But if something happens come to me or give me a call, okay?" Wang Mu Chen gently brushed the younger's hair.
"O-Okay..." Xiao Bo bit his lips listening to the softened voice and the affectionate action of the elder.
Wang Mu Chen let Xiao Bo go with his friends. However, he took the room right next to him so that it would be easy for him to go to the smaller in need.
All of the students were tired from the journey. They quickly took the room keys from their class representatives and went inside, some to sleep, some to chit-chat, and some to get drunk themselves all night.
The three of them, Xiao Bo, Xin Yi, and Shen Yu took a bath and changed into their sleepwear before laying on their beds.
After learning that Xiao Bo never experienced how it was to have a sleepover party with friends both Xin Yi and Shen Yu decided to do their best to make the smaller happy by organizing something exciting for the next day's night since they were all exhausted now.
They talked for like an hour about the things they were going to do the next day and dozed off.
Meanwhile, Mu Chen was wide awake. He stood on the balcony looking at the waves in the sea. His heart was feeling overwrought. He didn't know why he was so stressed but the surroundings were making him nervous for some unknown reason.
...
Song Wei Chen was standing in front of the locker holding a pile of papers and photos in his hands with tears brimming in his eyes.
It was a bank. The old man Pei and his wife Mrs. Pei were standing behind him with sadness evident in their eyes.
The document that Song Yi Ming gave to old man Pei that day to give to Wei Chen before he ran away and his master was brutally killed. He gave it to his young master right after the funeral ended, secretly.
The documents consisted one letter and had a list of hidden assets which were in the name of Wei Chen and Xiao Bo. Also the address of the bank where the original documents were stored and the password of the locker was mentioned in it.
After reading and knowing everything Wei Chen didn't know what to do anymore. He felt like his world crashed down and there was no way out for him anymore.
He felt so bad for his Father that he cried and cried hugging the picture of Song Yi Ming holding the newborn Xiao Bo in his arms and Wei Chen standing by his Mother Chan Hua's side looking at his younger brother.
It was the one and only picture of their entire happy family. After crying for hours and getting unconscious, Mr. and Mrs. Pei took Wei Chen to their hometown.
After waking up Wei Chen was enraged. His blood boiled by the atrocities committed against his Father and after hearing how Song Yi Ming died from the butler Pei, he could no longer contain his anger anymore.
Wei Chen wanted nothing but revenge. He decided to make everyone who toyed with his Father and destroyed their happy family, suffer a hundred times more horribly.
He then realized why Song Yi Ming treated them both like that and why he was so obsessed with becoming rich and powerful enough.
Wei Chen finally understood his Father yet now his father was not with him. He became even guiltier for not checking on him the morning that day after Song Yi Ming's outburst and his weird behavior.
>>>If only I went upstairs and knocked on his door that day...
>>>I would have gotten the chance to look at him for one last time... before his death...
>>>I am sorry, Baba... I am sorry...
His tears didn't stop pouring down feeling devasted. He felt nothing but pain in his heart to the point that he felt breathless.
He couldn't even fathom how hard it was for his Father to carry the burden and endure everything all alone all this time when everyone despised him, pointed fingers at him, and hated him to death yet Song Yi Ming never not loved his children.
It might be a bizarre way to protect but if it was anyone in Song Yi Ming's place, they could've not done it better than him maybe no one could have had that much strength and resilience to live through his Father's agony.
Everything made sense to him now. Wei Chen took the picture into his hand again and gritting his teeth, he spoke...
"I will make sure to ruin that person Father, Mother... I won't let them live a happy life until they die. Even their death will be more brutal and crueler than yours... All the tears that you had shed... I will make them pay for it!"
Wei Chen vowed, determinedly. That day was the start of his vengeance, the start of the downfall of everyone who crushed their family into ruins. Also the start of trapping certain someone to break their heart, ruthlessly.
...
Li Feng Mian opened his eyes the next day in the same apartment he lost consciousness. He looked around in confusion.
"Why am I in Weiwei's room?" He mumbled to himself holding his aching head.
"Ugh...!" He stood up groaning.
The system turned off due to low charge.
"Um? Isn't this the system Weiwei used to have? But why is it still here? I already bought him the latest version so that he could write comfortably on his 28th birthday, didn't I...? ...wait..."
While muttering to himself he suddenly stopped and looked at his surroundings again with popped eyes.
He tapped his pocket and then fished out his phone from it in a hurry and checked it.
"May 5th, 2013...?" Feng Mian's eyelashes trembled, "... no way... I... Did I...?"
His voice was stuck in his throat as he felt overwhelmingly emotional at that moment, "Then... Weiwei is... He is..."
Feng Mian breathed heavily as he ran out of the room, "Weiwei! Weiwei! Gerry!" He screamed his lungs out but his voice only echoed throughout the walls without getting any response.
"No, he must be..." Li Feng Mian looked through his contacts and saw Wei Chen's number he dialed it but the call didn't go through.
Then he hesitantly typed an unknown number. It started ringing and, "Hello?"
"Gerry?!" Feng Mian spoke with expectation in his eyes and voice.
"..." The other person on the line kept silent for a while and then, "...Who are you? How do you know my name and this number?"
Feng Mian smiled ear-to-ear hearing the voice of the person he wanted to listen to desperately but couldn't.
"...hah!" Feng Mian sighed in relief, "... Weiwei..."
The other person immediately cut the call the next second.
Feng Mian chuckled, "... Weiwei... you're... y-you're alive... H-Here..."
His chuckle turned into sobs as he fell to the knees on the floor losing strength. He covered his eyes with his palm, "...so it really worked, huh?"
"That damn tree wasn't lying... my Weiwei... My Gerry... He is alive here... He..."
Li Feng Mian cried in happiness for the first time in his life. After a moment, he regained his composure, stood up wiping off his tears and dusting off his suit.
"This time I won't allow anyone to hurt you, Weiwei. I will protect you with my life," Feng Mian sworn to the heavens that day.
...
Xiao Bo woke up slowly feeling heavy-headed. There was a sharp numbing feeling in his forehead.
He felt cold all of a sudden as the blanket covering him slipped down to his waist. Confused, he looked down and saw that he was shirtless.
His irises expanded as he covered his upper half and looked beside him. A man was sleeping peacefully with his face turned to the other side.
The man's back was broad, naked, and filled with fresh nail scars. Xiao Bo's heart thundered as he got up in panic.
He was not naked but was in his boxers. He dared to step forward and with trembling hands, he brushed off the hairs on the man that were covering his face.
Xiao Bo fell on his bum in shock. It was Wang Mu Chen and this scene was too familiar to him to not recognise it.
It was exactly the same room they had sex in his past life under the drug influence. The mind-blowing night and terrifying morning that changed his life for the worst happened again.
The smaller covered his mouth in fear as tears trickled down his eyes. He shook his head as he backed away feeling petrified.
"It is happening again... Again..." Xiao Bo spoke under his breath.
Wang Mu Chen who was in a deep slumber after a very enervating night opened his eyes hearing the indistinctive murmurs near him and saw Xiao Bo on the floor, trembling badly while weeping.
"Snowball...?" Mu Chen immediately became alert and got up.
Xiao Bo started crying more loudly seeing the elder waking up and calling his nickname that he loved so much.
The smaller thought Mu Chen was gonna hate him just like in his past life and try to strangle him to death, nearly, for sleeping with him.
He didn't want to lose Mu Chen who cared for him, called him by a nickname so affectionately, and saved him from all the troubles.
"Snowball..." Mu Chen tried to get up but felt lightheaded and fell back onto the bed, "Ugh!..."
The pain in his head intensified as if it was gonna break open. Mu Chen wanted to go to his Snowball, hug him, and comfort him right away for whatever reason the smaller was crying.
However, his body was uncooperative. His vision was becoming blurry and he couldn't control his body just like in those nightmares he experienced last days.
Wang Mu Chen struggled to keep his consciousness yet he was forcedly pulled out and locked up somewhere strange.
Seeing the elder in pain, Xiao Bo gathered his courage and went to him. When he was about to touch, Wang Mu Chen opened his eyes all of a sudden, his eyes were no longer gentle.
"Song Xiao Bo?"
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