withered prosperity

Maybe because of Yun Ji's words, Yan Hai had a nightmare that night.

He dreamed that when he and Yun Ji were children, they fell into that deep cave by the sea together.

It was dark and cold in the cave, and they were tired and hungry. At first they waited for the high tide to escape, but the sea never rose.

Later, Yun Ji was hungry.

When he saw Yun Ji gnawing his hand so hungry, he was heartbroken, so he said to him, eat me up!

Yun Ji raised his head, his eyes were bright red.

Then he woke up with a start.

The windows were open, and the moonlight shone in the room, casting a cool silver light on everything.

Yan Hai hugged the quilt and sat for a while, feeling like he was stuck in a dream and couldn't wake up.

Until a rustling sound made him gradually regain his senses.

He got out of bed and went to the desk.

There is a wooden box on the table, and there are some blue fluorescent lights shining in the wooden box.

He exhaled, took a short sword from the wall, and cut his finger.

Blood dripped from the hollow into the wooden box, and the sound of flapping wings suddenly became louder.

"What are you doing?"

Yan Hai, who was squeezing his fingers to drip blood into the wooden box, shuddered.

He turned his head suddenly, and suddenly saw Yun Ji sitting there in the shadow.

I couldn't see that position when I was lying on the bed just now...

Yun Ji got up and walked over step by step.

Yan Hai backed away slowly, hiding his hands behind his back with some guilt.

"What time is it, why are you still sitting here? Didn't you say you would leave when I fell asleep? Why didn't you go to sleep?"

"The ugly time has just passed." Yun Ji only answered his first question, and the person had already walked in front of him. "Give me."

Yan Hai handed him the dagger.

Yun Ji was obviously suppressing his anger, he took the sword with a grim expression, and threw it back exactly where it should have been.

"The other hand."

"What are you doing? You don't sleep in the middle of the night, you sit there silently, this kind of behavior..."

"Give me your hand!"

Yan Hai reluctantly took out his other hand.

Yun Ji grabbed it in his hand, looked at the deep wound on his fingertip, and smiled instead of anger.

"What's your reason for not sleeping in the middle of the night?" He pulled Yan Hai hard into his arms. "Cutting off your own fingers to play with?"

"not me……"

"I don't want to hear any excuses." The wound was being pulled by him, and a few drops of blood oozed out, the corners of Yun Ji's eyes twitched unnaturally, and his throat moved unconsciously.

Yan Hai thought that he was going to come over and lick those blood drops in the next moment, but he didn't want to be dragged to the bedside.Then the wound was well bandaged.

"Why do you look at me like that?" Yun Ji raised his eyes and looked at him: "I told you, I'm not a beast and I don't know how to eat people."

He paused, and then said: "I will not go back on my promise."

Yan Hai was stunned.

He looked at the wrapped wound on his fingertips and thought about this sentence.

What do you mean... you won't go back on your word...

Yan Hai almost asked aloud, but he still held back, but those eyes seemed to be shining in the dark.

Yun Ji didn't let go of his hand, probably due to the sweltering summer night, his hands were gradually sweating.

"Yun, Yunji..." He swallowed. "You let me go."

"I won't go back on what I said, how about you? What you said won't count!"

Yun Ji was too close to him, and his thick eyelashes grew almost to poke his face under the projection of the moonlight. His mind was in a mess, and he couldn't figure out what this sentence meant, so he subconsciously shook his head .

"Very good." Yun Ji's eyes darkened a bit. "From now on, you won't do anything dangerous behind my back, will you?"

Yan Hai was stunned for a moment, and from the corner of his eyes, he saw a red light seeping out of the wooden box.

"If you don't want to, then this time I will seal your acupuncture points, lock your hands and feet, and lock you in a place where you can't escape even if you have all kinds of skills." Yun Ji pinched his chin: "You should know that I'm not really that patient, not to mention you've lied to me too many times, if you lie to me again... I don't know what I'll do. "

Yan Hai stared at him blankly, carefully thought about the meaning of his words, and then asked falteringly: "Then... if I promise you, will you...can you forgive me?"

"Don't push yourself too hard. I just sat there and tried to kill you, a liar, at least a dozen times." Yun Ji stroked the half of his cheek covered by his mirage with his thumb, feeling that he was suddenly pale. You pretended to be a woman to deceive me, and then you turned around and approached me as a servant, don't think I don't know your plan, you just think that I will definitely like you, and then even if you know one day Once you know the truth, you won’t pursue the past.”

The man in front of him seemed to have grown fangs suddenly, tearing open his chest, exposing those hidden thoughts hidden in the dark to the broad daylight... Yan Hai flinched and wanted to step back, but was firmly grasped by him Can't move.

"I said I wouldn't like you, so you felt wronged, but you gritted your teeth and refused to tell me, if you fell ill and died in the middle of all these years..." Yun Ji couldn't control his strength, he Taking a breath, he loosened the grip on him: "Am I going to be kept in the dark by you for the rest of my life? Yan Hai, you liar!"

His yelling of a liar finally aroused Yan Hai's heart.

"Enough!" He waved Yun Ji's hand away. "You don't like me after all, what's the use of me saying it?"

"If you don't tell me, how do you know if it's useful?"

There was a sudden silence in the room.

Yan Hai opened his mouth a few times before he stammered, "Yes, is it useful?"

"Of course it's useless." Yun Ji looked at him seriously: "It's a good thing you didn't say anything."

Yan Hai wholeheartedly followed him up and down, just now he was still above the clouds, but now he seemed to be immersed in icy water.

"What are you doing with your long face?" Maybe it was because his complexion was too ugly, but Yun Ji finally said: "If you said it at that time, I'm afraid I would kill you with a single sword, without even a second thought of hesitation. There will be."

Yan Hai raised his heart to his throat again, but he just looked at him stupidly, not knowing how to react.

"No matter what the intention is, I have always been deceived by you. If it were you, I would be angry and uncomfortable, right?"

Yan Hai didn't know his intention, so he nodded.

"Then in order to compensate me, you must listen to my words in the future." Finally, Yun Ji emphasized: "All words."