It was a farewell, but actually, Huo Chen didn't know what he should say to this woman. Even calling her 'mom' was meaningless to him.
He knew he just had to come here and bid goodbye to this woman and his childhood.
The white snow reflected the blinding sun, and the sky spanned out overhead and overlooked the world. His surroundings looked a lot brighter than before. Warm rays fell on his body and illuminated the haze and darkness in Huo Chen's body.
Huo Chen narrowed his eyes under the light and looked at the grave in front of him. He said calmly: "I don't know what to say to you..."
"I think that you wouldn't want to hear whatever I say, but just this once."
"I got married last spring, at the beginning of summer. You married someone you chose, but my marriage partner was forced onto me by the one you loved. I think he would regret his choice now. He gave me a way to live with his own two hands, a way that I had never dared to think about before."
"Now I understand a little bit of how you felt at that time. But I won't forgive you, and you don't need my forgiveness. You never cared or wanted it anyways. From the start to the end, you only wanted your husband."
As for the child, he was just a means to bind the man to her and a means to attract him.
Huo Chen's voice was still light, without any fluctuation: "Actually, I once thought that before I completely go crazy, I would give you the person you wanted the most. Not because of our mother-son relationship, nor because I wanted to earn your love, I don't need these things."
He squatted down, looking level at the woman in the photo.
Huo Chen said: "I just thought you were pitiful, no different from a beggar. Since I could give you what you wanted the most, I'll just give it to you like doing charity."
"But I won't do that now." The man suddenly chuckled, and his narrow eyes were bottomless: "I have to live from now on, I can't die today."
Huo Chen placed the shopping bag in his hand in front of the grave. His voice had no temperature: "This is what I bought to overcome my trauma of you. It's your favorite dress. Your beloved husband, in those years after you just died, he came to see you to boost his reputation. Now he hasn't come here for a very long time, so you must miss him. Even though you are down there, you should be waiting for him just like when you were alive."
"Mom, I know that you were attached to the old man all of your life. You should wear this dress and wait for him."
The cold gust of wind brushed past and brought a chill that couldn't be dispelled by the sun. Huo Chen left hastily.
The person he loved was waiting for him.
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Lin Yuan trembled in the passenger seat and most of his body was hidden underneath the jacket. The insulated heat made him sweat a little, and every breath was audible.
"Why isn't my husband back yet?! Has it been half an hour? He wouldn't... have met a ghost right?" Lin Yuan said with fear.
521 was also afraid and huddled with him "The mission target has been away for 30 minutes and 18 seconds." 521 said precisely.
The uneasiness and panic in Lin Yuan's expanded and he grabbed 521 in tears: "521, my husband... shouldn't have been eaten by a ghost right? Will I… not have a husband anymore?..."
521 almost fainted at the thought, and his employee spirit ignited: "Then… Senior if your husband was eaten by a ghost… can we leave this world and go to the next one?"
Lin Yuan became a little angry. His husband might've been eaten by ghosts but 521 actually thought about this.
He was about to scold 521 when there was a sound of rapid footsteps outside. Lin Yuan said to 521 in horror: "I seem to hear something?"
521 hurriedly hugged Lin Yuan and cried: "521 also hears something… coming closer and closer…"
In the next second, the door was pulled open and Lin Yuan screamed.
Wuuu, was it the ghost who ate his husband? Is it coming to eat him?
Lin Yuan's terrified mind ran wild until someone held him in his arms and called him softly: "Sui Sui..."
It was Huo Chen's voice.
Lin Yuan popped out from under the jacket in surprise and saw his husband was alive in front of him. The man was still beautiful, and his eyes were like a dark starry sky.
"Huo Chen~"
Lin Yuan instantly drilled into Huo Chen's embrace and encircled the man's neck and whispered: "You're finally back. I thought you were gone for so long that you were eaten by a ghost."
Huo Chen was a little speechless and stroked Lin Yuan's curly, fluffy black hair. "Sui Sui, I'm sorry I made you worry."
In broad daylight, his wife was worried about ghosts. This kind of personality was probably unique in the world.
Lin Yuan vigorously nodded his head: "I was really worried about you. So… so in the future, can we not come here? I'll be scared and worried if you come here alone."
Huo Chen smiled gently and rested his chin on Lin Yuan's shoulder. He breathed shallowly and a gentle light flashed through his eyes: "En, from now on I won't come here. I won't do anything that makes you worry."
Lin Yuan was satisfied and buried his face into Huo Chen's neck. But he was still a little afraid of the cemetery, it must be full of ghosts. He didn't dare look around and quickly kissed the man's chin and urged him: "Huo Chen, let's go home."
"Okay." Huo Chen said.
When the car started, Lin Yuan closed his eyes and didn't open them until Huo Chen gently patted the back of his head and said: "We've left, we're on the road now."
Lin Yuan opened his eyes and was finally relieved.
The countdown on the light screen now showed 01:02:57. Lin Yuan glanced at it and pretended he didn't see it and looked outside at the landscape instead.
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The car stopped in the villa's garage, and Lin Yuan was about to get off the car when a cold mechanical voice sounded.
[Di! Countdown Time: 00:00:00. The departure program is about to initiate. You will be leaving the world in three seconds. Please be prepared.]
[Reject the program.]
[Execute rejection…Rejection successful. In the current world, the departure program will no longer be initiated.]
Lin Yuan smiled happily when he heard this sentence.
521 was sad when he heard this sentence.
The joy and sorrow between human and fur ball were not connected.
Huo Chen was paying attention to Lin Yuan all the time. When he saw the other suddenly smile and look very happy, he asked: "Did something good happen?"
Lin Yuan nodded, but then shook his head. He didn't know what to say, and just grabbed Huo Chen's hand and put it on his face and rubbed happily: "Don't ask anymore, anyways… we can always be together."
Huo Chen silently looked at Lin Yuan' bright and clean eyes and suddenly smiled. Ice and snow melted away from his body and the darkness in his body turned into powder and blew away with the wind.
"Go to the backseat, Sui Sui." Huo Chen stared at Lin Yuan with unclear intentions.
Lin Yuan made a sound of acknowledgement and obediently got out of the car and sat in the back seat.
Huo Chen pulled the two front seats forward before rushing into the back seat too.
Lin Yuan didn't know what Huo Chen wanted to do until the man kissed him and put his hand under his clothes. He quickly grabbed the slender hand and blushed: "No… wait, we're in the car..."
Huo Chen's warm breath brushed past his ear: "Isn't it good in the car? Sui Sui and I will be together for a long time, but I'm afraid that Sui Sui will get bored if we're in the room all the time and then won't like me anymore."
Lin Yuan hurriedly shook his head and his resistance relaxed. The man took the opportunity to touch deeper.
He was worried that Huo Chen was worried, and he took the initiative to kiss the other's lips and said: "I won't. Huo Chen, I promise you, I'll always like you, and only you..."
Huo Chen enjoyed the proactiveness of his little partner and deliberately acted pitiful: "Really? But Sui Sui, no one knows what might happen in the future. Let's try it here once, maybe you'll like it? I know I did it too hard last night and you're still a little uncomfortable now, so I won't do it until the end. I just want Sui Sui to feel good and like it."
Lin Yuan had never seen Huo Chen like this and he was charmed into dizziness and lay down.
Huo Chen lay on top of Lin Yuan's body and listened to Lin Yuan's small gasps. Huo Chen's eyes were concealed under the garage light and contained countless emotions.
Finally, Huo Chen's eyes fell on the start of his new life, Lin Yuan.
This would be the entirety of the rest of his life.