CH 18

“Brother Pei, do we still need to go to the hospital?”

Originally, Si Huaixi intended to enter the room to check on Pei Zhaozhou’s condition. To his surprise, Pei Zhaozhou lay peacefully on the bed, his face bearing a gentle glow that softened his usually stern expression. Gradually, his fatigued complexion turned rosy, and the faint sound of his tranquil slumber brought a faint smile to Si Huaixi’s lips.

Brother Pei, he truly trusts him.

Si Huaixi raised an eyebrow, expressing concern about Brother Pei’s lack of caution.

But he knew that Brother Pei was a good person without a guarded heart. From their first meeting, he allowed a stranger like him to enter his room. Even when he made inappropriate advances, Brother Pei, with his status and position, didn’t punish him, only slightly annoyed, asking him to leave the hotel.

After that, Si Huaixi thought they would have no further contact, but Brother Pei took the initiative to offer help, paved a way for him to leave the corrupt company that tainted everyone’s perception.

Even when he refused the offer for his reasons, Brother Pei silently invested in the TV series he recently appeared in.

Si Huaixi was surprised when he saw Pei Zhaozhou on the set. The novel “Interstellar Heartthrob” never mentioned Pei Zhaozhou investing in this drama, indicating a deviation in the storyline. Pei Zhaozhou certainly didn’t invest in the drama because of the protagonist.

Si Huaixi didn’t want to be overly conceited, but he felt that Pei Zhaozhou did this for him.

—What is Brother Pei really thinking?

Even now, he remains utterly defenseless, entering his home and sleeping on his bed.

Si Huaixi stood at the door of the room, gazing intently at Pei Zhaozhou’s sleeping face, his eyes filled with complexity and depth.

It wasn’t just because Pei Zhaozhou lacked caution towards him, but because he believed in him wholeheartedly…

Si Huaixi, a person from the post-apocalyptic era, no matter how well-disguised he appeared, held a normal indifference and wariness towards human nature, just like breathing or drinking water.

He could occasionally act on a whim to save people, but deep down, he remained a detached person. Even if he saved someone, he would not engage further with those individuals.

It was like in the post-apocalyptic world, where he would casually save a group of vulnerable survivors, or tend to a patch of radishes in his leisure time, occasionally weeding.

The grateful gazes they cast upon him were like fleeting clouds to Si Huaixi. Once he had saved them, he never carried it in his heart.

But this time was different…

A surge of breath occupied his mind, with a strong and abrupt sense of existence. It should have made Si Huaixi, a person with strong possessiveness and exclusion towards personal boundaries, tense. To his own astonishment, Si Huaixi actually tolerated it.

Si Huaixi pondered again, and the silent atmosphere grew increasingly eerie. In the dim light, his dark eyes flickered with a strange gleam. His obscure gaze climbed up the lips of Pei Zhaozhou, revealing a tempting shade of crimson. Brother Pei, being so defenseless, appeared somewhat cute, which caused an uncontrollable restlessness within him.

He desired to imprint his mark on those lips, forcefully tainting every part of Pei Zhaozhou with his aura, just like that bewildering and enchanting night where every sob and whimper was swallowed by him, and every sensitive spot under his touch was under his control.

—Just like his personal territory, Brother Pei would be his.

Si Huaixi’s possessiveness burned like a dark, sunless sea, restless and surging, deep and overlapping.

Unaware of the origin of this emotion, Si Huaixi’s gaze still carried a hint of natural innocence and confusion. Yet it quietly conveyed that it was all because of Pei Zhaozhou before him.

Perhaps Si Huaixi’s intense and complicated gaze disturbed Pei Zhaozhou’s sleep.

Only a soft hum was heard as he woke up. Pei Zhaozhou, still drowsy, covered his abdomen. The scent of Si Huaixi’s presence on the bed had dissipated. His eyes flashed with an indescribable desire, and his sensitive nose seemed to catch a whiff of longing.

Slowly getting up and squinting, Pei Zhaozhou looked towards Si Huaixi standing by the door, puzzled as he asked, “Aren’t you coming to sleep?”

Pei Zhaozhou was still half-asleep, unaware of how ambiguous this invitation was.

Si Huaixi struggled to suppress the restless thoughts in his heart, but this sentence turned his world upside down in an instant. However, the Brother Pei before him remained so candid and harmless. Si Huaixi chuckled and said, “Brother Pei, don’t forget, you’ve slept with me. How can you not be wary of me at all?”