After his hand had been fully healed, Xiu Lin decided that it's time to get back to work to do his other tasks.
Since his blackening had been prevented due to this incident, he now needed to keep a reputation. Fei Yang wanted to stop him from going to work but no one can really stop an Astixian who had set his goal.
Although Fei Yang is successful in stopping him once, doesn't mean he can stop him from other things. Especially when it's about what Xiu Lin really wanted to do. He also needed to slap a certain someone who stole his work not even giving him a sum in exchange of stealing his credentials so he needed at least prank him with a better one. He can brag about the work all he want, but in fact, the astixian boy has the last laugh.
Besides, it's better to leave the beast den for a while. He really didn't like pain. But he was amazed he persisted long enough and didn't leave Fei Yang despite how many times he felt like his ass was going to rip apart. He also needed to leave for a rest from being flipped and dipped for almost every night eversince they began intercourse.
Fei Yang's abstinence had already gone through the drain almost unrecognizable. It was harshly gouge out of his person, thrashed into the toilet and flushed without hesitation.
Because of this, Xiu Lin had to endure the man with no abstinence left in his being. He had to submit himself and let the beast cook him and be served in a silver platter and be called a main dish over and over again.
His tired heart felt like cursing the system for abandoning him over and over again. Don't even ask where that goddamn system is, he's always away when Xiu Lin needed him the most.
Reaching his abandoned lab, the young man noticed the lone room ransacked. The important papers were gone and even his pending ideas were missing. The blatant theft made him unable to restrain a chuckle of mockery, making his way in and opening his smart watch to call on Fei Yang.
Not passing by a few seconds, the communication connected and the man's face appeared with bright eyes. "Did you reach the lab?" He inquired.
The young man nodded. "My research and future researches were stolen." He explained blankly.
"Do you need help?" The man asked. In fact, one word and everything will be over. Although Xiu Lin like the easy way, he preferred to rely on his brain today.
He shook his head. "I just want to say that I'll be staying here for a while." He explained.
Which means, he's not going home to Fei Yang!
"No, you can do your research at home." The man responded as he hinted a frown on his face.
Xiu Lin frowned back at him. "No, you're in the way." He responded bluntly.
"Lin." Fei Yang tried to act pitiful, but Xiu Lin was heartless to someone who tossed him every night even if he begged himself. Hump. A tooth for a tooth. And who in their right mind would fall for that? Fei Yang's handsome face does not need pity.
"No."
"Baby."
"No."
"My little alien."
"The fuck. No--"
"I'm going to live with you there then."
"No--"
"I'll pack up some clothes for us. Don't worry, I'll buy some extra softer bed." Fei Yang didn't take Xiu Lin's 'no' as he smiled at the younger.
Xiu Lin frowned at him again and ended the call, stopping the tiring exchange. He called the department and asked if there's an extra room dorm he could reserve for the high ranked military man. The research directors of course, had a room for the general Fei Yang.
But when they were about to answer that, a message appeared on their own interface and instantly said "No, the general could only share a room. Since you two are acquainted, maybe he could squeeze in. After all, your room is big enough." to Xiu Lin and hung up, never answering his inquiry again that day.
But Xiu Lin already knew about Fei Yang's schemes, so he decided to lock his door when he gets back to his old room later.
Fei Yang, who seemed to have read the young Astixian's mind so far away, made him come back earlier than Xiu Lin in the living quarters and waited for him to get home. However, with his absolute mind, he predicted that it wasn't a good time to go back yet so Xiu Lin decided to stay in his lab for the entire night, only coming back when the clock hit midnight.
He knew his beast of a lover was inside. But he was too tired to care. He's already put so much effort standing for hours and even made an effort to walk back to his room so he felt quite drained both physically and mentally. Opening his room door, he didn't bother with the lights and took note of the places in his unit. He expertly reached his bedroom, crawled into the soft beddings and collapsed, his poor head hit on something warm and rock hard.
He groaned in annoyance and remembered what this thing is. It's the one and only rock hard masculine body of that person. In revenge, Xiu Lin punched him with his weak hands but was suddenly pulled in an embrace, his body falling to the sturdy chest but he was too sleepy to even struggle.
"Sleepy..." he complained.
The arms around his thinner body began to stroke his head as if he was a grumpy pet cat who was being coaxed by an old lady. Anyway, the feeling wasn't that bad so he decided to accept it and closed his eyes.
"Good night." Fei Yang softly muttered.
The boy mumbled indistinctively, but it sounded like he was replying to that before fully setting his consciousness off.
Fei Yang continued to stroke his hair, then his cheeks, then his back. He almost stroke every part he could reach while the boy was enjoying the warmth and snuggled comfortably. His frowning face slowly knotted out and his face became an angel.
Earlier today, after Xiu Lin's call, Fei Yang already had the people who stole his lover's works to be investigated. Although the young man didn't tell him to do anything, he still had to find out who these bastards that are trying to steal his baby's time away. When he found a few names, his eyes darkened. Not only did they steal the work, they even said that Xiu Lin stole them, causing for his office to be ransacked and the researches he worked hard on making to be taken away and destroyed because it was said to be 'counterfeits'.
The kid was an orphan. Although he has brothers, but his brothers have their own businesses of their own. They weren't the normally affectionate family. And Xiu Lin is so blunt, his tongue has no filter that it could garner many enemies around. He doesn't even have any means to protect himself because he was genetically weak.
If his baby alien is punched then he would be punched without a fight. He obviously wouldn't even retaliate and would decide to kill himself to end the physical torture. Fei Yang was really worried and couldn't even leave Xiu Lin alone in his battlefield where he doesn't even use his advantage. He is scary smart. But his brain heights are so different that the outcome is too tragic to even think.
Killing yourself to end the trouble? It made his heart ache.
Fei Yang carefully took out something from his pocket. The fountain pen that had long been with him eversince the first time he met Xiu Lin was still there. He didn't return it immediately, but he planned to give it in the morning, wondering how important it was to this young man.
Meanwhile, Xiu Lin was dreaming. His smart mind knew it was a remnants of his past being played right before his eyes.
It was when he was young. About twelve years old when he first went out of the laboratory to search for a nice bed for his room. He couldn't find anything nice online and he needed it urgently which is why he decided to travel one planet.
During this stroll, the lazy Astixian came across a stall that he was planning to ignore. He could still clearly remember the stall that was run by another alien specie. "Oh, one of the last survivor." The alien said.
Xiu Lin wasn't interested to know that he was an endangered alien specie, but the alien did caught his attention. Because like him, it was also an endangered alien specie. It's an alien that looked like an ancient tree. Aside from the branches and trunks, it had nothing. These alien are called Oakians, simply because they look like oak trees. They were the second smartest alien following after the Astixians.
But unlike Astix, they have another ability, they can tell the future. The sage of the interstellar era who were also persecuted and seek by different species. Xiu Lin was only interested with the science behind his ability to predict.
But before he could even ask, the old Oakian then suddenly handed him an antique fountain pen. "This pen is quite important to your future. So always keep it and take it with you." he said.
"What does it have to do with me?" Xiu Lin didn't take the fountain pen immediately but simply stared at the moving tree.
"One day you will give up. But on that day you would, this pen will become a medium to open a new light of hope for you." The old alien was speaking nonsense.
Xiu Lin could tell.
The Oakian immediately put the pen on the boy's hand. "That will be 9000 star coins." it said quickly. "You touch, you buy."
The old alien knew that Astixians hates troublesome matters. They knew that these aliens tend to accept the words "come what may" just to end all things that was bothering them. And Xiu Lin, the lazy alien just paid him up without so much as an argue.
The old Oakian was happy, and Xiu Lin was finally able to leave before the old man could give him any more items that would make his savings turn to junk.
He didn't realize that seven years later, the so called hope was his biggest nightmare. The beast, that beast who ate him every night! All because he dropped his fountain pen to commit suicide.
It's not hope, it's retribution!
Xiu Lin's sleeping face frowned in anger and dissatisfaction. His slender hands clutched into his lover's shirt tightly and some excess skin were pinched. Fei Yang, who was quietly watching him reached out to massage his forehead to ease the wrinkled frown.
What is his sweetheart dreaming about? The older wondered. Xiu Lin groaned angrily and punched randomly as if he was slamming the table. Fei Yang accepted his wife's punches and decided that he will punish him later.