On the bed, a man and woman, both naked, looked at him with alarm in their eyes. One was his adored wife, his partner of twenty years, and the other was a close comrade, a brother-in-arms who he shared the trials of life and death with, even more than his actual kin.
"Big Brother! Wifey! What is happening here?" Song A'san's roar was akin to a raging lion's.
"A'san, let me explain..." His wife's face was a mask of panic.
Yin Rongen was equally dumbstruck. "Brother, I've wronged you! I was hit with an aphrodisiac during the battle with the Lin Gang," he stammered. "I wanted to reach our base to detoxify the poison, but it took effect midway..."
Yin Rongen's words were jumbled. He hadn't expected that the ruse that Song A'san, the unsuspecting fool, always fell for would fail today.
