Pyramid Hanging Upside Down Chapter 16

Chapter 16

Ji Xingyuan kept drinking while telling what happened in the past. After telling the story, there were many empty bottles on the table in front of the three of them.

Ji Xingyuan still didn’t appear drunk on the surface, but Jian Junshuang saw familiar shadows in his tone and demeanor when he told about the past.

Vicious and paranoid, beneath the surface indifference is suppressed madness.

Jian Junshuang then asked: “How did Qi Feiluan react after the operation? Did you explain to him why you did this?”

Ji Xingyuan seemed to react after a few seconds, and said: “He came back to me, there was no other reaction.”

After the operation, Qi Feiluan woke up and was silent during his recovery and observation period in the hospital. It was as if he had become truly mute after just one operation.

After he was discharged from the hospital, he stopped contacting Fu Jun and returned to Ji Xingyuan, and the two returned to being inseparable as before.

The empty space around him was refilled. Ji Xingyuan was very satisfied with the result at the time, but as time went by, a part of his heart became dissatisfied.

He is like a gambler sitting at the gambling table. It seems that he is winning a lot with this hand, but there is always a hidden worry in his heart that he may lose everything with the next hand.

Therefore, when Qi Feiluan showed signs of refusing or trying to leave, he became as anxious as he is now.

No response…

Bai Hanxu, who was listening, understood that when a person is hurt by another person he trusts, he may become angry, question, or even start to hate the other person, but no reaction…maybe the worst reaction.

“How could there be no reaction…” Bo Hanxu said, “When I think back now, he seems to be a completely different person than when he just graduated. When I saw him, I could hardly feel his emotions. He was so calm and silent, almost like a robot.”

This may be Qi Feiluan’s reaction to Ji Xingyuan.

Among the three people, Jian Junshuang drank the least and was also the most sober. After listening to all this, he said: “You haven’t answered the previous question, so I’ll ask it again. Ji Xingyuan, to you, what exactly is Qi Feiluan? You said he is not your subordinate, then what is he? Why are you so paranoid that you don’t want him to leave your side?”

What is Qi Feiluan to him?

Ji Xingyuan, who couldn’t tell on the surface but was actually a little drunk, remembered in a daze that he had heard similar questions.

It seemed that it was at night, outside the Ji family manor, that he had just returned from a fake date with Mu Hean.

It was nearing his susceptible period, and he was distracted by Omega’s pheromones.

Qi Feiluan’s voice came from behind him: “Ji Xingyuan.”

Qi Feiluan rarely called him by his first name. Ji Xingyuan stopped and turned to look at Qi Feiluan.

He still remembered Qi Feiluan’s appearance at that time. The lights from all over the city at night mixed together and reflected on Qi Feiluan’s face, making that protruding face even more beautiful.

Those psychedelic brilliance ignited the night, and at the same time covered the starlight. Qi Feiluan’s eyes were as bright as the stars in the sky, shaky.

“What do you think I am to you? I love you, so I am willing to stay by your side forever. At the same time, I also long for you to love me, and I also want to monopolize you.”

“I once thought you loved me, but now that I think about it, you have never said that you love me or what I am to you. I have been wondering for a long time. Am I your classmate, your friend, your brother, your comrade-in-arms, your lover, or just your subordinate?”

“As a subordinate, I am responsible for your security during the day, but am I also responsible for taking care of your physical needs at night?”

What was his answer then?

——You are not my subordinate, you are mine.

Ji Xingyuan followed the memory and answered the question asked by Jian Junshuang: “He is mine and belongs to me.”

This answer was almost as expected by Jian Junshuang. He said: “So you treat Qi Feiluan as your possessions. Your possessiveness outweighs everything else. You think that just owning him is enough. You don’t treat him as an independent person with free will and full ability to act. You treat him completely like an object.”

Before and after the operation, Ji Xingyuan did not consider Qi Feiluan’s feelings and thoughts at all. In other words, compared to his uncontrollable possessiveness, Qi Feiluan’s feelings and thoughts were not important.

In Jian Junshuang’s view, Ji Xingyuan is no longer paranoid, he has completely gone to an extreme.

Ji Xingyuan objectified Qi Feiluan, limiting his range of actions, controlling his limbs, erasing his social relationships, ordering him, using him, placing him…

Ji Xingyuan may not have done it intentionally, but his Alpha instinct, the methods of a person in power, and the cruelty in his nature allowed him to slowly turn a living person into his own.

But Jian Junshuang could see clearly that a person could not be an object. When Ji Xingyuan tried to possess a person by possessing an object, he was destined to lose more.

Ji Xingyuan treated Qi Feiluan like an object. Qi Feiluan had no way to resist or leave. The only way he could alleviate this torture was to cooperate with Ji Xingyuan to materialize himself, to convince himself to accept what Ji Xingyuan did, and to convince himself that he was just his tool.

As a result, just as Bai Hanxu said, Qi Feiluan looked less and less like a living person.

Jian Junshuang said to Ji Xingyuan seriously: “The reason why you are inexplicably anxious is not because he shows his intention to refuse or leave, but because you subconsciously know that you have probably lost the most important and precious thing.”

Bai Hanxu sighed, he didn’t know what to say about the matter between these two people.He is not as sharp and sharp as Jian Junshuang, but as a good friend who spent their teenage years together, he understands better than Jian Junshuang what the two were like before.

“You can think back to what Qi Feiluan was like before. The way he looked at you, the tone of his words to you, and some subtle body movements. At that time, everything about him was saying he loved you, instead of like now…it seems like there is only an empty shell left.”

“At that time, you were not like you are now.”

Empty shell… Then after Ji Xingyuan realized this, he started to use various means to stimulate Qi Feiluan, just to try to get even a little reaction from Qi Feiluan?

Jian Junshuang really felt that Ji Xingyuan was following Ji Tailin’s old path.

Jian Junshuang simply gave a strong dose of medicine to Ji Xingyuan, who didn’t know whether he was drunk or still sober: “You know, it’s not like he has no way to completely escape from you.”

Ji Xingyuan, who had been silently listening to Jian Junshuang’s words, suddenly raised his eyes and met Jian Junshuang. Under his gaze, Jian Junshuang still uttered those two words: “Death.”

Death will lead those who want to escape from all this to leave decisively and never come back, just like Ji Xingyuan’s mother Jian Lu did.

No…

Ji Xingyuan moved his lips and silently uttered the word of rejection.

He simply did not dare to imagine that such a thing would happen. He knew very well that even if he had the greatest power, the most money, and the most advanced technology in the world, he would not be able to exchange a person from death.

“I don’t want you to go crazy too, don’t let everything lead to an irreversible situation.”

“Since Qi Feiluan has made a certain refusal and applied for a vacation from you, it means that he wants to return to the position of subordinate, so you might as well let it go.”

Jian Junshuang was not like Bai Hanxu who had gone through the student days with the two of them, so he didn’t care much about the feelings they had when they were young.In his opinion, it was best to stop the matter there. Since the two of them have reached this point, they should stop tormenting each other.

“Impossible.” Ji Xingyuan’s eyes were like a will-o’-the-wisp burning again, “Even if it means death, I won’t let go.”

If you want him to let go, it’s better to let him kill Qi Feiluan, so that at least Qi Feiluan completely belongs to him.

Live for him, die for him.

How wonderful it sounds.

Jian Junshuang was speechless for a moment. He poured himself a glass of strong wine and drank the whole glass in one gulp. He was as calm as if he felt angry.

Ji Xingyuan truly deserves to be the son of Ji Tailin and Jian Lu. He is twice as paranoid and twice as crazy. Once he decides on something, he will never let go.

Bai Hanxu was so drunk that he began to slump on the table. He propped his elbows on the table and said quickly: “It won’t happen, it won’t happen, it won’t reach that point.”

Bai Hanxu asked again: “Then do you love Qi Feiluan or not?”

Ji Xingyuan nodded slowly and heavily. When it came to love, of course he loved Qi Feiluan, but his love was paranoid and twisted.

Bai Hanxu couldn’t figure out the twists and turns in the relationship. His thinking has always been simple and direct. He said: “Then it’s simple. You love him and he loves you. It’s just that there are some knots between the two of you. Just untie these knots.”

Jian Junshuang also said: “I also seriously suggest that you re-examine the way you treat Qi Feiluan. At least you can no longer treat him as your possessions. If you really can’t change yourself for a while, then treat him as a subordinate first, and then improve the relationship between you step by step.”

“He also needs a vacation, his own space, the meaning of his existence and the realization of his own self-worth. You can’t treat him as an object and just ‘place’ it around you. This simply eliminates his use value as a tool.”

“For example, if he takes the initiative to apply to accept the task of investigating the planetary mines, if you treat him not as your own property, but as a subordinate you trust and rely on, then he is indeed the most suitable candidate. You know better than me how to employ people. When you entrust important tasks to him, you also entrust him with trust.”

“But this is the beginning after all. You also know that the biggest sticking point between you two is the original surgery. You must give him an explanation and apologize to him.” Jian Junshuang paused here, “If you can get his forgiveness, then… maybe it’s not too late.”

I’m just afraid that Qi Feiluan no longer needs Ji Xingyuan’s explanation and apology.

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