IM Chapter 47

Hearing this reply, Xu Chen’s eyes were filled with disbelief.

He stared at the person in front of him, his eyes revealing a hint of astonishment and confusion. He tried several times to find a trace of falsehood on the other’s face, but he failed every time.

He blamed the alpha for being too good at disguising, gritting his teeth and saying, “You really are crazy.”

“Even without the Yan family, I can rely on my own ability to start all over again. But if I lose you, where am I going to find someone exactly like you?” Yan Zhugui’s eyes were filled with deep affection and stubbornness, staring intently at Xu Chen.

Xu Chen didn’t immediately respond to Yan Zhugui’s words, afraid of displeasing him.

Yan Zhugui’s expression softened significantly. Xu Chen decided to go along with the man’s wishes for now, and only when the alpha relaxed his vigilance would he have a chance to leave this place.

“I’m hungry,” he said, his voice carrying a hint of exhaustion and compromise.

Seeing that he was finally willing to eat, a flash of joy appeared in Yan Zhugui’s eyes. He quickly got up, his tone full of flattery, “I brought you some food, see if it suits your taste.” As he spoke, the man overly attentively laid out the food, like a servant serving his master, saying with a smile, “Here, I’ll feed you.”

“I have hands myself,” Xu Chen said, turning his head slightly, seemingly refusing but also welcoming.

“It’s the same whether I feed you or not, come on, open your mouth.” Yan Zhugui still didn’t give up, holding the spoon and stubbornly offering it to Xu Chen’s mouth, “I’ll help you take a bath after you finish eating,” the alpha added.

“Whatever,” Xu Chen was too tired to struggle anymore. He couldn’t escape anyway, and if he refused again, he was afraid he would anger the alpha in front of him.

This tranquil atmosphere, which also revealed a hint of harmony, was indescribably strange, and Xu Chen wasn’t very resistant to it.

After eating, Yan Zhugui carried him to take a bath.

“Don’t… not here…” the beta was a little nervous, a trace of resistance in his eyes.

“You don’t like doing it in the bathroom?” Yan Zhugui looked at his face in confusion.

“It’s not easy to move around, I don’t like it,” Xu Chen’s heart was filled with disgust for what was about to happen. Being intimate with Yan Zhugui while sober was undoubtedly a torment to him.

Xu Chen asked him for wine, saying he wanted to drink, but in reality he was trying to use alcohol to numb himself.

Yan Zhugui hesitated for a moment before getting up to get the wine.

Xu Chen had a good alcohol tolerance. Since he was young, he had mingled with his father at various banquets, dealing with a group of cunning people, and drinking had long become an essential skill. It was just that Yan Zhugui’s alcohol tolerance was much better than he had expected.

After a few glasses of wine, the two naturally rolled from the floor onto the bed. Xu Chen didn’t resist Yan Zhugui’s touch. It wasn’t the first time anyway, and he wasn’t some kind of chaste man. This kind of thing was pleasurable for both parties.

He repeatedly comforted himself in his heart, treating this as a helpless compromise so that he wouldn’t have any psychological burden.

A storm-like devastation lasted from nine o’clock to almost five o’clock in the morning. Yan Zhugui’s whole body was like he had inexhaustible strength, all used on Xu Chen.

Xu Chen couldn’t hold on in the second half, a certain part of his body was almost numb, and his consciousness gradually blurred. After Yan Zhugui finished, he directly collapsed next to him, holding the beta and falling into a deep sleep.

With the added effect of alcohol, the alpha slept very soundly.

Xu Chen looked up at the ceiling, his eyes showing no sign of sleepiness. He carefully pulled himself out of Yan Zhugui’s arms, shakily supporting his trembling legs, wanting to get out of bed.

His already numb lower body couldn’t exert any strength. As soon as his front foot touched the ground, his whole body lunged forward, falling to the ground in a mess, and then he struggled to get up from the ground.

He had noticed before that Yan Zhugui always kept the key in the inner pocket of his clothes. As expected, after feeling the key, Xu Chen quickly opened the shackles. The beta, who had regained his freedom, ran out like crazy, not caring about his physical discomfort for the time being.

To leave this island, he would need transportation. He had learned to drive yachts before, which wasn’t too difficult for him. But soon, he discovered another problem that trapped him.

The key, the key to the yacht.

The key must also be on Yan Zhugui, no, not necessarily on him. If Yan Zhugui had been wary of him from the beginning, he would never have put the two keys together.

He had no other choice now. If he couldn’t leave this island, Yan Zhugui would catch him sooner or later. If he wanted to leave, he had to go back to find the key.

After thinking it over, he still risked going back.

Pushing open the door of the room, his face turned pale instantly when he saw the man sitting on the bed with his head down. The blood in his body seemed to have solidified, there was no trace of color on his lips, and his heart tightened suddenly.

“Where do you think you’re going?” Yan Zhugui slowly raised his head and asked coldly, the chill in his eyes making the beta shiver involuntarily.

“You weren’t drunk? You deliberately let me run, you were testing me,” Xu Chen said in terror, completely unaware that his voice was trembling.

“You want to leave me, you deceived me.” Yan Zhugui’s eyes were filled with pain and anger. He stared at Xu Chen, his eyes as if he wanted to swallow him alive in the next second.

Xu Chen took two steps back subconsciously, his back pressed tightly against the cold door. He mustered up his courage and said, “You kidnapped me here against my will, is there anything wrong with me wanting to leave here?”

“Xu Chen, I said, if you dare to run away, I will cut off your tendons, so that you can only stay by my side forever, and can’t go anywhere,” Yan Zhugui’s voice was low and cold, like a curse from hell, he got up and slowly walked towards him.

“Yan Zhugui, do you want to force me to death? I’ve already died for you once, I’m tired, I just want to stay away from you now, why can’t you just let me go,” Xu Chen roared at him hoarsely, his emotions too agitated, and he almost lost his balance.

He looked at Yan Zhugui getting closer and closer to him, his eyes full of despair and grief, “It’s your freedom to like whoever you want, I won’t stop you, and I won’t make things difficult for you, why can’t you consider me? I’m also human, I also get tired.”

“Do you hate me that much?” Yan Zhugui’s advancing foot clearly paused, a trace of hurt flashed in his eyes, and his voice became a little hoarse.

“Isn’t it obvious enough? I hate you! I hate you!” Xu Chen almost used all his strength to shout it out, the hatred in his eyes as if it would instantly engulf Yan Zhugui, “Even if you imprison me for the rest of my life, play with me until I’m broken, it’s useless, I still hate you.”

He vented all the words he had been holding back in his heart, but he didn’t dare to look at Yan Zhugui’s extremely cold face.

The air gradually solidified as his voice fell, and the flow became increasingly slow.

“You can go,” Yan Zhugui suddenly threw the key in his hand at his feet.

Xu Chen stared incredulously at the man who said these words, and the key that had fallen at his feet, stuttering, “You… you want to let me go?”

“I’ll give you one last chance, three minutes, just three minutes to leave my sight. This time, as long as you disappear from my sight, I’ll set you free,” Yan Zhugui closed his eyes resolutely and said, “I’ll never bother you again.”

Xu Chen hesitated for a long time, his heart filled with mixed feelings.

He couldn’t wait to escape this nightmare-like place, but he also found Yan Zhugui’s sudden change unbelievable, and felt a vague sense of unease in his heart.

But in the end, the desire for freedom still prevailed over everything.

He quickly bent down to pick up the key on the ground, turned around and twisted the doorknob, his front foot stepped over the entrance and stopped again. He turned his head and looked back at the man behind him, “Yan Zhugui, I’m saying if, if you were given a chance to choose again, what would you choose this time?” After he finished speaking, he didn’t wait for Yan Zhugui’s answer, turned around, buried his head, and quickly left.

Yan Zhugui’s gaze followed the person who left almost without hesitation, until he heard a “pa” closing sound in his ear, and the figure that appeared in his sight was completely isolated outside that door.

His eyes revealed complex emotions, there was reluctance, there was anger, and there was also a trace of relief.

——

The Shang family.

The atmosphere in the living room was particularly tense and domineering, and the air was frozen.

Shang Jue confessed to his family about him and Shen Chitai, Shang Lu initially thought that he was getting old and had tinnitus, until Shang Jue solemnly repeated it again, “I’m with my brother.”

The man widened his eyes in disbelief, his face full of shock, as if he had heard something out of this world.

“What did you say?” Shang Lu’s voice raised an octave, his eyes intertwined with shock and anger.