ARIPOEC Chapter 3

Chapter 3: Cohabitation

Chapter 3: Cohabitation

The bathroom was filled with steam, blurring everything in sight.

Lin Jun stood in the bathroom, somewhat helplessly looking at the clothes he had just taken off in the laundry basket.

He only realized after showering that he had forgotten to bring clean clothes.

Should he make do with the dirty clothes? Or should he go out naked to get clothes?

Lin Jun struggled with the decision for a long time in the bathroom.

“Anyway, there’s no one here…” Lin Jun gritted his teeth and resolutely pulled open the bathroom door.

The moment he opened the door, he heard a soft sound of a door opening not far away, and a figure stood in the doorway, seemingly looking in this direction.

“Fuck!” Lin Jun quickly turned around and closed the door, his movements smooth and swift.

That kid Meng Yi… never comes back early or late, but just at this moment.

Although they were all men, it still took a lot of courage to appear completely naked in front of another person.

Lin Jun took a deep breath, brushed his damp hair back, and grabbed a towel from the nearby towel rack, wrapping it around his waist.

“Meng Yi, you brat…” Lin Jun cursed as he pulled open the door, but the remaining words got stuck in his throat.

The person standing at the door was not Meng Yi at all.

A tall figure stood in the doorway, still wearing the dark blue jacket from before, though it looked slightly wrinkled. The jacket was open, and his chest under the shirt was still rising and falling slightly, as if he had just finished some strenuous exercise.

Lin Jun’s body was on high alert, and he took a step back, looking at Ye Mingyuan warily, “How did you get in?!”

Ye Mingyuan frowned slightly, raised his hand, and showed his wrist, “I swiped my Personal Terminal to get in.”

“…” Lin Jun gasped.

The dormitory doors were supposed to be locked with Personal Terminals. In theory, only the dormitory owner’s terminal would work, unless the owner set permissions, adding someone’s terminal to a whitelist, allowing them to enter and exit freely.

Lin Jun looked at Ye Mingyuan with suspicion and uncertainty.

Had his trust in Ye Mingyuan reached this point? He had even added him to the dormitory access whitelist.

The atmosphere in the room was a bit stiff. Lin Jun never expected that after finally getting away from Ye Mingyuan, he would run into him again in his own dormitory.

Ye Mingyuan was worried that something had happened to Lin Jun, and even used a mech to rush back. Now that he had finally confirmed Lin Jun’s safety, he was able to observe the current situation.

Lin Jun stood at the bathroom door, with only a towel wrapped around his body, and humid steam constantly pouring out from behind him.

His hair was damp, with a few unruly strands hanging in front of his forehead. A drop of water lingered on the tip of his hair for a long time, finally falling down. The water droplet ran across his bare collarbone and chest, finally disappearing into the towel around his waist.

Ye Mingyuan’s eyes couldn’t help but deepen.

Naturally, Lin Jun noticed such a palpable gaze on him.

Lin Jun looked down at his bare chest and suddenly understood. He said with embarrassment and annoyance, “…Turn around!”

Ye Mingyuan didn’t move. He retracted his slightly invasive gaze, and a slight arc appeared at the corner of his lips, “No need to be shy.”

Lin Jun: “…” Who’s shy?

Ye Mingyuan: “I’ve seen it many times.”

“??!!” Lin Jun gritted his teeth, suddenly feeling a bit itchy to punch someone.

Lin Jun struggled for two seconds between punching someone first or getting dressed first, but Ye Mingyuan stopped while he was ahead and turned around readily.

As soon as he turned around, Lin Jun dashed to the closet.

He grabbed a random piece of clothing from the closet and put it on without looking, almost at the speed of an emergency assembly.

In less than a minute, Lin Jun was dressed and sitting in a chair.

Ye Mingyuan turned back, and when he saw the clothes Lin Jun was wearing, his pupils shrank slightly.

“Is there something wrong?” Lin Jun lowered his head and looked at himself, feeling baffled.

It was clearly a normal white T-shirt and black casual pants.

Ye Mingyuan quickly collected himself. He shook his head and walked to the bed to sit down, “How much do you remember?”

From Lin Jun’s actions, he knew where his dormitory was, and was familiar with the school’s public flying vehicles and stops, but he was completely unfamiliar with Ye Mingyuan, and even more clueless about his pregnancy.

Lin Jun’s eyes flickered.

Ye Mingyuan thought he had amnesia, but he knew very well that he didn’t. The memories of the past decades were clear in his mind.

He had also seriously checked, and he had indeed been reborn fifteen years ago. This body was still his own, and even the password on the Personal Terminal was the one he usually used. Everything around him was exactly the same as it was fifteen years ago, except for Ye Mingyuan.

If he remembered correctly, he didn’t know Ye Mingyuan until after he joined the army in his previous life. At that time, Ye Wenxing, the direct son of the Ye family, died on the battlefield, and the entire Ye family couldn’t find any suitable heir except for Ye Wenming, who was born with a weak body.

It was at this time that Ye Mingyuan appeared. He was brought to the Emperor by Marshal Ye, and instantly transformed from an illegitimate son living in obscurity into the heir of the Ye family.

Later, Ye Mingyuan used the Ye family’s influence to directly enter the army, and within a few short years, he achieved great military exploits…

In his previous life, Ye Mingyuan had never even attended the Imperial Military Academy, let alone known Lin Jun or had a child with him.

Could it be that he had been reborn into a parallel space?

The two men each had their own thoughts. Lin Jun couldn’t see through Ye Mingyuan, so he didn’t dare to reveal himself easily in front of him.

He narrowed his eyes and started with an eviction order: “I’m a little dizzy, we can talk about anything tomorrow. You can leave.”

Ye Mingyuan didn’t move, showing no intention of getting up, “Go back? Go back where?”

Lin Jun: “Go back to your own room.”

Ye Mingyuan raised his eyebrows slightly, and a rare smile appeared on his poker face, “Oh?”

Lin Jun reflexively felt a sense of danger.

“This is my room.”

“??!!!”

“You are my partner, of course we live together.”

Within a single day, Lin Jun’s worldview collapsed for the third time. He looked around the familiar room in disbelief, questioning his life.

Bullshit! His roommate for the four years at the academy was Meng Yi!!!

Ye Mingyuan didn’t seem to think it was enough. He leaned forward, a teasing smile in his sea-blue eyes: “The clothes you’re wearing are mine.”

Lin Jun: “…”

“And the towel you wrapped around yourself when you came out of the bathroom is also mine.”

Lin Jun’s blood rushed to his head, and his ears instantly turned red.

The face in front of him was incomparably handsome, with a faint smile at the corner of his lips, enough to make all face-obsessed people indulge in it, but the more Lin Jun looked at it, the more his fist itched. At the school hospital, he thought Ye Mingyuan was unusually serious, but now it seemed he was just pretending! Deep down, he was still that malicious trash!

His fist, carrying a gust of wind, swung towards Ye Mingyuan’s chin at a tricky angle.

At such a close distance, it was almost impossible for Ye Mingyuan to avoid it.

But just as the fist was about to hit him, Ye Mingyuan suddenly leaned back, dodging the fatal blow in a posture that almost defied human anatomy.

Such a backward lean would inevitably lead to instability. Ye Mingyuan supported himself on the edge of the bed for cushioning. He only took two steps back and did not fall.

A battle was about to break out.

Lin Jun was so angry that he didn’t even think about how unwise it was to fight in such a narrow place as the dormitory.

Lin Jun put all his strength into each punch, but Ye Mingyuan did not fight back, only retreated constantly, and soon the two of them retreated to the bedside.

At this moment, Ye Mingyuan suddenly turned sideways. But Lin Jun was prepared, and without thinking, he swung his elbow over.

A rapid turn would inevitably lead to instability. Ye Mingyuan grasped this fleeting opportunity and tripped Lin Jun’s feet.

Lin Jun’s aggressive attack was thus defused. Not only that, but he lost his balance and fell forward, landing in the soft quilt.

Lin Jun supported himself on the edge of the bed. Just as he was propping himself up from the bed, a hand pressed down on his shoulder from behind, pushing him back down.

The next second, a warm body covered him.

“…Get the hell off me!!” Lin Jun struggled twice, but the person on top didn’t budge.

He hammered the bed hard twice and simply gave up struggling, “What do you want?”

Ye Mingyuan was worried about Lin Jun’s stomach and didn’t dare to press down on him too much, “I just want to ask a few questions. If you don’t cooperate, I have no choice but to do this.”

Hot breath blew on his ear, and the low, magnetic voice seemed to drill into his ear.

Lin Jun’s body stiffened, and his ears almost instantly turned red.

Ye Mingyuan looked at the red earlobe in front of him and opened his mouth to bite it.

The sharp teeth gently nibbled twice on the soft earlobe, and Lin Jun was stunned. Sparks exploded from his tailbone, crackling all the way to his scalp.

“You remember Meng Yi, the school’s flying vehicles and stops, and the location of the dormitory… but you only forgot me, right?”

Lin Jun’s vision blurred, and he went limp in the layers of quilts, completely missing what Ye Mingyuan was saying.

After a long time without getting a response from Lin Jun, Ye Mingyuan leaned over to look. He dug Lin Jun’s face out of the quilt, only to see a face with tears in the corners of his eyes, flushed with color.

Lin Jun never knew his earlobes were so sensitive. The effect was even more terrifying than hitting an acupuncture point.

Lin Jun’s hands and feet were weak, and he was unable to resist, shamefully trembling as he said, “You… bastard!”

The voice was soft and delicate, without any strength or dignity.

Ye Mingyuan was taken aback for a moment, but quickly understood.

Looking at Lin Jun, who had rarely withdrawn all his thorns, Ye Mingyuan suddenly curled his lips and smiled.

He lowered his head and dropped a kiss, “Only a bastard to you.”