Pyramid Hanging Upside Down Chapter 28

Chapter 28

Qi Feiluan opened his eyes again, and what he saw was pure white.

The sunlight that is not too dazzling during the day in winter is filtered by the white gauze curtains and shines into the room, casting a soft light on everything indoors.

Qi Feiluan realized that he was lying on a hospital bed and the anesthesia had worn off, so when he woke up he could clearly feel the pain coming from his body, especially his left leg.

He turned his head and saw Ji Xingyuan sitting on the chair next to him.

Qi Feiluan didn’t know how long he had been sitting here and whether he had rested, but it seemed like he had not.

Compared to him who was clean and tidy, had put on a hospital gown, and had his wounds properly taken care of, Ji Xingyuan’s hair was messy, his body smelled of gun smoke, and he only had an extra black coat on his body.

Qi Feiluan looked at Ji Xingyuan up and down. Apart from being a little embarrassed, it seemed that he was not seriously injured.

“It’s good that you’re not injured.” Qi Feiluan was really relieved at this moment. His memory of last night only stayed between Ji Xingyuan’s protection between the tree and him.

At that time, he tried his best to get Ji Xingyuan to give up on him and leave first. The place where they were hiding was too close to the exploding vehicle, and the ambush on the right would soon touch them.Even if those who were ambushing him couldn’t get through, the stray bullets, ricochet and fragments could easily hit Ji Xingyuan.

After losing his limbs, he had difficulty moving. Instead of dragging down Ji Xingyuan, it was better to let him leave. With weapons on his body, he could fight the ambushers who might come up behind him, giving Ji Xingyuan time to escape and hide.

But did he say it out loud at that time?

Qi Feiluan couldn’t remember clearly. There were gunshots and explosions everywhere. The severe pain and excessive blood loss made him extremely weak. He couldn’t remember whether he made any sound at that time.

Ji Xingyuan sat there motionless, with extremely low air pressure around him, like a silent statue.

It took a long time after hearing Qi Feiluan’s voice before his eyes focused on Qi Feiluan.

This Alpha, who was once shrewd and decisive like a robot, has become rusty. In his life so far, there have been more dangerous moments than last night, but last night was the only moment when he felt scared.

Not because of stray bullets and explosions, but because of Qi Feiluan, who was getting weaker and weaker in his arms.

Fortunately, the people with red eyes arrived in time and sent Qi Feiluan to the hospital for rescue as quickly as possible.

Last night, when he “cut off” Qi Feiluan’s left calf and took him to hide behind a tree, the adrenaline surged at the critical moment, leaving him no time to think too much.

When Qi Feiluan was pushed into the operating room for rescue, the fear of hindsight began to erode his body and mind.

Ji Xingyuan’s throat was dry and he said, “Is this all you want to say?”

Qi Feiluan was a little confused by the question. He didn’t know what else to say for a while, but one of the qualities of a qualified subordinate is that when your boss asks you to say something, you have to say something even if you don’t know what to say.

“I was negligent in my duty last night,” Qi Feiluan said. “I anticipated that there might be dangers on the way to and from the engagement banquet, so in addition to regular security, I also asked Hongtong to be on standby at the outskirts of the city. But I didn’t expect that Grantham would intercept and kill him with heavy firepower so directly. This was my dereliction of duty…”

Ji Xingyuan suddenly interrupted him and said, “I don’t want to hear you say this.”

Ji Xingyuan looked at Qi Feiluan with bloodshot eyes, and asked: “Why did you always want me to leave first? Why didn’t you blame me for cutting off your leg? Why did you only care about me and not yourself? You should have questioned me first.”

Qi Feiluan was even more confused. It wasn’t that he was so noble, letting Ji Xingyuan go first and stopping him himself, but that it was the most appropriate method at that time, which could at least greatly increase Ji Xingyuan’s survival probability.

Moreover, it is his duty as a subordinate and bodyguard to protect Ji Xingyuan at all costs. Otherwise, why would Ji Xingyuan give him a huge salary?Even if any of Hongtong’s team members were replaced, they would make the same choice for their employer.

Let’s talk about his left leg… Losing half of his left leg and no longer being physically intact would certainly cause him pain both physically and mentally, but Qi Feiluan never thought he could survive the crisis situation last night.

It’s enough to be able to save a life, just half a leg. Anyway, with the advanced technology now, if he loses half of his left leg, he can replace it with a prosthetic limb without affecting anything.

The most important thing is that he was in danger last night and lost half of his left leg. He was also responsible for not arranging security and detecting the assassination information in time.

It’s impossible for Ji Xingyuan not to understand things that he can think clearly rationally.

“Your life safety comes first. This is my responsibility. Amputating my legs to save me was the best choice at that time. I should thank you. If you weren’t so decisive, I wouldn’t be alive. Putting you into crisis itself is also my dereliction of duty…”

Neglect of duty, speaking and silence are all duties.

Of course Ji Xingyuan knew rationally that he was doing the right thing, but he was just a little closer to losing Qi Feiluan in a real sense.

His most profound memory last night was not the explosion, nor the assassination, nor the line between life and death, but the moment he personally cut off half of Qi Feiluan’s leg, and the bright red blood spurted out from the cut surface.

What Jian Junshuang said to him once again appeared in Ji Xingyuan’s mind, and Ji Xingyuan finally understood what Qi Feiluan meant by objectifying himself.

It means that Qi Feiluan does not care about his own life and puts him first in everything.

This means that Qi Feiluan will not give him any feedback other than his “responsibility”. He can not care about the integrity of his limbs, give up his spiritual self, or even give up his emotions, and think for him in a purely rational manner.

But what Ji Xingyuan wants is not tools or items…

In the past four years, what had he done to turn Qi Feiluan, who loved him, into what he is now.

“That’s enough.”

Scenes from the past flashed before his eyes, Ji Xingyuan had a splitting headache, and his tone couldn’t help but become irritable.

Qi Feiluan immediately fell silent and looked at Ji Xingyuan quietly.

He didn’t ask why he interrupted him, nor why he suddenly became irritable.

In his calm eyes, Ji Xingyuan’s headache became more severe. He tried his best to control his emotions, softened his tone and said, “I’m sorry.”

“Qi Feiluan, I’m not just apologizing for my tone just now, but also for my behavior four years ago. I just can’t bear the thought of you leaving me, because…”

Ji Xingyuan lowered his head slightly. He was sitting with his back to the light. The soft white light was blocked by his body, casting a dark shadow in front of him.

“Because I love you.”

“And you are a Beta. I have no way to mark you. You can leave me and enter other people’s world at any time.”

Ji Xingyuan finally admitted that he loved Qi Feiluan, finally apologized and gave an explanation for his behavior four years ago, and finally admitted that in this unequal relationship, he was the passive one.

Ji Xingyuan has been stuck in the fear that Qi Feiluan will leave, so he chose to put the chains on Qi Feiluan with his own hands.

He had to hold on to this chain tightly to be sure that Qi Feiluan would not leave him.

But the assassination last night made him understand that what was chained was just a body that even Qi Feiluan himself didn’t cherish.

Ji Xingyuan gave up Alpha’s ridiculous dignity and pride and revealed his true feelings. He would never make the same mistake as Ji Tailin, and he would never torture each other to death with the people he loved for the sake of so-called “respect” and “pride”.

He has already lost 20-year-old Qi Feiluan, and he can never lose 24-year-old Qi Feiluan again.

After Ji Xingyuan finished speaking, he waited for Qi Feiluan to respond to him.

But no, there was nothing. The person on the hospital bed was eerily quiet.

Qi Feiluan listened to him carefully, and his reaction when he heard Ji Xingyuan say “I love you” was no different from when he heard him give orders.

He was listening, and that was all.

There were no ups and downs of emotion, no confusion, no anger, no sadness, no joy, excitement or happiness, nothing.

Qi Feiluan was also slightly surprised at his calmness.

This passage was obviously something he had been waiting for for four years, but it no longer affected his mind and emotions.

Four years ago, he woke up from the hospital bed and found that his neck had been replaced by a prosthetic limb. He was being monitored all the time, and he no longer even had the right to speak.

He was confused, angry, sad… He didn’t understand why Ji Xingyuan treated him like this. He had been waiting for Ji Xingyuan to give him an explanation.

Qi Feiluan felt like the devil locked in a bottle in the old story.

In the first year, he thought that if Ji Xingyuan gave him an explanation, he would forgive Ji Xingyuan.

The next year, he thought that if Ji Xingyuan gave him an explanation, although he didn’t want to forgive Ji Xingyuan, he would still love him.

In the third year, he thought that if Ji Xingyuan gave him an explanation, although he didn’t want to forgive Ji Xingyuan or love him anymore, he would still be the same Qi Feiluan.

While waiting like this, he waited for the dinner party after Ji Xingyuan took over the Ji family.

While waiting, Qi Feiluan could not help but wonder what the reason was for Ji Xingyuan to do this. He also did not believe that Ji Xingyuan’s actions were out of his own subjective intention. He once made excuses for Ji Xingyuan, thinking that Ji Tailin forced Ji Xingyuan to do that.

After all, in the winter of 2240, while Ji Xingyuan was facing the fact that his father had killed his mother, he was suppressed by Ji Tailin. It was the lowest and coldest moment in his life.

A pervert like Ji Tailin, after losing Jian Lu as the target of torture, might shift the target of torture to Ji Xingyuan.

But in the winter of 2243, Ji Tailin died suddenly and Ji Xingyuan took over the Ji family. Ji Xingyuan lost the threat of his father, but Qi Feiluan still did not wait for an explanation, and even Ji Xingyuan’s control over him became more serious.

It wasn’t until New Year’s Day that Qi Feiluan silently turned another page on the waiting calendar in his heart. Only then did he realize that this day-to-day waiting had wiped away all his emotions and swallowed up his spirit and self.

In the fourth year, he thought he no longer needed Ji Xingyuan’s explanation.

He has clearly realized that what Ji Xingyuan did was entirely out of his own subjective intention. He was not forced by others and did not consider other people’s feelings. He did it because he wanted to.

Qi Feiluan himself is somewhat self-righteous and sentimental. He is just Ji Xingyuan’s possession.

When he was a child, he was Ji Xingyuan’s toy, and when he grew up, he became his tool.

That’s all.