“!!!”

Lin Jianyuan took a step back in fright while his pupils were practically quaking.

A human leg? A human leg!

How could there be a human leg here?! And why only one leg? Where's the rest of the body? Whose leg is this?!

Lin Jianyuan’s brain spun at top speed. His breathing quickened, and his heart pounded wildly!

No, no, no!

Why? Impossible!

Xie Yu wouldn’t eat people! He absolutely wouldn’t!

There must be some explanation. It must be a misunderstanding. He wouldn’t…

Xie Yu would never eat a human being!!!

Lin Jianyuan’s heart hammered so hard that it felt ready to smash through his rib cage. But his body reacted faster than his thoughts.

When he came to his senses, the entire leg was already inside a garbage bag.

Abyssal Maw: “? What’s going on?”

Squishy: “.”

Little Stone: “.”

All the little toys fell silent, making Abyssal Maw even more nervous: “Seriously, what’s going on?!”

Lin Jianyuan said darkly: “Shut up.”

Abyssal Maw immediately went: “>_<”

Lin Jianyuan looked around, forcibly suppressing his increasingly frantic heartbeat as he calmly searched for any other traces.

Nothing.

Apparently, it was only this one leg.

There weren’t any other things… hands, feet, heads, or anything obviously human.

It was Lin Jianyuan’s first time doing something like this, and the hand clutching the black garbage bag was trembling.

He struggled to calm himself down, repeatedly telling himself to stay calm, stay calm, he absolutely had to stay calm.

Wait.

After taking a deep breath, Lin Jianyuan suddenly realized something.

“No,” he said. “Mouthball, open up!”

Abyssal Maw: “Huh?”

Although it had no idea why Lin Jianyuan was suddenly freaking out again, Abyssal Maw obediently opened its mouth.

“>0<”

Lin Jianyuan shoved his hand inside without hesitation and started rummaging around.

Was he stupid?! Why would he take the human leg?!

Leaving it inside his wife’s stomach was obviously the safest option!

If he wasn't accidentally eaten and ended up in here, who would ever know that there was a severed leg dumped inside?!

His wife’s stomach was the perfect place to dispose of a corpse!

What kind of useless teammate was he?! Why would he even take it outside?!

Lin Jianyuan was just about to fish the human leg back out and throw it away when a sudden whoosh tore through the air above him.

He looked up, and countless intestinal tubes were hurtling toward him like a torrential storm.

“Wife!”

Lin Jianyuan was overjoyed. His wife came to pick him up! One second later, Lin Jianyuan, gently but thoroughly trussed up by countless intestinal tubes, went pale with horror.

“No, no, no! Wife, wait! Wait, I still have something to do. WIFE!!!”

Lin Jianyuan desperately tried to control the trembling in his fingers as he rapidly felt around inside Abyssal Maw’s stomach.

But the intestinal tubes wrapped around him far too tightly!

Not only were his arms and legs bound firmly together, but the intestinal tubes were also slipping under the hem of his shirt! They wriggled inside his clothes and then crawled up through the legs of his pants!

Lin Jianyuan: “?”

The cold and slick intestinal tubes rapidly slithered all over his body. It was like countless snakes of varying thicknesses were simultaneously… invading…

Lin Jianyuan began to shudder uncontrollably as his fingers clenched nervously. His toes also curled up.

His whole body tensed against his will. His throat felt as if someone was squeezing it, and the dryness made him swallow reflexively.

Lin Jianyuan was essentially a plucked chicken laid out helplessly for slaughter. For the first time, he realized just how powerful Xie Yu truly was.

Just how powerful an S-class Aberrant truly was. If Xie Yu wanted to…

Lin Jianyuan had absolutely no ability to resist him.

He was like a tiny chick, capable of doing nothing but trembling while Xie Yu did whatever he wanted with him.

Thankfully, it didn’t last long. He felt like he was sitting on a rocket launcher.

Whoosh! He was yanked straight out.

Countless intestinal tubes still wrapped tightly around him, but none obstructed his breathing.

Soon, light flooded his eyes.

Lin Jianyuan realized that he was out of Xie Yu’s digestive tract and was being held tightly as they descended slowly and steadily.

The moment his feet touched the ground, a sense of security flooded back into his body.

No... Actually, that sense of security returned the instant Xie Yu woke up and rushed over to get him.

Xie Yu hugged him tightly.

His soft yet icy body pressed close against Lin Jianyuan’s chest, like one enormous bundle of panicked, helpless snakes.

“I’m sorry…” Xie Yu said hoarsely. “I’m sor… mmph.”

Lin Jianyuan swallowed the rest of his apology with a kiss.

Beside the inverted spire, the two of them clung tightly to each other and kissed deeply, overwhelmed with relief after the ordeal.

Lin Jianyuan could clearly feel Xie Yu calming down. His lips gradually warmed from their earlier chill, and his body slowly relaxed.

He became that familiar mass of warm and soft innards again.

Kissing truly soothed both body and mind.

Lin Jianyuan could feel his own emotions settling too, and the corners of his mouth couldn’t help curling upward.

The kiss ended.

Even then, the two of them continued to affectionately brush their lips against each other.

“You’re crazy in love with me, huh?” Lin Jianyuan murmured with a low chuckle.

Xie Yu replied, “Yes.”

Lin Jianyuan froze. He didn’t expect such a firm and immediate answer since he only meant to tease his wife a little.

Instead, his wife turned the tables and made him blush.

There really was a reason people said sincerity was the ultimate killing move! “Ahem…” Lin Jianyuan coughed, his face burning red.

“Mm. I-I… I’m crazy in love with you too, baby.”

A massive chorus of sharp inhalations sounded around them. Only then did Lin Jianyuan remember that they were still in public.

Holy sh*t! The Bureau’s Containment Department, Field Operations Department, and Internal Affairs Department had several thousand people combined!

And every single one of them was standing around watching!!! Holy sh*t!

In front of thousands of people, he not only hugged and kissed his digestive-system wife, but also went back and forth with him saying, “You love me, I love you, I love you like crazy,” over and over!

HELP!

HELP AAAAAAAAAAH!!!

BOOM!  Lin Jianyuan was struck point-blank by a social-death bomb, and his entire body turned scarlet in an instant. He swayed on his feet and almost fainted!

“Baby?” Xie Yu caught him, startled.

Countless intestinal tubes wove themselves into an enormous, soft pink recliner, supporting Lin Jianyuan as he sat down on the spot.

“Baby, are you feeling sick somewhere?”

Another gigantic wave of horrified gasps erupted around them! Even the battle-hardened Director and Shi Shaoning, who were long accustomed to being force-fed their public displays of affection, went:

“HSSSSS!”

Lin Jianyuan: “………………”

Lin Jianyuan covered his face, feeling utterly ashamed. Nothing in his life had been as humiliating as this.

Sure, he was hopelessly love-brained. Sure, he was always showing off his relationship as if nobody else existed. But there were several thousand people here!!!

Thousands of his coworkers!!!

People he saw every single freaking day!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!

“Go… go home…”

Lin Jianyuan was almost crying from embarrassment. He grabbed his roommate’s liver and pulled it over his burning face. “Wife, take me home! Hurry… home!”

“Okay.” Xie Yu leaned over and embraced him.

A vast tide of soft innards surged around Lin Jianyuan, wrapping him gently.

The next second, the light shifted, and they were back in their warmly lit home.

The moment Lin Jianyuan’s feet touched the floor again, the solid feeling of wood beneath them settled his nerves.

More importantly, there was nobody else around.

No more thousands of people staring at them slack-jawed and dumbfounded with their worldviews shattered, while collectively sucking in horrified breaths!!!

Lin Jianyuan collapsed onto the sofa.

He covered his eyes with the back of one hand and stayed there for quite a while before finally recovering from his catastrophic social death.

No. It was still awkward as hell.

AAAAAAAAH!

The moment he remembered passionately kissing in front of thousands of people, Lin Jianyuan’s heart started racing all over again. His throat went dry, and sweat broke out across his forehead.

He had PTSD now, damn it!

He could already predict that for the rest of his life, anytime, anywhere, the moment this memory resurfaced, he would instantly break out in a cold sweat…

“What's wrong with you?”

Xie Yu repeatedly checked him over and confirmed that he wasn’t injured. Now he poked out through the collar of Lin Jianyuan’s shirt once again, looking like a little pink snake he kept against his chest.

The little snake rubbed against his chin, then nuzzled his throat.

As if no amount of cuddling would ever be enough. His roommate said, “Baby, are you tired? Do you want to sleep for a while?”

Lin Jianyuan took a deep breath. He lifted his phone and checked the time.

Mm. It was almost five o’clock.

After an entire afternoon of chaos, he was exhausted both physically and mentally. Lin Jianyuan stroked his wife’s back through his shirt, where Xie Yu was still curled up inside his clothes. “I’m a little hungry. Wife, are you hungry? I’ll go make something…”

His roommate laughed softly. “I’m not hungry.”

Only then did Lin Jianyuan realize his incredibly stupid question and couldn’t help but laugh too.

His roommate crawled out through his collar and headed away, asking as he went, “What do you want to eat? I’ll make it for you~”

Lin Jianyuan: “…”

Xie Yu received no answer, so he turned around in confusion. The human leaning against the sofa had his head lowered, face turned slightly to one side.

Lin Jianyuan’s face was bright red as he awkwardly straightened his collar.

Before Xie Yu could even ask, “Why are you blushing again?” Lin Jianyuan hurriedly said, “I’m fine. Baby, can you make me some… uh, egg fried rice?”

Xie Yu smiled. “Okay~” Then he turned and headed into the kitchen.

Soon, the sounds of the stove igniting and eggs being cracked came from the kitchen.

On the sofa, Lin Jianyuan closed his eyes and tried to steady his breathing.

It was… so strange.

Earlier, when Xie Yu crawled inside his clothes and curled up against his chest and stomach, Lin Jianyuan only thought that his wife felt warm, soft, and adorable.

It wasn’t their first time pressing bare skin against bare skin. But when his roommate crawled back out through his collar…

That huge mass of wet and slippery innards, carrying that familiar body heat... It was so soft and warm as it rubbed its way from his lower abdomen all the way up across his chest…

Lin Jianyuan immediately got… that.

And he inevitably remembered the scene of himself flying through the air while clinging to a gigantic intestine, then sliding all the way down it after letting go.

It was so… so strange!

Seriously strange…

Why did it feel so… so sexual?

Lin Jianyuan couldn’t take it anymore. He felt that if he stayed around his wife any longer right now, Xie Yu would definitely be able to suck a gigantic yellow crystal straight out of his brain.

“Wife, I’m gonna take a shower!”

Lin Jianyuan decisively jumped up and bolted into the bathroom.

“Okay…” came his roommate’s completely innocent reply from the kitchen.

He couldn’t take it. The more innocent and oblivious Xie Yu was, the guiltier Lin Jianyuan felt. It was like he was corrupting some perfectly well-behaved kid.

Aaaaah! His wife was only just learning how to be human! He couldn’t teach his wife this kind of messed-up stuff!

But… sooner or later, they would.

His heart suddenly gave a violent thump.

Lin Jianyuan stood inside the bathroom and turned the cold-water tap all the way up.

A powerful stream of water blasted on his face. He closed his eyes and tilted his head back slightly while his heart was still pounding wildly.

Sooner or later, one day… they would.

He would pour all of that increasingly uncontrollable desire onto the person he loved.

He would act out every filthy, indecent, obscene thought in his head with his lover.

He would take the hand of his innocent, naïve lover, who knew absolutely nothing about sex, and slowly guide him. Teach him. Or, to put it more directly…

He would make love with him.

Sure, there was still a slight mental hurdle for him right now. But sooner or later, they would.

Lin Jianyuan was absolutely certain of that.

Because even right now… even while blasting himself with freezing cold water from the showerhead…

That part of him still wouldn't calm down!!!

HELP!!!

Physical cooling methods aren't working anymore!

He practically wanted to punch himself twice!

Of course, no man on earth would actually punch that particular part of himself twice, so Lin Jianyuan could only stand calmly in the bathroom... And calmly perform certain necessary tasks beneath the cold shower.

When he finished showering and came out, Lin Jianyuan finally regained his serenity.

Serenely, he finished the steaming plate of egg fried rice his wife made him.

Serenely, he answered a phone call from the Director and accepted the Bureau’s condolences.

“Mm, I’m fine,” Lin Jianyuan said calmly. “Pretty good… Oh, vacation? Sure. I’ll take him somewhere for a few days. Mm. If anything comes up, just go to Shi Shaoning first.”

After dinner, the two of them held hands and went downstairs for a walk around the residential complex.

The neighborhood had excellent amenities, abundant greenery, and plenty of landscaped scenery.

The sun was about to set, casting a golden dusk light that bathed the whole world in a soft amber glow.

Lin Jianyuan was reminded again of that warm yellow crystal containing the cozy memory of them clipping their nails together. A faint smile appeared on his lips.

Hand in hand, the two of them walked a long loop. Once their food more or less settled, they headed home laughing and chatting.

Life seemed to have returned to normal again. Warm and complete.

“…and then I told him, ‘You’re just too civilized. You haven’t worked enough. Come work at our place for one week, and you’ll realize it’s not that we have terrible manners. This place is genuinely f**king stupid…’”

After they got home, Lin Jianyuan changed into his slippers while telling his wife some funny story from his old workdays that somehow popped into his head.

Xie Yu: “.”

Lin Jianyuan immediately sensed something unusual. He reached over and gave his gallbladder a little squeeze. “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing. I just suddenly remembered that back when I used to suck on your brain, I’d get angry and wonder why you only worked five or six days a week. Why couldn’t you go to work every single day…”

Xie Yu said mournfully, “Now I understand.”

Lin Jianyuan remembered the stomachful of black crystals his roommate secretly accumulated.

He burst out laughing.

They left the air-conditioning on when they went out. After all, rich people’s houses were kept at a constant temperature year-round.

Still, they just went out for a walk, so Lin Jianyuan worked up a slight sweat.

“Wife, I’m gonna rinse off. Wait for me to change, and then let’s watch a movie~”

He wanted to show his wife a movie on the big screen.

He wanted to cuddle him on the sofa, eat snacks together, and watch Spirited Away.

His roommate’s lips curved upward. “Okay.”

Lin Jianyuan: “~”

He was in an excellent mood.

Still happily thinking about where they should go tomorrow, Lin Jianyuan picked up a pair of underwear and headed toward the bathroom.

But as he passed one of the rooms, he suddenly sensed that something was off.

Lin Jianyuan frowned. Then backed up.

Backed up some more, until he was standing outside the babies’ room.

On the bookshelves, the A-class little toys were sleeping in their individual nests.

The day’s events exhausted them, and they were sprawled around in all sorts of ridiculous positions.

But… Something seemed wrong.

Lin Jianyuan looked around, scratched his head, and fell into thought.

A few seconds later…

"F**K! Wife! Something's wrong! Wife!"

Lin Jianyuan came charging out again, furious and yelling incoherently.

Xie Yu: “Hm?”

Lin Jianyuan shouted, “The punching bag is gone!”

Xie Yu still didn’t understand. “Huh?”

Lin Jianyuan was on the verge of collapse. “The punching bag is gone! What was that dumbass called again… Oh, right, [Bloodline]! [Bloodline] is gone!”

“That f**cking moron escaped while we weren't paying attention!!! That stupid giant tumor actually ran away!!!”

Unbelievable!

That idiotic punching bag already took so many beatings!

And even now, it still had such a death wish?!

Absolutely unbelievable!!!