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Yado Yado is back.

In the study, Xingsheng looked at Nosuke's busy back, and silently recited this sentence countless times in his heart.

"What's the matter, master." Nosuke closed the book.

"It's okay..." He lowered his head and looked at the toes of his shiny shoes.

"Then go review your homework, and don't forget the start-of-term exam."

"Father..." he said suddenly, raised his head to look at Nosuke, then quickly lowered his head, "Why did he suddenly become so ill at that time..."

Feeling the scrutiny of the eyes in front of him, he was so nervous that his heart was pounding.

"What happened?"

"I'm just asking, because I suddenly remembered."

The light on the toe of the shoe was blocked, and he swallowed.

"After so many years, this is the first time you mentioned the First Lord."

"Well... that's right, I suddenly remembered."

The air was suddenly silent, and for a while, Nosuke said: "During that time, the former Lord encountered a lot of troubles and contracted a cold, so he became weak all at once."

"That's right." Xing Sheng exhaled, and finally raised his head.

"Yeah." The man didn't say anything else, but just stared at him lightly.

Xing Sheng saw himself in his dark pupils.

So he was encouraged, and couldn't help asking: "Mother, is she okay?"

"Well, madam's mood has stabilized, and she's used to life over there."

"Then let's take her home?" He was taken aback by what he blurted out, and subconsciously glanced at the man's expression.

There seemed to be a sullen light flashing under the man's respectful gaze.

"Have you forgotten?" Xingsheng's chin was lifted slightly.He was forced to look directly into that cold gaze.He realized he had said the wrong thing.

"Who drove her crazy?"

The face rushing madly outside the door appeared in his mind.

"Who insisted on asking her to go?"

He seemed to see the shining knife again, swinging towards Nosuke's bare back, blood spattered everywhere.

He began to pant violently, his vision became blurred, he pulled his hair tightly, and tears suddenly fell down uncontrollably.

"sorry Sorry……"

He was hugged into his arms as if he was relieved, and his choked breathing gradually became smoother.He held Nosuke tightly, like a drowning cub hugging its only driftwood, struggling to get out of the water to breathe.

"I'm sorry..." Xing Sheng kept tugging at his suit, rubbing the back of it into wrinkles.

"You don't have to apologize." His voice was still calm.

"Don't be mad at me."

"I'm not mad at you."

"Then don't send me away." Xing Sheng hugged the person in front of him tighter.

"That's just the downtown school." His voice was like melting ice.

"I don't want to go."

"We've talked about this a lot of times."

The man pushed him away a little, and Xing Sheng immediately stuck him up again.

The man sighed softly.

"You have to learn to be independent. For the sake of the former master, and for the Michuan family."

"You always say that...always say that."

In the evening, Xing Sheng sat alone at the huge dining table, a little absent-minded.

Yadu's words still echoed in his head, and now it sounded like a huge conspiracy.According to the servant, there was someone spreading rumors about the past in the town recently, maybe it was him.

"Is the grilled lamb chops tonight not to your liking?"

Only then did Xing Sheng come back to his senses, and looked at the untouched food in front of him.

"No... just no appetite."

"Then I'll make some desserts and deliver them to your room later?"

"No need."

"You don't eat anything, Mr. Nosuke will be upset if he finds out."

Hearing this, Xingsheng was silent.

He looked at the tender lamb chops on the exquisite porcelain plate, and unconsciously clenched the knife and fork in his hand.

After a while, he began to chew heavily, choking on the cold and stiff dead meat, his eyes gradually turned red.

That night, he dreamed of his father whom he had not seen for a long time.The corner of the father's mouth was full of smiles, holding a child in his arms.He was a little envious and lonely, so he called out to his father from behind.The moment his father turned his head, the surroundings suddenly became dark, and then overwhelming curses poured down from the top of his head, knocking him down and drowning him who was at a loss.

He trembled with fear.

Then a sharper roar rushed into the darkness.He closed his eyes tightly, not daring to look at his mother's distorted face due to anger.

He listened to the scuffle in horror, crouching in the dark, until a familiar bell rang from far away.It took away the father's voice, took away the mother's voice, until only the crisp melody remained in the darkness——

Jingle jingle... jingle jingle...

When he opened his eyes, it was pitch black, and he couldn't even see the outline of the top of the bed clearly.After a long time, he realized that his eyes were full of tears.

He struggled to get up from the bed, pushed open the door, ran staggeringly through the dim corridor, and pushed open another door not far away.A faint candle was still burning inside the door.

"master?"

Nosuke was sitting on the bed in his shirt, with an open book in hand.Seeing Xingsheng, he hurriedly got up and put on his coat.

Since sending his wife away, his bedroom has been moved upstairs.

Xing Sheng threw himself into his arms and said in a muffled voice, "I'm having a nightmare."

"What did you dream about? Why are you sweating so much? Where are your shoes? I'll get you some clothes." Nosuke said as he wiped away the tears on his face, and was about to leave when he was grabbed .

"Don't go, I'll just wear yours." He lowered his head.

Nosuke didn't speak, and Xingsheng stood quietly.

Nosuke sighed calmly.He closed the door carefully, and took out a set of dry and comfortable pajamas from the closet.In the dim candlelight, Xing Sheng stared at the person in front of him without blinking, smelling the familiar scent of soap on his body, he slowly calmed down.

"Nosuke," he asked tentatively, "Can I sleep here tonight?"

"master--"

Following Nosuke's sigh, he lowered his head in disappointment.

"You can sleep over there."

"Eh?"

He froze for a moment, then burst into a tired smile, and crawled into the bed that had been turned away.

"Good night."

"Good night, sir."

Then the lights went out, and there was the sound of rustling the quilt from the other side of the bed.

Gradually, the surroundings became quiet.Xing Sheng quietly stretched his arms in the dark, but he couldn't reach anything.

"Come here."

"Yes."

"Come again."

"Yes."

"hug me."

The surroundings suddenly fell into silence.

The moonlight leaking in from the window made the man's figure darker and darker, he couldn't help but quietly leaned over, and gently rested his head on Nosuke's back.

Nosuke's breathing was very soft, so light that it was strange, with a hint of chill.Xing Sheng shuddered, his eyes were a little sore.

He missed the former Nosuke.

From childhood to adulthood, Nosuke has always been very gentle to him, so gentle that he was a little too spoiled.Every time he was wronged by his father, Nosuke would secretly give him a lollipop, squat down and hold him in his arms, letting him wipe his tears and snot on his straight suit.

But now, this man is stingy with even a hug.

——And why would you leave this home?

Yadu's words suddenly rang in his ears, Xingsheng choked for breath, and suddenly stretched out his arms to embrace Nosuke.

"What's the matter, young master?" Nosuke didn't move, and there was a trace of reproach in his voice.

Xing Sheng didn't let go, and said in a muffled voice: "Didn't there be another child in the family when I was young, and my father liked him very much?"

Nosuke was silent for a while, then asked, "Why did you mention this all of a sudden?"

Xing Sheng felt a little guilty, and lowered his voice: "I dreamed about him. I was wondering if he...is that man."

"Yes."

Xing Sheng's heart tightened.

"Who is he?"

"He's nobody."

"Tell me!" Xingsheng sat up anxiously.He needs to be sure, he needs to be sure that man is a liar.

Nosuke could only sit up.

"Do you remember the first time you watched fireworks as a child?"

"Huh?" Xingsheng was stunned.

"You were crying at the end, Madam finally persuaded the former master to release it for you the next day, so you laughed." The man in front of him said, stroking the broken hair on his forehead.

He looked at Nosuke's silhouette in the dark and forgot to breathe.

"Novelty things are always attractive. The Former Lord was also attracted by novelty things and made a mistake."

"Who did he make a mistake with." As if under a spell, Xing Sheng's voice became softer.

"That woman's name is Monica, and she is the first foreigner in the town." Nosuke paused, "She bewitched the former master's heart with stories from the outside world."

"Later, did Yadu leave with her?"

The gentle hand stroking the hair suddenly disappeared, and the voice became a little cold:

"And then she died."

Xingsheng was startled suddenly.

"why……"

"Because she crossed the line and wanted something that wasn't hers, it became a threat."

"Who did she threaten?" Xingsheng's eyes trembled, and he stared at Nosuke's lips, afraid of the answer he was about to spit out.

"The one who put her to death." As if knowing his fear, Nosuke said.

"That's not an answer at all."

"What about you, if Yadu stayed here, what would you be like now?"

Xing Sheng bit his lip and said nothing.

He thought of his father's back again, thick, cold and unshakable.It was one of his fondest childhood memories, and the thing that frightened him the most.And all the warmth and love are on the opposite side of that back.

He suddenly hugged Nosuke like a drowning cub hugging its only driftwood.

"I'm the only heir of the Michuan family, that's what you said." He murmured, "That's why you always love me so much."

"It's not just for this reason." Nosuke lowered his head and pressed his forehead against his.He closed his eyes, as if a heavy secret was buried beneath them.

"That's right, otherwise you wouldn't be so indifferent to me, since my mother left..."

Xingsheng looked sadly at his face close at hand, reluctant to blink.Even if the driftwood has become so cold now, it is his only support, but now...

"He said you wanted to hurt me." He said suddenly.

Nosuke opened his eyes, and the cold gaze made him palpitate from the close distance.

But he tried his best to meet this gaze, fixed on Nosuke's face.He wanted to hear Nosuke's answer, as long as he said that the man was a liar, he would believe it and forget about it.

But Nosuke said, "Then why are you still so close to me?"

"Because... I don't believe him." Xingsheng's lips were trembling.

"Then do you trust me?"

Xingsheng didn't say a word.

The man in front of him ran his fingertips across his clenched lips, his sharp eyes tore him in two, and his cold words were like another auditory hallucination: "About that incident this morning, if I say, that day I was You opened the door on purpose, do you believe it?"

After saying that, he was pushed away, and the pair of cold eyes in front of him looked at him motionlessly.He looked up helplessly, as if he didn't understand the man's words.

"That day……"

After a while, Xing Sheng suddenly realized something that he had forgotten all this time, the most important thing, and the thing that shouldn't happen——

"Why did mother come down?"

The person in front of him finally smiled. He was still so gentle and calm, but there was no smile in his eyes: "What do you think? Why did Mrs. Sachiko go to a servant's room?" After a pause, he lowered his voice Added, "And why did you go into a servant's room?"

hum-

That terrible thought crashed into his mind, Xingsheng raised his head abruptly and looked at him in disbelief.

My heart sank instantly.

"No... no... why..."

Like a stormy wave over the top of the head, but there is no driftwood around, can only fall in despair, fall.Instinctively, he reached out to Nosuke.His tear-stained face was full of despair.

The man looked at him with a half-smile, but also a little sad.

He got his wish and was hugged into his arms, but now he only felt strange and cold, but he still tried his best to curl up in that embrace, throwing away his helmet and armor, in a state of embarrassment.

The man started kissing him, and he couldn't push it away, and he felt more and more sad, as if his body was torn in two.

"Karma." He heard the man say, but he didn't know who it was talking about.

He broke down in sobs.