Self-denial System [Rebirth]

The boy was taken aback for a moment, and immediately threw off his boots and crawled to his side.

Xu Mu sat up, supported his body with his hands, walked around him and extinguished the candle: "Go to sleep."

The room was suddenly plunged into darkness, with only the moonlight barely illuminating a small area of ​​the bed.

Xu Mu picked up the rag (suspected to be a quilt) that he had just picked up from the bed and wrapped him in together.

The chill in the middle of the night seeps in through the loose window cracks, and you can even vaguely hear the howling of the north wind outside the house.Gu Jingyin slid down and suddenly felt that even though it was frosty outside, the house was still warm and peaceful.At least I am not alone in this world, at least I have a house to shelter from the wind and rain, and someone to accompany me.

Gu Jingyin opened his eyes, not feeling sleepy.It wasn't until the breathing of the people around him was steady that he quietly turned his head away, and under the cold moonlight, carefully looked at his sleeping face—white clothes like snow and black hair like lacquer, like a delicate ink painting under the moonlight.

The boy's eyes seemed to be fixed, and he couldn't move them away.

Xu Mu slept very restlessly this time, always feeling that something was staring at him, and woke up after having a nightmare.Turning his head, he saw a pair of pitch-black eyes staring at him intently.

"What have you been watching me do?" Xu Mu was taken aback.

Gu Jingyin didn't expect that he would wake up suddenly, and was taken aback for a moment, but it was too late to pretend nothing happened at this time, but he didn't know how to explain it.In a fit of anger, he turned over, turned his back to Xu Mu and said nothing.

Xu Mu saw that his appearance was a little inexplicable, and then he thought about it, maybe it was because his tone was not very good when he just woke up from the dream, with a hint of questioning.Thinking of this, he smiled helplessly, thinking that he is really a child, why is he so sensitive to everything.

However, Gu Jingyin knew what was going on with her, and she dared not turn her head with a guilty conscience, planning to just sleep with her back to him all night.

But just as he was about to close his eyes, he heard the voice of someone behind him.

"The tone was harsh just now, I apologize." Xu Mu patted his shoulder lightly, smoothing his wrinkled clothes, "I didn't mean to blame you."

Although these two light strokes landed on the young man's shoulders, they seemed to stir up a little spark of the heroic fire, which made the young man's heart beat wildly and hit his chest heavily.

Xu Mu looked at his still stiff back and sighed.What about cultivating revolutionary friendship?Why did you offend people before you even started cultivating them?

So he withdrew his claws embarrassingly, propped himself up and said, "Are you still angry?"

The boy remained silent.

Feeling helpless, Xu Mu sat up, crossed his hands behind his head and leaned against the edge of the bed, "Nuo, I'll let you see if you want, you can see whatever you want."

Gu Jingyin was taken aback when he heard this, but he couldn't tell whether it was surprise or joy.He just grabbed his collar tightly with one hand, as if trying to suppress his heart that was about to jump out.

Xu Mu saw that he was still motionless, so he couldn't help but smacked his lips: "I don't appreciate it when I sit up and let you watch? Then I'm going to lie down."

Hearing this, the young man quickly turned around and sat up: "No!"

"Don't? Don't what?" Seeing that there was a response, Xu Mu put down his hand, looked at him and said with a smile, "Don't look or lie back?"

Seeing his smile, the boy subconsciously wanted to hide, and moved his whole body backwards.

"Tsk, what are you hiding, I can't eat you." Xu Mu said helplessly.

However, the boy still moved his body backwards, staring at him without saying a word.

"So afraid of me?" Xu Mu asked in confusion, and had no choice but to look away.

"Don't lie back..." Gu Jingyin suddenly threw out a sentence in an inaudible voice.

"What?" Xu Mu didn't realize it for a moment, he was stunned for a second, and then he laughed, "Are you answering my last question?"

"Yeah." The boy nodded vigorously.

Xu Mu couldn't bear it any longer, and smiled for a long time before leaning over and stretching out his hand to shave the boy's nose. His long hair was gently hanging in front of him, and asked, "What's so good about it? Am I pretty?"

After hearing this question, Gu Jingyin looked up at him in confusion, and shook his head: "No..."

"No?" Xu Mu lowered his head and touched his nose in embarrassment, wondering if he was ugly?impossible!It's not that I haven't looked in the mirror.

Seeing his appearance, the young man quickly shook his head again: "No... I'm not saying that senior brother is not good-looking, I just said that I didn't go to see it... because... because senior brother is good-looking..."

Xu Mu couldn't laugh or cry after hearing this, didn't he speak quite sharply yesterday?What kind of Turen's family can speak without trembling, why did he stutter again today?

"Okay," Xu Mu patted him on the shoulder, interrupting his stumbling words, "You can watch it anytime you want, anyway, I'm by your side, go to sleep early."

The boy still sat motionless after listening.

"What's wrong?" Xu Mu was puzzled.

"Didn't senior brother just say that you can watch it anytime you want?" Gu Jingyin's clear eyes did not blink, like two cold stars in the night.

Xu Mu is not only dumbfounded, but also at a loss. What is wrong with this child today?

So he cleared his throat, no longer joking, but put on a sincere expression: "Jing Yin, tell senior brother, is there something on your mind?"

Gu Jingyin suddenly became flustered: "No...no."

"Really?" Xu Mu looked into his eyes seriously.

"Hmm." The boy lowered his head.

"Then why are you so abnormal tonight?" Xu Mu didn't believe that he didn't have anything on his mind. After all, bosses are good at keeping secrets in their hearts. Moreover, he personally witnessed the signs of the boss before it turned black yesterday.

"I..." The boy buried his head lower.

"What about you?" Xu Muxin asked, brother, can you finish a sentence in one breath? I was so anxious to wait.

"I……"

What happened to you! ?Xu Mu really wanted to yell in his ear, but he suppressed the thought.I already stuttered, so don't scare the child's ears into trouble anymore.

So he put on a gentle smile: "It's okay, if you don't want to talk about it, forget it, go to sleep."

Only then did the boy raise his head, his clear eyes were like a bend of water: "Senior brother."

"Huh?" Xu Mu raised his eyelashes.

"Can I give you a hug?"

"Ah?" Xu Mu never expected it to be this unfolding.

"You... what did you say?" Now it was Xu Mu's turn to stutter.

"I want to hug you." The boy looked at him quietly with a pair of eyes.

Xu Mu was terrified, but after thinking about it for a while, he couldn't think of any reason to refuse, so he said blankly, "Okay..."

Before the words finished, Gu Jingyin stepped forward and plunged into Xu Mu's arms.

"Fuck! Sure enough, the boss's psychology is not normal! And there are so many hobbies!" Xu Mu said silently in his heart.

"Brother, I thought that the only person in this world who loved me was gone, but I never thought you would come back." Gu Jingyin finally uttered the first full long sentence of the night.

Is this the reason?

Xu Mu sighed.That's right, he didn't know anything from the beginning to the end, he only knew that his senior brother treated him well.But this person who was good to him died, or died for himself, how could he not be sad.

"Senior brother, I'm afraid, I'm afraid that one day you will be like last time... Then there will be no one in this world..." The young man's words were intermittent.

That's why you're staring at me without moving?

"Will Senior Brother leave me again?" The young man raised his face buried in Xu Mu's chest.

Is there even a question?Of course I will!I have to be responsible for driving you out of the mountain gate, boy!

But looking at the thin-framed little man in his arms, Xu Mu couldn't say the word "will".

Amidst the silence, a gust of cold winter wind mixed with the breath of ice and snow rushed into the room through the cracks in the doors and windows, and the surroundings suddenly became chilly. The thin clothes vaguely touched the bones under his ribs.

Xu Mu had lived for more than ten years, and it was the first time that he was trusted by another person so much that he felt a vicissitudes of being dependent on each other.

A voice suddenly sprouted in his heart: He wants to take care of this child.

He wants to see him grow up well, be safe and happy, and live a long and worry-free life.

I am really crazy.

Must be crazy.

"Brother will take good care of you, and will never leave you again." Xu Mu hugged this thin body in his arms, like protecting a fragile seedling in the wind and rain.

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Xu Mu slept until the sun was high, and before he opened his eyes, he felt burning pain all over his body, as if soaked in pepper water.

what happened?Isn't it just hugging that little crying bag for a while last night?Why does it look like someone has peeled off a layer of skin?

Xu Mu struggled to open his heavy eyelids while being puzzled.

Xu Mu thought that after experiencing so many bizarre things, he would no longer be surprised by anything.But he was still so scared that he didn't catch his breath the moment he saw the scene in front of him clearly.

"Fuck! What's the situation?"