Chapter 75#
World 3: Everything You Snatch Is What I Don’t Want#
Qin Qing, covered in tubes, finally regained consciousness.
He opened his eyes and stared blankly at the ceiling, his mind a blank slate, unable to remember who he was for a long time.
996 let out a surprised meow.
“Qin Qing, you’re finally awake! It’s been three days! I thought you were going to become a vegetable! I was worried to death!” It jumped onto the bedside table, staring intently at Qin Qing’s pale face.
Qin Qing turned his head and stared blankly at 996, his gaze very unfamiliar. After about ten seconds, these eyes, covered with a layer of gray deathly stillness, finally blinked, leaking a trace of faint light.
“996?” He called out tentatively, his voice very weak. His pale thin lips only opened slightly, yet a bloody crack appeared.
“It’s me, don’t you recognize me?” 996 brought its big head close, asking tearfully.
“I—”
Qin Qing only said one word before pausing with heavy breaths, a look of pain on his face.
996’s heart tightened completely. It brought its head even closer, its small milky voice trembling: “Speak slowly, don’t rush, I’m listening.” Yet it was almost crying with anxiety itself.
Qin Qing licked his blood-stained thin lips and slowly said, “I was originally a plant, so you don’t need to worry.”
After speaking, he pressed his palm against his aching chest and chuckled softly.
996: “…”
“Damn it, even at a time like this you can still joke! Do you know you almost died?” 996 exploded with anger.
Qin Qing ignored 996’s roar. Instead, he opened his brain computer and quickly browsed the recent news. Yin Bozhou was currently leading the Central Legion to besiege the palace. The other four military regions had also submitted to the Central Legion and participated in this revolution to overthrow the dynasty.
The three mecha pilots captured by the Eye of Thunder admitted they were assassins sent by the royal family. The royal family’s goal was to eliminate Yin Bozhou, usurp military power, and realize true feudal autocracy.
This series of criminal evidence was published on the internet, subject to public judgment.
Because of the flapping of Qin Qing’s tiny butterfly wings, the royal family’s conspiracy fell short. Konstanz committed suicide to escape punishment, and the Emperor had to take off his crown and step down from the throne. All royals were demoted to commoners; the empire had become history, and a republic system emerged as the times required.
New laws were being established, a new order was being created, and this world began to change.
Seeing the battle video of the Eye of Thunder sweeping through three super mechas, Qin Qing curved his lips and smiled quite happily.
“I bet right.” While patting his painful chest, he sat up halfway and slowly drank a glass of water.
A group of doctors pushed the door open and rushed in, conducting various examinations on him and injecting him with several different medicines.
After the doctors left, Qin Qing, feeling much more comfortable, leaned back on the hospital bed and continued to browse the recent hot news. Everything was as he wished; the rotten old world was dead, and a new era had arrived.
It was just a pity that Su Su couldn’t wait for such a beautiful new world.
Qin Qing closed his eyes and sighed regretfully.
996 couldn’t stand his dejected look and couldn’t help scolding: “Are you an idiot? Can’t you count? Yin Bozhou died, you could have gone to the next world to find a new target, why risk your life to save him? You lost big time, do you know that? Now your spiritual body is even more fragile than when we first met; I could kill you with a sneeze!”
As 996 spoke, it really felt like sneezing and hurriedly turned its head in another direction.
Qin Qing opened his eyes and said seriously: “Feelings cannot be calculated with formulas. When you become human, you will understand. Ever since Xu Yizhi died, I swore I wouldn’t let this kind of thing happen again.”
996 flicked its tail and didn’t make a sound. It remembered the scene of Qin Qing holding Xu Yizhi’s corpse and kissing it.
This person had a bit of madness in his bones; as long as it was something he wanted to do, he didn’t care about the consequences at all.
“The script you wrote before, the real purpose wasn’t to take revenge on Qin Gantang, right? You did it to save Yin Bozhou?” 996 understood a little.
“Revenge on Qin Gantang was just incidental.” Qin Qing picked up the cup to drink water.
He could feel himself slowly withering. A flower whose roots had been scorched could not be saved; the only reason he could still exist was because Yin Bozhou gave him enough love.
“Aren’t you afraid of death?” 996 was very puzzled.
“Who isn’t afraid of death?” Qin Qing shook his head, not explaining further.
Fear of death is instinct, but sometimes feelings can overcome instinct.
“Did you think of today from the very beginning?” 996 jumped onto the bed and stuffed an apple into Qin Qing’s hand: “Eat it, I licked it clean.”
Qin Qing: “…Thank you.”
He held the apple, pretending to be extremely moved: “This is the first gift Little Six has given me, I want to keep it as a souvenir.”
996’s vanity was greatly satisfied, and its chubby chest puffed out even higher. It completely failed to notice that Qin Qing had given it a not-so-great nickname.
Qin Qing pulled out a tissue, wrapped up the saliva-covered apple, pretended to carefully stuff it into the pocket of his hospital gown, and then said: “After experiencing several transmigrations, I have realized that what is written in the script is not important; what is not written in the script is what cannot be ignored. There are two ways to snatch luck: one is to deceive feelings, and the other is to kill to silence. If the person is dead, the luck is naturally all in hand.”
Qin Qing took out a bag of potato chips from the drawer, opened it, and handed it to 996.
996 chewed on the potato chips while thinking, and then its fur slowly stood on end. Good grief, it really was like that. Killing to snatch luck was the most direct method!
The script didn’t write the ending, only saying that Qin Gantang maneuvered among five gongs and never capsized. The more he favored Yin Bozhou, the deeper the hostility of the other four gongs towards Yin Bozhou would be. Once the four formed an alliance, as long as they persuaded Qin Gantang to tamper with the pheromones, killing Yin Bozhou would be too simple!
“Damn it, so the story outside the script is so terrifying! Luckily you were prepared early on, but why didn’t you tell me! You were too risky like this, look at your spiritual body, it’s turned into a wisp of smoke! I’m scared you won’t be able to withstand the next transmigration. In the future, you’d better not use this racial talent anymore, it’s too scary, what life and death contract, damn it…”
Qin Qing interrupted 996’s rambling: “I didn’t tell you because I was afraid you would nag me like this every day. Now everything is fine, you don’t need to worry.”
Who could accept it if he said it out? This was gambling with life, not rehearsing a play. So Qin Qing decided early on not to say anything.
If he died…
He looked out the window and smiled lightly.
If he died, then let him die. Their race was born for love, and dying for love was naturally a destiny.
996 pouted in dissatisfaction, paused for a few seconds, and then started a new round of rambling. If it didn’t nag Qin Qing’s ears off, it wouldn’t do justice to its fear and trepidation these past few days.
Just then, the door of the ward was pushed open, and Qin Gantang walked in with a bag of fruit, smiling盈盈.
“Brother, I’m not feeling well and I’m also recuperating in this hospital. I heard you woke up, so I came over to see you immediately. What’s wrong with you? Is it a terminal illness? I heard it’s very serious and you almost didn’t wake up.”
He put the fruit on the table, one hand supporting his waist and the other covering his lower abdomen, looking cautious and quite satisfied.
Qin Qing looked him up and down and asked, “Where are you uncomfortable?”
“I came to check if I’m pregnant.” Qin Gantang took out a bright red magnetic card from his pocket and showed off: “Brother, look, I married Ren Zehuai. While you were in a coma, something happened between us. We did everything we should and shouldn’t do. A top-level Omega like me has a compatibility of over 70% with any alpha; it actually doesn’t matter who I marry. But I really like Ren Zehuai, and he couldn’t control himself either, so we…”
Qin Gantang lowered his head, showing a guilty expression.
The collar of his loose sweater slipped slightly, revealing collarbones covered with purple bruises. What happened between him and Ren Zehuai was self-evident.
Apart from the verbal harm, this was an added visual stimulation.
However much Qin Qing loved Ren Zehuai, he would be that much devastated at this moment. His boyfriend actually got together with the illegitimate younger brother he looked down on the most while his life was uncertain. How much hate must he feel? Moreover, he was seriously ill now and couldn’t withstand any blow.
If he wasn’t careful and died of anger…
Qin Gantang raised his head and laughed maliciously. He didn’t hide it anymore; he was here to anger Qin Qing to death!
“Brother,” Qin Gantang stood up and looked down at Qin Qing, “Did you feel the pain I suffered outside the control room that day?”
Qin Qing looked up at Qin Gantang in disbelief, moist mist slowly climbing up his pain-filled pupils. He covered his face, arched his back, and collapsed trembling.
He tried his best to curl himself up, burying his head tightly in his hands and arms, as if hiding from the pervasive invasion of despair.
This performance was extremely layered: first shock, then pain, and finally escape. 996 was dumbfounded. Damn it, if it hadn’t been by Qin Qing’s side all the time, it would have almost thought Qin Qing was really sad!
Qin Gantang looked at Qin Qing with intoxication.
He trembled for Qin Qing’s despair! This was an extremely pleasurable trembling!
“The thing you treasured has now been snatched away by me. I’m really sorry, I just released a little pheromone. I didn’t expect it to be so easy.” Qin Gantang laughed loudly.
For this revenge plan, he suffered great humiliation and torture. He hadn’t slept for three consecutive days. As soon as he closed his eyes, Ren Zehuai’s fierce face like a wolf would appear in his mind. He would never forget the pain of being strangled and almost suffocated.
But all these traumas were healed after seeing Qin Qing’s painful face.
Qin Gantang couldn’t stop laughing, his palms clapping excitedly.
Just then, Qin Qing, curled up in a ball, said with a trembling voice: “I cried.”
“You cried, so what? You don’t think I should comfort you, do you?” Qin Gantang mocked with a smile.
Qin Qing let go of his hands, revealing a face full of smiles, “But I was faking it.” He supported himself on the edge of the bed and sat up halfway. His black eyes were bright and flickering, clear to the bottom, showing no sign of pain.
Qin Gantang’s hearty laughter came to an abrupt halt.
He looked at Qin Qing in disbelief, his brain buzzing.
Why didn’t Qin Qing cry? Why didn’t he question, scream, or go crazy?
“You,” Qin Gantang panted heavily like a beast, asking through gritted teeth: “How can you still smile? I married Ren Zehuai, didn’t you understand? I snatched away the man you love the most!”
Qin Qing patted a button by the bed, and a group of strong doctors immediately rushed in and dragged Qin Gantang away.
“I’ll send you a script later, take some time to read it carefully.” Qin Qing rubbed the corners of his mouth which were sore from smiling, and said slowly: “What you snatched away are actually things I didn’t want, do you understand?”
Qin Gantang looked at him with a ferocious face, his chaotic brain unable to process this inexplicable sentence.
How could Qin Qing smile? He should be in pain, he should cry! He should cry until he collapsed like himself that night! How could he show such a damn smile!
Qin Gantang thought frantically, cursing and questioning, but was gagged and thrown out of the hospital.
Ren Zehuai received the news and rushed over, impatiently taking the person onto the flying car.
“Can you cause me less trouble? The Central Legion has taken over the palace, I am very busy now! You dare to make trouble in the Central Military Hospital, are you fucking looking for death?” Ren Zehuai scolded with a cold face.
Qin Gantang didn’t hear these words; his attention was completely diverted.
At this moment, he was opening his email and looking through the script Qin Qing had just sent. The name of the script was “Guide to Secret Love”.
A sentence was written in the middle of the title page, which grabbed Qin Gantang’s mind tightly with just a glance.
[Secretly in love with my younger brother’s guardian, what should I do?]
His throat tightened suddenly, causing slight suffocation. His brain buzzed for a while before triggering violent lightning and thunder. Qin Gantang’s eyes bulged, like suddenly glimpsing a venomous snake, only able to stare at this sentence deadly, without blinking.
The “I” in this sentence referred to Qin Qing, “younger brother” referred to himself, then who was the “guardian”?
What on earth was Qin Qing writing! Wasn’t the person he liked Ren Zehuai? Who on earth was he secretly in love with?
Qin Gantang had a faint premonition, and his fingertips flipping through the script began to tremble uncontrollably.
[Qin Gantang Character Setting: A selfish, greedy, despicable, and shameless lowlife whose greatest hobby in life is to wantonly plunder his brother’s beloved things.]
Is this Qin Qing’s evaluation of me? How dare he insult me like this! Qin Gantang was dizzy with anger, but accidentally scanned the line of words below.
This line of words made his eyes split and his heart beat like a drum.
[Make good use of Qin Gantang’s character weaknesses, and I can achieve my goal. I will let him snatch away the things I don’t want, and in turn easily seize the most precious thing in his hands.]
“What you snatched away are actually things I didn’t want.”
So this is what this sentence meant!
It turned out that he had possessed what Qin Qing wanted most from the beginning, but actively discarded it under his design!
Qin Gantang slowly raised his head and looked at Ren Zehuai sitting in the front row, a bloody tear suddenly tearing open in his heart.
The feeling of being in agony hit fiercely, almost making Qin Gantang roar crazily. However, in front of Ren Zehuai, such loss of control would only invite a severe beating. He gripped the armrest of the chair tightly, suppressing the collapse of his mood and the destruction of his spirit.
He was played by Qin Qing!
Qin Qing didn’t love Ren Zehuai at all! The person he really liked was his guardian. To snatch that person, Qin Qing pretended to fall in love with Ren Zehuai.
He had been acting all along! He led me bit by bit to the edge of the abyss, and then pushed me down!
He is so vicious!
Qin Gantang closed his eyes tightly, but couldn’t stop the tears from gushing out from the cracks. He once again remembered the hellish night he experienced a few days ago!
These pains shouldn’t have happened to him! He could have married any one of the five most powerful people in the empire at will. He could have been high above and had everything for his whole life!
Qin Qing! Qin Qing!
Qin Gantang’s mind was full of these two words.
These two words made him hate to the bone!
“Send me back to the hospital! Quick! I want to ask Qin Qing clearly!” Qin Gantang finally couldn’t hold back, pouncing on the front row and shouting angrily.
“What the fuck are you crazy about?” Ren Zehuai slapped him.
Qin Gantang quieted down, but his breathing was still rapid. He sent the script to Ren Zehuai and mocked: “Read it yourself, you are just Qin Qing’s tool!”
Ren Zehuai parked the flying car on the side of the road and quickly finished reading the outline of the script.
Qin Gantang stared at his fierce side profile like a wolf, pressing: “Do you hate him? If you hate him, help me kill him!”
Unexpectedly, Ren Zehuai grinned and smiled as if finding it interesting: “Qin Qing is really interesting. I’m starting to like him. I always thought he was just a soft, brainless noble. If I had known he was so exciting, I wouldn’t have married you. Marrying him and keeping you on the side would actually be quite good.”
He glanced at Qin Gantang contemptuously and said cheerfully: “Alright, let’s go back to the hospital. Even the Guardian Alliance can be broken by him, really interesting.”
Qin Gantang’s eye sockets were about to split open from staring.
“You don’t hate Qin Qing? Why?”
Ren Zehuai slowly changed the flight path and sneered: “He gave me such useful pheromones like yours, why should I hate him? He and I are both playing a game, only you took it seriously.”
These words revealed Ren Zehuai’s true opinion of Qin Gantang.
What he wanted was just a container for pheromones, not Qin Gantang the person. Marrying him, it was already foreseeable what kind of unfortunate abyss Qin Gantang would fall into.
Qin Gantang slumped on the back of the chair, flames of hatred and anger burning in his heart, while a tide of pain and despair surged at the same time.
He thought he could do whatever he wanted to Qin Qing, and even make Qin Qing have nothing. But until now he suddenly realized that Qin Qing could destroy him effortlessly!
How could a person be bad to this extent?
The very, very bad Qin Qing was having lunch.
The doctor brought several kinds of nutrient solutions and a bowl of white rice porridge. Pouring the braised pork flavored nutrient solution into the white rice porridge, the taste was very wonderful.
996 watched from the side, drooling.
Qin Qing scooped a spoonful and handed it over: “Taste it?”
“Okay!” 996 opened its bloody big mouth.
Before it could eat the porridge, the door of the ward was pushed open forcefully. Yin Bozhou strode in, his dark eyes firmly locking onto Qin Qing’s figure.
Walking to the hospital bed, his cold and hard face relaxed slightly. He reached out wanting to touch Qin Qing’s pale face, but hesitated and dared not move forward.
His hand hovered by Qin Qing’s cheek.
Qin Qing leaned over proactively, pressing his cold cheek against his burning palm.
In this instant, Yin Bozhou’s eyes turned red. How incredible it was that a weapon could shed tears.
He stroked along Qin Qing’s face to the back of his head, then pressed Qin Qing into his arms, panting rapidly. Ecstasy and lingering fear intertwined repeatedly in his heart.
Qin Qing hugged Yin Bozhou’s waist and comforted: “Don’t worry, I’m fine.”
Yin Bozhou lowered his head, pressed his lips against Qin Qing’s fragrant hair, and kissed it imperceptibly.
“You have spiritual power?” He asked the question for which he already had the answer.
“En.” Qin Qing nodded.
Omegas also have spiritual power, just very rare.
“Your spiritual power can enter someone else’s spiritual domain and transfer all trauma to yourself?” Yin Bozhou asked while gently stroking Qin Qing’s thin shoulders and back.
This body was too thin and weak.
“En.” Qin Qing nodded again.
Yin Bozhou was silent for a moment before speaking cautiously: “Don’t use this ability on anyone again in the future, including me.”
“It’s impossible to use it on others.” Qin Qing looked up, staring intently at Yin Bozhou, and said slowly: “This ability can only work when I love someone enough to give my life to him.”
So simply put, this sentence meant—in a corner unseen by anyone, Qin Qing was loving Yin Bozhou almost with his life. His rejection and coldness were all a disguise, and beneath the disguise was a fearless heart.
The ward suddenly fell into a dead silence.
Yin Bozhou’s rapid breathing stopped, but his heartbeat made a loud thumping sound.
Qin Qing poked Yin Bozhou’s strong arm and continued: “Do you understand? The one I liked from beginning to end was you. No one else.”
The vanished breath was suddenly released, blowing down heavily like a heat wave, and two balls of fire ignited fiercely in the dark eyes. Yin Bozhou leaned down, wanting to kiss Qin Qing’s lips, but stopped stiffly just as he was about to cover these cold thin lips.
He was afraid of breaking Qin Qing, but he couldn’t stop the overly surging emotions in his heart.
Just as he was in a dilemma, Qin Qing proactively pressed up, softly sucking his lips.
“Those words in the control room were all fake.” He murmured while kissing.
Yin Bozhou took a deep breath, then carefully held Qin Qing’s chin, turning from passive to active. He kissed very lightly and slowly, and also very delicately, as if tasting a piece of melting curd, but his heartbeat was like thunder, and his blood was boiling.
All the fear and anxiety were smoothed by this kiss.
“You don’t need to provoke me on purpose. If you want to enter my spiritual domain, you can tell me directly. Don’t do this again in the future.” Yin Bozhou said with a hoarse voice, holding Qin Qing’s lips.
Qin Qing licked the corner of his wet mouth and shook his head: “I can’t tell you. I know you would let me in, but when you found out what I was going to do to you, you would definitely kick me out immediately. So I had to remove all your resistance.”
He stroked Yin Bozhou’s resolute and handsome face, apologizing guiltily: “I’m sorry, I had to hurt you.”
However, in this tug-of-war, the only one truly hurt was Qin Qing. He didn’t need to apologize at all.
Yin Bozhou cupped Qin Qing’s thin face and kissed it with extreme cherishment.
It turned out that a soft flower could also protect a powerful weapon.
996 turned its back, looked at the bright sunshine outside the window, and muttered grumpily: “If it were me, I wouldn’t do this! Big loss!”
The door of the ward was suddenly pushed open, and Qin Gantang and Ren Zehuai strode in. Seeing the two kissing together, they understood everything.
So the person Qin Qing secretly loved was Yin Bozhou! And he had now got what he wanted! Under the absolute prohibition of the law, he snatched away Qin Gantang’s future partner effortlessly! What a clever method!
In an instant, Qin Gantang was mad with hatred.
He strode over and roared at Yin Bozhou: “Don’t believe Qin Qing, all this is a script he wrote, he is plotting against you! I’ll send the script to you, read it yourself! Qin Qing is not a good thing!”
Qin Gantang hurriedly clicked on his brain computer, flipping through it again and again, but couldn’t find Yin Bozhou’s contact information. Only then did he remember that Yin Bozhou had blocked and deleted him long ago.
Ren Zehuai sighed and forwarded the script in his brain computer to Yin Bozhou. He didn’t mind muddying this pool of water even more.