Chapter 103 – The White Moonlight is Forcibly Loved by the Substitute 1
His eyelashes trembled, and Shuang Yu opened his eyes. Good, no bizarre crime scene. He was about to breathe a sigh of relief when he suddenly realized something was wrong.
[Didi, welcome, Lord Ghost Messenger, to the new world.]
Xiao Ai’s cute, childish voice rang out.
“Do you think my current state is suitable for greetings?”
Shuang Yu asked through gritted teeth. He was tied up spread-eagled on a filthy floor. What was even more infuriating was that his body was clearly not in a normal state. In this condition, wasn’t he just a lamb waiting for slaughter?
[Ahem, it’s indeed not very suitable. My lord, you should act quickly… Someone will be here soon!]
Xiao Ai stammered.
“Can I curse?”
Shuang Yu asked with a smile that didn’t reach his eyes, scanning his surroundings. It was a cramped, warehouse-like place. The original host’s clothes were torn to shreds, and his hands and feet were bound with ropes. The situation was not looking good.
Clatter, clatter, clatter—
The sound of bustling footsteps came from outside the door.
Damn it.
Shuang Yu cursed under his breath, snapped the ropes on his hands, and tore off the ones on his feet in a few swift movements. He picked up the tattered shirt, tied it around his waist, and quickly hid behind the door.
“Damn it, just being a lackey and I have to sell my body… Doing it with a woman is one thing, but that’s a man!”
“Shut up if you don’t want to die. We just have to do what the Boss tells us.”
***
Outside the door, the voices of five or six people chatting could be heard, and then the heavy door was pushed open. Several men walked in but didn’t see any sign of Si Shuang Yu.
“The hell, where is he?”
“Fuck, he actually escaped? Was that drug a fake?!”
“What are you all standing there for? Hurry up and find him! If we can’t find him, we’re all dead!”
The men were both panicked and furious. They couldn’t figure out how Si Shuang Yu had managed to escape after being injected with a Forbidden Drug!
Just as the men were scrambling around like ants on a hot pan, Shuang Yu appeared silently behind them. His movements were swift and fierce. He wrapped an arm around one man’s neck from behind and twisted. With a crack, the man fell to the ground without a sound.
“Damn it, you bastard!”
The others reacted immediately, swinging their fists at him. In less than five minutes, Shuang Yu had ended the fight. He stripped a black suit off one of the men and slowly put it on. The night completely enveloped him, his handsome face hidden in the darkness. His eyes were rugged and sharp, and his tightly pressed lips held their usual coldness.
He pulled a cigarette from his pocket, lit it, took a deep drag, and slowly exhaled.
“Transfer the memories.”
As Shuang Yu had expected, this was another special world. The original host was an orphan. Abandoned at an orphanage by his biological parents, he was constantly bullied for being a boy with an overly delicate and beautiful face. When he was five, a seven-year-old boy named Gu Qiyan arrived at the orphanage. He helped the bullied original host, and from then on, the original host became his little shadow. The two quickly became good friends. Gu Qiyan took great care of the original host, giving him the snacks distributed by the orphanage and teaching him how to fight. No one had ever been so good to the original host, and moved by this kindness, he swore to repay Gu Qiyan’s goodness with his life.
When he was thirteen, the orphanage was acquired because it could no longer operate. The person who bought it was a scumbag who planned to force the children to entertain clients with special tastes to make money. The original host overheard a conversation between the director and a broker and, in a panic, told Gu Qiyan. They gathered the other children, and after some discussion, they decided to take drastic measures and burn down the orphanage. That night, they set the orphanage on fire, killing the scumbag, and fled together.
They were all just half-grown kids, the oldest being seventeen and the youngest only five or six. After leaving the orphanage, they ended up on the streets, living as beggars and thieves, their days filled with hardship and uncertainty. Even in the most difficult times, Gu Qiyan never abandoned the original host, always treating him like a dear younger brother. They thought they would live in poverty like this forever, but when Gu Qiyan was seventeen, his biological father found him and wanted to bring him back to the family. It was only then that they learned Gu Qiyan was the illegitimate son of Gu Huai, a member of the Underground Trade Association.
Gu Qiyan couldn’t bear to leave the original host behind and begged his father to take him along. Gu Huai felt that his son needed a trusted subordinate, so he brought the original host back to the Gu family as Gu Qiyan’s attendant. They thought their days of suffering were finally over, but after arriving at the main family home, they realized that the bloody infighting was far more terrifying than their life of wandering. Over several years, they endured countless assassination attempts and constantly battled wits with Gu Huai’s other children and his legitimate wife. In the most severe incident, the original host took several bullets to save Gu Qiyan. His left eye was also slashed, leaving a deep cut from his brow, across his eyelid, to his cheekbone, bleeding profusely. That day, Gu Qiyan held the original host and cried, swearing to the dying boy that he would climb to the top at any cost, for only then could he protect him.
As they grew older, the original host gradually realized that his feelings for Gu Qiyan were not just gratitude and admiration, but a love born from their life-and-death bond. Their relationship had always been more than friends but not yet lovers, until Gu Qiyan’s twentieth birthday. Drunk, they confessed their feelings under the influence of alcohol and had sex, officially becoming a couple. Although this relationship was not made public, their life together was sweet and intimate. The original host thought they would be inseparable forever, but he didn’t know that the most unpredictable thing in this world is the human heart. Human desire is endless and can never be satisfied.
Having tasted power, Gu Qiyan gradually lost his way, greedily wanting more. The original host loved him, so he was willing to give everything for him. He became Gu Qiyan’s sharpest blade, his hands stained with countless blood, helping him obtain everything he desired. But he was still not satisfied. The greater the power, the bigger the ambition. The original host knew all of Gu Qiyan’s embarrassments and all his dirty secrets. The once-beloved partner gradually became a weakness and a mark of shame that held his secrets, one that could plunge him into an abyss of eternal damnation at the slightest misstep.
To reach a higher and more distant position, Gu Qiyan decided to marry the daughter of a magnate. And the original host became a problem that he had to eliminate. He deliberately set a trap for the original host to fall into, framing him for betrayal and causing him to be hunted by all the underground merchants in the black market. The pitiful original host’s most trusted brothers all died trying to save him. In the end, he himself was shot in the head by the person he loved most, dying with his eyes wide open in the misty rain.