Arc 1: Chapter 5

Inside the room, Huo Chen, who had not slept all night, had already gotten up from the bed and was sitting on the sofa. His dark hair was a little messy, half covering his eyes, and he was surrounded by lingering gloom.

He heard the young man’s voice and frowned. He didn’t want to pay attention to it.

Lin Yuan waited a bit but still didn’t hear a response. He knocked three more times, each a second apart, extremely rhythmic: “Huo Chen, it’s time for breakfast~”

Huo Chen’s eyebrows tightened even more and his face was pallid and gloomy, like a beast in an iron cage. His whole body was bruised and blood stained. His dark and frigid eyes turned like a machine and fell on the closed door. Still no response.

Lin Yuan didn’t have to ask the system if Huo Chen was awake. He knew Huo Chen wasn’t sleeping. The plot said that Huo Chen’s sleep quality was very poor, such that in the past, he had to rely on drugs to maintain sleep for four to five hours. But over time, his body became resistant to those drugs.

At this point, he couldn’t use medicine to fall asleep so he often didn’t sleep all night. Only when his body couldn’t hold on anymore did he force himself to sleep for a few hours.

This was all especially mentioned in the plot, and indeed, last night, Huo Chen stayed up again.

Lin Yuan had just become human so he couldn’t experience this feeling. But he knew that the human body was very fragile. Now because of his mental condition, Huo Chen couldn’t sleep, had a poor mentality, and his eating problems affected his health. At the very least, he should eat.

Sleeping well or eating well, Huo Chen had to accomplish one.

Because a machine operated according to a set program, unlike humans, it would not give up halfway. Although Lin Yuan now had the appearance of a human being, he was not completely humane. He used to be a machine, so he would not give up halfway.

He knocked on the door over and over again. Through the door, he spoke to the person who didn’t want to respond to him.

Huo Chen clearly heard every sound, the sound of knocking, the sound of Lin Yuan’s voice. At first he thought it was noisy and even irritating, but when the sounds continued, these emotions began to fade and were gradually replaced by another unknown emotion.

His eyes were dark to the point he couldn’t see any light. He just looked at the closed door and stared, paranoid and abnormal.

Once, twice, three times…….

Huo Chen counted quietly, and a trace of morbid pleasure slowly emerged from the bottom of his heart.

He wished those sounds would last forever.

It sounded good.

Like there was always someone by his side.

Huo Chen supported his head lazily with his hands, but his eyes were glued to the door. The morning sun fell on his body and brought some unprecedented warmth.

The sound of knocking and Lin Yuan’s clear and bright voice made Huo Chen’s nerves, which were extremely tense and could snap at any time, slightly relax.

With thick eyelashes drooping slightly, he finally closed his eyes in the morning light, surrounded by the warm voice of the youth.

521 found that Huo Chen was asleep and immediately blocked its nonexistent mouth with its small wings: “Shh senior, don’t talk anymore. The target is asleep.”

Lin Yuan immediately put his raised hand down. “He’s asleep?”

521 nodded hard: “Fell asleep.”

Lin Yuan was confused: “Hasn’t he been unable to sleep?”

521: “Yes! That’s what the plot says.”

Lin Yuan: “Then why is he asleep now?”

521 shook its head with a confused face: “Don’t know.”

Lin Yuan did not think hard about this problem. Huo Chen sleeping was a good thing. It’s just, now that he was asleep, he couldn’t eat. He reached out and touched the bowl that contained the seafood porridge and found that it was cold. After pondering, he took the breakfast downstairs and asked the chef to heat it up so that Huo Chen could have a hot meal when he woke up.

Leaving the kitchen, Lin Yuan sat on the sofa in the living room and turned on the TV. He randomly opened a channel and watched it with 521 who sat on his shoulder.

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