Chapter 256 - Just a Nightmare? (1/2)

Jing Yi awoke with a scream but he still felt like he was trapped. Once more a pair of strong arms had wrapped around him and didn't want to let go. He wriggled around, trying to get away but he was pulled back at once.

”My love!” Qiu Ling panicked once more. What was happening with his beloved? Could it be that this fruit had been more harmful than that Hong Ai had told him?! ”My love, calm down! I'm here! I'm right beside you!”

Jing Yi froze. Qiu Ling! That was Qiu Ling's voice! He turned around and clung to his neck, tears streaming down his cheeks. ”Qiu Ling!” His voice broke in the middle. He really had feared to never see him again, to only be able to watch on as someone took over his body and not only forced him to leave Qiu Ling but even stayed with somebody else. How could he take that?

”Jing … Jing'er what … What happened?” Qiu Ling hugged him back and lightly stroked his head. ”What did you see?”

Jing Yi didn't say anything, he just clung to Qiu Ling's side and tried to calm down his frantically beating heart. He really, really didn't want to lose him. Qiu Ling was way too important to him. Just thinking about it …

He closed his eyes, burrowed into Qiu Ling's embrace and just continued to cry. Naturally, a certain dragon king was nearly going crazy.

”My love …” He held him and gently kissed the top of his head. ”You don't have to be afraid. Whatever you saw it's just because of that fruit. I'll … I'll go and beat that Grandmaster up for you tomorrow so please stop crying?”

Jing Yi sniffled and looked up at him, his eyes red. ”What are you even talking about? What fruit?”

Qiu Ling continued to stroke his hair. ”You don't remember? That bastard offered us these fruits from the Beguiling Night Tree and only told me afterward that it might be too much for you because you don't have a high level. Ah, I'm sorry. It's my fault. I should have thought of that myself.”

”So … I … I saw something because of that?”

Qiu Ling pursed his lips but finally nodded. ”That's what he said. Well, it's more like his wife said so.”

”So, whatever I saw wasn't real?”

”I …” Qiu Ling wanted to nod but he actually had no idea. ”Probably?”

Jing Yi took a deep breath. He was starting to calm down. Yes, maybe this had just been a nightmare. Maybe it wasn't real. How could something like that happen in reality?

Qiu Ling carefully peered into Jing Yi's face. ”Are you alright?”

Jing Yi's heart still beat crazily. He just … couldn't forget. As much as he had dreaded what happened, there were still that other person's thoughts and feelings and he had felt whole in that man's arms, something he definitely hadn't felt when he was alone.

Just thinking back to how he had sighed when he finished that painting and how he had had been afraid of the future and afraid of telling that man of the fear in his heart … He was probably very alone.