You are my wife, don't doubt it!

Xiao Yao looked back at the bathroom. Behind the frosted glass, there was the rustling sound of water and light rising from the mist, like a miracle.

"Hey! Hey!" Xiao Yao called out to the person in the bathroom: "Who's in there?"

No one answered.

"Actually, I quite like you." Suddenly, a female voice rang out in the whole room like surround sound: "Well... a little bit."

"Yu Luying?" Xiao Yao asked in disbelief.

"Although you are still very immature," the voice that sounded very much like Yu Luying continued to float down from the ceiling: "But, we are quite compatible, right? So, I actually want to agree to give it a try with you."

"Are you telling the truth?" Xiao Yao said loudly and excitedly.

"But mom won't agree," Yu Luying's voice was as sobbing as she complained, "Mom said that you guys are all liars. You only covet beauty, pretend to join the religion, take possession of my body, and then get tired of me and leave me. In the end, I am left alone."

"???" Xiao Yao was a little confused: "Yu Luying, not all men are that kind...that damn Chen Shimei! You can't generalize to everyone!"

"But mom is always right," Yu Luying said, "Mom only has me, I can't let her be sad or upset. I have to listen to mom, otherwise she will be angry..."

"But you are an independent person!" Xiao Yao said loudly, feeling somewhat confused - this might not be Yu Luying herself, because Yu Luying would never speak like this.

What "Yu Luying" said next further confirmed Xiao Yao's guess: "Sometimes, I really hate my mother. It would be great if there was no mother. If my mother died... I wouldn't have to be her slave anymore. I really want to be free."

Xiao Yao grabbed the corner of his quilt tightly: "Who are you? Stop pretending to be Yu Luying..."

The voice seemed not to hear what Xiao Yao said, and just kept talking to itself: "After all, I am just an unwanted child, right? I am a burden to my mother..."

Before Xiao Yao could speak again, Yu Luying's voice was cut off and replaced by another female voice.

"Actually, I think you're quite funny, sometimes silly and cute," said another female voice.

"Shen Jie..." Xiao Yao whispered to himself. This time he didn't plan to have a "talk" with the other party.

"I don't hate you, at least you are much better than Zhang Zhengkai." Shen Jie said.

"Thank you." Xiao Yao muttered, wondering what Zhang Zhengkai had to do with this again?

"If I marry you as my husband, although I can't say I'm completely willing, I can still accept it, right?" Shen Jie continued, "At least, you'll be more obedient and easier to control, right?"

"What the hell is easy to control?" Xiao Yao couldn't help but protest.

"If you could like me a little more, like you like Yu Luying, like Zhang Zhengkai likes me, maybe, maybe I... could..." The voice was intermittent and sounded a little resentful.

"Don't I like you enough?" Xiao Yao said, "You are my wife, and loving you is my duty."

"It seems that you have left a good impression on girls. That's really cause for celebration." A male voice answered him.

"Oh my god!" Xiao Yao screamed in fear when he saw the young man who appeared at his bedside without any warning: "Who are you?"

"Can't you tell? I'm Xiao Yao." The young man answered as if it was a matter of course.

Although he could clearly see that the man was wearing his clothes and carrying his head, and he did not look awkward at all, the boy's pupils were... green.

"You are Xiao Yao, who am I?" Xiao Yao said angrily.

The green-eyed boy who called himself "Xiao Yao" sat down on the edge of the bed: "You are my subconscious, my desire, my true self. So, you are me."

"You're talking nonsense!" Xiao Yao retorted in a deep voice, "You are my subconscious mind, and your whole family is my subconscious mind!"

The green-eyed boy shrugged and said nothing.

What was happening before his eyes was obviously beyond his understanding.

The air was filled with a mysterious awkwardness amid the sound of water in the bathroom.

"I know what you're thinking—" The green-eyed boy looked towards the bathroom: "There's no one in the bathroom. I turned on the water."

"Did you turn on the water?" Xiao Yao repeated woodenly.

"What else? Do you really expect that there will be a woman there who will come out to accompany you after taking a shower? No way?" The green-eyed boy laughed.

"Why can't I have one?" Xiao Yao retorted unconvincedly, reaching his hand under the quilt, taking out the underwear, and then picking up Shen Jie's socks: "You also heard it, Yu Luying and Shen Jie both said they like me."

"The sounds you just heard are just small fragments from the depths of their subconscious." The green-eyed boy yawned, "In fact, some of them may just be fleeting thoughts."

"so what?"

"Yu Luying's little affection for you is still not enough to offset the burden on her heart," the green-eyed boy made a "little bit" gesture, "As for Shen Jie... forget it, as long as you are happy."

"..."

"This room, however, is really colorful. Since it is formed by our inner desires, you can see what kind of weird things you usually think about—"

The green-eyed boy pulled Xiao Yao's quilt off and threw it on the ground. A green pajamas and a purple headband appeared under the quilt.

Xiao Yao was furious: "Tianyun is my daughter and Ouyang Qianqian is my sister! Why are their things also stuffed here!"

The green-eyed boy showed a cruel smile: "Being? By whom? Me? Who am I? Do you feel cold?" He reached out and unbuttoned his clothes.

Xiao Yao had forgotten the cold. He bit his lips and stared at the other person, his eyes seeming to spit fire.

"You can't deny it, right?" The green-eyed boy jumped onto the bed and approached Xiao Yao. "A poor fellow, abandoned by his divorced parents, he was thrown into a foreign land called Magic City. Because his pockets were always cleaner than his face, he was treated as a country bumpkin, out of tune with others, and bullied by his classmates...

“I am extremely lacking in love and I long to have a girlfriend, as if having a girlfriend can solve all my problems.

"You keep praising pure love that lasts forever, but in fact, I like everyone and no one at the same time. I like whoever gives me a good face. I'll treat whoever accepts my confession as my boyfriend." He took off his shirt and put it on Xiao Yao.

"Don't act like you know everything!" Xiao Yao said coldly.

The green-eyed boy ignored him and continued, "When I was most helpless, it was Yu Luying and Ouyang Qianqian who extended a hand of friendship. Shen Jie is very caring, like an older sister, and she is my destined wife and hope for the future. When I go home, Shen Tianyun is always waiting for me at home. Living with her, home can be a home, not a cold house...

“I like every one of them and want every one of them. I hope to get their love and live with them forever.” The green-eyed boy said as he deliberately hugged himself, curled up into a ball, and made a whimpering face.

"How disgusting." Xiao Yao wanted to stand up, but was held down by the green-eyed boy again.

"Want to deny it?" The green-eyed boy was proud and sat next to Xiao Yao happily: "Hurry up and say it, I don't think so. I won't be a disgusting guy like you!"

"You're right! I have nothing to deny." Xiao Yao stood up from the soft bed and threw the shirt he was wearing aside.

"It doesn't matter whether what you said is my subconscious or not, or how much of it is really my subconscious." Xiao Yao shook twice and found his balance: "But no matter what kind of desires are hidden in my heart, what matters is how to do it.

“What’s important is that I treat my friends generously and give back to everyone who is kind to me.

“Everything I say and do is for justice, but I just want to be at peace with my conscience.

“No matter who I am with, I will treat her well with all my heart, shoulder the burden that I should shoulder, and be responsible for her.

"Yu Luying once said to me that freedom is not about doing whatever you want, but about not doing what you don't want to do.

"I, Xiao Yao, just want to be free and unrestrained. It's not your turn to point fingers!"

After hearing this, the green-eyed boy clapped his hands rhythmically. "Excellent! If I were not you, I would have almost believed it. I almost forgot that I am an artistic boy, and singing high-sounding songs is my specialty."

Xiao Yao walked to the door and opened it: "Goodbye, thank you, I'm going to rest."

"I left you a pair of panties," the green-eyed boy said with a smile, "If you don't want them, give them back to me and go have some fun in your bathroom."

"Didn't you fill the water?" Xiao Yao walked back to the bathroom door and gently stroked the frosted glass on the door.

"Of course not," the green-eyed boy said, "Whoever you want to be in there will be in there. Oh, plural is fine too."

"That sounds fascinating," Xiao Yao commented.

"As long as you step into that bathroom, they will be devoted to you in this world... and obey you forever." The green-eyed boy's persuasive tone sounded like a satanic one.

"Oh?" Xiao Yao said.

"Or, you can walk out of this door and hide in this clothes forever." The green-eyed boy returned to his sitting position, and the expression on his face became solemn.

"and then?"

"Once you leave this door, you can return to your world. Yu Luying will not be with you, and neither will Shen Jie. You must be alone and helpless until you are 30 years old, when you can marry into the Shen family by chance. At that time, Shen Jie will still have her charm, but she will no longer be as young and beautiful as she is now. Moreover, she has experienced too many people and things, and she is no longer the person she is today..."

"It's really sad." Xiao Yao commented.

"Make your choice." The green-eyed boy completely put away the cynicism and malice on his face. His body slowly became transparent and disappeared, and his clothes fell off piece by piece.

"You are me and I am you..." Xiao Yao heard his own voice echoing in the air: "No matter what choice you make, I will always be with you."

The boy stared at the bathroom. Behind the frosted glass, he could hear the rustling sound of water and light rising from the mist, like a miracle.

He looked at the door leaving the room again. It was opened at some point, and outside the door was a dark and deep corridor with no end in sight.

Xiao Yao picked up his trousers and shoes from the ground and put them on. He stood on the soft carpet and stomped his feet lightly.

Then he walked to the curtain and pulled it open.

The glass floor-to-ceiling window, with the pitch-black outside, reflected the entire room like a mirror, except Xiao Yao himself.

Xiao Yao reached out and touched the glass surface, only to feel a cold and hard feeling at his fingertips.

He suddenly clenched his fist and punched the window: "If you f*cking let me choose, I'll choose!"

With a crisp sound, the window shattered into pieces, glass shards fell all over the floor, and a door appeared behind the window frame.

Damn, this is too fragile. I didn’t use my full strength!

Xiao Yao reached out and tried to push the door, only to find that his hand had left a horrifying bloody handprint on the door.

The smell of blood and the delayed sting of pain commented on his action, which was reckless.

He gritted his teeth, checked the wound, picked up the shirt on the ground, tore it into strips, and bandaged it simply, but it still didn't feel good.

It seems that our genius little girl has not learned any first aid skills - this is normal.

It was then that Xiao Yao noticed that a small badge had been mixed in among the glass fragments on the ground.

On the front of the coat of arms is a portrait of a man wearing a knight's helmet and a goatee, with the words "Don Quijote de la Mancha" written below.

"Don Quixote?" Xiao Yao muttered as he turned the badge over. The black horse head on the back looked like a chess piece.

Wait...I remember now.

The forgotten memories about "St. Francis Xavier's College" flooded back into Xiao Yao's mind like a tide.

"Oh no," the boy said to himself worriedly, "Are Yu Luying and Xiao Xiong also trapped in a room?"

First of all, I wish you all a Merry Christmas~

Today I am going to a far place (40 kilometers away) to celebrate the festival with my family.

I won't be home until tomorrow afternoon.

Therefore, I will take a day off tomorrow. Please forgive me.

Once again, I wish each of you peace on Christmas Eve~

ps The next chapter will start, our little Shen Jie will be back again~

Chapter 53 Blockage

2022-12-28

As soon as he opened the door, Xiao Yao bumped into someone. It was the man with the red bow tie.

"Hey? When I looked over here just now, there was no one there. I thought you guys had left a long time ago. Are you still going to eat the fruit plate?" The man with the red bow tie looked as surprised as Xiao Yao.

"Where is this? What did you say?"

Xiao Yao felt a strong sense of dizziness and nearly fell down, but fortunately "Red Bow Tie" was quick to act and carried him back to the box.

It took him a while to realize that he had really returned to the real world and was in the 2049V private room of Qiangui.

His clothes and right hand were intact, with no signs of injury at all.

"What time is it now?" Xiao Yao sat back on the sofa weakly.

"It's almost... 12 o'clock." Red Tie glanced at his phone.

"12 noon or..."

"12 noon." The man with the red bow tie glanced at him strangely.

"Where are Yu Luying and Xiao Xiong? They are the boy and girl who came in with me."

"I don't know. Didn't he leave?"

"Are you gone?" Xiao Yao said.

A glimmer of hope ignited in Xiao Yao's heart. He took out his cell phone and made a call.

He really hoped to hear Yu Luying's complaints and Xiao Xiong's sarcasm on the phone, but all he heard was "The number you dialed is out of service area."

That mechanical voice, like that of Seker, was emotionless.

"Xiong Ji went shopping and hasn't come back yet. Maybe he went somewhere to play on the way. What's your name? I'll ask him to come back to you when he gets home."