Chapter 52: A Lifelong Command
Mu Feng felt like his heart was about to break.
For the first time, he clearly perceived that he and Liang Yuhang were kissing.
And it was the other party who had taken the initiative.
His fingers tightly gripped the other man’s waist. His entire body was stiff enough to perform as a puppet, yet he wasn’t satisfied with the light touch, so he moved forward a bit.
He opened his mouth and lightly licked the other’s lower lip.
Liang Yuhang’s breathing grew heavy; the grip on the back of his neck became firmer. “You’ve learned how to apply what you’ve been taught.”
Mu Feng didn’t know if that counted as praise, but he knew the opportunity was fleeting, so he only pursued it passionately.
Liang Yuhang felt that this was starting to exceed the scope of “practice,” so he pulled back. He created some distance.
“What’s wrong?” Mu Feng looked at him blankly.
Liang Yuhang still appeared very calm. He looked down at the boy. “If we keep kissing, I’m afraid you’ll go into heat.”
Mu Feng was made red-faced by his blunt words. Indeed, he had been too proactive. He whispered, “It’s not that easy.”
In reality, it was.
He was practically about to melt into a puddle of water.
“Is that so?” Liang Yuhang reached out, his fingertip grazing Mu Feng’s lips. “Doesn’t look like it.”
“Don’t laugh at me anymore.” Mu Feng was indeed feeling a bit impulsive. Now that he had regained a bit of rationality, he was startled by whether he had been too obvious.
Fortunately, he was pretending to be an Omega. Under the seduction of an Alpha, anything he did seemed perfectly reasonable.
Liang Yuhang acted very serious. “Have you learned?”
“I think… I have.” Mu Feng didn’t dare look into his eyes, muttering, “We’ll just do a light touch then.”
Liang Yuhang hummed. He couldn’t resist teasing him again, “After all, if we kiss like that, the audience might bring a bed up to the stage.”
Mu Feng realized that his previous “fishing” techniques were like a small sorcerer facing a grand wizard compared to Teacher Liang.
Too captivating.
A single sentence made his mind fill with wild thoughts.
Mu Feng bounced up from him, almost moving with his same-side hands and feet. “Then… that’s it. I’m leaving.”
“Wait.” Liang Yuhang called him back, teasing, “I didn’t ask you here to practice kissing. There’s something important.”
“What else is there?” Mu Feng felt light-headed, like he was walking on clouds.
Liang Yuhang took a stack of papers from the drawer nearby and handed them to him. “An agreement. It’s also my first time pretending to be engaged to someone. I wasn’t quite sure what you needed me to do. Write down what you need.”
That expression was as formal as signing a contract.
Mu Feng slowly moved back over and looked down at the stack of papers.
Just for an engagement, Liang Yuhang had already purchased property, funds, and a series of medical insurance under his name.
He could hardly imagine how much this man would give and how much he would spoil someone if he actually fell in love.
Even though he knew that person didn’t exist, Mu Feng still felt a surge of envy and jealousy.
Liang Yuhang said, “You’re still young; there are still two years before you can marry. If you want to dissolve the engagement later, you can tell me.”
Mu Feng moved his lips. “Probably… not.”
Since they were bound, he hadn’t thought about taking the initiative to separate.
Liang Yuhang smiled. “Alright. Then let’s not mention that for now. Do you have any requirements for my cooperation?”
Mu Feng shook his head, feeling as though he had been stunned by a jackpot. “Teacher Liang, I’m very grateful, but you don’t have to do so much for me. Why?”
He was a child who had rarely received care; seeing a person with no connection to him being so invested made him feel very apprehensive.
“I said, the initial intention was to help you, but later a bit of selfishness developed as well.”
Liang Yuhang sat on the sofa, looking up slightly. “I don’t want Liang Jingyi to get his way. Seeing him unhappy makes me happy. Is that reason acceptable?”
He very candidly exposed his dark side. “Mu Feng, I’m utilizing you. Why are you still grateful?”
Mu Feng’s eyelashes trembled slightly. If this was the reason, he would accept it with joy.
He was willing to do anything for Liang Yuhang. If it could make him happy, that would be for the best.
He wasn’t an insignificant, useless person; he was a sharp blade that could help Liang Yuhang strike others. Of course he was grateful.
“Angry?” Liang Yuhang’s voice was soft.
It made sense. After all, anyone who was being used would be furious.
“No, I’m very happy.” Mu Feng showed a large smile. “Then I’m much more relaxed. To be able to help you makes me very happy.”
Liang Yuhang was dazed for a moment.
Having grown up in a family filled with schemes, the thing he hated most in life was intrigue. Yet after telling the boy such a thing, he actually said he felt happy.
“You really are…” Liang Yuhang couldn’t find an adjective for a moment. “…silly.”
Mu Feng said with eyes curved in a smile, “Based on the context, that’s a compliment, right?”
Liang Yuhang changed the word: “Stupid.”
“If you keep insulting me, I’m really going to get angry.” Mu Feng intentionally put on a stern face. “Shouldn’t we get to know each other more deeply? In case others ask, we don’t want to be exposed.”
Liang Yuhang raised an eyebrow slightly. “How deeply?”
Mu Feng walked over and sat cross-legged on the floor. He liked looking up at the man. “For example, let’s set the time and place of our first meeting, a token of our love, things like that.”
This actually stumped Liang Yuhang. “I can’t think of anything.”
“Then let’s borrow the numbers from 0717. July 17th, at the beach, and the token is a bell. How about that?” Mu Feng carefully stitched together the memories from the past.
Liang Yuhang narrowed his eyes. “Alright. What were we doing at the beach?”
“I fell into the water, and you saved me. It fits your noble image perfectly,” Mu Feng flattered.
Liang Yuhang laughed at him. “Have you been reading too many novels with 0717? So cliché.”
But Mu Feng was exceptionally persistent. “Let’s just go with that. It’s a deal.”
In reality, this was the true first meeting between him and Liang Yuhang.
On July 17th, over four years ago, Mu Feng was one month away from turning fifteen.
Because of the death of his eldest sister, his family attributed everything to his mental power going out of control. He had been abused to the point of being in a mental daze.
On that day, he had struggled to escape from home. Desperate and helpless, he walked step by step toward the deep sea.
Let me die. If I die, everything will end, he thought.
The seawater submerged him, seeping into his wounds. it hurt. He continued to sink, wanting to end this painful and short life.
Liang Yuhang discovered him.
“Let me die, I beg you,” Mu Feng had said back then. “Let go of me, let go… stop caring about me…”
Liang Yuhang ignored him, only pulling him toward the shore with a cold face.
A person intent on death has immense strength. Mu Feng almost dragged the other man down into the deep sea with him, yet Liang Yuhang only struggled time and again to swim to the surface with him.
By the time they reached the shore, both were soaked to the bone, messy and wretched, coughing incessantly from the water.
“I don’t want to live anymore.” Mu Feng was covered in injuries. He lowered his eyes, his tears flowing down along with the seawater.
“But you already died once just now.”
Liang Yuhang lowered his head and looked at him. “Now, your life is mine. It isn’t something you can give up just because you want to.”
Mu Feng’s eyelashes trembled, his voice choked and helpless. “But I have no reason to keep living.”
“What’s your name?”
“Mu… Mu.” Mu Feng regretted countless times later that he hadn’t told him his real name.
Liang Yuhang said, “I just finished my first heart test surgery two days ago. The stitches haven’t even been removed. Because I saved you, it might cause the subsequent mechanical heart transplant to fail. Don’t you want to see the result?”
Mu Feng looked up abruptly, staring at him in shock.
After all, Liang Yuhang looked very healthy, like a popular senior at school whom thousands followed.
He didn’t look at all like someone who needed a surgery that sounded like it had no chance of success and had never succeeded before.
However, the gauze on his chest had indeed been seeped with blood because of his frantic struggling just now.
It looked like an incredibly frightening kind of pain.
Liang Yuhang said, “I’ll give you a reason to live. Let’s see if you, who are healthy, can struggle longer, or if I, who have finished the surgery, can live longer.”
Mu Feng remained silent, only looking at him with a face full of tears.
Liang Yuhang was anxious, afraid the boy would do something stupid again. His tone became heavier: “This is what you owe me. You must wait until that day. Do you hear me?”
Mu Feng felt Liang Yuhang reach out, his broad palm tightening, making it hard for him to breathe.
He had been whipped, choked, and made to vomit countless times; it should have been incredibly painful, yet in this moment of suffocation, he felt care and healing.
He heard Liang Yuhang give him his first, and a command he would never dare to violate for his entire life.
“I command you: live on.”
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