Lucian woke up much later than Wade.
After leaving the illusion, he still had chaotic and meaningless dreams. Some of these dreams were after he became Lucian, some were after he escaped from death, and some were in the illusion. Sometimes he saw himself as Xi Ruier, sometimes he saw himself as Lucian, and more often he saw himself as No. 5, shuttling between different worlds. Sometimes he was a cannon fodder stand-in vase in the entertainment industry, sometimes he was the rich and handsome second male lead who was responsible for being slapped in the face in Long Ao Tianwen, and sometimes he was the blackened second male lead in a romance novel...
Finally, all the scenes froze in the illusion, and Wade put the ring on him.
All his senses seemed to be taken away at this moment. He just floated quietly in the air, watching Wade do everything for him.
—If he was just Lucian, he might have fallen in love with Wade
An extremely absurd idea suddenly appeared in his mind. He felt his fingers were very heavy. He didn't know whether it was because of Wade's blood when he left the illusion, or because of the ring on his finger. At that moment, he felt extremely irritated in addition to panic, a kind of irritation he had never experienced before.
It was at this moment that he heard the system calling him, as if it came from a very far away place.
'Number five!'
Lucian regained consciousness and felt that he was lying on a soft bed, both the mattress and the quilt were of such good quality that it made him cry.
He fluttered his eyelashes and heard someone shouting "Lord Louis has woken up", as if looking for someone to notify another person.
It was at this moment that Lucian woke up.
He opened his eyes and saw that he was lying in a well-decorated room. There were curtains on both sides of the large bed, half of which were drawn open. Eden was running back from the door of the room and said to him in surprise, "Lord Louis, you are awake."
"How long have I slept?"
"Twelve days," said Eden.
Lucian was a little bit unbelievable. He rubbed his temple and said irritably: "How long have I slept?"
Eden: "Actually, you should have woken up on the third day. But Lord Witt said that things were not yet dealt with, so he extended your sleep time."
Lucian: …
Sooner or later he would give Wade a beating.
Before Vader came, Eden explained to Lucian everything that happened during his sleep in a very methodical and experienced manner. This included the change of government in the City of Pride (now in Vader's hands), the removal of the seal and curse, the tidying up of the city and its institutions, the cleaning of the castle, and various business exchanges... In a word, Vader was now the lord of the City of Pride.
As Eden was still talking, a dark purple skirt appeared in the room. After seeing the visitor, Eden stood up respectfully and greeted Wade.
"Go ahead and get busy," Wade said.
Eden took the order and left. Now the management of the city-state could not be separated from the responsibility of him and James.
The black-haired, blood-red-eyed young man sat beside Lucian's bed. He placed Lucian's hand on his palm. Lucian was still a little confused when he woke up and found himself living in the castle again. He didn't look at Wade, but lowered his eyelashes and said, "The dream... is over?"
"Um."
"… "
After a long time, Lucian sighed softly: "How pitiful, don't you think?"
"Do you remember the ring you found in Cecil's old house when you were twelve and wanted to play marbles with it?"
Lucian:
"… the ring with the emerald the size of a pigeon egg. Your adoptive uncle stopped you and took it away." Wade said, "The gem on the ring also appeared in the jewelry store in the illusion. Xi Ruier finally got the ring."
The ring took a month to make, and was put on Shirelle's finger by Elvis, disguised as a human, on a wet rainy day.
“…Maybe Xia Zuo sent it to Xi Ruier.” Lucian said.
"Xia Zuo knows there is a ring. Lucian."
—So, it was after that incident, maybe a year, or maybe many years later.
He returned to the foggy city, walked on the streets he was familiar with, and finally retrieved the ring in the jewelry store after decades of separation, for which all his feelings had never been conveyed.
There is a mark on the inside of the ring. Esther, Elvis did not tell him what the mark said. I think it just means "someone once loved someone", that's all.
Until his hair turned gray, he looked at the inside of the ring in the twilight. In the platinum ring, he saw the marks of solidified years.
"For the lover of Ives."
is the pseudonym Esther.
It's Elvis.
…
Lucian closed his eyes. He said, "Elvis said you signed an exchange agreement with him, which is..."
"That dagger condenses the blood in Elvis' heart and his soul. And he secretly set a spell to condense the soul on the ring he gave to Shirelle. If Shirelle dies, this ring can gather his soul and prevent it from dissipating from then on, or perhaps reincarnation." Wade said, "He hopes that I can find the ring for him. And his ghost is now living in the dagger, and will find a way to transform himself into a body, and then help Shirelle reincarnate, and continue with him before his memory is restored."
Lucian: …
After his obsession was resolved, Elvis started to tremble again. He decided to find the reincarnation of Shirelle and trap him before he remembered the previous grudge.
Lucian stopped commenting on the ill-fated relationship between the two. He was about to say something else when he trembled at the gripping feeling on his fingers.
He raised his eyes and met Vader's dark red eyes. Those eyes looked at him like a wolf hunting its prey.
He took his wrist and brought it to his lips.
As he spoke, Weed bit Lucian's wrist artery gently through the thin skin. He held the increasingly violent heartbeat in his mouth and pecked it downwards.
"Do you want to?"
This was the last voice I heard from Wade before he was able to regain his sanity.
He saw himself in the mirror opposite the bed with a flushed face and long hair that had turned dark gray.
He nodded slightly and said "hmm".
And pushed the system, which was ecstatic about his waking up and chattering, into blocking mode.
…
Soon Lucian realized that putting a mirror on the wall at the end of the bed that could reflect the bed was something that only a pervert would do. And the quality of the mirror was so good that everything was clearly reflected - whether it was white, pink, or red.
Vader's style this time was somewhat understandable. He was no longer as brutal and ruthless as before, but extremely elegant. Lucian could see that Vader was restraining himself - whether from breathing, physiological reactions, or certain dimensions, Vader was on the verge of exploding. In the past, when he deliberately committed suicide, Vader would have only done a hasty foreplay in this situation. But this time, he restrained himself.
He just kissed Lucian and caressed him, his movements were gentle and soothing with a strong sense of love, but it was extremely sensational. He wanted to touch every inch of Lucian's body, every inch of Lucian's skin, every inch of his inside and outside, he wanted to kiss it.
In the end, it was Lucian who suffered from Xian. His whole body seemed to be soaked in warm water, or nectar, like a piece of candy that was about to melt and drip with honey. He hugged Wade emotionally, begging him to give it to him quickly, and by the way, stop some activities that Lucian felt were dirty and shameful.
Lucian really couldn't adapt to Wade's current style - or the way he played. He accepted it completely, and was completely moved and trembling.
The night lasted for a long time. Under Lucian's strong protest with tears in his eyes, the bed curtain was finally pulled down in the second half of the night, and only the shaking silk was left in the mirror. But even so, the mirror also reflected the same scene: a white hand broke free from the bed curtain, as if it couldn't bear it and tried to grab something, but was caught back by another hand with ten fingers clasped together.
After a night of wind and rain, the flowers were soaked with dew and the ground was covered with red petals.
They stayed in bed for three days. They were still intimate on and off until the third day, like a newlywed couple who had just separated for a short time. Lucian's long dark gray hair finally turned light gray. He had been hungry for too long, so it was not enough to do it just once. With his back to Wade, his consciousness was already a little blurred. He was held in Wade's arms. He tried to support his body, turned his head to rub against Wade, and leaned his lips to kiss him, complaining lazily like a spoiled child: "I'm tired, don't touch me, okay..."
"Let's get married, Lucian."
"… "
Lucian was immediately awakened with a start.
Wade saw him tremble all over, and there was still a hint of unsatisfied aggression in his voice. He said, "So soon for the first time?"
“…” Lucian struggled to get out of his arms. His whole body seemed to be soaked in cold water, his eyes widened. “What did you just say…”
Then he accidentally sat on Vader again, and then again.
Lucian: …
Lucian was completely exhausted this time. He trembled and shivered at the slightest touch. So when he thought of this topic again, it was already half an hour later. He tried hard to push Wade away from him and said tremblingly, "What did you say? Please..."
"Proposal."
"Are you... kidding?" Lucian tried to find a gap where he could speak, "I..."
"What do you want to say?"
Lucian shuddered.
"You mean... you're my brother?"
"… "
"There is no blood relationship between us. Or you want to say... you are the Son of God? Unfortunately..."
Wade's fingers brushed his face, the corners of his still dirty lips, and anywhere else on his body. Finally, he laughed softly and said, "You've been stained by me, little succubus."
Lucian slapped his fingers away, and then paid the price for his own slap. He was completely confused. Perhaps now was not a good time for him to think carefully. He said: "I, I haven't..."
"It's okay," Wade said, leaning down to kiss him again.
"You can think about it slowly," he said, "I just want to tell you..."
"I want you to be mine. Lucian."