Chapter 49 - Twice

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Ten slender fingers that were fair, perhaps it was because he lacked blood all year round, they were slightly pale but the round fingernails had a pink tint to it.

But in bed, Xie Shi loved to hold those beautiful and seemingly weak hands, he would kiss them lightly watching how Xie Mu would squirm in confusion and force himself to stay awake, struggling to keep his beautiful eyes open. x821AY

And now, that hand fell on top of Xie NanEn’s coffin.

It was funny, how there was nothing in the coffin.

Xie Shi stood by Xie Mu’s side looking at the man’s pale face, who was staring at the scene before him with a blank expression. Seeing how the man was speechless, lit a desire deep down his heart, like a giant beast that was hidden in the abyss eagerly ready to jump out.

The cold fingertips tracing the lines of the coffin underneath his hand. Xie Mu looked at it and traced over it again and again. wmO2o8

“Uncle you don’t need to stare at it, this was the same coffin that was used to bury my father.”

Xie Shi grabbed his hand, the man’s expression was still blank and he no longer struggled, so he let Xie Shi do whatever he wanted with himself.

“I know…”

After a while, he seemed to squeeze this sentence out of his throat. 6zLsBH

His gentle and elegant voice turned so hoarse it was nearly unrecognizable, it was full of bitterness and almost audible. If it wasn’t for Xie Shi being right next to Xie Mu’s side, he wouldn’t have heard what he was saying.

“At the beginning…”

Xie Mu was staring at the coffin in from of him, in a daze, “I watched my brother being placed into it with my own eyes, his eyes were closed, and was wearing dark gold clothes. I saw it with his own eyes…”

He closed his eyes in pain, his long eyelashes were trembling and he didn’t open his eyes for a while, instead, he asked in a sober voice, “Xie Shi, what exactly are you playing at?” s4ZwzQ

The edges of the young man’s lips curved slightly, his voice was as clear as ever, “What is Uncle talking about? My skills aren’t that good.”

“Then what are you trying to say!!”

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“Were you going to tell me that brother never died and he just lied to me?”

“That’s impossible!!!”

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Both of the man’s hands were tightly gripping onto the coffin in front of him. The pair of eyes that had always pretended to be calm had tears dripping out of them, “Brother is already dead!”

“In front of me, I saw it with my own eyes, I saw how he was placed into the coffin…” g01HR7

“You’re lying to me, you’re lying to me, you must be lying to me..”

Xie Shi eyes sank and slowly, carefully, and gently took Xie Mu’s hand away from the coffin and warming his hand with his body temperature.

“Uncle, this is the first time I opened the tomb. Shouldn’t you be happy that my father isn’t dead?”

“Didn’t you always want to go back to my father, and relive those days where you were sheltered by him? Now that he’s not dead, as his relative, why aren’t you happy>” 4jn0D1

“Could it be that your so-called respect for my father was just superficial?”

Xie Shi looked at the man in front of him with tears in his eyes and was about to collapse. He raised his eyebrows slightly and continued to say calmly, “I didn’t expect my father to die at first, but when I was looking for Uncle, I found some clues.”

“Back then, Uncle didn’t see my father die with his own eyes, right?”

The man who had been staring at him froze at his words. HZigvr

At first, he didn’t see it.

He still remembered that he knelt before his eldest brother’s bed, crying and begging him to not leave him alone, his heart was aching in pain.

Afterward, he seemed to have fainted and by the time he woke up. His brother was determined to be dead by the doctor.

Watching how the man who loved him and spoiled him was put into the coffin, Xie Mu cried so hard he could no longer… stand. How was he able to check whether his brother was truly dead. Yal53Q

Xie Shi, who was beside him said in a bewildered voice, “Uncle said that you saw my father being put into the coffin with your own eyes. Have you been guarding the coffin since my father was placed inside it?”

Xie Mu’s face turned even pale.

He murmured softly, “No…”

“Is brother… really not dead?” P8dJXr

Xie Shi’s smile gradually grew larger, his affirmative tone of voice as he gently held the man’s shoulders as if he were holding a treasure. He felt the coldness of his body as he hugged him tightly.

“Since my father didn’t die, he had to pretend to be dead. There must be a reason. Uncle do you know the reason”

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Xie Mu shook his head stiffly, his voice was hoarse, “At the beginning, my brother was conspired against by the Xie family and was shot three times. He had to undergo surgery for a whole night, the entire Xie family back then was unsafe and I didn’t know anything…”

“But the Uncle who didn’t know anything had managed to guard the Xie family for three years.” guH0K9

“In these 3 years, Uncle managed to eliminate the resistance of the Xie family and even managed to take half of the Zhan family’s assets, you did much better than my father.”

Xie Shi was still smiling, he leaned over to the man’s earlobe and seducingly asked, “Uncle, do you think my father has always looked after you?”

The man’s body became more rigid from his words.

He could no longer think whether Xie Shi was trying to take advantage of him in his weakened state, he could put his whole heart into staring at the coffin in front of him. JQsFX1

“Brother… was looking after me?

Xie Mu tried his best to muster a smile, but in the end, his smile made his face uglier than when he was crying. His eyes were red and the tears were falling down from his eyes but he still tried to hold his tears back.

“But, why didn’t he appear…”

“I really missed him for the past few years. All I dream of is him, but why doesn’t he appear…” Gpve4o

“He even said that he adores me the most, loves me the most, and would always protect me…”

It was Xie Shi’s first time witnessing Xie Mu breaking down completely.

When he fainted and pressed him against the bed, threatening him to have a relationship himself. Xie Mu would stubbornly look at him with his cold and indifferent eyes as if no matter how hard he tried, the other person would always be out of reach. E0okcl

But now, the cold and indifferent mask finally broke down and showed the softness inside.

Unfortunately, this softness didn’t belong to him.

Even if it was intentional, watching Xie Mu who was hurt because of Xie NanEn made Xie Shi feel a little uncomfortable in his heart. He forced it down and hugged him more tightly

“Uncle, don’t be sad…” kmPMdu

He said, “I’ll investigate it for you. Since we haven’t heard of any news from father, he definitely isn’t within the country anymore. I found out some news, I’ll let Uncle see the father as soon as possible.”

“It’s just…”

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Xie Shi stopped suddenly, he sounded a bit complicated, “I found something, which seemed different from Uncle’s memory.”

Xie Shi’s eyes were red and his eye became slightly clearer. He looked at Xie Shi, and bitterly said, “What did you find?” g8Ocd1

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Xie Mu hasn’t rested much in the past two days and he followed Xie Shi back to the cage that once imprisoned him. The look on his face wasn’t very good, as he sat onto the wheelchair, his damaged legs that hadn’t healed completely throbbing again.

The man was already used to the pain, his expression didn’t change much and he didn’t show how much it ached. NhlS7i

How could the pain he experienced physically hurt more than the pain he felt while he was reading over the information?

Xie Mu expressionlessly read over the documents Xie Shi handed over, the young man’s voice ringing beside his ear,

“The news that Uncle received back then was that my father was conspired by the three parties which were the Wang family, the Zhang family, and part of our own family.”

“But in reality, according to the information I found, those three parties did work together to ambush my father on that day. However, my father received the information earlier and managed to dodge their schemes.” rxQeN

Xie Mu’s face became pale, looking at the evidence before him, and didn’t move in the slightest.

“Afterwards when my father left… Uncle hated these three forces and managed to take half of Zhang’s family property and held murderous intentions towards the Wang family.”

“But in fact, these were all within my father’s expectation.”

With a sunny smile, Xie Shi raised his head to look at the man in front of him. 6X5y1W

“Uncle, it seems like you were fooled.”