Chapter 6

Does this idiot not know how to play? If he doesn't, then he shouldn't play!

Why bring a healer if they won't heal me? Can't they see I'm about to die?

Idiot, idiot. My blood pressure is seriously rising.

...Forget it. I should take some medicine.

This time, Su Yu wasn't the only one suffering from insomnia. Gu Lin, in the room next to his, picked up the phone from his bedside table and checked the time. It was 12:34.

Just as he was about to fall asleep, he suddenly heard Su Yu's voice. To someone on the verge of sleep, it was especially grating and abrupt. The bad-tempered alpha's face darkened.

He had noticed that sometimes he could hear Su Yu's voice, while other times he couldn't. But whenever he did hear it, it provoked him to varying degrees—especially at night.

Finally over. Multiplayer games? Even dogs wouldn't queue with me.

More than ten seconds passed without Gu Lin hearing Su Yu again, and he slowly closed his eyes.

I can't sleep. I'll play a little longer.

Gu Lin: "..."

The alpha got up, his face cold as he knocked on Gu Lin's bedroom door. Su Yu opened it quickly. He looked slightly surprised to see him, but Gu Lin did not even spare him a glance. He walked past him into the room and shut off his computer.

Damn.

Why did he come over in the middle of the night instead of sleeping just to turn off my computer?

Gu Lin glanced at him from the corner of his eye. "From now on, if I'm home, you're not allowed to play games after eleven. That's the rule."

On the surface, Su Yu naturally maintained his obedient demeanor. His eyes were lowered, and he did not dare look up at him, because he could sense that the alpha in front of him was displeased.

But inwardly, Su Yu was asking why. He was utterly dissatisfied with the unreasonable rule Gu Lin had set.

That only stirred up Su Yu's rebellious streak. He decided that whenever he couldn't sleep in the future, he would play games.

Gu Lin had long since seen through his thoughts. At the end, he added, "If I catch you playing games after eleven again, I'll confiscate all your electronics."

Su Yu looked up at him, seemingly unable to understand why Gu Lin was suddenly targeting him like this. His eyes were slightly red, making him look like a startled rabbit.

How vicious.

Oh no, I can't control my emotions again. I'm starting to feel awful.

Before leaving, Gu Lin coldly tossed out one more sentence. "Put away that tearful look. It's ugly."

The moment he said that, Su Yu's tears became impossible to stop. They streamed down his porcelain-pale cheeks as he watched Gu Lin leave, until he shut the door behind him.

Su Yu wiped away his tears and suppressed the emotions from moments ago. He closed the room door, still having no idea why he had encountered something that could not be explained by science.

Sometimes, he was like an observer, experiencing the original owner's life through his perspective while also having to bear all of his emotions.

So was he dead or alive?

Su Yu could not figure it out. He had been pondering that question since he came here. In front of the Su family, he had tried to control the body, but he could not do it. Only in extremely rare circumstances could he make a few subtle movements.

He had no idea how long this situation would last.

He was truly sick of being bullied by everyone.

Su Yu lay in bed, his thoughts running wild. In the end, he did not know how he fell asleep. It felt as though someone had hit him over the head with a club, and he slipped into unconscious sleep.

The next day, Su Yu still woke up after nine in the morning. Usually, Gu Lin would have already gone to the company by then. Yet today, when Su Yu stepped out of his room, he happened to run into Gu Lin, who was also just leaving his room.

The alpha did not look well. Dark circles faintly shadowed his eyes from not getting enough rest. His face was cold, and his hostility was obvious. Su Yu took a step back and did not dare make a sound, afraid of angering him.

The grudge-holding alpha snorted and deliberately gave him a sour look.

Su Yu began to feel upset. He started overthinking, wondering whether he had done something wrong to make Gu Lin angry.

...

He followed the alpha downstairs, moving cautiously at the dining table. Every movement was light, as if he were afraid of disturbing him. The two did not exchange a single word during breakfast. It was very quiet.

Gu Lin noticed that Su Yu was rather quiet while eating, and his thoughts were not as active then.

He raised his eyes slightly. The Omega seated across from him was excessively quiet, not making a sound, with such a weak presence that if Gu Lin had not looked up and seen him, he might have thought the other person had already left.

The Omega seemed to notice his gaze and immediately stopped eating.

Seeing him about to use sign language, Gu Lin said, "Eat. You don't need to stop eating to communicate with me. I can't understand it."

Su Yu's usual sign language exchanges with Gu Lin were very simple and mundane. He did not know whether Gu Lin truly could not understand them or simply did not want to look.

Gu Lin told him to keep eating, and Su Yu was actually extremely happy about it. He did not want to communicate with Gu Lin anyway.

After breakfast, Gu Lin left the house. Alone at home, Su Yu brought out his green plants to bask in the sun again. At noon, he received a new potted plant, sent over by his second aunt. Su Yu excitedly placed the two plants together.

If one died, he still had another. He would not need to buy any for a while.

His friends often teased him for being a plant killer, a living King Yama—whatever he grew, died. Although they advised him to stop harming those innocent flowers and plants, Su Yu remained determined to keep growing them.

Fortunately, he was not very fond of keeping small animals. Otherwise, his sins would have been grave indeed.

Just as he was thinking about that, Su Yu accidentally knocked over the potted plant his second aunt's people had just delivered from the flower stand. The pot landed upside down on the floor and even cracked, exposing the dark soil. When Su Yu turned it over, the part of the plant above the soil had already snapped off.

It was over. Another one had died.

The aunt came over upon hearing the noise and hurriedly asked what had happened. Seeing the potted plant on the floor, she quickly stepped forward to clean it up.

"Madam, don't move. You might get hurt. Let me handle it."

Su Yu asked whether the plant could still survive. The aunt sincerely felt that the Omega before her was kind-hearted, caring so much even about a tiny potted plant, so she comforted him. "The roots are still there. It should be able to grow back. I'll put it in a new pot."

Su Yu nodded.

Since that was the case, he would not throw it away. Though it looked a little ugly being so bare, and it did not quite suit his aesthetic.