Bai Luochuan: !!!
He really did love Qi Yu too deeply, after all.
He did not even need any other compensation or rewards.
Just like that, he had forgiven this damned game company!
Besides, the money he had just asked the production team for had already arrived. During filming, the production team covered food, drinks, accommodation, and transportation.
What did that mean?
It meant he could spend every penny he had just received on his man without a worry!
The gifts he had not managed to buy his baby last time.
This time, he could get x99 of them in minutes!
Bai Luochuan opened the game as fast as he could and downloaded the update.
Meanwhile.
In the room upstairs, Qi Yu, who had just showered, also heard his phone chime.
It was a very distinctive notification sound.
On par with the ringtone his wife had recorded for him.
It was that familiar yet unfamiliar text notification whose source he had never successfully tracked down.
He ran to the table as fast as he could.
He picked up his phone, and sure enough, there was a new text notification.
[Please prepare the new date setting within half an hour.]
[Once preparations are complete, please reply "1." If no reply is received within half an hour, you will be considered to have forfeited the date.]
It was the same sort of notification as before.
The allotted time was about the same, too.
Qi Yu immediately looked through the details that followed about what he needed to prepare.
He had initially worried about how he would slip away from the production team and fulfill the requirements within half an hour if there were restrictions on the setting.
But after looking through everything, all he needed for props were a bathroom and a bathtub.
His bedroom suite had both.
That saved him a lot of trouble.
Reassured, he replied "1," then abandoned the idea of drying himself off.
Returning to the bathroom, he filled another bath and worked up some bubbles before stepping back in with his long legs and sitting down.
It was as though his situation here had been under constant surveillance.
The very next second after he settled in, his familiar ringtone sounded.
Qi Yu quickly tapped to answer.
Sure enough, Bai Luochuan's familiar face appeared on the screen.
His black eyes sparkled.
Droplets of water still clung to the ends of his black hair, not quite dried off.
He looked as though he had rushed over to contact him right after showering.
Very satisfied with the answer he had arrived at in his mind.
The smile in Qi Yu's eyes deepened.
He leaned halfway over the edge of the bathtub, his golden eyes gazing at the person on his phone.
Qi Yu spoke sweetly, pitching his voice higher. "You've gone days without coming to see me."
Bai Luochuan: !!!!!
It really was different!
This feeling of being struck right in the heart!
No one else could possibly replace him, okay?!
His cheeks immediately flushed, and Bai Luochuan shook his head hard.
Almost instinctively, he explained, "I thought about logging into the game every day, but the game..."
At that point.
He suddenly realized he seemed to have let something slip.
Throughout his relationship with Qi Yu, he had actually avoided mentioning things like the "game."
Because doing so felt like telling Qi Yu outright.
That he was fake.
That he was data that did not exist.
So he forcibly swallowed the rest of his unfinished sentence.
Instead, he gave Qi Yu a bitter smile and said, "Something happened on my end, but it seems to be fixed now. It probably won't happen again."
He had stopped himself very quickly.
But Qi Yu had still heard him.
All his attention was focused on Bai Luochuan.
How could he possibly miss even the smallest detail?
But he was in no hurry to expose anything. Instead, he changed the subject with a question. Qi Yu said, "Your face looks different from before. You didn't seem quite right during our last call, either. What happened? Can't you tell me?"
He was asking a question.
Yet his golden eyes flickered.
All they revealed were those shattered emotions.
As though, if Bai Luochuan refused again, he could burst into tears right there for him to see. He looked utterly downcast.
Bai Luochuan hesitated a little.
But on second thought, there did not seem to be anything to hesitate over.
He could not tell normal people these things, because they might think he was crazy.
But telling his lover inside a game seemed fine.
After all, data would never betray him.
There was no way he would think he was crazy.
So Bai Luochuan simply relaxed and began telling Qi Yu. "It's actually nothing major. Didn't I tell you before? I worked as a mercenary. It's a job that involves doing dangerous things."
"That job was dangerous too, but I completed it properly! I even remembered the kiss I promised you! So I called you as soon as the job was over."
"But I guess I was careless."
"I didn't notice someone on the team had turned traitor."
"Mm... what's past is past. My situation now is a little strange. Do you know about transmigration? You could also think of it as possessing someone else's body! I transmigrated to another world and became someone else."
"Anyway, all I can do now is live my life, so don't worry."
He recounted his previous experiences in one breath.
Bai Luochuan did not think there was any problem with it.
He looked expectantly at Qi Yu on the screen.
Just as he had imagined.
Sure enough, Qi Yu showed no sign of disgust.
Instead, he looked anxiously at his face and asked, his heart aching, "That must have hurt so much..."
He had experienced being on the verge of death himself.
Of course he knew how painful it was.
Now his lover had suffered that pain.
Even if the ultimate outcome was that the two of them had ended up in the same world, it still could not make Qi Yu entirely happy.
Bai Luochuan, on the other hand, waved a hand dismissively.
His smile unchanged, he said, "It was nothing. That first hit did hurt, but he finished me off quickly, so it stopped hurting right away."
Qi Yu: ...
He knew Bai Luochuan was an optimist.
But with something like this.
He really did not need to be so optimistic.
It would have been fine to show a little weakness and act a little more needy with him...
He lowered his eyes slightly.
Concealing the emotions surging within them.
He wanted to kill those traitors who had hurt his lover.
But being "in different worlds."
Was those scumbags' good fortune.
And his greatest obstacle.
Fortunately, they were in the same world now.
Even if he could not take revenge, at least he could stay by Bai Luochuan's side, hold him in his arms, and comfort him properly.
Seemingly noticing Qi Yu's low spirits.
Bai Luochuan hurriedly added, "You don't have to be angry. It's all in the past. Besides, I quite like my current identity. I've wanted to stop being a mercenary for ages. I think getting out of it through this opportunity is pretty good."
Qi Yu did agree with that.
He had long wanted Bai Luochuan to stop doing those jobs that meant constantly risking his life.
Bai Luochuan, meanwhile, was afraid he would not believe him.
He kept planning out his future with him.
They went on like that for quite a while.
Having finally managed to suppress his emotions, Qi Yu suddenly spoke. "Tell me, do you think the two of us are in the same world?"
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