“Do you want to hear about my past?”
After Ji Mian finished speaking, Chu Shiye raised his head from where it had been buried on Ji Mian. He looked at him intently, without blinking.
This was the posture of someone ready to listen seriously.
A faint smile appeared in Ji Mian’s eyes, but it quickly faded as he delved into his past.
“My mother was a very, very good person,” he began.
Chu Shiye thought: Indeed.
Auntie must have been a gentle and courteous woman; otherwise, she couldn’t have raised someone like Ah Mian.
“She was the only daughter of the Su family, an exceptional A-level support system ability user,” Ji Mian continued, pausing briefly before adding, “At eighteen, she met Ji Tingyan, who was still a military academy student at the time.”
Chu Shiye thought: Ji Tingyan, Ah Mian’s father… a bad man.
“At the beginning, Ji Tingyan treated my mother very well,” Ji Mian said. “He was a hypocrite, adept at disguising himself. Because of my mother’s family background, he approached her, pretending to be deeply in love. After graduating from the military academy, he got engaged to her.”
The beloved daughter of the Su family, Su Mingye, and an unremarkable but handsome military academy student.
At first, the head of the Su family strongly opposed the match. However, seeing his daughter’s unwavering determination, he reluctantly agreed.
On the beautiful and symbolic planet of Fran, the Su family hosted a grand engagement ceremony for Su Mingye and Ji Tingyan. Not long after, at the same place, Su Mingye married Ji Tingyan, exchanging wedding rings with her lover.
As a married couple, with the support of the Su family, Ji Tingyan quickly rose in rank. During this period, he also consciously began to use the resources brought by the Su family to bolster the Ji family.
For a few years after their marriage, those might have been the happiest days for Su Mingye since meeting Ji Tingyan. Her husband was tender and devoted, indulging her every whim. And after some time, they even had children together.
However, before the joyful news of her pregnancy could last long, disaster struck the Su family.
The political landscape of the capital star was always volatile, and they were inadvertently caught up in a power struggle. Although the Su family was innocent, in the end, the forces targeting them ensured their downfall was unstoppable.
The Su family fell overnight. Su Mingye immediately sought help from her husband. However, she quickly discovered that Ji Tingyan’s attitude toward her had drastically changed.
The once tender and loving husband now offered no comfort or assistance, only cold indifference.
As the Su family crumbled bit by bit, Ji Tingyan began staying out all night. His clothes often reeked of alcohol, carried the pungent scent of unfamiliar perfumes, and bore lipstick stains of unknown origins.
It was at that point that Su Mingye finally saw Ji Tingyan’s true nature. She had no time to grieve, focusing instead on saving her family. But the Su family couldn’t even save itself; what could one pregnant woman possibly do against the forces behind their downfall?
Ultimately, the Su family was expelled from the capital star and exiled to the Seventh Star System, never allowed to return. Su Mingye’s father, the head of the Su family, exhausted his last resources to ensure his pregnant daughter could stay behind.
Dragging her heavily pregnant body, Su Mingye attempted to see her family one last time, only to hear at the starport that the Su family’s ship had crashed shortly after takeoff.
At that moment, Su Mingye’s world completely collapsed.
She fainted, blood pooling beneath her, staining her white dress red. She was immediately rushed to the hospital. Perhaps it was the thought of the tiny life growing inside her, but she found the strength to endure and eventually gave birth to her child—a rare, once-in-a-century S-level talent who inherited her Omega lineage.
Ji Tingyan rushed into the hospital room upon hearing the news, unable to contain his joy as he stood by the bedside. Staring at the once-beloved person’s ecstatic face, Su Mingye only had cold indifference in her eyes.
She clutched the small infant in her arms tightly—this was her child, the only family left in the world to accompany her.
However, the existence of an S-level ability user was far too dazzling, drawing the attention of the outside world. Su Mingye was soon relocated from the hospital for recovery and returned to her former home.
The house remained unchanged, but it seemed to be surrounded by invisible walls, unseen eyes, unspoken surveillance, and a silent imprisonment.
Su Mingye didn’t care. After her heart had died, her world was nothing but a dull gray, except for the little life in her arms who relied on her and needed her.
Because of Ji Mian, not only was the Ji family unaffected by the Su family’s downfall, but it even rose to prominence, surpassing the Su family and achieving a lofty status.
Power, glory, flattery, and wealth—Ji Tingyan, who once bore the title of “Su family’s son-in-law,” became the “Ji family patriarch,” reveling in all of it, believing it to be the reward for his hardship.
Perhaps due to the overwhelming stress during her pregnancy, or perhaps because her heart had long since died, Su Mingye’s health deteriorated as Ji Mian grew older. Ji Tingyan had once tried to nurse her back to health, but to no avail. Su Mingye rejected him outright—since the day the Su family fell and she gave birth to Ji Mian, she had never spared Ji Tingyan even a glance.
The reason she stayed wasn’t for Ji Tingyan. She knew that if she left, others outside would only covet her child even more.
She stayed for her child.
Years passed. When Ji Mian turned eighteen, Su Mingye became gravely ill and bedridden. During that time, Ji Tingyan brought home a boy who was just a few years younger than Ji Mian, along with a woman who bore a faint resemblance to Su Mingye.
That boy was Ji Cheng, Ji Mian’s half-brother. And the woman was Liu Jing, Ji Tingyan’s mistress of many years.
It’s hard to say when Ji Tingyan began his affair with Liu Jing. Based on Ji Cheng’s age, it likely started during the years Su Mingye was cold toward Ji Tingyan after Ji Mian’s birth.
By then, Su Mingye no longer cared. Her child was nearing adulthood, and faced with this bleak world, she finally had a reason to let go.
Years later, on the day Su Mingye passed away, Ji Mian had exhausted all his strength trying to save her, fighting to reclaim her from the grasp of death, but ultimately fainted beside her hospital bed.
It was from that day that he fell from being an S-level genius to an ordinary B-level individual.
“You know what happened after that,” Ji Mian said.
When Ji Tingyan learned of Ji Mian’s fall to B-level, he didn’t explode in anger or display any other obvious emotion. Perhaps he was mourning the loss of his wife at the time… or perhaps he was just coldly calculating the gains and losses that would follow.
Afterward, under the pretense of letting Ji Mian recover, Ji Tingyan kept him at the Ji family estate, forbidding him from making public appearances.
For two years, Ji Mian’s so-called “recovery” was, in reality, more like imprisonment. During this time, the Ji family continued to bask in the glory Ji Mian had brought them.
Ji Mian had no intention of abiding by their wishes. He found an opportunity to leak the news of his mental power decline to the outside world.
Shortly after, he truly severed ties with the Ji family, leaving them behind. Then, he was ambushed and ended up crashing on a remote planet.
There, he met an Alpha.
And for the first time, his life began to shine differently.
…
Chu Shiye listened quietly until Ji Mian finished speaking.
Sure enough, Ah Mian was just like him.
Both of them had endured similar fates. Two lonely souls, yet they had found each other.
Thankfully, fate had brought Ah Mian to him.
Chu Shiye lowered his head slightly, resting it against Ji Mian’s soft, ink-black hair. “Don’t be sad.”
Ji Mian smiled faintly. “It’s all in the past.”
Chu Shiye embraced him tightly. “I think there’s something suspicious about your mental power’s decline two years ago.”
Ji Mian replied, “Yes, I suspected it afterward. But back then, my mind wasn’t focused on it. By the time I realized, it was too late to investigate.”
Now, however, Ji Mian could feel that most of his mental power had recovered.
The shadows of the past, like cobwebs in a corner, would eventually be blown away by sunlight and breeze.
Chu Shiye rubbed against Ji Mian lightly, his golden eyes reflecting Ji Mian’s image. “I will never betray you.”
Ji Mian: “Mm.”
Chu Shiye: “You are mine.”
Ji Mian: “Mm.”
A faint gleam flashed in Chu Shiye’s eyes. He said nothing more and simply stayed quietly by Ji Mian’s side.
After a while, as if he had thought of something, he hesitated for a moment before slowly and cautiously inching closer to Ji Mian.
A little closer.
Ji Mian blinked his eyes lightly.
Was this Alpha trying to kiss him?
So bold now?
Chu Shiye seemed hesitant, tentatively brushing his cheek against Ji Mian’s, his gaze seeking permission as he glanced at Ji Mian.
Is it okay?
Ji Mian thought: Hmm…
Alright, I suppose it’s not unacceptable.
His fingers lightly hooked onto Chu Shiye’s collar, pulling him closer.
Chu Shiye: “!”
Chu Shiye pulled Ji Mian into his arms and lowered his head—
In that instant, alarms blared loudly, red lights flashing as the spacecraft inexplicably jolted.
At the same time, Jag’s voice came from outside the tightly closed room, as if he had been standing there all along:
“Damn it, it’s the Imperial fleet! How did they find us?!”
Ji Mian: “…”
Chu Shiye: “……….”
Us : “…..…………………………………”
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