CH 24

Ch 24 - Second Generation Ancestor x Illegitimate Child: First Watch

Hearing Lin Sui’s words, Song Yunqing was not surprised in the slightest, Lin Sui’s temper was exactly like that.

“Our young master Lin naturally has nothing to fear, my older cousin got engaged a few days ago and she’s going on a cruise, do you want to come?”

Song Yunqing naturally hadn’t made the trip just to remind Lin Sui to be careful of Yan Qin, he just wanted to make Lin Sui feel a bit more negative towards Yan Qin, and extend an invitation in passing.

“Sure, just let me know when the time comes”

From across the door, Song Yunqing felt that Lin Sui’s voice seemed to be a little strange, but when he wanted to listen carefully, Lin Sui’s voice had already faded.

The warm light illuminated a limited area, and shadows loomed around the corners.

The sound of cloth tearing mixed with the sound of Lin Sui’s voice as the expensive suit fabric was torn by the man, leaving a rip behind.

It looked like someone had ripped a tear open in the night sky outside, exposing the soft, white moonlight inside it, like a Milky Way filled with soft light.

The blue butterfly lively fluttered within it, gracefully falling into the hollow of the man’s palm, who, not satisfied with this small gain, caressed it.

“Then I’ll let you rest, see you then.”

No sound could be heard coming from inside the room, but Song Yunqing simply thought that Lin Sui didn’t feel like answering, so he laughed helplessly as he turned around and left.

The sturdy wooden door blocked the ambiguous sounds from inside, hiding the tense atmosphere.

Wet sounds faded into the halo of the night, and the kicked blanket fell to the side.

The chest of the young man pinned beneath heaved up and down, and the tip of his tongue licked at the slight stinging on his lip.

He didn’t struggle anymore, and gradually calmed down.

“Is this your revenge?”

A misty, watery shine still remained in his eyes, resembling a river of stars that had been crumbled into pieces.

His tone was disdainful, like a king who never bowed his head.

It was hard to tell if he was laughing at the method, or despising the extent.

“How could it be revenge?” Yan Qin’s expression was a little puzzled, even showing a bit of innocence, and he sniffed at the side of Lin Sui’s neck, muttering, “I am offering my loyalty to the young master.”

Offering his unbearable desire, his dirty, greedy love.

“Young master, it wouldn’t be difficult for you to get away if you wanted to. This is your territory, and everyone outside the room works for you.”

Yan Qin spoke slowly, straightening out Lin Sui’s close-fitting shirt, his fingers caressing its owner’s soft waistline.

“But isn’t the young master very immersed in this kind of game? Luring people to violate you with that high and mighty attitude."

“You clearly take pleasure in it, and yet unhappily try to struggle out of it, your mind has always been so hard to fathom.”

Yan Qin looked as if he was a bit annoyed, his black eyes as dark as ink.

He was already completely different from that young man that used to kneel silently at Lin Sui’s feet, but for a certain moment, the two seemed to overlap once again.

How well did Yan Qin know Lin Sui? He discovered Lin Sui’s subtle reactions to different things from greedily watching him day and night, and from prying into the pasts of those personal attendants.

Perhaps he was born into wealth and experienced many extravagant things too early, so the young master was indifferent to a lot of things. Sometimes, Yan Qin even thought that he didn’t seem to care about anything in this world.

Lin Sui actually really hated being touched by others, and he would avoid any possible contact when being attended by the servants.

Even though he had touched him, he used a handkerchief to wipe the area where the skin touched in revulsion. But if he really spurned him so, he wouldn’t have used his hands to touch him in the first place, and he wouldn’t have hissed him before.

Yan Qin had experienced genuine contempt and resentment, so perhaps Lin Sui hadn’t noticed that he looked at Yan Qin with something else hidden in his eyes.

It was hard for Yan Qin to analyse what that something was, but just that look made him tremble, made him want to gather Lin Sui into his arms and kiss him dearly. From the first time he saw Lin Sui that strange feeling had begun to ferment in his mind, but it was difficult for him to distinguish it before, and his sense of precaution was far stronger than those strange palpitations.

“A-Sui,” Yan Qin addressed him in that unfamiliar way somewhat clumsily and shakily, and his voice was hoarse and a little strange from his excitement. He kissed Lin Sui’s chest intimately and spoke in a condemning tone, “You were the one who seduced me first.”

Lin Sui was constantly seducing him.

Using his cold eyes, brimming with desire, his haughty attitude, his mocking taunts, and even his soft, sweet red lips.

Lin Sui’s expression became more and more undecipherable as Yan Qin spoke. Yan Qin was sharper than he’d imagined, but this was not the final conclusion.

Lin Sui scoffed slightly: “If everyone wanted to sleep with me for that reason I would really have my hands full.”

“Do you know what seduction is?”

The bound beauty showed a strange smile, his face bearing an odd expression.

Everything he revealed was just the tip of the iceberg, even the last world’s Yan Qin had not tasted all of his tricks.

His slightly bent calf pressed up against the man’s body, and his passionate brows rose.

The young man was like a snake winding around the body of its prey, even if his hands were bound and immobile at the moment, it didn’t hinder him much.

The beauty’s eyes were like honey, brimming with passion.

It seemed like his soul was whispering next to one’s ear, asking to be possessed.

He hadn’t even granted him a kiss, but Yan Qin’s whole body seemed to be swept away in rushing tremors, making his scalp numb, nearly reaching climax within his skull1 as he indulged in it.

“This is seduction.” Lin Sui laughed as he exhaled hot air in Yan Qin’s ear, but immediately shed the dense, honeyed feelings on his face and bore a cold malice, “You’re not worthy.”

Like a devil that feeds on human essence bearing its fangs, in a flash the ambiguous spring breeze turned into a biting cold blade.

That silver chain had already been unwittingly undone by Lin Sui, and it was once again tied around Yan Qin’s neck.

Lin Sui tightened his hand inch by inch, and Yan Qin’s body stiffened, not because he the air he drew in gradually got thinner, but rather because of the movement of Lin Sui’s other hand.

It seemed soft and boneless as it gripped his throat, controlling his lifeline.

The mirror-surfaced rabbit, which had tumbled into a corner without anybody caring, reflected the strange, charming scene overflowing with the threat of death, and in that moment a black cloud covered the crescent moon, as if even its light was unwilling to fall into this place, so as not to stain its brightness with ink.

Blue veins pulsed, and everything was a testament to the young man’s danger.

He was a highly poisonous beautiful blue butterfly, and while tasting his sweetness, one would pay the price of death.

The force of Lin Sui’s hand taught Yan Qin a lesson about his presumptuous speculations.

Yan Qin’s thing was a little withered from the pain, but Lin Sui revealed a beautiful smile brimming with evil desire, and softly soothed him, like he was rubbing the head of a crestfallen puppy.

When the cloud layer moved away, the moonlight spread unobstructed inside the room. Lin Sui then slowly withdrew the hand grasping onto the silver chain, looking at Yan Qin’s reddened neck and letting the chain that had lost its grip slide down Yan Qin’s body.

“I just want to tease the dog when I’m in the mood, I do whatever makes me happy, so don’t try to be opinionated and guess my thoughts.”

“Really dirty.”

Lin Sui frowned, looking at his own fingers a little bored.

Yan Qin stared at him lost in thought, helping him wipe the dirt from his palms.

“A-Sui.”

Yan Qin murmured, already on the verge of being pushed to the limit by him, his eyes covered in red.

Being his dog, pouncing on him, devouring him, dominating him.

Lin Sui held his head high, tightly grasping Yan Qin’s hair, the coldness of his face fully revealed.

Lin Sui hid the killing intent in his eyes, thinking about how to kill the System.

The pain was like an icicle piercing through his brain, producing a coldness that was hard to put into words.

Lin Sui taunted: [Not able to punish me when I moved my hands just now?]

[Afraid I would lose control of my strength from the pain and leave him damaged from then on?]

The System played dead, not uttering a single word.

Lin Sui pushed Yan Qin away and went towards the bathroom: “You can get lost, and next time, you might really die here.”

Lin Sui waited for Yan Qin to leave, but in the end he was carried by Yan Qin.

The bathtub had already been filled with water by the servants, and the faint fragrance of lavender-scented essential oils permeated the bathroom.

“Did you not understand?”

Lin Sui stared at Yan Qin, a little stunned, feeling particularly irritated that he had disobeyed an order.

Yan Qin didn’t say anything, putting him down on a chair and crouching down to take off his socks.

Yan Qin gazed up at him and answered: “I’m willing to die under the young master.”

Then he brought up the issue he was particularly concerned about at the moment: “Do you need to go to the hospital? Have you been examined before?”

Yan Qin had caught sight of Lin Sui’s suddenly pained appearance in more than one occasion, and every once in a while there would be times he would see him feeling unwell through the surveillance, and although the duration was not long, it was clear that Lin Sui was suffering.

Lin Sui pressed his temples and impatiently said: “You don’t need to concern yourself.”

People were in the habit of telling many lies, Lin Sui especially so.

His nerves seemed to have been frozen over by a thousand cuts, punishing him for his crime.

Lin Sui didn’t feel like he was guilty of anything towards the System. Supposing that this torture of a thousand cuts was Yan Qin’s punishment for him, then he would willingly accept it, but he would never be willing to resign himself to the System.

He didn’t transmigrate into that book voluntarily, so why should he abide by the fate it gave him?

“Then, let’s go to the hospital first.”

Yan Qin looked at Lin Sui’s pale complexion, and went to put his socks on for him again.

Lin Sui pushed him away, stepping onto the cold bathroom floor with his bare feet.

“Don’t make me repeat myself again, get out!”

The Yan Qin from six years ago would have listened and done as we was told, but the current Yan Qin just stood there, his tall body looking just like a silent hill.

“Young master, don’t say the opposite in a situation where you need me like this.”

Lin Sui was strangely unlike an arrogant young master sometimes. If it had been Yan Zhou, he would have long since been shouting and screaming, wilfully venting his emotions, but Lin Sui always endured, and he’d always been like this.

——A-Sui, why didn’t you tell me you had such a serious injury?

——A-Sui, don’t push me away when you need me.

The voice and figure in his memories overlapped with the current Yan Qin, and Lin Sui supported himself on the edge of the sink with a splitting headache.

The pain quietly disappeared, representing the System giving up.

Lin Sui rubbed his forehead, saying: “You can leave, I’m fine.”

Yan Qin made eye contact with him, sensing Lin Sui driving him away. He didn’t need to leave, but everything he was doing was testing Lin Sui’s bottom line, and he didn’t want to really be driven away by Lin Sui forever.

Yan Qin stifled his expression and left.

One day, sooner or later, he would be able to stay here.

Lin Sui watched him leave with a blank face, then soaked himself in the hot water.

“Tsk…..”

The System thought he was about to insult it, and it was planning on continuing playing dead as it heard Lin Sui talk to himself.

“Why was the time shorter than before? Half an hour….. the endurance in the cultivation world was a little better. That’s fine too, it shouldn’t be too tiring, right?”

Lin Sui spoke thoughtfully as he kneaded his aching wrists.

The System: [You you you have no sense of shame!]

Lin Sui just didn’t feel like wasting energy insulting it, infuriating it was enough.

Although conflict was inevitable since everyone had different positions, this was purely because the Heavenly Law was being a dumb fuck, so hurry up and die please.

Tonight had been a bit exhausting, so Lin Sui slept deeply.

The next day, Gao Jing gave him a call, saying that people in the Tian Qi Company told them they were very interested in the technology they were working on, and wanted to participate.

“The unreleased version of Tian Qi’s Blue Butterfly runtime system would be of great help for our research and operations, and they seemed sincere enough. If we could collaborate with them, the project could definitely be advanced a lot, boss, should we consider collaborating?”

The technology Gao Jing was researching was actually not a big secret in the industry, after all, people could analyse a bit from the materials ordered and other aspects, but the industry was not optimistic about it. After all, this research project had already been going on for six years, and it was still at the stage of burning money for development, furthermore, it may not even succeed.

But there would always be people who saw the possibilities and decided to join in the development. Lin Sui was not surprised at all that Yan Qin had this vision.

It seemed like, although Yan Qin had been abroad these past few years, he hadn’t been paying any less attention to the affairs in the country. Clearly the basic operational version of Blue Butterfly had just been launched, but the advanced adaptation for holographic online games could already be put forward, so it seemed like a lot of work had been put into it.

“Of course, a collaboration would be mutually beneficial, so we’ll gladly accept. Don’t let Wu Qiu appear in front of them, have him stay in the lab trying to deconstruct Blue Butterfly’s operating logic.”

“Okay, he’s been quieter recently.”

Speaking of Wu Qiu, Gao Jing got a bit of a headache.

Geniuses were always different from ordinary people. Gao Jing already had nothing to teach Wu Qiu in terms of technology, and in addition he still had to keep an eye on him at all times so he wouldn’t hack into places he shouldn’t hack, to avoid being directly targeted.

“But he’s been wanting to meet you recently, always noisily asking me when he’ll be able to see you.”

“When the time is right, let’s talk again.”

Lin Sui had never devoted too much affection towards people other than Yan Qin. He gazed at the vast sky outside the window and revealed an extremely light smile.

Recently, the social circles in Jingzhou had been very lively, and the words ‘Yan Qin’ were known by almost everyone.

The Yan family had been full of joy recently, and Sir Yan Wenhao2 was especially proud of himself.

He seemed to have forgotten how he had neglected this son before and let him get bullied, and seemed to only remember how he had generously given money for Yan Qin’s mother’s treatment, and was very pleased the Yan family had a qualified successor.

Not to mention that Yan Qin had the faint idea of returning to the Yan family, and he wanted him to subtly explain his long-standing admiration for his father figure.

Yan Wenhao ignored the protests of his wife and older son, giving Yan Qin many things in compensation, recording Yan Qin in the same household registration, and even putting him in their genealogical record, openly turning him into the Second young master Yan.

“This Yan Wenhao is quite lucky.”

Father Lin pointed out when the Lin family had a chat.

Lin Sui smiled but said nothing, he could already predict the ending of the Yan family.

Actually, in the original book, the story had not progressed like this. In the original story, after Yan Qin returned from abroad and became the new upstart in Jingzhou, the Yan family wanted to rope him him, but he simply and straightforwardly refused.

He didn’t feel like he had a father-son relationship with Yan Wenhao, and he simply held no interest towards the Yan clan name.

But Yan Zhou didn’t think so. He always regarded the returned Yan Qin as a threat, and went looking for all kinds of trouble. It was only when Yan Qin was provoked that he took action to annex the Yan clan, and Yan Zhou and Yan Wenhao could naturally not do anything to jump in, and in the end they couldn’t even go inside the building of the Yan clan’s corporation.

But not only did the current Yan Qin stage a ‘benevolent father and filial son’ act with Yan Wenhao, he even gave Yan Wenhao some benefits, dropping them from the sky into the head office of the Yan clan.

Lin Sui could even guess what trick Yan Qin was going to use later, because this was precisely one of his favourite methods.

In his first life, some people had commented on his cunning tricks, likening him to a sinister snake, but Lin Sui didn’t care. If his rivals were polite and absolutely courteous, then he would naturally also play clean, but if his opponents weren’t picky about fair or foul, then shouldn’t he return the favour?

He had said he was going to make Yan Qin mature quickly, and Yan Qin had clearly paid attention to every lesson he’d taught him over the years, even studying how to apply them.

Lin Min also agreed with what her dad said, completely forgetting the strange encounter she once had with Yan Qin.

She simply didn’t remember that the person she now praised had once been the dog her younger brother kept inside his villa.

After all, it had already been six years, and besides, Lin Sui had done countless things on a whim ever since he was a child, and this was just one among them. In addition, they had only met once, and after that she didn’t hear any more news about the young man in the villa.

As for those in the circle before who knew about the matter, none of them dared bring it out into plain sight, treating it all as a secret.

Lin Min mentioned something she’d heard recently, saying: “Wasn’t Yan Zhou pursuing Miss Dong recently? As a result, when Miss Dong asked him about Yan Qin, Yan Zhou immediately cursed her out. That couldn’t have been good, and that Yan Zhou is also brainless, is Miss Dong one of those women he can just play with on the outside? He hasn’t even caught up like this, so Miss Dong directly slapped him, and his plans also fell through.”

Cousin Lin puffed out a laugh: “Yan Zhou is revolting like that, plus, compared with Yan Qin even a blind person would know who to pick.”

Yan Zhou wasn’t even 1.7 metres tall, and Yan Qin was 1.93. No matter if it was with his height or appearance, Yan Qin completely crushed him.

Cousin Lin teased: “I also don’t know what kind of person Yan Qin likes, I heard many people wanted to introduce him to someone, but he said his career was the most important thing and rejected everyone. Xiao Min, how about you give it a try? Yan Qin is much better compared to Yu Hui.”

Lin Min waved her hands at once: “Don’t make fun of me, Yan Qin is too powerful, it’s not something ordinary people can handle. I can’t think of a way, but I actually quite want to collaborate with their company…..”

“Stop stop stop, you can’t go three sentences without talking about work. What about An-An? Have you dated recently? You’ll be 25 soon, why don’t we talk about it? With a face like that of our An-An, how could you be unable to find a partner? You’re also not bad compared with Yan Qin, there are many good young ladies out there, I can introduce you to some of my good sisters…..”

Cousin Lin herself was already married, and she was very concerned with the major events in the lives of her younger relatives.

“An-An isn’t in a hurry, right?”

Lin Min, as the only person in the family who knew about Lin Sui’s sexual orientation, hurriedly stopped her cousin’s words and gave Lin Sui a meaningful look.

Lin Sui smiled: “We’ll talk about it when the time is right.”

Lin Min shifted the topic, and cousin Lin’s attention was diverted. They talked about the Song family’s young lady who was recently planning her wedding party on a cruise, and as they talked they came back to Yan Qin, seemingly especially interested in him.

As the person who knew most about Yan Qin, Lin Sui wasn’t planning on participating in this topic, so he went up to the second floor to rest.

Under the full moon, shadows slanted under the trees out in the courtyard.

Lin Sui stood beside the window, watching quietly, thinking about the lesson he’d taught Yan Qin these past few days.

He’d cut off every one of his chances to spy on him, it was impossible for Yan Qin to even see his face when he didn’t want to.

Some dogs, when unable to forcefully seize territory, only dared to watch anxiously from the periphery.

1 顱內高潮 lit. intracranial high tide. High tide is a euphemism in this context. Can also be the term for ASMR.

2 Update, turns out Yan Qin’s father is called Yan Wenhao and I should’ve been translating ‘燕總 (Yan Zong)’ as ‘head/boss of the Yan family’ or something along those lines. I’ll just be using ‘Sir Yan’ for brevity’s sake.

T/N: Another long boi, but I will die on the hill of not splitting up chapters.