My Zombie Husband

Chapter 66 Doubts

 

Translator: Cheryl_M

 

Xia Mingyu wanted to push away Zhao Yun’s hand, but Zhao Yun’s caress calmed him down a lot. He raised his hand and still didn’t reject Zhao Yun’s stroking his hair.

“I’m fine now…” Xia Mingyu lowered his head and the amber cat’s pupils were still filled with tears. Actually, he didn’t mean to cry. He just felt something in his eyes that made him uncomfortable.

Zhao Yun thought that the young man was still angry. After all, he left Xia Mingyu behind mercilessly in order to force the young man to stay in school. To his astonishment, the school was haunted. Hence, when he saw the look of the young man, he couldn’t help feeling guilty and then bent down to hold the young man into his arms.

“I’m sorry.” Zhao Yun’s deep voice sent a ripple of warmth into the young man’s heart and the cool embrace made him unable to let go. The familiar smell just relieved his nerves.

Zhao Yun was relieved to feel the young man hug him back, but somehow he sensed something wrong. Yet, he couldn’t be sure of it. Yeah, the blood deed seemed to be normal again. Then what happened before?

“Tsk, come on. Xia Mingyu is fine now. Hey, Xia Mingyu, like I told you before, I can protect you.” Sun Yaxin walked over with a smile. Xia Mingyu smiled and said to Sun Yaheng, “Thank you.”

Zhao Yun, who was still holding Xia Mingyu, seemed to be guilt now. Actually, it was not Zhao Yun’s fault. Xia Mingyu thought about it and whispered to his ears, “Yun, then… Could you please not leave me alone anymore?”

The young man was dependent on Zhao Yun as before. Zhao Yun knew that Xia Mingyu was comforting him, so he just smiled and promised, “Okay.”

The answer was like a vow and the blood deed also imprinted the spell into both souls. Seemingly, there was an intangible red thread connecting them so they couldn’t be separated. Inside Xia Mingyu’s body, the Evil Soul, who suddenly opened the eyes, was stunned and smiled bitterly.

“By the way, where are we?” Xia Mingyu looked at the elegant and quaint mansion in confusion. Sun Yaxin explained, “This is my brother’s residence. It’s safe here anyway. My brother can’t find my villa, so he brought you here.”

Was that so… Thinking of the lost memory, Xia Mingyu decided to hide it from Zhao Yun first, but perhaps he could ask Sun Yaheng…

The young man looked down, absorbed in thinking. So did Zhao Yun. He felt that what happened was rather strange and planned to ask Sun Yaheng about it when Xia Mingyu went to take a rest.

“Alright, Xia Mingyu, go and sleep more. After all, you are injured.” Sun Yaxin saw through their minds and made such a suggestion. Zhao Yun nodded. Xia Mingyu obediently returned to the room and saw through the door slit that the others left.

“No way. If Yun is with Sun Yaheng, I cannot ask him then.” Xia Mingyu returned to the bed in chagrin and muttered, not knowing what to do. He was a bit depressed and at a loss. His “sleepwalking” symptoms became more and more serious. When he was a child, he had a bad cold, which was because he was poured with cold water in winter.

At that time, he had been in the orphanage for three years, and he was about three years old. Because he was always bullied by other children, his clothes were always the dirtiest. That day the old dean brought them out on Christmas Eve. When he saw the beautiful new clothes and toys in the glass cabinets, he really wanted to have them but he knew that it was impossible. Therefore, he just looked at them.

Unexpectedly, a store manager thought of him as a beggar so he went out of the store and poured a basin of water on Xia Mingyu. Xia Mingyu just fell into the snow and stared at the fierce man in horror. When he heard the man call him as beggar, he tried to explain. However, he talked in too low a voice to work at all.

Afterwards, when the old dean found him, he was already in a coma with a fever. When did he wake up? He had no idea. When he woke up, he realized that he was not in bed but outside the store., seeing that the shop owner badly battered for being smashed by the air-conditioner…

That was the first time he sleepwalked. He was afraid, but he didn’t dare to tell anyone. Every time he didn’t know what had happened, and this time he still had no idea either.

He felt like someone else was controlling his body. Maybe even some of his thinking was not completely his…

He didn’t know what he would do in the “sleepwalking” state, but every time it would not be a good thing. If the “sleepwalking” him wanted to break with Zhao Yun or hurt Zhao Yun, how to stop that? How to explain it?

He must find out why this would happen and make it vanish. He didn’t want to take risks, let alone hurt anyone…

The Heavenly Soul’s mind was known by the Evil Soul. The Evil Soul observed the other self with a long face and guessed what the Heavenly Soul was thinking about. To make him vanish? Hehe, too naive!

The door was knocked and Xia Mingyu went to open the door. Sun Yaheng came in, which gave Xia Mingyu a surprise. He looked behind his back and didn’t see the person he wanted to see. He felt a bit upset, but it was good then. He could take the opportunity to ask Sun Yaheng about what had happened before.

“No need to look for him. Zhao Yun and Yaxin are talking, so I’m here to check on you. It’s time that you should change fresh dressing.” Sun Yaheng was carrying the medicine box in his hand. Xia Mingyu took a few steps back to let him in before closing the door.

Sun Yaheng saw the young man’s careful movements and looked at him suspiciously, “Do you have something to say to me?”

Xia Mingyu looked at Sun Yaheng and said, “Well, I do have something to ask you, but can you promise me first, no matter what I ask you and what you answer, you mustn’t tell Zhao Yun?”

To keep it secret? It must be a big deal. Sun Yaheng raised his eyebrows, put the medicine box on the table, beckoned Xia Mingyu to sit down, took the medicine out and replied Xia Mingyu, “Ask me. I promise I won’t tell Zhao Yun.”

Great. Xia Mingyu sighed with relief, rolled up his trousers and grabbed the medicine from Sun Yaheng’s hand and started to handle it himself. “I can handle this myself. Don’t worry about it.”

Sun Yaheng clapped his hands and saw the young man changing the dressing with a frown, saying, “Okay, ask me. I’ll answer one by one.”

“Umm.” Xia Mingyu took off the gauze on his legs. Looking at the fresh wounds, he asked, “It’s… We know that the night after Li Le died, aka, last night, did you see me?”

On the first day at school, aka, when he woke up and sat in the classroom weirdly, he didn’t remember anything. Of course Sun Yaheng didn’t know that. At that time, he didn’t call Sun Yaxin and Sun Yaheng was not with him. To be precise, it should start from last night when he lost consciousness and Sun Yaheng stayed with him.

Sun Yaheng suddenly understood what the young man meant, and the young man began to have doubts. Well, Xia Mingyu didn’t know about the other self inside his body indeed.

“No, I was not in your dorm. I just came here today.” Sun Yaheng answered truthfully. Xia Mingyu stopped binding up his wounds a bit and then continued asking, “Then… did I act abnormally when you saw me?”

Acted abnormally? It was not weird. To be accurate, his personality was changed… Sun Yaheng was elbowing his jaw and looked at the teenager and said, “What can be considered as abnormal behaviors?”

Xia Mingyu looked up at him and saw that he was teasing at all. Then he answered seriously, “Anyway, what I said and did was not me, right? Maybe I looked more aggressive?” He recalled that his roommate said that he challenged a group of classmates on the first day at school, so he added the last sentence.

Sun Yaheng touched his chin, as if he had thought it over carefully, and then replied, “No, you were more active than usual.” Well, if he could cause fewer troubles, he would be active then.

“Really?” Xia Mingyu obviously didn’t believe it, and then asked again. Sun Yaheng calmly asked, “Of course. What’s wrong? Why are you asking yourself? Shouldn’t you be the one who knows best about yourself?”

He really hoped so but he didn’t know what was going on!

“No, nothing. I’m just asking.” He couldn’t tell others that he thought of himself as a sick person. It seemed that he really thought too much? Maybe he only sleepwalked… However, if he was only sleepwalking, how could he go underground with Sun Yaheng?

“But, I think you may be under a lot of pressure recently. Are you too seriously bothered by the ghosts? Or do you need to ask for Yaxin’s help? Rest assured. Yaxin is a psychiatrist. Maybe he can help you.”

How could Sun Yaheng let go of this opportunity? When the young man was hypnotized, the blood of the Heavenly Soul could be easily fetched. He was dubious about what the other self of Xia Mingyu told him before, so he must test it out himself.

Xia Mingyu nodded slightly and probably agreed with Sun Yaheng. “Maybe, but, isn’t it too troublesome?” He felt like a trouble to others all the time, and he really didn’t want to make Sun Yaxin hate him. After all, Sun Yaxin was Mu Feng’s friend and Mu Feng was his master. He didn’t want to bring shame on his master in front of others, but given the current situation, he had no better solution.

“No, Yaxin is very good at this kind of psychological service and he likes it too.” Sun Yaheng continued. He found that Xia Mingyu seemed intrigued, so he smiled and said, “How about asking Yaxin to give you a treatment after Zhao Yun is away?”

“Okay.” Xia Mingyu nodded and gripped the jade on his neck with fear. Sun Yaheng touched his head like Zhao Yun did before, as a gesture of comforting. When he saw that the young man was less vigilant, he walked out of the room slowly and closed the door.

As the windows were closed, the room looked dark, which made Xia Mingyu a bit afraid. Hastily, he rushed to open the door and felt the sunshine on him after the rain. He finally felt lesss afraid, but the wounds that had just been wrapped up cracked again, oozing red blood. Xia Mingyu looked up at the sky only to find no cloud but the shining sun. He subconsciously retreated and returned to the room.