Chi Yao was unaware of the meaning of his words. He took a sip of beer and casually asked, “How’s the wound on your arm?”

Jing Xi’s eyes flickered. He looked at him. “You came here specifically to care about my injury?”

Chi Yao’s drinking motion paused. He sneered, “Why would I care about a sworn enemy’s injury?”

Jing Xi’s eyes turned cold. He continued drying his hair. “Then why did you come?”

After he spoke, a tube of ointment was thrown onto the small table in front of him.

He picked it up and his eyes grew colder.

“Don’t leave a scar on my body,” Chi Yao said lazily. “I’ll be using it in a couple of days.”

Jing Xi: “This is your body?”

Chi Yao said matter-of-factly, “Isn’t it?”

Jing Xi was almost angered to laughter by this rascal.

He threw the towel aside, grabbed Chi Yao’s wrist, and headed upstairs.

“Hey.” The beer in Chi Yao’s hand almost spilled. He was forced to follow him for a few steps. “Do you have any manners? I haven’t finished drinking.”

Jing Xi didn’t say a word. With his long legs, he took three steps at a time up the stairs.

“If you want to fight, wait until I finish drinking.”

Chi Yao talked a lot, but he didn’t struggle. He liked seeing Jing Xi get riled up by him.

When they passed the recycling robot, Chi Yao crushed the empty beer bottle and threw it in.

When he looked back, he realized something was wrong. This wasn’t the way to the gym.

Jing Xi pushed open the bedroom door, dragged him in, and pushed him onto the bed.

“Hey, what on earth do you want to do?” Chi Yao was sitting on the bed, completely confused.

“Sleep.”

Jing Xi pulled a blanket over him, pulled the two corners of the blanket, and tied a tight knot.

Chi Yao watched as the other person wrapped him into a cocoon. He was so engrossed in the spectacle that he missed the chance to struggle and was kicked onto the bed.

He didn’t expect the usually upright and honest man to be so wild.

He narrowed his eyes slightly. “If you unwrap the blanket now, I might consider forgiving you.”

The dignified leader of the Extreme Shadow group, with a notorious reputation, could make people wet themselves and kneel with a single glance.

But now that he was wrapped up like a silkworm cocoon, with one of his slippers off and the other hanging on his foot, no matter how dangerous his eyes were, he had no power to intimidate.

The exposed foot looked a little cute.

Jing Xi glanced at it, and with a straight face, he pushed him to the right side of the bed. He lay down on the left, his voice cold. “I’m using my own body to warm the bed. Do I need your forgiveness?”

Chi Yao: “…”

Is he seriously treating him like a hot water bottle?

“One-minute countdown. I suggest you think carefully.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the lights in the room went out with a click.

Jing Xi pulled the blanket over himself and closed his eyes. “Hot water bottles don’t need to talk.”

Chi Yao: “…”

This person is really asking for it.

He didn’t feel it when he was in Jing Xi’s body before, but now that he was lying on Jing Xi’s bed, he had an uncomfortable feeling of all his pores bursting open.

Chi Yao thought about it carefully and attributed this feeling to a sense of danger.

There was a faint scent of wine on the pillow, like the frost on a tree branch in winter. It seemed cold, but it could ignite an unknown fire, scorching his internal organs and sanity.

“How is the progress on my request?”

In the darkness, Jing Xi’s voice was very soft, and a little hoarser than usual.

Chi Yao came to his senses and rolled over to lie flat.

After a moment of silence, he said, “There are two suspected candidates, but they haven’t been confirmed yet.”

Jing Xi: “What are their backgrounds?”

Chi Yao: “The subordinates just handed them over. I haven’t looked at them carefully yet—”

Before he could finish, his terminal lit up, and a virtual screen popped up.

Jing Xi, familiar with the process, opened the document and looked through it. “These two?”

Chi Yao, watching him operate: “…”

Is he being too accommodating to his sworn enemy?

Jing Xi magnified the two files into the air.

The virtual screen itself gave off light, so he could see it clearly in the dark.

Both names had the character “yao.” Both had left their hometowns at a young age and had lost their parents. One was a miner in the Cetus system, and the other was a younger member of a small star pirate group.

Seeing him look at it so seriously, Chi Yao suddenly regretted saying anything.

What if these two were—

“They’re not the ones.”

Chi Yao was stunned. His mood instantly improved.

“Why are you so sure?”

Jing Xi’s voice was low, and his words were unhurried.

“This person named Zhan Yao was sentenced for his parents’ crimes and went to the Cetus system with his grandparents. But Yaoyao’s parents couldn’t have committed a crime, and he never spent time with his grandparents.”

He suddenly felt that his sworn enemy’s voice had become pleasant to listen to.

Chi Yao moved over to his side like a caterpillar, and said impatiently on purpose, “What about the other one?”

Jing Xi: “This person named Hong Jiuyue is even less likely to be him. His parents divorced when he was a child. He went to the Cetus system with his father. Later, his father remarried, and he dropped out of school in his teens to hang out with a gang and joined a star pirate group called ‘Gabaocui’ (Crispy).”

Chi Yao smiled. “That’s a perfect match for your requirements.”

Jing Xi felt the person next to him getting closer but pretended not to notice.

“Yaoyao’s parents had a military marriage. Unless they died in battle or one of them committed a major crime, they wouldn’t divorce easily, much less remarry.”

“Military marriage is that strict?” Chi Yao sneered. “You better be careful when you get married in the future.”

Jing Xi ignored his teasing and magnified the photo of one of the people.

“This person’s eyebrows are too thick, his nose is too flat, his face is crooked, and his bones aren’t delicate.”

Chi Yao: “…”

Jing Xi magnified the photo of the other person.

“This person’s eyebrows are too short and messy, his eyes are too small, he has single eyelids, his skin is too bad and full of acne, and he has buck teeth.”

Chi Yao: “So?”

Jing Xi glanced at him. Even in the dim light, he could see the other person’s eyes looking over.

“Yaoyao was a beauty from a young age. He wouldn’t have grown up to look like this.”

Chi Yao: “…”

“Boys change a lot as they get older, and they can become uglier. It’s normal to grow up looking like this,” Chi Yao said coldly. “Are you looking for a person or a childhood memory? Wake up and face reality. Your Yaoyao looks exactly like this now.”

Jing Xi turned off the virtual screen and turned his back to him.

“Keep looking.”

Is he sulking?

Chi Yao was in a good mood. He moved over slowly, sat up to look at his expression, and teased, “Hey, if you’re looking for a handsome Yaoyao, isn’t there a ready-made one right here?”

Jing Xi opened his eyes and turned his head to look at the smiling face above him.

“If you really can’t find him, I can reluctantly act as your childhood older brother.” Chi Yao smiled wickedly. “As long as the price is right, I can play the role for a few more days.”

Jing Xi: “Act?”

Chi Yao smiled. “You can also borrow my shoulder. One hundred photos per time.”

“No need,” Jing Xi said indifferently, closing his eyes. “In two more days, anything I use will be free.”

Chi Yao: “…”

It would only take a minute to untie a flimsy blanket, but Chi Yao hesitated whether to leave.

The scent on the pillow was too pleasant. He was a little reluctant to leave.

After tossing and turning for a long time, Chi Yao kicked Jing Xi with his foot.

“Hey, you’re not asleep, are you?”

Jing Xi: “I am.”

Chi Yao: “Tell me a story.”

Jing Xi: “Do I need to tell a hot water bottle to sleep?”

Chi Yao sneered, “Not going to? Then the hot water bottle is going to make a fuss.”

Jing Xi: “…”

He turned over to lie flat and said helplessly, “What do you want to hear?”

Chi Yao: “Anything.”

Then he added, “Excluding your growth story with your childhood brother.”

Jing Xi: “…”

He thought for a moment and began, “The wolves in the depths of the Earl Desert were in an uproar. On this day, their wolf king had its first offspring, a little wolf with a pure white body…”

Chi Yao thought he would find a story from his terminal and read it, but he didn’t expect him to make it up.

But as he listened, he felt that something was wrong.

This story felt strangely familiar.

Chi Yao yawned, and his eyelids became heavy. It took a great effort to keep them open.

Not only did it feel familiar, but it was also very easy to fall asleep to.

Jing Xi: “The little wolf’s fur color was strange, and it was usually well-behaved. They all thought it was a congenital defect, and they didn’t know that the white fur was a symbol of a fifth-level mutation, until it went out hunting with the old wolf king for the first time—”

Chi Yao asked drowsily, “Did it kill the whole pack?”

Jing Xi: “…”

“This is a children’s story, hot water bottle.”

Chi Yao: “Boring.”

Jing Xi: “You’re still not sleeping?”

Chi Yao: “Just two more sentences.”

Jing Xi said with a wooden face, “Later, it grew up, took over the entire Earl Desert, married a beautiful she-wolf, and lived a happy and fulfilling life.”

Chi Yao’s eyelids couldn’t stay open, and his consciousness slowly drifted away.

When he heard this, he subconsciously said, “What’s the point of marrying a she-wolf? You should have the guts to marry a wolf king—”

His voice was very low and slurred. Jing Xi had to listen carefully to understand.

“…”

He’s picky even when listening to a bedtime story.

The breathing beside his ear became longer. Jing Xi waited for a moment before carefully turning over to face him.

“Chi Yao?”

Jing Xi’s eyes traced his facial features. After a while, he muttered.

“Did you forget the story you made up yourself?”

Can a person really forget their childhood so completely?

Did he go through some special experience, or are you not that person at all—

Thinking of the latter possibility, Jing Xi lost the last bit of his sleepiness.

He got up quietly, put on his jacket, and went to the study.

Early the next morning, Chi Yao heard a rustling sound in his sleep. He woke up almost immediately.

The blanket that was tying him up had been untied at some point, but he was alone in the bed.

“Awake?”

Jing Xi put on his tracksuit jacket and walked out. “You can go back to sleep, or you can come with me for a morning workout.”

Chi Yao blinked his eyes, turned over, and went back to sleep.

Morning workouts were out of the question.

The bed of his sworn enemy was just the right temperature, fragrant and warm, perfect for a lazy morning.

Jing Xi: “…”

How does this lazy guy maintain his physique?

Imperial Capital Star—

Several days passed since the assassination order was given, but there was no news from the Cetus system. Li Bo’s mood was becoming increasingly anxious and on the verge of collapse.

“Could he have been discovered?” the adjutant asked carefully.

Inside the office, Li Bo paced back and forth several times, and finally decided to contact Xu Zhou.

But the communication number went unanswered, not even a single tone.

“Damn it!” Li Bo kicked over the footstool. “At least send a message!”

The adjutant observed his face and said cautiously, “The people we didn’t train ourselves are unreliable.”

Li Bo sneered, “I thought he could be of some use. Useless!”

The only useful person around Wang Lianggong was Xu Zhou, and now he was out of contact.

If he couldn’t use internal forces, he would have to use external pressure.

“Didn’t the report from below say that they found people from Extreme Shadow at the base?” Li Bo looked out the window, his eyes fierce. “As the commander of the legion, it’s inexcusable to harbor the leader of a star pirate group and not report it.”

The adjutant’s eyes flashed, and he immediately understood the meaning of his words.

“Putting a star pirate group leader at the base, who knows what he’s thinking? Maybe he’s already in cahoots with those bandits? Otherwise, why would he arrest the person in charge of the garrison as soon as he got there? He must have something to hide!”

Li Bo’s lips curled up. “Have someone anonymously post this on the military forum to let public opinion ferment first.”

Jing Xi had made him lose face in front of many military leaders and colleagues. He couldn’t just let this go.

Adjutant: “Yes!”

When Jing Xi finished his morning workout and went to have breakfast, Jiang Feng rushed up to him.

“Boss, something happened!”

Jing Xi: “What?”

Chi Yao yawned and walked down the stairs slowly, just in time to hear Jiang Feng say, “Someone reported us for colluding with a star pirate group. The higher-ups have formed a special investigation team and are already on their way to the base!”