DC- chapter 27

“Jiyang I am going to hang up.”

Zhan threatened.

“Alright fake you are not feeling well.”

As soon as the message arrived, Zhan gasped realization.

“Right! Why didn’t I think about that, thanks Jiyang.” He replied with relief.

“Because your little virgin mind haven’t encountered such situation before, anyway you are welcome sweetie, tell me all about it if you change your mind.”

“I hate you.” Zhan replied with an angry cursing emoji.

“I hate you more.” Jiyang replied with a wet and egg plant emoji.

Zhan hung up and sighed softly. “I wonder how I end up being friends with that psycho.”

He groaned then stared at the mirror checking the best sad facial expressions for the act.

When he was finally ready, he suddenly gripped on his lower abdomen.

“Ouch! Oh no, why! Not today”.

He screamed loudly purposely to attract Yibo attention.

Yibo came running into the bathroom.

“What happened are you hurt?”

Yibo asked checking his hands then cupped his small face in his arms, making Zhan cheeks chubby.

“No…I just found out that my stomach…you know.”

“Oh..” Yibo replied kinda of disappointed yet relieved, he didn’t want to mess up after all.

“Please get some pain relief drugs.”

Zhan wanted to use the opportunity to escape.

“Noted, what is the name of the drug… ”

Then he paused abruptly as he suddenly remembered that Zhan had his stomach pain just three weeks ago when his appendix bursted.

“You had your pain three weeks ago, isn’t this supposed to be once a month?”

At first Zhan was dumbfounded how Yibo got to know about this then he remembered, thinking hard, he was able to think of a cover story.

“And so what, some men are special they have two times a month stop arguing with me and get the materials! Please don’t get it from the hotel services, go outside the hotel.”

Yibo nodded readily and rushed out like a man whose wife was in labour.

As soon as he got out of the room, Zhan rushed towards the door but unfortunately it was locked outside.

“Come on!” Zhan grunted helplessly.

Just about five minutes later, Yibo got back to the room.

“Did you get it?”

“I forgot to ask you the name of the drug.” Yibo was literally panting.

Zhan slapped his forehead.

“Did you drive all the way back for the drug name?”

“Yes” Yibo replied shamefully then he noticed Zhan didn’t look like he was in pain anymore.

“Are you alright, you seem okay..”

Yibo asked not knowing how to put his words.

Zhan realized he forgot about his act. What’s the use of he continue anyway, he sighed.

“Yeah, I found out I had an extra medicine,so you don’t need to get an extra one.”

Zhan replied, hopefully Yibo will buy his cover reply.

Yibo nodded slowly and pulled his shirt off, he wanted to take his bath.

Zhan looked away pretending not to be interested in what Yibo was doing untill he saw the large scare marks on the back.

Yibo looked like he was attacked by heartless beasts, who whipped him deep into his skin.

Zhan walked quietly to him and touched his scars, his finger pad drawing their shapes.

Yibo hissed beneath clenched teeth and Zhan felt him shiver aganist his finger.

“Is it still hurting?”

Yibo chuckled.

“Not really, surprisly my skin is sensitive to your touch instead of irritable.”

Zhan heart melted but then why could Yibo have possibly be his crime for this sort of punishment.

Zhan thought.

Zhan remembered what Haikuan told him about Yibo and his mother.

“Is this a punished for what you did to your step mother.”

Zhan said and suddenly regretted it, who is he to speak about such.

Yibo turned slowly to face him his brow raised in surprise, his eyes looking dark but not furious, just sad.

“Look I didn’t mean to say that, but just curious, why will you do that to your own stepmother.”

Zhan said a slight panic in his tone.

“Did you think he told the truth about what happened between his mother and I?” Yibo finally said something.

But his voice were never as soft as this, he sounded like he would cry the next minute.

Zhan’s mouth opened but no words came out.

Yibo scuffed out a sad chuckle.

“I won’t blame you though, I looked like someone that can do that alright.”

“No Yibo…you can tell me about it, I want to hear your own part of the story.” Zhan replied tartly, his reaction said it all, there’s more to the story Haikuan told him.

“It’s better if you don’t hear about it at all.” Yibo replied as his brows furrowed.

“Why?” Zhan asked softly.

“Why?” Yibo repeated harshly now losing his patient, “What do you want to hear! How his mother and so called my step mother make advances to a sixteen years old….”

His voice broke off abruptly as he realized his anger has made him say far too much, he never wanted to reveal this to a soul and now he just have to spill it all out.

“Your step mother made sexual advances to you?”

Zhan repeated flatly, his eyes widened in shock.

Yibo turned his back at him, his fist clenched cursing, only he was fast enough to treat that bitch a lesson then and now he is looking pathetic again infront of the one person he never wanted to be look weak in his presence.

Zhan found his voice after Yibo last statement froze him.

“How can she try to seduce you at such a young age why didn’t you tell your father or maybe your mother explain the situation to them.”

“Mother…father…I don’t know what those mean. At fourteen I was finally allowed to step out of the my prison like apartment only for a short period of time.

I watched my step brother enjoy the freedom and love of parents, he had friends, I have none, he threw parties every weekend. At least I was finally allowed to witness that in an open air space.

This was made possible by my so called step mother, with a condition I had to give her a body massage.

Many times she did plead with the fourteen years old, I should touch her in places to pleasure her but I refused. I was punished severally by being grounded and starved by my father, his wife must have told him I disrespected her.

It happened yet again when I turned sixteen, she came into my room, wearing a revealing nightie so short you can see her buttcheeks from behind.

I was asleep when she sneaked into my room and pulled down my pajama, then mounted me witout wearing anyting beneath her, I jerked up in terror, she said a lot about my puberty and attractiveness so she couldn’t back, I should accept her and make love to her.

I pushed her off me with all my strength I pulled my pants on and was about to walk out of the room when she screamed so loud and gripped on my pants.

I tried to pull her off me but it was too late.

Her husband came into the room, eyes furious as he saw his wife naked in tears struggling with me.

“What is going on here!” he shouted.

The bitch replied.

“I only came to see how he was doing as a good mother and he did this to me, I am no longer safe with your teenage son.”

My father’s bounced on me and gave me the punches that almost blinded me, I fought back but I was too weak.”

“But didn’t you explain to him.”

Zhan replied his eyes already clouded and heavy.

“Oh really you think he needed an explanation from a son he never wanted when his dear wife cried to him and also he saw me with a ragging erection.”

“Erection?” Zhan repeated as though he had no idea what it was.

“I was a sixteen years old Zhan, at that age, a woman’s cleavage can arouse me not to talk of her nakedness, I was innocent but my body was reacting as it should, my father handed me over to some military men as a punishment that’s where I got most of the scares at my back.”

Zhan gasped and laughed bitterly in pain.

“I can’t believe you went through this and Haikuan lied to me. what could he possibly gain by trying to make me see you as a devil.”

Yibo grimanced.

Zhan cleaned his wet face angrily.

Haikuan lied? Maybe he knew nothing about this too, his mother must have told him the same lie but still Zhan was really sad, he had tagged Yibo as a rapist not knowing he was a victim, Zhan strongly wanted to push it down but it just won’t go away.

“I…am really sorry about all of this, I should go home now.”

That was the only thing Zhan could think of, at home he can cry his heart out and blame himself for being so insensitive.

Yibo said nothing even though he didn’t want him to leave, at this point Zhan had forced him to peel his old wounds to bleed, he needed to hug him and maybe hear him say that I care about you and I will listen to you, and share your pains.

But then the door shut closed interrupting his thoughts. Yibo dropped is weight on the bed and smiled in pain.

“I am such a coward to expect him to understand how I feel. Coward who can’t keep a person he loves by his side.”

His fist shaking nervously, he had to hold his fingers locked together.

“He believed Haikuan more than me?”

He laughed in pain.

“I need to think I will be so concerned about gaining someone’s trust.”

The door knob moved, Yibo jerked up from the bed and saw Zhan at the door.

Zhan slowly closed the door behind him with his face down.

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