"Xue Yang, there you are."
The child looks around, his face contorting one of happiness the moment he sees the redhead calling to him.
"Gege! What brings you here?"
Cale clocked an eyebrow, looking at the younger with judging eyes.
"And what are you doing here, when it's already past midnight?"
The redhead immediately shook out the memories that came when Wen Chao's mistress barged in with an injured Xue Yang in tow.
"Just training. I want to get strong and big enough to protect you!"
He clicked his tongue before ruffling the younger's hair roughly.
"If you want to grow up, then be a child first."
The wind rustled about, each of their respective hairs swaying through as Xue Yang looked at his gege who is almost the same height as him.
"If you are a child, you should act like one. Don't grow up fast, let us adults take care of the grown up matters."
He buried the underlying emotion in his chest, sincerely hoping for the younger to experience his own childhood peacefully.
"...I will, as long as you're there." Xue Yang whispers almost inaudible, yet Cale has heard it nonetheless.
"Do not say something obvious. I'll always be here until you grow up and won't need me anymore."
He opens his mouth before closing it again, Xue Yang then sighs before speaking.
"I think I'll always need you, gege."
Cale was dumbfounded to say the least, but he chuckles.
"Such a greedy brat." He says jokingly, yet his chest is warm.
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"He was just a child, who the fuck are you to decide whether he lives or dies?"
The familiar sense continued to thrum, his record playing.
"YOU DAMN FUCKING BASTARD! STOP WHIPPING HER! SHE'S JUST A CHILD!"
Familiar, isnt it?
How many times had he already said those words in his previous life?
Stop.
He continued to beg them to stop.
Ohn was just a child when she was whipped to death, Hong was also just a child when his eyes were plucked from his sockets, and Raon haven't even reached the part where he would boast his age the moment it finally reached the first decade of his long life.
And Xue Yang...
Xue Yang barely even reached his teens.
He swung his sword, its tips covered with rose gold color of ghastly essence similar to an aura.
And Jin Zixun simply screamed in pain.
Jiang Cheng and Wei Ying doesn't know whether to stop the redhead or not, considering Jin Zixun is already beyond saving.
"Gege...that's enough." Jiang Cheng immediately says, hugging the older on his back as if he was stopping him from going to the path of no return.
Jiang Cheng will support them in whatever shenanigans his brothers would do, but not like this.
Not when he couldn't help but be anxious when a strand of Cale's hair turned black.
Wei Ying looks in front of him with a pursed lip, then to Xue Yang who awaits for his next order just like the corpse he is.
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𝐷𝑒́𝑝𝑎𝑦𝑠𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡「LCF x MDZS」
FanfictionIn the alleyways of Yiling, there was an abandoned child who did his best to survive. Everyday, he scoured for food and fought dogs who hurted him. It hurts. Bites starting to bruise his already blemished skin as he curled into a ball and hoping to...
