BOOK 2. Zhao Yunlan is a successful detective and has been blind from birth, and is attacked on his way home from a night out but someone steps in and saves him and runs off. Shen Wei is a university lecturer in Architectural Technology and liv...
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Gelan gave up, this is not how it was supposed to be, fate did not have this in her plans for Shen Wei, he wasn't supposed to die now of all times, and her AI system was beginning to go around in circles inside her head, while the other part of her didn't want to grieve. It didn't make sense, he had a destiny to fulfil, this was wrong.
Yunlan was cold, naked, and felt nothing, not even embarrassment over his appearance. Shen Wei was dead beside him and he was numb. His tears flowed silently from the blind eyes that didn't want to see what he already knew. The whip slowly slithered across the floor moving closer towards him as he sat motionless and wrapped itself around his wrist which made him angry, he was not ready to be comforted by anyone or even this thing, that seemed to know how badly he was hurting inside. He raised his hand to violently shake it off but it stayed attached while crackling, flying with an electrical blue flash through the air, and struck Shen Wei across his chest, narrowly missing Gelan who watched as he arched his body on contact with the blue lightning and started gasping for breath. No one noticed the whip quietly receding to it's former position and colour.
Yunlan knew something had happened but couldn't tell what, until he heard Wei breathe again and assumed that it was Gelan who had managed to bring him back as he crawled towards him and held him. Shen Wei whispered to him,
"Yunlan ... It was a dream ... your whip saved me then and now."
Gelan quickly controlled her appearance and flew off to the bedroom to find two bath robes for the men, and also ran a bath at the same time and while she checked the recording of the incident. She helped Shen Wei to his feet and led Yunlan to the bathroom where they could both bathe and change into some pyjamas before going to bed. She didn't care whether it was the same bed or not, in her eyes Yunlan had saved Shen Wei's life when she couldn't ... and she would never forget it.
The two of them were warm and comfortable locked in each other's arms, not willing to let go. Yunlan's tears had stopped but his heart still ached over the fright of losing Shen Wei, and he needed answers, so Wei tried to explain the dream to him.
"I was targeted by a hit man, who had failed once already when Chu saved me with his explosive blue strings, I'll explain that later. What you saw tonight was his second attempt, he used red strings invisible to me but not to you for some reason. He attacked when I was looking for keys at my door and covered me with his deadly red strings which drained my life, but you saw them and blasted them away with your blue whip."
Yunlan listened but his brain was on holiday, maybe in the morning it would make more sense but just now, all he wanted to do was sleep with Shen Wei in his arms, alive.
Gelan studied the recording after she confirmed that the lovers were asleep and safe for the night, her system had been in overdrive trying to work out how she'd nearly lost Shen Wei, none of this was supposed to happen. She had accepted that he would have some sort of reaction to the nightmares but to die because of one of the memories, she couldn't accept. How could he carry on with these uncontrollable dreams. Was she going to find him dead one morning because of an incident from his former life? She silently made her way to the room at the rear of the house making sure that she was not being recorded by the security cameras, and stood outside, waiting to be allowed access.
