Only Sadness
Lilian Mo felt warm despite the gloomy and dark weather outside the villa. It had been a constant scenery when the blue meteor fell on Earth, at the heart of the Pacific Ocean, birthing monsters that became the enemy of the human race.
Inside the villa was a room with minimalistic design and complete furniture for two people living together. This room had been her living space for more than two years since the apocalypse. Complete with a king sized bed, a walk in closet, a vanity mirror, a wide bathroom area and a small study corner lined with bookshelves was the room that felt more like a prison than a nest.
She was lying on her back while a man was on top of her. His naked upper torso glistened with sweat and his pale blue eyes stared at her with profound meaning, his lashes moving about. There was a charm to his silence and miniscule movements that could bewitch the mind. Even Lilian Mo would often find herself staring in a dazed while looking at this fine specimen.
His eyes blinked slowly and met her gaze.
She unconsciously wrapped her hands around his neck, pressing her soft mounds against his naked chest. She unconsciously smelled a faint whiff of masculine fragrance coming from his body. All the places that her hand could reach was hard and sculpted from all of his frequent trips and missions outside the safety of this sanctuary.
They stared intensely at each other for a few moments, neither speaking or saying anything. A pair of black eyes held its own against a pale of blue eyes. He liked to stare a lot without speaking. It had happened very frequently even when they first met and his teammate used to joke that this man fell in love with her at first sight.
Ridiculous.
This man was never good with his words but if he did like her, he would have told her and not kept her in the dark. He would have never treated her this way and caged her like a pet that was meant for amusement and relieving his carnal desires.
Her face bloomed pink as the man brushed a calloused thumb across her dewy lips, caressing her cheeks with his open palm in a gentle manner as if she was his little lover. His eyes glinted as she blinked at him somewhat innocently.
He slowly leaned down and pressed a searing kiss on her parted mouth, his tongue exploring deep inside while his hands grabbed ahold of her cheeks. A gasp escaped her lips. He was at it again. He always seems to think that he was entitled to do anything to her as long as she was within his reach.
He shifted his position and started to leave marks on her neck then on her collarbone, biting and sucking her sensitive skin in an expert manner like all the times he had left his mark.
"Hah..." Lilian Mo held him tighter, her nails digging onto his back as she tried to keep her heart from breaking.
In her ears, she could hear his breathless whisper that was just as dark and sinister as his character.
"Don't ever think of looking at another man ever again. Otherwise, I'll kill them."
Lilian Mo opened her eyes and sat awake. There was look of horror was on her face while her sweaty body was sticky from the dream-- no, from the memory that had brought about many feelings inside her.
She looked around and found that she was still at the apartment she was currently staying in after almost dying from exhaustion when she was cornered by so many mutants. She sighed and felt relieved, knowing that it was only just a dream.
She didn't think she would have a dream of her fiancé rolling on the sheets with her. Technically, they did do the deed but it was in her past life where he was helplessly obsessed with her body.
She relaxed, knowing that she had no attachments to the current Lu Jingren. They've never met and she has no plans on getting involved with him.
She felt somewhat gloomy while thinking about him.
He did not mistreat her. He always made sure she was fed three times a day but he also kept her locked inside her room 24/7 and never allowed her to go out or meet other people. She led the life of a prisoner under his clutches.
She had to rely on him for everything. She would listen to him as he tells her news about the things going on outside so she wouldn't turn crazy for from isolation.
In return, he would bed her and ask her to cook all of his meals for him when he was inside the villa.
She was no different than the other girls who had willingly sold their body to other ability users just to earn a safe and stable living environment. The only difference was that Lu Jingren never gave her a choice. She was forced to become his bed warmer.
She did try to leave him at first but this only angered him and she found herself unable to stand for a week afterwards.
Her days as his bed warmer was long.
It lasted for three years before she finally had enough and took an opportunity to drug him so she could escape. She had given up on him. Despite the many times she told him to set her free, he was resolute and stubborn and insisted that it was the safest by his side.
If safety meant being kept in a cage for the rest of her life, then Lilian Mo preferred endangering her life where she would at least have the option to choose for herself. If she died, the so be it.
In the end, she would die without regrets because she was able to live her life and embrace her freedom.
Her attempt was successful and she managed to hide himself from him before she found a group of people and befriended them.
Thinking about it, Lilian Mo felt a headache coming. She escaped the overlord only to meet up with the demons.
Her so called 'friends' were really good! Leaving her after using her as bait for the mutants.
Her mood became irritated after this. She was unable to go back to sleep and went out to hunt some mutants.
Through the night, she killed and killed, releasing her pent up frustrations through every blow. With how loud she was being, she attracted a pair of level two humanoid mutants.
This only excited her as she used her fire ability and lunged towards them, breaking their arms with her punches and slicing through their limbs with a fire blade.
The sticky sound of black blood falling every time resonated across the area. The burnt smell of dead bodies and rotten flesh permeated the air. The stench was even more horrible compared to the smell coming from a pile of trash a few blocks away.
Lilian Mo stomped her feet on the ground and earthen spikes erupted, piercing the mutants' bodies and eliciting a shrill scream. Black blood dripped from the wounds, soaking the ground.
It was an ugly sight.
Lilian Mo clapped her hands together as red hot flames burst out from the ground and melted the mutants, turning them to a puddle of black goo that emitted a strange and horrid smell.
The crystal cores remained unharmed and she gathered them.
There was no smile on her face, only sadness.
'Qingqing, I hope you're okay.'
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