Never Rise Again

When Mu Yuze woke up, he struggled to peel open his eyelids due to how sticky they were. His entire body felt unusually sluggish, and there was a faint throb in his right arm where… where…

In a rush, the memories came flooding back and he snapped his eyes open with a gasp, his heart jackrabbiting in his chest. Panic seized him when he realized that the sky outside his window was already bright. What time was it? How long had he been asleep?! He scrambled for his phone on the nightstand and saw that it was only seven in the morning, just the usual time when he would wake up. 

For a moment, he fell into a daze. Was everything that happened last night a nightmare, or… was it reality? If it was the latter, then…

With trembling hands, Mu Yuze unlocked his phone and immediately pressed on the only speed dial on his phone for He Juan's number. But to his dismay, he was only greeted by a mechanical female voice,