Su Mian

“I am so hungry…”

Su Mian sat in the shade by the side of a busy street, his eyelids drooping and his spirit listless.

A growling sound came from his lower abdomen from time to time, and a persistent hunger burned his nerves, making him extremely uncomfortable.

He looked up slightly to see a barbecue shop across the street, a restaurant next to it, and even a mobile dessert stall not far away.

The scent of roasting meat and sweet aromas drifted through the air, but Su Mian’s gaze did not linger on any of them.

Through his messy hair, his eyes were quiet yet burning, locked firmly on the passing crowd.

Specifically, whenever tall and sturdy men passed by, the growling in his stomach would become particularly intense.

“So hungry.”

He muttered to himself again.

The youth, who looked somewhat gloomy with long hair covering his eyes, pressed his hand against his stomach.

The conflict between physiological desire and mental resistance made his face turn increasingly pale.

After a long time, he let out a sigh.

“Forget it, I’ll have to find another way…”

Su Mian struggled to stand up from the ground.

Prolonged hunger made him feel light-headed and his vision blurred, with his consciousness blacking out intermittently.

In a daze, he stumbled.

By the time he realized what was happening, he was falling forward.

Seeing the ground rushing up to meet his face, he did not have time to adjust and could only grit his teeth to endure the impact.

At that moment, a hand suddenly reached out from the side.

The arm was thick and powerful, catching him easily.

A low, concerned voice sounded beside him.

“Careful, are you alright?”

Su Mian’s head throbbed, and he could not react for a moment.

It was not until the person helped him sit down nearby that he finally seemed to realize what happened and nodded.

“Thank you.”

He spoke softly and finally saw the man who had helped him.

The man looked to be about twenty-five or twenty-six years old with short, messy black hair.

He was tall, and the tight lines of his muscles were faintly visible under his simple shirt.

His muscles were full but not overly exaggerated, and while his skin was not fair, his hands had obvious callouses and looked full of power.

‘This person… smells so good.’

“Ugh.”

In his daze, the person in front of him seemed to turn into a large piece of fragrant roasted meat.

Su Mian almost could not stop himself from taking a bite.

Fortunately, he retained a final shred of reason and forcibly suppressed the primal instinct.

“No!”

He pushed the man away with a sudden burst of strength, nearly knocking him over.

Su Mian had no time to explain or energy to apologize.

He gritted his teeth, squeezed out every last bit of energy, and ran into the distance without looking back.

The man stood there slightly stunned as he watched the boy’s back quickly disappear around a corner.

After a while, someone tapped him on the shoulder.

“What are you dazing out for? Is there a situation?”

A man about 1.7 meters tall, wearing a black coat and sunglasses over a bald head, looked at his companion with confusion.

He scanned the surroundings with a wary gaze.

The tall man shook his head.

“It is nothing. Let us go, Director Chen is still waiting for us.”

On the other side, Su Mian did not know how long or where he had run.

He only hoped to get as far away from that person and any populated area as possible.

He simply chose a direction at random.

Unfortunately, his body was far too weak from the lack of food.

After running only a few hundred meters, the last bit of strength was drained from his body.

He happened to trip over something and fell forward uncontrollably.

This time, no one was there to help him.

The heavy fall caused his already fading consciousness to cut out completely, plunging him into total darkness.

Night fell, and the city lights flickered to life.

After a busy day, people sought release in the night, making it even noisier than the day.

A man and a woman stepped out of a restaurant.

The man’s face was flushed from drinking, and the woman looked equally intoxicated.

They walked huddled together, the man whispering into the woman’s ear from time to time, making her laugh loudly.

Their steps were unsteady until they stopped under a glowing hotel sign.

The man looked at the colorful lights, and for some reason, a strange smile crossed his face.

He suddenly pulled the woman toward a nearby small alley.

Although the woman was half-drunk, she still had basic reasoning skills and blinked in confusion.

“Are we not going in? Or did you forget to buy protection again?”

There was not a convenience store in that alley.

Both sides were residential buildings, and while the alley led to another street, it was very dark at night because it lacked streetlights.

Very few people walked through it.

The woman did not know what her boyfriend was up to until he leaned in and whispered a few suggestive words.

Her face immediately turned red, and she punched the man’s arm playfully.

“Oh, you are truly too wicked!”

“Haha, forget it then if you do not want to.”

Despite his words, their pace quickened.

The moonlight was good tonight.

So while the alley was dark, it was not impossible to see, and the hazy atmosphere only intensified the couple’s emotions.

The night is a veil for desire.

Deep in the alley, the man impatiently embraced his girlfriend, their hot breath mingling.

Suddenly, the woman felt herself trip over something.

“Ouch!”

She reflexively grabbed her boyfriend to keep from falling.

The man was startled by her sudden cry, nearly losing his mood.

“What happened?”

“Uh, I think I kicked something.”

The woman tested the darkness with her foot and found she really had hit something.

It was soft and did not feel like a stone at all.

Apprehensively, she pulled out her phone and turned on the flashlight.

“Ah!”

The woman screamed, causing the man beside her to flinch again.

He looked toward the light and saw a person lying on the ground.

“A… a dead body!?”

The person was motionless, lying face down so they could not tell if it was a man or a woman.

The man was terrified and quickly pulled his girlfriend back several steps.

Just as he was debating whether to leave or call the police, he heard a faint groan.

The sound contained a hint of pain, but it was strangely pleasant to the ear.

Unknowingly, their bodies began to heat up rapidly.

The couple did not notice the abnormality in their own bodies.

They only saw the ‘dead body’ slowly crawling up from the ground along with the sound of breathing.

The man and his girlfriend breathed a sigh of relief.

They assumed it was a drunkard from a nearby bar.

After confirming the person was alive, the man began to complain.

“Hey friend, or miss? It is very dangerous to lie here in the middle of the night, you know…”

He kept rambling until the other person slowly turned around.

Under the dim light of the phone, a head of long silver-white hair was particularly striking.

Even more striking were those blood-red eyes and the ethereal face.

It was hard to describe such beauty with words.

It seemed as though all the praises of beauty in the world combined could not describe even a fraction of it.

Looking at the figure was like looking at the entire world, leaving room for nothing else.

The man and woman stood frozen in place, their eyes dull like puppets.

The silver-haired figure was also looking at them.

Gem-like eyes glowed slightly in the night, and a pinkish scent seemed to permeate the air.

Looking at the couple, the figure licked its crimson lips.