Conan: The Man Behind the Romance

Chapter 345: Love is eternal, a night of pleasure!
At 9:30 in the evening, Yingsheng and the other two returned to Ian's apartment.

Yingsheng went to the next door 2601 to take a look. The Sumiyoshi Association was very efficient. Although there was not enough time for customization, the originally empty room was filled with furniture again. It was a nice modern style decoration.

"Is there anything you are not satisfied with? It can be modified at any time." Hotaru looked at Haibara Ai.

"I don't know. I've never had such a large private space before." Huiyuan Ai walked around the room and stopped in front of the display shelf that separated the entrance from the living room. "What do you think about turning this into a bar?"

"It's a good idea, but children can't drink alcohol." Yingsheng said with a smile.

"Tsk, I don't know which underage person drinks every day. I'm one year older than you."

"That's still a minor."

"I was eighteen before, and now I'm eight, so I'm twenty-six all together."

"...makes sense."

Because they plan to move to a villa later, this place is just a temporary stay, and Haibara Ai doesn't have any special requirements.

As she said before, she has been under strict control of the winery since she was a child. Her last long-term residence was a small bedroom surrounded by cold metal in an underground research institute. This place is much better.

However, when she saw Hotaru leaving and was about to close the door in the corridor, Haibara Ai, standing in the middle of the living room, still felt that this place was too deserted.

"I want to have a cat, is that okay?" Haibara Ai suddenly spoke.

"Of course, I'll take you to the pet shop tomorrow morning," said Yingsheng.

"You are still a student, right? Have you attended class properly this week?"

"I'm on sick leave. I need to rest for at least a month." Yingsheng knocked on the armrest of the wheelchair under him. "Speaking of which, do you want to buy some books?"

"I haven't decided yet. Let's go to the bookstore tomorrow and see." Huiyuan Ai looked at Hotaru's legs wrapped in plaster. "You are definitely pretending."

"Both the winery and the police have verified it."

"So you fooled them. You never told me that you killed Chianti and the others with a pair of injured legs."

Haibara Ai hummed twice, and she had heard it before in the courtyard of Chiyoko's house, sleeping together and so on.

"Why not? Those two are very weak, and most importantly, they are unlucky." Yingsheng controlled the wheelchair and turned his body towards the door. "Miss, are you being too sentimental? It's been a day."

"I'm just trying to make conversation when I have nothing to say." Huiyuan Ai touched her cheek, "Can this be removed?"

"Of course, I'll make another one for you tomorrow morning. If you can't sleep now, you can try to draw the image you expect, and I'll use that as a reference."

Haibara Ai took off her disguise and touched her cheek. She only felt like a layer of gauze was removed and did not feel any discomfort.

"The art of disguise is indeed amazing, but," Huihara Ai said with a playful look in her eyes, "If you do it again for me, you won't end up looking like Xue Songqingzi again, right?"

"It won't happen after daybreak." Yingsheng said with a smile.

"Hmph, then go back quickly and don't delay any longer."

"…You are so dirty."

"You are the one, okay?" Huiyuan Ai blushed and turned her head away, "Let's go, Mr. Shuiyue."

Yingsheng smiled and closed the door from the outside.

"Good night, young lady."

Haibara Ai snorted softly, turned on the TV, randomly tuned to a channel playing science documentaries, and went to wash up.

After taking a bath, she changed into a pair of brown pajamas that she had just bought on the road. Huihara Ai was not sleepy, so she went to the living room to watch TV. As the night deepened, there was no sound of anyone around.

At some point, the breeze gently blew open the curtains, and Haibara Ai then noticed that there was a wooden swing on the balcony. She hesitated for two seconds, jumped off the sofa, and walked over.

She hesitated because she knew that this swing must have been used by Xuesong Qingzi before, but when she thought that Xuesong Qingzi had breathed the air, she felt that it was no big deal.

The swing was quite small, so she didn't sway too much when she sat on it. She held the hemp rope with her two small hands and swung gently.

The night breeze gently brushes across my cheeks, the air is mixed with the fragrance of grass and trees, and the world suddenly comes alive.

Haibara Ai looked at the neon-lit city night scene below, and gradually felt the air getting a little cooler.

It's time to go to bed.

As she was thinking this, she was about to go back to the house when she suddenly heard a slight groan and quickly looked towards the source of the sound.

It's the balcony next door.

In the faint moonlight, among the lush green leaves of wisteria, Huihara Ai vaguely saw some faint light emitted by white jade.

Putting the fragments together as a whole, Haibara Ai discovered that it was Hotaru with his upper body naked, lying on a recliner.

Because he was too quiet before and the green leaves blocked his view, he didn't see it.

Is something happening to him now?
Haibara Ai noticed that Hotaru's body was trembling slightly, and his skin became red and hot as if it was burned by flames, with even a faint trace of hot steam rising.

His eyes were tightly closed, and although his face looked peaceful, as if he was sleeping soundly, his temples were throbbing and veins popped out on his forehead.

Ai Haibara judged that Hotaru was suffering great pain, but he obviously had no external injuries, so it was most likely mental, such as a nightmare.

Huiyuan Ai immediately shouted: "Suiyue-kun, wake up! You are safe! Nothing happened!"

For someone who is in a nightmare, it is very important to make him realize his true situation as soon as possible.

Yingsheng suddenly opened his eyes, his eyeballs were full of bloodshot, almost blood red under the moonlight.

Haibara Ai was startled and her heart skipped a beat. A fear that was countless times greater than what she had ever experienced when seeing people in the winery came over her heart, making her whole body tremble uncontrollably.

Fortunately, the next second, she heard a familiar gentle voice: "It's you, young lady, are you still awake? Or did you get up early?"

Yingsheng's voice was a little hoarse at first, but it soon returned to normal and was as gentle as usual.

Huibara Ai was stunned and her trembling body stopped. She saw Yingsheng brushing away the green leaves and standing by the fence, looking at her with a smile, which made her suspect that what she had just seen was just an illusion.

"Suiyue-kun, what happened to you just now?"

Huibara Ai stood up and said hesitantly.

"Well... just treat it as a form of spiritual practice, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, the essence of the sun and the moon, that's all." Yingsheng pointed to the crescent moon hanging high in the sky, "You may not believe it, but it gave me a kind of power."

Huihara Ai was silent for two seconds, "You are talking about Xuesong Qingzi, your mental problems are indeed related to her."

Yingsheng shook his head, "You don't understand."

"How can I understand if you don't tell me?"

"Well, that is... it needs to be cool and bright, so that I can admire the bright moon from the Dantai. The moon hides the jade rabbit and the sun hides the crow, and there are turtles and snakes entwined." Seeing Huiyuan Ai's speechless eyes, Yingsheng smiled and said, "I'm serious, I did perform a yin and yang harmony just now."

Love and murderous intent merge and turn into life.

Nature is the unity of yin and yang.

Huihara Ai rolled her eyes and said, "I'm just a child. Is it really okay to tell me such things? And I'm asking about the painful look you just had."

Yingsheng was slightly stunned, then shook his head and laughed, "You are indeed a little dirty girl, that's what I'm talking about."

Huiyuan Ai blushed and said unconvincedly: "You didn't explain it clearly. No, you deliberately misled me, okay? The harmony of yin and yang... Humph, you are living with Xiaolan today."

"so what?"

"...What else? Are you sure you want to tell this to a little girl, Mr. Pervert?"

"This is really unfair. You were the one who brought it up first." Yingsheng had already evened out his breathing. He took down his black silk pajamas from the wooden rack and gently put them on. "I'm going to go back for a nap, young lady. You haven't answered my first question yet."

"I can't sleep. Okay, I've answered your question, but what about mine?" Haibara Ai sat on the swing again.

"Yes, I definitely want to tell you this." Yingsheng chuckled as he buttoned up his shirt.

Huiyuan Ai knew that he was answering the rhetorical question of "Mr. Pervert", and her mouth pursed, "Do you have to change the subject like this? Is it a secret?"

"But I have already said it."

"Practice? What a strange reason." Seeing Yingsheng's calm face, Huiyuan Ai's eyes became strange, "Are you an ascetic monk who regards self-torture as practice?"

Yingsheng shook his head and said, "I don't think it's torture. On the contrary, it can calm my mind and bring me peace."

"Eh???"

Huihara Ai was shocked. "So you are really torturing yourself? You...you..."

She was tongue-tied for a while, then her eyes and tone softened again, "Are you okay? Can you tell me if there's anything upsetting?"

Yingsheng looked at her for a few seconds, then burst out laughing, "I was kidding, little miss. My legs just hurt. Didn't you see I forced myself to stand up? There's nothing else wrong."

Hui Yuan Ai was stunned.

Yingsheng held onto the railing and sat back in the recliner. He reached to the side, pulled the wheelchair closer, slowly moved his body up, and let out a long sigh.

"I feel comfortable now."

"Well, it seems that it is indeed a secret." Huiyuan Ai obviously did not believe the lies of Yingsheng, and hesitated for two seconds, "Does Sister Xiaolan know?"

"If you insist on thinking this way, I can't help it." Yingsheng spread his hands.

"Then I guess she doesn't know." Huibara Ai said to herself.

Yingsheng curled his lips, pulled the lever, drove the electric wheelchair towards the living room, and waved back.

"Children won't grow tall if they don't sleep. Good night, little miss. I'll buy the cat in the afternoon."

"Good night, weirdo."

Haibara Ai really wanted to call out to Hotaru and ask him what was going on, but she knew that Hotaru would never tell her the truth, so she simply didn't call out.

Seeing the floor-to-ceiling glass door on the adjacent balcony being closed, Huibara Ai yawned and two tears welled up in the corners of her eyes.

Sleepiness finally came.

She returned to her bedroom and checked the time. It was 4:46 AM on Friday.

I'll probably sleep until noon, thought Huibara, and fell asleep.

On the other side, Yingsheng also wanted to fall asleep as soon as he touched the pillow, but before he could rest his head on the new long latex pillow he had replaced today, he touched another warm and soft long object.

Yingsheng tilted his head on Xiaolan's arm and said apologetically: "Sorry for waking you up."

The curtains in the bedroom were drawn tightly, with only some faint light coming through the edges, reflecting the worry in Xiaolan's eyes.

"I also want to ask the questions that Xiao Ai asked just now."

"There's really nothing wrong. You're by my side right now, and I can't wait to feel happy." Yingsheng smiled, "I just saw that Xiaoai had a misunderstanding, so I was just teasing her on a whim."

"Do not believe."

"So what do you think it will be?"

Xiaolan turned sideways, facing Yingsheng, hesitated for two seconds, and pointed at her temple.

"Is it... uncomfortable here?"

“…………I’m really not mentally ill.”

"Yeah, of course my Yingsheng isn't sick, it's just... well, he's super smart, and his brain is much more active than an average person." Xiaolan put her arms around Yingsheng's neck and brought him towards her, "Let's not talk about that, don't you want to take a nap? Let's hold him and sleep together."

The two faces were so close that they could feel each other's breath gently hitting their lips.

It is much softer and warmer than the touch of a feather, and there is a faint fragrance.

Yingsheng also reached out and hugged Xiaolan, gently exerting force in his arms. In the darkness, silently, the two lips were finally stained with each other's scent and remained together for a long time.

The darkness covered the blush on Xiaolan's face. Her eyes became blurry and her breathing gradually became rapid.

Yingsheng relaxed his strength.

"orchid."

"Ok?"

Xiaolan was a little confused.

Yingsheng asked: "In your eyes, what kind of existence is Shuiyue Yingsheng?"

"Of course it is a unique existence. There is only one in the whole world." Xiaolan paused, "Ying, do you want to ask about personality? The connection between Tianshu and Shuiyue Yingsheng?"

"more or less."

Yingsheng sighed, "I am 100% sure that I am Tianshu, but now it seems that everyone who knows me thinks I have a split personality. So let it be. I am too lazy to explain so much."

"Um... sorry." "Oh, I don't mean it."

"No, it's just that I don't understand well. Ying, please explain it to me." Xiaolan pulled Ying closer and blinked, "As long as Ying doesn't think I'm too stupid, I can listen to you all the time."

"Let's forget about it this time. Maybe I'm the one who's wrong. Tell me what you think first."

Although, Yingsheng didn't think he was wrong.

Xiaolan hesitated and said, "Will it have any bad effects if this kind of thing is said like this?"

"I'm not that mentally fragile." Yingsheng said with a smile.

"Okay, but I'm not a professional and my understanding is very superficial."

Xiaolan cleared her throat and said, "Probably, Ying, you have been suffering from domestic violence and drug transformation experiments for a long time in the past. Your original personality was unable to change the status quo, so you gave birth to an absolutely rational and powerful personality, Tianshu.

This personality is now your dominant personality, but after it achieved its goal and solved the problem that you used to hate...or fear, the meaning of its existence has faded a lot.

And now, a new personality is being nurtured or integrated into your body, which is the you I see now, Ying. "

Yingsheng thought for a moment and continued to ask: "Which me do you think is the real me?"

"Of course all of them."

"All of them?"

"Yes."

Xiaolan said firmly, "Hatsune, you said in the past, yesterday's death, today's life, people will continue to change. Although the way you change is a little different from ordinary people, there is no doubt that this is also a kind of growth."

"That's it..."

Yingsheng was silent for a few breaths, "You should know that I am not a sentimental person..."

Xiaolan interrupted: "No, you are."

"Well, I am, but..."

"You are just like that, Hotaru. You are always like this, thinking too much."

Xiaolan hugged Yingsheng tightly and muttered, "You taught me a lot of things, you wouldn't forget them all. If you said it was because I was killing Tianshu, I would be very happy, but if you keep hesitating like this, I don't know what to do."

"You've done enough, Lan."

"But it's not enough, far from enough." Xiaolan said in a complicated tone, "I know what you are hesitating about. Even though we have slept in the same bed, I still haven't provided you with any love, right?"

Yingsheng remained silent.

Xiaolan sighed, "As for me, there is Xuesong. I don't know how close you are to her, but you have been with me most of the time in the past few weeks. She even poisoned you. Probably, you are in the same situation as me now.

And she definitely provides you with a lot of love, right?

With a little comparison, you will begin to doubt whether the feelings between us are fake or not, whether they do not exist at all, I…"

"not at all."

Yingsheng interrupted, "I'm sure there are just some issues that I haven't figured out. Maybe I've encountered a mental block, or it's the reason I mentioned yesterday, no, the night before, the love canceled each other out or something like that."

Xiaolan was silent for a few breaths, "Are you absolutely sure of this idea?"

"I... probably... maybe more than 90%." Yingsheng said this and suddenly laughed, "I have never been so vague before. Lan, do you think I will become a human being?"

"That's right. No matter what Tianshu's self-perception is, Shuiyue Yingsheng is originally a human being." Xiaolan also smiled, "I like looking at you from this angle, and, Ying, you look better when you smile than usual."

"Hey, this is my line."

"No, that's my line. Don't forget that I'm the leader and you're a little M."

As Xiaolan spoke, she moved her body up a little, making herself half a head taller than Yingsheng on the facade, and then she lowered her head slightly with the corners of her lips slightly raised.

"Do you know what you are going to do, Hotaru?"

"Please forgive my confusion, Your Majesty."

Yingsheng smiled gently, raised his head, and pressed his lips against Xiaolan's again, then separated.

"Don't overthink it, Hotaru."

Xiaolan hugged his head and pressed it down again.

again and again……

Yingsheng had to admit that his lung capacity was still far inferior to Xiaolan's, and he almost suffocated several times.

Xiaolan's kissing skills were very immature, but there was no doubt that she took the absolute initiative.

I don’t know if it’s because of the lack of oxygen, but Yingsheng gradually felt that his consciousness was a little drifting. The various thoughts that were constantly surging in his mind now gradually became calm like the ebb tide.

Wow——!
As the waves surged, a large white comic book page was gently lifted up from behind the huge reef.

That wonderful impulse that happened for the first time in history suddenly crossed time and emerged in my heart again.

The change in thinking was clearly reflected in the body, and at a certain moment, both of their bodies stopped at the same time.

Then, Xiaolan suddenly increased her strength, and Yingsheng had to use a lot of effort to push her away.

"why?"

Xiaolan's tone was a little annoyed. "If you still doubt my feelings, then why not treat me as a lover? Or is it that you have always thought so, so you just want to maintain an ambiguous relationship with me and regard sensuality as meaningless or even inferior?"

"That's not the case at all. I just..."

"I see, there's something wrong with your body." Xiaolan interrupted coldly, "Or maybe you don't like women, you like men. Those women's clothes in the cloakroom are indeed yours."

Yingsheng smiled and said, "Provocation doesn't work on me."

Xiaolan looked disgusted, "Haha, because what I said was the truth, right? Miss Liuying, have you ever received a male guest?"

"Sorry, sorry, I can prove it to you anytime, but Ai will probably sleep until noon, so there's still a lot of time. Can you wait for me to think about it?"

"Can't!"

Xiaolan snorted coldly, "You think too much, so many troubles that you didn't have in the first place all popped up in your mind. Be careful not to get hurt by your excessive wisdom."

Yingsheng raised his left palm, "I swear, I only do this when it comes to your affairs."

"Damn it! You, I don't know whether I should be happy or sad about what you said." Xiaolan pursed her lips, "I say, you don't think that I am insincere to you, and even if I want to go to the last step with you, it's just a show, right?"

Yingsheng sighed, "Didn't I just say that? I rationally believe that this will not happen."

"Yes, and your gradually revived sensibility tells you another possibility." Xiaolan's eyes were complicated, "That is, I don't like you at all, and I am only with you out of gratitude.

But you are sincere to me, and you don't want me to hurt myself for such inexplicable reasons.

Is it right? "

Yingsheng turned over, looked up at the dim ceiling, and was silent for a long time.

"I guess I'm still having a mental block. Maybe it's because my consciousness isn't integrated enough. But Shuiyue Yingsheng really doesn't have any consciousness left. What should I do..."

"asshole!"

Xiaolan was furious. She pulled away the thin blanket on them, sat astride Yingsheng's waist, held his cheeks with both hands, and looked into his eyes angrily.

"If you really think so, then take action. What does it mean to say one thing and do another?"

"Nothing, I just..."

"You've said too much!"

Xiaolan interrupted again and sneered, "Ying, I remember you mocked me before, saying that I was a bootlicker, right? Then look at your performance now?
I don't even know how much more excessive this is!
Do you hope that the things we said to Conan today to test him will come true, and that you will give your blessing to me when I start dating Kudo Shinichi?

This is no longer magnanimity, it's a sign of mental problems!"

"........."

Yingsheng said weakly: "I also..."

"Huh? Still coming?!"

Xiaolan gnashed her teeth and said, "I've already said this much, if you still give me a long lecture, asking me to think carefully and take responsibility for myself, then I'm 100% sure that you are the one with the problem, both mentally and physically!"

“…I don’t think I’ve ever said anything like that.”

"But that's how you act! It was the same after twelve o'clock. I finally prepared myself mentally, but when I turned around, I saw that you were asleep!
Do you know how disappointed I was at that time? When I thought of the face of Xue Songqingzi that you pinched in the evening, I really wanted to call her over, do you know? "

Xiaolan's tone was very angry at first, but later on, it had a slight tremor and tears welled up in the corners of her eyes.

Yingsheng looked at his heart, which was still empty, and when he looked at Xiaolan, his eyes were quite complicated.

But having said that, as long as he is still a man, it is impossible for him to say anything else.

He just sighed softly, "Why are you so anxious? There is obviously a lot of time to come."

"Because I don't understand. I like you so much, why doesn't your god recognize me?"

There were tears in Xiaolan's words, but she didn't cry out after all. She suddenly raised her hand to wipe away her tears.

"I don't care. Let's just treat this as a test from God!"

Xiaolan raised her hand and pulled gently, and the strap of the rose-red nightgown slowly slid down from her right shoulder, and then the other side.

The smooth silk gently caressed the warm and soft jade, and the delicate collarbone almost glowed in the dark room.

The silk keeps falling, falling...

It fell on Yingsheng's body and on the white bed.

As his sight slowly fell along with the silk, the countless complexities in Yingsheng's mind gradually fell into the abyss of darkness.

Rationality fades, the body tenses, and the breathing becomes rapid.

Yingsheng raised his upper body, but Xiaolan leaned over and pressed him down again. He buried his head in her hair, breathing in the fragrance of the orchid, and his consciousness gradually became intoxicated.

Xiaolan tried to unbutton Yingsheng's pajamas with one hand, but failed, so she tried with both hands.

Their skin finally stuck together without any barriers, transmitting their hot body temperature and rapid heartbeat to each other.

"If you're still hesitant, just treat it as a one-night stand," Xiaolan said.

"Sorry, that won't happen anymore," Yingsheng said.

The air became hot and ambiguous, and every breath sent a slight numbness throughout the body.

Yingsheng no longer considered love.

A feeling of mutual understanding told him that this was definitely a problem of the gods, not theirs.

Like a thread, thoughts and time flow slowly together.

Gradually, Xiaolan saw the soft clouds rising from the ripples of the waves again, supporting every bit of her weight.

Xiaolan felt that her existence would completely melt into the cloud, and finally a little tear fell from the corner of her eyes.

"Please have mercy, Hotaru."

"I love you, Lan, it's never fake."

Yingsheng also flew into the cloud, then climbed onto the Yaotai and fell into the clear pool.

One night fish and dragon dance.

……

……

When Haibara Ai woke up, she looked at the time and found that it was already one o'clock in the afternoon.

When she opened the curtains, the sunlight was so bright that she couldn't help but raise her little hands to cover her eyes.

After taking two breaths of fresh air, her stomach growled. Huibara Ai glanced at the white sheets drying on the balcony of her next-door neighbor, pouted her lips, and went to the kitchen to find food for herself.

dong dong dong——!
There was a knock on the door, and the man's deep voice sounded one after another.

"It's me, open the door."

Haibara Ai's pupils suddenly shrank. Gin?!

Sorry, this chapter has been prompting that there are risks, and it took a long time to revise it...orz
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