Lu Qingyuan stretched and walked into the rose garden.
Lying on the bench like an old man, looking at the overcast sky, I felt inexplicably relaxed.
I don't know what that bastard, the God of Darkness, was thinking, he actually canceled the clause about the backlash against him in the agreement.
The backlash that had tormented him for years disappeared, and his body felt a long-lost sense of ease, which naturally made him happy.
It's just... a little boring.
Thinking this, Lu Qingyuan stretched out his hand towards the sky, and a ball of black flame appeared in his palm.
It then spread to other fingers, changing into various shapes, such as little rabbits, little mice, little cats, little dogs, dolls, and little airplanes.
When he got really into it, Lu Qingyuan would laugh out loud to himself, like a fool.
"hiss……"
Suddenly gasping for breath, Lu Qingyuan extinguished the flames and touched his beauty mark under his eye.
I feel like this place is slightly warm.
This was followed by headaches and chest tightness.
A jumble of memories swirled in my mind.
The details are so fine that the faces of the figures are difficult to discern.
Feeling inexplicably irritable, Lu Qingyuan lost interest in continuing to play.
So he opened the passage to the human world, transformed into an ordinary person, and stepped inside.
It was late at night, yet the place was still bustling with activity.
The streets were bustling with traffic and people.
A red sedan drove past him, then stopped a short distance away and reversed back to him.
The car window opened, revealing a strikingly beautiful woman inside.
"Hey? Aren't you Lu Qingyuan?!" Jiang Yuan opened the car door and got out, her eyes flashing with surprise. "Do you remember me? My name is Jiang Yuan. We participated in an escape game together. There was a man this tall standing next to you back then..."
The woman excitedly gestured to indicate Yu Tang's height: "He said you two are brothers, he's your older brother..."
“Escape game? I don’t remember ever seeing you before.” Lu Qingyuan interrupted her rudely, frowning and taking a step back. “Also, could you please not stand so close when you talk? Your perfume is too strong…”
Before meeting Yu Tang, Lu Qingyuan never participated in the game himself.
So he's the only one who knows the players; the players have absolutely no chance of meeting him.
Therefore, when faced with Jiang Yuan's excitement, Lu Qingyuan, who had taken the Fire Lotus, only found it noisy and strange.
"You don't remember?" Jiang Yuan didn't expect Lu Qingyuan to say such a thing. After all, she had met several other people in the past year, and they all knew her. She had even become friends with Zhao Yuqing and Su An.
So when she met Lu Qingyuan, she assumed that he would definitely remember her.
"What do you mean by remembering or not remembering?" Lu Qingyuan said, "I've never even seen you before."
"And what about your brother?" Jiang Yuan said, "He's that man named Yu Tang. Without his help, we might not have been able to escape that game at all."
“Yu Tang? Brother?” Lu Qingyuan frowned even more. “How come I don’t remember having a brother named Yu Tang?”
Jiang Yuan wasn't giving up. She continued, "Do you remember that game? There were seven of us: you, Yu Tang, me, Wang Zhibin, Zhao Yuqing, Su An, and Chen Shu. We were captured and put into a space. They said there were explosives on the top floor, and we had to answer questions and choose one of us to die in order to pass the level. In the end, we all chose ourselves and fell into a place called Hell. This Hell only had one elevator, and the ground was full of explosives..."
As he listened to Jiang Yuan's account, Lu Qingyuan's expression gradually darkened.
Because he didn't remember any of the scene the woman described.
But he knew that this escape game was definitely his doing.
Apart from him, no demon or angel can interfere with human society.
That means he must be missing a piece of memory.
But who can erase his memory?
Could it have been done by that bastard God of Darkness?
With growing doubts, Lu Qingyuan stopped denying Jiang Yuan's words after hearing them and asked, "Could you introduce me to the other people?"
“Sure…” Jiang Yuan said when he finally admitted it, “A few days ago, Zhao Yuqing won an award in the city-level basketball tournament on behalf of the school. A few of us are planning to meet at a restaurant near her school to celebrate for her.”
Lu Qingyuan followed Jiang Yuan into the car and looked out the window.
In the bustling city, at night, colorful lights reflect each other.
My consciousness suddenly became somewhat hazy.
The scene outside the window seemed to overlap with a scene from my memory: the demon's fully extended black wings, as if they could blot out the sky.
He flew into the air, holding a man in a black cloak in his arms.
He loudly swore an oath to those around him:
You must all remember, my lover is an angel! His name is Yu Tang! He is the person I, Lu Qingyuan, love most!
The thought suddenly flashed through Lu Qingyuan's mind, and he was taken aback.
The beauty mark on her cheek was burning hot again.
Lu Qingyuan reached out to touch it, but found his face covered in moisture.
Tears kept falling.
They've formed a chain, and there's no stopping them.
Jiang Yuan noticed Lu Qingyuan's unusual behavior in the rearview mirror and panicked a little. She asked, "Lu Qingyuan, why are you crying? Did you remember something bad?"
Lu Qingyuan could only shed tears blankly, his dark eyes revealing helplessness and fear of losing his memory.
In all his years of life, this was the first time he had ever lost his composure like this.
She actually cried like this in front of a human.
After a long silence, Lu Qingyuan covered his eyes and asked Jiang Yuan, "Could you tell me more about that man named Yu Tang?"
Chapter 52
Died for the Fifth Time for the Villain (52) World End
Chen Shu also made an unprecedented appearance at the evening gathering; all of them had a deep impression of Yu Tang.
So they reminisced about the past together, and he told Lu Qingyuan everything.
Lu Qingyuan listened quietly, occasionally asking a few questions.
When the party ended, everyone said their goodbyes and left.
Lu Qingyuan was left standing alone outside the restaurant, on the side of the road.
Looking up at the star-studded sky, you can vaguely see the crescent moon, its reflection in the lamplight making it appear somewhat illusory.
A moment later, Lu Qingyuan looked away, but the bewilderment in his eyes did not lessen in the slightest.
Yutang... Yutang...
Who exactly is that man?
He will be there in person, he will break the rules of the game and save so many people...
Suddenly, something occurred to me.
Lu Qingyuan quickly walked into the alley, opened the entrance to the Demon Realm, and stepped into his own manor.
Grabbing the butler by the collar, he demanded, "Tell me, did Yu Tang ever live in my castle?"
The butler was terrified by his imposing presence and immediately forgot all of Yu Tang's previous instructions, stammering, "Yes, yes, you did live with Mr. Yu before..."
Lu Qingyuan asked again, "Then where did he go?!"
"This, this..." the butler said, "I really don't know. He was in your room a few days ago, but this morning he suddenly... disappeared..."
With his wrist loosened, Lu Qingyuan released the steward, and black mist spread beneath his feet, accompanied by countless dark eyes invading every room of the castle.
But they couldn't find any trace of the man named Yu Tang living there.
At this moment, the butler stood up tremblingly and said, "Mr. Yu was an angel. I think... I think he might have returned to heaven..."
Lu Qingyuan paused slightly, then said in a deep voice, "How could I allow an angel to live here?"
With a furrowed brow, he suppressed the surging agitation and inexplicable fear within him, and said, "Tell me everything you know about Yu Tang!"
The butler nodded hurriedly, "Okay, okay."
As night fell and the castle lights came on, Lu Qingyuan sat motionless on the sofa in the living room, like a cold, hard statue.
The servants in the castle dared not disturb him.
The surrounding silence was chilling.
A luxurious crystal chandelier hangs from the high ceiling, its light dappling and crisscrossing as the crystals rotate.
The light falling on Lu Qingyuan, though a bright, warm yellow, inexplicably accentuated his loneliness and desolation.
The butler said that a year ago, an angel named Yu Tang came to the manor and preached to him.
But he defeated him in just a few moves and captured him in the basement where he was tortured for over a month.
Everyone thought Yu Tang would die at Lu Qingyuan's hands, but the ending was unexpected.
Lu Qingyuan not only broke the rules and rushed to the Heavenly Realm to find the Heavenly Tree in order to find Yu Tang, but also told the man that this angel would be his lover after he brought him back.
No one in the manor is allowed to disrespect men.
The butler also said that later Lu Qingyuan took Yu Tang to the ninth level of the Demon Realm, and when they returned, he set up a barrier that allowed entry but not exit, seemingly to trap this angel.
Lu Qingyuan understood every word the butler said, but he couldn't imagine what Yu Tang looked like, let alone what the two of them had gone through in the past year.
But... even if it's unimaginable...
He also felt a pain in his heart and a suffocating feeling as if someone was choking him when he mentioned the name.
“Yu Tang…” Lu Qingyuan tried to pronounce the name: “Yu Tang…”
“Tangtang…”
It was just a name, yet it seemed to reconnect broken and lost memories.