Chapter 369 - 7.59 Is That You?
Moshe was struck speechless. "You..."
"I don’t want to wait anymore." Lu Yizhou continued with a soft voice. "This time, you’re not allowed to run away from me."
"This time...?" Moshe blinked as he caught on the crux of Lu Yizhou’s sentence. "What do you mean by that? Have we met before? No, I would have remembered this face." Moshe’s eyes raked across his features and his expression was tense with anticipation. "We haven’t met before but somehow... you know me, and you know that Zion is my enemy. Are you ready to tell me who you are, Lu Yizhou?"
Lu Yizhou reached for Moshe’s hand and slowly stroked the hard knuckles so that he would loosen his fists, keeping his eyes on those searing golden eyes to convey his sincerity. "The second thing I have to apologize to you about... is to hide the truth because I unilaterally judge that you will not be able to trust me. I know," he sighed. "I shouldn’t have made this decision for you. No matter what, you deserve to know everything."
Carefully, Lu Yizhou said, "What I am about to say may be a little unbelievable but please... listen to me until I am done, okay?"
Moshe’s brows furrowed and his lips parted seemingly to say something but in the end, he thought better of it and merely gave a brief nod.
So Lu Yizhou told him about the simulator, the system in him, the world they were in and the original plot in which he had to save the villain from. He shelved the discussion about bugs for later, for just the basic fact was already enough to overwhelm anyone unassuming. His throat was parched by the time he finished speaking and he poured himself another glass of water. All this while, Moshe was silent and his expression was kept blank, rendering Lu Yizhou unable to guess what he was thinking about.
He had a déjà vu that this was awfully similar to the fifth world when he told Terra the truth for the first time. But Moshe was different from Terra. Lu Yizhou had a hunch that this time, his lover wouldn’t be able to accept the truth so easily.
And he was spot on.