Chapter 225 - I’ll live for you
"I’m from the future."
The words barely left Yunfeng’s lips, but once they did, they hung heavily in the room, pressing down on everything.
He refused to look up at Muchen. He couldn’t. His eyes were locked on the twisted bed sheets, on his trembling fingers curled around the spare shirt Muchen had used to cover him. His pride, once bold and teasing, was gone. His heart was bare now—terrifyingly exposed.
"I... I was reborn here," he whispered, the confession barely audible over the thundering in his ears.
"Reborn..." Muchen echoed, voice distant—soft as if trying to cradle the truth that had just been handed to him.
Yunfeng swallowed, his throat dry, his lips numb. "I’m Lin Yunfeng. Born in the year 4200. To Lin Jinju and Javis. I have a little sister named Hana."
The moment he said their names, his voice cracked. His shoulders hunched in on themselves, shrinking. "I was an omega. Right after my differentiation, I was kidnapped. My body... they—" He sucked in a shaky breath. "They harvested my organs. One by one. I—I died on the operation table."
A suffocating silence followed, like time itself was stunned into stillness.
Yunfeng bit down on his lip to stop its trembling, the metallic taste of blood flooding his mouth. Still, he didn’t look up. "Then... I woke up here. In 2020."
His voice grew quieter, like each word was costing him breath. "At first, I thought it was a dream. Maybe some dying fantasy playing in my brain. But the pain was real. The confusion, the fear—it was all real. And when I looked in the mirror..."
He clenched his fists. "I had the same face. Same eyes. The same voice. My mother... Hana... they were here too. But they weren’t the same. Not exactly. This world—this time—it’s different. I didn’t know what was happening. I thought I was going crazy."