After getting knocked out by the man who called himself God, Ye Yuyan woke up in a place filled with white walls, sky, and earth. Everything around him from all angles is white in color. He couldn’t even comprehend which direction he was walking to, but he could still hear his footsteps which left the situation eerie.

He wanders in the white world without anyone guiding him despite this weird phenomenon Ye Yuyan remains calm. Too calm as if he wouldn’t be harmed or locked in here. He continued to walk around until he saw broken mirror fragments within the white sea. He walked around and approached the closest mirror and saw something that had surprised him.

Another scene of that night in that hotel was played before his eyes. He and Hei Yuhua were both drugged by the ecstasy flower. But he on the other hand had lost control of his sanity and grabbed Hei Yuhua pressing him down on the bed. He was like a lustful wild beast as he forcefully took Hei Yuhua under him. At first, Hei Yuhua still had the energy to beg him to stop but as if he lost his complete rationality he continued his act of one-sided desires and lust.

Until Hei Yuhua pressed under him gave up pleading and let him down violently. It was very hard for him to watch the scene. He is like a mindless piece of trash that has gone insane from drugs. Thankfully he wasn’t the kind to be abusive towards his omega under such circumstances, except for thrusting into him for a very long time, he didn’t do anything else.

But no matter what the reason it is, the actions he had taken were nothing but rape even under the strong influence of illegal drugs. He saw himself stopped once he completely marked Hei Yuhua and knotted inside of him. It took a very long time before both of them were finally knocked out by extreme fatigue and drugs.

He, who was badly drugged, took a while before he woke up. The next morning, Hei Yuhua woke up with numbness and pain all over his body. There are a few bruises due to over-marked kiss marks on his fair skin and even bite marks he had left behind that night.

Ye Yuyan could only watch the scene of Hei Yuhua’s struggles to push him away with his weakened arms and trembling tries to sit up and fail multiple times. He could hear him moaning and groaning in pain as he tried to move. It took a whole half an hour before Hei Yuhua could barely sit up on the edge of the bed.

The Hei Yuhua in the mirror looked at an unknown horizon with lifeless eyes. Yes, dull eyes as if they didn’t have any life in them. A deadpan gaze that left one speechless and made one guess whether this person is still alive or not.

The Hei Yuhua in that mirror looks so delicate, broken, and fragile. When tears stroll down from his lifeless eyes Ye Yuyan couldn’t almost stop himself from destroying the mirror in front of him but he stopped at the last minute. His remorse and hatred from the him in that mirror could only be halted as he bit his lower lips until it bleeds. His eyes turn bloodshot unknowingly whether it was because of extreme sadness, overwhelming regret, or hatred for himself reflected in that mirror.

He resumed watching what was playing in the mirror and saw Hei Yuhua almost crawling towards his scattered and torn clothes on the ground looking for some kind of energy booster medicine hidden inside. He found a healing booster in his pants pockets and immediately injected one into his arms. Within a few minutes, the medicine instantly took effect and lessened the dark bruises on his body even though the intense pain in that hidden part of his had lessened enough to stop his legs from being completely soft as jelly.

After feeling his legs returning to normal even a bit, Hei Yuhua tried standing but his legs still couldn’t help but shake. It’s a natural effect of over-indulgence to lustful actions from last night. Though he was forced, his body was still affected more than he expected.

Walking in baby steps, Hei Yuhua finally reached the bathroom and took a bath. He was even able to take a short nap inside the bathroom while he was bathing. This short rest allowed his body to regain the energy to stand up normally. Wearing a bathrobe from the bathroom he comes out and finds his phone. He dialed for Yun Jie to ask the latter to bring him a change of clothes in the room he is in right now.

His lifeless eyes were replaced with an emotionless gaze instead. He looked coldly at the things in the room, the scattered clothes, the weird scenes inside the room, and that unconscious man on the bed. His silver eyes lingered longer on the sleeping Ye Yuyan and his argent irises glinted with a dangerous vibe.

When he averted his eyes from the slumbering man on the bed, the gun placed at the side table caught his eyes. He walked slowly towards it and picked it up. Staring at it for a moment, Hei Yuhua removed the safety on it and pointed the end of the gun at the sleeping Ye Yuyan on the bed.

At this moment, Ye Yuyan finally learned the meaning of Hei Yuhua’s code name in Aster. Frost. It could also mean ice or snow. Like its characteristics of it. It was beautiful yet cold and dangerous.

Ye Yuyan watches as Hei Yuhua was about to pull the trigger but stopped when he felt his phone vibrate. A message from Yun Jie saying his clothes were left at the door hindered him from killing the man. Hei Yuhua put down the gun and stepped back only to accidentally kick the man’s wallet leaving it open.

Hei Yuhua picked up the wallet looking for the man’s identity but he was stunned when he saw it. Two photos inside the wallet. One is a family picture with one of the adult men being the current prime minister of the country and the other is a photo of two children holding each other’s hand. In the background of the second photo is the familiar old house. It was the remote building of the orphanage he grew up in before working for the government.

One of the boys looks like the owner of the wallet and the other one is a child version of his face. Only then did Hei Yuhua know the identity of the drugged man.

With his chapped lips trembling, Hei Yuhua whispered, “Yan… -gege!? Impossible! He is the son of the Prime Minister!?” Ye Yuyan saw Hei Yuhua’s expression of disbelief as if denying this truth.

Upon picking up his clothes and changing into Hei Yuhua’s eyes couldn’t help but linger on the photo in that wallet. That was him in his childhood and the childhood sweetheart who had made the promise of being together. He never expected to meet his beloved in such a place and situation. Hei Yuhua chooses to run away from reality.

Then only the scene of him waking up in confusion saw no one by his side. He looked around in confusion with a headache that almost killed him. Only then does the scene in the mirror replay the scenes from the being as if in an endless loop.

Ye Yuyan chose not to destroy this thing in front of him as he realized that this object that looks like a broken mirror fragment might be a part of his original memories. He looked around and found more things like this one. While thinking about how to get it and bring it back to reality Ye Yuyan touched the fragment with his hands. As soon as his fingers made contact the fragment disappeared as if he absorbed it and something like a copy of the record of what he had seen appeared vividly in his mind.

Ye Yuyan muttered, “It was indeed my memory. But to think I need to touch it to absorb it, did God give me a choice to choose which memory to keep and to not? Fair enough but… I will keep everything with me.”

He once again started walking towards the other fragments. He found happy memories among the rest and things about his daughter, Ye Huahua. Memories of how he met his daughter for the first time. How he took good care of her for a whole year and the real reason behind that scene was where he had seen Hei Yuhua for the first time as he thought.

That one night, where his secondary house was suddenly on fire while he was at work. This house was especially both by him and it was different from his condominium. At that time, he thought it was better to have a detached house. One that is within a subdivision for his daughter’s growing environment as she gets older. He even hired professional nannies and bodyguards to look after his daughter while he is at work.

Now he finally knows what really happened. This memory fragment doesn’t seem to be his memory as it had a third-party perspective from some Godly angles. On the mirror fragment, he saw the scene that unfolds that day. As expected it had something to do with the Red Poppy Syndicate. They were trying to assassinate his daughter who has the same bloodline as the Prime Minister.

It was by coincidence that it was Hei Yuhua who received this mission from the Syndicate when he was acting as the double agent. At that time, the one with a code name, Iris, received the same mission with the assassination target of Ye Yuyan’s daughter.

The scenes were planned ahead of time by Hei Yuhua. It was also him who anonymously gave him a call informing him about the assassination that day. Hei Yuhua used Iris as a decoy or so that’s what he thought he was, but unknowingly, Hei Yuhua made sure he wouldn’t notice Ye Yuyan’s arrival and get killed by him, on his way of getting back home.

Hei Yuhua killed the other subordinates from the Syndicate who came with them. He massacred them all silently while Iris is busy getting the professional bodyguards away from the house. While he did his job of assassinating the target and removing all traces.

He burns the house and removes all traces of his real plan while carrying his daughter in his embrace and secretly passes her to Yun Jie who came to meet him secretly that night. Of course, he made sure the rats under the command of the Syndicate didn’t notice anything against his mission as he made sure of the safety of his child.

When Ye Yuyan the mirror got back home he saw the scene of his house burning and Hei Yuhua standing detached from the prying crowd of people while covered in full black clothing and a black hoodie to cover half of his face. But the coldness that the depth of his eyes possessed and his blank face of him that night made him look like a psychopath watching his crime unfold before him.

To prevent his daughter’s sudden death without any corpse he allowed himself to be captured by Ye Yuyan where he was deemed as the youngest serial killer and hidden agent of the Red Poppy Syndicate. Ye Yuyan who was watching this memory fragment was in a state of disbelief. He never thought that on the night he thought he lost his daughter, the truth that was hidden for him was now being shown in the perspective only a God could have. All the sacrifices Hei Yuhua made to protect him and their daughter from the Syndicate, he now knows. ｂ𝚍ｎｏｖ𝚕．ｃｏｍ

Watching the rest of his memories where he abused his authority when they’ve worked together to capture hidden Executives of the Red Poppy in their country and tortured while treating Hei Yuhua with a revolted expression every time they are together. Even violently beating Hei Yuhua up or forcefully molesting him during those times, Ye Yuyan finally understood why Hei Yuhua showed fear when Lord Hei asked him whether to return his memories or not.

If this is what happened in their previous life, forget about living together. Just the fact that Hei Yuhua didn’t kill him in the hotel that night showed how much the love he has for him is real. Especially giving him the second chance to atone for everything he had done in their previous life.

Ye Yuyan murmured with tears strolling down his cheeks all reaching out towards the mirror image of Hei Yuhua trying to touch him but abruptly stopping as he knew the memory would be absorbed in him once he made contact.

“Yu’er, I understand. Thank you for giving me a second chance and permission to stay by your side in this life once again. This time I will be the one to protect you and our daughter.”