Addicted: Book Two - The Raging Flames of Passion

Chapter 5 - The Fierce Confrontation

Translator: Sae

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Gu Hai peered solemnly at Bai Luo Yin, still fully dressed in his military uniform as he stood beside him with an imposing and prepossessing ambience sewn into every visible line drawn on his face. An intense burst of pain gauchely pierced Gu Hai's eyes, provoking the eight years of sorrow, emptiness, and desolation that he had onerously suppressed to reemerge once again. This agony all too willingly scattered towards the bottom of his heart, poisoned and engulfed every nerve and organs that kept his breath alive.

As Gu Hai's scorching and blusterous gaze perforated him, Bai Luo Yin could vividly sense half of his face going numb, almost as if tiny pins were prickling his every nerve. He wanted more than anything to conjure some lies for himself and weave a string of reasons to tell Gu Hai that this military uniform was not his, but something he borrowed. However, just as he made up his mind, an Airman walked in and his one simple sentence of, "Major, why are you hiding in here?", shoved Bai Luo Yin into a completely dark abyss with no hope of being reprieve.

Bai Luo Yin shifted his machine-like gaze towards the boisterous face that was awaiting his reply and unenthusiastically said, "You all can have fun first, I'll be there in a moment."

"Then you have to hurry up! We're all waiting for you," urged the Airman before taking his leave.

Once he saw the shadow disappeared, Bai Luo Yin calmed his emotions then turned to look at Gu Hai with indifferent expression, all the while, acting as if nothing had happened.

"What a coincidence. You're also here?"

With his eyes still on Bai Luo Yin, Gu Hai could not detain from speaking in a ruthless tone that showed no mercy or forgiveness, "Why didn't you tell me you enlisted in the military? Why did you conspire with others to deceive my feelings? First, I was told you had died that day, making me live a life that was worse than death itself for two years. After all the suffering, I was then told you went abroad. I searched for you across the world and watched helplessly as my hope was trampled and destroyed over and over again......do you think that...torturing me like this is really interesting?"

Listening to the words that came out one after the other from Gu Hai's lips, Bai Luo Yin's cold and stiff demeanor concealed the pain in his heart, "I've never conspired with anyone to deceive you. Whatever they decided to say, that's naturally within their freedom. I've never once manipulated or egged anyone behind their backs. I'm just living my own life."

"Living your own life?" Gu Hai laughed coldly, "Then you must have lived quite peacefully. I truly admire how strong your heart is to endure everything. And, I really do admire your ability to devise such a strategy."

"That's right, my heart is pretty strong." Bai Luo Yin promptly replied as his eyes frozen with a thick layer of ice, "So, you can stop trying to slander me again in such a vicious way. I'll just end up laughing it off as joke. The only one feeling hurt and suffering from it all is you."

"Really?" Gu Hai questioned aggressively, "Then tell me, why did you enlist? Why would you choose this path rather than go abroad?"

"That's my freedom. What does me not wanting to go abroad have to do with you?"

"Bai Shouzhang [1], you dare say that you didn't enlist because of me?" Gu Hai's cold and overbearing voice questioned intensely, each word ruthlessly pierced Bai Luo Yin's heart.

"Why would I enlist for you? What reasons do you have to support such a ridiculous suspicion?"

"Do I really have to point it out for you? Initially, my dad forced me to enlist in the military but I adamantly refused. There was only one way for him to give up on this thought and that is if you enlist. Once you've enlisted, he definitely wouldn't force me anymore just for the sake of keeping us separated. Isn't what I've said correct?"