In his life... Only for her, he didn't even dare to breathe too hard.
When Qiao Qichen hugged Si Yao for the first time, she was seventeen years old and as thin as a bone. She was nestled in his arms and had to be taught how to blink.
He is the top desperado on the gray zone bounty list. He came to Shanghai to work as a bodyguard just to avoid the limelight. The employer's daughter is a cripple - she can't walk or talk, she doesn't know how to shrink her hands when she gets burned, and she doesn't know how painful it is when her sleeves are burned by playing with fire.
He taught her for five years.
Teach her how to take steps, how to nod to others, and how to say "hmm" when others call her name.
The first complete sentence she learned was his name.
She said——
"Qiao Qichen."
The sound was very soft, like feathers falling on the blade of a knife.
He was stunned and thought: This little thing can actually talk.
Later, she wanted him to stay, so she used the stupidest method - tossing herself back to a half-dead state and hanging herself up with an infusion for a week.
He cursed and tore up the resignation letter.
Later, she received the certificate when she was twenty-two and he was thirty-two. Her parents said, "We can rest assured that we will leave our daughter to you."
He didn't know how much this "reassurance" meant. He only knew that she was afraid of the dark and would crawl into his bed in the middle of the night. When she ran into his arms, he almost broke her neck.
When he realized it was her, his heart skipped a beat.
His bedroom door has never been locked since.
Now she is twenty-five and he is thirty-five.
The two sons were left to the old man to take care of. She and he were the only ones in the villa.
She was wearing a floral short skirt and was pinned to the bed by him. Her wrists could not move away, her legs were lightly kicked, and she whispered in her mouth: "Don't come over..."
His eye circles were as red as a rabbit, and his voice was as soft as melted candy.
He lowered his head and bit the tip of her ear, and a laugh rolled out of his throat——
"Be good, baby, you'll be fine soon."
She knew he was lying, but every time he said this, she believed him every time.
The younger brothers all said that the elder brother fell into the hands of one person in his life.
That person was fragrant and soft, didn't like to talk, was afraid of the dark, afraid of pain, and afraid of being left behind.
But I'm not afraid of him.
Someone at the yacht party laughed at him for eating young grass when he was old, saying that Mr. Qiao has a special taste and only likes young people.
He held the fragrant and soft little thing in his arms, dug his knuckles into her waist, raised his eyes and smiled——
"It depends on which young person it is."
Si Yao happened to be young.
And he just happened to be able to only eat her.
When she was seventeen years old, he put on the gold bracelet himself.
Embedded in the bracelet was her life—heart rate, emotions, pain, and desire to live, all connected to the watch on his wrist.
She was afraid of the dark, afraid of pain, and afraid of being "left behind".
It's all in him.
In his life, he had killed people, set fires, and had shady blood on his hands.
Only for her, I didn't even dare to breathe too hard.
Afraid of blowing her away.
——After all, he fed this canary back one bite at a time.
Purpose: I lift you up from the abyss, not to make you grateful to me, but to make you no longer afraid of the abyss.