C124 — Kill That Big Star（22）

Time flew, and more than three months flew by.

During these three months, Shen Jue had been confined to this house, unable to go out, because they lived in the basement, he couldn’t even touch the sun.

 

He was more than eight months pregnant, and his skin had turned sickly white, with green veins clearly visible underneath, but Ji Yao seemed unaffected, and was still as white as steamed dumplings.

During this time, as Shen Jue gradually became less mobile and less able to bend over, Ji Yao learnt to cook, and although it wasn’t good, it was good enough to eat.

 

He even went so far as to make a nutritious meal for Shen Jue every meal, urging him to finish it, and if he couldn’t, he would feed him.

 

In the past three months, Shen Jue’s hair had grown a lot, and was now chin-length. Ji Yao no longer gave Shen Jue a wig, but instead gave him a straight bangs haircut. Without looking at his height, he looked like a pregnant girl.

 

“How about steamed eggs this morning?” Ji Yao asked as he helped Shen Jue put on his shoes.

Shen Jue sat on the edge of the bed and said, “Whatever.”

 

Ji Yao put on his shoes, then stood up, bent down and kissed Shen Jue on the forehead, “Good boy, eat the steamed egg, there’s yoghurt for you.”

 

Shen Jue didn’t like yoghurt, Ji Yao always casually talked about his preferences, one day he said he loved yoghurt, the next day he would say he loved milk, and in a couple of days, he would say that his favourite was freshly squeezed fruit juice.

When Ji Yao prepared something, he would say that was what Shen Jue loved to drink. He liked playing this game, relishing it, as if as long as he said Shen Jue loved it, Shen Jue really loved it.

 

But there was something very impressive about Ji Yao, the time he was away from home was very short, but he managed to bring back an abundance of supplies in the shortest amount of time every time, and Shen Jue didn’t know how he did it, not even Shao Ge could do it.

 

In the past three months or so, he’d been like a different person, no longer venomous, no longer arguing with Shen Jue. Even when Shen Jue had to get up to use the bathroom at night, he woke up as soon as Shen Jue moved, and then asked him as if he was completely awake, “Do you want to go to the bathroom?”

 

And then he’d hug him to go.

 

Shen Jue was over 5’8″ tall, and pregnant, so he definitely wasn’t light, and could even be said to be very heavy, but Ji Yao didn’t seem to be struggling at all. The first time he did it he even made a gesture as if he was helping a child pee, infuriating Shen Jue so much that he struggled on the spot before he reluctantly put him down.

 

When he returned to bed, he helped Shen Jue massage his legs for a while before going to sleep. He felt that if he pressed his legs at night, Shen Jue’s legs wouldn’t swell so much during the day.

 

And all Shen Jue felt was anxiety about this life, he couldn’t see Shao Ge and was forced to spend time with Ji Yao, this madman. He actually tried to secretly kill Ji Yao a few times, and without exception, he failed.

 

One time Shen Jue got his hands on a fruit knife, and just as he picked it up, Ji Yao noticed, and he walked out of the kitchen, asking in a warm voice, “Have you seen the fruit knife?”

 

Shen Jue hid the knife under the sofa cushions, and shook his head in the face of the questioning.

Ji Yao was silent for a split second, before walking forward and looking down at the seated Shen Jue, “Behave, bring me the knife.”

 

“I haven’t seen the knife, how can I give it to you?” Shen Jue also raised his head and looked at Ji Yao.

 

Ji Yao smiled and responded, “Fine.”

 

Then he bullied his way in, and when that skirt on Shen Jue was about to be torn, Shen Jue could only surrender.

 

His face was scarlet with shame, and he tried to retract his foot from Ji Yao’s hand, “The knife is under the sofa cushion, let go of me.”

Ji Yao looked at him as if he was looking at a disobedient child, “If you had said so, wouldn’t it have been okay?”

 

Ji Yao helped the man up, looked down at the poor underwear that had turned into rags then tenderly kissed the top of Shen Jue’s head, “Go take a shower? You just worked up quite a sweat.”

 

Shen Jue was so angry that he was shaking, but again, he couldn’t do anything about Ji Yao.

At the latest, when the child was born, after that, he could definitely kill Ji Yao.

……

 

It just didn’t take long for Ji Yao to suddenly start packing, at that time Shen Jue was drinking soup, and as he watched him bustling about, packing all of the clothes for the two of them into his suitcase, a hint of surprise flashed through his heart, “We’re leaving?”

 

“Well, the supplies here are almost gone, and there are more and more zombies, you’ve got a big belly now, so I’m afraid it’s dangerous to stay here any longer.” Ji Yao finished packing one of the suitcases and walked over to touch Shen Jue’s increasingly white face, “It might be tougher on the road, but I got a caravan, I can still cook for you.”

 

Shen Jue moved away from Ji Yao’s hand and said somewhat coldly, “Whatever.”

 

They hit the road that afternoon, the caravan was large and had a bed inside, but it was too small for two men. If two people were to lie on it, neither would be able to roll over, and Shen Jue, because his stomach was getting bigger and bigger by the month, could now basically only sleep with his face to the left.

 

So when they slept at night, Ji Yao shrunk onto the nearby sofa to sleep. Ji Yao was still 1.7 meters tall, and sleeping on a small sofa was always uncomfortable.

 

Shen Jue saw Ji Yao secretly rubbing his shoulders during the day, he seemed to be afraid of being discovered by Shen Jue and avoided rubbing them every time.

 

Being on the road this time was a good thing for Shen Jue, because Ji Yao had told him his destination, which was M City, that largest base in his previous lives.

 

If nothing else, he might reunite with Shao Ge there.

 

Meeting Shao Ge would make it easier for him to leave Ji Yao’s control.

 

On the way to M city, they bumped into other people.

 

It was a heterosexual couple, both had psychic abilities, the man could instantly blind zombies he met, while the woman’s psychic ability was much more useful, she could bring food out of pictures, but only once a day, but it was good enough.

 

The couple wanted to go together after seeing Shen Jue and their caravan and asking about their destination. Ji Yao was a bit different from Shao Ge, if Shao Ge had met this situation he would have refused, but Ji Yao agreed.

 

He even invited the couple over for dinner.

 

The couple got on the bus and froze for a moment when they saw Jue Shen on the sofa, “Is that your wife? So pretty, she looks like a star. Pregnant? How many months?”

 

Shen Jue’s face darkened when he heard those words, while Ji Yao acted as if he couldn’t see Shen Jue’s bad face, walking over in front of the couple and warmly kissing Shen Jue’s forehead before saying, “More than eight months.”

 

“So it’s not going to be born soon?” The girl said in surprise, “I’ve been seeing little babies for a long time, and before the end of the world, I was a midwife, so maybe I can help you guys out.”

 

A smile surfaced under Ji Yao’s eyes, “Really? Then thank you so much. I was fretting about this matter.”

 

Going to M City would take at least three or four more days of travelling, and they couldn’t drive at night because it was too dangerous.

 

During these few days, the couple noticed that Shen Jue hadn’t been speaking, so they assumed that Shen Jue might be mute, especially the girl, who always looked at him sympathetically.

 

She thought that she and Shen Jue were the only girls on the bus, and that they should play nice, and she was also a midwife, so she always laughed with Shen Jue, and sometimes took the initiative to share some of her stories from the hospital.

 

All Shen Jue felt was embarrassment at the girl’s closeness, while next to him Ji Yao seemed to have other ideas, the gloom in his eyes grew stronger as he watched the girl sit next to Shen Jue.

 

Shen Jue now had to nap every day, once he had just woken up from his nap, he was kissed, it was Ji Yao.

 

Although he was careful to avoid Shen Jue’s stomach, he was invasive and aggressive, not allowing Shen Jue to escape. When Shen Jue was panting from the kiss, he heard the girl’s voice, “Xiao Yu, I turned out watermelons today, you have to …… ah, sorry, sorry.”

 

The girl flew off and slipped away, and it was only then that Ji Yao let go of Shen Jue, whose lips were already a little swollen. He stared angrily at Ji Yao in front of him, so angry that he threw a punch, but unfortunately it was caught before it landed.

 

“They think we’re a couple, what would they think if I kissed and you punched me?” Ji Yao moved closer to Shen Jue’s ear, “Would they know that my wife is actually a man who got pregnant and wears women’s clothing?”

 

Shen Jue gritted his teeth and could only rub his lower lip hard with his other hand.

 

The name “Xiao Yu” was what Ji Yao told the two, not his real name, for fear that they would recognise Shen Jue as the male star.

 

Good thing this kind of days didn’t last long, they soon arrived at M city, unlike other cities, the entrance to M city was heavily guarded, those who wanted to go in must first go through security, and men and women’s security was separate.

 

Originally, Shen Jue was on the male side of the security check, but now that he was wearing women’s clothes, he could only stand on the female side of the security check.

 

When the security inspector saw Shin Jue’s big belly, he smiled and wished him well, “You’re going to give birth soon, go for it.”

 

Shin Jue nodded his head expressionlessly and headed in, but he took two steps and suddenly realised that because there were fewer women, he was already in the queue and Ji Yao was still outside.

 

Ji Yao was standing in the back half of the queue at the moment, his eyes staring at Shen Jue.

 

Shen Jue thought for a moment before resolutely turning around and walking forward, the girl amongst the couple was stunned to see Shen Jue walking away, “Xiao Yu, where are you going?”

 

There was a free bus that took them to the base once they got into the city, and those with big bellies like Shin Jue got priority rides, so as soon as Shen Jue showed up at the queue, people told him to go straight to the front.

 

So Shen Jue went straight to the car that happened to be driving.

 

The size of this M-City base wasn’t comparable to that of Ji Yao’s, this one was made by the temporary government, and could hold hundreds of thousands of people at once. This bus would arrive at the base and park at every station, people could freely choose to live in whichever area, of course, to go into that area, they also had to do registration and physical examination.

 

If that zone was full, the bus wouldn’t stop.

 

Shen Jue knew which district the Shao Ge of his previous lives lived in, so he didn’t get up and get off the bus until the driver announced that District F was here.

 

There was a registrar at the entrance to Area f, as well as medical staff.

 

Shen Jue registered first, and when the registration form was handed over, the registrar froze for a moment as he looked at Shen Jue, “You’re a man?”

 

“Hmm.” Shen Jue nodded.

 

This place was all about men and women living separately, unless they were couples coming over together, and when people came over alone like this, they were invariably separated by genders.

There was no way that Shen Jue was going to live in the women’s section, so there was nothing he could do about it, even if the other side looked at him like he was a weirdo.

 

The medical staff on the sidelines then did a rudimentary body check with Shen Jue, and drew a few more tubes of blo-od.

 

Before waiting for the blo-od report, Shen Jue was allowed to sit in a small room and take a break.

 

Only when there was nothing wrong with the bloo-d report would Shen Jue be allowed to enter section F. Because of Shen Jue’s special circumstances, they had assigned him a single room.

 

The doctor also reminded Shen Jue that he was due in a month, so he could go to the hospital in area c for a maternity checkup, where the medical equipment was particularly well-developed.

……

Shen Jue went to the building where Shao Ge had lived in his previous lives, he quickly reached that floor, he then walked to a certain room door and stopped.

 

He knocked on the door, and there was no sound inside.

Shen Jue thought for a moment and went to knock on the door next to him.

The door next to him did open quickly, and the man froze for a moment when he saw Shen Jue, seemingly identifying whether he was a man or a woman, but reacted when he saw the knot in Shen Jue’s throat, “Can I help you?” He looked inside as he spoke, “Old Wang, someone’s coming.”

 

Shin Jue pulled off the silk scarf that had previously been tied around his neck before entering the place.

 

A voice came from inside the room, “Splitting up to live here again?”

 

“No, I’m not staying here, I’m down, do you know the person next door?” Shin Jue said softly, “I’m a friend of his, trying to find him.”

 

“You mean Brother Shao?” The man smiled a little when he heard Shin Jue’s voice and found next door, “Are you his friend or his fan?”

 

“I’m his teammate, Shen Jue.” Shen Jue said.

 

The man looked like he was startled when he heard that, then took a serious look at Shen Jue before he said with an apologetic face, “Sorry, sorry, I don’t watch much TV, I didn’t recognise you. Brother Shao he’s definitely out right now, he’s either on a mission or out looking for someone every day, and I don’t know what kind of person he’s going to look for, there are four or five entrances to this M-city of ours alone, and he’s going to two every day, and he doesn’t wait for anyone. At this point, surely he won’t return, he is estimated to be back at five or six o’clock.”

 

It was only three o’clock.

 

The man seemed to see the hard look on Shen Jue’s face, and quickly said, “Why don’t you come in first and sit down for a while, we just happened to be cooking ramen for dinner, so if you don’t mind, let’s eat together.”

 

Shen Jue had eaten just before entering M City, so he wasn’t hungry, but he still went into the room and stood outside waiting, firstly because there were no stools to sit on, and he couldn’t stand for long periods of time right now, and secondly because it was easy to be noticed when you stood outside.

 

The man was very enthusiastic, moved a stool for Shen Jue, and also brought Shen Jue some biscuits, “No ramen, have some biscuits, usually Sha Geo’s fans send good food over, Shao Ge doesn’t accept it, those fans just put it hard at the door, now basically all of them are divided amongst us, so we’re borrowing from him as well, you’re his teammate, naturally you’ll get half of these, have a little bit. ”

 

“Thanks.” Shen Jue couldn’t refuse it, so he could only take it.

 

After the man greeted Shen Jue, he went off to eat his ramen. There were quite a few pregnant men on this base, and they were only curious about how Shen Jue was dressed.

 

After sitting there for half an hour, Shen Jue asked the man if he had any scissors. When the man handed them over, he said he needed to borrow the bathroom and went in with the scissors.

 

As he looked at himself in the mirror with shoulder-length hair, a hint of disgust flashed through his heart. He knew that this realm was different from his original environment, where generally only women wore long hair, and most men did not.

Looking at the woman’s clothes he was wearing again, only a transvestite would dress like this, and it was likely that anyone who had just seen it thought he was a transvestite.

 

Just as Shen Jue lifted his hand to cut his hair off, there was a sudden knock on the bathroom door.

“Wait, are you in a hurry? I’ll just come out first then.” Thinking that someone was going to the toilet, Shen Jue was about to open the bathroom door.

 

But the voice that rang outside the door wasn’t that of the two people just now, but a voice he was extremely familiar with and often heard throughout the night.

 

“Honey, open the door.”

 

Ji Yao’s voice came in through the door.

Shen Jue’s body felt like it was frozen, while Ji Yao added, “You don’t want me to kick the door in, you don’t want to see something so embarrassing, do you?”

 

Shen Jue closed his eyes and could only reach out and open the door.

 

Outside was indeed Ji Yao, Ji Yao saw the scissors in Shen Jue’s hand at a glance and extended his hand, “Give me the scissors.”

 

Shen Jue pursed his lips and handed the scissors over.

 

Ji Yao took the scissors with one hand, and held Shen Jue’s hand with the other, “Let’s go, next time don’t wander off.”

 

Out of the bathroom, Shen Jue realised that it wasn’t Ji Yao who came alone, there were a few more people in the room who were wearing police uniforms.

 

“Thank you guys, I found my darling. He was scared me to death when he wandered off on his own.” Ji Yao revealed an expression of hindsight, then grabbed Shen Jue’s hand and placed it on his lips and kissed it, nervously saying, “Honey, next time you want to come looking for someone, you have to tell me first, okay? I’ll bring you to find them.”

The officers were extremely understanding, “You found him so don’t worry about it.”

 

As they rode down in the lift, Shen Jue couldn’t help but ask, “How did you do it?”

 

Ji Yao glanced ahead at the man in police uniform, smiled and moved closer to Shen Jue’s ear, lowering his voice and saying, “We took quite a few pictures when we originally lived there, have you forgotten?”

 

He had once taken a Polaroid to take pictures of Shen Jue, mostly single pictures, but also group photos, but Shen Jue hadn’t expected Ji Yao to ask someone else to find him with their group photos.

 

It was also stupid of him not to think that Ji Yao had kept those photos.

When Shen Jue entered Area F, he registered as having no supplies, but Ji Yao was different, he had quite a few goodies, and a box full of bullets.

 

Here the base would be allocated based on individual psychic abilities and supplies, Shen Jue was allocated a single room because he was pregnant, and Ji Yao was also allocated a single room, even a regular single room with one room and one hall.

 

Ji Yao returned the room card Shen Jue had on him to the registrar in Area F, and took him on the bus.

 

On the way, Shen Jue hadn’t said a word, while Ji Yao seemed to be in a good mood and kept looking out the window, and after a long time, he coldly said, “There’s Shao Ge living there just now, isn’t it? He’s here too?”

 

Shen Jue ignored him.

 

Ji Yao looked over at Shen Jue, his fox eyes narrowed, “Angry? Because I found you?”

 

“Ji Yao, have you had enough fun?” Shen Jue looked at Ji Yao, his eyes cold, ” This game should be over.”

“Shhh.” Ji Yao stretched out a hand to his lips, “Don’t speak so loudly, it’s not right to speak loudly in public, besides, I’m not playing with you, I’m very serious, very serious about wanting to live with you all the time, I’ve been taking care of you for almost four months now, aren’t you touched at all?”

 

“If you didn’t restrict my personal freedom, didn’t force me to wear women’s clothes, maybe I’d be a little touched.” Shen Jue said in disgust.

Ji Yao sniffed and revealed a look that he couldn’t seem to understand, “Why would you think like that? I’m doing this for your own good, what if you run around in case you meet a bad guy? Wearing women’s clothes is because you’ll be able to keep from being looked at strangely that way.” He glanced down at the people who were already paying some attention to what was going on behind them, “Well, if you don’t want to wear it, then you won’t wear it later.”

 

He said, reaching out and grabbing Shen Jue’s hand.

 

His eyes looked at Shen Jue at the same time, with a warning in them.

 

When Shen Jue tried to shake his hand away, he laughed a little and gripped it tighter, his voice was only audible to Shen Jue, “Be good, I don’t want to punish you here.”

 

Shen Jue stiffened, and in the end, he could only stop. He couldn’t beat Ji Yao originally, and he couldn’t do it now, even in front of everyone, as long as Ji Yao said it was them having a falling out, he had no other choice.

 

Ji Yao had the so-called photos to prove the relationship between the two of them.

 

Along the way, Ji Yao acted very considerate, and only after he got to his new residence did his face look worse. He closed the door backhandedly and looked at Shen Jue coldly, ”Do you know how long I’ve been looking for you? I’ve been so good to you, and you still want to go after Shao Ge?”

 

Shen Jue looked at him and said with some annoyance, “You’re only touching yourself with all this kindness, I never wanted to accept it.”

 

A snort rang out.

 

Ji Yao lowered his eyes and nodded, “Not bad, you left me for a while and you’re all toothy again, able to bite and be disobedient.” He raised his eyes slowly, the familiar malice surfacing in his eyes, “Shao Ge being her gives you courage right, you think he’ll take you away like a saviour?”

 

He took a few steps forward, and when he saw that Shen Jue didn’t back away as usual, the smile at the corner of his lips deepened.

 

“Sure enough, seeing the child’s real father makes you bold, okay, it’s good that he’s here, I’ll call him over and we’ll sit down and talk together, hopefully when he knows that I have been sleeping with you, he’ll still be able to take you without a second thought after that.”

 

“What nonsense are you talking about, we don’t have anything at all.” Shen Jue frowned, his distaste for Ji Yao deepening.

 

“Will he believe that? That I don’t sleep with you, yet I still carry you, raise you, take care of you, and am willing to be a cheap stepdad just because I’m selfless?” Ji Yao laughed even more happily, “Of course, I even know how many moles you have on your body, I hope he still believes it when I say it.”

 

It wa as if as soon as he arrived at Shao Ge’s territory, Ji Yao became the original him again, no, not exactly, he just switched back and forth between the two kinds of madness.

 

As expected, it didn’t take long for Ji Yao to put away the malice in his eyes and gently ask Shen Jue, “Hungry? I’ll cook something for you to eat, the kitchen here is pretty big, how about fish today?”

 

Shen Jue didn’t want to talk to Ji Yao, but looking at Ji Yao’s expression, he didn’t seem to be angry at all, he was still warm and gentle, but he made a move to tie up Shen Jue.

 

“Good boy ah, I’ll change the locks here tomorrow, after I can change it, I won’t tie you up.” Ji Yao said, kissing Shen Jue’s forehead, just as he had done for over three months.

 

He preferred kissing the forehead to his lips, as if it was a better way to express warmth, like what elders do to juniors.

 

Just as Ji Yao was about to head to the kitchen, there was a knock on the door.

 

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