Bossy Lover – CH 099

Chapter 99. For Thousands of Years

When Xing Yi lay down in the energy chamber, he did not feel that the torture he was about to face would have any real impact on him.

He took one last look at the human he had simulated. Lin Qi was tall and strong, with a striking and imposing appearance. However, after last night’s torture, his body was almost nothing but a mangled mess of flesh and blood.

The suffering he once inflicted on Meng Xicong has now been returned to him.

Of course, that’s not enough.

After being exposed to high-energy radiation, all memories since the advent of machines will be erased. The man he simulated will leave not even the slightest trace of his existence in this world.

Is this what Meng Xicong wanted? He sneered inwardly.

Sensing his indifference, Meng Xicong, standing outside the energy pod, looked at him with an icy expression.

“You spared my body, which is a way of giving me a way out. Now, what else do you have to say?” His tone was devoid of any pity.

Xing Yi chuckled weakly yet arrogantly.

He had nothing to say. The victor is king; the loser is a bandit.

Both of them knew that after their rebirth, they would no longer be enemies but superiors and subordinates. All grudges would be wiped clean with Lin Qi’s death and the death of his memories.

This is just a fair process concerned with personal grudges but has nothing to do with loyalty.

An invisible energy field slowly activated, and unseen high temperatures began to scorch inside the cabin.

Because his own energy was suppressed, Xing Yi was forced to personally experience the excruciating pain of being slowly roasted. He smelled the nauseating odor of burning flesh and watched his mangled body slowly turn into black powder…

He gritted his teeth and resisted, glaring angrily at Meng Xicong, who had been calmly watching him from outside the cabin, unwilling to utter a sound of pain in front of him. But the pain was unbearable, as if someone were slowly grinding away his flesh and bones with a red-hot knife.

He felt his mind begin to fog up, and his vision gradually blurred. A warm current slowly slid down his eyeballs, like flames burning his eyes.

At that moment, he suddenly felt a bone-chilling pain, unlike any of the extreme pain he had experienced before.

That’s his brain, being disassembled.

There was a force that was clearly penetrating his suppressed energy field.

He knew that it was an energy blade used to erase memories.

When the energy blade located the energy microelement that recorded the robot’s memories, it began to forcefully erase them—the pain became numb, and his remaining consciousness strangely calmed down.

The moment before the memory was erased, it was as clear as if he were experiencing it again, and a dazzling light burst forth in his energy field.

He seemed to see the day the machines arrived, and he sat idly in the command room, waiting for the surrender of the high-ranking human generals.

What was he thinking at that time? Oh, yet another extremely resource-rich star system has occupied this place. Perhaps they really have the strength to fight against the ethereal humans.

He also felt the pressure—if it weren’t for the barrier of jumping technology, he would have almost lost to the humans here. At that time, he also paid special attention to the name of the human commander, Meng Xicong? He knew, of course, that this person could not be allowed to stay.

Then, he, simulating Lin Qi, awoke again. Of course, he wasn’t there to experience human feelings. He simply knew the human tendency to escape—having a human body would make it easier for him to rule this galaxy.

He still remembers the stuffy room and the dizzying, unsteady feeling.

But then I saw a woman.

She was the only bright spot in the dim surroundings. And the brightest thing about her was her eyes.

He still finds it unbelievable that he was hurt by such a pregnant and vulnerable woman, yet he did so willingly.

What he remembered most clearly wasn’t the stab that numbed him with pain, nor her nimble, adorable movements, nor her feigned belief in him while actually holding him hostage—but rather Lin Qi, who had just completed the simulation, his mind and body not fully coordinated, trembling violently as if he had suffered a stroke. Yet that woman, a woman whose kindness was almost laughable, held his hands tightly, softly encouraging him. Her hands were soft and boneless; her breath was as sweet as the fragrance of flowers.

To this day, it remains vivid in her memory.

Xing Yi suddenly felt a little sad.

He remembered everything about her so clearly.

From the moment he was captured by Meng Xicong until now, he believed that everything he had endured was merely a simulation of Lin Qi’s feelings. Once he died and was reborn, he would still be the commander, still a warrior of the First Mechanical Civilization, second only to the emperor, and would not feel “pain” for a woman he fell in love with during the simulation.

But when he thought of her again, he realized that it wasn’t just Lin Qi who was sad.

Perhaps Xing Yi is also involved.

Xing Yi, who thought he was uninvolved, indulged his affection for her.

The energy blades continued their rampage, and many vivid memories vanished in an instant.

He saw the day he killed the Stone Man, when he threw her into space, like a kite that could get lost at any moment, floating and falling in space.

Ha… How could he be so heartless back then? If he had known he would fall in love with her one day, he would have forged ten stone men for her.

She was enraged and, with audacity, grabbed his military uniform by the chest, as if she wanted to punch him. But the pitiful tears on her pointed face were like a silent summer downpour, disturbing his heart.

It must have been her crying that was so alluring that he kissed her. He held her thin lips in his mouth and nibbled at her little tongue.

The kiss was so deep, like that of the most intimate lovers. He didn’t let go from Stonehenge to the surface of Free Planet.

Until her lips were swollen and red, until both of them were panting.

That’s how I got addicted.

What he remembered most clearly was the day she gave birth. At that time, her private parts were exposed to him, deep and sweet like a precious gem; her suppressed low cries of pain disturbed his heart; her hair was disheveled, her sweat was slightly fragrant, and her red lips were pale.

But as she held Xing Yao, she smiled at him with a smile as bright as the first snow after a storm, as dazzling as a star.

It was on that day that my feelings quietly stirred, and I could no longer restrain myself.

She was light.

It was a ray of light that was omnipresent in his dissipated energy field.

From then on, he wanted to possess her, to have her belong to him forever.

He was a robot born for battle, only capable of aggression and possession. Yet, before her, he was always utterly defeated. Even when she angered him, and he angrily stripped her naked and tied her to the bed, her body was alluring and seductive, and his erection, like a rising dragon, was uncontrollable.

But faced with her tears, he chose to leave. He was so close to possessing this stubborn woman in a human way.

But his woman makes his heart soften and makes him cherish her, yet he cannot allow her to be truly harmed in the slightest.

In the end, his only memory of her was of himself.

Dressed in his crisp commander’s uniform, holding a wine glass, he stood before the banquet hall, eagerly awaiting her arrival.

Like a human man, he waits for the woman he loves.

What was he thinking that day?

Oh, he thought, he had personally chosen a fiery red dress for her. It was the color of his eyes and the color of her blood. He loved her vibrant beauty and loved her dazzling brilliance.

He looked forward to this night, to her blooming in his arms like a tender flower, to dancing with her, song after song, like lovers embracing tightly, lips and teeth intertwined.

He even thought that perhaps he should let her know that his feelings for her were not just about possession.

He loved her as much as he loved the stars; he loved her as much as he loved the spring dew.

That was a robot’s promise. It would not lose to any human, nor to the limitations of time and life.

He thought that one night he would let her know.

Just then, his remaining consciousness grew increasingly heavy.

In a blur, he saw all of Lin Qi’s limbs and remains in the cabin vanish without a trace; he felt the invading energy blade coldly retract, carrying the power to annihilate everything.

He suddenly couldn’t remember what he had been recalling.

A woman? Who is that?

Who was crying so pitifully in his arms, making his heart feel as if it had been drenched by summer rain? So wet and unable to find peace.

Who was it that smiled at him like a shining star, making him unable to look away and becoming intoxicated by it?

Whose body was soft and fragrant like honey, making him, like a naive young man, willingly suppress his desires, unable to obtain them, tossing and turning in bed?

And who was it, in a fiery red dress, nestled tenderly in his arms, smiling radiantly? And who danced with him, song after song?

What did he want to say to her? The sincere feelings hidden beneath his strong exterior? Why couldn’t he remember those important words?

How can a robot have a heart? How can it have love? He was born to fight, born for the empire. He is just a machine. How could he possibly fall in love with someone one day?

His world suddenly fell into an irreversible silence.

The energy blade vanished without a trace; the pain in his body disappeared completely. He vaguely wondered, what had died? Had it died silently and tragically within his energy field?

Why is he here? Isn’t he the most loyal commander of the First Mechanical Civilization? Why does he have such a chaotic energy field and such turbulent, weed-like emotional fluctuations?

He tried to relax his mind, knowing that his energy field needed to rest and recuperate.

But at the moment he lost consciousness, he heard a strange man’s voice, broken and intermittent:

“I swear in the name of loyalty to the Empire… I will never harm her or possess her. I will not alter her before she dies of natural causes… No one but me can treat her better.”

“As long as she comes back… I’ll give her her freedom.”

As long as she comes back.

Come back to me.

Because that is the only one I have ever loved and the only one I have ever forgotten throughout all these years.

But what is that…?

His invisible consciousness suddenly seemed to suffer a devastating blow, like a wound that had penetrated deep into his bones and was difficult to heal.

The energy field, which was originally on the verge of collapse, suddenly surged and became as chaotic as a raging storm.

What is it? What exactly is it?

What was it that made him toss and turn at night, yearning for something he could not have?

What made him willingly succumb to depravity?

What is it that, in his life as a robot and in his eternal life of immortality, makes him unable to suppress his longing day and night?

He never got a chance to figure it out.

The erupting energy field was like a black hole, swallowing up his struggling consciousness.