【Chengyu】Turnabout: Bloodline

When Wright returned to the living room with Edgeworth on his arm, his hair was still wet.Even so, Xigami on the sofa was getting a little impatient.Chunmi had served him as well as she could—with a cup of hot tea and a plate of dessert in front of him, but for some reason the cookies seemed to have blown themselves into a pile of crumbs.Cheng Butang looked around, and soon found the murderer who caused this tragedy on the armrest of the sofa, the feathers were covered with indelible evidence.

【If that broken bird dares to shit on my sofa, I swear to—】

"Director Yujian." Xigami sounded really shocked to see his superior leaning on the sofa relaxed, "I...you were discharged from the hospital?"

"As you can see."

"Sorry, I didn't expect you to be with Wright-Sir. If I had known, I wouldn't-"

"Prosecutor Xigami," Yu Jian's tone was calm, but his charming demeanor was not diminished at all.Cheng Butang sat down on the sofa chair, Yin on one side was still combing the feathers nonchalantly.He picked up a freshly shed feather from it and played it absently between his fingers. "Nice to meet you." Yu Jian continued softly, "I believe that the prosecutor's office can operate normally without me."

"We're doing our best." Xi Shen glanced at Phoenix, which made the hairs on his arms stand on end, "I'm here to discuss with Lord Phoenix...you just asked Yan The case that Wu Wen handed over to me."

"Yes."

"As a person who just started to take charge of this case, you came too damn fast."

"If you insist on knowing the reason, I'm visiting Xinyin. She lives not far from here." Xi Shen whispered defensively, "I didn't disrupt your plans for tonight, did I?"

"No," Wright waved his hand, "Because someone is suffering from a headache from prescription drugs, we just want to hang out in our pajamas for a while."

"Wright," Yu Jian muttered, and the defense lawyer on the sofa next to him had almost slumped to the floor, "be careful." When Yu Jian patted his chest very hard, Cheng Butang couldn't help it laughed out.

[Well, my original plan was to send the kids out to dinner and spend the night getting to know every inch of your body.At that time, I don't think you will want to wrangle with your subordinates outside like you are now. 】

"May I interrupt, Commissioner Edgeworth, this case is full of lies. It is clear that Dr. Ward did not kill his wife. Although he may have a motive for doing so, it was not him."

"I agree." Yu Jian nodded. "At present, it seems that the chief suspect should be the chief of internal medicine. All we have to do is to bring him to court, and then find contradictions from his testimony that are enough to knock him down."

"That testimony was full of flaws," Wright added.

Xi Shen's eyes flicked between the two men, and then turned to Wright's desk. "I have been following this case closely. In fact, the entire prosecutor's office has heard more or less. Those shameless statements made by Yane... are a shame to every prosecutor. "

As soon as the words fell, Yujian seemed to suddenly fall into extreme anxiety, and Wright subconsciously stretched out his hand to cover his knee.When he noticed that Xigami was staring at him intently, he immediately pulled his hand back.

"You just escaped from death, Director Yu Jian, please don't blame yourself for this kind of thing. It was Yane who dug his own grave, and now he will pay the price for what he did."

"He probably lost his job because of this—" Cheng Butang's second sentence was interrupted by Yu Jian's merciless blow again, but he was completely unmoved, just smiled and continued to talk to the two A prosecutor discusses the case.

Finally, he got the chance to hand over the wallet to the girls.He asked them to go out to dinner and watch a movie, which meant he could spend at least two hours alone with the man he was completely obsessed with.Xi Shen took a document from Chengbutang for comparison with the prosecutor's office document, and promised that tomorrow's trial will end soon.

Xi Shen's raptor friend returned to his shoulders again, and as soon as his tall back was blocked by the security door, Cheng Butang couldn't wait to start thinking about how to coax Yu Jian on the sofa into the bedroom.

"How does your head feel?" He was the first to break the silence.The Chief Prosecutor huddled in the corner of the sofa, with a heavy legal book lying on his knees together.Yu Jian raised his head and glanced at him, the glimmer of light from the street lights outside the window was reflected on the transparent lens.

"Maybe only when this case is completely settled, I can give you a definite answer. I just... have too many things to get used to, and logic doesn't help much with them." Edgeworth sighed , leaning his head back on the back of the sofa. "If I had to say it, it's probably a moment of calm before tomorrow's storm. What a rare reprieve."

"Really?" Wright slid the back of one knuckle across Edgeworth's hip, then easily approached his belt loop, giving it a gentle tug. "I have some ice cream in my freezer, and cocoa spread for hard chocolate...things, uh...necessities."

"It looks like all my efforts to maintain a healthy diet are going to waste," Edgeworth chuckled.

"If you really care that much, I can also reluctantly add a carrot. Maybe you need to drizzle some sauce on it and make it a salad?"

"You're in front of a patient recovering from a stroke and you're making fun of his eating habits. You've got a lot of integrity."

"Don't always use your illness as a shield, Yu Jian, that's not a noble way." Cheng Butang grinned, climbed onto the chief prosecutor on the other side of the sofa, and pressed the man with his body .As he threw the book aside, he carefully avoided the wound on his head and buried the tip of his nose into the warm and inviting hollow of his neck.Edgeworth tilted his head, put his cheek against Wright's ear, wrapped his arms around the man's shoulders, and spread his legs slightly to fit the man's width.A feeling of being embraced completely surrounded him.

"I like your freckles." Wright kissed his neck, sliding his hands down Edgeworth's knees until he grabbed his nice-touch buttocks. "I never knew you had..."

"For Karma, perfection is everything. Freckles are not included." Yu Jian suddenly looked up at him, and Wright flinched from the gaze. "That scarf wasn't my choice...in the first place."

Wright stared at him, at the furrow between his brows that half-hidden behind the bridge of glasses, the only place where time had passed on the Attorney General in the last ten years.Everything else is still... still makes Wright's mouth dry just looking at it.His fingers lightly slid over Yujian's chin, stroking the new stubble. He couldn't imagine what the perfection that Karma demanded would look like if even Yujian couldn't do it.

"True perfection is impossible, but... I think you are very close to it." Wright knelt on the ground, slowly stroking the legs propped on his sides, the plaid cotton pajama pants His fingertips became extremely smooth, "For God's sake, you don't even have to do anything, just staying here is enough to make the ladies swoon."

"Ms. is not what I want." Yu Jian moved his body, grabbed a pillow and put it behind his head.

"Okay. I'm actually the one who's swooning. Almost... all the time. You're just blowing my mind."

"I am sorry."

Cheng Butang continued to caress Yu Jian's flat abdomen, and lifted up the black T-shirt, exposing a section of snow-white skin. "I think Xishen already knows us..."

Edgeworth made an inaudible muffled sound of agreement, but didn't seem to care, or really wanted to comment on it.He just stares silently at Wright, who's imprisoned between his legs, feeling his fingers traversing his bare abs.

"Don't you care?"

"He is a trusted prosecutor. He will be very cautious in order to maintain this state." Edgeworth tilted his head and raised the corners of his mouth meaningfully. "……us?"

"Uh...um." Wright rubbed the back of his neck. "You said us, didn't you?"

"I can't say I haven't thought about . . . the matter."

Cheng Butang scratched his head. "Can you just answer yesorno? Every time I ask that question, you try to fool it." He tried to say it with a smile to show that he wasn't angry, but when the inspector general sighed, he Realize that you are completely deceiving yourself.

"Our profession represents two opposing forces after all, Cheng Butang." [Completely returned to a serious tone, this is a serious conversation. ] "Over the years, more than once, I have gone through fire and water for you, sometimes at your request, sometimes not. When I did, I might lose my job—even my everything—but I never hesitated. I take this as my due. You saved my life on the day exactly 15 years after my dad passed away. I was selfish and thought words alone could express my gratitude. But... I Wrong." Miles swallowed hard, and glanced up at the ceiling, as if trying to count how many tiny cracks there were.

"My teachers never taught me how to deal with unrelenting kindness like yours. Karmaho is a monster, but without him, I seem to lose the ability to feel emotions, just feel depressed and self-loathing. I know I can't Going on living like that—I had to do something..."

"So, you left that note..."

"Yes. I wanted to burn Karmaho's house to the ground, but when I got there, I just felt tired. Deeply tired. I felt overwhelmed. Half of me stayed in Tokyo forever, and What fled to the United States was just a cold corpse. I want to come back, find a way to thank you for everything you have done for me, and thank you for ending the nightmare that has haunted me for decades."

"But you didn't come back."

"Quickly. I just took some time and delved into more of the beliefs that prosecutors live by than just believing the witcher. But most of the time, I was traveling around the world, thinking about myself, in the brain The relationship between experience and emotion, truth and lies, ordinary and perfect. Perfect becomes a somewhat ugly word, a word that means nothing but resentment to others. The inversion of means and ends distorts the truth. But... even though my mind is filled with all kinds of thoughts every day, I still can't stop thinking about you."

Wright blinked in surprise, but said nothing so Edgeworth could continue.

"I didn't really understand my own feelings until I got that call from Yazhang. He was screaming at me on the other end of the phone, saying that you were going to die soon. While he didn't have much to thank for it, it certainly was. It was one of those things. I realized in that split second that if you weren't there, somewhere in the world, bluffing and laughing your whole life — that's not the world I want .I had to find you. I had no choice."

Edgeworth stared at the ceiling, desperately searching for the right words, covering his trembling lips with his hands. "I haven't had time to yell at you for something stupid you did, I can't let you die like that."

"You bastard." Wright smiled slightly, only to receive another blow. "Turns out I've mostly recovered from hypothermia by then, I bet you're disappointed? It's just a high fever and an upset stomach from drinking too much water."

"Don't be stupid, I was really scared to death by you!" Yujian suddenly said sharply, and the smile on Wright's face disappeared. "I would like to say that my concern for you at the time was far beyond any pure, platonic level. Even as a proud young man I was not arrogant enough to deny my concern for Your love. Though I do escape."

Wright... Wright was speechless.He had expected it to turn into an argument, or just a deep conversation to pass on those painful memories, but instead Edgeworth admitted how he felt for him, and when he realized it.Ever since they were 8 years old, Edgeworth had dedicated part of his life to a dull, clumsy, and plain-looking guy—or so Wright himself thought.He has nothing to repay.He was speechless.

TBC