obligatory love

Cheng Yuan gently pushed open the door.

There was no one in the room, and the mattress was packed neatly, as if no one had ever been lying on it. There was a bowl of water on the small table, which was already completely cold at this time, and it could still smell a little spicy when you sniffed it.Cheng Yuan stood up and swallowed a mouthful, the hot feeling pierced his throat, and there was still a sweet and greasy feeling on his tongue.

Cheng Yuan sat by the bed, swallowing the bowl of ginger syrup as if he didn't feel the spice.One day passed, another night passed, he waited until he fell asleep and woke up again, but the person still did not come back.

Cheng Yuan rubbed and pressed his temples, the drowsiness of worrying all night and all day without eating or sleeping brought him a needle-like headache.He stood up, dizzy for a moment, and swayed in a circle, if he hadn't hurriedly supported the table, he would have almost fallen.

Pushing open the door and walking towards the entrance of the cave, the sunlight reflected by the white snow was so dazzling that he couldn't open his eyes.

"Teacher?" As soon as Ling Rou came out, she saw Cheng Yuan standing at the entrance of the cave, looking out of the cave.

"Huh? Oh." Cheng Yuan turned his head and smiled hastily at him. "Morning. So diligent."

"...Morning." Ling Rou looked at him worriedly, hesitated for a long time, and said hesitantly, "Teacher, your complexion is very bad."

"Oh, it's okay, maybe I didn't feel refreshed when I got up early in the morning."

Lingrou didn't know why, so she couldn't say anything, so she just nodded and said, "It's almost time for lunch over there, let's go there."

"Lunch?" Cheng Yuan looked at him confusedly, "Is it already noon now?"

"Yeah..." That's why it was so strange for him to hear Cheng Yuan say good morning to him.Although the teacher was lethargic for a while when he first came to the cave, he is not a lazy person.

Only then did Cheng Yuan react.There was no sunlight in the house, and there was no clock. He thought that only one day and one night had passed, but he didn't expect that half of the next day had passed.

"Sockel...do you know where he went?"

"I don't know." Ling Rou shook her head. "He hasn't recovered from his injury, so he probably won't be on guard. Maybe it's just a routine inspection?"

Is it necessary to go all day and night for routine inspections?

Cheng Yuan swallowed these words in his stomach, only glanced outside, and said to Ling Ju, "Let's go".

outside the cave.

The coldest days are almost over, and even the sun is getting warmer.It's just that the north wind blowing on the body is still bone-chillingly cold, without the cover of fur, and the thin clothes can't stop the pervasive north wind.

"I said brother, you have been blowing the cold wind here all morning, haven't you blown enough?" Leo sat down beside Sokel.The cold wind halfway up the mountain is bitingly cold even for them orcs.

Thorkel looked somewhere in the tribe downhill and ignored him.

"I said, what are you looking at? Is there something left in the house? It's too late, and more than half of this winter is over."

After waiting for a long time, Sokel was still silent as if he didn't exist. Leo had no choice but to pat him on the shoulder and said, "Sure, it's useless to say more here. I advise you, hurry up!" Go back and rest, so as not to save your female from crying there in fear."

"Huh? When?"

This one seemed to have a little reaction, Leo sighed, and could only say, "When you passed out last time. I also heard people say that the female seems to be guarding by the side all the time. If you can't come here, he will come over." It means no longer alive."

Sokel lowered his eyes and pondered for a moment, got up, dusted off his clothes and said, "Let's go."

"Hey!" Leo rolled his eyes when he saw his disappearing back, and hurriedly followed.

The lunch of the tribe is taken by everyone in the kitchen, and people who are familiar with each other will help to lead a portion.The female who was in charge of distributing the food that day saw Cheng Yuan coming, so she stuffed him with an extra portion, "Take the amount of Sokel back with you."

"Oh, good." Cheng Yuan froze for a moment before nodding in agreement.

It was a bit difficult for Cheng Yuan to eat for two, and the orcs had a lot of food, so Ling Rou helped him take some and sent it to the room.

At the door, Cheng Yuan said, "Come in, let's eat together."

Just as Ling Rou was about to respond, when she saw someone coming behind Cheng Yuan, she changed her mind and said, "No, I'll go back first, you guys eat slowly."

Cheng Yuan was signaled by him to turn his head. The young man still had a lingering chill on his body, and looked at him expressionlessly with his head slightly lowered.

"I'll come. Thank you." Sokel took the food from Lingrou's hand, pushed open the door and went in.

Cheng Yuan was at a loss for a while, so he told Ling Ju not to hurry, turned around and followed.

Even simple meals were busily set up on the table, but the people sitting at the table were speechless, and the air was as cold as in a deserted wilderness.

"Why don't you eat?" Sokel shook his head towards the food on the table.

"I've been hungry for a long time, and I don't have much appetite." After finishing speaking, Cheng Yuan felt that what he said seemed to be complaining, which was inappropriate, so he hurriedly added, "I woke up too late this morning, so I missed breakfast."

"Did you eat last night?"

"I……"

"What about noon yesterday?"

"..." It was the first time Cheng Yuan was spoken in this tone by Sokel, and he was so suppressed that he couldn't lift his head for a while, and he said after a while, "Didn't you also not eat?"

"I'm an orc. I can survive without food for three days. Can you?"

Cheng Yuan didn't answer.Thorkel kept pressing on, and ordered the man to look up at himself, "I have the ability to kill wolves, can you?"

Cheng Yuan stared at him blankly, not knowing how to react for a moment.

This was the first time he saw Sokel angry, and the first reaction in his mind was "this is what he looks like when he is angry".It made him feel that he was too much.

"If you are in the cave, unless the wolves step over my dead body, it is impossible to get close to here; if you are by my side, then I will protect you even if you die. But if you are not there By my side, out of my sight, and not even letting me know where you went, how can I protect you?"

"You don't have to protect me."

"How could I not protect you!" Unexpectedly, Cheng Yuan, who has always been mature and stable, would say such words, Suo Keer trembled with anger for a moment.The lukewarmness of the past few days was fermented by that frightening night, and was completely ignited by this sentence, and the roar was so loud that even the people in the passage could hear it clearly.

Cheng Yuan was not nervous anymore, and looked back at him calmly, "Why do you protect me? Is it because I am your female? But we have not held a pairing ceremony. It is not a pairing if we have not been recognized by the beast god. "

"That's just because the date for the ceremony was missed. If you are unhappy because of this, we can make up for it after this winter."

"Yes. Then we are partners, and then you should be responsible for me and protect me, right?"

Sokel was speechless for a moment.

Shouldn't it be so?The female breeds offspring for the orc, and the orc protects the female and ensures his daily life.

"Sockel," Cheng Yuan's expression was so calm and gentle, he even smiled at him, "I'm just an 'obligation' to you."

He picked him up, he bonded with him, he took care of him, he protected him.

All of this is just an "obligation" in the heart of the orc.

"It's the same if you change someone, whatever person you change."

"It's different!" Thorkel hurriedly explained, "You are different."

"Well, I am indeed different from other females." Cheng Yuan nodded, "You saved me and wanted me because I look like a human, right?"

Thorkel froze in place like a puppet.

"What I say occasionally, the breath on my body, is very similar to your parents, right?"

Sokel pursed his lips tightly, his arms trembling slightly.

That was the deepest pain in his memory, and it was also the existence he longed for the most.

He couldn't deny that the reason he rescued Cheng Yuan at first was because he felt a breath similar to that of his mother and father back then, and the way Cheng Yuan appeared was very similar to the situation that the beast father said he picked up his mother and father.

"Don't think about it." Cheng Yuan suddenly put away all the edges and corners, and changed back to that gentle "female", served him food in a bowl and said, "Eat something, take a rest, your injury is still not healed You shouldn't think too much." He looked into his eyes, which seemed to be filled with moonlight, "Perhaps, those troublesome things will be solved when this winter is over."

The author has something to say: Even the final exam can't stop me from updating!I can do it!I can!

(Ah...why do things that I thought would be written in a few chapters take so long? Do you think it's too long-winded?)