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"Because I am the real Red King"

Xiao Zhan could not believe his ears. He blinked twice before he asked, "Are you shitting me? This is neither the time nor the place for a fucking joke, especially regarding the Red King."

"Do you trust me?" Yibo pulled Xiao Zhan into his embrace. "There's still a fucking bomb here, and we need to run now." He kissed Xiao Zhan hard, then tugged his hand to run outside as fast as they could.

They had just stepped out of the building when it blew up into smithereens, knocking them down hard onto the pavement just outside the warehouse. Yibo quickly covered them with his fireproof coat.

"So much for a first date, Zhan ge..." his eyes soft, and then he kissed Xiao Zhan. Soft at first, just testing the water, but it got hot and heavy real fast. After pining for each other for more than a month, they couldn't hold out anymore.

"Ehm..ehm..guys, sorry to bother your reunion... again", Xue yang awkwardly cleared his throat, "but we have more pressing matters to attend, boss...".

Xiao Zhan vaguely heard Xue Yang, and he regretfully tore himself apart from the sweet, inviting mouth.

"Later..." he caressed the other's swollen lips fondly, pulled him up, and looked at the Cerberus.

"Jiang Cheng found the Crown Prince unharmed. They just put him inside the office without any restraint except the locked door. It's like he knew that you would be here to save the second prince. Plus there was not even anything resembling any fireworks over there." Yu Bin gave him the quick report.

Xiao Zhan piercing gaze landed on the second prince.

"I think he was targeting you, boss."

"You think?" Yibo scoffed. "One thing's for sure now, that the fucker did target you, Zhan ge. Not my brother, not me, but you. Just think back to all of the things he has done for the past few months, and tell me if I'm wrong." His expression was stoic, not wanting to give any clue to what was happening inside his mind.

"I think all of us should get back now, it's not safe here out in the open." Song Lan tried to ease the tense atmosphere between his boss and the second prince.

They were both staring at each other for another full minute before Xiao Zhan finally tore his gaze off and started to walk to the waiting car, grabbing the prince with him.

The three men only looked at each other and shrugged.

-----

"Why did you let him capture you?" Xiao Zhan finally asked him when they're back at the safety of his fortress.

Yibo, fresh from the shower with wet hair and droplets of water on his naked back, looked at him calmly, it was like he was considering what to tell. Finally he let out a long sigh and dropped his body on to Xiao Zhan's bed.

"Yes, it's like you said, I let him capture me, because I wanted to know who the fucking impostor was, and also to find out about his plans. And what's the easiest way to achieve all that? By becoming a victim. Although I still want to gouge out his eyes for looking at me like he did." He flopped to his side and looked at Xiao Zhan seriously. "I never thought that you would be there to save me, ge, I'd be doing everything differently if I had known beforehand." His gaze softened to something resembling... fondness. "Why did you choose me? Why not Xichen? I told Jiyang specifically to tell you to go to Xichen."

"Jiyang knew about this?"

"Who do you think taught me to fight?" Yibo scoffed.

"I knew he was more than just a royal guard."

"He's a shadow guard, ge, not a royal guard. His nickname was the Reaper. No one outside me and Xichen knows about his true existence." He took a pillow and hugged it. "Now, stop deflecting, I still want to know why you chose me instead of Xichen. I mean, you obviously loved him." There was a flash of something that resembled pain in his eyes, but it was gone as fast as it had appeared, no one would see that if they were not paying close attention. And Xiao Zhan was aware of every nuance of Yibo's face.

"Why would you think that I loved Xichen?" He walked closer and sat on the bed, near the young prince, and tilted his chin toward him, looking into his beautiful eyes, now glistening with unshed tears.

"Well, for one, you protected him with your own fucking body and threw me out like trash to Jiyang." He said it in a nonchalant voice, but there was still a trace of hurt in it.

"Yibo... were you mad at me because of that? And that's the real reason you left?"

Yibo only looked at him, his eyes were challenging him to rebut his statement.

Xiao Zhan sighed, and let go of his hand from the other's chin, and walked to his work desk, and after rummaging for a while, he pulled out an old shoes box, and brought it to the bed. He opened it, and showed Yibo the contents inside.

"This is...?" Yibo threw a questioning look.

"I've known Xichen since I was 6 years old." He gave Yibo an old picture of him and Xichen when they were still a child. "And this was taken just shortly before my parents were murdered."

-----

Xichen was walking through the garden, when he saw a young boy, maybe 5 years old, crying. He walked up to the boy, saw the wounds on his skinny leg, and scooted down to his eye level.

"Hi there. My name is Xichen. What's yours?" He tried to talk to the child, in a soft, hushed voice.

The child looked at him, startled, and scurried away to hide behind the bushes.

"It's okay, I won't harm you, see?" He showed up his hands. "That looked bad, would you like me to carry you inside? Clean it and get some bandage?" Xichen was only 12, but he had an impressive upper body strength, resulted from training since he was just this boy's age.

After a long stretch of silence, the boy finally nodded. 

Xichen was actually just visiting this place. His parents had something important to discuss with this family, and he tagged along to learn more about anything really, he's at that impressionable learning age.

"So, why don't you tell me, which way should I go? This is your home, right?" He carried the child in his arms easily since he seemed to weight nothing.

The child pointed to the door at the back of the house, then snuggled comfortably to Xichen. He brought him into the house, found someone to tend to his wounds, and stayed by his side through all the ordeal. And ever since then, the kid, whose name he found out later was Xiao Zhan, stuck to him like glue. Maybe it was hero worship, maybe he was just in awe of his face which always had a kind smile. No matter what, he was always around Xichen. It was possible because his parents were the most trusted aides of the King and the Queen.

Until one day when the tragedy struck.

The queen, accompanied by Xiao Zhan's mother, were visiting out of the country when the car had been blown to bits, obliterating everyone inside. 

There had been talk and speculations that it was Xiao Zhan's father that did it because he was jealous of his wife, and accused her of cheating with none other than the King. And then when he was nowhere to be found, the King's advisor, ordered the Knights to execute every single member of Xiao Zhan's family, including Xiao Zhan, who was just a small innocent child of 8 at that time. 

When Xichen found out about the kill order, he immediately ordered his shadow guard at that time, to save Xiao Zhan, and to bring him in covertly. He arranged for the Jiang family to take Xiao Zhan, without divulging his real identity, and that's the reason why Xiao Zhan, loved the prince more than anything. His loyalty was so staunch it could not be shifted by anything, and Xichen knew it. And that is also why he was tasked to take reign of the underworld. 

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"My parents were the most trusted King's aides, and someone, who did not like that the King, your father, trusted my parents the most, planned the assassination of all of them, including your mother." He sighed into the pictures. "You were just a toddler back then, I remembered I used to tease you until you cried, such a crybaby..." Xiao Zhan pinched Yibo's cheek, teasingly. "And now look at you, you've grown so beautifully. Handsome with brains and not to forget, deadly." He narrowed his eyes at the other.

"You still haven't told me about your feelings for my brother." Yibo asked still pouting.

Xiao Zhan took one long exasperated breath. "I loved your brother, maybe at some point I was in love with him, after all he was my saviour. My loyalty has always been with him all this time. But now? You... you came into my life like a freaking tornado, wrecking everything I have ever believed about love, hurtling me into the abyss so deep, and then you just left. What do you think of my feelings now?" He grabbed the younger's hand rather harshly, pulled him closer and kissed him hard at first, then slowly became tender and more affectionate. He let go of him.

"Now, what was your question again?"

Yibo felt breathless by the intensity of the kiss, it got him dizzy and momentarily made him forget where he was.

"I...I..." he shook his head and held on to Xiao Zhan's arms. "Damn you!" He smacked him.

"You made me realize that you were my precious someone." Xiao Zhan placed numerous butterfly kisses on Yibo's face. After a while, Zhan let go, looked Yibo square in the eye and asked, "But now, I want to hear about the Red King and his plan."

"Moi?" Yibo blinked in a very innocent way, making Xiao Zhan almost laugh. Almost.

"Spill. Now."

He sighed, and put a shirt on, before telling his story.

"I've got ADHD, did you know? That's why Xichen sent me away, to control my impulses. In the end, it was Jiyang who taught me how to fight, first just to defend myself, but apparently I was very good at it, and it helped calmed me down. Then it just happened. One day I was taking a stroll around the city, alone, minding my own business, and I heard the sound of muffled cries. Knowing me, I had to investigate. I found a container, full of... people. And they looked like they had been through war; dirty and starving. Then I found couple of guards outside the makeshift prison, and I 'interrogated' them. Turned out this was a human trafficking case that was being investigated by the police. I'm pretty sure you remember that one. That was my first case. I just left one of my playing cards on scene. That happened a few times, and I just 'happened' to be at the right place, on the right time." He flashed his shittiest shit-eating grin to Xiao Zhan.

"Right...." he thought back to the human trafficking case he was investigating at that time. "Did you ever find out who the owner of the container was? The trafficking case?"

"No, and I asked Jiyang to ask around, but they covered their tracks pretty well. And after that I found more and more evidence that someone had been doing bad things behind the 5 families. I thought it was you at first, because I thought you had an ambition to be the supreme ruler, even though you were obviously already the head of 5 families." He shrugged again.

"That's why you seduced me at the auction? You wanted to find out about my motives?"

Yibo just shrugged again.

"Actually I've been doing the same as you, gathering information on this mysterious person/s. They've done quite some damage to the 5 families. Then the changed behaviour of the Red King. I thought he was corrupted, or had some ulterior motive. But now...knowing that there's a fake Red King... too bad you just let him go like that."

"Did you really think I was that stupid? Here let me show you something." Yibo flicked his finger, and showed Xiao Zhan a silicone node, like a contact lens. "This, is my greatest creation, a bio-tracking device. You just stick it on anything and no device would be able to detect it, unless you knew the exact frequency." He grinned again "And that's why I stuck my finger inside his stomach. To make sure the tracker stuck. And also I was having fun torturing him."

This boy was really...something.

"Now, do you want to wreak havoc?" 

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