Although he woke up with back pain the next day, as a qualified actor, how could he delay work because of personal matters? Soon, Lin Ziran and Ji Chen returned to the crew.

But in order to avoid suspicion, Lin Ziran did not move in with Ji Chen. Ji Chen was not very happy, but he still expressed his understanding.

Seeing Ji Chen being so reasonable, Lin Ziran felt even more guilty.

Because he accidentally hit his head, he forgot about his boyfriend. Not only did he misunderstand his intentions, but he also cheated on him in the game…

Now that he thinks about it, Ji Chen introduced him to the audition opportunity because he wanted to fulfill his wish and spend more time with him. Now he is finally filming with Ji Chen! But he doesn’t want to live with him…

In order to make up for Ji Chen, Lin Ziran took the initiative to show goodwill.

Lin Ziran happened to have no filming that day, so he went out to buy groceries early in the morning and showed off his cooking skills to make dinner for Ji Chen!

Ji Chen came back from a busy day and smelled the fragrance as soon as he entered the door. He went to the kitchen and looked at Lin Ziran with a raised eyebrow in surprise.

Lin Ziran smiled, pulled him to the dining table and sat him down, and said with great pride: “Sit down!”

As he spoke, he brought out all the food.

Ji Chen glanced at the table. These dishes were indeed delicious and looked very good. When he was in the game, he had the honor of eating Lin Ziran’s cooking several times…

At this moment, he tasted the familiar taste again, and his mood was a bit complicated, probably a bit nostalgic, a bit helpless, a bit jealous, and a bit sad…

He never knew that one day he would become so sentimental just for a meal.

Ji Chen put down his chopsticks after taking a few bites. He looked up and met Lin Ziran’s shining eyes. The young man looked like he was begging for praise and said with a smile: “How is it? Is it delicious?”

The taste is very good, but…

Ji Chen looked at him meaningfully, raised the corner of his lips jokingly, and slowly said: “When did you learn to cook?”

Lin Ziran: “…”

When did he learn to cook? Of course, in the game, he learned for…the sake of  survival! Although he had cooked for NPCs, it was just in passing, mainly, it was to satisfy himself…

But if he were to explain this, he is afraid it would take three days and three nights to finish.

They just made peace, so let’s not dig a hole for himself. He will find a chance to explain it slowly later…

Lin Ziran blinked and looked at Ji Chen obediently: “I wanted to give you a surprise, so I learned it secretly.”

Ji Chen: “…Heh.”

Lin Ziran’s expression froze. Why did he feel that Ji Chen was not happy? He secretly learned to cook for him. Shouldn’t he be very touched?

What’s with that sarcastic expression? Did he find out that I lied to him? !

Lin Ziran’s heart skipped a beat.

No, no, he has to salvage it for once!

Lin Ziran looked at him seriously and smiled: “If you like, I can cook for you every day! What do you want to eat tomorrow? How about steamed sea bass?”

Ji Chen looked at the young man’s focused dark eyes, which were full of warm smiles. He was so serious about trying to please him. When he said such words with such a look… it was really hard to get angry.

Although I know in my heart that this is just your casual perfunctory talk…

Not only do I know how you learned to cook, but I also know that you cooked for ‘other men’… I also know that you…

Ji Chen felt complicated when he thought about those things.

What on earth was he thinking at the time that he would come up with this way to pursue his wife? He thought Lin Ziran could sense something was wrong… But even though he tried so hard to pursue him, willing to break the plot to be with him. In addition to maintaining the most basic character setting, he spent the rest of the time trying to find ways to fall in love with him…

Lin Ziran still had no idea! He even kept thinking about getting rid of him! His mind was full of plots and stories…

You really didn’t feel anything was wrong, and you really didn’t think of me at all?

After all the efforts, not only did he fail to achieve his goal, but he also felt depressed… Ji Chen felt depressed.

If he had known the result would be like this, he would not have used that method, hoping that Lin Ziran would gradually discover something strange and remember him as they got along… Beating around the bush is useless. It is better to be direct.

Ji Chen let out a sigh of relief and lowered his head to eat!

Seeing that Ji Chen finally stopped asking questions, Lin Ziran let out a sigh of relief. It was a close call…

If Ji Chen continued to ask, he was really afraid that he would accidentally reveal the truth.

He thought it was just a game. It didn’t matter if he had just played around, but who knew that he actually had a boyfriend. Thinking back to those shameless days, he inexplicably felt like he had betrayed his boyfriend…

Bah! He didn’t betray his boyfriend!

NPCs are just floating clouds!

Only reality is real!

And didn’t he forget everything at that time…

Lin Ziran also lowered his head to eat.

But then again, until the day before yesterday, he suspected that Ji Chen was related to the game because Ji Chen and those NPCs really had too many similarities… For example, the same taste habits, the familiar feeling of being together, and many details that he had not paid attention to at the time, which were very similar to Ji Chen…

That’s why he always thought that Ji Chen was related to the game… But now that he thinks about it, it’s not that Ji Chen is similar to the NPC, but that the NPC is similar to Ji Chen…

Hmm, it seems strange when I think about it this way. Why are those NPCs similar to Ji Chen?

What a coincidence…

Lin Ziran was suspicious again, but when he thought about what he had done, he felt guilty. How could he dare to question Ji Chen about this? What if he guessed wrong and exposed his own affairs? Wouldn’t it be a loss and a way to death…

Well, forget it. He doesn’t play that crappy game anymore anyway.

It’s best if things just pass like this!

Both sides felt that the past was too painful to recall, and no one wanted to mention it, and they strangely reached a balance…

………………

The two of them were filming on the set like this. Whenever they found an opportunity, they would secretly spend time together. In order to compensate Ji Chen, Lin Ziran would personally cook for him whenever he had time. He was so attentive!

The gap caused by the short-term amnesia gradually faded away.

The filming of the movie was coming to an end soon.

That night, Lin Ziran sneaked into Ji Chen’s room again, reading the script and eating snacks. As he was reading the script, he suddenly remembered that before he could remember anything, Ji Chen tricked him into going to his house under the pretext of introducing a role… Lin Ziran blushed. He really didn’t expect this guy to have such a side. He hadn’t seen it before…

Lin Ziran secretly glanced at Ji Chen, but he was not too angry. Instead, he thought it was quite interesting. He didn’t expect that after losing his memory, his life, which was originally as dull as water, would become interesting… Can it be regarded as a little bit of unconventional passionate interest between an old couple?

And thinking about it carefully, he felt a little happy. He didn’t understand it at that time, so how could he not understand Ji Chen’s intentions now?

He carefully selected this role for himself and tried every means to get himself to play the role. He must want to create a CP with himself!

Huff, so stuffy.

Ji Chen was also reading the script. He turned around and caught Lin Ziran peeking at him. He raised his lips, put down the script, and walked over.

Lin Ziran: …

Ji Chen was relaxed and casual. He picked up Lin Ziran and put him on his lap. He pinched his face and said in a light tone: “When can we be open and not be so sneaky?”

Lin Ziran hesitated and said: “This is not good. After all, we are all public figures, especially you…”

Ji Chen laughed: “I didn’t say to announce it to the public, but if you have a relationship in the industry, you don’t have to act like a thief, right? I believe Director Gu and the others won’t tell anyone casually.”

Lin Ziran: “…” It seems to make sense.

He might have gone too far. He always felt that Ji Chen had finally gotten to where he was today, and it would be bad to make it public all of a sudden. He was afraid it would affect Ji Chen’s career… But if it was just made public in private, it wouldn’t matter, as long as it wasn’t photographed by paparazzi.

Lin Ziran thought about this and nodded: “Hmm…”

Ji Chen was satisfied, and he put his arm around Lin Ziran’s waist, lowered his head, and kissed him, with a gentle and affectionate look in his eyes…

Although in the game, there have been many physical intimacy, many entanglements of love and hate, and many separations of life and death… He had also been too involved and sad about a hopeless relationship…

Sometimes, he even thought that if Lin Ziran never remembered him, he would never fall in love with him again and never be moved by him again…

Just like in the game, no matter what he did, the other would not waver in the slightest, and never thought of stopping for him…

If that’s the case…

What should he do?

Is he just going to lose him?

Ji Chen never dared to speak out the anxiety and uneasiness in his heart… Because every separation told him mercilessly that everything he did was in vain, and the person he lost was really drifting away from him…

So when he had to give up the game and could only approach this person through reality, but was repeatedly misunderstood, he was not that confident.

And he was not sure if he could redeem this relationship…

Many things you have long been accustomed to, those people you have long been accustomed to, may disappear from your life because of an accident… They will go from being the closest people to familiar strangers, and you can’t do anything about it.

Ji Chen hugged Lin Ziran tightly and deepened the kiss without hesitation.

So you simply don’t know, when you regain your memory about me, and I know that you still love me…

How happy I am.

Lin Ziran was kissed so hard that he could hardly breathe. Ji Chen was rarely so fierce. In his memory, Ji Chen was always gentle and considerate, but at this moment, Ji Chen… made him suddenly think of those people in the game…

Every time they treated him, they seemed to be determined to live and die, as if they were using everything to love him. Their emotions were intense and paranoid, which was completely different from the real Ji Chen…

But at this moment, Lin Ziran looked at the person in front of him with a hazy vision, and he seemed to have overlapped with the people in the game again.

Lin Ziran was so frightened that he simply closed his eyes. Ji Chen was probably still angry about his amnesia, and it had been too long since they had been intimate, so he was like this? He couldn’t be one of those NPCs, Lin Ziran kept telling himself…

Although, it really looks very similar…

Ji Chen’s breathing became heavier. He nuzzled Lin Ziran’s ear and said in a low voice: “Let’s go to bed…”

Lin Ziran’s face was already red.

The two were about to move the battle location.

Just at this moment, there was a sudden knock at the door.

Ji Chen didn’t want to pay any attention to it, but the knock on the door was relentless, as if it would not stop until it was opened.

Lin Ziran: “…why don’t you go and take a look?”

Ji Chen looked unhappy, but since Lin Ziran had spoken, he sighed and turned to open the door.

Lin Ziran quickly straightened his collar, smoothed his hair, and then looked outside.

Standing at the door was a young man in casual clothes. He wasn’t very handsome, but he was gentle and kind. He narrowed his eyes when he smiled and said with a smile: “Ji Chen, why did you take so long to open the door? What are you busy with?”

Ji Chen’s face suddenly darkened, and he stood still at the door, looking unwelcome.

The young man looked at him and showed a sad expression: “I am your BiaoGe after all, isn’t it rude of you to do this?”

(*BiaoGe = Maternal older cousin(male))

Lin Ziran’s ears perked up. Ji Chen has a BiaoGe?

Why hasn’t he seen him mention it before?

Ji Chen looked at him coldly, pursed his lips, and after a moment, he stepped aside and said calmly: “What do you want from me?”

Yuan Huai was very helpless and said: “Can’t I come to see you if nothing happens?”

Ji Chen showed a standard smile, but the smile did not reach his eyes.

Yuan Huai waved his hands repeatedly: “Okay, okay, don’t be like this, I’m scared. I came to see you for something!” Then he turned his eyes and saw Lin Ziran, and immediately said: “Hey, are you Ji Chen’s boyfriend?”

Lin Ziran: …cough cough cough.

“This is my BiaoGe, Yuan Huai. He was abroad before and just returned to China recently.” Ji Chen pursed his lips and introduced him to Lin Ziran in a deep voice.

Lin Ziran understood immediately. It turned out that this BiaoGe had just returned to China. No wonder he had never met him before. He smiled politely at Yuan Huai: “Hello.”

Ji Chen walked over and held Lin Ziran’s wrist, looking at Yuan Huai coldly, and said: “Tell me, what’s the matter?”

Yuan Huai was not angry either. He poured himself a glass of water, narrowed his eyes, and suddenly changed the subject: “Oh, right, the Fantasy Company is going to release a new series of role-playing games with affectionate male partners. It is currently in internal testing. Have you played it? How do you feel about it?”

Lin Ziran was stunned. Although he didn’t know why he suddenly asked this, this sentence brought back many painful memories for him!

Putting aside those tempting NPCs and personal benefits, from the perspective of game design alone, those NPCs who always break the plot for no reason and were in love with him, and the A that can never be obtained, are not good memories for Lin Ziran…

At first he thought he won the helmet in the lottery and that he was blessed with good luck, but it was not until he was taught a lesson by reality that he realized how far away course credits were from him.

The past is too painful to recall!

Lin Ziran was very upset and gritted his teeth and said: “I think this crappy game has a lot of problems! It’s not very good.”

Ji Chen’s face also turned cold, and he said with a fake smile: “I think so too. This game is not very good. I think we don’t need to release it. We should just withdraw it from the market.”

He entrusted Yuan Huai to send him a gaming helmet and asked him to help him enter the game as an NPC so that he could help him chase his wife! But this guy made things difficult for him everywhere, arbitrarily modified the game data, created so many rivals and troubles for himself, and also set so many pitfalls for himself…

Not only did he suffer so much, but he still was not able to catch up with his wife.

Although he couldn’t just destroy his character at will, because he didn’t enter as a player, Yuan Huai opened a backdoor and let him enter as an NPC. Once his character was destroyed, the optical computer would detect it and force him to exit the game…

But Ji Chen seriously doubted that his failure was also partly due to Yuan Huai. It was good enough that he didn’t cause trouble for him, so how could he still show him a good face?

Lin Ziran was also very dissatisfied and angry about the game. What a crappy game. Not only did he not get any credits, but he was also seduced by the beautiful men… Otherwise, why would he feel guilty about the game?

So Lin Ziran expressed his dissatisfaction without hesitation, but who knew that Ji Chen actually had the same idea as him!

Suddenly, he felt that the other was indeed his old gong. They were so in tune with each other!

But…did Ji Chen also play this game before? Don’t know what it was like when he played it…

But Ji Chen is so skilled, and he has played the same series of games very well before. Could he be traumatized by the games? Is there really something wrong with this new series?

Lin Ziran suddenly became a little curious…

Ji Chen was in a bad mood, of course. He did have psychological trauma and didn’t want to play this rubbish game anymore. He held Lin Ziran’s hand tightly and said seriously: “I think there is no need to play this kind of game at all.”

Lin Ziran thought, you have really touched my heart, and nodded repeatedly: “I think so too! There are really a lot of problems, especially those NPCs, they are simply not normal!”

Ji Chen: “…Yes.”

Lin Ziran: “I don’t know what kind of crappy game company this is. They made a game with so many bugs and a bunch of messed-up plots. To be honest, I don’t want to play it anymore!”

Ji Chen: “…Me too.”

Ah, I didn’t expect you to think the same way. Lin Ziran found a common ground and became more and more excited as he talked.

The two of them dissed this game with real emotion…

Halfway through the conversation, Lin Ziran suddenly looked back and saw Yuan Huai standing there with an awkward expression, and he immediately felt a little embarrassed.

It was just a casual question, but he said so much and almost ignored the guest. How bad it was, Lin Ziran said quickly: “I’m sorry, please don’t mind…”

Yuan Huai was touched to see that someone finally paid attention to him, and quickly said: “Never mind, never mind. By the way, I am the chief designer of this game.”

Lin Ziran: “…”

This is so embarrassing!

Lin Ziran felt like he was caught talking bad about someone behind their back!

Did he just complain too much? Although the game experience is indeed not very good, it is still inappropriate to devalue the game in front of the designer, right? Lin Ziran felt very embarrassed, his face flushed, and he couldn’t speak…

Hey, wait, wasn’t this game designed by an optical computer? How come there is a chief designer? Lin Ziran looked confused.

Yuan Huai saw his confusion and explained with a smile: “All the game data of my company is managed and operated by the optical computer, but the optical computer also needs daily maintenance and manual intervention, and a lot of the data of the optical computer is also imported and adjusted by us…”

Ji Chen spoke coldly and added: “If the optical brain is regarded as artificial intelligence, then he is the master of artificial intelligence. The chief designer can not only intervene in the optical brain but also influence the progress of the game to a certain extent. He has great power…”

Lin Ziran was stunned when he heard this. Could it be possible like this?

As soon as Yuan Huai heard Ji Chen’s tone, he knew that he had offended him badly. He was just on a whim at the time and wanted to see some fun and make Ji Chen’s pursuit of his wife more difficult and fun. If the other person couldn’t overcome all the difficulties and hardships, how could he know the sweetness of love and cherish everything he had? !

Do you see you guys regained the passion you had back then?

But now it seems that Ji Chen doesn’t understand his good intentions at all!

Yuan Huai received Ji Chen’s gaze, which meant to tell him to get lost, and immediately felt bitter…

“Thank you for the compliment. Actually, I don’t have that much power. I can’t control the optical computer at will. I’m just a small programmer…” Yuan Huai showed a flattering smile and said: “Let’s not talk about that. Let’s talk about business… It’s like this… Isn’t our new series going to be launched to the public soon? We need to shoot a promotional video. Ji Chen, do you have time?”

Ji Chen: “No time.”

Yuan Huai: “…”

Even if Lin Ziran was slow-witted, he could tell that the two XiongDi didn’t have a good relationship. He obediently looked at his toes and did not get involved in things he was not familiar with.

Ji Chen smiled coldly: “I’m afraid that endorsing this kind of game will damage my reputation. Please go back.”

Yuan Huai looked aggrieved and kept looking back at Ji Chen, but Ji Chen was cold-hearted and unmoved, so he could only leave in despair.

Looks very weak, pitiful, and helpless…

After sending the annoying guy away, Ji Chen slammed the door, turned around, and smiled at Lin Ziran: “Shall we continue?”

Lin Ziran: “…”

………………

Lin Ziran looked at Ji Chen with tears in his eyes. Ji Chen was so fierce today. And the weirdest thing was, why did even the movements in bed remind him of the NPCs in the game?

Ji Chen wasn’t like this before…

Ji Chen hugged Lin Ziran, bit his ear, and laughed softly: “Did I satisfy you? Do you want to do it again?”

Lin Ziran shook his head repeatedly: “Satisfied, satisfied!”

Damn it, even though they were childhood sweethearts and had always liked each other, they were still relatively young before he lost his memories, so they didn’t do this kind of thing very often, and Ji Chen was always gentle and careful…

Why does it feel like his skills have improved and he is not as restrained as before?

Lin Ziran’s heart suddenly skipped a beat.

Ji Chen hugged Lin Ziran tightly, with a smile in his eyes and a gentle look. From now on, I will watch you carefully and will never give you the chance to forget me.

He carried Lin Ziran to the bathroom.

After they washed themselves, they pulled the quilt over them, and Ji Chen said softly: “Go to sleep.”

Lin Ziran was indeed tired, so he held Ji Chen’s waist with one hand, found a more comfortable position, and fell asleep.

Ji Chen watched the young man in his arms fall into deep sleep, folded his arms, smiled and closed his eyes.

An hour later, the phone beside him vibrated.

Ji Chen opened his eyes and frowned. After thinking for a while, he gently pulled Lin Ziran’s hand down, changed his clothes and walked out.

Yuan Huai stood alone in the dark corridor, he said laughing: “Ah, you are finally done, are you feeling better? Let’s talk about the endorsement again?”

Ji Chen was very impatient and laughed: “I just came to tell you, don’t think I will listen to you if you threaten me with JiuJiu.”

(*JiuJiu= Maternal Uncle)

Yuan Huai laughed awkwardly: “How could I threaten you? But at least I helped you, didn’t you sleep with him in the game?”

He did sleep, but Lin Ziran thought he was an NPC, so he was having a lot of fun…

Ji Chen was upset and sneered: “But did he remember me? And what about those rivals? Did you modify the program and secretly give him some kind of heartthrob aura?”

Yuan Huai: “…I didn’t!”

Ji Chen didn’t believe it and said sarcastically: “What exactly you have done, you should have counted and checked in your own heart.”

Yuan Huai: “…Even if you didn’t catch up with your wife and take out your anger at me, I’ve worked hard even though I didn’t have any credit, right? I’ve tipped you off many times, how can you be so ungrateful and then burn your bridges…”

Ji Chen: “Heh.”

Seeing that Ji Chen was unmoved and cold-blooded, Yuan Huai stopped pretending in anger and said with a fake smile: “Ai… Although your sincerity is very touching, if Ranran knew that you entered the game without telling him in order to pursue him, set up a trap to deceive him, and ruined the plot so that he could not get credits, and used all means to sleep with him, do you think he would be angry with you… Aiya, if he knew these things, I’m afraid that restoring his memory would not work.”

Ji Chen’s face changed and he said coldly: “Are you threatening me?”

Yuan Huai smiled and said: “How can this be called a threat when it comes to us, XiongDi affairs? Isn’t this a negotiation with you? Just help me shoot a promotional photo for free, and I promise that no one will know these secrets…”

Before he finished speaking, his face turned pale and he stood there awkwardly.

Ji Chen immediately realized something was wrong and turned around to see Lin Ziran standing behind them with his arms crossed, looking at them dimly.

Seeing them looking at him, Lin Ziran raised his lips and gave a fake smile: “Go on, just pretend I’m not here, I still want to listen.”

Ji Chen: “…”

Yuan Huai: “…”