Too Much To Handle! The Canary Forced Love on The Grim/Vicious Villain - Chapter 8

Jiang Xu was startled. “He also has psychological issues?”

The butler sneered. “What normal person spits poison like him all the time?”

Jiang Xu: “……”

He muttered a weak defense, “Maybe he’s just… eloquent?”

Was this some sort of curse? In these novels, are all the domineering CEOs certified lunatics? To him, Si Yuhuai seemed mentally fine enough!

The butler: “……”

No wonder you two can get along.

By now it was already deep into the night. The butler’s gaze slid over Jiang Xu and Si Yuhuai’s tightly clasped hands. Thinking nothing else would happen tonight, he got ready to retire.

Jiang Xu was sleepy. Not just sleepy—hungry too.

He thought about raiding the fridge and carefully tried to slip his hand away.

But the moment his hand left Si Yuhuai’s palm, it was seized again, fiercely.

Jiang Xu jolted, his heart suddenly tightening.

He thought Si Yuhuai had woken, but when he looked up, there was no reaction at all…

Jiang Xu: “……”

His gaze dropped back to the man’s palm. Though it had been disinfected, a large patch was still torn open. The sight left Jiang Xu’s chest strangely heavy.

Si Yuhuai always looked like a “if I can’t live well, no one else can” kind of pure-hatred fighter, so why this intense self-destructive tendency?

And as for his fear of the dark…

Jiang Xu vaguely remembered the plot mentioning it.

When Si Yuhuai was seventeen, right before Lunar New Year’s Eve, his fifth uncle brought his girlfriend home. They were among the rare few who treated Si Yuhuai kindly.

After discovering this, Si Yuming locked Si Yuhuai in a pitch-black room.

He stayed there for twenty days straight.

By the time he was released, the Lantern Festival had passed.

Others enjoyed a festive New Year, but for him, that dark year of seventeen stretched into what felt like two endless years.

In the darkness, with no sense of night or day, he began losing the ability to tell illusion from reality.

Back then, only pain could remind him what was real.

Jiang Xu’s chest felt stuffed with cotton.

Even a child locked in a room for half a day would cry themselves hoarse. He couldn’t imagine what it was like to be trapped for twenty days. It would drive anyone insane!

Si Yuhuai’s face was expressionless, but Jiang Xu could feel the tightening grip on his hand.

With a sigh, Jiang Xu patted his shoulder. “Let’s go upstairs to bed. Don’t just sit here like a fool.”

Rain pattered against the glass, lulling and soporific.

Jiang Xu kept his voice soft, trying to coax him without actually waking him.

Luckily, Si Yuhuai was very docile in his sleepwalking state, allowing himself to be led upstairs without resistance.

Since he wouldn’t release his grip, Jiang Xu simply let him hold on.

After guiding him to bed, Jiang Xu lay down beside him. That hand never let go.

His eyelids grew heavy, and soon he couldn’t fight off sleep.

Still worried that Si Yuhuai might run off again, Jiang Xu hooked a leg over his waist just in case.

As he drifted, Si Yuhuai’s striking profile swam in his thoughts. Jiang Xu sighed inwardly: Why hurt yourself like this? Life is precious.

But he was too tired. Before he could get lost in melancholy, he conked out completely.

When in doubt, sleep first.

The next morning, Si Yuhuai awoke to a sharp pain in his palm. He stared at the wound, then looked down—

Jiang Xu was sprawled half across him, hand planted right on his stomach?!

A sudden violent rage surged in his chest. He grabbed Jiang Xu’s soft cheeks in one fist.

“Jiang Xu!”

Jiang Xu woke groggily, only to feel his face yanked painfully.

“Ow, ow, ow—”

Si Yuhuai’s gaze was dark. “What did you do to me this time? Do you really think I wouldn’t dare deal with you?”

System: “Host, stop!”

Si Yuhuai looked up and saw the little boy in a maid outfit above Jiang Xu’s head, face full of grievance. Jiang Xu, rubbing his cheeks, wore the exact same pitiful expression.

【Clear-Soup Grandpa! Oh heavens, please judge loyalty and treachery!

He was the one who got up in the middle of the night hurting himself, yet he’s blaming me? And I even held him all night to keep him safe! This man has no heart!】

Si Yuhuai’s face abruptly paled.

Sleepwalking?

System: “Yes, host, you were indeed sleepwalking.”

The butler had mentioned it, but he dismissed it as nonsense, just an excuse to trick him into seeing a doctor.

From Jiang Xu’s words, did that mean his injuries were self-inflicted?

Why would he harm himself? Was he insane?

Back when he first returned to the Si family and was bullied nearly to death, he had considered suicide. But then he realized—the ones who deserved to die were others. So he’d long abandoned that thought.

Sleepwalking was the subconscious at work. Was his subconscious trying to kill him?

If anything, shouldn’t it be trying to kill Si Yuming?

Jiang Xu, seeing his pallor, wondered if he was unwell again. Still, since domineering CEOs in novels always had some strange illnesses, it wasn’t exactly surprising.

Kneeling up, Jiang Xu carefully gestured toward the hand clumsily wrapped by the butler. “Si Yuhuai, you should really get this treated properly. If it gets infected, it’ll be bad.”

There was no hiding the concern in his eyes, and it made Si Yuhuai uneasy.

Masking it, he got up from bed—only to stumble over something soft and furry.

Looking back—

The bed was covered in… what were these things?

He had actually slept with all this junk last night?!

Si Yuhuai: “……”

“Jiang Xu!”

Jiang Xu, who had just snuggled back down for another nap, shot upright. “What now?”

Si Yuhuai tossed a giant plush tail into his arms, teeth gritted. “Were you afraid people wouldn’t know about your fetish? Can’t you tone it down? With all this in bed, aren’t you scared of nightmares?”

Jiang Xu stroked the furry tail.

“Why would I be? Isn’t it cute?”

Looking up innocently, he added, “Besides, I mainly wanted to ask about your preferences. That way we can communicate better in the future!”

【No way, no way—this guy is this old and pretending to be some pure little boy? Don’t tell me he doesn’t know what these are. He clearly understood instantly!

Wait—he’s blushing?

Oh damn! His ears are red! His neck too?!

I didn’t even do anything and he’s already flustered? Could it be… I’m a natural-born seduction genius?!】

Si Yuhuai felt his bl00d boiling, his whole body tense. He glared viciously. “If you keep looking at me, I’ll gouge your eyes out!”

【My eyes? No way!】 Jiang Xu immediately clapped his hands over his face, burying himself in the pillow with his butt stuck up.

Seeing the threat work, Si Yuhuai finally straightened proudly with a cold hum and left.

Jiang Xu stayed facedown, hands over his eyes—

And in that moment, he got it.

Oh… so Si Yuhuai likes blindfolds.