. under the promise that.... .

Finally, when he got to stand beside Hanze on reaching the living room, he saw all - yuehua, xueCheng, chu Hua, jimeng, and chu Jing - five of his friends siting on opposite sides.

The black haired yuehua who displays all emotions on his cold face was sitting on the farthest end, leaning against the arm of the sofa, while the pouting raven haired was sitting close to him as usual, vying for his attention that he would never get.

xueCheng was sighing nonstop.... It felt like he was watching over a bunch of kids... Xiao Jing had her eyes glued to her phone's screen, while Xiao Hua was watching a program the rest found boring.

xueCheng dispersed the quarrelling in regards to it, resulting to this laissez faire style of waiting for the cold demon\ sorcerer to come out with their friend as promised.

But the thing what suprised Anying was the fact that they were all on green.

Green pants, green shirts, green skirts... And black shoes... Was this luck or something?.

Anying was stunned.

"He's here". Hanze finally spoke as no one recognized their presence.

All heads shot towards them immediately. Five pair of eyes to be exact, with varying degrees of expressions. It soon turned to only staring at Anying worriedly and then with relief.

Jimeng the naive conversation starter soon got tired of it, Anying was sure because he saw the youth suddenly Raise his hands.

"C-can... I talk?.". He asked, tilting his head.

Anying rolled his eyes. He was already talking. ' can I talk my foot '.

"Hm, go ahead.". Hanze said.

"Can he come... over to us then?.". Jimeng asked slowly.

"Not yet.". Hanze said causing everyone to hold their breath.

Yuehua scoffed. ".Now what do you want?.". He asked angrily. Really he couldn't stand this guy. Acting all high and mighty.

Anying bit his lips anxiously. Couldn't yuehua read the situation?. He should stop provoking Hanze!.

' sigh... I haven't had a chance to warn him yet...'. he complained. The other day he was too hungry to remember that.

Hanze ignored him outrightly... Much to everyone except anying's relief.

"Under the promise that, yuehua wouldn't be joining you.". Hanze stated.

All the five of them minus yuehua who heard the statement.

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"..."

They were dumbfounded, except yuehua who had enough. What was wrong with this guy really?. He was going to ask.

".... You, what is w--".

"I'm not done yet." Hanze hissed with a warning glare sent to the dark haired who was equally pissed.

That shut him up, good. "Now". Hanze continued. "He's only allowed to reach the amusement park. Then you can bring him back and continue your journey.".

Anying was a little bit Disappointed but he knew better than to say that.

' if you're going to do a good deed, do it properly... ' he complained within himself, glaring at Hanze's back.

xueCheng was the first to stand up in protest. "H-hanze...". He stuttered. A bad start. It wasn't his fault. His brother's eyes were too cold for him.

"I... Today is my birthday ... a-and... i-i... I plan to--.".

."Xue". Hanze interupted.

"Yes brother.". xueCheng complied and sat down with a hurt face.

This made yuehua annoyed. "Why can't he stay out for as long as he wants?.". He asked.

"You're not going with them so it's non of your meddling business.". Hanze replied him with a voice that could freeze hell over.

"You wish.". Yuehua challenged, staring at Hanze's cold self.

Anying swallowed at the wisp of deadly aura Hanze exuded for a split sec before it disappeared. He guessed right, everyone else breathed it to... They had horrified expressions on their faces, except yuehua who was still consumed by rage.

"Really?.". Hanze asked. And Before Anying knew what, he was shoved back into the passage way towards the rooms.

His eyes widened in realization as Hanze pushed him again and again until they were almost at the door, however, he didn't allow Hanze push him in coldly, he knelt down immediately and he caught a glimpse of shock flashing through hanze's eyes before it quickly disapeared.

"P-please... Hanze.... Let me go with...w-with them!.. ". He pleaded, but the heartless man just grabbed him by the elbow and kicked the door open.

Dread overcame Anying.

His golden ticket... His once in a lifetime chance...

Noooooooooooo--

"Stop.". His thought suddenly got interupted by a low strained voice.

' yuehua? '.

He turned around to see yuehua standing few steps away from them with an annoyed look.

"What is it?.". Hanze asked him relatively calm. He had no time to deal with monks.

"I'll stay, let him go.".

Aww... Hero in shiny armor.

Hanze sneered coldly. "Playing the hero.".

"Isn't that what you want?. You planned it didn't you?.". Yuehua refuted.

"Enough talking.". Hanze stated and placed the shrinked version of zucchini's residence - a chain with a diamond ' camera ' - around his neck, after which he shoved a black card into the youth's hands.

Then he led him by the hand back to the living room, ignoring yuehua all the way.

Anying was glad a fight didn't break out.

On reaching there Anying found everyone sitting with bathed breaths and panicled expressions.

They brightened up a little when he came into view, rather, him and Hanze who immediately shoved him into xueCheng's arms with a warning glare that made the youth tremble like a leaf.

"There's a tracker only i can remove on him, don't provoke me, i'm unstable." He warned and xueCheng nodded vigorously. Anying thought his head would fall off. "Remember, xiajie let you out because of me. Do disappoint him." He added and xueCheng decided not to nod.

Anying sighed. What was that unecessary information all about?. They shouldn't attempt removing the said tracker, because only he could access it. They shouldn't provoke him for fear of getting their soul reaped. xueCheng should keep to his nods of agreement lest he told xiajie to come ' handle '. Which meant... Him - Anying shoul--

"You.". Hanze Suddenly faced him, making him wince. "Do, try running away from me.". He suggested.

"I-i...wont...". Anying replied in a tiny voice before adding. "Thank you...". To Hanze's departing self.

The guy knew what would come next so he left. He didn't want to watch, because he might get jealous and kill someone... At least if he wanted to watch it should not be directly.

"Patience...". He told himself.

Anying sighed. He knew what was coming next... And so proven in the next second, everyone began squishing him into a hug until only yuehua was left.

They missed him, he knew but he wasn't going to allow zucchini capture him hugging yuehua for too long. Hanze might be very well sitting in front of a live video of his actions right now. So when yuehua got near him and hugged him tight for a few seconds, he tried to pull the man off of him, but he got a grumble instead. The Leach.

"Yuehua... Stop...". He pleaded.

"Just a little longer.". The man replied, pressing him more tightly.

And when xueCheng saw this he felt a sudden sense of danger , so he clapped, hit yuehua at the back of his head and used his slight shock to announce.

."We should get going!. Anying doesn't have a lot of Time with us, so we should use the little time we have to have fun with him!. Who agrees?!.".

All of them gave a positive reply and Anying mouthed a silent thank you to xueCheng's actions after he escaped.

Yuehua only gave a low growl of disapproval and disapointment but he didn't say anything else... He could only keep using his eyes to follow anying until the youth left the house with the rest.

Anying couldn't believe it... He left the house without Hanze's presence sticking around him.....

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Question time.

Author:"Oi?. Who is zucchini? ".

"A sack of potatoes.". Anying shrugged.

"Huh?, What'd you say?". xueCheng asked when he heard Anying's mummuring.

"Nothing important.". Anying smiled.

Zucchini the said potato. "ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ".

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