"Achoo!"

Lin Ye sneezed out of nowhere in the shop. While rubbing his nose, his sneeze caught the attention of his sisters. Both of them stopped looking at the clothes that were hanging and stared at him with a raised brows.

"Gege? Is something the matter?" Nian asked.

"Do you have a cold?" Lily got to his side, "If you're sick why did you come?"

Lin Ye smiled at the two girls worrying about him. He held a hand at them to stop.

"It's just a sneeze. It's fine," He replied, "Let's just have fun."

A smirk then appeared on Nian's face as she put back a shirt in her hand.

"Or maybe there is a woman missing you Gege?"

Lin Ye raised a brow at this. Then he shook his head and laughed.

"I doubt that." He waved his hand dismissively at them, "What girl would even miss me?"

"…"

"…"

He expected that the two of them would agree to him immediately but what he was looking at was two blank faces looking straight at him. They looked like they were disappointed in him.

Nian leaned her head closer to Lily's.

"Sis, our Gege is a moron." She subtly whispered loudly at her.

"I agree," Lily nodded, "Gege is sometimes a bit like that."

"Oi. I can hear you."

Both smirk at his deadpan reply.

Lily then walked up to him.

"Are you still worried about your friend Gege?"

This caught Lin Ye by surprise.

"… Why do you say so?"

"You weren't really subtle about it Gege," Nian smiled at him, "Every time we pass a café you have this faraway gaze."

"… Really?" He said, nervously chuckling, "Sorry about that."

Both of them sighed.

Lily looked outside and noticed the sky was getting red now. The princess glanced back at her brother and smiled.

"I think that's enough for today. It's getting late now. You must be tired, Gege." The princess offered.

After looking outside and noticing that it was getting dark, Lin Ye nodded at the two of them.

"Okay, I really need a bath. I heard they have a hot tub. Curious about what it feels like."


{Rhodes Island's Psychologist}


The feeling of the hot water touching his skin was something that Lin Ye never thought he needed.

"Ah~." He moaned, leaning against the end of the hot tub. The bottom half of his body was full in the water. Covering his private part was just a simple white towel.

The ex-prince of Yan was happily surprised at how big the place was. It was almost bigger than his room and that was a huge achievement on its own. This place was divided into two parts based on gender.

In his past life, Lin ye did not have the privilege of going to a hot tub with how sick he was at the time. He had to say, this should have been on his bucket list at that time.

Nian was set on going with him, but Lily quickly explained some common sense. He was not really surprised by this. Nian was not someone that lived in the same era as Lily. He suggested the other men in his group join him. Sadly, all of them were not interested in the hot tub. Lin Ye could feel his whole body relaxing. All of his joints started to get loose. His mind even started to drift.

He couldn't even remember the last time he felt so calm before.

No, he lied.

He remembered. Oddly Lin Ye remembers this feeling when he was with a person that he shouldn't have been friends with.

"Yelena…" Her name slipped through his lips without even him noticing.

Yelena made him feel like he did not need to act. She made him feel like he could just be him. Just be Lin Ye.

It was… an experience.

A bit ironic, the person that should have made him the tensest made him feel so at ease.

Pulling his thoughts away from that, Lin Ye looked at his hands. As he expected they were littered with scars. A stab wound here, some cut there, and lightning-like scars everywhere.

That was his hands. He could hardly see any skin that did not have a scar on it. Wearing gloves was really the right move.

The Doctor put down his hand and looked at the area where he was now.

It was a bit strange that he was the only one here. He did remember that Lateran did not really like hot tubs, being naked around strangers, and all that. Lin Ye was one of those people. But when he asked the staff if he could use this place, they told him that he should be the only one in the area.

He had this whole place for himself.

"Hey there."

That should be the case, but the voice that appeared behind him said otherwise.

He looked behind him and saw something that he did not expect to see in the male part of this place.

A woman.

A towel was covering her torso while another was wrapped around her head. Her golden eyes stared at his black, smiling as he did so. Lin Ye could easily see her red horns behind her towel.

A Sarkaz.

She smirked when she noticed Lin Ye's eyes slowly move downward. The woman pointed at the empty spot beside him.

"Is this place taken?"

Lin Ye looked to his side and then black to her.

"No," He smiled as he moved a bit to give her some space, "It's empty."

The woman smiled and slowly sat beside him, far enough to not touch each other but close enough for her to grab him.

The sound of water splashing out of the tub echoed in the empty space. The Sarkaz woman smirked when he felt Lin Ye's on her.

"You must be wondering why a woman is in the men's area. Well, the hotel said that the woman is down and told me to go here instead, saying there shouldn't be anyone at the moment," The Sarkaz cheekily said, pointing at her eyes at the same time, "And eyes up here mister."

The man chuckled at being caught.

"Sorry about that. Just glad you aren't naked. A bikini in a hot tub was a good choice to make. For both of us"

The woman giggled.

Seeing that the woman was not mad at him, Lin Ye let himself melt into the warm water around him.

W was surprised at how calm the man was now. If she remembered correctly, when she first met him at Lungmen, he was a complete mess at the time. Now, however, it was like he was a different man now.

"Hey lady, just curious but why are you sitting here?" Lin Ye's voice snapped her out of her thoughts, "You do know this place is large? You can be anywhere other than close to a man that you just met in a hot tub out of all places."

This took W off guard. Then she laughed out loud. Lin Ye just let her let it all out of the system while still waiting for a reply with a smile on his face.

"You're right," W finally got her mind under control., W smiled at this interesting man, "Why am I doing that?"

W slowly moved her hand closer to him. She hovered her finger on his torso. She had to admit, this man was packing under all of his clothing.

The man just stared at her uncaringly without reacting to anything that she did.

What an interesting man.

W kept her hand moving upward until her finger stopped on his cheek.

"I just thought you were interesting."

"Interesting huh?" Lin Ye was not bothered by this and smiled at this, "Thanks for the compliment."

This only made W's smile larger. She leaned closer and brought her face just a few inches away from his ear.

"I do something special… treatment to interesting people," She purred into his ear, "AT the right price of course."

"Special treatment and for the right price, huh?" Lin Ye sounded amused by this. He stood up from the sauna and looked down at her, "Let me check if I have some cash with me."

He pointed to the side to see a pile of clothing not far from where they were.

"It won't take long, my stuff is just there." Lin Ye hummed, "Want to make sure I have enough money on me. Don't want to waste your time."

W folded her arms below her chest and smirked at him.

"What a gentleman," She said, "I'll be waiting here then."

Lin Ye chuckled and got out of the tub. He made his way to his things. While his back was facing her, W lost the towel around her.

When it was off of her, there were a lot of firearms around her body. It's good that most of them were waterproof too.

She unstrap and simple gun and pointed it at the man who was going through his stuff.

Just when W was about to pull the trigger, she felt something.

A hot tub should be hot. An Idiot knows this.

However, why did it feel cold all of a sudden?

"Your name should be W, right?"

With her mind suddenly wondering what was going on, she did not pay attention to the man that she was assigned to kill.

Staring back at her target she was greeted with the end of a gun's barrel in front of her.

She glanced at the man's face and noticed something.

The man changed.

His eyes.

A corpse's eyes had more life than his.

"We met at Lungmen," The man said blandly, "Can't say I miss you though."

She stared at his emotionless eyes,

Then a smirk formed on her face as she readjusted her hold on her gun on him.

"You're better than interesting!" She exclaimed while aiming her gun at his head, "You're dangerous."


{Rhodes Island's Psychologist}


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