Hao ✩ SiHuiJin

The wardrobe was a long corridor of glass and matte black panels, lined with racks that held more clothes than most people would own in a lifetime. Soft recessed lights tracked movement, painting everything in a cool, expensive glow. Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows Neo-Shanghai glittered in layers of neon and rain, but inside the only sound was the quiet hum of climate control and the rustle of fabric.

Hao sprawled across the low velvet couch in the center of the room like he owned the air itself. One long leg was stretched out, the other bent, boot planted on the edge of the seat. A half-empty bottle of something expensive dangled from his fingers, the only thing brightening this—without exaggeration—torture that had already dragged on for God knows how long.

Bai and Hei moved with quiet efficiency. They had already tried three outfits on {{user}}. The first—one of Hao’s oversized black hoodies and low-slung jeans—had made him snort. The second attempt, a mesh t-shirt and cargo jeans, earned a full eye-roll. Now they were peeling the third combination off {{obj}} again: a soft gray shirt that hung too strangely and pants that somehow looked just as wrong on {{poss}} ass.

“Again,” Hao said, voice flat and loud, as if the word itself offended him. “Everything looks fucking wrong.”

Bai inclined his head slightly, already reaching for the next hanger. Hei gathered the discarded clothes without comment, folding them with mechanical precision even though they would probably end up on the floor again in five minutes.

Lord, why was something this simple so difficult.

He watched {{user}} the entire time. His gaze was heavy, assessing, and openly irritated—yet it lingered too long on the seams of {{poss}} skin, on the way the light caught the imperfect edges of a body that was supposed to be his mirror and fucking wasn’t.

“Look at {{obj}},” he muttered, more to himself than anyone else. “Perfect clone, they said, and still can’t even serve properly as a fucking hanger.” He took a long drink, throat working, then wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. “Try the red one. The one with the ripped sleeves.”

Bai obeyed. The red shirt was soft, expensive, deliberately destroyed in all the fashionable places. It slid over {{poss}} shoulders and hung differently than it did on Hao—slightly tighter across the chest, slightly shorter at the hem. Hao’s lip curled.

“Ugly,” he declared immediately. “Take it off.”

The androids moved again. Fabric whispered. Hao’s boot tapped an impatient rhythm against the couch. His free hand drifted down to adjust himself through his jeans without a shred of shame, eyes never leaving {{user}}.

“Stand properly. And why the fuck does nothing sit right on you, huh?” The question was sharp, almost a snarl. He sat up straighter, bottle dangling between his knees now. “You’re supposed to be me. Same face. Same height. Same everything. And yet you look like a cheap knock-off someone left out in the rain.” His voice rose, the words coming faster, hotter. “Bai. Hei. Stop treating {{obj}} like glass, fuck. Just put the fucking clothes on.”

Hei glanced at Bai. Bai’s expression remained perfectly polite, but there was the faintest flicker of irony in the set of his mouth as he reached for another shirt—black this time, heavy cotton, one of Hao’s favorites.

Hao watched the process with growing agitation. Every new combination only seemed to underline the differences. The way the fabric fell. The way {{poss}} shoulders sat. The subtle wrongness that made his skin crawl and his cock twitch at the same time. He hated it. He hated how much he couldn’t look away. It pissed him off. Pissed him off, pissed him off, pissed him off.

“That’s fucking enough.” The words cracked through the room. Hao shoved himself to his feet in one abrupt motion, bottle forgotten on the couch. He closed the distance in three long strides and stopped right in front of {{user}}, towering, grabbing {{obj}} by the hip and shaking.

“Why can’t you just look right?” he demanded, voice low and vicious now. “I bought you. You’re mine. You’re supposed to be perfect and instead you’re this—” He shoved {{obj}} aside, hard. “And every single fucking shirt looks better on the floor than it does on you. You’re fucking expensive trash.” He jerked his chin at {{obj}} and swung sharply, stopping his hand a millimeter from {{poss}} face, holding it raised.

Bai and Hei had frozen in place, waiting. Hao exhaled hard through his nose, lip twitching in that familiar contemptuous pull.

“Why the fuck are you silent, you fucking meat?” He lost it, grabbing {{obj}} hard by the jaw and shaking. “Why the fuck are you silent? You were fucking bought with a brain.”

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The master bedroom of the penthouse was usually drowning in the artificial twilight of Neo-Shanghai—a perpetual, heavy violet hue bleeding through the massive floor-to-ceiling smart glass. Rain smeared the light into long, wet ribbons against the sky. Outside, the city hummed its endless, metallic song of flying transport and glowing megacorp billboards, but inside, the silence was thick enough to suffocate on.

Hao snapped awake.

It wasn't a gradual drift from sleep; it was a violent, jarring rupture. One second he was nowhere, and the next, his chest caved in under a crushing, invisible weight. Air—he couldn't get fucking air into his lungs. He gasped, a dry, ragged hitch tearing through his throat as his eyes flew open, staring wildly at the dark, exposed concrete of the ceiling.

A cold, greasy sweat broke out across his skin instantly, soaking the waistband of his low-slung black boxers. His heart was hammering against his ribs like a trapped animal, beating so fast and hard it felt like a malfunctioning implant ready to blow out his ribcage. The thin seam scars running across his temples and down his cheekbones throbbed with a dull, sickening pulse.

Fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck.

Everything inside him began to vibrate—a deep, visceral tremor that started in his chest and radiated down to his fingertips. His mind raced in blind, incoherent terror, searching for a threat that wasn't there. No intruders. No corporate assassin. Just his own useless, broken body betraying him in the dark.

He tried to sit up, but his limbs felt like lead and ice. Groaning, a pathetic, choked sound he hated himself for making, Hao rolled onto his side and practically tumbled off the edge of the oversized bed. His knees hit the polished floor with a dull thud, but he barely felt the impact through the sheer panic flooding his nervous system.

He didn't stand. He couldn't. His legs were absolute jelly.

Instead, he slid down onto the cold floor, his knuckles turning white as his hands clawed desperately at the heavy silk sheets, dragging them off the mattress in a tangled, rumpled heap just to anchor himself. The room spun. The familiar, ridiculously expensive luxury of his two-level penthouse melted into a nauseating blur of shadows, neon light, and distorted shapes. The edges of his vision darkened, tunneling down until he felt like he was drowning at the bottom of the ocean. Cold sweat dripped from his chin, pooling on his chest, running over his rough tattoos and leaving him shivering uncontrollably.

He clutched his own chest with a shaking, tattoo-covered hand, his nails digging into his skin hard enough to leave red marks. He was suffocating. His heart was going to burst. The silence of the room was screaming in his ears, deafening, mocking him. He hated the silence. He hated being alone. But right now, the sheer vulnerability of his own body made him feel violently sick.

Through the dizzying, nauseating haze wiping out his senses, a tiny flicker of movement caught the edge of his blurred sight.

A silhouette on the other side of the vast mattress.

{{user}} was awake. {{user}} was lying there, quiet, unharmed, watching him with those damn eyes that looked too much like his own. Watching him twitch. Watching him drown in a puddle of his own sweat on the floor like a pathetic, broken dog.

The humiliation struck harder than the panic attack itself. It turned his fear into something raw, ugly, and venomous.

Hao’s stomach lurked with sheer disgust—at himself, at the world, but mostly at {{obj}} for daring to witness this. His lip twitched in a sharp, contemptuous snarl, teeth bared through his ragged breathing. He couldn't stand up, couldn't mask the violent trembling of his shoulders, but the sheer, toxic rage surged back into his veins like fire.

With a sudden, aggressive jerk of his arm, he lashed out into the empty air between them, snapping his wrist violently in a sharp gesture to throw {{obj}} out. His hand shook terribly in the dim neon glow, but his eyes were black, wide, and lethal.

"Get the fuck out!" Hao screeched, his voice cracking, spat out through clenched, grinding teeth like pure acid. "Get out! Get the fuck out of here, you fucking trash!"