Ch43 - Liking You.

Editor: DarkSapphire, Sahloknir

Jiang Xiao waited for a few seconds. Seeing that the little summoner was staying quiet, he sent a message.

[(Private) Formless Slash: Arena together?]

[(Private) Dying Star: No.]

[(Private) Formless Slash: Then you came to find me specifically?]

[(Private) Dying Star: No!]

Jiang Xiao smiled, stopped his questions and watched the youth silently.

Yue Ran unconsciously pressed on a key repeatedly, one that rotated his character’s camera. Soon, he didn’t know how many rotations he had made.

Remove the receiver, how could the senior think of such a cruel idea. Was therea pit in his mind?

But frankly speaking, when his cousin told him, he was really touched. But you can’t be too selfish, others have to cut something to be with him, he feels heavy when he thinks about it.

But frankly, when his cousin revealed the truth to him, he was really touched. But he couldn’t be too selfish. The other would have to get something removed in order to be with him. Just the thought of it made his heart sink.

He finally removed his finger from the key, hardened his heart, and decided to make it clear.

[(Private) Dying Star: My cousin told me everything.]

Jiang Xiao’s heart trembled slightly.

The benefit of Qin Xiujie’s move today was to give him a push from behind, but the drawback was giving Yue Ran the opportunity to poke a hole through the paper screen.

He stopped Yue Ran’s words in time so that the little summoner wouldn’t give him thenice guy card.

[(Private) Formless Slash: Don’t think about those unnecessary things for now. Just think about one thing now.]

[(Private) Dying Star: What?]

[(Private) Formless Slash: Removing me as an alpha out of the equation for a moment, do you have feelings for me?]

Yue Ran was caught off guard.

As long as he thinks that Jiang Xiao is an Alpha, he automatically rejects the possibility between them, and he dare not think deeply about the others. But there is one thing he admits, this is the Alpha who treats him the best among people of the same age group in recent years except for his relatives.

As long as he thought of Jiang Xiao together with ‘alpha’, he automatically rejected the possibility between them. Other than that, he didn’t dare to ponder over it more deeply. But one thing he admitted was that this was the nicest alpha he had met among people in his same age group except for his relatives in recent years.

He was all twisted up for a moment as he slowly typed down the following words.

[(Private) Dying Star: I don’t know.]

[(Private) Formless Slash: Then do you dislike me?]

[(Private) Dying Star: No.]

Although he has recently gained a new understanding of Jiang Xiao’s character, and he is quite angry that Jiang Xiao is shameless, but this cautiousness did not touch his bottom line and did not affect his overall impression of Jiang Xiao.

Although he just recently had a new understanding of Jiang Xiao’s character and was quite angry that the senior was shameless, thiscautious setupdidn’t touch his bottom line and didn’t affect his overall impression of Jiang Xiao.

His impression of the other person was still a reliable senior who treated him well.

He glanced at the chat history, picked on his keyboard, and endured the discomfort and tension of talking about his feelings with others for the first time. He stressed in one sentence.

[(Private) Dying Star: Don’t dislike is not like.]

Jiang Xiao thought about the little summoner behind the screen, who must maintain his straight face. Jiang Xiao smiled again and replied quickly.

[(Private) Formless Slash: I know, but at least you don’t dislike me.]

[(Private) Formless Slash: Ran Ran, then how about this, give me a chance to try. If you still don’t return my feelings by the end of this semester, I will stop bothering you. But if you do, let’s find a way to solve the pheromones issue together. If you don’t like me removing it, we will think of another way. Either way, I’ll listen to you.]

Yue Ran’s little heart was pounding hard. A cold sensation spread through his nervous fingers. It took him a long time to reply.

[(Private) Dying Star: What do you mean by ‘to try’?]

[(Private) Formless Slash: Just let me pursue you and don’t always avoid me when you see me in the future.]

[(Private) Dying Star: What if I don’t agree? Will you act like before?]

[(Private) Formless Slash: No, I’ll stay far away from you to get drunk late at night where you can’t see. Feeling depressed from not fulfilling my wish before I die.]

How did this quickly turn into ‘not fulfilling my wish before I die’!Yue Ran stared at the message. He only felt that the tense boundary around him cracked with a pop. The next moment, he saw two more messages.

[(Private) Formless Slash: I was just teasing you.]

[(Private) Formless Slash: I’m a bit nervous.]

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He moved his fingers, feeling that it was stiff as if wrapped in a layer of plastic wrap, but now that layer of plastic wrap was severely cut, air was poured in, and the blood began to flow again.

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[(Private) Formless Slash: You don’t have to answer right now. Tell me after you think about it.]

[(Private) Dying Star: ‘Kay.]

Jiang Xiao only looked at the happy word “um”, and guessed that the little soul master’s mood had eased, and asked if he wanted to play the arena with him. Yue Ran agreed this time, and the two formed a team and entered the random competition mode.

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With the duo’s strength being displayed, they won three matches in a row, as easy as a professional chef chopping vegetables.

In the fourth match, they entered the map and found that it was an instant death map with a cliff. Yue Ran used his insane hand speed to switch his sixth to the little chubby chicken.

The enemy consisted of a group of three. When the opposite team saw who they were facing, a conversation started in the all chat one after another.

[(All) Disconnected: Oh my god! We are matched with Star God!]

[(All) I am Support: Star God, I’m your little fan. I’ve been your fan since your battle against Star of Jupiter, mua~]

[(All) Daylily: Star God, can you please show us mercy?]

[(All) Dying Star: Sure, just jump off the cliff yourself.]

[(All) I am Support:5555.]

[(All) Daylily: (tears)]

[(All) Disconnected: Not jumping. There are the three of us, Great God, just you wait, we will gang up on you!]

[(All) Dying Star: I have a teammate.]

[(All) Disconnected: Then we’ll deal with you first and clean your teammate up afterwards (smirk).]

[(All) Dying Star: I see.]

It turned out that the trio had wishful thinking.

Jiang Xiao met me as an assistant on the way, and immediately rushed over, quickly killing him. Yue Ran also encountered a disconnection over there, who also killed the person, and then the two joined up and blocked the Wangyoucao on the cliff.

Jiang Xiao met I am Support on his way to rendezvous with this team and rushed towards the other at once, killing the player quickly. Yue Ran also met one of the trio, Disconnected, on his way. Same as his senior, he defeated the enemy. Then, once the two met up, they cornered Daylity at the edge of a cliff.

[(All) Daylily: Star God, wait. Please listen to my dying words!]

[(All) Dying Star: Speak.]

[(All) Daylily: Please take a picture with me~]

Yue Ran was not good at interacting with his fans, but this requirement was simple enough. He went to stand with Daylity to let him take a screenshot. Then he asked to take a picture with the little fat chicken and also made a request of being sent off by it. Yue Ran muttered about such a weird fan, then he summoned his sixth quietly. Waiting for the other to say done before killing the last enemy immediately.

Jiang Xiao glanced at the little fat chicken and asked, “You haven’t made further refinement on it?”

Yue Ran uttered a “No”.

He had considered whether to feed the chicken some bird type spirit animals, but he was afraid of losing the crowd control from the refinement. This little chicken finally had some use. What would happen if it returned to being abug?

Jiang Xiao guessed his concern and asked, “Its attack still isn’t high?”

Yue Ran replied, “It only rose a little. It can’t beat people with it. I don’t know whether the critical chance buff would work on it or not.”

Jiang Xiao said, “Let’s try it in the next match.”

Yue Ran had no objection, as he clicked on ‘Ready’ to continue.

A moment later, he encountered an enemy on a narrow road. He summoned his chicken to fight and was surprised to find that he could buff it. Although its attack was not as good as the White Lion, at least it was not completely useless.

The two quickly won the game.

After listening to his feedback, Jiang Xiao suggested, “You can try feeding some materials.”

Yue Ran hesitated. “What if it loses its skill?”

“Its attack can’t keep up, so you can only use its control,” Jiang Xiao analyzed, “but now players know that it has this knock-up skill, so they must be careful when facing it, you don’t take advantage of it.”

“Right now, it doesn’t have any growth. You can only use it for its skill.” Jiang Xiao analyzed. “But now other players know its knock-off ability. They will be more cautious when fighting you. You won’t gain any advantage over it.”

Yue Ran thought about how true the senior’s analysis was.

He usually used the White Lion and would only use the little chubby chicken under special circumstances. But if the chicken’s attack could be a little higher, he could use it for combat. In this way, if it had both the attack stats and crowd control, it would be a match made in heaven.

Jiang Xiao commented, “If you really like its skill, even if it loses it, you can still refine it again. Whatever the case, you can’t try without trying. You never know, you might get a good result.”

Yue Ran glanced at the swordsman and agreed.

Although Jiang Xiao made an analysis with double meaning, it was still logical. In any case, he remembered how many of his things the little fat chicken swallowed. It was a pity that he was going to start to refine it again.

They left the arena, entered a private YY chat room and began their quest to tame bird type monsters.

There are many birds and spirit beasts in Ranger, from humble chickens, ducks and geese to adult-sized raptors, almost all of them can be killed. The more he wanted to strengthen the little fat chicken’s attack, he shot four or five raptors in a row, fed them to the little fat chicken one by one, and finally put some good materials cruelly, and clicked to synthesize.

There were many bird monster species in the game. From unremarkable chickens, ducks and geese to large size birds of prey, almost all of them were ideal as ingredients. Yue Ran wanted to strengthen the white chicken’s attack, so he beat four to five ferocious predatory birds and put them in the array one by one. Finally, he ruthlessly added more good materials and clicked ‘Refine’.

The white light dissipated, and a bird appeared in the centre of the array.

Yue Ran: “…”

Jiang Xiao asked, “Done?”

Instead of answering, Yue Ran released the bird.

Jiang Xiao studied it and also stayed silent.

This bird was an enlarged version of the little fat chicken. The difference was that the wings and tail had grown, and it actually had a neck now. But…the three exaggerated cowlick feathers on its head remained unchanged.

The little fat bird was still happy as it flew around its master’s head, landed by his leg, and rubbed against it.

There was no emotion on Yue Ran’s face.

A bird with a snow-white body is still beautiful and elegant, but it has three hairs of different colors on its head. This is not the idiot face of a baby, it is simply killer!

A snow-white bird was very beautiful and elegant, unfortunately, it had to have the eyesore of three long feathers in different colours. This was not simply the cute, foolish face of a small cub, but had taken on the appearance of somethingbizarre!

Jiang Xiao brought up, “How about its skill?”

Yue Ran opened the chicken’s character menu and felt more at ease. “Its attack increased, and the knock-off skill is still there.”

“That’s good,” Jiang Xiao said. “See, it was worth a try.”

Yue Ran didn’t answer. He unsummoned the bird without outrageous style and mumbled, “I’m going to bed.”

Jiang Xiao asked, “Is tomorrow’s training still running?”

Yue Ran replied, “No.”

In fact, they only listened to the chief instructor’s lecture today. After the first day, they will become more regular. The Omega team will always be at 8:00 am and 5:00 pm, and there will be no training for the rest of the time.

In fact, they only had to listen to the chief instructor’s lecture today. After the first day, they would go through a regular schedule. The omega’s team would always train from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. with several breaks in the middle, and they don’t have training outside of that.

Jiang Xiao informed, “Then wake up around seven tomorrow, have breakfast before seven thirty and rest for half an hour, just in time for training.”

Yue Ran blurted, “I know.”

Jiang Xiao said, “Then sleep. I’ll have breakfast with you tomorrow. Good night.”

Yue Ran replied after a pause, “…Hold it, you are eating breakfast with me?”

“You don’t like it?” Jiang Xiao asked. “Then I’ll get up early to buy breakfast and bring it to you. You can take it back to your room to eat?”

Yue Ran was tangled inside. Then he remembered the senior’s words of ‘to try’, he finally agreed, “No, I’ll eat out.”

A faint smile appeared on Jiang Xiao’s face. “Alright, I’ll wait for you downstairs tomorrow. Good night.”

Yue Ran returned the “Good Night” and went offline to do his nightly routine.

At seven o’clock the next day, he got up right on time. After freshening up, he saw a new message from Jiang Xiao, before he greeted his roommates and went downstairs. As soon as he walked out of the dormitory gate, he saw Jiang Xiao on the opposite side.

He wore simple casual clothes and still had that indifferent look. The moment he saw the youth, a smile appeared on that handsome face. It was like ice and snow melting and creating an unreal image under the morning light.

Yue Ran was stunned for a moment, then he suddenly heard a short scream from somewhere in the dormitory above, which helped him regain his senses. He maintained his straight face and walked over.

Jiang Xiao greeted, “Morning.”

Yue Ran tried to remain calm and replied with a “Morning”. He followed the senior to the campus dining area and had a quiet breakfast.

He thought this was an awkward meal, but Jiang Xiao was really good at grasping that angle and didn’t give him any uncomfortable feeling. Before the stuffy feeling could appear, he was hooked off by the other party with a topic and chatted for a long time unconsciously. He didn’t realize it was almost eight o’clock until Jiang Xiao reminded him.

Jiang Xiao added, “You still have ten minutes before eight. Go back and get your water bottle. Rest for a while before assembling.”

Yue Ran agreed with the other, so they walked back to his dormitory. When he saw that many people had gathered in the lobby, he suddenly remembered an important thing. “Don’t go look for me on the field today.”

Jiang Xiao requested, “In exchange, you must promise me one thing too.”

Yue Ran was staying vigilant. “What?”

Jiang Xiao looked at his cute appearance, endured the impulse to tease him, and rubbed his head. “If anyone asks you for my WeChat, you’re not allowed to give it.”

Yue Ran relaxed his tense breath and happily agreed. Inside, he was mocking how narcissistic the senior was. This was only the second day of military training, no one knew who Jiang Xiao was, why would anyone ask for his WeChat?

However, very quickly, he was face slapped by his own words.

Although they were still unfamiliar with each other, he was no match for thenatural socializers. Because after his roommate was running his mouth, Yue Ran became more and more popular at each break. In the beginning, he was glad to be making more friends, until they opened their mouths and shifted the topic to his two older brothers. He had a flash of realization.

He patiently explained, “No partner, both are singles. You asked if they have someone they like? I…I think so. Yes, they are still pursuing…No, they forbid me from giving out their WeChat. You can ask for it yourself.”

The students skipped the topic while giggling and began to talk about something else.

Yue Ran immediately relaxed and quietly listened to their gossip. That was how he leisurely spent his morning, and then…He realized that two natural socializers were sticking to him and wanted to join him for lunch.

He glanced at his roommate out of the corner of his eye. But before he could speak, he heard a familiar voice from nearby, “Ran Ran.”

He turned around and looked at Jiang Xiao’s handsome face.

The two students around him were instantly excited and walked over with him. One of them smiled and said, “You must be Yue Ran’s gege right? Hello, senior. We are his classmates. My name is Zhou Jieying.”

Jiang Xiao only nodded towards them and turned his attention to Yue Ran. “Let’s go and eat.”

Zhou Jieying suggested, “Why don’t we join you two?”

Jiang Xiao said indifferently, “Not today. I have something to discuss with him.”

Zhou Jieying’s expression remained the same. He smiled and uttered “Alright”, but continued to walk beside Jiang Xiao and asked for delicious suggestions from the campus dining area.

Jiang Xiao surveyed around briefly and found an acquaintance in the crowd. He pulled the person over and asked him to be a tour guide for the younger students. Only then did he get rid of them completely.

He turned to Yue Ran. “Did you give them my WeChat?”

Yue Ran confirmed with a wooden face, “No.”

He suddenly felt that Jiang Xiao didn’t have it easy and asked, “You’ve always encountered such things before?”

Jiang Xiao replied, “Yes, but I disregard them.”

Yue Ran asked, “Then earlier?”

Jiang Xiao explained, “They are still your classmates after all.”

Yue Ran was surprised. He understood. Jiang Xiao didn’t want to cause him any future difficulty.

But he disagreed with that logic as he followed the topic, “But if we are together in the future, they would still hate me.”

Jiang Xiao was very satisfied. “You already thought about the future?”

Yue Ran denied, “…Absolutely not!”

Seeing that he ruffled the little summoner’s feathers, Jiang Xiao thoughtfully agreed, “I know, you’re just curious.”

Yue Ran uttered, “That’s right.”

Jiang Xiao restrained himself from smiling, as he said, “If there is really an ‘if’, I’ll handle it, so don’t worry.”

Yue Ran didn’t want to continue on this topic, so once they arrived at the dining hall, he checked what was on the menu.

Jiang Xiao didn’t deliberately prolong his stay in the canteen to chat this time. After their meals, they walked back. Before the youth turned to leave, he stopped the other and said, “Ran Ran, wait. There is something I didn’t tell you yesterday.”

Yue Ran turned his head. “Yes?”

As soon as he answered, his vision turned dark as Jiang Xiao lowered his head and leaned closer.

Yue Ran smelled the other’s pheromones. It was mixed with refreshing perfume, and it went straight from his nose to his heart. He could feel the other’s hot breath on the tip of his ear, followed by a low, gentle voice that formed three words.

“I like you.”

The translator has something to add:

Teo: This translator noticed Jiang Xiao is getting a lot of complains in the last few chapters…let me tell ya, having translated a project with extreme yandere ML, Jiang Xiao is a Saint. At least he did not create an alt account to befriend Yue Ran in the back or something. From experience, game etiquette could be different from real life. The bottoming is typically lower because of anonymity players have. Trust me when I say a manipulative person could do more behind a digital mask. At least Jiang Xiao is staying above Yue Ran’s bottleline, plus he is also the reason the chicken is still alive xd