Editor: DarkSapphire, Sahloknir
Yue Ran supported a straight face while walking upstairs.
Once he was inside his dorm room he flipped down on the bed. He rolled from side to side twice, then buried his head in the pillow.
Why did you suddenly say that? Giving me no preparation at all!
Only the gossip-loving Lin Qian was in the room, the other two had gone elsewhere.
Lin Qian glanced at the man on the bed and asked, “So is he really pursuing you?”
Yue Ran lifted his face up from the pillow and looked at his roommate.
Lin Qian glanced at his blushing ear tips and it immediately ignited his gossipy soul. “Are you guys together, then?”
Lin Qian ran over and grabbed the edge of the other’s bed. “Was that his confession then?”
Having no experience in sharing emotional subjects with his friends, instead of speaking, Yue Ran stared at his roommate quietly.
Lin Qian guessed, “You rejected him?”
Yue Ran buried his head in the pillow again and made an almost inaudible “Yes” sound.
Actually, he wouldn’t consider that a rejection or even an exception. They had already agreed to let Jiang Xiao try. He was just making up for the confession before sending Yue Ran off back to his room.
“My God, you refused!” Lin Qian was shocked, “If I had such a handsome boyfriend, I would wake up laughing in my dreams, even if I don’t have feelings, this kind of top quality just sleeps on me and I don’t feel bad!”
“Oh my god! You actually refused him!” Lin Qian was very shocked. “If I had such a handsome boyfriend, I would wake up from my dreams smiling. Even though the relationship was built without feeling, having such extreme, glorious sleep is worth it!”
How am I supposed to explain to you that the other party needs to have a part of his body removed in order to be with me?
He raised his head and said firmly and seriously, “I see him as a friend.”
Lin Qian was beyond shocked. “Is there such a thing as a pure AO friendship these days?”
Seeing that he was silent, Lin Qian didn’t want to ask too much, but reminded: “Be careful, you were so close just now, at first glance it looked like he kissed you, probably many people saw it. “
Seeing that he was being quiet, it wasn’t Lin Qian’s right to get down to the nitty-gritty. Instead, he reminded the other, “You be careful then. Just now, you two were so close. At first glance, it looked like he kissed you. I bet many others saw it as well.”
Yue Ran blinked slowly. “Just now?”
Lin Qian replied, “Like, just now when you two were downstairs.”
Lin Qian looked at his expression and explained: “Who made your brother so recruiting? Just by going downstairs, I don’t know how many souls he can get away. Don’t you know how many people are in the team when he came to you yesterday?” You are a nympho, your eyes are straight. Besides, after finally going to college, people want to fall in love, and your two brothers are high-quality Alphas at first glance, you know the market.”
Lin Qian saw his expression and explained, “Blame him for being too attractive. Don’t you know how many souls he hooks just by standing downstairs? It’s not like you didn’t see first-hand how manyenthusiastswere in our team with all the requests you received yesterday. They only have eyes for him. Besides, after finally being able to experience college life, people want to find love. Both of your older brothers are high-quality alphas. You must know how these things work.”
Yue Ran was left speechless.
Lin Qian continued, “In short, I think there should be quite a number of people eyeing you now.”
The more I recalled the sight of the past two days, I couldn’t bear it anymore, took out my phone and pulled my cousin and Jiang Xiao into a chat group, telling them that they were not allowed to appear again until the end of his military training. After saying this, he blocked Group chat, ignore them.
Yue Ran thought about the feeling of being watched in the past two days, this unbearable feeling made him act irrationally as he pulled out his phone, created a WeChat group chat with his cousin and Jiang Xiao, and told them not to appear again until the end of his military training. After sending this, he muted the group chat and ignored them.
Alright, he admitted that he was overreacting about the issue, but he needed some time off with the sudden confession.
Qin Xiujie, who was in the dark, sent a message to his friend: [What’s up between you two now?]
Jiang Xiao was powerless.
He flirted too excessively and ended updropping the stone on his toe when moving it.
[Jiang Xiao: Nothing. Maybe there are too many people asking him for WeChat these days.]
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Besides, they just fell in love with Jiang Xiao’s face, and they didn’t have such a big hatred with him at all. This is not an idol drama, and no idiots will come to him and say “you don’t deserve it”, they will only confront him in private. He made some comments, and he said he was very calm.
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What surprised him the most was how clingy Zhou Jieying was, putting a dignified expression on wanting to be friends with him. Lin Qian commented on how some people’s entire life’s goal was to pry into other people’s boyfriends. At first glance, Zhou Jieying looked to be that kind of scheming guy and Yue Ran should stay away from him.
Yue Ran also wanted to ignore it, but Zhou Jieying was really thick-skinned, he would talk to him every time he had a break, and he would accompany him every time he ate. Even if he bought a meal and took it back to the dormitory, Zhou Jieying would go with him, and then ran to his dormitory with a smile to accompany him to eat before leaving, and took away the garbage for him before leaving.
Of course, Yue Ran also wanted to stay far away from him, but Zhou Jieying had really thick skin. He would pester Yue Ran during every break and accompany him to lunch without fail. Even if he took the meal back to eat at his dorm, Zhou Jieying would be following close behind, then would insist on eating together with a smile before leaving, while taking the garbage out with him.
Everyone was an adult and must welcome others with a smiling face. Yue Ran couldn’t directlytear at the other’s smiling facewhile telling the clingy person to get out of his face. He could only bear with it for now.
Fortunately, Jiang Xiao and his cousin didn’t appear again. He enjoyed his very peaceful days.
In the blink of an eye, three days had passed. He had trained during the day and had free time to play games at night. A very regular schedule.
Until that night, when he received a message from his father as soon as he went online.
Yue Shizhong was busy recently and had no time to play games, so he was finally free today, but when he came, he saw the system message of the gang, and found that he and his son were in the same gang.
Yue Shizhong had been busy recently and didn’t have time to play games. Today, he was finally free. Then, he saw a system notification of his guild’s merge and found that he was in the same guild as his son.
[(Private) Anonymous Guardian: You can merge guilds?]
[(Private) Dying Star: Yes.]
[(Private) Anonymous Guardian: Why did they merge? The guild was active.]
Because someone was being shameless.Yue Ran held his silent curse inside. He gave his father a short and simple explanation of how their guilds happened to be from the same university and decided to merge.
Yue Shizhong thought about his nephew, who was the officer of the White Koi and uttered “Oh” to himself, what a coincidence. Then he thought of another thing shortly after that.
[(Private) Anonymous Guardian: That kid who helped you move, does he play the game also?]
[(Private) Dying Star: Yes.]
[(Private) Anonymous Guardian: Is he also from this guild? What’s his game ID?]
[(Private) Dying Star: Formless Slash.]
[(Private) Anonymous Guardian: Oh! He is actually the guild leader!]
[(Private) Dying Star: He is no longer the guild leader.]
Really?Yue Shizhong was startled as he opened the guild list window and found that the guild leader had changed to Ashen Inner Thoughts.
He scrolled down curiously to see all the new members. At the very bottom, he saw a very familiar ID—[>Smashing Vault of Heaven]
Member information is generally arranged according to whether they are online or not, and some players who have not been online for a long time are at the end. Yue Shizhong hadn’t paid attention to this before. After joining the guild for so long, he only read all the members’ information today. He didn’t expect to have unexpected gains.
The member list was generally ordered by online and offline players, with the inactive players after a certain period at the bottom. Yue Shizhong never paid attention to this before. This was the first time he checked the guild list after joining the guild for so long. He unexpectedly found an accidental surprise.
‘>Smashing Vault of Heaven’…If he remembered correctly, this was Ran Ran’s former husband.
Ran Ran changed his guild after his character’s transformation. Before that, he was in the White Koi. What was going on?
But whatever was the case, he felt that things weren’t as simple as he thought, so he searched Blank for the details.
According to his observation, this kid was a social butterfly and very guileless. He should be able to get the information. He chatted with Blank privately, went on about how he noticed that Smashing Vault of Heaven was in the guild, about how he had seen their gossip before and wanted to know the inside story.
Kong Fang wanted to protect the little heart that his boss had finally stuck together, so he knew that he could talk endlessly, and finally reminded him not to mention his sister-in-law in front of the boss.
Blank wholeheartedly wanted to protect his leader’s fragile heart, which was finally healed with great difficulty. So he talked the other’s ear off without leaving the littlest detail, ending it with a reminder to never bring up sister-in-law in front of the former guild leader.
Yue Shizhong was very shocked. Recalling Jiang Xiao’s hard-working appearance that day, he suddenly realized one thing, ‘Was the boy interested in his son?’
Yue Ran wasn’t aware of how his father saw the truth after a simple and casual conversation.
Seeing no reply from his father after a long time, he went to the arena as usual and partied with Jiang Xiao.
Jiang Xiao had been observing Yue Ran’s mood these days.
After he confessed, his little summoner was acting a bit stiff around him at first, but the youth soon adjusted and slowly returned to how their prior relationship was.
He looked at the time, it was seven minutes past nine.
After a quick thought, he asked, “I remember your cousin mentioning you like mango?”
Yue Ran uttered a noise as confirmation.
Jiang Xiao shared, “There is a very popularmango bowl, I heard it’s very good.”
“It’s next to my dormitory building,” Jiang Xiao said. “Do you want to try it? I can buy it and bring it to you. I won’t be waiting downstairs this time, I’ll wait for you at the small plaza.”
Yue Ran declined, “No need. I’ll buy it myself when I’m free.”
Jiang Xiao murmured, “Please have pity on me.”
Yue Ran was puzzled. “Huh?”
Jiang Xiao sighed, “I haven’t seen you for three days.”
He used a very low and light voice. In an instant, it reminded Yue Ran of the confession.
Suddenly, he could even smell the scent lingering at the tip of his nose as his heartbeat jumped at a disorderly rate for a moment.
Jiang Xiao waited for a while before whispering, “Ran Ran?”
Yue Ran was staying quiet.
Jiang Xiao tried again. “Please have pity on me.”
Immediately followed by a strange cry that coaxed, “Yes, please have pity on our school grass. He hasn’t eaten or drunk for three days!”
Jiang Xiao hushed his trouble-seeking roommate with a look and continued, “Ignore them. If you aren’t willing, never mind then.”
Yue Ran was struggling internally, and he finally agreed, “Fine, I’ll come find you.”
Jiang Xiao asked, “You’re not forcing yourself?”
Yue Ran replied, “I’m not.”
Jiang Xiao said, “Then see you at the small plaza.”
The small square is in the middle of the living area, about the size of four or five basketball courts, where some activities are usually held, and a promenade for people to rest is built beside it. The promenade has seven turns and eight turns, and with the cover of green plants, it is very quiet at night.
Perhaps because of this meeting being brief, they didn’t close out the game. Instead, they left the arena queue and created a custom room where they left their characters afk, before going downstairs.
The small plaza was in the middle of the living areas, about the size of four to five basketball courts. There were usually some activities held there. In addition, a long promenade was built next to it for pedestrians to rest. The twisting and turning promenade was covered by trees, making the area very tranquil tonight.
Yue Ran met Jiang Xiao and they planned to sit at the promenade to enjoy their dessert. The result was, as far as the eye could see, Yue Ran saw at least three pairs of lovey-dovey little couples, mocking how this wasn’t a social plaza, but a dog abusing plaza.
Jiang Xiao found a bench to sit down on. Seeing the youth not moving, he asked, “What are you looking at?”
Yue Ran immediately came to his senses and said, “I’m not looking at anything.”
Jiang Xiao couldn’t resist laughing. Before the little summoner could throw a fit, he held onto the smaller wrist and pulled the other to his side.
Yue Ran was taken aback, feeling that the place he was holding was about to burn, but before he could struggle, he let go of his hand. Seeing that he still didn’t move, Jiang Xiao said, “If you don’t want to stay here, I’ll take you somewhere else?”
Yue Ran was startled. He could feel the burning-like sensation from his wrist, but before he could struggle, the other took the initiative to let go. Jiang Xiao still saw the other being motionless, he suggested, “We can go elsewhere if you don’t want to stay here.”
Yue Ran turned down the suggestion, sat down beside the other man and began to eat the mango bowl. He found that it was yummy as Jiang Xiao had described.
Jiang asked, “What do you think?”
Yue Ran answered, “Delicious.”
Smiling, Jiang Xiao picked up his bowl and enjoyed it while watching the person next to him.
The perceptive Yue Ran quickly noticed it. He raised his head and met the other’s eyes. “What?”
Jiang Xiao smiled. “I miss you, I want to look at you for longer.”
Yue Ran tried to remain calm. “…Don’t always say that kind of stuff.”
Jiang Xiao said, “I’m only telling the truth.”
He sat near the street lamp, under the warm halo, his eyes were deep and serious, and against his handsome face, it made people want to fall. Yue Ran immediately turned his eyes away, and quickly dealt with Mango Lao, intending to stay away from this scourge.
He sat closer to the street lamp. Under the warm halo, those eyes were deep and earnest, contrasting with the handsome face. It would make anyone want to sink into it. Yue Ran quickly narrowed his view by focusing on finishing the dessert in record time, planning to stay away from thatdisaster.
Jiang Xiao gazed at him again and pinched his chin. “Don’t move. You have something at the corner of your mouth.”
Yue Ran reflexively licked his lips, which happened to touch the other’s thumb and caused him to quickly withdraw his tongue in fear.
Jiang Xiao’s eyes darkened as he gently wiped off the yogurt, then took back his hand naturally and placed it close to his lips. Extending out his tongue and licking his thumb clean.
In the end, Yue Ran had to maintain his straight face walking up the stairs.
Lin Qian glanced at him while sipping his coffee slowly.
Ho! His ears were more reddened than before, I was right to question what kind of pure AO friendship exists these days!
Yue Ran was totally not aware of his roommate’s internal thoughts.
He quietly returned to his laptop, looked at the swordsman before him, before sending a private message on looking for The Past and the others to run an instance dungeon and quickly exited the room.
That was the message Jiang Xiao saw when he returned.
He smiled. Before he could reply, a flashing message bar caught his attention. He opened his message list and found it was sent by his father-in-law.
[(Private) Anonymous Guardian: Leader, are you there? I have something regarding swordsmen that needs your advice.]
[(Private) Anonymous Guardian: Leader?]
[(Private) Anonymous Guardian: Oh, I heard from others that you might be doing arena with Dying Star. I’ll ask next time when you’re free.]
If father-in-law needed something, he was naturally at his beck and call. Jiang Xiao immediately replied that he was just finished and then sent the arena room number and password.
Yue Shizhong, who was waiting for him, instantly rushed over.
It’s not easy for him to ask Ranran about this, because Ranran has a thin skin, and if he is not careful, it will easily reveal that he has long been concerned about the future sky. It’s not easy to ask Xiu Jie about this matter, because Xiu Jie and Jiang Xiao have a good relationship, so maybe he will tell the truth, so he can only do it himself.
It’s hard for him to ask Ran Ran about this, because of his son’s thin skin. Plus, he might accidentally expose himself to Smashing Vault of Heaven’s situation. Asking Xiujie about this was also not ideal, because his nephew had a good relationship with Jiang Xiao and might lie on behalf of his friend. Which meant he could only rely on himself.
Jiang Xiao was really too handsome. If Ran Ran was attracted to him, but it turned out he couldn’t handle the pheromones, then his precious son would absolutely be devastated.
But he couldn’t just finish off with a single blow. If Jiang Xiao’s feelings towards Ran Ran were only sibling affection, then, of course, he would be more than happy for another additional person to look after his son. Therefore, after pondering over this, he decided to check Jiang Xiao’s attitude first.
As for how to check, he thought of a perfect way and asked, “Guild Leader, you must have a good relationship with Dying Star.”
Jiang Xiao confirmed, “Yes.”
Yue Shizhong chirped, “Then do you know about his gossip with Moon God? I’m a Star Moon CP fan. I think they are a match made in heaven!”