After seeing this sensitive word, Su Mingqian froze in place for a minute or two.
Is this…
What I think it means?
He hesitated a little, feeling that the situation in front of him was what he thought it meant.
But how could this be, how could Ximu be…
Su Mingqian’s mind was shaken, but then he suddenly thought that this development seemed very familiar.
He seemed to have inferred Ximu’s gender and Cunxing’s gender in the same way.
And he’d gotten them both wrong.
…Am I unscientifically flawed and lacking in inferring gender?
Su Mingqian suddenly wavered, a little unconvinced by his conclusion.
He decided to gather more evidence.
He turned back to the browser. After searching it for a long time, he finally found the correct entrance to Nine Crossings .
While searching, Su Mingqian was still a little torn.
Ximu really likes women’s clothing, likes pink and has sensitive serves after all.
What if Ximu really…
Can I still like him then?
Su Mingqian felt very complicated, but after a while, he calmed down again and continued thinking.
It’s no big deal really.
Now that science is so advanced, everything can be restored.
When I remember all my past, I can bring Ximu to the United States to have him restored in a new and pure environment, free from the criticism of others, and with cutting-edge technology to help him.
And I can be there for Ximu, just as he is now for me, to give him my full support and continuous comfort.
Su Mingqian made up his mind and swore inwardly.
Then he saw the contents of the Nine Crossings discussion forum.
“Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck, Eunuch you’re short again, Eunuch you’re weak again, Eunuch you have no dick again! Fuck, I can’t live on like this!”
“One day, with a knife in hand, I’ll slaughter all the broken chapter dogs in the world!”
“Eunuch, tell us honestly if you’re the best one among the broken chapter dogs trained out of the Terminal short class.”
“Ahhhh no update yet! Eunuch, your dick can’t grow out. Do you hear me? It! Can’t! Grow! Out!”
“Eunuch, turn your head and look out the window. See the shadow floating on it? Hear him knocking on the window? See the shining blade in his hand? Don’t be afraid, I’m just here to bring you something red. Please open the window, thank you!”
Su Mingqian: “???”
He looked at these discussions in bewilderment and realised that the situation really wasn’t what he thought it was.
Ximu really can’t be that…! After all, no human being can freely lengthen and shorten intermittently!
Good thing I didn’t jump to any conclusions.
Su Mingqian was very glad that he didn’t fall down the same pit a third time.
Although the loss of the future scene of taking care of Ximu was regrettable, Su Mingqian was still more or less happy.
He continued to browse the discussion forum, seeking an accurate definition of “Eunuch” while looking at other discussions.
The discussion forum was full of topics. Besides the mostly wailing and cursing of Eunuch Ximu’s update, there were also many interesting discussions, such as these.
“The people’s golden fingers are so fucking cool. I’m not convinced by anyone but Eunuch’s plots!”
“Watching everyone inside feel like they’re the master of the future, it’s so stupid I can’t look straight.”
“Everyone has golden fingers, but Su Mingqian doesn’t; everyone finds treasure, but Su Mingqian doesn’t. Su Mingqian, how unexceptional—”
“Cannon fodder, come to your senses. Don’t you know how many words the author spent describing you? You want to kick our Sister Qian from the top position? Heh, you wish!”
Su Mingqian discovered another new name.
“Sister Qian”.
Is it referring to me?
He felt a little strange.
Why call me Sister Qian?
He wanted to read the rest of the content, but the page was pulled to the bottom, followed by a line of words:
“For more wonderful content, please enter the Terminal app to track in real-time.”
Su Mingqian read the line and suddenly realised some problems.
This page didn’t seem the same as the pages he saw every day. It seemed a lot more simplified.
Those pages he saw every day had much more complex functions than this page.
So were those pages screenshots from the Terminal app?
Su Mingqian exited the browser.
He searched Li Shuoxing’s screen for a long time and finally found the right place.
He entered the Terminal app.
***
While Su Mingqian was diligently surfing the web, Li Shuoxing reviewed the situation of his novel.
Having set the scene for so many days, the novel finally reached a small climax after the opening.
After a gruelling battle, human supernaturals had gained a lead over the continent that had suddenly appeared in the Pacific Ocean.
They had found a way to deal with the monsters on this continent and were working hard to expel the monsters and occupy the territory.
There was just one problem.
This civilisation wasn’t a monster world civilisation, but an evil spirit civilisation similar to the worldview of Cthulhu.
The true hosts of the civilisation, the unknown evil spirit monsters, began to awaken over time. While humans focused their attention on their pets, they quietly approached humans, invaded humans and wrapped themselves in the things humans yearn for. They became everyone’s golden fingers.
Or system, or artefact, or dead grandfather.
They wrapped themselves with such beauty that the humans they parasitised were ecstatic at their arrival.
The whispers of evil spirits began to ring in everyone’s ears.
They were careful, guarding against others and hiding themselves.
Everyone believed that the future of this era belonged to themselves.
Secrets were rampant and terror was imminent.
These were the contents that’d been published on the internet before yesterday.
As for today’s content, it was this:
Everyone on this continent had their own golden fingers, except Su Mingqian, who’d found nothing.
Before Su Mingqian, who was mingling in the crowd, could get upset, Cunxing, who stayed on him, expressed his displeasure first.
Cunxing: “They all have golden fingers, but you, you’re behind.”
Su Mingqian: “My golden finger is you.”
“Although I’m a very powerful golden finger, more is better for something like a golden finger,” Cunxing spoke earnestly. “Qianqian, don’t worry. For your sake, I will calm down and not get jealous of your new golden finger. I will coexist with them peacefully, be on an equal footing, and be owned by you together, for dual card dual standby functionality. In the future, there can also be triple card triple standby or even N card N standby.”
Su Mingqian: “…”
Cunxing conjured up a small rainbow flag and waved it forward. “Now, let’s catch a system to slice up and study.”
Su Mingqian: “…”
Cunxing corrected, “No, it’s to be your golden finger, and given to me to study while we’re at it.”
Su Mingqian: “…”
— Nine Crossings
Reading this section, Li Shuoxing’s mouth revealed a cold smile.
Does it need to be stressed any further?
These systems in the novel are, of course, the embodiments of the system in the Love Bar app.
Trash system, cheating my money every day; trash system, always buggy; trash system, binding people without morality…
Now.
System, you can rest assured.
You will exist forever in my novel.
It just reached 10am, time to update.
Li Shuoxing logged into the backend and posted the new chapter. After posting it, he didn’t stay long and picked up his phone to start playing with the cub.
As soon he turned it on, Li Shuoxing found the heart on the Terminal app flashing, very suspicious.
Li Shuoxing subconsciously tapped it open and found Su Mingqian in it.
It dawned on him.
So the flashing effect exists for Su Mingqian. Wherever he is, the heart on whichever app lights up.
This is a very convenient function.
Thinking this, he scanned his phone screen and found this situation…
Su Mingqian looked at the Nine Crossings discussion forum.
Li Shuoxing looked at Su Mingqian and his discussion forum.
Then Su Mingqian climbed upwards from the discussion forum.
He climbed all the way up to the character column position and opened Cunxing’s character column.
Two people, four eyes, looked together.
1. Husband and Wife
Cunxing Ă— Su Mingqian
A few seconds later.
Li Shuoxing noticed Su Mingqian on the screen jumping up with fright and taking a couple of steps back, as if super surprised.
Li Shuoxing, who was silent and embarrassed, suddenly felt a little unhappy.
Isn’t it just a husband and wife relationship diagram?
Why be so frightened.
The cub must’ve seen too little of this. Maybe I should show him more of this content later…
Li Shuoxing was feeling bad when he suddenly noticed Su Mingqian, who’d taken a couple of steps back, had started to move again.
The little person hesitantly stepped forward and came to the character column again.
He first studied the three character relationship columns of Cunxing with him: husband and wife, pet, and unrequited love. Then he went back next door, opened his own character column and studied the three character relationship columns of his character with Cunxing: lovers, master and servant, and besties.
After going back and forth for a long time, the little person suddenly stretched out his hand.
He slapped the like buttons of lovers, besties and unrequited love in the two character columns, liking these relationships one by one.
Li Shuoxing was a little confused for a moment, but after a few turns of his brain, he combined all the relationship diagrams to figure out what the little person meant.
Su Mingqian and Cunxing are lovers, not husband and wife; they are not master and servant, not a pet; they are besties, and can also be unrequited love.
After liking the three relationships, the little person waited for a while before he went to slap the like symbols of the three relationship columns again.
Li Shuoxing watched in silence.
He watched as the red like didn’t disappear after the little person slapped once, so he slapped again, and again—
But no matter how many times he slapped, the red likes stayed.
So.
“!”
“?!”
Two punctuation marks popped up above the little person’s head.
The little person panicked.
As he continued to slap very fast, he turned his head to look around.
With a look as if he’d done something bad and was afraid of being caught red-handed…
Li Shuoxing held his breath in concentration, trying to hold back his laughter.