Chapter 51 Chapter 51 Her arms wrapped around him with an ambiguous and tender embrace...

Qin Sheng probably understood that pretending to be cold and hugging someone to keep warm would be useless. He had to give this hug directly and proactively, without any room for trickery.

The criterion for judging doesn't depend on what he thinks. It mostly depends on whether Xu Zhaoyi feels that it is a hug purely for the purpose of hugging, or whether he realizes that he is hugging him.

So he found various excuses to cover it up, trying to make Xu Zhaoyi ignore it, but in fact he was working in the opposite direction.

Then the question came back to why there was such a strange task. His previous guess that the system was just looking for an excuse to send them equipment was no longer correct. After all, the limitations of this task were not casual at all. They were so strict that he was almost at a loss.

As Noodles mentioned, there are two major prerequisites for the algorithm to generate tasks: first, it is beneficial to the development of the world line, and second, it is beneficial to the host, that is, himself.

The first few missions basically met these two conditions, with the former being the case in most cases. The latter was the time when he was led to rescue the ghosts of Xu Zhaoyi's parents. From then on, Xu Zhaoyi's grudge against him disappeared, and he gained the other party's full trust.

——Now Xu Zhaoyi even dares to crawl into his arms and fall asleep with his eyes closed at the critical moment when he is on the verge of breaking through!

So what was the purpose of letting him hug Xu Zhaoyi? Was he afraid that this guy's homophobia wouldn't reach him?

When Qin Sheng thought about this, a flash of enlightenment suddenly came to his mind. Could it be that because Xu Zhaoyi was too straight, the algorithm believed that there was a high probability that they would be exposed after living in the Qin family after marriage, so he asked him to give Xu Zhaoyi desensitization treatment?

Xu Zhaoyi needs to be clearly aware that he is hugging a person of the same sex. It is not an accident nor a necessary behavior for warmth. The hugging time must last for more than one minute, and it must last for seven consecutive days. This is to make Xu Zhaoyi accustomed to physical contact with him and no longer subconsciously reveal his body's instinctive resistance, so that the Qin family can notice the clues.

This seems to make sense.

So Qin Sheng thought about it and decided to directly tell Xu Zhaoyi about this concern and ask Xu Zhaoyi to cooperate with him.

But he was also worried that if he did so, Xu Zhaoyi would be mentally prepared before every hug, which would fail to achieve the original desensitization goal and the mission would be judged as a failure.

But was it really right to be so rude and frivolous without telling Xu Zhaoyi? Even if they were still under the name of an engagement, it was fake. If he did this, he would be no better than Qin Shi.

He could even imagine how Xu Zhaoyi's favorability towards him would plummet in the next seven days.

Until going to bed, Qin Sheng was immersed in this problem and couldn't extricate himself. Xu Zhaoyi had almost never seen his distress last for so long. He must be really troubled.

Generally speaking, Qin Sheng takes a very short time from encountering a problem to proposing a solution. This is a new stereotype that Xu Zhaoyi has formed about Qin Sheng during this period.

At this moment, Xu Zhaoyi and he were lying on the same bed, waiting quietly with their eyes open for a long time, but unfortunately, Qin Sheng never felt the desire to talk.

He wanted to ask, just like when Qin Sheng found out that he had something on his mind, he would patiently guide him to speak it out and help him find a solution. But he and Qin Sheng were always two very different people, and in the end he suppressed his curiosity and didn't ask.

After breakfast the next day, before going home, Xu Zhaoyi and Jin Nianyue made an appointment to attend Xu Wenbai's funeral together.

After returning home by avoiding the sight of the guards outside the manor like a thief, Xu Zhaoyi was once again in a state where cultivation was useless and he had nothing to do. He simply stayed by Qin Sheng's side, wanting to say something but stopping himself from time to time.

Qin Sheng was puzzled for a long time before he guessed what he wanted to do. He said with a smile: "Want to know why I was distracted and ignored you before going to bed last night?"

"You know and...!" Xu Zhaoyi had a complicated expression. He thought Qin Sheng was just too immersed in his own thoughts, but it turned out that this bastard was very aware and left him alone for half the night?

"I really didn't mean it." Qin Sheng raised an eyebrow and argued, then said: "Because what I was thinking about was related to you, I wasn't sure whether I should tell you beforehand or explain it to you afterwards."

He was so good at speaking that Xu Zhaoyi's initial dissatisfaction disappeared in an instant.

"You're not someone who likes to leave yourself vulnerable. If you didn't have a good reason, you wouldn't hesitate between the two."

Xu Zhaoyi shrugged nonchalantly and said, "Since you have a good reason, you can explain it later. The only thing you have to worry about is my trust. I definitely believe you."

Qin Sheng thought for a moment, then slowly walked up to him. Looking directly into his eyes, he asked, "Then no matter what I do these days, even if it's something you find incomprehensible or even makes you uncomfortable, can you maintain this trust?"

"certainly."

Xu Zhaoyi didn't hesitate at all, and the next second Qin Sheng reached out and pulled him into a tight hug.

"You...?" He was stunned for a moment.

Because of the height difference that was almost negligible under normal circumstances, he lowered his head slightly and his chin rested on Qin Sheng's shoulder. His eyes unconsciously opened as wide as possible. The moment he was hugged, he subconsciously wanted to ask what this meant, but then he remembered that Qin Sheng couldn't say it.

"How long do you want to do this?" He changed the subject and asked tentatively in a rather helpless manner.

Qin Sheng pretended to think for a moment before answering him: "Seven days!"

"Seven days?!" Xu Zhaoyi suddenly felt it was ridiculous. He turned his head with difficulty to look at him, but finally found that they were too close to each other and could not see clearly, so he gave up.

He tried to reason with her, "I can go on a fast and not eat, but how are you going to spend these seven days? You're not going to the bathroom or showering?"

Qin Sheng suspected that Xu Zhaoyi's brain had been damaged by his hugging. He said with a smile: "What I mean is, for seven consecutive days, I may need to do similar things to you at any time. The time and frequency are uncertain, and I can't tell you in advance. Please give yourself some time to adapt."

Xu Zhaoyi's eyes drifted suspiciously when he heard this, and after a long while he replied, "...Okay."

This is what he has been wanting for the past two days. Although it is not what he imagined, he is now more curious about why Qin Sheng suddenly became like this. It can't be that this guy can read minds?

It sounds unbelievable, but if you think about it carefully, ever since he and Qin Sheng formed an alliance and got engaged, he basically got what he wanted every time, and Qin Sheng never let him down.

His talent for understanding people's hearts is so strong that it is suspicious.

But he had already made the boast of absolute trust, and even though this situation was truly unexpected and made him feel itchy, he didn't want to go back on his word and get to the bottom of it.

Qin Sheng's hug was unusually intimate. It wasn't his usual comforting hug where he would just lightly hold his shoulders. Their upper bodies were pressed tightly together. He could even feel the other person's steady heartbeat, and was certain that the other person could also hear the increasingly throbbing sound in his left chest.

This realization made him even more confused.

But Qin Sheng's arms were wrapped around him tightly, with an almost ambiguous and tender strength, and he had no intention of letting go.

In just one minute, Xu Zhaoyi had the illusion that an entire day had passed.

A minute later, Qin Sheng let go of Xu Zhaoyi, and the system algorithm finally let him go, indicating that the first day's mission had been completed.

The sequelae were also obvious. The moment he let go of his arms, Xu Zhaoyi lowered his head and left a halfhearted excuse, "If everything is fine, I'll go practice," and then slipped away without looking back.

Qin Sheng didn't even have time to say a polite apology, as it got stuck in his throat.

Well, we do need to give straight men some space to heal the psychological trauma caused by being forced into our lives.

Xu Zhaoyi didn't go downstairs the whole day, and Qin Sheng was kind enough not to bother him again.

Until the next morning, when Xu Zhaoyi was about to go to the Xu family to attend the funeral, Qin Sheng had already prepared all the etiquette items he needed to bring and placed them in the trunk of the car.

"Don't worry, they're all just flashy stuff. They won't get away with it too easily. At least before you make public what they've done, don't let people find fault with you."

When something like this happened to the Xu family, outsiders who didn't know the truth would definitely have the first reaction of sympathy. If Xu Zhaoyi went back at this time and didn't show any effort to help his family, he would definitely be accused of being mean.

Qin Sheng also knew that Xu Zhaoyi would not be very willing to do so, so he explained. You know, he and Noodles spent a lot of effort yesterday to pick out so many things that seemed rare and valuable but were actually useless and had no actual market value.

Many of them were sent by Qin Xing and his group of petty-minded people who dared not say anything to him on his birthday last year.

Xu Zhaoyi's mouth twitched slightly when he heard the source of these things. Qin Sheng didn't throw them all away. He probably thought that they would be useful in the future, and now he came across them.

Before leaving, Qin Sheng held him in his arms for another minute. Qin Sheng said that he was worried that he would not be able to go home on time today, so he asked him to swipe his card for today before leaving.

In the end, Xu Zhaoyi grabbed the car keys and ran away with his ears red and his heart beating wildly.

As soon as he left, Qin Sheng went back upstairs to change his clothes, left Husheng to look after the house, and secretly followed him out with the noodles that had turned into glutinous rice balls in his pocket.

On the other side, Xu Zhaoyi, who returned to the Xu family, as expected, caused quite a bit of discussion. Many people knew that he was engaged to the eldest son of the Qin family. No matter what they thought in their hearts, they all looked enthusiastic and flattering to him.

The Xu family members were not so happy. They were all so scared that their faces turned pale. The fake body they carved for Xu Wenbo out of locust wood looked more like a dead person than the one lying in the coffin.

Xu Zhaoyi just went back home, but no one in the Xu family dared to come up and talk to him. If the stalemate continued, even the guests attending the funeral would notice something was wrong.

In the end, it was Xu Zhaoyi's second uncle Xu Wenlin who stepped forward and took Xu Zhaoyi to the family area.

"Xiaoyi is back."

His grandson had just died, and when others saw the bloodshot eyes, they thought it was normal that he was in a bad mental state and ignored his nephew.

Xu Zhaoyi didn't care about the gains and losses of these superficial efforts. He just glanced around at them with a half-smile and said, "Fifth Uncle died suddenly. I have to come back to visit."

He deliberately did not add a subject to the latter sentence.

The muscles on Xu Wenlin's face trembled. Although he had long guessed that Lao Wu died from Xu Zhaoyi's revenge, he still couldn't help but feel scared when he heard this obvious hint.

What does his nephew mean? Could it be that he was not satisfied after killing Lao Wu and took Lao Wu's soul away, and brought Lao Wu with him this time?

The guess was correct. Xu Zhaoyi really took the bottle containing Xu Wenbo's ghost with him.

Xu Wenbai's son Xu Zhaoxi also died. He came to investigate what was going on. He didn't mind bringing Xu Wenbai along to help him feel the pain of a loved one dying young. Xu Wenbai had just died, and his ghost still had some consciousness left, so it wasn't worth wasting it.

Anyway, it wasn't him who did it. He just took advantage of Xu Zhaoxi's vicious cycle and had no psychological burden at all.

"Uncle, I'm sorry." Xu Zhaoyi spoke politely, like a distant relative. "Before I came, Qin Sheng insisted that I bring a lot of things. I couldn't carry them all, so I unloaded them in the yard. You can ask my cousins ​​to move them."

"Okay!" Even though he knew that Xu Zhaoyi had come with bad intentions, when he heard that Qin Sheng gave them gifts for the sake of face, a hint of greed flashed in Xu Wenlin's eyes.

Although he was scared, but now thinking about it... he wasn't that scared anymore. Xu Wenlin straightened his waist unconsciously a little, and the sadness on his face faded a little.

The reactions of the other Xu family members were exactly the same.

Xu Zhaoyi noticed these subtle changes and felt ridiculous. They didn't think that once Xu Wenbo died, all the accounts would be written off. Did he bring the gifts to reconcile with them?

He stayed in the family area for a while with a stern face. He was annoyed by the crying of his fifth aunt and cousin's wife, but he couldn't ask them to shut up because their son had just died.

After enduring for a few minutes, he said impatiently, "I'm going back to my room to rest for a while."

No one dared to say that he was impolite. The Xu family used to treat him as a helpless burden. They never imagined that one day the whole family would have to watch him complain about the loud crying at his own family's funeral, and they didn't dare to move a foot.

They even knew that the protagonist of this funeral was most likely killed by Xu Zhaoyi.

I wish this little devil would leave quickly.

Xu Wenlin and his two remaining brothers looked at each other, all a little worried, but they really had no excuse to stop him. Xu Zhaoyi had been quick-witted since he was a child, and they were afraid that if they stopped him, it would make things worse.

Xu Zhaoyi walked all the way back to his bedroom at the end of the corridor on the first floor. He didn't live here originally. After his parents died, he was half-coaxed and half-forced to move here.

This room has no windows and no sunlight comes in. The house has not been lived in for a long time and there is a musty smell as soon as you enter.

Xu Zhaoyi originally thought that he could endure it, because when he was studying in the dormitory, his bedroom was like this during the winter and summer vacations. He just had to clean it up, but in fact, he seemed to have been spoiled.

This was not the place where he lived when his parents were alive. There are no good memories of him here, so there is no need to make himself feel wronged.

He knew someone was following him, so he released the paper man and saw that it was his fourth uncle Xu Wenshan. Not wanting to alert the enemy, he pinched his nose, walked into the bedroom and locked the door.

After waiting for about ten minutes, Xu Wenshan left. After confirming that there was no one else around the paper mannequin, Xu Zhaoyi tiptoed out of the room, disappeared, and walked upstairs.

He didn't have time to search room by room, so he sent a dozen paper figures to look around to see if there was anything unusual, and he went to check Xu Wenxi and Xu Mingze's rooms first.

Everything turned out fine, nothing much was gained.

After checking these two places, he was about to go to Xu Wenlin's room. His second uncle was the oldest in the family, and he knew a lot of things regardless of whether he had his say or not.

On the way, he passed by his parents' former room and stopped for some unknown reason. This was originally the most spacious master bedroom on the second floor, but after his parents died, these people probably felt guilty and would rather turn it into a storage room than live in it.

For some reason, Xu Zhaoyi felt a little uneasy when he passed by here. He never ignored his intuition, so without hesitation, he let the paper man lead the way and followed behind.

Maybe there was something really wrong here. Xu Zhaoyi stopped abruptly as soon as he walked in. He always felt that something followed him in, but when he turned around, he saw nothing and could not feel any fluctuation of magic power.

Of course he couldn't feel it, because the person who followed him in was his husband.

The system contract setting that Qin Sheng is stronger than him is equivalent to the force of the causal weapon. He has the strength to challenge others of higher levels, but Qin Sheng's plug-in makes him even stronger when facing a stronger opponent. It is unreasonable at all.

Xu Zhaoyi could only be more careful and let the paper figures surround him from all sides so that the Nine-Curved Corridor could be activated at any time.

Only then did he have time to look around his parents' old room and discovered that all the clutter that had been piled up in it had been cleared away. He wondered if it was just a futile effort by the Xu family because they were afraid of his revenge.

But he soon stopped thinking so, because he saw two red children's coffins where the bed was originally placed.

Xu Zhaoyi's face suddenly turned cold. It seemed that he had overestimated this family of scum. They actually dared to deliberately use his parents' room to store the corpse!

He was furious, but still stopped cautiously and asked the paper man to go and check. The coffin was open and not sealed. The paper man's perspective quickly transmitted the scene he saw back to Xu Zhaoyi's mind.

“w/c*#…!” Xu Zhaoyi’s expression changed drastically in an instant, and the scene made his pupils shrink.

Qin Sheng, who had been silently watching his actions, leaned against the door with his arms folded. When he suddenly heard the few words that Xu Zhaoyi blurted out, he was stunned.

[Did he just swear?] He checked with Noodles in his mind, somewhat surprised.

Noodles: [Yes, what are you surprised about?] Could it be that its host still has a sense of guardianship responsibility towards Xu Zhaoyi, and doesn't allow his child to swear or something?

Eh!!!

[Nothing….]

Qin Sheng was certainly not what it thought.

He just felt a little weird in his heart. For the first time, he had a real feeling that his wife was really the male protagonist in the male-oriented Long Aotian literature.