Chapter 206, Scumbag
Unable to bear it any longer, Huo Heng punched Si Xu.
The man quickly dodged backwards, helplessly saying, "A gentleman uses words, not fists. If you don't like it, I won't say anything."
He glanced towards the back door and yawned loudly: "It's time to hand over, Deputy Captain Huo, thank you for your hard work in the second half of the night."
The man just walked away leisurely, just as he had been stopped by someone for no apparent reason and said some inexplicable words to him.
Huo Heng stared at his back, thinking of the laboratory he mentioned, and hesitated whether to tell Huo Lingyin not to have close contact with this man.
…
After watching enough of the show from behind the door, Jiang Ran nudged the silent Huo Lingyin with his elbow.
"Hey, you see, he likes you."
Huo Lingyin, who was immersed in her own world, was brought back to her senses.
The woman concealed the complex emotions in her eyes and glanced at Jiang Ran: "Did you do this on purpose?"
"Hey, I hate it most when lovers don't understand each other." Jiang Ran spread his hands and shook his head. "Do you know how I was able to pursue Si Xu?"
"Are you pursuing Si Xu?" Huo Lingyin, somewhat interested in the topic, invited her to the upstairs balcony. "Would you like a drink?"
"You want to hear my story?" Jiang Ran followed her upstairs, saying proudly, "My story is very valuable."
"It's okay. I have money."
This really sounds like a domineering president's words.
Jiang Ran grumbled quietly: "In this world, money has become a thing outside of one's body."
Without hearing her mumbling, Huo Lingyin led her into the room and took out a bottle of red wine from his backpack.
"This is from my private stash at the last collection point. I'm giving it to you at a bargain." The woman opened the red wine and looked around. "There are no glasses."
After saying that, he took a sip directly from the bottle and handed it to Jiang Ran.
Jiang Ran didn't mind: "Any snacks?"
Huo Lingyin: "..." expressionless, "No."
Jiang Ran said regretfully: "If I had known we were going to tell a story, I would have asked Si Xu to provide some snacks."
Huo Lingyin, feeling in the mood for conversation, asked, "I think that guy is quite sharp-tongued and cold-hearted. How did you manage to win him over?"
Make him obey you. The woman sighed softly, feeling somewhat envious.
"I haven't awakened any special powers." Jiang Ran held his chin with both hands, looking at the sky full of stars and clouds. "We met on the way from Shenmu City to Xiling Base. In order to obtain the protection of Si Xu, our team gave me to him as a gift."
Recalling the scene of her first meeting with the man, Jiang Ran smiled softly.
"When I first met him, I was a little scared of him—after all, Professor Si from Xiling Base had a bad reputation, and I was worried he might crush me to death."
"But you still fell in love with him." Huo Lingyin sighed, "It means you think he is someone you can entrust your life to."
"Si Xu looks fierce, but he's actually very simple—he clearly expresses his likes and dislikes." Jiang Ran smiled. "That's why many people think he's blunt and unsympathetic. But I think it's a good thing—he likes me, and I know it clearly. Even if he's never said "I love you," I just know that I'm the one he loves most in this world."
Huo Lingyin took the bottle and took a big sip.
The red wine was not top quality, it had a very slight astringency that numbed the tongue.
The woman took a breath, not knowing whether to sigh or mock: "You are really confident - he may really love you now, but what will you do if he falls in love with someone else in the future?"
"Then break up with him." Jiang Ran frowned, as if puzzled. "When you're in love, have a passionate love affair. When you're no longer in love, part ways amicably and find the right person—isn't this the most basic way of love?"
Huo Lingyin shook her head: "In today's world, it's not so easy to fall in love and stay together..."
"Just because it's not easy, why not fall in love? What kind of bizarre logic is that?" Jiang Ran expressed doubt about her point of view. "Isn't it precisely because life is difficult that we need to cherish the people we find love with more?"
“…”
"When Si Xu and I were together, I was the one who confessed my feelings first." Jiang Ran drank his wine and spoke slowly. "At that time, I was plotted against and almost lost my life... It was at that time that I suddenly felt very regretful, because if I died there, Si Xu would never know that I liked him. I thought at the time, no matter whether he would accept me or not, since I like him, I must let him know."
The young girl said she liked it with great enthusiasm.
For some reason, she suddenly felt envious.
"Then I confessed to him. Do you know what he said?"
Huo Lingyin chuckled: "How do you answer?"
"He said, 'You like me, right?'" Jiang Ran couldn't hide the smile in her eyes. "You know, if it were any other reserved girl, she would definitely think she was rejected."
Huo Lingyin nodded: "It sounds very similar to his answer."
"I can't do that." Jiang Ran smiled with narrowed eyes, "So we are together."
“…”
"You like Huo Heng, right?" Jiang Ran twisted the wine bottle and touched her arm with the bottom of the bottle. "If you like him, tell him. If you don't tell him, how will he know?"
"I..." Huo Lingyin smiled bitterly, "My relationship with him is much more complicated than the relationship between you and Si Xu."
A simple word of like or love cannot bring about a happy ending.
Accustomed to women's charming and superior demeanor, Jiang Ran felt inexplicably suffocated when he saw her bitter expression for the first time. "What if Huo Heng died one day?"
"Um?"
"What if one day Huo Heng died to protect you? Would you regret not telling him 'I love you'?"
"No." Huo Lingyin answered with certainty, "His life has always belonged only to Huo Lingge."
"Eh? Why do you say that?"
"Huo Lingge has been blind since childhood. His father adopted Huo Heng so that he could become Huo Lingge's eyes." He was destined to live for Huo Lingge.
"Eh~" Jiang Ran sipped her lips. "Your father passed away?"
"Um."
"That's fine, then—elders, after all, have their moments of confusion... What era is this? They still use the child-raising husband thing."
“…”
"You're really nothing like your appearance." Seeing her hesitation, Jiang Ran was shocked. "When I first met you, I thought you were a cheerful and open-minded queen who treated men like dirt. But it turns out that you're a pitiful wretch trapped in love. Huo Lingyin, are you worthy of all the beautiful women you've flirted with?"
Feeling insulted, Huo Lingyin sneered: "I never said I was the queen."
"I see it now."
Jiang Ran tilted his head back, drank the last sip of wine, and pressed the bottle hard against the balcony railing.
"Huo Lingyin, now that you know you and Huo Heng are in love with each other - if I were you, I would either express my love to Huo Heng directly or stay away from him - but you don't even admit your love, and you force him to sleep with you, you're such a scumbag!"
"Why do you want me to confess?" Huo Lingyin asked, drunken. "You said you both loved each other, so why didn't you let him confess to me?"
"Come on, it's you who's forcing me now! It's you who's walking through the bushes without getting a single leaf on you! It's you who's so picky and keeps changing men! If I were Huo Heng, I wouldn't have any confidence that you'd treat me differently!"
Huo Lingyin choked.
It seems... to make some sense.
Jiang Ran drank her fill, got up and went to find the restroom, skipping out the door, not forgetting to add: "Bad girl, remember not to delay a good man."
(End of this chapter)
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