Chapter 361, Fantasy Story
Feng Zhi jumped up and down in the courtyard, playing with the children. In the kitchen, Jiang Ran saw that he was having fun and did not go out to stop him.
Si Xu was helping to wash the vegetables. Compared to his previous clean hands, Jiang Ran had trained him to be very skilled in washing and cutting vegetables.
Feeling that this person was using it conveniently, Jiang Ran half-jokingly said, "After we were together, did I often enslave you to help in the kitchen?"
"No." Si Xu said honestly, "You usually don't need my help."
As was her style, Jiang Ran nodded without asking any further questions.
"But I'm more proactive." Si Xu boasted, "You won't refuse."
The topic seemed to be heading in some strange direction... Jiang Ran cleared his throat and asked again, "What was the ending of Luo Rui and Xie Chengzhi?"
When she read the novel, she read it purely as a Mary Sue story and thought both the male and female protagonists were very powerful.
Just from what Si Xu said, it seems that after I traveled through time, the ending of the male and female protagonists was not very good.
"I don't know." Si Xu picked up the washed vegetables and put them in a basket to drain. "Xie Chengzhi was captured by Qin Huai. I didn't see him when I went to Yancheng Base this time. But Feng Ting was with Luo Rui. That woman is still alive."
Luo Rui is with that zombie outside? This is not like the heroine's style. Jiang Ran sighed in his heart.
"What are you thinking about, Jiang Ran?"
She replied truthfully, "I was thinking that I was too narrow-minded before. Your world is the same as ours, and so are people. They have many sides, and can go completely different paths because of even the slightest change."
What would have happened to Luo Rui and Xie Chengzhi if she hadn't traveled through time? The novel had a good ending, but the author had also laid many foreshadowings, and there was no follow-up. Even if there had been, the world she now in would have been freed from the author's constraints, becoming a truly independent parallel world...
"Life itself is wonderful—it has countless possibilities and an infinite future," Si Xu said. "If you look at the progress of life through your own eyes, you will naturally be unable to decipher its secrets due to the limitations of your perspective."
Jiang Ran suddenly thought of a question: "Si Xu, have I ever killed anyone in that world?"
Si Xu was silent for a moment, then shook his head: "No, you have killed zombies."
Jiang Ran breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good." She smiled a little embarrassedly, "Although I know the rule of your world is the survival of the fittest, but the thought of killing people still makes me feel horrified."
After she finished speaking, Si Xu did not respond.
The man stood by the table, staring at her back in a daze.
This is the real Jiang Ran. After shedding her beautiful appearance, she reveals a clean and innocent little girl - a little girl who lives in a peaceful environment, has never experienced disasters and killings, and maintains her purity.
"Hmm?" After not hearing Si Xu speak for a long time, Jiang Ran turned around and glanced at Si Xu, "What's wrong?"
"I was thinking..." Si Xu walked up to the girl and said seriously, "Jiang Ran, I like you, and it has nothing to do with your appearance."
Gu Yunqing once said that Ranran had a beautiful appearance. Jiang Ran herself also asked, was it Jiang Ranran's face that you first liked?
He had never seriously thought about it before: if Jiang Ran traveled through time and was not reborn in Jiang Ranran's body, would he like her?
Now there seems to be an answer.
"Ah?" Jiang Ran was confused by his words. She suddenly remembered that Jiang Ranran in the novel seemed to be a great beauty. She looked at the man and chuckled, "I remember you wanted Jiang Ranran because she was pretty?"
"Yeah." Si Xu admitted, "She is pretty."
"She must be prettier than me." Jiang Ran smiled. "Are you disappointed to see her in person?"
"She is prettier than you." Si Xu did not deny Jiang Ran's guess.
Jiang Ran curled her lips and offered malicious advice: "You can break up with me when you go back."
Si Xu didn't even think about it: "No."
He held the girl's hand and repeated: "Jiang Ran, I will not break up with you."
"Ah, I remember one more thing." Jiang Ran teased him, "At the end of the novel, Luo Rui wanted to kill you. You knew Luo Rui was going to kill you, but you didn't defend yourself. Why? Because you found Luo Rui to be an interesting soul, which suited your taste very well?"
"It didn't happen, so I don't know why." Si Xu said, "But if that woman is really strong, it doesn't matter."
"Don't care?" Jiang Ran frowned.
Is he saying that if the opponent is very strong, it doesn't matter even if he dies?
Suddenly feeling chest tightness, Jiang Ran shook off his hand and muttered, "I still have to cook, you go out first."
After waiting for a moment, Si Xu didn't move. Jiang Ran lowered his eyes and said calmly, "Si Xu, I don't know what you and I have been through together, but from the descriptions of that story I have read, you only valued Jiang Ranran's appearance. You may not even have loved her."
"Oh, that's actually quite good." Holding the girl's hand again and turning her around, Si Xu turned off the gas hood and focused on talking to her. "Because the soul inside that skin is you, that's why I like you."
He leaned over and placed a kiss on her forehead: "Jiang Ran, you are more beautiful than I thought - it's great that the person I like is you."
It was the first time someone said such words to her, and also the first time someone did such an intimate thing to her. The girl froze in place, dazed, letting his lips fall on her forehead.
Heat spread from his lips to her skin, quickly spreading to her entire face.
Jiang Ran's cheeks flushed slightly, and she didn't come back to her senses until the man let go of her. She subconsciously raised her hand to touch her forehead and muttered, "You, how could you be like this!"
Although he said they were boyfriend and girlfriend, this was the first time she met him!
How disrespectful it is to touch someone else!
"If we talk about beauty, Qin Huai is better looking than you." Si Xu, who was still beside her, gave a strange example to prove what he had just said, "Look, I don't like Qin Huai."
Jiang Ran: "...Qin Huai, isn't he a man?"
"Yes." Si Xu didn't think there was anything wrong with it. "Is beauty divided into men and women?" The beauty of beauty has nothing to do with gender.
Jiang Ran actually felt that what he said made a lot of sense - if it was just about looks, there were many beautiful people around him, and it didn't necessarily have to be Jiang Ranran.
"Jiang Ran, you still don't remember." Si Xu was still mumbling, "You traveled through time once when Jiang Ranran was still a child—you gave me a White Rabbit."
"Huh?" Jiang Ran was completely confused. "You mean, I wore this when I was a kid? How come I don't have any impression of it at all?"
"Because you forgot." Touching her head, Si Xu sighed, "You forgot that when you were very young, we had a marriage." Not with Jiang Ranran, but with you, and the girl in front of you named Jiang Ran.
Jiang Ran still found it unbelievable: "I, I don't remember?" What he said now sounded so mysterious.
(End of this chapter)
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