Chapter 26 Apartment Shura Field, Day Six: Have you had enough? Xie Ruan. ...
[Assistant Li]: I heard that Zhou Jingchi blocked Ji Ye?
Xie Ruan received the news after Zhou Jingchi left.
Xie Ruan felt somewhat uneasy when she received the message.
Xie Ruan's fingers curled slightly, and soon she received a thoughtful message from Assistant Li.
[Assistant Li]: It's okay. This kind of employer-employee conflict won't escalate to the nanny's issues. I'll handle it for you.
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A good, humane job.
Xie Ruan felt a headache coming on just thinking about being caught between the two of them.
Fortunately, it was Zhou Jingchi who caused the conflict, which allowed Xie Ruan to stay safely in her shell.
[Assistant Li]: Ji Ye probably won't be coming today. Zhou Jingchi has left, so you can leave work early.
The news from Assistant Li came very quickly.
Xie Ruan had just left takeout at Qiazhou Jingchi when she saw the message that she could leave work.
Xie Ruan quickly replied to the emoji she received.
After simply unpacking the packages that had accumulated over the past few days, Xie Ruan suddenly became curious about the world.
Xie Ruan has almost finished researching mobile phone software.
He opened his personal chat software, which was not part of the system chat, after a long time. He didn't know what to expect until he opened it, but he was startled by the pop-up message.
[He Leran]: Xie Ruan, are you alright? Why haven't I heard from you?
[He Leran]: Xie Ruan, I heard you found a new job. Why haven't you been talking to me since? Are you alright? Should I call the police?
...
Xie Ruan never expected to accumulate so much information.
If I remember correctly, in the original book, the original owner didn't have any friends at all.
So who is He Leran, who is so worried about the original owner?
Xie Ruan tried to recall for a long time before suddenly opening her beautiful eyes and regaining some consciousness.
Wait.
He remembered.
This must be the original owner's fake male best friend, right?
Xie Ruan has no friends. After many years in this other world, Xie Ruan has no one to rely on. However, not everyone Xie Ruan encounters in the apocalypse is a bad person.
He also encountered kind people, kind people who were kind to him and were about to become his friends.
but……
Reality is often crueler than we imagine.
Xie Ruan did not have that friend.
Xie Ruan's long eyelashes drooped slightly, a slight discomfort spreading in his chest. For some reason, looking at He Leran's worried screen, he subconsciously thought of a familiar, long-forgotten face.
Xie Ruan inexplicably lost the social anxiety she had towards others.
Instead, it has become more gentle.
[Xie Ruan]: Yes, I found a new job, and I've been quite busy lately...
Xie Ruan carefully considered her words before replying to the message.
At the same time, Xie Ruan began to vaguely recall news about He Leran.
He remembers.
He Leran and the original owner of this body were just superficial friends. In other words, the original owner was always taking advantage of He Leran, but He Leran was very kind to the original owner.
Xie Ruan always wanted such a friend, but the original owner did not cherish it. Instead, she used He Leran later and betrayed her, which led to her only friend going to jail. In the end, when she was imprisoned, not a single person came to visit her.
Even though the original owner ended up in that kind of situation, he felt no remorse whatsoever.
He even felt that the main characters and He Leran had wronged him.
Xie Ruan couldn't understand this kind of person.
Before I could even get a reply from them, their phone rang!
Even though Xie Ruan didn't have severe social anxiety towards He Leran, she still hesitated for a moment when the phone rang unexpectedly. She took a deep breath before timidly answering. Xie Ruan wasn't sure how to communicate with He Leran.
Unexpectedly, the voice coming from the other end was not the youthful voice that He Leran should have, but rather the voice of a completely unfamiliar middle-aged man.
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That voice sounds a bit rough?
Xie Ruan was still frozen in place, trying to figure out what was going on, when she heard the person on the other end of the receiver speak first: "Little ancestor, I've finally gotten in touch with you."
Xie Ruan: "?"
Xie Ruan was completely stunned.
Ancestors?
Who are our ancestors?
Before Xie Ruan could react, the man spoke again: "You're He Leran's friend, right?"
Xie Ruan nodded like a chick pecking at rice. After a moment of reaction, realizing that the other side couldn't hear her, she subconsciously hummed in agreement.
Xie Ruan heard the other person sigh with relief: "Thank goodness you're alright. This guy was drunk and kept yelling that he was going to call the police to find you. Apparently, he was worried because he couldn't contact you and the police wouldn't file a case. He had no other choice but to start drinking to drown his sorrows. Don't blame him, he was just too worried about you, that's why he made such a scene."
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Xie Ruan paused for a moment, then said, "I'm sorry."
Xie Ruan's voice trembled slightly: "I've been busy lately, working."
Xie Ruan couldn't explain that she wasn't very good at using a mobile phone and hadn't used it.
The man seemed quite concerned about him: "You weren't wronged, were you? If you were, Leran would probably be upset too."
He Leran would indeed do that.
He Leran and the original owner of this body grew up together in an orphanage.
They valued the original owner of the body more than their lost family members.
But the original owner didn't think so.
Xie Ruan: "No..."
Xie Ruan vaguely realized that He Leran was drunk: "Should I...should I go pick her up?"
Xie Ruan remembered that He Leran had no other friends.
He was very lonely. Since childhood, because he was two years older than the original owner, he considered himself the original owner's older brother, which is very similar to the people Xie Ruan knew.
The difference is...
He Leran is still alive.
The older brother he knew lost his life in a car accident.
Xie Ruan's hands trembled slightly.
The difference this time is that Xie Ruan's trembling hands were not due to social anxiety.
Instead, it seems that the fingertips still retain the warmth of someone I knew from many years ago, holding my fingers as they gradually grew cold.
This feeling is very disheartening.
It is a reaction called loss.
It's so moving that even years later, thinking back on it still sends shivers down my spine.
Man: "Are you coming to pick up He Leran?"
The man was visibly taken aback; he knew Xie Ruan somewhat. From the beginning, Xie Ruan had expressed her disdain for handling He Leran's affairs. Xie Ruan thought He Leran was dirty and troublesome. So whenever He Leran accidentally got drunk at a social event, she would ask him not to contact Xie Ruan.
So even though the man was a bar owner, someone who was used to seeing drunk people being picked up by their families and friends, he had never seen Xie Ruan, whom He Leran cherished so much.
This led to the boss feeling somewhat panicked, even when he first made the call.
He wondered if Xie Ruan was some kind of fierce man.
Give him a good scolding.
Give He Leran a beating.
Unexpectedly, the voice on the other end of the receiver was very well-behaved.
So well-behaved that it makes you unconsciously soften your tone: "I'm at the Lando Bar, come on over. Remember to wear a jacket, it might be windy and cold if you run in a hurry."
The man looked at the drunken He Leran in front of him.
Hearing Xie Ruan's earnest response, he sighed with some relief.
Xie Ruan wasn't as difficult to deal with as He Leran made her out to be.
Is it because this kid cherishes people too much and is reluctant to invite them, that's why he hasn't invited them yet?
The boss hung up the phone.
He turned to He Leran and said, "You're really lucky, kid."
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He Leran gives her entire monthly salary to the original owner.
Most of the temporary jobs I chose included meals and accommodation, and aside from basic social obligations, I didn't keep a single penny for myself; it all went to the original owner.
However, the original owner looked down on that meager salary and instead thought He Leran was useless. He would take her salary and then, without restraint, demand payment for co-branded merchandise and other items. Xie Ruan almost vomited blood when she read this. Little did she know that He Leran was a classic honest person. Not only did he think the original owner's excessive hobbies were reasonable, but he even went so far as to indulge and satisfy her, cutting back on weekends, dropping out of school early, and selling his blood to save money.
He Leran truly lived up to the title of a brother who was better than his own brother in many ways.
Unfortunately, the warmth in my heart at this moment can never warm the heart of the original owner.
It can only be trampled on by the original owner.
They continued to trample on the original owner until the owner logged off.
This sincerity received no response whatsoever.
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Xie Ruan felt somewhat helpless upon thinking about this.
Xie Ruan opened the ride-hailing app she had learned to use online, carefully marked the address, and finally found the location of the Blue Degree Bar that the man had mentioned.
Xie Ruan had seen bars in books.
Back then, books always said that bars were crowded.
As a person from the end times, Xie Ruan's concept of "many people" as described in the book was limited to ten or twenty individuals.
But when Xie Ruan stepped inside and suddenly saw dozens, even more than dozens of people, her legs went weak and she almost fainted.
Why did he have to come to a place like this by himself?
Xie Ruan completely fainted.
It would be better to hire a designated driver to pick He Leran up.
Xie Ruan is a person with severe social anxiety. As soon as he stepped into the room, his legs and arms started shaking uncontrollably.
Xie Ruan struggled with every step, and cold sweat beaded on his forehead.
Xie Ruan was almost in tears.
The surrounding light, red, yellow, blue, and green, flickered wildly before his eyes, making it impossible for him to see anything clearly. He could only grope his way through the wildly dancing crowd, searching for the private room where He Leran was supposed to be.
QAQ!
Wait, where's the private room?!
The dance floor was filled with lively music, and enthusiastic people were constantly twisting and turning in the bar.
Xie Ruan was on the verge of collapse.
He knew it would be better to ask the waiter, but he was socially awkward. Several times the waiter brushed past him, but he still couldn't get the information he wanted to find out: where was the private room?
With no other option, Xie Ruan could only clutch her phone tightly, pretending to be very busy. She frantically scrolled through the split-screen menu and typed wildly on the 26-key keyboard, acting as if she were busy. In this way, she wandered around every corner of the bar.
Xie Ruan was in such a hurry that the more anxious he became, the less he could find the private room.
Xie Ruan couldn't understand how a bar could be so big, with several floors. Xie Ruan was about to cry. The more anxious he became, the more he couldn't breathe in the crowd. The faster he ran, frantically weaving through the crowd. Even the shape of one side of his pants was etched into his sweaty fingers.
Xie Ruan was about to cry.
Xie Ruan ran forward quickly, but unexpectedly, just as he realized what was happening, his leg was suddenly tripped by an unknown object.
Just like that, without paying attention.
She fell into the arms of a strange man.
Subconsciously...
He touched his abs.
Eight pieces.
It feels very nice to touch.
Xie Ruan unconsciously fiddled with her fingers for a moment.
So soft and comfortable.
Xie Ruan's brain completely shut down, all she could think about was how nice it would be to touch those abs.
Completely unexpectedly, the man who had been touched spoke in a deep, cold voice, looking down at Xie Ruan and coldly asking, "Have you touched me enough?"
Xie Ruan: "!?"
Xie Ruan's eyes widened before she realized what she was doing.
Xie Ruan was still wondering if she should take advantage of the fact that the man didn't recognize her and quickly slip away.
Then the man said again, "Thank you, Ruan."
They called out his name.
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