Chapter 74: Testing

Shen Ran felt better, put on his slippers and walked away: "Well, you're welcome."

Lu Zhi rubbed his eyes, lowered his head to look for his slippers, and squeezed into the not-so-large bathroom space with Shen Ranxin as usual.

Shen Ranxin looked at Lu Zhi in the mirror, who had messy silver hair and was brushing his teeth with his eyes closed, and suddenly asked, "Has Mr. Lu ever marked an omega?"

Lu Zhi paused while brushing his teeth, opened his eyes and looked at Shen Ranxin in the mirror.

His eyes were open, then he curved them: "Why do you think so, Mr. Shen?"

"No, you seem to be quite skilled at biting the gland." Shen Ranxin changed the subject casually: "Give me the towel."

Lu Zhi rinsed his mouth, paused for a moment and said, "It has been marked."

Shen Ranxin raised her eyes from the towel and looked directly at him: "Really? Does your wife know that you are so... intimate with an Alpha in the love show?"

Lu Zhi came closer, without wiping the foam from the corners of his mouth, with a hint of amusement in his eyes: "Teacher Shen, are you trying to trick me?"

Shen Ranxin put down the towel and sneered: "As a roommate, I'm just asking casually."

Lu Zhi grabbed his wrist and said, "Teacher Shen, help me wipe it too."

"..." Shen Ranxin broke free from his hand: "I don't remember Mr. Lu having a disability certificate."

Lu Zhi said: "Teacher Shen won't help me wipe it, so how can you continue to get words out of me?"

Shen Ranxin paused for a moment, turned around, took out another disposable face towel, wet it, and wiped the foam from the corners of Lu Zhi's mouth bit by bit: "Is it still thoughtful, Mr. Lu?"

Lu Zhi nodded and gave a thumbs up: "If I were really a disabled person, Teacher Xiao Shen would be a top-notch caregiver, the kind that would receive a banner."

Shen Ranxin raised her foot and kicked Lu Zhi's calf: "If you've had enough of being a jerk, get out of here."

"Shen Ranxin." Lu Zhi suddenly called his name.

In fact, Lu Zhi seldom called him by his full name. Even in bed, he would always call him darling. At the worst times, when the emotions were at their most intense, he would call him Teacher Shen with a sense of taboo.

"I marked an omega when he was willing." Lu Zhi leaned against the door frame of the bathroom and subconsciously touched his pocket. He found that he was wearing pajamas that he had taken out of Shen Ranxin's suitcase. There were no pockets at all. He could only put his hand down: "But later, I lost him. When I found him again, he didn't remember me."

Shen Ranxin didn't say anything. She sat on the edge of the bed with her legs crossed and looked at him.

Lu Zhi looked at him and took a deep breath: "There are many things that he won't believe even if I tell him now, right? I'm waiting for him to remember, even if this memory will make him suffer again, but I believe he can get out of it. Because although he looks spoiled, afraid of pain, heat and fatigue, he is always willing to face any difficulties."

Shen Ranxin narrowed her eyes: "What if he never remembers it?"

"That's fine." Lu Zhi thought for a moment: "I respect all his choices and will always be his most loyal supporter."

Well, pure love brain.

Shen Ranxin came to a conclusion, stood up and walked out.

In fact, what Lu Zhi said was not wrong. He didn't understand his current situation and would not trust anyone easily.

Lu Zhi and Cheng Cheng each held their own opinion. He had no basis to argue and could only rely on himself to slowly explore. Perhaps it was just as Lu Zhi said, the truth of the matter would drag him into an abyss of pain.

But Shen Ranxin has always been so stubborn. If something needs to be figured out, he will definitely figure it out. No matter what the consequences and costs are, he is willing to bear them.

When Shen Ranxin went downstairs, the guests had not yet gotten up, and only Cheng Cheng's back was seen busy in the kitchen.

He entered the kitchen and asked lazily, "Is there anything I can do?"

Cheng Cheng raised his eyes and saw that it was him. His murderous expression immediately became sunny: "Thank you, Ah Ran."

Shen Ranxin raised his hand and touched his hair: "We should thank you. If it weren't for you, this family would have broken up long ago."

Cheng Cheng stood on tiptoe and put one hand through Shen Ranxin's waist, looking like he wanted to hug him.

But Shen Ranxin dodged quickly, leaving him no chance.

Cheng Cheng narrowed his eyes, and the teardrop mole under his eyes added a bit of charm with his movements. He supported himself on the dressing table with one hand and looked up at Shen Ranxin: "A Ran, do you not like me that much anymore?"

Shen Ranxin looked down at him, his eyes cold: "I don't know."

"I don't know what that means?" Cheng Cheng put on an aggrieved look: "Did I do something wrong? Ah Ran, you should like me. We are a perfect match. Lu Zhi is a latecomer. Don't be fooled by him."

Shen Ranxin raised his hand, pressed it against Cheng Cheng's forehead, tilted his head and said, "Really?"

Cheng Cheng's voice tightened: "You should have seen the information I sent you before. Shen Ziqing is your father."

Shen Ranxin raised an eyebrow: "So what? You mean he died in the fire I set five years ago? I don't have any recollection of that fire. What does his death have to do with me? I don't need to be responsible for his death."

Cheng Cheng looked at him deeply, tapped the marble countertop with his finger, and said softly, "What if I say that Lu Zhi approached you for another purpose, and that your father, Shen Ziqing, was forced to death by him?"

Before Shen Ranxin could open her mouth, Lu Zhi's voice came from the stairs on the second floor.

"Teacher Cheng, you're really hard-working. You're eager to die when you wake up early in the morning."

They both looked up and saw Lu Zhi walking down the spiral staircase, grabbing Cheng Cheng's wrist and pulling Shen Ranxin to the side!

Cheng Cheng was originally supporting himself on the dressing table with one hand, his whole body leaning downwards. Lu Zhi suddenly pulled his hand off the marble, causing him to fall downwards, and his forehead hit the range hood on the side, instantly turning red.

"Lu Zhi!" Cheng Cheng gritted his teeth: "Are you sick?"

"You just found out I'm sick now?" Lu Zhi bared his teeth at him: "Why? Do you have medicine? You dare to ask me if I'm sick without medicine?"

Cheng Cheng was so angry that he grabbed Shen Ranxin's other hand and said, "Ah Ran is here to help me. Can anyone who is not interested please leave the kitchen?"

"How come I am irrelevant?" Lu Zhi did not let go: "I am your father."

Cheng Cheng couldn't stand it any longer and said, "What else can you do besides making trouble? I really don't know what Lu Yeshan likes about you. Why would he agree to let you replace me?"

"Since you know you've been replaced, just go back to your turtle shell." Lu Zhi didn't retreat a step: "Don't let your father teach you how to do things when you're old, okay?"

"You!" Cheng Cheng has never been Lu Zhi's opponent in terms of verbal skills. He could only use his own tricks and grabbed Shen Ranxin's sleeve and said, "A Ran, look at him. I just want to talk to you. Mr. Lu is so anxious. I don't know if he is afraid that I will say something I shouldn't say!"

"What are you doing?" Lu Zhi retorted, "You can't win the argument, so you just go home and complain to your mother? How old are you, kid? Don't wet the bed in your dreams at night, right?"

Cheng Cheng: "You lowly slave..."

Shen Ranxin stood in the middle, listening to their bickering with great interest.

You know what, Lu Zhi's words are really nice now.

Huh? Wait? Is he taking advantage of me?

Shen Ranxin readily slapped Lu Zhi and kicked him out of the kitchen.

The shock in Lu Zhi's eyes was about to overflow: "You kicked me?"

Shen Ranxin slammed the kitchen door shut, isolating Lu Shao outside.

Cheng Cheng was also stunned for a moment, as if he had never expected that he would be treated like this one day.

Shen Ranxin crossed her arms, bent down and looked into his eyes: "So, do you have anything to tell me now?"

Cheng Cheng responded and laughed, "Although you are trying to get information from me, this kind of favoritism is really useful."

Shen Ranxin didn't say anything, but glanced at him out of the corner of her eye.

Cheng Cheng's ears suddenly turned red for no reason, and he said, "Lu Yeshan adopted him because he had special glands and an absurdly high level of pheromones, so he let him enter the Shen family in my place and stay with you."

Cheng Cheng pursed his lips and said aggrievedly: "I was the one who should have gone, and I was the one who should have been with you."

Shen Ranxin said directly: "So, in those five years, you were the one who took me away, right?"

Cheng Cheng blinked, revealing an innocent attitude: "I'm doing this for your own good, Ah Ran, have you forgotten? It was you who didn't want to see Lu Zhi again, and you said you hated him."

Shen Ranxin pursed her lips tightly.

Cheng Cheng placed his palm on the back of his hand and whispered, "Even if you loved each other at that time, so what? There are too many things between you and him, even the lives of your parents. The two people who died in the fire five years ago were your father and mother. If it weren't for Lu Zhi, you would still be the young master of the Shen family... Ran, it was Lu Zhi who caused your family to be destroyed. The last words of your mother before she died were for you to stay away from Lu Zhi."

Shen Ranxin pulled his hand out from under Cheng Cheng's hand, laughed and said, "It's my choice who I am with. Don't say that I don't remember those things now. Even if I remember, I may not obey your wishes. So, you used some method to erase my memory and make me believe that there is a system in this world, right?"

Cheng Cheng said: "I'm doing this for your own good..."

"You just need to answer yes or no." Shen Ranxin stood up: "I will know the answer sooner or later, Cheng Cheng, I hope that by then, you can still be as comfortable as you are now."

After saying that, he was about to open the kitchen door and walk out.

Cheng Cheng grabbed his hand in a panic, "Yes, I hypnotized you, but I can't completely control your memory after hypnosis. I just try to strengthen or weaken some points according to your subconscious. As for what kind of logic will be formed in your mind, I can't control it. I don't force you to believe in the system, because in your logic, only this thing exists, everything can be explained."

Shen Ran felt like laughing.

It turned out that his so-called efforts were nothing more than a daydream after hypnosis.

It was an absurd and ridiculous proof that others were trying to manipulate his thoughts and actions.

However, Shen Ranxin accepted this well.

In fact, he had this suspicion a long time ago, but it had never been confirmed.

"So what exactly caused the fire?" Shen Ranxin asked.

It seems that the node of all things is the fire five years ago. As long as we figure out the source of the fire, we can probably find out the truth.

Cheng Cheng shook his head: "I don't know."

Shen Ranxin obviously didn't believe it: "Don't know?"

"When I arrived, the fire was already very big. You fell outside the fire scene, so I had to take you away first." Cheng Cheng deliberately concealed Lu Zhi's part and said half-truthfully: "Before the fire started, only your family of three were in the house. So the cause of the fire, except you, no one else knows."

Shen Ranxin fell into deep thought.

However, he didn't think for long as he was interrupted by Cheng Cheng trying to get closer to him.

"Just talk if you want to. Why are you getting so close to me?" Shen Ranxin retreated to the door and said in a cold voice.

"Why?" Cheng Cheng whispered, "Why can Lu Zhi do it, but I can't? You know that your parents' death is related to Lu Zhi, why are you still unwilling to give up him and choose me?!"

Shen Ranxin couldn't help but sneer when he heard this.

“Ah, you don’t think I’m a sentimental person, do you?” Shen Ranxin spread his hands: “I don’t remember them very well now, so their life and death have nothing to do with Shen Ranxin now.”

"But what if one day you recover all your memories?" Cheng Cheng said, "It will be too late by then, and you will be in great pain."

Shen Ranxin nodded: "You have a point. Since you don't want me to have any contact with Lu Zhi, then you should find a way to restore my memory, right? When I face the murderer of my father, I will kick him one by one, right?"

Cheng Cheng took a deep breath: "...Shen Ranxin, I'm not a fool either."

"Look, I'm discussing this with you, don't be impatient." Shen Ranxin patted Cheng Cheng's shoulder and said, "Since you don't dare to let me recover my memory, it means that in my memory, you probably didn't do anything good. You and Lu Zhi are the same, so don't laugh at me when you are alone."

Before Cheng Cheng wanted to say something, Shen Ranxin had already pushed open the kitchen door.

Lu Zhi was leaning not far away, looking over, sizing up and down Shen Ranxin, making sure there was no trace of other people on Shen Ranxin's body, then he glanced at Cheng Cheng.

Gu Yifei, Fang Yu and the others had also finished washing up and were now sitting on the sofa looking at today's task list. Turning around, they saw Shen Ranxin coming out of the kitchen. Fang Yu understood and said, "I was wondering why Mr. Lu looked more resentful than a grave so early in the morning. What were you two talking about?"

Shen Ranxin came out and said expressionlessly: "Commercial secrets."

Gu Yifei leaned on the sofa and said, "What kind of business secrets can't even be told to me?"

Shen Ranxin waved at him.

Gu Yifei ran over and asked sincerely, "What?"

"We are discussing..." Shen Ranxin's face was serious: "How to help Mr. Pi steal the secret recipe of the delicious Krabby Patty?"

Gu Yifei: "..."