Chapter 82 Yin Peach Blossom (12) [These nineteen years won't always be...]
When the wild geese flew to the woman's house, they passed by the university's library.
Is that to deliver the betrothal gifts?
Xie Tan felt something was off about the person who asked his name.
What's the difference between living across the hall and cohabiting? Never mind, let's sleep in the same bed according to the principle of tangency!
[Haha, LuLu's backpack is so cute, I want one too! I'll flood my Twitter feed with pictures of it!]
[Oh my, honey and dragonfly, so cute! Little Atan is defeated by this straightforward dog again!]
[Ah Tan's been wearing loose hair lately, like a world-weary beauty, *slurp*]
Is this a funeral being held in the neighborhood? Oh, it's that girl from downstairs.
Lu Lu's reaction was somewhat indifferent.
[To the new reader upstairs: Don't let Lu Lu's cheerful personality fool you, she's actually incredibly insightful and has always been indifferent to life and death, probably because she's seen so much along the way.]
Yes, Lu Lu is just a warm-hearted person; if you ask him for help, he will lend a hand.
[I like the young lady's assessment of Lu Lu: someone who has absolutely no talent for handling negative emotions.]
Indeed, Lu Lu's emotions are almost always positive—anticipation, joy—and he rarely shows sadness or anger; he's always like a little sun.
[The most recent time was when I brought A-Tan back from Observation 2. She seemed a bit angry, such a stark contrast. Not to mention Xiao Ai, I didn't even dare to breathe.]
[Thanks, Atan, for letting me see what this guy looks like when he's angry. Such great taste, I want to see it again...]
Ah Tan has to do something stupid again.
[Then let's not go, I'm a fan of sweet couples, no angst please!]
[I was still heartbroken. I stopped and stared at it for a long time. Ah-Tan was worried.]
Alas, life is unpredictable.
[It's okay, let's look at the library in the back first, it's so cute! Isn't this a romance comic?]
[Girl, this is a great song! Is there anyone with a math genius who can write this?!]
[The tangent theorem is so satisfying! The main characters are shipping it, the wolf dad is shipping it, and the girl even sings a support song...]
[Who dares to say that even the God of Blades is into this? The official account is even more enthusiastic than the female fans of fujoshi (fan-made comics)]
[Sword God: You guys can't do it, let me do it!]
This dog's ability to charm is absolutely masterful.
[I strongly suspect that Atan is shy.]
[Receiving a couple's confession, kissing, and sex!]
[Haha, everyone's busy watching the sweet moments, no one cares about our working-class guy! This series is finally officially starting!]
【Office worker bro!! I can't believe I saw you here】
No matter what's happening in this terrifying world every day, you're still at work... Who understands the sense of redemption that this office worker feels?
It's a feeling of despair, isn't it?
[Is this office worker looking at funeral parlors? Is he switching to funeral services?]
[I've said before that since it's going to be haunted anyway, we might as well go for a popular local industry!]
[Hilarious! Popular industries in other cities: Internet, Computers...]
Popular industries in Diqiu: funeral services, mental hospitals, shamans...
[Getting turned away right away, and it's still so miserable, office worker, I feel sorry for you.]
[The last time this "corporate slave" guy appeared was when he was crying to Lulu about being laid off, right? Has he found a new job?]
A new hell has been found.
This job looks even tougher than the last one, and he looks old again, like a typical corporate slave.
[This office worker only looks younger when he leaves his job... his dark circles are bigger than his eyes!]
[The office worker character I got from the blind box, with his glasses and bloodshot eyes, looks so miserable, haha, exactly like the one in the cartoon. The first person to think of the office worker character as a white rabbit is a genius.]
[The first appearance of this office worker was when the bus crashed into a tree on his commute. He rode his bike for about half an hour, but was still late by just half a minute...]
[This one is not available]
[Insurance company? Insurance salesperson?]
This family is weird; I felt that way during the Joker episode...
If these foster parents hadn't appeared in the Joker movie, I would have really thought it was a ghost stuck to the door crack.
[The office worker was so scared that he quickly absorbed the dog's energy to recover.]
I declare this to be the true power of the sun!
This episode, up to the end of the preview image showing a shower of flower petals, is the latest episode.
Even after everyone had finished watching, the forum was still discussing the plot. A significant portion of the discussion was concerned about A-Tan's situation. It wasn't that they didn't believe in Xie Tan's abilities (although Xie Tan himself felt that this was the most worrying aspect), but rather that the patriarch was... too bizarre, and Su He's attitude was ambiguous.
It seems that in order to add fuel to the fire, the new daily life blind box after the latest episode features Su He.
In the comic, a subordinate knocks on the door and respectfully announces that the car to pick him up has arrived. Su He casually hums in response, still looking at the photo in his hand, and makes no move to get up.
It was an ID photo; the boy's shoulder-length hair was half-tied up, loose and casual, as he looked indifferently out of the camera's view.
The subordinate glanced at the photo and wondered why he had been looking at it for so long, since the superior had not given any other instructions.
Um, because it's rare?
Lord Su He asked him to investigate the boy's background, and he did so with great confidence, but the result was dismal.
It's not that we didn't find anything; Diqiu University has his file, and it was there last year, when he took a year off.
His growth trajectory is clear; he is a template for an orphan who had a difficult childhood, grew up to support himself and go to school, and is even a bit inspiring. He is perfect.
But a subordinate who followed Xie Tan once said, "Inspirational? Is he the boy who looks at everyone like trash, with a face full of questions like 'Am I dead today?' or 'Has the earth exploded today?'"
Oh, it's not that he sees everyone as trash. When he looks at that lively guy, Xie Tan's gaze becomes a little more peaceful.
The subordinates checked the files one by one... all the information was complete, but when they asked the corresponding people, none of them remembered them.
Although the data shows that Xie Tan often took leave due to health reasons before going to university, it's unlikely that no one in the entire school would remember him, and his former neighbors had no recollection of him either.
In short, this file is completely fake; I don't know who arranged it.
Only the information about Xie Tan after he moved into Heshun Community is useful. Ignore the false information. For the previous nineteen years, it was as if this person never existed in the world.
But not being able to find the person in question doesn't mean his subordinates can't find the forger's trail either... He caught a clue: the file first appeared at Diqiu University, and the others were forged later.
This wasn't obvious enough; he seriously suspected that this kid had connections at Diqiu University!
If even information is this difficult to obtain, then photos are even more so.
He really didn't understand. This kid was so good-looking. If he had a face like that, he would have been a star long ago. Yet Xie Tan himself could resist taking selfies!
Forget about selfies, it's hard to even find photos of him with others. He does know that he and a group of kids have a group photo at Art Harbor, but not being able to find individual photos is also a dereliction of duty on his part!
But the truth is, no.
This kid has no zest for life! Doesn't he post on social media, record vlogs, or show off his face?
Lord Su He had warned him that the kid was very perceptive and it was best not to follow or take pictures of him. The only time he did follow him, he almost got caught!
In the end, he still used the fake ID photo from the document to get by.
He carefully searched for a copy printing company, adjusted the printing volume, and reprinted the version.
The subordinate lowered his head in shame upon recalling it.
Su He paid no attention to her subordinate's rich inner world, but simply looked at the person in the photo with an inscrutable expression.
Finally, when the driver came to ask for permission in person, he unconsciously ran his thumb across the boy's eyes.
He tucked the photo away, stood up, and said, "Let's go."
[As soon as I saw it was Wolf Daddy, I guessed this daily blind box would be an SSR, and I was right!]
[Wow, that's a lot of information. Judging from the subordinates' recollections and feelings, Ah Tan used to frequently take leave due to health reasons?]
But these are all fake, which is even scarier!
[This is a mix of truth and fiction. He was nowhere to be found for the first nineteen years, his health was poor, and Wolf Dad was touching Ah Tan's eyes in the photo… there's no dispute about that now, Ah Tan was one of the experimental subjects.]
[Oh my god, have I been imprisoned and experimented on by my family for the past nineteen years?]
[Waaaaah, no! I can't bear to think about what Ah-Tan went through in his childhood, it was so dark and hopeless.]
Wouldn't the wolf father recognize him?
I feel that most people in the tribe don't know this.
[Could this be a secret plan? Unannounced observations? Hmm, that sounds like a much bigger conspiracy.]
[Don't forget that Wolf Dad values the coffin's owner, and the coffin's owner has a close relationship with Ah Tan, so he's definitely keeping it a secret from Wolf Dad.]
[But aren't all the observers monsters? Observer Two, and the other observers recently found, the fully-formed patriarch is even more of a monster, and Twelve, wearing a cloak, has probably lost part of his human form as well.]
[Did Ah Tan escape before he turned into a monster? Now he's back for revenge. That disease must have come from the experiments! Give Old Sheep a punch!]
What would happen if the disease fully manifested?
[What?! He'll turn into a monster like the observers?! Then isn't Atan's current situation extremely dangerous?! He could slide into the abyss at any moment?!]
No wonder I don't want to live...
[If you've ever witnessed someone important to you (the coffin's owner) turn into a monster, then that's even more...]
[But it shouldn't be eighteen years, right? The file was already there last year. Like my subordinate said, Ah Tan has connections at the university; there are other people helping him.]
Did other members of his clan, driven by a change of heart, help him escape from prison?
Who else could possibly want to deal with the Black Goat?
[Mirror? Ah-Tan has actually been in cahoots with the cult for a long time?]
[I'm still not at ease after watching this. Wolf Dad, what do you want to do to Little A-Tan? Just say it! QAQ]
Xie Tan silently finished reading the forum. This little forum had generated as much discussion as the main story... The amount of information was indeed substantial.
But he first grabbed the back of the neck of the system cat's fate again: "Wasn't the previous file filled in by the system?"
The cat replied innocently, "No, meow. You only replaced the records and information in the university. Everything else is still blank. Your traces won't appear out of thin air, meow."
Xie Tan thought about it again and understood. His most special feature was that he was a "blank" in this world. He had not lived in this world before, so this world would not have added any trace of him out of thin air. That would touch the world's underlying code.
He suddenly thought of something and asked, "What if my last wish is to mend the traces from before...?"
It's equivalent to changing the world's common understanding of other life forms and re-inserting his background into the world's setting.
Cat number 7 actually nodded: "Okay, meow."
"What about destroying the world?" he deliberately mentioned a very extreme wish.
“You can do that, meow, as long as it’s your wish,” the leopard cub gazed at him quietly yet powerfully, as if the whole world was talking to him, “I will grant it, meow.”
Xie Tan was touched, but he couldn't quite put his finger on what it was, which made him pause in surprise.
He could understand why Number 7 had been constantly replenishing his energy to fulfill wishes... any wish, as if the whole world was watching you, pampering you, so casually, yet so profoundly unwavering.
His voice betrayed no emotion: "That really is... a dangerous power."
Xie Tan stopped thinking about that and instead pondered who had forged the documents for him and what their purpose was.
The Mirror Cult...?
There was also the time when Su He's subordinates followed him. Actually, the subordinates were overly cautious, so they used a pet ghost to spy on him with a camera... As a result, the ghost was completely bewitched by Xie Tan's pheromones, secretly touched him, and immediately switched sides. When it returned, it even exposed its master's whereabouts, so he took a look.
At this stage, the Black Goat does pose a significant threat to him, as the forum summarized, so he stopped getting involved.
Another reason is that 602 and Mr. Corporate Slave were included in the main story.
No matter how grand the two major forces make their moves, this story is still called "Yin Tao Hua" and cannot avoid the storyline of the young lady.
This suggests that the cases of 602 and the "corporate slave" visiting the door are also related to the young lady being haunted by a male ghost.
Based on the awkward self-introduction of the office worker outside the door, Xie Tan found out his current employer: Chang'an Life Insurance Co., Ltd., a medium-sized national insurance company.
Coincidentally, this property belonged to Xia Changfeng's wife, who was also Xia Wujin's sister-in-law.
Xie Tan then made up his mind.
Since the other side is rife with ulterior motives, undercurrents, and crises, one more of him won't make a difference.
This side is clearly a better entry point.
Moreover, it might be even more helpful in resolving the young lady's predicament.
He takes commissions very seriously.
Xie Tan leaned back on Lu Jinzhao's sofa, lazily reading a book. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught something, looked up, and gazed out the window.
Today, the ever-suffering office worker arrived as usual.
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