Chapter 116 Yin Peach Blossom (46) Qi Shiheng: "This is a sentence..."
Although Xie Tan seems to be someone who walks on the edge of the world, he is very detached. He has a strong presence in the outside world, either as a target of public criticism or as a target of demons and ghosts. Therefore, he doesn't care much about other people's opinions.
But the comic book readers on the forum are different; their joy transcends pheromones, like a playful jab and blessing directed at him personally.
Pheromones are his curse, as are his shell and thorns. If he were a hedgehog, they would be touching his only soft spot, his belly... Who wouldn't be shy?
The screen was filled with couple posts, with plot posts struggling to survive among them. Finding the Sherlock Holmes post was already a testament to his exceptional eyesight. He was afraid of accidentally refreshing the page and stumbling upon the post as its location changed.
Thinking this, Lu Jinzhao suddenly leaned over and picked up the little figure he had assembled, noticing that some small parts seemed to have fallen off.
Xie Tan quickly switched back to the comic, but when he scrolled past it, it was the scene where Lu Jinzhao stole a kiss from him. Xie Tan immediately put his phone down and placed it on the coffee table.
Then he realized how stupid he had been. Lu Jinzhao couldn't see it, so why was he feeling guilty?
Lu Jinzhao was slightly taken aback and tilted his head to look at him. Xie Tan's heart started to pound again under his gaze, clearly remembering how the BL works posted by Evil Cat had caused Xiao Liu to misunderstand him.
Did they see it?
Is it going to be two men kissing again?
Ah, this time it really is two men kissing.
Ahhhhhh...
Xie Tan screamed inwardly, but his face remained calm... In reality, he was numb with tension.
"You're so diligent, still reading books related to your major so late," Lu Jinchao said. "Have you finished reading them?"
Xie Tan breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that his complaints about the cat's abuse had been effective. He thought that the following plot should be the end of this unit, so he wasn't in a hurry. He said, "If you can't concentrate, I'll help you put it together."
"Yay!"
Lu Jinzhao was delighted. He loved all kinds of little activities for couples. He brought out a futon, made room for them, and the two of them huddled together to build a block castle.
Xie Tan doesn't play with these kinds of building blocks much because he actually has very little patience; he just tends to ignore the annoying things.
But Lu Jinzhao was very patient. He was very focused on everything he did. When he was building blocks, it was like he was studying historical artifacts in a museum. After Xie Tan had been building for a while, his mind was drawn to him.
Just like that time they went to the movies, he was more interesting than the movie. The same goes for building blocks; he was more interesting than the toys themselves. Xie Tan wouldn't have given a second glance to the "treasures" he had hoarded all over the house in other places, but in his house, these things became the world in his eyes, and thus had a wonderful vitality, arousing Xie Tan's curiosity as well.
Lu Jinzhao is a handsome man, and the various praises on the forum are by no means exaggerated. When he is focused, his smile is very shallow, almost nonexistent... those descriptions are not even enough.
"Ah Tan".
However, the person who was focused suddenly took off what they were holding and looked at him: "I want a kiss."
He still used his almost unsmiling, handsome face to utter these coquettish reduplicated words.
Xie Tan's ears suddenly turned red again: "What are you saying all of a sudden? Go all out."
“Because Atan kept looking at me.” Lu Jinzhao put down the building blocks, leaned closer, and focused his gaze on him. “So I couldn’t finish the puzzle and just wanted to kiss Atan.”
Xie Tan: "...Is it okay to say something like that so directly?!"
Lu Jinzhao didn't say anything; he grabbed Xie Tan by the back of the neck and kissed him.
Caught off guard, Xie Tan couldn't keep up at first. Grabbing Lu Jinzhao's collar, she gradually adjusted and responded to him one by one.
After the kiss ended, Xie Tan was completely exhausted. He didn't care about comics or building blocks anymore; all he wanted to do was sleep.
Xie Tan leaned against Lu Jinzhao, panting. Lu Jinzhao, still feeling unsatisfied, tidied her boyfriend's hair and chuckled, "Ah Tan's stamina isn't very good."
It's okay, he has amazing stamina.
Lu Jinzhao was about to tidy up the table when Xie Tan stopped him, saying that the building blocks could be left there. Lu Jinzhao blinked, understanding that this meant they could build them together later. He happily agreed, and seeing that Xie Tan was really sleepy now, he didn't pester her to stay. He placed a gentle goodnight kiss on Xie Tan's forehead and obediently went back.
"Sweet dreams," Lu Jinzhao said.
Xie Tan fell asleep.
He had a dream.
There was nothing in the dream except endless fog, like a boundless night, and he was trapped in it, as if he were wrapped in soft, fluffy clouds.
The clouds gathered and dispersed, clinging to him and then drifting away, like kisses... covering his entire body.
He heard a vague voice, eerie and ominous, with a natural, disdainful mockery in its tone, but when it called his name, it seemed to express the closest and most intense affection.
And he rose and fell in the clouds.
When Xie Tan woke up, it was already daylight.
He sat up, and all the discomfort and fatigue from the disordered pheromones brought from the unclaimed tomb vanished, leaving him feeling light and refreshed—even more effective than using suppressants.
He stretched lazily, trying to recall if he had any dreams last night.
Hmm, I don't really remember...
There was a knock on the bedroom door, interrupting Xie Tan's thoughts. The curtains in the room hadn't been drawn yet, but he saw the bright sunshine first. Lu Jinzhao said with a bright smile, "The timing is perfect. Go wash up, dinner is ready."
"Okay." Xie Tan nodded. As he passed through the living room, he glanced at the clock. It was 10:43. It was neither breakfast time nor lunch time, but it was indeed the time when he might get up in his chaotic schedule.
He thought casually, Mr. Lu is really amazing. It's like he has already figured out the pattern of his chaotic schedule and can predict the wake-up time that even he himself can't guess.
After having brunch, Lu Jinzhao went to work. After saying goodbye with a kiss, Xie Tan said he would bring him some new desserts. Xie Tan was too lazy to move, so he continued reading comics at Lu Jinzhao's house.
No wonder comic readers say their art styles are different. Dao Shen is indeed highly skilled. Even he felt that the scene where Lu Jinzhao stole a kiss from him was drawn with too much of a pink bubble atmosphere.
[Rui Rui and Xiao Ai, hahaha, they're totally mouth doubles!]
[The bystander sees most of the game; even those with discerning eyes can see it.]
[Little Love, One Second: You can't come in today!]
The next second: What a great couple! Stop flirting!
[We can finally confirm Lu Lu's bloodline issue! A child stolen from a shonen manga vs. a child stolen from a romance manga—the latter wins hands down!]
[The artist's skill is truly masterful; how can he simultaneously depict the terrifying collapse of a tomb and the bubbles of love so well?]
[Cats are so tactless! Let's crown this little LuLu the King of Deciphering!]
[True understanding, the angel dog is great]
[Hilarious! While everyone else was frowning and drawing cards, these two were secretly kissing in the back.]
President: Sometimes I also hope that Jinzhao and Xiaotan can join our team-building activities more often.
There's nothing to participate in anyway, it's all the same result: Sun card: You're surrounded.
[Lu Lu said he looked so cool when the fire came... To be honest, didn't Lu Lu start the fire?!]
It's very possible! The order in which these people woke up is quite intriguing.
Master Yunsong's awakening should be the normal time. By his standard, everyone else woke up earlier, and they were even ranked.
First of all, Lu Lu comes from the sun and is unaffected. A Tan is the core of the ritual, and the ritual was only broken when he returned. The young couple didn't have much to say, so they weren't trapped.
Secondly, there's a reason why Wolf Dad woke up so quickly; he was noticeably faster than the others. You can see him touching his hairband and saying the incantation was still hot – that's because of that! It's like Mommy woke him up (sob, our parents' love story is so tragic).
Then there's Twelve, who's faster than the rest of the group. Wolf Dad even said "observation" in annoyance, so Twelve is there because of his role as an observer.
This ritual was originally the Eye of Observation (A-Tan) setting the course. It's possible that a second-rate observer could have noticed it. Another piece of evidence is that the aunt gave up on the eldest daughter, saying she was repaying A-Tan's favor. But what connection did the two have? Before the ritual, the aunt even teased A-Tan and helped the cult trap him.
So in the past, Sixth Sister gave birth to the Smoke Mirror, and the sacrificial animals took the opportunity to escape from the Black Goat. Also, when A-Tan went to Shengxia Garden, he didn't point out the existence of the Great Aunt, nor did he stop her from taking revenge. The Great Aunt probably also realized this memory, just like Master Yun Song dreamed.
I don't know if she could see Ah Tan in the past, but I'm referring to the same thing about Sixth Sister. If she knew Ah Tan was Sixth Sister's child, it would make sense for her to repay the favor.
[The fact that these other children woke up first can be explained, but before Wolf Dad and Twelve, it was actually Xiao Ai and Rui Rui who woke up first.]
Xiao Ai's situation is actually quite reasonable. She was brought here by Atan as a "clock pointer." When the pointer returned to its original position, she, as the vessel, was the first to wake up.
But Rui Rui is the bug; it makes no sense that he woke up early unless he had a backup plan. But clearly, no one present had anticipated A Tan's plan; they were all just pawns.
That might be because Lu Lu woke them up, since Xiao Ai and Rui Rui are friends, which is why they woke up at the same time and were the first to do so.
In conclusion, it was actually our angel dog who blew up the princess's tomb!
Lu Lu's actions were different; he directly overturned the tomb, bringing forth a sudden burst of daylight.
No wonder the old lady fled in panic; the groom's abductors had arrived!
[If Lu Lu has such abilities, he really is a smokescreen. He should be able to ignore time, so how could he not know about A Tan's scheme?]
[They're a married couple, Lu Lu will definitely side with Atan.]
The main issue is that Lu Lu's situation is still unclear.
The side effects of time travel are severe. Ah Tan has taken the medicine several times, but it hasn't helped much since he came back. He's been in a daze the whole time.
[It's true that I feel terrible, but my brain can't shut down. This is Ah Tan, even with my eyes swollen like mosquito coils, I'm still playing chess. I'm truly impressed, you're something else!]
【No, no!】
[Holy crap, the bone fragments Ah Tan placed here? The witch's reaction... these definitely weren't just randomly placed, were they? Aren't these the same pieces that were next to the witch's corpse?]
The wizard lady sensed something was wrong!
Xie Tan saw that in the comic, when they left the tomb, Xi Rui was actually buried. He told them to go first, and he left through the other side of the hole. Xie Tan was delirious at the time, so he had no recollection of it.
Xi Rui wasn't really trapped; he deliberately stayed behind. He returned to the central tomb chamber, squatted down beside the bisected Master Yun Song, and picked up one of the master's eyes that had fallen to the ground.
The amazing thing is that of the master's two separate eyes, one of which had been crushed and burned away, the other was undamaged and even moved slightly when it fell back into Xi Rui's hands, as if it were alive.
Xi Rui retrieved his belongings, quickly left, and unleashed a talisman. The talisman pierced through the collapsed earth and rocks like lightning, nailing the skeleton that was trying to climb up again to the grave until the black fire burned everything away.
That's Grandma Su Zhi.
This time, she couldn't get up; she was truly reduced to ashes, leaving nothing behind.
But Xie Tan remembered that in the past, a group of skeletons were born and died in the fire of Fushui Town, and died and were born again. It was the same fire of the smoke mirror, so why didn't Su Zhi come back to life?
After they all left, Xi Rui received a call from Qi Shiheng.
“You’re the employer, I think you should come and take a look.”
When Xi Rui arrived at Qi Shiheng's rented house in the city, he saw the witch sitting at the table, looking solemnly at a row of divination bone fragments laid out.
Xi Rui raised an eyebrow: "Is the world about to end?"
"Stop fooling around." Qi Shiheng raised her chin. "Look at this."
Xi Rui looked closely. Although he didn't understand, he remembered that Xie Tan had just randomly arranged it out of boredom... Wait, would that guy do anything randomly?
Now that the crisis is over, he has time to review everything that happened. He realizes that Xie Tan sending him a message, Lu Jinzhao and Chang Mingai's coincidental appearance at the end, the ghost bride saying she was repaying a favor, and most directly, the altered ceremony... none of these were coincidences. It was that guy who had calculated everyone step by step, a cold and inevitable result.
Thinking back to their self-righteous arguments in front of Xie Tan, he wanted to laugh at himself.
What exactly is this ceremony?
Xi Rui was thinking about this when he was running away, so even though Xie Tan was so weak and looked like he might faint at any moment, he still paid some attention to him.
He caught a glimpse of the bone fragments Xie Tan was fiddling with, and Xie Tan glanced at him in return.
Like Xie Tan tied to the Sun Calendar Stone, they stared at each other from above and below, their gazes swirling with unspoken tension.
Could it be...?
Xi Rui was certain; in that glance, Xie Tan was absolutely lucid.
Is he really sick? Or is he faking it? Xi Rui thought to himself.
Xi Rui: "So this is?"
Qi Shiheng: "This is a sentence."
Xi Jinping paused for a moment.
He suddenly remembered his original purpose in approaching Xie Tan.
It was for a prophecy.
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