LGSG Chapter 44

Chapter 45: Not Even Acting, Mr. Xie is Thrilled

Xie He is a person with strong desires and even stronger execution.

Once the thought occurred to him, he really put it into action.

Xie He lowered his eyes and held in his mouth that patch of snow-white skin.

The youth’s touch always carried a reassuring warmth.

Xie He’s lips and tongue, on the other hand, were a bit cold.

His sudden action startled Xia Ran.

“Mr… no, Xiao… you…” Xia Ran stammered incoherently.

This young Mr. Xie’s behavioral patterns were far too unpredictable.

It paralyzed his language system instantly.

As Xie He had thought, the aloof and distant barrier that the black-haired youth always wore on his face was truly torn apart at that moment.

His face flushed red, and shyness swept through his entire body. Even the fingers in front of Xie He’s eyes were tinged with a faint pink.

Xia Ran was naturally fair-skinned, and the slightest agitation would make him blush.

Not to mention the breathtaking scene unfolding now.

Like a steamed crawfish.

In the end, he only managed to squeeze out one sentence.

“This is dirty…”

Xie He was pleased.

The tense atmosphere between them had been broken as a result.

Xie He said, “You are fragrant.”

Xia Ran: “…”

Xia Ran was about to faint.

He would rather today be a dream!

Xia Ran had never imagined that he, who had been trying so hard to suppress his secret crush and keep his distance from Mr. Xie, not to tarnish Mr. Xie’s purity.

Would end up being tarnished by Mr. Xie… Does this even count as tarnishing?

No, that’s not right.

Thinking carefully, shouldn’t he be the one taking advantage of Mr. Xie’s face?

Xia Ran was a simple-minded person.

Once his thoughts went down a dead end, he would subconsciously retreat.

Therefore, Xia Ran’s attention was now drawn to what Xie He had said.

“Fragrant?” Xia Ran sniffed his wrist. “I don’t feel anything.”

To him, Mr. Xie smelled wonderful.

It was a rich, refreshing fragrance of green tea leaves after being intensely dried in the sun.

Xie He revealed a slightly thoughtful expression. “I once heard a theory about body fragrance.”

Xia Ran: “What is it?”

Xie He: “If two people are very fond of each other’s body fragrance, able to smell scents that others can’t, it means it’s the result of genes selecting each other.”

Xia Ran: “…”

Xia Ran said earnestly, “Humans shouldn’t have pheromones, right?”

Xie He smiled. “Who knows.”

“My legs,” he said, “were broken by someone.”

Out of the blue, Xie He brought the topic back to the right track.

Xia Ran was stunned. “Who did it?”

Xie He: “Do you want to avenge me?”

Xia Ran huffed angrily.

If he really could, that would be great.

With his combat skills, he would definitely make those people suffer a million times more than Mr. Xie had.

Xia Ran’s moral bottom line wasn’t actually as high as he imagined. Or rather, it wasn’t entirely consistent with mainstream social values.

He understood the world’s ethics and had received a good education. But for Xia Ran, his moral orientation depended on the other person.

In other words, he was exceptionally protective and chaotically good.

Xia Ran hadn’t expected Mr. Xie to have such a past.

He realized that he had inadvertently uncovered Xie He’s scar, and his heart felt a little uneasy.

Xia Ran was still half-squatting.

He quietly placed his hand on Xie He’s knee and stroked it in a comforting manner.

Xia Ran: “It must have been very painful, Mr. Xie.”

He didn’t feign sentimentality or express sympathy.

He just uttered a soft sigh to Xie He, as if asking and not asking.

Because Xia Ran understood Xie He.

Mr. Xie didn’t need sympathy, nor did he need someone to empathize with him.

The two of them were similar and connected in some ways.

If they hadn’t received love back then, after that stage, any amends would be useless.

Xie He: “It’s alright.”

Because after that, Sui Yuan Ju and he had died together.

The pain of flesh and bone separating and reconnecting was interrupted by death, which was perhaps a kind of good fortune.

“But, don’t touch it,” Xie He said. “My legs were just broken before, but now they’re responsive.”

Xia Ran retracted his hand with a *whoosh*.

“My bad,” he muttered.

Xie He’s fully exposed nature caught Xia Ran a little off guard.

Xie He raised an eyebrow. “You understood?”

He slightly reduced some of his misjudgment of Xia Ran.

Perhaps it was because Xia Ran looked too aloof and indifferent, and his temperament was too well-behaved.

Which led Xie He to always think that he wouldn’t understand this slightly vulgar subtext.

Xia Ran stammered, “Don’t say it anymore!”

He stood up in a panic.

Feeling deeply guilty in his heart.

*Wuwu*.

He had accidentally sexually harassed Mr. Xie.

Mr. Xie was no longer pure.

Xia Ran pushed Xie He’s wheelchair away from the stairwell.

Xie He: “Not looking anymore?”

Xia Ran: “I think I know what you mean, Mr. Xie.”

Xie He: “Oh?” Xie He said, “What do I mean?”

Xia Ran knew that Xie He definitely wasn’t unclear about his own thoughts, but was instead testing him in a teasing manner again.

Xia Ran then said, “Mr. Xie, how about we play a little betting game?”

Xie He: “How do we bet?”

“If I can guess Xie Qiao’s whereabouts,” Xia Ran said, “Mr. Xie, you’re not allowed to deliberately tease me anymore!”

Xia Ran was very smart.

He was slow to understand when he was clueless, but once he was enlightened, he reacted faster than anyone else.

Xia Ran clearly saw that Xie He was teasing him.

And in a flirtatious manner, almost as intimate as a partner.

He was happy, but it was a little overwhelming to deal with.

Unexpectedly, Xie He flatly refused, “No, change the condition.”

Xia Ran: “…”

Xia Ran stared at Xie He.

Xie He smiled. “I’ll reward you with something else?”

Xia Ran: “Mr. Xie, please don’t say things that are misleading!!!”

Xie He: “You know a lot.”

Xia Ran awkwardly smiled.

He himself wasn’t really interested in those things.

He had never masturbated since he was a child.

At first, his parents almost sent him to the hospital for sexual frigidity.

But Xia Ran knew very well that he just wasn’t interested.

Haha.

He simply couldn’t imagine establishing an intimate relationship with someone else.

Kissing.

Sleeping together.

Xia Ran simply wouldn’t think about these things.

Now that he was suddenly moved, it was quite a *zhenxiang* (sudden appreciation after initial rejection).

Anyway, Mr. Xie was a two-dimensional character.

It wouldn’t be a crime to imagine him a little in his mind.

However, after going to college, Xia Ran had heard his roommates discuss these things.

In addition, because technology was developing rapidly, there was enough sexual openness compared to a hundred years ago.

Xia Ran would also scan some things online.

He wasn’t a completely ignorant fledgling.

This contrast gave him a bit of an indescribable feeling.

Anyway, the veins on the back of Xie He’s hand on his leg were a little more pronounced.

“Alright,” Xie He said, “I won’t tease you anymore.”

Xia Ran: “Xie Qiao should have already gone back, right?”

Xie He: “What makes you think that?”

Xia Ran: “Because from beginning to end, this was a scheme set up by you and Miss Xie Qiao!”

Xie He quietly stared at him, encouraging him to continue.

“Based on the conversation with Xiao Xie, it can be determined that Xiao Xie has never met you. Then a paradox arises.” Xia Ran said, “Xiao Xie, who always wanders in the hallway, the missing Xie Qiao, and Mr. Xie, who is looking for his sister, are bound to meet. But Xiao Xie said that he has never met the main body. Then there can only be one explanation…”

“Although Xiao Xie’s soul fragment has a leg injury and thin calluses on his tiger’s mouth from the cane, which perfectly matches the character in the hallway, he should have only appeared after Mr. Xie disappeared,” Xia Ran said.

This could also be inferred from the clues in Xiao Xie’s words.

Then who could have released Xiao Xie’s fragment at such a precise moment?

Clearly, only Mr. Xie himself.

“The person appearing in the hallway is someone else. Xiao Xie’s soul fragment is more likely to be a coincidence or Mr. Xie’s intention,” Xia Ran said, “And releasing this fragment and Xie Qiao’s disappearance were in order to…throw mud at that guy. To put him in a passive state and make him reveal his flaws.”

In fact, some of the guesses didn’t have evidence.

They only came from Xia Ran’s usual understanding of Xie He.

In short, Xia Ran felt from the beginning that Mr. Xie wouldn’t really put himself in danger.

“That guy doesn’t know what he’s doing, but he must be cautious in nature after wandering for so many days. For such a person, there’s no need to put pressure or threats on him. The simplest way is to actively create a chaotic and illogical accident,” Xia Ran said, “A cautious person will actively come to the scene of the accident in order to make sure there are no accidents.”

This was an examination of human nature.

Xia Ran, who was used to overlooking and disassociating, didn’t think this was difficult.

“Assuming this…person may be a former old employee of Sui Yuan Ju,” Xia Ran said, “In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, Mr. Xie must confirm that he really disappeared and that the fragment really appeared, in order to eliminate the other party’s only bit of doubt. Xie Qiao plays a role in rationalizing the motive in the middle.”

The black-haired youth appropriately revealed a bit of confusion.

“Mr. Xie, but how did you switch between the fragment and the main body?”

Xie He: “Just sealed off the memory.”

In the process of programming, a memory area is set up to seal temporarily useless content that may be used in the future. It does not need to take up running memory during normal times. Once it needs to be used, verify the key and use a password to retrieve the data.

This wasn’t difficult for Xia Ran to understand.

Xia Ran: “Then how did you remember, Mr. Xie?”

Xie He: “…”

At this moment, Xie He suddenly revealed a subtle look of astonishment.

The black-haired youth’s address had unknowingly changed back.

Xie He: “When did you notice?”

Xia Ran: “When you were biting my hand, Mr. Xie. You wouldn’t have deliberately done that, taking advantage of your ‘fragment’ identity, right?”

Xie He: “…”

Xie He said hypocritically, “I wouldn’t do such a scoundrelly thing.”

The Xie He whose memory fragment occupied the dominant position didn’t have the tea fragrance that Xia Ran liked.

Because what he liked was the current Mr. Xie.

Not a second more, not a bit less.

Xie He deliberately changed the topic. “I set up an anchor point, that anchor point will definitely not have any problems. It can awaken my memory.”

Xia Ran: “What anchor point?”

Xie He paused. “You.”

The black-haired youth blinked his eyes in confusion.

But Mr. Xie didn’t regain his memory when he first saw him.

Xie He coughed lightly twice. “It’s when I have improper thoughts about you.”

Xia Ran: “…?”

Xie He, who had returned to his main body from the fragmented state, no longer restrained himself at all.

Xie He looked straight at Xia Ran. “Because I think I should be a bit of a scoundrel.”

Xia Ran: “…”

Xia Ran stammered, “Mr. Xie, you…”

Really…

Not even acting anymore!