LGSG Chapter 28
by VolareChapter 29: A Youth’s Long Dream: Xia Ran Wakes Up in Mr. Xie’s Bed…
Xie He’s mind raced, quickly focusing on the bottle of wine Xia Ran had brought in.
Xia Ran would never harm him.
As for the head chef who developed the new wine, he was even less likely to, lacking both the courage and having watched Xie He grow up since he was a child.
Then there was only one possibility: a player had added an item to the wine during that time.
And it seemed to be a mental control item specifically designed to counter bosses.
Who exactly was it?
Xie He lowered his eyes, unconsciously deepening the crease in his eyelid.
No, he was still being affected by the drug.
In reality, who it was didn’t matter.
What mattered was whether he could turn the tables, whether he could use this drug to achieve some of his own goals.
“Mr.?” Xia Ran was startled, quickly walking up to Xie He, his voice anxious, “Are you alright?”
He didn’t know what had happened.
Xie He thought.
The only thing visible in his line of sight seemed to be that section of his neck.
The swaying red agate beside his neck easily stole the focus of attention.
“I suddenly feel a little dizzy,” Xie He said.
Xia Ran was startled.
“How could you suddenly feel dizzy?” he asked.
Xie He: “I don’t know.”
He deliberately lowered his head, using his fingers to press on his temples.
He seemed to need to relieve the pain.
In reality, the so-called item didn’t particularly affect Xie He’s sanity.
From the moment he was born, the first thing Xie He learned was restraint.
Restraining anger, restraining sadness, restraining hatred. Learning to resolve everything with a false smile.
Otherwise, he would have gone mad long ago.
Now, it was just that the emotional impulse had exceeded a bit of the normal range.
But it was still within control.
It wasn’t a big deal.
Along with the killing intent, there was also the desire for Xia Ran that he had tried so hard to hide.
Xie He wasn’t someone with few desires.
His desires were strong. He wanted to get a lot of things.
His obsession was so deep that he might not be able to reconcile with himself in this lifetime.
But being tormented by unfulfilled and desperately sought desires was also the norm.
Xie He said in a low voice, “It might be an alcohol allergy.”
Xia Ran: “Huh?”
He revealed a blank expression.
Could someone suddenly develop an alcohol allergy?
Xie He suddenly showed a complaining, childlike expression.
“The head chef must have forgotten my allergens when developing new products.”
Xia Ran: “So what are you allergic to, Mr.?”
Xie He: “…”
Xie He: “I don’t know.”
Fortunately, he couldn’t make something up, and even if he refused to answer at this time, Xia Ran would only think it was a physical discomfort caused by the allergy.
Xia Ran said, “Mr., do you need me to ask the butler to get you a doctor?”
“No need,” Xie He smiled, “Just let me lean on you for a while.”
Xia Ran: “Oh…”
Xie He rested his head on his shoulder.
Xia Ran instantly stood up straight.
This, this, this, this was too sudden!
He wasn’t even mentally prepared.
He just leaned over so freshly?
Mr. Xie was so close.
Mr.’s body temperature felt a little hot today.
Was it also caused by the allergy?
Xia Ran wanted to ask Mr. how long he needed to lean on him.
But in the end, he didn’t say anything.
He just silently reached out his hand and slowly patted Xie He’s back twice.
“When I was little,” Xia Ran said, “When I felt uncomfortable, my mother would always coax me like this.”
Xie He sighed, “Your mother loves you very much.”
Xia Ran: “Yeah.”
He was a child who grew up in love.
That’s why he has always had a simple and kind heart.
Even if he encountered some malice along the way.
Xia Ran still hasn’t changed the bright background color of his personality.
That was good.
In the end, Xia Ran didn’t know when he fell asleep.
Logically speaking, with Mr. leaning on him, and in a standing position, it was impossible for him to fall asleep.
But in the middle, he was slightly awakened because his feet were in the air, and then he felt his head resting on something slightly stiff.
Mr.’s voice came from above his head, “It’s okay, go to sleep. I’ll carry you back to bed.”
Normally, Xia Ran would have been frightened at this time.
He wouldn’t even dare to be princess-carried by Mr. in his dreams!
But he was very sleepy at the time.
His consciousness was like a layer of light gauze, faintly visible.
Xia Ran vaguely said “Mmm.”
He felt Mr.’s chest slightly vibrating because of a chuckle.
Then, he lost consciousness.
Perhaps it was because Mr.’s scent was too reassuring.
Xia Ran rarely had such a sound sleep.
Since junior high school, his sleep quality had not been very good.
Therefore, Xia Ran always seemed a bit sluggish, and he always couldn’t control his wandering thoughts.
His parents were very worried about his mental state, and they went to several regions to register at the local most famous mental health doctors, but the answers they got were all that there was nothing wrong.
Maybe it was adolescence.
The doctors said to the parents.
Xia Ran’s mother was a university professor, and his father was the CEO of a large company that researches brain-computer interfaces and virtual world large carriers.
They were never short of money, they were very fortunate, and they were never stingy with their care and love for their children.
Not getting a diagnosis problem also meant that it was difficult to have a solution.
That day, Xia Ran heard them talking anxiously in the living room in the middle of the night.
Even though one had to organize a scientific research lecture the next day, and the other had to fly overseas in the middle of the night.
“I’m really worried about Ranran. The way he is, I’m not afraid that he’s different from other children, I’m just afraid… that this is some rare disease that will affect this child’s life,” the mother said.
The father said, “It won’t. Besides, what if he’s different? Isn’t he excellent?”
Whether in the secular sense, or from the perspective of parental love, Xia Ran was the most excellent.
Mother: “But, this child is always dull… He’s already in junior high school, I’m afraid someone will bully him.”
The father smiled: “Don’t think of Ranran as too weak.”
Xia Ran leaned against the wall, standing at the dark door of the bedroom for a long time.
Because he was very quiet. His parents didn’t find him.
After talking heart-to-heart for half the night, the father lowered his body and kissed the mother’s cheek. He took his briefcase and suit jacket and went out the door.
He would take the assistant’s car to the airport.
The mother simply curled up on the sofa and continued to practice the theme of tomorrow’s lecture.
Xia Ran felt that they really didn’t have to worry about him.
The poor sleep quality and the tendency to wander off during the day were because Xia Ran’s brain was always active.
He liked to think about things, from the thread on his clothes to the laws of the universe.
Xia Ran liked to think about the meaning of anything.
He also felt that his mother didn’t need to worry about him being bullied.
Xia Ran had been very strong since he was a child.
Extraordinarily strong.
When he was in elementary school, he didn’t know how to control his strength, and his parents apologized to many parents of children.
Some coaches even saw his strength and wanted him to join the national weightlifting team. But Xia Ran didn’t have this idea, so his parents refused for him.
At this time, he was still naive, tender, and unaware of the world.
He jumped into the best junior high school in City A with the first place in the national elementary school mathematics competition, and just finished giving a speech as an outstanding student representative at the opening ceremony.
He was shining brightly, the center of attention.
He hadn’t yet…
Turned into a timid snail.
Whether the children in junior high school were rebellious, well-behaved, or just muddling along, the biggest core among them was childishness. Being in a state of budding adolescence, the development of the body and mind was unbalanced, which led everyone to always unintentionally or intentionally yearn for some wrong, outwardly glamorous but actually wrong concepts and behaviors.
Thus, at the moment of adulthood, they regretted it too late, wishing they could start over and clear the black history with one click.
A good student, a good student who seemed like a model, although he was the center of attention in junior high school, often did not step into the altar of everyone.
There were many people who wanted to see Xia Ran make a fool of himself.
And unfortunately, Xia Ran’s personality became the attack point they found first.
“Bookworm.”
“I can’t understand his chats, it’s weird.”
“He looks so feminine…”
Xia Ran, who was very popular and surrounded by stars in elementary school, suddenly became unattended to in junior high school.
Although there were still many people who were close to him because of his appearance.
But no one really wanted to establish a close relationship with Xia Ran.
In the first year of junior high school, Xia Ran was confused, Xia Ran was uneasy.
Finally, at the end of the semester, he asked his deskmate.
Xia Ran’s junior high school randomly assigned classes every year.
Teachers used intelligent brains and robots to conduct classes, so the class assignment did not affect the basic teaching rhythm.
Maybe it was because they were about to say goodbye.
The deskmate breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time said to Xia Ran with a look of embarrassment: “Maybe it’s because you look very strange. When others say a word to you, two words, you can’t continue your reply at all. Every time everyone has to rack their brains to put together those stiff, boring topics to take care of you. It’s very tiring.”
Was that so?
Was it because he had low emotional intelligence and couldn’t read the atmosphere?
In that case, would it be much better to just be an observer, a ignorant listener?
Xia Ran thought ignorantly.
Xia Ran in the second year of junior high school decided to learn to be taciturn from now on.
He began to develop a slight fear of social interaction.
Although Xia Ran was independent, he also cared about the opinions of others. He didn’t care about others’ evaluation of himself. Xia Ran just didn’t want to affect everyone’s mood because of some special aspects of him.
There were always some cliques in junior high school.
The isolated Xia Ran was inevitably targeted by the cliques.
What’s more, he was very beautiful.
The facial features of the young man who had not yet fully grown had a kind of androgynous beauty.
When that clique was extorting Xia Ran, the boss, who was smoking a cigarette, reached for his hand.
The short-haired black-haired boy was expressionless, and backhanded pressed the boss’s head, smashing him into the wall of the alley.
Smashing him in didn’t relieve his anger.
In the horrified eyes of a group of younger brothers, Xia Ran pressed the boss’s head and slammed it against the wall a few more times.
He heard someone gasp—
“A madman… No, how can a human have so much strength, he’s a monster!”
Some people came up to grab Xia Ran’s hand, begging him—
“You can’t do it anymore, do you want to kill someone?”
Xia Ran lowered his head blankly, and found that the third-year boy was bleeding from his head.
Blood was all over his hand.
He… didn’t mean to.
The police car came and went again.
Xia Ran squatted at the entrance of the police station, tightly holding his hand by his mother who had rushed over after finishing the lecture.
“I will be responsible for the child’s medical expenses and mental loss fees.” The mother told Xia Ran the negotiation results in detail.
From the moment she entered the police station, she had noticed her child.
Xia Ran was late to develop, and had only just started to grow a little taller, standing there so small, his eyes were empty and dull, which made her feel distressed.
So she immediately hugged her child, like an eagle protecting its young, and under the words of the opposing parent’s intention to threaten extortion, she calmly and firmly told her that the alley actually had surveillance.
The opposing parent instantly went silent and reluctantly accepted the police station’s negotiated compensation.
From beginning to end, Xia Ran didn’t say a word.
He stood in place with his head lowered, even his breathing was very weak, like a beautiful doll without a soul.
She talked about the negotiation results, just wanting to find a breakthrough in the conversation.
The boy finally had some vitality.
His eyelashes moved slightly: “Mom, am I… a monster?”
Xia Ran’s mother’s heart suddenly clenched.
She thought that she should have been less dignified just now.
She should have directly grabbed the hair of that annoying woman and hateful boy and kicked them twice with her stiletto heels.
“No, baby,” Xia Ran’s mother squatted down, gently stroking the boy’s face with both hands, and felt a little wetness. She was a little surprised, but more distressed, “Don’t cry, Ranran. No one blames you, what are you crying for… I want to praise you, baby. If you encounter this kind of situation again in the future, remember to punch the thigh and butt, it’s hard to get an injury verified there. Of course, if you see others being treated like this, you have to stand up for them even more. It doesn’t matter if you lose money, our family isn’t short of money…”
The mother babbled.
Xia Ran’s wooden attribute followed her.
Racking her brains to think of words to comfort people also really stumped the mother.
Finally, when she ran out of words, the mother hugged Xia Ran and said, “Baby, that’s not brute force, that’s your talent.”
Xia Ran pursed his lips.
Knowing that continuing to dwell on it would only make his mother feel uncomfortable as well.
But if it wasn’t because he was weird.
Why did his parents ask him to take a long vacation afterwards?
Having taken sick leave, Xia Ran didn’t have to go to school anymore.
During the summer vacation of his second year of junior high school, he took the high school entrance examination in advance.
He was also admitted to the affiliated high school of the local famous school with the first place in the city.
However, the snail had already carried a heavy shell on its back.
It was too fragile and could only desperately curl up its body.
Hide, so that humans wouldn’t discover its abnormality.
Xia Ran was very thorough.
He couldn’t just rely on his parents for the rest of his life.
He had his own path to take.
He was going to meet many, many people.
He was going to experience many, many things.
But… would anyone love a monster-like guy?
Would anyone love him?
The light slowly sprinkled on his face, stirring up a warm and soft touch.
Xia Ran’s eyebrows slightly relaxed.
The long dream came to an end, and he woke up.
Xia Ran was a little dazed for a while.
At that time in junior high school, his psychological age was still too immature, his three views and personality had not been well formed, and his vision was only that small piece of the world, so he felt that the sky was falling, wanting to shut himself up. He even thought about worse things.
But having passed this hurdle, looking back, it wasn’t anything in reality.
Xia Ran hadn’t thought about his bad experiences in the past for a long time.
Maybe it was because Mr.’s aura was too calm.
It made him couldn’t help but expose a little of the fragile truth inside the shell.
Wait a minute… aura?
Xia Ran: “…”
The black-haired youth widened his eyes in shock.
The red at the end of his eyes when he first woke up was even more abrupt at this time.
His body completely stiffened.
Xia Ran’s unbelievable gaze moved up.
Turned his head.
Moved up.
Mr. Xie’s sleeping beauty face, properly dressed and asleep, came into view.
And because he was looking at it from a close distance, the beauty attack was multiplied XN times!
Xia Ran: “…”
Xia Ran: “?”
No way.
He slept on Mr.’s bed all night.
No wonder he slept so deeply.
Could it be that Mr.’s aura had a calming effect on him?
It had been a long time since Xia Ran had woken up naturally in the morning and felt refreshed.
He touched his clothes.
Xia Ran: “…”
Fortunately, his regular clothes hadn’t turned into pajamas.
His clothes were still properly worn.
Xia Ran’s hurried movements to get up were a bit too big.
Xie He opened his eyes.
Mr. Xie’s eyes seemed to have a layer of mist when he first woke up.
But it cleared up quickly.
As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw the black-haired youth with red eyes, looking around.
“M-Mr.,” after meeting Xie He’s eyes, Xia Ran’s tongue was a little tied, “I didn’t do anything to you, did I?”
Xie He’s gaze subtly landed on Xia Ran’s waist.
“You seem to think too highly of your capabilities.”
Xia Ran: “…”
The insult was a bit too strong!
Xie He: “You were sleeping too soundly last night. I just carried you to my bedroom.”
“It’s nothing for two men to make do for one night, right?”
Xia Ran blinked in confusion.
Two men sleeping in the same bed, it did seem like it shouldn’t be anything…
He rubbed his neck, wanting to calm his mind.
But he was suddenly startled by the pain and gasped.
“Why is my neck scratched?” Xia Ran said in surprise.