Chapter 111: Also, I Love You
[Wait? You can hear romantic history, but I don’t believe you didn’t hear “transmigration into a book”?!]
Under Le Can’s gaze, Xi Yun nodded frankly. “I heard it.”
His expression was calm, yet at the moment he lifted his eyes, a faint aura of danger leaked from those silver-grey pupils.
“Yao Yao thinks this is a world within a book.”
“Besides you, perhaps there is also a Jian Minglang, and everyone else is just a character in a phantom world?”
“I didn’t…”
Le Can instinctively refuted.
Perhaps he did think so at the beginning, but after living together day and night, Le Can already knew that this place had long transcended a novel… Also, Xi Yun was too keen; he had actually suspected Jian Minglang from the start.
The moment he opened his mouth, a slender finger pressed against Le Can’s lips. “Shh, let me finish.”
“I know you cannot go back.”
Through his clothes, Xi Yun lightly tapped the position of the youth’s heart. “Then, is there still any lingering attachment to your former world here?”
Attachment to the things and events there, or attachment to certain people…
In a daze, Le Can felt like he smelled vinegar. He was stunned for several minutes before finally, under Xi Yun’s increasingly lonely gaze, he suddenly burst out laughing.
Le Can didn’t want to laugh at first, but once he understood what Xi Yun was thinking, it was both exasperating and hilarious.
Furthermore, the part that made him angry was that a certain someone actually developed self-doubt… Had he not given Xi Yun enough sense of security?
Uh, actually, it seemed like… it really was…
[Awkwardly smiling.JPG]
Le Can, reflecting on whether he was a bit of a “scumbag,” suddenly reached out to cup the man’s cheeks, lifting his face upward.
“Xi Yun actually has times when he isn’t confident?”
In the eyes slowly lifted by the other, Le Can acted like a libertine, his gaze scanning the other’s brows and eyes inch by inch with ambiguity.
Finally, he bit the thin, monochromatic lips with satisfaction.
“I really want to ask—when you look in the mirror, don’t you ever look inside?”
Le Can couldn’t help but find it strange and lightly bumped Xi Yun’s brow with his own in a punishing manner. “Or perhaps you have some doubts about my aesthetic taste?”
Amidst the sequence of questions, Xi Yun steadily met the youth’s amber eyes.
Le Can gave a light sigh in his heart. “Fine, I did have an ex-boyfriend.”
Before Xi Yun could react, he quickly raised his hand to swear. “But I promise, I don’t have a single bit of lingering attachment to him or the past!”
The narrow phoenix eyes narrowed silently.
Le Can sighed and lamented with a guilty expression, confessing. “Fine, fine, I’m still lingeringly attached to the jewelry I accumulated in my safe in my previous life.”
“There, now you know you’ve fallen in love with such a vulgar person. Man, are you satisfied with what you heard?”
Le Can pinched Xi Yun’s face with feigned dissatisfaction, but halfway through, he couldn’t help it and broke into laughter.
Xi Yun reached out to catch the youth who was laughing and wobbling, his own eyes tinged with the same smile. He said softly: “It’s not vulgar. I will make up all those things for you.”
From the beginning, Xi Yun knew Le Can’s nature as a money-lover.
Le Can’s love for wealth wasn’t like a Pixiu that only takes in and never gives out; he just liked the sense of achievement when wealth accumulated bit by bit. It was probably related to his past experiences; the more wealth he accumulated, the greater the sense of security it gave him.
Xi Yun was even grateful that Le Can had such a preference. Otherwise, he might not have been able to keep the person by his side so smoothly…
“Mhm, not bad. I’m also very satisfied.”
Le Can affirmed Xi Yun’s reply with a light laugh.
However, he didn’t skip the words he originally intended to confess. Instead, he started from the beginning and spoke bit by bit.
After all, in a relationship, hiding things is a taboo. Keeping half and hiding half is never a good thing. Since Le Can decided to speak, he would lay it all out clearly.
Xi Yun embraced Le Can, who had adjusted his posture to curl into his arms. He carried him horizontally into the soft bed and quietly listened to his detailed narration.
The growth story of an ordinary person isn’t particularly long or short.
Le Can picked and chose, starting from his journey from a small village to a big city alone. He spoke of his transition from longing for jewelry design work to its disenchantment, and finally to it becoming a steady daily routine.
He spoke of the heavy life of a laborer in the past and the current leisure of working for himself occasionally. Along the way, Le Can tilted his head to kiss Xi Yun.
For nothing else but the fact that the other party had contributed significantly to this freedom.
Then, his words shifted, speaking of the persistent Lv Zhangping and the proactively friendly Shan Man.
He spoke of those two different types of relationships during the period of his greatest mental pressure when he thought he could stop his steps and catch his breath…
Le Can’s back was against Xi Yun’s chest, his head lowered so his expression couldn’t be seen.
Xi Yun, however, could clearly feel the soft emotions of memory within the youth gradually fading. His voice was cold and flat without a ripple.
Even toward two people he had never met, enmity rose uncontrollably in Xi Yun’s heart.
Since he was the one sitting on him, how could Le Can not notice the tension of the “cushion”?
The unpleasant emotions from recalling the two scumbags dissipated. Le Can lifted Xi Yun’s drooping hand and kissed the back of it loudly.
“Don’t worry. Taking advantage of me isn’t something one can do for free.”
Le Can spoke of the two things he did before his death in a relaxed tone, using just a few sentences to gloss over them. He also included the follow-up Jian Minglang provided—the two scumbags biting each other like dogs.
After finishing his words, Le Can turned around and lay on Xi Yun’s chest, his rounded peach-blossom eyes wide with curiosity as he watched Xi Yun’s reaction.
“How is it? Hearing that I turned my ex-boyfriend into a eunuch, can President Xi still taste vinegar?”
He winked mischievously at the man. His hand under the covers quietly touched a certain spot, his voice low with implication: “Do you feel scared?”
After all, in the past, he had touched this place quite a few times. If he really had any malicious intent, Xi Yun might follow in a certain scumbag’s footsteps.
Xi Yun gave a muffled grunt, his sexy Adam’s apple rolling continuously under the light.
Le Can couldn’t help but swallow his saliva too. He slowly relaxed the strength of his fingers and gave two gentle rubs in a comforting manner.
After all, it concerned his and Xi Yun’s future harmony; he shouldn’t really…
Xi Yun let out a low laugh, his raspy, magnetic voice accompanied by hot breath spraying by Le Can’s ear.
Le Can’s earlobes suddenly turned red.
Xi Yun must have heard what he was thinking! This ability is simply cheating!
Xi Yun’s laughter grew louder. He lightly touched the youth’s red earlobe. “I’m not scared.”
“Because Yao Yao wouldn’t bear to treat me like that.”
Le Can suddenly let go of the jumping fellow in his hand and buried his head like an ostrich into the pillow beside him.
Good heavens, after he “opened his eyes,” he’s just like a male fox spirit. Who could keep their heart from being in a flurry?
Xi Yun’s words were filled with amusement, and he even added fuel to the fire: “Correct, it’s all my fault. Don’t blame Yao Yao for not being able to restrain yourself…”
Le Can suddenly lifted his head and pounced forward like a hungry tiger, fiercely covering a certain man’s mouth with an aggressive expression.
“Haven’t you heard a saying? Shut your little mouth!”
Xi Yun reached out to embrace the youth’s waist, his head lowered with a smile in his eyes as he lightly touched his palm with his lips.
He knew he shouldn’t tease too much, so he obediently stopped moving.
Under the warm light, the indignant peach-blossom eyes were covered with a layer of mist. The slightly upturned corners were a bright crimson, a vision of blurred and affectionate elegance that ordinary people could not glimpse.
Le Can calmed down for a while, moved his belly which was being poked, retracted his hand, and gave a glare to a certain man whose persona had collapsed so much that not even dust remained.
“As expected, from the moment the plot deviated and you, a no-CP male lead, found yourself a CP, I shouldn’t have believed in any persona!”
Even if it was just a fake CP for public show at the beginning, once the character broke through the labels step by step later on, Le Can should have known that this was no longer just a novel, but a real world that underwent changes every second.
Xi Yun accepted the accusation frankly.
From some of the things Le Can said and thought, Xi Yun, who already knew some information, said calmly: “Perhaps such a world truly exists.”
Isn’t there a hypothesis of parallel universes? Other spaces that exist parallel to them, similar yet different.
The Xi Yun in that recorded world was unfortunate enough not to wait for his youth. But he was much luckier…
“The Xi Yun of this world has a luck that that unlucky fellow didn’t have by his side.”
Xi Yun, who once looked down on feelings, was now criticizing his former self who had sneered at them.
Le (The Lucky One) Can: “…”
Wait, what is this?
Can a person in the real-world version not even empathize with their past self?
After a strange silence for a while, Le Can spoke with difficulty: “Do you not have any thoughts about the possibility of being a ‘paper person’?”
“Paper person”—Xi Yun silently repeated these three words, shaking his head with a neutral expression.
“Is this why you occasionally label me as the ‘child of fortune’ or ‘Heaven’s own son’ in your heart?”
Occasionally, the youth who was obsessed with his looks would look at him infatuatedly while constantly lamenting in his heart about how he truly lived up to being the male lead and was simply a top-grade catch…
However, these words were not easy to say out loud directly.
Even if Xi Yun didn’t say them, it didn’t mean Le Can couldn’t remember them. With some of the things he had let himself say in his mind flashing through his brain, the youth under the quilt stiffened into a straight line.
Why does something like mind-reading exist?!
For a moment, Le Can’s desire to kill the witness and erase the evidence reached its peak.
Xi Yun was unhurried. He familiarly placed his hand on the youth’s waist and gave a light press on the small waist-dimple.
The “stiff line” Le Can instantly jerked. He dodged while jerking, making a fuss with the other person under the quilt.
“Wait, wait! I’ll say it, I’ll say it!”
“The book I saw was an urban ‘face-slapping’ power fantasy centered on you. So naturally, you were the center of the world…”
Xi Yun gave a sigh in his heart, lowering his head to pull the rolling youth into his arms.
“That’s not right, Yao Yao.”
“In my eyes, you are the center of the world.”
The unique existence, the most dazzling existence, the focus where gazes converge…
If the world must have a protagonist, then Le Can is the only protagonist in Xi Yun’s world.
“Le Can, I love you.”
A world that loses its center will collapse, so please always…
“Take me with you.”
Le Can flipped over and straddled the person beneath him. The warm yellow light draped a golden layer over him.
He lowered his head, breathing lightly. The corners of his wanton eyes tilted upward, looking like a disdainful and arrogant king.
“Do we go or not? That… depends on your performance tonight.”
[Also, I love you too, Xi Yun.]
—The End—
T/N: “Sustainable development” (可持续发展) returns as a pun for sexual stamina. “Paper person” (纸片人) refers to a 2D fictional character. “Pixiu” is a mythical beast that swallows wealth but never excretes it, symbol of extreme greed. “Night is short, sun is high…” is a quote about a king neglecting his duties to be with his lover.
And that’s a wrap on the main story! Thank you so much for following Le Can and Xi Yun’s journey with me. It was such a ride—from the cruise ship rescue to the “face-slapping” at the auction. I’m glad they found their “sustainable” happiness! Happy reading!
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