Chapter 23: Won, I divorce Xi Yun. Xi Yun, move your legs…
Plugging one’s ears while stealing a bell is not a long-term plan.
Le Can took a deep breath, nonchalantly moved his hand away, and then fiercely shoved the pale-lipped man into the wheelchair Yuan Cheng handed over.
The sudden loss of physical balance made Xi Yun’s hands, pressing on the wheelchair armrests, tense up abruptly. He subconsciously clenched his jaw, tilting his face slightly upward.
Between his cold and deep brows, the naturally drooping black eyelashes trembled, his tightly closed eyes seeming to have a tendency to open.
Seeing this, Le Can, bending over to check the male lead’s condition, ignored the scorching breath almost spraying onto his face and hurriedly reached out to cover Xi Yun’s eyes.
Although he didn’t know the trigger for Xi Yun’s ability upgrade, clearly, this change earlier than the plot had intensified the side effects brought by the upgrade.
After all, in the original one hundred thousand words, Le Can hadn’t seen the male lead in so much pain he couldn’t stand!
During the upgrade pain period, Xi Yun’s eyes couldn’t see light. If forced to see light, the original photophobia sequelae might intensify into temporary blindness.
If it were purely a reader’s perspective, he would be howling and waiting for the drama.
But, as the only transmigrator who knew the plot had deviated ten thousand eight hundred miles, before the raw stone Xi Yun used for the final save was found, Le Can only wanted to find a tube to suck oxygen frantically.
Crappy memory!
He simply couldn’t remember exactly which stone it was!
In panic and distress, Le Can completely failed to notice Nuwa’s show-off masterpiece almost shoved in his face. His attention was entirely focused on his hand pressing on Xi Yun’s face.
Only wanting to press it tighter, leaving no gap.
Completely failing to notice the tip-of-the-nose touch separated by a palm, top-tier ambiguity comparable to rubbing temples together.
The gradually diminishing distance, paired with two stunningly beautiful faces. Everyone who saw it held their breath without exception, hearts hanging high.
What will happen next?
The question couldn’t help but float in their hearts.
Suddenly, the bending youth’s brows furrowed slightly. His gaze moved down slowly, seemingly realizing the impropriety of the current posture, and took a slight step back.
Hard to say if it was regret or relief, the surrounding crowd let out the breath they had been holding in unison.
After all, in public, they wouldn’t kiss…
Damn! Didn’t kiss but…
Le Can, whose “old waist” couldn’t hold on, looked at the two extraordinarily long legs hanging down from the wheelchair, with only a small section resting outside because there was no place to put them.
To be precise, it should be the small patch of wheelchair surface between the two spread knees—a sinful place.
Because of too many scruples, Le Can didn’t dare let go, so he could only lean in again and bring his mouth close to Xi Yun’s ear.
“Hey Xi Yun, move your legs further to the sides.”
The first time he said it, Xi Yun didn’t react, seemingly not hearing it. Le Can could only get closer, telling him his request word by word.
The hand gripping the wheelchair armrest exerted force silently, blue veins under the skin slowly emerging and then fading.
Le Can didn’t see it; he only saw those two strangely long legs move, and the empty space left in the middle for him became larger.
The youth joyfully curved his beautiful brows and eyes, bent his left leg, and pressed his knee against the not-so-spacious wheelchair.
With a support point, Le Can’s tense shoulders collapsed, his body visibly relaxing.
He was relaxed, but little did he know that besides him, everyone else on the scene tightened their faces, silently sucking in a huge breath of cold air.
Gu Xinxue was the second person who couldn’t hold it.
He wished he could rush up and push away the eyesore, but the reality was that he was firmly pinned in place by Xie Jun and Du Ran together.
Thus, he could only shout unwillingly:
“Damn it, did you hear?! I want to bet against you!”
“If you lose, roll off Xi Yun’s body, roll out… Mmph mmph mmph!”
Xie Jun, who stuffed whatever she found into his mouth, rolled her eyes fiercely, happening to meet the gaze of Du Ran, who had a subtle expression.
The two, who were still collaborating from the previous second until now, tacitly rolled their eyes at each other and turned their faces away. Even though they found each other unpleasant, their hands remained steady, trapping the constantly struggling Gu Xinxue.
As for who was the first person who couldn’t hold it?
Xi Ziyu, with a swollen bee-dog face sporting a fist print on the left and a palm print on the right, was likewise guarded left and right by Yuan Cheng and Yin Wuyu.
It wasn’t that he didn’t want to mock like Gu Xinxue; it was just that a sentence of “corrupting public morals” was already the result of forcing his mouth open.
Simply put, Xi Yun didn’t hold back that punch.
Xi Ziyu couldn’t speak right now.
Betting… bet… Stone Gambling!
Xi Yun’s rotten peach blossom’s sentence struck Le Can’s brain like lightning in a flash; he suddenly remembered something important.
“Yuan Cheng, pass me the ‘Winter Melon Candy’, quick!”
Yuan Cheng, whose name was called, stood up straight abruptly, subconsciously executing Le Can’s order, but… what is Winter Melon Candy?
The puppy-eyed big guy scratched his head in confusion: “Brother-in-law, I don’t have Winter Melon Candy? Do I need to go out and buy it now?”
Le Can touched Xi Yun’s eyes, “Not real candy, it’s that jadeite raw stone I just bought.”
“Pick it up and put it in Xi Yun’s hands.”
Disregarding the rationality of this action, Le Can gently pressed his finger pads on the thin eyelids under his hand, lowering his head to ask the person beneath him.
“Is your hearing back to normal now?”
The flawless face under his hand moved toward his palm, and then Xi Yun’s familiar voice rang out, “No problem now.”
Sure enough, Le Can thought.
If it wasn’t that he couldn’t hear, Xi Yun wouldn’t have had zero reaction to those outrageous remarks about staying up late, and even admitted it so calmly.
This meant his initial probing and action were not wrong.
“If you can hear, then listen carefully to what I’m about to say.”
He leaned in and lowered his voice, “Close your eyes and hold the stone tight; don’t try to open your eyes for a short while.”
“Also…” Le Can paused for a second, “Have you found the ‘cover’ you were looking for?”
The eyes under his palm seemed to move; something swept across the sensitive palm, stirring up an unbearable itch out of nowhere.
“Don’t move!” The youth ordered sternly.
Then, the person in front of him really obediently stopped moving. A moment later, he opened his mouth and said: “En… found it.”
Hearing this, Le Can subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.
Good that it’s found, otherwise as the fuse for the plot deviation, his sin would be great.
If Xi Yun still wanted his eyes in the future, it was best to use his ability less or not at all during the sequelae period. Finding the item meant his eyes and the Spring Auction were saved; next, the male lead could safely “close his eyes.”
After Yuan Cheng placed the “Winter Melon Candy” into Xi Yun’s palm, Le Can slowly moved down from the knee on the wheelchair.
“Did you bring the white silk ribbon?”
Yuan Cheng, who had originally stepped back two paces, immediately pulled out a ball of soft white fabric from his pocket like magic.
Giving Yuan Cheng an approving look, Le Can took the white silk while releasing his hand, not forgetting to warn Xi Yun again: “Hold the thing in your hand tight, no opening your eyes.”
When he turned back again, he saw the male lead, who dominated in the book, quietly holding a white raw stone, eyes lowered like a lifelike sculpture.
Even though the person before him was mostly in black and white, the impact of beauty was still distinct and intense. Le Can was stunned for two seconds.
Then, after the “sculpture” tilted its head slightly and moved, the youth pursed his lips to hide a gasp of admiration. Slender hands held both ends of the white silk, covering the protagonist’s brows and eyes.
Unsure how the previous white silk was tied, Le Can went around to the back of Xi Yun’s head and, as if possessed, tied a necktie knot.
Mm, to prevent the ribbon from slipping, he reflexively tightened it after tying.
After pulling, Le Can realized what he had done.
He actually strangled Xi Yun’s head! Strangled the male lead’s head that wasn’t bald but was particularly good at making money!
[Sin, sin, sin xN]
Gently patting the big treasure’s head, Le Can finally found time to face the indignant “Rotten Peach Blossom.”
With the first sentence he opened his mouth, he stumbled,
“How should I address this Mr. Wasted?”
Gu Xinxue, whose mouth was gagged, instantly widened his eyes. if the glare directed at Le Can could be materialized, he probably would have turned into excellent flower fertilizer.
However, the youth with peach-blossom eyes continued to smile gently and appropriately.
“You mentioned ‘betting’ twice just now. If I understand correctly, it’s not a financial betting agreement, but betting on opening jadeite?”
Xie Jun and Du Ran looked at each other and released the restrictions on Gu Xinxue.
The first second he gained freedom, the person with messy clothes and hair fiercely spat out the stuff in his mouth, “Peh!”
He first glared angrily at his young partner beside him: “Du Ran, do you still remember who you came here with?”
“And you, seeing me being grabbed just now, couldn’t you come and help?!”
The middle-aged man guarding the sky-high priced raw stone dared not move an inch, hurriedly forcing a smile, but dared not make a single rebuttal at this time.
Seeing this, Le Can glanced at Xi Yun and secretly shook his head.
No, the quality of your rotten peach blossom is too plastic…
After cursing the two of them in succession, Gu Xinxue yanked hard on the wrinkles grabbed into his clothes, turning his head to stare ferociously at Le Can, who was slightly distracted.
“Gu Hui Jewelry, Gu Xinxue.”
Not Mr. Wasted, nor some nameless nobody popping out of nowhere!
Gu Hui Jewelry, a large jewelry chain with physical stores all over the country, wasn’t some small household no one could name!
However, the transmigrating Le Can didn’t know much about the situation here, and the life of poverty lived by the Little Soft Bun didn’t leave him any memories in this regard.
He perfunctorily gave a careless response: “En, hello.”
Not knowing the inside story, Gu Xinxue thought Le Can was doing it on purpose. He nearly fell backward in anger, “You you you you you you…”
Le Can nodded: “Thank you, I’m very well. So the bet is gambling on opening jadeite, right?”
Gu Xinxue’s delicate face was instantly suffocated to a deep red. After a long while, clutching his chest that was about to explode, he squeezed out a “Yes.”
“Good!”
Le Can agreed in one go, his attitude incredibly refreshing.
Even, to make the other party agree as well, he specially placed a heavy bet.
“If you win, I divorce Xi Yun.”
Amidst the crowd’s incredulous gazes, Le Can very calmly threw out his demand, “But if I win, that blue water jadeite is mine!”
First, where does divorce come from if they haven’t even married?
Hehe, didn’t expect that, right? He and Xi Yun weren’t married. Divorce? If they wanted to see it, as long as the money was enough, he could perform divorce eight hundred times a day.
Second, Le Can had already confirmed that Xi Yun found the raw material he liked.
As long as he obtained the characteristics of that jadeite raw stone, the stone would belong to Xi Yun, but betting on opening jadeite? Sorry, he was destined to win this round.
So, what bet?
Le Can purely just wanted to bring the beautiful big treasure home.
And why did he make Xi Yun personally hold the heavy raw stone when they had a cart?
Naturally, because as the original author’s biological son, Xi Yun’s ability sequelae weren’t unsolvable.
Jadeite with better species and water, antiques with older history, etc., all contained a special qi inside that could alleviate pain and compress the duration of sequelae.
Just, conveniently helping out his current landlord and co-tenant.
Looking at it this way, sacrifice one person, benefit many parties. Bingo! Killing many birds with one stone, he was simply a genius!
With the abacus in his heart clicking loudly, Le Can looked back at Gu Xinxue’s face, which held disdain but couldn’t stop the hidden joy. It was no longer the mindset of looking at a cannon fodder rotten peach blossom.
What rotten, this was clearly the God of Wealth!
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