Don't Pick Up Boyfriends From the Trash BinCh86.1 - I Hear I’m a Battle God (23.1)

translator: baumkuchen  editor: glitterypanda

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Zhan Yanchao had a dream.

In the dream, he was an invisible third person.

Story translated by Chrysanthemum Garden.

He saw a youth who looked exactly the same as him waving around his whip, lashing Ji Zuoshan until he was curled up into a ball.

Ji Zuoshan’s limbs were incredibly delicate and weak, the standard Omega body type. With practised movements, he wrapped his arms around his head, leaving every other part of him to the lashes of the whip, as if he’d resigned himself to this damned life. Vr3blR

Zhan Yanchao was flabbergasted.

He didn’t have the time to think about how Xiao Ji had become an Omega, he could only think about how beating an Omega was something a person could do.

He went to go grab that bastard’s hand, to slap him across the face.

But with a swing of his hand, he only met air.

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The scene changed. The person who looked exactly like him had already returned to normal. He held Ji Zuoshan in his arms, his face comfortably buried in his chest, while Ji Zuoshan had already fallen asleep, exhausted, his dark, feather-like lashes trembling slightly, like he was in some incomparably terrible dream.

 

Zhan Yanchao was half seething with jealousy, half burning with rage, like he was being tortured in a tub half full of ice and half full of boiling water. His entire body was trembling with anger.

How could he treat Xiao Ji like this? f8X9gw

 

The scene changed once more.

Seeing that person drag Xiao Ji along, forcing him to go to the battlefield with him, Zhan Yanchao was teetering on the brink of madness. He tried to drag the Xiao Ji in his dream back by the hand, yelling, don’t go, don’t listen to this bastard.

He’d seen Omegas go into heat on the frontlines. When their pheromones exploded into the air, the Alphas behaved like hungry wolves who’d caught a scent of raw meat. 4CLXq

Don’t go with him, it’s too dangerous——

Ji Zuoshan, do you hear me?!——

His shouts went unheard by Ji Zuoshan. Ji Zuoshan stared helplessly at the young master rolling about and raising a ruckus in front of him. After a moment of silent thought, he nodded.

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But as an outsider to this world, his fists, his gun, were completely unable to stop the crazed beasts. The Alphas completely ignored him, passing through his transparent body one after another, reaching their hands, covered in gun residue and machine oil, towards Ji Zuoshan.

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……Ji Zuoshan was desperately crying out “Yanchao”, he was calling his name. I6czKq

Zhan Yanchao cried out tearfully, “Xiao Ji, I’m here, I’m here, don’t be afraid.”

But he couldn’t even hold his hand, couldn’t even give him a word of reassurance.

 

He woke up crying. 8eqDZX

He was met with a view of eye-piercing white, making him squint and the tears stream faster down his face.

Zhan Yanling was sitting by his bedside, reading the news. Upon hearing the movement on the bed, he poked his head out from behind his newspaper. Seeing his younger brother sobbing silent tears, crying so hard that he couldn’t breathe, he immediately let out a “fuck”, and ran off to find a doctor or a nurse.

From the distance, Zhan Yanchao heard his brother, who had always acted rationally and elegantly, yelling, “Someone please come! My brother’s awake!”

Zhan Yanchao let out a few dry coughs, then reached out a trembling hand and pressed the call button next to his bed. ldSkQu

 

Fortunately, Zhan Yanling only lost his composure for a short while. When the doctor and nurses streamed in one after another to check on Zhan Yanchao, and confirmed that he was no longer in danger of dying, he returned to being the appropriately calm Zhan Yanling.

He wasn’t wearing his military uniform, just dressed in his home clothes. Clearly, he’d been here, unwaveringly taking care of him, for a long time.

He sat back down by his bed, and pulled out a white handkerchief to wipe at the corners of his still slightly wet eyes. “It hurts that much?” vLid9Q

Only then did Zhan Yanchao belatedly remember the reason behind his unconsciousness.

Tricked by the tactic of showing weakness arranged by Ji Zuoshan, the Zerg put in all their military strength into launching an overwhelming, full scale invasion of the planet.

Zhan Yanchao’s division was in charge of meeting the enemy head-on. He was repeatedly trapped in a sea of Zerg, their piercing chirps incessantly filling his ears.

Zhan Yanchao’s mecha was practically torn to pieces by insect wings. However, even ten minutes after he’d lost consciousness, his body was still fighting. fdN 1O

Zhan Yanling lightly slapped him over the head. “We almost didn’t manage to save you. Do you know, when Dad heard the news, he almost killed me.”

Zhan Yanchao asked, “What about him?”

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Zhan Yanling of course knew who he was asking about.

The ultimate aim of Ji Zuoshan’s tactic of feigning weakness, was to make the Zerg believe without a doubt that this human planet had a strong exterior but a soft core, and could be taken down in one move. When the Zerg army launched its full force attack, sending out all its troops, Ji Zuoshan would lead a force to raid the Zerg from the rear. RDwCaV

Zhan Yanling’s expression was a little strange. “Don’t bother about him, take your medicine.”

Zhan Yanchao shot up, not even caring about pulling at his wounds.

He stared straight at his brother, “What happened to him?”

“He’s perfectly fine!” Zhan Yanling pressed his younger brother back down onto the bed, and said with an air of hating iron for not becoming steel, “He brought every single soldier under his direct command back! He even killed the Zerg queen!” IWceX1

 

Zhan Yanchao let out the breath he’d been holding. “As long as he’s okay, as long as he’s okay.”

After lying down for a few seconds, his eyes suddenly widened. “……He killed what?!”

Zhan Yanling slapped the newspaper in his hand onto Zhan Yanchao’s face. “He’s been on the front page of all the news outlets for eighteen days straight. People are practically writing his life story into a legend.” 4n89dw

Zhan Yanchao gripped the edge of the newspaper. As he looked at the Ji Zuoshan on the front page, his shoulders were shaking with excitement.

In the picture, Ji Zuoshan was walking out of the cabin carrying the Zerg queen’s massive head. His body was covered in battle wounds, but he was glowing with handsomeness.

A battle that birthed a god, this was probably that.

The history books that would be written from today onwards, would all contain Ji Zuoshan’s name. The hero, a battle god, all the words of praise that you could imagine and those you couldn’t imagine would rush at him like snowflakes. Ma6nwO

 

Zhan Yanchao pressed the newspaper to his face and breathed in the fragrance of fresh ink.

Paper media had already declined, so it went without saying what it meant for Ji Zuoshan to continuously occupy the front page under such circumstances.

His older brother preparing this newspaper for him, however, made Zhan Yanchao think of the Xiao Ji from so many years ago who liked collecting newspapers. HghGNQ

He’d asked him what he was collecting those pieces of trash for. Xiao Ji, a little embarrassed, had said, in the past, when he was living on the streets with his younger siblings, newspapers were very useful for keeping warm.

The Zhan Yanchao of that time had gone out, brought back three newsstands worth of newspapers, stacked them in front of Ji Zuoshan and proudly patted himself on the chest, saying, see, if you stay with this young master, I can guarantee that you don’t go hungry or feel cold. I can get you all the newspapers you could ever want.

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Little could he have imagined that he would pass up that person, as well as pass up an entire life.

Now, only this faint smell of fresh ink could let him remember the feeling of carrying the newspapers, humming a faint tune as he hurried back home. ONc Wi

Zhan Yanchao wanted to cry, but at the same time, he wanted to laugh.

At that moment, Zhan Yanling’s communicator rang. He picked up. After saying a few lines, he then covered the receiver, and said to Zhan Yanchao, “The military called, asking after Division Commander Zhan’s status.”

Zhan Yanchao buried his face in the newspaper. He muttered, “Tell them I’m doing well, but I can’t pick up the phone.”

Zhan Yanling said slowly, pausing after each word, “It’s General Ji personally calling to ask.” O6wW71

Zhan Yanchao rolled out of bed and snatched the phone, then pulled up his quilt and buried himself underneath, his heart thumping.

On the other end of the phone was Ji Zuoshan’s calm voice, “Division Commander Zhan, how are your injuries.”

Zhan Yanchao twisted the corner of his quilt. “I’m doing well.”

Ji Zuoshan said, “I saw the recording of your battle. You led the troops to effectively block the Zerg army’s advance. The military is currently considering awarding your regiment with a collective first class merit and promoting you from division commander to deputy chief commander.” OJ9gv0

Imagining the cold, indifferent expression of Ji Zuoshan on the other end of the line, Zhan Yanchao’s face burned. “Thank you.”

Ji Zuoshan said, “In two days, I, Military Staff Officer Xu and General Bai will come together to visit you at the hospital. Right now, I’m shopping with Rosie and Xiaoqing, goodbye.”

Zhan Yanchao, “Wait——”

His heart almost stopped beating, but Ji Zuoshan didn’t hang up. “En?” Aq9k2d

Zhan Yanchao said, very, very carefully, “When you come, can you bring me my favourite fruit?”

Ji Zuoshan replied calmly, “Of course, after all, we’re coming to visit a patient.”


baum: hi guys, I’m back! Sorry for disappearing on you all without a word orz Chinese New Year came and punched me in the face, essentially. First, there was all the family obligations that come with CNY, then it was project + midterms season, and then I fell sick (and am still sick) with hopefully-not-the-coronavirus lol

but things have calmed down now, so everything will be back to its usual update schedule! Also, after this, I’ll be updating all the past chapters with the edits sere and panda have made, so by the time the last part of this arc comes out tomorrow, this whole arc will be fully edited! :> Kjaozc

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35 comments

  1. Ooooh boii this is really said😭😭😭 but it turned out really good for our little seal~♡♡♡

    Thank you for the chapter and get better soon, take care of your health!!

  2. Oh wow, thanks for the update! Hope you get to feeling better ASAP.

    Man, I can’t believe this arc is already ending. Wonder what the next one will be like…

  3. I think this is actually the first time I’ve thought well of ZYC, and it was so sad. I guess he can change. 😭

    Sorry to hear that you’ve been so busy and sick! I hope you feel better soon!

  4. It’s kinda funny that ZYC dreamt about the previous timeline and I really wonder why x’D Too much regret? A play from the pig brain for collecting more of that strange energy? Or just because “lol why not”? xD

    Thx for the ch (ㅅ˘ㅂ˘) And get well soon.

  5. Get well soon.

    Whenever JZS past life was mentioned I can’t help but cry. I’m so glad he had a second chance and was doing well. Thanks for the chapter.

  6. No worries. Take care of yourself.

    Even though most of us are hungry for more updates it doesn’t mean that you don’t deserve and aren’t entilted to take breaks. Health fist 😘(because if you burn out, then we all lose)

  7. That visit to the past hurts so much I always hated ZYC more after reading it. Oh at least he learns to face regrets, and knew his past life self is such an a*hole and how much JZS suffered because of him.

    I hope author gives us a happy JZS next chapter!

    Thank you Baum and glitterypanda!

  8. Well I guess I can getvaround to accept their relationship, but we all should remember that people don’t change this easily in real life. If you find yourself at the start of a relationship that seems abusive – turn around before it becomes to difficult and never come back.

  9. get well soon, and always take care of your health❤

  10. Thank you for the update but please take care of yourself too!

    I’m very happy that this arc didn’t end badly for the antagonist, and I’m excited for the next one.

  11. Hey, quick question if you don’t mind. Is there much of a difference between edited version and unedited version? Thanks!

  12. Urgh, I’m not sure how I feel. I don’t hate him since that was a different Zhan Yanchao (different life experiences, different attitudes to things)

    At the same time. I do feel concern about how things will go from here.

    Oh well.

  13. Zhan Yanchao dreaming about the past was the perfect ending for this arc. He can truly understand What a horrible person he is. Or was. And he can appreciate Ji Zuoshan’s kindness from affar.

    Thanks for the chapter!

  14. So this was one one of the betterslabs, and in happy he grew up a little, but at the same time, I don’t wish for him and ji to be together. I hope they move on..I was hoping for ji and rosie’s but maybe it’ll be a female pairing.

  15. I really like it when scum turn it around. It’s not that I relish their regret (though I do, heheh) but mostly it’s bc it restores a bit of faith in ppl to see them acknowledging their mistakes and learning and growing. Feels good.

  16. Lol I nearly go into rage when I thought this is the end of this arc 😂…

    turn out there’s still part 2Thanks for the chapter! 🍀

  17. ZYC was the product of twisted upbringing, a person isn’t inherently bad at the start, it was because of their environment and the people around them. This arc was such an eye opener, especially when it comes on how important it is for a parent to guide their children towards their right path. I couldn’t say that ZYC is right, but I pity him.

  18. ZYC has grown to think the actions if his would’ve-been self as appalling and that’s the biggest proof that he has changed for the better. Proud of you, ex-scum. Now maybe you and Xiao Ji might be able to become friends some day

  19. Ah this is definitely my favorite arc! I’m glad they both got a happy ending, and I’m glad the ZYC was able to realize his mistakes in the end!

  20. Finally, he realized his mistakes! And he seems to be still loving Zuoshan?….. No, no, no. I don’t want this ending. He has realized his mistakes and changed. Zuoshan had moved on and now is in a fine state. Now I don’t want this unrequited love bullshit. Can’t Yanchao just move on?? I am absolutely fine even if they don’t become friends and I am okay even if they don’t meet each other again. I am okay even if they enter a healthy relationship. But not this one-sided love filled with regret and guilt. Seeing him obsessed over Zuoshan makes me depressed. Wtff!

  21. I take back my comment saying that CXC should just whip ZYC d*ck off cause for the first time I think that ZYC can hopefully change for the best

  22. So…they will be a match?well Idk but I know one thing for sure that spoiled brat turned into an infatuated caring person

  23. i don’t know what to feel but it’s good that ZYC changed, and i know that him being a scum in the past was also the guardian’s fault for failing to guide him to the right path.

  24. Perhaps since CXC didn’t spend much on ZYC’s regret points to not leave first, the giant muscle is squeezing out more regret points from ZYC by making him dream of the last life? I know, I’ll find out as I read but I like keeping some thoughts in the comments to see if my hunch ended up right or a complete miss ehe

  25. I’m really glad this idiot yanchao didn’t ended up like his other scum gong predecessor. Glad that his moral and common sense is improving.