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Nan Zhou slowly opened his eyes in the darkness.
He repeatedly blinked his eyes, adjusting to the feeling of his consciousness reawakening within his body.
He just… seemed to have walked down a familiar road again.
There was still a faint and warm smell of sugar remaining in his breath, but no strong, sticky feeling of summer heat in the air.
The rain of icing seemed to have directly passed through his skin, continuously forming a layer of snow over his heart.
Nan Zhou hadn’t yet tried such a novel way of eating sugar.
So he raised his hand, put his thumb to his lips, and rubbed it curiously.
Suddenly, he heard Li Yinhang beside him say quietly, “… You’re awake?”
Nan Zhou inclined his head.
Li Yinhang hugged the apple-nibbling Nanji Star that cowardly formed itself into a ball.
Nan Zhou, “When did you wake up?”
Li Yinhang, “I shouldn’t have slept long… about ten minutes.”
Nan Zhou, “Well. Then you are fast.”
Li Yinhang, “……”
She looked at the darkness in front of her, anxious.
She tentatively assumed that Nan Zhou was complimenting her.
Nan Zhou asked again, “What did you dream about?”
Li Yinhang, “……” Normally, shouldn’t such an embarrassing thing not be mentioned and digested separately?
Li Yinhang, “… Can I not say?”
Nan Zhou looked at her seriously, “No.”
Li Yinhang sighed.
Out of consideration for the mission, she honestly explained.
She said, “I dreamed of my male god from junior high school. He was giving a speech under the national flag. He was bilingual and was in charge of the English part, and he had an air of sexiness to him.”
“He had just finished his speech, and I was still a little excited when the scene cut out.”
“I had another dream which was about a monthly exam I took in high school.”
“I’m terrible when it comes to English and that test was crucial and difficult. The more anxious I was, the more I couldn’t understand the questions, and I almost cried.”
“My desk mate happened to be near my exam table, and suddenly he took the initiative to throw a small note to me, and winked at me.”
“I held it in my hand and didn’t dare to look at it. I kept holding onto it until the paper was wet from my sweaty palms. After the exam ended, I hid in the toilet to read it. It was all the answers to the multiple choice questions.”
“Later I dreamed of the small wall I had liked in college, various CPs of novels and dramas, and answering the customer service phone where I would occasionally hear a very nice voice…”
Nan Zhou probably understood, “So, you woke up early because…”
Li Yinhang, “… Hmm.”
Li Yinhang, “The dreams were cut off too quickly.”
The speed of the dream was comparable to a bank money counting machine.
After waking up, Li Yinhang thought and tried to understand the mechanics of this level and why her dream made zero sense and the experience was extremely poor.
Her hormones were only acting up symbolically; after a couple days of obsession, she’d be back to being happily single.
The materials she could provide to the game NPC to use in the game were really pitiful.
In order to make her dream continue, the game NPC took great pains, and even deliberately blurred some details in reality.
For example, in junior high school, just after listening to the male god’s speech, the best friend standing behind her immediately announced that she was going to chase the male god. Li Yinhang then decisively and sincerely relinquished her feelings.
Another example, the desk mate that handed her the answer was actually a gentle little sister.
Li Yinhang burst into tears.
She knew she had been single, but she never knew that she had been single so thoroughly.
The role of the dream was to take her back to review her past “emotional” feelings all over again.
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Li Yinhang’s experience told her that what she dreamed was something that had really happened to her.
This was content related to the game, and it wasn’t a dream that was easy to forget after having experienced it.
Nan Zhou, on the other hand, really couldn’t remember anything.
He only remembered that the dream wasn’t long, which was fine.
A pleasant sensation came over him, radiating from his chest, as if it had just rained and the moisture from the precipitation had caused a small seed to sprout within, and that spring sprout was now straining to emerge, tardy but curious.
However, it was as if some force in the underworld prevented him from retaining that memory.
Listening to his thoughtful tone, Li Yinhang quickly reacted.
——Nan Zhou wasn’t someone who would lie.
She knew she couldn’t solve Nan Zhou’s confusion, so she hugged Nanji Star and obediently shrunk to the side, “Let’s rest for a while. Let’s talk when Brother Fang wakes up.”
Nan Zhou asked her, “Is there no way to wake him up?”
“I tried.” Li Yinhang shook her head. “There is no way.”
In fact, she didn’t dare to make violent wake-up calls such as vigorous shaking, splashing water, and throwing Nanji Star at him.
In the dream, their consciousness was within the control of the game NPC.
What consequences would result from rash and reckless actions, she didn’t dare to try.
Nan Zhou didn’t try either.
According to the task time, Li Yinhang slept for nearly 15 minutes.
And Nan Zhou was in a deep sleep for two and a half hours before waking up.
And so they decided to give Jiang Fang half an hour.
Once the three-hour time limit was exceeded, then the next three doors may not be easy to go through.
Nan Zhou rested one arm under his head.
Jiang Fang was still sleeping on his side, breathing evenly.
He didn’t know what he was dreaming about.
Thinking about it, Nan Zhou moved his body, only to find that his shoes were taken off.
He recalled that when the raging sleepiness madly came in, he wasn’t yet next to the bed, and his mental defense control was basically zero. He had already leaned softly on Jiang Fang, and his body and spirit were prepared for deep sleep.
He didn’t know how Jiang Fang resisted the sleepiness and took off his shoes alone.
Clearly, Jiang Fang didn’t have the time to take off his own shoes.
Nan Zhou sat up and rustled to Jiang Fang’s side and took off his shoes so that he could lie down comfortably.
Li Yinhang had been on pins and needles in the bed. She didn’t dare take off her shoes and was prepared to run away in case of emergency.
A perfectly comfortable bed, and after she slept in it, it had become nothing more than coffin wood.
When Nan Zhou woke up, she dared to quietly take off her shoes, curled up on the bed, and rested while waiting for Jiang Fang to wake up.
When preparing to lie down again, Nan Zhou suddenly subconsciously touched his collar.
He found that the button was properly fastened. He once again wondered.
——He has never been in the habit of unbuttoning the collar of his shirt.
This action was clearly superfluous.
With enigmatic sentiments in his mind, Nan Zhou lay neatly back at Jiang Fang’s side.
Probably out of fun, or out of some other thought, Nan Zhou put his snow-white, sock-covered feet to Jiang Fang’s feet and had his toes playfully wiggle against his feet.
——Urging him to wake up quickly.
……
Jiang Fang stopped when he was only a few centimeters away from Nan Zhou’s soft lips.
Their breaths entangled and blended ambiguously. In the cloying, faint scent of yeast, malt, and sugary icing, no matter how one would look at it, what should brewed next was supposedly their sweetest kiss.
But Jiang Fang still stopped.
On the one hand, it was his sanity that called for a stop.
On the other hand, there was something else that distracted him.
——How to say it…
There was a feeling of being touched by a stray cat rubbing his trouser leg.
Jiang Fang looked down, but only saw the reflection of the two of them intertwined, and the longing that showed its sincerity.
The momentary heartbeat just now, as well as the scene in front of him, made Jiang Fang realize that he was being poisoned.
To this hormone-induced impulse, all he had learned from his past life was distrust and pain.
Yet he had crossed the line.
Because of an impulse, Jiang Fang broke the safe distance that should have been strictly maintained.
So there was only one thing he could do.
Jiang Fang hung his head, took a step backward, and said softly, “I’m sorry.”
The enthralling, dreamy atmosphere that occurred just now was gone in an instant.
Wolf NPC: “……” Are you fucking unable to do it?
With the countless moments they had gone through just now, the wolf NPC felt that it would only be a matter of time.
Getting drunk.
Sitting on his feet.
When the two fell to the floor and had a coffee table for cover.
And just now.
As long as he was able to accomplish the excessive intimate actions required, then he could pull the player to sink into the endless sea of lust and darkness, never to walk out of this permanently pervasive, ambiguous, and wet dream.
Like the story established in “Little Red Riding Hood”, the Wolf has been a faithful actor.
He was also an actor with an instant script in hand, ready to insert himself into the most charming and climactic part of the fantasy world.
But seeing that Jiang Fang had already reacted physiologically, the wolf NPC felt that he just needed to further persist in his efforts.
He followed the script with diligence and brilliance and continued to act, “Are you uncomfortable?”
Jiang Fang, “A little.”
The wolf NPC read out the words that Nan Zhou uttered to Jiang Fang at this moment.
The tone of voice and expression were perfectly restored with straightforwardness and frankness.
“Nan Zhou”: “I understand, you are trying to court.”
Jiang Fang tilted his head to look at him, walked towards the street corner, and concealed himself in the darkness, “It’s just a fleeting moment. Anyone would have such an impulse, right?”
“Nan Zhou” seriously asked, “Do you need my help?”
After saying that, he wanted to get close to Jiang Fang.
However, Jiang Fang shouted at him to stop, “You just stand there and wait. Don’t come over.”
“Nan Zhou” had to stop, “Oh.”
On the other hand, Jiang Fang—who was in the dark, face unchanged—stabbed the nose of a ballpoint pen into his thigh.
The pain pushed the tide of desire to fade away.
He straightened his lapel, wiped away the cold sweat at the corner of his forehead, resumed his polished appearance, and slowly stepped out of the darkness.
Nan Zhou obediently waited in place, without taking a step away.
The wolf NPC was quite bored and had now left Nan Zhou’s body.
The Nan Zhou standing here was the phantom that Jiang Fang remembered.
Jiang Fang took the initiative to welcome him, “I’m sorry for… just now.”
Nan Zhou, “Why say sorry?”
Jiang Fang explained, “It was a very rude act in the rules of the human world.”
Nan Zhou, “Why?”
Jiang Fang, “Because it was an example of serious impolite behavior to do such a thing on the premise of not being tempted by others and being irresponsible.”
This was a notably sincere apology.
Nan Zhou’s response, however, carried a curious tone of a small animal, “Why can’t your heart be moved?”
“If your heart can’t be moved, what else can your heart be used for?”
Jiang Fang, dumbfounded, tried to explain, “A heart that can be moved… isn’t something that can happen between us.”
Nan Zhou, “Aren’t we friends?”
Jiang Fang, “By being ‘Friends’… there are certain limitations that shouldn’t be acted upon.”
Nan Zhou furrowed his eyebrows in confusion.
In his opinion—after the days that he had spent with Jiang Fang—the most intimate kind of relationship in the world should be friendship.
He wasn’t interested in other relationships.
Jiang Fang continued to teach him, “There are friends—like male and female friends—whose hearts can be moved. Some friends, however, can’t cross that line.”
Nan Zhou, “Hmm.”
Jiang Fang, “Understood?”
Nan Zhou, “Understood.”
Nan Zhou, “Then can I have another boyfriend? I want to know what temptation is.”
Nan Zhou only knew that he had the urge to reproduce with Jiang Fang.
The new concept of “moving the heart” sounded like a very interesting subject and was worth learning.
Jiang Fang gritted his teeth sharply, “…”
Fortunately, he immediately controlled himself.
Against the sourness that filled his mouth, he tried his best to raise a smile, “Yes, you can try it later when you have the chance.”
Nan Zhou, “Hmm.”
Jiang Fang, “Let’s take a walk. Right here.”
Under the midnight sky of [Paper Gold City], there were no walking NPCs on the streets.
Every window they passed by was filled with strange excitement and perishable flashiness.
Their beauty and bustle were so fragile.
Because Jiang Fang knew that they were all bubbles made of electrons and data, and as long as someone shut down the server behind them, everything would be extinguished with a snap.
Both of them just continued their tranquil walk in such fragile prosperity.
Their drifting past, present, and future could all be described as a luxurious experience.
Eventually, they came to the end of the road together.
“Thank you for walking with me on this journey.”
One of Jiang Fang’s hands gently caressed Nan Zhou’s waist.
Sensing the signal released behind such an ambiguous action, the wolf NPC was once again foolish enough to immediately seize the body.
Immediately after that, he heard Jiang Fang ambling beside him and reviewing softly in a whispering tone, “… I originally said so many asshole words.”
……
Jiang Fang had long been awake.
Just a moment ago he nearly kissed Nan Zhou.
However, thanks to the company of the wolf NPC, he compulsively recalled and reenacted every cold word he had used to treat Nan Zhou at that time.
Every action he used to push Nan Zhou away.
Every lost opportunity.
——It hurt, but it was effective.
It told him to cherish.
Jiang Fang retreated again in a flash of lightning, the smell of roasted skin and meat, and the fierce howl of the wolf NPC.
He looked at the wolf that rolled on the ground and was shedding its painted skin, layer by layer. Jiang Fang shook off the electric shocker in his right hand that was still crackling hot.
“Your acting was awfully bad.” Jiang Fang said softly, “At a time like that, he wouldn’t have closed his eyes.”
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