At the entrance of Fengshan South Station:
The players who understood the rules picked up their luggage and walked into the station, one after another. Lu Qi waited in place for two seconds; it didn’t take long to hear someone dragging their suitcases closer.
Shen Meiren said lightly, “Lu Qi, have you had any experience with special copies?”
Lu Qi: “I have.”
Without waiting for the other party to ask, he took the initiative to say: “The customs clearance rules will be restricted, and the difficulty will be random.”
Shen Meiren: “Ah, then my luck isn’t great, to get a hell level for my first time.”
The two of them dragged their suitcases and quickly came to the stairs.
This was an older station with only a wooden staircase, about two stories high, leading to the platform.
Lu Qi naturally reached out to the person beside him, “Give it to me.”
Shen Meiren glanced at the long staircase, smiled and shook his head, “It’s so long, how can I let you take it alone? Lu-dage, what if I tire you out~”
Having extracted the information he wanted from him, Lu Qi insisted, “You go ahead.” This way, he could see if the person in front in him was moving unsteadily and make corrections in time if needed.
So they both went downstairs with their luggage.
Lu Qi always focused half of his attention on the person in front of him. As he was almost halfway there, click, all the light sources disappeared, and the surroundings suddenly fell into chaotic darkness.
The darkness was so thick that it was like viscous ink, and he couldn’t see even see his own fingers.
He immediately reached forward according to the direction he remembered him being, but unexpectedly he came up empty.
Lu Qi’s expression was a little ugly, “Shen Meiren?”
A weak voice came from a little further ahead, “Lu Qi, I’m here.”
Lu Qi: “On the platform?”
Shen Meiren: “Yeah, I don’t know what happened, I was just suddenly down here.”
The darkness faded a little, allowing them to vaguely see the outlines around them. Lu Qi carried his luggage and continued to walk down. Shen Meiren stood not far from the stairs, waiting for him.
As soon as he saw Lu Qi, Shen Meiren walked up to him, “Wow, why did you take out a knife?”
Lu Qi: “In case of an accident.”
Shen Meiren nodded in agreement, “Yes, yes, who knows what happened when it suddenly became dark. The train should be right in front. I don’t know if the door is open, but let’s head over first.”
At this moment:
“Lu Qi, where are you?” Another voice belonging to Shen Meiren sounded, the direction of the voice coming from the stairwell behind them.
The Shen Meiren beside Lu Qi was stunned, “Huh?”
Immediately, he squinted his eyes, “I feel like it was waiting for me to turn on the lights. It’s really good at disguising, even the voice is exactly the same!”
Lu Qi looked up at the stairwell, where a man with a suitcase was slowly moving down. A familiar voice came from his mouth, “Lu Qi, come and help, I need you!”
Shen Meiren smiled and said, “How about I help you?”
The people on the stairs suddenly stopped moving.
Lu Qi had good hearing, and vaguely heard the other party muttering: “I was just wondering why you were ignoring me, it turns out that you were hooked by another person. Heh, men.”
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The next second, he raised his volume and said, “I don’t want you, I want Lu Qi, and I don’t want to see you when I come down!”
“Why is his face so big,” Shen Meiren rolled his eyes speechlessly and turned to look at the man, “You should be able to tell that he’s fake, right, Lu-dage?”
“Hey, do you think you’re the only one who can do that?” The man upstairs thought for a second, then said, “Gege, I don’t want to see him.”
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Shen Meiren was about to explode in anger, but he still choked and said, “Lu-dage, you don’t really believe him, do you? I’m so sad, I know you so well, but you…”
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Lu Qi pulled out the knife indifferently and whispered to himself, “He is night blind.” When the lighting was dim, he couldn’t see clearly.
But you could walk over without hindrance the first second you saw me.
“Shen Meiren” pulled the corners of his mouth up hideously. He’d recognized him earlier and wasted his time for so long? Then it turned into a puff of black smoke and disappeared.
Lu Qi put away the knife.
In the stairwell, Shen Meiren was sitting on the steps with his eyes open and trying to see down there, but unfortunately he couldn’t discern anything clearly.
It wasn’t until Lu Qi’s figure appeared in front of him that he patted the dirt off his butt and stood up, “Yo, Lu-dage has arrived to pick up Shen-xiaopengyou and take him home~”
Lu Qi picked up the luggage with one hand and stretched out his hand towards him. The person who naturally called him gege really grabbed him like a child.
When the two stepped on the platform, the lights came back on again, and there were three more players’ bodies on the platform.
Then the door of the first compartment of the train opened, and the remaining 16 players boarded the train with their luggage.
On the train, the tall and thin train attendant with a strange smile said to everyone with an exaggerated grin: “Welcome to… Harmony… First thing… Guess who is around… who is not your companion…”
After the voting session ended, Lu Qi and Shen Meiren sat in the fourth row.
Across the narrow aisle, a woman sitting in the fourth row on the opposite side greeted the two of them, “Hello, my name is He Mei, can we form a temporary team?”
Shen Meiren, who was sitting by the window, leaned over and leaned on Lu Qi’s body, his eyes inquisitive.
Tucking her hair behind her ears, He Mei smiled weakly, “I’m a woman…”
“The xiaojiejie with a child is also a woman.” Shen Meiren interrupted her.
He Mei’s smile froze, and she turned her sights to Lu Qi, who hadn’t responded, “What should I call this dage?”
Shen Meiren smiled and replied for Lu Qi: “His surname is Lu, his full name is Shen Meiren’s Lu-dage. Oh, I forgot to mention, I’m Shen Meiren.”
The woman didn’t continue speaking, smiling perfunctorily and turning away.
Shen Meiren, who had won the battle, leaned back in his chair again, and soon fell asleep listening to the roar of the train. His head slammed on Lu Qi’s shoulder like a chicken pecking at rice.
Shen Meiren’s Lu-dage.
Lu Qi glanced at the person leaning on his shoulder, “Why don’t you want others to team up with us.”
Shen Meiren let his eyelids droop and said vaguely, “She has bad intentions.”
His eyes fell on the slightly curled lashes under his messy hair, “But there is no malice.”
Shen Meiren: “Oh, then do you want to form a team with her?”
Lu Qi: “I’m asking why you don’t want to.”
Ah, why would he not want to? After thinking about it, Shen Meiren’s sleepiness disappeared and he suddenly woke up.
He straightened his spine, frowned, and thought for a long time without coming up with a result.
Lu Qi: “Another question, why do you have to team up with me?”
Last time had been because he’d missed the right timing with Chen Ge, but why this time?
Shen Meiren knew the answer to this question: the corners of his mouth lifted and his eyes curved, “Because you are good-looking and have a good personality, if you were switched with someone else, they would have fallen out with me already. En, you’re pretty awesome, Lu-dage doesn’t air many complaints~ ”
He was still somewhat self-aware of his character.
Lu Qi repeated, his expression heavy, “Because I’m good-looking and have a good personality, you choose to act with me every time? You use me as an excuse to reject others every time? You don’t want others to join?”
Shen Meiren: “Actually, it’s not impossible for Chen Ge to join.” Didn’t he see that he did have someone to carry along?
Lu Qi: “Answer my question.”
“Well, you’re almost right,” Shen Meiren was surprised after being asked so many questions in a row, “Why are you asking me this? Have you finally grown impatient enough to turn your back on me?”
Lu Qi, who got a positive reply, pursed his lips.
Shen Meiren was greatly surprised. As if he had seen something rare, he leaned in front of him and looked at the curvature of the corner of his mouth.
This time, Lu Qi did not retreat.
The person at his side had a pair of wide open black eyes, clear and reflecting, and very white skin, like delicate porcelain. He reached out and touched his forehead with a strange expression.
“The reason why I asked that was because I don’t like being unclear.” Lu Qi grabbed the hand that was stretched out in front of him.
Maybe it was because his current appearance was too abnormal, but Shen Meiren didn’t struggle and asked cautiously, “Then is it clear now?”
Lu Qi nodded, feeling very relaxed, “Understood, although the answer is not very satisfactory.”
But he at least knew that the other party’s series of behaviors weren’t just for fun.
He rubbed his thumb lightly on the wrist in his palm, and he looked penetratingly at the person opposite him, who had an odd expression on his face due to his actions, and said, “Take your time, I can wait for you.”
I just hope you don’t keep me waiting too long.
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Shen Meiren was even more confused, what was he waiting for?
He murmured, “Should I wait to wake up and realize that everything just now was me dreaming?”
Lu Qi: “…”
After this conversation, Shen Meiren was completely drowsy. He moved around in his seat, fidgeting and glancing at Lu Qi from time to time.
Lu Qi himself also had a sense of unreality; when he calmed down, he would felt that his previous actions were too impulsive.
Why did he do this? If Shen Meiren didn’t know what he was thinking, then what was he clear on?
This question lingered in Lu Qi’s mind.
Even if he was stimulated by those two titles, he shouldn’t have asked so directly, let alone have done the following actions.
The situation was not right.
As the night got darker, Shen Meiren endured the awkwardness and said, “Lu Qi, I’m hungry.”
Lu Qi snapped out of his musings, seeing that the person beside him was staring at him. He gathered his thoughts and found the train attendant, exchanging for enough food for the both of them.
The food was a pink marshmallow bigger than his head, and Shen Meiren was very surprised, “I think dessert can be eaten before meals, aowu!”
As soon as he took a bite, pink sugar smeared all over the corners of his nose and mouth.
Lu Qixin made a decision in his heart.
He has been wondering since just then, was what he saw real?
If it wasn’t real, is the person on the other side his imagination or a ghost in disguise?
Would the ghost call him gege? Would it be a matter of course to add the attribute “Shen Meiren’s” before Lu Qi’s name?
Intuition told Lu Qi that the correct answer was the former.
But he still wanted to try it.
He wiped a little bit of pink from the corner of Shen Meiren’s mouth with his hand, and stretched his hand in front of him.
At that moment, Lu Qi couldn’t tell what he was thinking. He was very confused, but then Shen Meiren told him through his actions.
It turned out that that was what he was thinking.
It turned out that he was thinking, although he hadn’t realized it.
Shen Meiren looked at the hand that was stretched out in front of him in surprise. The man’s hand was slender and strong, with a layer of thin calluses on the fingertips, and a little pink sticking to the index and second finger.
He paused, then opened his mouth and took the fingers into it. The tip of his tongue passed over the pink on the the finger, warm, delicate, meticulously cleaning inch by inch.
Lu Qi’s heart was beating wildly.
The sound of his heartbeat overwhelmed the roar of the train, thump, thump, thump, shaking his mind violently.
His eyes were bloodshot, and he opened his mouth helplessly, not knowing what to say.
“Shen Meiren.” His voice was hoarse.
After eating the marshmallow on the two fingers, Shen Meiren licked the corner of his mouth. The tip of his tongue was red, and his lips were also red.
He looked up suspiciously at the person who had just called his name, and when he saw that he didn’t speak further, he narrowed his eyes, “It’s so sweet.”
Lu Qi suddenly recovered.
He cupped half of Shen Meiren’s face with his right hand and gently caressed it. His eyes suddenly deepened, like a bottomless pool. Lu Qi asked, “You are Shen Meiren, aren’t you?”
The person opposite him smiled, his eyes curved into beautiful crescents, and asked him, “Gege–you like that title, right?”
Yes, I like it very much.
I like you to call me Lu-dage, I like you to rely on me subconsciously, and I like you to call me gege.
I like you, and I hope you actually like me because…
“Sorry, I don’t have your consent for what I’m going to do next.”
Lu Qi leaned closer, Shen Meiren looking at him obediently, and he put his lips on the tip of the other’s nose.
The marshmallow on the tip of his nose and the corners of his mouth were eaten.
It was a dream. The marshmallows were very sweet, and the Shen Meiren in the dream was also very sweet.
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Welp, we can safely say that Lu-dage ended up falling first…. or is it, realizing his feelings first?? 🤔 lololol ohhhh~ I can’t wait for things to progress from now on~ 😙
GRR BARK BARK WOOF GROWL HISS SNARL
I didn’t know cats (your profile pic) can bark ahahaha. But yes. I am hollering at the fact that ludage was so decisive, just straight up kissed his nose when he figured out it’s fake. I thought he would be awkward and didn’t have the balls to do that to an illusion.
So is this actually a dream, or was this Lu Qi’s illusion? I just remember that we never found out why he knew the other Shen Meiren was fake. Either way, I wish it was real and thanks for the chapter!!
Thanks for the chapter!
This is one of the BEST chapters in the whole novel. Thank you for the chapter, 🌺 reflection!🥰💛💛💛🫰🏻🫰🏻
Thank you for the chapter! I’m so glad we got to se Lu qi’s perspective too 😂
Im shook that he so quickly realized that it was his imagination creating the illusion and was like, “well crap I guess I do feel that way… time to steal a kiss!”
Bro is silent, but straightforward as a train in his moves
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ayoooo~ lu-dage really went for it. now that he realized his feelings, i hope he will attack shen meiren aggressively 🤭
🥰🥰🥰🫣omg!!!!! Thank you so much!😆🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡
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Thank you for the chapter
Delightfully sweet bite… Thanks for the chapter 🤣❤️