translator: Eve
After taking the last step, Xiao Yuanmu was even clingier to Song Xuanhe than ever before.
Not only was he clingy, he was also extremely corny. It was like he had finally put down the last of his concerns and taken down the last barrier. His eyes sparkled, glistening brighter than a desert’s night sky. There was no need to guess just how much he loved the person he was looking at.
Fortunately, Louis had only been forced to eat this dogfood for half a day. By noon the next day, Song Xuanhe and Xiao Yuanm uhad returned to their apartment downtown. They then blinded Xiao Huang and Yang Jie’s eyes.
Because Louis was allergic to animal fur, Yang Jie had been the one to take care of Xiao Huang. Although it was less than a week, Xiao Huang was extremely excited to be reunited with them. His tail wagged frantically as he jumped onto Song Xuanhe. He hugged Xiao Yuanmu’s thigh, whining, while occasionally turning to look at Song Xuanhe. He seemed wronged, like a child who was complaining to his parents after having been punished to stand at the kindergarten.
This made Yang Jie, who thought that he and Xiao Huang had been getting along well, really sad. What he didn’t expect was that he would receive even more upsetting news afterwards.
Yang Jie lived on the floor below. Although they lived very close and Yang Jie knew how good Xiao Yuanmu’s cooking was, Xiao Yuanmu had stopped cooking entirely after moving to Y City. That’s why the only times Yang Jie had eaten his home cooking had been in the Capital and when Xiao Yuanmu had invited him to eat what he had cooked for Song Xuanhe.
Today, Xiao Yuanmu unexpectedly invited him up to eat dinner. Yang Jie had been moved because he had thought that Xiao Yuanmu had wanted to thank him for taking car of Xiao Huang. He had just been about to decline when he saw Xiao Yuanmu smile at Song Xuanhe. In a voice softer than he had ever heard Xiao Yuanmu use, the other said, “He bao likes it when its lively during a meal.”
It wasn’t just Yang Jie who had cringed, Song Xuanhe had as well.
Song Xuanhe didn’t know what the heck had gotten into Xiao Yuanmu, but ever since this morning, he had suddenly started to call him ‘He bao’ like a sap. He had protested against this many times, expressing his dislike for the extraordinarily childish nickname. But even though Xiao Yuanmu would go ‘okay okay’ each time, the next time he used this nickname, he would look at him with his limpid, bright eyes. Paired with his long eyelashes, he looked both alluring and innocent.
It reminded Song Xuanhe of that night where he had ended up on the bottom during their tryst. The other had done him until he was so exhausted, he begged to be let go. At that time, Xiao Yuanmu had also used this pair of eyes that innately looked like they were filled with deep love, to gaze at him innocently. Meanwhile, his body was mercilessly acting like a beast.
Song xiao shaoye had been peeved. Xiao Yuanmu had then used an extremely sweet and soft voice that would astound even outsiders to coax him for a very long time. He had done everything Song Xuanhe had asked him. In the end, Song shaoye’s temper had left as quickly as it had come. Very quickly, he had become too lazy to bother with it. It was just that his ears had continued to stay flushed for a long time.
But what caught his attention this time wasn’t the nickname—Song Xuanhe wanted to know when he’d ever said he liked it when a meal was lively!
Song Xuanhe asked this after heading upstairs.
Xiao Yuanmu answered really quickly, as if he didn’t even need to think about it. “Last month, before your wounds healed, I cooked congee and brought it to the hospital. You said that eating with people occasionally would liven things up.”
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Song Xuanhe recalled that he really did say something like that.
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When Xiao Yuanmu saw Song Xuanhe’s startled expression, he only thought that the other had forgotten about this matter. He didn’t think much of it. Xiao Yuanmu reached over to hug Song Xuanhe from behind, resting his chin on his shoulder. “If you like it when there’s a lot of people around, I can call Guan Zhi over next time. There’s also Zhou Nan and Yu Yan. If Xiao Shenglin’s in time, we can also invite him.”
Song Xuanhe choked up with emotion. “I thought you didn’t like to cook.”
“You like it when I cook,” Xiao Yuanmu answered without hesitation. There was the hint of a doting smile in his chilly voice. “If you like it, I’ll like it.”
Song Xuanhe’s eyelashes quivered. His eyes suddenly stung.
Xiao Yuanmu in the book was a treacherous, dictatorial person. In real life, Xiao Yuanmu was stubborn, proud and egotistic. And yet, he was currently saying such shy, soft words into his ears: If you like it, I’ll like it.
But how could he accept the other’s practically self-abased love with a clear conscience?
Xiao Yuanmu finally realized that something was wrong as Song Xuanhe continued to maintain his silence. He lifted his head, placing his hand over Song Xuanhe’s shoulder. He wanted to turn Song Xuanhe around to look at him, but the other unexpectedly beat him to it, turning around out of his own volition, blocking his lips.
Xiao Yuanmu was taken aback for a moment before a smile flickered through his eyes. He closed his eyes and returned the kiss.
They were both young, vigorous men who had just gotten a taste of sweetness. Even an accidental touch was enough to stoke the fire inside them. A few minutes later, they were panting, the reaction in their bodies evident.
Xiao Yuanmu was the first to come back to himself. He pushed Song Xuanhe a bit away, rubbing the other’s lips. His voice was very hoarse. “We can’t. Yang Jie’s going to….”
Song Xuanhe cut him off with his lips. The reason why Xiao Yuanmu was able to snap out of it was because of his worry regarding Song Xuanhe’s body. He was concerned that it would be bad for the other’s body if they were to do it again after just doing it last night. Even though the fire inside him was re-lit, he forced himself to extinguish it. He kissed Song Xuanhe until his eyes turned glassy and then gently pushed him away.
He was about to speak when he heard the grating sound of a chair scraping across the floor. Both of them snapped out of their passionate haze and turned to look in the direction of the sound.
——Yang Jie was currently kneeling, hands over Xiao Huang’s eyes. The chubby dog didn’t like this at all. In his struggle, he had bumped into the chair, causing it to move.
Yang Jie looked even more embarrassed than they did. He averted his gaze, ears flushed, while trying to explain things in feigned calmness. “Xiao Huang is still young. It’s not appropriate for him to see you….”
Xiao Huang turned his head and ran over to Song Xuanhe and Xiao Yuanmu after he broke free during Yang Jie’s lapse in attention. He bumped his nose and rubbed his body against their legs. He also barked in the direction of the cupboard that held his dogfood and snacks. He then laid down and showed his body. It was obvious what he wanted.
Unfortunately, his cute act was met with defeat. For the first time, his owners ignored his tummy. One of his owners seemed to ‘eat’ his other owner’s lips and then mumbled something he didn’t understand into the other owner’s ears.
”It’s not that I don’t want to do it, but we did it twice last night. You almost got hurt. It would be better if you rested for the next two days.”
Xiao Yuanmu persevered in explaining himself. He then waited for Song Xuanhe to agree.
In contrast to his expectations, Song Xuanhe’s expression darkened and he grit his teeth. “Shut up!”
Song Xuanhe then went to their room upstairs, not looking back. Xiao Huang tottered after them. The sound of a door closing followed some time after. Meanwhile, the kitchen and living room was filled with silence.
Xiao Yuanmu was quiet because he had seen Song Xuanhe’s flushed ears. Yang Jie was quiet because he felt embarrassed from seeing the couple’s intimacy.
After putting the chair Xiao Huang had knocked into back in place, Yang Jie stood in place, waiting for Xiao Yuanmu to break the silence. But Xiao Yuanmu only stood there with a smile on his face, seemingly lost-in-thought. He clearly had no intentions of saying anything. Therefore, Yang Jie decided to break the silence himself.
He thought about it for a while before deciding on an opening remark that wasn’t too abrupt but also wasn’t related to the awkward incident just now. “Xiao ge, what are we eating for dinner?”
Xiao Yuanmu snapped out of his thoughts. “Xuanhe likes spare ribs with garlic, lemon chicken and Longjing prawns. We bought these on the way back. I’ll make a few more dishes in a bit…. What do you like to eat? He seems to really like to eat my seafood pasta lately. Are you okay with that?”
Yang Jie: ….
Yang Jie opened his mouth but nothing came out. A few seconds later, he forced out: “I’m allergic to seafood.”
He knew that Xiao Yuanmu had a really good memory. Although he had only mentioned it off-handedly one time, Xiao Yuanmu had always remembered to avoid seafood when he invited him to eat. Unexpectedly, he actually forgot this time.
Yang Jie saw Xiao Yuanmu nod. “Ah, I forgot.”
Yang Jie sucked in a deep breath. He tried to come up with an excuse for the Xiao ge he respected and looked up to. This must be the phenomenon in which one’s IQ tends to lower when in love! It’s definitely not because Xiao ge doesn’t care about him!
“I want to eat…” Yang Jie thought about it, “dumplings. I haven’t had that for a long time.”
Xiao Yuanmu nodded. “I’ll make some.”
Yang Jie smiled. See! Xiao ge cared about him!
However, his happiness only lasted until it was time to eat.
“Didn’t you say you wanted to eat sea urchin and white cabbage dumplings? The blue plate has dumplings with white cabbage filling and the white plate has sea urchin.”
Song Xuanhe nodded. He ate the two dumplings Xiao Yuanmu had put in his bowl.
“It’s really good.”
After getting a satisfactory response, Xiao Yuanmu turned to look at Yang Jie. “You can’t eat seafood so have the ones on the white plate.”
Yang Jie forced himself to smile.
It’s fine…at least Xiao ge remembered his seafood allergy this time. That was enough….
Eve: I always get emotional when SXH gets emotional over something soft SYM does or when he has a realization. And then….RIP Yang Jie….LOL XYM is actually a fool in love, sorry.
xiin: i want to stab SXH every time he thinks about how he’s leaving >:|
Mumu in love and Xuanhe in love makes me happy!
Awww poor Yang Jie got force fed a lot of dogfood!
Thanks for the chapter! <3
What the heck is Song Xuanhe thinking??? If he left now, boy…You can’t do that to him!!
+1 xiin it really makes me angry 😡. .. like can’t he see that his mumu is the perfect and sweetest partner you would give anything to get … And for what, so that he could go and reminsce for his past memories all by himself…. Sigh but the fluffy in this chapter is good especially when xiao huang wanted to eat it’s ‘ food’ then it’s eyes were covered 😛
Thanks for the chapter ♥️♥️
Does Song Xuanhe have to go back? 🥺🥺❤️
“The blue plate has dumplings with white cabbage filling and the white plate has sea urchin”
“You can’t eat seafood so have the ones on the white plate”
Did…did he mean to tell him to eat the sea urchin ones 😂😂
Yes lmaooo
HE BAO!!! OMFG SUCH A CRINGEY NICKNAME WAHAHAHAHAHAHA AND YUANMU! SUCH A SAPPY GONG. MY HEART IS HURTING FROM THIS DOG FOOD
Threw my phone to the side when I saw that and took a 5min cringe break LOL
Hi, sorry idk much about chinese but, mind if i ask what does it mean? I don’t get it xD
Bao = Baby
Generally used as a cri gey way for mothers to call their kids ‘my treasure’.
For Mumu to call Xuanhe as ‘He Bao’ has the same energy as calling ‘Lucy’ as ‘Lulu darling’
Oh gosh😂 so that’s why, an unexpected side from mumu and only xuanhe can bring this side out of him lmfao, thank you for this!
Ngl, I would probably run if someone tried to call me that way, especially in public, and extra specifically by a perpetually cold-towards-society person.
Mumu was so funny 😂 and I say this again but they are really cute 💕
Thank you for the chapter 😊
Correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t the Main System supposed to insta-kill SXH if he goes against the plot? So, if he decides to stay that would be a major change wouldn’t it?
Like we all want SXH to stay, but does he even have a proper choice?
Thanks for the chapter!
Dunno, didn’t the system sometimes kinda persuading him to stay since there’s nothing for him in his orig world? That’s base in their conversation. But it’s him who wants to go back. I think after everything passed (his role) he can either stay or go back.
No I’m not sure why the system is asking about staying, but when the scene of handing off XYM to that businessman was happening, SXH almost breaks character but knows if he tries to stop the plot the Main System would kill him instantly. SXH MUST play out all his scenes or the Main System will punish him.
Yes, SXH is torn about staying but there was something about the Main System too.
Waiting for the novel to clear things up 🧐
It’s like how in novels, they rarely stated when the female characters was in her period, poop, or taking a shower. They rarely stated the characters’ birthday, how they celebrated it unless it’s part of the plot development.
This is also the case with the main system, the original plot, and Song Xuanhe. The original host threaten the protagonist (XY) into a relationship and only ended when he lend Xiao Yuanmu to Boss Sun. Song Xuanhe is a different. He doesn’t feel lust towards Xiao Yuanmu, rather he’s actually scared and wary of him. It was stated multiple times like how he’s unwilling to be with Xiao Yuanmu and how he (XY) is exactly the type of person Xuanhe would usually avoid. But he can’t break up with him since Song Xuanhe’s forced relationship is an important development to blacken the protagonist. But that doesn’t mean he had to exactly act like the original host. Wasn’t there a time when Xuanhe got drunk and called Yuanmu “daddy”, then he was so embarrassed the next day that he moved out and lived in the Song Family’s residence for almost a month. It doesn’t matter what he does as long as he act out the scenes written in the plot and wouldn’t make Xiao Yuanmu suspicious of his identity as a transmigrator. It doesn’t matter if Xiao Yuanmu doesn’t believe it, the important thing is that Song Xuanhe needs to say his lines and acts like he liked Xiao Yuanmu.
Another example: In the original plot, the Director died. Xiao Yuanmu finally lowered his pride and asked Song Xuanhe for help for the Director’s surgery. Song Xuanhe refused resulting the director’s death and Xiao Yuanmu’s blackening. In this life, Song Xuanhe still followed the plot and said his lines. But he ordered his assistant to donate to the orphanage secretly though I’m pretty sure Xiao Yuanmu knew that it was Song Xuanhe. The director lived. Because of that, unlike the original plot, Xiao Yuanmu has a weakness and couldn’t move as fearless and ferocious as before.
As long as the main plot was acted out, what happened behind the scenes doesn’t matter. It’s like after the epilogue, you don’t know what would happen next to the characters’ life. Like, after so many hardships, did the main characters’ life goes smoothly or did they break up after few years, did one of the characters dies, or what happened to the side characters and villains.
It was also stated by the system before that as the one and only protagonist, Xiao Yuanmu is the only one who could change the plot freely until it’s own mother couldn’t recognize it anymore without being held responsible.
The original novel was discontinued because the protagonist is too gary sue and the author couldn’t bare to see this diamond man be pushed down by someone who’s not even as handsome, rich and influencial as him (by Song Xuanhe’s words). The novel ended when Xiao Yuanmu went to save his younger brother who was “kidnap” thus Song Xuanhe didn’t know about the younger brother’s scheme and true color and why Xiao Yuanmu was so cold towards his biological family unlike in the original novel where Xiao Yuanmu is basically a doting older brother. The kidnapping happened way earlier therefore except the last scene where he have to go to the forest where the original host died, he’s basically free from the main system’s clutches. Although the last scene is also an important scene, it’s just finishing touches. Like the last stroke of the pen to completely cut all the restrictions tied to him by the main system. The only thing left is whether he would go back or stay.
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Aww ❤️❤️❤️
Mumu being cringey with his nickname… XD well there’s first time in everything. Lol
SO XUANHE STILL HAS TO LEAVE???!! IM SAD AND CONFUSED!!! I THOUGHT HE CAN CHOSE TO STAY??!!!
Thanks for the chapter
He can stay if he wants to. The system even tried to persuade him by saying that he’s basically alone in his real world and that it’s better if he actually stays with yuanmu BUT I honestly can’t keep up with xuanhe’s thought process because he still isn’t sure if he wants to stay or not and honestly, his’s indecisiveness about leaving or staying is starting to piss me off
Ahhhh starry eyed and besotted SXH is so wonderful.
Thanks for the great translation ♥️
Bitter sweet dog food.., he bao you better stay back for mumu
Happiness overload 🙂
“At that time, Xiao Yuanmu had also used this pair of eyes that innately looed like they were filled with deep love, to gaze at him innocently. Meanwhile, his body was mercilessly acting like a beast.”…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….oh wow. I’m speechless but somehow laughing.
XUANHE YOU CAN’T LEAVE AFTER ALL THIS. How heartbroken Mumu would be if you leave now? 😭
Thanks for the chapter <3
Awwww… Starry eyed, lost in love Mumu (◍•ᴗ•◍)✧*。
Thanks for the update! 💕
Yang Jie may not feel comfortable being shoved all that dog food, but I am more than willing to collect every single piece of them. I CAN’T IGNORE THE SUGAR NOR DO I WANT TO.
Thank you for the chapter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Omg ML is so adorable! 🥰☺️🤗
MC why are you still leaving?! 🙂🔪
Poor Yang Jie was invited, neglected and then force feed dog food. Truly such a miserable singel dog. ☠
Thanks for the chapter!😋
Oh My God!!! How much I want to give a like. Never mind, here
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The moment Mumu said He bao i instantly went:
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So much dog food lol. He has complete love blinders on. It’s so cute!
screaming and sobbing rn
Cabbage dumpling. So sad…
Wonder what’s up with ml’s sudden change and the nightmare he had owo or is it also because of mc’s words towards ml’s mother 🤔
Thank You for the chapter (๑♡ v ♡๑)