[111]: My niece dressed as a girl, may she be struck by lightning!
Yu Nan was heartbroken.
I opened the private chat and was bombarded with Wolf Knife's "hahahahaha" comments.
[Wolf Knife]: What happened to Little Yu?
[Yu Miao]: I didn't!
[Wolf Blade]: That's great, I still have a chance.
Yu Nan rolled her eyes.
[Yu Miao]: Why do you speak such nonsense more fluently than your niece?
[Wolf Knife]: Because my feelings for you are as clear as day and night.
[Yu Miao]: If we could be together, we would have been together long ago.
Wolf Knife didn't reply to Yu Nan, but instead sent a message in the group chat.
[Blade]: Why is Yao Da not interested in dating?
[Yaoyaoling]: Because I always run into my niece who's pretending to be a lesbian.
[111]: I'm scared, I'm sealing my heart and locking away my love.
[Blade]: What about our Ji Zai, whom we know so well?
[111]: Maybe, it's worth a try?
[Blade]: I'm begging you, Master Yao, to consider me.
Yu Nan went berserk and started bombarding Lang Dao'er's private messages.
[Wolf Knife]: Stop sending messages. You ignored me yesterday, but today you'll regret it.
[Yu Miao]: ? ? ? !!!
[Yu Miao]: What about our friendship?
[Wolf Knife]: It's long gone. It was gone the day you left Liji.
People in the group started to cheer and praise the razor blade for its unwavering loyalty to 110.
Blade has been a long-time fixture in the comment section of Zhu Yao's novels, a reader who has been with Zhu Yao from the very beginning.
[Yaoyao0]: I will not be with my readers.
【blade】:?
[I'm not using a secondary account]: ?
[YaoYaoZero]: This is so embarrassing. Even if I ever get a girlfriend, I will never let her know my pen name.
[I'm not an alt account]: What if someone accidentally discovers this?
[111]: Break up immediately.
Yu Nan and Lang Dao'er both fell silent.
[Wolf Knife]: Keep it up, Xiao Yu!
[Yu Miao]: ...
[Wolf Knife]: I'll always be your backup plan.
[Yu Miao]: Stop fooling around...
[Wolf Knife]: I wasn't making a fuss, you know that.
Yu Nan's mood suddenly turned gloomy.
She knew, of course, that leaving Tanuki Studio wasn't just about developing independent games, but also about avoiding Wolf Knife.
For the past few years, Lang Dao'er has remained single, and the two have rarely been in contact. Yu Nan had assumed that Lang Dao'er had come to terms with things.
Looks like she's completely devastated!
Yu Nan rejected Lang Dao'er because he was too good at video games, and she felt too much pressure.
Wolf Blade wasn't angry at the time, even when Yu Nan ruined her save file with her mediocre skills. Instead, she silently stayed by Yu Nan's side, and if the save file was ruined, she would start over.
Of course, Yu Nan didn't do anything malicious; everything was easily repairable. As a gamer, she still had some basic principles.
The cable car reached the top of the mountain, and Zhu Yao and Yu Nan stepped out.
The two of them were on their phones the whole way, not looking at the scenery outside the window at all.
"We've reached the top of the mountain."
Yu Nan breathed in the fresh air at the mountaintop.
"Let me take a picture of you," Zhu Yao said, holding up her phone, "to commemorate climbing to the top of Kongtong Mountain."
April's blossoms have faded in the human world, but the peach blossoms in the mountain temple are just beginning to bloom.
Yu Nan stood atop the mountain, with pink peach blossoms blooming halfway up the mountain behind her, interspersed with green leaves and blue stones shrouded in mist. Her white hair shimmered golden in the sunlight.
Yu Nan's skin was very pale, a sickly paleness from living indoors for a long time without seeing the sun. Now she looked like a vampire who had lived in darkness for a long time, staring blankly at the world under the sun.
Zhu Yao captured the image of her staring blankly down the mountain.
"You actually attacked me from behind!" Yu Nan realized what was happening and pulled Zhu Yao away.
"Let's take a group photo," Zhu Yao suggested.
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Chapter 30 I Can Protect You
Zhu Yao sent the group photo to Yu Nan.
Looking at the group photo, Yu Nan grinned and tilted her head towards Zhu Yao, her eyes half-closed in the sunlight, her white hair fluttering wildly in the wind.
If you stay indoors for a long time, or don't go out during the day, your eyes won't be able to stand the sunlight. Yu Nan's expression in the photo is contorted because she's squinting.
Zhu Yao stood next to her, smiling with her lips pursed, her expression dignified and calm as she looked at the camera.
Yu Nan changed the angle of her phone several times and said to Zhu Yao with a look of novelty, "No matter which angle I look at it from, you're staring at me."
"This happens when I look at the camera while taking pictures," Zhu Yao said helplessly.
Yu Nan shrugged. She also looks at the camera when taking pictures, but she has never achieved this effect before.
The more Yu Nan looked at the photo, the more she felt that Zhu Yao's eyes were tender and affectionate as she looked at her.
Zhu Yao is naturally attractive to her, so she has a high initial likability.
In addition, the two have been playing games and interacting together recently, staying in the same room, and going on a trip (playing on their phones in the cable car). Yu Nan feels that she and Zhu Yao are getting closer.
Thinking back to how Zhu Yao read poetry to her every night to lull her to sleep, and how she tirelessly provided three meals a day, Yu Nan was momentarily lost in thought as she looked at the photo, as if the two of them were already together…
"Let's find a place to rest," Zhu Yao said, interrupting Yu Nan's absent-minded thoughts as she stared at her phone.
The two were standing on the mountaintop under the scorching sun.
“Let’s go,” Yu Nan said, glancing at her phone. “Li Yue’s hotel is on the mountaintop. It’s time to get some sleep.”
It was almost noon, time for the two of them to go to bed.
The two walked side by side, neither too close nor too far. The hotel was called "Kongtong Mountain Villa," located behind the mountain. It was a scenic spot nestled against the mountain and by the water, and also had an outdoor hot spring.
Upon arriving at Kongtong Mountain Villa, Zhu Yao turned to Yu Nan and asked, "Aren't you afraid to live alone?"
Yu Nan was no longer afraid after leaving the villa, but she still nodded.
"Yes, I'm afraid to sleep alone."
Li Yue booked two single rooms, while Yu Nan changed to a standard room.
There are two beds!
The two took a shower to wash away the fatigue from taking the cable car to the top of the mountain. Yu Nan drew the curtains and turned off the lights, plunging the room into darkness.
“I can’t sleep,” Yu Nan said. “I want to hear you read poetry.”
"I feel like you really like poetry," Zhu Yao asked casually as she sat up and searched for poems.
Yu Nan remained silent.
She hadn't paid attention to this for the past twenty-three years, never listened to others read poetry, and never cared about what was written in the poems.
She couldn't understand the French or German that Zhu Yao was reading, but she still wanted to hear Zhu Yao recite poetry.
"J'ai envie de vivre avec toi
I long to live with you.
J'ai envie de rester avec toi
I long to whisper sweet nothings to you
Toute la vie, de rest avec toi
For a lifetime, I'll whisper sweet nothings to you.
Toute la vie, toute la vie, toute la vie
A lifetime, a lifetime, a lifetime
J'ai envie de chanter quand tu chantes
I long to sing when you sing
J'ai envie de pleurer quand tu pleures
I long to cry when you cry.
J'ai envie de rire quand tu ris
I long to laugh when you laugh.
Quand tu ris, quand tu ris