After The Honest Person Was Discovered For Simultaneously Pursuing Three People - Chapter 26

Chapter 26: Borrowing The Bathroom

Tao Ning felt a bit ashamed and asked the system, “What… what should I do about this?”

The system said seriously: This is a great opportunity, little dummy. It’s broken anyway, so use that as an excuse to borrow his bathroom.

“Oh…” Tao Ning continued, “So, what should I do next?”

The sound of pages flipping continued in his mind as the system consulted its secret manual. After a moment, it declared confidently: Got it, little dummy. This book, The Colonel Is Chasing His Wife Again, Where Is His Lady Running?, says that at a time like this, you need to put on a pink little bathrobe and knock on his door! I checked the big data, and this routine works 99% of the time, and the success rate? It’s 100%!

Tao Ning was startled. He didn’t expect this strategy to be so powerful and immediately felt a sense of reverence for the strange-sounding manual. He nodded seriously. “But what if my bathrobe is white? What’s the success rate then?”

The system’s mind struggled to keep up. It feigned profoundness and said: Little dummy, as they say, practice reveals the truth. Go and try it, and you’ll know.

“Okay.”

Tao Ning obediently agreed. In the bathroom, he took off his new clothes. In the darkness, his slender body had the youthful look of a willow branch. The two shoulder blades on his back were as beautiful as a butterfly’s wings, but he looked very thin due to his weak body. His waist was so thin it seemed it could not be held. There was a crimson mole on his lower left side, which made his skin look even whiter than snow.

The boy only wore a small garment with Ultraman on it. He properly tied his bathrobe, walked through the quiet and cold corridor, and stopped in front of a white door with a carved pattern. Tao Ning then realized that a talisman was pasted on the door. The cinnabar was so red it looked like dripping blood, which was a little strange.

Was it for safety? Tao Ning made a mental note of this strange thing and planned to ask A Yun about it tomorrow. He stood at the door and knocked twice, but there was no response.

Tao Ning knocked two more times, and still no one responded. He was a very stubborn person. Seeing that there was no response and no one told him if Song Yuceng had gone out, he decided to knock a few more times.

He bent his two fingers to knock again, and the door suddenly flew open with a bang!

Tao Ning was startled and couldn’t help but take a few steps back. The tall man in the doorway was silhouetted against the light. His shoulders were so broad that they almost blocked all the light in the room, making him look very gloomy and shrouded in dark clouds.

Song Yuceng looked coldly at the boy who only reached his chest. His bangs were a little long, almost covering his eyes behind his glasses, revealing only a small, melon-seed-shaped face and rosy lips.

The boy’s body was thin, but there was a little bit of cute baby fat on his cheeks. The oversized bathrobe was ill-fitting, revealing a large patch of snow-white collarbone that extended downward but was covered by the bathrobe.

Song Yuceng frowned and moved his gaze away. He said with a cold face, “Why are you knocking? Don’t you sleep at night? If you don’t want to sleep, get lost.” With that, he didn’t look at Tao Ning behind the door again and was about to slam the door shut.

Tao Ning endured his awkwardness, put his slender hand on the door, and asked in a low voice, “I’m sorry… for disturbing you so late. It’s just… my bathroom is broken. Can I borrow yours to take a shower…”

Song Yuceng snorted with disdain. He looked at him with a critical gaze and coldly uttered three words: “Do you deserve it?”

These three simple words were full of condescending contempt and pickiness. Tao Ning’s already fair face turned as pale as paper. He said softly, “I… I’m sorry.”

But the stubbornness that was etched into his bones came out at this moment. The boy stood there with a pale face, his head lowered, and only his soft hair whorl could be seen, but he didn’t leave.

Seeing this, Song Yuceng’s handsome and sharp face showed impatience. “Don’t make me say it a second time. Get lost.”

This time, the man’s patience was completely gone, but the boy was more stubborn than him. He stood there motionless, as if he wouldn’t give up until he could borrow the bathroom. He looked cautious with his head down, but he was unexpectedly like a stubborn kitten that couldn’t be chased away.

Song Yuceng’s anger flared up. He didn’t expect this country bumpkin to be so shameless, using such a clumsy trick to curry favor with him. So he pushed the door directly with force, regardless of the boy’s fingers on it.

He didn’t hold back at all. The floor was clean but also very slippery. The shoes the boy was wearing were the ones he had brought from home and were not non-slip. He was pushed by the man with all his might, and his shoes slipped back, causing his body to fall backward.

There was a dull thud.

Tao Ning’s tailbone hit the ground hard, and his face instantly turned pale from the pain. His elbow also hit the ground to cushion the force. In a few seconds, his originally fair and pink elbow quickly turned black and blue, which looked terrifying.

The system screamed in his mind: Little dummy! Are you okay!

Tao Ning was in so much pain that tears came out of his eyes and dripped onto the floor. After a long while, when the pain subsided a little, he had the strength to reply: “I’m… I’m okay…”

Song Yuceng didn’t see the boy’s bruised elbow and naturally wouldn’t believe that a man could be so weak. He heard him mumbling to himself, not knowing what he was saying, and felt even more contempt and strangeness in his heart. With a loud bang, he slammed the door shut.

After a long time, he felt his body recover and slowly stood up, but with every step he took, his tailbone hurt badly. It must have been a bone injury.

The system was so angry that its mechanical voice was intermittent: Little dummy, he’s too much!!

Tao Ning wiped away his tears and said in a muffled “yes”: “System, I don’t want to get him to fall for me.”

The system was silent. After a moment, the mechanical voice said: I’m sorry, little dummy, I’m just an AI… I can’t help you with that.

It’s okay.

Tao Ning returned to his room and sneezed. The room was very dark and cold because the air conditioning couldn’t be turned off after the power control system broke.

In the middle of summer, the central air conditioning in the villa was on 24 hours a day, and the indoor temperature was maintained between 23 and 25 degrees Celsius, but for a person with a weak body like Tao Ning, it was a little cold. So at home, even in the middle of summer, he slept very soundly with Zhao Jingqun holding him every night.

Tao Ning took out the medicine for bruises that Tao Yuan had prepared for him and slowly applied it to his bruised elbow. He was a person who could endure pain very well and would only cry out when it was too much.

So the boy just frowned and applied the medicine little by little. When he was done, he realized that if he didn’t put his clothes back on, he would freeze.

Putting down the medicine, Tao Ning’s cheeks were flushed, and he put on his clothes in a daze until the system asked him: Little dummy, did you forget to take your medicine?

“Hmm… I think so…”

The last word fell, and with a bang, the boy fell down, scaring the system into screaming: “Little dummy—”

When he opened his eyes again, he saw only endless darkness. At the same time, the mechanical voice in his mind was extremely harsh:

Warning! The host has been punished for not completing the first mission of the single-player route for Song Yuceng: vision will be blocked for twelve hours! Please continue to work hard on the next mission!

Tao Ning’s breathing stopped for a moment. No wonder he couldn’t see anything. This was the first time he had failed a mission. The feeling of being deprived of his vision was very bad. Helplessness and confusion quickly surrounded him, as if the world had suddenly started to pour down with a torrential rain of darkness.

But now he was all alone outside, and there was no Tao Yuan or Little Meng… and no Zhao Jingqun to care for him, so the boy could only rely on himself. He trembled and calmed himself down, but then he suddenly heard a voice next to him asking: “…What kind of trick are you playing?”

It was Song Yuceng, but the magnetic voice sounded a little strange now, seeming impatient, with a few unnamable strange notes.

When A Yun went to bring Tao Ning a late-night dessert, he found him fainted. He immediately called the family doctor and also alerted Madam Song. When he found Tao Ning, one of his arms was full of bruises, and he looked as if he had been abused. There were also bottles of medicine on the table, which looked terrifying.

After learning what had happened, Madam Song severely reprimanded Song Yuceng and ordered him to stay with Tao Ning until he recovered. Because if word got out, it would definitely affect Song Heng’s political career.

So Song Yuceng was forced to come and watch over Tao Ning, but as soon as he entered the room, he saw the boy half-lying on the bed, not wearing those rustic glasses—

He guessed that the doctor had taken them off for treatment. His soft, curly hair hung down his forehead. On his palm-sized face, his beautiful light-brown eyes with thick eyelashes were now fully exposed, but there was no light in them. They “gazed” blankly ahead. His lips were pursed very tightly on his beautiful face, and his lips were white.

Vulnerability and helplessness enveloped the person on the bed, as if a flower had been soaked in rain and was wilting, making people feel so sorry for him that they wanted to immediately hug the boy and comfort him.

Song Yuceng felt his heart stop for a moment. He stared at the boy’s face. A strong sense of strangeness surged in his heart… Did this country bumpkin look like this? But he still had a grim face. Seeing that the boy didn’t respond for a long time, he felt inexplicably annoyed and asked in a cold voice:

“…What kind of trick are you playing?”

But it would have been better if he hadn’t spoken. As soon as he did, the boy seemed to be startled. His body instantly shrank back, like a frightened young bird, but he still didn’t make a sound.

Song Yuceng frowned, sensing that something was wrong. He asked again, “Can’t you hear me?”

The boy’s eyes finally turned toward him, but those beautiful eyes still had no light in them, as if they were covered with a thin mist, like a dusty pearl.

After a long time, Tao Ning just shook his head, but still didn’t say anything.

Song Yuceng frowned. He wanted to wave his hand in front of him, but he felt it was a stupid thing to do, so he didn’t. Instead, he turned around and wanted to call the doctor.

But as soon as he turned around, the person behind him seemed to sense it, and his clothes were instantly pulled. Song Yuceng was stunned. He turned his head and saw the boy lift his face, which was as beautiful as a painting. His eyes, shrouded in mist, “looked” at him cautiously. His soft voice trembled slightly: “Don’t go…”

He was very scared. The world he “saw” had no light. It seemed that a long, long time ago, in his deepest memory, there was also a time like this.

So Tao Ning was terrified of this. The hand holding the man’s clothes tightened. He habitually said, “Zhao…” But when the word was on his lips, he realized that the man who couldn’t bear to see him get hurt was long gone.

“Zhao what?”

In his place was another man with a more magnetic and colder voice. Tao Ning’s expression was blank, and his pupils slightly constricted. After a moment, he let go of his hand, lowered his head, and said softly, “Nothing.”

He seemed to have subconsciously mistaken the person.

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