After The Honest Person Was Discovered For Simultaneously Pursuing Three People - Chapter 34

Chapter 34: Why Would You Fall For Such Trash? …

“I’m sorry…”

Xu Jun saw the boy take out the trash and apologize in a soft voice. He could tell it was a habitual retreat. He didn’t like such weak people, but it was a shame about the pleasant scent on this transfer student.

He turned back to the kitchen and didn’t pay any more attention to the boy.

System, are there any cheats for targeting Xu Jun?

Tao Ning sat on a stool, worriedly looking at the tightly wrapped trash on the floor. He didn’t smell any bad odor. Instead, he smelled the aroma of egg noodles coming from the kitchen. He couldn’t help but sniff, a little wanting to eat it.

He didn’t want to target anyone. He just wanted to have a healthy body immediately, not have to take medicine, and peacefully do math problems and eat delicious noodles.

But before the system could speak, the familiar mechanical voice sounded again: Ding-dong! Congratulations, host, on triggering the first mission of Xu Jun’s solo route! A vague crush begins between looks up and down, so please have a crush on him for one month!

The system spoke at this time: Oh, little dummy, you don’t need to look for a cheat. You can try this method.

But I’ve never had a crush on anyone.

Then I’ll find a cheat for you.] A rustling sound of flipping pages echoed in his mind. After a moment, the system said seriously: [I found it. This book, “Shock! The Dark Moon Likes Him: A Legend of Secret Crushes,” says that to have a crush on someone, you have to forcefully break into their life. Therefore, you must attract his attention at all times. If he’s a germaphobe, you have to leave your little clothes on his bed. If he has a stomach illness, you have to eat spicy hot pot. If he hates rain and snow, you have to ask him to go out with you on a rainy or snowy day…

Little country bumpkin Tao Ning’s mouth was slightly agape. “C-Can I really do that?”

The system made a ‘patting its chest’ gesture: I am an AI developed by an advanced extraterrestrial civilization. You can trust me! And this book is known as a legend of secret crushes. Little dummy, don’t be skeptical.

“O-Okay…”

And so, a human with little romantic experience and an AI that lost a sunflower seed eating contest, one dared to say, and the other dared to believe. They hit it off and planned to start the “secret crush” plan tonight.

The first step, of course, was to attract his attention.

Little dummy, he’s cooking in the kitchen right now. What a great opportunity. You can secretly stuff your little underwear under his pillow!

At first, Tao Ning didn’t know what “little underwear” was. The system explained that it was his Ultraman underwear, but because the speech censorship was stricter for their AI, it would be blocked, so the term was changed to “little underwear.”

“How can I do that…” Tao Ning, who had lived in a small mountain village for eighteen years, couldn’t do such a thing. His cheeks flushed as he said, “I’ll just touch his bed with my hand for a while.”

But just as Tao Ning walked to the edge of the blue sheet, a cold voice came from behind him: “What are you doing?”

The sudden voice startled Tao Ning. When he came to his senses, his snowy white face couldn’t hide his guilt. “I… I…” He rarely lied, but for the sake of the mission, his thick eyelashes kept blinking. His voice was so faint that it was almost inaudible: “There’s a… mosquito on your bed.”

The system heard this ridiculously lame excuse and let out a mechanical laugh. The boy was so mortified that his jade-like cheeks turned crimson. He grumbled in his heart about why he was always given such strange missions.

Xu Jun: “…”

Did he think he had a problem with his eyes? But he didn’t say anything. He said indifferently, “Don’t get close to my bed from now on.”

“I’m sorry.”

“I don’t need your apology either.”

Tao Ning was like a child who had made a mistake. He lowered his head and walked past him. The sweet lemon scent filled the air around them. Xu Jun was in a daze for a moment. His gaze was fixed on the back of the boy’s neck, which was exposed. It was very thin and fragile, just like the transfer student himself. It was not suitable for studying at a school as strict as Oksen College.

Xu Jun’s hand, which was about to spray the bed with cleaning spray to disinfect it, hesitated. Because he had to admit, he liked the pleasant smell on the transfer student. But he only hesitated for a moment before picking up the cleaning spray again and disinfecting the entire bed, as if he was very disgusted that the boy had been there.

Of course, Tao Ning also saw his actions, so he was even more depressed. System, I don’t think that secret crush method is going to work.

The system was also a little hesitant: It must be because we haven’t practiced enough. How about we try a few more times and see…

Okay.

Tao Ning had always been a very well-behaved and obedient person. He took the trash bag containing the vegetable porridge and went out to throw it away. But what the boy didn’t know was that as soon as he left, the phone in the dorm went crazy. Xu Jun sat at his desk, unmoved, until the phone ringing disturbed his thought process for a problem. He frowned and answered the phone.

As soon as he picked up, a magnetic but irritable voice came from the other end—

“Twenty calls in total, country bumpkin. How dare you take so long to answer my call?”

Xu Jun felt that the voice was a little familiar, but he didn’t want to ask more. He furrowed his brow and said, “Are you looking for Tao Ning? He’s gone out.”

The other end of the phone was silent for a moment. Even the air around them was scorched by the violent aura. Then, through the phone speaker, a cold sneer of disdain and contempt came from the other end: “You’re Xu Jun?”

There were many young masters in Oksen College who looked down on people, but there was only one person who never said anything good, and that was the second young master of the Song family, Song Yuceng. As the student council president, Xu Jun had naturally dealt with these useless rich kids who only relied on their families.

A flash of the same contempt as the person on the other end of the phone flashed in his eyes, but his voice was very calm: “Yes.”

At this moment, in the office on the top floor of the school building, Song Yuceng was sitting on the sofa, not wearing his school uniform. His collar was half-open, revealing the faint lines of his abs. His pale face from the daytime had now returned to normal. If you looked closely, he was wearing a colored lip gloss. His hair was also styled. On the table next to him were a variety of fruits and all kinds of game consoles.

The only thing on the table that was used as a cover-up was a messy test paper.

Song Yuceng had already sent someone to get all of Tao Ning’s enrollment documents to look at. He knew where his dorm was and which class he was in. He was originally very unhappy that Tao Ning was living in a double room, but after knowing that his roommate was Xu Jun, he had no more objections.

Because everyone at Oksen College knew that Xu Jun only cared about fame and fortune. He was a complete egoist and a disgusting germaphobe. His office would be completely disinfected and sterilized after anyone had been there, making it seem as if he was the only human in the world and everyone else was trash.

Song Yuceng looked down on a proud coward like Xu Jun, so he wasn’t worried about what Xu Jun would do to that country bumpkin. Although he wasn’t sure why he felt that way, overall, he was relieved. He sneered, “Tell that country bumpkin to come find me on the top floor of the office building as soon as he gets back, or I’ll make him regret it.” After that, he hung up the phone.

Holding the cold phone receiver in his hand, Xu Jun couldn’t help but frown. It was almost dark. Why would that transfer student have a connection with a useless person like this? He suddenly remembered that Tao Ning said he came by car. A subtle feeling arose.

So that pleasant lemon scent already had an owner?

Above his gold-rimmed glasses, his brows furrowed even more. Xu Jun’s face was a little grim. He sat at his desk and started doing problems again, but after a while, the test paper that he used to be able to finish half of was still blank. It wasn’t until the door opened and a faint lemon scent slowly wafted over.

It smelled so good. It was the only scent that had ever made him feel dazed in so many years.

What a pity.

Tao Ning didn’t know what had happened. After he went downstairs, he not only threw away the trash but also went to the school’s internal mall to buy a bread. This trip to the mall was a small eye-opener for Tao Ning. It was also the first time he had been to a bustling mall since he came to Haizhou.

The goods inside were dazzling. The things sold were on many different floors, and there was even a place for fishing. Tao Ning thought at that time: Little Meng would be very happy if he was here. But everything in the mall was terrifyingly expensive. He found a snack shop with a slightly more acceptable price and planned to buy some delicious things to share with his roommate.

Xu Jun was not only a target but also a roommate they would live with for a year in the future.

The system suggested to him: [Little dummy, how about you follow the “Legend of Secret Crushes” and buy him some spicy strips to try? I think the ‘spicy fish tails’ on the bottom shelf are good. Those spicy strips are the spiciest snacks in your X province, right?]

Tao Ning felt that this method was a little immoral. He hesitated and said, “No… people with stomach problems can’t eat this.” He, a person without a stomach illness, had once eaten a little out of curiosity. It was so spicy that he drank an entire bottle of ice water in one go. After he got home, he had a stomach ache and was in the clinic. After Tao Yuan found out the reason, she scolded him fiercely. After that, spicy strips and other snacks were strictly forbidden at home.

Zhao Jingqun was also firm. He would never buy him spicy strips to eat, and the food he cooked was almost never spicy. If Tao Ning had indigestion, he would rub his stomach for the entire night after he got home.

Tao Ning lowered his eyes, his emotions hidden. Unknowingly, his perception of the emotions around him became more and more sensitive. He could already distinguish between what was liked, what was disliked, and what was not liked.

In the end, he bought a lemon-flavored cookie. Tao Ning carefully handed the cookie to the person in front of the desk. Under the fluorescent light, his eyebrows were curved in a smile, like the crescent moon that had already appeared outside the window. Even with the boring black-rimmed glasses, he looked very good.

“For you to eat.”

Xu Jun stared at him, his face expressionless. No one knew what he was thinking at that moment. A subtle and complex gaze swept from the boy’s curved eyebrows to his fair and slender wrist. The boy’s wrist was delicate and fragile, just like the back of his neck he had seen during the day. So fragile and vulnerable.

He didn’t like weak creatures.

But for some reason, Xu Jun accepted the cookie that was within his reach. If any other student union members saw this, they would definitely be shocked. Because they had been with this president for more than two years. Not to mention accepting other people’s food, they had never even seen this president, who came from an ordinary background, eat in the cafeteria. It was said that he never ate anything that he didn’t cook himself.

Crack.

The sound of the plastic wrapper being taken by another person was very clear. The distinct knuckles also accidentally touched the boy’s soft fingertips. Xu Jun stiffened almost imperceptibly. If it were in the past, he would have disinfected himself, but when he took the cookie, a sickeningly sweet lemon scent rushed into his nose.

His fingers couldn’t help but clench. Crack, crack, the plastic bag also became wrinkled. In a place where the boy couldn’t see, Xu Jun lowered his head. His gold-rimmed glasses reflected a dark arc. He couldn’t help but sniff the scent of the boy on his fingers and the wrapper.

Few people knew that he had a sweet tooth. It would be even better if there was a little more.

…With such a pleasant scent, why would he like a piece of trash?

As a result, at around 8:00 PM, the piercing phone rang again in the dorm. Tao Ning went to answer it, and the familiar low growl came from the other end: “Why haven’t you come yet? Do you know I’ve been waiting for you for almost three hours?!” Although the voice was full of rage, there was a hint of undetectable grievance in his tone.

Tao Ning, who answered the phone, was a little confused. His hair stood up. He asked softly, “…What do you mean by not coming yet?”

The other end of the phone was silent for a few seconds. Then, a grinding of teeth that could be heard throughout the dorm came: “Xu! Jun!”

Tao Ning subconsciously looked at the person in front of the desk. He saw that the man was completely unfazed by Song Yuceng’s rage. His face was unusually calm: “Sorry, I forgot.” Although he was apologizing, there was no hint of apology in his voice.

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