After the Young Master’s Death, He was Kissed by His Mortal Enemy! - Chapter 113

After telling Xie En where his escape room was located, Shen Ran asked with a somewhat complicated expression, “When do you plan on going?”

Regarding the meeting between Xie En and Xia Xingyuan, Shen Ran felt a bit uncertain. Would Xie En be able to control his emotions? And would Xia Xingyuan remember Xie En upon seeing him?

“I’ll go as soon as possible. After all,” Xie En lowered his head, his gaze falling on the back of his pale hand where bluish-purple veins traced beneath the skin, “After all, I don’t know how much longer I have to live.”

Shen Ran fell silent.

Perhaps the meeting should be planned carefully, and it might be best for Xie En to wait until he was fully prepared. But for the current Xie En, seeing Xia Xingyuan was his sole reason for living. Without that possibility, he would have died long ago.

Shen Ran even worried—would Xie En feel his wish was fulfilled after seeing Xia Xingyuan and then decide to give up on life again?

“Don’t worry, I won’t commit suicide again,” Xie En said, as if hearing his inner thoughts. “You’ve probably noticed that only those who die by accident become spirits. Suicide is an act that receives no pardon. If I die that way, I’ll never see Xingyuan again.”

Shen Ran was stunned. “How… how did you guess what I was thinking?”

Xie En raised an eyebrow slightly, appearing quite calm. “I didn’t guess; I saw it. Has anyone ever told you that your thoughts are written all over your face?”

Shen Ran stood there open-mouthed, momentarily at a loss for words. Meanwhile, Cheng Yi nodded in agreement, clearly sharing Xie En’s opinion.

With this interruption from Shen Ran, the heavy atmosphere lightened slightly. Xie En shifted to a new topic.

“By the way, Boss Shen, I haven’t asked you yet. Why is it that you can see those spirits?”

Xie En was truly curious. Having an ability different from ordinary people usually required a catalyst.

Speaking of this, Shen Ran felt quite emotional.

“My catalyst was a bit different from yours. You hovered at death’s door, but me? I actually died once.”

Like two people with shared misfortunes confiding in each other, Shen Ran briefly told Xie En about his past. Having experience telling this story to Cheng Yi, he didn’t find it as painful this time. Recounting it now felt almost indifferent, though a lingering heartache was inevitable.

Beside him, Cheng Yi’s expression had lost its previous casualness. His brows were knit tight, and he gripped Shen Ran’s hand firmly, as if afraid he might vanish in the next second.

After hearing the story, Xie En seemed moved. “Every family has its own difficulties.”

Shen Ran nodded vigorously. “Right! I’ve realized that most families are like this—once they have money, they turn bad and fall apart.”

Everyone had hidden motives; everything was done with an agenda, and all interactions were hypocritical. Such a “home” could hardly be called a home anymore.

Everyone present—him, Cheng Yi, and Xie En—was a victim of a broken family.

“Shen Ran, you said you found me based on the description from the spirits on the Shen Group’s rooftop, right?”

Though he didn’t know why Xie En suddenly asked, Shen Ran answered honestly, “Yes, why?”

Xie En pondered for a moment before speaking. “I promised them that if they helped me find Xia Xingyuan, I would help them fulfill their wishes in exchange.”

Shen Ran blinked, trying hard to remember. What was it that Ji Yan and the others were so obsessed with?

Xie En seemed to read his mind again and spoke for him: “To kill Shen Xianming and Fu Sijie. Since you helped me find Xingyuan, this promise is valid for you as well.”

Killing wasn’t something extraordinary to Xie En. As a member of the Y Kingdom’s royalty, whether active or passive, he had seen plenty of it. He’d had reservations before, as he was an outsider on this land without established connections, making an impulsive murder an unwise choice.

But after hearing what Shen Xianming and Fu Sijie had done, Xie En felt Shen Ran might need this help.

However, Shen Ran—a law-abiding, honest citizen—was startled by the word “kill.” He waved his hands and shook his head repeatedly, his speech becoming incoherent.

“Huh? Kill? No, no, no. You, me, and Cheng Yi—we all have to be law-abiding citizens. We can’t dirty our hands for people like them, and besides…”

Besides, letting people like Shen Xianming and Fu Sijie die so easily felt too simple and unsatisfying. For some, a quick death was a relief. The hatred between him and the Shen couple was a long, complex, and deep-seated one. It definitely couldn’t be settled by a mere “death.”

“Shen Ran, you don’t need to worry about me,” Xie En said with a slight curl of his lip. “I won’t live long anyway, and I already carry many burdens. Getting rid of two people like them is nothing to me.”

When he had said “it’s not impossible” back then, Xie En had already prepared himself.

“No, no, no, no! Killing is really unnecessary!”

Just as Shen Ran was shaking his head like a rattle, he suddenly remembered something. He froze, then muttered to himself, “Wait… killing isn’t allowed, but ‘killing with a borrowed knife’ should be permitted, right?”

Xie En didn’t understand what he meant; his gray eyes showed only confusion.

But Cheng Yi clearly understood. He nodded knowingly. “Ah, I see what you’re thinking. That’s actually a great idea. Clever.”

Xie En finally couldn’t resist joining in. “Stop talking in riddles, you two. ‘Killing with a borrowed knife’, what does that mean? If you borrow someone else’s knife, won’t that person be involved?”

Although Xie En’s Chinese was fluent, his vocabulary of idioms clearly couldn’t keep up. To him, whether you used your own knife or someone else’s, it was still murder.

Shen Ran couldn’t help but burst into laughter. “That’s not what ‘killing with a borrowed knife’ means! Manager Xie En, let me explain! Mumble mumble, whisper whisper…”

Exactly. Killing them directly would dirty their hands; it was better not to do it. But Shen Ran still remembered how things developed in his previous life!

In a few months, the Shen Group would declare bankruptcy, and the Shen couple would abandon him and flee.

What if he made it so the Shen couple had nowhere to run?

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