Chapter 31 – Is it because you want to give birth to little tentacles for me?

Editor: Xinghe

Translator: YuQiChen/Churen

The tentacles… were wrapped a bit too tightly.

Shen Tazhi forcibly suppressed the second sob that surged to his throat, struggling to look at Jiang Que.

The handsome young man was slender but not frail, and the tentacles entwined around him did not constrict any vital areas. There was a smile on his lips, and he didn’t appear as angry as Shen Tazhi had imagined.

Yet, Shen Tazhi inexplicably felt a bit afraid of the current Jiang Que. He softly, somewhat hesitantly, said, “Okay… Can you please release me first?”

“Why?” Jiang Que was puzzled.

He called out to Shen Tazhi again, “Hasn’t it always been like this before? Gege.”

The word “gege” made Shen Tazhi tremble slightly. He finally realized why he felt an inexplicable fear towards the current Jiang Que.

Because only the Jiang Que from the previous life would call him “gege”. During the time when he was almost killed by the other party, the mocking tone of that smiling “gege” left a vivid memory. It was because of this address that Shen Tazhi connected the current Jiang Que with the Jiang Que from the past life who had almost killed him several times. Fear was the subconscious response of the brain towards death.

Stay calm, Shen Tazhi. The current Jiang Que will not suddenly turn against you. Do not bring emotions from the past life into the present, whether it’s pity, fear, or even love. It’s unfair to the current Jiang Que.

Shen Tazhi took a deep breath and finally calmed down.

He no longer cared about his previous uneasy feelings due to worrying that Jiang Que might misunderstand. Amid the astonished gazes of the Anomaly Investigation Department, he blushed and pulled apart Jiang Que’s tentacles a little, reaching out to hold the other’s hand, speaking in his usual gentle tone to Jiang Que:

“We are outside now. We can’t do this. Please let go first, we’ll talk when we get home.”

“Oh, okay.”

Jiang Que had always listened to Shen Tazhi. He obediently released his tentacles, held Shen Tazhi’s hand, and was led out of the Anomaly Investigation Department by the other.

After the two left, the eerie silence that had fallen over the Anomaly Investigation Department due to their shock was finally broken by a flurry of gasps.

“Was that… Shen Tazhi?”

“Was it real? No way! That was Shen Tazhi?”

“Wait, so the rumour about R-021 liking Shen Tazhi was actually true??”

“Don’t be so loud; he has a name. He’s called Jiang Que.”

“So thrilling…”

Du Lulu held the investigation report that Shen Tazhi forgot to take with him, and after her explosive emotions calmed down, she felt extremely calm.

She thought to herself calmly, exciting, wasn’t it? There were even more exciting things you don’t know about.

Just the thought of personally scanning the medical report and sending it to Shen Tazhi’s email in an official tone, detailing Jiang Que’s physical condition, made Du Lulu feel like her future was bleak.

Team Leader Xi Jing, where did you go? Why did you leave her alone to handle the follow-up work for Jiang Que?

She was just a passing preschool teacher and logistics staff member! QAQ

Inside the car.

Shen Tazhi had brought a driver along. Jiang Que and he sat in the back seats. Looking at Shen Tazhi, who had completely regained his usual gentle and steady demeanor, Jiang Que asked with a curious spirit:

“You reacted strangely just now. Was it because it’s wrong for me to entangle you with my tentacles outside?”

Seeing Shen Tazhi’s unnatural expression, he added, “I didn’t mean to make you uncomfortable. It’s just that my tentacles really like you. They just hugged you on their own. If this is not okay, I won’t do it in the future.”

He would have to get along well with Shen Tazhi for a long time in the future, so he didn’t want to do things that Shen Tazhi didn’t like.

Who could resist such an obedient Jiang Que? At least Shen Tazhi couldn’t resist.

He softly said, “No, you can do whatever you want, don’t care about what others think.”

Jiang Que could do whatever he wanted. He had the ability to shut up anyone who gossiped behind his back.

The driver in front silently put on his headphones, preventing himself from getting fired after this trip.

Jiang Que leaned in, approaching Shen Tazhi, and said, “But you were strange at that time. You looked very pitiful.”

Indeed, he did look pitiful. He felt that back then, he not only wanted to touch Shen Tazhi’s eyes but maybe wanted to do other things, he just didn’t know what he should do.

“Pitiful?” Shen Tazhi hadn’t thought of this word to describe himself. He recalled his emotions at that time and smiled, “No, I was just nervous.”

“Nervous?”

“Yes.” Shen Tazhi turned to help Jiang Que fasten his seatbelt, securing the person who was leaning towards him in front of him before continuing, “Because the first test content from the Anomaly Investigation Department regarding you was to test your reaction after being betrayed. They demanded my cooperation with their investigation, otherwise, it would be considered an unsuccessful investigation.”

“When you directly let go of my hand and walked away, I thought you really thought I betrayed you, that I brought you out of the abyss only to use you, and I was afraid you would be angry with me, so I was nervous.”

“Is that nervous… But you clearly looked pitiful.” Jiang Que muttered, dissatisfied under his breath.

Only after speaking did he realize the main point of Shen Tazhi’s words: “Where did I get angry with you? Didn’t we agree on this before?”

“I always thought my performance at that time was good, wasn’t it? Was what I did wrong?”

“No, you did nothing wrong.” Shen Tazhi couldn’t help but chuckle as he looked at the confused Jiang Que, “It’s my fault, I over thought everything, you did well, Que Que.”

Thinking about the unnecessary torment of this day, Shen Tazhi rubbed his forehead with a bitter smile.

In the end, Jiang Que didn’t realize anything, but he had thought too much about it.

However, it was good that there were no misunderstandings. Maybe he should send a little apology gift to Chief Wu, who he had mistakenly directed his anger towards?

Shen Tazhi’s heavy heart was lifted, and he finally remembered the pitiful Chief Wu.

“Well, that’s good.” Jiang Que cheered up, even though he was restrained by the seatbelt, he still couldn’t resist using his tentacles to touch Shen Tazhi, “I did well with what you asked me to do, you can continue telling me stories! And snacks, you promised to bring me delicious snacks.”

“I’ve prepared everything I promised you.” Shen Tazhi smiled gently, “Let’s go home first, you can take a bath and change clothes, there’s still plenty of time, we can take our time.”

Due to the self-cleaning function of the underground magic array, Jiang Que’s body was not dirty, but after a day of running around in the Anomaly Investigation Department, he was a bit dusty. Moreover, the clothes left by the Qishan Taoists were large garments tailored to fit his adult body, so Jiang Que’s current outfit was not fitting. Taking a bath and changing clothes would be more comfortable.

The journey back was not short, and it was not easy to finally meet Shen Tazhi. Jiang Que did not want to inquire about his doubts on Shen Tazhi on the way back. After confirming that the term “gege” did indeed affect Shen Tazhi, he stopped there and continued to ask the other to tell him the remaining content of the story.

Shen Tazhi, of course, would not refuse.

There was only a little content left in the novel. The Ying and Chu families went bankrupt under the revenge of Luo Shang, Liu Meng and Mo Yu also avenged themselves. In the process, as the most classic pair of bickering friends, the lively and cute Mo Yu first got together with the sunny and cheerful Luo Chen, followed by the gentle Liu Meng and the fashionable Shen Ao after several twists and turns.

With everyone’s help, the cold Luo Shang was finally moved by Jiang Yi.

“…Under the sky full of red roses, Luo Shang lowered her head and gently placed her hand in Jiang Yi’s palm.

Fortunately, after countless storms, she finally found where she belonged.”

As the story reached this point, the vehicle slowly came to a stop.

Jiang Que didn’t know when he took off his sunglasses. His eyes were already red from crying, as he sniffled while wiping away tears with a tissue, “So touching, in the end, everyone could be together, Ying Qian was even sent to Africa to become a slave… *hiccup*.”

He hiccuped in the middle of crying, which made Shen Tazhi laugh.

Getting off the car, Shen Tazhi unbuckled Jiang Que’s seatbelt, picked up the emotionally drained Jiang Que, and headed towards the villa. Along the way, he casually glanced at the driver who was unaware of the situation due to wearing headphones.

The driver was quite perceptive and quickly drove off.

Jiang Que had stopped crying by now. He just felt deeply moved and overwhelmed, still immersed in his emotions. Holding onto Shen Tazhi’s neck, he thought, “Luo Shang is really cool. With her own strength, she bankrupted Ying and the Chu family, sent Chu Feng to prison as a laborer, and even established her own fashion company… *sigh* When she was gradually melted by Jiang Yi’s warmth, it was truly touching.”

When he finally snapped out of it, he found himself placed on the couch by Shen Tazhi.

Suddenly pulling himself out of his thoughts, Jiang Que widened his eyes, looking at the minimalist and aloof designed living room and the multi-story mansion above him. He touched the couch beneath him and murmured softly, “How come you’re as rich as Luo Shang?”

Shen Tazhi: …

“Uh-huh,” he admitted quite cooperatively, “I’m about as rich as Luo Shang.”

“Do you want to see the room I’ve prepared for you?”

With this sentence, Shen Tazhi successfully diverted Jiang Que’s attention from the novel. Jiang Que stood up, saying, “I want to see, take me there.”

The house staff had already been dismissed in advance. Shen Tazhi held Jiang Que’s hand, crossed the empty lobby, and led him to the elevator.

“This is the elevator in the house. Your room is on the third floor with mine. When you want to go up, just press this button. When the elevator door opens, you can go in.”

He explained while demonstrating to Jiang Que, who was paying close attention. When the elevator reached the third floor, Jiang Que let out a soft exclamation, “The elevator is so fast, I can use it!”

“Do you know how to go down as well?” Shen Tazhi asked, a bit worried.

Jiang Que nodded, “I know, it’s just pressing the button opposite to going up and then pressing the first-floor button.”

Shen Tazhi chuckled and patted his head, quickly retracting his hand before Jiang Que’s disapproving gaze, saying, “Your room is the first one ahead on the left.”

Because of Jiang Que’s visit, he temporarily gave up his master bedroom, quickly redecorating it with new furnishings, and moved into the guest bedroom. Therefore, when Jiang Que saw the room, he let out another exclamation, “So spacious, even bigger than the rooms in the Anomaly Investigation Department.”

Most of his time was spent in the dim space of less than ten square meters, and just this room alone was several times the size of all the areas he had been active in for the past ten years.

Jiang Que really liked this spacious room. He happily spun around in the room, then tentatively turned the doorknob of the bathroom. After seeing the faucet, he turned around and called out to Shen Tazhi standing behind him, “Gege, I don’t know how to use this. The people at the Anomaly Investigation Department didn’t teach me, can you teach me?”

Another unexpected “gege”, Shen Tazhi paused for a moment before quickly walking over, taking Jiang Que’s hand to show him how to turn on the faucet and adjust the water temperature. He swiftly stopped Jiang Que from trying to drink the water from the faucet.

“This water is untreated, so you can’t drink it. We have a water dispenser at home, I’ll teach you how to use it later.”

Mid-sentence, Shen Tazhi suddenly remembered something important:

“Can you also not use the bathroom?”

“I can’t,” Jiang Que answered truthfully.

He had observed humans for eighteen years, but he rarely saw them engaging in daily life activities. The closest scenes to bathroom use he encountered—someone sitting in a bathtub cutting their wrists to commit suicide?

Moreover, in most of these scenes, he saw only people in pain. Ultimately, what he saw were the emotions of these suffering individuals, and in the mental worlds of these collapsing individuals, those insignificant daily matters were minor and almost nonexistent. So even if he wanted to understand, he couldn’t see clearly.

Shen Tazhi fell silent.

Alright, now the question was, how was he going to bathe Jiang Que?

“Gege?” Jiang Que curiously poked the white bathtub with his tentacles, turning back in confusion after Shen Tazhi’s silence, “Aren’t we going to bathe? Aren’t you going to teach me?”

…Don’t call him gege at a time like this.

Ten minutes later.

Steam filled the bathroom as Shen Tazhi held the change of clothes he had prepared for Jiang Que. Blushing slightly, he knocked on the bathroom door, “Que Que, have you gotten into the bathtub?”

Jiang Que’s voice came through, somewhat muffled and distorted through the door, “Come in.”

Only then did Shen Tazhi open the door and reach in, watching curiously as Jiang Que, holding the water in the bathtub, let it flow down from his fingers. He quickly added, “You can’t drink this either.”

“Oh.” Disappointed, Jiang Que set his hand down, patting the water, “I got in, and then like a human, I should rub it to make bubbles…”

“Body wash and shampoo.” Shen Tazhi timely supplemented the terms Jiang Que didn’t know, “They are on the shelf next to you, the blue bottle is body wash, and the red one is shampoo.”

“Body wash for the body, shampoo for the hair,” Jiang Que muttered to himself, then asked, “What should I use to wash my tentacles?”

“…Should we use body wash for that too?” Shen Tazhi, who had no experience washing tentacles, uncertainly suggested.

The body wash Shen Tazhi prepared for Jiang Que was skin-friendly, so there shouldn’t be any issues using it to wash his tentacles.

“Okay.” Jiang Que cheerfully agreed.

Following Shen Tazhi’s instructions, he first applied shampoo to his hair, rinsed it off after creating bubbles, then used body wash to cleanse both himself and his small tentacles.

The first one he washed was clean and fragrant, just as Shen Tazhi had said. Indeed, he felt much more comfortable after bathing.

Jiang Que set down the first tentacle, happily swirling it in the air, creating splashes of water, and then continued energetically washing each of his tentacles.

The second, the third… the eighth one, hmm? This one…

Jiang Que looked at this tentacle, his thickest and most beautiful one with hidden sharp thorns, and finally remembered his initial intention to interrogate Shen Tazhi about the doubts he had.

How could he forget while listening to a novel?

Quietly blaming his bad memory, Jiang Que extended his tentacle with determination, directly pulling Shen Tazhi, who was standing guard but avoiding his gaze, into the bathtub.

“Splash—”

Even in a luxurious bathtub, fitting Jiang Que, his eight tentacles, and Shen Tazhi felt a bit cramped. Water overflowed from the tub, prompting Jiang Que to quickly lift a few of his tentacles to make space for Shen Tazhi.

“Que…” Shen Tazhi almost slipped and fell on him, but luckily was caught by a tentacle. Even so, he couldn’t speak properly, “Wha-what’s, what’s wrong, is there something you don’t know, ah.”

Shen Tazhi let out a short, startled cry, then tightly closed his mouth.

Tentacles… the wet tentacles shouldn’t move around randomly.

Jiang Que propped himself up with his hands, kneeling closer to Shen Tazhi, who couldn’t look at him. In the misty air, the young man’s handsome figure and collarbone were faintly visible, making Shen Tazhi’s movements even more rigid.

“Gege.”

Jiang Que’s dark eyes stared intently at Shen Tazhi, carefully observing every expression. After successfully capturing the moment of Shen Tazhi’s daze due to this address, he smiled innocently and without guile:

“Gege, have you known me for a long time?”

“Yes…”

Shen Tazhi replied instinctively, only realizing what he had said after it slipped out.

“Wait, no—”

He guessed right; Jiang Que tightened his tentacles again due to his own happiness, awkwardly restraining Shen Tazhi in a very uncomfortable position.

Shen Tazhi was completely speechless.

Jiang Que continued to ask absentmindedly, “When was that? Why don’t I remember? Is it related to the people who trapped me underground?”

Shen Tazhi tightly pressed his lips together, not answering, afraid that he would reveal strange sounds as soon as he opened his mouth.

Three consecutive questions went unanswered, which made Jiang Que unhappy. Shen Tazhi had never been this silent in response to his questions before.

“Gege, say something,” he raised his head in dissatisfaction, freezing when he met Shen Tazhi’s eyes.

Shen Tazhi’s eyes were misty, as if he was truly crying this time. Being dragged into the water, he was all wet, resembling a soaked animal.

Jiang Que finally realized that Shen Tazhi’s pitiful expression wasn’t because he was bullied by the Anomaly Investigation Department.

It was because he was being bullied by him.

Was it because he thought Shen Tazhi was angry? What was it this time?

Jiang Que couldn’t tell.

The tingling sensation in his heart was strange.

He was bad, how could he bully Shen Tazhi and even want to continue doing so?

Continuing to bully… what would that be like?

Although he really wanted to know what would happen if he continued to bully Shen Tazhi, Jiang Que was considerate enough not to make things difficult for him.

So he changed the topic.

He lifted the recently cleaned eighth tentacle, waving the ferocious tentacle in front of Shen Tazhi’s eyes, sincerely asking:

“The Anomaly Investigation Department told me this is my reproductive tentacle, capable of laying and hatching small tentacles. When you kissed it before, was it because you wanted to help me produce small tentacles?”

Whether it was an illusion or not, Shen Tazhi choked up again, his eyes seeming to turn red at the corners.

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