Chapter 94

“So you—” Fan suddenly stood up, his cheeks burning red, “You were eyeing me long ago!!”

Chen Wuyou flatly denied it. “No. At that time, I knew you were straight and liked the Guide who attacked you. I just admired your look.”

“Simply admire? What’s so admirable about him?” Lian Yu said with a puzzled expression. “Your aesthetic is quite unique.”

Fan was just like a firecracker right now, easily kindled. Irritated by Lian Yu’s sarcastic tone, he was furious and asked, “Lian Yu, what do you mean? Don’t forget, your Guide had previously confessed to me publicly under the lecture building!”

“He wasn’t very smart back then.” Lian Yu’s body had been feeling nice the past couple of days, and with that, his heart felt more forgiving. He glanced at Cen Zhen, “Isn’t that right?”

To avoid things escalating, Cen Zhen nodded, echoing Lian Yu: “Yes, I was delirious and did many bizarre things.”

Fan sneered and angrily walked over to Chen Wuyou. Doctor Chen truly was good-tempered. He smiled and shook Fan’s hand, patting it comfortingly.

My boyfriend is the best! Fan vaguely saw the holy golden light behind Chen Wuyou and the halo above his head, but in reality, behind Chen Wuyou was a clueless panda, searching all around for something to grind its teeth on.

After calming the livid Fan, Chen Wuyou continued his story. “As soon as I leaned in, Fan suddenly woke up. He mistakenly thought I planned to do something by getting so close to him, and wouldn’t listen to my explanation. Infuriated, he beat me up and called me a disgusting homosexual.”

“Who beat you up? I just… pushed you lightly.” Fan felt guilty. “I didn’t say anything much. I just said you had no self-respect or something…”

“Yes, he pushed me to the ground, got on top of me, and hit me wherever I was vulnerable. My stomach was bruised.”

“You tell them, don’t you deserve it though? And you clearly fought back…”

……

Seeing the storytelling session about to degenerate into a scene of flirting and abuse, Cen Zhen coughed lightly, signaling they were still there. “Doctor Chen?”

“(Cough)…” Chen Wuyou started coughing too. Just as he was about to speak, Fan, for some reason, snapped and interrupted, “No, no, no, why should I tell you all about the private details of our relationship?”

“Oh?” Lian Yu raised an eyebrow. “I remember before we went on the trip, I invited Dr. Chen to come with us. But he refused because he fxxxed someone, and was afraid leaving at that time would cause unnecessary misunderstandings… Who did he fxxxed?”

“……” Fan glared at Chen Wuyou in rage. Chen Wuyou held his forehead and said helplessly, “I was tricked into telling them that. How could I win a mind trick against these two…”

Fan: “……”

Fan: “It was me, okay? I went to a gay bar out of curiosity, but I wasn’t on guard, so I got drugged and fxxxed.”

“This plot… how do I put it…” Lian Yu leaned against Cen Zhen, who summed it up for him: “Too classy and outdated even for a book.”

The word “book” here had a meaning only they could understand. Lian Yu suddenly collapsed on the sofa next to him, laughing as if he’d heard a ridiculous joke. He clutched his stomach and laughed uncontrollably.

Fan really wanted to kill that idiot. He was deeply regretful for ever harboring even a sliver of affection for Cen Zhen. These two troublemakers should be locked up, forever locked up, and the key thrown into the ocean nine thousand meters deep.

“What happened next?” Lian Yu found it incredibly interesting. Fan didn’t want to say a word, but Chen Wuyou became serious. “That’s why I called you here… Kaimenji, do you remember this guy?”

Cen Zhen certainly remembered him. He was the prime suspect for destroying ‘Cen Zhen’s’ gland. However, since he hadn’t made any moves at the time, and Lian Yu happened to get in heat when they were setting up a trap to conduct a sting operation, then the mating incident occurred, they let him go.

“What do you remember about him?”

“He’s got his eye on Lele,” Fan said. Lian Yu immediately blinked and asked, “Who’s Lele?”

How could Lian Yu not remember Lele? Just in the previous chapter, he boasted about his exceptional photographic memory. He was simply looking to cause trouble for Fan.

As expected, Fan choked on this question, racking his brains to figure out how to explain Lele. Compared to Cen Zhen, the simple, former suitor he’d sternly rejected, Lele was his childhood friend, and their relationship was more… ambiguous.

Even though Fan was certain he had no such thoughts about Lele, he couldn’t deny that, before he realized his true sexual orientation, he’d considered marrying Lele if he still couldn’t find a Guide after graduation.

Fan would never tell Chen Wuyou about this, but he had a feeling Chen Wuyou would be able to sense some of it, so he usually avoided mentioning Lele.

I’d better kill that idiot first… Fan gritted his teeth and explained, “LeLe was the Guide I was on the same team with during the Yezi Island exam.”

“Oh, your other suitor.” Lian Yu’s sins never ceased. “That short and skinny Guide, whose spiritual body was a tiny hamster. Oh, and he even ran up to Cen Zhen and challenged him, saying, ‘You’re playing hard to get, but Fan is mine. He likes me, and he can only be with me.’”

The first half of Lian Yu’s words was true, but the second half was a plot in the novel that didn’t happen in real life. The flurry of truth and falsehood had Fan blushing. He seemed to recall the incident when Cen Zhen had suddenly punched Lele, and he was still wondering what had happened……

Fan was silent for a moment, then gave Chen Wuyou a pitiful, pleading look. “Wuyou, why don’t we just not tell them? Kaimenji’s already incarcerated, and the details aren’t that important. Or they could investigate on their own…” If Lian Yu kept going, his new boyfriend might break up with him.

Cen Zhen grasped the key words in Fan’s words: “incarcerated? Kaimenji went… to jail?” Combined with Fan’s previous statement that he’d targeted Lele, he instantly had a guess: “Kaimenji attacked Lele and damaged his gland?”

His words drew Fan’s surprised gaze, and he nodded blankly. Chen Wuyou, knowing a little about the situation from having helped Cen Zhen fake a hospitalization, replied unsurprisingly: “That’s right… After Fan and I had sex, uh, and after a few other things went on, we got together… Lele was a bit overwhelmed, and somehow, he kept getting closer to Kaimenji. I asked Fan to warn him, but he was so disgusted with us that he’d go against everything we said. He might even be trying to attract Fan’s attention by associating with other Sentinels.”

According to Chen Wuyou’s analysis, Lele was exactly the type Kaimenji hated. He’d stepped on every nerve-wracking button. Who else could Kaimenji attack if not him?

“So how’s he now? Has he threatened suicide?” Lian Yu remembered that after ‘Cen Zhen’s’ gland was destroyed, unable to bear the loss of his status as a talent to a cripple, he committed suicide.

“What suicide? Wuyou saved his gland,” Fan said with a hint of pride. “When Lele was brought to the hospital, all the doctors said the gland couldn’t be saved and had to be removed. Only Wuyou insisted, and he performed the surgery himself, which was a complete success……”

Cen Zhen hadn’t expected that the miracle doctor he’d been eyeing on since he transmigrated here, and the effort he’d put into getting to know and befriending, would ultimately benefit another completely unimportant cannon fodder in the novel. He himself had barely bothered Chen Wuyou.

But it wasn’t a bad thing.

The key point was that they had at least made the trip to the Slave Market, endured being captured by space pirates, and been pursued by Interstellar Police, yet they all emerged unscathed.

Well, they weren’t completely unscathed. At the end of the Slave Market journey, Cen Zhen was grazed twice by bullets, and Lian Yu was shot directly in the shoulder. But these minor injuries had mostly healed, and troubling Chen Wuyou with them was a complete waste of talent.

With Kaimenji’s imprisonment, his case officially came to an end. Although Cen Zhen had almost forgotten about him, his strength, combined with Lian Yu, made it virtually impossible for Kaimenji to harm him.

After finishing their business, the four of them chatted casually, with Chen Wuyou doing the talking, Cen Zhen listening, Lian Yu harassing, and Fan being annoyed. The atmosphere grew increasingly awkward until Fan was so angry that his great white shark almost leaped out, only to be trampled by Lian Yu’s lion.

Seeing the shark fuming like a pufferfish, Lian Yu chuckled, “Take it back quickly! If this continues, it’ll become a salty dried fish.”

Fan was stunned for a moment, incredulous. “Your mental strength is higher than mine? Aren’t you a B or D?” Back when he was planning to pursue Cen Zhen, he’d even gone to great lengths to research Lian Yu’s information.

In fact, Lian Yu had almost forgotten whether he changed it to a B or a D, but that didn’t matter. “You believe me when I say it’s a B? How can you be so naive?”

“It’s the student information in the academic affairs system…”

“You believe everything the academic affairs system says? How can you be so naive?”

“You—!”

Chen Wuyou suddenly realized something and looked at Cen Zhen sharply. “Is his mental power really S?” When they first met online, Cen Zhen had curiously used the S-level as an example. Fan’s mental strength was A, and there were very few Sentinels with higher mental strength than him.

Cen Zhen smiled faintly and said nothing.

His silence frightened Chen Wuyou even more. He wondered what kind of monster he had met……

“Okay, okay, okay,” Fan said angrily. “Final exams are coming up in a few days anyway. I want to see how your physical and mental strength compare. Whoever’s worse is a grandson!”

Lian Yu had never seen anyone so eager to be a grandson, so he immediately agreed. On the way back to the White Tower, Cen Zhen asked him, “What? You’re not planning to ‘surprise the others’ anymore?”

Lian Yu was amused by the double entendre and said, “You’re not going to hide your strength, are you?”

“Hmm?”

“You’ll definitely get the Guide Double S, so I’ll definitely get the Sentinel Double S to match you, so our student profiles look good together.”

“… Double S and Double B are fine too.”

“You mean the ‘Overbearing Guide’s Little Sentinel’? That sounds tempting too!” Lian Yu’s eyes lit up, but then his brow furrowed. “But I don’t want to be Fan’s grandson. What should I do…”

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Original Author’s Note:

We’re about to enter the last mini-arc!!!

The story I’ll be working on after this one is the apocalyptic novel next door, [He Lived Like You]. Shou, who thought Gong was dead, adopted a child who looked very similar to Gong. Much later, it was discovered that the child was actually Gong himself.

Shou: …It’s over. I cried in the middle of the night hugging his nameplate, woke up calling his name, told my kid how wonderful he was, yet he actually saw all of that?