Editor: Xinghe
Translator: YuQiChen/Churen
Jiang Que cried.
The same Jiang Que who had left Captain Xi Jing speechless in the Anomaly Investigation Department, was now crying uncontrollably because of the teacher’s words?
Du Lulu felt like she was dreaming.
Although Wu Yue exuded a strong presence, wasn’t Captain Xi Jing also imposing? Why wasn’t Jiang Que afraid of Captain Xi Jing?
Wu Yue hadn’t expected to make Jiang Que cry directly. After all, Jiang Que’s earlier responses had left him with the impression of a ādifficult studentā. Now, he stood there feeling unsure of what to do next.
Not to mention the other two people, even Shen Tazhi had never seen Jiang Que cry so much about something other than novels before. His heart softened, and he even started to question whether finding a teacher for Jiang Que was a completely wrong decision.
Feeling distressed, Shen Tazhi patted Jiang Que, who was sobbing uncontrollably, and gently comforted him, “It’s okay, it’s okay. I’m not scolding you. You’re doing great, you’re already very talented. If you don’t like it, you don’t have to study anymore.”
The people present had various expressions, but only Jiang Que, who was hugging Shen Tazhi, had a pained look on his face as he secretly used his tentacles to rub the arm that he had just pinched himself.
Ugh… pretending to cry really hurts.
In novels, wasn’t it written that Ying Qian can lightly pinch herself and cry? How come he had to pinch so hard to make himself cry?
Jiang Que awkwardly wiped his tears with Shen Tazhi’s clothes, while also questioning the authenticity of novels.
He was not stupid. He could tell that the teacher from earlier was very dissatisfied with him, and when he said that last sentence, he was already thinking of reporting to Shen Tazhi after class.
Although he didn’t know where he went wrong in cooperating, Jiang Que still remembered his agreement with Shen Tazhi:
He had to do a good job in the trial class to get the phone.
Obviously, being reported by the teacher right after the first trial class didn’t fall within the scope of ādoing a good job in the trial classā. For the sake of his phone, Jiang Que chose to take the initiative and be the first to accuse someone else of wrongdoing in front of Shen Tazhi.
It was clearly Shen Tazhi’s fault.
Wiping away his tears indignantly, Jiang Que thought to himself.
Shen Tazhi did tell him that the teacher wouldn’t scold him, but what happened? The teacher not only said that reading novels was wrong but also showed him a bunch of strange things to write about.
He tried his best to cooperate, so it shouldn’t be his fault no matter how you look at it.
Besides, reading novels wasn’t useless. At least, Ying Qian’s techniques were quite useful.
But the people present were unaware of his thoughts, especially Shen Tazhi, whose face had darkened, nodded towards Wu Yue and Du Lulu, gesturing for them to leave the study room first.
Wu Yue and Du Lulu were already planning to leave, but now, with Shen Tazhi’s stern look, they felt like they needed to make a quick exit.
However, before the two could take more than a few steps, they were directly blocked by a tentacle in their path.
“No leaving.” Jiang Que, in a panic, lifted his head from Shen Tazhi’s embrace. “I promised Shen Tazhi to finish the class, Du Lulu, you can’t leave.”
He just wanted to skip over Wu Yue’s issue. If Du Lulu left too, how could he fulfill his agreement with Shen Tazhi?
Du Lulu: Huh? Me?
She looked despairingly as Wu Yue pushed the door open to leave, only to be pulled back by Jiang Que.
No, did she really have to continue giving Jiang Que a trial class in such an awkward situation?
Du Lulu lifted her head, exchanged a dry smile with Shen Tazhi, and asked, “Mr. Shen…?”
Shen Tazhi fell silent for a moment, then crouched down, positioning himself lower than Jiang Que who was seated, and gently wiped away the tears at the corner of Jiang Que’s eyes.
“Que Que, are you sure you want to continue?”
Jiang Que closed his eyes briefly as Shen Tazhi wiped his tears, then nodded.
With both bosses requesting to continue, Du Lulu could only grit her teeth and move forward, sitting across from Jiang Que, trying hard to recall the process she had prepared earlier:
“Jiang Que… shall we chat for a bit first?”
“Okay.” Jiang Que nodded.
Shen Tazhi retreated back to his position. Behind the beautiful red-eyed non-humanoid youth with fierce tentacles behind him, the imposing figure of the big boss of the capital stood with arms crossed, staring at her. Regardless of who it was, Du Lulu felt immense pressure from them. She nervously swallowed and, to her dismay, realized that she seemed to have forgotten the prepared process and her oral presentation altogether.
She couldn’t remember.
Du Lulu’s mind went blank, and to make matters worse, Jiang Que was looking at her so earnestly, giving her the illusion that she had returned to a kindergarten stage with an expectant audience of children below.
The pressure of teaching hit her once again, and Du Lulu’s mind raced.
Chat… chat… talk about what Jiang Que likes, like novels…
Du Lulu blurted out suddenly, “Actually, I like reading novels too.”
She regretted saying that as soon as the words left her mouth.
How could that be something a teacher should say? Why did she blurt out the truth like that?!
“Hmm?” Jiang Que suddenly became interested. “What do you like to read?”
Du Lulu: “… Recently, I’ve been reading ‘Lord of the Apocalypse’ and ‘From the Mist to Becoming the Ruler of Another World'”
“What are those?” Jiang Que asked curiously.
The names sounded somewhat familiar to him, but also different.
Du Lulu, feeling hopeless, explained with vacant eyes, “These are male-oriented upgrade-themed novels without romantic pairings. The ones you mentioned earlier were probably female-oriented novels, and I’ve read a bit of those too.”
“Oh… So novels can be divided into male-oriented and female-oriented.” Jiang Que suddenly realized. “What does ‘cp1NOT CHILD P. ITS ACTUALLY COUPLE PAIR‘ mean?”
Du Lulu explained, “It means couple, referring to the romantic interest. The protagonists in the novels I read don’t have romantic interests.”
Jiang Que summarized, “So the protagonists in the novels you read are male? And they don’t have romantic relationships?”
Du Lulu nodded, “Yes, I like to see the main characters upgrading, fighting monsters, recruiting followers, and building territories! They focus on building their careers rather than love, which is super cool, especially similar to our Special Abilities Division team!”
Jiang Que didn’t fully understand. He preferred the ups and downs of romance over the tedious task of building a career. But he didn’t argue with Du Lulu, just pondered that maybe after he got his phone back, he could search and see if other styles of novels had their own wonderful aspects.
Resting his chin on his hand, he said, “Tell me more about these novels.”
He had stopped crying and almost forgotten what had just happened. Now, the most important thing to him was to ask Du Lulu about these unknown territories.
“These novels…” Du Lulu unconsciously continued explaining, only realizing something was off after the words had left her mouth.
She was here to be a teacher, not to read novels with Jiang Que.
Du Lulu didn’t even dare to look up to see Shen Tazhi’s current expression. Abruptly changing the subject, she said, “When you learn how to tell time, I’ll come back and teach you. How about that? Mr. Shen said that you don’t seem to know how to tell time yet?”
“Oh…” Jiang Que was a bit disappointed, but he also knew he was meant to learn from the teacher. “Then teach me. I learn quickly, I’ll be able to learn it right away.”
Huh? Jiang Que was willing to learn from her?
Did she succeed?
Du Lulu blinked, meeting Shen Tazhi’s satisfied gaze when she lifted her head.
“Miss Du.” Shen Tazhi timely interrupted, “I think you are more suitable to be Jiang Que’s family tutor… If Jiang Que agrees, I believe we can finalize this.”
There was an abrupt pause in his words, as Jiang Que, feeling unhappy after hearing Shen Tazhi call his full name again, wrapped his neck with his tentacles.
The tentacles were like a hissing python, menacingly rubbing against Shen Tazhi’s cheek to express his displeasure. The icy touch made Shen Tazhi shiver.
Wait… Let’s not do this now.
Shen Tazhi couldn’t help but shrink his neck, but this action evidently made Jiang Que even more dissatisfied. He secretly added another tentacle and began climbing up Shen Tazhi’s leg.
The tentacles, through the clothes, clung to every inch of his skin.
Du Lulu watched the scene in front of her, feeling terrified inside, screaming in her heart, while marvelling at Shen Tazhi’s fearlessness, even when Jiang Que’s tentacles were tightening around his neck.
She completely failed to notice Shen Tazhi’s abnormality and the hidden redness beneath his calm exterior.
Shen Tazhi managed to stand firm, regaining his composure in time, turning to Jiang Que who was suddenly bothering him, asking, “Que Que, what’s wrong? Do you not like her? If you don’t like her, we can change.”
Indeed, calling him “Que Que” sounded better.
Jiang Que, satisfied, hooked Shen Tazhi’s hand with his tentacles, saying, “No, Du Lulu is fine, let her stay.”
“Does this mean I’ve completed what we agreed on, gege?”
Another unexpected “gege”, Shen Tazhi tensed all over, his already shaky body now even more unstable.
Why was he suddenly calling him like this again… What did he want to do this time?
As expected, the next moment, Jiang Que stood up directly, smiling faintly at Du Lulu, “Du Lulu, go out and wait with Wu Yue for a while. I want to have a few words with gege.”
Du Lulu was startled by Jiang Que suddenly standing up and took several steps back in a row.
Such a terrifying smile… completely different from the Jiang Que in front of her before.
In the dim study, the tentacles lurking in the darkness, the strange young man, and the human locked behind him.
Although Jiang Que’s figure was slender, in this setting, Du Lulu couldn’t help feeling fear from the depths of her heart towards the power of this non-human monster.
Although she didn’t know what exactly happened in that conversation just now that made Jiang Que suddenly angry, watching the sinister tentacles gradually spreading and climbing onto Shen Tazhi’s body behind Jiang Que, she decisively opened the door and ran.
“Bang!”
The study door was slammed shut, and Du Lulu leaned against the door, breathing heavily, while wiping away the cold sweat that had just broken out. She then greeted He Qiu and Wu Yue, who were sitting in the living room and dared not leave without Shen Tazhi’s permission, with a trembling voice, “Hi…”
The three of them looked at each other. Despite facing completely different situations, they surprisingly saw a sense of sympathy in each other’s eyes.
At this moment.
Inside the study.
With Du Lulu gone, Jiang Que no longer deliberately restrained his tentacles. He directly wrapped every inch of Shen Tazhi’s body with his tentacles. It didn’t matter if he couldn’t stand steady; falling into his tentacles wouldn’t hurt him.
“Que Que… What’s wrong?”
Under the layers of tentacles, Shen Tazhi struggled, making an incomprehensible sound, accompanied by heavy breathing and the intense rise and fall of the chest transmitted through the tentacles.
“Jiang Que, Que Que.”
Instead of immediately answering Shen Tazhi, Jiang Que stood in place, softly repeating these two names.
He had been entangled with these two names since last night, but after thinking about it, he fell asleep and then got busy with the family tutor demo class this morning, temporarily putting this matter aside.
The “Jiang Que” that Shen Tazhi blurted out just now finally reminded him of what he had been thinking about even in his dreams last night.
Indeed, whenever Shen Tazhi called him Jiang Que… he would feel very unhappy.
Thinking like this, Jiang Que took slow steps towards Shen Tazhi, who was already losing strength under the entanglement of his tentacles, and knelt on the thick carpet in the study.
He bent down, lifting Shen Tazhi’s chin so he had to raise his slightly lowered head, and said word by word, “Gege, I don’t like it when you call me that way. Can you not call me that?”
What? Call what?
The tentacles attacked relentlessly, just suppressing the inappropriate behaviour had already taken away most of Shen Tazhi’s concentration. His thoughts were a bit sluggish, and it took him a while to focus his gaze, only to be dispersed by the wriggling tentacles in the next moment.
Wait a minute…
Shen Tazhi gasped heavily, trying to pull himself out of the hazy desire. He struggled to speak, his voice hoarse, “What… should I call you?”
“Call me Que Que,” Jiang Que said.
He also squatted down, looking at the limp Shen Tazhi on the ground with a smile, then used his beautiful and fair arms to embrace him.
Embracing Shen Tazhi together with his tentacles, it looked like a monster engulfing a human in its tentacles for a kiss. The prey entangled by him had long forgotten to resist under the torment of the tentacles.
Jiang Que’s warm body temperature was more tantalizing than the cold tentacles. Shen Tazhi’s thoughts came to a complete stop, with only the excessively beautiful face of Jiang Que coming closer and his breath falling on him left in his mind.
Jiang Que lowered his head, looking at the dishevelled Shen Tazhi.
Strange.
He thought he had only lightly embraced him, so why did Shen Tazhi show such an expression, as if he had done something terrible to him?
Jiang Que considerately lifted the completely kneeling Shen Tazhi, placed him on the small sofa in the study, and then sat down himself. He shook Shen Tazhi’s sleeve back and forth, saying, “Gege, I don’t like it when you call me Jiang Que.”
Only now did Shen Tazhi slowly come to his senses. He was lying on the sofa, entangled all over by the tentacles, so he could only look up at Jiang Que.
“Is it because of the way I address you?” Shen Tazhi asked with difficulty.
“Yes.” Jiang Que looked down, sounding a bit aggrieved, “You never used to call me that way.”
Others called him “Jiang Que” or “R-021”, only Shen Tazhi called him “Que Que”. In his opinion, this was a unique tacit signal, but now Shen Tazhi actually stopped using this nickname because of a family tutor.
Finally realizing what had happened, Shen Tazhi didn’t know how to respond for a moment. He tentatively asked, “So, you suddenly entangled me just to correct my way of addressing you?”
“Yes.” Jiang Que said matter-of-factly, correcting the mistake, “I didn’t suddenly entangle you. I’ve been doing this to you every night.”
His small tentacles had been entwined around Shen Tazhi’s wrist all along, and Shen Tazhi even touched them. How could this be considered sudden entanglement? It was just that he added a few more tentacles.
As the conversation continued normally, the tentacles that were squirming around finally stopped. Shen Tazhi was able to slowly climb out of the pile of tentacles. He gently rearranged his dishevelled clothes, and after his chaotic thoughts calmed down, he finally realized why Jiang Que suddenly acted out.
So Jiang Que was still bothered by the issue of the nickname he was contemplating in his dreams last night?
Shen Tazhi explained, “Just now, in front of others, I felt that using your full name would be more formal, so I said it that way. If you don’t like it, I won’t do it again in the future.”
“More formal?” Jiang Que asked.
“Yes, in formal situations, it’s common to address someone by their full name instead of a nickname,” Shen Tazhi explained.
Jiang Que recalled and realized that all the humans he had met seemed to follow this convention. He obediently retracted his tentacles and said, “Is that so? I thought you were upset with me for irritating the teacher and then chatting with Du Lulu, so you deliberately called me that in front of the teacher.”
“No,” Shen Tazhi quickly denied, “I was happy to see you and Du Lulu having common topics. I didn’t call you that way on purpose.”
After all, he wasn’t a professional teacher, unable to impart knowledge to Jiang Que scientifically. Du Lulu had a whole Anomaly Investigation Department behind her, finding ways for her. He was happy to see Jiang Que getting along well with Du Lulu.
Speaking of Du Luluā
Shen Tazhi remembered her departing figure and sighed, “You scared her just now.”
Jiang Que was puzzled, “How did I scare her?”
He was just clinging to Shen Tazhi as usual, asking him to fulfil his request. He often did this underground, and Shen Tazhi never got frightened. Why would Du Lulu, an unrelated person, be afraid?
After thinking it over, Jiang Que finally fixed his gaze on his own tentacles, raising one and asking Shen Tazhi, “Is it because my tentacles are scary?”
Looking at the tentacles in front of him, which could reach up to four meters when fully extended, with white suction cups densely packed on the inside, Shen Tazhi hesitated for a moment before choosing to be honest, “For humans, they might indeed be a little scary.”
“But that’s because those humans are cowardly, not because of your tentacles.”
“I told you.” Jiang Que hugged his small tentacles contentedly, “My tentacles are very well-behaved and cute. It’s just that they are cowardly. Shen Tazhi, you don’t need to fear me.”
Having resolved the issue of Shen Tazhi’s address, Jiang Que smoothly changed “gege” to Shen Tazhi’s full name.
Shen Tazhi lowered his gaze, contemplated for a few seconds, and couldn’t help but ask, “Do you only call me ‘gege’ when you need something from me?”
Jiang Que: “Yes, is that not okay?”
Shen Tazhi: …
Truly, Jiang Que was confidently straightforward in his response.
He was at a loss for a moment and didn’t know whether he should continue asking, fearing that Jiang Que would confidently retort with, “What’s wrong with that?” So, he stumbled over his words.
But Jiang Que’s way of addressing him was indeed not a big issue. Shen Tazhi’s words eventually turned into a helpless sigh, “Forget it, call me whatever you like. Are you still angry because of the way I addressed you earlier?”
“I wasn’t angry in the first place. Why would you think that?” Jiang Que was puzzled. “Aren’t we just having a normal conversation?”
At most, he just wrapped his tentacles around him, as he usually did, affectionately interacting with Shen Tazhi. His actions may have been a bit exaggerated just now.
It wasn’t like he was angry. It was just that his tentacles were dissatisfied with Shen Tazhi’s way of addressing them. They wanted to express their discontent and prevent Shen Tazhi from running away. How could he seem angry?
He even politely told Du Lulu to “wait a moment” at that time.
Unaware of the tentacles’ presence, the phrase “wait a moment” sounded more like a threat from Jiang Que, considering the circumstances.
Thinking back, Jiang Que finally remembered Du Lulu, who he had been left outside the door, and the two teachers who were still waiting and hesitant to leave. He decided to forget the inexplicable issue of being āangryā and instead took Shen Tazhi’s arm, saying:
“I’ve sorted out the matter I needed your help with. Let’s go out. After they leave, we’ll have lunch and buy a phone.”
“Okay.” Shen Tazhi followed Jiang Que’s lead as they walked towards the door. He also added, “Try not to wrap your tentacles around me in front of others. It might scare them.”
“I understand.” Jiang Que pushed open the study door and said, “You mentioned this to me when we were at the Anomaly Investigation Department, so this time, I let Du Lulu leave before using my tentacles on you.”
He was quite obedient. Shen Tazhi should praise him for that.
Outside the door, Du Lulu, who overheard the phrase “this time I let Du Lulu leave before using my tentacles on you,” thought to herself:
What do you mean by “this time”? Do you have a last time, a next time, countless times?
She had clearly said not to involve her in any strange plays!
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