Ch96 - This Highness was probably thoroughly full of tricks and schemes (1/2)
7.9 – This Highness was probably thoroughly full of tricks and schemes
translator: xiin
editor: alamerysl
“Is it really alright to use your legs to walk?” Although Xue Ling had already assured him several times, Lou Cen was still particularly worried. The little merman’s legs looked so thin that they could be broken in a moment of carelessness.
“You’re so long-winded.” Xue Ling glared at him. “I said I’m alright.”
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Lou Cen’s heart and soul quivered under his glare. He unconsciously clenched his fist, coughed, and said, “Okay, you’re alright. Wenwen, when do you plan to go back? We still can’t delay for too long. Although Yan Chuhuan knows that I’m with you, he will not sit passively and resign himself to this.”
The corners of Xue Ling’s lips twitched. He really didn’t want to bother with him anymore. He paused his footsteps rather helplessly and turned to look at the man. The man even blinked innocently, and seeing him turn around, showed a smile that did not seem at all like a smile.
Fine, he’d accept it. After all, his facial paralysis had been going on for such a long time, for a beginner at smiling to smile like this was very normal. Xue Ling hypnotized himself in his mind, and opened his mouth to ask, “What are you doing here?”
“Work related matters.” Lou Cen reached out to take Xue Ling’s hand, but he dodged, and he was unable to do so. “I’ve been busy sorting out work from the handover, so I couldn’t go and find you.”
“Find me for what.” Xue Ling responded casually, his head bowed in thought as he tried to recall the timeline of the plot. He had not disappeared, and Yan Qingjun had already been recognized into the Duke’s Palace, so he could not ascertain exactly what the situation was. But, according to estimates based on Lou Cen’s current work, it should be at the stage where he began to have suspicions about the underground area.
He did not have as deep of a grasp over the chess pieces as Lou Cen did, and still needed Lou Cen’s help to find the entrance. But as long as he could enter, Xue Ling would have ways to dodge Lou Cen and enter the research laboratory.
Seeing him with an expression that said ‘I am thinking about something serious’, Lou Cen’s heart melted. “If there’s anything that I can help with, let me know. I can help you.”
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Xue Ling wrinkled his brows and looked at him, then curved his lips and said, “Okay, it can be considered as your compensation for pulling out of our engagement. When this is over, I’ll give you the right to pursue me again.”
Lou Cen was stunned. He had not expected happiness to come so suddenly.
Xue Ling emphasized it again. “Although what you said in front of my elder brother, second brother and my father and mother was very righteous and proper, saying you have the power to pursue me, I also have the power to disagree. If you can really help me with this, I’ll pull you out of my blacklist.”
“Baby, you blacklisted me?” Lou Cen’s emphasis was slightly off.
“If a man asks you in a particularly overbearing way to cancel your engagement with him, and you agreed, putting him onto your blacklist is something any merperson would do.”
“Actually…”
“Even if you didn’t use particularly overbearing means, or it wasn’t something that you took the initiative to do, the fact that you made me unhappy doesn’t change.”
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Lou Cen felt that the person who was currently angry at him was particularly cute. He nodded his head, and his tone was soothing. Although he had not had many chances to meet with the little cutie, for some reason he could easily see past his cold as ice, uncaring surface to the hidden self that liked being spoiled by him. “Yes, I know. You’re angry, so you want me to make up for it. As long as it’s something you want to do, I can help you do it.” When he made his promise, he did not forget to set some guiding principles. “Other than anything that is harmful to your health, or anything that might threaten our relationship.”
“We have a relationship?” Xue Ling glanced at him. He was very certain that he had never agreed to be with this man. How did he deduce from their various conversations that there was a lovers relationship between them?
System: “…” Did this still need to be deduced? The small fits of temper and spontaneous love games between you pair of husband and wife gave off a feeling that was too strong! Isn’t it obvious that you’re acting damned spoiled while he’s being a fool in love?
“In fact, I think it would be better to explain some things clearly.” Having spoken to this point, Lou Cen’s face became serious. “Shall we find a place to sit down and have a proper talk?”
They found a small table in a teahouse. The space within the small compartment was not large, and Lou Cen could brush against Xue Ling’s face when he leaned forward, and he compulsively pressed close.
Xue Ling look a good look at his face, and reviewed it in his heart. As a matter of fact, he still liked the skin that the man wore in the last world the most so far…
Oh, the man had two skins in the last world.
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“You said you wanted to talk to me?” Although someone was pressed close to him, and it was even someone who had the oppressive aura of a breeder, Xue Ling did not seem anxious or frightened at all. This was completely different from the delicate, silly, and sweet appearance he had shown before. “I also think that we need to talk, but if you are only planning to stare at me like this, I feel that giving you a photo of myself can solve all your problems. You don’t need to stand in front of me to see me, and it’s not a bad idea to go back and look at the photo.”
Lou Cen narrowed his eyes, and opened his mouth to say, “Don’t you feel that your current appearance is quite different from before?”
“I know. After all, the difference between a tail and a pair of legs is basically the difference between heaven and earth.” He curved his lips, and the tear moles at the corners of his eyes gave him a lazy appearance, adding a touch of evil to his face. “If you would prefer someone more silly and sweet, then there is nothing for us to talk about.”
“No.” Lou Cen denied his words and prevented him from continuing. “As long as it’s you, I like it. But…” He looked at the complete stranger in front of him and sighed somewhat helplessly. “If you say that the silly and sweet one is not you, then I’ll become someone who doesn’t understand you at all…”
“It’s great that way.” Xue Ling reached out a hand and touched Lou Cen’s face, then lightly patted it, the expression on his face turning mysterious. “Only when you have the ** to understand a person will you want to get closer, and want to understand more. And the more interaction there is, the more you will be unable to move your gaze away from that person.” He looked down, his eyes flashing with a ferocious light that even he himself did not understand. “Until one day, you will love me to the point of being unable to extricate yourself, and will never betray or leave me.”
These words sounded incredibly psychotic and crazy, but it made Lou Cen excited from head to toe. He liked the state that Xue Ling described, which was just like an unprecedented offering, dedicating everything that he was to this person. It was an instinct that had been engraved into his soul, and could not be erased.
He leaned forward and laid his lips against his cheek. Even his voice carried a trace of pleasure as he spoke, “I wanted to tell you that I fell in love with you from the moment I woke up and saw you in the hospital, and then loved you to the point where I could not extricate myself. But it seems that these words are not that necessary to say. Every day and night in the future, I will let you feel what kind of feelings I truly have for you, and how thoroughly I am unable to separate myself from you.”
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Xue Ling twisted his head, and no longer met the other party’s pair of terribly solemn eyes. He moved the conversation back to the original topic. “Well then, according to our previous agreement, as long as you bring me to the underground city, I’ll pull you out of the blacklist.”
Lou Cen’s hand froze, and he frowned. “You know about the underground city?”