249 Expect the Unexpected (1/2)

Nie Chang frowned at the screen of his phone. A person that had had a crush on someone suddenly found another person he had known for a long time attractive and noticed things about them that were actually sexy? And that very coincidentally happened after they found a poisonous plant that one of them didn't take seriously while the other person wanted to look up what kind of plant it was but never managed to do so? Excuse him for saying so but …

”Ah Yan, I feel like this story is no good.”

Su Yan opened his eyes. Surprise was written in them. ”Really? You also think so?”

”Ah? What do you mean 'also'? You don't like it either?”

Su Yan nodded eagerly. ”Yes! Isn't it really strange? Nothing makes sense! The author doesn't explain anything and seems to change his mind halfway. What's with the Major suddenly thinking Kang Lei is Nangong Min's boyfriend when he previously just thought of them as friends? That's not logical at all!”

Nie Chang cleared his throat and apologized to the author in his mind. This problem had come to be because he didn't want to read those sexual innuendos out loud at the beginning but further into the story they had seemed more harmless and he hadn't remembered to sugarcoat things for Su Yan. ”So … how about stopping here?”

”No!” Su Yan frowned. ”How could we do that? The system wants me to read the story. It's so I learn about the genre.”

”But … you also didn't finish reading the novel with the birds.”

Su Yan's expression tensed before he sat up and glared at him. ”What do you know? That wasn't education at all! That novel was really, really horrible. Completely disgusting. It was unbearable! The system can't expect me to really finish that one. But this story isn't as bad. It's obviously not very good but it's not too bad either. So we should definitely finish reading it. And this is our romantic date, isn't it? How could we just stop it in the middle?”

Nie Chang seriously pondered how to respond to this. The romantic date he had planned had been something else entirely. He had wanted to visit a park and drive around on a tandem to get them closer together, take a break on the lawn and maybe buy some ice cream somewhere that they could share. Hadn't they also stopped doing that in the middle?

In the end, he only sighed. With Su Yan around, it was always best to expect the unexpected. There wouldn't be any normal dates with him. So it wasn't too strange to stop what he had planned somewhere in the middle and end up doing something else entirely. He was already used to that type of thing and as long as Su Yan was happy, it was alright. After all, he himself only wanted to spend time with him. What they did … Why was that important?

”Well, if you want me to continue, then I will. I just thought that it might be better to read something that you like more.”

Su Yan plopped into his lap again and smiled happily. ”No need! Just continue reading. When I finish this task we'll be one step closer to our house!”