Chapter 099 (1/2)
The Complete Guide to the Use and Care of a Personal Assistant
Translator: Jury
Editor: NomNom
First Published on Chaleuria
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Chapter Ninety-nine
Tang Xuan’s appearance had indeed affected Ling Miao and Su Yuyang. His appearance had let Ling Miao and Su Yuyang understand their relationship better and drawn them closer together. If Tang Xuan knew that his looking for Su Yuyang had actually improved Ling Miao and Su Yuyang’s relationship, he might vomit blood onto his computer monitor.
Su Yuyang and Ling Miao continued their peaceful lives as if Tang Xuan had never appeared. Every day they word sprinted and squabbled. Occasionally, Su Yuyang would go to the kitchen and ‘help’ Ling Miao under the pretext of trying to learn to cook. Ling Miao’s assessment of this: “Damn it, you’re here to make things difficult for me, aren’t you?”
From the above one can tell that Su Yuyang is a kitchen murderer. As long as he was there, Ling Miao’s dishes would either be burnt or have too much salt.
Several incidents later, Ling Miao warned Su Yuyang severely: “If you come into the kitchen when I’m cooking again, you’re sleeping under the overpass!”
Due to going home and participating in the Authors’ Gathering, Ling Miao and Su Yuyang’s chapter stockpiles had run out. So, these past few days, both of them practically lived in the little black house. They stockpiled about a week’s worth of drafts before Ling Miao relaxed. Of course, Su Yuyang’s stockpile was more than three times’ Ling Miao’s own, going by days.
It was rare that they didn’t have to scramble for chapters. For the past week Ling Miao had gotten up early every day to churn out his chapters, so he decided that the next day he’d let himself sleep until he woke up naturally.
But plans don’t survive contact with reality. Early the next morning, Ling Miao was awoken by a phone call.
Ling Miao let out a string of curses at the caller before even seeing the display.
Su Yuyang had gotten used to waking up past nine. Hearing Ling Miao’s sleepy curses and asked curiously, “Who’s calling that you’re cursing them so badly?”
Ling Miao ruffled his hair and said, upset, “Who kno…” The word ‘knows’ hadn’t left his mouth completely when Ling Miao’s complaint instantly changed to surprise. “Tofu?”
“Tofu? What tofu? Are we eating tofu this afternoon?” Su Yuyang asked in confusion.
Ling Miao didn’t explain anything to Su Yuyang. He slid the answer call button and asked with hesitation, “Tofu, you called me so early in the morning. Do you want to meet irl?”
Su Yuyang heard the words “irl meetup” and his ears immediately perked up. He walked over and leaned down by Ling Miao’s ear to try to hear what Tofu was saying, but Ling Miao very decisively rolled over on the bed to avoid Su Yuyang’s eavesdropping.
“Haven’t you been on the forums these few days?” Tofu’s anxious voice came. “Though it’s nothing major… ah, can’t say it’s nothing major, either. It’s got to do with Shu-ge’s reputation. You’d better get on the forums and take a look.”
“Exactly what happened?” Tofu was so anxious that Ling Miao couldn’t follow his train of thought. Besides, this matter had to do with Su Yuyang, which woke Ling Miao up completely. He glanced at Su Yuyang and asked hurriedly, “Tofu, quickly explain exactly what happened.”
“Someone made a callout thread in the forums. He’s saying that Shu-ge’s Heavenly Domain plagiarized an unfinished book of his. He linked his novel and a comparison. The book’s published earlier than Heavenly Domain and the contents in the comparison match up. Although there are only a hundred thousand words in that book, some of Heavenly Domain’s setting and plot, even some of the content, matches that book’s. And…”
“Tofu, I’ll get on the forum and look,” Ling Miao said before Tofu could finish. He needed to see and understand this with his own eyes before he could retaliate.
Ling Miao grabbed Su Yuyang’s laptop and put it in front of him. Su Yuyang saw Ling Miao’s panicked look and the worry in his heart intensified. He sat by Ling Miao’s side to see what Ling Miao was doing, but Ling Miao shoved him away.
“Su Yuyang, I’m hungry.”
“I’ll steam some buns.” Su Yuyang knew that Ling Miao was intentionally telling him to go, so he went to the kitchen and put some buns in the steamer. He didn’t go back to the room.
“It was a call from Tofu.” Su Yuyang suddenly remembered who Tofu was. He knew how to contact Tofu, too. Su Yuyang joyfully reached for his phone and was about to go on QQ to contact Tofu but,tragically, he had left his phone in the room.
Would it arouse Ling Miao’s suspicions if I went back to get it now? Su Yuyang mused.
Through the open door, Su Yuyang glimpsed Ling Miao’s deep frown.