From the end of the world

Chapter 600 Important things

Although I didn't know why the topic gradually shifted from confirming the life or death of Zhu Jiu's body to Zhu Shi and I entering into an intimate moment, we all went with the flow.

But it might be too early to go any further. We simply stuck together. I did what Xiao Wan encouraged me to do, and I could feel Zhu Shi reaching out tremblingly, but in the end it seemed to be just a light touch. The front end seemed to taste something very soft and moist, and then the other party retracted it like lightning.

Zhu Shi's face turned red as if it was about to explode. He jumped up from the floor like a frightened deer, forced the door open and fled, leaving me behind with an unsatisfied look on my face.

Ma Zao looked at the direction Zhu Shi ran away, then looked at me curiously, and then asked Xiao Wan: "Can I continue with Zhuang Cheng what Zhu Shi didn't finish? I also want to give it a try..."

Xiao Wan said seriously: "This atmosphere may not be appropriate now. Sister Ma Zao will become a meal replacement."

As she spoke, she looked at the empty door again and sighed in worry, "Zhu Shi is still a child. She is obviously behind in progress, so she should at least be more proactive in her actions. Forget it, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future anyway. I will urge her to make up for the lessons she missed this time next time."

"Why do you make it sound like you're just studying hard and making progress when it's something that's not suitable for children?" I complained.

I said this, of course I want to continue. But I am not so anxious that I have to do it right now. Zhu Shi needs time to adapt slowly, and this is also a training to smoothly reach the final stage of the main show. I have enough patience to move forward step by step, and sooner or later Zhu Shi will completely merge with me.

Moreover, I also enjoyed this feeling of pressing forward step by step. I was gradually and effectively pushing the distance between me and Zhu Shi. Seeing Zhu Shi, who was full of common sense and had a strong sense of shame, persuading himself to move his bottom line again and again under various legitimate reasons and accepting my deeper and deeper invasion, I felt a completely different and indescribable happiness from when I was with Ma Zao.

This is a primitive and instinctive pleasure, and even I feel a little confused about it. This is obviously similar to my feelings for Ma Zao, but also the opposite. If I have a forbidden affection for young Ma Zao, then I have another forbidden affection for beautiful Zhu Shi.

To be frank, I know very well that Zhu Shi doesn't like me - she treats me as a very good friend and partner, but there is no feeling beyond friendship. In the foreseeable future, we can only be close friends at most, but not lovers. Because of this, I feel guilty about this forced situation formed for various reasons.

Zhu Shi must have sensed my excitement, because when she ran away, she gave me a resentful look.

However, that was not a look of rejection. What I felt from it was a mixture of resentment and acquiescence. She acquiesced that I could continue to invade her in the future. This became an unconscious temptation - she must not have thought that her attitude would attract me in this way.

Will real love really come from this desire of mine? I will not comment on it for now.

After a long while, Zhu Shi finally came back to the room. There was still some red on his face. When he met my eyes, the shame and anger on his face seemed to show signs of reviving.

"I'm sorry, but... this is my first time, and it's so difficult suddenly..." She touched her lips.

I didn't know how to comfort her for a moment, so I said seriously: "It's my first time too."

"I-I see..." She said at a loss.

“Let’s continue next time,” I said.

She lowered her head shyly: "Well..."

“Could it be… this is also a new kind of track?”

On the other side, Xiaowan seemed to be lost in strange thoughts.
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It was evening, and we returned to the headquarters in Luoshan. As a celebration of my return with the small bowl, we decided to have a good meal together.

The dinner venue was set up in the atrium, and the tables and chairs were moved there.

Lu Chan also came back to the mansion, congratulated me on my return, reported the recent situation, and was responsible for the cooking. Zhu Shi and Mr. Zhu are completely unable to cook. Ma Zao is limited by his past life experience. Although he somehow mastered desserts such as egg custard soufflé, he can hardly make normal dishes. My cooking skills can only be said to be so-so. The person who is best at cooking here is Lu Chan, an all-round talent who has mastered the "Possibility Doppelganger".

Xiaowan seemed to have absorbed comprehensive cooking skills from Zhu Jiu's memory and volunteered to enter the kitchen. Lu Chan learned about Xiaowan's origin from Mr. Zhu and agreed without thinking.

At this time, Zhu Shi suddenly hugged Xiao Wan from behind. To the onlookers, it was probably like a sister protecting her sister. She looked at Lu Chan warily and said, "No, no, you have to stay away from Xiao Wan."

"Why?" Xiaowan asked curiously.

Lu Chan was also a little confused. He looked at the small bowl and seemed to realize something. He coughed and said helplessly, "No, wait a minute, Zhu Shi, I think you have a lot of misunderstandings about me..."

Zhu Shi glanced at Lu Chan and said, "What's the misunderstanding? Last time you took out your phone in front of me, I happened to see it. Don't think I haven't played that game. The wallpaper on your phone is..."

"Ah - the soup is boiling in the kitchen, I have to go back right away!"

Lu Chan suddenly made a loud noise and hurried towards the kitchen.

I remember that there was his clone working in the kitchen.

Although Xiaowan did not end up cooking, she still did the simple task of helping to serve the cooked dishes.

By the way, there are no servants in this mansion. During my absence, most of the time, only Ma Zao was in the mansion, and later only Zhu Shi came to accompany her, and she didn't like strangers to move around where she lived. She could use the power of return to sweep away the sanitation and cleaning work, which was indeed much more convenient than hiring someone to clean.

Mr. Zhu also sent a message to inform Chang'an of my return.

Chang'an has now transferred to Luoshan Demon Hunter Academy, becoming an extremely rare Luoshan student who has a level of power when he enters school. Mr. Zhu asked him to come after school, but he skipped school and came to the mansion to see me.

His appearance was still the same as when we last separated. Of course, after all, we had only been apart for more than four months. But his temperament seemed to have become more confident, or to put it bluntly, more reckless. I was a little suspicious whether he had relied on his superior ability to live a "flourishing" life in Luoshan College, just like in an online novel. It was really enviable.

"You little bastard, what did I tell you in the text message!" Mr. Zhu blew his beard and glared.

"Ahahaha, I'm just in a hurry to see Ah Cheng..."

Chang'an touched the back of his head and smiled foolishly, then he saw a small bowl of fried vegetables being brought out, and his eyes suddenly widened.

"Who is that kid who looks exactly like Zhu Shiyi when he was a kid?" Chang'an turned his head and looked at Mr. Zhu. The voice of the lecture suddenly disappeared, and Mr. Zhu fell into a strange silence. I had to explain to Chang'an on behalf of Mr. Zhu.

Xiaowan put the dishes on the table and looked at Changan with a smile. Changan looked incredulous, as if his worldview had been hit hard, and his eyes went back and forth between Xiaowan and me, who was in charge of explaining.

After a while, he managed to utter these words: "My mother landed again after gaining the attributes of a lolita daughter!?"

"You and Zhu Shi are really siblings," I said.

Unlike Zhu Shi, Zhu Jiu is not Chang An's biological mother, and the relationship between them is not as close as Zhu Shi. Chang An's digestion speed and acceptance of Xiao Wan's existence are also stronger than Zhu Shi's. Finally, he looked at Xiao Wan with a complicated look, and Xiao Wan also looked at him with deep emotion.

"Changan, don't worry about me so much." Xiaowan said, "I am only here temporarily. If everything goes well, I will disappear in the near future. By then, Zhu Jiu will definitely wake up."

"......Yeah." Changan responded awkwardly.

"There is something that Zhu Jiu wanted to tell you a long time ago. Let me tell you on her behalf, okay?" Xiaowan said.

"What did you say?" Chang'an asked.

"Can you call her mom in person? After she wakes up." Xiaowan said.

Chang'an nodded with mixed feelings. He looked at Xiaowan, as if he was about to say something, but Xiaowan put her finger in front of her lips and said with a smile, "Don't say it to me, say it to her."

"Hmm..." Changan could only nod.

If Chang'an continued to pester Xiaowan like Zhu Shi, Xiaowan might have no choice but to accept it again.

It is said that Zhu Jiu treated Chang'an, who had never seen his mother and was not loved by his father, like his own son. Chang'an would occasionally mention Zhu Jiu when he was with me, especially after Zhu Jiu became a patient with amnesia.

Chang An knew that he was not Zhu Jiu's biological son, so he could not accept Zhu Jiu's love with peace of mind. He could not call Zhu Jiu "mother" in person, probably not because he hated Zhu Jiu, but because he felt he was not worthy of her.

He probably actually wanted to call Zhu Jiu "Mom".

I suddenly felt that fate was playing tricks on me.

In a sense, Xiaowan is like a dream that Zhu Jiu weaves for his daughter, which is destined to wake up; and Chang'an, on another level, is actually an illusory dream that Yin Yue had by accident.

Zhu Jiu and Yin Yue not only became mother and son, but they also had alternative contact in this incredible form and even had such a conversation. How fickle fate is.

However, just like Chang'an is not Yin Yue after all, Xiaowan is not Zhu Jiu after all.

After the dinner started, Ma Zao sat on my right, while Zhu Shi was pushed by Xiao Wan to sit on my left. The long separation may have accumulated a loneliness that Ma Zao has not been able to get rid of until now. She took a few bites of food and sat quietly in my arms. I held her petite and soft body in my arms, feeding her food from time to time, watching her blushing and eating the food honestly.

Seeing this, Xiaowan reached out and patted Zhu Shi on the back. Zhu Shi was puzzled at first, but then he understood, and then he also picked up the food with chopsticks and sent it to me - and then sent it into Ma Zao's mouth.

Mr. Zhu beside him suddenly spit out a mouthful of wine: "Puff——"

"Oh, I miss you so much..." Xiaowan looked at Zhu Shi with disappointment.

Zhu Shi finally realized what was going on and smiled awkwardly, "Haha... So you want me to feed Senior Brother Zhuang, why didn't you say so earlier..."

Lu Chan retaliated by making a sharp complaint: "Zhu Shi, you dare to complain online about how many male protagonists in animations are like dumb wood? I don't think you are much better, are you?"

"I just... wait, why do you know what I said on the online forum!?" Zhu Shi looked horrified.

Changan answered casually: "Lu Chan has a 'potential clone' who works as a hacker and is also responsible for protecting our intelligence. Last time, he suddenly sent me a text message to remind me that the female anchor I gave a reward on the Internet was actually a man using a voice changer..."

Zhu Shi couldn't help but laugh, while Mr. Zhu narrowed his eyes and said grimly, "Stinky boy...what did you say you did with the pocket money I gave you?"

"……Well."

Changan's expression froze instantly. Seeing this, Mr. Zhu laughed grimly.

Then the scene suddenly became very chaotic.

Looking at this lively and noisy scene, I couldn't help but think that it shouldn't be so special for so many people to eat and play together. Whether in this bizarre Luoshan or in the ordinary world, similar activities are probably happening in many places at this moment.

This must have been a very common sight, a part of daily life that I rejected.

But I felt relieved and happy from the bottom of my heart for the ordinary scene. I even had such a strange thought that it would be great if it could continue like this. It seemed that even outside of the adventure of life and death, I could still find spiritual satisfaction.

What kind of adventure am I looking for?

In the second half, Ma Zao left the table, saying that he was going to take a walk to digest his food and then come back. Then, looking at my empty knees, I thought of the promise I had made with Xiao Wan, so I left the table as well, wanting to catch up with Ma Zao.

I hadn't walked far when I heard Xiao Wan's voice behind me: "Brother Zhuang Cheng, are you going to tell Sister Ma Zao the truth?"

(End of this chapter)