Chapter 168
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Back at the hotel, Lou Yan originally wanted Fu Xuezhou to leave first and then call his friends over for a meal. However, Fu Xuezhou sat directly on the sofa in his room and casually flipped through a magazine, looking like a relaxed host.
Seeing him like this after setting down breakfast, Lou Yan made a light tut and walked over to kick his leg, “Fu Xuezhou, even couples need some private space for each other. Shouldn’t you leave?”
Fu Xuezhou leaned back against the sofa backrest, crossed his long legs, and flipped through the magazine with his slender fingers. When he heard Lou Yan’s words, he lifted his eyelids and looked at him, “Leave for where?”
“I can get you another room here,” Lou Yan said.
Fu Xuezhou looked at Lou Yan for a while, then glanced indifferently at the breakfast on the table, answering nonchalantly, “If you don’t let them come over for the meal, it will get cold.”
Seeing that he had made up his mind not to leave, Lou Yan had no choice but to call Li Sanxin and ask him to come and take away the breakfast.
Even though Fu Xuezhou was in a good mood now, Lou Yan still didn’t dare to let Duan Zege appear in front of Fu Xuezhou.
After listening to his phone call, Fu Xuezhou raised his eyebrows lightly, put down the magazine, and said, “Why don’t you let your friends come for the meal?”
Lou Yan casually made up an excuse, saying, “They don’t want to disturb us.”
Fu Xuezhou thought for a moment, recalling the relationship advice he had read online before. “But isn’t it customary to meet each other’s friends after confirming the relationship?”
Lou Yan turned to him with a puzzled look. “…You know about that?”
Fu Xuezhou nodded. “I would like to meet your friends.”
Lou Yan furrowed his brows, hesitating to refuse but afraid that Fu Xuezhou would suspect him. However, he didn’t want Fu Xuezhou, who was such a dangerous presence, to be too involved with his friends.
In the end, Lou Yan sat down next to Fu Xuezhou and spoke gently, “Why do you suddenly want to meet my friends?”
“I need to meet your friends to get an answer to something, but it seems like you don’t want me to meet them,” Fu Xuezhou tilted his head, looking nothing like the maniac who had killed thousands, “Why? Are you afraid I’ll harm them?”
Lou Yan looked deeply at him. “Would you harm them?”
Fu Xuezhou replied lightly, “I wouldn’t be stupid enough to harm them in front of you.”
Lou Yan’s brows furrowed and relaxed alternately. After a while, he asked, “Which of my friends do you want to meet?”
Fu Xuezhou said, “The man who was intimate with you on the beach and challenged me over the phone… His name seems to be Duan Zege?”
Lou Yan’s heart skipped a beat, feeling that his hunch was correct. He pursed his lips, finding it somewhat ironic that Fu Xuezhou, who had initially forgotten his name, now remembered the name of Duan Zege, someone who hadn’t appeared in front of him many times. Lou Yan said straightforwardly, “There’s nothing between me and him. If you want to meet him, I can call him over, but you have to promise me not to dwell on the fact that he challenged you before.”
Fu Xuezhou looked at Lou Yan for a while and nodded slightly after a while.
Lou Yan then sent a message to Li Sanxin again, asking them to come to his room for the meal.
Five minutes later, Li Sanxin came with others, and the room suddenly became lively.
Li Sanxin had originally wanted to ask about Lou Yan and Fu Xuezhou’s relationship, but when he saw Fu Xuezhou sitting on the sofa, he knew that the matter between them had been settled. He swallowed the words he wanted to ask and led Little Yu to sit down at the table, tidying up the breakfast.
Little Yu was wearing a light green dress today, with black cat-headed shoes on her feet. She looked curiously at Fu Xuezhou on the sofa, almost unable to take her eyes off his silver hair. She was young and didn’t understand the appreciation of beauty, but that didn’t stop her from feeling that this brother with silver hair was like a prince from a fairy tale, as handsome as her brother Lou Yan.
Lu Haoxiu also immediately behaved properly after seeing Fu Xuezhou, sitting down next to Ye Buyan with some restraint and occasionally stealing glances at the sofa.
Ye Buyan couldn’t help but look at Fu Xuezhou a few more times. He didn’t know Fu Xuezhou, but he had seen information about him from Lin You. He knew that this person had once killed the Anomaly Lord with a single blow. Seeing him in person now, Ye Buyan was also surprised. He could feel that this person was very strong, to the extent that he was somewhat dangerous to them.
Before his death, Lin Feng had stamped Fu Xuezhou’s information with the seal of “[SSS-level Dangerous Individual]”, and the Anomaly Control Bureau was always paying attention to Fu Xuezhou’s whereabouts. However, because of the lack of manpower and Fu Xuezhou’s mysteriousness, they couldn’t track Fu Xuezhou’s movements at all. In a sense, such a dangerous individual was more threatening than an A-rank terrifying anomaly. As a semi-member of the Anomaly Control Bureau, Ye Buyan had begun to consider whether he should tell Lin You about Fu Xuezhou’s whereabouts in Rongcheng City.
Li Sanxin seemed to know what Ye Buyan was thinking. He handed a shumai to Little Yu and placed a cup of soy milk in front of Ye Buyan, whispering, “Let’s eat first, don’t think too much.”
Ye Buyan was stunned for a moment and then understood. Since the relationship between Lou Yan and Li Sanxin’s group and Lin You was also good, they had probably already told Lin You about this matter. He nodded and took the soy milk, saying, “Thank you.”
Li Sanxin smiled.
Lu Haoxiu took a bite of a baozi and brightened up, immediately picking up a baozi and putting it in front of Duan Zege, who was sitting quietly next to him, urging, “Brother Duan, let’s eat!”
Among these people, only Duan Zege secretly felt bitter in his heart. He sighed inwardly, picked up the chopsticks and accepted Lu Haoxiu’s kindness.
He behaved naturally, only glancing at Fu Xuezhou when he first entered the door, and then not looking at Fu Xuezhou again. Knowing that Fu Xuezhou probably came for him, he deliberately minimized his presence, even more low-key than Lu Haoxiu and Ye Buyan.
Fu Xuezhou ignored their secret glances. When he moved, all the people in the room turned their eyes to him as if by instinct. Calmly, he walked to the table and looked at Duan Zege from a distance of about a meter.
Under his gaze, Duan Zege’s fingers twitched imperceptibly. He reluctantly put down his chopsticks, sighed, and took the initiative to ask, “Mr. Fu, do you have something you want to ask me?”
“Yeah,” Fu Xuezhou’s gaze was emotionless as he looked at Duan Zege, making Duan Zege’s nerves gradually tense up, “Lou Yan said your talent is [Divination].”
Duan Zege smiled, “That’s right.”
Fu Xuezhou said, “Now, show me a divination.”
Duan Zege hesitated for a moment, then reluctantly took out what was at the bottom of his pocket and showed it to Fu Xuezhou, smiling bitterly, “I’m really sorry. I was in a hurry when I came out, and I forgot to bring the tarot cards.”
Fu Xuezhou approached Duan Zege, and Duan Zege’s body gradually tensed up. Fu Xuezhou said, “Lift your hair up.”
Duan Zege was silent for a moment, then reached up and pushed aside the hair covering his face, revealing a face covered in scars.
This face no longer resembled its original appearance, but Fu Xuezhou was completely unfazed by these horrific scars. He calmly examined Duan Zege’s face inch by inch and said indifferently, “Duan Zege, why did you come to Lou Yan’s side?”
Lou Yan sensed that something was amiss between them and walked over to Fu Xuezhou’s side to support Duan Zege. “He divined that he would become my companion in the future, so he came to my side.”
Seeing Lou Yan approaching, Duan Zege relaxed slightly. He nodded along and said with a smile, “That’s right, I consider Lou Yan as my golden thigh.”
As Duan Zege smiled, the scars on his face seemed to come alive, giving him a frightening appearance that could scare children.
Little Yu, sitting across from Duan Zege, was instinctively trembling a bit from being frightened. Seeing this, Duan Zege put down his hair again to cover his face.
Fu Xuezhou watched Duan Zege silently and suddenly asked a strange question, “Is your real name Duan Zege?”
Just as Duan Zege was about to answer, he felt a sense of pressure pressing down on him, a mental control compelling him to speak the truth. Duan Zege noticed a faint red light in Fu Xuezhou’s eyes. His fists clenched, and beads of sweat formed on his forehead. “…Yes, my real name is Duan Zege.”
Lou Yan faintly felt that Duan Zege’s mental state seemed particularly nervous. He furrowed his brows and reminded, “Fu Xuezhou.”
Li Sanxin simply stood between Fu Xuezhou and Duan Zege, watching Fu Xuezhou vigilantly.
Only then did Fu Xuezhou retract the red light in his eyes and asked coldly, “Do you like Lou Yan?”
Duan Zege thought to himself, sure enough, he felt relieved when Fu Xuezhou asked this question. Duan Zege intentionally glanced at Lou Yan, who awkwardly touched his nose and avoided eye contact with Duan Zege. Duan Zege sighed softly and said solemnly, “I do like Lou Yan indeed.”
Lou Yan turned his head in shock to look at Duan Zege, while Fu Xuezhou squinted slightly.
Li Sanxin abruptly stepped forward, locking Duan Zege’s neck with a serious expression and said menacingly, “What nonsense are you talking about, Duan Zege?”
Little Yu tilted her head, drinking milk slowly, and watched the complex emotional entanglement of the adults.
Lu Haoxiu also looked around, focusing on whoever was speaking, with excitement in his eyes, almost as if he was munching on melon seeds! Not only that, he also tugged on Ye Buyan’s sleeve, eagerly gesturing for Ye Buyan to quickly join in the gossip.
Ye Buyan: “…”
He didn’t quite understand what was so interesting about this.
Duan Zege struggled to breathe as he was being choked. He coughed a few times and quickly explained, “It’s just liking him as a friend! Just like how I like you, like Little Lu, like Little Yu, you guys misunderstand!”
Lou Yan said, “…Can you speak without gasping for breath next time?”
Duan Zege weakly laughed a few times, “Mr. Fu, I did indeed meddle in your and Lou Yan’s affairs before, but it was also to help you both realize your feelings sooner. So, in a way, I am also a contributor to your relationship. Mr. Fu, there’s no need for you to care about me. I personally support you being together.”
Fu Xuezhou could tell that Duan Zege was speaking earnestly. He tilted his head and thought for a moment. “Thank you.”
Lu Haoxiu’s mouth formed an “O” shape, looking at Fu Xuezhou in surprise.
He didn’t expect Fu Xuezhou to actually say thank you to Duan Ge. Suddenly, Lu Haoxiu felt that Fu Xuezhou might not be as terrifying as he had imagined.
“However,” Duan Zege paused, his scarred eyes staring straight at Fu Xuezhou through the tangles of his hair, “if you mistreat Lou Yan, I will take him back.”
Li Sanxin: “…Heh heh.”
What was going on with Duan Zege’s words? Shouldn’t he be the one giving this kind of warning? What does it have to do with Duan Zege?
Li Sanxin patted Duan Zege’s shoulder heavily twice, then looked at Fu Xuezhou solemnly and said fiercely, “What he said is what I want to say too, Fu Xuezhou, if you dare to treat Yanzi badly, I’ll fight you to the death.”
“Enough,” Lou Yan’s lips twitched, interrupting their words, “After you’ve eaten your fill, hurry up and leave. Don’t stay here.”
Lou Yan had never told anyone about his plan to kill Fu Xuezhou, so even Li Sanxin didn’t know the purpose behind Lou Yan forcing Fu Xuezhou to realize his feelings.
To Lou Yan, these warnings from Fu Xuezhou were unnecessary. Because he never intended to truly have a good relationship with Fu Xuezhou.
Everything was just for revenge.
Several people were driven out of the room by Lou Yan. Duan Zege walked at the forefront, moving quickly. By the time Li Sanxin closed Lou Yan’s room door, Duan Zege was already twenty meters away.
Hearing the sound of the door closing, Duan Zege suddenly stopped in his tracks, leaning against the wall to catch his breath.
Lu Haoxiu quickly walked over. “Brother Duan, what’s wrong?”
Duan Zege shook his head. He opened his hand at his side, where his palm had been pierced by his own nails, and blood had dried up on the scars, leaving several unsightly dark red bloodstains.
He quietly closed his hand again, and with Li Sanxin and the others, walked back to his room.
***
Inside Lou Yan’s room.
Only two people remained in the room. Lou Yan pondered for a moment before asking directly, “You kept looking at Duan Zege when he left. You seem to be very concerned about him.”
A hint of confusion appeared in Fu Xuezhou’s eyes. “He’s special.”
Lou Yan suddenly felt a surge of anger rising within him. He didn’t know where this emotion came from, but he couldn’t help but vent it towards Fu Xuezhou. Lou Yan stood with his hands in his pockets by the door, sneering, “Special? Another special one, Fu Xuezhou. It seems like there are more and more ‘special’ people in your eyes.”
But as soon as these words came out of Lou Yan’s mouth, he closed his mouth, a hint of regret flashing across his face. The words sounded too strange, almost as if he was discontented?
Fu Xuezhou’s lips curved slightly. “He’s different from you.”
Lou Yan wanted to mock Fu Xuezhou like a scumbag, but he swallowed the words in time, keeping his mouth shut to prevent himself from saying anything strange again.
Fu Xuezhou suppressed his amusement and approached, reaching out to hold Lou Yan’s hand. Lou Yan withdrew his hand expressionlessly, putting it back in his pocket, standing straight and staring at Fu Xuezhou as if with a piercing gaze.
“Why is Duan Zege special?”
“His existence is very special,” Fu Xuezhou said, “I don’t remember anyone like him from my memories.”
Lou Yan felt relieved, letting out a soft “ha” and giving Fu Xuezhou a sideways glance. “You don’t remember him. Isn’t that a normal thing?”
Fu Xuezhou wasn’t angry. He continued in a calm tone, dropping a bombshell, “I have reincarnated 291 times, and this is my 292nd return. But apart from this world, in the previous 291 worlds, I have never encountered anyone named ‘Duan Zege’ with the talent for divination.”
Lou Yan’s pupils dilated, looking at Fu Xuezhou incredulously. He didn’t know whether to be shocked by the number “292” or by the content of Fu Xuezhou’s words.
Fu Xuezhou reached out to touch the corner of Lou Yan’s eye, the coldness of his fingertips seeping into Lou Yan’s body. “You exist in my memory, but he has never existed.”
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