Volume Six: The Years I Wasn’t Human
Doting
Sang Er went on a mission with Chu Han. This was because the second-generation antidote newly created by An Min required the capture of a first-tier zombie or a zombie king for experiments, which would make the results more precise and meticulous.
Wen Nuan had wanted to go with them, but Sang Er refused to let her follow. Ever since she had returned to this mission world, Sang Er’s protection of her was absolutely seamless1, not allowing even the slightest danger to occur near her.
Sang Er’s attitude was very firm. Wen Nuan thought that with the male lead accompanying them, it wouldn’t be too dangerous. After all, they were the male and female leads chosen by the Heavenly Dao, and they still had a powerful BUFF given by it.
Before the sky had brightened, Sang Er was about to depart. Wen Nuan lay prone on the bed, watching Sang Er put on various pieces of equipment.
“Do you really not need me to come with you?” she asked.
Sang Er, having put on her gloves, shook her head and said, “No need. It’s just capturing one zombie; we don’t need too many people.”
She, Chu Han, and Mu Xuan were more than enough. Although she looked down on Chu Han, it was obvious to all that his powers were strong.
“If I go, I can help you heal and also replenish your energy. I’m still very useful.”
Wen Nuan’s healing ability was very powerful. One had to know that in the apocalypse, if an injury wasn’t treated in time, the mortality rate was one hundred percent.
Sang Er finished dressing, walked to the bedside, and squatted down. She said, “I won’t get injured. I’ll take care of Mu Xuan. As for Chu Han…”
Her expression of disgust was unconcealed. “Love to die or not die2.”
Wen Nuan: “….If you can save him, then save him.”
If the male lead dies, this world will collapse.
Sang Er’s brow furrowed. “I have to save him?”
Wen Nuan raised her hand and smoothed her fur3. “You have to. You are comrades-in-arms, partners.”
“Okay, I’ll listen to you.” Sang Er squinted, nuzzling her head against Wen Nuan’s palm.
Wen Nuan saw her unconsciously coquettish little appearance and smiled. “After you leave, I’ll be so bored staying in the room all by myself.”
“You can walk around the base,” Sang Er opened her eyes, “but you’re not allowed to go to the laboratory.”
In her heart, An Min was now an extremely dangerous person, ten thousand times more dangerous than Chu Han.
Wen Nuan knew what Sang Er was worried about and said helplessly, “When will you be back?”
“Soon.”
Sang Er couldn’t rest assured leaving Wen Nuan alone. She had originally planned to have Mu Xuan take care of Wen Nuan while she was away, but as it turned out, Mu Xuan was also going on the mission with her.
“Alright,” Wen Nuan leaned in and kissed her on the lips. “Be safe, come back early. I’ll be waiting for you at home.”
Sang Er parted her lips slightly, deepening the kiss with Wen Nuan. “…Okay.”
The Jingdu S-Class Base had changed a lot, especially the eastern Wanting area. Before she left, this place had been a desolate, empty lot. Now, four months later, it had impressively become a bustling commercial street.
With nothing to do, Wen Nuan started strolling from the head of the street. Both sides of the road were lined with all sorts of businesses selling everything imaginable. Most sold daily necessities, which people purchased or exchanged using subsidies and crystal cores. Overall, it seemed quite harmonious and concordant.
Wen Nuan walked to the middle of the commercial street and saw a bakery that was just opening for business. A board placed outside by a shop assistant read:
[Cheese Custard Bread*10!!!]
Wen Nuan’s brow raised. She turned and walked into the bakery, looking at the freshly baked cheese custard bread.
“I’ll have two.”
The shop assistant looked up, a flash of amazement in their eyes. The girl before them was too clean; her skin was whiter than snow, her features as if from a painting. When that pair of shimmering peach blossom eyes4 looked over, one couldn’t help but feel their heart pound like a little deer bumping around5.
Seeing the shop assistant in a daze, Wen Nuan helplessly repeated, “I’ll have two cheese custard breads.”
The shop assistant snapped back to their senses. “O-okay, two, right?”
“Mhm.”
The shop assistant packed the bread. “How will you be paying?”
“With a crystal core,” Wen Nuan said, taking a second-tier wood-element crystal core from her pocket. “Is this enough?”
The shop assistant said in surprise, “That’s… that’s too much.”
“It’s fine,” Wen Nuan said, she had plenty of high-tier crystal cores. “Can I have the bread now?”
The shop assistant immediately handed over the bread and tremblingly accepted the second-tier crystal core. Watching Wen Nuan’s departing figure, they called out, “Please come again!”
Fang Yao watched Wen Nuan’s departing figure and walked into the shop. She happened to see the second-tier crystal core that the shop assistant hadn’t yet put away, and a flash of jealousy and greed crossed her eyes.
She pointed to a bag of sliced bread in the glass cabinet. “Get me a bag of that.”
The shop assistant handed it over. “Ten yuan in subsidy.”
Fang Yao took some crumpled bills from her pocket. The shop assistant took them and said faintly, “Take care.”
Although the shop assistant’s expression was calm and didn’t show much of a disdainful look, Fang Yao still clearly felt their contempt and scorn for her.
She clutched the bread bag tightly and glared at the shop assistant. As she turned to leave, the shop assistant’s eyes suddenly became dazed and unfocused. Then, they began to slap their own face relentlessly, each slap more forceful than the last. In no time, the shop assistant had beaten themself until their mouth and nose were bleeding.
Wen Nuan walked very slowly. Firstly, to look around and perhaps buy a few more things to take back. Secondly, she wanted to know what the person following her was up to. Perhaps because she had been too bored lately, she wanted to find some amusement for herself.
【This mission world has to be the easiest one we’ve been through, right?】 the System remarked with a sigh.
After all, the female lead’s blackening value was dropping quickly, the apocalypse was about to end, and everything was slowly getting better.
“Mhm,” Wen Nuan said, walking leisurely toward the residential area, her eyes darting to the side.
She turned around and looked at the person who hadn’t had time to hide. “You’ve been following me for so long. Is there something you need?”
Seeing that she had been discovered, Fang Yao simply stopped hiding. She walked in front of Wen Nuan, her eyes fixed on the numerous bags in her hands. The greed in her gaze was so obvious that Wen Nuan could see it clearly.
“What is your relationship with Sang Er?” Fang Yao demanded.
Wen Nuan raised an eyebrow. “Does that have anything to do with you?”
Fang Yao looked Wen Nuan up and down and sneered, “Don’t think I don’t know what you are. Latching onto a powerful ability user like Sang Er, do you think you’re so great?”
It was clearly she who had set her sights on Sang Er first! On what grounds did someone have to stick a bar in horizontally6 and have the swift-footed climb up first7!?
Wen Nuan said with a serious air, “Mhm, I am pretty amazing.”
“….” Fang Yao hadn’t expected Wen Nuan to agree so bluntly. The rest of her words got stuck in her throat, and after stammering for a good while, she finally cursed, “You… you’re shameless!”
Wen Nuan touched her own cheek and said deliberately, “It would be a pity not to want a face as good-looking as mine. Sang Er loves this pretty little face of mine the most.”
She feigned annoyance and sighed. “You just don’t know. In bed, Sang Er always likes to try new things. She especially loves to touch me and kiss me, particularly this stunningly beautiful face of mine. She simply loves it so much she can’t put it down, and once she starts, she can’t stop.”
Fang Yao: “….”
System: 【…I didn’t expect this. The little lass has two faces, huh?】
“You flatter me, you flatter me,” Wen Nuan said with a smile, as if indifferent to fame and fortune.
System: 【….】
Fang Yao was so angered by Wen Nuan that she rolled her eyes. She gnashed her teeth and said, “…You bitch! I clearly set my sights on Sang Er! Do you not know life from death, daring to snatch my person?!”
“Your person?” Wen Nuan sneered. “How do you prove Sang Er is your person? Have you kissed her lips or touched her chest? Have you shared the same bed and pillow with her, or have you been entwined to the death with her?”
She lifted her eyelids, her tone full of sarcasm. “I’m afraid you probably haven’t even touched Sang Er, have you?”
“You—” Fang Yao took a deep breath, a flash of resentment in her eyes.
Her eyes narrowed. She planned to hypnotize Wen Nuan and make her kill herself.
Just an ordinary person. What right did she have to compete with her?
Wen Nuan saw a faint light in Fang Yao’s eyes and figured she was using her ability to hypnotize her.
Unfortunately, her ability was too low-level; it had no effect on her at all.
Fang Yao stared intently into Wen Nuan’s eyes, her voice laced with bewitchment and temptation. “After you go home, kill yourself.”
“Kill myself?” Wen Nuan sneered, “And here I thought you had some other brilliant trick up your sleeve.”
Fang Yao looked at her in disbelief. Her expression was clear; she hadn’t been hypnotized at all.
She was dumbfounded. “Why aren’t you…”
Unless… she was also an ability user?
And her ability level was much higher than her own?!
“You’re an ability user?” she asked, her face pale with shock.
Wen Nuan pursed her lips. “Mhm, feeling surprised?”
Fang Yao couldn’t help but take two steps back and swallow hard. “…How can you be an ability user?”
Wen Nuan was taken aback by her question. “Why can’t I be an ability user?”
“How could an ability user be willing to be another ability user’s accessory?”
In her perception, high-level ability users were all arrogant because of their talents and self-righteous. They would never be willing to be another ability user’s accessory.
“You’re an ability user too, aren’t you? Then why do you want to be with Sang Er?” Wen Nuan walked toward her, and Fang Yao retreated step by step, intimidated by her advance. “Aren’t you also just looking for powerful protection, which is why you sought out Sang Er, the strongest ability user in this base?”
“If you can, why can’t I?” Wen Nuan pouted aggrievedly. “I also want a strong person to protect me.”
Fang Yao: “….”
System: 【…..】
Wen Nuan didn’t have any killing intent toward Fang Yao and didn’t take her threats and intimidation seriously. After all, a person like her couldn’t stir up any big waves.
“Sang Er is my person. You’d better put away those vile thoughts of yours, or else…” Wen Nuan smiled faintly, killing intent in her eyes, as her fingertip lifted Fang Yao’s trembling chin. “Laozi8 will throw you out to feed the zombies. How does that sound?”
Fang Yao was terrified, her entire body trembling uncontrollably. She felt a dense killing intent wash over her.
It wasn’t a joke, nor was it just empty threats. She genuinely felt that the woman in front of her would kill her.
Wen Nuan raised her eyes and saw Sang Er walking toward them in the distance. She patted Fang Yao’s shoulder intimately and said with a smile, “…Scram!”
Fang Yao immediately turned and fled, her footsteps quick as she ran away.
Sang Er saw Wen Nuan downstairs and noticed that the person who had just run off looked like Fang Yao, the one who had been constantly trying to block her path recently.
She couldn’t help but wonder, how did those two know each other?
Wen Nuan waved to Sang Er. Seeing her walk over, she noted a bit of blood on the corner of her clothes but no injuries, and said with relief, “You’re back so soon?”
“Mhm,” Sang Er said, pointing in the direction Fang Yao had fled. “What was she here for?”
Did she switch to blocking someone else?!
Alarm bells immediately went off in Sang Er’s mind. “Why was Fang Yao looking for you? Did she say something strange to you again?”
“Strange words?” Wen Nuan raised an eyebrow. “What did she say to you?”
Sang Er thought for a moment. “A while ago, she came downstairs to block my way every day, asking if I smelled good, if I was pretty, and saying things about warming my bed and the like.”
She said too much, all just a chaotic mess, so I didn’t take it to heart. It went in my left ear and out my right ear9.
Wen Nuan pressed a finger to her cheek. “Oh.”
Sang Er glanced at Wen Nuan. She sensed that something was off with her; she seemed a little angry.
Although she didn’t know why Wen Nuan had suddenly gotten angry, she immediately took the things from Wen Nuan’s hands and probed cautiously, “Did that woman… make you angry?”
“What makes you think I’m angry?” Wen Nuan said, lowering her eyes.
Wen Nuan’s anger was too obvious.
But Sang Er didn’t dare to say it. She pursed her lips. “Then… you’re not angry, right?”
“What makes you think I’m not angry?” Wen Nuan said, raising her eyes.
“….” Sang Er swallowed hard and said with difficulty, “I was wrong.”
No matter the reason, I should apologize first.
This was something Mu Xuan had taught her. He said that when he was with his ex-girlfriend, as long as she got angry, he would apologize immediately, and it was guaranteed to calm her down.
Wen Nuan frowned, not understanding why Sang Er was apologizing. “What did you do wrong?”
Such a familiar question. Mu Xuan really taught me well.
Sang Er said with a sincere attitude, “I was wrong about everything.”
Wen Nuan felt the atmosphere between them had become a bit skewed. Thinking about it carefully, wasn’t this just the sort of clingy, lovey-dovey argument that couples have?
She didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. She patted Sang Er’s head and saw her looking back, having received a favor as if startled10.
“Then I’ll tell you what you did wrong. Do you want to know?”
Sang Er’s eyes lit up. If she could know what she did wrong, it would be easy to fix.
She nodded briskly. “Mhm, mhm, tell me. I’ll definitely change.”
Wen Nuan let out a light laugh, hooked her chin, and leaned down to kiss her.
“Your mistake was doting on me too much, Little Ears.”
You dote on me so much that I’m becoming no law, no heaven11.
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