GRMFBS CH217

“Yan Yan…” Gu Jiancheng was in a good mood, hugging his boyfriend and not wanting to let go.

Helping Rong Sui with such a huge favor—her love life was now happy, so how could she be embarrassed to stop him? Hmph~

The most difficult hurdle of meeting the parents had already passed. Once they finished dealing with clearing Yang Ran’s infinite curse, they could continue with the meeting-the-parents plan.

His future brother-in-law was socially anxious. He’d have to think about how to get along happily with someone severely socially anxious… Seemed like his brother-in-law had opened a cake shop? Why not give his brother-in-law some advertising? He’d research it more before deciding.

He didn’t know much about Yan Yan’s parents, only that their family ran a venture capital company. Mm… financial background was very important. When he got back, he’d have to ask Wan Shitong to help organize his assets and net worth.

Ahhh, they were going to be separated for so long again, so reluctant…

Gu Jiancheng buried his head in the other’s neck. Mm… Yan Yan’s shampoo was still green apple scented.

“Call me when you get home.”

Zhan Yan had just scrolled to an old gossip feed: Deep Shadow said online he had matters to attend to and left him hanging, then after going offline started calling him to act cutely.

Zhan Yan: “Hmph~”

Gu Jiancheng nuzzled: “Hm? Don’t want to call me?”

“I’ll call, I’ll call. Hurry and leave, if you don’t my brother will come.” Zhan Yan punched his shoulder twice to push him away. If you don’t leave, I won’t be able to resist settling accounts face-to-face!

Gu Jiancheng forcibly detected a hint of having an affair.

Finally sending off the clingy boyfriend, the urgent matters were all more or less resolved.

Zhan Yan finally had time to seriously think about this matter.

Gu Jiancheng = Deep Shadow

His boyfriend, whom he’d always thought was just an ordinary chuunibyou, had transformed into a top player who came out of Infinite.

So Xiao Gu wasn’t really a chuunibyou.

How had he struggled his way out of Infinite?

Zhan Yan remembered he’d have insomnia at night, when eating he was always very serious, he said he had no fixed residence, when he first came to school he was always alone sitting expressionlessly in corners, everyone thought he was scary… Once he accidentally knocked over a water cup, his whole person became wooden, eyes deep and scorched, paused for two seconds, then bent down and reached out wanting to directly pick up the ceramic shards.

Were those his aftereffects? When he sat alone, what was he experiencing?

Fine, dense pain arose in Zhan Yan’s heart.

Fortunately his aftereffects were better now… Zhan Yan suddenly realized something.

Didn’t the gossip feeds say Deep Shadow’s lover had healed him? Wasn’t his lover a healing-type big shot? And the kind with super strong information protection abilities. But he didn’t know healing-type abilities…

Scroll through the gossip, scroll through the gossip.

It really was him! So all those times before when he was investigating Deep Shadow’s healing-type big shot lover, was he “investigating himself”? Couldn’t find anything because he’d used the gossip system to add super strong information protection for himself?

But he really didn’t know healing-type abilities. How did Gu Jiancheng get better?

Because of love? Was Gu Jiancheng that much of a romance brain…

What to do, it was a bit sweet. He didn’t even want to hold him accountable for just using his “I just saved the world!” account to mock him online, then offline coming to cling to him acting cute; online making Approaching Science work so hard he had to scroll for gossip and find anomalies every day, offline thinking he had no time to date him and feeling wronged behind his back, suspecting his own charm wasn’t enough and he wasn’t attractive; disturbing his own dates, being jealous of himself, suspecting himself—a whole series of silly behaviors.

Continue scrolling through gossip.

Well then, he’d also thought Approaching Science was biased!

Fine fine fine, from now on I’ll be biased toward you too.

However… the points he’d worked so hard to save up—were they useless now…

Big shot Deep Shadow didn’t need him to save points to exchange for thunder talismans.

So all this time he’d been conscientiously completing tasks, working hard to earn points from Chongming Demon King (before unmasking), Tianshi (before unmasking), Craftsman (before unmasking), Deep Shadow (before unmasking)—all this time he’d been working for nothing…

What difference was this from his points going from his left hand to his right hand! Heartbreaking!

Xingxing came over to nuzzle him. Seeing Zhan Yan’s expression change unpredictably in such a short time, he couldn’t understand at all what humans were experiencing in their hearts. But seeing he didn’t seem to feel good, so… Xingxing lowered his head to nuzzle him. Here, let you pet pet.

Zhan Yan hugged Xingxing and petted: “Wuu, you’re still the best.”

Everyone in the family wasn’t worry-free! Xiao Gu wasn’t worry-free either!

He actually wore such a huge disguise while dating! Already dating and still didn’t know restraint, looking down on everyone every day, arrogant to everyone. Sometimes going to compete with his brother, sometimes going to hide from his dad, he still had a triple-wanted criminal identity on him—how were they supposed to meet parents in the future…

Too difficult, too difficult. Zhan Yan felt dating was really too difficult for him!

Oh right, the triple-wanted criminal identity.

Zhan Yan immediately opened the small group chat for healing Yang Ran that they’d just created. In this group besides him were also Sister, Gu Jiancheng, Ning Xi, Great Ritual Dancer, and Nie Ling.

That chamber in the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau that could shield Infinite’s power was researched by Nie Ling, borrowing Great Ritual Dancer’s ritual power. Yang Ran’s soul still had Infinite’s power. To ensure absolute safety, they wouldn’t let his consciousness go online for now.

This small group was a new platform jointly made by Nie Yu, Wan Shitong, and Sister. Everyone could feel at ease, but there was no private chat function.

Zhan Yan could only directly @ in it.

Approaching Science: “@Ning Xi, shouldn’t you guys first revoke Deep Shadow’s wanted order?”

Having just created the group, and it being used to communicate important information, no one chatted casually, so no one had turned on Do Not Disturb.

As soon as his message went out, everyone received the notification.

Nie Ling: …

Nie Yu: …

Great Ritual Dancer: “Pffft.”

You guys asked for someone’s help but haven’t revoked his wanted order yet?

Ning Xi: …Really forgot in the busyness. That wanted order for Deep Shadow was initially to find the person. Later, after years and years without clues, this thing was pretty much just for show. Later when Deep Shadow’s condition improved, even fewer people paid attention.

Ning Xi: “Sorry.”

“I’ll revoke it now.”

First have Nie Yu revoke their Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau’s wanted order, then contact the Wan Yao Alliance to have them revoke it too. Chaofu Mountain… Chaofu Mountain didn’t need notification. Of Chaofu Mountain’s four Ghost Kings, three didn’t manage affairs. The only one who did had entrusted these “boring mundane matters of the mortal world” to them very early on. Just have Nie Yu revoke it all together.

Zhan Yan received a private message from Gu Jiancheng on the forum.

I Just Saved the World!: “Thanks.”

The gossip snippets were also updating:

[After Gu Jiancheng saw the message in the group, he really wanted to reply “Heh.” “You guys can continue posting it, doesn’t matter to me.” He thought about it and ultimately still held back.]

Zhan Yan hugged Xingxing: “…Pffft.”

Xingxing proudly “meowed meowed.”

See see, I knew it—no one can resist the joy of petting my fur!

Zhan Yan petted Xingxing and started laughing. Laughing and laughing, he sighed again: “Ai, Xingxing, tell me, why isn’t there a single ordinary person around me?”

His dad, his mom, his brother, his sister were all not ordinary people. This probability was already very abnormal. Now even Gu Jiancheng wasn’t an ordinary person! If he went to buy lottery tickets, not winning the jackpot would be unreasonable.

“Now only you’re left… You are indeed just an ordinary kitty, right?” Zhan Yan lifted Xingxing up, looking at his eyes.

Xingxing couldn’t understand. What “ordinary” not “ordinary”?

“Meow?”

What’s wrong with you?

Zhan Yan had already started scrolling through gossip feeds while quickly giving Xingxing a simple examination.

Oh, Xingxing was an ordinary cat Sister had picked up, but the little tag Xingxing wore was specially made by Sister. Because at that time he was disliked by all small animals, Sister specially made this so small animals wearing it would be affectionate toward him.

Wuuwuu Sister was so good!

Zhan Jinli knocked on the door: knock, knock, knock.

Zhan Yan opened the door.

Brother had come to take him home.

Zhan Jinli looked at him, not speaking, not typing, not moving.

This was the first time meeting face-to-face after knowing his brother could deceive people. He had to look carefully.

Zhan Yan lowered his head to type, raised his head to show him the phone screen, looking at him with a face of pure innocence. Little curls hung down a strand on his forehead. The Ghost King seal pendant he’d given still swayed back and forth: “Brother, you came to pick me up. I missed you so much!”

Zhan Jinli: This is how he was deceived!

Although this kid was naughty and liked to tease him, every time he looked at him with a pair of innocent big eyes. He’d been deceived like this for over ten years!

Zhan Jinli reached out to type on his phone screen.

Zhan Yan obediently held up the phone screen, waiting for his brother to finish typing before turning it around to look:

“Taking you home. I missed you too.”

Zhan Yan’s eyes immediately curved into smiling crescents.

Zhan Jinli entered the room, lowered his head and made eye contact with Xingxing crouching on the suitcase for a few seconds.

Grab… Xingxing automatically jumped down to find Zhan Yan. Zhan Jinli changed to grabbing the suitcase.

Watching his brother hug the cat and carry the bag, following him downstairs, smiling whenever he saw him, Zhan Jinli sighed.

Forget it, deceive then deceive.

Zhan Yan got in the car with his brother, hugging Xingxing and opening the car window.

Summer wind carrying the scent of plants entered from one car window and slid out from the other.

Zhan Yan squinted, putting Xingxing on the seat next to him, using the small hair tie Sister gave him to tie his not-very-long hair at the back of his head.

Ai, he hadn’t been home in so long. He missed home too.

The car drove past an intersection. Zhan Yan couldn’t help but move.

Zhan Jinli gave him a puzzled look.

Zhan Yan: Well… how to put it? He just remembered his brother had been caught by Myriad Yan Ghost King at this intersection. He also remembered he discovered Sister’s “Craftsman” disguise after she passed through this intersection. Gu Jiancheng’s disguise also fell not long after passing through this intersection.

This was a magical disguise-dropping intersection!

Zhan Yan felt in the future he should pull everyone he knew to walk through this intersection once.

For no other reason—with his probability of having big shots in disguises around him, Zhan Yan felt even encountering a few more disguise monsters wouldn’t surprise him.

The car stopped at the door. Zhan Jinli was helping his brother unload luggage.

Their neighbor next door, Bai Linghui, Auntie Bai, opened the door. Seeing them, she smiled and greeted them. She nodded at Zhan Jinli and called to Zhan Yan: “You’re back, Little Yan. Come, Auntie Bai has freshly made pastries here. Take some over.”

Xingxing had already run into the yard in a flash to roll around.

Bai Linghui gave Zhan Yan several boxes of pastries: “Ai, your brother gave me two boxes of grapes before. Really delicious. Can those grapes be made into raisins?”

She wanted to use raisins to make pastries. Grapes with lychee fragrance—making them into pastries would definitely be fantastic. She already had new pairing ideas.

“Those grapes, once made into raisins, won’t have the lychee fragrance anymore. They’d be about the same as ordinary raisins. But they can be made into grape juice and wine. When products come out from there, I’ll send some more.”

Bai Linghui felt deep regret. Raisins could make many varieties of pastries. But grape wine was also good—should be usable for some fermented pastries…

Bai Linghui: “Good. I saw your grape-selling video. Filmed so well!”

Zhan Yan remembered the grape-selling video Luo Luoluo edited for him: …

True social death wasn’t in front of strangers but in front of acquaintances.

Bai Linghui praised vigorously: “Filmed like a movie!”

Zhan Yan: …This is a bit exaggerated, Auntie Bai.

After listening for a while, Zhan Yan felt something wasn’t right. He asked Auntie Bai for the video link. After going back, he clicked on the link.

Inside wasn’t the video Luo Luoluo edited for him. It was edited together with movie clips from Ghost School and his grape-selling advertisement video.

In the movie, the protagonist was chased by ghosts, wailing and crying, cornered. The camera cut, and Zhan Yan’s sinister terrifying ghost face changed to a sunny bright smile: “Want a grape personally peeled by this young master?”

Zhan Yan: …

Ridiculous netizens could do anything.

After watching the video, Zhan Yan started organizing his luggage.

First taking out Xingxing’s cat nest and cat toys to put away properly, lest this little fellow keep scratching his pocket—those were all Meow Meow’s assets!

Zhan Jinli silently and wordlessly pushed over a box of small cakes.

Zhan Yan: ?

Zhan Jinli sent a message: “Made for you. Try it.”

[Zhan Jinli suspected you suddenly liked eating the sweets he made because you were too mentally exhausted and needed to nourish your soul. But eating too much sweet stuff wasn’t good for ordinary people. He specially researched a half-sugar version cake for you.]

Zhan Yan was touched. Brother was so good!

Zhan Jinli looked at him, gaze solemn yet expectant.

His choice to make sweets was a kind of necessity. In the process of making food produce enough soul-nourishing effects, they would strangely become very sweet. Sweets becoming sweet was at least normal. If he cooked a pot of sweet-flavored spicy hot pot, that would truly be dark cuisine.

Ghost food needed intense flavors, but humans didn’t. Zhan Jinli had worked very hard to reduce the sweetness, uncertain whether this would still be useful for his brother.

Zhan Yan, under his brother’s expectant gaze, picked up a spoon, scooped a bite of cake and put it in his mouth. His face suddenly twisted.

He’d forgotten that according to his brother’s sweetness standards, even half-sugar still wasn’t a sweetness level humans could accept!

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