GRMFBS CH259

Zhan Jinli: …
Zhan Yan: …

Help! Why was balancing the favor of cats harder than balancing the favor of parents?!

At the crucial moment, classmate Xiao Gu scored major points.

He smoothed Xingxing’s fur and scratched the base of the kitten’s ears. “Let’s not be angry, Xingxing. How about I buy Xingxing some balls too? We like Xingxing so much.”

Anyway, he wasn’t afraid of offending Ghost King Wan Yan. Wan Yan and he had disliked each other for a long time.

Wan Yan glanced over and grumbled twice from his throat.

Hehe. Who cares about your liking? Snatching my chef every single day.

Zhan Jinli bent down, picked up a skull-print ocean ball, and looked down at Wan Yan.

“You like this thing? I’ll get you a few real ones later. Stop making a fuss.”

Weren’t there skull mountains everywhere in the Underworld?

Zhan Jinli kept his voice very low, afraid of scaring the onlookers.

Zhan Yan had also noticed it; they were currently the gossip targets of others.

Now that more and more people had passed the Three Lives Stone, players from both teams had basically appeared at the Reincarnation Platform, staring over with bright eyes.

The Cat Shura Field was so delicious to watch!

Xingxing was coaxed by Xiao Gu and temporarily stopped making a fuss, lying in Gu Jiancheng’s arms and softly meowing.

Zhan Yan listened to a bit of it; it was all tattling.

Zhan Yan is bad! Zhan Yan lied to the kitty. Zhan Yan even said he missed him, but the time he spent out was way longer than the time he spent back! Zhan Yan wasn’t out hunting at all! He went to hook up with other cats!

Forcibly stuffed into his brother’s arms, Wan Yan was holding his neck with one paw while using his brother’s wrist to grind his teeth.

Heh, who cares about a regular little cat? I am a dignified Ghost King Cat!

Xingxing also stopped targeting Wan Yan, pinning his ears back and curling up in Gu Jiancheng’s arms.

Hmph! If you’re happy being bullied by that bad cat, then keep playing with him! What does it have to do with me?

Poor Zhan Yan, with no cat paying attention to him and not daring to speak to anyone, kept his head down and rapidly typed words for his brother to see.

Zhan Yan: “This is my college roommate. We bumped into each other when we came out to play, so we’re hanging out for a few days.”

Zhan Jinli looked up at Gu Jiancheng. Not bad, a clean and refreshing-looking guy, and his smile was friendly with a hint of shyness. Lord Ghost King’s intuition told him this wasn’t a bad person, and he nodded amiably to his brother’s roommate.

Zhan Yan had been secretly observing both of their reactions.

Thank goodness, thank goodness. Classmate Xiao Gu’s performance was extremely steady. He didn’t enthusiastically try to meet the parent. Synchronization… this was synchronization…

Zhan Yan nudged Gu Jiancheng’s arm with his elbow and continued introducing, “This is my brother, I’ve mentioned him to you before.”

Hey, why is Xiao Gu’s arm so stiff? The muscles are completely tensed up.

[Deep Shadow Gu Jiancheng guessed Zhan Jinli’s secret identity through Ghost King Wan Yan’s behavior and Ghost King Lin Yuan Zhan Jinli’s words. Recalling his past interactions with Ghost King Lin Yuan under the identity of Deep Shadow, Gu Jiancheng is extremely chagrined.]

Pfft. So Bro’s identity got exposed to Xiao Gu.

Gu Jiancheng’s hand was stiff as he pet Xingxing.

Earlier in the game, it was fine because there were many people. Now it was just the three of them—and two cats. Fortunately, there were two cats, so he could use petting Xingxing as an excuse not to speak.

Rong Sui’s affection points were easy to grind, but how was he supposed to grind Ghost King Lin Yuan’s affection points?

He had used him as a wishing machine before… he’s done for, done for, done for…

Anyway, protecting his secret identity came first. Today, he was just a classmate! A roommate!

Meeting the parent or whatever… they could talk about that later…

No wonder Xiao Gu was so well-behaved.

Zhan Yan continued to rapidly type on his phone while keeping an eye on his brother’s gossip feed:

[Ghost King Lin Yuan Zhan Jinli is focused on prying Ghost King Wan Yan off his wrist and hasn’t discovered the true relationship between you and Deep Shadow Gu Jiancheng.]

Gu Jiancheng was a guy. Although Zhan Jinli didn’t mind his little brother dating men, he wouldn’t go so far as to suspect any man he met of being his brother’s partner.

Zhan Yan quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

Thank you, cats! Although the Cat Shura Field was a huge headache, it successfully helped divert Xiao Gu’s attention!

He was so focused on chatting with his brother to protect his identity that he didn’t even notice when the food arrived. Seeing that he hadn’t touched his chopsticks for a while, Gu Jiancheng couldn’t help but put some food in his bowl. Yanyan still had low blood sugar; he had only eaten two candies earlier.

Zhan Jinli’s gaze slowly drifted over.

Gu Jiancheng stiffened.

Zhan Yan: …

He quickly dug out the Three Lives Stone candy he had bought earlier.

“Bro, do you want a candy?” Zhan Yan offered half the candy to distract his brother. “This candy is pretty good.”

Zhan Jinli didn’t think too much of it. He had seen the kind of stunts modern male college dorms pulled on the internet. Last time Yanyan went back to school and brought a lot of good food, when he called their dad, a whole group of people on the other end joined in calling him “Dad.”

He typed a reply to his brother with one hand—Ghost King Wan Yan was still hanging onto the other.

“Is this the kind of candy you want to eat?”

His little brother had mentioned wanting to eat small candy balls before. It wasn’t that he couldn’t make this kind of fruit candy, it was just that he didn’t know how much fruit flavor would be left after he made it.

Zhan Yan: “Yes, preferably a bit smaller than this.”

So it would be easier for him to swallow it whole like a pill.

Gu Jiancheng didn’t dare to put a second piece of food in his bowl until he finished eating.

“Bro, are you going to keep playing around here?” Zhan Yan typed to ask.

Zhan Jinli: “No, I’m going back today.”

There were too many people outside. Playing this game today was enough of an annoyance, not to mention running into Wan Yan.

Zhan Yan felt Gu Jiancheng’s stiff arm muscles relax a little.

Zhan Jinli looked at Xingxing. Given the current situation… was Xingxing still going home with him?

Xingxing turned his back to him. Heh, just go with that little white cat who wants to beat you up!

Zhan Yan was looking at Wan Yan. Little Cat Wan Yan should be leaving with his brother…

Zhan Jinli typed: “When are you going home?”

“You take Xingxing with you for now.”

He still needed to talk to Wan Yan; it wasn’t convenient to take Xingxing along.

Zhan Yan leaned over to look at Xingxing. Xingxing had his little ears pinned back.

Sigh, what to do? Xingxing has never been this angry before…

“Have fun playing,” Zhan Jinli typed for them to see, nodding at Gu Jiancheng as a goodbye.

So far, his impression of Gu Jiancheng was pretty good. He seemed like a steady young man, didn’t talk much, and could even soothe Xingxing. It was good that Yanyan had a friend to play with.

Zhan Jinli forcibly carried Wan Yan away.

Zhan Yan quietly shoved Wan Yan’s ocean balls to his brother and waved at Wan Yan from an angle Xingxing couldn’t see.

Wan Yan let out a grumble from his throat and stopped grinding his teeth on Zhan Jinli’s wrist.

Hmph, I knew the chef still cared about me.

You still owe me a big meal, meow!

Don’t expect me to forgive you easily!

Gu Jiancheng waved a friendly goodbye to the brother, his shoulders visibly relaxing.

After Zhan Jinli carried Wan Yan far away, Zhan Yan crouched down and tried to hug Xingxing.

“Xingxing—”

Xingxing let himself be hugged, but as soon as he entered Zhan Yan’s arms, he bounded out and jumped back onto Gu Jiancheng’s lap.

After a few repeated attempts, Zhan Yan gave up. He crouched beside them dejectedly, resting his hands on Gu Jiancheng’s knees. “Is Xingxing never going to pay attention to me again?”

Gu Jiancheng looked down at Zhan Yan crouching beside him, the soft little curls on top of his head swaying in the wind, making one really want to reach out and pet him.

He quietly pulled a lotus bud toy out of his pocket and slipped it to Zhan Yan from behind Xingxing, winking at him.

This was a purchasable item from the “Lotus Platform” level in the Eighteen Scenes of the Underworld. It looked like a round lotus bud; tap the top and it opened, tap it again and it closed.

Zhan Yan instantly understood; this was for him to coax Xingxing.

Without Wan Yan listening in, Zhan Yan quickly appeased Xingxing.

With Xingxing soothed and Classmate Xiao Gu successfully hiding his identity in front of his brother, Zhan Yan could finally heave a huge sigh of relief. What he experienced in this one hour was much more thrilling than the Eighteen Scenes of the Underworld game!

Zhan Yan and Gu Jiancheng took Xingxing back to the hotel. They had gone out to play games in the morning, played for a few hours, and now it was the hottest part of the day; it was better to go back and enjoy the air conditioning.

Xingxing had a pet certificate, so he could enter the hotel with them.

After returning to the hotel, Xingxing happily went off to play with his new toy.

Hmph, that stupid cat doesn’t have one!

Classmate Xiao Gu stuck dejectedly and clingily to Zhan Yan’s side.

“What’s wrong?” Zhan Yan pushed his big head away.

Gu Jiancheng didn’t know how to explain it either.

It’s just… he had discovered that Yanyan’s brother was actually Ghost King Lin Yuan. To prevent his affection points from plummeting, and to lower the difficulty of grinding them, he temporarily couldn’t reveal his identity as “Yanyan’s boyfriend” to Zhan Jinli.

But Yanyan didn’t know this… and he had promised him they’d meet the parents earlier!

Although his identity as the boyfriend couldn’t have been hidden without Yanyan’s help, seeing that Yanyan seemingly didn’t want his brother to know he was the boyfriend still made Gu Jiancheng feel a little wronged.

Wronged, but he couldn’t say it, nor could he demand anything…

So he could only be clingy.

Zhan Yan saw Xiao Gu’s anxiety over gains and losses through the gossip system.

…There was no helping it. After coaxing the cat, he had to coax the big guy. Just as he finished coaxing the big guy, the Chaofan Forum notified him of a new private message from a Special Focus.

He clicked it open for a look.

I Just Saved the World!: “Do you know what Ghost King Lin Yuan‘s preferences are?”