Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Although Lu Huan didn’t know what the white bubbles were, she had only said one sentence, yet so many appeared. Clearly, the rectangular black boxes were her words, while the oval white bubbles must have been her thoughts.
Lu Huan’s eyebrows twitched, feeling both annoyed and amused. He now understood why she always treated him like a child; he had previously thought it was just his imagination.
It turns out that in front of her, I’ve always looked like a little kid with short arms and legs, a small body, and a big head, like the one behind the curtain…
After staring at him as a child for a whole year, how could she not see him as a cub?!
Recalling her earlier action of touching his head, Lu Huan’s expression grew increasingly grim…
He gritted his teeth, couldn’t help but walk to the table, take a long-haired brush, dip it in ink, walk to the wall, stand with his back against the wall, and then use the brush to draw a line above his head.
Then he took a long ruler, measured the horizontal line he had marked, and showed it to her on the other side of the curtain, saying very seriously, “Xiao Xi, I am eight chi two inches tall, don’t you know that?”
Damn it, I never imagined that I would always look like a dwarf on her screen.
Su Xi was a little confused, not knowing why the cub suddenly started showing off his height. She calculated it very seriously. It seemed that one chi in Yan State was equal to about 22.3 centimeters. So, wouldn’t the cub be over 1.8 meters tall?
Good heavens! Why is this kid so tall? Did the eggs I redeemed for him from the store contain hormones?!
However, because the characters were always drawn in a cartoon style, their heights were barely noticeable, except for slight differences in weight. So, in my eyes, my little one has always been a little dumpling.
Now that the game has forced the release of the original artwork, Su Xi realized that the cub has indeed grown into a tall and handsome young man.
But, to be this tall before even turning sixteen… Su Xi thought of those hens with prolapsed anuses and suddenly felt a little guilty. She coughed and said to the cub, “Little one, I understand now.”
Seeing that she on the screen was completely unaware of anything, Lu Huan’s eyebrows twitched involuntarily. He wished he could take off his clothes and show her that he was no longer a cub!
But that would be too impolite, and he naturally couldn’t do it.
No matter how he thought about it, he was filled with regret. In the year they had spent together, she had seen him as someone with a big head and a small body, someone who would jump if he walked even a little faster, someone so ugly— she didn’t even want to see his own face clearly…
Lu Huan was both amused and exasperated and also gritting his teeth in anger.
Finally, rubbing his temples, he said to Su Xi with annoyance, “…Don’t call me ‘baby’.”
Su Xi took it as her son being affectionate and said with a smile, “Haha, I know.”
Lu Huan: “…”
The two had already been able to communicate using “yes” and “no” before, but now their communication was obviously smoother.
Lu Huan thought of the white bubbles above Su Xi’s head. Could it be that some of his inner thoughts had been revealed to her in this way?
The thought flashed through Lu Huan’s mind, and he immediately blushed. However, judging from Xiao Xi’s reaction, she should be unaware of his dark thoughts about possessiveness, otherwise she wouldn’t have remained so devoted to him…
Thinking this, Lu Huan felt a little relieved. He was about to say something when the same text popped up on his and Su Xi’s screens simultaneously— a mission announcement:
[Please accept Main Quest Eleven (Advanced): The Emperor of Yan is about to travel to the Yunzhou Palace. He will encounter assassins in Yunzhou. Please rescue the Emperor in time.]
The task difficulty was 20 stars, the gold coin reward was 1000, and the point reward was 15.
Lu Huan’s gaze immediately shifted from his own screen to the small screen in Xiao Xi’s hand. He saw that after seeing the pop-up task text, she seemed to be used to it and swiped it aside.
Lu Huan thought to himself, “Sure enough, my guess was right. She had already set up a curtain on her side, and it was because of the curtain’s series of missions that I met her.”
Now, I have my own curtain, but she is unaware of it.
Lu Huan was about to speak when he saw a bright green rectangle pop up above the brick in Su Xi’s hand after she temporarily closed the new task.
She pulled the rectangular strip down, and the entire small screen was filled with another interface, seemingly a message from someone—
Before Lu Huan could subconsciously avoid her privacy, the news had already caught his eye.
Gu Qin: My darling Xi Xi, are you staying home this weekend too? Come out and have some fun!
Darling?
Someone calls her “darling”?
Lu Huan’s eyelids twitched.
Then, on the screen, she casually grabbed a bag of potato chips, smiled, and quickly tapped the brick in her hand with her fingertips.
Then a message appeared in the rectangular frame in her hand that was linked to that person’s: Darling, I’m busy, I haven’t finished my homework yet, mua kiss~
Darling?
She even calls other people “darling”?
Although Lu Huan couldn’t fully understand the meaning of those two words, how could he not understand the word “kiss”?!
In the state of Yan, only betrothed men and women were allowed to engage in intimate acts…
Lu Huan stared at the screen, seeing her happy smile on the screen. He was struck dumb, and his face turned pale in an instant.
This is outrageous!
He tried his best to calm himself down. Perhaps the culture a thousand years later was different from that of the Yan Kingdom. Unmarried people could also do more intimate things and call each other by more affectionate names.
Lu Huan, who originally thought that she was the most important person in his world, and that he was, though not the only one, in her world, still a very important one, was shocked to see her casually turn off the screen to reply to someone else’s message and even calling them “darling”—
Moreover, on the green interface she opened, there seemed to be many conversations between her and others.
There were seven or eight different people visible on the interface alone.
At that moment, a gloomy feeling mixed with anxiety inevitably arose in his heart.
Lu Huan looked at the screen. Before he could switch back to the interface she was on, her little brick lit up again. This time, there was a small green curved button on the left side of the screen and a small red curved button on the right side.
She pointed to the left with her finger, then walked to the window and pressed the brick to her ear, where someone started talking.
Lu Huan then realized that he had been so immersed in the joy of seeing her and being able to have a smooth conversation with her that he had completely forgotten that he knew nothing about her world.
He could only recognize that the tall buildings were similar to temples in his dynasty, and the four-wheeled things speeding along the long streets were similar to horse-drawn carriages in his dynasty.
He could only recognize these.
He couldn’t even understand those tiny, crooked characters, yet those characters appeared in her inner thought bubbles and in her conversations with others.
Besides that, he didn’t know anything about her life, what she ate, what she did, whether she went to school, whether she had any good friends, where her parents were, or what those thick books on her desk were…
And, was the person who just called her “darling”… the one she loved?
He felt like an old relic, unable to comprehend her entirely new future world.
….
Lu Huan’s blood, which had been surging with excitement, suddenly cooled down as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over it.
He looked up at the world behind the curtain and realized that even though he could see her, she was still very far away from him.
A dense, indescribable sense of melancholy welled up within him; perhaps it was jealousy of the person from before, or perhaps it was fear that he knew nothing about her world.
….
After Su Xi returned from the phone call with her mother, she immediately opened the game interface and found her son packing his luggage in the room. He had been looking excited just now, but now he seemed a little disappointed.
She was a little confused, so she nudged the child’s shoulder and asked, “What’s wrong? I had something to do and left for a little while.”
Lu Huan had originally planned to tell her that he could see her too but then changed his mind.
He thought that he knew nothing about her world at the moment, and he had to learn her curved and twisted script as soon as possible and also find out how to use those novel and strange things like carriages. After he figured it all out in his own mind, he would tell her.
If, as the curtain said, I could accumulate two hundred points and then have the opportunity to go to her world to see her, then I wouldn’t be like an old relic from a thousand years ago, wandering aimlessly in her world and needing her help.
Of course, the most important reason was that Lu Huan was afraid that if he told her that there was a similar screen on his side, and that he could see her as well, she would be afraid and unwilling to let him participate in her world, and unwilling to let him see the other people around her…
He was not yet clear why such a curtain had suddenly appeared on his side.
We can only attribute it to something going wrong.
This curtain that spanned a thousand years was something created in her world; in other words, the initiative was entirely in Xiao Xi’s hands. If Xiao Xi wants to turn off her side’s curtain, she could simply do so.
On the other hand, he was in a very passive position.
To him, she was the most important and only one. But she was surrounded by many people. To her, he might just be a playmate from a thousand years ago— or, according to her own thoughts, just a child she raised.
If she were to learn that this ancient object from a thousand years ago wanted to understand her world, wanted to see her face to face, embrace her, and had even developed a possessive desire for her… would she want to run away and unilaterally cut off his connection with her?
Lu Huan felt somewhat down and conflicted.
However, there were only two urgent matters at present. One was to complete the series of tasks indicated on the curtain as soon as possible. If he was not mistaken, those tasks were all related to his background.
The other thing was to understand the novelties of her dynasty earlier.
Thinking of this, Lu Huan composed himself and, as usual, pretended to think that she was a ghost or deity beside him. So he smiled and said to the person beside him, “General Zhenyuan’s army is about to head to the northern border. I will be setting off with the army soon. Since I have just finished my duties in the Ministry of War, I will pack my luggage first.”
Su Xi nodded off-screen. Yes, the main quest that popped up earlier was already a high-level quest. It seems that the little one has already completed at least half of his path to becoming emperor. On the way to the northern border, he would pass through Yunzhou, which was a good opportunity to rescue the emperor who was going to be assassinated in the palace.
This should be the first time he would have a direct encounter with the Emperor— more than half a year ago at the banquet, there were so many people and the Emperor had been drinking, so he probably didn’t get a clear look at the boy.
Something was bound to happen when the Emperor met the Ninth Prince, the cub.
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