Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Lu Huan didn’t understand the mechanism by which the bubbles appeared but guessed that they must appear when one’s inner emotions were in turmoil.
Su Xi had just seen bubbles rising from the top of her head when she slammed her hand on the table and burst into laughter. She wasn’t shocked at all; instead, she seemed completely used to it. It seemed that countless bubbles had already appeared on her head before.
…I wonder what strange ideas each bubble came up with.
As Lu Huan thought about these things, his face grew even more grim.
He was utterly despondent.
Like any other young man in the world whose heart was occupied by his beloved, he secretly hoped that Xiao Xi could know the restless thoughts in his heart.
But at the same time, he was afraid she would find out.
He feared that once she found out, she would feel awkward and strange and would never again open the brick in her hand to come find him. His dynasty and her world were separated by a thousand years, and he feared her disappearance more than anyone else.
Moreover, at that time, the two of them probably won’t even be able to maintain the relaxed and warm atmosphere they had now.
….
However, judging from Xiao Xi’s current attitude of still regarding herself as a cartoon character on a screen, the bubbles rising from her head should never have uttered the words “like” or “delight”.
Thinking this way, Lu Huan felt a little relieved, even though his feelings were complicated.
But every time she came to find him, he couldn’t help but feel joy. When she didn’t come, he couldn’t help but miss her. When she came and was about to go to sleep, he urged her to sleep, but he also felt a thousand regrets… There were just too many emotions related to her, and he simply couldn’t control them.
Lu Huan was afraid that one day, by accident, the bubble on his head might inadvertently reveal his unspeakable thoughts.
So, whenever Xiao Xi came to see him again, he would take a deep breath, try his best to focus on the matter at hand and what he was saying to her, and try not to let his inner emotions fluctuate too much.
….
Su Xi wasn’t stupid, she quickly noticed that the little one was acting strangely.
Every now and then, a bubble would pop up above his head. Even if there were no words in the bubble, it would pop up little suns, little red hearts, or sad little leaves to express his feelings. But ever since he had the thought of “wanting to go back to the capital” last time, no bubbles had popped up for a long time.
This wasn’t even the strangest place.
Previously, because he didn’t know her direction, he would subconsciously look into the void when talking to her. But recently, however, the direction he looked in had become very fixed; he was always looking straight ahead— even if there was a table in front of him. Did he think he was standing on the table talking to him?
Not only that, but sometimes his expression would also be a little strange. For example, when she slammed the table and laughed wildly that time, he shouldn’t have been able to see her, but the expression on his face was stiff and lifeless.
Su Xi was completely baffled and subconsciously interpreted it as the cub possibly having some secret he was hiding from her and didn’t want her to know, which was why he was acting strangely.
We talk about everything, so what secrets could there be between us?
Is there some new development regarding the Emperor and his origins? Is he hesitant to tell me directly? Or has the disaster in the North worsened, causing him so much worry that he can’t focus on anything else? Or is it something that makes him embarrassed to tell his mother about his puppy love? But in the military camp, surrounded by cartoonish soldiers with long beards, where would he find the opportunity for puppy love?!
…Su Xi’s head was throbbing from thinking, so she decided to stop speculating.
However, once she opened the game, she couldn’t help but linger her gaze on the baby for a long time.
Previously, she might have been glancing around at the other minor officials walking around on the screen, but now she couldn’t help but stare at the child’s face, trying to see if there was anything unusual about him.
But after watching it so many times, Su Xi gradually developed a feeling that “the little one seems to be no longer a little one.”
From the time she went from the Ning Wang’s residence to the Ministry of War, her scenes were always cartoonish. In her eyes, the little one was always a short-armed, short-legged little dumpling. No matter what action or expression he made, he was incredibly cute.
Even when he was angry, he just had a puffed-up face and didn’t show any authority at all.
But now, the little one was in front of her every day with the title “Lu Huan, who is seventeen years old and already eligible to marry and have children in Yan State”— that’s right, for some reason, as soon as his sixteenth birthday passed, this title was immediately changed, the game system was terrifyingly intelligent.
In addition, he was wearing silver armor, a golden beast belt around his waist, and two bronze breastplates. He often didn’t have time to take off his armor and boots, so he always had slightly messy hair and a bloodied face, making him a handsome young man that no one could take their eyes off.
In addition, he had previously emphasized his height of over eight feet, which caused Su Xi to no longer use the overhead view, but instead use the eye-level view.
This resulted in Su Xi being startled by his tall, slender figure every time, while the cartoon characters around him, whose original artwork had not yet been released, looked like dwarfs in comparison.
The cub had always maintained the original drawing of a young boy. His occasional frowns, smiles and frowns were thus incredibly real in Su Xi’s eyes. She couldn’t help but clutch her heart and think, no wonder the daughter of the Minister of War came out that day to see him off.
When he discussed matters with General Zhenyuan and others, and pondered over the battle formation diagram, his every move exuded an indescribable air of ancient elegance.
The seventeen-year-old boy was now incredibly handsome, a complete contrast to the little dumpling who was barely knee-high to Su Xi before.
Su Xi had been watching his pattern for so long that she was almost in a daze. Every time she called out “little one” in her heart, she would hesitate for a moment, feeling that she couldn’t quite say it out loud.
But thanks to this garbage game! She wanted to switch back to the original cartoon character mode, but the game wouldn’t let her!
Is this a forced “difficulty in going from luxury to frugality”?!
Su Xi felt a little depressed. It was as if the child she had raised with her own hands had suddenly grown up, and she couldn’t bring herself to call him “child” when she saw his handsome face.
Before, when the cub was still younger than Su Xi and hadn’t even turned sixteen, Su Xi could still cheerfully call her “Xiao Huan”. But now, seeing the cub already seventeen, three months older than her by age, she couldn’t even bring herself to call him “Xiao Huan”.
Are there people who are over 1.8 meters tall and can still be children?
This feeling of unease and complexity was originally only a tiny bit, since she saw her son every day and wouldn’t feel any sense of unfamiliarity.
However, this slight unease reached its peak the moment she logged on that day and saw her son taking off his armor and outer robe!
Before Su Xi could even close her eyes, she saw the naked upper body of the boy inside the tent!
He had just finished patrolling with his troops. He dismounted from his horse outside, had two soldiers guard the tent, then stood by the bed andwith his back to Su Xi, removed his armor and half of his outer robe. He then picked up the wound medicine from the table and began to apply it to his wound.
The boy’s skin was smooth, as if coated with white glaze, with beautiful lines. After nearly a year of training and battles, he possessed thin, unpretentious muscles, exuding a feeling between the naivety of youth and the composure of adulthood. There seemed to be an arrow wound on his shoulder, bleeding, as if tearing apart his beauty, adding a battle-worn aesthetic.
Su Xi: Damn it!
Su Xi had seen the cub’s body when he was still a baby and she was changing his soaked clothes, but back then his chubby face was all white and soft, and she couldn’t see anything at all.
She never expected that her son actually had a very voluptuous figure!
She caught the baby completely naked without warning!
Although Su Xi had no ulterior motives towards the cub, she usually neither looked at pornographic pictures nor had she had many opportunities to watch intimate scenes in TV dramas. Her mind was thus still relatively innocent, and she had never imagined that the first time she would see someone else’s body was actually in the game and that too the cub’s! Her face immediately burned with desire.
Su Xi rubbed her face, trying her best to calm herself down; he was still injured.
She quickly redeemed a 100% effective healing potion from the shop, tugged at the outer robe hanging to the side of her child, and asked anxiously, “How did you get hurt again?”
Whenever Lu Huan wasn’t on the battlefield, he would keep the curtain open. When he looked up and saw that she had also opened the brick in her hand, he smiled and said, “It’s just a scratch.”
Su Xi zoomed in on his arm and saw that it was indeed just a scratch and not a big problem, so she was slightly relieved.
The abrasion was on the back of the arm, and it was a little difficult for the little one to bandage it himself. However, Su Xi was also a bit clumsy and didn’t know how to do it properly, even though she was watching from behind a screen. She was afraid of hurting the little one, so she didn’t offer to help bandage it.
Fortunately, the little one was quick and skillful and soon finished bandaging the wound. Then he bent down to put on his outer robe.
As he lowered his head to put on his outer robe, his long, jet-black hair cascaded down onto his smooth, powerful shoulder blades, leaving Su Xi unsure where to look.
Su Xi felt like crying but couldn’t shed a tear.
Why can’t this game go back to the original “milk dumpling” mode? Now her face was inexplicably burning, and she didn’t dare to stay in the tent any longer.
She quickly switched the interface and coughed at the cub, saying, “I suddenly remembered I have something urgent to attend to, I’ll come back later.”
Lu Huan felt a little disappointed. He had planned to discuss other things with her, but he didn’t expect her to leave after less than half a second. However, he figured she must have something urgent to do, so he didn’t want to stop her.
So he nodded, trying his best not to show his disappointment, and said with a smile, “Okay, see you later.”
Su Xi quickly turned off the screen, the scene of accidentally witnessing the boy taking off his clothes still lingering in her mind.
She shook her head, jumped off the sofa, and frantically did a set of calisthenics in front of the air. Then, thinking that she had already burned off the fat, she was no longer afraid and took out two bags of potato chips from the TV cabinet and started crunching them.
Lu Huan, who thought she really had some urgent business to attend to and needed to leave, was speechless.
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