Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Yan Han stared blankly.
At this moment, Lin Jianlu reached out and grabbed his hand, holding it tightly in her palm before carefully saying, “I didn’t mean to hide it from you, don’t be angry.”
“I’m not angry,” Yan Han said calmly. “Tell me whenever you want.”
“I just wanted to give you a surprise,” Lin Jianlu said, then raised her hand to look at her watch. “I was thinking of telling you after midnight, on your birthday.”
“What…”
“But since you found out… I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have kept it from you.”
“…”
“There are still more than four hours left, it’s not bad to give you the gift now.”
“What is it?”
So Lin Jianlu had been secretly preparing a birthday gift for him all this time?
What kind of gift could make Lin Jianlu stay up for two nights straight to prepare it?!
Yan Han’s eyes widened. Didn’t he say he had already prepared the gift for him? Why was he doing this now…?
A series of questions popped into his head. Before Yan Han could ask any questions, he heard Xiao Wu in his mind suddenly exclaim a few times: [Eee …]
“…???”
Xiao Wu’s silence was fine, but the moment she spoke… Yan Han suddenly had a premonition. He asked urgently, “Hmm? What?”
[Just now… Xiao Wu received a notification that your mission has been canceled…]
Yan Han: …?!!
“What?!” This time, the scream came from Yan Han. He stared at Lin Jianlu in disbelief, wanting to ask Xiao Wu what was going on, but he was too shocked to react.
Lin Jianlu seemed to know he was talking to the system, and remained silent, simply holding his hand and smiling at him, giving him ample time.
Then, under Lin Jianlu’s doting gaze, Yan Han listened to Xiao Wu explain the current situation—
[The mission restricting the host has been canceled. Without affecting your existing powers, you are now free!] To be more specific, the conditions that were initially exchanged to save the host’s life have all become invalid. From now on, the host can fully resume his identity as ‘Yan Han,’ and will no longer have the obligation to complete the five all-around tasks, nor will he need to get into X University…]
Yan Han: “!!!”
Xiao Wu rambled on for a long time, which was exhausting to listen to.
But not understanding didn’t matter. Combined with the semi-transparent light screen in front of him, the situation was now extremely clear!
To put it simply, it really was four words— he was free!
He no longer needed to pretend to be the female classmate “Yan Han,” nor did he need to complete the five all-around achievements, and he certainly didn’t need to get into X University!
From now on, he could walk in this world as a male, and he wouldn’t have to worry about being sent back to his original world to die if he didn’t get into X University…
As for the third point, the requirement of the five all-around achievements, only the intelligence requirement hadn’t been met yet, and it seemed like it would be soon. Yan Han had never worried about it.
But just the first two points alone could be said to have given him a new lease on life!
“Brother Lin! How did you do that?!” Having just grasped the meaning this gift meant to him, Yan Han couldn’t help but ask excitedly, almost jumping into Lin Jianlu’s arms!
Lin Jianlu seemed to have been waiting for this look of surprise and delight. He smiled contentedly, though his expression still held a hint of fatigue, but he didn’t seem to care at all. He told Yan Han, “It’s not important, as long as you like it.”
“I like it! Of course I like it!”
But while he liked it, Yan Han wasn’t easily fooled. He pressed, “So what exactly did you do? You went out in the middle of the night just for this? You…”
His excitement was suddenly overwhelmed by worry, and Yan Han became anxious.
He knew there was no such thing as a free lunch. Such a good opportunity had just fallen into his lap; it would be a lie to say Lin Jianlu hadn’t paid any price!
Yan Han was determined to press him, and Lin Jianlu had no choice but to tell him the truth: “It’s a system skill of mine. One of it can grant me some wishes. I went out in the middle of the night to do a mission. Remember, my mission was to help those thoughts fulfill their wishes?”
“So you went out to help them fulfill their wishes? How many did you fulfill?”
“One hundred million.”
“…”
Yan Han gasped!
Lin Jianlu was a little helpless: “The skill requirements for fulfilling this wish are a bit too many.”
“…You went out in the middle of the night, without sleep, just to make it before my birthday…”
“Yeah.” Lin Jianlu nodded honestly, “I was worried that there wouldn’t be enough time, but it went quite smoothly last night…”
“You you you…” For some reason, Lin Jianlu suddenly became blurry in Yan Han’s vision.
His eyes were covered by a mist, like a mirror shattered into eight pieces. Through the light refracted from the fragments, he couldn’t see Lin Jianlu clearly no matter what…
Frustrated, Yan Han wiped his eyes and found that his hands were wet.
Hot water droplets streamed down his cheeks, clearing his vision. Yan Han saw Lin Jianlu approaching, looking bewildered and distressed. He asked anxiously, “What’s wrong? Are you… unhappy?”
“Damn it, who’s unhappy?” He wiped his eyes hard again, his emotions spiraling out of control. He sobbed, “Are you stupid? Why didn’t you give me this gift sometime? How long have you been up without sleep because of it?”
“I thought you were usually pretty smart, how come you act like a fool at this crucial moment? Besides, who said I wanted a gift like this? I’m sure I can get into X University, damn it…”
This was the first time the older brother had cried so intensely. The joy he felt before was now multiplied by a factor of heartache. He was so heartbroken that he didn’t know how to alleviate his emotions, so he could only let the tears stream down his face, forgetting all about saving face.
Lin Jianlu, who was close to him, pressed his head into his arms, letting the torrent of tears fall onto his clothes, and whispered, “I don’t doubt your abilities, I just don’t want you to be bound. Being forced to take exams is meaningless for your life. I want you to do what you like in a free environment…”
Perhaps because he was crying, Lin Jianlu’s words became incoherent. He rambled on about his true intentions: “You can still study without these constraints, you can just take the exams wherever you want. Besides, I only want you to revert to your original gender in public, everything else is just secondary.”
“…Then tell me,” Yan Han was still very emotional, “when exactly did you start preparing for all this!”
“Not long, since I realized that cross-dressing was a big problem for you.” Lin Jianlu’s slightly lowered eyes were full of tenderness, “Besides, I had already saved up a lot of points that I didn’t have anywhere to use, so it was nothing, not much effort.”
“…No, that won’t do either, damn it, I even doubted you before…damn it!”
Yan Han got so excited that he couldn’t hold back his increasingly restrained use of vulgar language this semester and it all came out at once.
But after the outburst, it was nothing, and his feelings were still complicated.
He felt sorry for Lin Jianlu, thinking about how the other person had been quietly preparing this gift without his knowledge… Maybe when he was studying all night, Lin Jianlu was also studying all night, but Lin Jianlu had always been there for him, never missing a beat, helping him with his problems on weekdays, and going out with him on weekends without missing a thing…
Yan Han once thought that he had already sacrificed a lot to maintain this relationship, studying like crazy just to survive.
But compared to Lin Jianlu, who had quietly prepared a surprise for him…it was nothing, insignificant!
After a moment of emotional outburst, soaking most of Lin Jianlu’s clothes, Yan Han realized that Lin Jianlu would never want to see him like this.
Now that he’d already given the gift, his current behavior seemed a bit petty and unworthy of Big Brother Lin’s generosity.
So Yan Han wiped his face one last time, silencing his tears, and tried to make his voice sound less choked up: “By the way, the mission is canceled, so what about the skills I got from opening the boxes before…”
[It’s said that without affecting existing rights, the skills the host opened are still the host’s, and can be upgraded as usual.] Xiao Wu said, its voice tinged with doubt.
It had only received this notification, but to be honest, it had never seen such a sudden unbinding before. Not to mention that not only was the mission canceled, but all the skills that had served as rewards and aids were also retained by the host… Such a wonderful thing… even Xiao Wu wondered if the instructions it received had been wrong.
But the facts were the facts. Although Xiao Wu couldn’t explain it clearly, Yan Han’s mission had indeed been canceled.
He was free, and no longer had to worry about being sent back to his original world to die.
With the life-or-death issue resolved, Yan Han quickly thought of the second thing that had been troubling him: “So, you’re saying I’ve regained my original identity, which means I’m Yan Han from now on? And I don’t have to wear women’s clothes anymore? But how am I going to explain this to my classmates…”
Big Brother Lin had considered this issue before, and he thought things would work out eventually, so he hadn’t given it much thought. He hadn’t expected this problem to be presented to him so soon.
This time, Lin Jianlu answered him: “You can go back to the dorm and take a look.”
“Go back to the dorm?” Yan Han didn’t understand what he meant.
“Yes, come with me.”
Lin Jianlu said, taking his hand and leading him back to the dorm building.
Before entering the building, he became a little more reserved, walking in without holding hands, the two of them slightly apart.
However, as they walked upstairs, Yan Han felt increasingly uneasy… The girls’ dorms were lower floors, all concentrated on the second and third floors.
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