Ning Su could imagine the situation at that time.
Given Shi Tianzhu’s personality, Ning Changfeng couldn’t have escaped without severe injuries.
Ning Changfeng: “She almost killed me!”
Sure enough.
Ning Changfeng: “Luckily, the instance was about to end, and someone held her back; otherwise, you wouldn’t be here.”
Ning Su: “?”
What did that have to do with him?
Ning Changfeng: “She always thought I was deceiving and mocking her. After I escaped, she put a bounty on my head.”
Ning Su: “In that situation, your head popping up one after another was a provocation to her. How could she not want to cut it off?”
Ning Su said, “The president seems very sensitive to deception, especially hating men’s deceit.”
“Yes,” Ning Changfeng sighed, “I tried to explain to her, but she didn’t believe me at all.”
“At first, there was just a million-point bounty on my head. I got angry and had many conflicts with their group, leading to mutual harm. The conflict escalated to the current situation.”
Ning Su asked, “When you were still a snake but could talk, why didn’t you tell her you were a player?”
Ning Changfeng said, “Before I could speak, she had already told me a lot on the night she got poisoned and sick. Maybe those weren’t things she wanted a player to know.”
“I was afraid she’d feel embarrassed or get angry if she found out. So, I thought it best to keep it from her and not let her know the ancient snake was a player. It was enough that I knew.”
Ning Changfeng took a painful sip of beer. “I didn’t expect to suddenly turn back into a human.”
He turned his head and saw Ning Su looking at him with clear peach blossom eyes, with an expression that said, ‘I’ve seen through you.’
Ning Changfeng: “...”
Ning Su: “If that was the case, you should have left her after that night. That would have been safer.”
Ning Changfeng: “...”
Ning Changfeng: “If I said I didn’t think of that, would you believe me?”
Ning Su blinked. “What do you think?”
Ning Changfeng: “...”
Ning Su: “Deep down, you don’t want to leave.”
Ning Changfeng: “...”
Ning Changfeng fell into a deep silence and drank.
This was actually better than Ning Su had imagined.
If it was just a misunderstanding and not an irreconcilable grudge, it could be resolved.
It’s just unknown if something happened during the escalating conflict that made it impossible to let go. After all, even Ning Changfeng described it as “mutually harming each other.”
And also, how to make the president believe that Ning Changfeng was not messing with her at the time?
Perhaps she needed to understand Ning Changfeng’s true character?
Ning Su nudged Ning Changfeng. “Will you join me in the next instance?”
Ning Changfeng: “Of course!”
Ning Su: “Then let’s invite our president along.”
Spending more time together peacefully might help clear things up. At least it would allow Shi Tianzhu to understand Ning Changfeng better.
Ning Su: “Don’t talk about how many female players at the base like you in front of our president again.”
Ning Changfeng: “…Do you think I’m stupid?”
Ning Su felt a weight lift off his chest and happily started eating barbecue.
There was no deep-seated hatred between the two of them. Besides, based on his years of reading romance novels, Ning Su felt that Ning Changfeng had a bit of a crush on Shi Tianzhu back then.
Otherwise, why didn’t he leave after that night?
He just didn’t want to leave Shi Tianzhu.
It was just that later, blinded by anger and hatred, he didn’t think deeply about it.
Also, Shi Tianzhu liked that ancient snake.
Ning Changfeng was somewhat right; the ancient snake was him.
Although it was just a snake image, it was still a part of him.
Ning Su happily continued eating barbecue.
After Ning Changfeng left, the three of them—one adult and two children—happily sat on the swing chair, rubbing their bellies.
The small courtyard was full of greenery, with the evening breeze coming from the river, humid and refreshing. The little skull night lamps hanging everywhere emitted a cute and warm light.
Ning Su suddenly captured a moment of great happiness.
Ning Su: “After coming out of the dungeon today, I received three hugs - from the president, Ling Xiao, and dad.”
After saying this, he looked at the two little kids and extended his hands toward them.
The two kids stared at him blankly. Their eyes suddenly lit up, and they flew into Ning Su’s arms.
Manman: “Mommy smells so nice.”
Gui Sheng kept rubbing his shoulder, “Yeah~”
The two ghost children were much smaller than ordinary children of the same age, so Ning Su could hug them both together. He exclaimed in surprise, “Do I really smell good?”
Then he understood, “It must be the dark smoke.”
The taste between ghosts and humans was always so different.
Manman: “It’s a fragrance.”
Gui Sheng: “Yeah!”
Gui Sheng kept rubbing Ning Su’s shoulder as if he wouldn’t get dizzy. “It’s the fragrance of happiness!”
Ning Su was even more surprised. “You little dummy, I can’t believe you said something so profound!”
Manman said, “Gui Sheng is a little smart cookie.”
Gui Sheng: “Yeah~ I’m a little smart cookie!”
Ning Su: “...”
Ning Su hugged them for a while, suddenly remembering, “I also got a little item in the dungeon.”
He took out the reward from the system space, a little zombie.
When he took it out, it was like a lump of clay.
Ning Su wasn’t disappointed; he remembered what the system said about the player needing to mold the face themselves.
“What kind of face should I mold?” Ning Su looked at the lump of clay, confused.
Gui Sheng extended his little grey-white finger, shyly pointing at Ning Su’s face.
Ning Su: “...”
“Why do you look a bit shy?”
Gui Sheng added, “Six years old! So cute!”
Ning Su understood. At the beginning of the <Manman> instance, Gui Sheng saw his six-year-old self and patted his little chest, saying he wanted to protect him.
And he did protect him in that instance.
For Gui Sheng, that must have been a meaningful period of time.
It was the same for Manman.
Manman was also looking at him expectantly.
Ning Su said, “Okay, six-year-old me it is.”
Gui Sheng: “A pink floral shirt~”
Manman: “Light yellow shorts.”
Following their descriptions, Ning Su pinched a little zombie.
The little zombie was tiny, wearing a shirt with pink petal collars and light yellow shorts, standing between two children, being lovingly petted by the two crouching kids.
Its face was blank.
Ning Su: “...”
The system said this little zombie could pass through any space. Ning Su wondered, did that include inside the base?
Unless you’re in the top ten of the player rankings, you generally couldn’t use skills or weapons in the base, but the system said any space, so could it or not?
***
In the dead of night, the game base was brightly lit and bustling with activity.
Today marked the end of the guild competition finals, announcing the conclusion of this season. Starting tomorrow, players would resume the weekly game of running through a dungeon once.
Tonight felt like a final celebration.
Ling Xiao lay on his bed, eyes closed, listening to the mad, excited laughter and cries outside, his face expressionless.
He couldn’t feel any of the intense emotions outside.
He suddenly opened his eyes, turning his head in the darkness, and saw a palm-sized little zombie.
The little zombie had a blank expression, looking at him with its beautiful peach blossom eyes, tilting its head, “Lord Flower God.”
Its voice was soft and milky.
I also want a 6-year-old Ning Ning must be adorable 🤩
ReplyDeleteThanks for the update!! 🤗 🤗 🤗
this is going to kill me with the cuteness
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