DS – Chapter 205

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Chapter 205 – 1992-2020

Lian Qiao really never expected that one day he and RenDong would quarrel over a woman.

And it’s a woman who doesn’t even have a full name! {LOL “Little Apple” is obviously not her real name.}

He was shocked, hesitant, angry and helpless. Standing alone in the woods for a long time, he experienced all kinds of negative emotions. Suddenly, for no reason, he felt a chill behind his back.

When he looked back, there was nothing but trees and flowers behind him. Birds singing in the empty valley came from a distant place and the sun shone through the gaps in the leaves on the ground covered with fallen leaves. It was extremely quiet.

… This place is really suitable for killing people.

The place is spacious but the path to get here was not easy to walk. Even if the other party wanted to escape, there was no way. Although the place was cheap and quiet, it was on the only pathway via the stone steps of the back mountain. As long as anyone comes up the path, they will definitely find the body.

If you don’t want to be discovered, then you have to kick the corpse down the mountain. Even those wild college students would not go to the shady places on the back of the mountain. Even if the corpse rotted, the smell of the corpse would hardly cross the mountain and enter the campus.

…There’s no real death here, is there?

Lian Qiao couldn’t help shivering, feeling that it’s not suitable to stay here for a long time and so he left quickly.

Going down the mountain and returning to the campus, seeing the college students coming and going on the road, he seemed to have found the warmth of the world again. He was walking aimlessly on the campus and, when he looked up by accident, he saw the teaching building where classes were being held and the jealousy in his heart surged again.

RenDong actually quarreled with him because of Little Apple!

What is the relationship between them?!

Lian Qiao repeatedly recalled the events of the past few days and really couldn’t see what Little Apple did to make RenDong favor her so much.

Could it be that they knew each other before this instance?!

It shouldn’t be. When Little Apple heard RenDong’s name, she didn’t react at all. It was not at all like she knew him before. Judging from their reactions when they get along, Little Apple was also very polite and unfamiliar with RenDong.

On the contrary, RenDong was the one who seemed to have known Little Apple for a long time…

Have they ever met?

…Could it be from online?

Yes, it would make sense if it was from online… RenDong recognized Little Apple through her voice or other ciphers but Little Apple didn’t recognize him.

The two of them may have known each other online for a long time but they didn’t expect that the first face-to-face meeting was actually in the instance. RenDong missed his ‘old love’ so he took special care of Little Apple and, for some reason, did not point out their relationship…

As for the “some reason”, you don’t even need to think about who it is for!

The more Lian Qiao thought about it, the angrier he became and his teeth itched because of his own brain power.

No, no, no, he can’t be suspicious of RenDong. RenDong is not a scumbag who seduces female college students online! They’re pure at best… a pure online relationship!

Anyway, they must have known each other before! Otherwise, how could RenDong say so firmly that Little Apple is a good person!

However, if they were friends before, why did RenDong never mention this person to him?

Lian Qiao could not wait to rush into the classroom and grab RenDong by the collar to ask him exactly what relationship he has with Little Apple. He raised his head and looked at the teaching building resentfully but finally restrained this impulse.

However, his heart became more and more depressed. He was in no mood to explore the campus so he simply went back to the hotel to rest.

The school has an on-campus hotel which is used to receive members of the executive board and is also usually open to members of the public. The hotel was not big and it was obviously understaffed. Lian Qiao wandered around in the hotel and has basically figured out the structure and personnel composition here.

He lay in the room for a while, staring at the ceiling in a daze. The sun was setting, and the warm yellow sunlight gradually climbed from the window to the face, which was very hot. The breath in Lian Qiao’s heart was still uncomfortable and so he couldn’t lie down anymore and ran to the balcony to breathe.

He was amazed when he got on the balcony.

“Monk?” Lian Qiao looked at the shiny bald head on the balcony next door in surprise, “…you are here.”

“What a coincidence.” The monk smiled and flicked the ashes into the ashtray, “Our room happens to be next door.”

“Most things that seem to be coincidences have their internal rationale. The hotel is understaffed and there is only one cleaning lady in charge of cleaning. The two rooms are arranged together to facilitate her cleaning.” Lian Qiao said. His eyes fell on the full ashtray in front of the Monk. “You’re smoking again. So much?”

“I’m worried.” The Monk sighed, “Little Apple and I split up to search all morning but we didn’t find any clues.”

Lian Qiao said “Oh”.

The Monk stared at him for a while and asked, “You seem to have something to say to me?”

Lian Qiao: “…” Although I do have a desire to confide in him, it always feels a bit weird to confide in a monk.

The Monk said sharply, “Are you having a conflict with Xu RenDong?”

Lian Qiao: “!!!” How did you guess this?!

The Monk sneered: “It’s not hard to guess. You have a love brain and you only have Xu RenDong in your mind. What else can make you sad except Xu RenDong?”

Lian Qiao: “…you know a lot, even about falling in love.”

Lian Qiao thought about it for a moment and still confessed honestly, saying that he felt that RenDong was not quite right recently and seemed to be hiding something from him. He asked him but he refused to say anything.

“…You know the law of death in horror movies, right?” Lian Qiao rubbed his nose uncomfortably, “After all, we are in an instance. We used to be very restrained. At most, we would kiss and hug each other and we wouldn’t be serious. It’s too dangerous to do a… er, to do a full set. What if we get interrupted by something haunted, what if I get impotent after being frightened, that kind of thing. But recently he has been very active and clinging to me.”

The monk nodded: “Indeed. I feel tired looking at it.”

Lian Qiao: “…” He coughed and his face flushed slightly, “Besides, he used to be very shy, with a thin face, and couldn’t bear it. I took care of his mood and didn’t dare to play too hard. But recently he doesn’t know where he has learned a lot… er, new postures. They are all things I wanted to try but couldn’t bear to play. Can you imagine, it’s just…”

Lian Qiao used his index fingers and thumbs as his legs, and his hands were used as a cover for the Monk. The Monk was at a loss at first and didn’t know what he was doing with his hands bumping back and forth but after he realized, his face was full of expressions like he had eaten shit and couldn’t bear to look directly at him.

“Okay, okay, don’t demonstrate, I don’t want to learn how you gays have sex.” The Monk’s head was full of black lines.

“Cough, I’m sorry.” Lian Qiao said in a low voice with a blushing face, “I just want to express that this position is very difficult! I don’t know where he learned it! He doesn’t watch movies or pictures and is ascetic. A man like a priest…”

The Monk rolled his eyes almost to the sky: “Just ask him directly.”

“I asked.” Lian Qiao thought of something, blushed to the base of his ears, but the corners of his mouth could not help but curl up slightly, “He said he learned from a bad guy and then continued…”

“Stop!” The Monk couldn’t listen anymore and wanted to throw the ashtray at him, “I don’t need to describe the details! I’ve already understood it. You just think he suddenly changed his temperament and he is very active in bed, right?”

Lian Qiao nodded.

The Monk: “According to my years of experience in reading Buddhist scriptures, I’m afraid your partner is cheating.”

Lian Qiao: “???” Are you sure you’re reading a Buddhist scripture and not a trashy romance novel?

Lian Qiao was a little angry after being shocked and said angrily: “Fuck you, he can’t cheat. He is so kind to me after cheating? He looks like he can die for me anytime, anywhere. What’s more, with his personality… “

The Monk laughed and said, “You don’t understand that, do you? He treats you well because of guilt! Haven’t you heard of a statistic that when a man returns home after cheating, the probability of bringing a gift to his wife is higher than usual? Much higher. This is a kind of compensatory psychology. He feels sorry to you after cheating, so he treats you better, so that he will have a balance in his heart and feel less sorry for you.”

“…” The more Lian Qiao listened, the more unhappy he became. He curled his lips and complained, “How do you know so much as a monk?”

The Monk clasped his hands together: “Amitabha, although this poor monk eats vegetarian food, recites Buddha, and meditates, I am also a man. How can I not know what men think? But you, I wonder why you can’t think of this…”

Lian Qiao was furious: “I don’t cheat! How can I know what a man is thinking after cheating!”

The Monk smiled and said nothing.

The more Lian Qiao thought about it, the angrier he became. It’s not because RenDong might cheat but because the Monk actually said that about his RenDong.

“He won’t cheat.” Lian Qiao glared at the monk, “He’s not that kind of person.”

Although Lian Qiao said this, he thought in her heart: As for whether there is an old relationship, it is hard to say.

Unexpectedly, the Monk seemed to see through his mind and said with a smile: “Maybe the person he cheated with came before you?”

Lian Qiao: “…”

There are only four of them alive in this instance so far. Excluding the Monk and Lian Qiao himself, the only person RenDong can cheat on is with Little Apple. The fact that the Monk would say this probably meant he was also aware of the specialness of Little Apple to RenDong.

Lian Qiao was in a complicated mood. After all, RenDong only met him when he was 28 years old and he lived 28 years before that! He has always been concerned about this and he is very afraid that one day RenDong will suddenly show up with an ex-girlfriend, white moonlight or something. That’s why there is a tragedy of mistakenly treating the mother-in-law as a rival in love…

But now this Little Apple is about the same age as him and her personality is also similar to him. She is the lively and cheerful type. Even their interests and hobbies are surprisingly similar.

She can be said to be the female version of Lian Qiao!

Lian Qiao couldn’t control himself from wanting to know more. After all… RenDong really treated Little Apple very special.

“So why don’t you test him out?” the monk suggested sincerely.

Lian Qiao: “How to test?”

Monk: “You also try to cheat?”

Lian Qiao: “???”

He frowned and looked the Monk up and down. “With the likes of you?” was written all over his face and rejection was written all over his body.

The Monk felt offended: “Of course not with me!”

Lian Qiao was stunned: “With Little Apple?! Are you sick!”

The monk laughed loudly: “Of course it’s with Little Apple. Isn’t this killing two birds with one stone? You can try to find out whether he is cheating with Little Apple or not, and you can also try to find out whether he still loves you. It’s killing two birds with one stone!”

Lian Qiao said resentfully: “You really don’t think it’s a big deal to watch the excitement.”

Monk: “Just say whether you want to or not.”

Lian Qiao said displeased: “No, get out.” After saying that, he went back to the house with a full face of displeasure.

He threw his head down on the bed and buried his head in the pillow, feeling worse than before after talking to the monk.

It’s all the Monk’s fault. Wouldn’t it be good to recite Buddhist scriptures and enlighten him? What statistics, what cheating man psychology?

After a while, someone knocked on the door.

Lian Qiao was in a bad mood, picked up the crowbar and went to open the door with a gloomy face.

He never expected that outside the door was the person he least wanted to see right now.

Little Apple.

When Little Apple saw the door open and saw him holding a crowbar with a face full of  intention to commit murder, she was frightened and took a step back. Immediately afterwards, her face was full of anger. She stepped forward and grabbed Lian Qiao by the collar and asked, “What did you do to Xu RenDong?!”

Lian Qiao: “???”

Why did you come to question me first? I still want to ask what you and RenDong are doing!

…Wait, why did she ask that?

Lian Qiao’s pupils shrank suddenly and he grabbed Little Apple’s collar with his backhand. He asked sharply, “What’s wrong with RenDong?!”

The Monk poked his head out from the next door: “?”

What are you two doing grabbing each other by the collar?

Is it some new way of flirting?

Stimulating.

The author has something to say: Speaking of which, has anyone noticed… the open space behind the mountain is where Black Qiao killed Little Apple, that’s why RenDong is so angry~

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