Wait, why is this blond guy a lolicon?

Chapter 188 Alan is not suffering at all...

"Waaah..."

As expected, at the pinnacle of life, the answer from Great Xia was a little white-haired loli with the ability to rewind time and the goal of becoming the strongest... She cried again.

Crystalline tears rolled down her flushed cheeks, disappearing into her disheveled hair and onto the pillow.

"This is so awesome!" Song Ruyu's mind was completely occupied by the awesome magic.

My consciousness seemed to float on warm clouds, and all that swirled in my mind was the intense feeling of being out of control.

"That feels great! That feels great! That feels great!"

Jiang Ling felt that she might be a little abnormal.

Looking down at Ruyu from such a high vantage point, watching her bury her head in the pillow and sob softly, transforming her from an unyielding "strongest" into a spoiled little crybaby in bed—this extreme contrast stirred a complex emotion within him, a mixture of affection and possessiveness.

She... is so cute!

"Ruyu, stop crying... Why do you keep crying?"

Song Ruyu merely wiggled her legs, which were draped in ice-silk cloud-patterned stockings, hanging over the edge of the bed. Instead of stopping, she cried even harder, her muffled sobs escaping: "Waaaaah... Waaaaah..."

She didn't speak, she just kept crying until her voice became a little hoarse.

Perhaps it could be said that the total number of tears she shed in the past twenty years of her life is not as many as the tears she shed in the few days after meeting Jiang Ling.

In his strong and warm embrace, the so-called "responsibility," "strength," and "duty" weighing on her shoulders seemed to be temporarily and properly put away.

Here, she can temporarily shed all her burdens and simply exist as a girl who can rely on others.

At this moment, she was in a long-lost state of complete relaxation, both mentally and physically...

She's a girl too, and she feels like crying too!

Room 305 is separated by only one wall.

The polarities have reversed.

Lan Xinlan, waiting alone by the starry hot spring pool for his return—their "first time soaking in a hot spring together"—faintly heard blush-inducing sounds coming from next door. She couldn't help but cover her ears and mutter softly:

"Really... can't you even restrain yourself... ugh..."

"Ah Ling, why haven't you come back yet?"

"I still want to keep our promise to 'go to a hot spring together for the first time'..."

However, she was unaware that just a wall away, her former best friend Song Ruyu had suddenly appeared and, in a way she had never expected, had taken the lead in capturing Jiang Ling's attention and affection.

In that private space filled with the steam of the hot spring, a scene of intimacy completely different from what she had expected was unfolding, and those shameful voices... were the most severe proof.

Lan Xinlan simply took out her headphones and put them on, covering up the shameful sounds, and the randomly playing music flowed out:

【♫When time and space shatter, mountains and rivers turn to ash, and faces wither away～♫】

"Hmm, why does this song make my heart pound..." Alan muttered to himself.

Two hours later.

Song Ruyu's breathing gradually calmed down. She raised her hand to wipe away the crisscrossing tear tracks on her face and let out a long, soothing breath.

[Beep! Romantic event detected. Small reward task issued!]

[Task: Get the proud and arrogant Ruyu to call you "husband" in person~]

[Reward: Stance - Heaven and Tyrant (Thunderous stance, your stance will make your enemies imagine your power)]

"Oh ho~ Did they release a single-choice mini-quest?" Jiang Ling stroked her chin. "It's not very useful, but why not take it..."

So, while the little white hair's head was all messed up...

Jiang Ling launched a new offensive, determined to win over the cold and arrogant little white-haired girl.

Make her call her husband "kouya" (a vulgar expression) herself!

"Ruyu, come here, give me another kiss," he coaxed softly.

"Mmm...uh." Song Ruyu tilted her head back in a daze and obediently exchanged a gentle kiss with him.

"My dear wife, let me help you clean your body..."

Song Ruyu obediently stretched out her limbs, letting him wipe her carefully, like a cat that had retracted its claws and revealed its soft belly.

As expected of two tsundere lolis—Ruyu and Meiyu are exactly the same. When their minds are a complete mess, whatever he says goes, and they'll do whatever he asks, even…

"My beautiful wife, call me husband~"

However, as time went by, reason gradually returned like a tide.

Song Ruyu's eyes gradually regained their former clarity.

The absurd and out-of-control memories of the past two hours flooded her mind, causing her body to stiffen. She abruptly broke free from the warm embrace and grabbed most of the blanket to wrap herself tightly.

Jiang Ling: ……

Compared to that silly little brat who needs half an hour for her eyes to clear, the willpower and adaptability of the aloof little white-haired beauty are amazing!

"You...you..."

Song Ruyu had her back to him, her voice still trembling slightly from the aftermath, trying to make her tone sound calm or even indifferent:

"How did you get here? And... about tonight, let's pretend it never happened. It was just a moment of... confusion on my part. Do you understand? Just like last time we said goodbye... we... we just accidentally did something we shouldn't have..."

She glanced at the Taoist-style nightgown on the floor, bent down to pick it up, and quickly put it back on.

Intending to conceal it, the thin, translucent fabric, under the dim light, instead outlined the curves and things that were not meant to be seen directly, adding an unwitting allure.

"That's what I should be asking you," Jiang Ling's Adam's apple bobbed slightly, his gaze lingering on her for a moment before he countered with his question:

"Why did you end up in Hokkaido?"

Holy crap, isn't this blatantly tempting me?

Could this be what they call... a cold shoulder?!

Jiang Ling didn't give her much time to think or escape. With a quick movement, he pulled her back into his arms, still wrapped in a blanket and nightgown.

His strong, powerful hands gently and tightly held her two delicate, white hands.

Song Ruyu struggled twice to no avail, then turned her face away, her cheeks flushed: "It's just... some missions, like this and that..."

She told him about her sister's situation.

Jiang Ling stroked his chin: "My dear wife, after I find the person who sells the insect eggs for you, shall we go back to the Song family together?"

"No need."

Song Ruyu immediately refused, her tone turning icy again: "I can handle my own affairs... Also, don't call me that kind of thing, who's your wife!"

As the intoxicating afterglow gradually faded, the magic of the invigorating spell ceased to work.

She adopted that aloof and cold demeanor again.

If you didn't look at her rosy neck and collarbone, and only at her hard-working, fair-skinned face, you would hardly recognize her as the little white-haired loli who had been crying her eyes out just two hours ago.

A brief silence filled the air.

Finally, Song Ruyu broke the silence. She lowered her eyes, her voice a few decibels lower, and asked, "And you? Why... are you in Hokkaido?"

"I miss you," he replied naturally.

"Hehe...Tell me the truth...!" Song Ruyu's ears turned even redder, and her voice unconsciously carried a hint of shyness and annoyance.

Even though her heart was stirred by those words, she insisted on putting on a cool and aloof demeanor.

Jiang Ling smiled, stopped teasing her, and coughed lightly, saying, "I came here for Meiyu."

He succinctly told her about the Kujo family, the threat posed by Indra, and how the three "sacred artifacts" needed to be gathered to completely resolve the problem.

"...So, I had to come. Miyu is someone I need to protect too." He didn't hide the relationship between Li Miyu and him.

"Um."

Song Ruyu responded softly, her fingertips unconsciously tightening around the bedsheet beneath her, a subtle yet distinct throbbing pain shooting through her heart.

At this moment, she desperately wished that her earlier words, "I miss you," were true.

So you only saw me as a side thing?

Compared to your girlfriend named "Miyu", in your heart, I am only one-thousandth of hers, right?

Jiang Ling didn't notice her momentary gloom and continued, "I came to Hokkaido with Alan. She also has some intelligence work to handle here."

Song Ruyu's eyes widened as she interrupted him, "Who?!"

"Alan, Lan Xinlan. You... should know her, right?" Jiang Ling said, somewhat surprised.

"..."

"What's wrong?"

"You..." Song Ruyu's voice trembled slightly, each word uttered with difficulty, "And what is your relationship with Alan?"

"Alan is my other wife," Jiang Ling answered truthfully, "a relationship that went down to the deepest level..."

These words struck Song Ruyu like a thunderbolt. She stood there, stunned, as if all her strength had been drained away in an instant, her mind blank.

She pounced on her and started biting.

This was the first time Jiang Ling had seen her so out of control, so he quickly hugged her tightly, letting her bite his forearm like a little vicious dog.

"Hey, Ruyu, what are you doing?"

"Waaaaah...you...you...bastard! You bastard!"

Song Ruyu finally spoke, but buried her face in his shoulder, her suppressed sobs breaking out, "What have I done... I actually... I actually did it with Alan... Waaaaah..."

"Wait a minute, let's get this straight... I slept with you a little earlier, so you were the one who got stolen by Alan, weren't you?"

"It's different! You don't understand!" Song Ruyu cried even harder, her tears quickly soaking the fabric on his shoulder.

"Waaaaah..."

"Don't cry, tell me what happened?" Jiang Ling asked, completely bewildered, as he stroked her smooth back.

It took Song Ruyu a long while to recover. Her nose was red, and she clutched the hem of her clothes, saying guiltily:

"Waaaaah, I've already wronged Alan... and now, I've done this again, I... I..."

After finishing speaking, Song Ruyu tenderly rubbed his forearm and recounted everything that had happened in the past.

That summer, on the eve of graduation, Lan Xinlan's best friend, the leader of the trio, betrayed her vow to stay together as best friends forever.

On one hand, her parents were pressuring her to study at Yanbei University; on the other hand, there was pressure from her family...

So, she changed her first choice without Alina and Lan Xinlan knowing that she had agreed to apply to Shanghai University together. In addition, the Song family and the Lan family were at odds in business at the time. Before leaving, Lan Xinlan held her hand and begged her not to go, but she was preoccupied with her family and parents, so she said hurtful words against her will and from then on, they were strangers.

She was filled with remorse afterward. After joining Bureau 749, she learned that Alan was doing intelligence work and often went to the Spider Web to help her complete intelligence gathering tasks at a very low price.

The scene of Lan Xinlan kneeling on the ground, wailing in despair, that day has always been like a needle piercing her heart. Even after several years, her heart still aches whenever she thinks of Lan, to the point that she still doesn't dare to go to Lan...

Unexpectedly, life is unpredictable, and the large intestine wraps around the small intestine.

On a snowy night in a foreign land, she ended up sleeping with Alan's boyfriend!

The thought that Alan might be in a nearby room, completely unaware of everything that had happened between her and Jiang Ling, and that this "best friend" who had deeply hurt Alan had once again taken away someone important to Alan...

Her guilt deepened.

"What a melodramatic plot!" After listening to the whole thing, Jiang Ling couldn't help but complain, "Could it be that Niu Niu's Heavenly Dao has struck again?"

"You...you should leave now."

Song Ruyu seemed to have been burned, and pushed him away abruptly, hurriedly ordering him to leave.

She hurriedly picked up the clothes scattered on the ground and dressed him one by one, her movements carrying an undeniable urgency.

"Absolutely, absolutely do not tell Alan about what happened tonight! And in the future... please do not mention me in front of her, not a single word!"

"And what about us?" Jiang Ling stood at the door, not leaving immediately, but looking down at her, letting out a feigned sigh of disappointment. "What kind of relationship do we have now?"

"You're in such a hurry to push me away because you don't want Alan to continue to be sad, but you haven't considered my feelings."

"You kicked me out without any mercy."

"I'll be heartbroken," Jiang Ling said, clutching her chest, her voice filled with anguish.

Song Ruyu was speechless. She turned her head away and forced herself to say in the coldest tone, "I...I never admitted that there was anything between us. In the end, you and I...we were just...temporary colleagues at most."

"Are you serious?"

"I...I..."

Song Ruyu wanted to grit her teeth and say yes, but the simple word "yes" got stuck in her throat and she couldn't utter it.

A certain intuition warned her: some words, once spoken, are hard to take back; some boundaries, once drawn, are hard to cross.

Jiang Ling had seized the initiative and continued to use a strategy of retreating to advance, sighing softly:

"Okay, I understand now. Compared to Alan, I'm definitely not that important to you."

After saying that, he turned around, opened the door, and made as if to leave, his back view revealing a sense of loneliness and desolation.

"Wait...wait a minute!!"

Song Ruyu grabbed his sleeve, but he yanked it away, and her heart felt like it had been squeezed tightly.

"No...don't go...I...I didn't mean it!"

"So what do you mean?"

Jiang Ling didn't turn around immediately, her voice still sounding somewhat low and dejected: "The moment you mention Alan, you lose control of your emotions, biting me and chasing me away, and you even... you won't even call me 'husband'!"

Before he could finish speaking, Song Ruyu wrapped her arms around his waist.

Jiang Ling lowered her head.

Her fair, jade-like face was streaked with tears, and her voice trembled with sobs:

"Husband... Jiang Ling, husband... I called you husband... Waaah, don't go... don't go~"

However, at this very moment...

"Click".

The door to room 305 had quietly opened a crack at some point.

Lan Xinlan peeked out her little head in a daze, her face drained of color, her large, gray eyes filled with disbelief, confusion, and emptiness.

Her lips parted slightly, as if she wanted to say something, but she couldn't utter a complete sound:

"Hey...hey hey, you guys...you guys...okay, what a coincidence...hehehehe..."

"Hehehe... Keep going, keep calling each other husband and wife, Alan... Alan isn't suffering at all, isn't tired at all... Hehehe..."

PS:

Currently, Hagi Jiang still owes one bonus chapter to the following authors: 【Today, Be Happy Too】, 【Flying Trash Chen Yidao】, 【Vienna Escapee Failed Student】, and 【Heaven's Abyss】... for a total of four chapters!

Next, Hagi Jiang will gradually add more chapters according to the order of donation time...

There will be an extra chapter at midnight, Hagi Jiang is going all out! Oh ho ho ho ho—!