『Host, a task is here.』
『Oh, tell me.』
After a short break, there is finally something to do.
『Task: Smash Li Wu’s phone and say this sentence: “Without our family’s status, do you think you could have known Gu Tingyuan?”』
『OMG, is it really that harsh?』
Li Wu has been taking such good care of him lately that he does not even know how to say it out loud.
『Host, hang in there. We are here to do the task.』
『Okay, I understand.』
“I’m just an NPC. I’m just an NPC,” Shu Xian repeated to himself in his head.
『Let’s do this!』
Shu Xian put on an angry expression and quickly walked to the living room.
He picked up Li Wu’s phone from the table and smashed it hard.
“Brother, what’s wrong?”
Why is he suddenly so angry?
“Did you steal my father from me, and now you want to steal my inheritance too?”
Shu Xian asked him angrily.
“Brother, I didn’t.”
Li Wu felt wronged. He had never wanted his inheritance at all.
His father had already left him a lot.
But Shu Xian still did not know the truth. Li Wu was wondering who had told Shu Xian that he was trying to steal the inheritance.
“Don’t say anything. I know you know Gu Tingyuan. He can be your backer.”
“Help you take everything from me.”
“But don’t forget, without our family’s status, do you think you could have known Gu Tingyuan?”
Shu Xian forced out the line while enduring the embarrassment, his toes practically curling in shame.
It was way too cringeworthy.
“Brother, who told you that?”
Someone must be trying to drive a wedge between him and brother.
“Don’t ask who said it. I hate you.”
Shu Xian threw out that line and hobbled upstairs.
His leg in the cast moved very slowly.
He could still feel that burning gaze behind him.
He was terrified that Li Wu would come over and ask him questions. He really could not keep acting anymore.
When he finally reached his room, Shu Xian let out a sigh of relief.
『Congratulations, host, task complete. Hehe.』
His host is amazing.
“Phew~”
Tomorrow he needs to have the cast removed, so it looks like he can only find someone else.
Shu Xian opened his phone and called Fu Yichen. It just so happened that he still owed him a meal.
Fu Yichen was very willing to come pick him up.
The next morning.
Shu Xian did not want to run into Li Wu, afraid of the awkwardness, so he dawdled until Fu Yichen was almost there before going downstairs for breakfast.
Li Wu’s plate was already empty. It seemed he had finished eating and had been waiting for him.
“Brother…”
Shu Xian did not answer, treating him like he was invisible and silently eating his breakfast.
“Brother, I didn’t do anything to let you down. I won’t take anything that belongs to you.”
“Brother, don’t ignore me.”
Li Wu’s tone was sincere and carried a hint of pleading.
Shu Xian felt a little sorry for him. This kid was still young, and his self-esteem was strong.
He had been wronged like this.
And he still had to lower himself to apologize.
Wuwu, little brother Li Wu, brother is sorry.
Shu Xian could not bear to keep watching. He quickly took a couple of bites and stood up to leave.
“Brother, are you going to have the cast removed?”
“Let me go with you.”
Li Wu also stood up and followed behind him.
“No need. My friend is picking me up.”
Shu Xian refused him coldly.
“Friend…”
A look of sadness crept into Li Wu’s eyes. Brother hated him.
Ding-dong.
The doorbell rang.
“My friend is here.”
Shu Xian tossed out the words and went to open the door on his own.
“Brother…”
Wuwu, hearing Li Wu call him “brother” with a choked-up voice made his heart ache.
So pitiful.
“Get in, brother.”
Fu Yichen opened the front passenger seat door for him.
“Thanks.”
Shu Xian’s mood suddenly lifted again.
So nice. Enemies had become friends.
“Don’t mention it.”
After they arrived at the hospital, Fu Yichen pushed him in a wheelchair straight to the attending doctor’s office.
“Is this the very important friend you mentioned?”
Mo Sen looked at Shu Xian. This little guy sure did attract a lot of affection.
“Yeah, I accidentally broke his leg.”
“Take the cast off and give him a thorough check too.”
Fu Yichen said to Mo Sen.
Mo Sen was also an old friend of his. Back when he was training, he would often break this or that and always came to find him.
Over time, the two of them had become friends.
“What a coincidence. I was the one who treated this little patient before.”
“Little Shu Xian, have you missed me during this time?”
Mo Sen asked as he removed the cast.
Shu Xian did not respond, quietly lowering his head and pretending to be a quail.
“What are you doing?”
Fu Yichen was unhappy. Shu Xian was so innocent. What did Mo Sen want to do to him?
“What, do you like him too?”
Mo Sen looked up and asked.
“Whether I like him or not is none of your business. He’s my brother, and I won’t let you treat him like that.”
He had known Mo Sen for so long and had never expected him to be such a frivolous person.
You can know a person’s face, but not their heart.
“You’re not his anyone, and you don’t have the right to refuse for him, right, Xianxian?”
Xianxian? What the heck was that? Mo Sen was making up nicknames again.
“Don’t call me that.”
They were not that familiar yet.
Mo Sen did not tease him anymore. After removing the cast, he told him that he could walk in two to three days.
Shu Xian left the hospital happily.
After the cast was off, it felt like his foot could finally breathe.
After dinner, Fu Yichen sent him home.
『Host, a task is here.』
What a coincidence. He had just gotten home and another task appeared.
『Bring it on.』
『Task: Say to Li Wu, “You’re just a sissy waste.”』
『Ah, that’s ruthless. Saying that to a shou.』
There had originally even been an action where he threw off his clothes, but in this life Li Wu did not go to the military camp, so there was no uniform to throw.
Wuwu, one second of sympathy for Li Wu.
Come on, come on, you can do this.
Olly olly, give it some gas. After Shu Xian cheered himself up, he opened the door to the house.
As soon as the door opened, Li Wu greeted him.
“Brother is back. Have you had dinner? Are you hungry?”
Li Wu’s affectionate greeting made Shu Xian unable to bear it.
But after gritting his teeth, he still pushed him away.
“Get lost. You’re just a sissy waste.”
Maybe because he did not expect Shu Xian to push him, Li Wu lost his footing and sat straight down on the floor.
“Brother…”
Shu Xian did not dare look at him. He walked around him and hurried upstairs.
『Congratulations, host. Task complete.』
『How many tasks like this are there?』
He really did not want to do tasks like this.
『Host, there are probably seven or eight. It depends on where the plot goes.』
There was no fixed number of tasks.
『Okay.』
He hoped Li Wu would not take it to heart.
Shu Xian slept very soundly that night. Only Li Wu kept thinking about why Shu Xian had suddenly changed like this.
Thinking back on how they usually got along, this argument felt like it came out of nowhere.
The more he thought about it, the more baffling it became.
Brother must be hiding something from him.
『Good morning, host~』
『A task is here~』
006 woke Shu Xian up in a gentle voice.
『What is it?』
Did 006 not know that when someone is sleeping and he starts talking, it feels like an electric current has run through his brain, leaving it all tingly and numb?
『Could this task not wait until I wake up?』
He was so sleepy.
『Oh, the early morning is the best time to plan the day.』
『Spit it out.』
『The task is this: say to Li Wu, “You only know Fu Yichen because of the Shu family connection.”』
?
『What?』
Shu Xian sat up in bed.
Who wrote such awkward lines?
Ah! Who wrote them?!
『Li Wu and Fu Yichen do not even have a good relationship. Wouldn’t it sound weird to say that?』
It makes no sense at all. This plot is a little ridiculous.
『Host, that’s the task given from above.』
『It should not be wrong.』
『…』
But this was clearly very forced…
『Don’t worry, host. We just do whatever the higher-ups arrange. As long as the task gets done, that is fine.』
006 explained.
『Fine…』
Shu Xian could not even be bothered to wash up anymore. With his hair sticking up like a bird’s nest, he went straight downstairs.
Li Wu was eating breakfast.
Shu Xian slammed a palm on the dining table and said angrily, “You only know Fu Yichen because of the Shu family connection.”
To keep it from sounding too stiff, Shu Xian added another line.
“Don’t think that makes you invincible.”
Ah, so awkward. It would have been better not to add that.
After saying it, Shu Xian did not even look at his reaction. He let out a breath of relief and crawled back to his room to sleep again.
Shu Xian slept until the afternoon. He woke up hungry.
After washing up, he went to the kitchen to find something to eat.
“Brother, you’re awake?”
Li Wu’s tone was cheerful, as if nothing had happened before.
?
“Brother, Auntie had something to take care of and left. I made you a steak. Do you want to eat?”
A steak? Should he want some? Of course he should!
“Yes.”
Shu Xian looked at the fresh, juicy steak and was practically drooling.
“Brother, go outside and have a sip of creamy mushroom soup first. The steak will be ready soon.”
Li Wu felt great seeing Shu Xian’s eyes light up.
He knew brother would like it.
“Mhmm, I’ll wait outside.”
Great, there was even creamy mushroom soup.
But was Li Wu some kind of people-pleaser?
After everything that had happened, he was still being this nice to him?
How strange.
“Brother, the steak is ready. I have already cut it for you. Just eat it.”
“Wuwu, thank you, little brother.”
Shu Xian could not wait and took a bite of the steak. It was delicious.
So good it made him stomp his feet.
“As long as brother likes it.”
Brother really is easy to care for. He gets happy over a little good food like this.
He had to capture brother’s stomach and not let anyone else trick him away so easily.