After Deceiving Shizun into Dual Cultivating, I Ran Away With His Bun 76p2

Chapter 76 Part 2: The Modern World [Extra]

Lin Queli then began to work hard.
Helan Xue rubbed the back of his head, then got up and walked around the room, familiarizing himself with the home appliances.
The night grew deeper.
The modern night was different from the immortal world. Even if half the city was asleep, there were still countless lights outside the window, and the sound of home appliances and the occasional sound from outside were intermittent.
When Lin Queli got tired of studying, he would stop for a short rest. He noticed that Helan Xue had searched for a recipe on his mobile phone and then was seriously frying two eggs on the side, and had also made him a cup of coffee.
The tall man had rolled up his sleeves and was cooking for his beloved with a spatula. This scene was naturally heartwarming.
Lin Queli was originally a little mesmerized, but when he noticed that Helan Xue’s movements were a little slow, he suddenly felt that such a Helan Xue was also… very cute.
Lin Queli chuckled.
“What’s wrong?” Helan Xue turned to look at him.
He knew that Lin Queli liked to eat late-night snacks, so he had taken this opportunity to familiarize himself with the kitchen utensils.
“Nothing.” Lin Queli got up and hugged Helan Xue from behind, pressing his face against his back and acting cute. “Why did Shizun agree to come here to play with me, and for fifty years at that?”
This was a place that Helan Xue was completely unfamiliar with.
“Why not?” Helan Xue shook his head. “As we said, we can also advance and learn here, and broaden our horizons. Now that A’Xue has grown up, the Myriad Sword Sect doesn’t need us to worry.”
“Oh…”
A cultivator’s lifespan was too long. Fifty years was just a flick of a finger, but if he could in these fifty years…
Helan Xue closed his eyes.
The most important reason was that he wanted to see Lin Queli’s past. This place had his growth trajectory and traces of his life.
His A’Li had grown up with him since he was in his early twenties, and Helan Xue was too greedy. He was not satisfied with a thousand years with Lin Queli and also wanted to glimpse his past twenty years.
But of course, Helan Xue would not say these things. He had always been good at embellishing his gloomy possessiveness, so as not to worry or burden A’Li.
Lin Queli glanced at Helan Xue, chuckled, and hugged him, standing on tiptoe to kiss his chin.
“Brother…”
His tone was lingering and soft.
—After being together for so long, even if Helan Xue didn’t say it, it didn’t mean Lin Queli couldn’t guess.
Helan Xue responded to Lin Queli’s kiss, and their breathing became hotter and hotter. Helan Xue picked him up and placed him on the counter by the sink.
The two fell into a passionate kiss.

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Two days later, Lin Queli finally finished his exams.
As Helan Xue had said, he did indeed remember after reading it a few more times, and he could even remember new pages very quickly.
Lin Queli thought to himself, no wonder Helan Xue is so smart… so cultivating can really make you smarter!
After finishing the exam, Lin Queli couldn’t wait to go home. For the past two days, Helan Xue had been at home, familiarizing himself with the modern world on his mobile phone, and had already become proficient in ordering takeout, and hadn’t gone out. Now that he had finally finished the exam, he naturally had to find a chance to go out and play with Helan Xue!
After returning home, Lin Queli saw Helan Xue studying an iron box.
“A’Li, what is this?”
For the past two days, Helan Xue had become a “house husband,” tidying up the house and preparing food for Lin Queli.
Helan Xue said, “There’s a cabinet in the corner where you store your miscellaneous things. It was dug out from under the cabinet.”
Helan Xue saw that the iron box had Lin Queli’s name on it, so he took it out with some care.
“Where did you find it?” Lin Queli was stunned and also a little curious. “I don’t know what this is either. Shall we open it and take a look?”
Lin Queli sat down beside Helan Xue and opened the box with him, only to see a few old photos inside.
But perhaps because it had been too long, those photos had long since yellowed and faded, and it was impossible to see them clearly. One could only vaguely make out three figures in each one, a child and two adults.
Looking at Lin Queli’s dazed expression, Helan Xue asked softly, “Does A’Li still have any impression of his parents?”
Lin Queli shook his head. “Not really. I don’t even remember their appearance very well. They died in a car crash explosion when I was five. Later, I lived with my relatives, and I only came back to this house where I used to live with them after I grew up. These might be photos taken before I was five.”
In the era when Lin Queli was just born, smartphones were not yet popular, so there were not many photos. The ones in this box were probably the only ones left. There were quite a few, but it was impossible to get a full picture.
“Perhaps I have a way.”
Helan Xue held the thin, worn photo, and then a golden light appeared on his fingers.
The golden light gradually covered the photo, and the colors on it gradually emerged.
Lin Queli’s eyes widened.
Helan Xue shook his head. “The spiritual energy in this world is very thin. I can’t mobilize too much spiritual energy, but it’s more than enough to repair one photo a day.”
Helan Xue handed the repaired photo to Lin Queli.
Lin Queli took it in a daze. Inside were three people smiling in an amusement park.
A kind and beautiful woman, a gentle-looking man, and the child the man was holding.
Lin Queli’s eyes reddened slightly.
It was his parents, and his memories from before he was five.
Helan Xue chuckled and pointed at the child in the photo, his gaze soft. “This is A’Li as a child, right?”
The child was fair and cute, but his face and eyes were red, looking as if he were about to cry. Looking closely, he was holding a cone in his hand, and the ice cream on top was abruptly cut in half.
…It was obvious that this child’s ice cream had fallen.
After recovering from his emotional moment, Lin Queli turned his head away, a little embarrassed. “Ah… yes.”
There might be something even more embarrassing in the following photos. The more Lin Queli thought about it, the more embarrassed he became.
“Very cute.” Helan Xue held Lin Queli and rubbed the back of his head, coaxing him, “I like it very much.”
“I like A’Li, and I also like this ‘photo’.”
Photos were such magical things. They could actually leave behind Lin Queli’s childhood expression, and even let him see people who had already died.
Helan Xue thought to himself, perhaps I should find a time to go and pay respects to his parents with Lin Queli.
Later, after experiencing the convenience of many modern technologies, Helan Xue’s favorite things were still two.
One was photos.
Photos could leave behind memories more accurately than paintings. Helan Xue had fallen in love with taking photos of Lin Queli and was preparing to bring them back to the immortal world.
The small house was later filled with more and more photo frames, and every photo had a beautiful memory.
For example, Lin Queli’s graduation photo. On the day of his graduation, Helan Xue went with flowers.
The moment Helan Xue appeared, all of Lin Queli’s classmates were dumbfounded. They all asked what their relationship was, and in Lin Queli’s smile, they tacitly understood.
Lin Queli was teased and envied by his classmates for a whole day.
Helan Xue witnessed Lin Queli’s graduation, from a student to a “corporate slave.”
There were also photos of Lin Queli and Helan Xue traveling. They had gone to a ski resort, the beach, an amusement park… countless places. The walls were almost unable to hold them all.
The other thing Helan Xue liked most was…
This night, after Lin Queli came back from work, he saw Helan Xue unpacking a courier. He went forward curiously and almost fainted.
“You, you, you—”
Lin Queli’s face was red. “Why did you buy these?!”
Helan Xue was frank, his tone as calm as ever. “Modern XX supplies are indeed more varied. The electric function is something we don’t have.”
His tone was full of plans to bring them back.
Lin Queli looked down at the variety of things and was shocked. “D-do we have to use all of these!”
Helan Xue looked up. “Aren’t you curious?”
“…”
Ah, ah, ah, damn it!!! Shizun has gone bad, he’s been poisoned by the internet—
“I-I’m going to take a bath.” Lin Queli slipped away.
What was worse was that he was bad but loved to play, sob, sob, sob—
Realizing that he might be the one who had poisoned Helan Xue, Lin Queli went to take a bath full of guilt.
—Guilty, but he would dare to do it again next time.
Late at night, the sweet night for the two was still long.

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