Chapter 118: Titmouse 08
Gu Xiu looked at the contacts on his phone and mumbled, “If all three of your wishes are to be with me forever, then I won’t be able to complete this mission… so, each of your wishes must be different!”
As he thought about it, he couldn’t help but poke the toughest nut to crack at the moment, the cold and aloof campus prince Chen Beichuan’s profile picture. “You stinking dog, what on earth is your wish?”
It was the end of November, and the biting cold wind carried the approaching scent of the New Year, making one’s cheeks ache. The shops on the street seemed to have smelled the festive season and had eagerly changed into their Christmas attire.
Gu Xiu shrank his neck. When he turned his head, his gaze was immediately and firmly attracted by a gift shop.
He just happened to go into the shop to get some warmth, and at the same time, he took a closer look at the beautiful snowflake snow globe in the window.
In the round and transparent sphere, crystal clear and fine white snowflakes were floating, falling on the roof of a red retro phone booth, and also on the shoulders of a man in a black coat, holding a small yellow dog.
This outfit was actually more like the daddy-type Lu Shichen, but the ice and snow made one think of Jin Chenhan. His temperament was as cold as his pheromones, even colder and more biting, but his usual dress was a little more flamboyant, and he also had a neck ring and gloves that he never took off, full of a perverted aura.
But this yellow dog was like the one Gu Xiu and Jin Chenhan had raised together in the ABO world.
Gu Xiu looked for a while, then decisively picked up this snow globe. His action caused a beautiful snowflake dance in the small world of the snow globe.
Gu Xiu couldn’t help but sigh, “So beautiful.”
The main god actually took the initiative to answer his soliloquy: 【Who do you want to give it to?】
【Mmm, it’s not for anyone.】 Gu Xiu said. 【Mr. Jin’s VIP ward is too empty and cold. This snow globe is just right to be placed on the bedside table.】
Just in time for Christmas, Gu Xiu took two more snowflake-shaped window decorations, which could be stuck on the ward’s windows.
As he was about to check out, the main god suddenly asked, 【Aren’t you going to buy a gift for yourself?】
Gu Xiu was stunned for a moment. He was focused on his work and hadn’t thought of this at all.
In the previous three small worlds, Mr. “chen” had taken meticulous care of him, paying attention to his hobbies, tastes, and various small habits, feeding him every day, and had also given him many small gifts.
It was just that the three people in this world had not yet been successfully conquered, and he didn’t know how to spend Christmas in this world.
【Mmm, it’s just a foreign festival.】 Gu Xiu said to the main god. 【It’s not important. And maybe before the festival, I’ll have successfully completed the mission?】
But the main god turned into a gray mist and floated out, leading Gu Xiu to the shelf of pendants and accessories.
A whole shelf was full of plush and cute dolls, very cute.
The gray mist circled a small bird doll, pushed it off the hook, and Gu Xiu quickly went over and caught it with his hand.
In his palm was a northern long-tailed tit doll!
The small and exquisite doll was about the same size as a real northern long-tailed tit. Its body was round and was wrapped in fluffy and soft feathers, like a fluffy little fur ball.
It was just that for the overall harmony of the doll, the designer had emphasized the roundness of the tit’s body and had shortened the long black tail, making it even more adorably chubby and charming.
The current Gu Xiu, looking at this “cute thing,” would subconsciously substitute himself and only felt embarrassed. He quickly closed his hands, out of sight, out of mind.
【You can buy one.】 The main god was still saying there. 【This doll looks a lot like you.】
【…】 Gu Xiu was silent for a few seconds, and the base of his ears slowly turned red. 【Where does it look like me!】
The main god’s skill in finding loopholes in his words was as if Chen Beichuan had possessed him. 【It looks like you everywhere.】
Gu Xiu: 【…】
To convince him, the main god floated over again and pointed to the small crossbody bag he was wearing. 【You can hang it here.】
The bag contained his identification and other necessary items, a bottle of water, and a few small snacks, in case he got hungry while working as a nurse.
But Gu Xiu didn’t listen and hung the tit doll back.
The gray mist, relying on its physical form, took it down again.
The two pulled back and forth a few times, and the main god reminded, 【There’s a surveillance camera in the shop.】
The surveillance camera couldn’t capture the main god, it would only capture Gu Xiu alone, repeatedly hanging the tit doll back, and then this doll would float back into his hand again and again as if it were possessed.
Gu Xiu gave up the struggle. In other words, if he insisted on refusing this fat thing, wouldn’t that be a side-on admission that he also admitted that it looked a lot like him, and was thus feeling his defenses broken?
If he had to buy it, he would buy it.
He held a pile of things and went to the cashier to check out.
The cashier nimbly scanned the codes, habitually entered the data into the computer, and instructed Gu Xiu to scan the code to pay.
But Gu Xiu took out his wallet, preparing to pay in cash. He had just opened his mouth, “Um…”
He saw the gray mist float above the scanner, a green light flashed, and then a beep was heard.
“…Huh?” Gu Xiu blinked in confusion.
“Hey?” The cashier was also completely confused. He clearly hadn’t seen this customer take out his phone, but the computer did indeed show that the transaction was successful. He scratched his head, estimated that he had been careless and hadn’t noticed, and said to Gu Xiu, “It’s already paid. Thank you for your patronage.”
Gu Xiu put away his wallet, and walked out of the gift shop with a bag in a daze. He couldn’t figure it out for a long time and had to ask the main god, 【You shouldn’t have the currency of this world, right? Can you even create a fake payment code?】
The main god was about to explain that he had only modified a little bit of data, and it was definitely not theft.
But Gu Xiu’s focus was not on this. He thought, a little bird spirit who was playing with three boats, how high could his morals be? He only had a joyful expression on his face and asked with great delight, 【Hehe, so this is your Christmas gift to me?】
Looking at the innocent and romantic young man, the main god was silent for a moment. 【…Mm.】
Gu Xiu steadily hung the fluffy tit doll on his bag, hummed a light little tune, and with light steps, he rushed to the hospital full of energy.
The work of a nurse was hard, but no matter how busy, there couldn’t be a lack of a sense of ceremony.
He gently placed the beautiful snow globe on the bedside table, and then he walked to the windowsill and pulled open the curtains. The bright sunlight instantly filled the entire ward, making the originally slightly cold and dull space bright and warm. Gu Xiu squinted his eyes, enjoyed the warm winter sun for a moment, and then he took out the snowflake-shaped window decorations he had prepared from his pocket and carefully stuck them on the glass window one by one.
After the arrangement was done, Gu Xiu clapped his hands with satisfaction, walked to Jin Chenhan’s bedside, his face filled with an excited smile, and like a child waiting for praise, he took credit. “I’ve decorated your ward beautifully. When will you wake up and see?”
He was talking to himself to the unconscious vegetative person. Suddenly, he let out a “mm” and, thinking of something, he stared intently at the tightly closed eyelids and said, “Hey, you probably don’t know what I look like yet?”
The original novel was full of bugs. Generally speaking, a vegetative person could not hear the outside world, but Jin Chenhan could. But dramatically, he only selectively heard some key lines, for example, the protagonist shou joking and calling him husband.
Just like that, he had completed his self-conquest in his sleep, and was convinced that the protagonist shou was deeply in love with him, and would not abandon him even if he had become a vegetative person.
It was just that it was not yet time for the official plot to begin, and Gu Xiu had snatched the protagonist shou’s work. It was very likely that the current Jin Chenhan could not hear anything and did not know what he looked like.
However, this did not stop the chattering little bird’s enthusiasm. While he was wiping the man’s body, he chattered, “You should wake up soon. It’s so tiring to turn you over, and I have to wipe you… hey, wait, you shouldn’t wake up too early.”
He hadn’t finished conquering Lu Shichen and Chen Beichuan yet. The two hot potatoes were standing there, and it was better for the one in front of him to lie down first.
If Jin Chenhan suddenly woke up… the chaos that might be caused was imaginable. Gu Xiu’s goosebumps broke out, and he didn’t dare to think too deeply.
He was in a daze for a moment, and the towel in his hand had unconsciously wiped the man’s thigh.
Actually, he was very familiar with every detail of this body. The two of them had been entangled for at least three worlds, and it was not a pure relationship that needed to be shy about.
Gu Xiu looked at his hand and thought for a moment. “How about I wipe that place for you too? I haven’t wiped it for you the last two times…”
When he was actually wiping it, he tried his best to restrain his strength to prevent the straw man from being stimulated and strangely standing up again.
After quickly dealing with the body cleaning work, Gu Xiu put on the clothes for the unconscious man. Jin Chenhan was still in a coma, which made it convenient for him to go and conquer the other two first. But he couldn’t help but feel regretful. He had worked so hard for so many days, and Jin Chenhan hadn’t even opened his eyes to look at him.
Just then, the ward door was knocked on, and then a rather familiar noble lady walked in.
Gu Xiu turned his head and was directly stunned. A familiar address came out of his mouth. “…Auntie?”
The person who came was Lu Qingwu.
In the first two worlds, this mother, who had not been described in the novel, had appeared. Her appearance was unchanged, and her name was also unchanged.
He didn’t expect that in this world, she was still here!
Gu Xiu was nostalgic and moved. He subconsciously called out to her, and only then did he see the fleeting confusion on the other’s face. He let out an “ah” and quickly tried to remedy the situation. “Hello, are you Mr. Jin’s mother? I’m Brother Zhao’s cousin. My name is Gu Xiu. He went out for something…”
Brother Zhao was the official nurse. Lu Qingwu did not suspect his identity.
Jin Chenhan on the bed had just put on his clothes. After Gu Xiu had greeted him, he continued to tidy up the corners of Jin Chenhan’s clothes.
The pants of the hospital gown had a comfortable elastic waistband, but this set was a new set of clothes, worn for the first time, and the elastic band was a little tight. To prevent the elastic band from being too tight on his waist for too long and affecting his blood circulation, Gu Xiu carefully tucked the hem of his shirt into his waistband, separating the waistband and his skin.
However, when he was operating, his fingers inevitably hooked onto his hip area.
His straw man was also exceptionally cooperative.
Just like that, under his eyelids, with his stuffing of the clothes, it grew little by little…
Behind him was also Lu Qingwu. Gu Xiu’s movements stiffened, and his pupils trembled.
“Um…” Lu Qingwu suddenly said.
Gu Xiu quickly pulled over the quilt and wrapped his overly energetic straw man in it, covering it tightly.
Lu Qingwu just happened to walk over.
The two of them saw the man’s gently trembling eyelids at the same time.
“Ah!” Lu Qingwu exclaimed. “His eyes! Just now… did they move?”
“Huh?” Gu Xiu quickly went to open Jin Chenhan’s eyelids. The amber eyes still could not follow his fingers, so he shook his head in regret and said to Lu Qingwu, “He hasn’t regained consciousness. It should just be an unconscious muscle twitch…”
“Then does that also mean he’s about to wake up?” Lu Qingwu’s face was full of expectation.
Gu Xiu couldn’t pour cold water on her and said vaguely, “Mmm, it’s possible.”
“I feel he’s reacting to you,” but Lu Qingwu was certain. “If you don’t believe me, you can go and touch him again.”
Gu Xiu was shy and did not move forward. Lu Qingwu directly pulled him over and instructed, “Come, come, you touch his hand.”
Gu Xiu had no choice but to gently poke the man’s back of the hand.
Then an incredible thing happened—Jin Chenhan’s touched finger bounced, and it even trembled and struggled to lift, as if it wanted to catch the thing that had just touched him.
Lu Qingwu’s eyes lit up. “Really! He’s reacting to you!”
Gu Xiu was still not sure. “It must be a coincidence.”
Lu Qingwu’s gaze roamed over him, and finally, it moved to the crossbody bag on the hanger. She suddenly said “huh?”
Gu Xiu quickly said, “Ah, that’s my bag.”
But Lu Qingwu’s attention was on the pendant on his bag. “Hey, this little bird…”
Gu Xiu said, “That’s a northern long-tailed tit. It’s a little fatter than a real one. The aesthetic of people who make dolls these days is really strange…”
“Hey? Wait,” but Lu Qingwu’s confusion only grew, which made Gu Xiu also completely confused.
Gu Xiu looked at the other in confusion. He saw her pull open the bedside table, take out a folded tissue from the drawer, unfold it, and reveal a… white little bird feather inside.
Gu Xiu was stunned for a moment.
He recognized it at a glance. This was the bird feather that had fallen off when he had accidentally turned into his original form last time!
How did it end up in the bedside table drawer?
Lu Qingwu compared the little bird feather with the tit doll, then she turned around, her gaze at him a little meaningful, and she asked, “You brought this feather, right?”
Gu Xiu: “…”
His doll was just bought today and had nothing to do with that bird feather! But that was indeed a feather that had fallen off him. He didn’t know how to explain for a moment, and he opened his mouth but didn’t make a sound.
Lu Qingwu understood.
Hehe, where is this a younger brother who is subbing for a nurse? He has clearly been here more than once or twice.
And…
The more Lu Qingwu thought about it, the more excited she became. “Last time I heard that Chenhan had a brainwave fluctuation. I came over in the morning to see him and found that his right hand was tightly clenched. When I pried it open, inside was this feather!”
This emotional state, as if a worried old mother had picked up the crystal slipper that Cinderella, who had been favored by the celibate prince, had left behind.
Lu Qingwu said to herself, “I was wondering why this child would rather die than go on a blind date. He doesn’t like this, and he doesn’t like that… so he already has someone in his heart! You don’t have to hide it from auntie. You’re his little boyfriend, right?”
Gu Xiu: “…”
What a familiar line! What a familiar feeling of being speechless!
Gu Xiu was completely dumbfounded.
Lu Qingwu slowly circled around him, and the more she looked, the more satisfied she became. She said with a smile, “You’re a really good-looking child. By the way, you should be an adult, right? You’ve graduated from high school, right?”
“Mm, I’m an adult,” Gu Xiu finally found a question he could answer. “I’m already in college.”
“That’s great,” Lu Qingwu let out a big sigh of relief, this time her voice was very soft.
Gu Xiu was troubled and messed with his hair, thinking of how to explain. He couldn’t admit that he had taken on an outsourced nursing job, as he would probably be kicked out. As for Jin Chenhan’s little boyfriend, that was even more out of thin air…
But he was an ordinary college student. Where could he get to know a CEO of a large company like Jin Chenhan? He also couldn’t say that he was Lu Shichen’s adopted son, after all, the two were business rivals. From Lu Qingwu’s perspective, his coming to take care of Jin Chenhan was really ill-intentioned.
In the current situation, there was no other way but to go with the flow.
“Hey,” Lu Qingwu, who had just been overjoyed, suddenly let out a heavy sigh, and her eyes also turned red, as if she had thought of something sad.
Gu Xiu was confused and quickly asked, “What’s wrong?”
Lu Qingwu wiped the corners of her eyes. “Actually, Chenhan has told me about you, and he even wanted to bring you over to introduce you to me. Of course, I didn’t agree. If it weren’t for me stopping him, Chenhan wouldn’t have impulsively driven out and wouldn’t have had a car accident…”
As Gu Xiu listened, although he knew that these things had nothing to do with him, he also inexplicably felt a little sorry. “I’m sorry.”
But he couldn’t help but be suspicious and asked the main god, 【Isn’t your Jinjiang’s protagonist gong the most virtuous? How could the protagonist gong have someone he likes before he becomes a vegetative person?】
Before the main god could answer, Lu Qingwu in front of him became excited again.
“Oh my, what do you have to be sorry for…” Lu Qingwu quickly wiped away the moisture at the corners of her eyes and quickly held his hand. “It’s auntie, no, it’s Mom who’s sorry. I’ve made you suffer.”
The speed of the plot development was like a wild horse that had broken free. Even Gu Xiu, who was used to fast-forwarding the plot, couldn’t react.
“You’re Chenhan’s boyfriend, the person he loves the most. In that case, just in time, Mom is here today. I’ll be a witness for you,” Lu Qingwu’s smile was kind and gentle. “Come, Xiuxiu, call him husband.”
Gu Xiu: “…”
Gu Xiu: “???”
