Chapter 79
Looking at Shao Mian in front of him, Lin Ran inexplicably felt like he was seeing a large golden tabby who was rarely willing to lie down and let himself be petted.
So Lin Ran suddenly became curious, could Yuanbao have been waiting for Anvers to bring him back?
“How long have you been waiting today? You didn’t specifically wait here for Little Feather and me to come back from the Feather Clan, did you?”
The first question was unexpectedly mundane, but it already made Shao Mian want to cheat.
Lin Ran looked at Secretary Ser while asking.
However, Secretary Ser clearly didn’t intend to answer for him and was waiting for Shao Mian’s personal response.
Just as Shao Mian was about to make an excuse, the feather in his hand perked up.
“Eh, Yuanbao, do you want to lie?”
As soon as Lin Ran saw the Feather of Truth perk up, he knew that a certain large golden tabby was trying to cheat.
Because if what he said wasn’t true, the Feather of Truth would perk up, otherwise it would remain motionless.
This also forced Shao Mian, who wanted to cheat using magic, to give up halfway:
“Tsk… just for a day.”
[Big lion looking away.jpg]
He didn’t expect this feather to have a warning function!?
Shao Mian tried to secretly straighten the perked-up feather.
But the next second, Lin Ran reached out and pushed his hand away: “This is only the first question, you’re not allowed to touch the feather and affect the results.”
Looking down, he saw the human looking at him with a smile, and Shao Mian felt that he didn’t want to resist the hand that Lin Ran was holding.
“But you actually waited for a whole day, and you didn’t even think of going out to eat? I’ll take you to the snack street for dinner later.”
Lin Ran looked at Shao Mian, who had waited for him for so long, and thought about taking Yuanbao to eat something near the school.
The barbecue place Luo Xiao and the others recommended last time was quite good.
Shao Mian never expected that telling the truth would get him a meal. He suddenly felt that this feather wasn’t completely useless.
Of course, being invited to eat at a human snack street was really novel for Shao Mian.
But just as he was feeling smug, Lin Ran became serious, and several new questions came one after another, making Shao Mian restless:
“So you deliberately recruited me for the internship?”
“Oh, Supervisor Tao Shu knew about my resume from the beginning?”
“Very well, so you were the one who secretly ordered so much fruit juice in the live stream.”
Despite Shao Mian’s best efforts to be perfunctory, he still couldn’t stop a series of “Mm” and “Mm” from slipping out.
A few minutes later, Lin Ran’s gaze gradually turned into a “So it was you” stare.
“Yuanbao, you really have a lot of tricks up your sleeve.”
“…”
Shao Mian, having lost all his strength and methods, didn’t want to play anymore and tried to announce the end of this game!
But just as Shao Mian decided to announce that the game couldn’t continue, Lin Ran pondered for a few seconds and asked a new question:
“One last easy question, what were you thinking just now when you kept staring at Anvers’ braid?”
Quickly tell me, did you also want to braid one? OwO
Lin Ran really wanted to experiment on the big lion’s mane, but Yuanbao probably wouldn’t agree easily, unless he admitted it himself!
Shao Mian, who had somewhat resigned himself to his fate, didn’t expect this to be discovered as well.
He had only glared at Anvers a few times, what did “kept staring” mean?
But his attempt to argue was immediately blocked by the Feather of Truth perking up again.
Lin Ran blinked at Yuanbao, as if asking what he wanted to argue about.
“…Thinking that Anvers would become smug, and that he shouldn’t be given such things in the future, his bird brain doesn’t deserve it.”
Finally giving up struggling, Shao Mian honestly told the truth with a gloomy face.
But Lin Ran couldn’t help but laugh after hearing this, even his action of putting on his scarf and pulling Yuanbao out to eat slowed down.
He didn’t expect that it wasn’t that he also wanted a braid, but that he was thinking Anvers would become smug with a braid?
“Is it that funny?”
Shao Mian looked at the human in front of him, feeling strangely sullen.
He felt like he had been thoroughly exposed, and it was with his own consent.
But Shao Mian’s nearly two-meter height and physique didn’t match the image of being wronged and pitiful at all. Like a large feline clinging to a human, the only difference was whether the human was touched or “didn’t dare to move.”
“No, it’s just that you really seem to be jealous, Yuanbao. Are you jealous of Anvers?”
“Usually only little guys like Little Feather would be like this, right?”
Lin Ran simply found it amusing. He felt that Anvers was also quite pitiful. How did getting a braid from him become “not deserving it” in Yuanbao’s words?
However, Lin Ran forgot that Little Feather was still in his hand.
So a few seconds later, the truth just slipped out:
“Mm, I am jealous, because you always look at him.”
Hearing this, Lin Ran instantly turned and looked up at Shao Mian, his beautiful dark eyes widening slightly under the scarf.
Shao Mian, whose eyes also widened in shock, finally confirmed that this feather was indeed a dangerous item…
“I often look at Anvers, just because he’s really good-looking!”
Although Lin Ran’s thoughts were interrupted by Shao Mian’s “always look at him,” he couldn’t help but explain in a panic.
What was wrong with appreciating beautiful things?!
Just like seeing good-looking people on the street, wasn’t it normal to have a higher rate of turning back?
What was Yuanbao thinking all day long?
“Where is he good-looking?”
Shao Mian, who was originally a little panicked, sneered.
“Where is he not good-looking?”
Lin Ran was puzzled.
“Nowhere.”
Shao Mian scoffed.
Lin Ran looked at the Feather of Truth in Yuanbao’s hand, which wasn’t moving at all this time, and wondered if Yuanbao really had a problem with his aesthetics.
Thinking that Anvers wasn’t good-looking was actually his true feeling?!
The feather didn’t even perk up, which meant he sincerely thought he wasn’t good-looking.
So Lin Ran looked at Shao Mian very seriously and rubbed the big lion’s face: “You’re not face-blind, are you, Yuanbao?”
The lion, who was suspected of being face-blind, still looked righteous.
“Okay, if you think Anvers isn’t good-looking, then what about me?”
Lin Ran suddenly became curious. If Yuanbao thought Anvers wasn’t good-looking, what did he look like in Yuanbao’s eyes?
Couldn’t it be that in the eyes of felines, only calico cats were the most beautiful?
“Ee!”
Regarding A-Ran’s question, Little Feather, hiding in his pocket, couldn’t help but poke his small head out and look at Shao Mian seriously.
Shao Mian looked at Lin Ran in front of him. Today, Lin Ran was wearing a plain coat, a white shirt underneath, and a warm scarf just covering his slender and fair neck.
He looked clean, warm, and soft.
When his clear, pool-like eyes stared at you, they always made the person being stared at subconsciously want to fall into them. It was a kind of beauty with a strange charm.
“Very good-looking.”
“The kind of good-looking that makes one unable to look away and want to keep looking.”
“Ee!”
Bingo!
The moment Shao Mian answered truthfully, Little Feather nodded vigorously with satisfaction.
Of course, A-Ran was super, super good-looking!
So Lin Ran, who had originally just wanted to test it out, was stunned and quickly realized that he had dug a hole for himself.
Although he had been praised for his good looks more or less by elders and peers since he was young, it was really the first time he had encountered someone like Shao Mian who stared at him unblinkingly after praising him.
“Shao Mian, you…”
Whenever Lin Ran called him by his full name instead of Yuanbao, Shao Mian knew that the human in front of him was rarely annoyed.
“Can’t I look?”
But at this moment, Shao Mian, smiling, felt like he had caught a rare ball of yarn and couldn’t help but want to unravel it and figure out the cause and effect.
“No. You were better when you were a big lion and couldn’t speak.”
Lin Ran blushed and tried to confiscate the Feather of Truth from Shao Mian.
“Anyway, let’s go out to eat first, no more quick Q&A.”
So Little Feather, who was still looking forward to A-Ran continuing to play the “quick Q&A” game with the big lion, quickly noticed from his cub’s perspective that the atmosphere had changed, because A-Ran suddenly announced that they weren’t playing anymore!
“Ee.”
Little Feather dejectedly folded his wings, not expecting the game to end so quickly.
“Do you like touching lion fur?”
But just as Lin Ran confiscated the Feather of Truth, Shao Mian couldn’t help but ask.
“Of course I do, it’s super satisfying to pet such a big fluffy creature…”
Lin Ran: !
Lin Ran was caught off guard and also started to tell the truth. As expected, he saw Shao Mian’s lips curl up after hearing the answer.
“So the first time you saw me and bandaged my wound, it was because you wanted to pet me, so you saved me? And you even took the opportunity to touch me a few times.”
Shao Mian hesitated for three seconds and continued to ask seriously.
“Yes, because… Shao Mian!”
The next second, Lin Ran blushed and covered Shao Mian’s mouth, physically preventing him from asking any more questions.
Okay, although he had to admit that the first time he saw Yuanbao, he was indeed attracted by this golden, giant, and aloof fluffy creature.
And this kind of adult beast with muscles was extremely comfortable to pet.
But when Lin Ran realized that he had touched Yuanbao in his current adult form, he suddenly regretted it.
After all, this was too presumptuous! TwT
If he could do it again, he would never randomly pet large beasts in the game.
He regretted it, he really regretted it now.
“Ee…”
Little Feather carefully took the Feather of Truth from A-Ran’s hand, blinked at A-Ran and the big lion guardian, and felt that this Feather of Truth seemed a bit scary.
A-Ran had never hit anyone before.
But now, the big lion guardian had been fiercely scolded by A-Ran.
Although Shao Mian was being threatened by Lin Ran covering his mouth, his lion tail inexplicably popped out happily.
“Actually, I can also transform back into a lion in the real world. Do you want to see?”
After more than ten seconds, after confirming that Little Feather had taken the item, Lin Ran just let go of his hand, and Shao Mian asked in a low voice.
“You can also transform in the real world?”
Lin Ran couldn’t resist his curiosity and was intrigued by Yuanbao’s words.
He had only seen Yuanbao in his lion form in “Demon World” and had never seen it in the real world.
“Yes, but I’ll be a bit big.”
A few minutes later, Lin Ran realized how exaggerated this “a bit big” was.
Because when Yuanbao transformed back into his original form in the real world, he had to stand up to look Yuanbao in the eye, who was half-squatting. If he could, he could even lie down in his mane!
