Chapter 131

Because I didn’t say anything, Yu Ruolan also stood there without speaking.

She now felt like there were ants crawling on her back and wished she could escape from here immediately, but I was right in front of her, and still sick, so she couldn’t bring herself to leave.

I was the first to speak, my voice dry and hoarse: “Little Yu, can you pour me some water?”

“Of course!” Yu Ruolan replied immediately.

She was both happy that I called her “Little Yu” and a little disappointed, because just now I had called her “sister.” Although the “sister” in my mouth was not really calling her, there was still a sense of disparity.

She was completely unaware that my address to her had changed.

Yu Ruolan picked up the kettle in the room, saw that the temperature displayed on the lid was just right, poured a cup of water, and handed it to me.

“Thank you.” I took the cup and drank a few sips to moisten my throat.

“Um…” Yu Ruolan was afraid that if she stayed here, she would disturb me, so she said hesitantly, “Should I leave first and come back at dinner time…?”

She was a little hesitant.

She had been taking care of me while I was unconscious. Now that I was awake, she began to feel uncomfortable.

“Cough, cough, cough…” I suddenly began to cough violently.

Yu Ruolan immediately asked with concern, “What’s wrong with you?”

“It’s nothing, maybe my throat is too dry and a little itchy…” I touched my throat with my fingertips, coughed a few more times to clear my throat, and looked up at her with eyes that had become a little moist from the violent coughing. My hoarse voice sounded again, “Can you stay and keep me company?”

“Ah, this.” Yu Ruolan was a little at a loss by the direct words. Thinking that I had just said my throat was dry, she quickly turned around to pour another cup of water.

My voice came from behind her, raspy and very soft, with a palpable sense of weakness: “I’m sorry, you probably still have to feed the mutated species, right? You should go and get busy, you don’t have to stay.”

Yu Ruolan’s action of pouring water paused. She remembered that I was still asleep when she went to feed the mutated species, so I still didn’t know that she had already finished feeding them.

So, should she use the excuse of going to feed the mutated species to leave?

Yu Ruolan’s fingers holding the cup tightened unconsciously. When she handed the cup to me, she said in a low voice, “You should drink some more water… I’ve already finished feeding them, I can stay…”

I smiled and said, “Really? That’s great.”

Xiao 6 let out a series of “tsk, tsk” sounds.

I replied to it, “What are you tsking about, watch your drama.”

Xiao 6 stopped making a sound. The voices of the male and female leads from the drama just now appeared in my mind. It seemed to realize that I wouldn’t be watching anymore, and the sound disappeared instantly, probably muted.

Seeing that I had finished another cup of water, Yu Ruolan walked to the kettle to boil new water and heard me say, “I’ve troubled you today.”

“Ah? It’s no trouble.” Yu Ruolan said, looking down at the kettle.

I said, “Actually, I get sick often, I’m used to it. I’m fine without anyone taking care of me.”

Hearing me speak, Yu Ruolan subconsciously looked back.

I saw myself with my thick, white eyelashes slightly lowered, my expression tinged with a bit of nostalgia: “You remind me of my sister. The last time I was taken care of by her seems like a long time ago…”

Xiao 6 couldn’t help but make its presence known: “Oh-yo, Schrödinger’s sister.”

I ignored it.

I thought, when the readers in the high-dimensional world see this, they will probably think that I have a good relationship with my sister. Only when they know the truth in the future will they realize that I was lying.

Thinking about it, I was actually a little looking forward to the reaction of the readers on the forum after my identity is exposed in the future.

Yu Ruolan couldn’t help but ask, “What about your sister?”

“She passed away,” I said calmly.

“Ah! I’m sorry…” Yu Ruolan’s eyes darted around, her toes curling in embarrassment, secretly hating herself for bringing up a sore subject.

She thought, we were just starting to become friends, and I had already stepped on a landmine.

Wuwu, I really am not suitable for making friends.

“It’s okay, I’ve already accepted this fact.” I showed a faint smile, my pale face showing the weariness of illness, my slightly lowered eyebrows and eyes making me look very melancholic.

Yu Ruolan didn’t know what to say.

I knew she couldn’t say anything, so I changed the subject: “Did you watch over me for a long time just now? Was it boring?”

“It was okay, I was reading a novel,” Yu Ruolan replied in a small voice.

I asked, “Do you like reading novels?”

“Yes,” Yu Ruolan replied with rare forcefulness.

“I also like reading novels,” I said. “What genre do you like?”

Yu Ruolan had probably never talked about reading novels with anyone before. She was a little happy and opened up: “The kind I’m reading now, um… to summarize the genre, it’s probably romance, with some surreal elements. I think it’s very interesting.”

I asked, “What’s the name of the one you’re reading now? Can you tell me?”

“Of course!” Yu Ruolan was just about to excitedly introduce it to me when her face suddenly changed, and she began to stammer, “Uh, this, I feel you probably wouldn’t be interested… How about I recommend another one to you? I just finished one recently, the main character one day has the superpower to hear what others are complaining about in their hearts, it’s very funny.”

I raised my eyebrows slightly, guessed what was going on, and cooperatively said, “Okay.”

Yu Ruolan breathed a sigh of relief and said, “I’ll find it for you.”

She stood next to me and unlocked her phone screen. The interface of the novel reading software flashed by, and with my good eyesight, I could clearly see the title of the novel Yu Ruolan had been reading—

“After Reincarnating into Another World, I Became the Villainess Young Lady but Was Doted on by Five Big Shots”

The title was very long, and the amount of information was also very large.

Bai Xuechao: “…”

No wonder she suddenly didn’t want to say the title.

As a system, Xiao 6 also captured the title and burst out laughing: “Hahahahaha romance, surreal, no problem!”

Yu Ruolan didn’t know that her book title had been seen. She found the novel she had read before in her bookshelf and read the summary to me.

The two of them talked about novels for a while—mainly Yu Ruolan was trying to sell it—and then from novels they talked about manga and TV series adapted from novels. During this time, I also drank a few cups of water, and Yu Ruolan also became dry-mouthed from talking so much. It had been a long time since she had said so many words at once.

After chatting for two hours, it was unknowingly five-thirty.

“The plot of this one was changed drastically, but I quite like…” Yu Ruolan said, her eyes glancing at the clock in the bedroom. “Ah, it’s already this late! Are you hungry?”

I shook my head: “I’m not hungry yet.”

“You’re sick, you should eat a little. That way you can recover faster.” Yu Ruolan’s expression had returned to her usual quietness, but her cheeks were still a little flushed, obviously not yet recovered from the happy and excited chat just now.

I thought for a moment and replied, “Okay.”

“Let’s measure your temperature again.” Yu Ruolan picked up the forehead thermometer.

I obediently cooperated and lifted my bangs.

Yu Ruolan glanced at the displayed temperature and smiled faintly: “39.2 degrees, you’re slowly getting over the fever.”

She asked again, “What do you want to eat?”

I thought of something that didn’t take long to make: “Steamed egg custard? Is that okay?”

“Yes.” Yu Ruolan smiled slightly at me and walked away with cheerful steps. After taking two steps, she suddenly realized something, and her steps became more elegant.

Bai Xuechao: “…”

Actually, the quiet and shy image from before has already collapsed, there’s no need to maintain it anymore.

Yu Ruolan left the bedroom and gently closed the door.

With her back to the bedroom door, she flailed her arms and legs around like Keyun going crazy, and danced around for a while, so embarrassed that she wanted to scratch the wall.

Yu Ruolan knocked her forehead against the wall, her heart thinking, what on earth have I been doing all afternoon!

She was a little too excited. She had told me a bunch of things about reading novels, almost revealing all her secrets. Would I think she was talkative? Would I have already stopped wanting to talk, but was just forcing myself to chat with her? Fortunately, she managed to hold back from talking about her “precious collection” of various incest, ABO, immoral, and stepmom literature.

Yu Ruolan fell into a deep state of entanglement and self-loathing.

Ahhh! Would I hate her because she talked too much?

With tears in her eyes, she took out her phone and sent a message to the male servant through the Apocalypse Society’s internal software, saying that she wanted two servings of steamed egg custard. Then she left with a conflicted look on her face, clutching her hair.

She didn’t know that I had been standing just on the other side of the door.

Hearing the footsteps fading away, I asked Xiao 6, “What was she doing just now, banging her head against the wall?”

“Yes.” Xiao 6 displayed a meme of a person sweating profusely and wiping their own sweat.

“Just now, Sister Little Yu was flailing her arms and legs around outside the door like she was crazy, her expression was also strange, and then she banged her head against the wall… Strange, she shouldn’t have this kind of illness setting, right?”

Listening to Xiao 6’s silly words, I couldn’t help but let out a “pfft” and said, “It’s not an illness, she’s just a little regretful and conflicted, it’s fine.”

“Ah? What is she regretful and conflicted about?” Xiao 6 asked curiously.

“She regrets talking so much to me, and is conflicted about whether I’ll hate her because of her performance.” I said in a calm tone, walking towards the bathroom. “She’s just very unconfident, afraid that the way she interacted with people just now would lose her favorability and be disliked, making it impossible to make friends.”

Xiao 6 understood.

Seeing me start to take off my clothes, it said in surprise, “Host, what are you doing?”

“Taking a cold shower,” I said flatly. “I’m not going to let this temperature go down.”

It was already 39.2 degrees. If I took some fever medicine in the evening, it would probably become a low fever tomorrow.

Xiao 6: “6.”

I timed it and took a two-minute cold shower. Wearing a bathrobe, I went to the cloakroom to find new pajamas. I thought that the clothes Yuan Lan had bought for me should include pajamas.

I opened the closets one by one and finally found a closet full of clothes in my size.

Then I discovered that the pajamas were actually a cartoon white rabbit pattern.

Bai Xuechao: “…”

He was really too sinister.

I made do and changed into the pajamas, then went back to the bathroom and randomly ran some hot water to drive away the cold air inside.

Just as I sat back on the bed, I heard a knock on the bedroom door.

Yu Ruolan opened the bedroom door and peeked her head in, holding a thermal container. Seeing me looking at her, she pursed her lips and showed a shy smile, then walked into the bedroom.

“I made two kinds of mutated species eggs, which one do you like?” Yu Ruolan took out the food containers from the thermal container and placed them on the small round table.

I saw that Yu Ruolan had brought two servings of steamed egg custard. My long eyelashes fluttered, and then I cooperatively picked up a spoon.

I took a spoonful from one of the steamed egg custards, blew on it gently, and tasted it. I said directly, “I like this flavor, let’s have this one. Thank you, it’s delicious.”

Yu Ruolan didn’t doubt the authenticity of my words. She curved her beautiful purple eyes and said in a small voice, “I’m glad you like it.”

While eating the steamed egg custard, I found that Yu Ruolan was very silent compared to the afternoon. I guess she had “reflected” on herself and felt that it was better to talk less.

But I couldn’t let Yu Ruolan go back to her previous state, so I found a topic to chat with her: “Little Yu, you haven’t had dinner yet, right?”

“Ah, no.” Yu Ruolan thought for a moment and added, “I’m not hungry yet.”

I looked at the other uneaten serving of steamed egg custard and said softly, “If you don’t mind, would you like to have the steamed egg custard? There’s another serving I haven’t touched.”

“Oh, it’s okay, I don’t mind…” Yu Ruolan said.

As if to prove that she really didn’t mind, she quickly found a disposable spoon from the cutlery she had brought and sat opposite me, eating in small bites.

Xiao 6 figured it out at this time: “You deliberately didn’t eat the other serving, just to let Sister Little Yu eat with you!”

I let out a “en” as an answer.

Eating together and watching others eat are two different feelings.

While eating, Yu Ruolan looked at the pajamas on me, and after hesitating for a while, she asked, “Why did you change your clothes?”

To be able to make her speak actively, it seems that my efforts this afternoon were not in vain.

“I sweated a lot, so I changed,” I said.

Yu Ruolan nodded: “I see.”

She ate a few more bites of steamed egg custard and seemed to have suddenly thought of something. Just as she was about to speak, she silently lowered her head again.

I took the initiative to find a topic: “I’ve seen one before…”

At this moment, the bedroom door was suddenly opened.

“I’m back—!” Yuan Lan walked in with a smile, “Eh? Little Yu is here too~”

He looked at the two of them with a half-smile.

Yu Ruolan said in a soft and delicate voice, “He’s sick, I came to visit…”

“And take care of the patient by the way?” Yuan Lan ignored the warm atmosphere of them eating face to face, walked to the table, and said with a smile, “Little Yu is so kind.”

After speaking, he reached out his hand to my forehead and sighed, “Ah, it’s much warmer… It’s getting cold outside, it’s so cold.”

Bai Xuechao: “…”

Using a patient with a fever as a hand warmer? Be a decent human being.

I looked at him with no expression on my face.

Yuan Lan ignored my cold gaze, looked me up and down, and said with satisfaction, “Aren’t these pajamas super cute? They suit you very well.”

“Is that so,” I asked. “Where do you think they suit me?”

Yuan Lan pointed at the Q-version white rabbit on the pajamas and said, “Look, the little rabbit has white fur and red eyes, just like you!”

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