Lu Xunji held his breath, and after a long while, he whispered, "Don't go, stay with me."
I'm afraid if I stay any longer, you'll throw me onto the bed.
Xie Ji's face was blank, lost in thought.
How can someone switch so smoothly between being incredibly witty and pitiful?
It was as if he wasn't the one who had just uttered those arrogant words.
Xie Ji pursed her lips, but still managed to pull her hand away from Lu Xunji's. "I have to go downstairs for dinner. I'm cooking today, would you like to try some?"
Lu Xunji didn't speak, he just looked at him.
"You won't get poisoned, I promise."
Xie Ji thought he was worried that his cooking wasn't good.
"I... I already told you, I can tell fortunes, and I predicted that you'll all think this meal is delicious!"
Lu Xunji turned his head away. "I don't want to see them."
Xie Ji: "Who are they?"
Lu Xunji: "Anyone but you."
Xie Ji: "..."
Princess Jiji
"You can't always be alone," Xie Ji said. "Okay, actually it's not so bad for you to be alone. You can stay here then."
After saying that, he bent down to pick up the blood-red medical gauze that had just fallen on the ground, turned around and left.
Lu Xunji watched his retreating figure without saying a word until the door clicked shut, the incandescent light went out, and the entire room was plunged back into thick darkness.
Xie Ji stood at the door, tapped the system, and glanced at Lu Xunji's favorability rating.
0.
At some point, Lu Xunji's favorability rating was no longer negative.
So you probably don't dislike him anymore, right?
In mathematics, 0 is the only integer between -1 and 1; it is neither negative nor positive.
In linguistics, this concept refers to nothingness and emptiness.
If Lu Xunji neither likes nor dislikes him, what was he doing with that series of actions just now?
Is this pure thuggery?
Xie Ji pursed his lips, feeling that Shang Yan was actually right; Lu Xunji was bullying him.
He glanced at his points balance, which was a long string of numbers; Xie Ji couldn't even make out how many digits it had at a glance.
However, I wasn't paying attention while cooking, and the system notified me that I had received a lot of messages, mostly from netizens who disliked me, which increased my score again.
Xie Ji sighed and glanced at the closed door behind him.
It seems that it's easy to be disliked, but difficult to be liked.
Damn it, who is Lu Xunji? How can someone as handsome as him not like him at all?
Zero favorability points, not even a single point for looks, huh?
Ji Shi's voice came from downstairs. "Why has Xie Ji been gone for so long without any news? I'll go up and check too."
Xie Ji snapped out of his daze, picked up the blood-stained gauze, and quickly left Lu Xunji's room.
Just Ji Shi, Ji Shi came upstairs and saw Xie Ji coming down. He quickly went to greet him and took the iron plate from Xie Ji's hand, "What have you been doing upstairs for so long?"
Xie Ji: "..."
She discussed with his brother whether or not she should sleep with him.
"It's nothing, just helping Lu Xunji change his dressing." Xie Ji came downstairs. "Let's eat."
The dishes were prepared by Xie Ji, but he didn't come down to eat, so no one touched their chopsticks.
The dishes in the kitchen had already been served. Zhou Heyu took the opportunity to tidy up the kitchen, which Xie Ji had messed up, restoring it to its clean and tidy state.
[Holy crap, really? Xie Ji can actually cook!]
[So what was he doing last time? Was he pretending? Trying to create a silly, idiotic persona?]
[If it's really about creating a persona, why did it again this time? Was the last one probably an accident?]
[I don't know why, but I feel like Xie Ji is a strange person. It's like he's always deliberately trying to make others dislike him, but actually he can be very gentle at times.]
Where are those people who were saying Xie Ji was incapable? Why are they silent now?
[My love for Xie Ji has increased by another 100,000 today!]
Ji Shi removed the gauze, he sat down at the dining table next to Xie Ji.
Shang Yan stood up, rinsed Xie Ji's bowl and chopsticks with water, and asked, "How is Lu Xunji? Why didn't he come down for dinner?"
Xie Ji pursed his lips. "He said he wouldn't eat."
I can't exactly tell you that Princess Jiji thinks you're an eyesore and affecting her appetite.
Shang Yan nodded without asking any further questions. He and Lu Xunji weren't close to begin with, and his concern for Xie Ji was mostly due to Xie Ji being his business partner.
There's not much else to ask; this group is all from the same circle, and their parents have more or less business dealings with each other, so they can be considered to have grown up together.
In other words, Xie Ji wasn't very popular when he was young, and people didn't like to play with him. Plus, there was Zhou Heyu, who was an illegitimate child. Although he wasn't well-liked, people in the circle would still greet them as Young Master Zhou and Young Master Xie when they saw them.
Lu Xunji was only recently recognized and was not familiar with anyone. In addition, his aloof and noble temperament, with his drooping eyelids and the way he looked at people as if they were trash, made it really hard for anyone to get close to him.
Xie Ji filled a bowl with rice and quickly ate it, ignoring his favorite boiled shrimp and just focusing on eating, picking at some side dishes to go with the rice.
Ji Shi, sitting next to him, asked curiously, "Why are you eating so fast?"
"I'll eat quickly, and then I'll take it up to Lu Xunji." Xie Ji mumbled, his mouth full of rice, "His wound is infected, so I need to cook him some light porridge."
Ji Shi's face darkened, and he gritted his teeth, saying, "You were so good to him."
Without a second thought, Xie Ji retorted, "I owe him."
If you knew that I had to work on gaining Ai Ge's favorability after transmigrating to this world, you would also think I have a miserable life.
However, the audience and the comments section clearly misunderstood his meaning.
[ Xie Ji is so well-behaved, oh my god, is he atoning for his sins because he stole Lu Xunji's life of wealth and luxury for more than ten years?]
[So pitiful, so pitiful, Mommy pats you.]
[The fact that he was switched back then probably had little to do with Xie Ji. He was just born; he didn't understand anything. Sigh!]
[I... never mind, I won't say more. I apologize for my previous comments. Xie Ji is really pitiful, and this really isn't his fault. I hope the two of them can get along better in the future.]
[It really wasn't easy for Lu Xunji to return to a wealthy family, and Xie Ji is such a good boy. They're both so pitiful; I don't know who to blame.]
[Blame Xie Ji's greedy parents! How could they do such a despicable thing! Luckily, our little Xie Ji didn't go back, otherwise who knows what kind of suffering he would have endured!]
[ The Xie Household is so wealthy and powerful, taking in Xie Ji is just a matter of adding another bowl and chopsticks, please don't kick Xie Household Xie Ji out! Waaaaaah!]
[It's alright if you kick him out, our Ji Shi master Ji Shi said he'll take care of him!]
[Okay, okay, I'm totally smitten by you guys, the Time Ritual Party again.]
Lu Xunji won't let Xie Ji be kicked out; he'll only make Xie Ji go from being the Xie Household Xie Household's son to their daughter-in-law!
[Sisters of the Machine Festival Party, stand up!]
[Seriously, you guys shipping Lu Xunji and Xie Ji, aren't you embarrassed by the way you call them that? Bro, I'm embarrassed for you guys.]
[Awkward, so I used my feet to build a wedding room for Little Lu and Little Xie /heart emoji.]
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Uh (rubbing hands) Well, to put it simply, I want to try my luck on the gift ranking (of course, it's okay if I don't try, because if I don't make it, I'll lose face, but I'm very concerned about my image, so I have to leave myself a way out. (scratch this part))
So, I was thinking (scratching my head) about doing an extra chapter or something.
You can click "support the cause" or something similar. If I receive 1,000 "support the cause" votes or my gift points increase by 100 within a day, I will add an extra chapter.
I did the math: if each person has three "love-driven" contributions, then only 334 people are needed to unlock the bonus chapter on the next chapter, in addition to the two regular daily chapters!
In short,
Please give me some, bro, I'm begging you, sob sob sob.