Xie Ji was also a little annoyed. "You're really inexplicable. You were perfectly fine yesterday, why are you suddenly angry again?"
Lu Xunji calmed down and spoke again, "I'm not angry."
"Why are you ignoring me if you're not angry?" Xie Ji handed him the sign again, grumbling and trying to scare him. "I have a temper too, okay? Why should I always give in to you?"
Lu Xunji lowered his eyes and said, "There's no need for us to be friends. Either you take off your pants and obediently open your mouth to me, or you stay away from me."
Xie Ji froze for a moment, then stared at him in disbelief, his eyes wide. "Can you please stop using such foul language? Why should I, why should I open my mouth—you fucking bastard, Lu Xunji, are you sick in the head?"
Are you finding out I'm sick for the first time?
"You—you!! Lu Xunji, you son of a bitch—" This was the first time Xie Ji had been so enraged by someone that he was speechless. He knew Lu Xunji had a hard time, but who had it easy?!
He never intended to hurt Lu Xunji; he was always trying to protect him and comfort him.
In the end, he was even humiliated by Lu Xunji with such words.
It's like a dog biting Lü Dongbin – they don't appreciate a kind heart at all!
Xie Ji angrily threw the sign in his hand at Lu Xunji, pointing at him and shouting, "Fine, you don't want to play anymore? Fine, then we're done! We're breaking up! Who can't live without whom? Damn it, you're a complete lunatic, a pervert, disgusting idiot! I don't even want to play with you!"
After saying that, he turned and ran away.
Lu Xunji stood behind him, expressionless, and picked up the welcome sign that had fallen to the ground, then turned around and put the sign back in place.
No one noticed that the welcome sign under Lu Xunji's hand was snapped open, creating a crack. Lu Xunji's fingers rubbed hard against the crack, the rough wooden edges prickling his hand, and several splinters pierced his fingertips, drawing blood.
Lu Xunji didn't look at Xie Ji's retreating figure again. He casually wiped the blood on his hands onto the leaves at his feet and continued to put all the welcome signs back in place.
Xie Ji returned to the villa in a huff. Ji Shi saw him and asked, "What's wrong? Is it hot outside? Your face is so red from the sun?"
She then washed a disposable towel with cold water and handed it to Xie Ji: "Wipe your face. There are ice cubes in the refrigerator; I'll go get them for you."
"No need, I'm fine." Xie Ji took the towel and wiped his face. "Don't bother, they'll be here soon this afternoon. Let's cook first."
"Cooking? Lu Xunji isn't back yet, waiting for him..." Xie Ji Shi.
"I won't eat his cooking! I'll cook for myself!"
The people in the villa looked at each other for a while. Mu Yao leaned over and whispered in Ji Shi's ear, his tone revealing his delight.
"Did he have a fight with Lu Xunji?"
Ji Shi was taken aback. "I don't know? Everything was fine when I went out just now."
" Lu Xunji usually Xie Ji, and this little ingrate is always chasing after Lu Xunji. How did they end up arguing?" Shang Yan stroked his chin and said, "Well, it's a good thing."
Ji Shi's eyes lit up. "That's definitely a good thing."
Zhou Heyu quietly leaned closer and asked, "What's so good about it?"
"They had a fight, so isn't that a perfect opportunity for me to take advantage of the situation?" Ji Shi said confidently, hands on his hips. "I'll bring Xie Ji back to our Ji Household, and then we'll see who dares to bully him again!"
"Will Mr. and Mrs. Ji agree?" Zhou Heyu, looking at him.
Ji Shi: "..."
Oh, I almost forgot he also has parents who can breathe.
Ji Shi's family upbringing was fairly open-minded, but not to the point that Ji Shi would bring a male wife home. If his father found out, he would break his legs and send him to an orphanage.
Ji Shi hesitated for a moment, then frowned and began to think.
Mu Yao chuckled. "My parents agree."
Over the years, Mu Yao has had many relationships with boys and girls outside, which Mu Household parents have all noticed. They have said that as long as Mu Yao is willing to settle down, they don't care if it's a boy or a girl, as long as they can keep Mu Yao in check.
If Mu Yao continues to act so recklessly, Mu Household parents are terrified that one day they'll see their son's handsome face on a news program about cracking down on prostitution and pornography...
Shang Yan pushed up his glasses and said coldly, "Gentlemen, are we distributing things here? Does Xie Ji need your shelter? The assets under the Shang Group Corporation are enough for him to live comfortably for the rest of his life. He should be able to go wherever he wants, not because he has to rely on anyone. All of you, get out of here and get to work!"
Ji Shi muttered, "That's not what I meant. I was just worried about Xie Ji. You know, in the Capital Planet, money alone isn't enough. Without some powerful backing, it's easy to get bullied."
Shang Yan scoffed, "I'm almost embarrassed to say it, but is the power you possess truly your own?"
Ji Shi: "Sooner or later I will have my own power, and I will be able to protect Xie Ji."
Shang Yan: "Then we'll talk about it sooner or later."
Ji Shi didn't say anything, and silently went into the kitchen to help Xie Ji.
Xie Ji originally wanted to use the Hand of the God of Cooking, but found that all the pills in the warehouse had already been handed over to Shang Yan for sale. He then spent 200,000 points in the system shop to draw another batch.
This time I was lucky enough to get twenty-five pieces of the "Turning Turn Stone into Gold Fragment and six Divine Sense Fruit.
Since nearly dying after recklessly consuming the Divine Sense Fruit Divine Sense Fruit, Xie Ji didn't eat it immediately upon receiving it, instead summoning the long-unseen Little Black.
Three favorability bars stretched vertically across the system space, one of which belonged to Lu Xunji. He had thought that the favorability would decrease after their argument, but it turned out that it hadn't.
After the favorability bar reached 0, it stopped fluctuating like before and remained steadily at the 0 position.
Xie Ji propped his head up and asked Little Black what was wrong, "Are you broken?"
Little Black flicked its tail and said, "Generally speaking, there are only two possibilities for this situation. One is that the target's mind is too firm and difficult to sway... The other situation is more complicated than this one, which is that the target lacks the ability to develop feelings of goodwill towards all things in the world... The system is a god-like perspective that transcends the worldview. It doesn't judge goodwill based on appearances, but rather follows the direction of the heart."
Xie Ji pursed his lips, looking at the progress bar with zero favorability rating, and whispered, "Losing the ability to feel favorability towards everything in the world... that must be very painful. Does that mean he can't experience happiness at all?"
"That's right. The inability to find beauty and joy in life is itself a kind of pathological mentality," Little Black said. "The target seems to have a rather severe sense of world-weariness. It's probably difficult enough not to dislike him. He doesn't even love himself, so how can he have any extra love to give to others? Love isn't something that can be directly demonstrated by how good he is to you. First, he must understand his own value and have enough self-love before he can love others."
Xie Ji didn't speak, but touched his nose.
He began to reflect on whether what he had said to Lu Xunji earlier had been too harsh.
It was too heavy, but Lu Xunji wasn't actually that disgusted.
--
Bonus chapter for Qi Zi and Mustard Bro.
There should be two more chapters to cover today.