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76. Psychology: Way to Go

Translator: Guy Gone Bad

Soon, Su Bei’s juice was served. Th waitress exclaimed, “Su Bei!”

Su Bei raised his head. Damn it! It’s the female lead Su Su!

Su Su looked at the handsome boy in front of her in disbelief. She almost did not recognize this is her little brother.

Su Bei was reluctant to say, “Hi.”

Su Su came to her sense and bit her lip. “How did you know I do part-time job here?”

Su Bei pointed to Xiao Qianran, “Mr. Xiao chose this place.”

So ask him about it.

Su Su then noticed Xiao Qianran was also here, saying with a little stiff tone, “So Mr. Xiao is also here. Sorry.”

Xiao Qianran smiled faintly, like the spring breeze, “It doesn’t matter. I didn’t expect you to do a part-time job here. Sorry for the trouble.”

The expression on this woman’s face was always fake, and so natural.

He was kind of interested in her before, but he did not know why, today he dropped that kind of feelings today.

748, “Captivating bar increased by 5%, current progress 23%.”

Su Bei wide opened his eyes, he did nothing and captivating bar increased?

Su Su shook his head, “No, Mr. Xiao, you must be kidding. I’m just curious how you and Su Bei met.”

Su Bei suddenly looked at Xiao Qianran. Will this man tell her the real reason?

Xiao Qianran looked at Su Bei’s puppy eyes, suddenly feeling thrilled, “Just friends.”

748, ” Captivating bar increased by 2%, current progress 25%.”

Su Bei was a little disappointed. His captivating bar was rising more frequently, but really too little.

Su Su’s eyes flashed darkness. How did she never know Su Bei and Xiao Qianran’s relationship is so good?

But it’s also an excuse to cotton up with him, isn’t it?

Su Su smiled and said, “Su Bei must have cause you a lot of trouble. Hope you wouldn’t mind.”

Xiao Qianran said mildly, “No.”

Su Bei could not help but ask, “Aren’t you at work?”

Aren’t you afraid your boss will fire you for chatting during work hours?

Su Su’s expression went a bit rigid, “You enjoy. I got work to do. Maybe we can have dinner together later.”

The implication is, letting Xiao Qianran and Su Bei wait for her after work.

Although Su Su left to work, but the eyes always can’t stop looking this way.

Xiao Qianran sighed, “It seems that Mr. Su has a psychological burden, so you can’t bring the matter up, right?”

Su Bei said ambiguously, “Kind of.”

Xiao Qianran said, “I don’t know if Mr. Su would accept hypnosis therapy.”

“That might make it easier for Mr. Su to speak up.”

Su Bei refused without thinking. Hypnosis? Feels really insecure, OK?

Xiao Qianran felt slightly regretted, “If so, I am afraid I can not help Mr. Su.”

“As the saying goes, Let him who tied the bell on the tiger take it off. If you can’t solve it from the source, no method works.”

His voice seemed to have some kind of magic, letting Su Bei feel relaxed.

Su Bei nodded, feeling that what Xiao Qianran said was right.

As Su Bei nodded, Xiao Qianran continued, “I have my professional ethics, I won’t tell anyone about this.”

His voice became ethereal, and the voices around him also quieted down.

Su Bei looked at Xiao Qianran, a bit dizzy.

Xiao Qianran’s smile became a bit seductive, “So, you can feel free to speak to me.”

Suddenly, Su Bei woke up and blurted out, “You want me to speak my mind in a café?”

77. Psychology: Peony

Translator: Guy Gone Bad

Su Bei’s voice was a little too loud, attracting people to look over.

He coughed to hide his embarrassment. “Mr. Xiao, hypnotizing your client without his consent, isn’t it a bit inappropriate?”

Su Bei was not nuts. If he still couldn’t guess it out, he would really be brainless.

Xiao Qianran gave a gentle smile, “When Did I hypnotize Mr. Su? I was just asking Mr. Su some very normal questions.”

This boy, unexpectedly, can wake up from hypnosis, which shows that his willpower is very strong. Things become more and more interesting.

748, “Captivating bar increased by 5%, current progress 30%.”

Su Bei’s OS, “I’d be a fool if I believe it!”

And he also had no idea what he had done to let the bar increase.

Xiao Qianran suddenly stood up, “Mr. Su is too nervous, so there is no need to go on. How about we take a walk?”

Su Bei, of course, agreed. The longer they stayed together, the bar would increase more.

Two people went straight along the shops, aimless.

Suddenly, Su Bei stopped.

It was a flower shop, with a peony stuck on the counter.

Yeah, just one.

Su Bei was staring at the flower, and Xiao Qianran was staring at him.

He saw missing someone from Su Bei’s eyes, then watched him walk into the flower shop and asked if they got peonies to sell.

The owner of the flower shop was in a daze, but he also kindly gave the only peony on the counter to Su Bei.

The smile on Su Bei’s face indicated something more, something not definable.

Seeing Su Bei came out, Xiao Qianran asked, “You like peonies?”

Su Bei shook his head, “No.” Just suddenly thought of Feng Xinglang.

He suddenly felt sorry to Feng Xinglang and Mu Qinghan.

After accomplishing his mission, he just patted his ass and left. What about them?

Xiao Qianran drew a conclusion from Su Bei’s expression, he has a lot of secrets.

He began to feel that Su Bei was like a treasure. The deeper he dug, the more interesting he became.

Xiao Qianran said, “There must be a story behind. Would you like to share it with me?”

Su Bei stuffed the flower into Xiao Qianran’s hand, “It’s nothing, just remembered a poem. ‘Even if I would die under the peonies, I may be a dissolute ghost.’(This is a Chinese proverb. Actually peonies here refer to beautiful women.)”

Xiao Qianran took the peony, thought of something, “What do you do, Mr. Su?”

Su Bei answered, “A comics artist.”

Xiao Qianran, of course, knew he draw comics, but also knew what he drew.

There seems to be a plot in the comics. The male lead said to the other male lead, ‘Even if I would die under the peonies, I may be a dissolute ghost.’

This probably was connected.

But he pretended not to know and asked, “What comics? May I see it?”

Su Bei wanted to refuse, because he would feel very happy if someone he didn’t know watched his comics.

But if someone he knew wanted to watch it, he’d feel ashamed.

Xiao qianran said before he could react, “The comics you draw can also reflect your inner heart. Maybe I can learn something from them that you don’t want to say, or that you don’t realize yourself.”

All right! This reason made Su Bei comfy, he told him the name of his comics.

Xiao Qianran said mildly, “I’ll check it out after going back.”

After a short walk, they parted.

Su Bei returned home, and saw the editor’s message.

Mainly saying that no matter in painting or imagination, not bad, and he would do better in the future…

But can you change the protagonist into a woman?

78. Psychology: Teaching Him to FIsh

Translator: Guy Gone Bad

Su Bei rejected. He already thought it shameful enough taking himself as the prototype.

Change the leading role into female? That is even more ashamed. He may lose the mood.

Editors also respected the comics artist’s idea, did not force Su Bei to change.

It’s just that if he would not change it, there might not be no featured first or what.

Because this kind of theme was very sensitive.

Su Bei said fine, and he didn’t care about featured first at all.

Ye Tongtong called to ask about the progress of Su Bei’s treatment.

Su Bei spinned the pen in his hand, replied, “Nothing special, Tongtong, really, we can’t be together.”

“I don’t care,” Ye Tongtong roared, “you can only be my man in this life.”

Su Bei shook his head. So self-involved.

“Let’s go to the amusement park,” she said after a long silence.

Su Bei refused, “I still have something to do. I’m sorry.”

Ye Tongtong said, “Can’t we hang out like friends?”

Su Bei smiled. “If only friends, you can choose someone else to go with you, like your besties.”

“Do you have to be so heartless?” she complained.

Su Bei stilled wanted to say something, but she already hung up the phone.

He scratched his hair. He’d better draw the manuscript.

However, before he could have some inspirations, Xiao Qianran’s call came.

The object’s call! How can he not answer it?

As Su Bei picked it up, Xiao Qianran’s warm voice came in, “What about we go camping this weekend?”

Su Bei considered a bit. This is a good opportunity to captivate the male lead, so he agreed.

Although he is a homebody, he hates going out most.

Soon it was the weekend. Xiao Qianran came to pick up Su Bei.

He thought it was just the two of them, but he never thought Ye Tongtong also came.

Ye Tongtong was really persistent. Su Bei nearly couldn’t hold it.

Not only that, there were also Xiao Qianran’s police friends.

Lively by nature, Ye Tongtong soon became involved with a group of men.

God knows what she said to those men. The way they look at Su Bei was like looking at a jerk.

Su Bei felt very sad.

When they got to the camping place, those men set up the tents and a barbecue grill in a few rounds.

As there was a river nearby, they proposed to go fishing.

Su Bei refused, because he didn’t know how, also did not have the patience.

But as Xiao Qianran opened his mouth, Su Bei could not refuse.

Su Bei was very uncomfortable, he really did not know how to fish.

He looked at the tangled fishing line in front of him, head exploding.

Xiao Qianran smiled, “I’ll teach you.”

Su Bei’s OS, “Farewell, let me go home.”

But thinking about the task, he had to bite the bullet and say, “Ok.”

Xiao Qianran patiently untied the fishing line for Su Bei and then handed the fishing rod to him.

As Su Bei took it, Xiao Qianran’s hand held his.

He was so scared that he almost threw the fishing rod away.

Xiao Qianran’s voice rang in the ears, “I have put the bait, you hold it tight, and then cast out like this.”

He shook Su Bei’s hand and said so, while making the action.

Because the action was a little big, the two people inevitably draw close enough, and even bumped into each other sometimes.

Su Bei felt a bit uncomfortable, but as he saw Xiao Qianran’s focusing eyes, suddenly felt he was  a bit melodramatic.

But, actually Xiao Qianran was also looking at Su Bei. As he saw the thin red ears, the radian of his lips expanded.

748, “Captivating bar increased by 3%, current progress 33%.”

79. Psychology: Serial Murder Case

Translator: Guy Gone Bad

After Xiao Qianran repeatedly taught him, Su Bei finally caught a fish, but too small that it was even not enough to stuff the slit between one’s teeth.

To tell the truth, if it were not for Xiao Qianran, he would really like to fold the fishing rod and go back home.

Xiao Qianran became more and more interested in the teaching, totally ignoring whether Su Bei wanted it or not.

Because he liked to see that clearly Su Bei hated it but still pretended to be very patient.

So fake that it made him want to laugh.

After fishing, Su Bei felt that the whole world was grey.

One of those middle-aged men patted Su Bei on the shoulder and said, “Young man, still need to learn. You can’t just stay at home like a nerd.”

“By the way, recently there is a recent case involving you Otaku.”

“Several have died, but the murderer has not been found.”

Su Bei looked at him, horrified, “How could you coming fishing before finding the murderer?”

So irresponsible to the people?

That man pointed to Xiao Qianran, “We have to invite him to assist us. What choice do we have?”

Su Bei was surprised, “Xiao Qianran, your part-time job is to solve cases?”

The man explained to Su Bei, “Don’t think he is an ordinary psychologist, so he can only solve your psychological problems.”

“He’s also a master at seeing through the mind of a criminal suspect.”

Su Bei blurted out, “Only a pervert understands perverts most.”

Speaking of which, he hurriedly looked over at Xiao Qianran, and found that Xiao Qianran was looking at him with a fake smile.

Su Bei was thick-skinned, giving an expression “I-didn’t-say-anything”.

That man laughed, “This young man is very promising. You got right to the point. Xiao Qianran really is a pervert sometimes.”

Su Bei gave him a deep look. The pervert he said was not like what he thought.

Then they went back to the grill and began the barbecue party.

Ye Tongtong deliberately elbowed to the side of Su Bei, Su Bei moved a bit away.

She squeezed again, Su Bei moved again.

Then, Su Bei was about to stick to Xiao Qianran’s body.

“I won’t eat you!” she said angrily. “What are you hiding from?”

Those middle-aged men laughed, making Ye Tongtong shy.

Finally, Xiao Qianran tried to break the ice, “Well, don’t laugh at a girl.”

When they were barbecuing, they talked about the case.

“The dead man was so miserable. His whole body was shredded into pieces and stuffed in the refrigerator.”

“The other one is no better. His legs got stewed.”

“Another one seems to have been forced to eat his hands before being killed.”

Ye Tongtong’s face turned pale. Enjoying the barbecue? Impossible!

While Su Bei was enjoying it happily. Chopped corpse? Eating one self’s hands? All had nothing to do with him.

If it had been before, maybe he would have been afraid.

But after the devastation in the last world, it was not so scary anymore.

Xiao Qianran looked at not frightened Su Bei, eyes slightly darkened, casually saying, “Maybe the murderer is a cook.”

748, “Captivating bar increased by 5%, current progress 38%.”

One of those middle-aged men looked at Su Bei enjoying the food, and asked in surprise, “Young man, aren’t you afraid?”

As Su Bei was just about to open his mouth to answer, he gave a belch.

The way those men looked at him became weirder.

Su Bei coughed, trying to cover his embarrassment, “Well, in fact, it’s not so scary.”

Xiao Qianran said with a gentle voice, “Having seen too much, probably you wouldn’t feel so scary.”

Su Bei’s heart skipped a beat, feeling that he got seen through by Xiao Qianran.

Then those middle-aged men said, “How could a young man seen those? I’m afraid he has seen none, so he wouldn’t feel afraid.”

80. Psychology: Only A Pervert Knows About Perverts Best

Translator: Guy Gone Bad

Xiao Qianran smiled in silence, just now he clearly from the eyes of Su Bei that he had been used to it.

Su Bei gave him another surprise. How could a high school student have been used to these things?

748, “Captivating bar increased by 2%, current progress 40%.”

Su Bei began to change his attitude towards Xiao Qianran. It seems that he wronged him.

Although stingy, but it was rising frequently. This feels good!

One of those middle-aged men tried to pull the topic back to track, “We also thought it might be a cook, but why should a cook kill homebody?”

Xiao Qianran smiled, “A real pervert doesn’t need a reason to kill people.”

“But if he kills the same kind of people, the murderer may be more hostile to them.”

“Hate otaku? He must have much contact with them. Maybe you can focus on the deliverymen.”

Enlightened by Xiao Qianran, those middle-aged men laughed.

After the barbecue party, it was time to go to bed.

Su Bei and Xiao Qianran shared a tent, which made Su Bei kind of uncomfortable.

There’s always a sense of being seen through.

So Su Bei quickly tidied up and went to sleep.

He could feel Xiao Qianran lying beside him, but in order to avoid embarrassment, he put his back against Xiao Qianran.

Su Bei thought he would lose sleep, but he thought too much.

Maybe because of the former two worlds, he was not used to have someone next to him.

He felt asleep but Xiao Qianran did not, because he was analyzing this man next to him.

Clearly he kind of hated him, but he was able to fall asleep so quickly.

Indicating that he should have ever slept with someone else in one bed.

The more we knew about Su Bei, the stranger he felt. Most things he showed was not found in the materials.

Suddenly, Su Bei turned over, naturally rolled into Xiao Qianran’s arms.

Xiao Qianran reflexively tried to push him away, but as the hands just touched Su Bei, Su Bei reflexively patted him, saying unconsciously, “Stop it, I’m very sleepy.”

He narrowed his eyes. Apparently he was ever familiar to the one sleeping with him.

Xiao Qianran changed his mind. He said with a soft voice, “Su Bei, who am I?”

Su Bei mumbled, “Feng Xinglang, aren’t you bored?”

Xiao Qianran’s eyes flashed a strange light. Feng Xinglang? If he remembered it right, it should be the name of the male lead in the comics.

So he is for real?

Xiao Qianran also did not know why and asked, “Who is Feng Xinglang?”

Su Bei followed Xiao Qianran’s words to say, “A pervert.”

Xiao Qianran’s voice became gentler and more bewitched, “Where is he now?”

Su Bei went silent, did not answer Xiao Qianran’s question.

But the expression on his face seemed painful.

Xiao Qianran added some comfort in his voice and less temptation, “Never mind. Sleep.”

Su Bei’s expression then looked relaxed.

The next day when Su Bei woke up, he felt not himself.

He thought he had dreamed something last night, but he couldn’t remember.

When the camping was over, everyone packed up and went back.

Su Bei began his Otaku life again.

Today, the rain was a little heavy, the air was very wet.

Su Bei, as always, sat in front of the computer to work.

His parents went traveling, under the strong request of Su Bei.

Otherwise, he would be bored to death by his mother who spoiled him.

The whole space was quiet when suddenly there was a knock on the door.

Su Bei frowned. Who would come at this hour? He didn’t order takeout food.