amaotonovel Chapter 503 "Infecting the World" - Male Mother (114)
Chapter 503 "Infecting the World" - Male Mother (114)
Chapter 503 "Infecting the World" Male Mother (114)
"Teacher Liao...you're not joking, are you?" Lu Liruan felt that she had been subjected to too many inexplicable things today, things that had nothing to do with her, but she had heard news that would affect her.
"No." Liao Tingyuan also walked to the window and looked towards the courtyard gate. Although the graffiti could not be seen from this angle, it was entirely possible to imagine it.
The level of wildness is so extreme that it contains elements of mental pollution.
In the first few days, Lu Liruan understood why some of the other residents felt that their business wasn't legitimate.
Normal people would never imagine that the person coming out of this courtyard would be Liao Tingyuan, a well-dressed and refined office worker.
I imagine it's a member covered in tattoos, dressed in a wild style...
"Then I understand..."
Lu Liruan thought to herself, "Who is this person?"
When you arrive, will you draw on the boss's new fishing rod?
Even people like Lu Liruan and Fan Zhenxiang avoid each other, let alone people like that.
"How did Shiyi and he start dating?" Lu Liruan asked from the bottom of her heart.
Then he saw that Liao Tingyuan didn't say anything, but his expression said, "How would I know?"
The two remained silent for a moment, until Lu Liruan slowly uttered, "People's aesthetics... are truly bizarre."
Liao Tingyuan nodded in agreement with Lu Liruan's statement.
An Tang had just entered the office when she heard the two people's words and burst into silent laughter. The key point was that the two of them were standing side by side by the window, like two animals of different sizes huddled together, quietly and calmly chirping about others, which was both funny and adorable.
Before Lu Liruan came, An Tang had never thought Liao Tingyuan was cute.
This person is completely unrelated to the word "cute," and is even somewhat cold and inhuman. But when she is with Lu Liruan, she suddenly becomes more human. Not only that, but she also seems to have picked up some of the strange and cute traits of a young girl.
It makes me much happier.
I doubt anyone here would have used the word "happy" to describe Liao Tingyuan before.
His emotions were so stable that it seemed like they would never fluctuate.
Gao Shiyi once privately analyzed Liao Tingyuan, saying that he might have experienced a major emotional event... It's not certain at what age, whether he had suffered a major trauma, or whether his living environment had undergone a drastic change, but in short, it's possible that a major change had occurred.
It's more likely that his emotional range and threshold differed from that of a normal person due to his younger age, but that doesn't mean he wasn't a normal person...
It was at that moment that An Tang came to believe that Gao Shiyi had indeed worked as a psychological counselor before, and was even a top student in this field.
“You look like you’re planning to write a paper about him.” An Tang patted Gao Shiyi’s arm, her expression full of admiration: “You really love this field… why did you quit?”
"It's because I really like it... But most of the time, I can't solve other people's problems. I might only temporarily solve the problem with the help of medication, but many times it doesn't cure the root cause," Gao Shiyi answered readily.
"The problems that exist in people's hearts have no fixed solution. There are too many related issues. I feel somewhat unwilling to accept this feeling of powerlessness."
She said earnestly, "Compared to this kind of uncertainty, as long as I prepare well beforehand and work diligently, the client will be satisfied, and I will be able to create excellent works. This kind of work is probably more suitable for me..."
"I didn't realize that I might not be suited for this path or this profession when I was studying. It was only after I started working in the industry that I slowly realized it. But it doesn't matter. It's never too late to find the path that truly suits me and do what I want to do, what makes me happy and what I'm good at."
As Gao Shiyi was speaking, she was drinking with An Tang at a food stall.
The two clinked glasses, and An Tang laughed, "Is this your way of giving me flow therapy?"
"If this can be of any help to you, that would be great. It would prove that I didn't waste my time studying in school!" Gao Shiyi smiled. She had been drinking for quite a while, but she wasn't drunk at all. Her alcohol tolerance was truly excellent.
"Why don't you go ask Liao Tingyuan?" An Tang picked up a skewer, took a bite, and asked quite seriously, "Aren't you in charge of him?"
“My area of responsibility is completely different from this… Besides, from all the times I’ve interacted with him, his emotional stability is strangely stable… Logically speaking, people who have experienced trauma will have post-traumatic stress disorder in different places, to varying degrees, and sometimes they don’t even realize it until it’s triggered, but he seems to have nothing at all.”
Gao Shiyi poured herself another glass of beer: "It's not that I can't ask, and Tingyuan isn't the kind of person who can't stand these kinds of questions. He'll probably answer me in a very formal way, and then I won't get any answers at all."
Gao Shiyi clinked glasses with her: "How about you make a bet with me?"
“No bet. I know you’ll win without even thinking.” An Tang shook her head.
Liao Tingyuan wouldn't mind if others asked him questions, and he wouldn't even care that the two of them were talking about him while eating a late-night snack.
But now An Tang has decided to retract some of her previous assessments of Liao Tingyuan.
Maybe I just haven't met the right person yet...
Just like Gao Shiyi...
During dinner that evening, An Tang looked at Gao Shiyi and sighed, "Does she really have to come?"
"Actually, he's a really good person." Gao Shiyi smiled, clearly not the first time she had said such a defense, and she did it very skillfully and smoothly.
"Is this what you call a doctor not being able to heal himself?" An Tang exhaled.
"Where are Tingyuan and Liruan?" Gao Shiyi asked, changing the subject.
"They haven't eaten takeout here for two nights."
"Where should we eat?"
“Go home and cook for yourself!” An Tang said with certainty. She got the information from Lu Liruan and realized that these two people, who were quite different in age, had now adopted the same lifestyle.
"Huh?" Gao Shiyi was genuinely surprised for a moment: "Li Ruan can cook?"
A few days ago, I was cooking instant noodles in the office at noon, and the pot started smoking.
"She probably wouldn't," An Tang shook her head.
"That……"
“Tingyuan can make it.” An Tang was quite certain of this, as she had once seen Liao Tingyuan looking up recipes.
It was clear that a lot of thought and effort had been put into cooking for the little girl.
"Haha...he can even cook. I thought someone like him wouldn't eat or drink at home..." Gao Shiyi joked.
"Did you still think he didn't even have any furniture at home?!"
"Hahaha, how did you know?"
The two of them started arguing about their colleagues again.
But actually, Liao Tingyuan didn't cook when he got home today.
Although Lu Liruan had adapted to Liao Tingyuan's lifestyle, she still craved takeout after eating too much home-cooked food.
So the two of them gradually made a tacit agreement to order takeout two days a week after returning home, and cook for themselves the rest of the time.
Today, Lu Liruan ordered salted egg yolk pizza again.
"Teacher Liao, do you know when this pizza tastes best?"
"When?"
“When we were about to come out of the space, I was so touched by what I ate, but now it doesn’t taste as good.” Lu Liruan tilted her head.
Liao Tingyuan recalled how Lu Liruan had eaten her fill back then, and pursed his lips: "Then let's try a different place next time."
"Okay!"
The next day at work, Zhao Linchuan came to work again, all excited.
Sitting on the sofa on the first floor, I played games with Fan Zhenxiang.
Seeing Lu Liruan and the others come in, she greeted them, "Liruan, come and play with us!"
Lu Liruan has little experience playing games in a team. After all, she doesn't have that many friends, and everyone is quite busy, so no one has much time to play games together.
Seeing that Lu Liruan was quite interested, Zhao Linchuan pulled her off the game.
Lu Liruan got engrossed in the game in no time.
Liao Tingyuan's job today was to continue cleaning up the withered vines and weeds in the yard, while An Tang's job was to change the water in the fish tank and wipe away the algae.
As a result, the atmosphere in the room was very divided, with one person working enthusiastically while the other was playing video games enthusiastically.
When it was time to eat, Zhao Linchuan suddenly smiled at Lu Liruan, looking somewhat sly: "I'll show you a magic trick!"
Upon hearing this, Fan Zhenxiang looked up briefly, then lowered his head again, appearing completely uninterested.
"What kind of magic trick?" Lu Liruan thought it was one of those tricks you see at parties, and wasn't particularly interested, but she had to give her colleague face, so she turned around and waited for him to take out a deck of cards from his pocket so she could choose one...
But Zhao Linchuan didn't take out any props. He stood up, went to the kitchen, and then... came back with an apple and a pear.
He placed two pieces of fruit in his palm and handed them to Lu Liruan.
"What do you think this is?"
"Do you think I'm blind or brain-dead?" Lu Liruan was baffled, feeling as if the other person's question made it seem like she was stupid.
Zhao Linchuan also seemed to find the opening a bit strange.
So he changed his approach and handed the two fruits to Lu Liruan: "Ask them what these two fruits are."
Lu Liruan: ...?
Do you really think I'm mentally ill?
But seeing Zhao Linchuan's very serious expression, Lu Liruan still gave him face and put her nose close to the two fresh and plump fruits to smell them.
Then, somewhat speechless, he replied, "An apple tastes like an apple, and a pear tastes like a pear..."
Zhao Linchuan clapped his hands, startling Lu Liruan.
"So..." Shouldn't these two fruits taste like this? Lu Liruan was making herself a little insecure.
Fan Zhenxiang, who was standing to the side, played a game by himself, looked up at the two of them and urged, "Hurry up and transform, then we'll eat. We're still playing games this afternoon, what are you keeping us in suspense for?"
Lu Liruan cast a curious glance at him, but Fan Zhenxiang showed no intention of exposing Zhao Linchuan's magic trick.
Instead, he waved his hand and said, "I've seen this magic trick many times, but it should still feel fresh the first time you see it."
Lu Liruan's curiosity was piqued.
So he watched Zhao Linchuan's next move intently...
Zhao Linchuan placed the apples and pears on the table, with a distance between them.
Seeing that he seemed determined to make a fuss about the two fruits, Lu Liruan cautiously asked, "Don't you use playing cards?"
What would I do with playing cards?
"Didn't you say you were going to do a magic trick? Can you do magic without playing cards and still have pigeons?"
Zhao Linchuan thought to himself: I think your brain isn't that good.
"My magic doesn't use those things!" He seemed very confident in his magic trick, tossed his hair back, then placed his hand on the apple, stroking its smooth surface, closed his eyes, and began to mutter incantations.
Lu Liruan took a step back slightly, feeling a strange sense of awe. What kind of approach was this?
Even those card magicians don't act this mystical...
Zhao Linchuan ignored her, and after touching the apple, he went to the pear and did the same thing, stroking the pear.
At this moment, Liao Tingyuan and An Tang had already returned to the house and were standing behind Lu Liruan, watching the magic show with somewhat unreadable expressions.
An Tang tried hard to suppress her laughter.
He finally finished reciting, stood up, and said to Lu Liruan, "I just stroked the apple with my left hand and the pear with my right hand."
Lu Liruan nodded blankly and said, "Ah, I saw it, and then what?"
"Now, I will use my right hand to stroke the apple and my left hand to stroke the pear."
Lu Liruan: ...
"Oh. So what exactly are you trying to say?"
Then Lu Liruan saw him repeat the operation, turning his hands over and doing it again.
The distance between the apples and pears on the table is about 50cm.
He busied himself in the middle, walking back and forth several times, and looked at Lu Liruan with a bit of dizziness.
The aroma of food was already wafting from the kitchen. Gao Shiyi had already opened all the takeout boxes, poured the food into plates, and called them to eat.
"Is it finished?" Lu Liruan was indeed quite hungry.
"Now you can come over and smell this apple again, and then smell this pear again."
Lu Liruan thought to herself, "Am I crazy?"
But thinking that the magic trick had already progressed to this stage and he had seen all the setup, he still had some doubts, so he went up to the apple and smelled it.
But upon smelling it, Lu Liruan's eyes suddenly widened!
Then, somewhat incredulously, they moved closer to the pear and smelled it.
"If you don't believe me, you can put the two things in two different places and smell them again."
Zhao Linchuan noticed her suspicion and said...
Lu Liruan took the apple, walked to a further place, and brought it close to her nose; it was still the same.
"Hey, why is this? How did it come about? It's amazing!" Lu Liruan no longer had the disdain she had just shown.
Zhao Linchuan's expression immediately turned smug, but Lu Liruan couldn't care less at this moment.
May I try some?
"Of course!"
Lu Liruan took a bite of the apple.
It clearly looks like an apple, and Lu Liruan just confirmed that it tastes like an apple.
But now, when I eat it, the apple tastes like a pear!