Chapter 4: Walking Into the World of Normal People

Yu Wangxiao put away his phone and did not reveal any more information.

The words were too ugly. There was no point in letting Lin Jiangye see them.

Those vague bursts of venting and humiliation could not prove anything. They could only show Yu Lin’s extreme immaturity.

His gaze lightly fell on Lin Jiangye’s face, watching him closely, like a silent venomous snake unwilling to miss even the smallest detail that might expose his emotions.

But Lin Jiangye was not very sensitive to human gazes. He let Yu Wangxiao stare at him and pondered in mild distress for a few seconds before saying softly, “Can I clarify something?”

“Mm. Go ahead.”

“Yu Lin and I are both virgins. I’ve never touched him, and he’s actually completely uninterested in me,” Lin Jiangye said, his beautiful brows furrowing slightly. His confusion was obvious, and he even began to analyze it. “I suspect he’s gone insane. It might be a sudden mental issue causing cognitive impairment, like delirium or something. What do you think?”

Yu Wangxiao: “……”

Once again, he seemed to find himself speechless in front of Lin Jiangye.

Because Lin Jiangye truly believed Yu Lin had mental problems and was feeling slightly troubled because of it.

“You’re right. He’s sick.” So Yu Wangxiao curled his lips and agreed with him without the slightest guilt.

Meanwhile, Lin Jiangye was worrying about his own safety.

“Can you advance me one bodyguard? Deduct the money from my salary. I’m worried he’ll go crazy and hack me to death.”

After all, the Mid-Autumn Festival break had ended, and he had to return to school for classes that afternoon. Worrying about Yu Lin harassing him was one thing. The other reason was… his body was truly too weak.

He lacked qi and blood, and coupled with the long-term negative effects of pent-up depression, he became breathless after walking only a few steps.

The original owner’s popularity was average, and he was also a commuting university student, so he did not have many familiar friends. If he went into shock halfway or fainted in the bathroom, and no one helped him in time, the consequences could be unimaginable.

Naturally, Yu Wangxiao would not refuse. He was even pleased to see Lin Jiangye make this request.

He put on his well-tailored suit jacket, adjusted his tie with one hand, and spoke in the same gentle tone. “Tuantuan, don’t forget, I’m your boyfriend. You don’t need to think about part-time work. Personal safety, clothing, food, housing, and transportation—these are all things I’m responsible for arranging for you.”

Speaking of which, there was an amusing detail. “Tuantuan” was not only the original owner’s nickname, but also what Lin Jiangye had been called in his early childhood.

He was called Tuantuan because when he was first born from nothingness, his true form was merely a smooth, round ball of silver light. As for the original owner… it seemed to be because his head had been very round when he was born.

Although the origins of the two names were fundamentally different, that did not stop Lin Jiangye from continuing to use it in this world. Especially when it came from Yu Wangxiao’s mouth, it sounded particularly intimate and ambiguous.

Even though the affection value displayed above his head was currently only a pitiful five percent.

Lin Jiangye felt somewhat melancholy. In the field of pretending to be a couple, mature men were indeed more reliable. He acted so well that Lin Jiangye almost could not help but believe him.

The bodyguard had been arranged last night. His university tuition and his adoptive mother’s hospitalization fees no longer needed his concern either. The deposit for the couple contract had already been transferred into his account swiftly, without the slightest delay.

Yu Wangxiao really was a good person.

If he could successfully recover his divine power… Lin Jiangye thought, he would help him avoid every death ending except dying peacefully of old age.

After all, he was no longer a god of death now. He did not need to rigidly obey any rules or harvest souls according to the list arranged from above.

He was merely a sickly person who had only competitiveness and ambition, yet was powerless toward everything.

Nurse his body back to health, study hard, and work seriously after graduation.

Three bright paths lay before him, leaving him no room to feel lost at all.

Yu Wangxiao was going to the company, and Lin Jiangye followed him downstairs.

The empty Yu family old residence had no masters inside. The few named characters in the original book were temporarily gathered in a private hospital and could not get away.

The dark red hall, with its oppressive color scheme, revealed an eerie silence. Lin Jiangye did not like it very much, and his contracted boyfriend was clearly not very satisfied either.

Under the shocked gazes of the nanny and butler, Yu Wangxiao handed Lin Jiangye the key card to a residence in Longjing Bay.

A top-floor luxury flat in the city center, where every inch of land was worth gold, was casually given away just like that.

The original owner’s luggage and clothes had previously been placed in the guest room on Yu Lin’s side. Now, Yu Wangxiao had also ordered people to move all of them away without the slightest politeness.

Having openly snatched his nephew’s person, Yu Wangxiao gave no explanation at all. With his expression as calm as usual, he led Lin Jiangye into the sedan and drove away.

Someone who was leaking information secretly took a photo of this scene and sent it to Yu Lin, who was recuperating in the hospital.

In the VIP ward, the young master sneered and threw away his phone. Then he raised his cane and smashed two windowpanes.

***

The low-key black sedan slowly stopped at the entrance of A University. It did not attract much attention.

Lin Jiangye opened the door and got out with a pale face. He squatted beside the greenery by the sidewalk and retched a few times, but nothing came out.

The bodyguard, Uncle Chen, dragged the suitcase and followed him. He twisted open a thermos cup and handed over warm water and a small citrus-flavored pill.

“……Thank you, Uncle Chen.” Lin Jiangye’s voice trembled faintly as he quietly sighed.

It was already bad enough that he was weak and sickly. Who would have thought he also got carsick?

How exactly had this body managed to withstand those intense bed scenes in the original text? He swallowed the pill with difficulty and silently felt confused.

Chen Ming pushed up his plain black-framed glasses and asked in a low voice, “Sir, your dormitory is still two kilometers away. Do you need me to carry you there?”

The bodyguard Yu Wangxiao had given him was very interesting. His temperament was simple and plain, with almost no sense of presence. He looked like an ordinary middle-aged father sending his child to university.

“It’s fine. Let me walk more and train my stamina.”

Lin Jiangye refused his kindness. Biting his slightly pale lips, he began his own “long-distance trek.”

A University was one of the best universities in Beicheng. The Yu family had donated two buildings, allowing Yu Lin to arrange his daily schedule however he pleased.

As for the original owner, he had gotten in through his own exam results. The Lin family felt it brought them honor, so they had also casually pulled a few strings for him.

He could choose to live off campus while still keeping a dorm room of his own.

On the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, in order to make it easier to take care of Yu Lin, the original owner had taken the initiative to apply to change dormitories. Yet Yu Lin had suddenly chosen to withdraw from the dorm, as if deliberately refusing to give him a chance to get close.

Thinking of Lin Jingyao’s quiet return to the country, everything had traces to follow.

The protagonist gong, who had a white moonlight in his heart, had already planned to leave his humble lover.

Lin Jiangye decided to live on campus for a few days. First, he would figure out the specific details of the original owner’s life, declare to acquaintances that he and Yu Lin had parted ways, and fulfill the contractual obligation of showing off affection.

His newly changed dormitory conditions were quite good. It was a four-person room with an elevator, located in Room 502 of Nantong Building.

When he pushed open the door, the three roommates had already arrived. They had all been assigned there after applying to change dormitories, and all of them were unfamiliar faces.

They had already divided up their preferred beds and were enthusiastically doing a major cleaning.

The autumn temperature was slightly cool, but the young male university students were sweating heavily. Bare-chested, they climbed up and down. One was mopping the floor, and another had crawled under the bed, wiping away dust from the corners.

Hearing Lin Jiangye’s movement, three heads popped out from different directions at the same time.

Lin Jiangye froze blankly, not knowing how to react for a moment.

Being suddenly pulled away from the wealthy-family plotline in the mountain estate and walking into the world of normal people gave him a strange sense of unreality.

The young man washing the sink was outstanding in appearance. He only nodded slightly at him, his attitude neither warm nor cold.

Meanwhile, the buzz-cut boy under the bed had a cheerful personality. He took the initiative to raise the rag in his hand and waved, revealing a mouthful of white teeth. “Hello, I’m Li Liang. The one mopping is Jin Long. We’re both from computer science.

“That cold-faced handsome guy is Gu Jiu’an. He’s super famous, so you should know him. Jiu’an-ge only looks aloof, but he actually has a really good temper. Don’t be scared!”

His face was covered in dust from under the bed, making him look a little comical. His overly familiar attitude was difficult to resist.

Jin Long, who was leaning on the mop nearby, moved closer and rolled his eyes at Li Liang. Then he also familiarly took out his phone. “Bro, add me as a friend. How many stars are you in Honor?”

“……Hello, I’m Lin Jiangye, sophomore in financial management.” Lin Jiangye’s brain short-circuited for a moment before he quickly imitated the way young humans spoke. He opened his lagging old phone. “Sorry, I’m not very good at games.”

“Huh?”

Jin Long paused. His gaze swept over the expensive suitcase beside Uncle Chen’s feet, and for a moment, he could not tell whether this pretty boy was poor or rich.

He quickly pushed aside the confusion in his heart and smiled. “It’s fine. Even if you use a Nokia, ge can still carry you.”

And so, in a daze, Lin Jiangye added the three of them as friends, downloaded several games he had never heard of before, and softly chatted with them.

Meanwhile, Chen Ming worked swiftly and decisively on his own. He opened the suitcase, neatly made the bed, then silently retreated. Li Liang did not even have time to greet him.

“Is that handsome uncle your dad? No wonder he has such an aura. He looks like he came back from the army. Actually, I originally wanted to become a soldier too…”

Lin Jiangye pursed his lips and smiled, interrupting Li Liang’s unstoppable chatterbox mode. He answered honestly, “No. He’s the bodyguard my boyfriend arranged for me.”

As soon as the words fell, the dormitory suddenly went quiet. The expressions of all three people subtly changed.

“Well, to be honest, I kind of guessed it, but what decent person exposes themselves right at the start like you?” Jin Long was the first to break the silence, his tone seeming to carry a feeling of hating iron for not becoming steel.

“What do you mean, expose myself right at the start? I didn’t expose anything.” Lin Jiangye tilted his head in confusion.

For adult humans, having a boyfriend should not be something rare, right?

Jin Long pushed aside the helpless Li Liang and looked Lin Jiangye up and down meaningfully. He could not help laughing. “Your boyfriend is very wise. He really does need to guard against both men and women.”

Lin Jiangye quite agreed with this. “Yes. I’m easily harassed, and I’m often sick. Having a bodyguard is safer.”

The plot of being dragged into an alley by thugs had appeared over and over again in the original book.

“Hey, little beauty is pretty self-aware.”

“Damn it, Old Jin, why did you suddenly become greasy? I forbid you from turning gay!”

“Get lost, get lost! Don’t be disrespectful to your dad.”

Lin Jiangye looked blank. “Excuse me… what does turning gay mean?”

“Hiss. That is a philosophical question.”

As the few of them joked around, the slightly unfamiliar atmosphere quickly became lively. However, the handsome young man in the distance, who had remained silent the entire time, still had an indifferent expression.

When he heard Lin Jiangye openly showing off his affection and describing Yu Wangxiao’s considerate actions, he even said coldly, “Idiot. Your boyfriend wouldn’t be that kind-hearted.”

He had been scolded.

After coming to this new world for so long, this was the second time he had been scolded.

Lin Jiangye felt only curiosity. He lifted his eyes and stared steadily at Gu Jiu’an. From the corner of his eye, his gaze quietly landed on the top of the young man’s head.

Gu Jiu’an pursed his thin lips and turned his head away, avoiding their intersecting gazes.

—He was the illegitimate son of the wealthy Gu family, the deeply devoted second male lead who sacrificed himself for the original owner.

In the middle stage of the plot, Gu Jiu’an would help the original owner avoid Yu Lin’s coercion through power and take him abroad to study and seek refuge.

The two of them nearly registered their marriage and settled overseas, never to return.

Unfortunately, Gu Jiu’an was truly too gentle and too upright. He was simply not the original owner’s type. No matter how moved the original owner was, he could not truly fall in love with him.

Just before they registered their marriage, Yu Lin finally “discovered his true feelings” and crossed the ocean with a gun to snatch him back. Gu Jiu’an also gently sensed the original owner’s conflicted feelings and chose to let go for love, leaving the stage in sorrow.

The logic was very bizarre.

Even more bizarre was Gu Jiu’an’s death scene.

He transferred all the Gu family shares he had fought back into Lin Jiangye’s name, then turned around and jumped into the crater of a volcano filled with boiling lava.

Smooth and decisive, without the slightest lingering attachment. He died at the age of twenty-eight.

To be honest, Lin Jiangye completely could not understand the logic behind his behavior.

But at the very least, he had long known that Gu Jiu’an, the seemingly cold flower on a high mountain, was essentially an insecure, gentle, and kind-hearted person.

Gu Jiu’an would say “idiot” because he knew about Yu Lin’s hidden playboy behavior and cruelty. He saw Lin Jiangye as a love-brained fool obsessed with a scumbag gong.

The scolding was very reasonable. He was a very good person.

So Lin Jiangye pressed the corner of his eye and manually forced out a slight bashful blush. Then he seriously clarified, “Gu Jiu’an, my boyfriend isn’t Yu Lin. It’s his little uncle. I’m very smart.”

Gu Jiu’an froze. “……Yu Wangxiao?”

“Mm.”

“Really?”

“Mm.”

“……You’re not joking?”

“Mm.”

This explosive piece of news left Gu Jiu’an stunned for a full half-minute.

His originally cold voice rose a little, as if he was still suppressing anger. “Lin Jiangye, you are the legitimate biological son of the Lin family. Do you really have to degrade yourself like this?

“I have a cousin in my family who only lives off dividends. He’s eighteen and has never dated before. If you want a marriage alliance, don’t look for an old man. Someone clean like that is still better—”

“Bang—”

Before he could finish speaking, the dormitory door was forcefully kicked open by two men in suits.

Behind the men in suits, Yu Lin sat in a brand-new electric wheelchair, his face dark as water as he sneered and looked over.

He was wearing loose hospital clothes, and his left leg was wrapped in a cast. Yet his cold gaze swept over everyone like a sharp blade. Even sitting in a wheelchair, the young master of the Yu family was still sharp and domineering. The corner of his lips curved into a mocking arc, making him look like a vicious wolf boiling with killing intent.

“You bastard surnamed Gu. Where the fuck did you get the courage to steal someone from me?”