Stop Thinking Chapter 16: Pearl

Chapter 16: Pearl

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Karai

He could imagine what Ruan Yu looked like right now.

When Ruan Yu concentrated on thinking or looking at something, he would put one hand on his cheek, the soft flesh of his cheeks puffed up in his palm, his red lips pursed firmly, and he wanted his whole body to work hard together with his brain, so serious that it was almost childish, cute and funny.

If someone around him was curious and asked him if he really liked the fighting program and why he was watching it so seriously, he would answer frankly, “Not really, but seriously because I’m looking for a spouse”.

And the reaction of the people around him…

Gu Xiuhan went crazy thinking about it.

Ruan Yu was like a small white pearl that he quietly put on the tip of his heart. It was lighter than a fledgling’s fluff, but it weighed on his heart. He loved it so much that he didn’t even dare to look at it, let alone reach out and play with it.

He would only occasionally stroke his heart to make sure that the little pearl was still nice and carefree, perched on his heart.

But if someone wanted to take that little pearl away from him…

Gu Xiuhan stood up abruptly, grabbed his military jacket on the back of his chair with a cold face, and strode towards the door.

…

When Gu Xiuhan arrived at the open-air fighting arena, Ruan Yu was exactly as he predicted, holding his cheeks and dealing with the accost of an officer beside him in a good and exasperating manner.

“Brother Xiuhan won’t let me give my contact number to a stranger, sorry… You are a stranger, why not? You have a good point, I don’t give it.”

The corner of Gu Xiuhan’s sunken lips couldn’t help but curl up a little.

Ruan Yu was stupid, but he had self-awareness, so he was extraordinarily obedient.

Gu Xiuhan did not allow him to give a stranger his terminal contact number, then others said that he did not give out flowers.

He will not be easily fooled.

Although he was dressed as if he was on parade, when he first walked in, because no one expected Admiral Gu to come to this kind of place to play, he did not attract much attention, until he stood behind Ruan Yu, then someone recognized him.

The soldiers who had been led by Gu Xiuhan had reflexive calf cramps and body aches when they heard the name, and those who had not been led by him had more or less heard of his style of action. This kind of entertainment place did not adhere to the military etiquette, even the marshal came to mingle with the soldiers, but they were afraid of touching Gu Xiuhan’s bad luck, yet still warily stood up and salute, that and the junior officers that accosted Ruan Yu quickly slipped back to the original seat with face scared stiff.

“Brother Xiuhan! What are you doing here?” Ruan Yu turned his head and saw him, his eyes lit up with surprise, and his fish tail shook.

Gu Xiuhan had been a bit cold to him since he came back from the border star, although they lived together, but most of the time they did not see each other, and today it was rare that he took the initiative to come over to keep him company.

Ruan Yu pulled Gu Xiuhan’s wrist, affectionately pulling the man to sit beside him, his little head on Gu Xiuhan’s shoulder, the tip of the long, thin fishtail incomparably naturally wrapped around Gu Xiuhan’s military boots.

During this period of time, he was often inexplicably left out by Gu Xiuhan, and he wanted to be pampered by his kin and stick around.

Gu Xiuhan’s scent of fresh pine and cold snow lingered all year round, and Ruan Yu smelled it reassuringly and comfortably, and said without explanation, “You’re just in time, I’d like you to help me look at them.”

“You said to help me pick a suitable mate?” Ruan Yu didn’t know what to do, wading through Gu Xiuhan’s minefield and sighing in a low voice, “Qin Yue is so powerful, he has won five games in a row…”

Gu Xiuhan’s eyes trembled slightly and he couldn’t help but glance sideways.

Ruan Yu had a face of scientific research type rigor, obviously not enlightened, just unemotionally screening the males suitable for breeding small hatchlings with him.

Qin Yue did not know that Ruan Yu was thinking this way. But even if he knew, so what?

In the seventh ring, Qin Yue gave his opponent a sharp back slam, straightened up and giggled and waved at Ruan Yu.

If Ruan Yu had approached him and used that soft, sweet voice to say something like “want to have a baby”, he would have been so flattered that he would have responded in a daze… Even if he knew he was just a tool, I’m afraid he would be happy to do so.

Gu Xiuhan thought, deep eyebrows like a layer of frost, increasingly cold.

“What do you think of him?” Ruan Yu honestly asked for Gu Xiuhan’s opinion.

Gu Xiuhan restrainedly lifted his jaw, trying to weaken the sour jealousy in his tone, “No.”

Ruan Yu was stunned, unconvinced, but did not dare to question too obviously, “Well, but he seems… It’s all very easy to win.”

“That’s because the opponent is much weaker.”

The voice, which was always inaudible, was vaguely hostile at this time, as if it was holding a fire.

“… Really?” Ruan Yu half-heartedly raised his head from Gu Xiuhan’s shoulder, tilted his face to examine him. He felt that this tone was not right. He carefully observed Gu Xiuhan’s mental body.

It should be the reason for the advancement of mental energy after differentiation, these days Ruan Yu found that Gu Xiuhan’s original copper wall-like mental barrier had a tendency to become transparent.

Before he had to focus his energy and concentrate in order to penetrate the mental barrier and sense Gu Xiuhan’s mental body, but now he needed to call on less and less energy every day.

Moreover, the spiritual barrier was becoming as indistinct and indefinite as a thick fog, with the spiritual body appearing and disappearing behind it.

If things continue like this, the mental barrier would sooner or later fail to work on Ruan Yu.

In addition, the colors representing emotions were a little more vivid and richer than before, making them easier to interpret.

For example, now…

One half of Gu Xiuhan’s mental body was a sullen light red, while the other half was a lime green color that made his lips tighten, and Ruan Yu instinctively felt that it was the color of envy and jealousy.

Ruan Yu understood this emotion.

When he was baby Ruan Yu, the last thing he wanted to see was Shen Jingya praising and teasing the children of the Gu Family’s branch, and that irritated and sour feeling was indeed like eating a pound of limes with his bare mouth.

As angry and sour as Gu Xiuhan was now.

Ruan Yu patted Gu Xiuhan’s military boots soothingly with his tail and said in a calm analytical voice, “Are you jealous because you’re worried that I’ll be distant from you if I have a mate?”

The second half of his sentence wanted to say that if Gu Xiuhan could not accept him looking for a mate for the time being, he would not look for one first, because Gu Xiuhan was the most important person to him.

But these words fell on Gu Xiuhan’s ears as if he was questioning his unfair evaluation of Qin Yue and was jealous and speaking sour words.

[Do you want to hear positive words about Qin Yue so much?]

The warm and soft airflow between Ruan Yu’s lips blew over his ears, blew over the residual embers that could not be quenched by how to pour it at the bottom of Gu Xiuhan’s heart, blew a wild fire to leap up high, he was burned by the fire, a rare surge of restlessness.

The sharp eyebrows raised, that handsome and serious face, a rare emergence of the expression that could be considered obvious.

Gu Xiuhan inserted his fingers into the uniform collar loosely with a look of annoyance and wanted to spank the fish. The mental body symbolizing sulking red gradually deepened.

More and more angry. Brother Xiuhan how suddenly angry like a puffer fish?

Ruan Yu’s head turned upside down while he hurriedly held Gu Xiuhan’s wrist and whispered to coax him, “No vinegar, no vinegar, I’m talking nonsense, I’m not looking anymore, don’t be angry, okay?”

He actually did not aggravate, but also felt that there should be a discussion, only blaming the voice was too sweet and tender, comes with bullying buff, coupled with good behavior was too outrageous, it was difficult not to brainstorm his heart aggravation, disapproval, but only a soft mouth.

Besides, there will be a next time when this time is over.

The next time Ruan Yu may still include these messy covetous people in the reference list.

“And it’s not that you’re not allowed to look,” Gu Xiuhan had regained control of his expression and said in a light voice, “it’s that these people won’t work.”

He said, lifting his foot to gently break away from Ruan Yu’s tangled little tail, and walked towards the seventh ring, turning his mechanical arm strength to a low gear no different from his flesh as he went, while putting protective gloves on his metal right hand to avoid hurting anyone.

Qin Yue was dumbfounded when he saw Gu Xiuhan cross the ring with no expression, and stammered, “Gu, Admiral Gu?”

He and Gu Xiuhan were not close friends, but at least they had served together in a special formation for a few years, and knew that Gu Xiuhan was always as cool as a robot, not even knowing which way the door to the recreation room opened, let alone coming to a rowdy fighting ring to let his hair down.

“Hmm.”

Gu Xiuhan removed his uniform jacket and slung it over the fence.

The half-sleeved shirt he had inside was also standard, outlining a cheetah-like, lean and elegant figure, a bronze cast of muscles wrapped in smooth, taut, light wheat skin, with lines so beautiful it was impossible to pull away.

It would be logical to say that when such a high-ranking general officer was willing to play on the field, the bottom would explode. Whether to see the big man bursting to kill the whole field or to see the big man defeated and beaten up, it was a lot of fun. But Gu Xiuhan went up when the soldiers were silent, afraid to raise too much of a ruckus kicked by Gu Xiuhan into the sea to pick up less than ten tons of construction waste without giving food.

“No need to stall hands.” Gu Xiuhan lightly commanded.

Qin Yue, “…”

How dare he think he had the strength to keep his hand.

Admiral Gu really boosted him up.

Although he was destined to lose, he had to lose in a good-looking way, he couldn’t just surrender.

Qin Yue gritted his teeth and intended to test it out first, a heavy fist was swung out with a strong wind, but only halfway through the fist, there were only remnants in front of his eyes, then the back of Qin Yue’s neck went numb. The danger precognition was stretched to full, before he had time to react, the bend of his knee had already received a heavy blow, and he lost his balance and staggered down.

“1 point.” Gu Xiuhan raised his index finger and counted calmly.

…

Two minutes later, the score was easily pulled up to 15-0.

Fearing that Qin Yue would call in sick after being beaten up and affect the progress of the project, Gu Xiuhan was quite cautious in his shots.

He left fifty percent of force, and stopped at the point, and only took points according to the rules, not even seeing blood.

The previous five consecutive blows crushed the young Qin’s will tragically, every time he was knocked down the field the crowd could not help but be agitated, there were a few sparse shouts of approval. Gradually, seeing Gu Xiuhan did not resent the expression, the atmosphere was no longer dead. Everytime Gu Xiuhan scored 1 point, Ruan Yu felt that his eardrums were going to collapse.

He propped his elbows on his knees, his hands over his thin ear fins, his gaze drifting, like he was in a spirit, his brain spinning slowly.

He asked for an opportunity to see the fight, because he wanted to find the best.

But Brother Xiuhan seemed to be the best.

Brother Xiuhan was only interested in mecha and could not be considered.

…

It was a big headache for the fish.

At this time, the round was officially over and Qin Yue went off the stage in a trance.

Gu Xiuhan won beautifully, but his face was still cold, not showing much, only passing a glance in the direction of Ruan Yu as if nothing had happened.

His glance was just to prove that “I am not wrong, Qin Yue is too weak to match you”, but it made Ruan Yu look unnatural and twist his tail to adjust his sitting posture.

The first snow-like white and transparent face, even if there was a little bit of warming, could not be hidden.

A very light color floated on the soft flesh of the cheeks. It came abruptly, and faded faster, like the lake ice under a flash of red carp.

 

 

 

 

 

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