Quick Transmigration: What to Do When the Male Supporting Character You Saved Becomes Obsessed with

Chapter 517 "Infecting the World" - Male Mother (128)

Although I don't know why, even with Lu Liruan and An Tang's careful care, she still couldn't hold on to a few things.

I called the fishmonger, who said helplessly, "These fish are just very fragile... they die very easily."

Then, in a tactful way, he said, "Don't come to the flower, bird and fish market anymore, and don't spend three hours squatting in front of your fish tank just to find a fish that looks like a dead one!"

Fortunately, the two of them had no intention of doing that this time. Anyway, the boss could tell at a glance, so why bother?

Lu Liruan picked up the document from the table and checked it over: "Is it okay to just send it over like this?"

“Yes, that’s right.” An Tang nodded and waved to her.

Upon hearing the sound, the boss's gaze immediately followed.

In that instant, perhaps because she felt guilty, Lu Liruan felt the hairs on the back of her head stand on end, as if she were being scrutinized.

"Okay, I'll send it over right away!"

Lu Liruan put on the coat, which An Tang had bought for her a few days ago while shopping, saying that she thought it suited Lu Liruan very well.

Lu Liruan felt that her taste was much better than hers; she didn't even need to try them out herself to find suitable ones...

When she walked to the sofa, Zhao Linchuan looked up at her.

He opened his mouth nervously, as if he wanted to say something, but seeing Lu Liruan's hurried manner, he ultimately said nothing.

Lu Liruan walked to the umbrella stand by the door and picked up the umbrella that Liao Tingyuan had brought when she came in the morning. Because the umbrella was meant to shelter two people, it was quite large.

She's almost half as tall as Lu Liruan.

The rainwater on it hadn't completely dried yet, and when Lu Liruan touched it, it felt damp and cool, sending a shiver down her spine.

"I am leaving!"

Lu Liruan pushed open the door, and the cold wind outside, mixed with raindrops, slapped directly at her face. The drowsy feeling she had just felt instantly woken her up.

"Hiss—" Lu Liruan shrank her neck, opened her umbrella, and stepped into the rain.

Then I felt a gaze coming from behind me.

But because she was carrying a bag in one hand and holding an umbrella in the other, it was difficult to maintain her balance in the wind, so she had no way to turn around and could only continue walking forward.

The villa area was quite large, and Lu Liruan walked towards the nearest gate.

Although we've done our best to drain the water, the rain has lasted too long, a whole day and night. The fallen leaves in the yard are floating in the puddles...

When Lu Liruan reached the door, the security guard opened it.

When Lu Liruan reached the roadside, she discovered that her shoes were wet again.

After finally getting into the taxi, the driver first loudly told Lu Liruan to be careful not to get rainwater on the back seat, and then kept complaining about the weather.

Lu Liruan remained silent, took out a tissue from her pocket, bent down to wipe the mud splattered on her shoes, and a nameless unease quickly spread through her heart.

It was so bad that Lu Liruan felt she could hear her own heartbeat...

I could barely hear the driver in front of me.

Lu Liruan didn't know what the problem was, but she had a vague feeling that she might be missing something very important, which made her feel empty and uncomfortable.

what is it?

"Squeak-"

Suddenly, a sharp stop snapped Lu Liruan out of her thoughts. The umbrella handle slammed into her leg, making her hiss in pain. She instinctively looked ahead.

The driver, who had just been displaying road rage, suddenly became flustered upon realizing he had injured Lu Liruan: "Are you... are you alright?"

Lu Liruan rubbed her leg in pain and looked through the windshield with the wipers on high speed at the intersection, where a bunch of cars were stuck. "What's going on up ahead?"

"Oh, I crashed!" The driver rolled down the window, stuck his head out to look, and said nonchalantly, then spat out a mouthful of phlegm.

Lu Liruan felt even worse...

I felt a slight tightness in my chest, as if I couldn't breathe, so I reached out and tugged at the collar of my coat... and then, a button just fell off.

Lu Liruan looked at the button in her palm and suddenly made up her mind!

“Master, please go back.” Lu Liruan said.

"What?" The driver was engrossed in watching the commotion and didn't understand what Lu Liruan was saying.

"I said! Turn back now! Please take me back!" Lu Liruan raised her voice.

"Huh? Go back? We're almost there! If you hit me here, I'll just take you a detour!" The driver didn't seem to care, then turned around and saw Lu Liruan's unpleasant expression.

"Are you not feeling well..."

"Okay, take me home, I have something to do," Lu Liruan urged impatiently. The driver glanced at her, then didn't say anything more, turned the car around, and drove off.

"There might be some traffic on the way back."

"Ah."

As Lu Liruan watched the street scenes flash by outside the window, she felt less panicked as the car drove back.

Lu Liruan became even more certain that she had sensed something since last night, but she decided to find out what it was this time.

It took about twenty minutes for the car to drive back to the entrance of the villa area.

After Lu Liruan paid the fare, she opened the door and stepped into a puddle again, this time her entire shoe went in.

Lu Liruan: "..."

Even if it might be some kind of harbinger, I hope I don't make things so unlucky for myself.

The rain was still falling outside, but it wasn't as heavy as when she first went out. Lu Liruan felt like she had something weighing on her heart, and she couldn't even feel the cold anymore.

Holding the umbrella like a sword, he charged aggressively toward the entrance of the residential area.

The security guards in the guard booth are all highly professional and know almost no one in the community, especially people like Lu Liruan who come and go at the same time every day.

It's strange that the little girl left before her scheduled time today; how come she came back so soon?

They even looked quite aggressive...

The security guard opened the door for Lu Liruan, and the little girl ran straight in without turning her head, leaving everyone else in the dust, her feet splashing loudly on the water.

"...Hey?" The security guard was about to tell her to slow down and not fall when he saw the little girl stumble, but she quickly regained her balance and continued patting forward.

"Balance is so good..."

The security guard swallowed the rest of his words.

Lu Liruan ran towards the villa, but when she saw the graffiti at the villa's entrance... she couldn't help but slow down.

If I go in now, will I really find anything?

Or did I go inside and find that I had been overthinking things, and that nothing was actually wrong?

But if that's the case, Lu Liruan actually thinks it's pretty good. But what would happen if she pushed open the door and found out that everyone was trying to hide things from her, and she insisted on finding out and understanding them?

Lu Liruan placed her hand on the gate's fence...

Then Lu Liruan took a deep breath and suddenly pushed open the door.

As Lu Liruan walked into the courtyard, she looked at the windows of the villa. Because it was dark, all the lights on the first and second floors were on.

Lu Liruan slowly walked up the steps and placed her hand on the doorknob.

The villa's doors were never closed during the day. Lu Liruan carefully tried not to make any noise before pushing the door open...

There was no one in the living room...

Lu Liruan's umbrella left a trail of water on the ground, and her soaked shoes made a "plop plop" sound as she stepped on the ground.

Lu Liruan quickened her pace slightly and stepped onto the stairs.

Whether it was her imagination or not, Lu Liruan felt that the room was eerily quiet and... it felt somewhat similar to when she was in the spatial dimension.

Could there be a space inside this house?

Everyone has entered the space now, which is why I had that perception, but it's too late to come back.

It shouldn't be...

If a true space were to appear here, wouldn't that mean our lair has been attacked?

Ah... I shouldn't have used the adjective "old nest." Lu Liruan corrected herself in her heart, then quickened her pace and walked upstairs.

When she reached the corner, Lu Liruan finally confirmed that she hadn't been mistaken; there was indeed a spatial smell on the second floor.

"Thud—" The file bag that Lu Liruan was holding accidentally fell to the ground.

Then Lu Liruan heard a sound coming from upstairs!

An Tang's face appeared at the door of the boss's office...

"??"

The two looked at each other in surprise. Lu Liruan was startled, and An Tang also seemed startled. Lu Liruan had never seen her so flustered before.

The two stared at each other silently for a few seconds.

Then An Tang asked in a normal voice, "Li Ruan, you're back so soon?"

"Has the information been sent? What did they say..." Before she could finish speaking, An Tang saw the simple question that had fallen at Lu Liruan's feet.

"Uh……"

"No," Lu Liruan shook her head and answered directly.

Then his gaze went straight to An Tang, and the discomfort of being kept in the dark for so long suddenly surged into his heart.

Lu Liruan's words were stuck in her throat; she couldn't hold them back any longer: "I didn't go to see it off. I had the driver bring it back to me halfway there!"

"Huh?" An Tang was stunned.

"I want to see what you're hiding from me! Yes! I came back specifically to arrest you!" Lu Liruan said confidently, and as she spoke, she felt increasingly justified.

Why do you have to hide it from yourself?

Lu Liruan frowned, looking very aggrieved: "I can tell you're hiding something from me!"

An Tang suddenly found it somewhat inappropriate to laugh, because the little girl standing there was really quite cute, like a rabbit stomping its feet in anger.

But even when a rabbit stomps its feet, it just looks cute.

A minor outburst of anger...

But An Tang's lips immediately curled into a wry smile. Why did she have to come back to catch her at this particular time? This little girl is really... proactive, always acting on a whim.

The key point is that there are things I don't want her to know today, at least things I don't want her to know right now.

It's impossible for people in the office not to hear the sound.

Lu Liruan deliberately raised her voice so that everyone inside could hear her, something like: "Listen up, you're surrounded! Don't even think about resisting, just surrender and tell me everything you've been hiding from me!"

If there's no one downstairs, then they should all be upstairs.

Now only An Tang has appeared. Where is Teacher Liao?

Lu Liruan felt that Liao Tingyuan would not hide from her at this time, so what was he doing in the house?

"I want to go in and take a look!"

Lu Liruan walked to An Tang's side, about to walk around her and go inside, but An Tang stepped aside and blocked her again: "Liruan..."

Lu Liruan remained silent and continued to stubbornly circle around, now firmly convinced that the secret being kept from her was inside the house, right in front of her!

"Li Ruan, listen to me first!"

An Tang wanted to stop Lu Liruan to say something, but she didn't know how to start. Lu Liruan felt the atmosphere of the space inside the room becoming more pronounced. What were these people doing in the room? Were they simulating a space inside?

Just as An Tang was considering whether to forcibly carry the little girl downstairs, Gao Shiyi's gentle voice, as always, came from inside: "Let Li Ruan come in."

An Tang was taken aback.

He then gestured for Lu Liruan to wait there for a moment. Lu Liruan stopped, thinking that a little longer wouldn't make a difference. After An Tang went inside and exchanged a few words, he came out and nodded to Lu Liruan.

But at this moment, Lu Liruan became even more nervous.

Why haven't I heard Liao Tingyuan's voice at all?

"Is Teacher Liao... inside?" Lu Liruan asked softly.

"Well, after you go in... never mind, it's not that Tingyuan wanted to hide it from you." An Tang patted Lu Liruan on the back.

The moment she stepped through the door, Lu Liruan's gaze immediately fell upon Liao Tingyuan.

He sat on the sofa, leaning back against the sofa, his hand resting on the armrest... an IV tube was attached to the back of his pale hand.

With the tape on his skin, Lu Liruan could only see that his skin was pale and bloodless. On the shelf next to him hung an IV bottle, which was half full of liquid, but there were no labels on the bottle, so she didn't know what kind of medicine it was.

Upon hearing the sound, Liao Tingyuan opened his eyes, looked at Lu Liruan, and smiled gently, as always.

Gao Shiyi sat on the chair next to her, holding grapes in her hand, while Zhao Linchuan stood next to Liao Tingyuan, looking at Lu Liruan with a guilty expression as if he had done something wrong.

Old Cheng was there too, and he sat down in the boss's chair without any ceremony.

But the real owner of this office, the boss, is not here.

"What is this? Teacher Liao, what's wrong? Are you sick?" Lu Liruan took three steps in two, wanting to touch Liao Tingyuan's hand but not daring to, and could only look up at the IV bottle.

Liao Tingyuan wanted to speak, but he looked very weak.

Lu Liruan could see with her naked eye that he was exhausted, which made her anxious.

In her heart, Liao Tingyuan was always gentle and strong, seemingly without any weaknesses, but in just a short while, he had become like this.

"Don't worry, Ruan Ruan, this is an ability I gained from the space as a survivor." Liao Tingyuan took Lu Liruan's hand with his other hand.