Infinite Ebullience
Chapter 654 - 2: Everyday Tranquility

Chapter 654: Chapter 2: Everyday Tranquility

"Amazing!" The women who saw this for the first time couldn’t help but exclaim.

Li Xinlan was still somewhat dazed, but her vision had become clear from blurry. Feeling the slightly cold air in the room, the young woman screamed, covering her chest with her left hand and her lower body with her right.

"Sister Li, welcome back!" Qin Yan draped a coat over Li Xinlan’s body and hugged her shoulders.

"Qin Yan?" Li Xinlan scanned the strangers in the room. When she saw Bai Guo, she obviously paused and frowned, "I remember we seemed to have died, didn’t we?"

"Yes, Tang Zheng resurrected you." Bai Guo nodded in delight. When she first joined the airline company, Li Xinlan had taken care of her a lot.

"Tang Zheng, it seems a lot has happened while I was gone." Li Xinlan gradually recalled her memories before death, tightened her clothes, and looked at the other women, "Thank you for caring."

"We won’t disturb your reunion." Ai Yixin left with the firefly protective clothing. Yu Manli and Ruan Feifei were both scheming women. Seeing that Tang Zheng’s expression was a bit off, they knew they probably had something going on, so after saying their goodbyes they left promptly.

"Sister Xinlan, I’m leaving too." Pang Meiqin had a fair relationship with Li Xinlan, and being Tang Zheng’s rival in love, naturally wouldn’t have much sentiment. She said dryly and teleported away.

"Bai Guo, let’s go too." Qin Yan saw the way Li Xinlan was looking at Tang Zheng and sighed in her heart. Enduring the stabbing pain, she pulled Bai Guo away.

"Huh? Aren’t we reminiscing old times? I was planning to invite everyone to a restaurant for dinner!" Bai Guo was still puzzled when she appeared on the main street at midnight. She was a born fool and didn’t notice the relationship between Qin Yan and Tang Zheng. She was even planning to match them up, "Sister Qin Yan, you’re overthinking. Sister Xinlan sees Tang Zheng as a brother, she has no other intentions. You and him are the most suitable couple."

"Silly girl!" Qin Yan snapped Bai Guo’s forehead with a finger, under the dim street light, a sorrowful smile flashed across her lips, "Who said I like Tang Zheng?"

"You hit my head again, I’ll become stupid. Hey, yes, you never said that." Bai Guo furrowed her brows, "But, but... "

Bai Guo couldn’t say "but," she was so suffocated that she scratched her hair in annoyance and kicked at the street light next to her in anger.

"Let’s go home and sleep." Qin Yan rubbed Bai Guo’s head and walked into the night

"After all this time, do you expect me to take the initiative?" As soon as Lu Fan teleported away last, Li Xinlan hugged Tang Zheng.

Tang Zheng didn’t say a word, he kissed the young woman’s lips.

"Still planning to be a gentleman?" Sensing that Tang Zheng’s hands were very innocently resting on her waist, Li Xinlan laughed, then shook her head and pushed him away, "I should go back. The house must be a mess by now, it needs tidying."

Without waiting for Tang Zheng to refuse, Li Xinlan teleported away, appeared in a street heart garden, looked at the moon in the sky, breathed in the fresh air, and sighed.

Li Xinlan had long grown tired of this unchanging life, the daily routine continued, but it was merely a habit. She was not a girl who would go crazy when in love. As a young woman, she was more rational, and she knew that Tang Zheng treated her well because she had seduced him and given him a place to relax his weary soul. He didn’t lust after her body and he wasn’t in love with her...

Thinking of the feeling of being held by Tang Zheng just now, a bitter smile overflowed from Li Xinlan’s mouth, she had long seen that the kid didn’t like her at all, she was restricting him. Otherwise, after so much time had passed, why was there no development between him and Qin Yan? Li Xinlan was both gratified and remorseful.

Walking slowly, looking at everything around her that was both strange and familiar, Li Xinlan’s soul was greatly shaken. She felt that she owed Tang Zheng a great debt, and shouldn’t let him waste his youth on a young woman like herself.

Although she had died once, Li Xinlan did not become paranoid about making up for the regrets in her life. Instead, she became more open-minded, feeling that she should do something meaningful instead of being entangled in this male-female relationship.

In the Trojan Room, only Tang Zheng was left, frowning. He detected Li Xinlan’s indifference, but didn’t understand why. However, he let out a sigh of relief that he himself hadn’t noticed. He was struggling more and more with how to face these women who were good to him. Each relationship brought a great pressure on him.

"Fool, why not just fall for all of them? A man should have some domineering spirit. If you don’t have three wives and four concubines, do you dare to say that you’re a successful man?" Trojan started to lure Tang Zheng.

Tang Zheng ignored it, teleported away and appeared in a narrow alley. This time, he finally didn’t run into that couple having an affair. He opened his phone, and a series of text tone music rang out, all reminding him of the calls that had been made during this period.

"To the Jing Shan Villa District." He hailed a taxi and casually spoke the address, only then realizing that he seemed to have considered it home unknowingly.

"Alright!" The driver started the car, and after a few steps, the phone rang again. As soon as he answered, a woman on the other end started berating him. The volume was so loud that Tang Zheng could hear it.

"Are you done? I’m carrying a passenger, we’ll talk when I get home tonight." The driver yelled and hung up the phone, and then the phone kept ringing. In the end, he had no choice but to turn it off in frustration.

"Sorry to bother you," the driver concluded, suddenly noticing Tang Zheng’s face and realizing they had met before.

"We must have quite the connection!" Tang Zheng couldn’t figure out why, every time he returned, he kept running into this man. It seemed like he and his wife were on the brink of domestic warfare over some prostitutes.

Paying his fare and exiting the taxi, Tang returned home to find An Xiuru gone, and their house untouched for three days, the dust accumulating. He found a note on the living room tea table. Xiuru had apparently taken off with a few friends to Hainan on vacation.

"Daylily, come out and clean the room!" he called, opening the fridge to see what he could prepare for dinner.

Daylily ignored Tang Zheng’s orders. After appearing in the living room and surveying the immediate surroundings, she zipped around checking every room. Finding no other women, she jumped onto the bed with glee.

"Yay! Finally, it’s just the two of us," she cheered before tumbling onto the bed and burrowing into the covers. The nurse uniform that had been on her slowly peeled off, piece by piece.

Holding a bunch of garlic scapes, an annoyed Tang Zheng was about to lecture her when a cotton underwear flew straight for his face.

"What are you doing?" he exclaimed, swatting aside the underwear only to have a blanket thrown at him. He grabbed the blanket and tossed it onto the bed. Before he knew it, Daylily was hugging him, stark naked.

"Brother, you can do whatever you want," she offered proudly, though her confidence deflated when she glanced down at her modest chest.

"Get dressed and clean the room right now, or I won’t summon you for a month," Tang Zheng threatened. Daylily was even more trouble than Lu Fan and had absolutely no regard for decency.

"Humph! Mean brother, I just died once! Instead of comforting me, you’re scolding me," Daylily pouted on the verge of tears.

"Wait, aren’t you supposed to wait seven days to be summoned after you die?" Tang Zheng’s frowned, "Are you lying to me?"

"That rule only applies in the game world; you can summon me again in the real world." Daylily noticed Tang Zheng’s growing irritation. Quick to react, she dove back under the covers and poked her head out, grinning sheepishly. "Brother, have a day out with me tomorrow."

"No way!" Tang Zheng headed to the kitchen. "Get dressed and clean the room now, or there’ll be no dinner."

Crash! The flower vase was smashed to pieces. Daylily sheepishly stuck out her tongue at the mess on the floor, then decided to postpone cleaning and dust off the table first. She excitedly opened all the drawers in the TV cabinet as if she had discovered a new world, fetching the Xbox 360. As she was trying to plug in the device, she knocked over the TV.

"Oh no!" Daylily’s face drained, she started to look for a hiding place.

Tang Zheng rushed out to find his living room in a disastrous state.

"Daylily!"

Daylily, wearing An Xiuru’s slip dress, was attempting to sneak out through the foyer. Caught when she heard her name, she slowly turned around and awkwardly smiled at Tang Zheng. "The moon is lovely tonight, fancy going outside for a stroll? I’ve been cooped up too long."

"Forget it, just go back." Tang Zheng, feeling desperate, waved dismissively, ready to dismiss the summoning.

"I don’t want to go back to that dark place! Brother, if you stay with me for thirty days, your constitution will double. It’s a better deal than using points to enhance," Daylily begged on her knees, putting on a pitiful expression to apologize to Tang Zheng.

"Stay quietly in the bedroom and don’t do anything!" Persuaded by Daylily’s kitten-like look, Tang Zheng gave in. As for her offer of doubling his constitution in thirty days, it felt irrelevant because of the long duration.

The next morning, after Tang Zheng had his breakfast, he locked Daylily at home and left. Exhaling a breath in the chill of winter morning, he realized it’d been a long time since he had lived alone.

"I should get a haircut," he mused, pinching a lock of hair that had grown over his eyebrows. Tang Zheng looked forward to exploring the city. Li Xinlan had been revived, which meant that his next goal was to achieve ten thousand points and leave the Trojan Room. He didn’t wish to babysit them forever, and was not interested in any of the props sold by the Trojans.

"I’ll go to the barber shop near my school and then drop by my dorm room. If my roommates are still immersed in World of Warcraft and DOTA day and night, even with cheating, they might fail a few subjects." Considering his roommates, Tang Zheng jogged towards his school. With his current constitution, he could easily run five marathons continuously.

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PS, Just two updates for today.

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