Superhumans of the Dome City
Chapter 96 - 96 15 Talking About Love

96: Chapter 15 Talking About Love 96: Chapter 15 Talking About Love “Ah!

I’m just a professional who missed out on my youthful days and lacks dating experience!

I’m not like you young students, not at all!!”

Seeing the miserable state of her roommate, Kardesia decisively abandoned her original thought.

Perhaps she would be thought to be mocking her, so better not to bring up topics like introducing guys to her now…

She reached out her finger and gently poked her roommate, who was covering her ears and screaming.

“Don’t be like that, Alice dear, you’re not pathetic at all.

You’re mature and handsome, the kind of adult I aspire to be.”

It wasn’t a lie.

Shiyu Ling slowly turned her head, her eyes like those of a fish out of water for two hours.

“So, are you, like, into same-sex love because your singlehood has developed into a severe late-stage condition?

There are plenty of such people in Country, so I won’t be looking at you with colored glasses.

But, big sister, I’m purely traditional.

I can’t offer any related experience nor am I interested in that…”

Kardesia’s cat ears twitched irritably on top of her head.

“As if!

I’m neither a singlehood enthusiast nor into girls.

I just don’t want to waste my precious youthful years on romance!”

The blue-haired woman rolled her eyes, and the cat-eared landlord protested, “What’s with that expression?!”

“That’s clearly just an excuse.

If you meet a boy you really like, who cares about whether it’s a waste of youth or not?

Let’s face it, you think the guys around you are too dumb and none meet your standards, that to talk about love with them is a complete waste of time.

So, you just put on this detached attitude saying romance is stupid and I won’t partake.”

“Has anyone ever told you that you can be very biting sometimes, dear Alice?”

“No, but I’ve been pricked several times by someone who is always biting.”

Old maid!

Pathetic woman!

Not serious!

She gritted her teeth just thinking about a certain loose-tongued grey-haired young man.

By this time, the matchmaking show had progressed to the self-introduction segment, where a young programmer with premature balding was telling the female guests about his rich experiences.

Kardesia, shaking her shoulders, said, “I’d never accept that.”

“So, what’s your ideal type?

I don’t need to say it, I already know.

Girls like you often fantasize about the kind of men who are impossible to find in real life.”

In the teasing gaze of the blue-haired woman, the current university student stood up excitedly to refute, “My standards for a romantic partner are totally not high at all!”

“Let’s hear it.”

Kardesia counted on her fingers, “Firstly, since I’m an outgoing and lively girl, my ideal needs to be someone with a reserved and steady personality.

It would be annoying to be constantly arguing over different opinions, so the best would be someone who can always follow my lead and stay by my side.”

“That right there would rule out 75% of men.”

“Then, I’ve seen too many bodybuilders in the United States and I’m absolutely not interested!

I like refined and handsome men, a bit younger than me, like a butler type.”

“You’ve excluded 24.9% of the remaining 25% as well.”

“And the last little requirements are just kindness and good upbringing, those aren’t too much to ask for, right?”

Shiyu Ling twitched her mouth, “You might as well stay single till death.

This kind of man doesn’t exist in this world.”

“They do!” Kardesia huffed and pulled out her phone, displaying it in front of her roommate, “Lianyi can do it!”

The phone’s lock screen showed a photo of a blonde woman with another person.

Standing next to Kardesia was a neatly dressed, handsome young man in a suit, who seemed to be smiling helplessly at the screen because the girl behind him had placed his head in a silly pose.

Shiyu Ling looked at the man on the screen, unable to correlate him with the image in her memory for a moment.

She remained silent for a moment, and to prevent the other party from perceiving her weirdness, she hurriedly changed the subject, “…Then you could just date this Lianyi.”

Kardesia put away her phone and lay back on the sofa.

“That’s impossible…

I’ve probably been out of the running for Lianyi for a long time.”

“…Oh?”

Shiyu Ling responded noncommittally, but the university student didn’t speak further.

The room filled again with only the sound of the TV.

The matchmaking programmer was listing his ideal type, and the very compatible number 36 female guest was the first to raise a card with a big red X.

I feel we’re not suitable…

Your tone of speaking is very…

and your job, too…

The program gave the elaborately dressed female guest a close-up; her over-lipsticked lips moved on the screen, causing Shiyu Ling a wave of unexplained irritation.

“From the photo, it looks like you have a good relationship.

You even call each other by name, right?”

“Of course, Lianyi is the closest person to me!”

“That’s pretty much like a boyfriend.”

“It’s different.”

Under the host’s enthusiastic efforts, the bald programmer secured a conversation segment.

The two guests chatted and hit it off unexpectedly, but the lady’s attitude was still uncertain.

I’m quite interested in you…

You’re even more cultured than I thought…

But I just can’t imagine what it’d be like to be with you long term…

“I’ve known that kid for almost four years,” Kardesia spoke in a muffled voice, “Such…

a…

long time!

I used to drag him around every day, doing all sorts of foolish, silly things.

The guys I picked up before either left early or got annoyed by this woman and took off.

But Lianyi, he always stuck by my side.”

Bored to death.

Who wants to hear your love stories?

If you want to flaunt your happiness, go find some single guy to tell your joyful past, okay?

I love you, but I won’t be the first to say it!

I admire you, but I dare not get too close!

Thoughts like these make me feel sick.

Please don’t, if you want to play the sweet, foolish couple, go to someplace where no one is and do it there.

Shiyu Ling took a swig of beer, otherwise, she worried that she might blurt out her true feelings.

She remembered the photo she had just seen.

It was hard to believe that Shiyu Lianyi could become such an idiot too.

Packing away his dignity and malice, he obediently followed behind the girl like a willing flunky…

Does falling for someone really turn you into this pitiful creature?

Maybe he traded his intelligence for survival in some deadly brawl.

Come to think of it, that might even be more probable.

“So, he really likes you, huh.”

“I guess so?

But liking someone and loving them are different.

Lianyi’s thinking is always so negative…”

At this point, the blonde girl stumbled over her words.

She seemed unsure of how to express her thoughts, and after a few silent seconds, she vaguely added, “He has a habit of expecting the worst, and he places too much importance on the people around him…

That’s probably why he’s always by my side.”

That wasn’t hard to imagine.

It would be strange indeed for Shiyu to have a positive thought, and of all the Shiyus, probably only that idiot took “family love” seriously.

Of course, he would value those—

“…”

At that moment, Shiyu Ling had an epiphany.

It was incomprehensible to others, and even knowing he was Shiyu, it was hard to find the source of such twisted thinking.

Only Shiyu Ling, who was fully aware of his past, could quickly understand his mindset.

So that’s it, in the hopeless institute, he had treated his false family as a comfort to his hope.

After arriving in this city, he clung to the woman he encountered as a lifesaver he didn’t want to let go.

Humans are short-lived and short-sighted creatures, who fall into despair in the darkness when they can’t see the light of hope.

Shiyu Ling places her hopes on herself, seeking freedom with strength, while Shiyu Lianyi places his on others, looking for someone on whom he can pour his affections.

If he walked away from these people, even in a distant city, he would still find himself in a lightless hell as before.

Can this be called ordinary love?

Impossible.

Affection can always be transferred to someone else, as long as a new substitute is found in time, a new light will light up nearby…

Even if such a self-satisfying emotion isn’t all that love is, after realizing this, one-sided deep affection would meet with several times more resistance.

Did this girl have a vague awareness of his abnormality after a long time together…

or did she simply have no idea, just looking at the problem from the angle of normal romantic and familial love?

Switching to a lighter tone, she said, “So you think it’s more of a dependency on you?

Like a cat that was found and doesn’t want to leave the kind old lady.”

Kardesia retorted angrily, “Lianyi is not that kind of twisted man!”

She almost laughed out loud.

Too impressive, this woman really has no clue!

How well have you disguised yourself, Shiyu Lianyi?

While Shiyu Ling was chuckling inwardly, Kardesia dejectedly lowered her head, “Honestly, I’m not the type that cares much about ‘feelings’ or ‘authenticity’, I think it’s good enough as long as they are nice to me…

But going on like this, I’m just tying Lianyi to me.”

Here it comes.

The unique sense of responsibility of the good-hearted and self-righteous fools who think they’re considering others.

“I can’t let the memories of the past become the chains that bind him.”

You’re such a good keeper, look how well-trained he is.

She tried hard to hold back her desire to speak ill—she admitted she didn’t dislike this girl—and instead said flippantly, “I think the boy just likes you~”

Kardesia took off her cat ears and swung them around.

“Hahaha, impossible, he probably sees me as a capricious older sister or something.

What kind of guy stays with a girl he likes for so long without confessing his feelings?”

Ha.

Haha.

Hahaha.

That’s it, I don’t want to listen to this topic any longer.

Let the kinship and college girl’s romance be left to any kind-hearted good Samaritan, I’m on the verge of losing it.

—Don’t talk about this stuff in front of single women, you love-struck fools!!!!!

The bald software engineer on the matchmaking show was finally outright rejected, and the first male guest left the stage dejected.

Shiyu Ling pressed the channel change fiercely, saying, “I think a bald middle-aged type suits you better.”

“That’s mean, Alice would obviously be a better fit given her age!”

“Okay, I’m really mad now, you’d better brace yourself.”

The blue-haired woman snatched the mobile phone from her companion’s hand, rose from the sofa, picked up the black and white maid outfit, and then approached the poor, helpless, and defenseless landlord step by step.

“Don’t!

This was bought for you—” Kardesia clutched the sofa cushion and wailed, “Don’t come any closer to me!!!”

All in all, the tyrannical hat-wearing woman met with fitting punishment from an even more terrible woman.

A photo of someone dressed in the maid outfit was sent to an account marked “Lianyi” a few minutes later, but, that’s another story.