Although the word spread that the match-making gathering was changed to a celebration party, when people got there, they noticed that it was still a match-making gathering in essence. On top of it, the match-making gathering was set up in the name of the two Top 20 teams in the ranking competition to attract more Sentinels and Guides to participate.
However, this did not prevent Lian Yu from being full of interest. Including today, Cen Zhen only participated in the White Tower match-making gathering twice in total. The first time he was full of the novel and wanted to change the main plot, and met an arrogant and scarred lion.
The second time, this lion stood beside him with shiny and smooth golden fur exuding a domineering and majestic aura. The hostility and fatigue had faded, and only the word “arrogance” remained in its amber eyes.
Many people would come to talk to Cen Zhen and Lian Yu and take photos from time to time, but they were not as big as the crowded circles surrounding Yao Jin and Pan in comparison. The reason was simple. On one side, the two are already permanently marked. They were destined to be tied together for the rest of their lives. Even if they were to be the shovel digging the corner of the wall, it would not move. (1)
On the other side were two temporarily partnered Sentinels and Guides. The Sentinels had an S-level physical that is well-known, even the novel author was tired of repeating the fact. Although the Guide had low mental strength, he was pretty and had a driving talent. The enthusiastic crowd tacitly separated the two and rushed forward to show their presence.
Before going to the party, Lian Yu agreed to let Cen Zhen control his hearing and smell. Previously, when Cen Zhen was stimulated by Man Feifei and needed to improve his spiritual control skills quickly, Lian Yu cooperated unconditionally. Later, after knowing that Cen Zhen’s skill was indeed terrible, he began to complain and refuse profusely.
Now, when he heard that Cen Zhen plans to use him as a guinea pig again, his face was full of fear of death. He gritted his teeth and stamped his feet, “Come on, it’s just a pair of ears. At most, I’ll be deaf.”
“Damn you.” Cen Zhen gently pulled Lian Yu’s long ponytail. After letting go, the slightly curled hair lingered on Cen Zhen’s knuckles, making a spin as if it had consciousness. After Cen Zhen’s hand completely fell to his side, the smooth light golden color finally slowly fell.
Lian Yu specially picked a blue silk ribbon to tie his hair for attending the match-making gathering, which matched his skin tone very well. Cen Zhen didn’t plan to dress up at all. Until the time to leave, he was still sketching out the questions and doubts for Zhou Qingchang to answer today. Lian Yu threw him a set of clothes, and Cen Zhen put them on without even looking. After putting them on, he realized that this was Lian Yu’s, and Lian Yu was wearing his clothes.
With the same color scheme, a bit like a couple’s outfit, plus the strong pheromones on the clothes, Lian Yu is just short of carving his name on Cen Zhen’s forehead and showing off.
But what they have now isn’t much different from doing so. Even if Lian Yu can’t stand the boringness and leaves Cen Zhen, who only cares about his mental power notes, to go out and make a fuss, Cen Zhen is like Tang Seng who is trapped by the Monkey (2), with four big words shining on his head: This person is taken.
This match-making gathering was worth the organizer’s effort and exhaustion. They succeeded in persuading Yao Jin and Pan to join the party after trying so hard, and the number of participants reached a historical high. In addition to the first to third grades, many fourth and fifth grade students disguise themselves as lower graders to join the fun.
This also led to the fact that no matter how much the Sentinels loved quietness, there was constant noise in their ears. Cen Zhen sat for a while and really couldn’t concentrate on reading. Thinking that he sure is a boring person, why should he discipline himself so hard since he’s already out? He closed the terminal and looked up, just in time to see the lion guarding him by his legs staring at the owl perched on the tree in a daze. Cen Zhen frowned subconsciously, then slowly relaxed. He had vaguely noticed something, but Lian Yu didn’t say it, so he didn’t mention it.
The owl was not an animal, but a Sentinel’s spiritual body.
The lion could already see spiritual bodies other than the snow leopard. With his help, Lian Yu’s mental power gradually recovered as the spiritual space expanded. However, Lian Yu never said it, and his lion was cunning enough to always pretend there was only the snow leopard’s figure in its eyes.
Cen Zhen somewhat understood, but also somewhat didn’t understand Lian Yu’s thoughts. Regardless, he didn’t delve into it. No one in this world could fully understand a little lunatic who had lived three lives and committed suicide in his previous life.
Halfway through the match-making gathering, after the academic dean finished hosting the maze game, a projection suddenly appeared in the center of the square. He smiled and announced that the tacit game would begin. Because the maze game targeted those who had not yet determined their partners, a lottery system was adopted for admission. The tacit game on the other hand was for already marked couples, and a registration system was adopted. In simple terms, whoever pressed the terminal the fastest would go on stage.
However, the two pairs of protagonists who entered the top 20 in the ranking competition were definitely internally selected to go on.
Cen Zhen heard someone behind him say with a smile: “The maze game in the last match-making gathering made these two pairs meet, and hopefully the tacit game this time would not witness their end, hahaha.” The others also laughed after hearing this, without any malice, they were all joking.
The rules of the game are simple, that is, the academic dean asks questions, and all the young couples on the stage answer them on the answer board separately, and then see if their answers are consistent. The game is said to be conducive to promoting the relationship between the Sentinel and the Guide, but as the person just said, if the answers are completely different, then this link will become a breakup scene.
The first question is the place where you first met each other. Yao Jin wrote about the match-making gathering, while Pan blushed and wrote about a first-grade teaching building, and then nervously told a story about a nobody little Guide hiding in the crowd peeking at a Sentinel covered in light. Yao Jin was surprised and happy, while Cen Zhen and Lian Yu, who had already been spoiled by the novel, looked numb.
The academic dean, a virtual character developed from the highly intelligent system, looked at Cen Zhen with a gentler look than a real person, and spoke like an old friend: “If I remember correctly, the first time you saw him should be at the match-making gathering, right?”
Cen Zhen turned over the answer board, and the answer was indeed: match-making gathering.
Lian Yu held back a smile and turned over the answer board: I don’t remember.
“Break up, A-zhen!” An unknown Sentinel called out affectionately, “Cut off your glands and come with me! I’ll steal suppressors to support you!”
Cen Zhen ignored the voice and looked at Lian Yu, who was still smiling and explained, “I really don’t remember. I must have seen Cen Zhen before, but how can I remember?”
He was referring to ‘Cen Zhen’, someone from the life before the previous life. At that time, ‘Cen Zhen’ was an unimportant little character, so Lian Yu naturally wouldn’t remember him. Cen Zhen sighed silently in his heart. This guy started again, always knowing how to make trouble. If he didn’t take the chance to act up, he would feel the itch. He just wanted everyone’s attention to focus on him.
Cen Zhen lowered his eyelashes in cooperation and sighed, “Fine.”
The atmosphere on the stage suddenly became a little stiff. The third couple almost didn’t dare to answer the question. The two of them trembled and showed each other’s board. After finding they had the same answer, they burst into tears of joy.
……
The second question asked about the location of the last date.
Yao Jin and Pan both wrote down the library in sync, the atmosphere was filled with the love for learning between the words.
Cen Zhen and Lian Yu also turned their boards at the same time. One wrote: never dated, and the other wrote: have no impression.
The academic dean refused to let them explain the answer awkwardly, and the audience became even more lively. Some people started whispering: start a fight, start a fight…
Then there were three more trivial questions. All of Lian Yu’s answers were either forgotten or couldn’t remember it clearly. He was a complete scumbag. Cen Zhen felt himself out of his right mind. He indulged Lian Yu’s behavior and even played along with him with the role of a plastic lover. (3)
The last question was: say something to the other party (You can choose not to make it public.)
After the academic dean finished the question, he immediately said: “Please let group 2 answer the question last.” He was afraid that this group would kill the vibe completely after speaking, and the others would not have anything to say.
The audience was wailing as they watched the excitement. They eagerly waited for Cen Zhen and Lian Yu to give some earth-shattering answers.
The other couples in pure love racked their brains to think of cheesy love confessions and wanted to use this rare opportunity to have a romantic time with their partner.
Pan looked at Cen Zhen and Lian Yu with concern. He remembered that when they had dinner before, his “best friends” had a very harmonious relationship. Lian Yu looked at Cen Zhen with eyes so tender as if he wanted to keep him safe forever. Cen Zhen also subconsciously looked in Lian Yu’s direction, smiled at each other tacitly, and then looked away. How could he say he didn’t remember their first meeting and never dated…
Could it be that their previous harmony and love were all pretended? Pan was frightened by his assumption. Yao Jin looked up and saw Pan with an uneasy expression, and he even looked at him for help. He laughed secretly at how this boy was so easy to deceive, but he was helpless about how his “best friends” could act so well.
Yao Jin wrote to Pan: Good luck in the competition the day after tomorrow. Pan wrote to Yao Jin: See you the day after tomorrow.
It was too reserved, so reserved that every word seemed to be particularly affectionate. Everything was about to be said but not yet, full of deep affection.
Some of the couples in the middle were as reserved as them, while others were more outgoing and said directly: I love you. When it came to Lian Yu, he revealed the answer before Cen Zhen: There is nothing to say.
Cen Zhen raised his eyebrows, smiled slightly, and turned the answer board: What is there to say?
It was quite symmetrical.
As soon as the game session ended, Pan hurried to find Cen Zhen and ask him what was going on. It was okay to tease everyone, but if they were really a superficial couple, he would be very sad. However, the two of them disappeared in an instant as if they had directly stepped down into another dimension.
In addition to Pan, there were also a large number of people at the match-making gathering who were looking for this couple who performed unusually vigorously, but no one found where Cen Zhen and Lian Yu had gone. Just five minutes later, the two evil men who occupied the Tower and the White Tower Forum opened the door to Cen Zhen’s dormitory. Lian Yu smiled and threw himself on the bed, kicked off his shoes, and rolled over twice, then lay down and looked up at Cen Zhen, with light in his eyes: “It’s so fun, so fun!”
Cen Zhen drank a sip of water, then put the cup on the table, walked to the bed, and half squatted down, looking directly at Lian Yu at eye level. There was no expression on his face, but it was not cold, like flowing water under the sun, and you would find it warm if you put your hand in it.
“The first time you saw me…”
“Match-making gathering.” Lian Yu answered immediately.
“The last date.”
“Aren’t we dating every moment? Whenever there are only the two of us, it’s a date.”
Cen Zhen smiled, “You got anything you want to say to me?”
“I already said what I had to say the day we marked.” Lian Yu laughed, “On the contrary, you, when are you planning to say it back to me?”
Original Author’s Note: Date Date Date
Translator’s Note:
- Not sure if this analogy makes sense, but in Chinese, it has the meaning of third wheeling, steeling someone from someone/somewhere
- A reference to the famous Chinese literature [Journey to the West], where a monk named Tang Seng leads three of his disciples through eighty-one hardships to gain the Holy Buddhist Scripture. His first and most powerful disciple is a monkey with a free spirit and not bound to normal social norms. Whenever the monk is in danger, he comes to the rescue. He has a skill that draws a circle on the ground with his Golden Cudgel to signify his existence, which prevents demons and spirits from harming whoever is inside.
- Plastic Lover: Looks fine from the outside, but in reality, fake, flimsy, easy-to-break relationship
Wow, wow, wow. They are making some moves in the next chapter! I’m not sure if I can capture the vibe correctly since I’m kinda shy. (///V///)
