I Conquered the Villain Boss Chapter 45
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Chapter 45: He Said I Could Quarrel With You
Despite being a superhuman, that young man named Pei Xiao still protected ordinary people, which was very rare in this post-apocalypse world now.
"Haha, that’s the kind of person Pei Xiao is." After hearing Jiang Ran’s words, Su Qin laughed. "I can only say that he and Wan'er are indeed biological siblings. They are both innately gentle –– although he is the captain of the first superhuman team in Dongchao Base, he spends most of the time outside, hunting zombies."
"Oh, and also, although that guy always sarcastically mocks Seventh Brother before they start fighting each other, no bloodshed has ever occurred –– it’s a typical case of a love-hate relationship."
Jiang Ran, "..." Hey, those words sounded kind of weird.
"Is Seventh Brother in a bad mood because he met Pei Xiao? "Su Qin said, "Then don't worry. He’ll return to normal tomorrow."
Jiang Ran responded, "I hope so."
……
The next morning, the team packed up, and prepared to continue on the road.
As soon as Su Qin got into the car, she heard the back door being opened. Jiang Ran quickly climbed into the back seat and fastened her seatbelt.
Su Qin, "..."
Gu Yunqing, "..."
The two looked at each other and saw the inquisitiveness in each other's eyes.
"Sister Ranran, what are you doing? Si Xu is in the car behind." Gu Yunqing said tentatively, "Did you get into the wrong car?"
"No, I didn’t." Jiang Ran looked serious and smiled slightly. "Si Xu told me to buzz off. I’m an obedient person, so I shall leave him alone."
Gu Yunqing opened his mouth exaggeratedly. "No way. Did Si Xu say that to you?"
"Yes." Jiang Ran gritted her teeth and put on a fake smile. "So, Captain Gu and Captain Qin, please take me in temporarily."
Su Qin glanced out the window, and happened to see the man push the car door open. He got out of the car with a gloomy face, walking toward them.
She suppressed a smile. "Ranran, it's not that I don't want to take you in. It’s mainly because Seventh Brother won't allow that."
"He told me to buzz off. I’m not going back." She was also a delicate woman. She would also be angry when she got yelled at for no reason!
……
For the whole night yesterday, the girl didn’t return to the car to rest.
Without his hand warmer, Si Xu's already bad mood became even worse.
He tossed and turned in the car for a long time, unable to fall asleep.
He looked up several times to search for that familiar figure, only to see her sitting by the fire, with her back facing him, and having no intention of coming back.
He thought about waiting. He waited and waited until it was dawn.
He thought she would come back at dawn, but when he was distracted for a moment, she had already climbed into someone else's car.
Well, well, well. The girl had become rebellious after a night of not sleeping together.
……
Jiang Ran wasn’t a vindictive person, but when Si Xu told her coldly to her face to buzz off yesterday, she became a little upset.
The girl made up her mind that as long as Si Xu didn't apologize, she wouldn't go back.
In the end, before this plan could be implemented, the car door was opened. The man put one hand on the car door and looked at her.
"Jiang Ran, get out of the car."
Not frightened by his cold tone, Jiang Ran remained motionless. "I'm taking Captain Gu's car today."
"Jiang Ran." The young man lowered his voice and repeated his words like a warning, " Get out of the car."
"What if I don't get out of the car?" He spoke harshly to her with a cold and commanding tone, as if she was the one causing a din for no reason. Jiang Ran lost her temper. "Si Xu, are you going to kill me?"
The girl suddenly lowered her voice and glared at the man quite angrily.
"You told me to buzz off." Her voice was choked because of the grievance she felt. "You told me to buzz off and not follow you. Have you forgotten?"
The girl's eyes were reddened, and she looked at him with an unprecedented cold look.
For some reason, Si Xu's heart tightened, and what he said last night came to mind.
"Buzz off. Don't follow me."
That was what he said to her.
He was in a bad mood at the time. When he was in a bad mood, he just wanted to kill zombies and didn't want to be disturbed or talk to anyone.
However, he didn't see many zombies along the way, so he suddenly remembered what Gu Yunqing had said to him before.
Thinking of this, Si Xu suddenly raised his eyes to look at Gu Yunqing. He paused for two seconds, looked back at Jiang Ran, and complained, "It's Gu Yunqing who said that I could quarrel with you when I was in a bad mood."
Gu Yunqing was silently watching the show when he was suddenly cued. He looked confused: Dude? When did I say that? Wait a second...
"It's interesting to have a girlfriend, right? You can make her happy, coax her to sleep, and quarrel with her when you're in a bad mood... It's much more interesting than your work in the laboratory, isn’t it?"
Oh, he did say that –– wait a moment! Dude! It was just a casual remark. You just had to "make her happy and coax her to sleep." You didn’t have to remember the part about "quarreling with her" so clearly. Worse still, you even attempted to do so!
Hearing Si Xu's aggrieved explanation, Jiang Ran pursed her lips. She slowly turned to look at Gu Yunqing, and said softly, "Captain Gu, did you ask him to quarrel with me?"
"No, no, no, I can explain it! Sister Ranran! Listen to my explanation!" Gu Yunqing raised his hands. "Seventh Brother got it all wrong. I didn’t mean it that way. Well, it’s not exactly wrong. In any case, I didn’t mean that Seventh Brother should really quarrel with you! I..."
After Gu Yunqing finally explained clearly, Jiang Ran felt dumbfounded for a moment.
Why did Si Xu remember Gu Yunqing's words so clearly?
Seeing that the coldness in her eyes had dissipated, Si Xu spoke again, softening his tone, as if he was acting adorable. "Jiang Ran, come back with me."
"..."
Jiang Ran merely wanted to give him a reminder so that he knew it was okay to be angry, but he shouldn’t get innocent people involved. Now that the misunderstanding was resolved, Jiang Ran naturally got out of the car obediently. "Si Xu."
"Huh?" Holding the girl's hand, Si Xu's gloomy mood all night cleared up. "What's the matter?"
"In the future..." He was accustomed to being willful. Jiang Ran tried to communicate with him. "If anything makes you unhappy, you can tell me. Although... although I may not be able to help you with anything, I’ll listen carefully to what you say."
She wasn’t confident that she could help Si Xu solve the problems that troubled him, but as long as he was willing to talk, she would try to understand him and comfort him.
After a moment of silence, Jiang Ran added, "If you snap at me for no reason again like you did yesterday, I’ll definitely run away from home!"
The man who had been left alone all night fully felt the trouble that Gu Yunqing's words brought to him. "It won't happen again."
From now on, it was better to kill zombies when he was angry. At least the zombies wouldn't lose their temper with him. Well, he could kill them if they lost their temper
–– but it was different with the girl. If she lost her temper, he couldn't kill her and even had to coax her. It would be so troublesome.
……
For the next two weeks, it rained twice, and the temperature dropped again. However, it didn't snow again. Although the sun shone on the ground, it was cold.
When the first ray of morning light shone through the car, Jiang Ran opened her eyes and moved her body slightly.
As soon as the girl moved, Si Xu woke up.
He moved his hand away from Jiang Ran's waist and whispered, "Did you sleep well last night?"
"Yeah."
Jiang Ran put on the hood of her down jacket and climbed to the car door: "Si Xu, put on your scarf. I'm going to open the door."
The car door opened, and the cold morning air rushed into the car. Jiang Ran shivered, hopped out of the car, and exercised her hands and feet.
The team was in a hurry and had spent the past two weeks resting in their cars.
When Jiang Ran got out of the car, the morning fog had not dispersed yet and she couldn't see anything clearly five meters away.
She stood by the car for a moment, then climbed back into the car before Si Xu got out of the car.
"What's wrong?" The girl pushed Si Xu back to his seat. Si Xu, who had just woken up, was a little dazed. "You want to continue to sleep?"
Jiang Ran looked out through the window: "I think that the foggy weather is scary. We should wait until the fog clears and there are more people before getting out."
Si Xu readily accepted her suggestion and pulled her back into his arms. "Okay, let’s continue to sleep."
"Si Xu." Jiang Ran couldn't sleep after waking up, so she tried to strike up a conversation. " You and Pei Wan'er..." She wanted to ask if Si Xu felt guilty about Pei Wan'er’s death, but then she thought about it. With the way he was, how could he possibly have such an emotion as guilt?
"Pei Wan'er?" Hearing the name again, Si Xu frowned, his displeasure evident. "How did you know about her?"
"... Captain Qin told me." Jiang Ran said, "Captain Qin mainly wanted to tell me about the feud between you and the Shen family. That girl was only mentioned casually."
"Jiang Ran."
"Yeah."
"Don't be as stupid as that woman."
"..." Stupid?
"She was a superhuman with third-level abilities, yet she was plotted against by a scumbag like Shen Yang without knowing it." When he mentioned the woman who once liked him, he spoke indifferently, without the slightest regret or sadness. "She had been really stupid."
"Si Xu." Jiang Ran looked into his eyes. "Are you sad?"
"Why would I be sad?" Si Xu was confused.
"She liked you." Jiang Ran stated the fact. "She is dead."
"Jiang Ran, there’s no necessary connection between the two." Si Xu pointed out the problem in her words. "Even if she didn't like me, she would still die when she was plotted against by Yu Huang and Shen Yang."
Well, what he said was true, but... Jiang Ran sighed. "But she liked you."
She didn't know why she was bothered by that. Whenever she thought of that name, she felt a knot in her heart.
That was a woman who once liked Si Xu... Thinking of that, Jiang Ran blinked blankly. That was a woman who once liked Si Xu, just like her now –– but even after that woman died, Si Xu didn’t feel any sympathy for her...
Jiang Ran was worried.
She was worried that if she died one day, the man in front of her would also be nonchalant about it –– after all, she wasn’t a superhuman. In this world, if she made one wrong move, she would lose her life.
She hadn’t cared at first what Si Xu thought of her. She accepted his protection and naturally regarded him as her property. However, after hearing Pei Wan'er's story, she actually felt a little worried.
It was because Si Xu wasn’t someone who would love anyone.
"Jiang Ran."
The girl kept repeating that sentence. Si Xu pinched her chin so that she would look up.
His light brown eyes reflected her pale face. He raised an eyebrow and smiled. "Are you jealous?"
Gu Yunqing said that if a girl repeatedly asked about one thing, and that thing was related to another girl, then she must be jealous.
Hearing the slight pride in his tone, Jiang Ran's originally melancholy mood instantly cleared up. She was worrying unnecessarily. By then, she would already be dead. She wouldn’t be able to hear how he evaluated her, let alone feel lost or sad.
Tsk, tsk, why did she think so far ahead? She was really fretting over nothing.
When she was silent, Si Xu lowered his head and kissed her on the forehead. "Jiang Ran, you look so cute when you’re jealous."
Jiang Ran stared at him.
There seemed to be sparks in the girl's dark eyes, and for some reason, the man who had always been opinionated and willful actually felt a little nervous.
He licked his lips in puzzlement. "Jiang Ran, when you look at me like this..."
It made him feel a sense of danger.
Before he could finish speaking, Jiang Ran turned around swiftly, directly pressed him against the seat, and bit him on the lip.
— Weren’t you being smug? That’d teach you not to tease me all the time!
……
By the time the convoy was about to arrive at Xiling Base, another month had passed, and early winter had turned into deep winter.
The withered grass on the roadside was covered with frost. From a distance, it looked silvery white, like a thin layer of snow.
Jiang Ran stood in front of a sign. She looked at the writing on it, and fell into deep thought.
"What are you looking at?" Su Qin walked to her side, casually glanced at the words on the sign, and her gaze froze.
She murmured, "There’s a new human base... two kilometers away from here?"
Knowing that Su Qin also discovered something was amiss, Jiang Ran asked, "How many days does it take to drive from here to Xiling Base?"
"Based on the speed of our convoy, it’ll take almost three days."
"It's not that far for a superhuman." Compared with the four major bases advertised on the radio in the early days of the apocalypse, any superhuman who stopped here would definitely not choose to stay in this small base where there was no security.
"Yeah."
"Since they’d reached here, why didn’t they continue their way to Xiling Base?" Jiang Ran said, "Someone has set up a base here. Based on that idea, what could their intention be?"
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Author’s Notes:
Ranran: Wretched guy who lost his temper when he was angry, it was obvious that he lacked social experience and deserved to be taught a lesson ( ╯ °Д°) ╯ ︵ ┻━┻
Si Xu: Jiang Ran, I was wrong ()
Jiang Ran: It’s okay, it’s okay ( ω )(._.`) If anyone makes you angry, I’ll hammer him to death (づ′ ▽ `)づ
Gu Yunqing and Su Qin: Seventh Brother is so shameless￢口￢ノ
There was a reason why Si Xu was unhappy when he saw Pei Xiao, but it had nothing to do with Wan'er. It would be revealed later in the story.
It was indeed because of Wan’er that Pei Xiao taunted Si Xu every time they fought. The reason was what Ranran mentioned, but Ranran had not guessed the underlying reason. No spoilers (P.S.: In fact, be it novels or the TV series, I like the kind of character who can still retain their sincerity after going through ups and downs)
Also, Si Xu really, really didn’t like Wan’er at all. I thought I wrote it very clearly. Little cuties, stop imagining things.
The reason why he avenged Wan'er was because he disliked the Yu family and had a mentality of protecting his own people. It didn't make any difference to him whether it was Wan'er, Su Qin, or Gu Yunqing who was plotted against at that time.
Si Xu only learned how to love someone after he met Ranran. Ranran taught him how to love and be loved. It had nothing to do with Wan'er at all.
