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57.04% To Rise Again in the Apocalypse [BL] / Chapter 74: Chapter 27.1 - Let's just buy them slowly over the year...

Chapter 74: Chapter 27.1 - Let's just buy them slowly over the year...

In the end, Li Xinwen ate a bowl of porridge and 2 servings of caramel puddings. Though Sun Xiao felt guilty at first, when he saw Li Xinwen enjoying the puddings, he felt relieved. After they finished eating, Li Xinwen once again handed his wallet over to Sun Xiao with a grin. "Ah'Xiao, today... how about I let you do all the payment, hmm? Once you get used to interacting with people, you'll naturally feel less shy."

Sun Xiao stared at the wallet in his hand, then looked up at Li Xinwen. The nervousness can be seen from his expression and to ease it up, Li Xinwen reached up and pats Sun Xiao's head. "You can do it. Your big bro here believes in you," Li Xinwen said in a gentle tone. While saying this, he also sends a few strands of spiritual energy to help calm Sun Xiao up.

After a while, Sun Xiao finally gathered enough courage and nods his head. "Xin-gege, let's go and pay now," Sun Xiao said as he stood up and picked up his backpack.

They went to the cashier and paid for their meal. Much to Li Xinwen's delight, Sun Xiao was able to do so without looking nervous. It wasn't until they got outside that Sun Xiao let out a loud sigh, placing a hand on his fast-beating chest. "Xin-gege... where to next? Martial arts book?" Sun Xiao asked Li Xinwen.

"Not yet. Hua-jie said that we should buy some underwear and clothes to prepare ourselves," Li Xinwen told the younger boy and he could see the disappointment in his eyes. "After that, I'll let you buy whatever martial arts book you want! Alright?"

"En. Okay!" Sun Xiao cheered up once more after being promised.

They first went to one of the clothing shops in the shopping mall. Li Xinwen doesn't care much about brands so he just randomly picked a shop. Their first destination was the men's underwear section. It was then that Li Xinwen learned that there were two kinds of underwear for men. Li Xinwen stared at the triangle-shaped underwear and felt that it lacked privacy. 'This just looks like the way those people in the pleasure house did their underwear back in Long Xing...' Li Xinwen couldn't help his thought before he turned to Sun Xiao. "Ah'Xiao, Hua-jie said to buy at least 500 underwear. One box has 12 pairs so we'll need to buy 42 boxes," Li Xinwen told him.

"42...?" Sun Xiao who heard it was shocked. He stared at Li Xinwen with disbelief. "Did Hua-jie really said that? But Xin-gege, she said the apocalypse won't happen until five years later... we don't have to buy 500 now. Let's just buy them slowly over the years..." Sun Xiao suggested. If they really buy it now, it would be embarrassing to come out holding bags filled with boxes of boxers.

"You think so?" Li Xinwen asked and Sun Xiao quickly nods his head. "Well, alright then. Ge will listen to Ah'Xiao," Li Xinwen said.

"Then, let's just take two boxes and then we go grab some clothes... after that, martial art books?" Sun Xiao said as he looked up at Li Xinwen, giving his older brother a puppy look.

"..." Li Xinwen was speechless when faced with this look. 'First, Xue Rui... now even Ah'Xiao is using this deadly look on me, ah!' he thought before he raised his hand and gently rubbed Sun Xiao's head. "Alright. Let's buy some clothes."

While the two were choosing clothes, a paparazzi who got intel about Li Xinwen finally found them. He sneaked a photo. Because he was quite far, the picture he took was not as clear, and because of the two brother's position, it turned out to be ambiguous.

Regardless, the paparazzi was satisfied with the picture and sent it over to his colleague before he continued to tail Li Xinwen and Sun Xiao. For people like them, they don't care much about the truth. What they liked the most is digging up scandals from these kinds of celebrities.

He wanted to get closer, but he did not want to risk getting found out so he only stays at what he deemed a safe distance. When the two brothers exit the clothing store, he too left. Then, the two entered a book store and the paparazzi was confused. 'It's normal to buy clothes for your pet but... books? That is unheard of...'

He was just about to follow them inside when he was suddenly pulled by his collar. "Hey! What do you think you're doing?!" the paparazzi was angry that he was stopped. But when he turned around to face the person who stopped him, he suddenly felt cold all over his body.

The other person was wearing a black suit and was also wearing sunglasses. His whole appearance screamed the word 'bodyguard' and the paparazzi thought that he's the bodyguard that Li Xinwen hired. After all, it is not rare for a celebrity to hire a personal bodyguard.

"Sir, I caught him. Waiting for further instruction," the bodyguard said and only then did the paparazzi noticed the earpiece on the bodyguard's ear. The paparazzi wanted to run but was quickly caught by the bodyguard. After a while, the bodyguard leaned closer and whispered to his ear. "My boss wants to meet you. Be obedient and you won't get hurt," the bodyguard said before he dragged the paparazzi away from the book store.

"Wait, your boss is not inside the book store?"

"No."

"Then mister, did you catch the wrong person? I don't think I ever..."

"No. I've been watching you. You've been following Young Master Li. My boss doesn't like it and ordered me to bring you to him," the bodyguard said, crushing the paparazzi's hope of getting away.

Inside the bookstore, Li Xinwen glanced outside with a frown. 'The two-person who followed us around left? Is it just me overthinking about it?' Li Xinwen thought before he shrugged his shoulder. 'Even if they wanted to do something, I doubt they could.'

"Xin-gege, what's wrong?" Sun Xiao asked when he noticed that Li Xinwen was staring out of the store window.

"Nothing. Did you find the book you wanted?" Li Xinwen asked and Sun Xiao just lifts up the book he's holding. "This?" Li Xinwen flipped through the book and saw that it was about the martial arts from the K country. He didn't mind it much since these also looks very useful. Li Xinwen also felt that the moves explained in the book were unique, something that was not found in Long Xing.

Suddenly, he felt that he should also learn these martial arts. Once he returns to Long Xing, it might help him throw his opponent into a confusion, or even create his own cultivation technique based on these martial arts. "Are these all? Let's buy different kinds, and then you can easily choose which one you want to learn at home!"


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Lin_XiaoLong Lin_XiaoLong

Question: Do you guys actually prefer longer chapters (2-3k words and maybe more) or do you prefer the current length which is around 1k words?

Leave a comment below. Again, if you like the story so far, and wish to support me, you can do so by donating at: ko-fi.com/traita

On February, I plan to have the artist do another character design. The vote will be up in discord on late January. So if you haven't joined the discord server yet, you can do so at: https://discord.me/lxl (it's L, X and L)

Lanyu's character design will be up hopefully mid-february, depending on how busy the artist will be. For the new one, it might be released on mid-march.

Chapter 75: Chapter 27.2 - Lanyu?

Li Xinwen continued to bring Sun Xiao around, shopping for books and other random stuff such as clothes, hats and even stationery but most of all, Li Xinwen indulged himself in buying chocolate. When they left the shopping mall, both of them have hands full of bags, but most of them were on Sun Xiao's hold. They didn't realize how time flew while they were inside so when Li Xinwen looked up, he was surprised that the sky had an orange tint on it. "We should go home. Mom will get worried," Li Xinwen said before he freed one of his hand and took out his phone.

He called for a taxi and luckily for them, there is one nearby so they didn't have to wait long. After a half an hour drive, they finally arrived at the entrance of Li residence. As if he got used to it, Sun Xiao paid for the fare before they got out of the car. Seeing this, Li Xinwen couldn't help that he has achieved his goal. 'If this continues... I hope that future I see from Li Jinghua's memories won't happen to him,' Li Xinwen said as he lifts up and pats Sun Xiao's head. "Good job. You've worked hard today," Li Xinwen said.

Sun Xiao looked up at him and when he saw how Li Xinwen looked proud, he blushed a deep shade of red. Fortunately, the sky is now dark so he hoped that his older brother won't notice it. They opened the gate and walked over to their house. When they entered, their nose were assaulted by the various aroma of foods.

"..." Li Xinwen who are on a strict soft food diet felt that meal time is his worse nightmare. He can only watch, but cannot eat. Though the family do try to be considerate by preparing less food that he can't eat, it still doesn't make him feel any better. 'I wish one month can pass quickly, ah!'

"Ah'Wen, Ah'Xiao, welcome home," Mother Li smiled when she saw her two sons came home. "I heard from Hua-er you guys went shopping for clothes," as she said this, her eyes went to the bags on both Li Xinwen and Sun Xiao's hand. "Looks like you both bought a lot. Go on and put them in your rooms, then come and have dinner," Mother Li said before she went back into the kitchen.

"Xin-gege just stay here. I'll help you bring your stuff upstairs!" Sun Xiao offered. "Gege is still recovering after all," he said as he took the bags from Li Xinwen and then he went upstairs. He first went into Li Xinwen's room and placed his elder brother's stuff on the recamier sofa. He was about to leave when his eyes caught sight of a jian on the bed. His heart started to race from excitement. The decoration on the sheath compelled him to touch it. He walked closer to the bed and was just about to go over and touch the jian when he heard Li Xinwen's voice.

"Ah'Xiao, what are you doing?" 

* * * 

Li Xinwen at first, wanted to wait patiently for Sun Xiao downstairs but then, he felt someone had entered the barrier he set around his bed. He went upstairs and went into his room only to see Sun Xiao over his bed, trying to grab Shuang Ren. "Ah'Xiao, what are you doing?" Li Xinwen asked but there was no anger in his tone, just feeling amused.

Hearing Li Xinwen's voice, Sun Xiao immediately stood up straight and turned to Li Xinwen. "Xin-gege! I... I'm sorry... it's just umm..." Sun Xiao stuttered, head down, staring at the floor.

"Do you like the jian?" Li Xinwen asked in a gentle tone. He had just managed to get Sun Xiao to regain some confidence, if the younger boy returned to his state before, it would be bad. At the question, Sun Xiao just nods his head and walked over to the boy. "You can't have this one," Li Xinwen told him. "But I have another one. If you learn martial art properly, ge will give them to you," he added. "Now, go on along and put your stuff in your room. Mom is already waiting," Li Xinwen reminded the boy that they are supposed to have dinner.

Once Sun Xiao left, Li Xinwen shook his head and looked over at Shuang Ren. 'Lanyu, I'm sending my jian over to you. Be sure to keep it safe,' Li Xinwen said in his mind before he sends the jian into the pocket dimension. After a while, he decided to reward Lanyu, except he doesn't know what to give the little spirit. 'Lanyu, have you tried chocolate?' Li Xinwen asked.

[Lanyu: Chocolate? No, I haven't, master. Is it good? Are those one of the food that the mortal here made?]

Hearing this question, Li Xinwen decided to just hand over one pack of chocolate. In those pack is 26 pieces of chocolate bar. 'Those are chocolates. Try eating them. If you like it, I'll buy more for you. By the way, how is the search of the cultivation manual going?'

[Lanyu: ...]

'Lanyu?' Li Xinwen called out again when there was no answer. 'You have exactly ten breath to answer before I go in there,' he threatened the small spirit.

[Lanyu: Master! Please forgive Lanyu!! It's the cats! The cats won't let Lanyu do his work!]

'Just feed them and leave them to play! Why are you playing with them for?'

[Lanyu: I'm sorry, master...]

Li Xinwen let out a heavy sigh and shook his head. 'Just give me whatever you have now.'

As he told Lanyu this, he felt a kind of connection in his mind and he quickly took out the books that Lanyu had prepared so far. All of them are something that were created for those with Yang constitution. He placed them on his table and planned to look through it later after dinner so he could find which one is the most suitable for Sun Xiao.

* * *

Mini theatre:

Within the pocket dimension, Lanyu happily plays around with the cats after he had gotten over his fear of them.

Lanyu: Aiya! Why are you guys so cute, ah!

Lanyu: Hey! Don't go and excrete near the house!!

Lanyu: So fluffy! Can you be my bed?

Li Xinwen: Lanyu, how is the search going?

Lanyu who were distracted for the whole time: ... Oh no! How should I answer?!


CREATORS' THOUGHTS
Lin_XiaoLong Lin_XiaoLong

Leave a comment below. Again, if you like the story so far, and wish to support me, you can do so by donating at: ko-fi.com/traita

Reminder:

On February, I plan to have the artist do another character design. The vote will be up in discord on late January. So if you haven't joined the discord server yet, you can do so at: https://discord.me/lxl (it's L, X and L)

Lanyu's character design will be up hopefully mid-february, depending on how busy the artist will be. For the new one, it might be released on mid-march.

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