Her Tentacles 95

Chapter 95: Afterword 4

Shu Yao found that after returning from that business trip, her girlfriend would often be in a daze at home, and would even occasionally show a somewhat tired expression.

“Lin Ran?”

At this moment.

Outside the window, the lights of thousands of homes were on. The string lights wrapped around the invisible anti-theft net on the balcony flickered slightly, and there were also scattered star-shaped lights shining high and low, as if they had been plucked from the night sky and hung up.

Shu Yao was holding a glass of milk, her expression very subtle as she leaned against the balcony door and watched Lin Ran treat the small pot with flower fertilizer as a spray bottle filled with ordinary clear water.

Her jade-white fingertips mechanically pressed the spray bottle, sprinkling fine, dense water droplets on the monthly roses that were just blooming for the last time this autumn.

Shu Yao immediately decided to cut all this batch of monthly roses tonight, lest she wake up tomorrow morning to face all the over-blooming flowers that had exploded on the branches.

She didn’t really care about the flowering period, which could have been extended for another half a month on the branches. She placed the milk cup on the windowsill near the living room, took the small spray bottle from her girlfriend’s hand, put it aside, and then had her turn around.

“What’s wrong with you lately?” Her expression was filled with obvious worry, and for a moment, she even thought back to the time in the abyss when Lin Ran had grown a fourth heart.

Her thoughts were pulled back by her voice. Lin Ran only then noticed that she had walked up to her at some point, and was even holding her cheek with her warm palm.

The tentacles were still as usual, not missing any opportunity to cuddle with Shu Yao in every corner of the house, like a clingy pet, going wherever their girlfriend went.

Now.

Seeing the frown on Shu Yao’s brow, Lin Ran chuckled softly and subconsciously raised her hand to press her brow with her fingertips. After she let go of her palm, she turned her head and kissed the palm of her hand.

Only then did she answer, “It’s nothing. Maybe I’ve had too many things to think about lately.”

“Really?”

Shu Yao had always thought that her energy was different from that of an ordinary human, that she was a born workaholic.

After all, Lin Ran had been very busy with her work at the hospital before. Now she was also working at the research institute, and recently she had to help the dean teach students at the university affiliated with Nanshan Hospital.

Teaching, research, and clinical work, the three most difficult jobs combined, even a monster would be crushed.

She was worried, and didn’t even have the mind to knead the tentacles that had slipped into her hand. Her gaze was only on her girlfriend. “Then when can you rest?”

Lin Ran gave her a very surprising answer. “On your birthday.”

“Mmm?” Shu Yao was stunned for a moment.

Because her life had changed so much this year, and she had experienced so many things, she had completely lost track of time. After all, with the monster landing, the [Lighthouse] invading, even ordinary people’s lives had invisibly lost many holidays.

Reminded by Lin Ran, she only then took out her phone to check.

It was only a week until November 30th.

…

Shu Yao was just about to ask Lin Ran if she had any special plans when she received a call from Situ Jin.

Ever since the [Lighthouse] invasion, and the end of the apocalypse it had brought to the human world, as most people’s lives gradually returned to normal, Situ Jin had begun to follow her parents and learn to take over more business.

She had heard before that she had her eye on a good island. Because she had gotten the most accurate first-hand information from Shu Yao, she had decisively taken down that newly appeared island while other rich merchants were still watching, and had plans to develop it into a tourist and leisure project.

Shu Yao hadn’t received any news from her for a long time.

Now, she was a little puzzled. “Jin?”

“Mmm, mmm, it’s me. I almost forgot the most important thing—” Situ Jin patted her forehead on the other end and asked her, “Is your birthday coming up? Are you free then? Can you take a few days off?”

Shu Yao: “?”

She subconsciously glanced at Lin Ran.

She hadn’t expected to be suddenly asked about her birthday one after another.

She replied with an uncertain tone, “Aren’t you busy with your family’s business lately? Do you have time to meet me?”

“Of course I have time to celebrate your birthday,” Situ Jin replied with a grin, and then she threw out her plan. “I’ve just finished the first phase of my island development project. I’m specially inviting you as a guest to experience my island villa. Why don’t you just celebrate your birthday in a different place?”

Shu Yao was silent.

A very subtle feeling of being moved spread in her heart, but she still replied, “Can I ask Lin Ran? Or rather, can I bring a plus one?”

“It would be even better if you two could both come,” Situ Jin replied. “The more people, the more lively it will be, and the travel experience will be more worth referencing.”

And the content of their phone call just now, at such a close distance, was enough for her girlfriend to hear clearly.

When Shu Yao looked over tentatively, wanting to know if her plans and her friend’s plans would clash, Lin Ran very naturally nodded. “Okay.”

She said, “Anyway, I’ve already asked the dean for a few days off in advance, and it doesn’t conflict with your friend’s arrangements.”

【Really?】

Shu Yao confirmed with her very carefully, worried that she was just trying to make her happy and would have to push back her previous preparations and arrangements.

Lin Ran raised her hand and rubbed her head, and smiled as she leaned over and kissed the tip of her nose.

She replied very gently, “Mmm.”

Only then did Shu Yao reply to Situ Jin’s message. “Yay, thank you, rich woman, for the invitation. Then I’ll bring my girlfriend to your villa for my birthday, okay?”

“No problem, come on.”

Situ Jin’s tone was filled with confidence. “It will definitely be an unforgettable birthday for you.”

Perhaps the cake the rich woman had painted was too fragrant.

So much so that for the next few days, Shu Yao didn’t even have the mind to go to the special department to clock in. She couldn’t help but wonder what Situ Jin had prepared on the island, to be able to make such a promise to her now.

During this period.

The Zhou family also happened to call. Because Shu Yao’s birthday was on a Wednesday, and she was going to spend it with her friends and lover, they asked her if she wanted to have a meal together on the weekend in advance.

Auntie Zhou had even specially made a cake for her to take with her.

Lin Ran’s arrangements for that day were also just right. She had finished her surgery early and had arrived at the restaurant just as the meal was beginning.

But there was a strange little interlude at the dinner table—

Whenever Lin Ran got up to refill the elders’ tea, Auntie Zhou would unconsciously also stand up.

Even her own expression was dazed, and she had to look down at her legs to see why they were suddenly not listening to her.

It all started from the time when she was not very willing to trouble the two children to restore her to her previous appearance. Although Auntie Zhou had not known what the special medicine her husband had found for her was before, now that things had come to this, she was still getting along quite happily with the little crab in her body.

Besides, she personally felt that even if she became younger, she would not have the energy to coexist peacefully with the [Parasite] now.

She really liked this feeling of being able to occasionally help out at the special department and to contribute to the community after she retired. It fascinated her.

Finding that she really liked the superpowers of the little crab, Shu Yao could only give up the idea, and then let the flower fish help take care of the elderly, and just let her be.

Now, seeing the look of Lin Ran and Auntie Zhou looking at each other, she very calmly told the two of them to sit down and eat first, and then let Lin Ran try to reduce her big movements, and leave everything to her.

Over there.

Auntie Zhou’s muttering could be heard throughout the private room. “Her? Eat us? That can’t be. Little Lin is so polite, such a good child. How could she eat people? You must have remembered wrong.”

“What Monarch Slayer? It sounds so scary. There’s no such thing. It’s probably some bacteriophage. Why are you still listening to such rumors at such a young age?” After Auntie Zhou finished talking to herself, she looked up at Shu Yao again:

“Does Little Lin like to eat mushrooms? The mushrooms this season are very nourishing. Why don’t I ask the waiter to change the soup we just ordered to a seasonal wild mushroom and meatball soup? I saw on the menu that they also use common mushrooms, which are quite safe.”

Shu Yao was sitting closest to the door, and after hearing this, she immediately replied, “Okay, Auntie.”

“It’s okay, I’ll just say it—” As she spoke, she glanced at the person next to her and asked with a suppressed smile, “Lin Ran really likes to eat mushrooms, right?”

Her girlfriend, who had been tragically changed from a [Monarch Slayer] to a [Bacteriophage], looked at her for a moment and quietly nodded under the concerned gaze of the elders.

She accepted her changed diet.

Her ears were very sharp, and she even heard Shu Yao’s muffled laughter in the corridor outside the private room after she had gone out.

Of course.

That night, after they went back, Shu Yao spent a long time comforting her girlfriend, and also the tentacles, which were whimpering and crying, asking her to coax them.

Shu Yao, who was crying even louder than them: “…”

Finding that her girlfriend didn’t seem to be as tired as before, she woke up the next day and announced with gritted teeth that she was going to be abstinent.

Anyway, she just wouldn’t do it.

She wouldn’t do it even if she died.

…

The well-fed monster knew very well when to show weakness and submit. Before it completely angered its girlfriend, it obediently restrained its greedy desires.

In this healthy rhythm of life.

On Monday night, the two of them packed their luggage together, went to the airport to meet up with Situ Jin, and took her family’s private jet to the island for vacation.

Shu Yao saw at a glance the familiar figure sitting next to Situ Jin.

When the other timely glanced over and got up to go to the rest area in the back, Shu Yao looked around at the flight attendants and crew members on the plane, and then looked at Situ Jin again.

The rich woman, who was busy with her career, recently preferred brightly colored professional suits, which made her aura particularly domineering.

She crossed her arms and raised an eyebrow at Shu Yao. “What, you don’t recognize this beauty anymore?”

Shu Yao chuckled.

She walked to the table opposite Situ Jin and sat down, propping her chin on one hand. “Although I can understand that she’s your bodyguard, and I also know that she’s very introverted and only clings to you, you two seem a little off—”

“Am I seeing things through a gay lens?”

Situ Jin’s red lips curved, and she leaned back on the sofa cushion behind her, her expression calm as she replied, “You just found out? She’s not just my bodyguard now.”

Shu Yao: “?!”

This time, she pressed both her palms on the table. If it weren’t for the fact that Lin Ran was now coming over after putting away her luggage, Shu Yao would have definitely pressed her gossipy little head next to her friend’s.

“When did this happen?” She imitated Situ Jin’s tone from when she had interrogated her and Lin Ran about their rekindled old flame. “Wow, Jin, so you’ve been a straight girl for so many years just because you haven’t met such a beautiful woman, right?”

“That’s right.”

Situ Jin nodded and gestured for her to look at Lin Ran, who was sitting next to her. “Why else would we be friends? Our friendship of so many years is all out of the mutual appreciation of a sucker for good looks.”

Shu Yao was almost fooled by her.

“No, no, no.”

Consultant Shu raised her hand and tapped her chin, showing a wise look of having seen through the world. “I don’t believe you turned so suddenly. You two must have a story. Hurry up and confess.”

After all, she clearly remembered the scenes of Situ Jin being forced by her family’s pressure and going on blind dates with those second-generation rich kids.

And that Young Master Ye, she could tell from Situ Jin’s attitude that her family was very satisfied with the Ye family, and that he was the most suitable marriage partner for her.

How did it suddenly take a 180-degree turn?

And she was even playing a real-life role-playing game of a domineering CEO and her personal bodyguard!

There must be a secret that Shu Yao didn’t know!

“I can tell you—”

Situ Jin raised an eyebrow at her, and then at Lin Ran next to her. “But are you sure you want to hear it in public like this?”

Shu Yao: “…”

Her expression was dazed for two seconds.

Realizing what kind of scene Situ Jin’s emotional progress was related to, her little face couldn’t help but turn yellow.