Walking the Path of a Workaholic in Cliché Novels (QT) Chapter 100

The time was not right, so An Yinong did not hastily confront her. He endured it until the class was over. The system anxiously looked at the host’s calm face. The pain of being forced to leave the one he loved once again seemed to merge with the despair of the original owner, turning the host into a dark person.

“As expected, I can’t help cheat and hide the fact that the host retains emotions.” The system felt a little regretful.

An Yinong was packing his schoolbag. Today was Friday, and he would have tomorrow and the day after off. He could sort out the current situation and find a solution.

“Hey, He Tiantong, remember to get up early tomorrow.” The male classmate who had a conflict with him before came over.

An Yinong didn’t react immediately. The man frowned exaggeratedly and said, “Young Master, aren’t you? I just told you, if you draw for me, I’ll treat you to ice cream.”

“Are you serious?”

“Of course I’m serious, are you going?”

It would be nice to go out for a walk with someone. An Yinong nodded: “Why wouldn’t I go if someone invites me? What time?”

He gave the time and place: “You get there early.”

“Okay.”

He carried his schoolbag to the door. There were not many cars coming to pick up children. An Yinong found the car that belonged to the original owner at a glance. It was a very beautiful black classic car, which looked more expensive than other cars. He walked over, and the driver came out and opened the door. An Yinong was a little uncomfortable, but he didn’t say anything.

“Master, fasten your seat belts, I’m going to drive.”

“Okay, Uncle Cai.”

The hired driver drove fast and steadily, and An Yinong didn’t feel any bumps in the car. The car soon drove into a commercial street, and scene on both sides that were somewhat strange and somewhat familiar came into his sight.

It looked very much like the 1990s, but the buildings on both sides were more classical European style, people on the street were wearing European-style dresses, and there were many fashionable foreigners, they seemed to be strolling in their own backyard and feeling comfortable.

After leaving the commercial street, the car drove into a deserted road and drove all the way to a small villa near the mountain. This villa was a four-story European-style building with a large garden and a fountain. He saw some people pruning flowers and trees in the garden and some sweeping the floor.

The car stopped in front of the villa and a man in black uniform came over and opened the door for him.

An Yinong got off the car with his schoolbag, and a maid came up to take his bag. There was also an old woman in her fifties or sixties, called Grandma Lian at home, who came out with a cup of red date tea at just the right temperature: “Master, drink some hot soup to warm your stomach. When are you going to eat?”

“Half an hour later.” An Yinong looked at her, and a warm feeling flowed in his heart. It was only now that he felt the positive emotional feedback from the original owner after crossing over.

“Oh, by the way, grandma has already recorded the TV program that the young master wants to watch the most.” Grandma Lian said with a smile.

An Yinong took a sip of the hot soup and put down the bowl. The maid beside him skillfully took away the hot soup that he had only taken a sip of.

“Thank you, Grandma.”

Nowadays, many TV programs were not replayed. Sometimes, because people were afraid of missing out or wanting to watch it over and over again, they will ask someone to record the program. The original owner liked a program similar to science experiments and watched every episode without missing a single one. However, since he couldn’t watch it from Monday to Friday, he could only record and watch it on the weekend.

“I may have to turn off the lights a little later tonight, so mother-in-law should go to bed early.”

“Okay, I’ll go to bed later when Master Tiantong drinks the milk.” Grandma Lian said with a smile. Her name is Zhang Lian, and she has been working in this family for more than ten years. She watched the original owner grow up and took care of him like a grandson.

Granny Lian was kicked out by her husband’s family because she had no children, so she became a maid. Granny He, who was still around at the time, kept her because she was honest and capable. As time went by, she and the He family developed feelings for each other, and the original owner’s mother said she would take care of her in her old age. In the plot, the original owner was kidnapped and abused. Apart from his parents and relatives, the one who was most saddened was Granny Lian.

“I’m home?”

As they were talking, a drunk man walked in. He looked to be in his thirties and had a decent appearance, but he had a bit of a beer belly, which reduced his good looks. This person was the original owner’s father, He Chengjue.

An Yinong subconsciously took a step back and frowned.

“Atong, you look so serious. If you keep on like this, you’ll turn into an old man.” He Chengjue staggered as he walked drunkenly, but he didn’t forget to come over and pat An Yinong on the shoulder.

An Yinong was overwhelmed by the smell of alcohol and couldn’t smile.

Fortunately, He Chengjue didn’t keep staring at him. He staggered upstairs and said, “Don’t prepare my meal. I’ll take a nap first.”

“Yes, sir.” Granny Lian agreed, and then she remembered something, “The young master seems to have grown taller. Sir, should we ask Tailor Su to come to our house tomorrow? It’s time to make new summer clothes.”

“Okay, you decide these little things yourself, no need to tell me.” He Chengjue indifferently walked upstairs.

At this time, An Yinong said to Grandma Lian, “Grandma, I’m going out to play with my classmates tomorrow and I won’t be back for lunch.”

He Chengjue, who was halfway up the stairs, suddenly turned around and said, “What classmates? Where are you going to play? Dating a girl? Boys should be more generous when they are out.”

“It’s a male classmate.” An Yinong looked at this incompetent father. The original owner was not even sixteen years old at that time. Every day when he opened his eyes, he had to face poor studies and even worse relationships with classmates. How could he have time to fall in love?

“Tsk, you haven’t figured it out yet. When I was your age, I had several girlfriends.” He Chengjue took two steps and turned back, pulling out a few banknotes from his wallet, “Take this and have fun with them.”

An Yinong held two thousand-yuan bills and several five-hundred-yuan bills and watched He Chengjue go up the stairs unsteadily, holding on to the handrail.

In this day and age, an intern clerk worked hard and only earned a hundred yuan a month, but he could get several thousand yuan in pocket money by going out with his classmates on the weekends? So rich… He smiled sarcastically, and did not follow the original owner’s emotions to crumple the money into a ball and throw it at him. What did the money do wrong?

“Master, are you going out to play with your classmates tomorrow?” After He Chengjue left, Granny Lian looked at him happily, “Granny will prepare some snacks for you, you can take them out to eat.”

The original owner didn’t have many friends since he was a child, and had never gone out with his classmates, so Granny Lian was surprised.

“Okay, thank you for helping me, grandma.”

An Yinong returned to his room. The original owner’s room was in a blue and white navy style. Even the bed was made to look like a sailboat. There were decorations such as white sand, shells, and ship rudders on the walls.

Many boys of this age have begun to act like adults, but the original owner’s room was only filled with things with ocean elements that children liked.

An Yinong put down his schoolbag and stopped smiling. The boyish innocence and naivety faded from his face. Although the memories and emotions of the original owner will affect him, deep down he was still An Yinong who had experienced a lot of things, rather than an inferior, sensitive and simple-minded boy.

“I’m back, I’m back. Did you bring any food? I’ve been hungry all day!”

The sudden babyish voice startled An Yinong. He grabbed his schoolbag, leaned against the door, and asked sternly, “Who is it?”

There was no sound in the bedroom for a long time, except for the sound of wind blowing through the curtains.

An Yinong looked at the curtains, but couldn’t see where the person was hiding. From the voice just now, it seemed to be a child. Was it a servant who carelessly left the child here?

Thinking of this, An Yinong asked quietly: “Where are you? Can I go find you?”

“I’m hungry. I’m so hungry. I haven’t eaten for a day!”

The child’s voice sounded again, and An Yinong felt something was wrong. He looked in the direction of the sound, but saw a birdcage hanging on a clothes hanger (in the shape of a tree branch), and a cockatoo was chirping in the cage.

“Wow! What a big face.” An Yinong, who came over, scared the bird.

An Yinong: “…”

He remembered that this was a parrot that the original owner had rescued a few days ago. It couldn’t talk and its wings were injured by a slingshot from a naughty kid. Seeing how lively it was now, it should have recovered. But this parrot could talk? And it’s so logical?

“What are you looking at? You’re so ugly!” chirped the parrot.

“…Xiao Qi, why is it chirping and talking at the same time? Is it a bird demon?” An Yinong, who had just come out of the supernatural world, had the first reaction that the parrot had become a spirit.

“There are no spirits in this world. It should be that your ‘Disney Princess bloodline’ has taken effect. It is the one that can understand the ‘voices’ of animals.” said the system

An Yinong was skeptical. The credit of the main system had already been lost in his eyes, while it had sworn that there was nothing abnormal in the last world.

He continued to look up at the lively parrot in the cage.

“Here he comes again, trying to come and talk to me again.” The parrot shook its head. “I’m not a biped, and I can’t speak the language of bipeds. Why does he always come to talk to me? Does he like me? If he feeds me my favorite melon seeds and corn today, I’ll force him to like me.”

An Yinong: “…Hello?”

“Huh? I think I understood what this two-legged beast said? Impossible, this is absolutely impossible. Eat an apple and calm down.”

The shocked parrot lowered his head and ate the half apple left over from yesterday: “Pah, it’s not tasty, Twolegged Beast, I want fresh ones.”

“…” An Yinong stepped back and turned around.

Although his worldview had been shattered and reshaped many times, he still felt shocked when he discovered that he could understand the “inner voices” of animals and communicate with them, so he prepared to go out and calm down.

“Wait, Twoleg, you can understand me?! Twoleg, I want to go home.”

An Yinong stopped walking. The word “home” touched his heart. The bird still had a home to go back to, but what about his “home”? Without that person, where could he call his home?

Moved by sympathy, An Yinong was no longer so resistant to this bizarre communication ability.

He picked up the birdcage and said, “Even if you want to go back, it’s already very late. Do you want to go back now? I’ll get you some food, and you can leave tomorrow morning.”

But the parrot just pecked at the cage door: “You can really talk to me? … Thank you, Twolegs, but my master has been waiting for me for many days. I should go back.”

“You have a master?” This was something An Yinong did not expect. Then again, the cockatoos are not a native species and are unlikely to be wild.

Taking the little parrot’s own wishes into consideration, An Yinong decided to let it go. However, he still wrote on a small piece of paper that the parrot was injured and had to stay for two days, rolled it up and tied it to the parrot’s claws with a cotton rope.

“Don’t be so reckless next time. Go back.”

He opened the cage and the parrot flew out and walked away without looking back. It seems that it really can’t wait to go back, which was really enviable, both for the home it was returning to and the person the bird was worried about.

An Yinong thought of the person, or monster, who had appeared after tearing the void. Could he be Gu Zhengzhong? What did that sentence mean? He had many questions, but he couldn’t ask them. The system had many secrets, and so did this world.

“It’s amazing.” An Yinong stood at the window and looked at the deep blue sky.

Although there were many strange things in the previous life, they had a premise of being a “demon”. The worldview was different and could not be forced. However, this world was a completely ordinary world without any special settings.

“That Disney bloodline will always follow me?” He looked at the system suspiciously.

“Yeah~”

Afterwards, An Yinong walked into the bathroom and splashed cold water on his face: “Isn’t it possible for me to turn around and look for what it is when I hear a sound? Is there no way to tell whether it is a human or an animal?”

The system fell into a long silence.

“…Okay.” What can you expect from this system?