NovelOnline Chapter 39 - Holy Son Brand: New-Age Stay-at-Home Husband
Chapter 39 - Holy Son Brand: New-Age Stay-at-Home Husband
Getting involved with the Dark Holy Son was truly a troublesome matter.
However, Su Li’s concern wasn’t about Lan Zhe being particularly bad as a Holy Son, or being evil in nature.
What he really cared about was the fact that Lan Zhe could beat Egbert to a bloody face.
Su Li had deliberately trained himself to be more accepting of this world’s ways.
But scenes of easy bloodshed followed by quick healing were still difficult for him to accept.
Lan Zhe glanced at Su Li with displeasure. “What’s with that expression?”
Su Li waved his hand. “Nothing.”
“I just think that if life is destined to be full of heartache and emotional complexity, then lightening our burdens and pursuing happiness must be the soul’s deepest wish.”
When Lan Zhe first heard these words, he didn’t think Su Li was expressing his own complex feelings or desire to empty his mind. Instead, his thoughts turned to the Crystal Winged Dragon.
Having dark elements in this world meant suffering from the moment of existence. The despair of being hunted down and abandoned by the world, finally finding hope and a different kind of familial love with another species through the Crystal Winged Dragon, only to lose it all in the end…
Regardless of Lan Zhe’s personality, after experiencing all this, he couldn’t help but wonder – was everything gained destined to be lost?
Su Li was a rather subtle person, though not by his own admission – he considered himself quite straightforward. This perception of Su Li’s subtlety came from others’ interpretations of his character.
For instance, Egbert firmly believed every word Su Li spoke had deeper meaning, and Diz, while mindful of Su Li’s surface words, paid more attention to his inner thoughts.
These two had practically achieved complete analysis of Su Li’s thoughts and intentions.
Therefore, all of Su Li’s subtleties, once interpreted, became extremely heartwarming words, flowing like summer streams.
This was always Su Li’s way – not easily delving into others’ hearts, yet observing from a distance.
So, Lan Zhe naturally took Su Li’s statement about complex emotions as words of comfort for himself.
“Don’t be wary of potential encounters, and don’t fear inevitable losses… is that it?”
Making his first active attempt to interpret Su Li’s subtle words, Lan Zhe nodded in satisfaction.
He was absolutely certain he hadn’t misunderstood.
As for the person being forcefully interpreted…
Su Li blinked in confusion, wondering what Lan Zhe was talking about.
But the Dark Holy Son continued. “I understand your meaning now.”
At this point, Lan Zhe’s eyes had become much brighter, like a lost person who had finally found their path.
Then Lan Zhe decisively took the jewel left behind after Na’an’s death, which he had always kept in a pouch near his heart, and placed it in Su Li’s hands.
Before Su Li could process what was happening, Lan Zhe was already earnestly explaining, “It’s because of you that Na’an could truly die without regrets, so there’s no need for me to keep holding onto what she left behind.”
“Moreover, perhaps this stone was left behind by Na’an specifically for you, after all, regrets and thoughts are things that can easily change, aren’t they?”
Su Li: ???
Is this something a Dark Holy Son should be saying?
Without thinking, Su Li pushed the fist-sized red and blue gem back to Lan Zhe.
“Don’t casually guess the intentions of those who have passed…beast or not. Perhaps Na’an simply left this stone as a memento for you.”
After all, if a complete dragon’s body had fallen in Jisuo Town, it would be hard to say what the residents might have done to it.
“Then let’s go with what you said. The memories in my mind are enough to remember Na’an. So this stone she left as a memento for me should stay with you, after all…”
After pressing Su Li’s fist closed, Lan Zhe looked up and down at the elemental particles that strongly resisted approaching Su Li, and remarked in a sing-song voice. “Even a Level One monster beast could kill you.”
Su Li remembered clearly that among Level One monster beasts, the most common was the Mie Mie meat chop that he quite liked.
—Sorry for being at the bottom of the food chain!
Su Li glared at Lan Zhe, who seemed to realize his words were offensive, so he directly smirked. “Given that Egbert won’t be able to stay by your side recently, having me as your protector, being of equal strength to him, shouldn’t hurt your pride.”
Egbert’s purpose in using Euphia’s intelligence network to find the Dark Church wasn’t to locate the Dark Holy Son, but rather to use “the easiest-to-find Dark Church members” to
Cyril stroked his chin and said, “Maybe he’s trying to prove he’s more useful than Brother Egbert by emphasizing his domestic advantages.”
Overall, the small building reluctantly welcomed the Dark Holy Son’s arrival.
Mainly because refusing wouldn’t have helped anyway…
After that fight, when Euphia was ready to tear Lan Zhe apart on the spot, after Lan Zhe casually produced what was said to be medicinal herbs worth several million gold coins…
Euphia quite smoothly gave Lan Zhe the neighboring house.
So, to avoid him gazing longingly from next door, Su Li finally surrendered to Big Sister Euphia, who worked as both realtor and property manager.
And the building’s rent had dropped from one silver coin to one copper coin.
How nice.
Su Li wore a sacred smile as he welcomed the meal Lan Zhe brought out.
Then, his emerald crescent eyes grew bigger and brighter than ever before in his life.
The key point wasn’t just that Lan Zhe’s food was delicious, but that he brought out a pot of rice!
That was rice!
Heaven knows what kind of life he’d been living in this world for over half a year.
Now…
Su Li could rightfully and naturally say that line…
“Between hell, earth, and heaven, there’s always just a fine line. Today, I am seated in heaven.” His smile was so sacred, his voice so ethereal, showing his unique serious attitude toward rice.
However, in the next second, Su Li was thrown back into hell.
Because Lan Zhe took out a very familiar-looking notebook and, with a casual smile at the corner of his mouth, wrote down that quote.
“How… how do you have that notebook?”
The cat was shocked.
“Ah,” Lan Zhe thought for a moment and said, “That fellow Egbert said, ‘My great undertaking needs time to advance, and I cannot stay by Lord Su Li’s side for long, I’m truly ashamed,’ so he chose to have me help record things. We are friends after all, I can’t just ignore his spiritual nourishment, right?”
Su Li’s pointing finger trembled. “So you can ignore me instead?”
Lan Zhe pointed to the rice beside them.
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Su Li: Holy Son Brand: New-Age Stay-at-Home Husband, absolutely amazing! (Thumbs up)