Love from the Male Protagonist's Harem

LFTMPH Chapter 86-Willing to Descend to Earth Part 1

Translated by Snowfall77

Xia Ge was flat broke.

Leaving the sweets shop, not even the golden sunshine could alleviate Xia Ge’s grief over her utter impoverishment.

System: [Don’t Be So Down.  You’ve Still Got Me.]

Xia Ge: {are you something that can be eaten?}

System: [……No.]

Xia Ge: {then shut the fuck up.}

Mao Qing, having received her bribe of cherry candies and dried persimmons, was perfectly content: “Ai, Xia Wuyin, you’re too kind.”

Xia Ge: “……”

Shifting her haul of sweets to one hand, Mao Qing patted her chest with the other: “Don’t worry!  I promise I won’t tell Huo Bai!”

Xia Ge covered her eyes to try and stop the tears from falling: “……truly, thank you.”

The two had barely walked for a minute when Mao Qing’s eyes widened and she pointed at something not far off: “……ai, who’s that?”

“That person is over by where you used to live.  Do you think he’s looking for you?”

Xia Ge was rather surprised.  After she’d moved out, her rundown shack had been judged as too dilapidated for anyone else to move into, so Danfeng Peak had not lodged any new disciples in it for the time being.  Thinking about it made Xia Ge so irritated she wanted to spit.  Fucking balls, it’d hadn’t been deemed too dangerous for her to live in, but the second she leaves, oh no, don’t let anyone live there.  Where had been that humanitarian spirit for Xia Ge, huh?

Looking over to where Mao Qing was pointing, Xia Ge was surprised all over again: “……Ye Ze?”

“Oh?”  Mao Qing said, “Is that someone you know?  How come he isn’t wearing Lingxi Sect clothes?”

Ye Ze had clearly spotted Xia Ge from across the way, and was about to come towards her until he noticed Mao Qing and stopped, appearing to be somewhat at a loss.

Since Mao Qing had mentioned it, Xia Ge observed that Ye Ze wasn’t even wearing Jianfeng clothing, but instead a simple black outfit, his hair tied back with a black band, that gave him a slightly melancholy air.

“Ah, haha, it’s a friend of mine.  Please go on ahead.  I have something to discuss with him.”

Unperturbed, Mao Qing clutched her spoils of war tight and cheerfully acquiesced: “Alright then, you guys have a good chat.”

Mao Qing going her own way, Xia Ge walked over to Ye Ze, a small smile on her lips: “Yo, you actually missed me enough to come searching for me?”

Ye Ze was silent for a moment, then asked: “Who was that girl?”

“Ah,” Xia Ge couldn’t help finding Ye Ze’s question unexpected, “A friend from Danfeng.”

Saying nothing further, Ye Ze turned and went into the ‘dangerous’ shack, the rotted wooden door making an ear-piercing shriek.

Xia Ge didn’t mince her words: “……this place should be condemned.”

Giving her a sideways glance, Ye Ze answered: “People who sleep with a sickle are suddenly worried about entering an unsafe building?”

Xia Ge eloquently and courageously asserted: “It’s two totally different things.  Besides, a golden nest can never be as good as your own grass nest.  Other people’s gold belonged to them, not me, and if I had a sickle hanging over my head, at least it was mine.”

Ye Ze’s eyebrows twitched: “So this decrepit place isn’t your grass nest anymore?”

Xia Ge: “No, I just meant that, at the time, this was the only place I had to live.”

Ye Ze: “……”

System: [It Didn’t Sound Like That Was What You Were Saying……You’re Just Talking Bullshit……]

Ye Ze stared at Xia Ge expressionlessly from within the ‘dangerous’ room.

Quiet for a moment, Xia Ge finally also stepped inside her old abode, the door slamming shut behind her with a ‘bang.’

Ye Ze wasted no time with pleasantries.  He held out Guilongyu with its missing corner in his hand, the jade glowing warmly in the gloom, and demanded: “Explain yourself.”

Assuming a pleasantly surprised expression, Xi Ge went: “Oh?!  You’re the one who actually found it?  I accidently lost it a few days ago, but……ai, I’d originally planned on giving it to you anyways, so no need to return it to me.”

Ye Ze sneered: “Xia Wuyin, don’t you think your acting is a little too hammy?”

Xia Ge: “……”

Xia Ge asked the system from the bottom of her heart: {was my acting that obvious?}

System: [……]  It was a bit fake.

“You say you lost it, alright, you lost it,” Ye Ze’s voice was rather cold, “Who do you think stole it and let it fall where it did in Jianfeng?  The Demon Sect spy who attacked Chu Yao?  Maybe Chu Yao herself?”

A brief emotion flashing through her eyes, Xia Ge answered: “Ah……could have been a spy.”

His hand tightly squeezing around Guilongyu, Ye Ze was enraged by Xia Ge’s flippancy: “A spy?  Bullshit!  Xia Wuyin, do you think I’m stupid, or do you just think everyone is stupid?  Who do you think you are?  You think you can fool everyone and anyone?!”

“If I hadn’t been the one who spotted, the one to pick it up, if it’d been someone else——Do you understand what the consequences would’ve been?!  Do you even have a brain?!”

“Everyone would have thought you’re the spy!  You’d be imprisoned!  How can you be so clueless……”

“You don’t think I’m a spy?”  Xia Ge suddenly raised her head and looked at Ye Ze.

Ye Ze: “How could you be a spy?”

Xia Ge was gratified: “That’s good, Ye Ze.  I didn’t raise you for nothing.”

Ye Ze: “Fuck off.”

Sighing, Xia Ge coaxed: “That jade belongs with you.  You found it; it must be destined to be with you.  Does it really matter where and when you found it?  I found it by a latrine pit, picked it up and cleaned it off.  Who knows where it came from originally?  Now, by chance, you’ve found it, therefore you should keep it.”

A blue vein in Ye Ze’s forehead visibly twitched: “……”

Xia Ge hurriedly added: “Oh, don’t worry, I was being facetious.  I didn’t actually pick it out of a latrine pit.”

The system was suffocating: [Yet Your Wording Was So Very Apt.]

“I don’t care where you found it!” Ye Ze abruptly felt exhausted, “You shouldn’t……”

——I don’t care where you found it.

Xia Ge heard those words and fell silent.

She didn’t why, but she suddenly felt sad.

金窝银窝不如甘蓝窝什么梗

a golden nest, a silver nest, is not as good as your own grass nest

-meaning that no matter how good it is outside, it is still not as good as your own home