Chapter 156: Xiao Longchen’s Desperation

On the sports field.

Despite the noise, Xiao Longchen’s “boom” and the ensuing stench attracted considerable attention from nearby onlookers.

Seeing Xiao Longchen’s situation, everyone around covered their noses and backed away, shocked.

Meanwhile, the security guard who slapped Xiao Longchen’s poop out was filled with regret—

Why did I have to be different? Why did I slap Brother Chen’s butt? Why didn’t I just pat his shoulder like everyone else?

If I had just patted his shoulder, Brother Chen’s poop wouldn’t be solely my fault…

Seeing Xiao Longchen with his eyes closed, a look of utter despair on his face, the guard gritted his teeth, feeling guilty.

This is my fault, I need to face this with Brother Chen!

With this thought, the guard pinched his nose, raised his soiled right hand, and patted Xiao Longchen’s shoulder, comforting him.

“Brother Chen, it’s okay. Everyone has emergencies. Even the president of the White Eagle Nation has had such incidents. It’s nothing to be ashamed of!”

“Come on, Brother Chen, let’s get you cleaned up in the restroom!”

“…”

At this point, Xiao Longchen had given up thinking. Whatever the guard said, he did.

Like a robot, he walked toward the nearby restroom.

Sliding along, occasionally jet-propelled, leaving a trail of drops.

Wherever he went, people avoided him.

Besides the horrified passersby watching Xiao Longchen glide by, two women observed him from a distance.

“Did you see that? How do you feel now?”

Despite not smelling anything, Wang Yuxiao still covered her nose.

And Zhu Que, whom she was pulling along, was wide-eyed with her mouth agape, her expression frozen in shock.

Th-this…

Boss!

Finally, Zhu Que closed her eyes, all her thoughts reduced to a sigh.

At that moment, Wang Yuxiao softly spoke to her.

“I guess, even in this situation, you wouldn’t dare have any disrespectful thoughts about Xiao Longchen.

“Just thinking about what happened makes you feel embarrassed, forcing yourself to forget, right?”

“…Yes.”

Hearing Wang Yuxiao’s words, Zhu Que answered honestly.

Now, she finally believed that her admiration for Xiao Longchen was indeed influenced by something.

After returning from the Jia family, Wang Haoran had come as promised.

He asked her to say, “Xiao Longchen got humiliated, running away like a dog.”

At that time, no matter what, she couldn’t say it.

Even just thinking it made her feel guilty.

But when she saw Xiao Longchen get humiliated at the Jia family, she thought this statement was accurate?

Seeing her still conflicted, Wang Haoran decided to have Wang Yuxiao bring her to see Xiao Longchen embarrassed again.

Thus, she once again realized the strangeness of her feelings.

If someone else had an accident in public, she’d laugh and feel it was unbearable.

But when it happened to her boss, she felt embarrassed herself and forced herself to forget his disgrace?

Even if their relationship was unusual, that’s still problematic, right?

Actually, Zhu Que’s behavior was common; it’s called “feeling embarrassed for someone you know.”

When someone you know, especially someone you admire, embarrasses themselves in public, even if you’re just a spectator, you empathize and feel embarrassed.

Xiao Longchen’s “Loyalty Halo” amplified Zhu Que’s admiration to the extreme, hence her extreme embarrassment.

Constantly swayed by Wang Haoran and Wang Yuxiao’s adjustments and whispers, Zhu Que’s mind wavered.

Clearly, I’ve done nothing wrong, but I feel so ashamed I could die… I must be influenced… The cultivation technique I’ve been practicing all along is pua-ing me…

But just as this doubt arose, it was rapidly dissolved by Xiao Longchen’s “Loyalty Halo.”

Not even allowed to doubt Xiao Longchen, Zhu Que became more convinced she was mentally influenced…

Yet, this thought was dissolved again.

Thus, Zhu Que became even more convinced.

The thought was dissolved again.

Zhu Que became even more convinced.

……

And so, Zhu Que fell into a logical loop.

Under the “Loyalty Halo,” Zhu Que wouldn’t have any unfavorable thoughts about Xiao Longchen.

But at the Jia family, Wang Haoran temporarily blocked Xiao Longchen’s golden finger, making Zhu Que think for the first time, “The boss can also get humiliated, embarrassed, and disgraced.”

Having that first realization, Xiao Longchen’s “perfect” image in Zhu Que’s mind cracked.

Thus, when the “Loyalty Halo” resumed, it clashed with the crack, causing Zhu Que to bug out.

“Unconditional Worship” and “Doubt the Boss” looped through her mind.

Finally, feeling like her CPU was burning out, Zhu Que decided to lie flat.

If I give up, maybe it’ll be okay?

Whether there’s mental influence or not, I won’t think about it or care!

I’ll just stay quietly in the basement, waiting for him to bring strange experiences to make me forget everything!

Thinking this, Zhu Que suddenly wanted to see Wang Haoran.

But knowing she had no choice, she followed the clumsy Wang Yuxiao.

As Zhu Que obediently followed Wang Yuxiao back, someone else on the sports field experienced the same shock as Zhu Que.

It was He Yuqi, known as one of the campus flowers.

Lately, He Yuqi, through observation, was 90% sure the security guard Xiao Longchen was the one who saved her in Myanmar.

So, she frequently found excuses to talk to him.

Knowing Xiao Longchen was competing today, she arrived early to watch.

Seeing Xiao Longchen easily win the race only increased her admiration, and she was ready to congratulate him—

However, all her girlish fantasies were shattered by Xiao Longchen’s explosive, solid-liquid-gas mix.

“What… just happened?”

He Yuqi stood in disbelief, unable to process what she saw.

Watching Xiao Longchen’s dripping silhouette, she couldn’t connect him to the domineering figure in her phone.

“…This is too outrageous… I must have seen it wrong…”

Finally, holding her nose, He Yuqi came to a conclusion.

She comforted herself.

“I must be mistaken. This Xiao Longchen isn’t the hero who saved me, they just have similar silhouettes.”

“Dad was right, heroes like that wouldn’t cross paths with ordinary people like me again! Especially not at the same school!”

“It’s time I let go of my fantasies!”

He Yuqi pulled out her phone and deleted the cherished photo of his back.

She did this to cut off her unrealistic dreams.

It absolutely wasn’t because seeing the photo now made her think first of Xiao Longchen’s messy accident rather than his heroic rescue.

“Yes, that’s it! Deleting the photo has nothing to do with Xiao Longchen! The hero isn’t Xiao Longchen!”

“My hero wouldn’t be caught pooping in public!”