Quick Transmigration: What to Do When the Male Supporting Character You Saved Becomes Obsessed with

Liao Tingyuan looked at the takeout bag in Lu Liruan's hand, naturally reached out and took it. When he realized that Lu Liruan had bought porridge, the tension in his expression subsided slightly.

The little girl was still concerned about him... Liao Tingyuan felt a warmth spread through his heart as he sensed this.

"The salted egg yolk and lean pork bowl is mine, and the bowl with greens and shredded chicken is yours." Lu Liruan felt embarrassed, as if she had been seen through but was unwilling to admit it, and raised her eyebrows in a serious manner.

"Ah."

Liao Tingyuan touched the takeout bowl; the porridge had cooled down by the time it arrived.

"I'll heat up the porridge a little." Liao Tingyuan went into the kitchen, poured the porridge into a household bowl, and put it in the microwave to heat it.

The sound of the machine running was particularly clear in the silence between the two people.

Lu Liruan walked over to the sofa, looked down at her phone, her fingers swiping across the screen, but she wasn't really paying attention to anything. Out of the corner of her eye, she unconsciously followed Liao Tingyuan's figure.

"Ding--"

"Ruan Ruan, let's eat first." Liao Tingyuan set out the tableware and called to Lu Liruan as always.

Lu Liruan walked over awkwardly, feeling that something was wrong. Shouldn't she be angry? How did she end up having dinner with Liao Tingyuan again?

Isn't this not mealtime?

Lu Liruan thought to herself, but when she saw Liao Tingyuan place the plate of side dishes in a position where it would be easy for her to pick them up, as quiet and virtuous as ever, she didn't know how to break the current situation and fully express her anger.

To be honest, it's just like how Liao Tingyuan rarely offended anyone...

Lu Liruan didn't hold grudges against anyone.

So both of them are a little awkward right now, not knowing where to start to break the current situation.

For example, Lu Liruan thought... she couldn't just suddenly flip the table in front of her to express her anger, could she?

That's an expression of anger, but I feel like I can't carry it out.

Lu Liruan stirred the salted egg and lean pork porridge with a spoon, pondering how to start the conversation.

She was indeed very angry, but being angry didn't mean she didn't want to know what had happened. Just like this afternoon, she was determined to hear what An Tang and Zhao Linchuan had to say. Lu Liruan had this stubborn streak in her personality; even if she was angry or unhappy, she had to find out the reason and then find a solution.

Whether it's dealing with the emotion of anger or dealing with the person or thing that makes you angry.

In short, it can't be a muddled mess, and she absolutely can't just silently get angry and let it go—that's Lu Liruan's principle. Now she wants to hear Liao Tingyuan tell her in person what his reasons were for treating her this way.

Liao Tingyuan had no appetite. He placed his palm on the still-hot bowl of porridge, but he couldn't feel the heat. He wasn't wearing gloves, and his palms were bloodless, as if they didn't belong to his body.

"Why aren't you eating?" Lu Liruan asked, noticing his downcast eyes and sullen expression.

"I'm not very hungry." Liao Tingyuan watched Lu Liruan puff out her cheeks and blow on the porridge. He pursed his lips, but then, as if worried that Lu Liruan might be unhappy, he also took a couple of bites of the porridge, though he seemed to be doing it with some reluctance.

Lu Liruan thought to herself, if she didn't know what kind of personality Liao Tingyuan had, she would probably think that he was deliberately putting on this pitiful act, but Liao Tingyuan shouldn't do such a thing.

Besides, he had no reason to do that!

Otherwise, how could you have been so confident and acted so calmly when you were hiding it from me, without showing any sign of it for so long?

As she pondered this, Lu Liruan felt even more choked up.

She couldn't keep secrets, especially in front of someone as perceptive and observant as Liao Tingyuan. She was practically a blank sheet of paper. Liao Tingyuan watched as Lu Liruan viciously bit into the side dish, and for a moment, he stopped.

Why does the little girl seem even angrier when I haven't done anything?

Lu Liruan was still fuming and didn't eat much. After putting the bowl back in the kitchen, she saw that Liao Tingyuan had already placed the snacks on the small table in front of the sofa.

……

Don't think that just because you're putting on this gentle and charming act, I'll let it slide.

Lu Liruan walked over and sat down on the sofa without ceremony, moving herself to the corner furthest from Liao Tingyuan.

"What do you want to say?" Lu Liruan asked in a curt tone.

Liao Tingyuan didn't sit on the sofa opposite Lu Liruan, but sat in a spot very close to her. Lu Liruan had already shrunk into a corner, with nowhere else to retreat to. She could only watch helplessly as the hem of Liao Tingyuan's shirt fell onto the back of her hand, which was resting on the sofa, and felt a ticklish sensation.

Lu Liruan wanted to say: I'm talking to you about serious matters! Why are you coming so close to me?

Then I felt... Liao Tingyuan's hand, following the hem of my clothes, cover the back of my hand.

Lu Liruan: ?

So surprised was she that she forgot to pull it out for a moment. Lu Liruan instantly felt a heat rise up her neck to her ears, and her breath caught in her throat for a second.

The body's instinctive reactions are uncontrollable, especially these sudden ones.

Before Lu Liruan could even process what was happening, she heard Liao Tingyuan speak softly, "I can't actually feel the warmth of your hands, Ruanruan..."

Lu Liruan heard this sentence while her computer was down, and after a few seconds of processing it, she was still completely bewildered.

What exactly is going on?

Is this some new way of apologizing?

Where did Teacher Liao learn this from? Is this even legitimate?

Liao Tingyuan clearly hadn't anticipated that Lu Liruan's thoughts had strayed to a strange place. Seeing that Lu Liruan looked serious and didn't speak, he assumed that Lu Liruan was unwilling to answer him, so he pursed his lips and pressed harder.

His fingers were long and slender, and his palms were thin, but it was clear that they were male's hands. When he closed them, he could almost hug Lu Liruan's hands, and the two hands overlapped and pressed together completely.

Lu Liruan then snapped out of her daze.

Because Liao Tingyuan's hands were just too cold...

Lu Liruan knew that Teacher Liao's body temperature was always low. Every time she touched him, even in the hot summer, he felt cool. Lu Liruan once thought that he was born that way.

But even though the temperature was low, it was still within a reasonable range, and at least it wouldn't startle Lu Liruan.

But now, Lu Liruan felt as if Liao Tingyuan was holding her hand. In less than half a minute, she felt as if her hand was exposed to the cold in winter, as if the cold penetrated her skin and seeped into her body.

Moreover, under normal circumstances, when a person's hands are very cold, the temperature will transfer when they touch the hands of another person whose hands are at a normal and mild temperature. However, Liao Tingyuan's hands did not have this effect at all.

It's just an endless, unwarmable chill.

When Liao Tingyuan released Lu Liruan's hand, Lu Liruan almost instinctively looked down to see if her hands were red from the cold, but they weren't. Her skin hadn't changed, but the peculiar feeling of coldness hadn't dissipated.

Lu Liruan clasped her hands together and could clearly feel a large temperature difference.

what 's wrong?

Lu Liruan looked at Liao Tingyuan, unsure of what to ask.

"I was affected by the energy radiation... I don't know why, but it left this aftereffect." Liao Tingyuan frowned slightly, looking down at his hands, seemingly troubled.

"Huh?" Lu Liruan didn't expect it to be like this.

"Why would it have such a completely unrelated effect on your body?"

Or was it that the space that was affected was inhabited by the Snow Queen?

So, this cold energy is generated?

"I don't know. Even now, I don't know why, and no one can answer this question," Liao Tingyuan said calmly, as if he had become accustomed to this influence. Now, when he talks about it, he seems as calm as if it doesn't affect him personally.

"So you've been wearing a glove on this hand the whole time?" Lu Liruan suddenly realized.

"Yes, it will affect perception a bit. Wearing gloves will improve the sense of touch," Liao Tingyuan replied calmly.

Lu Liruan had always thought that Liao Tingyuan had some special habits, because he did seem to have obsessive-compulsive disorder, so she never asked him about it. It turned out that this was the reason.

Even if I asked him before, he might not have answered me, right?

"It's not that I don't want to tell you..." Liao Tingyuan saw through her thoughts.

“Because even if I told you, you would know everything… and there would be no answers. It would only leave you and everyone else in a sea of ​​questions.” Liao Tingyuan looked into Lu Liruan’s clear eyes.

Liao Tingyuan really enjoyed looking at Lu Liruan...

Whether she is happy, sad, anxious, or angry.

Because her eyes are always so clear, brimming with vibrant emotions, sometimes like a pool of clear water, sometimes like a burning flame, her smile is clear and lively, and even now, when she's angry, she still exudes a lively vitality.

Just looking at her stirred emotions within Liao Tingyuan that he had never felt before, before he met Lu Liruan. These emotions rose and fell like the tides, but he was only rising and falling with Lu Liruan.

Lu Liruan was like his own personal moon.

Liao Tingyuan secretly compared Lu Liruan to the moon... because compared to the dazzling and radiant sun, Liao Tingyuan felt that the moon's soft yet clear and water-like light was more suitable to describe the little girl in front of him.

However, if, like many others who have joined this work in the past, they are trapped by the mystery and eroded by time, gradually sinking into a state of perpetual uncertainty and fear and anxiety.

Happy people became unhappy, and those who were full of love for the world became lifeless...

Liao Tingyuan didn't want to see Lu Liruan become like that.

Even if it's just to protect her for one more day... Of course, this kind of protection is just wishful thinking on my part, and it's even unfair to Lu Liruan.

But Liao Tingyuan had his own selfish motives.

Therefore, he also has to bear the risk of Lu Liruan getting angry and losing her temper, just like now.

Liao Tingyuan knew he was reaping what he sowed, but when did this selfish urge to protect Lu Liruan arise? And when did it become so uncontrollable?

Even Liao Tingyuan himself didn't know.

It was already like this when he realized it, and it gradually deepened as he spent more time with Lu Liruan, making it difficult for Liao Tingyuan to talk about. Even though An Tang had told him about it several times, he still harbored some ulterior motives and tried to keep Lu Liruan confined to the place he had created, which appeared to be a protected area.

Although it wasn't very reliable, Liao Tingyuan often felt powerless.

But he did it anyway...

He couldn't be frank with any of these things, and he didn't even dare to tell Lu Liruan. If the young girl knew what he was thinking, how would she see him? Would she think he was meddling, or would she think he was stubborn and self-willed?

Liao Tingyuan only allowed himself to think at this moment.

Beneath the calm surface, thoughts surged like a whirlwind, never settling down.

Lu Liruan wanted to speak, so she raised her head and met Liao Tingyuan's gaze. She was affected by the emotion he exuded, and the words were on the tip of her tongue, but she didn't know how to say them.

After a few seconds, Lu Liruan finally sorted out her thoughts.

"So what if there's no answer? There are plenty of things in this world that don't have answers! Are you going to decide whether I should know or not just because there isn't one?"

“Because once you’re troubled by things that have no answers, or even things that may never have answers, your life will be affected. Ruan Ruan, almost everyone in our unit is troubled by this.” Liao Tingyuan looked at her face, flushed and still childlike, as she spoke anxiously: “Have you thought about whether your whole life will be like this?”

"Hmm?" Lu Liruan didn't quite understand what Liao Tingyuan meant.

How could it be... suddenly a lifetime?

"Ruan Ruan, do you still remember the feeling when you suddenly fell into a spatial void here last time?" Liao Tingyuan's voice had a gentle, storytelling quality, guiding Lu Liruan to think along with his words.

"Of course I remember, how could I forget?" Lu Liruan replied matter-of-factly. There was probably nothing she remembered more clearly than entering the space, because it was too beyond common sense.

“What we’re facing is that we’ll be stuck in that situation for the rest of our lives.” Liao Tingyuan sighed, raised his hand, and pointed to Lu Liruan’s chest: “I remember Ruanruan was quite frightened last time.”

Lu Liruan puffed out her chest, feeling a little guilty: "Wasn't that the first time I'd encountered something like this? Besides, I was scared because I didn't know anything! Especially when I didn't know anything, even you were scary to me! After I explained it all out, I wasn't scared anymore, was I?"

Lu Liruan felt she had found an opportunity to refute Liao Tingyuan: "So you see, it's because I was kept in the dark that I felt fear! If I had known, I wouldn't have been afraid..."

She was speaking for a while... when Lu Liruan's voice grew softer and softer.

Because she realized that what she said... seemed to indirectly corroborate what Liao Tingyuan had just said.

In fact, Lu Liruan understood what he meant. The permanent unknown he was talking about was different from the unknown that she had just mentioned, which had an answer.

The unknown that Liao Tingyuan spoke of probably meant that they might never be able to solve the problem of space, or even understand space, in their entire lives. It seemed like there would never be an end to it. To be more specific, they might never be able to explain why spatial energy radiation caused Liao Tingyuan to almost lose sensation in one hand…