Transformed into a heartthrob's simp, every day is a battleground.

Chapter 278 Broad shoulders, narrow waist, and long legs

Hearing their conversation, Du Yun couldn't help but ask, "When did you get your grandmother?"

"My dad didn't just spring from a rock," Yan Xun said, speechless.

"That's not what I meant!" Du Yun said anxiously. "But your family doesn't have a grandmother, it's just the five of you, right?"

He looked at Yan Xun and asked, "When did you find out you had a grandmother?"

Yan Xun then remembered that when Shuangshuang mentioned her grandmother at Shu Fan's house that day, Du Yun had already left—it's normal that he didn't know.

He explained it to Du Yun in a few words, and Du Yun pretended to be thinking seriously. "Now that you mention it, this guess isn't impossible."

"Anyway, my connection with bamboo poles ends here."

"How much do you remember about things before graduation?" Yan Xun asked. "Do you know about the graduation trip that the muscular guy mentioned in the group chat?"

Du Yun thought about it carefully for a long time, but still shook his head, "I don't remember."

"I only remember these fragmented scenes of my interactions with Xie Qingdu."

"You know him, he's not a very talkative person, so we can't talk about anything else."

"At most, he knows that Xie Qingdu is having a hard time in the dormitory. The muscular guy occasionally wants to help him, but he is worried about offending the crew-cut guy. Besides, the shirt-wearing guy is also the crew-cut guy's lackey. He prefers to avoid trouble. At most, he will help open the door when Xie Qingdu is locked out of the dormitory."

"Or when they go too far, say a few words."

Du Yun clicked his tongue in comment, "To be honest, it's quite hypocritical."

"Oh, right, there was another time when he couldn't get back to his dorm, and he asked me if he could make do for one night, even if he slept on the floor," Du Yun said. "I happened to be live streaming that night and couldn't sleep, so I told him to come over and he slept on the sofa in the living room for one night."

"I asked him, 'Did his roommates treat him like this before?'"

He said that he usually stays somewhere else after curfew.

"I asked him where it was, but he wouldn't tell me."

"I wasn't that familiar with him, so I didn't ask any further questions."

Yan Xun recalled Xie Qingdu saying that after he started working at the funeral company, he would spend the night in the staff lounge of a bar when he couldn't go back to his dormitory at night.

Looking back now, that statement was somewhat exaggerated.

Since he doesn't work at the bar, even if he has familiar faces among the staff, it's impossible for him to frequently spend the night in the staff break room.

Looking at the timeline, Xie Qingdu first worked at a bar, where he met Du Yun through a part-time job on campus. Then, after the incident with the crew cut, Xie Qingdu reduced his frequency of working at the bar and, through the introduction of his bar colleagues, went to work at a funeral company.

The story also includes Xie Qingdu helping out at the sanatorium.

“Looking at it this way, perhaps Duan Songen and Xie Qingdu’s paths crossed at the sanatorium,” Yan Xun said to Lou Yanchuan.

"...Huh?" Du Yun was full of questions. "How did this get involved with Duan Songen again?"

Weren't you just talking about your grandma?

Yan Xun handed the relationship diagram he had drawn to Du Yun.

Centered on Xie Qingdu, there are five houses of different colors and his connections.

The building with the crew cut was the simplest; they were roommates with Xie Qingdu.

When Du Yun was in school, Xie Qingdu helped him run errands and did odd jobs, so Du Yun was practically Xie Qingdu's boss.

Yan Xun's family and Xie Qingdu had no overt connection. Yan Xun and Xie Qingdu were not on the same school campus when Yan Xun was in school. Her parents and Shuangshuang did not work in the same area as Xie Qingdu. Lou Yanchuan was adventuring abroad at that time. The only possible connection was with her grandmother, who had never appeared before.

Especially since Grandma is in poor health, she is very likely living in a sanatorium, and there is a chance that she will meet Xie Qingdu, who is going to the sanatorium.

Shu Fan and Xie Qingdu attended different schools, so we'll leave that aside for now. Duan Songen and Xie Qingdu were alumni, but their interactions on campus are unclear. Let's assume they interacted at the sanatorium.

There is too little information available about Fang Shuo and Lin Wen, so Yan Xun did not include them in the list.

Du Yun naturally knew about the hidden quest. Looking at the relationship diagram, he asked Yan Xun in surprise, "Do you think he is me from the hidden quest?"

"Just a guess," Yan Xun said.

"But what's wrong with your grandmother?" Du Yun asked.

"None of you have visited her at the sanatorium?"

“I don’t remember this,” Yan Xun said. “That means I’m missing a crucial clue.”

Shuangshuang and Lou Yanchuan both remembered their grandmother, but Yanxun did not.

This only shows that he lacks crucial clues and that this part of his memory is closely related to the secrets of his own family.

Yan Xun placed the book that Lou Yanchuan was holding in front of Du Yun, "But I found this at home."

Du Yun was taken aback when she saw the cover title.

Upon closer inspection of the inner pages, he was even more astonished: "Your family researches this?"

"Your parents have this part-time job?"

“I don’t know if it’s my parents working part-time,” Yan Xun said. “It’s my grandma.”

“…So our grandma is pretty humid.” Du Yun thought for a long time before blurting out a few words.

Yan Xun: "..."

"Not every sentence needs to be flattering."

Du Yun chuckled twice, looking at the methods for suppressing evil spirits mentioned in the book. He thought to himself, "Isn't this exactly the situation in our community?"

He held the book, his eyes clear and naive. "Brother, do you suspect that Xie Qingdu is that evil spirit?"

"The hidden secret is that we came to suppress him?"

Yan Xun felt that things were not so simple. If this was a key clue, it was impossible for the book to be in his own home.

Another point is that he didn't have any extra memories after getting the book, so it seems that something is still missing.

“Perhaps we can ask Shuangshuang about the missing part,” Lou Yanchuan said. “There’s another question: what does the date marked on the calendar mean?”

Du Yun was a little curious after hearing Lou Yanchuan mention the calendar, but he was also worried that Yanxun would think he had ulterior motives regarding side quest 2 and the hidden quest, so he could only raise his hand and swear, "Brother, you believe me."

"I only want to complete side quest 1. I have absolutely no interest in side quest 2 or the hidden quest."

He looked at Yan Xun and said, "Brother, think about it, if you want to complete side quest 2, don't you also need to complete quest 1? Why don't you give me a hand?"

"I will definitely repay you by working like a slave!"

"Why don't you call him Brother Yan?" Lou Yanchuan suddenly asked.

Du Yun was afraid of Lou Yanchuan, and upon hearing his words, she assumed that Yan Xun preferred her to call him that, so she immediately changed her address, "Brother Yan! Brother Yan!"

"If you help me, you're like my own father!"

"You can be my grandfather if you want!"

Yan Xun: "..."

He looked up at Lou Yanchuan, who was sitting there seemingly eager to stir up trouble, and said, "No."

“My grandfather is sitting over there.”

"Huh?" Du Yun looked up, then turned to look at Lou Yanchuan, then back at Yan Xun. "Are you really relatives?"

"Doesn't look like it?" Lou Yanchuan asked.

Du Yun thought to himself, "That's like a fart."

On the surface, he still complimented, "So alike! So very alike!"

"No wonder you're so handsome and dashing! Just sitting here, you seemed to come from an extraordinary family. Turns out you're Brother Yan's grandfather!" Du Yun clapped his hands and exclaimed. "Our Brother Yan is even more amazing! Just looking at his back, you can tell he's a celestial being descended to earth. Look at that figure, that frame, those broad shoulders, narrow waist, and those long legs..."

Yan Xun reached out and covered Du Yun's mouth.

"Waaah," Du Yun wanted to say more.

Yan Xun made a shushing gesture, "I'll take you through mission 1, so please shut up now."

Du Yun nodded.

"Brother, you said it."