Chapter 104 (1/2)

The Complete Guide to the Use and Care of a Personal Assistant

Translator: Jury

Editor: NomNom

First Published on Chaleuria

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Chapter One Hundred and Four

Su Yuyang piggybacked Ling Miao home. Once home, Su Yuyang lay on the sofa and didn’t move at all, but that hateful face kept surfacing before his eyes as if egging him on to post the clarification thread.

Su Yuyang clicked into the forums. The callout thread Tang Xuan had made was on the first page. Su Yuyang copied the thread URL and began to write his own.

Ling Miao must have been woken by his hunger, because the moment he awoke he complained about being hungry. Su Yuyang had ordered takeout while writing the thread, so when he heard Ling Miao say he was hungry, he immediately went to the kitchen to heat up the food.

Su Yuyang carried the food back to the living room. Ling Miao sat in front of the laptop, staring intently at the screen. Su Yuyang didn’t know what he was looking at.

Su Yuyang sat at Ling Miao’s side and Ling Miao felt the light darken around him. He turned to look at Su Yuyang and asked, “You knew all along it was Tang Xuan who posted the thread?”

Ling Miao pointed at the screen. Under his finger were the QQ logs of Su Yuyang and Tang Xuan’s conversation.

“When you said the thread was posted by ProfessionalHoleDigger, I guessed it was him. Then I went to find Tang Xuan to confirm and it really was him.” Su Yuyang put the dishes in front of Ling Miao. “The food’s warmed up. You should eat.”

“I remember you saying that you were on the forums for a couple years. How come the account you used to post the thread was registered today?” Ling Miao asked curiously as he ate.

Su Yuyang let out a long ‘Aaaaaah.’ His strange tone of voice made Ling Miao’s gooseflesh rise. Su Yuyang clicked on the plagiarism callout thread and scrolled the mouse wheel, stopping on the first reply. He pointed at the ID and said, “That was originally my account. Tang Xuan also knows the account password and he must have changed it at some point.”

Ling Miao leaned forward to see. Fuck, it’s ProfessionalHoleDigger.

What? The ProfessionalHoleDigger account used to belong to Su Yuyang?

Ling Miao looked at Su Yuyang in shock. He couldn’t close his mouth, which was full of food, so some fell out. Su Yuyang got a tissue to clean a grain of rice from the corner of Ling Miao’s mouth and said with a smile, “Look at you. The food’s all falling out. Shut your mouth and swallow.”

Ling Miao obediently shut his mouth and swallowed his food. Then he looked at Su Yuyang in a daze, confusion written in his eyes.

A terrifying thought surfaced in Su Yuyang’s mind: Did I knock him silly?

“Damn it!” Ling Miao suddenly shouted excitedly. “Ha ha! Tang Xuan and I really are fated to be archenemies!”

Ling Miao’s eyes shone with the fervor of a starving vagabond who had seen exquisitely delicious food. Su Yuyang was, in turn, confused by Ling Miao’s words and asked, “How are you and he fated archenemies?”

“I told you before, right? ProfessionalHoleDigger is a dedicated Shu Yang hater, while I’m your die-hard fan. It’s pretty normal that we don’t see eye to eye. But among your online haters, he’s my only archenenemy. And there’s a reason for that.

“He said before that all the novels he reads are the official releases, except for yours, which he pirates.