Protocol Mark [Transmigration Book]
Chapter 45 CH.45
It was a sunny day. There was a dandelion flower field outside the Xie family mansion. They were swaying in the air with white flocs flying. The gardener in the courtyard was watering, and the water droplets reflected crystal luster in the sunlight.
Shen Jin, who was only five years old, was placed on a children's chair, holding a drawing board in his hand, and the small table in front of him was full of crayons of various colors, and he was concentrating on drawing the garden.
The quarrel behind him interrupted his painting.
As soon as Xie Ling came back from the airport, he didn't have time to rest, so he handed the gift he bought to Xie Jisheng, the second youngest of the Xie family.
It was an exceptionally beautiful model of a crystal sports car, about 1/40 the size of a normal sports car, with complex machinery inside the crystal case, lifelike.
After Xie Jisheng saw the gift, he vented his anger dissatisfied.
"What I want is a real sports car. Its nickname is Crystal. It belongs to the Lambo family, not a 'sports car made of crystal'. Brother, what age are you from? You are young, rustic and outdated."
"You are underage and cannot drive." Xie Ling explained.
"After all, you just treat me as an outsider, so it's rare to ask you for a gift so perfunctory!"
Xie Jicheng's voice of complaints continued continuously, but Xie Ling, who ordered this gift and didn't return home until he got it, stopped talking.
Before Xie Jisheng left, he accidentally threw the crystal car on the ground, and it broke into two halves.
He left without looking back, and when he passed by Shen Jin, he found the condemnation in the child's eyes and found it interesting.
He asked viciously, "Are you envious?"
"It's a pity you never get it."
"Brother picked you up because he saw you as pitiful. Do you really think of yourself as a young master?"
"You are such a poor little beggar that no one wants you."
After Xie Jicheng left, Shen Jin climbed off the chair and ran to the silent Xie Ling.
"Cousin, I want it, can I?"
Xie Ling knelt down and stroked the child's soft hair.
"I'll buy another one for you, this one is broken."
"I just want this." Shen Jin, who had never asked for anything since coming to Xie's house, asked pitifully.
Xie Ling was silent for a while, and his cold eyes softened a little.
"Okay, my cousin will help you put it together before I give it to you."
……
The young Shen Jin once envied Xie Jicheng, he hid under the blanket and said to himself:
Don't be greedy, I am the luckiest baby if I can call my cousin.
He didn't expect that many years later, he would say that sentence.
"Can I be your brother, brother?"
What he didn't dare to ask before, but now he can ask in person. Perhaps, he found that the person in front of him needed him more than him.
Go forward bravely because you are needed.
"Yeah." You are.
Xie Ling felt that Shen Jin's question was weird, and said, "It has always been."
The butler was still there wiping non-existent tears. Obviously, the two cousins had only spoken a few words, and there were no touching words at all, but watching them warmed my heart.
But in the next second, the normal conversation started again. Xie Ling asked Shen Jin about his situation at school, and Shen Jin answered them one by one.
You can't expect more emotional expressions from these two icebergs, the butler sighed helplessly.
After going upstairs, Shen Jin asked, "Which room do I live in?"
Xie Ling glanced at the little boy: "What, your room has been reserved."
What do you mean, do you think he will remove Shen Jin's room?What is this kid dreaming about?
If it has been kept, then——
When Xie Ling opened the door, Shen Jin really saw a room full of pink hearts, a bed with lace borders, dreamy bed curtains, and a pink desk.
That was the room he lived in when he was five years old. It was very clean, and it could be seen that it was cleaned frequently.
I don't know what the Alphas have misunderstood about Omega, why it is always pink.
Seeing that Xie Ling was about to leave, Shen Jin thought of the huge sum in her bank/card.
"Also, you dialed into my card—" Before he finished speaking, Xie Ling's cold knife swiped over.
If you say one more word, your pocket money will be doubled this month.
"!"
Shen Jin immediately understood the meaning in his cousin's eyes, and success was threatened.
Shut up and stay safe.
After Shen Jin entered the room and took a shower, she went to the mirror with her wet body, opened the pendant someone gave her, and hung it around her neck.
The silver pendant fell between the collarbones, like an amulet.
There was a knock on the door outside, and it was Xie Ling who came over with a stack of tutorial books, which was a birthday present.
Shen Jin recalled every time she moved books to Shen Xie'an, it turned out that love is interlinked.
He took the tutorial book and found that some of them had already been bought: "Brother, give me the ticket stub you bought, and I will go to the bookstore tomorrow to return these duplicate copies."
Xie Ling was still immersed in Shen Jin's "Brother", he went to get the receipt in a daze, and came back in a daze.
Although Shen Jin's character of saving and not wasting is good, but Xie Ling came to his senses and found that he didn't see the shadow of willfulness in Shen Jin, why can't he be more tempered?
Xie Ling wanted to say something, but suddenly saw the extra silver chain around Shen Jin's neck, and asked, "You bought it yourself?"
Shen Jin touched the pendant: "No, it was a gift from a classmate."
"Alpha?"
"It's Beta, I wear it because it looks cute." I have doubts about my gender, but I can't say in front of my elders that I suspect that my roommate is pretending to be genderless.
Xie Ling deeply forgot about that exquisite necklace.
Sending a necklace has a different meaning.
[Use it to lock you. ]
Xie Ling is an Alpha, and he is very aware of Alpha's bad nature, sending it also means marking the territory.
This is a warning to other males not to spy on him.
After parting with Shen Jin, Ke Minghuai returned home with a heavy heart. He sat on the sofa and put together an extremely complicated amusement park Lego.
In some places, it is a pity that we did not go there in the end.
He thought he was just guilty of breaking the appointment, but he actually thought about it in his heart. When choosing a gift, he saw it at a glance and bought it.
I wanted to give it to Shen Jin after I put it together.
Ke Minghuai had an intelligence test when he was a child, and his IQ was extremely high.
After God opened a door for him, he closed another window.He is unable to develop feelings for others, including parents and friends, which is also called affective deficit disorder.
He can communicate with people normally by simulating other people's emotions.
Over the years, he has been able to gradually develop emotions such as guilt and self-blame. After accidentally kissing a stranger, he felt remorse and disgust for the first time.
Tonight, he encountered a difficult problem, very difficult, but he couldn't solve it.
The package sent by Shen Jin was thrown by his mother into the trash can outside the house, and he picked it up again.
Ke Minghuai opened one of the boxes, it looked familiar, and it was a gift he had picked out over the years.
But no matter how many gifts there are, Shen Jin will not take a second look at them.
For Shen Jin, it seems that it cannot be solved in any planned way.
No templates can be applied.
In Ke Minghuai's gentle gaze, the panic became more and more serious.
Thinking of what Shen Xie'an said, he dug out WeChat and found the person who had added him in the Xie branch.
Xie Hanzhu has always kept Ke Minghuai's contact information, but since adding it, the other party has no other contact except to warn them not to disturb Shen Jin.
She has a sister group from a separate family. In the group, many cousins have adopted Shen Jin before, and many people are staring at whether Ke Minghuai is single.
As long as it is confirmed that Ke Minghuai is single, many goblins will pounce on him.
In their hearts, Shen Jin has always been the servant who was free to beat and scold at will when they were young.
Xie Hanzhu: [The Ke family planned to divorce some time ago, do any of you know the follow-up? ]
Soon someone replied: [Not sure, there is no news, but I heard that Brother Huai returned to China early to celebrate Shen Jin's birthday. ]
[It seems that the relationship is still very good, if we separate, how can we come back in a hurry. ]
[There is no news from the Shen family, and the Ke family suddenly disappeared, so it feels like something big is about to happen. ]
[Speaking of which, Shen Jin is quite miserable. Xie Ling has raised him for three years, so he can't squeeze into the main house either?During the holidays, have you seen Shen Jin in the main house?It doesn't matter who Xie Ling is, the real proud son of heaven, the first heir to the chaebol, can he be a broom star?Now that they are divided, the wealthy son-in-law of the Ke family will definitely fly away. Seeing how proud he has been in the past few years, it's really a turn of events! ]
[That's really a double whammy! ][When will Brother Huai announce his divorce, I can't wait! ]
Xie Hanzhu suddenly received a message from Ke Minghuai at this moment, and gasped.
She waited for a long time before she was sure that the other party was not joking.
Xie Hanzhu: [Brother Huai contacted me just now, asking us to formally apologize to Shen Jin sincerely. ]
The group was silent for a while.
It probably never occurred to them that what they were waiting for was not the news of the divorce, but Ke Minghuai's warning.
Ke Minghuai didn't threaten, but as long as he showed his attitude, each of them would have a pot of delicious drinks at home.
However, for so many years, Ke Minghuai has never paid attention to what they are doing behind the scenes. Why did they start to settle accounts after autumn?
[Which Huai brother? ]
[The one you want. ]
[Is he crazy, why should we apologize to Shen Jin! ! ]
[Shen Jin is too fragile, it's just a few words, can you save a piece of meat, yet she still sues! ]
[Didn't you teach us a lesson at the gate of Shen's house last time, isn't that enough?Why, as long as he Shen Jin is a treasure, are we all idiots? ]
[I want to tell you some unbelievable news. Just now I wanted to ask about Shen Jin's situation, but I found out that he blocked me, and I was in a big hole! ]
[...He blocked me too! ]
[Me too! ! ]
Shen Jin didn't know that because of one of his actions, there was a huge wave in the group of Xie's branch, even if he knew, he wouldn't be as bitter as he was when he was a child.
The next day was the weekend, the sky was overcast and the rain was still pattering.
He didn't let the butler, who was so happy that he didn't close his mouth since yesterday, see him off. He took the bus to the bookstore, returned the few books that Xie Ling had bought repeatedly, and read the books in the bookstore for a while. I found that the umbrella I had inserted on the umbrella stand was missing.
Fortunately, it wasn't the one given by Qian Kun.
Shen Jin's thought disappeared in a flash, he looked at the gloomy sky, the rain fell on the road, splashing countless splashes of different sizes.
He wanted to wait for the rain to stop, so he found a secluded place to wait.
Feeling a bit bored, he turned on his phone to look through the chat history that he was too sleepy to read yesterday.
After reporting Shen Xie'an's safety, and replying a few more messages, Shen Jin wanted to close the interface, but by accident, she looked through Moments.
Last night, Qiankun posted a picture of a late night snack. The picture showed a bowl of dried duck bamboo shoot soup exuding heat and a rich soup base. Shen Jin liked it.
I have seen before that Qiankun's friends are about to reach the limit.Every time I post a circle of friends, there are hundreds of likes, so his post should be particularly inconspicuous.
Ding dong.
Shen Jin said "Huh?"
I didn't expect the other party to find out about his likes so quickly and reply very quickly.
CAT: [Get up so late? ]
Snowball: [I have already done such things as running—morning reading—eating breakfast—going to the bookstore. ]
Shen Jin seemed to be calm, but in reality she was provocative.
Who is late!
CAT: [Do you mind if I go to the self-study room later? ]
Snowball: [You didn't finish your homework? ]
CAT: [There are a few questions, I wonder if the class representative can help to look at them? ]
Shen Jin raised her eyebrows, you will ask me one day!
Didn't Liu Qimai say that you are omnipotent? That's an exaggeration!
Shen Jin said with a little restraint: [Let's see first, I don't guarantee that I will. ]
Qian Kun asked him if he was still in the bookstore, and he stopped by to pick him up.
Shen Jin sent him a location directly, and it happened that the umbrella was taken away, so the step of getting in the rain could be saved.
CAT: [Wait. ]
Concise and shocking.
A voice came from beside him, as if he hesitated before speaking.
"I have an umbrella, why don't I lend it to you?"
Shen Jin turned her head, and saw an Omega with fair skin, round and big eyes, who seemed to be in tears when looking at people, a very cute type.
Shen Jin found out that the other party only had an umbrella in his hand, and she still wanted to give it away.
Is there really such a self-sacrificing person?
Shen Jin flatly refused: "No need, someone is coming to pick me up."
Shen Jin looked at the rain curtain in front of him, his body trembled slightly, he felt a string of trickles rushing from his spine to his limbs.
This familiar breath of pheromone surging.
The author has something to say: Yay, the second mark is coming~~ The vest that Qianqian thought was strong will not be able to keep it, hehe~
Shen Jin, who was only five years old, was placed on a children's chair, holding a drawing board in his hand, and the small table in front of him was full of crayons of various colors, and he was concentrating on drawing the garden.
The quarrel behind him interrupted his painting.
As soon as Xie Ling came back from the airport, he didn't have time to rest, so he handed the gift he bought to Xie Jisheng, the second youngest of the Xie family.
It was an exceptionally beautiful model of a crystal sports car, about 1/40 the size of a normal sports car, with complex machinery inside the crystal case, lifelike.
After Xie Jisheng saw the gift, he vented his anger dissatisfied.
"What I want is a real sports car. Its nickname is Crystal. It belongs to the Lambo family, not a 'sports car made of crystal'. Brother, what age are you from? You are young, rustic and outdated."
"You are underage and cannot drive." Xie Ling explained.
"After all, you just treat me as an outsider, so it's rare to ask you for a gift so perfunctory!"
Xie Jicheng's voice of complaints continued continuously, but Xie Ling, who ordered this gift and didn't return home until he got it, stopped talking.
Before Xie Jisheng left, he accidentally threw the crystal car on the ground, and it broke into two halves.
He left without looking back, and when he passed by Shen Jin, he found the condemnation in the child's eyes and found it interesting.
He asked viciously, "Are you envious?"
"It's a pity you never get it."
"Brother picked you up because he saw you as pitiful. Do you really think of yourself as a young master?"
"You are such a poor little beggar that no one wants you."
After Xie Jicheng left, Shen Jin climbed off the chair and ran to the silent Xie Ling.
"Cousin, I want it, can I?"
Xie Ling knelt down and stroked the child's soft hair.
"I'll buy another one for you, this one is broken."
"I just want this." Shen Jin, who had never asked for anything since coming to Xie's house, asked pitifully.
Xie Ling was silent for a while, and his cold eyes softened a little.
"Okay, my cousin will help you put it together before I give it to you."
……
The young Shen Jin once envied Xie Jicheng, he hid under the blanket and said to himself:
Don't be greedy, I am the luckiest baby if I can call my cousin.
He didn't expect that many years later, he would say that sentence.
"Can I be your brother, brother?"
What he didn't dare to ask before, but now he can ask in person. Perhaps, he found that the person in front of him needed him more than him.
Go forward bravely because you are needed.
"Yeah." You are.
Xie Ling felt that Shen Jin's question was weird, and said, "It has always been."
The butler was still there wiping non-existent tears. Obviously, the two cousins had only spoken a few words, and there were no touching words at all, but watching them warmed my heart.
But in the next second, the normal conversation started again. Xie Ling asked Shen Jin about his situation at school, and Shen Jin answered them one by one.
You can't expect more emotional expressions from these two icebergs, the butler sighed helplessly.
After going upstairs, Shen Jin asked, "Which room do I live in?"
Xie Ling glanced at the little boy: "What, your room has been reserved."
What do you mean, do you think he will remove Shen Jin's room?What is this kid dreaming about?
If it has been kept, then——
When Xie Ling opened the door, Shen Jin really saw a room full of pink hearts, a bed with lace borders, dreamy bed curtains, and a pink desk.
That was the room he lived in when he was five years old. It was very clean, and it could be seen that it was cleaned frequently.
I don't know what the Alphas have misunderstood about Omega, why it is always pink.
Seeing that Xie Ling was about to leave, Shen Jin thought of the huge sum in her bank/card.
"Also, you dialed into my card—" Before he finished speaking, Xie Ling's cold knife swiped over.
If you say one more word, your pocket money will be doubled this month.
"!"
Shen Jin immediately understood the meaning in his cousin's eyes, and success was threatened.
Shut up and stay safe.
After Shen Jin entered the room and took a shower, she went to the mirror with her wet body, opened the pendant someone gave her, and hung it around her neck.
The silver pendant fell between the collarbones, like an amulet.
There was a knock on the door outside, and it was Xie Ling who came over with a stack of tutorial books, which was a birthday present.
Shen Jin recalled every time she moved books to Shen Xie'an, it turned out that love is interlinked.
He took the tutorial book and found that some of them had already been bought: "Brother, give me the ticket stub you bought, and I will go to the bookstore tomorrow to return these duplicate copies."
Xie Ling was still immersed in Shen Jin's "Brother", he went to get the receipt in a daze, and came back in a daze.
Although Shen Jin's character of saving and not wasting is good, but Xie Ling came to his senses and found that he didn't see the shadow of willfulness in Shen Jin, why can't he be more tempered?
Xie Ling wanted to say something, but suddenly saw the extra silver chain around Shen Jin's neck, and asked, "You bought it yourself?"
Shen Jin touched the pendant: "No, it was a gift from a classmate."
"Alpha?"
"It's Beta, I wear it because it looks cute." I have doubts about my gender, but I can't say in front of my elders that I suspect that my roommate is pretending to be genderless.
Xie Ling deeply forgot about that exquisite necklace.
Sending a necklace has a different meaning.
[Use it to lock you. ]
Xie Ling is an Alpha, and he is very aware of Alpha's bad nature, sending it also means marking the territory.
This is a warning to other males not to spy on him.
After parting with Shen Jin, Ke Minghuai returned home with a heavy heart. He sat on the sofa and put together an extremely complicated amusement park Lego.
In some places, it is a pity that we did not go there in the end.
He thought he was just guilty of breaking the appointment, but he actually thought about it in his heart. When choosing a gift, he saw it at a glance and bought it.
I wanted to give it to Shen Jin after I put it together.
Ke Minghuai had an intelligence test when he was a child, and his IQ was extremely high.
After God opened a door for him, he closed another window.He is unable to develop feelings for others, including parents and friends, which is also called affective deficit disorder.
He can communicate with people normally by simulating other people's emotions.
Over the years, he has been able to gradually develop emotions such as guilt and self-blame. After accidentally kissing a stranger, he felt remorse and disgust for the first time.
Tonight, he encountered a difficult problem, very difficult, but he couldn't solve it.
The package sent by Shen Jin was thrown by his mother into the trash can outside the house, and he picked it up again.
Ke Minghuai opened one of the boxes, it looked familiar, and it was a gift he had picked out over the years.
But no matter how many gifts there are, Shen Jin will not take a second look at them.
For Shen Jin, it seems that it cannot be solved in any planned way.
No templates can be applied.
In Ke Minghuai's gentle gaze, the panic became more and more serious.
Thinking of what Shen Xie'an said, he dug out WeChat and found the person who had added him in the Xie branch.
Xie Hanzhu has always kept Ke Minghuai's contact information, but since adding it, the other party has no other contact except to warn them not to disturb Shen Jin.
She has a sister group from a separate family. In the group, many cousins have adopted Shen Jin before, and many people are staring at whether Ke Minghuai is single.
As long as it is confirmed that Ke Minghuai is single, many goblins will pounce on him.
In their hearts, Shen Jin has always been the servant who was free to beat and scold at will when they were young.
Xie Hanzhu: [The Ke family planned to divorce some time ago, do any of you know the follow-up? ]
Soon someone replied: [Not sure, there is no news, but I heard that Brother Huai returned to China early to celebrate Shen Jin's birthday. ]
[It seems that the relationship is still very good, if we separate, how can we come back in a hurry. ]
[There is no news from the Shen family, and the Ke family suddenly disappeared, so it feels like something big is about to happen. ]
[Speaking of which, Shen Jin is quite miserable. Xie Ling has raised him for three years, so he can't squeeze into the main house either?During the holidays, have you seen Shen Jin in the main house?It doesn't matter who Xie Ling is, the real proud son of heaven, the first heir to the chaebol, can he be a broom star?Now that they are divided, the wealthy son-in-law of the Ke family will definitely fly away. Seeing how proud he has been in the past few years, it's really a turn of events! ]
[That's really a double whammy! ][When will Brother Huai announce his divorce, I can't wait! ]
Xie Hanzhu suddenly received a message from Ke Minghuai at this moment, and gasped.
She waited for a long time before she was sure that the other party was not joking.
Xie Hanzhu: [Brother Huai contacted me just now, asking us to formally apologize to Shen Jin sincerely. ]
The group was silent for a while.
It probably never occurred to them that what they were waiting for was not the news of the divorce, but Ke Minghuai's warning.
Ke Minghuai didn't threaten, but as long as he showed his attitude, each of them would have a pot of delicious drinks at home.
However, for so many years, Ke Minghuai has never paid attention to what they are doing behind the scenes. Why did they start to settle accounts after autumn?
[Which Huai brother? ]
[The one you want. ]
[Is he crazy, why should we apologize to Shen Jin! ! ]
[Shen Jin is too fragile, it's just a few words, can you save a piece of meat, yet she still sues! ]
[Didn't you teach us a lesson at the gate of Shen's house last time, isn't that enough?Why, as long as he Shen Jin is a treasure, are we all idiots? ]
[I want to tell you some unbelievable news. Just now I wanted to ask about Shen Jin's situation, but I found out that he blocked me, and I was in a big hole! ]
[...He blocked me too! ]
[Me too! ! ]
Shen Jin didn't know that because of one of his actions, there was a huge wave in the group of Xie's branch, even if he knew, he wouldn't be as bitter as he was when he was a child.
The next day was the weekend, the sky was overcast and the rain was still pattering.
He didn't let the butler, who was so happy that he didn't close his mouth since yesterday, see him off. He took the bus to the bookstore, returned the few books that Xie Ling had bought repeatedly, and read the books in the bookstore for a while. I found that the umbrella I had inserted on the umbrella stand was missing.
Fortunately, it wasn't the one given by Qian Kun.
Shen Jin's thought disappeared in a flash, he looked at the gloomy sky, the rain fell on the road, splashing countless splashes of different sizes.
He wanted to wait for the rain to stop, so he found a secluded place to wait.
Feeling a bit bored, he turned on his phone to look through the chat history that he was too sleepy to read yesterday.
After reporting Shen Xie'an's safety, and replying a few more messages, Shen Jin wanted to close the interface, but by accident, she looked through Moments.
Last night, Qiankun posted a picture of a late night snack. The picture showed a bowl of dried duck bamboo shoot soup exuding heat and a rich soup base. Shen Jin liked it.
I have seen before that Qiankun's friends are about to reach the limit.Every time I post a circle of friends, there are hundreds of likes, so his post should be particularly inconspicuous.
Ding dong.
Shen Jin said "Huh?"
I didn't expect the other party to find out about his likes so quickly and reply very quickly.
CAT: [Get up so late? ]
Snowball: [I have already done such things as running—morning reading—eating breakfast—going to the bookstore. ]
Shen Jin seemed to be calm, but in reality she was provocative.
Who is late!
CAT: [Do you mind if I go to the self-study room later? ]
Snowball: [You didn't finish your homework? ]
CAT: [There are a few questions, I wonder if the class representative can help to look at them? ]
Shen Jin raised her eyebrows, you will ask me one day!
Didn't Liu Qimai say that you are omnipotent? That's an exaggeration!
Shen Jin said with a little restraint: [Let's see first, I don't guarantee that I will. ]
Qian Kun asked him if he was still in the bookstore, and he stopped by to pick him up.
Shen Jin sent him a location directly, and it happened that the umbrella was taken away, so the step of getting in the rain could be saved.
CAT: [Wait. ]
Concise and shocking.
A voice came from beside him, as if he hesitated before speaking.
"I have an umbrella, why don't I lend it to you?"
Shen Jin turned her head, and saw an Omega with fair skin, round and big eyes, who seemed to be in tears when looking at people, a very cute type.
Shen Jin found out that the other party only had an umbrella in his hand, and she still wanted to give it away.
Is there really such a self-sacrificing person?
Shen Jin flatly refused: "No need, someone is coming to pick me up."
Shen Jin looked at the rain curtain in front of him, his body trembled slightly, he felt a string of trickles rushing from his spine to his limbs.
This familiar breath of pheromone surging.
The author has something to say: Yay, the second mark is coming~~ The vest that Qianqian thought was strong will not be able to keep it, hehe~
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