I open a bookstore in the human world

Modu, ten o'clock in the evening, inside Xie Daonian's residence.

There was movement at the door, it should be the sound of someone unlocking the lock with a key.

Song Lan, who originally lived in the house and read flower magazines, had an idea, and a sly look flashed across his eyes. He arranged the magazines as they were, quietly got up, and quietly hid in the bathroom.

This time he came to Shanghai, he did not tell Xie Daonian in advance, because he felt that the reason was too embarrassing: he ran from Jincheng to Shanghai in order to hide from a girl. Where should I put it?

The door of the unit was opened from the outside, and the sound of changing shoes came from the entrance.It was rare for Song Lan to have a feeling of playing pranks when she was young, and she was full of anticipation.

——After Xie Daonian settled down, he suddenly appeared again, scaring him.You know, Song Lan seems to have never seen Xie Daonian's surprised expression.

He approached... Song Lan's lips turned up slightly, and her heart beat faster.

Wait, why is there no movement?Song Lan put her ears on the bathroom door and listened carefully, only to find that Xie Daonian's footsteps and even his breathing could not be heard all of a sudden, as if he disappeared out of thin air.

Could it be that something unexpected happened?Song Lan's pupils shrank slightly, and she didn't care about anything else. She pushed open the bathroom door and rushed out: "Thank you—"

After making a sound, he fell silent, because he found that Xie Daonian was standing in the living room, smiling at him.

It was as if Xie Daonian had known that Song Lan would come, and was waiting for him there.

Song Lan looked a little embarrassed, scratched the back of his head, and stammered: "You, what are you..." He wailed in his heart: Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva is here, isn't this scene too embarrassing?

Xie Daonian frowned, stepped forward a few steps, walked up to Song Lan, brushed off a little dust that was accidentally rubbed on Song Lan's left shoulder with his hand, and said softly, "Sorry, have you been waiting for a long time? I have something urgent at work. Get stuck, so come back late."

"How did you know that I came to Shanghai?" Song Lan was stunned.

Xie Daonian smiled lightly and explained: "I received a call this afternoon from Jincheng, asking if you have arrived."

It turned out to be like this.Suddenly, Song Lan finally knew how he leaked his whereabouts.

"Then how did you know that I would be in your room?" Song Lan still had another doubt.

"It's hard to guess the code?" Xie Daonian raised his eyebrows and asked back.

"Eh?" Song Lan was startled, unable to understand the meaning of Xie Daonian's words.

Xie Daonian didn't hold back for too long: "Because I smell the smell you left behind in the living room."

"???" Song Lan looked confused - is this okay?

He lowered his head and sniffed himself, then shook his head: There is no smell at all, if it is ghost smell, it is more or less the same.

Xie Daonian leaned closer to Song Lan, slightly hooked the corner of his mouth, and pointed at his hair: "You always like to use the same shampoo."

Song Lan suddenly realized: It turned out that the smell of shampoo betrayed him.

"But when did your sense of smell become so keen?" Song Lan turned her head inadvertently, and found that Xie Daonian's face was nearby. The distance between the two was less than ten centimeters, and he could even feel the warmth sprayed by Xie Daonian on the side of his face. hot breath.

Song Lan felt her face was a little hot, she tilted her head unnaturally, and quietly took half a step back.

An obscure light flashed quickly in Xie Daonian's deep eyes, and then he returned to normal: "I don't know, but recently I feel that my body seems to be much stronger than before, and my senses are much sharper than before."

"That's a good thing." Song Lan didn't pay much attention, and suddenly remembered something, "By the way, don't you wonder why I came to Shanghai?"

It's been a long time, and Xie Daonian still hasn't asked Song Lan why he came to Shanghai, which made Song Lan feel a little weird, so he couldn't help asking.

Xie Daonian raised his eyebrows, and a smile flashed in his eyes: "I thought you were too embarrassed to let me know..."

"Who said I'm shy... Wait, do you know all about it?" Song Lan was shocked.

Xie Daonian nodded and admitted, "I asked on the phone."

"...What a bunch of big mouths." Song Lan couldn't help but rolled his eyes, talking to himself.

"Actually, I really want to meet that Miss Gan," Xie Daonian handed Song Lan a cup of freshly brewed tea, and looked into his eyes, "I want to know, who can drive us to this point? What kind of woman is that?"

"Don't mention it," Song Lan raised her head sullenly, drank the tea in the cup in one gulp, moistened her throat, and said dejectedly, "If this happened to you, you would have to be caught blind. Come to the bookstore every day to find me, see He didn't speak, just looked at me with a smirk, followed me wherever I went, and didn't dare to talk about her loudly, as soon as I said it, my eyes immediately turned red, and I cried for you the next second. Sigh , Her status is also quite special, she can't be beaten or scolded, and we can't drive people out of the store at will when we open the door for business. It's really worrying about me. Woman, it's just trouble..."

Listening to Song Lan's nagging complaints, the corner of Xie Daonian's mouth raised a slight arc.

"No, why do I feel that you are a little gloating?" Song Lan said dryly, glanced at it inadvertently, and suddenly frowned, "No, brother, you still feel quite happy when I suffer and suffer in Jincheng?"

"Ahem," Xie Daonian immediately corrected his expression, filled with righteous indignation and said, "Yes, women are really troublesome!"

"You think so too, don't you?" Song Lan suddenly felt that he had found a bosom friend, "Fortunately, I was smarter back then, and I never found a girlfriend, or I would be bored to death."

"You've never been in a relationship?" Xie Daonian frowned.

"In the past, I was either working or studying. How can there be time in the United States to fall in love?" Song Lan muttered, "For poor students like us, love is a luxury, not a necessity of life. Hey, what are you doing?" The look in the eyes, haven't you seen mother-fetal solo?"

Song Lan felt that Xie Daonian looked at him strangely, so he immediately threw a sharp glance at him.

"No, no," Xie Daonian hurriedly adjusted his expression, smiled with sincerity, "Actually... I have never been in a relationship."

"No way?" Song Lan was taken aback. "You look so evil, but you don't even have a girlfriend? You're lying!"

Xie Daonian said sincerely, "Really not."

Song Lan looked Xie Daonian up and down suspiciously, shook his head and said, "I don't believe it. Why?"

Xie Daonian said calmly, "Not interested."

Song Lan was shocked: "You, you shouldn't be frigid, right?!"

One word shocked everyone.

"Don't, don't look at me like that..." Song Lan turned her face away guiltily, and argued forcefully, "You can't blame me for thinking this way, think about it, you are not like me, you don't have time or energy to fall in love, but We're in our twenties, and we haven't found a girlfriend yet, so no one would doubt it..." The voice became smaller and smaller, until it was as thin as a mosquito.

Xie Daonian listened silently, his eyes became more and more unpredictable.Song Lan felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere, so she belatedly stopped talking.

"I'm sorry, I was just joking, so don't take it seriously." Song Lan lowered her head and sincerely apologized.In my heart, I scolded myself for speaking too presumptuously, speaking too thoughtlessly——

He is also a man, so he naturally knows that, but any man certainly doesn't like being doubted about his ability in a certain aspect.

"I'm not the kind of person you said, but I'm really not interested in women." After a while, Song Lan heard Xie Daonian say calmly.

"Huh?" Song Lan raised her head in surprise, just in time to meet Xie Daonian's gaze.

But Song Lan didn't care about other things. He opened his mouth wide and asked in a daze, "Are you not interested in women? Could it be that you are..."

Under Song Lan's suspicious eyes, Xie Daonian said calmly, "I'm not interested in men either."

"Let me just say it," Song Lan said with a relaxed smile, "Then I guess it makes sense, your symptoms are really related to frigidity—"

Before he finished speaking, Xie Daonian interrupted him, and then said calmly: "It's just that the person I like happens to be a man."

"...It's kind of like it." Song Lan added the last half of the sentence in a daze, and the whole person... the whole ghost froze immediately.

"Wait, what did you just say? You have someone you like, and the other party is a man?!" It took Song Lan a second to sort out the news brought by Xie Daonian. She felt that her head was blank, and she still couldn't believe that she had just heard.

Xie Daonian met Song Lan's gaze, nodded slightly, his eyes were firm: "You heard me right."

"Who do you like? Do I know you?" After a long while, Song Lan squeezed out such a sentence from between his teeth.

how can that be possible?Xie Daonian is so busy at work, how can he have time to fall in love?Even if he was really in love, why didn't he tell himself?Song Lan said it was very unbelievable.

Seeing Xie Daonian's silence, Song Lan's heart moved, and he asked cautiously, "Could it be... I know that person?"

Xie Daonian took a deep look at Song Lan and nodded slightly.

"Are you really an acquaintance?" Song Lan was taken aback, feeling a little stuffy in her heart.

Forcibly suppressing that uncomfortable emotion, Song Lan said again: "So who is it? Why have you never said it?"

After a while, Xie Daonian said calmly: "He doesn't know." He intentionally ignored the previous question.

"So, you're still secretly in love?" Song Lan opened her eyes wide.

Xie Daonian hesitated for a moment, then nodded slightly.

"I didn't expect you to be so innocent," Song Lan said with emotion, "But, who is the person you like?"

This time, Xie Daonian didn't speak, but just took a deep look at Song Lan.

"Since I also know it, there is a high probability that it is from our bookstore..." Song Lan rubbed her chin, her mind was running, "There are not too many male clerks in our bookstore... God, could it be? Qin Shi? Lin Se? Are you still happy?... You don’t think you like plums like plums, do you?”

Song Lan said while carefully observing Xie Daonian's face, trying to find some clues from his face.Seeing that every time he heard a name, his brows would frown until his brows were tightly furrowed and his expression was solemn.

"Couldn't it be?" Song Lanqi was surprised, counting with his fingers, "I should have listed all the male shop assistants just now, right?"

"Have you noticed that you missed one?" Xie Daonian's tone sounded a bit strange.

"It's a leak?" Song Lan frowned, "Shouldn't it?"

After finishing speaking, Song Lan suddenly thought of a possibility.

He suddenly raised his head, looked at Xie Daonian in a daze, opened his mouth slightly, but remained silent, and found his own voice in an instant: "You, you shouldn't have said that..."

The word "I" can't be uttered.

It was Xie Daonian who added for him: "I like you."

The sound of "click" was the crisp sound of the teacup falling to the ground.It turned out that in a panic, Song Lan accidentally brushed the porcelain cup on the coffee table.

"I, I'm going to get the broom." Song Lan hurriedly wanted to get up, but Xie Daonian pinned her shoulders.

"Let me go, you don't know where the broom is." Saying that, Xie Daonian walked towards the balcony.

How is this possible?Staring at Xie Daonian's back, Song Lan's mind was in a mess, as if the paste had been overturned, all thoughts became sticky and tangled up.

Xie Daonian likes him?When did this happen?And why?How could he like him?

Song Lan has received many love letters and heard many confessions in his life, and it is not without the same-sex courtship, but he dares to say that this is the most shocking confession he has ever heard.

Because it was Xie Daonian who confessed.

Song Lan never thought that he would hear the word "like" from Xie Daonian's mouth. In his opinion, he and Xie Daonian are partners. Of course, they have developed into good friends now, but that's all.

Song Lan is not against homosexuality. He has been abroad for many years and has many same-sex partners around him. In his opinion, homosexuality and heterosexuality are actually the same. The only difference is the gender of the couple.

But now it's not about homosexuality, but about love between humans and ghosts!

Of course, Song Lan has watched the famous "A Chinese Ghost Story" movie. One of the most favorite story forms in film and television dramas, he never thought that one day it would happen to him.

Compared with those film and television drama directors and screenwriters, Song Lan, as a genuine ghost, naturally knows the consequences of love between humans and ghosts.There is a post on the underworld forum by a good person who has checked the success rate of love between people and ghosts. No matter what the process is, there are only two results: either people are scared to death after learning the truth, or people have long-term relationship with ghosts. Get along with each other, Yin Qi enters the body, and dies prematurely.

——In short, the result is a death.

Song Lan didn't want Xie Daonian to die so early, not only because he was the object of her help, but also because Song Lan really regarded Xie Daonian as her good friend.

No one wants his friend to die early, unless he hates him.

Occasionally, Song Lan would also think selfishly, if Xie Daonian did not go to reincarnation after his death, but stayed in the underworld to be with him, would his future life be more exciting?

Of course, such an idea just flashed in my mind and was quickly forgotten: not to mention whether this idea would be too dark, it is also a problem in terms of technical difficulty.You must know that not all people can become ghosts after death. Only those who had a strong wish before death cannot be reincarnated and stay in the underworld.

For a Buddhist like Xie Daonian, Song Lan didn't think that there would be any difficult obsessions to fetter him after his death. That is to say, if he really passed away, the greatest possibility would be to be reincarnated.

Just when Song Lan's mind was entangled with various thoughts, Xie Daonian came over with cleaning tools.He bent down, carefully cleaned the shards of porcelain cups on the ground, and said to Song Lan, "Lift your feet up a little bit."

Song Lan raised her feet naturally when she heard the words, and stared closely at Xie Daonian who was in front of her: at this moment, Xie Daonian was trying to fight against a small piece of debris under Song Lan's sofa, with his face slightly sideways and his lips tightly pursed, as usual handsome...

Wait, what are you thinking!Realizing that she seemed to be thinking wrongly, Song Lan was startled, and shook her head vigorously, as if trying to drive that strange thought out of her mind.

"What's wrong?" Xie Daonian noticed Song Lan's abnormality, raised his head, and asked with concern.

The distance between the two faces was less than a palm, and Song Lan could even see Xie Daonian's thick eyelashes, one by one, black and curled.

Looking down slightly, Song Lan felt that she had fallen into a deep sea, so clean and clear, and people were unconsciously trapped in it.

Song Lan turned pale with fright, and immediately jumped up in fright, regardless of whether there were fragments of the porcelain cup on the ground, she jumped three meters away in one breath, looked at Xie Daonian in shock, and stammered: "You, you get so close to do it!" What?"

Xie Daonian frowned slightly into the word "Chuan", and said eagerly: "Be careful, there are debris on the ground."

Song Lan was startled, and waved her hands indifferently: "What are you afraid of, I'm not a human being, how could I be hurt by this small fragment?"

Xie Daonian's face froze, the light in his eyes dimmed immediately, and his tone was lonely: "Yes, I forgot, you are not human..."

He also thought that there was an insurmountable river of life and death between him and Song Lan.

The atmosphere was a little awkward for a while.

"Then what, it's getting late, I'm leaving first, you go to bed early, you have to work tomorrow." Song Lan smiled and sneaked towards the door.

"Where are you going?" Xie Daonian frowned, "You're in Shanghai, so it seems like you don't have a place to live?"

The few times before when he came to Shanghai, Song Lan lived in the house rented by Xie Dao.

"Uh... I can stay in a hotel." Song Lan's eyes wandered.

"Is it because what I just said has troubled you?" Xie Daonian asked.

It seems that this matter cannot be turned over casually, so it is better to open the skylight and speak openly.Song Lan sighed slightly in her heart, turned her head, looked seriously into Xie Daonian's eyes, and said softly, "Can I ask you a question?"

Xie Daonian nodded.

"You said you like me, are you sure you really like me? It's not friendship between friends." Song Lan stared closely at Xie Daonian's eyes.

Xie Daonian hesitated for a moment and said, "I...I'm sure."

"Can you guarantee it? Sorry, I don't doubt you, I'm just a little worried... You also said that you have never been in love in the past. Maybe you just mistook friendship for love. "

This time, Xie Daonian did not hesitate, and nodded vigorously: "Actually, I am not sure yet, but after meeting you, I am sure."

"What?" Song Lan didn't understand.

Xie Daonian approached Song Lan a few steps.

Song Lan couldn't help but retreat, and stammered: "What, what do you want to do?" His back touched a solid wall, and he couldn't retreat.

For a moment, Song Lan considered whether he should escape through the wall.Although a little cowardly, it is better than facing the current situation.

Before Song Lan's action, Xie Daonian finally stopped, with a wry smile on his lips: "You don't have to avoid me like this, don't worry, I won't do anything to you."

Song Lan's face was embarrassing, and she explained: "I'm not afraid of you..."

Xie Daonian continued: "You're right. I've never been in a relationship before. I don't know what it's like to like it. But I know that if I can't see you, I will always think about you and want to call you , I want to hear your voice, I can’t help but want to know everything about you, I even want to hold you in my arms... If these can’t be regarded as liking, then I really don’t know what love is.”

God, I didn't expect Xie Daonian to say such nasty things.Song Lan stared blankly at the serious man in front of her, not knowing what to say for a moment.

"So, do you think this is liking? The kind of liking of love. Huh?" Xie Daonian asked in a low voice, his voice was low-mellow and magnetic, which made people's skin tremble.

Song Lan blinked slowly, and looked away unnaturally: "Then, when did it start?"

Xie Daonian was silent for a long time, then shook his head: "I don't know, but that day I heard a woman's voice on your mobile phone. .”

Since when did you fall in love with Song Lan?Was it the day he gave himself a birthday present, or earlier?

He didn't dare to make conclusions, the only thing he could be sure of was that he fell in love with Song Lan.

On the phone with Song Lan that night, a soft female voice came from the receiver, and then Song Lan said something happened and hurriedly hung up the phone.Song Lan didn't know, after he hung up the phone, Xie Daonian stayed up all night, the woman's voice and Song Lan's smiling face kept echoing in his mind.

When the first ray of morning light shone on the bed the next day, Xie Daonian finally dared to be sure that, before that, he had a different feeling for Song Lan.

This kind of feeling is very special and new, but he does not reject it.

"A woman's voice?" Song Lan thought for a while before she understood, "You mean the dinner party that day?"

Xie Daonian nodded: "The woman who spoke is Gantian, right?"

It was that dinner party again, Song Lan didn't know whether to cry or laugh.He originally thought that Gan Tian, ​​whom he met at the dinner party, would be a big trouble, but he didn't expect more trouble to come.If he had known this earlier, he would have found an excuse for not going to that dinner party when he said anything, and then he would not have to face such an embarrassing situation now.

As if he had figured out what Song Lan was thinking, Xie Daonian put his hand around his neck and gently stroked the golden pendant that Song Lan gave him: "Actually, even if there was no phone call, the outcome of the matter would still be the same, and sooner or later I would find out what I want. "

Song Lan was silent.

"It was you who asked me all the time, and I also want to ask you a question." Xie Daonian stared into Song Lan's eyes and said slowly.

"Tell me." Song Lan subconsciously said.

"How do you feel about me?" Xie Daonian said word by word.

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It's not easy to finally get brother Xie to confess...