Chapter 360: A Strange Past

At his age, it was impossible that he had never experienced romantic relationships. However, his romantic history had been rather unusual.

From that point onward, his view of romance became twisted, like a venomous snake and a ferocious beast lurking among a thorny path. He became extremely resistant to anything related to relationships.

As a result, before his transmigration, Xiao Shou had never seriously considered romance at all and one of the people responsible for teaching him such a painful lesson in his otherwise ordinary life was the very person standing before him now, Meng Huo.

The whole story had begun back when Xiao Shou was in high school. Meng Jie had been Xiao Shou’s deskmate and best friend during high school.

When Xiao Shou had first entered high school, he had been nothing more than a bookworm who buried himself in studying. He was terrible at communicating with others and found interacting with the outside world extremely difficult.

Aside from studying, he was practically useless at everything else. It was Meng Jie who taught him many things and helped him experience the more normal side of being a young person.

The two of them had always been very close. That was until the second half of their first year of high school, when Meng Jie suddenly delivered a love letter to Xiao Shou on behalf of someone named Meng Huo.

At that time, Xiao Shou had been a well behaved student. Whenever his parents or teachers told him not to do something, he would never do it.

Since both his parents and teachers had repeatedly told him that young people should not date, he simply rejected the confession.

However, after that, Meng Jie frequently delivered love letters from the boy named Meng Huo.

Whenever Xiao Shou went out to play with Meng Jie, he would often run into Meng Huo as well.

Xiao Shou knew that Meng Jie was deliberately trying to bring the two of them together.

After all, Meng Huo was her older brother and was one year ahead of them, he’s already a second year student at the time.

Xiao Shou talked to Meng Jie about it several times, but it never worked.

Meng Jie was also the person who had rescued him from loneliness and whom he regarded as his closest friend. He could not bring himself to be harsh with her. So whenever she brought up the subject, Xiao Shou could only clearly refuse. Unfortunately, it did not work.

A few days later, she would always start doing it again. This continued until Xiao Shou’s second year of high school.

At that time, Meng Huo was already in his final year of high school and facing the important university entrance examinations.

Yet even during such a crucial period, he still refused to give up pursuing Xiao Shou.

Xiao Shou was almost moved by his persistence. Combined with Meng Jie’s constant persuasion, he finally had no choice but to say that if he successfully entered university and Meng Huo was still willing to pursue him, then he would consider giving the relationship a try.

After receiving Xiao Shou’s answer, Meng Huo was extremely happy and made many promises to him. Unfortunately, Xiao Shou never made it to university before witnessing something that completely shattered his understanding of the world.

During the summer of his final year of high school, Xiao Shou went to Meng Jie’s house to study with her.

He never expected that, because the door had not been locked, he would accidentally witness Meng Huo, who had already entered university and had returned home for the holidays, engaging in an intimate relationship with his own younger sister.

Xiao Shou was terrified.

As someone who had grown up sheltered in an ivory tower, protected from the hardships and ugliness of the outside world, he had never imagined that something like this could exist.

A brother and sister involved in an incestuous relationship.

The younger sister was involved with her own brother while simultaneously helping him pursue another man.

Even more bizarrely, after Xiao Shou caught them in the act, Meng Huo actually ran over to him while still improperly dressed. He told Xiao Shou that he only felt affection for his younger sister Meng Jie, not love. He claimed that all of his love belonged to Xiao Shou.

Meanwhile, Meng Jie stood nearby wrapped in a thin blanket, crying. That was the first truly bizarre thing Xiao Shou had ever experienced in his life.

What was even more bizarre was that afterward, the two of them shamelessly continued hovering around him.

One continued helping her brother pursue Xiao Shou. The other continued sleeping with his younger sister while insisting that he felt nothing but affection for her and that all his love belonged to Xiao Shou.

Honestly, Xiao Shou had been disgusted at the time. He thought they were the kind of people whose hearts were rotten to the core, like the villains described in television dramas.

For a while, he completely cut ties with both of them. Yet throughout his university years, the two of them remained exactly the same. They continued living according to their strange relationship without the slightest intention of changing.

At university, Meng Huo was a gentle and warm senior with a slightly artistic temperament. He never behaved intimately with other people.

Meng Jie, meanwhile, was a devoted sister who practically worshipped her older brother. There was no pretending involved.

Everything they did came from their genuine feelings and beliefs.

After a very long time, as the two continued approaching Xiao Shou without ever giving up, he eventually came to a certain conclusion.

Entering university had also broadened his horizons considerably. He gradually realized that there really were strange people like them in this world.

They firmly believed in their own principles and never considered their worldview wrong simply because it conflicted with the moral standards of almost everyone else.

They even confidently followed their own principles, believing they had no intention of harming anyone, while their actions still ended up hurting others.