Chapter 153: A Special Feeling
Sang Zhe.
As a seasoned nerd with rich galgame experience from his past life.
Now a successful man with two wives from the Heavenly Punishment Department sharing the same bed.
He questioned himself; with such abundant emotional experience,
how could a pure, naive swordsman who had never dealt with romance be any challenge?
But when Gu Yingmian innocently asked him, “Excuse me, what kind of feelings arise between couples that count as love?”
Sang Zhe collapsed on the spot.
Only then did he realize that he had never genuinely been in a romantic relationship.
Little Ying developed feelings for him over time. Since she moved in, their interactions quickly turned into a daily routine reminiscent of an old married couple.
They had never exchanged sweet nothings typical of young love, enduring long, tedious dates.
From the moment she was rescued by him, her affection was at maximum.
Their being together felt so natural, like water flowing downhill, with no dramatic romance to speak of.
Their one and only honeymoon confession was a total failure, ruined by this very woman in front of him.
So, if asked whether he had a sweet and romantic love experience like in novels,
Sang Zhe truly couldn’t say.
At the moment, watching Gu Yingmian lean her innocent face close to him, her long eyelashes batting—
Sang Zhe felt like he had suddenly regressed to being that socially awkward nerd from his previous life.
He was lost.
“Ah…”
Sang Zhe awkwardly averted his gaze, blinking furiously as he stuttered, “Well, love, um, it should be about doing various things and, uh, during those things, having a special feeling for each other…”
Despite Sang Zhe babbling nonsense, Gu Yingmian listened earnestly.
She even wore a thoughtful expression, her cute face slightly blushing:
“Are… are you saying it’s about… matters between men and women?”
“Ah? No! No, no, that’s way too fast!”
Sang Zhe was sweating bullets explaining, “It’s not like being a couple means jumping into bed or whatever… the most important thing is still the feeling of being together.”
“Matters between men and women are just a spice, one of the ways to amplify that special feeling between us.”
“To fall in love, you’ve got to start from having that special feeling for each other, right?”
Gu Yingmian blinked.
She looked completely lost.
“For example…”
Sang Zhe chuckled awkwardly as he explained, “Remember when we went shopping yesterday? I bought you cotton candy and a bunch of stuff.”
“The feeling you get from me buying things for you, or from Chun Lan and Qiu Ju getting you things, is pretty much the same.”
“This just shows that in your heart, we’re all friends and acquaintances, just ordinary feelings, not something special.”
“When it’s someone you truly like, shopping and buying things for you will naturally fill you with an inexplicable happiness that you won’t feel when shopping with others.”
“That’s the feeling of your heart racing, the feeling of love!”
Sang Zhe wasn’t even sure if his rambling theory was correct.
But he knew one thing.
His serious nonsense had at least managed to impress Gu Yingmian.
Gu Yingmian thought long and hard, then slowly said:
“I don’t quite understand…”
“That’s okay, after all, Sister Gu only knows me as a male, not having found that racing heartbeat feeling is also normal.”
Sang Zhe explained, “We can do more couple-like interactions, just like our shopping yesterday; who knows, at some moment, Sister Gu might experience that feeling.”
Gu Yingmian nodded, seeming to grasp it a bit.
“So, besides shopping, what else should couples do?”
I really don’t know!
Apart from having a free wife, I have zero real dating experience, so how would I know what couples usually do on dates!
Calming down, Sang Zhe thought back to what couples on those TV shows typically did on dates.
A flurry of snippets flashed through his mind, and suddenly, he remembered something. He consulted Nian Nian in his head.
“…What’s wrong?” Seeing Sang Zhe suddenly daze off, Gu Yingmian asked concernedly.
“Ah, well, I know what to do now.”
Sang Zhe said with solemnity: “Sister Gu might like this, follow me.”
As he said that, he took Gu Yingmian’s hand and pulled her back into her room.
Gu Yingmian didn’t resist, letting him lead, but her eyes showed a hint of confusion as she glanced at where their hands were touching.
…Hmm?
A special… feeling?
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What Sang Zhe had in mind.
Was watching a movie.
Forgive Sang Zhe’s limited knowledge about dating. When it came to couples’ dates, he immediately thought of that classic routine.
…Let’s go watch a movie tonight, remember to bring your ID.
…So silly, you don’t need an ID to watch a movie.
I must say, watching a movie is a solid choice for couples’ dates.
Just a while ago, Sang Zhe specifically asked Nian Nian if there were any movies available in the system mall, and lo and behold, there were actually some.
The system mall was far more magical than he had imagined.
There’s practically nothing it doesn’t have, only stuff he couldn’t afford.
When he first mentioned watching a movie, Gu Yingmian looked puzzled again.
It wasn’t until Sang Zhe exhausted his breath, comparing it to Fusa Pavilion’s playbooks and Zang Hong Pavilion’s live performances, that she barely understood.
After exchanging for a projector from the system mall, Sang Zhe spent quite some time fiddling with it, finally managing to display the movie on the wall.
“Alright.”
Having finished setting it up, Sang Zhe happily sat beside Gu Yingmian, quietly preparing to watch the movie.
“Does the movie… have a name?”
“It does.” Sang Zhe looked at the screen and softly said, “This movie is called ‘A Chinese Odyssey’.”
In his past life, Sang Zhe’s favorite movie.
No contest about that.
In Sang Zhe’s heart, ‘The Moonlight Magic Box’ and ‘The Great Sage Marries’ together made up ‘A Chinese Odyssey’.
And this film had once embodied all of Sang Zhe’s youthful fantasies about love.
Initially, Sang Zhe had hesitated whether to show Gu Yingmian some simple, easy-to-digest romantic films, hoping to quickly immerse her in the sugary allure of romance.
But after thinking it over, he figured none could match ‘A Chinese Odyssey’ for presenting that “love-struck” theme.
Every character in that movie seemed love-struck in its own way.
But in a sense,
the exaggerated and dramatized display of love-struck feelings was the purest representation of love.
Sang Zhe didn’t know if Gu Yingmian would comprehend it.
But he decided to give it a shot.
If she truly showed no interest, they could always switch to something else.
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