Quick Transmigration: What to Do When the Male Supporting Character You Saved Becomes Obsessed with

Chapter 474 "Infecting the World" - Male Mother (85)

"No one answered." Lu Liruan checked the phone number again.

no problem.

"Let's try it again..." Lu Liruan was unwilling to give up.

This time when I called, after a few beeps, there was a click, and the call was connected.

"Hello?" Lu Liruan asked tentatively.

"..." The sound from the other end was very noisy.

"Hello? Hello! Who is this?" A girl's voice came from the other end of the line. She seemed to have come from some noisy place, and the other end of the phone became quieter.

"Oh, hello, is this the phone number for the rescue organization?" Lu Liruan asked hurriedly.

"Yes, that's right! Are you here to volunteer? We need you to fill out a personal information form. Please download it from our official WeChat account and fill it out..." The other party was clearly not receiving this kind of inquiry call for the first time, and spoke very smoothly and quickly, leaving Lu Liruan no room to interrupt.

"No... I'm calling you about something else!" Lu Liruan waited until the other person finished speaking before squeezing in her own voice, afraid that the other person would hang up the phone immediately after she finished speaking.

When Liao Tingyuan heard the phone call was answered, he wiped his hands clean in the kitchen, walked over and sat down next to Lu Liruan. Lu Liruan then put the phone on speakerphone.

"Hmm? What's wrong?" The person on the other end seemed a little confused as well.

“I live in…” Lu Liruan gave the name of the neighborhood.

“Your phone number was given to me by the woman from the organization you were helping in the courtyard. She said I could contact you about adoption.” Lu Liruan used the same excuse again, then winked at Liao Tingyuan.

What if they really want us to adopt them? I can't even support myself! Lu Liruan looked worried.

Looking at her quirky expression, Liao Tingyuan thought to himself: Having a little girl at home is no different from having a pet, and it's probably more fun than raising small animals.

Lu Liruan had no idea how he was portraying her in his mind, but she tried her best to communicate with him.

Upon hearing the address Lu Liruan gave, the other person paused, sounding somewhat hesitant.

"You live in..." she asked again.

“Yes, I heard from the older women in the yard that your rescue organization used to have feeding stations in the yard.” Lu Liruan steered the conversation toward this topic.

"Yes...that's true." More background noise came from the other end.

"Are you busy right now?" Lu Liruan heard the other person cover their phone and say something to someone behind them.

“Yes, I am very busy.”

"How about this? Give me your address, and I'll come over to talk to you in person when you have time. This way, we can save some communication trouble."

Fearing the other party might not agree, Lu Liruan added, "I know that adoption requires screening. It's perfect, you can also screen me to see if I'm suitable for adoption."

There was some hesitation on the other end, but after thinking for a moment, they agreed: "Okay, we have relief supplies arriving today, and everyone is busy moving things. I'm really sorry, we don't have time to talk to you any longer."

"It's alright, it's alright! I'm sorry for bothering you!" Lu Liruan breathed a sigh of relief.

"I'd like to add you on WeChat. I'll come over when you have time. Please accept my WeChat request!"

"Okay, please add a note when you add me later."

The other end was extremely busy and didn't say anything more to Lu Liruan before hanging up...

When Lu Liruan hung up the phone, she was still a little dazed, as if the other party had pressed the speed-up button.

"I didn't add you a few days ago, so you probably don't know who you are." Liao Tingyuan waved his hand in front of her eyes.

Lu Liruan grabbed his hand, realizing what he had just said, and pondered the conversation with the other side: "Teacher Liao, when I said I was staying there, did they seem a little strange?"

"Yes," Liao Tingyuan affirmed.

"What's going on here?" Lu Liruan asked, completely baffled.

“Let’s go there and ask in person. If you say you want to adopt, they’ll definitely agree.” Liao Tingyuan pursed his lips. “He looks like he can get along very well with small animals.”

Lu Liruan felt that something was off about that statement.

She turned her head and stared at Liao Tingyuan.

Liao Tingyuan still said the second half of the sentence: "Because it seems like we can communicate without any barriers..."

Lu Liruan: ? ?

“Teacher Liao, it seems like you could also be adopted,” Lu Liruan said, her mind racing.

“Because little animals are born knowing who their mother is! Hahaha!” Lu Liruan pointed at Liao Tingyuan and launched a loud counterattack.

Liao Tingyuan: ...

They really don't suffer any loss at all.

Lu Liruan had no idea that, according to their descriptions of each other, if the two of them went to adopt together, the scene would probably be: the mother leading the eldest child in the family to choose an adopted younger brother or sister.

It's a very peculiar metaphor, but it's also quite... vivid.

Lu Liruan added the other party again, and they accepted the request after a while.

"What if we actually adopt them?" Lu Liruan asked worriedly.

"I can't even support myself... Teacher Liao, do you like pets?"

Liao Tingyuan glanced at her and thought to himself, whether he liked her or not is another matter, but he felt like he had already taken her in: she suddenly appeared at home, acted spoiled while eating and didn't do any chores, would take over the bedroom, and usually brought people a good mood.

"Let's see how it goes. Maybe neither of us actually meets the requirements."

"What?"

“You’re renting a place, I don’t have time to spend with you,” Liao Tingyuan gave a very practical reason.

"Oh right..." Lu Liruan silently shed tears of joy: "I forgot I'm a penniless pauper!"

"It's okay..." Liao Tingyuan suddenly instinctively wanted to say: I can take care of you...

But then I realized that the sentence sounded a bit strange.

She changed the subject: "You'll have money once you start working."

Lu Liruan sighed, turned around, and curled up on the sofa: "It's so hard... Life is so hard! Why is life so hard!"

Liao Tingyuan nodded in agreement: "Yes."

"Teacher Liao, you don't want to go to work either?" Lu Liruan tilted her head and looked at him with one eye peeking out.

Liao Tingyuan was baffled: "Didn't you know I didn't like going to work from the very first day you met me?"

I just thought you hated working overtime...

Well, it seems nobody likes going to work, even Teacher Liao, who's sometimes like a paper doll. Thinking about it this way, Teacher Liao suddenly seems more alive.

Now that we've made contact, all that's left is to wait for when the other person has time.

Lu Liruan wanted to go into the yard again to see if she could run into the child, try to get some information out of him, and see if there was anything else she didn't know about his family.

They waited in the yard for two hours but still didn't see it.

"I wonder if the lady of the house's parents have left yet?" Lu Liruan asked Liao Tingyuan, who was standing next to her, as she swung on the exercise equipment.

"We can't just stay here and keep bothering people, can we?" Lu Liruan thought to herself, even from the perspective of the hostess, she found it annoying.

"It's so hot..." Lu Liruan waited a while longer, then sheepishly dragged Liao Tingyuan home with her after buying ice cream.

In the afternoon, the other party finally replied with a time.

They said Lu Liruan could go there tomorrow morning.

The address isn't far from here; it's about a 20-minute walk.

“Okay, okay!” Lu Liruan quickly replied.

The night was as calm as ever, but Lu Liruan had gotten into the habit of going out for a walk and sitting in the courtyard, as if the night belonged only to the two of them.

The moon hung hazy in the sky, creating an eerie atmosphere.

Liao Tingyuan stood under the tree, his figure slender. When he didn't speak, he seemed to blend into the atmosphere, becoming a part of the night. The branches hanging from the tree brushed against his shoulders, casting shadows of light and dark on his white shirt.

Lu Liruan thought to herself, "If only I could film this."

But at this time, no images should be preserved...

So Lu Liruan decided to take a closer look and memorize it.

Liao Tingyuan always has a calming aura that makes people feel at ease. It's as if everything around him is gentle, peaceful, and serene, which is somewhat captivating.

Lu Liruan slept well today. When she closed her eyes and opened them again, it was already past eight o'clock in the morning. The aroma of coffee wafted in through the crack in the door. She remembered that she had said last night that she wanted to drink coffee for breakfast, so Liao Tingyuan prepared it today.

"Good morning, Teacher Liao..." Lu Liruan rubbed her eyes and swayed out in her pajamas.

"Come and have breakfast, aren't we going out later?" Liao Tingyuan urged.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Lu Liruan brushed her teeth even faster.

What you think about will become what you see. When Lu Liruan and Liao Tingyuan walked along the path in the community, they saw the female homeowner and her parents in front of them.

The child was holding his mother's hand, and the woman was talking to her parents. Lu Liruan observed carefully and could clearly see that the expressions on the woman's parents' faces were not good. The mother even turned around and was talking to the woman in a rambling manner.

But the woman was no longer as hysterical as she had been a while ago; instead, she appeared remarkably calm and somewhat cold.

She paid no attention to what her mother said, but simply helped pull the suitcase and kept walking out.

As Lu Liruan and Liao Tingyuan passed by them, the child noticed them, smiled at them, and seemed to have recovered from the day before.

Lu Liruan quietly waved to him, and they exchanged a knowing glance.

"You'll regret this later, I'm telling you..."

"Oh, you child, why won't you listen to your father and me when we're trying to help you..."

When Lu Liruan passed by, the hostess's mother was still earnestly and incessantly talking about these things, and Lu Liruan frowned.

"Mom, my child and I don't need your and Dad's kindness anymore. The best thing you can do is go back now and stop interfering in my family affairs."

When Lu Liruan heard the hostess's cold and indifferent words, which made her mother sigh again, she secretly cheered.

"You should also think about your own child..."

"I'll listen to Mom! I want to stay with Mom forever! I support Mom!"

The child's clear voice rang out...

"Did we do anything to help?" Lu Liruan asked softly as she walked over.

"I guess so." Liao Tingyuan had also heard the conversation.

"We're awesome!" Lu Liruan glanced back furtively again.

Then he reached out his hand to Liao Tingyuan, and the two of them secretly and inexplicably gave each other a high five.

"yeah--"

Following the directions provided by the other party, the two successfully found the place.

It was a small warehouse with a small courtyard behind it.

After Lu Liruan entered, someone came over and asked what they were doing. Lu Liruan showed her her chat history and said that she was looking for someone.

"Ah! You're here to see Sister He! You can go right in, Sister He is working!"

A girl wearing a T-shirt with the word "volunteer" printed on it gave them directions.

Lu Liruan observed that the rescue site was not large in scale and there were not many people, but everyone was busy and seemed to be in a very orderly manner.

When Lu Liruan entered the house, an orange cat brazenly swung its big tail and stepped over Lu Liruan's feet.

Lu Liruan: ? ?

Then I watched helplessly as it stepped over Liao Tingyuan's shoes again.

"Hello?"

Lu Liruan couldn't resist bending down and quickly stroking the cat's head twice. When she looked up, she saw a girl wearing the same volunteer uniform walking over.

She wore large black-rimmed glasses, her hair was casually tied up, and her clothes had some stains, making her look very unkempt.

"Ah! Hello!" Lu Liruan smiled at her. "Your surname is He, right? We've been in contact on WeChat!"

"Oh! You can just call me He Yan. You two want to adopt, right?"

“Well, let’s learn about it first, since we don’t think having a pet is something that can be decided casually,” Liao Tingyuan interjected.

He Yan looked at Liao Tingyuan, then at Lu Liruan, and nodded: "Yes, we need to do some screening for couples who adopt pets here."

what?

Lu Liruan blinked and turned to look at Liao Tingyuan, only to see that Liao Tingyuan's expression hadn't changed at all, and he nodded in agreement: "Yes, we understand."

"Please have a seat. Let me finish organizing these things first." She walked to the door, picked up a box, and headed towards the warehouse.

Lu Liruan followed and bent down to help carry some of the box, but when she picked it up, she found it was extremely heavy. Seeing how effortlessly He Yan carried it, Lu Liruan had assumed it was something very light...

Liao Tingyuan helped Lu Liruan lift the load and followed behind He Yan.

He Yan smiled as she watched their actions, and without refusing, explained, "This contains the cat litter that was delivered today."

"I just finished registering the delivered items. Now I'll move the rest to the warehouse, and that will finish my work for the morning."

"It's alright, it's alright, we're not in a hurry. I'd like to volunteer here next time I have time," Lu Liruan said with a smile.

"Welcome! We're always short-staffed here, and we usually have to split one person in half to make use of them!" He Yan joked; she was a very cheerful girl.

"Does everyone here work here full-time?" Lu Liruan asked.

"No, most of them come here to help out during their spare time. There are also some aunties and uncles from the community who come to help out when they have nothing to do, so our shift schedule is quite complicated," He Yan explained to them.