How can I justify myself as a Magnate if I don't indulge myself?

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Gu Heng couldn’t be bothered with her haughty look and said directly, "Enough, stop dawdling, let’s head out."

As he spoke, he prepared to drag her downstairs.

But Lin Ran broke free of his hold and looked around Gu Heng’s empty room, "What’s the rush? I’m taking a stroll in your room. Honestly, I’ve never browsed a guy’s bedroom before.

Your room is really in a sorry state though."

Saying this, she began to look around Gu Heng’s room...

"Is this you as a kid?"

Lin Ran pointed to a photo embedded on the mirror of the wardrobe.

In the countryside, there weren’t many photo albums, and pictures were a rarity, so any photographs were placed in obvious spots like a mirror...

Gu Heng glanced over.

In the photo was a boy around ten years old, making a big peace sign with his fingers...

He casually nodded and said, "That’s me as a kid, should be from when my school took it for free when I was in elementary school."

Hearing Gu Heng admit it, Lin Ran immediately pulled the photo out and stuffed it into her coat pocket.

"Confiscated."

"???"

Gu Heng looked at her with a feigned expression of shock, "You don’t have some weird fetish, do you? Wanting to collect my childhood photo and then do indescribable things with it?"

Such teasing didn’t faze her at all...

Lin Ran glanced down at Gu Heng’s crotch and shot back, "You can’t even arouse anything in me now; you think your childhood photo will do the trick?"

"Your mouth is really tougher than my hook, talking as if it wasn’t you begging for mercy last time."

Reminded of their previous wild time, Lin Ran involuntarily blushed, but quickly pretended to be composed, "Don’t you know women are born actresses in that regard? It was all just an act to accommodate you.

No way, no way. You didn’t take it seriously, did you?"

"How about we try again tonight?"

"Get lost."

In the end, she didn’t give Gu Heng’s photo back...

Suddenly, she noticed two small Ultraman toys on a side cabinet next to the wardrobe. She walked over, picked one up in each hand, and teased him, "I wouldn’t have guessed you were still so childlike. Holding onto Ultraman toys, huh?"

Gu Heng didn’t react when Lin Ran took his photo, but his face changed when she picked up the Ultraman toys. He hurried over and snatched them from her hands...

The material of the Ultraman toys was of poor quality...

There were some rough edges here and there, and in his haste, Gu Heng had been too forceful, scratching Lin Ran’s fair hand with a long, red mark, causing her to inhale sharply from the pain... n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

Gu Heng saw her hand and felt that his reaction was a bit over the top, but only after carefully placing them back where they were did he apologize, "Sorry."

Lin Ran wasn’t some delicate princess and didn’t dwell on such a scratch—it would only hurt for a moment before healing soon after. Rather, she became more interested in Gu Heng’s agitated behavior.

"What’s up? Was this a token of love given to you by some childhood sweetheart?

Quite simple love symbols you had; loyalty tokens of Ultraman."

Gu Heng glanced at her and said dryly, "Nonsense about a sweetheart. This was my childhood."

"What do you mean?"

"Just what it sounds like.

I had collected over forty Ultraman toys back then. I had all five colors of Ultraman Tiga. Everyone within ten miles knew me as the Ultraman prince. No exaggeration, when Ultraman Tiga was at its peak, I borrowed more ’light’ than everyone else in this town combined!

But damn it, it must have been that he borrowed too much light at once, leaving me with no light at all for the next decade or so."

Talking about this, Gu Heng was brimming with pride...

"Then why are there only two left here?"

"My dad threw them away; out of 45 Ultraman toys, only these two survived. And these last two are only here because I hid them."

Gu Heng’s offhanded comment sent a chill through Lin Ran...

She could clearly sense the pride in Gu Heng’s eyes vanish in an instant...

"When were they thrown out?"

"During my senior year of high school."

"Why did he throw them away?"

"What else? My dad had high hopes for me; he wanted me to attend a good university. But I was ranked over 300 in my school, lucky to even get into a community college, and I didn’t want to study anymore.

Then my dad wanted me to bring him honor, so we argued.

In the end, he threw away all my collections in anger—Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, Ultraman toys, and A-shuai comics. That day marked the end of my childhood."

After finishing, he turned to look at the Ultraman toys on the table, smiling, "These two Ultraman toys are like fragments of my broken childhood memories, I guess."

Hearing Gu Heng’s carefree tone, Lin Ran fell silent...

She had been a model student excelling in both academics and character since childhood, plus her family was well-off, and her parents were enlightened...

She simply couldn’t empathize with Gu Heng...

But she knew that if the same had happened to her, she wouldn’t have been able to accept it...

This was the second time that Gu Heng had opened up about his childhood regrets to her, the first being in Wuzhen.

"Enough of this, why am I telling you so much? Let’s get going."

With these words, Gu Heng pulled Lin Ran out of the room.

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