[BL] Debut in Interstellar After Retiring as Grim Reaper-Chapter 24 - : Li Bai

Chapter 24: Li Bai

Is there someone Qin An felt connected to? None probably.

He was a complete loner in his past life. Never did he have someone, right? Qin An coudn't really remember if that happened. He just lived for too long that he didn't even notice how long it passed. Like a tireless machine that never ends. If it weren't for the Judge to suddenly ask for his gift that he somehow uttered those words unexpectedly.

Be a human. For what exactly? Why?

Pei Roujin said that he was driven by the passion of his eagerness to try different lives and he was persuaded by the love given by his fans. He was able to find connections between them so he was able to move forward even if it meant experiencing the sacrifices that he had made.

Then what about him? Qin An tried to recall his old memories in case he really met someone but to no avail. It was all blank and was only left with memories of him fighting non-stop and guiding the souls without an expression.

He was even more puzzled. So, how can he do this?

Qin An's brow frowned in distress again for the nth time already. It seems that since joining this competition would always change his worldview again and again.

Humans are really complicated to be. That's what he often heard and only now that he's experiencing personally that he truly understood.

Qin An went back to the training room in vain and sat on the cold floor. His back leaned on the mirror wall and stared at the ceiling blankly.

All his actions clearly say that he was really helpless at this moment. It was such a rare thing for his past life but in this second life, just how many times has he already been sighing for feeling helpless about his situation? He really couldn't remember.

Time slowly passed by and he made no single movement that even the Director behind the scene almost thought their cameras broke. If it weren't for his chest going up and down and with his eyes blinking from some time, they really would have thought that he's a doll.

All this stalemate didn't escape from the mentor's eyes when they started inspecting the training rooms for short monitoring.

After seeing Qin An's lifeless state, they wondered why as this expression almost only reveals during a tight situation. What happened to this kid?

They look at Pei Roujin who visited Qin An earlier. The latter shrug casually and told them what happened earlier.

"...."

They look back at the young man again and Lin Yu sighs. "I think this stage would really push this classmate off right?"

Xu Xinyi snorted. "Why such a fuss? If it weren't for the higher-ups, how can he enter this competition? Although I am not prejudicing some students, what's the matter with Qin An? His IQ looks okay but is his EQ empty?"

The other mentors could only look speechlessly at how irritated she looked. Xu Xinyi really hates this method even if Qin An won fairly from the votes.

Lin Yu sighs deeply inside his heart and mutters good luck to the young man on screen. It's clear that she's not gonna let him off her clutches.

Meanwhile back to the training room again, Qin An didn't know how much time had passed. He was sitting in daze until he suddenly felt the familiar grumbling of his stomach.

He's hungry.

Qin An subconsciously looked at his side but didn't see the familiar nagging of a young man who always reminded him to eat on time.

Li Bai isn't here with him.

Qin An stood up to go to the pantry even if he wasn't feeling like eating. If Li Bai would see him getting lazy and forget the time, he's sure that the young man's voice would ring again as if nagging him won't tire his mouth.

He just shook his head helplessly and was about to walk when a familiar figure of someone flashes on his mind and it seems like something clicks inside him.

Right.

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It's because of him.

It's because of Li Bai.

Qin An chose this path because of that Manager who does have endless energy to take care of him.

But why? Why would he choose to stay for others? Was it because of Li Bai's persistence about taking care of him non-stop? Qin An remembered the short time they spent together inside that apartment. He remembered his nagging voice for how he would always forget even for some simplest way of living but it always contained worry for him.

For someone like him even if they only knew each other in a short time.

Is that what a human heart is? And is someone like Li Bai the fans like Pei Roujin talked about?

Just that thought finally made him stop as he felt something warm inside his heart.

Qin An subconscious put his hand on his heart. Being a grim reaper, they don't even have a heartbeat, but ever since he came here, the temperature of his body became warm and he also felt the beating of the organ inside him.

Qin An was finally a human who was capable of feeling something... right?

And one of those feelings is about being grateful to someone who had been there for him all the time.

That's right. It was Li Bai who's with him when he came to this world. It was him who took care of him all day, constantly worrying about himself.

Qin An never experienced that in the past because the grim reaper doesn't have a family nor is he someone to take care about. No one bothers to get close to him because of his strength and isolation.

So now that Qin An had that someone, he just subconsciously felt that it was right for him to do something for that young man who put effort into him.

Was that the meaning of being grateful? To think about letting someone who helped you feel the warmth inside your heart also feel the feeling of it? To reciprocate what others made you feel good about?

And what did Li Bai want? Was it for him to take the stage again and debut? That's why he's doing this.

Just like the lyrics of the song, they both become the light of each other because they made each other feel good and felt the connection between it to move forward for a better future.

At that moment, it was only when Qin An felt that being a human is also a good thing. To be able to feel good emotion inside him, the rejection inside him finally decreases.

And due to that, Qin An was finally enlightened and took the stage more seriously this time.

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