Ch - 35 Influence ३

As for the changes that happened due to Swayam's integration.

Well in the original, since Xiao Che had a very weak body, he had to endure a lot of pain when Jasmine bite his hand, after which he also felt extremely fatigued due to loss of huge quantity of blood.

Although just like in the original timeline, Jasmine also bite Swayam but due to his situation being way better than the original he took it like a breeze. Now, as to how?

It was mainly due to the 'Self' integration and the physique alteration on the cellular level.

You see, due to Swayam's 'Self' being indestructible and Xiao Che's body being destructible, Swayam's 'Self' was slowly but surely making the housing vessel somewhat indestructible and adaptable for his 'Self'.

As to why Swayam didn't felt anything when Jasmine bite him was mainly due to the pain immunity receptors being the first few things which got integrated with this new vessel successfully, which caused him to not even crease his eyebrows.

It was due to his body being enhanced by the 'Primal' senses and his healing factor rapidly regenerating his body by digesting the food, was the other factor that he didn't felt any weaknesses.

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After somewhat purifying the contaminated area of the surroundings with the help of the Sky Poison Pearl, he headed towards his next destination.

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As he was walking towards the Xiao Clan's back wall, as expected, he spotted Xiao Lingxi sneakily walking towards his direction.

While tenderly gazing at her, he heard a vigilant voice with her melodies voice.

"Who is it?"

When Xiao Lingxi didn't heard a reply and when Swayam saw that she was about to shout to alert everyone, he calmly walked out from the shadows, opened his mouth and said in a caring caringly voice: "Little Xi... It's me..."

Not letting him finish his sentence, Xiao Lingxi dashed towards Swayam and found herself inside his warm embrace while also feeling him gently caressing her head.

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After spending some more time holding each other in the arms, Xiao Lingxi came back to her senses and hastily separated from him while stutteringly asking:

"X-Xiao Che, W-What are you doing here?"

Upon seeing the cute apperance of Xiao Lingxi as she stuttered, Swayam almost extended his hands to hold her in his embrace again but was somehow able to stop himself from doing that with a huge battle in his head.

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Seeing his dazed expression and not getting an answer from him, Xiao Lingxi waved her hand in front of his face as she again asked him the same question, although not stuttering this time.

"What are you doing here, Xiao Che?"

When Swayam saw the serious look in her eyes, he knew that she wouldn't let him go until he gave her a reasonable answer for him wandering near the outskirts of the Xiao Clan.

"I came here to look for you so that we can star gaze as we always do."

Even though Swayam didn't had the full control over Xiao Che's body just yet, and Xiao Lingxi also being a grandmaster at reading the Xiao Che's expressions, he knew that lying to her would be detrimental for him, so he just told her the 'truth' which actually wasn't a wrong statment since he indeed was expecting a meeting with her.

As for the Star gazing part, well that was technically a fact, since according to the original script, 'Xiao Che' indeed would have lied to her about stargazing.

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While intensely observing him and not seeing a single twitch of his facial muscles, Xiao Lingxi believed him and felt ecstatic on seeing that he cared for their stargazing together rather than spending his time with Xia Qingyue.

Although she knew that she shouldn't be thinking like that for the newly married couple, but she still couldn't help herself thinking like that and ended up feeling guilty.

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When Swayam saw the rapidly changing expression on Xiao Lingxi's face from confusion to suspicion, and eventually changed from ecstatic to guilt driven face, he deducted what was going through her little head, so to not make her feel like $#!T he lightly hit her head to divert her attention, which he succeeded by doing that.

"B-But shouldn't you be with Xia Qingyue?" Still with a slightly guilty look in her eyes, she hesitatingly asked about Xia Qingyue even though she didn't wanted to talk about her at the moment.

"Well, What's wrong? Why can't I be with whomever I want to spent my time with? And as for Xia Qingyue? It's somewhat complicated. Even though we are married and should be consummating about now but everything is not as simple as that." Swayam sighed after talking about his opinion and somewhat explained his complicated marriage.

Upon seeing that Xiao Lingxi was about to bombard him with infinite questions, Swayam hastily placed his finger on her cute lips and said: "Little Xi, please don't ask any questions regarding this topic, as I don't know how to answer them and also because I don't wanna lie to you."

After staying like that and staring at him for quite some time, Xiao Lingxi noticed that his gaze wasn't wavering even a little bit, she realised that something had changed inside her Xiao Che and the change was somewhat terrifying for her, even though she wanted to ask exactly what happened to him but her instincts were telling her otherwise, which was further making her have a headache.

While it was true that Swayam wasn't Xiao Che or Yun Che and had his own sence of self yet at the same time it was also true that he was somewhat influenced by Yun Che's memories of both his lives, which further made him have differing feelings for his close individuals.

It's just like whenever we see a show or a sad movie, the execution of it makes us sympathize with their characters and makes us route for them and even though we know that perticular character is the antagonist of that show but due to how their character is portrayed, we still feel emotional for them.

Swayam's situation was somewhat also like that, but the only difference with him was that he already knew about the development of the plot due to him having already read this story previously. So in a sense, he already had some feelings for the characters of this story, and thanks to that the influence of Yun Che's memories was minimal on him.

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To be continued~