"There really are so many people. Yuyou, Yuyou, are you listening to me?"
Bai Yuyou, who was currently chewing on some roast goose, turned her head around. Seeing Keke pulling her arm, she tilted her head slightly. "Oh?"
"Yuyou, look, it seems like I've seen some of these people online before." Keke pointed at the people in the venue. However, Bai Yuyou didn't recognize any of them; after all, she didn't enjoy surfing the web as much as Keke did.
Of course, it wasn't that Yuyou didn't know how to go online to learn about various things or memes. It was just that a while ago, she had used an old internet catchphrase, only for Keke to roast her for using such a stale, outdated meme. From that moment on, Yuyou stopped paying attention to those kinds of things.
"Aren't the dishes here super expensive?" Zhixia and the others looked at the food on the table. If it wasn't lobster and king crab, it was roast suckling pig and bird's nest. In any case, there wasn't a single cheap ingredient in sight.
"Well, it's not like we're the ones treating, so it doesn't matter," Keke said.
"That's true, but it still feels a bit awkward eating all this..." Linlin scratched her head in embarrassment while looking at the king crab leg in her hand. After all, they had just tagged along for a free meal and hadn't even prepared a red envelope. They didn't even know what this banquet was really for.
"Look over there, what's there to be embarrassed about?" Keke reached out and pointed.
Following the direction Keke was pointing, Linlin and Zhixia noticed two fishes who were currently stuffing their faces with food.
Why wouldn't we eat? Is it better to waste food? I'm just going to eat, eat, eat like a tornado. Whoever bothers me gets a kick, and then I'll keep eating. I came here to eat. If I'm not eating, why even attend a banquet? Eat, eat, eat. Eat while dancing.
An Shiyu and An Shiyi weren't holding back at all. Just the two of them had already cleared out more than half of the seafood, and they even asked Kou Kou to bring out some more.
"Uh..." Linlin and Zhixia stared at the empty plates. So An Shiyu could eat just as much as Yuyou?
"See? We can eat without worrying," Keke said with a shrug.
"True."
The girls finally relaxed and began to enjoy the delicacies on the table. Meanwhile, Kou Kou had instructed the kitchen to prepare even more dishes. Even though there was a set amount of food for each table, An Shiyu and Chao Yiyu had somehow turned it into an all-you-can-eat king crab buffet.
However, Ye Shuang had told Kou Kou to take good care of everyone, so Kou Kou didn't feel any psychological burden and simply joined in on the feast.
"Oh? I can run into you guys here too?" Just as Bai Yuyou and Keke were eating, they heard a voice from behind. Turning around, they saw a blonde girl standing there. She was wearing an incredibly exquisite black evening gown, and even her twin-tails were adorned with jeweled crowns that sparkled under the lights.
"If you eat that much, you'll get fat," Alice said, revealing her little canine teeth. She then used a small fan to cover half of her face, her eyes narrowing cutely. "Hmph, hmph."
Standing next to Alice like an iron tower, Bobo also greeted everyone present. "Good evening."
"Alice, why are you here too?" Keke was curious to see her.
"I've endorsed products for the Chen family before. Isn't it completely normal for them to invite a lady like me?" Alice said, looking left and right.
"Where's my chair?"
"Chair?" Keke pointed at an empty seat at the table. "You can just sit there."
"The chair I'm talking about isn't that one. It's a human chair named Ye Shuang." Alice closed her lady's fan and searched for Ye Shuang's figure.
"To actually treat my brother as a chair, you really are a piece of work, you blonde," Keke said.
"Ye Shuang is not a chair," Bai Yuyou added.
Alice gave a light hmph and sat down in the empty seat. "Since that's the case, I suppose I'll just make do with this chair for a while."
"That really is asking a lot of you," Keke remarked.
"After all, Lady Alice has been looking for Mr. Ye Shuang the moment she walked in," Bobo chimed in from the side.
"Shut up, Bobo!"
Bobo merely smiled. His gaze then fell upon the two fishes sitting across the table. Seeming to sense something, his eyes lingered on the two of them for quite a while before he casually looked away.
"Here." Bai Yuyou used her chopsticks to place a piece of roast goose on Alice's plate.
"No, that'll make me fat. I'll just eat vegetables," Alice shook her head. She then noticed the little girl sitting next to Bai Yuyou. "Oh, where did this kid come from?"
"My daughter," Bai Yuyou introduced Little Yezi.
"Your... your daughter?" Alice froze for a moment. She observed Little Yezi for a few seconds before asking Bai Yuyou, "At what age did you give birth to her?"
Isn't this a crime?!
"Hello, big sister," Little Yezi spoke up.
"Oh, hello," Alice replied, her focus still entirely on Bai Yuyou.
Could she have had a child with Ye Shuang?
Even taking hormones wouldn't make her grow that fast, right?
"Actually, she's my brother's daughter," Tang Keke interjected, seemingly wanting to observe Alice's reaction.
"He has a child?!" Alice was in disbelief.
"Yeah, isn't she cute?"
Alice bit her fingernail, seemingly unable to accept this reality. After all, that kid wasn't even that much younger than she was.
While her imagination was running wild, Bai Yuyou added, "Ye Shuang picked her up."
"Picked her up?"
"Mhm."
Alice remained silent for a few seconds before looking at Keke, who was trying hard to hold back her laughter. "You jerk! Bobo, smash her backpack flat!"
"Lady Alice, please mind your image at the banquet."
"Hmph."
Just as the girls were bickering, two people approached them, stopping next to An Shiyu.
Sensing someone standing beside her, An Shiyu glanced back and saw Luo Qunfa and Luo Meng.
An Shiyu didn't recognize Luo Meng, but she remembered this chubby, balding man very clearly.
"Why is it you again?" Seeing Luo Meng, Tang Keke crossed her arms.
Is this woman here to pick a fight again?
How annoying.
Luo Meng hadn't expected to run into Keke and the others here either. Remembering the purpose of her visit, she felt so awkward her toes could have curled right through the soles of her shoes.
"G-Good evening, everyone," Luo Meng smiled awkwardly.
Seeing Luo Meng's current attitude, Keke seemed to understand something. "We actually preferred the arrogant way you were acting earlier. How about you switch back?"
Luo Meng took a deep breath, suppressing her inner emotions, and just smiled.
An Shiyu looked at Luo Qunfa. "What do you want?"
Luo Qunfa offered an apologetic smile, completely lacking the aggressive aura he had during the day when he was pointing and cursing at the two fishes. He simply said, "Um, Miss An Shi, this is a classic case of friendly fire. It was all a misunderstanding."
"We came over to apologize to you."
Hearing this, An Shiyu raised an eyebrow.
"What? You're this old and you still want to sell your ass?!"
Her voice wasn't too loud or too soft, but it was just enough to attract the attention of several surrounding tables.
Luo Qunfa was stunned: "Huh?"
his freshman year, Su Bai accidentally bound the "Indulgence Tycoon System." 【Sleeping in? Reward: +$1,000】 【Spent $288 at a street barbecue stall? Cashback: +$2,880】 【Dropped $14,396 on in-game skins? Special reward unlocked: A brand-new Porsche Panamera!】 Luxury cars, penthouses, corporate shares, financial empires… College life was all about living freely and doing whatever he pleased! … When the adorably naive academic genius faced family medical bills and financial struggles, Su Bai waved his hand dismissively: "Your future is on me." "Wuwu~ Big Brother is so good to me! I’ll become a scientist to repay you!" When the genius girl got bullied by a shady professor? Su Bai casually dropped a billion-dollar investment, forcing the university to grovel and beg for her return. A company’s funding chain collapsing? Su Bai smirked—cash was the one thing he’d never run out of. Years later, when people traced the rise of the AI prodigy beauty, who was the man behind her success? Not just that—Su Bai also became the tsundere campus belle’s unattainable dream, the contrast senior’s daily necessity, and the beautiful counselor’s emotional anchor…
lan, the Luo family, tracked him down - along with the babies in their arms. Mo Xuan stared pensively at the paternity test results from over a dozen top institutions, both domestic and international, showing a 99.99% match between himself and the two baby girls. At 23, Mo Xuan, a doctoral student, had become the father of two three-year-old children. The kicker? The mothers weren't even the same person! He gradually realized he was being lured step by step into an elaborate trap designed by these two yandere sisters. "Be good, little Xuan. Sister's life belongs to you entirely." "Brother, if you try to run away, I'll have no choice but to tie you up." Mo Xuan: "Do whatever you want, ladies. I give up."
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
