Impossible

“Cheating, right?!”

Seeing the twelve-sided die in An Shiyu’s hand, Tang Keke immediately called out.

“Why can’t I bring my own die?” An Shiyu said, glancing at Tang Keke as she held the die in her hand.

“We’re all using six-sided dice, and you’re using a twelve-sided one—that’s clearly cheating!”

“Actually, the probability is the same.” An Shiyu spread her hands.

“Let me ask you: which is bigger, one-sixth or two-twelfths?”

Tang Keke was stumped by An Shiyu’s question. After thinking for a few seconds, she said, “You think that’s hard? They’re obviously the same.”

“Are you trying to trick me?”

“There you go—so if they’re the same, then a six-sided die and my twelve-sided die are equal, right?” An Shiyu said, opening her palms.

Tang Keke paused for a few seconds. “Hey, that does make sense…”

But something still felt off.

“No, no, that’s not right, is it? But yours is a twelve-sided die—the probability isn’t the same!” Tang Keke insisted.

“It is the same, even if the appearance is different,” An Shiyu sighed.

“A pound of iron and a pound of cotton weigh the same, even though they look different.”

Tang Keke, swayed by An Shiyu’s words, felt like there might be some truth to it.

“Sorry about that, go ahead and use it.” Thinking she had misunderstood An Shiyu, Tang Keke scratched her head. But then Bai Yuyou said from the side, “Keke, you’ve been led astray. A twelve-sided die has more numbers greater than five—it’s not a one-in-six chance.”

By then, An Shiyu had already rolled an eight and sent her airplane racing forward.

“Cheating!”

“It’s just a prop.” An Shiyu put on a blank expression, then casually put the twelve-sided die away. “Fine, I won’t use it. But this plane counts, right?”

“It can count, but you can’t use that die anymore,” Tang Keke huffed.

“No problem, no problem.” An Shiyu promptly picked up a six-sided die and started shaking it. But Tang Keke caught on and said,

“Hold on—why are you carrying so many dice? You have to use ours.”

An Shiyu countered, “Why?”

“Because… because,” Tang Keke stammered, “to guarantee fairness.”

An Shiyu asked, “In esports competitions, don’t players bring their own mouse and keyboard? Is that unfair?”

“Well… this…”

Keke was at a loss for words.

What could she do? An Shiyu’s logic seemed so sound that she couldn’t argue against it.

“I’m used to using my own dice. After all, as a professional Ludo player, reviving the glory of our region is my duty,” An Shiyu said, clutching her die.

“Didn’t you say you don’t play Ludo?”

“Oh, did I?”

Keke decided to ignore An Shiyu and continued rolling her own die.

But over the next few rounds, An Shiyu rolled several sixes in a row. Her game piece raced forward wildly, soon nearing the finish line.

“This… this can’t be right?” Keke was stunned. How could she be rolling that many sixes?

Her own dice kept coming up ones or twos, and her planes barely moved.

“Don’t underestimate my bond with the dice,” An Shiyu said, face expressionless.

“Bond my foot!”

Ye Shuang, who had been playing on his phone, glanced over at the Ludo game and seemed to notice something. Just as Keke started groaning, he picked up An Shiyu’s die—

“Hey! Give it back!”

Ye Shuang: “…”

He stayed silent for a moment, then pointed at the die, which had sixes on every side. “This thing—no matter how you roll it, it’s always going to be a six, right?”

Tang Keke hadn’t examined An Shiyu’s die closely, but when she heard Ye Shuang say that, she stood up. “Nice! Cheating again!”

“I’m not playing with you anymore!”

“Hacker!”

“Sneaky girl!”

“Flat chest!”

Before Tang Keke could finish muttering, An Shiyu grabbed her by the chest and said, “What was that you just said?”

“Ahh!”

Tang Keke ducked behind Bai Yuyou. “It’s true! You cheat at every little game—you’ve got no gamer spirit! I’m never playing with you again!”

She even stuck her tongue out at An Shiyu.

“Never playing with me again?” An Shiyu raised an eyebrow.

“I’d jump off the rooftop before playing with you again!” Tang Keke pouted angrily.

“Hmm, I recently have a few limited-edition figurines with nowhere to put them…” An Shiyu pretended to ponder. “Oh, and they’re from your favorite anime… what should I do…”

The next second, Tang Keke was back in her seat, holding the die with a solemn expression. “If you’re willing to give them to me, I’d gladly rise as a mortal to rival the gods. Even the all-six die is not invincible.”

Ye Shuang sat to the side, his mouth twitching.

Keke was completely wrapped around An Shiyu’s finger.

But thinking about it, why had they started playing Ludo in the first place?

It was to prove that Ludo was easy, right?

And yet An Shiyu had both cheated and bribed her way through.

From that perspective, she hadn’t really won over Keke so easily. In fact, Little yu might have already lost.

Whatever—as long as they were having fun.

“Little Yezi, don’t learn from your Sister Fish,” Ye Shuang reminded the little girl.

“Oh?”

Yezi nodded.

Today’s winner: An Shiyu, defeated (?)

…

…

Monday rolled around, and Ye Shuang finally had time to go to the academy. Since Yezi’s enrollment paperwork hadn’t been processed yet, he simply brought her along.

As for Keke and Bai Yuyou, they seemed to prefer walking to school. Unless it was raining, they usually didn’t take Ye Shuang’s car.

What had started as a morning duo had become a trio with the addition of Taozi.

“Is that so? Brother Ye is going to adopt Yezi?”

When Taozi heard this news, she was a bit surprised. Since Yezi’s parents hadn’t been found yet, wouldn’t it be unwise for Brother Ye to adopt a child like that? Besides, Sister Chen Qin was pregnant.

“Ye Shuang said that we’ll be Yezi’s parents from now on,” Bai Yuyou said. “Don’t worry, I’ll be a good mother.”

“I get the feeling you have no idea what being a mother really means,” Taozi said.

“How do you become a mother?”

“Hmm…” Taozi thought for a moment, then said, “At the very least, you have to breastfeed the child?”

Bai Yuyou looked down and touched herself.

It seemed… there wasn’t anything?

Then Bai Yuyou looked at Tang Keke.

“Even though they’re big, there’s no way I have any,” Tang Keke said, as if reading Bai Yuyou’s eyes, hugging her schoolbag.

“You need to have a baby first before you can produce milk, Yuyou. Don’t worry, with Brother Ye around, taking care of a little kid shouldn’t be hard,” Taozi said with a smile.

“So I still need to have a baby,” Bai Yuyou concluded.