Except for Qingmo

The facts proved that Xia's Father and Xia's Mother still cared about Xia Yueshan and Xia Muzhu in their hearts.

The conversation between the two of them last night was interrupted by the hot-tempered Xia Yueshan before they could finish.

It was true that they were divorced and were already preparing to start their own new families abroad. However, if Xia Muzhu and Xia Yueshan were willing, Xia's Father and Xia's Mother could still bring them overseas.

At that time, whichever parent they wanted to live with, Xia's Father and Xia's Mother would agree.

If neither of them wanted to go abroad and preferred to stay in the country, Xia's Father and Xia's Mother would continue to send them money regularly as before.

Xia Muzhu told her brother about their parents' proposal. Xia Yueshan's attitude was firm, summed up in two words.

Not going!

Xia Yueshan wasn't stupid.

He knew going abroad would bring a lot of trouble. Putting aside the inconveniences of daily life, just the thought of living day in and day out with a stranger he'd have to call stepdad or stepmom was something he couldn't accept!

He didn't want those cliché, dramatic TV plotlines about being mistreated by a stepparent to happen to him.

After stating his own thoughts, he looked at his older sister and asked for her opinion.

Xia Muzhu curved her lips into a gentle smile, her eyes filled with an undeniable sweetness.

Her attitude was probably even firmer than Xia Yueshan's...

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As he ate the crispy little cookies Xia Muzhu had just baked, Lin Yu suddenly realized something quite serious.

He was staying at Xia Muzhu's place every day, eating her food, drinking her drinks... wasn't he just living off her?

Hmmmmmm...

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So, living off someone was such a wonderful thing.

So blissful~

Delicious, love eating them, want to eat them for a lifetime!

Time passed day by day. By the seventh day of the lunar new year, Lin Yu felt his ankle had pretty much recovered, so he picked up his fitness plan again, which he had to abandon due to the injury.

Worried that intense exercise might affect his ankle's recovery, Lin Yu decided to start with upper body workouts, doing basic exercises like push-ups and sit-ups.

Noticing there was a punching bag in Xia Yueshan's bedroom, Lin Yu started hitting it in his spare time.

Lin Yu's sudden enthusiasm for fitness reawakened a deep-seated obsession in Xia Yueshan's memory. He began pestering Lin Yu to teach him some cool and powerful martial arts moves. While the "monkey steals the peach" move was effective, it really wasn't honorable!

Remembering his earlier promise to Xia Yueshan, Lin Yu didn't refuse and asked him what he wanted to learn.

Xia Yueshan's small eyes sparkled with great excitement, and like reciting a comic crosstalk skit listing dishes, he rattled off a series of martial arts moves that only existed in fantasy.

Things like the Yi Jin Jing, the Nine Yang Divine Skill, the Solitary Nine Swords, and he even brought up the Buddha's Fury Lotus.

Lin Yu listened, rolling his eyes. He glared at him and asked sarcastically if he wanted to learn the Sunflower Manual too.

In the end, Lin Yu taught him a few more grappling moves, showed him some of the more vulnerable pressure points on the human body, and taught him some fighting techniques.

Like where to hit someone to cause the most damage while still avoiding serious injury that could lead to legal trouble.

Lin Yu also taught him a little sneaky...

No.

A little combo. When fighting someone, you could start by giving them an unexpected slap.

The slap is actually quite hard to dodge; it's not only quick to initiate, but because it comes from the side, sometimes the opponent doesn't even see your hand moving before your palm connects with their face.

After being slapped, the opponent enters a brief state of dazed confusion. Afterwards, their rage meter will max out, and their attack power will increase somewhat.

What you need to do is seize the opportunity while they're still dazed and follow up with a punch to the stomach.

The stomach is a relatively soft area on the body, but the strange thing is it's generally not easy to seriously injure. One solid punch there, and the opponent pretty much loses the ability to fight back.

Actually, when you get down to it, if you're at an absolute disadvantage in terms of strength, all the methods above are pretty much useless.

The most effective move is still "monkey steals the peach."

That particular area doesn't become more resistant to hits through exercise or growing up!

Lin Yu thought that after teaching Xia Yueshan these things, he would be satisfied and stop pestering him.

But he didn't expect Xia Yueshan to make a request that sent a cold sweat down Lin Yu's back.

"Teach me how to read faces!"

When Xia Yueshan said this, Lin Yu was initially very dismissive. Teach you face reading? Should I teach you dragon-searching and gold-divining too?

But quickly, Lin Yu remembered that last year, in order to get close to Xia Muzhu, he had used that very excuse to fool Xia Yueshan.

Thinking of that, Lin Yu was truly at a loss.

Where would he know how to read faces? That line was just something he came up with on the spot back then.

About face reading, the only things Lin Yu knew were "a darkening between the eyebrows" and "impending disaster." That's common knowledge for everyone on Earth.

With no other choice, Lin Yu had to improvise on the spot, saying this kind of skill wasn't something ordinary people could see, talking about how mysterious and ineffable it was. He basically focused on baffling him with bullshit, leaving Xia Yueshan utterly bewildered.

What Lin Yu said was very exaggerated, and most people hearing it would think he was just making things up.

But Xia Yueshan deeply believed Lin Yu's explanation. The events of last year were still fresh in his mind; if Lin Yu couldn't read faces, how did he know his older sister would be in danger?

In the end, Lin Yu managed to perfectly bluff his way through this matter.

The night was deep. After washing up and lying in bed, having grown tired of scrolling through his phone, Lin Yu looked at the ceiling and suddenly thought of something.

That "whole family fun" hentai manga plotline he had been avoiding was actually quite difficult to achieve in real life.

Presumably, no one would be willing to share their significant other with others.

Let alone being so open and "frank" with each other.

In the original hentai manga plot, the four female leads were all coerced or forced by the original antagonist into doing those things.

The antagonist had leverage over them, so naturally, they couldn't resist whatever he said.

But now it was different. He didn't have any leverage over them, nor would he force them to do anything. As normal people, why would they ever be willing to do those kinds of things?

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Qing Mo doesn't count; she's not normal!

Thinking this, Lin Yu let out a long, relieved sigh, feeling that the corrupted ending from the hentai manga was growing more and more distant from him.

He might not even need to worry about it at all.

Even if he were willing, they probably wouldn't be!

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Right.

As the saying goes.

Qing Mo is the exception!