"What kind of relationship?"
Regarding this question, Ye Shu thought for a moment.
Maid? Sister? Wife? Lover? Childhood sweetheart? Friends with benefits? Star slave? Bed-warming maid?
Countless identities flashed through his mind.
Eventually, Ye Shu decided to give up thinking about it.
He raised his hand and rubbed Ye Xiaosu's head, his tone gentle. "Whatever relationship Xiaosu wants, that's what it will be."
"Really?"
"Of course it's true."
"Then... then Xiaosu wants..."
Ye Xiaosu opened her mouth, hesitated for a moment, but continued, "Then Xiaosu still prefers to be Young Master's maid and serve Young Master, but..."
She lowered her head, her face a little red.
"The kind of maid who can warm your bed."
Hearing this, Ye Shu wasn't surprised.
This faint sense of inferiority was deeply rooted in Ye Xiaosu's heart. Even though she had wanted to force herself on him earlier, that was merely a desperate act born from a complete loss of security.
When she regained hope, that cautiousness naturally resurfaced.
Despite coming from a world where everyone was equal, Ye Shu wasn't going to say things to Ye Xiaosu like, "Don't treat yourself as a maid, we are equal, we are lovers."
That kind of cliché plot was simply too idiotic.
Because to a girl who had been raised from a young age to be a maid, such words were utter nonsense and would only make her feel panicked and uncomfortable.
As long as he treated Xiaosu as an equal, as a sister, that would be enough.
As for whether Xiaosu considered herself a sister, that wasn't important.
Many times, one shouldn't force a change in someone's perception, because that often backfires.
"Alright, then we'll be just like before."
Ye Shu smiled and patted Ye Xiaosu's head. "Get up, help your Young Master change clothes."
"Mhm!"
Ye Xiaosu nodded heavily and smiled happily.
She quickly climbed up, skillfully made the bed, carefully cut out a piece of the bedsheet stained with red plum blossoms, put it away, and then took out Ye Shu's clothes to dress him neatly.
Her movements were smooth and flowing, completed in one breath. This was what she had been doing for fifteen years.
"Young Master..."
While dressing Ye Shu, Ye Xiaosu opened her mouth several times to speak, but swallowed her words back, so much so that she didn't even straighten his collar properly.
Seeing her little appearance, Ye Shu couldn't help but laugh.
"Just say what you want to say."
"If you're afraid I'll be angry if you say it, come to my room tonight, and we'll change to a different position..."
Hearing this, Ye Xiaosu's pretty face blushed, and she shot him a reproachful glare.
"Young Master is bad, bullying Xiaosu again."
Ye Shu burst into loud laughter.
After laughing, Ye Xiaosu finally mustered up her courage and asked the question she had been wanting to ask. "Young Master, why did you suddenly... um... share the bridal chamber with Xiaosu? Xiaosu clearly did such a terrible thing to Young Master, tying Young Master up, and even wanted to imprison Young Master forever, never letting Young Master go out..."
"Such a Xiaosu is really too awful!"
"But... but Young Master still..."
Looking at that anxious and confused little face, Ye Shu smiled faintly, hugged her dotingly in his arms, and comforted her, "Then let me ask you, Xiaosu. Clearly, in your memories, I treated you like that in my previous life. Do you have any hatred in your heart?"
"No."
Ye Xiaosu shook her head.
"Any resentment?"
"No either."
"Then did Xiaosu hurt me, or rather, did Xiaosu ever think about hurting me?"
"Of course not!"
Ye Xiaosu's eyes widened as she quickly denied it. "How could Xiaosu ever hurt Young Master? Xiaosu just... just didn't want Young Master to leave Xiaosu..."
"Then does Xiaosu like Young Master?"
"Of course I do!"
Ye Xiaosu nodded heavily.
"Then isn't that enough?" Ye Shu smiled and shook his head. "Even when you were like that, you never thought of hurting me."
He hugged Ye Xiaosu a bit tighter.
"Since you have such a heart, how could I let down such a beauty?"
Ye Xiaosu hugged his waist tightly with both hands, buried her head in his chest, and a happy smile appeared on her face.
Suddenly, she raised her head, blinked her eyes, and asked:
"Young Master, what did you mean by what you just said? What 'Qing' and what 'Jia', is it something delicious to eat?"
"........."
Ye Shu helplessly flicked her forehead. "Our Xiaosu is an illiterate little dummy."
"Wu... Xiaosu just needs Young Master and that's enough~"
Ye Xiaosu covered her forehead and muttered softly.
"Anyway, let's go out first. My damn old man is probably going crazy looking for us, thinking we eloped."
"Mhm mhm!"
So Ye Xiaosu started packing up the things inside.
Meanwhile, Ye Shu strode toward the wardrobe, opened the door, picked up the already dehydrated Xiaobai, gave her a hard shake, and then grabbed the teapot on the table and splashed it violently over her.
Splash—
Xiaobai shuddered, sat up dripping wet, her eyes dazed.
"Where... where am I?"
She remembered now. She had watched for three days and three nights until her tears had run dry, and then she had passed out directly from dehydration.
"You, you heartless bastard!"
Having cleared her thoughts, Xiaobai suddenly raised her head, bounced onto Ye Shu's shoulder, and grabbed his neck, shaking him back and forth. "You actually did it with her, and you did it for three days and three nights!"
"Do you know how I lived these past few days?"
"My hands are almost numb!"
Ye Shu was rendered speechless as she choked him.
"Weren't you the one who wanted me to get along with the female lead? Now that we actually are, you're not happy."
"That's different!"
Xiaobai raised her willow-like eyebrows and glared at him.
"How is it different?"
"Everything is different!" Xiaobai roared hysterically. "After getting out of trouble, you were supposed to comfort Ye Xiaosu, and then use your words to untie the knot in her heart."
"Although you two are together, you shouldn't have slept together."
"Including the future female leads, although you should develop feelings for them, you must never sleep with them. You should always keep the readers in suspense, capturing their hearts one by one, leaving romance but no seed, and eventually ascending to the Immortal Realm without ever taking a bite, keeping yourself pure and chaste."
"Instead of being like this—doing it like crazy the moment you confirm your relationship, doing it for three days and three nights, and even making me watch! Making me hide in the closet and watch all by myself!"
"The eunuch protagonist route is not like this at all!"
"I do not accept this!"
"Gu gu ga ga!!!!"
Xiaobai let out exasperated squawks, her eyes turning red as she choked his neck and shook him back and forth.
According to her vision, she was supposed to be the ultimate winner.
This group of female leads could only be looked at but not eaten. Yet, not even sixty chapters in, before even leaving the beginner village, she was cucked.
And cucked right to her face!
rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
u Chenyuan transmigrated into a female-oriented novel about a real and fake heiress, becoming the CEO elder brother of both. Unfortunately, the entire Lu family—including himself, the CEO—were mere cannon fodder in the story. Determined to save himself, Lu Chenyuan took action. The spoiled, attention-seeking fake heiress? Thrown into the harsh realities of the working class to learn humility. The love-struck real heiress? Pushed toward academic excellence, so lofty goals would blind her to trivial romances. As for the betrayed, vengeful arranged marriage wife… the plot hadn’t even begun yet. There was still time—if he couldn’t handle her, he could at least avoid her. "CEO Lu, are you avoiding me?" Mo Qingli fixed her gaze on Lu Chenyuan. For the first time, the shrewd and calculating Lu Chenyuan felt a flicker of unease.
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
