Rosa Linda took the thick cloth clothes and hung them on the rack, and then took off her veil. She breathed out a wisp of white hot air.
"Auntie, how did you get here?" Lin Feng ran to the kitchen and poured a cup of hot tea.
When he came out, Rosa Linda was already squatting by the fireplace to warm herself.
She was shivering, and kept muttering, "Freezing to death... getting colder every year..."
Emily woke up with a start on the sofa, staring blankly at Rosa Linda.
"Didn't I tell you to come see you when I recovered? "
Lin Feng wiped away some cold sweat for her. It was lucky she was able to find her way here.
"Mom!" Emily called out, and quickly tidied up her clothes.
Rosa Linda glanced at her and looked her up and down in her outfit: "It's so cold this year, and you're only wearing this little?"
"I was just about to sleep with him." Emily bent down to pick up the fire tongs and threw in several more pieces of wood.
"You're doing this first thing in the morning? I should have come at night." Rosa Linda took the scalding tea water handed to her and drank it straight down without even blowing on it.
After drinking it, she breathed a comfortable sigh.
"We'll do it at night too." Emily didn't even blink as she said it.
Her gaze lingered briefly on Lin Feng, then looked back to Emily.
"Young people may be hot-blooded, but you still need to endure if you can. Otherwise you'll damage your kidneys at a young age, which would be troublesome."
Lin Feng sighed.
And it seemed that Emily's personality was probably inherited.
These mother and daughter didn't shy away from saying anything in front of him as a man.
Yuna also heard the commotion and was peeking out observing this unexpected guest.
The observant Rosa Linda immediately noticed her, and asked Lin Feng, "Who is this?"
Lin Feng didn't know how to respond for a moment, but his instinct told him that honesty was the right approach.
So he crooked a finger for Yuna to come over, and put his arm around her waist, "This is my wife Yuna, she is from the Silver Wolf Tribe."
Rosa Linda snorted lightly, "You sure know how to enjoy yourself, I underestimated you before."
She looked Yuna up and down, then glanced at Emily again.
Emily understood the meaning in her eyes, and sighed softly, "Don't worry Mom, Yuna is a kind and good girl, I like her a lot too."
"Alright, as long as you're happy." Rosa Linda patted her ample chest.
Lin Feng observed this mother and daughter closely, and sighed softly.
He didn't know if it was his imagination, but he felt his mother-in-law was much livelier than when they met before.
Originally there was such a huge difference between her before and after illness.
Not only was she more direct in her speech, she looked quite a bit more beautiful too...
"Auntie, how did you find your way here?"
"Didn't you give me the address?" Rosa Linda rested her hand on the backrest, twisting her body to face Lin Feng, "There were road signs, and I can read, so it wasn't hard to find this place."
Rosa Linda pointed upstairs, "And I saw the Holy Flower from far away, you have it on the second floor windowsill, though it's missing two petals, but it's still recognizable."
"Weren't there guards? How did you get into the city?"
"Simple, I saw a freight wagon and snuck inside to sneak in. " Rosa Linda looked very smug, "It's cold out, the guards didn't want to move at all, they just glanced inside the wagon and let it in."
This...
This mother-in-law really was bold and daring.
If she had gotten caught, it definitely wouldn't have ended well.
Emily wondered, "What about my brother? Did you leave him at home alone?"
In her eyes, her brother would always be a child who never grew up.
"Your brother? He's being chased by a bunch of women now, as you know, with so few men in the tribe, your brother has naturally been eyed." Rosa Linda shook her head, looking quite helpless, "He doesn't even go home now."
"That brat... I'll teach him a lesson when I go back someday."
"Teach him what? He's over ten already, settling down early wouldn't be bad." Rosa Linda crossed her legs nonchalantly, she was very open-minded, "I was bored at home alone anyway, so I came to join you all, and see how you're doing at the same time."
Lin Feng thought, the first part was her main reason, the second was just incidental.
So the reason the mother-in-law chose this time to come was because she was bored.
"I'll just live with you all from now on."
"Huh? You're not going back?"
"Go back and do what? All alone, with no one to talk to." Rosa Linda raised an eyebrow, looking at Emily, "Or do you all not welcome me?"
Emily was instantly rendered speechless.
To be honest, she didn't mind living under the same roof as her mom.
But... having several beastmen living in a human city felt a bit odd somehow.
"Mom, you're still young, why not..."
"Nonsense, I'm already thirty-four, in another fifty or sixty years I'll be buried in the ground too. I've gotten used to being alone all these years." Rosa Linda chuckled lightly, then added, "And are there even men left in the tribe?"
Lin Feng listened in from the side, feeling this mother-in-law spoke in an amusing way.
But beastmen have relatively short juvenile and elderly periods, with most of their time being mature adults.
Her describing herself this way was a bit exaggerated.
"If I'm disturbing you all, I'll go back to the tribe after winter passes." Rosa Linda's tone carried a hint of dejection.
???
Seeing Emily not responding, Lin Feng hurriedly smoothed things over: "Of course not, I very much welcome Auntie to come stay with us."
"Since you say so, then I'll live here from now on." Rosa Linda glanced at the two women of the household, then communicated with a look.
Of course Emily didn't need to be said, she was the mother after all, how could she be driven away.
And Yuna even more so, she was always compliant, even if unhappy she would bear it, and certainly wouldn't refuse.
"What do you think? Do you agree?" Lin Feng pulled Yuna aside and asked very softly.
Yuna tilted her head staring at Lin Feng, then answered softly, "Whatever master decides is fine, I won't mind."
"Don't worry, I won't freeload. I'll take care of laundry, cooking, housework, I'll handle it all, I definitely won't just live here for free." Rosa Linda patted her ample chest.
"Auntie, after winter can you come with us into the labyrinth?"
Rosa Linda agreed without a second thought: "Sure, I know some archery, I can handle self-defense, don't worry about me dragging you down."
Lin Feng looked at her stats, she wasn't exaggerating.
Level 25, Agility, Endurance, and Perception all A-rank.
【Sudden Quest: Establish good relations with Rosa Linda.】
Establish good relations?
To be honest, Lin Feng wasn't very good at dealing with these social terrorists.
But if it was just establishing good relations, being friends, that was simple enough.
"Auntie, can I see your archery skills?"
Rosa Linda took down the longbow on her back, but instead of demonstrating, she just hung it back on the rack, "Some other day, there's not much worth looking at."
Having said that, she suddenly crooked a finger at Lin Feng, "Come here for a bit, I have something to ask you."
Lin Feng's forehead instantly broke out in cold sweat.
Now what was this? An interrogation?
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
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.
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."
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
