Old Xia immediately changed his attitude and hurriedly moved closer to Xia Yiwei again:
"Hey!"
"Vivi, what kind of talk is that?"
"The surname will definitely be Xia."
"That kid Lin Yu is quite capable, huh? How many months along?"
"Have you been to the hospital for a prenatal check-up? Is everything alright?"
As he spoke.
Old Xia also waved at Lin Yu:
"Hey, you there... Lin Yu!"
"What are you standing there for? Come over and support Vivi!"
"Isn't it your child?"
[Ding!]
[A show-off move, the Saint's brilliant scheme enlightened the Spirit Medicine Hall elder, helping him devise a way to break the deadlock!]
[Reward: 100 Spirit Stones]
Lin Yu: "!!!"
100 Spirit Stones?
Oh no, oh no.
A critical hit!
Whenever a reward like this appears, it means Lin Yu's actions have altered the course of events.
Lin Yu provided a "brilliant scheme"?
Are you sure?
What a disaster!
He had a feeling something ominous would happen when he woke from this dream.
An unwelcome voice came from beside Lin Yu:
"Ah, Uncle Xia!!"
"Smack!"
Without even turning his head, Lin Yu swung a backhanded slap.
You still have time to mess around?
Lin Yu wasn't in the mood for this!
Now things are just messed up, right?
After all that circling, he felt like he'd ended up trapping himself.
Seeing Lin Yu standing still, the Spicy Stepmom was quite good at handling the situation.
She quickly walked over to Lin Yu and, with proper decorum, gently patted his arm:
"Congratulations, Lin Yu. We're family from now on."
Lin Yu forced a smile:
"Heh heh, same to you, same to you."
Old Xia, with his hands clasped behind his back, walked towards Lin Yu with an utterly unserious, measured gait:
"Ahem, let's forget about those unpleasant little matters from before. We're family, no need for formalities between us."
"In the future, in Pingchuan, or anywhere in Northern Hebei, if there's anything you want to do, just tell me."
"If you really don't want to marry into the family, I won't force you. Men, you know how it is."
"Whether you two get married or not doesn't matter, just leave the child with the Xia family."
"After all, the lifestyle of the younger generation these days..."
"As long as your hearts are together, you're family!"
As he spoke.
Old Xia pulled the Spicy Stepmom into his arms again.
Lin Yu: "..."
It sounded like a very progressive mindset.
But upon closer thought.
Wasn't he just talking about himself!
Occupying the girl's position without marrying her.
Spending money on her while they're together is fine.
But once they break up unhappily, she gets not a single penny of the assets, right?
The older ginger is spicier!
He's applying his own words and deeds to his daughter and Lin Yu?
He might as well have said nothing.
After he finished speaking.
Lin Yu couldn't help but glance at Xia Yiwei...
The nurse's eyes were already starting to gleam with a green light!
Heavens!
Is she about to mutate?
At the same time.
"Buzz buzz... buzz buzz..."
A piercing buzzing sound echoed in Lin Yu's mind.
Lin Yu: "!!!"
The dream world collapsing?
At this very moment!
Don't.
At least let Lin Yu say a few more words!
...
Just a few seconds later.
The opulent scene before his eyes vanished, and Lin Yu woke up, opening his eyes in his bedroom bed.
He got up, went to the fridge, took out a bottle of cold water, and gulped it down.
He hadn't paid much attention to the nurse's personal life before and never really inquired about her family situation.
Seeing it in the dream today was worse than not seeing it at all!
Every single person in that family had a weird vibe.
If there was one normal person...
It might only be that Spicy Stepmom!
Clear goals, adaptable, knows her place, acts appropriately.
The epitome of a model employee, a perfectly normal vibe.
The rest of them, sigh.
Truly hard to describe in a few words.
"Buzz buzz... buzz buzz..."
The buzzing noise seemed to still be ringing even after leaving the dream?
Lin Yu rubbed his ears and shook his head.
Maybe he got poisoned in the dream?
But isn't he out now?
Holy crap!
Inception? A dream within a dream?
Lin Yu calmed his mind, carefully listening to the frequency and direction of the sound...
Oh.
It's just his damn phone vibrating!!
Lin Yu went back to the bedside and picked up his phone from beside the pillow.
It's only a little past 4 a.m., who calls at this hour for no reason?
Lin Yu took a closer look: "!!!"
Nurse, Xia Yiwei!
This is bad, really bad.
Right now.
Xia Yiwei should be, like Lin Yu, having just woken up from the dream.
Calling so eagerly...
Could it be she got some inspiration from the dream?
To say that Xia Yiwei, both in the apartment and within the sect,
wasn't one of Lin Yu's targets would be a lie.
But seeing her father in the dream left Lin Yu utterly dumbfounded.
Asking Lin Yu to deal and interact with that kind of person? No way!
Please don't let one badly planted tree lead to the chopping down of all the good ones.
Completely not worth the loss!
Watching the phone screen flash, the call still connecting.
Lin Yu adjusted his state and chose to answer the call:
"Hello... Vivi? Why are you calling so late..."
A weak, listless voice perfectly mimicking someone just woken from sleep.
Then.
A loud and excited voice came through the phone:
"Little Master, happy birthday!"
Lin Yu couldn't help but frown, knowing she definitely wasn't calling just to offer birthday wishes.
He lay back on the bed and responded:
"Thanks, appreciate it..."
"But didn't you already say that at midnight?"
"Vivi, you're on night shift at the hospital right now, right?"
Xia Yiwei said happily:
"Yeah, yeah, Little Master, you care about me so much."
"You even know what I'm doing so clearly, hehe!"
Lin Yu said helplessly:
"Weren't you the one who told me you were on night shift today when we were chatting on WeChat after midnight?"
Xia Yiwei: "Oh, did I? I forgot if you didn't mention it."
Lin Yu: "So, what exactly do you want to say? You're not just harassing me to keep me from sleeping, are you?"
Going around in circles felt like waiting for judgment to fall.
Lin Yu didn't want to experience that feeling.
So.
He straightforwardly asked, getting straight to the point.
After a moment of hesitation on the other end of the line, she said:
"It's just that it's quiet on night shift, a bit boring. I wanted to tell you, Little Master, I prepared a birthday gift for you."
Lin Yu: "..."
That was a masterful thing to say.
Said absolutely nothing!
Lin Yu pressed further:
"Thank you, and then?"
Another, longer silence. Xia Yiwei on the other end seemed to have made up her mind.
She spoke again in a serious tone:
"And then I was thinking... Little Master, could you lend me something?"
...
(Bonus chapter delivered. That's all for today's updates. More to come tomorrow. Goodnight, everyone!)
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
ose... to cooperate with the protagonist! Shen Yuan: I have a system! Protagonist: What? System: Holy crap, you're just spilling it out like that? Shen Yuan: Let's team up, we'll split the system rewards! Protagonist: Fifty-fifty split? Shen Yuan: No way! Protagonist: What!? I'm the one getting beaten up, and I don't get half? Shen Yuan: Forty-sixty split, I get forty, you get sixty! Protagonist: Deal! Big brother, come on, hit me! As long as it doesn't kill me, beat me like you mean it! Shen Yuan: Don't worry... I will definitely protect all of you! No one but me can lay a finger on you! Guard our Heaven's Chosen Ones! I'm the only one allowed to bully them!
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!
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
