Lin Yu and Xia Yiwei hadn't traveled far in the car when Xia Yiwei's phone rang.
She took out her phone, glanced at it, and couldn't help but frown.
Lin Yu asked curiously:
"Is it your dad or your sister?"
Xia Yiwei clutched her phone, looking at Lin Yu in distress, and said:
"Little Master, you couldn't have hacked my phone, right?"
Lin Yu rolled his eyes at Xia Yiwei and said:
"Do I look that bored? If I hacked your phone, would I still need to ask you?"
"If you had some kind of scandalous private life, I might actually want to investigate."
"What's wrong? Afraid I'll look into you?"
Xia Yiwei smiled:
"Hehe, just kidding. Of course I know you wouldn't hack me."
"It's my sister calling, and I really don't want to answer!"
A call from her sister, the gym curator?
This actually surprised Lin Yu quite a bit.
He had thought it would be Lei Siren spinelessly snitching, telling Xia Yiwei's dad about getting beaten up.
If it was her gym curator sister...
Lin Yu couldn't help but probe further:
"Does Sister Xiaxia know Lei Siren's cousin?"
Xia Yiwei looked at Lin Yu in shock and said in astonishment:
"Little Master..."
"If I didn't know the kind of person you are, I would genuinely think you secretly investigated my social network."
"Lei Siren's cousin seems to be named... Chu... Chu something..."
"Chu Tianxiang!"
"Yes, yes, yes, his name is Chu Tianxiang."
"He and my sister have each other's contact info, but whether they chat often, I have no idea."
Deducing that Lei Siren's cousin knew Xia Xiashan wasn't difficult.
If Lei Siren were calling to complain, he would definitely go to Xia Yiwei's dad.
What use would it be to look for Xia Xiashan?
Having known Xia Yiwei for so long, how could he not know the relationship between Xia Xiashan and Xia Yiwei?
Xia Yiwei might not be able to beat Xia Xiashan in a fight, but she didn't listen to her at all.
Lei Siren wouldn't be so foolish as to miss this point.
Back in the underground parking garage, Lin Yu had seen someone in the crowd of lackeys sending a message on their phone.
It must have been to dodge responsibility by reporting the situation at the scene in advance to their top boss, Lei Siren's cousin!
For Xia Xiashan to get the news so quickly, she most likely heard it from this Chu Tianxiang.
Since the two knew each other, wasn't it an easy deduction to make?
But judging from Xia Yiwei's tone, it seemed Xia Xiashan and Chu Tianxiang weren't that close?
Lin Yu made another bold guess:
"He isn't another blind date, is he?"
Xia Yiwei shook her head and explained:
"Not at all!"
"It's Chu Tianxiang unilaterally pursuing my sister."
"My sister has never given him a positive response. It's been... over two years now, I think?"
"Anyway, he comes over to pester her whether he has a reason or not, and my sister has warned him many times."
Lin Yu couldn't help but give a thumbs up:
"These two cousins sure are dedicated."
"Planning to take down both of you sisters together and split your family's fortune!"
"Sticking around for years at the drop of a hat, they really have patience."
Money can make the devil turn the millstone.
Not only the devil, but a donkey could push it too.
This once again gave Lin Yu a sideways glimpse into just how rich Old Man Xia really was.
Xia Yiwei didn't answer the first call.
Immediately after.
The second call came through.
Xia Yiwei looked at Lin Yu with a miserable expression.
Lin Yu spread his hands and said:
"Don't look at me, I'm not stopping you from answering."
"That's your sister. It doesn't matter to me; just tell the truth about what happened."
Xia Yiwei thought for a moment before choosing to pick up the call.
Putting on a casual conversational tone, she tried to sound calm as she said:
"Hello? Sis, I'm setting up an IV for a patient, why do you keep calling me?"
Xia Yiwei deliberately put it on speakerphone but turned the volume down a bit.
So that Lin Yu could hear, without disturbing the driver.
Xia Xiashan said coldly over the phone:
"Cut the act. I know you and Lin Yu just taught Lei Siren a lesson."
"Chu Tianxiang told me that Lei Siren secretly contacted his subordinates and borrowed a few men."
"As a result, they were severely beaten by a boxer surnamed Lin."
"Several guys couldn't even beat one person. This guy surnamed Lin should be right beside you, shouldn't he?"
"He should be able to hear me talking, right?"
Xia Xiashan understood her own younger sister too well.
She accurately predicted the situation on Xia Yiwei's end.
With the incident having ended only moments ago, there was a high probability that Lin Yu and Xia Yiwei hadn't parted ways yet.
Hearing himself being called out by name, Lin Yu had absolutely no way to continue pretending he had nothing to do with it.
"Sister Xiaxia, you really are a brilliant strategist."
"I have to say a few words on Weiwei's behalf regarding this matter. You really can't blame her."
"That Young Master Lei was practically begging for a beating. You have no idea what he was saying about Weiwei behind her back."
Xia Yiwei once again marveled at Lin Yu's art of conversation.
With just two sentences, he had shifted all the blame onto Xia Yiwei.
He kept himself completely out of it, acting as if he had merely been helping out.
It was indeed Xia Yiwei who had sought out Lin Yu, that much was true.
But racking their brains and coming up with the crazy revenge ideas, that was all Lin Yu's doing.
If it had just been Xia Yiwei alone, given her temper, she would have at most rushed up and slapped Lei Siren a couple of times.
But Little Master's ideas were on another level!
The torturous methods he came up with were things an ordinary person could never conceive.
Even so.
When Lin Yu said that, Xia Yiwei didn't try to refute it.
The whole thing had started because of her, and now it was her own sister asking about the situation.
Pushing it all onto her was perfectly reasonable and fair.
Xia Xiashan continued over the phone:
"I do want to ask you both about the situation. Is now a convenient time?"
"Come to my martial arts gym and tell me in person. Do you have time?"
Xia Yiwei shook her head vigorously, waving her hands non-stop at Lin Yu.
She wanted Lin Yu to directly refuse her sister's request on her behalf.
Lin Yu smiled and replied directly:
"I don't have a problem with it, but I don't know if Weiwei has time."
"For all we know, she might have to go back to work."
Xia Yiwei instantly put on a mask of agony.
By saying that, Lin Yu left her absolutely no way out!
Xia Xiashan said bluntly over the phone:
"Good, as long as you have time, Lin Yu."
"Don't worry about Weiwei. If she doesn't want to come, she can choose to act like a coward and run away."
Xia Yiwei immediately raised her voice and yelled:
"Me, act like a coward? When have I ever..."
Beep, beep, beep...
Before Xia Yiwei could finish her sentence, Xia Xiashan hung up the phone.
Leaving her sister to seethe with pent-up anger as she pounded on her phone screen.
She couldn't help but complain to Lin Yu:
"Little Master, look at this person. How rude is she?"
"I was still talking, and she just hung up the phone!"
"How could I ever act like a coward? When have I ever been afraid of anything?"
Lin Yu nodded repeatedly, playing along with Xia Yiwei's words:
"Yes, yes, yes, right, right, right. You've always been super brave."
"So what now? Am I going alone, or are we going together?"
Xia Yiwei patted her chest and declared:
"Of course we're going together. I'm going to confront her face-to-face!"
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
ver to a world of cultivation and returned invincible. Modern medicine is child's play compared to elixirs; technological might crumbles before true cultivation. My name is Qin Ning, Earth's sole cultivator!
ions, keeping it grounded and realistic】 After quitting his job, office worker Su Yang accidentally binds with the "Enjoy Life System." As the name suggests, simply by indulging in life's pleasures, he can earn random rewards from the system—no need to spend money on beautiful women or grovel before anyone. Just enjoy, and the money follows, making it all about effortless fun. The system comes with a scanning feature, allowing him to establish a favorability bond with women rated 85 points or above. Every 20-point increase in favorability unlocks additional rewards. After suffering through over twenty years of hardship, Su Yang trembles with excitement, his dull eyes suddenly gleaming with newfound hope. "Enjoy life? How hard could that be?"
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.
