"Little Master, it's okay if we don't meet up at noon today."
"Can we have lunch together tomorrow?"
"My treat! I promise I'll arrange everything perfectly!"
"Hehehe, give me a chance to host you personally, please?"
Xia Yiwei's laughter was very bright, but to Lin Yu's ears, it had a completely different flavor.
The events of yesterday were still vivid in his mind.
How could Lin Yu trust Xia Yiwei so easily again?
Even through the phone, Lin Yu could practically hear the sound of Xia Yiwei calculating her little schemes.
Lin Yu cut straight to the chase:
"Weiwei, answer me honestly first. Is it just the two of us eating this time?"
"You'd better think carefully before you answer. I was very cooperative with you last time."
"If you lie to me this time..."
"There absolutely won't be a repeat of yesterday's good deeds!"
Before Xia Yiwei could answer, Lin Yu issued a warning.
He knew full well that Xia Yiwei was up to no good and was plotting something.
But since Lin Yu already had half a foot in the door and had a private agreement with Xia Yiwei.
No matter how troublesome Xia Yiwei's request might be, as long as it wasn't too outrageous, Lin Yu would still agree to it.
But then again.
Guessing it and having Xia Yiwei admit it herself were two completely different things.
Lin Yu really wanted to see if Xia Yiwei could be honest with him.
If, at this point, Xia Yiwei still intended to laugh it off and fool him.
That would be too hurtful.
It seemed that Xia Yiwei on the other end of the line also sensed Lin Yu's displeasure.
After a bit of an internal struggle, she chose to tell Lin Yu the truth.
"Little Master, don't you know me by now?"
"You trusted me so much yesterday, how could I hide anything from you today?"
"It's not just the two of us this time. My older sister will be there, and... my dad!"
Hearing this news, Lin Yu didn't feel surprised at all.
On the contrary.
The situation was exactly as he had imagined.
The time had finally come to meet Old Man Xia!
Their encounter in the dream world had left a deep impression on Lin Yu.
He wondered if the Old Man Xia in reality was really that exaggerated.
Previously, in Xia Yiwei's dream world, her impression of Young Master Lei wasn't entirely realistic.
It was perfectly normal for there to be some element of exaggeration.
Although Lin Yu had guessed that they would be having a meal with Xia Yiwei's dad.
He couldn't show it directly during the phone call with Xia Yiwei.
Therefore.
Lin Yu feigned shock and said,
"What?!"
"Having a meal with your dad? Me?"
"Isn't that a bit too presumptuous!"
"I've never even met your uncle, and we're jumping straight into a meal?"
"Weiwei, you never said that playing your boyfriend meant I had to play the part in front of your father!"
"What if we act too well and your father actually believes it? How are we going to explain ourselves later?"
"No, no, this is completely different from what I originally had in mind."
From a moral standpoint, Lin Yu naturally had to speak with righteous indignation.
In his heart, however, he didn't feel any real resistance to the matter.
It was all just an act for Xia Yiwei.
And also to see what kind of compromises Xia Yiwei would make.
Without a reasonable arrangement, Lin Yu couldn't agree easily.
Otherwise, even a little thought would make the whole thing feel highly unreasonable.
Xia Yiwei didn't notice anything amiss and hurriedly tried to coax Lin Yu over the phone.
"Oh, Little Master, you're really overthinking this."
"Playing a couple in front of Lei Siren is basically the same as playing one in front of my dad."
"Just think about it..."
"Isn't it normal for couples to break up?"
"We might be a couple today, but couldn't we break up tomorrow?"
"All I want is a... a you-know-what, you know."
"How could I really make you marry into our family as a live-in son-in-law?"
Lin Yu caught the key point in her words and started roasting her wildly again:
"Marry in as a live-in son-in-law? Your family is so domineering!"
"Xia Yiwei, let me make this clear to you."
"In all my years, I've never once thought about marrying into anyone's family as a live-in son-in-law."
"If you're trying to trick me into marrying into your family, I absolutely will not help you!"
Xia Yiwei realized she had said too much.
She hurriedly tried to backtrack, saying,
"No, no, I absolutely didn't mean that!"
"Look at my clumsy mouth. I know you definitely wouldn't want that, Little Master."
"It's all my dad's fault. He's always talking about getting a live-in son-in-law, so I got used to saying it."
"Little Master, please don't rush to refuse me."
"If you're willing to help me this once, in the future I'll..."
"..."
Over the next five minutes.
Xia Yiwei did her best to list all kinds of benefits.
Like helping Lin Yu clean his room;
Like acting as a laborer when Lin Yu had filming assignments;
Like running errands for daily grocery shopping at his apartment, and so on and so forth...
Xia Yiwei had racked her brains to come up with all sorts of ways to treat Lin Yu well.
When making her promises, she didn't forget to swear solemnly.
Deeply afraid that Lin Yu wouldn't believe her resolve.
Even if he hadn't mentally prepared himself beforehand to help Xia Yiwei.
After her whole spiel, Lin Yu would have been persuaded anyway.
The nurse sister really understood men; every little thing she mentioned perfectly resolved an aspect of Lin Yu's daily life chores.
It sounded like there were no major, important tasks.
But what major tasks could a college boy in his youth possibly have?
Xia Yiwei's ability to easily grasp this point was quite an impressive strategy.
On the phone.
Just as Xia Yiwei finished listing her terms, Lin Yu also finished collecting his tickets.
Seeing that the timing was about right.
Lin Yu finally relented and agreed:
"Alright, I have to say, Weiwei, you really understand a guy's mind."
"We have a deal. It's just pretending to be a couple. If your dad is too satisfied with me, you have to find an excuse to tell him we broke up."
"If you can't cover for it, don't blame me for selling you out right in front of him."
"Sister Xiaxia should be there during the meal too, right?"
Xia Yiwei replied,
"Of course she'll be there. If she's not, there'll be no one to help me share my dad's firepower."
"And one more thing, Little Master..."
"Lei Siren might also be present during the meal."
"As for whether his cousin will come, I have no idea."
"But don't worry, Little Master, just eat generously and casually."
"If Lei Siren dares to try any little tricks, I'll just bring out the recording!"
"Hehe, when the time comes, we won't even need to lift a finger."
"My dad will deal with Lei Siren directly!"
"I'm just asking for your permission in advance to use the recording, Little Master?"
After all.
If the recording was exposed, it would mean exposing Lin Yu's abilities.
The incident of beating up Lei Siren in the underground garage that day would take on a different story.
It might bring a certain amount of trouble for Lin Yu.
Unless it was an absolute last resort, Xia Yiwei definitely wouldn't reveal the existence of the recording.
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
