Villa, first floor.
Whir, whir, whir. The sound of the treadmill's running belt turning echoed continuously.
Little Secretary was "sweating it out" on the treadmill, completely losing her previous "burnt out" look. Her big, sparkling eyes were filled with determination, as if she were about to swear a solemn oath!
After running for another few dozen seconds, beep beep beep, the timer in front of Little Secretary jumped again. A crisp electronic notification sound came from the phone placed in front of her, and not only that, there was a real-time voice broadcast.
"Congratulations, you have completed another hundred meters and earned +1 gold coin!"
"Collect 4 more gold coins to redeem a diamond reward. Please keep up the good work!"
Hearing that her gold coin count had increased by one again, Little Secretary was filled with motivation. Her previously somewhat soft and weak body suddenly toughened up again. She could still keep going!!!
Whir, whir, whir. Little Secretary was like a hamster on a running wheel, running on the treadmill with all her might... Oh, wait, she was walking.
With Little Secretary's physique, there was no point in expecting her to run like Ye Cheng with "Wind and Fire Wheels" under his feet. It was already a rare feat that the kid was willing to put on comfortable walking shoes and take a few steps. Whether it was an evil cultivator or whatever, at least they had successfully gotten Little Secretary moving.
Off to the side was Dongfang Zhixia, who had been completely silenced by the scene. She looked as if she were doubting her life choices.
Rewind to a few minutes ago.
Dongfang Zhixia looked at Little Secretary, who had a "determined" look in her eyes and was muttering about wanting to run a little longer, and fell silent. So... the worst-case scenario had happened, hadn't it?
Did the cabbage run away with the pig?
She looked at Little Secretary, who was still "sweating it out" on the treadmill, and then glanced in the direction of the bathroom. The bathroom was very quiet at the moment. There was no sound of running water from the showerhead, not even the sound of water overflowing.
It was weirdly quiet.
What was going on?
Dongfang Zhixia frowned. Just as she was about to go over and check on the situation in the bathroom, she heard a... splash, and everything returned to normal.
Dongfang Zhixia: ???
What on earth was that guy doing in there?
But at least there was finally some movement from Ye Cheng's side, which dispelled Dongfang Zhixia's idea of going over to check. Her gaze once again focused on Little Secretary, who had already collapsed on the treadmill.
In just the time it took to turn around, Little Secretary, who had just made "bold declarations," instantly "burnt out" and collapsed on the treadmill. A large, soft lump of her was carried down by the treadmill, which had turned into a "conveyor belt," and dumped onto the floor.
"Miss, I can't run anymore, boohoo..." Little Secretary spoke pitifully without even lifting her head. She truly had no strength left.
Dongfang Zhixia: ???
After Dongfang Zhixia helped Little Secretary up, Little Secretary lasted for less than two seconds before lying directly on the floor again, half-dead.
"Miss, I think I'm dying." Little Secretary's eyes were lifeless.
Dongfang Zhixia: ...
This idiot!
Left with no choice, Dongfang Zhixia could only let Little Secretary lie on the floor like that. They would continue their conversation, and after the subordinates brought over a certain bastard's clothes, she would make that guy act as a coolie and carry Little Secretary upstairs.
Little Secretary was 1.65 meters tall. Not tall, but it was considered the average height for women in the Dragon Kingdom. It was just that everyone around her was too tall, making Little Secretary look very short.
The Eldest Miss and President were both around 1.75 meters tall, a ten-centimeter difference. Their body proportions were the golden ratio, making them look tall. Meanwhile, Little Secretary also had a "golden ratio"... an absolutely exceptional hamster physique!
Well, actually, Little Secretary's figure was quite well-proportioned and smooth, it was just that some parts were overly outstanding. Coupled with the very obvious baby fat that was always on her face, Little Secretary looked a bit silly and quite short.
But if you threw Little Secretary into a normal crowd, you would find that she was simply a benchmark, absolutely stunning. However, placed in front of the Eldest Miss and President, she seemed a bit lacking.
As for Ye Cheng... that went without saying. Did you think his exceptional muscle definition was "exceptional chicken breast"?
He could easily crush Little Secretary. Little Secretary was truly someone that anyone could walk all over.
Dongfang Zhixia half-squatted, seeming to ponder something. After a good while, having finalized her question, she finally spoke.
"Idiot, if you were given two choices, which one would you choose?"
"The first is a big snack gift pack, and the second..."
"Big snack gift pack!" Little Secretary flailed a couple of times, but finding her body still limp, she simply stopped moving and gave up. However, her answer was very quick. Without a trace of hesitation, she chose the big snack gift pack option.
Dongfang Zhixia: ...
"I haven't even said the second option yet..." Dongfang Zhixia said somewhat helplessly.
Little Secretary blinked her big, sparkling eyes. "Oh, oh, okay, Miss, go ahead. Let's do it again. By the way, Miss, if I choose it, will you give it to me?"
"No," Dongfang Zhixia said calmly.
That single sentence almost "killed" Little Secretary upon hearing it. Once she realized that all these things were just her Miss painting a pretty picture to string her along, Little Secretary instantly wilted. Her eyes turned lifeless, and she continued to lie half-dead on the floor, looking as if "there is no greater sorrow than a dead heart."
Dongfang Zhixia: ...
"Fine, fine, fine. I'll give it to you if you choose it, okay!" Dongfang Zhixia held her head, feeling a bit of a headache. These days, even the idiot she raised wouldn't swallow empty promises anymore, sigh...
Little Secretary was fully revived!
"Miss, tell me. This time I will definitely listen to the whole thing before making a choice!" Little Secretary put on the look of an "honest person." In fact... she really was one.
Look at this child's pure and foolish eyes; the only thing in them was a longing for the big snack gift pack... Incidentally, the big snack gift pack was the thing Little Secretary loved buying the most. It contained many small snacks, little potato chips, little cakes...
You could use coins to catch a "wild Ye Cheng," and similarly, you could use a big snack gift pack to catch a "wild Little Secretary." It was the exact same principle!
Seeing her child's unintelligent appearance, Dongfang Zhixia fell silent. Looking at her like this, she figured that even if this girl got pregnant in the future, she would just think she had gotten fat from eating too much...
To avoid Little Secretary directly choosing the big snack gift pack the moment the question was asked, Dongfang Zhixia swapped the order of the choices.
"First, you can go out and fool around with this guy for one day a week. I won't interfere, but you must be home before ten o'clock at night!"
"Second, one big snack gift pack a week."
Dongfang Zhixia held up two fingers and waved them in front of Little Secretary.
Little Secretary blinked, and her not-so-smart little brain began to "calculate crazily," constantly pondering whether the big snack gift pack was more worth it, or going out to "fool around" with Ye Cheng...
Inside the big snack gift pack, there were little potato chips, little cakes, crispy noodle snacks...
The bad guy has all-you-can-eat scallion pancakes, roujiamo, and starch sausages...
The Little Secretary looked at her slightly bulging tummy, her "wisdom-filled" eyes sparkling!
"The first one!" the Little Secretary said with an extremely firm tone.
Dongfang Zhixia nodded. "The big snack gift pack, right? Okay, then you can't go out and fool around with that guy anymore."
The Little Secretary froze for a moment, muttering softly to correct her young lady's "slip of the tongue." "Miss, I said the first one, not the big snack gift pack..."
"I know, the big snack gift pack, right? Okay, I'll make a note of it for you." Dongfang Zhixia nodded.
Little Secretary: "???"
Small eyes filled with great confusion, the Little Secretary stuck out her round, bulging tummy and struggled quite a bit to climb up from the floor.
"Miss, I said the first one. I want to go out with the bad guy."
Dongfang Zhixia nodded. "Mhm, one big snack gift pack. I know, no need to repeat it, I'll remember it for you."
Little Secretary: "???"
Refusing to give up, the Little Secretary's big, bling-bling eyes flashed with a "wisdom-filled" light. Since that was the case, she would just say the opposite, and that should be right. So, she said it again.
"Miss, I heard it wrong just now, that didn't count! I want to choose the big snack gift pack!" The Little Secretary was full of confidence; she wouldn't be wrong this time!
Dongfang Zhixia nodded. "Mhm, heard you loud and clear. You chose wrong just now, you want the big snack gift pack."
Little Secretary: "???"
"Miss, Miss, you're supposed to say going out to fool around with the bad guy..." The Little Secretary pouted, seemingly complaining that her young lady was breaking the rules of the game.
Dongfang Zhixia glared at the Little Secretary, her chest heaving.
"So you know it's fooling around! Look at you, your belly is so big now. Haven't I told you before? A man who makes a girl's belly big is not a good person and shouldn't be associated with!" Dongfang Zhixia solemnly educated the Little Secretary about the dangers of "scumbags."
The Little Secretary felt like something wasn't quite right, but because she wasn't very smart, she couldn't find a reason to refute her young lady. She could only lower her head and pout aggrievedly, whimpering with a wronged expression.
"Idiot, sooner or later you're going to be sold off by someone and still help them count the money!" Dongfang Zhixia gnashed her teeth, looking at the Little Secretary in exasperation.
Sure enough... girls really need to be raised with abundance. She took her eyes off her for just a moment, and she was tricked away by some shameless guy!
Dongfang Zhixia asked a few more questions in a roundabout way, and finally confirmed... the cabbage had indeed run off with the pig, but... it wasn't because the cabbage liked the pig, but because it liked the delicious food the pig had!
Simply put... this gluttonous girl had let her stomach control her brain.
With this matter cleared up, the heavy stone hanging in Dongfang Zhixia's heart finally fell to the ground. She breathed a sigh of relief. Thank goodness... it wasn't what she thought.
But soon, Dongfang Zhixia's relaxed brows furrowed again.
Because... no matter how she asked, the Little Secretary wouldn't say a single word about the cause and process of today's events. For example, why she ended up fooling around with Ye Cheng, what her motive was, and so on. The Little Secretary just kept her mouth shut and wouldn't say anything, no matter how much she was asked.
Dongfang Zhixia: "???"
Was this... her having a little secret with someone else?
For some reason, compared to the cabbage running off with the pig, Dongfang Zhixia felt even worse now facing the fact that the Little Secretary had "someone" on the outside. You have to know that in the past, no matter what it was, the Little Secretary would tell her everything. Even if she had little secrets, it was only with her...
But now...
Bastard!!!
Dongfang Zhixia felt inexplicably furious.
Dongfang Zhixia's face turned ashen. "Idiot, keep running for me. You are not allowed to sleep until your belly goes down!"
The Little Secretary didn't dare to talk back. Knowing she had done something wrong, she obediently returned to the treadmill and continued her "hamster running on a wheel," whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...
Dongfang Zhixia narrowed her eyes, her chest heaving, and walked quickly toward the bathroom.
She stopped at the bathroom door.
She knocked on the door.
Dongfang Zhixia: "I have something to ask you."
Ye Cheng: "Glub, glub..."
Dongfang Zhixia: "I'm talking to you, bastard, don't play dumb with me!"
Ye Cheng: "Glub, glub, glub..."
Dongfang Zhixia: "???"
"Knock, knock, knock!" Dongfang Zhixia frowned and knocked on the door, seemingly thinking of something... The probability of a person not drowning in the bathroom is 99%, unless that person's name is Ye Cheng.
Ye Cheng: "Glub, glub, glub, glub..."
Dongfang Zhixia: "!!!"
Hearing the bubbling sounds coming from inside again and again, Dongfang Zhixia's heart skipped a beat... Oh no, could this bastard have fainted while washing!
Panic gripping her heart, Dongfang Zhixia didn't have time to overthink. With a click, she pushed open the unlocked bathroom door.
The bathroom was filled with mist, and the moment she opened the door, a large cloud of water vapor rushed toward Dongfang Zhixia.
Seeing the scene clearly before her, Dongfang Zhixia's pupils shrank...
Cheng's father told him he was getting remarried—to a wealthy woman. Cao Cheng realized his time had finally come: he was about to become a second-generation rich kid. Sure, it might be a watered-down version, but hey, at least he'd have status now, right? The wealthy woman also had four daughters!! Which meant, starting today, Cao Cheng gained four stunning older sisters?? But that wasn't even the whole story... "My name is Cao Cheng—'Cheng' as in 'honest, smooth-talking gentleman'!"
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
esick Sect? Well, at least it's considered a respectable orthodox sect. Wait a minute— What kind of vibe are you all giving off? Shouldn’t this be a love-struck, romance-obsessed sect? Why does everyone here sound more like demonic cultivators? "Master, today he’s getting married. This disciple wishes to descend the mountain and crash the wedding, then toy with him to death right in front of his wife..." "Elder, I only got into your sect through connections, so why won’t you teach me anything?" "Because I also became an elder through connections." Thankfully, Su Ji was just an outer sect labor disciple. Surely, nothing too crazy would— "Junior Brother, you’ve broken through to Qi Refining. Once you sever your useless spiritual root, you can officially become an outer sect disciple." "The Great Dao is merciless. Don’t let a worthless spiritual root waste your essence and spirit, hindering your cultivation." Is this really the Lovesick Sect? ... Three years later, Su Ji sat in the seat of the Lovesick Sect’s sect master, sighing with emotion. His rise to this position all started when his junior sister adamantly insisted on preserving his "spiritual root." "Mmm... Senior Brother, what’s our relationship now?" "Stop talking. Keep going." "By the way, that newly promoted top-tier sect—didn’t they come to buy our Love Beans?" "One top-grade spirit stone per Love Bean—is that really so expensive?" "I suspect they’ve eaten too many Love Beans." "Now they’re lovesick." Well, this really is the Lovesick Sect after all.
