Qiangwei glanced up at Bai Tianlong, but then her gaze quickly shifted elsewhere.
Jiang Che slowly stood up, giving Su Mianmian's butt a firm pat. "Go sit over there."
"Meow—" A sharp, pained cry echoed.
The snow-white Ragdoll cat leaped off Jiang Che's lap in an instant.
[Jiang Che, you big idiot, I curse you to have a son with no asshole! %￥#@%￥#@......]
Hmm~ It was clear that Su Mianmian was cursing up a storm.
...
Jiang Che pulled Qiangwei closer. "Bai Jie must have told you, right? The paternity test report—I had her take it back for you to see."
Jiang Che's words startled Bai Tianlong. "Young Master Jiang, I saw the report. Is Qiangwei really my daughter?"
"My report was for the two of them. They're sisters. Whether you're the father or not, I can't say~"
"Uh..." Bai Tianlong's mouth twitched.
"Young Master Jiang, you must be joking. How could I not be her father? When I brought Xiao Jie back to the Bai family, I did over a dozen paternity tests!"
"Xiao Jie is absolutely my daughter, no doubt about it."
Jiang Che glanced at Bai Tianlong.
This old man is quite meticulous, huh? Isn't this supposed to be like those TV dramas where the rich guy's paternity test gets swapped by his evil stepmother, and then there's a whole mess of drama for dozens of episodes?
"Then it's settled. Qiangwei is your daughter."
After Jiang Che said this, Bai Tianlong's entire body trembled. "Qiangwei... how have you been all these years?"
Qiangwei: "......"
Jiang Che could tell that Qiangwei wasn't exactly thrilled about her biological father. The little girl still preferred him, her 'godfather.'
He spoke up on her behalf. "Do you think a young girl could have had an easy life wandering around the Middle East? It was a bit better when Bai Tianhuai was alive, but after that... well, you know."
"Qiangwei, your father has failed you..." Tears streamed down Bai Tianlong's face.
"Alright, alright, old man, if you want to cry, go cry somewhere else! Qiangwei is happy with me."
With all the nightly revelry, how could she not be happy?
Bai Tianlong: "......"
Jiang Che's casual "old man" almost sent Bai Tianlong into shock, but then he thought about Jiang Che's status... well, if he wants to call me "old man," so be it.
The pinyin for "old man" starts with a 'D,' and so does "dad." So, by substitution... Young Master Jiang is basically calling me "dad."
It's a good thing Jiang Che's 'mind-reading' ability only works on women, or else he'd definitely lose his composure.
"Alright, my Qiangwei doesn't seem too fond of you, her biological father. You can leave now."
Bai Tianlong was dumbfounded. "Young Master Jiang..."
"Someone, see him out—"
And just like that, Bai Tianlong was escorted out of the Jiang family estate.
As the gates slowly closed behind him, Bai Tianlong seemed to age ten years in an instant.
But soon, a thought struck him. "Since things have come to this, I might as well use this opportunity to boost the Bai family's influence in Hangzhou..."
Both my daughters are now Jiang Che's women. That should mean I've got a solid connection, right?
He smirked to himself. As the saying goes... laughter keeps you young!
......
With nothing better to do at home, Jiang Che started playing the piano again.
After all, his SSS-level piano skills couldn't just sit idle. His fingers danced gracefully across the keys of the pure white piano.
Qiangwei pulled up a small stool and sat beside him, her eyes fixated on Jiang Che as if she could see a radiant aura around him.
Jiang Che was playing "The Blue Danube," the melody alternating between soothing and lively.
[Huh? This tune sounds familiar... isn't this "The Blue Danube"? Isn't this a parallel world? How does this song exist here? That shouldn't be possible, right?]
Su Mianmian, the little Ragdoll cat perched on the wardrobe, was shocked!
Before her transmigration, she had been the most famous piano prodigy at the music academy, a provincial-level award-winning genius.
But sadly, before she could hold her own piano recital, she encountered her lifelong nemesis—a dump truck—which sent her into this parallel world, turning her into a pitiful and helpless Ragdoll cat, constantly bullied by a certain tyrant!
The little Ragdoll crawled into the wardrobe, skillfully pulled out a small phone, unlocked it with her paws, and started typing.
Piano piece: "The Blue Danube"...
[No results???]
[If this song doesn't exist here, then this guy... could he be from the same world as me?]
For a moment, Su Mianmian felt like crying.
When fellow countrymen meet, they might stab each other in the back... ahem, I mean, they shed tears of joy.
[Huh? This guy's piano skills aren't bad. He's got about 30% of my talent.]
["The Blue Danube" isn't a difficult piece, but not many can play it with such depth. If only I weren't a cat now, I'd show him a thing or two.]
But soon, Su Mianmian's attitude turned serious.
Jiang Che switched to another piece, shifting from the soothing melody to something intensely passionate.
[Is this... "Flight of the Bumblebee"? Ugh... this jerk is showing off again! He's decent, I guess, about 70% as good as me.]
Jiang Che continued to ramp up the difficulty, showing off with pieces like "Croatian Rhapsody" and "Piano Concerto No. 3."
Finally, he returned to "The Blue Danube," like the calm after a storm, but this time he pushed his SSS-level piano skills to the limit, creating a truly unique interpretation.
True piano masters rarely show off. It's the ability to play a simple, gentle piece with such mastery that defines a real virtuoso.
Su Mianmian—no, the entire cat—was utterly stunned.
She stared at Jiang Che's figure, and in this final rendition of "The Blue Danube," she seemed to see the shadows of all the great pianists who had come before.
Even MacArthur himself would have no words—
[Holy crap! A true master! Master, please accept my kneel!]
Jiang Che glanced casually at the restless Su Mianmian in the wardrobe, successfully gaining a new fangirl.
"Jiang Che, you're amazing!" Qiangwei's eyes sparkled with admiration.
Her small hand reached out tentatively to touch the piano keys, producing a pleasant note.
"Do you want to learn? I can teach you."
"Can... can I? But all I've ever held is a gun," Qiangwei hesitated.
Ahem, in the past, it was real guns, and now... well, it's still real guns!
"Of course, my dear. Let me teach you."
With that, Jiang Che lifted Qiangwei onto his lap and began teaching her how to play the piano, guiding her hands.
Jiang Che was, after all, a 'National First-Class Piano Athlete'!
What? You're wondering why he's a piano athlete instead of a piano master?
Well, those who know, know!
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
end. Thus one must continue to cultivate, and become a saint or great emperor, in order to prolong one's life. Chen Xia, however, completely reversed this. Since his transmigration, he has gained immortality, and also a system that awards him with attribute points for every year he lives. Thus between the myriad worlds, the legend of an unparalleled senior appeared. "A gentleman takes revenge; it is never too late even after ten thousand years." "When you were at your peak I yielded, now in your old age I shall trample on you." - Chen Xia
Heart] Chen Yi traversed the cultivation world for eight hundred years, charging his way to the Tribulation Transcendence stage. Just as he was outwitting his 81st Heavenly Tribulation to ascend to immortality, he was suddenly pulled into a chat group called the "Multiverse Transmigrators Support Group." To his surprise, the group was filled with nothing but fresh-faced newbies who had just transmigrated. [Help! I transmigrated into a disgraced concubine in the cold palace, and the tyrant emperor is about to execute me!] [I ended up as a cannon-fodder villain, and the protagonist is still chasing me—WTF!] [I woke up as the protagonist’s father, but I’m about to be sacrificed in a ritual! What do I do? Urgent!!!] Chen Yi stared at the chaotic flood of desperate pleas in the group and fell into deep thought. "Seriously? You drag me into a newbie transmigrator chat group… only after I’m one step away from becoming an immortal?"
