Ye Bai stared in shock for a long time without looking away, making the young man he had been staring at for so long feel his face flush. The young man moved away awkwardly, but Ye Bai, as if magnetized, edged closer to him.

Finally, the young man could not stand it anymore. He mustered courage and spoke to his younger brother.

“Um, Ye Bai, do you need something?”

His voice was soft and gentle, unlike Ye Bai’s. Even when Ye Bai had to plead with Woden, his voice had always sounded clear and bright.

This was why Ye Bai subconsciously thought Ye Wangxing had a somewhat timid nature.

Whenever he looked at his older brother, his expression appeared gentle, his voice even and calm, and his appearance resembled that of a small, harmless animal.

This made Ye Bai completely afraid to confront him. At most, he would speak disdainfully, but secretly hoped Ye Wangxing would be a little fiercer.

No matter when, Ye Wangxing remained gentle, like a timid little animal. Sometimes, when the social distance was too close, Ye Bai could even see his reddened face.

This naturally attracted some ill-intentioned stares at social events and even some slightly inappropriate gestures.

Ye Bai then understood why his friends were so frustrated with him.

Why can’t you at least sound firm!! Don’t speak so gently and reasonably, scold him!

Why do you reward them!!

This reaction made Ye Bai worry about his brother’s future marriage.

Especially since this brother was conservative in thought and looked easily bullied.

But now Ye Bai did not think that way.

—Who is conservative and easily bullied, yet goes on dates with four men in one hour!

He calculated that Ye Wangxing had to appease one man every fifteen minutes, deliver gifts, and then make each leave within minutes to avoid suspicion.

Yet, even with such a tight schedule, he returned to the lounge on time an hour later, appearing completely normal!

He was even blushing!

Ye Bai opened and closed his mouth, wanting to ask about the four men, but he could not bring himself to speak.

After all, the young man in front of him looked genuinely deceptive. If Ye Bai spoke, he feared the young man might even contemplate something drastic.

In the end, Ye Bai decided to take an indirect approach. He stiffly forced a smile and said: “Um, brother, I just wanted to ask about that unusual petty cash. Since it was just given to you, it got spent so quickly. Dad was a little worried, so he asked me to check, but I forgot—just remembered now.”

Hearing this, the young man’s previously tense face relaxed, and the flush on his cheeks faded.

“This petty cash was used to buy gifts. Some friends I met before happened to be in the capital, and I thought I could give them something.”

The young man spoke earnestly, his cheeks reddening again.

“I thought they wouldn’t like it, but unexpectedly, they really liked it.”

Ye Bai: “…”

No, brother, my real brother!

If I hadn’t seen those so-called friends press you for a kiss with my own eyes, I might have believed your nonsense!

But the gifts were real, which relieved Ye Bai. If someone from the Ye family had used cheap gifts to deceive those four, Ye Wangxing definitely would not inherit the family fortune. Instead, he would have been sent to his grandmother in the countryside for retraining.

—That old lady had even fought on the battlefield back in the day.

This explained why Ye Bai had initially been confused about Ye Wangxing’s gentle image.

His grandmother was so formidable, how could she raise a brother who appeared so weak?

But now Ye Bai understood. His brother was not weak—he was strong in a different way.

This reassured Ye Bai somewhat.

His parents measures had caught him off guard, but he felt relieved.

Ye Bai did not want his parents to be sad, and he truly liked Woden. He could not change his nature, so Ye Wangxing’s presence comforted him greatly. This was why he had so openly used Ye Wangxing to test Woden.

He did not want the inheritance and would not harm Ye Wangxing, but he still wanted to see Woden show concern for him.

That way, Ye Bai could confirm that Woden really liked him.

Although sometimes he felt sorry for his friends, he would make it up to them later.

Besides, Woden treated him well when not angry, and he had said that interactions with others were just for show.

Ye Bai naturally believed him, as Woden’s words matched his father’s exactly, and his mother’s reactions were also trusting.

Fortunately, now his parents no longer worried about him.

—Now, it would be their brother causing them headaches.

Ye Bai felt a small thrill in his heart.

He began anticipating his parents’ expressions when they discovered that the brother they brought from the countryside had somehow hooked up with four important figures in the capital.

—He had experienced the shock, now they should experience it too!

The whole family would be complete!

As for the future four important figures, if they found out…

That would be Dad’s headache, not his concern.

He would have been better off spending this time looking for Woden!

Thinking this, Ye Bai smiled at his older brother and said: “Since that’s the case, I’m relieved. I’ll tell Dad the truth.”

—Including the gossip he had seen earlier!

He wanted to properly shock his father.

Ye Bai hummed happily to himself as he left.

The song he hummed sounded familiar to the young man sitting on the sofa, so he subconsciously asked the voice in his head.

【Why does this tune sound so familiar?】

19 searched the database and said:【Host, this is the tune of the song “A Family United in Love.” It is an extremely old song here and was recently rediscovered and became popular again—but it should be very familiar to you.】

Ye Wangxing indeed recognized it, so familiar that he could not even read the lyrics aloud in Mandarin.

Because we are a family~ A family united in love~

Looking at the familiar lyrics, Ye Wangxing twitched his mouth. Why would the main character sing this now?

Could it be that after indulging in gossip on his side, he planned to go back and tell their parents? To have them control him?

【Host, based on calculations, the probability that the main character’s behavior is intended merely to shock the Ye family parents is 72.3%.】

19’s calm voice sounded.

Ye Wangxing silently covered his face.

【I really cannot understand what this main character is thinking…】

Ye Wangxing felt this mission was indeed more difficult than previous ones—after all, with his upbringing immersed in gossip and family affairs, he still could not understand what the main character was thinking.

This had been apparent from the moment he received this mission.

In the original fate line, he, the eldest son of the Ye family, never appeared. Only Ye Bai’s relationship text with Crown Prince Woden existed.

Crown Prince Woden had approached Ye Bai because he saw exploitable advantages and pursued him aggressively.

Naturally, Ye Bai fell for him without dispute. But after their engagement, the Crown Prince gradually revealed his flirtatious nature.

His companions, male and female, never stopped appearing, and Ye Bai never interfered or angrily cursed them.

He simply focused on Woden and cried, crying in a way that made people pity him, as he had suffered immense grievances—and indeed he had.

Even Woden’s friends and Ye Bai’s friends began to persuade Woden, so that by the later part of the plot, most people felt Woden had wronged Ye Bai.

Woden had indeed wronged Ye Bai, because even then he did not plan to break off the engagement.

Ye Bai did not insist on a breakup, everyone around him encouraged them to dissolve the engagement.

But Ye Bai said Woden should talk to him, as it was Woden who had proposed the engagement, and only then did Woden fall silent.

Thus, their relationship remained like that until Woden ascended the throne.

—Then his first act upon taking the throne was to imprison the finance minister’s family, accuse them of bribery and tax evasion, burden them with massive debts, and only then mercifully execute them.

Ye Bai never expected Woden to be so ruthless. Under such a blow, he became mentally broken and committed suicide.

Then—

Woden collapsed.

Seeing this part of the plot, Ye Wangxing’s confusion nearly filled the entire room.

He had killed the entire family—of course the other person went mentally unstable!

Under mental collapse, with companions constantly around, it was natural for suicidal thoughts to arise.

Then why Woden himself collapsed?

People were dead, and only then did he realize he loved them?

That was exactly how it happened.

After discovering Ye Bai’s death, Woden initially appeared normal, holding the funeral, but over the next month he gradually remembered Ye Bai’s good qualities.

He began contacting Ye Bai’s friends, exploring Ye Bai’s past emotions, and ultimately, under the reproach of Ye Bai’s friend Alina, he collapsed and cried at Ye Bai’s grave, completely shattering his image as an Emperor.

…He almost dug up the grave to take Ye Bai’s ashes home to make milk with them.

In the end, Woden spent his life alone on the throne, enjoying worldly wealth and glory, and only then handed the throne to his nephew, after which he impeached himself, claiming he was not a qualified Emperor.

Ye Wangxing did not know what to say when he read about this.

The craziness of the plot exceeded his imagination.

He did not even know how to evaluate it.

Finally, he focused on the task at hand, trying to prevent Woden from inheriting the throne.

Otherwise, even if they left to do the next mission, the body controlled by the main system in this small world could still be executed by Woden.

After all, the original body, who had never appeared in the story, was found and executed by Woden.

 

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