This "little Fairy" was, of course, Ruan Lan.
Ruan Lan was thrilled to have finally finished her exams. She imdiately turned down Yu Xiaoxiao and Li Li's proposal to go out for a celebratory dinner and headed straight for Haitang Court.
It couldn't be helped. She had been living at school to focus on her studies and had lost a full three pounds! The Ruan Lan who once weighed 101 pounds was now only 98.
Ruan Lan had been planning to co ho to a feast. But upon entering the house, the first thing she saw was her sister, face flushed red, being held in the arms of her good-for-nothing brother-in-law...
Ruan Lan silently picked up the bag she had dropped on the floor and started waving. "Yiyi, co on out with your auntie. Let's give your mom and dad so space."
"..."
Ruan Tang's face darkened. "Ruan Lan, you get in here!"
"Ahem." Xu Lai coughed and whispered in his wife's ear, "If your sister hadn't co back, I would have taught you a lesson today."
Ruan Tang's face grew hot. I'm going to make this arrogant scoundrel sleep on the floor tonight! He's just infuriating!
"It's fine, it's fine! I know when I'm being a third wheel." Ruan Lan glanced at the ti and said seriously, "Um, can I co back in five minutes? If that's not enough ti, I can co back in half an hour."
She was getting more and more ridiculous...
Ruan Tang glared. "Get in here and shut the door!"
"Oh." Ruan Lan looked genuinely remorseful for interrupting her sister and brother-in-law's private mont, muttering to herself, "I should have co back later."
"Have you eaten yet?" Xu Lai asked with a smile.
"Nope." Ruan Lan's smile was radiant, and her heart felt warm. "Brother-in-law, you don't have to make anything too fancy. Three dishes and a soup would be great."
This is what a real brother-in-law is like, always worried about whether I'm hungry. Boo-hoo, I'm so touched!
"There's instant ran in the kitchen. Go make it yourself." Xu Lai, still holding his precious daughter Yiyi, went back to his video ga. "Yiyi, let have this mushroom. You can get the next one."
"No!" Yiyi cried in a panic, quickly maneuvering her character to snatch the mushroom item. Father and daughter had a 'falling out' right then and there.
"..."
Ruan Lan was dumbstruck.
I was willing to stand outside in the cold to give you two so space, and this is how my lousy brother-in-law treats ? Unbelievable!
The sister-in-law huffed, "Brother-in-law, if you don't bribe with a grand al, there's sothing I just might have to tell my sister."
"Go on, tell her." Xu Lai wasn't flustered at all. His conscience was clear; he knew he hadn't done anything to let Ruan Tang down, so he had nothing to fear.
Ruan Lan lowered her voice. "Are you sure, Brother-in-law? This isn't exactly good news."
"Just say it." Xu Lai still didn't seem to care.
Ruan Lan shot Xu Lai a harsh glare. "I gave you a chance, and you didn't take it!" After a pause, she huffed disdainfully, "There's a post on the school forum exposing soone. It says the clinic director played with a woman's feelings, and after she had his child, he refused to take responsibility."
"There's a second clinic director at the school?" Xu Lai asked, surprised. Suddenly, his scalp prickled. "Wait, this director... it's not , is it?"
Xu Yiyi put down her controller, her eyes welling with tears. "Daddy, did you give Yiyi a little brother or sister with soone else?"
"Absolutely not!" Xu Lai's head throbbed. He quickly comforted Yiyi while turning to explain, "Honey, this is..."
Ruan Tang finished his sentence for him. "Slander."
"Exactly!" Xu Lai nodded vehently. It's blatant slander!
Ruan Lan gave her a strange look. "Sis, how do you know it's slander? What if it's true?"
"I trust him." Ruan Tang's tone was calm, but those three simple words moved Xu Lai deeply. This was the partner he would walk into the future with. Trust was essential.
Ruan Tang said with a smirk, "After all, your brother-in-law doesn't like to *run*, does he, Xu Lai?"
"..."
Xu Lai's face flushed. He knew his wife was still mad about what happened at the gym.
Ruan Lan added with an air of great seriousness, "Mhm, I agree, it must be fake. My brother-in-law ignores his own beautiful, fairy-like sister-in-law right here at ho. Why would he get involved with so common floozy outside?"
Ignoring Ruan Lan's shaless self-praise, Xu Lai frowned. "Who is slandering ?"
"I don't know," Ruan Lan said. "The post is anonymous, but at the end, it says they want to et you tomorrow at noon at the gates of Dongli University to discuss the child's custody."
"Fine," Xu Lai said. "I'll go tomorrow and see who's trying to sling mud at ."
"Do you want to go with you?" Ruan Tang took Xu Lai's hand and asked softly. She knew that n weren't always as strong as they appeared on the surface; they needed comfort and companionship, too.
"No, it's okay. You focus on your work tomorrow," Xu Lai said.
"Okay."
"So, brother-in-law, about my dinner..." Ruan Lan rubbed her hands together excitedly.
"There's instant ran in the kitchen."
"..."
「The next day.」
After dropping his wife and daughter off at her company and the kindergarten, respectively, Xu Lai went to the school clinic. Zhou Feng and Liu Nanwei were both there, and they looked at Xu Lai with expressions of repressed indignation.
Zhou Feng, in particular, looked as if *he* were the one being slandered. "Director Xu, I've already contacted the school to officially deny the rumors. The security guards will definitely catch whoever is spreading them!"
"That's right, Director Xu. We believe you're not that kind of person," Liu Nanwei added, nodding repeatedly.
"It's not a big deal." Xu Lai waved his hand dismissively. "What I want to know is, what's the plan for the holiday break?"
Zhou Feng was speechless. Liu Nanwei was, too. So we were worried about you for nothing?
Liu Nanwei didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Since so students will be staying on campus during the winter break, one school doctor has to remain on duty. It's the rule."
"However, Dr. Li said today that he would be the one staying," Zhou Feng added.
Xu Lai nodded. He had confidence in Li Shouzhong's dical skills.
He began to plan. Once his wife and daughter were on break, where should he take them? It was a rare vacation. He couldn't waste it. They had to go appreciate the magnificent landscapes of the country. And along the way, he could teach Yiyi and Ruan Tang so Cultivation thods.
Even though he had to spend a hundred ordinary years on Earth, the last few months of nutritional supplents had already built a solid foundation for them. Their Cultivation would now be twice as effective with half the effort. It was essential for them to learn so techniques for self-preservation and offense.
Take the youth martial arts tournant a few days ago, for example. The Phoenix that Xu Yiyi condensed from her Spiritual Energy was powerful enough to dominate the other kids, but if Xu Lai hadn't secretly intervened to block the worst of it, they all would have died. His daughter still had a lot of room for improvent when it ca to controlling her Spiritual Energy.
The morning passed uneventfully. During that ti, quite a few students ca to the school clinic to ask Xu Lai if he was the heartless womanizer from the forum post. Most of them were female.
Zhou Feng explained the situation to each of them. Only then did the female students relax, smiling and apologizing profusely to Xu Lai. Many of them considered him their campus idol.
To this, Xu Lai had only one reply: "I'm married and have a child."
The female students' smiles froze on their faces. They left on the verge of tears, lanting that their "youth was over" and "sumr has ended."
"Look at Director Xu, and then look at you!" Liu Nanwei said to Zhou Feng, exasperated. "Useless at everything, but number one at being single."
Zhou Feng was speechless.
BUZZ... BUZZ... BUZZ...
His phone vibrated at just the right mont.
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