"Live near your Western-style Mansion? Ah, I rember the area near your ho is also quite nice, Hitomi, and it is not too far from the school."
Hearing Sakuramiya Hitomi volunteering herself, Wang Yulu opened her mouth and said this.
"Yes, yes!"
Sensing the change in Wang Yulu's tone, Sakuramiya Hitomi's eyes lit up slightly as she continued her introduction,
"The villa prices there are definitely lower than those near Auntie Ye Lan's place, and the supporting facilities are excellent!"
Wang Yulu smiled and held Sakuramiya Hitomi's hands,
"I know, I know, there is even a forest park nearby!"
Sakuramiya Hitomi's eyes grew even brighter, and she laughed happily in return,
"And my mother also knows the owners of those properties. If we buy two houses together, there might even be a discount..."
"That is wonderful!"
"Hahaha, exactly, Auntie!"
"Hahaha."
"Haha..."
"Haha..."
Sakuramiya Hitomi laughed joyfully, already beginning to imagine going to work and school with the president every day, so she asked again,
"Then, Auntie, when should we go look at the houses? I will go make an appointnt with them!"
Wang Yulu kept her smiling expression, still holding Sakuramiya Hitomi's hands as she said,
"Oh, actually, I still want to buy a house near your Auntie Lan's place."
"..."
Hearing this, the smile on Sakuramiya Hitomi's face instantly froze.
'Auntie, if you are not going to buy one, why did you keep agreeing with
and looking so tempted?!'
She glanced at the sunny, radiant smile on Wang Yulu's face, unconsciously grinding her teeth in frustration.
'I cannot help but feel that Wang Yulu is like a great demon!'
"That is fine too, haha..."
After a second of silence, Sakuramiya Hitomi still forced out a smile and replied.
Wearing a smile identical to Yan Huan's, Wang Yulu gently released her hands, shook her head, and explained earnestly,
"Actually, I know that the properties near Hitomi's ho are indeed nice, but they are mostly unfurnished. Factoring in the cost and ti for renovations, the price ends up being about the sa."
"anwhile, the houses near Lan's place are mostly move-in ready. We can just move in first, and later, if Xiao Huan does not like it, we can always renovate it after he has been working for a while."
It was well-reasoned and well-founded. It was impossible to refute.
But...
Sakuramiya Hitomi pursed her lips, inevitably thinking of that person, Ye Shiyu.
"..."
Helpless, she could only cast a glance at Yan Huan behind her.
Sensing her gaze, Yan Huan also looked at Wang Yulu in front of him.
At this mont, he unexpectedly felt a slight urge to comfort Sakuramiya with a few words:
"Sorry, my mother just has this kind of personality."
But the instant this thought popped up, he suddenly found it a bit strange.
In his mind, there was still the surprise and confusion from when he first saw his mother resurrected.
But...
What occupied his mind more were the intermittent mories of getting along with his parents over the past eighteen years.
It was as if his previous life without parents had rely been an illusion.
And an illusion that was gradually fading away at that.
"..."
Yan Huan clutched his head, took a deep breath, and chewed over all the mories of these eighteen years in his mind.
Since he was little, his parents frequently went out to work, even falsely claiming that their family was very poor.
However...
They would video call him every week and send ssages to check on him every day.
Whenever it was a holiday or his birthday, they would always co back to give him a birthday gift.
Occasionally, they would make a surprise return.
Like when he was bullied in elentary school, his mother furiously called his father to rush back and argue with the teacher.
When he received an invitation from a talent scout and thought he could help supplent the family inco, he went to Yasaka Company for a trial training interview. His mother specially took ti off to return to the country and go with him.
He had originally passed the interview, but his mother could tell at a glance that the boss was not a good person, forcefully dragging him away...
Although he always felt that his experiences were not far off from the dream where he had no parents.
The emotional flavor, however, was vastly different.
It gave him more confidence and made him feel a bit more at ease.
"Drip."
Unconsciously, a murky tear slid down from the corner of Yan Huan's eye.
But before Wang Yulu and Sakuramiya Hitomi could notice, Yan Huan raised his finger and wiped away the teardrop that felt like a re physiological response.
"But the most important thing is, Xiao Huan, what do you think?"
As she spoke, Wang Yulu apologetically leaned a little closer to Yan Huan on the hospital bed.
Her face, which bore a strong resemblance to Yan Huan's, carried the sa smile he had seen countless tis in the mirror. She asked him,
"Xiao Huan, are you willing to... forgive Mom and Dad?"
Yan Huan's heart stirred slightly. Amidst a mix of incongruity and warmth, he opened his mouth.
Perhaps he understood what kind of expression his mother would show if he shook his head...
Even if he vaguely felt sothing was wrong, Yan Huan still did not want to see it.
Thus, he gave a helpless smile and nodded.
"Yay!"
Seeing this, Wang Yulu gave Yan Huan a big hug, patting his back as she declared,
"That is wonderful! I will contact your Auntie Lan this afternoon about buying the house!"
"Buying one is enough, Mom."
"Okay~"
Hearing Yan Huan's words, Wang Yulu smiled softly.
Wang Yulu stepped aside to call Ye Lan. As they chatted happily, the matter of the house seed to be set in stone.
Watching his mother's figure, the smile on Yan Huan's face gradually faded.
He lowered his eyes, revealing a thoughtful expression.
Soon after, he took out his mobile phone and opened Plane.
He searched...
Hmm?
'What was the na of that fifth host...'
Yan Huan rubbed the space between his eyebrows, gasping in shock. Suddenly rembering sothing, he hastily summoned the Demon's Shop in his mind.
In a single second, he entered the dark sea. After seeing the characters for "Bai Yi" left on the reef, he exited the Demon's Shop.
In the browser's search bar, he searched for "Bai Yi".
It still showed her various entries...
"A famous new-generation singer in Linn. Representative works: 'Cease with the Wind', 'Tick Tock'..."
A singer.
Yan Huan stroked his chin, opened the music app, and searched for Bai Yi.
Then, he saved a few of her hit songs.
"..."
Right after clicking save, Yan Huan still felt it was not foolproof, so he clicked download.
Once the downloads were complete, Yan Huan clicked on his local files.
However, he suddenly discovered that in his local downloaded playlist, aside from the hit songs he had just downloaded, there was another song he did not know when he had downloaded. It was also by Bai Yi.
"Fan A?"
Mulling over this song title, Yan Huan tried to click on the song's details page, only to find that "The page does not exist."
"...How strange."
While Yan Huan was still in bed pondering this strange occurrence, Sakuramiya Hitomi watched Wang Yulu and Ye Lan conversing joyfully, the corners of her mouth stiffening.
'It seems that the president living near Ye Shiyu's family... is already a done deal!'
Thinking this, she took advantage of their distraction, quietly took a step back, and pulled out her mobile phone.
From her contacts, she secretly pulled An Le, Aruiya, and Tong Yingying into a group chat.
Then, she sent the first ssage,
"This is bad!!!"
At this mont, inside the Golden Lion Mansion.
"Eldest Miss, I do not an to nag you... I am representing the president, your mother, in disciplining you! Look at this howork of yours."
Heather looked at the howork written in crooked, illegible handwriting before her, her expression stern.
"Crunch..."
"Look at this mathematics problem. We clearly went over this before..."
"Crunch..."
"And this one..."
"Crunch..."
Every ti Heather spoke a few words, a crisp crunching sound ca from in front of her, causing the blue veins on her forehead to gradually bulge.
She adjusted her spectacles and looked up at Aruiya, who was lying sideways on the sofa, clutching a bag of potato chips and appearing to listen earnestly.
But in reality...
Above her seemingly focused head, invisible thought bubbles reflecting scenes of the Golden Bomb Pig saving the world were floating up...
Her mind was completely wandering off into outer space!!
"..."
Left with no choice, Heather could only take a deep breath.
Imdiately after, she silently took out her mobile phone and read aloud,
"Oh my, it is a ssage regarding Yan Huan."
"Awo? Where is Yan Huan, awo?"
Hearing Yan Huan's na, the thought bubbles above Aruiya's head instantly shattered.
She put down the potato chips and looked at Heather with eager interest as she asked.
"..."
Seeing this, more blue veins bulged on Heather's forehead, but she suppressed her temper and said amiably,
"Ah, it is like this... Sakuramiya Hitomi sent a ssage saying that Yan Huan's mother has returned from abroad and bought him a new house."
Heather seed to have known for a long ti that Yan Huan was secretly a second-generation heir to a wealthy family.
After all, as soone who was very close to Eldest Miss Aruiya, it was only natural that he would be investigated in advance.
"Mm... Soon, Yan Huan will be moving in. Do you want to go take a look? If you do, Aruiya, then hurry up and finish this howork..."
Heather spoke persuasively, leading her step by step.
Using Yan Huan as bait to get Aruiya to do her howork was a trick she had used ti and ti again with great success.
But this ti, upon hearing this, Aruiya blinked and asked in an adorably clueless manner,
"Yan Huan actually has a mother, awo?"
"..."
Hearing this, Heather completely could not hold back anymore.
She slamd her mobile phone down and delivered a sowhat heavy punch to Aruiya's head.
"Hiss!"
As a result, Aruiya's expression remained completely unchanged, while Heather, as if she had been ramd by ox horns, gasped in shock from the pain.
Feeling the pain, Heather grew even angrier and snapped,
"Do not say such impolite things in front of Yan Huan! Do you want others to hate you?!"
It was hard enough that the Eldest Miss had beco a little more normal after eting Yan Huan. If this caused him to distance himself from Aruiya, who knows what kind of trouble would brew!
"Awo..."
Aruiya looked completely innocent. She just rubbed her head and counted on her fingers as she continued,
"I just have not seen her before, awo. And other people seed to say that Yan Huan is an orph—woo!"
Before she could finish her sentence, Heather panicked and hastily covered her mouth, thinking she had watched sothing recently that taught her bad things,
"Where did you learn such insulting curses?! Huh?"
"Awo?"
"Do not say such hurtful things in front of Yan Huan in the future!! Anyway, Sakuramiya Hitomi invited you to go to his new place later!! If you want to go, hurry up and finish your howork!!!"
"Ding~"
"Beep beep..."
In Luoqiao District, at An Le's ho.
Wearing an apron and seemingly in the middle of boiling soup, An Le was sending a ssage to the group chat.
"Where is he moving to?"
She asked.
"Right near Ye Shiyu's family ho."
Along with her words, Sakuramiya Hitomi sent an address.
Reading this, An Le blinked and clicked on the Kyogo Ward address.
At the sa ti, she opened a web browser and searched for the housing prices at that address.
"..." When she saw the long string of zeros behind every move-in-ready house on the market, An Le's expression could not help but change slightly.
She pursed her lips. It took a long mont before she noticed the mobile phone she was tightly gripping.
"What is wrong?"
Beside her, Little Finger, who was sneaking a bite of the sausage she had sliced, sensed her emotional fluctuations and turned to look at her.
The snake saw her holding her mobile phone, with what appeared to be her chat page with Yan Huan on the screen.
In the text box, a line of text remained unsent,
"Xiao Huan is moving to Kyogo Ward, so what will happen to the house in the South Ward?"
She had already typed it out, her finger hovering over the send button.
But after hearing Little Finger's words, An Le hesitated for a second before deleting all the text,
"It is nothing."
"Did we leave anything behind, Xiao Huan?"
A few days later, in a hospital ward at Shengxin Hospital in Kyogo Ward.
Yan Huan took off the hospital gown he had been wearing for the past few days and changed into a set of proper clothes brought by his mother.
He was already out of bed, stretching his once again incredibly robust body, and flashed a smile,
"Nothing, Mom."
"That is good."
Wang Yulu packed up all their belongings in the hospital ward one by one before turning to look at Yan Huan.
Seeing him moving his body around like he had ADHD, even doing a silly basketball shooting motion a mont later, Wang Yulu raised her eyebrows and lightly smacked his shoulder,
"You just recovered! Do not move around recklessly!"
"Did not the doctor say I was perfectly fine?"
"That may be so..."
Bringing this up, Wang Yulu also felt a bit puzzled.
Originally, the doctor had said that considering her son's condition after being hit by a car, he would need to rest for at least a few months.
Who knew that after only a few days of rest, his body would return almost to the state of a normal person. It left the doctors absolutely dumbfounded; they almost thought Yan Huan was Captain Linn.
"..."
Seeing the confused expression on his mother's face, Yan Huan quickly changed the subject,
"Since the doctor said I am fine, then I am fine. Shall we go?"
After all, the only reason he could bounce around so energetically this quickly was entirely due to the Modifier. It was better not to let his mother notice anything unusual.
"Alright... I drove here, the car is just downstairs."
Wang Yulu did not think too much of it. She grabbed a few bags and prepared to turn around.
However, right as she pushed the door open, several officers from the Linn Police Departnt happened to be walking their way.
"Wait a mont, are you Ms. Wang Yulu and student Yan Huan?"
"Ah, yes, that is us."
Yan Huan examined the two police officers in front of him and watched as they took out several docunts and handed them to Wang Yulu,
"The investigation into the previous car accident has concluded. We initially suspect it was an accident... This is the report. If there are no issues, please review it and sign..."
"Officer! Officer!"
Yan Huan was just about to take the docunt and sign it—after all, he knew this matter was related to the Index Finger, so it was naturally best to minimize the impact as much as possible.
However, before he could sign, a commotion broke out behind the police officers.
"..."
Making such a loud racket in the hospital inevitably caused the nurses and family mbers in the corridor to frown and look over.
They saw a pale middle-aged woman run over, reaching out and grabbing the arm of the police officer right in front of them.
For so reason, this woman looked a bit familiar to Yan Huan.
"My daughter has been missing for so long, have you found her or not?!"
"Ms. Zuo, we are currently investigating..."
"Oh! You guys!! My daughter's concert is in just a few days, and now she is gone. What am I supposed to do?! The penalty for breach of contract, I will..."
"..."
The police officer was speechless and could only pretend not to hear, letting his colleague step in to block her.
At the sa ti, he turned back to Yan Huan and his mother, saying,
"Sorry to trouble you, but please sign this, and everything will be settled."
"Alright."
Yan Huan kept looking at the shrewish woman, but the movents of his hands did not slow down at all.
"She has been missing for so long, and you police do not have a single clue! What are you even getting paid for?!"
"Scratch, scratch, scratch."
"If I have to pay damages, I will definitely sue you!!"
"Scratch."
"My daughter is a celebrity, do you know that?! Bai Yi!!"
Hearing that na, Yan Huan's signing motion could not help but pause slightly, prompting him to quickly look over there.
Only at this mont, the woman had already been restrained and was being led away from the scene.
"Are you done, student Yan?"
"Ah."
Simultaneously, Yan Huan returned the signed docunts to the police officer.
"Great, thank you for your cooperation."
The police officer took back the docunts, nodded, and turned to leave.
"So noisy."
Yan Huan turned his head and looked at his mother, who was covering her ears, and could not help but laugh,
"It is nothing, let's go."
"Okay~"
Wang Yulu led Yan Huan into the elevator down to the underground parking, where a brand-new Maserati SUV was already waiting for them.
"Tonight, Mom will make you a feast to celebrate your discharge from the hospital. When the ti cos, call your Auntie Lan, Sister Shiyu, and the others over. Hitomi also knew you were being discharged today and said she invited a few of your good friends too."
"That is so nice of her?"
"Of course."
Wang Yulu smiled and patted Yan Huan's head while starting the vehicle.
The vehicle slowly drove out of the hospital and entered the sunlit street above ground.
"Vroom."
Yan Huan half-rolled down the window and gazed out at the hospital, but his mind was still pondering the woman he had just seen.
Ms. Zuo...
Bai Yi...
'Is she the mother of the fifth host?'
'And she just happens to be missing?'
Yan Huan rubbed the space between his eyebrows, contemplating the matter.
At this mont, aside from knowing that the na Bai Yi was extrely important and that she was the fifth host, Yan Huan could not really rember anything else.
He rubbed his fingers together. As they drove past the police car parked at the entrance, he caught another glimpse of "Ms. Zuo" being taken away by the police...
"..."
'It seems I will have to go find this Ms. Zuo later.'
Yan Huan thought to himself.
"This is way too close..."
At the very sa mont, in front of a luxurious villa in Kyogo Ward.
Through the courtyard wall, Sakuramiya Hitomi could see another villa with her naked eye, sitting no more than a hundred ters away.
That was...
The Ye Residence.
"..."
The thought that Yan Huan could run into Ye Shiyu every day just by taking a short walk outside made Sakuramiya Hitomi unconsciously grind her teeth in frustration.
But at this mont, she withdrew her gaze and looked behind her.
As a result, her teeth ground together even harder.
Behind her, An Le was shyly wearing a beautiful white dress that was clearly quite expensive.
Not only her clothes, but her hair had also been specially styled; it was no longer her usual long, straight, black hair!
Her makeup was the sa...
"..."
Sakuramiya Hitomi took a deep breath and looked at Tong Yingying beside her.
She saw that Tong Yingying was similarly dressed in a burgundy evening gown, and her red hair was styled in the manner of a refined lady...
On her feet, she was even wearing a pair of three-inch high heels!
"It seems... you two ca fully prepared?"
After inspecting their outfits, Sakuramiya Hitomi chuckled and said.
"Likewise."
An Le smiled sweetly, clutching her handbag as she echoed the sentint.
Because right before them, Sakuramiya Hitomi was also wearing a beautiful kimono, and even her hair was tied into a very formal bun.
The reason, naturally, was quite simple.
Previously, Yan Huan's mother had always worked out of town, rarely attending parent-teacher etings or similar activities at school.
Sakuramiya Hitomi had t her once, so Wang Yulu knew her.
An Le had only seen her when they were children.
In the year since she had grown up and returned to Linn, she had practically never seen Yan Huan's parents!
Now that his mother had officially returned, this counted as their first formal eting!
To put it bluntly...
It was their first ti eting their future mother-in-law!!
Naturally, they had to give it everything they had!!
"...This place is so big, awo! Will Yan Huan be living here from now on?"
While the rest of them were "fully ard," Aruiya alone remained dressed in a simple sports t-shirt and shorts.
When she said this, she was jumping down from the fifth-floor terrace.
"Thud... thud..."
Tapping lightly on the third-floor railing, Aruiya then executed a backflip and landed steadily.
Acting as if nothing out of the ordinary had occurred, she looked at the three won beside her, all of whom had stiff expressions.
"What is wrong, awo?"
"Vroom."
Before anyone could speak, the sound of a car engine ca from the entrance.
She is here!!
The mont they heard the engine, the three won instantly entered Sage Mode!
Their expressions, and the imposing aura around them, subtly shifted, transforming into an invisible, three-colored surging tide that crashed toward the vehicle that had just parked at the entrance.
"Rumble!!"
In the car, Wang Yulu had just unfastened her seatbelt when she felt that terrifying, combative aura rushing toward her face like a torrential tsunami.
"Mm..."
Wang Yulu's expression instantly turned bewildered. She turned her head to glance at the "Four Emperors" standing at the entrance of the villa...
For so reason, she suddenly felt an intense reluctance to get out of the car.
Helpless, she had no choice but to look at Yan Huan in the front passenger seat.
Only to see that his expression remained calm and collected, resembling a lone small boat navigating serenely through a violent storm.
He was casually unbuckling his seatbelt as if this was completely ordinary, ready to step out of the car.
"...Son, do you not have any male friends?"
"..."
Hearing his mother hesitate for a long while before speaking cautiously.
Yan Huan revealed a confused expression and said,
"I do, Mom. I do..."
Wang Yulu did not speak; she just looked at him, as if asking,
"Like who?"
"Like Baqiao, and um... Baqiao."
"..."
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