No one notified me in advance. Everyone in the end times is crazy.

Wang Rui felt his arms go empty. He opened his sleepy eyes and saw Luo Shiyu curled up in a ball. He patted his back to comfort him and asked, "What happened? Did you have a nightmare?"

Luo Shiyu nodded.

I also hope it was just a nightmare.

"Dreams are the opposite of what they sound like. They indicate good things are about to happen to Xiaobao."

You're just using the same rhetoric you'd use on children to trick me. I know that being upset here won't solve anything.

Luo Shiyu wiped away his tears and smiled at Wang Rui.

Seeing Luo Shiyu smile, Wang Rui rubbed his head lovingly and said, "Silly brother."

Wang Rui stayed with him for a while, confirmed that Luo Shiyu's emotions were stable, and got up to prepare afternoon tea.

Luo Shiyu watched him leave, got out of bed, walked to the window, opened it and looked at the sky.

The speed of flow varies between planes. I've been sealed in this plane for ten thousand years. How much time has passed in the upper realm? Why am I having this dream? Is the teacher doing well? No, just random thoughts won't cut it. I need to put the matter of absorbing the luck on the agenda. I must return to the heavens and find out everything I want to know.

When Luo Shiyu thought about absorbing luck, he felt like a deflated balloon.

[Big Ice Cube! It would be so great if you were a playboy who lives a life of luxury! We're only interested in sex, not love. What a pity~ He's such a chaste guy. How about giving him some medicine? Hmm! That's a good idea.]

After a while, he denied his idea.

[No, feeding her the medicine once might work, but a second time would definitely make her wary of me, let alone a third or fourth time.]

The more he thought about it, the more annoyed he became. He slammed the window shut, squatted on the ground and scratched his hair.

[This is so annoying! If this happened in the world of cultivation, I could just give him a love poison and everything would be solved.]

As if he thought of something, he ran out barefoot with a notebook in his hand.

He walked tentatively step by step to Wang Rui who was still cutting fruit.

Feeling a little ball moving closer to him, Wang Rui was amused. He looked at him and asked, "What are you doing?"

He picked up a strawberry with the butt cut off and stuffed it into Luo Shiyu's mouth, then continued to ask, "Are you greedy?"

Luo Shiyu swallowed the food in his mouth with a "slurp", took out a notebook with words written on it from behind him, and held it in front of Wang Rui.

"elder brother."

"Well, what happened?"

Turn to the second page: "Are there any ghosts with the same power as Cupid?"

"It seems not. If there were, the world would be in chaos."

Luo Shiyu nodded somewhat disappointedly.

【Right. 】

Wang Rui stuffed another piece of cut pear into Luo Shiyu's mouth.

"Eat some pears. It's good for your throat."

【Why? I don't need my voice.】

Wang Rui put the cut fruit into a bowl, sprinkled a handful of blueberries, opened the refrigerator and asked, "What flavor of yogurt do you want?"

【Just keep it original.】

Point to plain yogurt.

"Okay." Wang Rui opened the cabinet again and asked, "Can I have cranberry cookies for dessert?"

Luo Shiyu nodded.

I watched Wang Rui open the cookies and put them on the plate, and then put a few vitamins and the fruit in his hand.

An idea popped into Luo Shiyu's mind: [Is this an illusion? Why does it look so much like hamster food?]

Wang Rui put the prepared "food" on the table and pulled out a chair.

Luo Shiyu immediately went over and sat down to enjoy his afternoon tea.

Wang Rui prepared a bunch of things for Luo Shiyu and just made a cup of black tea for himself.

Sit at the table and turn on the smart brain.

[Brother, are you going to work again? You're like a giant ice cube. Never mind. It has nothing to do with me.]

Wang Rui frowned as he looked at the message on the screen, then his brows relaxed in an instant, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise.

After taking a sip of black tea and adjusting his mood, he asked Luo Shiyu beside him, "Xiaobao, it's been almost a year since you last saw your father, right?"

[What does that mean? Another trap?]

"Dad sent a video call! Do you want to meet him, Xiaobao?"

【Why should I see him? 】

Luo Shiyu shook his head frantically.

"I almost forgot, you've always been in awe of your father."

【You're just going to let me go like this?】

"But not seeing each other all the time is not a big deal."

【I knew it. 】

"Just sit here and quietly watch your father." Wang Rui placed his own smartphone against Wang Xiaobao's smartphone and said reassuringly, "Don't worry, he can't see you."

【Thank you, that's really not necessary.】

Wang Rui connected the video.

On the screen was a thin and mean face with narrow eyes full of calculation.

Wang Xiaobao has round eyes and chubby cheeks, and doesn't look like him.

Wang Rui has a pair of willow-leaf eyes, an angular jaw, and his every move is elegant, which is unlike him.

This is Wang Xiaobao's father: Wang Ye. He seems quite fierce.

The moment the video was connected, an angry voice came from the screen: "Wang Rui! Get back here!"

Wang Rui leaned back in his chair with his legs crossed. His left elbow rested on the armrest, his hand supporting the tea tray. His right hand hooked around the handle of the teacup, and he took a sip of tea. (Hmm, elegant.)

Unfazed by Wang Ye's words, she calmly teased, "Father, you have a very strong liver fire. You should ask your mistresses to brew more tea for you to cool you down."

He took another sip of tea, watching Wang Ye's face gradually change color, and continued, "But be careful, don't eat everything, or you might lose your life. I don't want to take on the mess of Seventeen Cities yet."

[What the hell? Are my brother's words really that powerful?]

"Humph, you're dreaming. Do you think you're my only son?"

Wang Rui put down his teacup, smiled at Luo Shiyu, then turned his gaze away and said to Wang Ye, "So? Father wants to pass the position to Xiaobao?"

[I give up, don’t click on me when you chat! ]

"That loser, he doesn't deserve it even more."

[You don't deserve it! You don't deserve it! Who the hell are you?]

"Really? If so, then father has a new heir? Let me guess, which mistress is pregnant this time? Or has father decided to bring back the sisters he raised outside and let them inherit the family business? Completely abandoning your two sons?"

"Sister? You don't have a sister. A guy without a handle is not worthy of being in my family tree."

When Luo Shiyu heard this, he felt for the first time that being mute was a very painful thing.

[Huh? What's your family tree? The Investiture of the Gods? It's so hard to get in. Others bound their feet, but you bound your cerebellum, right? Did humanity forget about you during evolution? Did Darwin need to write a book just for you? What era is this? You're saying that? Damn it! If words could be offensive, I'd curse you to death! God damn it! I feel like I can't even reach through the screen with my hand.]

Wang Rui looked at Luo Shiyu's reaction and chuckled, "Father really hasn't changed at all. I have good news to tell you."

"What good news? Did they catch the thief?"

"That's not it."

"What good news could there be?"

Wang Rui turned sideways, out of the camera's range. He looked at Luo Shiyu's fruit bowl and raised an eyebrow at him.

Luo Shiyu understood what he meant and pointed his fork at the strawberry.

Wang Rui shook his head.

Point to the cantaloupe.

Wang Rui opened his mouth.

Luo Shiyu put a piece of Hami melon in it, and to prevent the yogurt from dripping onto the ground, he held it with his hands and fed it to Wang Rui.

After eating what he wanted, Wang Rui sat up straight and was about to continue what he had just said.

Wang Ye interrupted: "Who is with you?"

Wang Rui said without hesitation: "My mistress, what's wrong? You can find me but you can't?"

[Huh? ? Bro, you're just lying like that? ]

Luo Shiyi thought Wang Ye would get mad, but he burst into laughter instead: "Hahaha! Great! That's very Laozi-like! Come on, let's get down to business. What's the good news?"

[What kind of bastard with a wrong outlook on life is this? ]

"My mother is willing to give 40% of the Third City's energy to Seventeenth City."

Wang Ye's face darkened instantly, and his tone became serious as he asked, "What are her conditions?"

"My mother wanted my father to crawl around the Seventeen Cities, barking like a dog and yelling, 'I'm just a promiscuous son of a bitch.'"

Luo Shiyu bit his fingers to hold back his laughter.

The video contained the sound of a table being flipped, followed by Wang Ye's furious roar: "Don't even think about it! Even if I die, I can't fulfill her wish!"

"Father, you seem to have forgotten that without my mother's support, you wouldn't have been able to take the throne of the Seventeenth City Lord. She was the eldest daughter of the Third City, yet she married into the Seventeenth City and was even cuckolded by you. It's truly righteous of you to be like this now. One should be content with what one has, Father."

Luo Shiyu collected the information from Wang Rui's words.

Wang Rui's mother was the eldest daughter of the Third City. Does that mean the current Lord of the Third City is his uncle? No wonder he's so arrogant, even confronting his own father. It turns out he has powerful backing.

"Benevolence and righteousness? She took half of my property during the divorce, and now she's talking to me about being righteous?"

【That's what you should do! 】

"Mother still loves father. At least she didn't take me away and left an heir for you, didn't she?"

"She kept you here just to make things difficult for me! As long as I pass the city lord position to you, it will be considered as me personally handing the power to that old woman."

"Does father have a more suitable candidate? Or does father want to repeat what happened to Xiaobao's mother?" Wang Rui said with a calculating smile.

[About Wang Xiaobao's mother? Is Wang Rui deliberately trying to trick me?]