They've already fought their way through the Holy Grail War, and you still call them dragons?

Chapter 20 Chen Motong has no way to retreat

In this world, there are people who are happily dating, and naturally there are also people who are suffering misfortune.

If this misfortune involves the misfortunes of more people, then the combination of these two misfortunes will undoubtedly be a suffocating pain.

In a villa within a vast private estate, rare even among the secular rich, Chen Motong trembled as she watched her father—the middle-aged man standing in the center of the hall, the stern, warrior-like figure beating one of her brothers to a bloody pulp. Her brothers and sisters stood closely around him, watching this tragic drama with indifference.

The unfortunate brother, covered in blood, was still twitching in pain, which made the bloodthirsty dog, as strong as an ox, stare at him eagerly. It waited for the order from its father and started to grab, beat and bite the unfortunate brother.

Judging from the composition of the people, it seems like a family meeting, but the scene has been forcibly transformed into a serious and cold-blooded torture trial, tinging the concept of family with a bloody color that does not belong to it, making people frown.

In fact, Chen Motong couldn't recognize which brother of hers was the almost lifeless guy.

Because she has 54 brothers and sisters. And except for a few twins and triplets, most of them are not born to the same mother.

But this does not mean that Chen Motong's father is a dissolute and amorous man. On the contrary, in her eyes, this father is an unfeeling and harsh man.

Chen's father is proud of his dragon bloodline and has invested in many medical institutions through the family business. He uses this opportunity to find poor women who are willing to be surrogate mothers for artificial insemination and spread his bloodline.

As for the children born, naturally, they had nothing to do with the surrogate mothers. He simply took the children away. Children with mediocre talents were raised in a family-invested nursery, and only those with excellent bloodlines were raised by him personally.

In this way, he can cultivate the heir with the best bloodline and the highest talent to carry forward the family business.

This was the Chen family, a family run on a corporate model. All of the children were employees of this man, most at the bottom of the hierarchy, while a few—Chen Motong and his 55 other siblings—were elite employees with the opportunity to manage the business.

Since they are employees, there must be a strict system of rewards, punishments, promotions and demotions.

Father Chen would take time out from time to time to visit these elite children - every weekend or during long holidays, and personally check their school report cards and give rewards to those who excelled. This system would continue until they were officially assigned various tasks in the family.

As for the guy who was beaten half to death, he was punished for his poor performance.

Chen Motong's brothers and sisters were in charge of different matters, and she didn't know why that guy was punished.

She only vaguely heard Chen's father say words like "the goods were intercepted" and "we got something on them" while beating and scolding her.

As far as Chen Motong knew, even if the family was caught doing illegal business by the relevant authorities, there were plenty of ways to deal with the trouble.

But this time, Father Chen was furious as never before, which meant that he saw this as a problem that would require a huge price to pay. That price was enough to make him so upset that he showed his unruly side in front of all the children.

"So, you've encountered a force that even father is wary of? So powerful that they can't handle it?" Chen Motong's eyes flickered, and the next moment, an almost outrageous idea popped up in his mind—

"I wish this family could disappear forever."

Ever since her mother died and she learned about Chen's father's business practices, she no longer has any attachment to this family.

But Chen Motong quickly quashed the thought. Father Chen's hand had become an invisible force of dominance, deeply manipulating every one of her siblings. He wove a web of power, rewarding or punishing with every move, instilling his invisible will deep into the children's minds.

Chen Motong had tried hard, but everyone else seemed to be being pulled by invisible threads, caught in a spiderweb, entangled in the threads and sinking deeper and deeper. Now, when these brothers and sisters saw their compatriots about to be beaten to death, they didn't feel sad or shed tears. Instead, they secretly hoped that one more death would mean one less person to share the family inheritance.

This made her feel like there was an invisible, sad, thick barrier separating her from her brothers and sisters every time she interacted with them, and it became thicker as she grew older.

"Mo Tong," her father finally finished cleaning up the mess in the hall, leisurely wiped the few drops of blood off his face, and walked towards her with a perfectly generous smile. But considering that he had just been stained with his own child's blood, this smile might be described as bloody and terrifying.

"Although many children in this family have disappointed and saddened me, you, Mo Tong, my most outstanding daughter, have never disappointed me, and you never will in the future, right?"

nausea!

"My name is Nuonuo, not Motong!" The young girl, Chen Motong, was like an angry lioness. She could no longer stand this man's face. When she was young, she had also been bewitched by the warmth and affection he cultivated, but her mother's death had ripped everything open, making her realize that the underlying logic of this family was cannibalism.

Since then, she has distanced herself from this family and named herself Nono.

"Okay, okay, Nono."

The man was not angry, but looked helpless, as if what he saw was not a lioness but a kitten with its fur standing on end.

He indulged Chen Motong's rebellious behavior. His philosophy was that as long as Chen Motong was the best among the children, he would give her the most special care. Although Chen Motong did not have the power of words, he learned everything faster than his brothers and sisters. This alone was worth his "investment". Chen Motong's exclusive favor also made the surrounding brothers and sisters jealous.

"Nono, do you know Gattuso?"

"Eh?" A bewildered look flashed across Chen Motong's face. Trapped in the manor, she didn't understand why her father suddenly mentioned this surname.

"The Gattuso family, a hot new upstart in the Secret Party, is a mixed-race Italian family and one of the seven board members of Kassel Academy, the Secret Party's headquarters." Father Chen first cast a shining aura of power over the name he was talking about.

"At the same time, Caesar Gattuso, the son of the current head of the Gattuso family, Pompey Gattuso, has also reached the right age for engagement. Nono, the situation facing the Chen family is not optimistic. We need the strong support of the Gattuso family."

The bewilderment on Chen Motong's face gradually disappeared, and she finally understood... This man wanted to marry her into the Gattuso family as a marriage alliance!?

The man still spoke gently, but his tone was cold and unquestionable, "Mo Tong, my beloved daughter, the family needs you."

Despair was like a silently rising undercurrent, quietly drowning Chen Motong's heart.

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Chapter 21 The Goddess is Interested

"Do you know there is a Wa in the world? The Emperor's daughter was born in Lei Ze, and from the Yin, all things were born."

"Nuwa, the goddess who became the emperor, has a human face and a snake body. She changes into seventy forms in one day. This belly becomes this deity."

……

Many years later, when facing a grand date night, Wazhu would recall the afternoon when she was taught the family history in the Zhou family's closed school.

The Zhou family has always been strict about rules, including family education. Born into the Nüwa clan, Wazhu was trained from a young age as a potential heir. From the most basic knowledge to the proper manners of walking, lying, sitting, and standing, and obedience to the family elders, every aspect was expected to be perfect.

Of course, strength is also a necessary quality for the position of the head of the family. A key test of strength is to use the Dragon Breaking Platform and accept the test of the living spirit.

If she had died at that time, it would not have been her turn to inherit the title of Lord Nuwa.

That afternoon, the clan teacher in the school talked about the local legend of Xiangyang, "Goddess of Han River". He said that the "Chicken Ribs" written by Zhuang Chuo in the Song Dynasty recorded that Zheng Jiaofu, an ancient man from the previous dynasty, met the goddess and fell in love while playing in Han River, leaving behind the mythical love legends of "Goddess Playing with Pearls" and "Love with Stones" in the local area.

The teacher said that Zhuang Chuo was unaware of the truth and had spread many misunderstandings. The goddess of Han River was actually the head of the Nuwa clan of my Zhou family at that time. The Nuwa clan had always been familiar with water. When people saw the head of the Nuwa clan traveling, they spread rumors and mistakenly identified him as the goddess of Han River.

Zheng Jiaofu was also an outstanding mixed-race son of the Zheng family. He was extremely talented, passed the test of Duanlongtai and married into the Zhou family, thus creating a good story and leaving his name in history.

Lord Nuwa inadvertently retorted, "Thousands of years ago, the head of the Nuwa clan could go out and play, but I can't?"

The old man was furious at this. He said that the Han River Goddess appeared because the head of the family was accidentally watched by mortals when he went out thousands of years ago. Since then, the Zhou family has been on high alert against such situations.

Then he changed the subject and began to repeat the same old tune, talking about the ancient Zhou family, the noble status of the head of the family, and how following the old rules of the ancestors was for your own good and would not go wrong. The same old clichés repeated over and over were very annoying. At that time, the Queen of Wa didn't listen to the rest of the story. She only paid attention to the love story.

Because the name of the Goddess of Han River is well-known in Xiangyang, the local unique folk activity "Chuantian Festival" is a festival to worship the Goddess of Han River.

At this time, Lord Wa would know that in addition to the Zhou family, groups of ordinary people would go out for a boat ride, quarry stones on the Han River, worship the goddess, pray for children, and look for marriage partners... It was very lively with a constant stream of people coming and going.

Unfortunately, the excitement is outside, and Lord Wa herself cannot get any part of it. She has obtained the right to inherit the head of the family, which is a "body worth a million gold", and she will have to sit in the palace of Tang City for the rest of her life.

She had no choice but to look at the lights of thousands of homes, imagine herself among them, and laugh and have fun with the people in the world.

Only the Han River love legend mentioned that day made Wazhu feel more regretful, or perhaps even dreamy: If only I could experience such a beautiful story...

"what happened?"

Wa finally came out of her memories and heard Shirou Emiya asking a question softly from across the table.

"Hey, it's nothing." Wazhu playfully stuck out her pointed tongue, revealing a charming smile. Tonight's makeup had transformed her into a young girl, but the occasional expression she showed still resembled that of a cute little girl.

The restaurant they are currently working at is called LIANGSHE, a Chinese restaurant that imitates the style of Ultraviolet by Paul Pairet, a luxury restaurant in Shanghai, and is famous for its immersive dining that focuses on the combination of sound, light, shape and color.

Saying they valued this wasn't just propaganda; it was a real fact. Emiya looked around. The restaurant was vast, but they were the only two dining in the entire thousand square meters. The vast space around them was filled with luxurious gold and red.

The splendid scene is like a mirage, with the sound of flowing water and cranes crying endlessly, and the red pillars of the ancient temple with colorful glaze supporting the sky and the earth. Such a three-dimensional and huge atmosphere was created by the restaurant designer based on "Night Banquet of Han Xizai", one of the ten famous paintings in China.

Su Enxi from the nanny group was busy running around, and she didn't forget to book a table here. She even communicated with the restaurant to change the light and color performance in the background style to the scene of encountering the beauty on the Broken Bridge of West Lake in "The Legend of White Snake", trying to increase the atmosphere to the max so that the two of them could be "moved by the scene".

While Emiya and Wa were chatting, the restaurant was serving dishes quietly. It was rumored that the chef here had worked in the "world's number one restaurant" NOMA. He was a disciple of the top celebrity chef Simon Wright and was nicknamed "Kitchen Boy" in the restaurant world.

Most of them are elegant titles for literati such as "Poet Immortal" and "Poet Ghost", which are praised by the industry with their fancy sedan chairs carried by everyone.

Emiya used the information he had researched earlier to talk to Wazhu. Wazhu smiled—she seemed to laugh more and more often when she was with Emiya—and said that these were things she learned from foreigners, and that real Chinese cuisine did not require a star chef.

The Zhou family, to which Lord Wa belongs, is ancient, and even their cuisine is traditional northern-style Chu cuisine. To be honest, it is more authentic than those of the government's state banquet chefs.

This time I went out to try this restaurant and I didn’t feel it was amazing, but the combination of Chinese and Western food, as well as the creative and decadent style, was quite novel.

Having said that, a light blush spread across Wa's face and she smiled, showing that she actually liked it very much.

Emiya didn't care that much. Although they were imitations of Western dishes, it was still nice to try new dishes.

In the past, Emiya lived alone and cooked, and he thought he had some culinary skills, so he liked to cook for himself. He was proficient in both Chinese and Japanese cuisine, but he had never learned dishes of this scale in depth.

But Wazhu's eyes suddenly lit up and she said, "I didn't expect you knew cooking. Next time you cook for yourself, I want to taste your dishes!"

Okay, okay, Miss, if you tell me to, I will do it for you whenever I have time.

This request was no pressure for Emiya, so he agreed readily this time. It would be a good thing to show off his skills in front of acquaintances, especially if he could easily control the young lady's stomach.

"Hey, Shirou."

As time went by, the two of them toasted each other. Emiya remained relatively calm, while Wa was shaking her red wine glass, her face gradually flushed, her eyebrows lowered, her eyes drooped, and her words became unclear. It seemed that she had drunk quite a bit.

It's no wonder that Lord Wa is really happy today. After all, it is the first time in her life that she has realized her dream of going out of the house, and she can also experience such an experience with Emiya... It was a regret or a beautiful dream in her childhood.

No, this is not a dream.

"Hmm!" Wa took advantage of the alcohol to cheer herself up. She moved her head and squinted to look. Amidst the dazzling lights and the dazzling spectacle, Shirou Emiya's face was always filled with seriousness.

Even though the mission he had requested was already somewhat difficult for him, he didn't complain at all. He could have refused to share the secrets of his masterful alchemy work, the "Magic Circuit," but he chose to take the initiative and stand by his side, guiding the Zhou family members without hesitation.

"You're such a pushover!"

Wazhu recalled the day when she had forcibly dragged Emiya Shirou to her side, and boldly put her arms around his neck and acted pretentiously in front of the elders. But today, it seemed as if she had made the fake reality, and her expression was even more shy.

Shirou treats me like a patriot, so how can I, Wa, be hesitant and shrink back?

"Shirou Shirou," Wazhu lowered his eyes, "Come here and lower your head."

She brought her lips closer.

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Chapter 22 The Devil is Merciless

"Wow wow wow~, kiss, kiss!"

In the monitoring hall several kilometers away, the large group of hundreds of people had evacuated completely, leaving only three people. The most conspicuous among them was the potato chip girl Su Enxi, who looked listless from working overtime. She stared at her screen without blinking.

Combined with her excited expression at the moment, one can't help but worry that this poor workaholic homebody might suddenly die in the next second.

"Oooo--"

The long-legged girl next to her, Jiude Mai, was drowsy and was a little irritated by Su Enxi's late-night screams. "Sister, haven't you seen enough?"

"Hahaha, long legs, look, look, that Zhou family leader Wa is really proactive. Although she looks soft and cute after being drunk, her every move is infused with the style of a domineering empress... Tsk tsk tsk tsk, the young girl lifted the handsome boy's chin with one hand, twisted her waist and swung her tail, opened her red lips with a seductive look, and said, as long as you marry me, the whole Zhou family will be yours! Goose, goose, goose, goose—"

"You're screwed, right?" Jiude Mai picked up a pillow and threw it at Su Enxi's cheek. She suspected that Su Enxi had been working overtime and started talking nonsense.

Then she stood up, wiped her eyes and looked, but there was no such thing as the domineering CEO and Mary Sue CP plot that Su Enxi had talked about?

Mai Jude only saw the little girl with a flushed face, curled up and lying beside Shirou Emiya. Her long snake-like body stretched out and wrapped around the other person as always. As for her mouth... she looked so drunk that her tongue was probably tied. She opened her mouth and closed her eyes, unable to speak clearly.

Potato Chips Girl, can you understand lip reading in this situation?

But Su Enxi shook her finger and said, "Long legs, you are still too sweet."

Don't underestimate the imagination of a seasoned homegirl like me. I've seen thousands of romantic love stories of all types, so what's this romantic comedy about a commoner becoming a wealthy family's housekeeper and meeting a wealthy woman? It couldn't be more cliché!

Su Enxi came to a conclusion in a second.

...In my opinion, between these two people, the young man will definitely react dully at first, and then the young lady will show her opposite cute side, and her popularity will soar. All we need to do is arrange an event with some unexpected factors, and we can easily achieve a positive result!

Jiude Mai was stunned. "So you think you're the director, and you can get whatever you want? You think you don't have enough work on your shoulders, right?"

"Hehehe, why do you think I work so hard? Isn't it just to serve the boss's big client?"

Jiude Mai looked unconvinced. "You're just too addicted to dog food. It seems like you're justified in spying on other people's private lives. Now you're trying to drag me and Sanwu to eat with you, right?"

Besides the two of them, sitting quietly and obediently at the farthest point was a short person with a stern face... no, a petite girl, with her blonde hair tied up, and said softly with an expressionless face:

"I think it's best not to do anything unnecessary. You can't guarantee that the 'accident' will really be what you think it is."

Sanwuniu spoke in a cold tone and didn't seem very approachable, but the other two people who knew her knew that this was how Sanwu spoke in her daily voice.

"Tsk! I worked so hard to create such a perfect play, how can I finish it so sloppily? No matter what the ending is, I will arrange it to the end! No one can stop me!"

Su Enxi stood up excitedly, her high heels clicking on the marble floor.