"Grandpa, if you're going to scam someone, find someone else. Do you really take us for fools?" Xia Yuwei said, displeased.
Seeing that the other party was about to leave, the old man steeled his heart, stepped forward, and grabbed Ling Yun's arm: "Young man, if you truly want to practice martial arts and don't want to go astray, this is absolutely a once-in-a-lifetime Opportunity for you!"
Ling Yun glanced at Xia Yuwei. The young girl frowned, glaring at the old man, clearly not believing in the so-called Martial Forest Secret Manual.
He gently patted Xia Yuwei's small hand, telling her not to be so agitated, then opened his mouth and said, "You're not going to tell me I need to save the world after achieving Major Achievement, are you?"
The old man shook his head: "The path of martial arts is for strengthening the body. Even if you learn it to the highest level, it's no match for a gun. Times have long since changed."
After speaking, he looked somewhat dejected.
Ling Yun was about to say something else when he saw the old man pull a small booklet from his pocket.
"My Legacy has been passed down for hundreds of years. I am the 24th generation. You have extraordinary talent and surprising bone structure. I hope you don't let it go to waste."
He placed the book in Ling Yun's hand, then took his other hand and closed it, patted the back of his hand heavily, and then turned and left.
"Grandpa, what should I call you?" Ling Yun called out to his retreating back.
"Just call me Grandpa Shen!"
Ling Yun looked at the small booklet in his hand, on which four gilded characters were written—"Fulong Heart Sutra."
"Lin Feng has lost his greatest Opportunity, his Luck has suffered a major blow, currently calculating... Calculation complete. Lin Feng no longer has any ability to turn things around, his Luck has reset to zero, and he has lost his 'Protagonist' status!"
Ling Yun blinked. He hadn't expected Lin Feng to be so easy to deal with!
He had just started, and it was already over?
Perhaps sensing his inner thoughts, Little Xi explained.
"Brother, future Protagonists won't be so easy to deal with. Lin Feng was just for you to practice on, to help you get familiar with the whole process."
"The level of a Protagonist's Luck determines their future achievements. Some Protagonists climb their way up step by step, gradually achieving Heaven-Defying success, so missing some Opportunities has little impact on them. But some 'Protagonists' rely on Heaven-Defying, fate-changing Opportunities in the early stages to turn things around. Once lost, even if their Luck is astonishingly high, they will suffer a major blow."
"However, for some lucky 'Protagonists,' even if an Opportunity is snatched away, new Opportunities will still await them later, though their future achievements will be correspondingly lower. Each Protagonist has different resistance to various things and setbacks. Knowing yourself and your enemy, choosing the right method might achieve twice the result with half the effort!"
Ling Yun nodded, looking at the pouting Xia Yuwei, and asked with a chuckle, "What's wrong?"
"That grandpa definitely scammed you!"
"He didn't ask me for money, so how did he scam me?"
"Free things are the most expensive!" Xia Yuwei really wanted to convince Ling Yun. "New types of scams use free bait to lure you in. Once you've stepped into the trap, they close the net, and then you can't escape!"
He opened the Fulong Heart Sutra for Xia Yuwei to see. Although she couldn't understand it, she looked at the text and annotations accompanied by illustrations, and only felt relieved after flipping through to the end and finding no contact information or special marks.
"I'm not that foolish, don't worry." Ling Yun put the booklet into his pocket, took the bag of clothes from her hand, and said, "Do you want to keep shopping with me or go home?"
"Let's go home. My mom happens to be off this afternoon, and I want to spend more time with her."
"Alright, should I have someone drive you back?"
"No need. I can take the subway and bus. After all, the suburbs are a bit far from here, and a taxi would probably cost a fortune."
"Where do you live?"
Xia Yuwei shook her head, adamantly refusing to say.
Ling Yun also felt he was a bit too eager and didn't press her. Instead, he handed her a transportation card: "Here, I always have a car picking me up and dropping me off, so I don't need it. You take it."
Seeing that she still didn't want to accept it, Ling Yun feigned a stern face and grabbed her small hand: "Are you being disobedient again?"
"Thank you, Ling Yun. I'll pay you back for the clothes I bought today, including the money on this transportation card!"
"Hmm, of course you'll have to pay it back. If you can't, you'll have to compensate me yourself."
Xia Yuwei burst out laughing. Ling Yun then gently ruffled her hair and saw her off at the subway station.
"Congratulations, Brother, for stripping Lin Feng of his 'Protagonist' status. Rewards are being distributed, please wait a moment..."
"Successfully stripped a 'Protagonist.' Reward: Combat power increased by 10 points; this 'Protagonist,' Lin Feng, had zero Luck before losing his status, additional reward: instantaneous comprehension of the Fulong Heart Sutra!"
As soon as Ling Yun walked out of the subway station, he heard such a wonderful sound. Immediately, a warm current swept through his entire body. Ling Yun felt as if he was in a warm ocean current, and all his meridians were soothed.
He clenched his fist and checked his current combat power.
"Combat Power: 26 (Body Tempering Second Stage)"
Lin Feng, who had already returned to school, felt as if he had lost something important. That oppressive feeling made him uncomfortable, but he quickly returned to normal.
Meanwhile, Wang Hao, who had just had a conflict with him, was shopping on Cross Street with two lackeys when he received a phone call.
Looking at the caller ID, Wang Hao's face turned cold. He walked to a secluded spot and pressed the answer button.
"Hello? What do you want!"
On the other end of the line was a woman's voice, sounding very young, seemingly under 30: "Xiao Hao, your dad wants you to come home for dinner tonight."
Wang Hao snorted, "I'm meeting friends tonight, so I won't be going back. Don't call me again unless it's important!"
"You brat, how dare you talk to your mother like that!"
A middle-aged man's angry roar came from the other end of the line. Wang Hao's face stiffened, and he secretly clenched his fists.
That bitch did it on purpose!
"She's not my mom, my mom died a long time ago!"
He didn't want to argue with his father, so he hung up the phone and blocked the number.
Just as he was fuming with red eyes, an electronic synthesized voice sounded in his ear.
[Ding! Binding successful!]
This voice made Wang Hao tremble all over. An unprecedented sense of tension and ecstasy surged into his heart!
[Hello, Host. I am the Second-Generation Rich System. Please guide me in the future.]
Not far away, two subordinates watched Wang Hao, who was constantly punching the air, and exchanged glances. One of them whispered.
"Is our Brother Hao possessed?"
Chapter 5: Pincer Attack
Ling Yun waited by the roadside for a while. Soon, Ye Hui drove up and stopped in front of him.
"Sister Hui."
Ling Yun pulled open the passenger door and got into the car.
Ye Hui didn't start the car immediately. Instead, she leaned over, following the young man's implied wish, and kissed him.
"Ling Shao, what do you want to eat tonight?"
"Anything. I like everything you make, Sister Hui."
Ye Hui smiled knowingly. Perhaps Ling Yun was simply trying to compliment her, but she was still very happy to hear it. However, she caught a faint, unfamiliar scent on Ling Yun, which should be a girl's body fragrance, but she didn't ask further, simply focusing on her own tasks.
By then, there weren't many cars on the road. The two sped along and soon arrived home.
As soon as they got home, Ling Yun pulled her to the sofa.
"Ling Shao, if you really want to, I... I can actually do it."
Ye Hui thought Ling Yun couldn't hold back and was ready to let him have his way. As for Bai Shuyao's warnings about moderation, she'd cast them aside, her heart filled only with Ling Yun.
"I don't have such perverted fetishes." Ling Yun held her in his arms, kissing her neck, "Sister Hui, have you been in contact with your family recently?"
Ye Hui, who had been shyly closing her eyes, looked a little dejected when she heard his words: "No. I just send money home every month, and I don't bother with anything else."
"Has your fiancé not come looking for you either?"
She shook her head: "I told him that if he dared to come to the Imperial Capital to find me without permission, I would never speak to him again in this life."
Ling Yun felt that Ye Hui was still thinking too simply. The reason Guan Feipeng hadn't come yet was probably because he wasn't ready to reveal his true identity.
"Little Xi, can you find any background information on Guan Feipeng?"
"Sorry, Brother, before officially meeting a 'Protagonist,' it's impossible to weaken his Luck or view related information."
The young man didn't mind. Dragon King-type Protagonists are basically live-in sons-in-law. In the early stages, they are extremely dutiful, obedient to the female lead, and even have agreements, not even holding hands, silently maintaining their image as a good man. In the Late Stage, or when the female lead meets her beloved, to overwhelm the opponent with absolute Aura, they will directly reveal their true identity, making a high-profile entrance with shouts of "Lord Dragon King," raising their prestige to the highest level.
Now he probably just thought Ye Hui had run off to the Imperial Capital in a fit of pique, and would return after a period of cooling down and experiencing the hardships of life.
But he would never have imagined that by the next time they met, his perfect wife would be completely Ling Yun's.
Inside the Morning Star Group building, Bai Shuyao finished her work and gave an order to her driver, Ma Xuan.
"Chairwoman Bai, Ling Shao and Ye Hui are still at home."
"I'll ask them out for dinner tonight. That should give us about two hours. You're familiar with the house layout, so it shouldn't be a problem, right?"
"The wiring was already laid before the villa was renovated. As long as it's just installation, there's enough time."
Bai Shuyao sat in her chair, crossing her legs in a mature fashion, and nodded slightly to Ma Xuan.
Ma Xuan turned and left, went to the company's utility room, found some hidden surveillance cameras, organized them, and put them in the trunk of the car.
Inside the villa, Ye Hui lay against the young man, their lips touching. Ling Yun got his wish, prying open her teeth with his tongue, tasting her fragrant little tongue for the first time.
One of his hands had already slipped under the woman's clothes. Ye Hui only symbolically resisted for a moment before completely giving up.
"Sister Hui..."
The young man was, after all, a greenhorn who hadn't experienced anything yet, so the strength in his hand was a little heavy.
Ye Hui's delicate brows furrowed. She released his lips and chided, "Be gentler, it hurts a little."
Ling Yun kissed her face a few more times, then shamelessly said, "Why don't you help me again?"
"Ah, now?"
"Yeah, there's no one home anyway."
"No... that's not good."
Ye Hui was a very traditional woman, so traditional that she believed doing such things in broad daylight was wrong.
"Sister Hui, but I really can't hold back anymore. Look, it's already like this!"
Ling Yun pulled her hand closer. Ye Hui bit her lip and finally whispered, "At least go back to the room, okay?"
The young man showed a triumphant smile, picked her up in his arms, and jogged back to the room.
He drew the curtains, locked the door, and carried Ye Hui to the bed.
The woman, blushing, helped him unbutton his clothes. Seeing the young man's expectant gaze, she finally steeled herself and took off her own top.
Ling Yun stared blankly at her skin, as white as congealed fat, for a moment forgetting what he was there to do.
"Ling Shao, do I... do I need to take off more?"
Ye Hui had a slender waist and a very harmonious overall figure. There was a faint hint of an abdominal V-line on her belly, which had no excess fat.
Her navel was not round, but slightly elongated. Ling Yun's gaze moved upwards, seeing her proud assets encased in fabric. Although not as ample as Xia Yuwei's, the visual impact was still very great.
He had only bathed with his aunt when he was very young. That mischievous Bai Yiyi almost suffocated him, causing him to be somewhat resistant to even his own mother's embrace for a long time afterward.
It was only after entering puberty that he understood the true mysteries within.
Ling Yun's Adam's apple bobbed. His throat felt a little dry: "Take it off."
Ye Hui's hands trembled as she unfastened the clasp behind her. As the small piece of fabric slipped away, the sacred peaks were completely unveiled.
Ling Yun's eyes were fixated. He reached out, personally experiencing the warmth and softness in his palm.
Ye Hui gently bit her index finger joint, occasionally letting out one or two irresistible, alluring moans from her throat.
The young man pressed her onto the bed, burying his head to taste the area no one had ever touched. Ye Hui, in turn, passionately wrapped her arms around the back of his head, cooperating with him to achieve everything he desired.
After Ling Yun had his fill, he looked at her expectantly: "Sister Hui, why don't we try if you can wrap it for me?"
"Huh?"
Ye Hui was stunned. She had never thought it could be played this way! Last night, when she helped Ling Yun, he was the one guiding her. For matters between men and women, she was still at the stage of sleeping and having children.
"Yes, it should be possible, right? I haven't tried it yet."
"Then, let's give it a try."
She went to her room to get essential oil, then, under Ling Yun's guidance, squatted by the bed. The young man sat on the edge of the bed with his legs spread, gesturing for her to come closer.
Ye Hui felt her heart pounding intensely. Trembling, she poured on the essential oil.
"That's very good, Sister Hui, just right."