Chapter 108: What a Cup of 2002 Biluochun Green Tea

Hearing his father Xu Zhongshan's sentence "These words should be us asking you, right?", Xu Yunzhou's brain ran at top speed for three seconds, and then he chose the most unadorned response strategy—

Let it rot.

(TL: "Let it rot" is internet slang for giving up and embracing a bad situation.)

He pondered for a moment, his tone as steady as possible:

"The matter... is very complex, we'll talk when we get back."

He paused, asking back:

"Why are you guys here?"

Mhm, if I can't explain it, then I won't explain it, no big deal.

Looking at his son's appearance of "avoiding the heavy and choosing the light" and "looking left and right and talking about other things," and then glancing at Lin Ruoxuan not far away, the script of "son being kept by a super rich woman" in Xu Zhongshan's mind became even more solid.

It must be like this! The husband is honored because of the wife!

Otherwise, how to explain this occasion? And the way that group of big shots bowed to him just now?

Stinky brat, actually taking this kind of shortcut!

The face of our old Xu family... seems to not have been lost either?

After all, that Lin Ruoxuan has a net worth of hundreds of billions... This soft rice, ordinary people really can't get to eat it.

Xu Zhongshan's mood was complex, not knowing for a moment whether he should be angry or sigh with emotion at his son's "great ability."

The cousin-uncle Xu Chen beside them was, after all, someone who mingled in the system; his ability to observe expressions and read situations was top-notch.

He saw that Xu Yunzhou seemed to have unspeakable difficulties, and in this kind of occasion with big shots gathered and under the watchful eyes of the masses, it was indeed unsuitable to delve deeply into family gossip and romantic scandals.

So he coughed and proactively changed the subject:

"We are a collateral branch of the Xu family. Calculating it, we are considered distant relatives of Elder Wu's family. We happened to come to Shanghai today, heard Elder Wu woke up, and came over to visit."

He paused, cast a complex glance at Xu Yunzhou, and lowered his voice:

"Plus... this afternoon when offering incense in the ancestral hall, we saw that portrait enshrined at the very top. It looks... exactly the same as you."

Hearing this, Xu Yunzhou wasn't very surprised.

After all, they all have the surname Xu, one family hundreds of years ago. For this kind of great family with luxuriant branches and leaves, having collateral branches is too normal.

As for the portrait... forget it, play dead.

He couldn't explain it, nor did he want to explain it.

So he just nodded and gave a vague "mhm."

Xu Xinyi beside them, however, had her eyes light up, immediately picking up the conversation:

"So that's how it is? I'll go check the genealogy later. If we really are of the same ancestry, then from now on we are even more of a family."

However, she felt extremely weird in her heart.

Shouldn't Mister be... over a hundred and twenty years old? He succeeded in cultivation and maintained himself well, looking young is one thing...

But why are his parents also so young? Looking at most in their early fifties?

Moreover, this temperament, this dress... clearly the most ordinary working class!

Could it be... Mister is reincarnated? Coming to experience the mortal world?

Yang Wenhui didn't think that much, her attention still on Shen Mingyue.

She looked at this big star beside her who was unreasonably pretty and unreasonably obedient, then looked at her son, and couldn't help but speak:

"Right, Little Shen just said... she is your girlfriend?"

As soon as this question came out, Xu Xinyi beside them immediately frowned.

The look she cast toward Xu Yunzhou gained a few points of incomprehension and a trace of undetectable disappointment.

No, Mister, isn't the scale of your experiencing the mortal world a bit too large?

Is your script in this life "I Opened a Harem in the Human World"? Or "Only After Experiencing All the Tribulations of Beauties Can One Prove the Great Dao Heart"?

The expression on Xu Yunzhou's face finally couldn't be suppressed anymore.

He glanced speechlessly at Shen Mingyue, his eyes writing "what the hell are you doing."

He saw Shen Mingyue lowering her head slightly, her cheeks crimson, her hands nervously twisting together, an appearance of unbearable shyness that evoked pity.

The acting skills were completely natural, without any flaws.

Xu Yunzhou:

"..."

You are truly a fucking talent.

Where did that energy of wanting to swallow me alive in the restroom just now go?

Now pretending to be like a respectable woman being teased by a local bully?

It's truly a pity you don't go act... uh... right, the Oscars owe you a golden statuette.

Right at this moment, Song Jiaru, who had been standing to the side all along with her brain already a pot of messy porridge, finally exploded.

The melody of a song repeatedly floated in her mind:

"Heng heng ha xi! Hurry up and use the nunchucks! Heng heng ha xi!"

Wishing she could immediately pull out the tool from the bag she carried with her, and give this innocent-looking, pure-and-obedient-pretending white lotus in front of her an infinite combo of front-and-back, up-and-down, left-and-right!

Wuwuwu! Well aren't you something, Shen Mingyue!

I even spoke up for you on variety shows before! Praised you in interviews for having spiritual aura and a bright future! Treated you like my own biological younger sister! Introduced resources to you!

You actually backstabbed me like this!

Just now you were even holding my father-in-law and mother-in-law's arms, smilingly saying to me 'These are my future father-in-law and mother-in-law,' making me look like a foolish idiot who helps count the money after being sold by someone!

Song Jiaru couldn't hold back anymore.

Taking three steps as two, she stepped forward and grabbed Yang Wenhui's other free arm.

Then, she raised that bright and moving face, looked at Yang Wenhui, her voice crisp, every word clear:

"Auntie, I am Yunzhou's girlfriend."

After saying that, she even deliberately glanced at Shen Mingyue, her eyes carrying obvious declaration of sovereignty and the murderous intent of "you little mistress go away."

The soul of gossip of the melon-eating masses at the scene completely burned!

Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit!

National Heavenly Queen Song Jiaru! Personally taking the field to tear into a bitch! Frontally clashing with the popular little flower Shen Mingyue!

Just to fight over a man!

This melon is too fucking exciting, right!

Tomorrow's headlines booked! Weibo's servers are going to explode!

Shen Mingyue's reaction could be called a textbook-level "green tea counterattack."

She seemed to be startled by Song Jiaru's "sudden attack." Her body shrank backward slightly, like a frightened little deer, her eye rims instantly turning red.

She looked timidly at Song Jiaru, her eyes full of incomprehension, grievance, and panic.

Then she looked pitifully at Yang Wenhui, her voice carrying a choke and heartbreaking grievance:

"Sorry Auntie... just now it was my wishful thinking..."

She bit her lower lip, that appearance so fragile it seemed it would shatter at a touch:

"Yunzhou he... hasn't accepted me yet..."

She raised her tearful eyes, looked at Song Jiaru, her tone humble and sincere:

"But I will continue to work hard, to let Yunzhou see my goodness sooner..."

She paused, a teardrop falling exactly at the right moment, crystal clear, sliding across her fair cheek:

"Sorry Teacher Song... one more person to take care of Yunzhou, one more person to love Yunzhou, isn't that good?"

She sniffled, her voice even softer:

"Teacher Song, let's... talk when we get back, okay? There are many people here..."

After saying that, she even very "sensibly" moved a small step to the side, opening up distance from Xu Yunzhou and Yang Wenhui.

As if saying: I withdraw, I won't fight anymore, you guys stop arguing.

Song Jiaru:

"............"

She was speechless, feeling a mouthful of old blood blocked in her chest.

What a cup of 2002 Biluochun green tea!

Simply became a spirit!

The tea aroma overflows, the tier is extremely high, retreating to advance, killing a person by condemning their heart!

If I press further, in the eyes of others, wouldn't I become an aggressive, junior-bullying, insensible vicious supporting female character?

Moreover, in this kind of occasion, with so many people watching...

Fortunately, most of the people who came today were respectable people with status and position, disdainful of randomly spreading gossip.

Otherwise, if this video leaked out, the fans of herself and Shen Mingyue would probably slaughter the Weibo rankings, setting off a storm of blood and rain.

Xu Yunzhou was also completely speechless in his heart.

Sooner... see your... goodness?

(TL: "Zao ri kan dao wode hao" / "See my goodness sooner." "Ri" means day, but also slang for "fuck." "Hao" means good, but can imply body/assets.)

Fuck what?!

Body what?!

You fucking can still take the opportunity to tease me using suggestive memes at this time?!

Awesome, Shen Mingyue!

If I really enter your "instance" in the future, that will absolutely be a true erotic game plot... scale maxed out, full of tricks, the shameless kind.