Volume One, Chapter 90: More Mischievous Than Your Wife

The other side clearly had not expected the call to connect so suddenly, and for a moment both ends fell silent.

"Yu Yu?"

A tentative voice came through.

Qin Yu felt a twitch in her chest, but her tone remained calm. "Mr. Su, you're awake."

Her guess had been exact.

Three days, no more and no less.

"Yu Yu, I know it was you who pulled me back from the brink! I know everything! Come back, will you? Whatever it is, our whole family can face it together! Please, don't do anything foolish."

"Mr. Su..." Qin Yu's throat tightened. Her reply was sincere and earnest. "Thank you for your and Mrs. Su's care during this time. I was very happy. But my fate with the Su family has come to an end."

Qin Yu had originally thought those words would be hard to say, but she had not expected that not only would she say them, she would say them so calmly.

There was a long pause on the other end. When the voice came again, it carried reluctance and hope. "Child, are we really... destined to have no future together?"

Su Jin stressed that "really" with heavy emphasis.

Qin Yu only smiled and gave no answer.

Su Jin understood perfectly. Then, with a bright laugh, he said, "I know our Yu Yu has important things to do. We won't stand in Yu Yu's way. Go ahead and do whatever you want to do! Only... when you're alone, take good care of yourself. Whether you come back or not, the Su family's door will always be open to you!"

Something struck Qin Yu hard in the chest, and her nose stung with it too.

She smiled, trying her best to keep her voice normal. "All right."

Neither of them hung up first. Even in silence, they both hoped the moment would last a little longer.

Only when there was a tentative knock at the door outside did Qin Yu know it was time.

"Yu Yu has never blamed Mom and Dad."

That featherlight voice drifted from the phone, becoming the final straw that crushed Su Jin's composure.

He clamped his index finger between his teeth, forcing himself not to make a sound as he cried.

At last, Yu Yu had been willing to call him Dad again, but it was the last time.

---

When Qin Yu came out of the room, she saw that Lu Hua Ling had already ordered breakfast.

Qin Yu glanced at it indifferently. Green vegetable congee, soup dumplings, all fragrant and inviting, but she looked listless. "I'm going to wash up."

Seeing her reaction, Lu Hua Ling cast a suspicious glance at the breakfast he'd ordered and muttered to himself, "Could it be that the master doesn't like these?"

"No way! Xiao Yu is just in a bad mood."

The sudden voice made the soup dumpling in Lu Hua Ling's hand fly out in fright.

Luckily, Mu Ling was quick enough to catch it with his mouth.

Mu Ling carried the soup dumpling back to Lu Hua Ling's plate with his mouth and lectured, "Xiao Yu hates wasting food the most. Pay attention!"

Lu Hua Ling: ...

Can I still eat this?

"You have the nerve to say that? If you hadn't scared me, would I have?"

Hearing that tone, Mu Ling knew a fight was about to break out. He put his hands on his hips like a shrew about to curse in the street. "What do you mean, scare you? I was talking to him! It's your mortal cowardice that's at fault, and now you're blaming me!"

"So what if I'm a mortal? Isn't the master also a mortal? Don't you still have to listen to the master's words?"

"Hah, how can you compare yourself with Xiao Yu? Are you even worthy?"

"..."

"..."

Man and ghost traded insults furiously until the bathroom door was slammed open.

The pair, with perfect tacit understanding, sprang apart and pointed at each other at the same time, both saying, "He started it first!"

That kind of seamless coordination could not have been forged without more than a decade of practice.

Qin Yu gave the pair a cool glance. "Eat."

---

The hotel Lu Hua Ling had booked was a presidential suite, complete with living room, bedroom, and balcony.

At that moment, a heavy pressure filled the vast space.

Lu Hua Ling cautiously scrolled on his phone. He wore earphones the entire time, lowering his sense of presence as much as possible.

All the while, he was silently keeping an eye on Qin Yu's movements.

Until...

He removed one earbud in delight. "Master, are you going live?"

Of course Qin Yu ignored him and said only, icily, "Stay away from me. Don't get in the frame."

Lu Hua Ling was secretly delighted.

He had snatched a VVVIP spot to watch the live broadcast. So exciting, so exciting!

---

One Topaz of Clear River entered the live room.

Brother Lei of the Streets entered the live room.

Sister Juan entered the live room.

...

"Damn, I thought I was seeing things. I never expected it really was Master Tianshu!"

"Isn't today Saturday? Why is the stream starting early?"

"Nice, so we're doing a surprise attack now?"

"How could the streamer bear to go live today?"

"She must not have made any money, regretted it, and now she'll be streaming every day from now on."

"..."

Qin Yu's expression was sour, a coldness that didn't care whether others lived or died. "From now on, my streaming schedule will depend on my mood. I'll go live at irregular times, three to five fortunes a day."

"Yay, from now on we can all eat melon every day!"

"It feels weird. The master is especially cold today~"

"Wife, are you in a bad mood? Come here, don't be sad."

"Only I noticed the streamer has changed locations again? It looks like a hotel."

"A hotel? Could we be eating the streamer's gossip today?"

"Damn? This exciting?"

"The streamer is that uninhibited?"

"Other people have fluid accumulating in the abdomen; how did yours end up in the brain? Looking at you, it seems your brain has swollen from being soaked. If you can't speak properly, I'll send you to a language class!"

Qin Yu heard the rapid clatter of typing behind her and a row of black lines appeared on her forehead.

She looked coldly at the account of the person speaking, opened the profile page, and said evenly, "Not as loose as your wife."

"???"

"What did I just hear?"

"Hahahaha, some people are eating melon until they end up with it on their own heads."

"Brother, I think this color of hat suits you:
a little green cap."

"Today's support color is green."

"Brother, don't be afraid, green is just a color:
green leaves."

"If you want life to go smoothly, there has to be a little green on your head:
green embrace."

The shameless netizens filled the screen with little green emojis.

Qin Yu took advantage of the moment when no one was paying attention and sent out the first red packet of the day.

Little Bird won the red packet.

Qin Yu invited her on mic, and a young girl appeared in the frame. She excitedly hammered the table, but was still squealing, "Wuwuwu, I can't believe I actually got a red packet in my lifetime!"

"Family, I'm a new fan and I want to know whether this live room eats people."

"Don't be scared, new fan. I'm an old fan, so let me be scared first."

"The streamer doesn't eat people. The other one, I can't guarantee."

Qin Yu narrowed her eyes. "What do you want me to calculate?"

The girl gave a goofy grin. "I don't really have anything in particular I want to calculate. I just grabbed it for fun, so please just figure something out for me, streamer! I'm not picky!"

"Pay the divination fee first."

One second the girl was still smiling, and the next her expression changed. "Didn't you say you don't charge if it's not accurate? I don't even know whether you're accurate, so how can I pay the divination fee first?"