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His little nephew would even bring his homework over to pester him now. "How could I have gotten this question wrong?!"

Beside the coffee table in the living room, the adult and the child stared at each other.

Xu Qingran lowered the hand he had been reaching for his light tablet with and pointed at the problem he had corrected. "How could 11 + 11 be 1111?"

Shen Tianyi pouted angrily. "How couldn't it?"

"Two ones plus two ones makes four ones, doesn't it?!"

Xu Qingran: "..."

That made so much sense he couldn't argue with it.

Shen Tianyi had now discovered that as long as he didn't deliberately provoke Xu Qingran or do anything to anger him, he was actually quite easy to get along with, so he had grown bolder. He stubbornly insisted on keeping his answer, and Xu Qingran didn't hit him. He merely asked, "Didn't you say your uncle and your cousin both wanted to train you to take over the corporation?"

"Yeah, that's what everyone in the Shen Family tells me." Shen Tianyi leaned over the table and continued working on his problems.

Xu Qingran watched him write 88 as the answer to 8 + 8. After a long pause, he said, "I suggest you sign up for more art classes, so you have more chances to discover your other talents."

His little nephew was too innocent to hear what he was implying. He even nodded and said, "I think I should sign up for classes too. The boys in my class who sing well, dance, and play the violin are all really popular!"

Xu Qingran propped up his head, picked up the light tablet he had brought from the Xu Family, and browsed the internet out of boredom.

The Star's Edge Forum had been as lively as ever lately.

He first glanced at a thread that had just appeared on the front page, titled [I heard your Golden Wing Camp's Admiral Shen can't get it up], then clicked on another thread that was rapidly gaining replies and had a title related to him.

Original post:

What's going on between the Xu Family's eldest young master from the Silver Dragon Camp and Admiral Shen from the Golden Wing Camp? After I brought it up last time, I got a ton of private messages from people saying they really had seen the two of them out together in the same car a while back.

Seriously, when did those two get together? How come there wasn't even a whisper about it before this?!

[1st floor: First! But didn't people just fight over this topic last week until the thread got reported and deleted? Why has it shown up again?]

[20th floor: Is another flame war between the two camps about to start? I've got my instant noodles ready. If anyone dares trash Golden Wing again, I'll fight them for days and nights without sleep!]

[275th floor: ...Okay, I trashed the original poster last time too for spreading fake gossip, but then my bestie told me she seemed to have seen them as well. She runs a clothing shop near the Andromeda Galaxy branch of Grandis Secondary School, and she said she really did see a Golden Wing private hovercar that day. The person inside looked a lot like Admiral Shen!]

[To add, I took a closer look because the car was a limited edition, with only 50 in the entire empire.]

Xu Qingran didn't know what people had argued about in the previous thread, but the one he was reading today had brought out quite a few bystanders who confirmed they had seen him traveling with Shen Tingyu. Most of the times and places they gave were near the Grandis Secondary School branch or at rest stops where they had briefly stopped at checkpoints in various galaxies.

They did match up.

Whenever people, matters, or things related to the two camps came up, a flame war was unavoidable. But as the people in the thread argued, they suddenly turned their fire on him.

[6755th floor: Could this have something to do with that thread about a high soul match from before? The more I think about it, the scarier it gets...]

[8211: Huh?!! If that's true, I'd rather the Xu Family's eldest young master be matched with Boss Chen! Our Golden Wing Camp can't accept this admiral's spouse!!]

[11212th floor: ...As someone from the Silver Dragon Camp, I also think Young Master Xu would be better off settling for Boss Chen.]

Probably because the earlier fiasco had left him with a poor image, most people in the thread thought forcing a match between him and Shen Tingyu was simply a waste of resources. Although there were voices speaking up for him, they were a negligible minority.

There were also those who insisted the gossip was fake:

[23889th floor: Impossible! I already said it's Young Master Xu and Boss Chen!]

[37665th floor: Guaranteed reliable information: it's Xu Qingran and Chen Shengfei. If I'm wrong, I'll eat poop while standing on my head!]

Xu Qingran wasn't angry. Instead, his eyes curved as he read, and he thought the netizens were particularly entertaining.

At the table, Shen Tianyi finished the last problem and put down his pen. He picked up his little metal ball, ready to watch livestreams and play games.

When Xu Qingran saw it, he suddenly asked, "You said this thing called an 'Asteroid' can be used for livestreaming?"

Shen Tianyi nodded. "Yeah."

Xu Qingran said, "Then lend it to me. I've been bored lately and want to livestream for some fun."

Arguing with netizens.

But Shen Tianyi hugged it even tighter and said tearfully, "I finally finished my homework and can give myself a reward. Don't fight me for it."

Seeing that he wouldn't let go for anything, Xu Qingran rubbed his forehead and asked, "Your Shen Family is so big. Don't you have more than one of these things?"

Shen Tianyi was just about to nod when he suddenly remembered that there was indeed another one. After hesitating for a long while, he said, "Then wait here. I'll go get you another one."

When he left the living room, he even took his own with him, as though afraid it would be stolen if he let his guard down. Xu Qingran could only see him running upstairs; he didn't know exactly where he went.

As soon as Shen Tianyi went upstairs, he headed straight for Shen Tingyu's study. He stood on tiptoe and unlocked it with his palm print, then secretly peered through the slightly open door at the cabinet beside the desk. In one of its compartments lay another little metal ball just like the one in his hand.

Shen Tianyi thought he had heard people say that a spouse was someone you had to dote on.

Xu Qingran would be his spouse in the future, which would also make him his uncle's family, so borrowing it should be all right?

Chapter 21: Three-in-one chapter for entering V

Xu Qingran browsed the forum for a while longer before Shen Tianyi came pattering downstairs, a darker-colored metal ball in his hand.

In the meantime, the system educated him about the item called an Asteroid.

"The (AS) Asteroid is currently in its fifth generation and costs 490,000 star coins. It can do everything a light tablet can, and even gives you a fully immersive 3D surround experience. You can use it to binge shows, read novels, hang around in the comment sections of major news outlets, browse forums, livestream, and even interact with your idols online."