Let's Attend the Mondstadt Banquet Together

Yae Sakura reacted fiercely, making her intense disgust with Fu Hua's proposal abundantly clear. She had nearly been unable to stop herself from drawing her blade and fighting Fu Hua.

Faced with the emotional Yae Sakura, Fu Hua remained calm.

A few days ago, she had still clung to the pride in her heart, upheld her principles, and believed that only in a free environment could the seeds of love bear sweet fruit.

But reality was cruel.

Now, for the person she liked, for love itself, Fu Hua had decided to put aside a little of her pride, change herself, and try to break the deadlock.

"Then what will we gain by continuing to argue? Letting someone else beat us to it again?"

"Can you guarantee that only the few of us have come to this world and fallen for Ye Zi? If a few more girls show up, then while we're busy competing against and guarding against each other, another girl might beat us to it just like Keqing did. What will we do in the end?"

"Leave Ye Zi? Yae Sakura, can you do that?"

Fu Hua's question struck straight at Yae Sakura's soul.

The moment she imagined the terrifying scene of Ye Ming wearing wedding dresses with several girls in the future, all of them smiling happily, while she could only hide somewhere and watch in secret, silently weeping without even daring to show her face, Yae Sakura felt as though she had been struck hard. Her face turned pale.

"Help me, Yae Sakura."

After careful consideration, Fu Hua spoke in a steady, composed voice that was highly persuasive. "Of the three of us, only Ye Zi and I grew up together. We have deep feelings and a close relationship, so rationally speaking, I have the greatest chance. Once I succeed, I'll also carry more weight in Ye Zi's heart."

"Help me once, and after I succeed, I can help create opportunities for you as well. That way, everyone wins."

"This is the best solution I can think of."

"Choose, Yae Sakura. Either keep fighting me until the end, only to benefit someone else and leave yourself with nothing, or help me this once, and we all win together."

Faced with such a choice, Yae Sakura had no room to choose at all.

In the end, she could only choose to help Fu Hua, take Laffey out to have fun, and create an opportunity for Fu Hua.

As for Okita Souji, she had remained calm from beginning to end, as though she were merely an unrelated passerby. Even Fu Hua, who was used to reading people's hearts, had no idea what the girl was truly thinking.

Fortunately, Okita Souji ultimately agreed to her plan and was willing to help her once.

And then there was now. Keqing was away on a business trip, Laffey was not home, and only she and Ye Ming were in the house. Such conditions had once been commonplace during the years when the two of them were childhood sweethearts, but today, this was one of the few precious opportunities Fu Hua could find.

After entering the bedroom, Fu Hua stood beside the bed with her back to Ye Ming. Only after a long silence did she speak without turning around. "We already said everything that needed to be said the night before last. Do you know what we should do now?"

Ye Ming, who had long sensed something, instantly understood what Fu Hua meant and was utterly shocked.

He had thought this would happen tonight, but he had not expected Fu Hua to make her move so early in the morning, while it was still daytime.

To be honest, Ye Ming was a little nervous.

After all, with his wife away on a business trip and her husband doing that at home, the whole situation carried a subtly immoral feeling.

But the girl had expressed her feelings to this extent already. If he chickened out now, could he still call himself a man?

Ye Ming took a deep breath, closed the bedroom door, and looked at Fu Hua.

Perhaps because she had prepared beforehand, Fu Hua was not wearing her usual work skirt today. Instead, she had changed into a white pleated long dress, its hem falling straight to her ankles. It was conservative yet elegant. She wore a pair of silver-gray open-toed high heels without stockings, revealing her fair, slender feet.

The dress had a fitted design, perfectly outlining the girl's delicate and alluring curves. The lines of Fu Hua's back were flawless, her waist graceful and slender, her hips round and lifted, her legs long and straight, her ankles smooth and tender, and even her toes were small and adorable.

Ye Ming walked behind Fu Hua, opened his arms, and gently wrapped them around her slender, graceful waist, pulling her into his embrace.

Fu Hua said nothing. She simply silently leaned into Ye Ming's embrace, as though everything were calm and ordinary. Yet her tense body still revealed the girl's shyness and nervousness.

The door closed, the curtains were drawn, they embraced, and then they kissed...

This time, with no unexpected interference, everything happened naturally, as though it were only right.

An hour later.

So Shenzhou's flat boards were not as flat as he had imagined.

And calling them steel plates was outright slander. How could there be such soft, warm steel plates in the world?

It seemed that before gaining a deep understanding of certain things, one should not speak carelessly.

Having realized another philosophy of life in his post-nut clarity, Ye Ming held Fu Hua, whose face was flushed red, and sighed sincerely.

Let's Attend the Mondstadt Banquet Together

Unlike Keqing, in Ye Ming's memories, Fu Hua had been steady and dependable from childhood to adulthood, but she rarely possessed the liveliness expected of someone her age. She did everything rigidly and methodically. Just as she had always used the same blue-sky-and-white-clouds profile picture on WeChat, and her QQ profile had been so clean and plain it was almost unbelievable, Ye Ming had sometimes even felt that Fu Hua was like an elderly person who had lived for a very long time and become detached from the times.

Just like earlier. Fu Hua had clearly called him into the bedroom, and Fu Hua had clearly taken the initiative to express her feelings once again. Yet when something was truly about to happen, Fu Hua had been exceptionally reserved. Her body had been tense and stiff, unable to relax at all, and she had not known how to cooperate in the slightest. Her eyes had remained tightly shut, too afraid to meet his gaze. Her lips had been pressed tightly together, her brows furrowed, and her breathing rapid, yet she had endured it all without making a sound.

However, the more Fu Hua acted like that, the more excited Ye Ming became. When he finally heard the girl's adorable cry, the thrill and satisfaction had been beyond words.

"Fu Hua, what kind of expression do you think my mom would have if I took you home right now?"

Afterward, Ye Ming held Fu Hua and felt the warmth and softness of her body as he suddenly said this.

Just a few days ago, his mother had told him over WeChat that she fully supported him getting Fu Hua into bed. Yet only a few days later, he had already slept with Fu Hua. His mother probably would not have imagined even in her dreams that he would move this quickly.

Ye Ming felt that if he really brought Fu Hua home, his mother's expression would definitely be very interesting.

Fu Hua, whose alluring blush had yet to fade, rolled her eyes at Ye Ming and said, "I'm also curious. If you brought Keqing and me home together, would your mom praise you for being capable, or would she break your legs with a broom?"

She would most likely praise me for being capable, then remind me not to get scammed or scam anyone, and to be careful not to commit bigamy.

Though that was what he thought, Ye Ming was naturally not stupid enough to actually say it in this situation.

"She'd definitely beat me up and warn me not to betray your feelings. My mom must think the same way I do. A beautiful and outstanding girl like you was willing to make such a huge sacrifice just to be with me. With feelings this deep and weighty, I have to cherish them no matter what and never let you down."

"Heh."

Fu Hua gave a soft laugh but said nothing.

She had grown up alongside Ye Ming, and it could be said that she understood him even better than he understood himself. Naturally, she could see the little motive behind his words.

She tried hard to keep a straight face and desperately controlled herself so she would not reveal a happy expression. Yet in the end, upon hearing sweet words from the person she liked for the first time, the corners of Fu Hua's lips still curled upward slightly without her noticing, exposing the joy in her heart.

"Come by my place more often from now on. Spend more time with Laffey."

Amid her happiness, Fu Hua seemed to casually mention it as though she had not meant anything by it.

The moment Ye Ming heard it, he understood what Fu Hua meant.

She said Laffey, but the person she truly wanted him to spend time with was Fu Hua herself, wasn't it?

Ye Ming understood.

Just like Keqing, who had only just started a relationship with him but had immediately spent the following days trying to tempt him in the office and bedroom, Fu Hua and Keqing might not truly be that obsessed with matters between men and women. More likely, they had entered a relationship with him because they wanted to confirm their relationship and receive his acknowledgment.

The only difference was that Keqing was a girl who had come to reality from Teyvat in the game. Because she and Ye Ming had a past that Ye Ming himself did not know about, Ye Ming could quickly understand and accept Keqing's initiative.

Fu Hua was different. Like Ye Ming, she had grown up in this real world and received this world's education. Yet even so, knowing about Keqing, Fu Hua had still disregarded conventional values and chosen him of her own accord. Ye Ming had no way to betray feelings so deep and weighty.

"Yeah, I'll come over often from now on to keep you—keep you and Laffey company while we sleep together. As long as you don't find me annoying."

Ye Ming deliberately made it sound like a slip of the tongue as he solemnly made a statement that sounded suspiciously like something a playboy would say.

As he spoke, seeing Fu Hua's equally serious expression as though she had not heard his slip, Ye Ming could not help wanting to tease her again.

He leaned close to Fu Hua's ear and licked her earlobe. Feeling the girl's body suddenly tense, he smiled and whispered, "But Laffey told me that she sometimes wants to try sleeping with Keqing too. If that happens, only the two of us adults will be left."

Feeling Ye Ming's breath so close to her ear as he spoke, Fu Hua shifted uneasily and replied without raising her head, "Laffey's hearing is very good. If you want Laffey to hear you, then do whatever you want."

"Uh."

Ye Ming froze.

Laffey was certainly his little princess, his Oath Ship, his wife, but she still looked and acted like a little girl. Naturally, it would not be appropriate for Laffey to know about this sort of thing.

Still, that was not much of a problem.

"I've recently been considering whether to move into a bigger house. Once we move, it won't be a problem anymore."

As he said this, Ye Ming asked Fu Hua again, "Fu Hua, do you have any requirements or opinions about the new house? If you do, please tell me. After all, we'll be living together there in the future."

"A bigger house?"

Fu Hua thought for a while after hearing this, then asked, "Your savings should be more than enough for the down payment on a new house, but they probably aren't enough to buy one outright, right? I have some savings too. Why don't we put them together and buy a house in full? I can come up with a few million at least. If the house is suitable, I can pay even more."

How did you know how much savings I had?

Ye Ming had wanted to ask that, but after hearing Fu Hua's last sentence, he was greatly startled. "A few million? You only started working this year, didn't you? Where did you get that much money?"

"I had a few research achievements while I was in school and made a little money."

Fu Hua spoke lightly. Having been in this world for so many years, she had naturally considered her future life with Ye Ming and made some preparations.

Ye Ming fell silent.

He remembered Keqing taking out a bank card containing fifty million and handing it to him while casually calling it five thousand. Then he looked at Fu Hua, who could casually mention several million, and suddenly felt powerless.

Why were all the girls around me so outstanding, and so rich too?

Could it be that I could only become a man who lived off rich women?

What a tragic fate.

Ye Ming thought blissfully, but Fu Hua, lying in his arms, suddenly remembered something.

"Oh, right. The company is holding a banquet in a few days, and I still need a dance partner. Ye Zi, come with me."

"A banquet? A dance partner?"