Xiangxiang Acts Cute

"Is this true?"

Wang Jun and Zhang Yao were overcome with excitement, not caring what rank of Simulator Wang Pan was.

All they heard was Wang Pan saying that his body had recovered, and he could move just like a normal person.

"Wonderful! Your father and I have waited eighteen years. We finally lived to see this day."

Zhang Yao stepped forward and pulled Wang Pan into her arms, tears already streaming down her face.

From the day they brought Wang Pan home, Wang Jun and Zhang Yao had treated him as their own son.

Wang Pan's physical condition had become a constant ache in the couple's hearts.

Zhang Yao herself had no idea how many times she had wept in the dead of night.

Nor how many times she had jolted awake in the darkness.

Every time she woke, she would quietly slip into Wang Pan's room, and only after seeing him sleeping peacefully could she set her mind at ease.

Because they never knew whether, given Wang Pan's condition, one day he might suddenly be gone.

Wang Pan knew all of this!

The sudden joy overwhelmed their reason, and emotions suppressed for eighteen years erupted at this moment.

Wang Jun stood to one side, his eyes slightly red. Middle-aged men were always reserved with their feelings.

"All right, stop crying.

Our son's body has recovered. We should be happy."

"You're such a grown woman, and the children are right here."

Seeing Zhang Yao crying so hard she could barely catch her breath, Wang Jun stepped forward and wrapped an arm around the mother and son.

"I'll cry if I want to!"

"These are tears of joy. Can't I be happy for my son?"

Zhang Yao wiped away her tears and snapped fiercely at Wang Jun.

Beside them, Wang Xiangxiang was also weeping Tears Like Falling Pear Blossoms, happy for her brother.

But when she saw the warm scene of her parents and brother embracing, her crying abruptly stopped.

"Damn it!"

"I told you I was picked up off the street, but you refused to admit it!"

Wang Xiangxiang wore a look of righteous grief and indignation.

"I want a hug too!"

Wang Xiangxiang squeezed her way in.

After a long while, everyone's emotions gradually settled.

"Today truly brings double blessings."

Wang Jun was grinning from ear to ear.

His daughter had become a Simulator, and his son's body now had hope of making a full recovery.

As for Wang Pan being a Simulator too, the family completely overlooked it.

What was being a Simulator? Could it compare to Wang Pan recovering?

In their eyes, Wang Pan's recovery was the real cause for celebration!

"What a pity. We've already had dinner, or I'd definitely crack open two bottles!"

"Honey, can we save this wine for next time?"

Wang Jun first looked regretful, then his eyes shifted.

With practiced hands, he began kneading Zhang Yao's shoulders and asked ingratiatingly.

"No. It's not that I'm refusing to let you drink. If you want to blame someone, blame your bad luck."

Zhang Yao narrowed her eyes in comfort and did not budge.

Wang Jun looked dejected and shot Wang Pan a resentful glance.

Why hadn't he said it before dinner?

He had finally found a perfectly legitimate reason to drink, only for it to go down the drain.

Wang Pan turned his head away, pretending not to see.

"Brother, keep this for yourself. I don't want it."

Wang Xiangxiang poked Wang Pan and tried to return the Identity Card to him.

"Brother still has one. Keep this one and use it yourself."

Wang Pan stroked Wang Xiangxiang's head. With a thought, another Identity Card appeared in his hand.

"Mm."

Only after seeing that her brother truly had another Identity Card and had not lied to her did Wang Xiangxiang relax.

"Be careful when you're out there. We don't go looking for trouble, but we're not afraid of it either."

"If anyone bullies you, tell your brother. I'll straighten them out for you."

"And if something happens, don't keep it bottled up."

"We're family. Before you're capable of standing on your own, family are the ones who shield you from wind and rain and hold up a patch of sky for you."

Tomorrow, Wang Xiangxiang would be leaving for Chu Prefecture.

Wang Pan kept giving her one instruction after another.

Wang Pan himself was a special case, with no real value as a reference.

For Wang Xiangxiang, entering Simulator University was the best choice.

Only at university could she improve rapidly.

This was a system Xia Country had built at the cost of countless manpower and resources, one that allowed Simulators without any backing to grow quickly.

"How about our whole family goes to Chu Prefecture together?"

Wang Xiangxiang suddenly suggested.

"Dad won't leave."

Wang Pan shook his head.

Wang Jun held a position at the Jiang City Simulator Administration. Without a transfer order, he simply could not leave Jiang City.

Besides, Wang Jun would not leave Jiang City anyway.

The power level of that terrifying behemoth in the Starry Sky was far too high.

Even the faint traces of power it emitted through the chains had polluted the heavens and earth throughout the entire Supercluster.

This power stimulated a small number of plants and animals, causing them to undergo Mutation and become savage, filled with violent malice.

These mutated plants and animals posed far too great a threat to Ordinary People.

At times like this, Simulators were needed to eliminate them.

It was also the only path into the extraordinary for those Ordinary People who failed the Simulator Assessment yet refused to accept an ordinary life.

After absorbing the contaminated spiritual energy scattered throughout heaven and earth, they would gradually lose all manner of human emotions, while becoming obsessed with destruction and creating destruction.

A textbook anti-human personality!

Once such people were discovered, they would be eliminated.

Every city in Xia Country had a Simulator Administration, and every member was an Official Simulator, specifically responsible for handling matters Ordinary People could not handle.

Furthermore, Official Simulators could not absorb any energy from the Outside World to increase their strength.

The only way to grow stronger was through Life Simulation.

This was because Life Simulation locked off every other path for Simulators below the Human King Realm to raise their realm.

Only upon reaching the Human King Realm could this restriction be lifted.

The reason there were no restrictions at the Human King Realm was that the power mixed into heaven and earth could no longer affect Human King Realm Simulators.

Once they reached the Human King Realm, they could cultivate on their own and grow stronger by absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Wang Pan felt certain that his father would not leave Jiang City.

Because Wang Jun was also an orphan, and had only been able to grow up with the support of kind-hearted people from all walks of life in Jiang City.

After becoming a Simulator, Wang Jun had turned down the generous treatment offered by big cities and returned to Jiang City without hesitation.

Jiang City was too small.

Fewer than a hundred people became Official Simulators each year, and even fewer of those Simulators ultimately chose to return to Jiang City.

In recent years, the Jiang City Simulator Administration had begun to suffer from a gap in its ranks, severely short of manpower.

At a time like this, Wang Jun was even less likely to leave.

"Brother, how about you come with me?"

Wang Xiangxiang set her sights on Wang Pan.

"Jiang City is only a few hundred kilometers from Chu Prefecture. Whether we miss you or you miss us, traveling back and forth will be easy."

"Brother~ Come with me, okay? Can you really bear to leave your adorable little sister all alone in another city?"

Wang Xiangxiang hugged Wang Pan's arm and shook it as she acted cute.

When an adorable little sister hugged your arm, looked up at you with sparkling eyes, called you brother in a sweet voice, and acted cute like that, who could possibly withstand it?!

Feeling the soft touch against his arm, Wang Pan calmly slipped the arm Wang Xiangxiang had held against her chest free.

"That acting cute routine doesn't work on me."

Then he changed tack.

"But since you're my little sister, how about this? If you give me a kiss, I'll consider it."

Wang Pan raised a hand, pointed at his left cheek, and said this.

Wang Pan's infuriating look of reluctant concession made Wang Xiangxiang want to hit someone.