In an autumn evening, the setting sun poured down like molten gold, staining the horizon a magnificent orange-red. After finishing her work at Spirit Hall, Sisi returned home somewhat tired, only to find that Li Yue and the others had not yet returned.
She could not help worrying. Classes at Nuoding Academy should have ended by now, and when she had asked Li Yue during lunch, he had said they had taken the day off and were only going back to get some things. Why were they not home yet?
Li Yue and the others were an opportunity she had finally found to change her fate. If she missed such an opportunity, she would regret it to death.
After waiting for a while, Sisi grew increasingly anxious and headed straight for Nuoding Academy.
If nothing had happened, then it would merely be a wasted trip. But if something had happened and she failed to get there in time, that would be absolutely terrible.
Relying on her identity as a Spirit Hall deacon, Sisi easily entered Nuoding Academy.
The gatekeeper was the sort who bullied the weak and feared the strong. He might make things difficult for poor students, but he would never dare bar a Spirit Hall deacon from entering.
When he heard that Sisi wanted to go in and see some juniors, he immediately let her through with a fawning smile. Even if she simply wanted to stroll around, he would still have let her in.
"Hello, little one. Do you know where Li Yue is? He's a first-year student who enrolled this year."
"You mean Brother Yue? Brother Yue defeated Boss Xiao today and became the boss of Nuoding Academy. He's treating everyone to a meal in the second-floor cafeteria. He should still be there."
Sisi had only asked a student whether he knew where Li Yue was, hoping for the best. She had not expected to learn his whereabouts so easily.
Hearing that Li Yue had actually become the boss of Nuoding Academy, Sisi was briefly surprised. He had only been enrolled for a few days and had already defeated the former boss. Was Blue Silver Grass really that powerful?
But when she thought of Li Yue's fifteenth-level Soul Power, she felt that it was not impossible. His Soul Power Level was probably the highest among all the students at Nuoding Academy.
Compared to Li Yue defeating the boss of a Junior Academy, the fact that he possessed fifteenth-level Soul Power at such a young age was even more shocking.
When she arrived at the second-floor cafeteria, Sisi saw Li Yue surrounded by a crowd. Among all those students, he was the most eye-catching one.
Seeing the two girls beside Li Yue, she frowned slightly. Didn't he say he only had one girlfriend? Now there's another one? She truly envied those two girls.
She noticed the table laden with sumptuous food, as well as the heated looks most of the girls were giving Li Yue. He seemed very popular with girls. With mixed feelings, Sisi stepped forward.
"Sister Sisi, why are you here?" Upon noticing Sisi's arrival, Li Yue stopped talking with the students around him.
These were all students trying to curry favor with him after he became the boss of Nuoding Academy, but in his eyes, how could they compare to Sisi, his angel investor?
Seeing Sisi, Li Yue smiled. "Sister Sisi, let me tell you, I'm the boss of Nuoding Academy now. I'm treating everyone to a meal. Sister Sisi, come have something too."
Seeing Li Yue so high-spirited, Sisi's last trace of worry vanished completely. She nodded gently. "Sure. Just look at how happy you are."
Li Yue led Sisi over to the table and introduced her to his new underlings. The students all greeted Sisi one after another.
"Look, it's Master Sisi!" Some students had already recognized Sisi as a Spirit Hall deacon, not only because she wore Spirit Hall attire, but also because quite a few of them had awakened their martial souls through her.
"Boss, what's your relationship with Master Sisi?!" one working student asked. This was what most of the students were curious about, but since they were not close enough to Li Yue, the working students asked for them.
"Um..." Li Yue hesitated. How should he describe his relationship with Sisi? Were they sponsor and beneficiary? Or should he just brush them off with some casual answer?
Sisi heard the question as well. She blinked, amusement in her eyes. "Me? I'm your boss's child bride."
"Huh? A child bride?!" The students around them were all stunned, including Xiao Wu, Tang San, and Xiao Muxue.
"Eh?" Li Yue was stunned too. Sisi is my child bride? How come I never knew that?
He looked at Xiao Wu and Tang San. Why do you two look so shocked too? Don't you both know Sisi is our sponsor? Why are you buying her nonsense as well?
But Sisi seemed quite happy teasing these children, so he let her have her fun. It was not his reputation being tarnished anyway. He was a man who intended to pursue ten women—what did this even count for?
"Yes, that's right. I'm Yue'er's child bride. When I was little, Yue'er's parents adopted me, which is why I'm so much older than him."
Sisi wore a charming smile as lies rolled effortlessly from her lips. It seemed that she found teasing this group of children quite amusing.
She added a few details, making the claim of being his child bride even more convincing. "Yue'er hadn't even been born when I was adopted, so I was the one who raised him. He always treated me as his older sister, which is why he calls me Sister Sisi..."
"So that's how Master Sisi became the boss's child bride."
"Then doesn't that mean Sister Xiao Wu is..."
"Hey, is the boss's business something you can talk about?!"
After hearing Sisi's explanation, the students all believed her. After all, Master Sisi was a Spirit Hall deacon, and her words carried considerable weight.
"So that's how it is!" Xiao Chenyu suddenly understood. In his view, his previous suspicions had been confirmed. Li Yue definitely had a powerful background—even a Spirit Hall deacon was his child bride.
"Xiao Wu came later?" Xiao Muxue heard the students' words as well. If Xiao Wu came later, then doesn't that mean I have a chance too? Li Yue pampers his girlfriends, but fortunately, he isn't the type to date only one woman.
Tang San quickly came to her senses. She had grown up with Li Yue since childhood, and she had never heard of him having any child bride.
She glanced at Li Yue. See? I told you that woman Sisi had ulterior motives, but you wouldn't believe me.
Li Yue could only return a helpless look. How was I supposed to know this woman was so ridiculous that she'd pull something like this? Still, it's just a harmless joke.
"You mean Xiao Wu? I know about her. She's Yue'er's new girlfriend." Sisi deliberately put on an aggrieved expression. "After all, I'm only a child bride. I can't interfere if Yue'er wants to find a girlfriend."
"Boss is awful. He already has Master Sisi, yet he still found a new girlfriend."
"Having Sister Xiao Wu wasn't enough. Now even my goddess, Xiao Muxue, couldn't escape his charms."
"I advise you to say less. That jealous expression is too ugly."
Hearing Master Sisi's aggrieved words, some students immediately sympathized with her.
Master Sisi was also the goddess in many students' hearts. Yet despite already having her, their boss had gone and found other girlfriends, even embracing one on each side. It was simply too enviable—and too infuriatingly jealous-inducing.
Some bolder students even criticized their boss, though they did so in a joking tone.
After spending time with Li Yue, they had discovered that their new boss was actually quite easygoing. As for the arrogant words he had spoken before, he had already proven through his actions that they were not arrogance, but simply the truth.
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