Mr. Ye Hai's Scheme

At the very least, before Mr. Ye Hai finished his shift, he had to display the magnanimity... and sense of responsibility of a senior martial brother.

Lu Bolin took a deep breath.

His junior brother had only taken a watch, what was the big deal?

Was it not just a limited-edition Omega mechanical watch, a Calatrava style featuring the legendary 30T2 movement, a stainless steel and precious metal case, and an enamel dial?

Lu Bolin rubbed his face in agony, kneading his features until he forced a radiant smile.

Since his junior brother, whom he had never met, had returned, he, as the senior brother, should welcome him and demonstrate the attitude befitting the future master of Golden Orchid Nunnery.

Loyalty! Yes, he had to show sufficient loyalty to prove that he possessed the temperament to become a gang boss!

Only in this way could he put Mr. Ye Hai at ease and entrust everything regarding Golden Orchid Nunnery to him!

Lu Bolin took a step forward.

Ye Miao's tearful voice arrived at that exact moment:

"Xu Yi! Someone at school is bullying me! I don't want to go to school anymore!"

Lu Bolin stopped dead in his tracks, a surge of jealousy rising in his heart.

All these years, even when Ye Miao had been wronged, she had never poured her heart out to him like this!

That country bumpkin! By what right?!

Xu Yi's angry reply drifted over from behind the screen wall:

"Who is it! I'll go kill her!"

Ye Miao continued, still sobbing:

"It's a little delinquent girl named Jing Tao!

Wuwuwu...

She's my classmate. She said I only come to school to marry a Foreign Devil, and that she knows all about the sordid business in the gang!

When I tried to defend myself, she said that since I'm a gang member, I shouldn't act like some innocent white lotus!

Wuwuwu..."

Xu Yi:

"..."

Xu Yi was truly not good at comforting people. He hesitated for two seconds, then suddenly said:

"This watch looks pretty nice!"

Ye Miao had been dazed by her own grievances, but interrupted by Xu Yi's sudden shift in topic, she froze for a moment. Then, she took the watch off her wrist and muttered, still with a trace of a sob in her voice:

"This watch is called an 'Omega.' I heard that only the nobles of England's high society are qualified to wear such mechanical watches..."

Xu Yi praised it sincerely:

"It really is beautiful!"

Back in his hometown, Xu Yi probably couldn't have afforded such a luxury watch in his entire life.

Having come to this world, he could finally get a real taste of the stench of the bourgeois class.

Behind the screen wall, Lu Bolin heard Ye Miao's words and felt his head grow hot, as if it were about to start smoking.

The smile he had just kneaded onto his face was gradually pulverized by his rage.

Ye Miao lifted Xu Yi's left hand and fastened the Omega onto his wrist, instructing him:

"You just need to manually rotate the crown every day—about 20 to 30 turns. Once fully wound, the movement can usually provide about 40 hours of power reserve."

Xu Yi did not decline, but blushed and said:

"How could I be so bold as to accept this..."

Ye Miao finally caught her breath, grabbed Xu Yi's hand, and her sobbing returned:

"They don't take me seriously at all! Only you can help me!"

If it was just Jing Tao, this would be simple!

A confident smile appeared on Xu Yi's face as he patted his chest and said:

"Leave this to me! I'll go take care of her!"

Seeing Xu Yi like this, Ye Miao's expression shifted from overcast to clear; the clouds parted, and her sorrow gave way to joy. Most of her grievances vanished, and her face, like a pear blossom in the rain, bloomed as she threw herself into his arms, hanging onto his neck, her words blossoming with laughter:

"I knew you were the best!"

Lu Bolin could no longer restrain himself. He stepped out from behind the screen wall. Seeing Ye Miao and Xu Yi in such a state, a fire of jealousy erupted within him. He was shocked, furious, and envious all at once. If not for the need to maintain his image, he might have ground his back molars to dust:

"So this is our junior brother."

Let go of her, you damn bastard!

Xu Yi saw Lu Bolin extend his hand, but did not immediately reach out to shake it.

Because Ye Miao was still clinging to him, and she intentionally prevented Xu Yi from shaking hands with Lu Bolin—not only refusing to step aside, but clinging even tighter.

Lu Bolin was burning with rage, yet hindered by his status, he could not express it. He merely maintained the "gentle and considerate" persona of a senior brother he always projected, feigning only a look of mild annoyance:

"You two! This is the middle of the street! What kind of behavior is this? Let go at once!"

Ye Miao snorted, released her grip, and ignored Lu Bolin, saying only to Xu Yi:

"Get it done as soon as possible."

After saying this, she turned and walked away.

She didn't want to return to Golden Orchid Nunnery from the bottom of her heart.

She took two steps, then turned back:

"Xu Yi! I'm running out of money!"

Xu Yi, looking as if it were a matter of course, pulled five silver dollars from his pocket:

"Here, the usual rule: half for you."

Ye Miao took the five silver dollars from his hand, and a smile finally appeared on her face.

Lu Bolin sneered inwardly; what a pauper!

Half? So your entire fortune is only 10 silver dollars?

As for silver dollars, Lu Bolin had plenty!

"Ashui, I have a check here..."

Before Lu Bolin could finish his sentence, Ye Miao had already turned and walked away, leaving him awkwardly stranded in place, his hand holding the check in his pocket feeling suddenly aimless.

"Senior Brother."

Xu Yi's call rescued him from his awkward predicament:

"Seeing you is better than hearing about you a hundred times!"

Xu Yi sounded affectionate, but there was not a shred of warmth in his heart.

Because, in the spiritual vision just activated by Ye Miao's fragrance, Lu Bolin's body was actually radiating a layer of scarlet light.

Within this scarlet glow, there was also a hint of a heart-palpitating, pungent odor.

That was definitely not fragrance.

What is this?

Is Lu Bolin a Night Roaming God?

Is this layer of scarlet light Lu Bolin's spirituality?

Xu Yi could not guess, but based on his experience, anything that manifested as "scarlet" in his spiritual vision was never anything good.

--That the senior brother was not a good person was not good news for him.

According to Xu Yi's own understanding of Golden Orchid Nunnery, after this senior brother who had spent two years "gilding" himself in England returned, he would likely take over from Mr. Ye Hai and become the future master of Golden Orchid Nunnery.

Thinking about having to navigate society in the future while following this man who radiated a scarlet, ominous light, Xu Yi felt things were not looking good.

Lu Bolin watched Ye Miao's figure disappear around the corner of the street by the Green Shore River, pulled at the corners of his mouth in a forced smile, and said to Xu Yi:

"Junior brother, go pay your respects to Master first."

Xu Yi cupped his fists at Lu Bolin and entered the gate first.

When Xu Yi's figure disappeared behind the screen wall, the smile on Lu Bolin's face vanished completely.

He paced a few steps at the entrance, then suddenly raised a foot and kicked the hub of the Chevrolet's wheel, causing several copper studs on his leather shoe to pop off.

Xu Yi entered the gate, his spiritual vision still active. When he reached the central courtyard of the nunnery, he felt a cold, chilling gaze cast from the incense hall.

It was cold, yet devoid of any emotion.

It was unfriendly, but not hostile.

It was as if some high and mighty deity, without joy or sorrow, was utterly heartless.

Xu Yi restrained himself from shivering, while at the same time, doubts sprouted in his heart.

His spirituality provided him with a mysterious sensation, a feeling that could not be put into words, similar to "intuition."

When he felt that gaze, his intuition told him that whatever was lurking in the incense hall was likely some kind of Hundred Night Miasma, and that the Hundred Night Miasma was extremely powerful...

Stronger, at the very least, than Jing Tao's master, Yan Luo, that [Ferryman] on the second step of the Ascension Staircase of the [Yin Son of Heaven].