I Don't Want to Work Hard Anymore

Su Yuan admitted that Wang Xian'er's simple words had utterly shattered his defenses.

Home...

That word was far too unfamiliar to him.

Ever since regaining his memories, he had been the most unremarkable child in the Nine Treasures Orphanage. Even after his Martial Soul and talent earned him a place in the outer ranks of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, he remained an invisible nobody whom no one cared about.

Several years of living alone in the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, combined with his identity as a transmigrator, had left Su Yuan with a lingering sense of detachment from this world.

He drifted outside it.

It was as though, apart from the basic activities needed to stay alive, meditation and cultivation were all his life contained.

But now, someone had gently told him that he would have a home from now on, and that this was his home.

His nose stung involuntarily. If not for an adult's stubborn pride, the tears welling in his eyes would already have spilled uncontrollably.

The story of their connection was fabricated, but her tender affection was real.

Home... was real, too.

Everyone laughs at Lu Mingfei, but when someone truly offers you a ray of light in your bleak life, how could you possibly stop yourself from entrusting your life to her? Su Yuan laughed inwardly at himself.

He was like one of those goofy internet users who loved stirring up amusement, who could calmly face absurd nonsense and shit, even pausing to savor it before offering a critique.

Yet when confronted with genuine human affection, he would writhe in the shadows like a vampire exposed to sunlight.

"I understand, Granny Wang." Su Yuan's smile became a little more relaxed and sincere.

Wang Xian'er merely smiled and nodded without saying anything else, giving Su Yuan plenty of time to compose himself.

After crossing the garden, Su Yuan arrived at the residence's main hall.

To his eyes, the main hall was built on the scale of a small palace: red walls, blue-green roof tiles, glazed bricks, and eighteen pillars carved with dragons and phoenixes.

However, this palace clearly was not meant for sleeping.

"This is the main hall. The first floor is where I usually receive guests, though people generally don't visit our home. The second floor is the library. Many of the books contain all sorts of strange tales and anecdotes, accounts of famous people and powerful figures, information on the continent's political landscape, or recorded history. You should read them." Wang Xian'er led Su Yuan into the main hall and introduced it to him.

After a brief tour of the first floor, the two of them went up to the second.

For some reason, looking at the collection before him, which contained at least ten thousand books of every description, Su Yuan suddenly had an ominous feeling.

He might end up spending most of his time here in the future.

Afterward, the two of them went up to the third floor.

Unlike the second floor, however, the third was not somewhere anyone could freely enter. Not only was a black-robed man guarding the entrance, clearly not much weaker than the two Soul Douluos from earlier, but the door and walls were also exceptionally thick.

At a glance, its defenses and security against theft were clearly maxed out.

"Elder Wang." The black-robed man stood and bowed slightly to Wang Xian'er.

"Fu Cheng, this is Su Yuan. From now on, he is the young master of this residence. If he wishes to visit the third floor, you must not stop him." Wang Xian'er gestured toward Su Yuan as she instructed the black-robed man.

"Yes." A man of few words, the black-robed man simply nodded.

After he opened the heavy door, Wang Xian'er led Su Yuan inside.

The third floor was not brightly lit like the two floors below. Only a few luminous pearls gave off a cold white glow.

This floor also contained many shelves, but only some held books. Most of the others were filled with boxes.

Wang Xian'er did not keep Su Yuan waiting long before she began her explanation. "Little Yuan, this is the residence's treasury. It holds a great many treasures of heaven and earth."

"There are precious medicines, rare metals, materials obtained from high-level Soul Beasts, Soul Tools, and several Soul Bones of quite high quality."

Having served as a retainer to the Imperial Family for over a hundred years, she naturally could not have been penniless. This treasury contained what she had accumulated over the years.

Some of it had even been left behind by the retainer who had saved her back then. She had never used those things and had kept them all intact.

"All of these things will be yours from now on. Whatever you need, you can come in and take it yourself," Wang Xian'er said with a smile.

"But don't use things like medicines and Soul Bones recklessly on your own. I'll arrange your cultivation resources for you. Using medicines and Soul Bones carelessly won't do you any good, so you must be cautious."

Su Yuan swallowed, looked at the dazzling array of treasures, then looked at the smiling Wang Xian'er.

Rich...

"Oh..." Apart from nodding, he seemed unable to say anything else.

"As for these bookshelves, they hold advanced meditation methods, records on Soul Beasts, illustrated catalogs of treasures of heaven and earth and medicinal ingredients, as well as the medical texts I've compiled over the years." Wang Xian'er brought him over to the bookshelves on the third floor and explained their categories.

"This knowledge is far more important than the miscellaneous books on the second floor. Whenever I have time, I'll teach you personally."

"Granny Wang, I..." Su Yuan almost cried from being moved again, his facial muscles drawn tight.

[Ding~]

[Detected that the host's current state of mind has triggered the Keyword [Rich Lady, I Don't Want to Work Hard Anymore]]

[[Rich Lady, I Don't Want to Work Hard Anymore] Keyword effect: equipping this trait naturally increases wealthy women's affection toward the host. As they spend time with the host, they will develop a heartfelt desire to spend money on him. The wealthier the woman, the more effective this Keyword becomes.]

[Extract Keyword?]

"?"

Su Yuan lost his composure in an instant. I can trigger Keywords myself, too?

Is that right?

That's not right.

No, no, no, that's absolutely right!

"Extract it right now and equip it immediately!"

Hesitating for even a second would be an insult to this trait!

"All right, let's head downstairs first. You must be tired after traveling for so many days. Have a good rest for a few days, and then I'll start teaching you." Wang Xian'er led him out of the main hall and toward the inner hall behind it.

This was the residential area.

By the time they reached it, Su Yuan had a rough understanding of the residence's layout. It was essentially shaped like the character 日.

The garden and reception hall were at the front, with the main hall dividing the grounds through the middle, while the area behind it contained the inner hall.

The bedchamber at the very center of the inner hall was the largest and belonged to Wang Xian'er. The more ordinary buildings around it, near the residence's perimeter walls, were the quarters of people such as Luo Shan, Mo Yunxing, and the black-robed Fu Cheng.

Wang Xian'er simply had Su Yuan live with her.

"I used to be the only one living in this bedchamber, and it always felt too empty. Now that you're here, Little Yuan, it'll feel a little more alive."

Wang Xian'er let Su Yuan choose whichever room he liked, and he immediately picked the one next to hers.

Although Wang Xian'er said nothing about his choice, he could tell she was delighted. Once Su Yuan had chosen his room, she even personally helped him make the bed and tidy up.

By the time they had nearly finished tidying the room, the breeze blowing through the window carried the aroma of food from the kitchen.

"Let's go eat first!"