Changchang: Bro, I'm going to sleep first.
Ji Yuan: Okay.
The next day, goods from the Artificer's Workshop and other shops were delivered to Ji Yuan's newly purchased house, where installation and renovations began.
The Luofu Starfaring Vessel's technological level was already quite advanced, so everything was finished in a single day.
On the third day, Ji Yuan looked at the renovated house and happily went to Flowing Cloud Ferry to pick up his sister, Sushang.
At this moment, Tingyun had once again arrived early at Flowing Cloud Ferry to wait for Ji Yuan.
"No one will interrupt us before my sister arrives this time, right?"
Today, Tingyun had changed into a pair of flat sandals. Thin straps wound around her fair calves, while the arches of her feet formed elegant curves against the sandals, making her look especially delicate.
When she reached the milk tea shop at Flowing Cloud Ferry, she bought two more cups.
Yanqing, who had been thirsty the day before yesterday, had drunk the last ones all by himself, leaving Tingyun quite speechless.
"Luckily, I hadn't thought of doing this back then."
After buying the two cups of milk tea, Tingyun inserted straws into both of them. She picked them up and took a small sip from each.
Tingyun's eyes curved into smiling slits.
At that moment, Ji Yuan finally came jogging over.
"Tingyun, sorry. I was late, wasn't I?"
He apologized to Tingyun.
"Not late, not late. I was just early." Seeing that no one else was around this time, Tingyun smiled happily.
She handed one cup of milk tea to Ji Yuan. "Here, have some milk tea."
"Okay."
Ji Yuan was somewhat worried that the milk tea might be poisoned, causing both him and Tingyun to die together, but surely food safety on the Xianzhou couldn't be that bad, right?
With that thought, he picked up the milk tea and drank it.
"How is it?"
Tingyun narrowed her eyes as she asked Ji Yuan.
"It tastes great. It's not just sweet, it also has a special fragrance."
Ji Yuan felt that it tasted better than any milk tea he had had before.
Tingyun laughed happily.
At that moment, a child by the roadside said to his mother, "So this milk tea was for that big brother. I thought that big sister was drinking two cups at once because she wanted to really enjoy herself."
Tingyun: ...
Damn brat!
My Sister Becomes a widow in a Hundred Years!
Tingyun: ...
Ji Yuan: ...
So the fragrance in the milk tea he had just drunk came from Tingyun's lips?
His hand froze in midair, and he had no idea how to react.
At that moment, Tingyun reacted first. She brushed back her hair, exposing her graceful neck, then picked up the milk tea in her hand and offered it to Ji Yuan.
"Don't like that one? Try this one too and see which tastes better."
Her fox-like eyes were utterly serious, as if she were genuinely researching which cup of milk tea tasted better.
"Oh." Ji Yuan took a sip on instinct.
But immediately afterward, he sensed that something was off.
Yet at that moment, Tingyun took both cups from him and drank from them again.
Ji Yuan took a step back.
Dangerous. Far too dangerous.
Not just life-threatening danger, either.
Tingyun stepped forward.
Ji Yuan hurriedly took another two steps back.
"Beep— The passenger ship from the Yaoging Star-skiff has arrived at Flowing Cloud Ferry."
"My sister's here. I need to go find her."
Ji Yuan hurriedly escaped Tingyun's hunting trap and rushed to the docking area. Tingyun shook her head behind him, then followed him to the reception area.
The ship came to a stop, and its passengers disembarked one after another.
Ji Yuan and Tingyun did not wait long before they saw a brown-haired girl with twin tails dragging an enormous suitcase down from the ship.
"Bro, bro, I'm here!"
She gritted her teeth as she dragged the suitcase and shouted at Ji Yuan.
Her voice was loud and carried a strained, desperate note. The meaning was obvious.
Brother, suitcase, heavy, help.
Looking at her face, Ji Yuan saw that her appearance had changed slightly after several years away for tutoring. Her current appearance confirmed that his sister had also been a playable character in his previous life.
Ji Yuan immediately walked over to Sushang. He reached out to take her suitcase, and his hand instantly sank under its weight. He grimaced at his sister.
"Did you stuff a corpse in this suitcase? Why is it so heavy?"
"How could I!" Sushang shook her head hard, her twin tails flying wildly with the movement. "Mother made me bring all this over. Aside from my weapon, there are lots of things specifically for you. Mother said that when she comes to visit us on Luofu, if your sword training has fallen behind, she'll give you a proper beating."
By the end, her tone was somewhat gleeful.
Ever since they had started school as children, her awful brother's academic grades had always been several times better than hers. Only their swordsmanship had been about equal. Now that he was busy with scholarly work every day, he definitely had no time to practice swordsmanship. Hearing Mother say that would surely make him panic.
Just as she was thinking that, Sushang felt Ji Yuan give her head a hard knock.
"You want to see me embarrass myself? Dream on. When have you ever seen your brother like that?"
"Don't knock my head! All the knowledge I worked so hard to learn will get knocked right out!"
"The only thing I can knock out of your head is water. It definitely won't be knowledge."
The siblings bickered as they walked down from the ship, and Tingyun appeared before them with a smile.
While they had been bickering, Tingyun had been observing Sushang the whole time.
She looked around sixteen or seventeen, her twin tails giving her a playful air. She wore apricot-yellow clothes. Though not tall, the pair of legs she exposed were slender, straight, and fair, with a thigh ring on one leg.
Most importantly, her eyes revealed a sort of clear-headed stupidity, giving her an adorably foolish appearance. She was clearly the extremely easy-to-fool type.
She should be much easier to deal with than her brother.
Ji Yuan immediately edged closer to his sister.
Looking at Tingyun, Sushang tilted her head and asked, "Do you need help with something?"
Tingyun smiled and wagged a finger at Sushang. "No. I'm Tingyun, your brother's friend. I came specifically to pick you up with him this time."
"Bro, you actually made a friend?"
Sushang looked at Ji Yuan in surprise, her tone full of amazement.
"Oh? Are you saying your brother didn't have friends before?" Tingyun gave Ji Yuan a sidelong glance, as if she wanted to hear some embarrassing stories about him.
"Of course not. My brother's grades were way better than everyone else's from the time he was little. Every time exam results came out, all the parents would say, 'Why can't you learn from Ji Yuan next door?' So he didn't have a single friend on the Yaoging Star-skiff when he was young. Unlike me..."
At that point, Sushang proudly puffed out her chest, looking extremely pleased with herself.
Ji Yuan snarked from the side, "That's right. Whenever someone got beaten up, their parents would comfort them by saying, 'Well, at least your grades are better than Sushang next door. At least you're not at the bottom.'"
"Pfft—"
Seeing the siblings roasting each other, Tingyun could not help covering her mouth and laughing.
"You two siblings really are close."
"What can I do? I've only got this one sister. I can't throw her away, and I can't exactly refuse to treat her like my sister!"
Ji Yuan sighed helplessly, then vigorously ruffled her hair, thoroughly messing up her hairstyle.
"Asshole brother!"
Sushang puffed up her cheeks and looked up at Ji Yuan, wishing she could swing her sword and chop him to death.
Tingyun smiled from the side as she helped Sushang fix her hair.
As Tingyun tidied it for her, Sushang obediently narrowed her eyes and said, "Sister Tingyun, you're so much nicer."
"Really? I feel close to you just looking at you. It feels like you're my little sister."
Tingyun's smile was infectious, and Sushang nodded unconsciously.
"Mhm, mhm..."
Watching from the side, Ji Yuan wondered whether he should throw Sushang, suitcase and all, off the Star Skiff midway through the trip.
At that moment, the system's voice sounded in his ear.
Ji Yuan immediately opened the system, wanting to see what his sister would be like in a hundred years.
At the same time, he prayed inwardly that it would not describe another corpse.
Otherwise, he truly would not be able to take it.
You flirted with a widow on the Luofu Starfaring Vessel. In light of your morally depraved character of kicking down a widow's door, you are specially awarded +1 Peeping Experience.
A widow!?
A widow!?
Seeing those words, Ji Yuan felt his mind go blank.
It wasn't a corpse, but that description was shocking enough.
What the hell was this!?
How could his sister possibly be a widow?
"Which short-lived bastard would marry my sister?"
he thought sourly.
P.S. The tags already state that this is a harem story, so please don't dwell on whether the protagonist will build a harem.
Sushang: Bro, Are You Kidnapping a Girl?
Ji Yuan felt that the fates of the three of them were utterly terrible.
Of the three, two would not even live for a hundred years, while the remaining one would become a widow in less than a hundred years.
Could something major happen on the Celestial Ark Alliance in the future, causing massive casualties?
The Celestial Ark Alliance's war against the Abundance Followers had continued without end. If they encountered a large-scale war, many would indeed die in battle. In the Third Abundance Followers War more than thirty years ago, twelve thousand pilots from the Luofu Starfaring Vessel alone had died while providing support. The main forces of the Yaoging Star-skiff and Fanghu had suffered even greater losses than Luofu.
Although Ji Yuan had been young at the time, he clearly remembered that the most common thing coming and going through the Yaoging Star-skiff each day had been death notifications. Changchang had been terrified that their mother's name would appear among them and could not sleep night after night. Only when Ji Yuan held her while she slept could she finally feel at ease.
That lasted for over half a month, only ending when the war ended.
Given the current situation, Ji Yuan deeply suspected that another great war would break out in the Celestial Ark Alliance. Even he, a Trade Official, and Tingyun, a merchant group representative, would be caught up in it.
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