My Honkai: Star Rail System Arrived Early

[Changchang: Bro, I'm heading to bed first.]

[Ji Yuan: Sure.]

The next day, goods from the Artificer's Workshop and other shops all arrived at Ji Yuan's newly purchased house, and installation and decoration began.

The Luofu Starfaring Vessel's tech level was already quite high, so it only took one day to finish everything.

By the third day, Ji Yuan looked at his fully decorated house and cheerfully headed to Flowing Cloud Ferry to pick up his sister Sushang.

At Flowing Cloud Ferry, Tingyun had once again arrived early, waiting for Ji Yuan.

"This time, before my sister shows up, there shouldn't be any interruptions, right?"

Tingyun had changed into a pair of flat sandals today. Her fair calves were bound by thin straps, and her arches rested on the sandals in an elegant curve, making her look lively and charming.

She walked to the milk tea shop at Flowing Cloud Ferry and bought two cups again.

The day before yesterday, Yanqing had gotten thirsty and drunk them all, leaving Tingyun speechless.

"Good thing I hadn't thought of doing this back then."

After buying the two cups of milk tea, Tingyun stuck straws into both. She picked them up and took a small sip from each.

Tingyun's eyes narrowed into a smile.

Just then, Ji Yuan finally jogged over.

"Tingyun, sorry, am I late?"

He apologized to her.

"Not late, not late. I just came 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."

"Sure."

Although Ji Yuan worried a little that the milk tea might be poisoned, leading to both him and Tingyun dying together, he figured there couldn't be such a food safety issue on the Starfaring Vessel, right?

With that thought, he picked up the milk tea and drank it.

"How is it?"

Tingyun narrowed her eyes and asked Ji Yuan.

"Really good. It's not just sweet—it has a special fragrance too."

Ji Yuan felt it was even better than the milk tea he'd had before.

Tingyun laughed happily.

Just then, a child on the roadside said to his mother, "So that milk tea was for this big brother to drink. I thought that big sister was drinking both cups at once to have a real blast."

Tingyun: "..."

Damn brat!

Chapter 25: The Sister Who Becomes a Widow a Hundred Years Later!

Tingyun: "..."

Ji Yuan: "..."

So, the fragrance in the milk tea he'd just drunk came from the taste of Tingyun's lips?

His hand froze mid-air, unsure how to react.

At that moment, Tingyun was the first to recover. She brushed a strand of hair aside, revealing her elegant neck, and handed her own cup of milk tea to Ji Yuan.

"Doesn't it taste good? Try this one too—see which is better?"

Her fox-like eyes carried a serious expression, as if she were genuinely researching which cup of milk tea was tastier.

"Oh." Ji Yuan took an instinctive sip.

But then he immediately sensed something was off.

Right then, Tingyun took both cups back and took another sip from each.

Ji Yuan stepped back.

Dangerous. This was way too dangerous.

Not just life-threatening danger—other kinds too.

Tingyun took a step forward.

Ji Yuan quickly retreated two more steps.

"Beep—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 to the greeting area.

The ship docked, and passengers began disembarking one by one.

Ji Yuan and Tingyun didn't have to wait long before they saw a brown-haired girl with twin tails dragging a massive suitcase down from the airship.

"Big bro, big bro, I'm here!"

She pulled at the case through gritted teeth, shouting loudly at Ji Yuan.

Her voice was loud, tinged with a strained desperation, the meaning plain: Brother, bag, heavy, help.

Ji Yuan looked at her face. After a few years away for tutoring, her appearance had changed slightly. The way she looked now confirmed to him that his little sister had been a playable character in his past life.

Ji Yuan immediately stepped forward to Sushang. He reached out and took the suitcase, and the weight instantly pulled at his arm. He grinned at his sister.

"Did you stuff a corpse in this thing? Why's it so heavy?"

"How could that be!" Sushang shook her head vigorously, her twin tails swinging back and forth with the motion. "Mother made me bring all this. Besides my weapon, there's a bunch of stuff specially for you. She said that when she comes to the Luofu to see us, if your sword practice hasn't kept up, she's going to give you a proper lesson."

By the end, her tone carried a hint of schadenfreude.

This rotten big brother of hers—ever since they started school, his cultural exam scores were always several times hers. The only thing they were even in was swordsmanship. Now that he was busy with cultural work every day, he definitely had no time to practice. Hearing Mother say that would surely make him panic.

Just as she was thinking this, Sushang felt Ji Yuan knock her hard on the head.

"Want to see me make a fool of myself? Dream on. When have you ever seen your big brother do that?"

"Don't knock my head! The knowledge I worked so hard to learn will get knocked right out!"

"The only thing that gets knocked out of your head is water. Knowledge never leaves."

The siblings bickered as they walked off the airship, and Tingyun appeared before them with a smile.

While they were messing around, Tingyun had been observing Sushang.

A girl of about one-sixty or seventy, with playful twin tails, dressed in apricot-yellow clothes. She wasn't tall, but the legs she showed were slender, straight, and fair, with a leg ring on one side.

Most importantly, her eyes held a kind of clear stupidity, giving her a simple, honest look—the type that was extremely easy to fool.

Probably much easier to handle than her brother.

Ji Yuan immediately edged closer to his sister.

Looking at Tingyun, Sushang tilted her head and asked, "Is there something you need help with?"

Tingyun smiled and wagged her index finger. "Not at all. I'm Tingyun, your brother's friend. I came specially to pick you up with him."

"Big bro actually made a friend?"

Sushang looked at Ji Yuan in surprise, her tone full of amazement.

"Oh? Does that mean your brother didn't have any friends before?" Tingyun shot a sidelong glance at Ji Yuan, as if hoping to dig up some dirt on him.

"Of course! My brother's grades were way better than everyone around him since he was little. Every time exam results came out, all the parents would say, 'Why can't you study like the neighbor's Ji Yuan?' So he ended up with no friends at all on the Yaoging Star-skiff when he was young. Not like me..."

At this, Sushang puffed out her chest proudly, looking very pleased with herself.

Ji Yuan chimed in from the side, "Yeah, at least after getting beaten up, the other kids got comforted by their parents. Well, at least they scored higher than the neighbor's Sushang, so they weren't dead last."

"Pfft—"

Seeing the siblings roast each other, Tingyun couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh.

"You two really do get along well."

"What can I do? She's my only sister. Can't throw her away, can't stop treating her like one."

Ji Yuan sighed helplessly, then ruffled her hair hard, completely messing up her hairstyle.

"Jerk big bro!"

Sushang glared up at Ji Yuan, puffed up with anger, as if she wanted to chop him down with her sword.

Tingyun smiled and helped Sushang fix her hair.

As she was being tidied up, Sushang obediently squinted her eyes and said, "Sis Tingyun, you're the best."

"Is that so? I feel really close to you, like you're my little sister."

Tingyun's smile was so infectious that Sushang nodded without thinking.

"Mm-hmm..."

Ji Yuan watched from the side, already considering whether to toss Sushang—luggage and all—off the star-skiff halfway.

Just then, the system's voice rang in his ears.

Ji Yuan immediately opened the system, wanting to check on his sister's status after a hundred years.

At the same time, he prayed silently: Please don't let it describe her as [a corpse] again.

Because he really couldn't handle that.

[You flirted with a Widow on the Luofu Starfaring Vessel. In light of your morally bankrupt conduct of kicking in a widow's door, you are hereby rewarded with Peeping Experience +1.]

Widow!?

A widow!?

Looking at this word, Ji Yuan felt his mind go completely blank.

Even though it wasn't a corpse, this description was still explosive enough.

What the hell was this!?

How could his own little sister be a widow?

"Which short-lived bastard would marry my own sister!"

He thought sourly to himself.

Ji Yuan felt that the fate of the three of them was rotten to the core.

Two out of the three couldn't even live a hundred years, and the remaining one had less than a hundred years before becoming a widow.

Could it be that something very significant would happen on the Starfaring Vessel in the future, causing large-scale casualties?

The Celestial Ark Alliance's war against the Abundance Followers had been ongoing. If a large-scale war broke out, the number of deaths would indeed be considerable. In the Third Abundance War over thirty years ago, just the pilots sent from the Luofu Starfaring Vessel alone numbered twelve thousand dead. At the time, the main forces of the Yaoging Star-skiff and Fanghu suffered even heavier losses than Luofu.

Although Ji Yuan was young back then, he clearly remembered that during that time, the Yaoging Star-skiff's busiest traffic was death notices coming and going every day. Changchang was terrified of seeing her own mother among the fallen, unable to sleep night after night. It was only when Ji Yuan held her that she could calm down.

This lasted for over half a month, until the war finally ended.

Now, this situation made Ji Yuan deeply suspect that another great war would erupt within the Celestial Ark Alliance—one that would drag in even himself, a Trade Official, and Tingyun, a merchant representative.