The Legendary Lightseeker

"No." Xiao Yan did not understand. "Didn't he come to see me to sign papers? He left before I even signed?"

"I asked the same thing." Uncle Sang took out a folder. "But Mr. Rafayel said the documents are right here for Eldest Miss to sign whenever she wants to, and he... didn't want to stay the night, it was getting too late, and he needed to go back."

Agh!

Xiao Yan took out her phone and did not see any friend request either.

Uncle Sang took out his own phone. "Mr. Rafayel asked me to forward his WeChat to Eldest Miss, and said that if she wants to add him, Eldest Miss has to send the request first."

That thorny, disobedient stinky little fish!

In a flash of anger, Xiao Yan snatched the documents, turned around, and went back upstairs to her room.

She tossed and turned on the bed for several rounds, but still decided to look over the documents first.

After reading them, more than half of her anger vanished.

Even though she had lost the contract-like bond from the game, Rafayel had not carried the goal of necessarily re-establishing that connection upon their first meeting.

Yet in this new world where humans and merman beasts coexisted, he was still an obedient little fish.

Rafayel had prepared only his existing asset evaluation report and transfer confirmation, along with a transfer confirmation for subsequent income.

There were no documents requiring Xiao Yan to voluntarily give up these assets.

Judging from the organization name in the footnotes of the documents, the person responsible for overseeing Rafayel's asset relations was the Male Artists Management Association.

That made things very clear.

Because of pressure from this association, Rafayel, like other men, had to transfer the management rights of his pre-marital assets and post-marital income to his wife, Xiao Yan, within a certain period after marriage.

As for the consequences of not doing so, Xiao Yan roughly had an idea.

It was nothing more than facing some kind of disciplinary measure from the association, much like Zayne.

Or, like Sylus, it would affect partners' evaluation of his credit, causing a huge impact on the future circulation of his paintings in the trading market.

Sigh.

Touching Rafayel's ID photo on the documents, Xiao Yan's heart softened.

She had better not use these social rules to manipulate the fish, after all.

She had Uncle Sang prepare a waiver agreement for the existing asset, and sandwiched a bank card customized and printed with a fish-tail pattern inside the thick documents.

She wrote an additional note: [I don't want your assets. Deposit your future income into this card, just keep the card and use it.]

She instructed the bodyguard to send everything over to Rafayel as soon as dawn broke, which was early Monday morning.

Only after finishing these tasks did Xiao Yan feel a bit sleepy.

Even though she really wanted to add Rafayel on WeChat right away, that was not how the clash lane was played; she had to mind the negative space and pull back and forth a bit more.

Sleep!

Monday passed peacefully.

On Tuesday at school, a few of Xiao Yan's close study-loving friends from wealthy conglomerates had a minor conflict with a few other classmates from wealthy conglomerates who played around in life.

Xiao Yan did not get involved, but she heard that among the opposing group of people, there was a ringleader, Second Miss Tang, who had once invited Sylus to attend her husband-selection ceremony.

Sylus did not go, and furthermore showed extreme disdain for the invitation, arousing Second Miss Tang's intense dissatisfaction.

Xiao Yan somewhat suspected that Second Miss Tang and her group might be making a fuss over a minor issue, and were actually aiming at her, Xiao Yan.

On Wednesday, this matter indeed made new progress after a few friends paid attention and asked around.

Only then did they learn that among Second Miss Tang's crowd, there was also an Eldest Miss Fang, who had once invited Xavier and Rafayel to attend her husband-selection ceremony.

After Xavier went to this husband-selection ceremony, his attitude was extremely indifferent.

At the time, Eldest Miss Fang had even forcibly chosen Xavier, yet Xavier actually refused on the spot.

According to the rules, agreeing to participate in the husband-selection ceremony was equivalent to tacitly agreeing to be chosen as a husband.

And once the female side chose him, unless he used some major meritorious service he had previously achieved to offset it, he had no right of refusal.

"Meritorious service?" Xiao Yan felt nervous just listening. "Then does Xavier have that kind of meritorious service?"

Jiang Miao, a peer who was telling her these news, looked around and lowered her voice. "He's your husband-don't you know whether he's ever performed meritorious service before?"

Xiao Yan awkwardly said, "Oh, who would have nothing better to do than chat about such obscure topics?"

Jiang Miao thought about it. "That's true either."

"Then, he..." Xiao Yan still wanted to ask.

Jiang Miao put on a profound air.

Xiao Yan ran over to the campus café where they were, and bought a donut to offer to Jiang Miao.

Only then did Jiang Miao chuckle. "Xavier himself doesn't seem to have performed such a huge service, but his unit has a mysterious heroic senior who only lives in legends, who helped him hand in an extremely awesome merit badge and settled the matter!"

A heroic senior? No way?

Xiao Yan instantly thought of...

"Could it be that this mysterious heroic senior is known as the 'Lightseeker'?" she asked.

Jiang Miao clapped her hands. "That's the Lightseeker! Oh my, my Eldest Miss Xiao, this car-crash amnesia of yours isn't very thorough either-you still remember the Lightseeker~"

As... if.

Xiao Yan knew about the Lightseeker; it had nothing to do with her degree of understanding of this new world.

She simply understood Xavier very well.

She never imagined that in this new world, Xavier would still pull off a Lightseeker identity just like in the game.

So she considered Xavier's part understood.

"What about Rafayel?" she asked. "Did he go to Eldest Miss Fang's husband-selection ceremony?"

"No, he refused quite decisively." Jiang Miao took a huge bite of the donut. "I find it curious too-Rafayel never used to attend husband-selection ceremonies, so why did he go to yours? Did you two know each other beforehand?"

"Ha." Xiao Yan gave a bitter laugh. "How would I know?"

Jiang Miao grew interested. "What's this? You seem somewhat dissatisfied with Rafayel; what's going on? Spill the details!"

That was absolutely, under no circumstances, something she could tell.

Xiao Yan deliberately changed the subject. "You're turning eighteen soon too, right? What about your husband-selection ceremony?"

"Oh, right." Jiang Miao was easily led off rhythm.

She put down the donut and grabbed Xiao Yan's hand. "My mom says your husband-selection went very smoothly, so when I pick a husband, you must be sure to come invite me to hold down the fort, let me catch some of your Xiao family's auspicious energy, and make our Jiang family even more prosperous!"

As long as she didn't pry into her married life, anything went; Xiao Yan readily agreed.

She then heard Jiang Miao say she must bring all five husbands along!

Xiao Yan: "..." She might not be able to pull that off.

It was currently early October, and Jiang Miao's eighteenth birthday was in mid-October, when her husband-selection banquet would be held.

Xiao Yan had no confidence that within a mere half-month, she could get all five men to agree to accompany her to this grand feast of the Jiang family.

Especially Rafayel and Caleb.

Rafayel did not follow conventional paths and was wildly uncontrollable; who knew when he would show his face again.

As for Caleb, she couldn't even see the person.

Xiao Yan felt bitter inside.

Jiang Miao silently watched Xiao Yan for a moment, and a sly idea formed in her mind.

Didn't Second Miss Tang drool over Sylus? Didn't Eldest Miss Fang drool over Xavier and Rafayel?

Hey, if Jiang Miao held a husband-selection ceremony and invited those two arrogant and trouble-seeking fellows over, letting them see Xiao Yan being all cozy and affectionate with Sylus, Xavier, and Rafayel...

Wouldn't that be extremely spectacular!

Hehehehe~ Jiang Miao stared at Xiao Yan and broke into a foxy smile.

Xiao Yan caught a glimpse of it by chance. "Why are you smiling like that? What are you thinking about?"

Jiang Miao shook her head wildly to feign innocence. "No, what could I be thinking about? I'm just envious of you-all five beast-husbands are super handsome. And your mom is so open-minded, she doesn't interfere with your married life at all. I want a mom like that too."

Xiao Yan's mind was not on this, so she bought her ghost stories.

Little did she know, Jiang Miao was brewing a bloody drama of wealthy eldest misses locking horns to snatch up male beasts!