Men who never came home

Someone from the registration office came over, and there were more signatures and fingerprints.

Just like that, Xavier became Xiao Yan's first husband.

Following procedure, he came to Xiao Yan's table and sat beside her.

Xiao Jue was delighted and greeted Xavier across Xiao Yan.

Xavier gave a perfunctory smile. "Mother."

"Oh, good boy." Xiao Jue took out a thick red envelope and handed it over.

Xavier accepted the red envelope with both hands and cast a fleeting sideways glance at Xiao Yan.

Then the next man came over, and Xiao Yan was shocked all over again!

One look at her daughter's changing expression told Xiao Jue there was another promising prospect.

She looked him over. Oh, not bad~

Black hair, yellow-green eyes that looked just like amber, and a very proper, serious face.

As for his clothes, he wore a black suit, even his shirt and tie were black. He seemed very mature and dependable.

Mothers all liked this sort of son-in-law.

"Head of the Xiao Family, Miss Xiao, hello. I'm Zayne, deputy director of cardiac surgery at Central Hospital. I'm twenty-seven this year, 186 centimeters tall..."

Another male lead from the game had appeared! Wasn't this fate?!

"Yes, yes! Come register!" Xiao Yan immediately clenched her fist.

Xiao Jue chuckled. "Come, good boy, sit with us."

Zayne: "...Huh?" Wasn't this a little too hasty?

A round of registration followed.

Zayne sat beside Xavier, and the two even nodded at each other expressionlessly.

Xiao Yan snatched another red envelope from Xiao Jue and passed it across Xavier into Zayne's hand.

Zayne: "...Thank you, Mother."

"Hello, I'm Rafayel, twenty-four, 183 centimeters. I'm a paint-"

Male lead count +1!!!

Xiao Yan immediately called out, "Register!"

Rafayel: "???" What was going on?

Xiao Jue chuckled so much she couldn't stop smiling. This boy was wonderful too, wonderful!

His curly purple hair looked fashionable, his iridescent blue-violet eyes were charming, and he had clearly put some thought into his outfit.

He wore a dark blue formal suit, with a short stand-collar shirt beneath and a bow tie accented with sapphire.

His face was especially endearing, and his expressions were lively. He seemed like a very interesting boy.

He absolutely had to get a red envelope.

The next male lead from the game arrived too.

"My name is Sylus."

He had white hair and red eyes, and his mere presence commanded attention.

He wore a black suit hand-embroidered with a red crack pattern, the top two buttons of his shirt casually undone.

Xiao Jue's expression changed. She knew this dragon beastman. He was in the underworld and had his own territory in the lawless zone on the city's outskirts.

A dangerous figure whom even the city authorities regarded warily...

Xiao Yan was practically grinning her face off. "Sylus, hurry up and sign and leave your fingerprint, then come get your red envelope!"

Sylus tilted his head in puzzlement.

But he cooperatively pressed a finger onto the ink pad, then left his fingerprint on the registration document.

Then he walked behind Xiao Jue on his own and collected his red envelope. "Thank you, Mother."

Xiao Jue was speechless and could only look at Zayne again to cleanse her eyes.

Sylus went to sit beside Rafayel.

Rafayel turned to look at Sylus. "Even Boss Sylus came to join this sort of fun?"

"Aren't you here too, great painter Rafayel?" Sylus countered. "Why can't I come? I reached marriageable age long ago, didn't I?"

Next, the male lead Caleb appeared too!

"Hello, Xiao Yan. I'm an adjutant currently serving in the low-orbit patrol fleet. I..."

Xiao Yan felt as though she already had the whole world. "Register, register!"

Caleb swallowed the rest of his words and left his fingerprint.

Xiao Jue was quite pleased with Caleb too. He had dark brown hair and eyes with a purple-to-orange gradient.

His looks were handsome and dignified too, with distinctly downturned puppy eyes that seemed to hold a story whenever he looked at someone.

When handing him his red envelope, Xiao Jue even took particular care to size up his physique.

Although he wore a dark gray suit, she could still tell he had substantial muscles.

The only problem was that registration was complete, their relationships were settled, and the men had all received their red envelopes and started calling Xiao Jue Mother.

But Xiao Yan had truly transmigrated and was only pretending to have amnesia.

The five of them seemed to genuinely have no memories of the past and had completely integrated into this new world.

She looked at Xavier's fox ears.

Zayne's sheep ears.

Rafayel's translucent merfolk ear fins.

Sylus's craggy dragon horns.

Caleb's black wolf ears.

What was she supposed to do about this?

If she told them, "We actually all go way back!"

Wouldn't they think she was crazy?

Xiao Yan's husband selection came to a successful conclusion after she filled all five places with beastman husbands.

The news even made the city's headlines.

#Xiao Family heiress successfully chooses a city SWAT officer as her husband

#Xiao Family heiress successfully chooses a deputy director physician as her husband

#Xiao Family heiress successfully chooses a renowned painter as her husband

#Xiao Family heiress successfully chooses an underworld boss as her husband

#Xiao Family heiress successfully chooses the next fleet commander as her husband

Aside from Caleb not being a fleet commander yet, all the other information matched their game settings very closely.

Xiao Yan was very satisfied with this.

But there were also things she was very dissatisfied with.

For example.

The marital home Xiao Jue arranged for Xiao Yan was in a villa development halfway up a mountain in the suburbs.

It was a small villa with a courtyard. At Xiao Yan's request, it hadn't been made too large, occupying a little over five hundred square meters.

A butler, servants, a chef, and bodyguards had been arranged.

But apart from the night they registered, when all six of them had gathered together once.

She had had the house for over a month, and none of the five men had come back.

Xiao Yan lived alone in the big house. She still had university classes from Monday through Friday, but had nothing to do on weekends.

She was idly wondering just what those five had been thinking when they agreed to register.

The butler, Uncle Sang, received a call from Xavier, saying he would be coming back today and had something to discuss with Xiao Yan.

Uncle Sang came to ask Xiao Yan, and of course she said she had time.

Before long, a bodyguard drove down to the subway station at the foot of the mountain and brought Xavier back.

He showed little interest in the house. After entering, he went straight to the living room sofa to find Xiao Yan.

"They said that now I have a wife, I need you to sign an occupational risk acknowledgment form. Monday is the deadline, so I came."

As he spoke, Xavier handed Xiao Yan the folder he had been holding all along. "Sorry for the trouble."

Xiao Yan really wanted to ask Xavier whether he remembered absolutely nothing from before.

But after explaining why he had come, Xavier lowered his gaze, looking as though he didn't want to talk any further.

Xiao Yan could only pick up the documents and read through them page by page.

Xiao Yan had anticipated all these so-called occupational risks.

Being a city SWAT officer was already one of the jobs closest to Xavier's original setting in the game.

Xiao Yan wasn't the least bit surprised that he would do this work in this world.

She could understand every high-risk warning on the pages.

When she finished reading, she asked, "Where's the pen?"

Xavier took a fountain pen from his pocket.

When he placed the pen in Xiao Yan's hand, Xavier even took care with his movements not to touch her skin at all.

Xiao Yan leaned over the table to sign and asked in passing, "This acknowledgment form says your income has to be deposited into your wife's bank account from now on?"

"Yes." Xavier nodded. "It's a regulation. I have to follow it."

As luck would have it, Xiao Yan had already opened five bank accounts in advance.

Originally, she had been thinking that she didn't know whether the five of them earned enough in this world to maintain relatively comfortable daily lives.

She had wanted to give them a monthly living allowance.

As it turned out, she hadn't deposited any money into those accounts yet, but now they could serve a new purpose.

So she fished a card custom-printed with a starry sky out of the little pocket of her dress, slipped it into the folder, and handed them both to Xavier.

Xavier asked, "This card is...?"

"As long as the account was opened under my name, it's fine, right?" Xiao Yan smiled at him. "Have your income deposited into this account from now on. Just keep the card and use it yourself. I won't check your transactions, don't worry."

"You..." Xavier was a little surprised. "What does this mean?"