Chapter Ninety-Eight: Wang Ying’s Bedtime Story [4K]
In Huaxie Yu’s view, taking care of Wang Ying was not a difficult task at all.
Although this child was lively and seemed filled with curiosity about everything, she was much easier to soothe compared to some children in Fragrant Lady Cave’s small building, who had been abandoned by their parents or had suffered malicious treatment and closed off their hearts.
To get a little child to listen, you have to coax them! If they can’t understand even this, I don’t know how those two guys became parents.
Thus, after completing the feeding and giving Wang Ying a bath, today’s care smoothly entered the bedtime story phase.
“Hello, boss. Next, it’s time for a bedtime story. Do you prefer a loli voice, a mature voice, or a young girl voice?”
“Huh?” Wang Ying tilted her head, looking at Huaxie Yu with a puzzled expression in her large, curious eyes.
Seeing this, Huaxie Yu scratched her head and suddenly laughed, “Oops, sorry! Just a habit from my profession.”
To support the dozen or so homeless children, she would do any kind of work. One of her long-term jobs was providing voice soothing services.
Her voice was quite pleasant; once, a customer praised her voice as being like a nightingale. Plus, she was good at subtly incorporating suggestive elements, making her soothing service quite popular and providing her with a steady income.
However, Wang Ying was still a little child, so it was naturally inappropriate to use suggestive stories; she could only tell her tales suitable for children.
After a brief recollection, Huaxie Yu smiled and said, “Then I’ll tell you a story about a great hero from Dawn City.
It’s a legend widely known in Dawn City.
“All the kids there love to hear it; I often tell it to them.”
Wang Ying looked at Huaxie Yu, and although she didn’t fully understand her words, she nodded earnestly with her silver-gray eyes wide open, filled with curiosity.
Even Jumeng, who was seriously gaming next to them, was drawn in by Huaxie Yu’s gentle voice, perking up her ears to eavesdrop.
“Well then, let’s get started! This story happened a long, long time ago in a place called Dawn City, where a group of very friendly people lived. Although their lives weren’t particularly good, just barely scraping by, they loved life very much.”
Huaxie Yu spoke without haste, and memories of her neighbors in Fragrant Lady Cave’s small building floated through her mind.
The big man at the alley’s entrance, always speaking frivolously and acting lewdly, never did anything to force her, he genuinely liked her, even though she had no interest in him.
The lame old Xia next door always wandered through the many landfills of Dawn City, making a living by recycling waste. Since he had a wife who developed severe asthma during a disaster years ago, he always bathed before returning home, keeping his home spotless.
Aunt Sun at the convenience store seemed fierce to every customer, as if she might pull a shotgun out from under the counter at any moment, but she always put aside the freshest food for the children.
Everyone’s lives were hard, yet they all lived diligently and optimistically.
Jumeng quietly listened from the side, unknowingly becoming a bit entranced.
Some things in this world are universally connected, and Huaxie Yu, drawing on her own experiences to portray the myriad of lives in Dawn City, reminded her of the people in Peach Source.
“Days passed like this, neither bitter nor sweet, until one day suddenly, a group of bad guys appeared to become the bosses of Dawn City…”
“Hmm?” At this point, Jumeng couldn’t help but voice her confusion.
The earlier content was fine, but why did the tone unexpectedly change here?
Is it really good to tell children such things?
Huaxie Yu glanced at Jumeng with a hint of embarrassment on her face, quickly shifting her gaze back to the serious Wang Ying, and explained, “Well, how should I put it? The boss is the leader, wants to control a territory, and everything is decided by him, you understand?”
Hearing this, Wang Ying furrowed her small brows, thought seriously for a moment, and then nodded.
With this clarification, she understood that the so-called bad guys were probably just like her master.
So she also has to work hard to become a “bad guy”!
“The group of bad guys summoned a terrifying monster from a very distant place to achieve their goals. With the monster’s appearance, the sun disappeared for several days, and many people became sick, plunging the entire Dawn City into panic.
“It was at this time that a quiet young man stood up. He called on everyone to rise against the bad guys and drive the monster away so everyone could return to their original lives, but unfortunately, no one responded to him.
“However, the young man did not become discouraged. After hesitating for a long time, he decided to face the bad guys and that terrifying monster by himself. Even if his power was very small, perhaps his determination moved the gods, as he steadfastly walked toward the monster…”
Halfway through the story, seeing Huaxie Yu suddenly quiet down, Jumeng frowned and turned around to ask, “What happened next? What happened when the young man approached the monster? Did he win or not; why aren’t you telling anymore?”
Huaxie Yu glanced disdainfully at Jumeng, then looked down at Wang Ying, who was sucking her thumb and already fast asleep, rolling her eyes.
Why is an adult getting so worked up?
Telling stories is about coaxing kids to sleep. The child is already asleep; what more is there to say?
Jumeng…
Being stared at like that made her a bit displeased, but she felt strangely guilty and could only endure it.
That feeling was like getting caught stealing a child’s snacks; it was an unprecedentedly awkward experience.
When she was in Peach Source, she had never been caught sneaking snacks from the children.
Just as Jumeng was nervously retracting her gaze and preparing to start gaming again, Huaxie Yu spoke up again, “Later, the gods lent the young man power, allowing him to defeat the bad guys and drive away the terrifying monster, but the price was that the young man paid with his life.
“Before long, Dawn City returned to its former tranquility. Everyone knew that a great hero had once lived on that land, but no one remembered his appearance or knew his name. This is the end of the story.”
Jumeng stared blankly at Huaxie Yu for a few seconds, then nodded and said, “Oh, that’s a nice ending, just like many unnamed heroes in stories!”
This girl’s quite nice! May the Jumeng Goddess bless you with a fulfilling love life and many children! Jumeng thought.
“Mm.” Huaxie Yu replied, asking, “I want to rest. Where do I sleep tonight?”
Jumeng seriously thought for a moment, looking expressionless, and said, “Let’s make do and sleep on the sofa? I’ll go get you a blanket.”
She sleeps on the sofa, leaving me with nowhere to sleep, so I can rightfully squeeze in with the dog. Jumeng thought grimly as she got up and walked toward the storage room where the blankets were kept.
After coaxing Wang Ying to sleep and getting a blanket from Jumeng, Huaxie Yu made her way to the first floor of the apartment, leaning on the sofa, resting her head on a cushion, and soon felt a wave of drowsiness wash over her, her eyelids starting to droop.
Worried that the strange dream would come again once she fell asleep, she hesitated to close her eyes for a while. Until at one moment, her eyes accidentally closed, and she briefly fell asleep for over ten minutes before suddenly waking up, realizing that the strange dream hadn’t appeared, which set her mind at ease.
Unexpectedly, Lu Yibei is quite reliable!
Staying at his house seems to ensure that the strange dream really won’t come?
I hope Siye Society can rescue the children; then everyone can be reunited.
Huaxie Yu thought vaguelessly before soon drifting into a deep sleep.
At 1:30 AM.
In Jingyi Apartment Complex, on the balcony of Unit 1001 in Building 4, a middle-aged man wearing a yellowing white T-shirt and slightly balding stood on the balcony, lighting a cigarette in his hand.
“Hiss, Hu—!”
Taking a deep drag, he exhaled and picked up a nearby pair of binoculars, bringing them to his heavily dark-circled eyes.
This place was only about a hundred meters away from Building 3. From the tenth floor looking down, he could more discreetly and clearly observe the situation in Lu Yibei’s home.
After observing for a moment, the man put down the binoculars, sighed silently, and rubbed his slightly swollen temples.
“I’ve heard for a long time that Lu Yibei is close with that person from Peach Source, but I didn’t expect their relationship to be this good. Furthermore, seeing the Inheritance Beast reminds me of Beres, the Solar Eclipse Society member who incessantly writes him letters, giving me a headache.”
Ever since getting to know Beres, he suddenly understood why, during his high school days, he was so patient with the girl he liked.
No matter how sweet the words or how useful the information, it’s hard to endure being nagged three times a day, right?
“That person from Peach Source, and with Inheritance Beast, this is troublesome. If I make a move now, won’t I get discovered?”
Muttering to himself, the man picked up the binoculars to observe again, then put them down, picking up the half-burned cigarette resting beside him.
He decided to wait a bit longer until Jumeng and Wang Ying were both resting before taking action.
Noting that Lu Yibei had absorbed the aura of Elder Ying Huo and was suspected to have joined the Solar Eclipse Society, Yujianqiu’s mission could essentially be deemed complete; it was time for her to disappear.
There are rules in trading; some processes must be completed before the transaction ends.
For instance, making Huaxie Yu have a “good dream.”
When she wakes up, she should be back in that dilapidated small building in Dawn City, not remembering this trip to Huacheng. To be safe, she wouldn’t remember who she made a deal with; everything would fade away with Yujianqiu’s disappearance.
She would only remember that she made a simple and profitable deal with a lavish outsider, earning enough to send the children she raised to different places for studies based on their talents.
“Isn’t everything the best arrangement?” the man smirked, talking to himself.
After the transaction is completed, he can’t bring himself to commit m*rder or silence anyone.
Such things are like when Party A tries to find fault after Party B has successfully fulfilled their commission, wanting to evade paying the final payment—this goes against most people’s rules.
In fact, since he began working part-time as the president of the Solar Eclipse Society, at least thousands of people have “helped” him get things done, yet fewer than a dozen have died by his hand.
And those who died were almost all guys who had prepared to take action afterward.
If the other party attacked first, and he accidentally killed someone while defending himself, that’s quite reasonable, right?
Time passed, and the scene observed through the binoculars in Lu Yibei’s home continually changed. Soon, the ground around the man was littered with burnt-out cigarette butts.
Once again putting down the binoculars, he frowned. “That person from Peach Source, so she’s this type? It seems that Naga’s intelligence work has major gaps!”
Naga, like Phoenix, was one of his most trusted subordinates, primarily responsible for intelligence work.
According to Naga’s intel, Jumeng was clearly a cold, powerful person, not of this world type of urban legend.
However, from what he just observed, Jumeng could not be described as the same; she was entirely unrelated, shamelessly begging her teammates to carry her for a few rounds.
Cold and aloof?
After her teammates went offline, she insisted on playing games alone, waiting at red lights!
Domineering?—
She drank five bottles of cola and ate four bags of chips while playing three different games, staying up till 2 AM; that is rather “otherworldly,” after all. One would likely not survive past thirty with such a lifestyle.
The man vaguely felt that if it weren’t for his own frequent late-night work, he might not have endured Jumeng’s lifestyle.
“Well, time’s still plentiful, let’s wait a bit longer?” the man muttered to himself.
Just as the last word fell, a pale, slender hand rested on his shoulder, slightly tugging him into the darkness behind the balcony.
In the dark, a captivating laughter faintly echoed.
“Got you! Hehehe~!”
Three minutes later.
The man breathlessly returned to the balcony, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and turned back to see a woman in her thirties, still alluring in a sexy black silk nightgown, tied up on the large bed behind the floor-to-ceiling glass door, shaking her head in resignation.
He didn’t want to use violence against her or knock her out.
However, borrowing her body and still needing to sleep with her, felt somewhat excessive, against the rules.
Regaining his focus, the man raised the binoculars again, looking into Lu Yibei’s home, soon raising an eyebrow and curling his lips.
“Oh? Is that person from Peach Source finally resting? Well, let’s get started!”
