Chapter 739: Chapter 721: End of Main Story

In the days leading up to the Lunar New Year, Tuanzi changed her previously gloomy demeanor, humming tunes wherever she went, and generously offering candy to everyone.

These candies were all won from the kids in the neighborhood.

Many families were stocking up on New Year supplies and allowed their kids to eat more candy to make them happy. However, they didn’t expect their children to immediately lose the candy to Tuanzi, and even more determinedly, they vowed to beat Tuanzi in arm wrestling.

"Come on, eat freely, no need to be shy!"

Tuanzi smiled cheerfully as she played the role of the candy distributor.

Coincidentally, a few senior brothers were at home today.

Ji Zhangzhuo teased her, "Miaomiao, what’s the good news?"

"Second Senior Brother, did you forget," Tuanzi looked at him in surprise, "Master is coming!"

Ji Zhangzhuo shook his head, "I mean, why is he able to come over again? Miaomiao, how did you know?"

He pretended to be curious, as if saying, ’I’m really curious, so just tell me.’

Tuanzi immediately recalled the days when she was tricked by Second Senior Brother, and with a gleam in her eye, she chuckled and said, "It’s a secret."

Ji Zhangzhuo showed a disappointed expression, seemingly greatly affected.

Tuanzi became even happier and went off to find Ninth Senior Brother, who was temporarily using the study to write.

"La la la, Master is coming~ La la la, Master is going to deal with Senior Brothers~ Left punch Second Senior Brother, hehe, right kick Eighth Senior Brother, haha~"

Ji Zhangzhuo, hearing the lyrics clearly, shook his head helplessly.

"So young and already biased, how did I ever offend her?"

Duan Xiayou, who was managing accounts, didn’t even look up, "You tease her every day and blame her for being biased. If you learned a bit from Third Junior Brother, she wouldn’t treat you like this."

"Hmph," Ji Zhangzhuo posed with a proud attitude, "I am me, Third Junior Brother is Third Junior Brother, I disdain learning from him."

Li Zhou, holding a honey orange, questioned doubtfully: "Isn’t it that you simply can’t learn?"

To learn from Third Senior Brother, you’d need his beauty and charm, plus his personality and martial arts skills.

Even if Second Senior Brother were remade, he couldn’t achieve that.

Ji Zhangzhuo gritted his teeth, "You’re truly my dear Junior Brother."

Li Zhou suddenly got goosebumps all over, quickly grabbed his honey orange, and ran away.

Ji Zhangzhuo sighed as he watched his retreating back, but his expression clearly showed anticipation.

Master is incredibly important to little junior sister, as well as to them.

As for not asking junior sister directly, it’s because junior sister was upset these past few days and forgot to be cautious, so they overheard her conversations with that person.

At first, when they learned Master probably couldn’t come, they were anxious and even considered going to Spirit Jade’s jade mine, but didn’t dare show it, fearing they’d further upset junior sister. Upon hearing Master was about to arrive, they also refrained from showing excitement, waiting for junior sister to bring the joyous news, then feigning delight.

"Bringing up kids isn’t easy."

Ji Zhangzhuo sighed, "You need to constantly pay attention to her mental health. How did Master take care of junior sister back in the day?"

Duan Xiayou couldn’t hold back any longer and directly rolled his eyes.

If other parents raised kids like Second Junior Brother, there’d be trouble.

Tuanzi was still unaware her dialogues with the system had been overheard, she happily brought her candy to Yu Weixiao, only to find him typing away at his keyboard.

His typing speed was nothing compared to Wen Li, not even as fast as Gu Cheng, who occasionally used the computer.

Just watching made Tuanzi anxious.

"Ninth Senior Brother, do people read your novels?"

If no one reads them, Ninth Senior Brother spends so much time writing each day, isn’t it all wasted?

Tuanzi was already thinking of finding another job for Ninth Senior Brother.

"Someone reads them."

Yu Weixiao spoke slowly, yet much better than before, "Quite a few actually."

Tuanzi hurried over, Yu Weixiao then moved the mouse to the web page.

"Looks like it even made the charts."

"Wow!"

Tuanzi looked over in surprise, finding quite a few reader comments.

At first, the comments were like ’First person perspective in an unlimited stream? Rarely seen’ ’The writing is so bad, rookie writer’ ’These days everyone’s writing novels, huh’, then turned to ’The protagonist is too timid, always hiding’ ’Weakest protagonist I’ve seen in an unlimited stream novel’ Then, the most recent Chapter comments had a different style.

’Hiding is the way to go’ ’The protagonist’s personality is quite amusing’ ’One-click costume change successfully mastered by the protagonist’ ’Looking forward to the next Chapter’ ’Update soon, please’.

Tuanzi could feel the readers’ emotional shift.

She seriously patted Yu Weixiao’s arm, "Ninth Senior Brother, you’re going to be famous, good luck."

Yu Weixiao looked pained.

"What’s wrong?"

Tuanzi handed him a candy, "A piece of candy will make you happy."

But after eating the candy, this Ninth Senior Brother still felt bitter.

"I, I want to stop updating."

Tuanzi herself loves reading books, and with two cousins who write, she naturally understood what ’stop updating’ means.

Among them, Wen Li often writes serialized stories and frequently hangs a saying on the tip of his tongue, which Tuanzi subconsciously repeated.

"Stopping updates is fun temporarily, but stopping them forever is even more fun."

Yu Weixiao’s eyes lit up, "You think stopping updates is great too, Junior Sister?"

"No!"

Tuanzi said seriously, "Stopping updates is not good at all. You quickly start writing, Miaomiao will go out first."

She then turned her head and told Wen Li about it, seeking advice on how to make the Ninth Senior Brother give up this idea.

Wen Li directly dashed her hopes, "Let them stop, occasionally stopping updates will get the readers used to it, it’ll be fine."

Tuanzi gritted her teeth.

Before she could explode, Wen Li changed the topic, "I heard your master is going down the mountain too? When is he coming down? I want to visit him."

"Miaomiao wants to know too."

Three days had passed since the application was approved, yet master still hadn’t showed up, making Tuanzi quite depressed.

Back when the reputation value reached 1 billion, her parents were sent back almost immediately. She suspected the headquarters of going back on their word.

Those who asked her weren’t just people like Wen Li who wanted to visit out of curiosity, but also people like Gu Feng, who were deeply grateful for master saving their daughter/sister.

Privately, people like Gu Feng also discussed what master might look like.

"Surely he has the image of an expert," Gu Feng tried to imagine, "He can accept disciples who all crossed over to the past and can both write and fight, he must be quite old and exudes an immortal aura."

Jin Lin followed his description and sketched an old man with silver hair but robust health.

"Maybe he’s even handsome?" Gu Che casually remarked, "Nowadays, people online say master recruits disciples based on looks, calling the Heavenly Cloud Sect the ’Heavenly Cloud Boy Band’."

Jin Lin imagined master with an old yet dignified face.

A few seconds passed before she responded seriously, "The netizens are wrong, Miaomiao is also a disciple of the Heavenly Cloud Sect, calling it only a boy band is inappropriate."

Gu Che: "..."

He quietly glanced at the silent Gu Cheng, thinking, as expected, Big Brother takes after Mom.

On the morning of New Year’s Eve.

The first thing Tuanzi did after waking up was to ask the system.

"Little Gu, did you detect any time-space fluctuations?"

[Ancient Martial System: No, maybe master will come after the New Year]

Tuanzi, feeling dejected, lay back down and rolled over twice.

"Miaomiao wants to celebrate the New Year with master. Miaomiao also wants him to see how lively the peaceful world is."

The system couldn’t bear to see her disappointed and promised to urge him again.

"Hmph, Miaomiao suspects it’s that general system going back on its word."

She pouted, "If only someone could deal with the general system."

She really wanted to deal with it herself, but according to the Ancient Martial System, the energy obtained from traditional Ancient Martial Arts is lower than that from collaborations with other special systems. Her current strength among hosts is not very strong.

The truly formidable hosts can beat the general system up!

"Miaomiao has decided."

She flipped over and sat up again, clenched a fist with one hand, "Miaomiao’s New Year wish is to defeat the general system!"

After washing up, she walked downstairs with slightly heavy footsteps, only to find everyone standing at the villa’s entrance looking outside.

"Mom, what are you looking at?"

She ran to Jin Lin’s side.

Jin Lin had a dazed look, "Miaomiao, how old is your master?"

"Uh, I think fifty or sixty? He’s lived through three dynasties."

Jin Lin still seemed dazed, "But why do I feel like your master is only in his early twenties?"

Tuanzi blinked, realized the situation, and quickly squeezed out from behind the crowd to stand in the front row.

A man wearing a bamboo-green robe stood in the courtyard, facing sideways. Even though only half of his face was visible, it was enough to feel his handsome appearance, his grace like a moonlit breeze, and his youthful look.

Seeming to sense something, the man turned his head and upon seeing Tuanzi’s teary eyes, chuckled softly, "Miaomiao."

"Waaah," Tuanzi wailed, and immediately gathered her Inner Strength, flew over to cling onto him, and cried her heart out, "Master, you’re finally here. If you hadn’t come, Miaomiao wouldn’t have given you any candy!"