Cannon-Fodder Heiress Turns the Tables by Fortune-Telling-Chapter 638: The Three Moves of Admitting Fault (Second Update)
At this moment, the Junior Uncle couldn’t help but remember the first time he met little Yun Ran. Back then, if you didn’t discipline her every three days, she’d cause real trouble.
Back then, he, unfortunately, decided to stop his senior brother from disciplining Yun Ran, mocking his senior brother for being old-fashioned. "It’s just a kid acting mischievous, how big a deal can it be?" This angered his senior brother greatly.
In the end, he was tricked by Yun Ran’s tears and obedience, and was ’set up’ by his senior brother, promising to take responsibility for all the trouble Yun Ran would cause in the future.
Now, his senior brother’s saying, "Raising a child for a hundred years comes with ninety-nine years of worry," was like a boomerang, hitting him squarely.
"Ah~"
The Junior Uncle sighed and suddenly felt a bit regretful for not joining his senior brother in disciplining Yun Ran back then. Now this troublesome kid dared to cause any mess!
In the middle of the night, Yun Ran and the others finally returned to the villa in Huannan.
As soon as Yun Ran entered the house, she heard a voice that made her hair stand on end: "Where did you run off to at this late hour!"
And the previously giggling little papermen froze as if someone had put a magic ring on them.
Except for the one holding an umbrella for Yun Ran, the others immediately stood at attention, obediently pasted themselves against the wall, much like a child facing the wall to reflect on their mistakes.
Xuan Chu, who followed behind, inexplicably felt his skin tighten as well.
The lights in the villa were all turned on, and Yun Ran saw the wooden puppet holding the Junior Uncle’s Spirit Puppet. It sat arrogantly on the center sofa, with its legs crossed.
Xuan Chu had a strange feeling of familiarity with this pose, but he couldn’t recall it immediately.
Perhaps it was the overwhelming presence of the Junior Uncle that made Xuan Chu’s mind tense up.
Yun Ran, however, only felt a moment of nervousness. Unlike a kid caught doing something bad by their parents, she was a bold child with a thick skin.
Immediately, she put on a charming smile and hurried over: "Junior Uncle, why are you here? We just parted a few days ago, and I already missed you~"
Upon hearing Yun Ran’s attempt to curry favor, the Junior Uncle’s heart softened instantly,
However, this time, he had to teach Yun Ran a lesson, otherwise, with how fragile she was, what if someone took advantage of her!
"If I didn’t come, I wouldn’t know how much trouble you could cause. You always laugh it off and let it go. I’m not going to let you off that easily this time!"
Yun Ran: ...
The Junior Uncle had always been easy to appease. Even when she’d cause a ruckus, it was never a problem. Could it be that the Junior Uncle was really angry this time?
Suddenly, Yun Ran plopped down on her knees, pulling her ears, but in truth, the floor was carpeted, so it didn’t hurt to kneel.
"Junior Uncle..."
Before she could even perform her faux apology, that kneeling had already broken the Junior Uncle’s heart.
The children raised by Qingfeng Temple acted out a bit, but so what? It wasn’t a big deal. Even if the sky fell, he was tall enough to hold it up.
"Alright, stand up quickly. You’re all grown up now, but just like when you were a kid, you’re quick to admit fault, but you’ll have the guts to do it again next time!"
Immediately, Yun Ran chuckled and stood up.
Xuan Chu, who had watched the whole process: ...
He had never seen such an insincere way of admitting fault, not even saying ’I was wrong’ fully, and yet Junior Uncle had already softened.
Now, he truly felt the extent of Yun Ran’s pampering. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢
"Junior Uncle, I am someone who knows boundaries. This time, it was for something important."
The Junior Uncle, of course, knew Yun Ran had boundaries, and knew what should and shouldn’t be done. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have gotten mad without having real reason.
If Yun Ran were inherently bad and outrageous, he would have dealt with her long ago, not felt distressed just because she kneeled falsely.
The Junior Uncle, who quickly calmed down, reached out to poke Yun Ran’s head: "Tell me, what did you do this time?"
Yun Ran immediately recounted her trip abroad, then quickly looked back.
She instructed the little paperman, "Go bring me the egg that absorbed the Heavenly Dao Origin."
Listening to Yun Ran’s account, the Junior Uncle frowned immediately.
"Are you saying that the people from the Special Administration Bureau were exploited by the Gu Worms, completely unaware, and they have very limited knowledge of Gu Worms?"
Yun Ran nodded: "I’ve heard that many years ago, there was a great turmoil in the Xuan Sect, involving all the forces of the sect.
Many powerful families and loose cultivators were destroyed in that turmoil, along with some of their legacies.
Today’s remaining forces in the Xuan Sect are less than a tenth of its peak era.
Moreover, the Special Administration Bureau has been narrowing the living space of those evil cultivators, so there are not many records of those harmful spells in the country."
Hearing this, the Junior Uncle understood a bit why people from the Special Administration Bureau were so easily exploited by those stealthy Gu Techniques.
Just then, the little paperman brought over the lackluster egg and placed it in front of the Junior Uncle.
The Junior Uncle reached out to pick up the egg, and his first instinct was to tap on it.
Standing nearby as a backdrop, Xuan Chu finally remembered why the Junior Uncle’s crossed-leg pose seemed familiar.
It was exactly like tapping the egg. Yun Ran had done it once in front of him before.
Xuan Chu glanced at Yun Ran, thinking, the child takes after her caretaker, doesn’t she?
"Junior Uncle, can this egg be eaten?"
Even at this moment, Yun Ran was thinking about eating the egg, leaving the Junior Uncle a bit speechless.
After putting down the egg, he said, "Even if you could eat the egg, there’s no way to get the power of the Heavenly Dao Origin. We’re all people from the outside world; the Heavenly Dao Origin is beyond our reach!"
Yun Ran got a bit deflated, thinking that by eating the egg, she could trick the Heavenly Dao. Turns out, she was overthinking it.
"What a shame~"
If it can’t be eaten, she didn’t want to keep it anymore. How about putting it up for auction?
If word got out that an egg had absorbed the Heavenly Dao Origin, whichever family bought it and kept it for a hundred years could possibly hatch a contractable quasi-Divine Beast, wouldn’t that be a huge profit?
Of course, she, as the auctioneer, could also take the chance to acquire countless Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. The pills she had previously refined were almost used up.
"It’s not really a pity. Though the egg isn’t very useful to us, as a carrier of the Heavenly Dao Origin, keeping it can help obscure the Heavenly Dao a bit."
As he spoke, the Junior Uncle looked towards the umbrella perpetually held by the little paperman.
"With this egg, you won’t always have to rely on the umbrella Burr gave you."
Burr is Yun Ran’s junior disciple, and the umbrella was a known treasure, attracting too much attention.
But carrying the egg around would draw less scrutiny.
