Mini World Game Console-Chapter 792 - 793: Scumbag Victims Support Group

In the private room, Qiao Muyi casually activated a Silence Barrier and laughed, "Since those two aren’t here, we don’t have to give them face, right?"

Miss Fan took out a wet wipe to lightly clean her mouth and chuckled, "We gave them face earlier, and they still ended up fighting. If we don’t give them face..."

Little Jiu fed a small piece of salmon belly, covered in wasabi soy sauce, to the Black Cat and said brightly, "Then Little Jiu will have no place to eat!"

The Black Cat’s pupils suddenly contracted. After chewing the food, it meowed twice. Little Jiu gave her a curious glance before taking the wasabi jar and spooning a small scoop directly into her mouth.

The Black Cat stuck out her tongue to lick it up, smacking her lips as though enjoying it, then snuggled and made a few sounds of affection in Little Jiu’s arms.

Little Jiu sighed and had no choice but to take out another soy sauce dish, loading it to death with wasabi. Luna has such extreme tastes! I need a separate sauce dish for her.

Everyone smiled at each other when they heard Little Jiu’s comment. Gu Yueyan snorted, "They’re all grown up and still so immature. If you sisters hadn’t intentionally smoothed things over, they would have definitely flipped the table just now."

"In front of someone they like, men are always boys," Xiao Meng laughed.

Sun Shu still found it hard to believe. "All of you really...?"

"Not me!" Lin Xianyu, who was eating fried shrimp tempura, shook her head repeatedly. "Neither Little Jiu nor I are!"

Little Jiu was just a child; if she were involved, Miss Fan and the others would really have to call the police.

But it was surprising to them that Lin Xianyu wasn’t involved.

Her aura matched Ren Suo’s so well; that’s what Zhao Huo and the others thought too. It wasn’t that they were a pair destined to marry, but there was always a sense that they might just eat and play their way into bed together...

Even though Lin Xianyu wasn’t involved, it was enough to shock these three worldly women. Xiao Meng expressed her surprise, "Besides Little Jiu and Lin Xianyu, all of you like... Ren Suo?"

"Little Jiu likes Big Brother too!" Little Jiu protested.

"MEOW~" The Black Cat, busy eating peony shrimp sashimi, chimed in, regardless of whether anyone understood.

Finding Little Jiu to be feeding her too slowly, the Black Cat took advantage of the group’s distraction. With a flick of her paw, a beam of light hooked the sea urchin sashimi into her super-wasabi soy sauce dish, and then she blissfully started licking it up.

Dong Chengling nodded calmly and smiled. "I do indeed like him, the way one likes a lover."

Gu Yueyan blushed with shyness, pursed her lips, lowered her head, and whispered faintly, "I... do too."

Ren Xingmei’s face flushed, but she laughed it off nonchalantly. "That’s right, I like my brother!"

At this moment, Qiao Muyi turned her head to Little Jiu and asked, "Little Jiu, do you like Sister Ling more, or do you like Big Brother more?"

"Ah?" Little Jiu was taken aback. She glanced at Dong Chengling and stammered, "I, I..."

"Little Jiu, let your Sister Qiao teach you a life lesson today," Qiao Muyi said. "For example, if I ask you this and only your Sister Ling is present, then you loudly say you like Sister Ling more. If it’s only Big Brother, then say you like Big Brother more. But if both are present, then you say you like them both."

She paused and added, "Of course, if you think you can afford to offend the person who’s asking, then loudly say, ’I hate you the most!’"

"I hate—" Little Jiu started to say subconsciously, then glanced at Qiao Muyi and timidly added, "—I like Sister Qiao the most..."

"Good girl." Qiao Muyi’s mouth curled up, her fox-like eyes full of smiles.

She looked around the room, chuckling. "Actually, I don’t understand what ’liking’ means. I only know what ’hating’ is... but I think he’s very cute."

"He’s cute when he eats, cute when he sleeps, cute with his silly expressions, cute when he’s protecting me, cute when he’s scared of me. I want to see how cute he’ll be when he gets married, and he will surely still be cute when he gets old."

Miss Fan, Xiao Meng, and Sun Shu exchanged glances, still feeling quite incredulous.

Before Zhao Huo and Ren Suo arrived, the women had gathered in the room early and talked, so they obviously knew each other’s identities. The Deputy Director of the Tactical Bureau, a Fourth-Stage Cultivator, a transcendent student... Why were these women, all tagged with futures of unlimited potential, in love with the same man?

And Ren Xingmei, she seems to be his sister, right? His biological sister or an adopted one? It must be adopted. If she were his biological sister, wouldn’t their parents kill him? But they dared not speak, nor dared they ask.

However, when they thought about their own situations, they came to terms with it—Destiny, just like love, is irrational. If everything had to be logical, then mates would be assigned by the government.

In reality, it wasn’t that they couldn’t meet someone better than Zhao Huo or Ren Suo; in fact, they could easily do so. With their abilities, finding men who would be completely devoted and faithful to them was certainly possible.

But just as Zhao Huo and Ren Suo were unwilling to give them up, they too were unwilling to let go. Their feelings weren’t merely based on physical impulses or superficial attraction. Instead, a part of their past lives had been spent creating beautiful memories with these men, memories that had transformed them and shaped who they were today.

To deny these feelings would be to deny themselves.

Sunk costs, rational choices—it sounds simple enough, but the last person who could be absolutely rational has since had much of his rationality whittled away.

In front of the ones they like, men are always boys, and women are forever girls.

Gu Yueyan directly exposed Zhao Huo’s intentions. "Mr. Suo said that Teacher Zhao invited us to dinner hoping we would ease the tension and create an opportunity for him to reconcile with you all."

"Reconcile..." Miss Fan chuckled. "Does he think we’re still angry with him?"

"Aren’t you angry anymore?" Qiao Muyi inquired. "He... Xiao Suo told me Zhao Huo sent you all a set of lingerie?"

Xiao Meng tucked her hair behind her ear, revealing a charm that even women would admire. "If he had sent it only to me... even if just privately, I wouldn’t have been upset."

Dong Chengling asked, "Then why didn’t you just reconcile with him in private?"

Sun Shu put on a pair of glasses, smiled, and said, "It’s been so many days; any anger we might have had is gone. We don’t want to reconcile with him privately because we want to force him to make a proper choice."

Dong Chengling and the others registered this, exchanged glances, and the next second, they could hardly restrain themselves as smiles broke across their faces.

Miss Fan questioned, "Have you tried this method too?"

"We have," Dong Chengling nodded and added, "More than once. And as for the result..."

Gu Yueyan huffed, "This kind of tactic works on honorable men, but it’s useless against a Casanova! Someone needs to restrain him!"

Ren Xingmei also seemed somewhat helpless. "My brother is unexpectedly greedy in this regard, completely disregarding who came first. And I was the first one to know him..."

Qiao Muyi rested her hand on the table, propped up her chin, and said with a smile, "However, you can’t blame Xiao Suo for that. It’s our fault."

"Our fault?" The others looked at Qiao Muyi with a shade of disapproval in their eyes; even Dong Chengling slightly raised an eyebrow. Isn’t Qiao Muyi spoiling Ren Suo too much?

"Yes. If we were willing to issue Xiao Suo an ultimatum, like, ’If you don’t give up the others and stay with me, then we’ll break up,’ and if we were prepared to make a clean break if he dilly-dallied or couldn’t sever ties with the others, then he’d definitely have to choose only one person to be with for life," Qiao Muyi lightly offered an absolutely effective suggestion.

She looked towards Miss Fan and the others. "If you really want to force Zhao Huo, you might as well issue him an ultimatum later. Tell him if he contacts anyone else, you’ll break up, block him, cut off all contact, and never see him again. Given Zhao Huo’s martial artist nature, he should be able to stay loyal to any one of you after making a choice. He’d be capable of making a clean break, even with lingering feelings, right?"

Miss Fan and the other two fell silent, and Xiao Meng retorted, "Then why don’t you do the same?"

"Because I can’t bear it!"

Qiao Muyi answered almost instantly. She glanced at her rivals beside her and laughed. "I actually hope they’d be willing to say that. It would be good to have one less person to share him with. If Xiao Suo gets tired, I can comfort him properly, and maybe I could naturally monopolize him forever."

Sun Shu earnestly said, "But by doing this, you’re only bolstering his arrogance, letting him take advantage and putting yourselves at a disadvantage. The reason we teamed up is to prevent Brother Huo from having the best of both worlds and taking advantage."

"Ren Suo has suffered more hardships and faced more dangers for me, and I’ve taken more advantage of him and benefited more," Dong Chengling said softly. "Even though I can’t reciprocate everything, and it’s not just out of gratitude... but just seeing him makes all my grievances disappear, and my heart fills with tender affection."

Gu Yueyan also spoke with a touch of coyness. "Although Mr. Suo is bad, he’s not beyond redemption. With gradual teaching, perhaps there will come a day when the prodigal son returns."

Ren Xingmei spread her hands. "You all can make a clean break, but I can’t; I’m his sister. My brother and I are bound together. We were childhood sweethearts in the first half of our lives, and we’ll support each other through thick and thin in the latter half."

"MEOW~" The Black Cat scratched at Little Jiu, who reluctantly added another large spoonful of wasabi to its soy sauce dish.

Unable to help herself, Qiao Muyi chuckled. "This is our fate—we can’t let go, so we’re continually taken advantage of by our loved one. Our bottom lines keep lowering, and we even resort to sharing him. But as for how aggrieved we feel... it’s not entirely like that. What about you all?"

Miss Fan and her two companions exchanged glances, their faces showing hesitation and difficulty.

Qiao Muyi’s method was indeed extremely effective. Although there would inevitably be two losers, at least there would be one winner. The problem was that the losers would truly lose, beyond redemption.

They were willing to leave the choice to Zhao Huo. If he truly resolved to choose his true love, the losers, however helpless, would accept their fate. But if Zhao Huo was unwilling to decide, did they have the determination to dump this Casanova first?

Having the initiative wasn’t always a good thing, because their goal wasn’t to win, but to avoid losing.

Dong Chengling asked, "Can’t you let go either? Then do you believe that Zhao Huo will treat you well no matter what?"

Miss Fan retorted, "What about you?"

"We believe," Dong Chengling answered firmly on behalf of everyone. "Ren Suo has already proven this through multiple experiences."

Xiao Meng said, "We also believe in Brother Huo."

Qiao Muyi said, "Then think it over during this meal. In my experience, this kind of weak pressure from you all will eventually be overcome by Zhao Huo, dealing with each of you one by one. It’s utterly useless."

Sun Shu frowned and said, "Brother Huo would never resort to such tactics."

Gu Yueyan pressed her lips tightly and said, "I used to think Mr. Suo wouldn’t resort to such tactics either."

Ren Xingmei said with a smile, "If Teacher Zhao truly loves you, then he will inevitably be unable to resist making up with you alone... This isn’t a tactic. It’s just his ears and heart urging him to express his love to you. Unless he has fallen out of love, his enthusiasm will die."

Sun Shu and the other two fell silent. Qiao Muyi finally concluded, "Either stay or leave. There is no third option."

Suddenly, Miss Fan asked, "So you all have truly given up? Are you planning to live like this, five women... no, four women serving one husband?"

Qiao Muyi glanced at her, confirmed she wasn’t being mocked, then dissipated the fear spell in her hand and said, "Of course not!"

Dong Chengling stated lightly, "I cannot leave Ren Suo, but I can make him give up everyone else."

Gu Yueyan stated earnestly, "Mr. Suo’s erroneous view of love must be corrected!"

Ren Xingmei gave a sweet smile. "Being a couple is the most blissful and efficient lifestyle in ’Earth OL’."

Xiao Meng asked curiously, "So what do you plan to do?"

"Speaking of which," Qiao Muyi said, looking at Dong Chengling, "Cheng Ling, next time I go on a date with Xiao Suo, you can’t just teleport him away."

Dong Chengling shook her head. "What’s the harm? I’ll just teleport him over for a look and then return him to you. Is that not alright? You all have my spatial coordinates."

"No! What if I’m in the middle of some... important activities with him?"

"That’s precisely why I intend to interrupt those important activities," Dong Chengling declared openly.

Qiao Muyi wrapped her arms around Dong Chengling’s neck, leaned close to her ear, and whispered, "Cheng Ling, you have Space Spells, but don’t forget that I’m the Omnipotent Mage. Do you believe I can place a chastity brand on Xiao Suo, a brand that would scorch him with pain whenever he touches any woman other than me?"

"I don’t believe it. There’s no such spell," Dong Chengling replied very calmly.

"There will be. If not, I’ll invent one, especially if you insist on interrupting us like this."

"Then I’m even more determined to interrupt. If you invented such a spell, regardless of any past concessions I might have made, you’d definitely use it on Xiao Suo. So why should I back down now?"

Dong Chengling was really getting harder to deceive.

Qiao Muyi clicked her tongue inwardly, looked at Miss Fan and the others, and said, "You all understand, right? Even though we’re all cultivators, because of Cheng Ling, our relationships with our lovers can’t advance. A woman’s jealousy is truly fearsome."

"So we figured out a method," Qiao Muyi paused, then said, "First, we need to establish that in this kind of polyamorous situation, there are always only three roles: ’me,’ ’my lover,’ and ’the third party.’"

"Letting our lover choose, or issuing an ultimatum ourselves, are both attempts for ’me’ and ’my lover’ to break the polyamorous deadlock. Since everyone now realizes neither method works, we have to find a solution involving ’the third party.’" Qiao Muyi glanced at the others.

Gu Yueyan said, "Unlike you all, because we have Teacher Dong, all our private dates get interfered with."

Dong Chengling didn’t feel embarrassed at all and picked up a grilled shrimp to eat it directly.

"So we decided to prepare for a series of long, significant dates," Ren Xingmei clapped her hands and continued. "But it’s not a group date. Only one girl will date my brother at a time. The others can’t interfere; they can only watch helplessly. It’s like taking turns for a limited period of exclusive monopoly."

Qiao Muyi said, "Then we’ll see whose jealousy piles up like a glacier in the permafrost, growing higher day by day in the snowy wind, never melting, becoming ever more imposing and sharp. Until one day, the weight of that jealousy exceeds its limit and collapses. The resulting avalanche will engulf the world, scattering all affection. Then, someone will naturally drop out and give up."

"The deeper the love, the deeper the hate."

Is there really such a method?! Miss Fan and her two companions were taken aback for a moment.

Xiao Meng straightened out her thoughts and exclaimed in surprise, "Then wouldn’t your boyfriends be... very happy?"

"Someone will always get hurt; someone will always benefit," Dong Chengling said calmly. "And that’s only temporary pleasure."

Miss Fan asked, "But won’t you feel sad?"

Gu Yueyan pursed her lips tightly and nodded slightly. "It will be sad, so this is a test for ’the third party’—to see who can’t bear the sadness first, whose love can’t overcome their resentment, and who will quit on their own. Those who remain will naturally be the true love, wholeheartedly accepted by everyone."

Sun Shu commented, "But this method is too... too absurd, isn’t it?"

Ren Xingmei smiled and said, "It’s already absurd for multiple people to like the same person. Since no one wants to get hurt, then we can only suffer together."

Miss Fan and her two friends exchanged glances as if considering the feasibility of this method.

All of a sudden, Dong Chengling said, "Our method isn’t really a good model for you. You can consider it, but don’t just copy it."

Qiao Muyi also said, "Zhao Huo’s and Xiao Suo’s situations are very different. For example, we’ve all met Xiao Suo’s parents and gained their approval. Xiao Suo is unwilling to give up on any of us, no matter what. But is Zhao Huo the same? Can he withstand pressure from his parents?" Fiancée Miss Fan’s eyes sparkled at the thought.

Gu Yueyan said, "Mr. Suo is a very lazy person. Living with him usually means taking care of him, and Teacher Zhao seems similar. Have you ever lived with Teacher Zhao for a long period? Have you gotten along with him? Will Teacher Zhao prefer someone who can keep up with his pace of life?" Childhood sweetheart Xiao Meng blinked, considering this.

Ren Xingmei said, "Teacher Zhao’s hobbies are ACG and anime. Do you have common topics with Teacher Zhao? Can you understand his hobbies? He probably can’t live with someone who doesn’t understand his interests, right?" Junior Sun Shu adjusted her glasses, deep in thought.

The three women pondered. Dong Chengling and the others said no more. They had merely offered what advice they could, based on their own experiences, to these fellow ’victims of Casanovas.’ Ultimately, how they resolved their situations was up to them.

After a full meal, as they were preparing to leave, Miss Fan, while surprised at the cultivators’ hearty appetites, suddenly remembered something and asked them, "Wait, there’s a flaw in your plan."

Dong Chengling and the rest blinked but said nothing.

"What if, after this extended period of ’group dating,’ no one is willing to quit, and everyone’s love overcomes their jealousy? What will you do then?"

"Nothing," Dong Chengling responded nonchalantly.

"Huh?" Miss Fan, Xiao Meng, and Sun Shu were all taken aback.

Gu Yueyan turned away, snatching the Black Cat back from Little Jiu’s arms, her face blushing.

Ren Xingmei looked down at her phone, pretending to hear nothing.

Even Qiao Muyi didn’t answer frankly; she squatted down, took out a tissue, and wiped Little Jiu’s mouth.

Only the well-fed Lin Xianyu, her guard down, let out a small burp, contentedly licked her lips, and "Then it won’t just be temporary pleasure," she blurted out.