Mini World Game Console-Chapter 877 - 878: Ren Suo Caught Red-Handed

Stepping out of the bathtub and meticulously drying the Water Pearls from her body with a large towel, Lin Xianyu walked over to the mirror. Biting on a hair tie, she smoothed her hair with a blow dryer.

After pondering a bit, she decided against a high ponytail. Instead, she made a low side ponytail. This was the kind often seen in anime, usually sported by the incredibly dangerous "Virtuous Wife and Good Mother" type—one of the few hairstyles that wouldn't jab her in the back when lying down.

Lin Xianyu glanced at the clothes in the laundry basket, and her expression immediately darkened.

You're not giving me any clothes, only a set of Blood Droplet lingerie!? Sigh, the shy young man who used to blush while Healing my arm is gone and will never return.

Lin Xianyu, fuming, stepped out of the bathroom and yelled, "Big Brother Ren, you pervert!"

In the bedroom, Ren Suo was lying on a beanbag sofa playing console games. He said with a relaxed air, "What's wrong with a man being a pervert?"

Lin Xianyu grumpily sprawled on the bed and rolled around before glancing over at the screen. "Why have you suddenly started playing Super Mario?" she asked.

Ren Suo replied, "Just brushing up. Xiaotian is at the right age; it's time to introduce him to the classic games I love."

Lin Xianyu curled her lips. "You'd be better off setting your hopes on Xiao Xingshi and Little Wuxia; Xiao Xiyue and Xiao Heiyin would also work. Xiaotian... Xiaotian probably doesn't have much interest in playing games."

Ren Suo looked somewhat distressed. "But a father sharing classic games from old times with his son is a scene I've long looked forward to. I prepared this plan right after Xiaotian was born. I've even figured out at what age to introduce him to certain games, starting with puzzle games, followed by classic Chinese emotional RPGs, and then..."

Lin Xianyu said, "I think it's like your father sharing Teresa Teng's songs with you. The huge gap and difference in taste mean you'll never truly understand each other. However, if it's Xiaotian, he might take pity on his dad, who lives in the past. He might seriously complete the games and even write a post-game reflection, just to give his dad the joy of sharing."

Ren Suo remarked, "...Your ability to roast is now on par with Young Master Mu."

"I've always been good at roasting," Lin Xianyu said. "It's just that I'm not as tough as Sister Qiao, so I only dare to complain in my heart, not out loud."

"Aren't you afraid of getting hit by me?" Ren Suo asked.

"Then hurry up!" Lin Xianyu exclaimed. "What do you think I'm talking to you so much for? I've showered and put on the lingerie you like the most, and you're still playing Super Mario?"

Ren Suo swiftly tossed aside the controller and climbed onto the bed, but Lin Xianyu pushed him away first. "Are you sure tonight's alright?" she asked.

Ren Suo flashed an 'OK' sign. "I've made all the preparations; there won't be any slip-ups."

Lin Xianyu tilted her head and looked at him. "You have five lovely wives at home, why come to me?"

Ren Suo spread his hands. "I was kicked out, wasn't I..."

Lin Xianyu snorted. "Only remembered me after you got kicked out?"

The relationship between Ren Suo and Lin Xianyu was indeed rather peculiar. They hadn't actually intended to head in that direction. However, a couple of years ago, while playing a duo team game, they achieved the 140-point 'Eternal Glory' rating for the first time after clearing a stage. Both were so ecstatic they ended up rolling into bed together in their confusion.

There was no romance, no thrilling adventure, not even a romantic candlelit dinner. They had achieved Perfect Harmony while playing, as naturally as a concave piece fits a convex one.

Furthermore, Lin Xianyu's demands were minimal. This was especially true compared to relentless collectors like Luna, Qiao Muyi, and Gu Yueyan, who quite literally worked Ren Suo to the bone. Even Ren Xingmei, who just liked to stick close, and the tranquil Dong Chengling were more demanding than Lin Xianyu.

Unless Ren Suo took the initiative, Lin Xianyu would only seek him out once every two or three months to discuss their "affection games." Owing to the low frequency, their secret relationship had miraculously lasted for two to three years without being discovered.

In fact, this also had a lot to do with the complexity of Ren Suo's family circumstances. After all, even if one of his wives were to notice Ren Suo's sudden absence, she would likely speculate that he went to 'deliver takeout' to another wife. Who would have thought the 'fertile water' would flow into an outsider's field?

"Seriously though, why did you come to me?" Lin Xianyu asked, hands on her hips. "Even though I'm beautiful, so are they. You can rotate every day, yet you still come to me from time to time... Could it be that wild flowers are more fragrant than home blossoms?"

Ren Suo thought for a moment. "How should I put it… For me, there's no one who's more fragrant. You all bring me unique feelings."

"Cheng Ling is like a spring that gently seeps into the bones, with an endless aftertaste. Yueyan is like strawberry-flavored ice cream, sweet enough to melt me too. My little sister is like a cantaloupe in summer—refreshing, sweet, and utterly satisfying. Young Master Mu is the ocean: sometimes with Shocking Waves, sometimes calm, sometimes with whirlpools, sometimes with Tornadoes, never to be angered. Luna... well, Luna is a bit more impressive. Basically, I become the spring water, ice cream, cantaloupe, and ocean to take care of her."

"And Xianyu," Ren Suo paused, then added, "you're different from them. You're like a cloud basking in the sun. Just like me."

"Are you saying you're blissfully happy up in the sky?" Lin Xianyu asked.

"Uh... if you insist on understanding it that way, that's not impossible," Ren Suo replied.

Lin Xianyu looked at Ren Suo with disdain, shaking her head. "After so many years, Big Brother Ren, how come you haven't improved at all? In the past, you dared to propose to five people at once, and now you can casually discuss your 'user experience' with five wives in front of another woman. That's quite twisted."

"I'm not speaking ill of them!" Ren Suo exclaimed. "Besides, it was you who asked why I came to see you!"

"You just needed to say, 'Because Miss Xianyu is a beauty that comes once every four thousand years,' couldn't you? I would accept that reason!" Lin Xianyu retorted.

"Conscience, once spent, is gone. Can't waste it like that," Ren Suo muttered.

"I'll give you one more chance to choose your words wisely," Lin Xianyu warned. "Or else you're sleeping on the couch in the living room tonight."

Ren Suo retaliated with a dirty joke, "Oh? So you mean tonight's battlefield is moving to the living room?"

Although the two of them were bantering, their hands didn't stop. However, at this moment, Lin Xianyu suddenly pushed him away again.

"Did you bring 'that'?" Lin Xianyu turned her head to think for a while, then asked.

"No," it took Ren Suo three seconds to realize what Lin Xianyu meant. "How would we Cultivators carry 'that'?"

Lin Xianyu kicked Ren Suo away and pulled the blanket over herself. "No way! It seems today is my fertile period. Go sleep in the living room."

Ren Suo was dumbfounded. "Wait a minute, Xianyu, think about our Cultivation levels! I'm at least a Sixth Revolution Cultivator, and you're a Fifth-turn Cultivator too. Do you know how low our probability of achieving 'One Shot Entrancing' is? There are so many decimal places, I can't even count them."

Lin Xianyu wasn't swayed by Ren Suo at all, shaking her head. "Probability is only meaningful for social statistics; it has no reference value when applied to an individual."

She glanced at Ren Suo. "And even if our chances are low, can they be lower than yours with Luna? Little Black is a biological Miracle; the probability of pulling 100 consecutive SSRs is higher than the chance of you two having Little Black."

Ren Suo gave a sheepish smile. In these ten years, the love child of a human and a monster had indeed been unique to his family.

"What's more, I'm the queen of strong luck, and you're the king of bad luck," Lin Xianyu grumbled. "Put the two of us together, and it's a case of 'the good doesn't happen, but the bad always does.' Maybe it really will happen."

After pondering for a while, Ren Suo lay down beside Lin Xianyu. "Then... if it does happen, you can just move into our place," he said.

Lin Xianyu snorted. "I have my own spacious flat. Why would I squeeze into a villa with you all? Though your place is much bigger than mine..."

"I mean I'll take care of you for life," Ren Suo said.

Lin Xianyu shook her head. "I don't really fancy eating the rice from your family."

Ren Suo, resting his head on his hand, looked at her. "Then what do you want? I've actually wanted to ask when you would marry me for a long time. Although I'm booked every night, that's only for the night. But you and I are full-time gamers, unemployed bums. Daytime is our round. We can do that 'daytime thing,' and it won't conflict with their schedules."

"...Who told you I would definitely marry you?" Lin Xianyu asked.

Ren Suo looked shocked. "Don't tell me you think you can escape from my grasp?"

Lin Xianyu huffed. "Which crappy domestic drama villain did you pop out of? I'm starting to get scared."

"Don't be afraid," Ren Suo said earnestly. "I'm not exactly Mr. Nice Guy."

Lin Xianyu laughed with a snort. "But I'm really not ready yet," she said resignedly.

"Your appearance disrupted my life plan, although I never really had much of a life plan. But... I never imagined I would become one-sixth of someone—ah, no, perhaps it will be one-seventh soon," Lin Xianyu clasped her hands together. "I used to think you were Zhang Wuji, but it turns out you're Lord Wei!"

Ren Suo gave an awkward smile. "There aren't seven..."

"Save those words to fool Ghosts," Lin Xianyu huffed, then continued, "And I'm a girl, after all. I harbor at least a shred of fantasy about marriage... but you've shattered all my fantasies."

"Where have I failed to shatter your fantasies?" Ren Suo disagreed. "Happiness, fidelity, mutual support, respect for each other—which part haven't I done well?"

Lin Xianyu couldn't help but twitch the corner of her mouth. "Your idea of fidelity is inviting more women to marry you? Is your house short of players for a mahjong game?"

"I'm not that kind of man!" Ren Suo protested. "In the past ten years, the only new person I've added is you!"

"Now that you mention it, that does sound pretty loyal," Lin Xianyu commented sarcastically.

They both laughed for a while. Then Ren Suo became serious and asked, "So what do you plan to do?"

"I don't know," Lin Xianyu said gloomily. "I usually have a great time playing around with you, but if I were to marry you... I somehow feel like I'd be losing."

Lin Xianyu's feelings were really complicated.

First, she knew that it was impossible for her to leave Ren Suo. The Mini-World Game Console alone destined them to be entangled like the double helix structure of DNA, inseparable for life.

Emotionally, Lin Xianyu had known for a long time that Ren Suo was her soulmate in every way, the missing half of each other.

Even without experiencing hardships like life-and-death separations, Lin Xianyu had already considered Ren Suo her ideal in the Human World.

On the contrary, issues like Jealousy were easier to resolve. After all, ten years had passed, Ren Suo already had five kids, and Lin Xianyu's values had shattered and reformed countless times. Despite her seeming dissatisfaction, she had completely accepted the fact that Ren Suo had won her over.

But Lin Xianyu was still annoyed.

How should she put it? It felt like spotting a house she liked this year but deciding to wait for the price to drop because she thought housing prices would keep rising. And then, the prices just kept going up for ten years. Lin Xianyu had liked Ren Suo ten years ago, but back then Dong Chengling also liked Ren Suo. So she waited, planning to consider how to approach the young man after Ren Suo was dumped. Back then, Lin Xianyu was quite laissez-faire, feeling that if a relationship was meant to be, it would happen; if not, it was no big deal—there was always time. However, she hadn't expected that after all her waiting, Ren Suo would have five kids, and only now was she joining this big family... The house she could have bought ten years ago now had to be purchased at several times the price, and what's more, she would only get one-sixth... or even one-seventh of the ownership... Even if Lin Xianyu had made a move ten years ago, she might not have succeeded, as her rivals were dauntingly strong. However, what often caused regret was not unsuccessful attempts, but the things one never tried. This kind of regret, like missing the right time to invest, left Lin Xianyu quite tormented.

As she weighed her options, she suddenly asked, "It's easy for you to say, but have you spoken to the others in your family about it?"

Ren Suo shook his head. "Not yet. I naturally had to ask you first, give you a heads-up, and make sure you were ready with some Defensive Magic before I could feel relieved enough to tell them."

Lin Xianyu nodded. "Fair enough. At least you know to anticipate trouble before it arises. Otherwise, I wouldn't even know how I died."

With that, Lin Xianyu wrapped her arms around Ren Suo. "Sigh… I'm still a bit scared of competing with them for things," she said lazily. "Even though they will probably accept me, since we've known each other for many years and they should have anticipated this, but…"

Ren Suo spread his hands. "But it's something that has to be faced. Right now, I have to sneak around to be with you, you're afraid of having kids, and we don't even get a honeymoon. Strictly speaking, our current situation is immoral and risks a sullied reputation, so getting married is necessary."

Lin Xianyu cocked her head to the side. "But isn't it more thrilling this way?" she asked.

Ren Suo's eyes flashed with a sharp light. "Then let's see it through to the end—"

BOOM!

The Spiritual Energy in the space suddenly surged in waves, and both of them stiffened instantly!

Seventh Stage Spell, "Eight Trigram Golden Lock"!

A complete lockdown on all Living Beings within a certain area, it featured eight types of restrictive effects. These included preventing Spatial Movement, stopping the Qi Cyclone from revolving, halting the effectiveness of Spells, and suppressing the actions of Living Beings, among others. The Spell boasted that "among the thirty million Cultivators in the world, those who enter my Eight Gates must bow their heads"!

At the same time, five figures gently landed in the room.

"This isn't a good time," Qiao Muyi's voice, filled with jest, floated leisurely. "I thought I would be able to see Xiao Suo's wonderful expression—a mix of astonishment and blush."

"Sister Qiao, haven't you seen it before?" Ren Xingmei giggled, exposing Ren Suo's past deeds. "That day, I wanted to discuss the academy's recruitment affairs with Yueyan, and Sister Ling teleported me there. I saw Brother and Yueyan in the office... Luckily, Yueyan's office is a private one."

"Little Star, you promised not to tell!" Gu Yueyan, her face flushed red, bit her lip. "Also, Xianyu, didn't you always say Mr. Suo was a pit of fire? How come you've jumped in now too?"

"Xianyu, I have that same set of lingerie!" Luna exclaimed, looking around the room curiously. "Xianyu, your room is so cute! I want to decorate my room like this too."

"Suo, Xianyu." Dong Chengling gently made a gesture, releasing the physical constraints on Ren Suo and Lin Xianyu. "Alright," she asked calmly, "if there's anything you want to say, say it now."

This statement was loaded with a threatening undertone that seemed to say, "If you don't speak now, you won't have the chance to later."

Lin Xianyu blinked. She pulled the quilt over herself and calmly looked around. After three seconds, she suddenly donned an expression as if waking from a dream. "Huh?"

"Big Brother Ren, what have you done? Why are you in my bed? Why am I wearing such embarrassingly shameful lingerie?" Lin Xianyu's face was full of disbelief. "Could it be... could it be that you used the Hypnosis Spell you just got from the Mini-World Game Console on me!?"

Ren Suo ignored Lin Xianyu's antics. "Wait, let me understand this clearly," he asked, looking confused. "How did you find this place?"

The five exchanged glances. "Suo, you were indeed well-prepared," Dong Chengling said. "You even managed to bewilder my Command Spell Technique. I could only sense that you were in your little nest."

"You even confused the Eye of Truth," Qiao Muyi added. "I could only see images of you playing games."

Gu Yueyan huffed. "But we're your wives. We know you're up to no good the moment you try to hide something."

"Suosuo doesn't have a tail... does he mean the one in front?" Luna wondered aloud.

Ren Xingmei smiled faintly. "Even the Sage makes an oversight among a thousand considerations. Indeed, Brother, you took countermeasures for everything beforehand. But there was one thing that completely exposed that you weren't actually playing games tonight."

Ren Suo racked his brains but still couldn't figure it out. "Where exactly did I slip up?" he asked helplessly.

"We could see from our Sbeam friend list that your last online time was 22 hours ago," Ren Xingmei stated.

Ren Suo was speechless.