Chapter 40 : Chapter 40
Chapter 40. Lin Wan Comes Again to Hand Over Experience, Reward: the Heaven-Seizing Creation Pill
【Ding! A Taking-It-Easy choice has been triggered.】
【Choice One: Just like in your previous life, take care of Lin Wan's three daily meals. Go buy Lin Wan a luxurious feast right now and make her happy. Reward: the title 'Ultimate Simp.'
Choice Two: Whether Lin Wan is hungry or not has nothing to do with you. Take it easy and do not go. Reward: 'Basic Taking-It-Easy Gift Pack.'
Choice Three: In your previous life, you arranged luxurious custom meals for Lin Wan every single day, yet she still criticized you, nitpicked you, and left you full of frustration.
Now that you have returned after rebirth, you have chosen to take it easy. Stop caring about her. Use magic to defeat magic: show off your affection with Su Linyu and drive Lin Wan away in anger. Reward: 'Advanced Taking-It-Easy Gift Pack.'】
Jiang Yichen froze for a moment, then smiled faintly as he looked at the three choices before him.
Good grief. This stupid woman really came to hand over experience points.
In his previous life, so that Lin Wan could focus fully on her cultivation, he had spent four years acting as her personal servant, taking care of her three meals a day and every detail of her daily life.
You ask me why I did not hire a maid? Heh. Back then, my brain must have short-circuited. I thought that if I treated Lin Wan well enough, she would be moved.
He had personally done everything for her himself, yet in the end, after all that skimping, he had truly been left with nothing.
His fiancée had married into the Zhou family, and the Jiang family had been isolated and picked apart by the other great families, gradually declining.
But that girlfriend he had cared for over four whole years had never once looked back at him.
And now she still wanted to use me as an ATM and make me buy her lunch? Dream on.
Jiang Yichen let out a cold laugh. "Lin Wan, kneel down and beg me, and then I'll buy it for you."
"What did you say!" Lin Wan's brows drew tightly together, her chest heaving with anger. "You said before that in the future—"
"Sorry, but I never keep my word." Jiang Yichen shrugged.
"You!" Lin Wan ground her teeth in fury, but when she thought of Jiang Yichen's identity and what her parents had instructed her, she forced herself to endure it.
"Jiang Yichen, I was wrong. Come back to me."
"I've realized I can't live without you. My parents and my little brother are all in trouble now because of you. If you have even a shred of responsibility, then get back together with me and help them."
?
Oh, so you came to me for poverty relief. No wonder the usually arrogant Lin Wan actually lowered her head and apologized. So that was it.
Jiang Yichen spread his hands and said with heartfelt regret, "I want to help too, but sadly, I don't have any sense of responsibility."
Lin Wan looked stunned and said urgently, "Even if I'm your ex-girlfriend now, our feelings are still there, aren't they? What exactly do you mean by this? Are you even a man anymore?"
"I'm not. Mentally, I'm actually a woman, so how can you expect a woman like me to have any sense of responsibility?" Jiang Yichen replied flatly. Dealing with someone like this required a little magic.
"You..." Lin Wan was so angry that she could not speak. It felt as though every punch she threw landed in cotton.
"Brother Yichen, your food... Lin Wan."
At that moment, Su Linyu walked over carrying two trays. But when she saw Lin Wan, a trace of disappointment flashed through her eyes.
The next second, however, Jiang Yichen took the trays from her on his own initiative, set them on the table, and pulled Su Linyu into his arms.
Her expression instantly went blank. Feeling Brother Yichen's body heat, a flush of red climbed onto her face.
A smile rested at the corner of Jiang Yichen's lips as he picked up a piece of braised pork with his chopsticks, held it to Su Linyu's mouth, and said gently, "Open up."
Ah?
Su Linyu's entire face turned scarlet, and she instinctively opened her mouth. The braised pork was rich without being greasy, and its juices burst across her tongue.
Ahhh! Brother Yichen fed me! Wow! This is so intimate.
I've gotten one step closer to the man of my dreams! I'm so excited~
Su Linyu's heart raced wildly. Taking advantage of the moment, she placed her hand on Brother Yichen's abdominal muscles.
So firm! My Brother Yichen even has such a good body. I'm completely captivated.
"Is it good?" Jiang Yichen glanced at the hand Su Linyu had placed where it should not be and asked.
Su Linyu nodded with a red face and mumbled through the food in her mouth, "It's super, super delicious. I almost can't bear to swallow it."
Jiang Yichen smiled and patted her head, then turned to look at Lin Wan.
Lin Wan's face was flushed bright red with anger. "Jiang Yichen, just keep this up. You're really that happy bringing her here just to make me mad, aren't you? Hmph!"
Lin Wan stood up and turned to leave.
"Wait."
Hearing that, a smile curled onto Lin Wan's lips. Jiang Yichen, you finally couldn't hold back after all...
"Take your tray with you. Looking at it makes me sick." Jiang Yichen pointed at the cheap meal on the table.
A look of disbelief appeared on Lin Wan's face. She stomped her foot in fury, picked up her tray, and sat down at a nearby table instead.
Her eyes remained fixed on the two of them, as though they were mortal enemies.
【Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have made a Taking-It-Easy choice and obtained the 'Advanced Taking-It-Easy Gift Pack.' Would you like to open it?】
When Jiang Yichen heard the system prompt, he smiled faintly and answered inwardly,
"Open it."
【Congratulations, Host. You have obtained: ten billion in funds, and one Heaven-Seizing Creation Pill.】
The Heaven-Seizing Creation Pill?
And there was only one of it. That looked incredibly rare.
Jiang Yichen opened its description.
【Heaven-Seizing Creation Pill: A peerless pill from the ancient era. It can seize the fortune and Dao charm of heaven and earth. After being consumed, it grants a martial artist the potential to set foot in the Emperor Realm. (Effective only on martial artists.)】
Holy shit! The Emperor Realm!
No matter what kind of novel it was, the height of the Emperor Realm was always something impossibly distant, and breaking into it was even harder than hard.
Although in this world, the highest realm was only the Martial God.
Still, a pill from the system was bound to be beyond this world's understanding.
But...
With the system's automatic cultivation, sooner or later he would reach that kind of realm anyway.
So even if it granted the potential to set foot in the Emperor Realm, it was not especially useful to him.
And since it only worked on martial artists, he could not feed it to Bai Ze either.
Give it to Su Linyu? But her talent was already more than sufficient. She did not need it for now.
Right. Not long after the graduation assessment, it would be his father's birthday. He could give it to his father then.
In his previous life, his father, Jiang Zhentian, had often lamented that he could not reach a realm above Martial God. In this life, he would let him catch a glimpse of it.
Besides, he also had a regret of his own. On his father's fiftieth birthday, because Lin Wan had broken up with him, he had been acting like his world was ending and had never gone.
Although Jiang Zhentian had always hated that he failed to live up to expectations and felt he was an embarrassment, he had actually taken good care of him in secret.
Uncle Feng, a Seventh Realm Martial King, had been arranged by him, and in order to help him break through to the Third Realm, he had even taken out the "Jade Nectar" meant for breaking beyond Martial God.
He would give this Heaven-Seizing Creation Pill to him.
If his father could break beyond Martial God, then the Jiang family's status would become impossible to shake.
And he himself would be able to take it even easier.
Now that would be perfect.
Just as Jiang Yichen was thinking this, he suddenly felt his clothes growing damp. He lowered his head and saw that while Su Linyu was feeling his abdominal muscles, a line of drool had slipped from the corner of her mouth onto his shirt. This girl had gone lovestruck again!
The dignified daughter of the Su family looked at him as though she had never seen a man before. He truly had no idea what to say.
Jiang Yichen reached out and pinched Su Linyu's soft fair cheek, then took out a tissue. "Wipe your drool."
Su Linyu's eyes instantly cleared. She subconsciously touched the corner of her mouth, took the tissue, and wiped it awkwardly.
Then she pulled out her phone, took a picture of her left hand, and added a note to her calendar.
"Ahhh! This hand touched Brother Yichen's abs today. I am not washing it for a whole week."
Jiang Yichen: (☉_☉)
After saving the note, Su Linyu picked up her chopsticks and placed a whole pile of dishes into his bowl.
"Brother Yichen, eat. Do you want me to feed you?" Su Linyu held her bowl and lifted a piece of red shrimp, her eyes full of anticipation.
Jiang Yichen shook his head. "How old am I? Why would I still need you to feed me?"
Even so, he still took the shrimp from her chopsticks with his own and put it into his mouth.
A faint trace of disappointment flashed through Su Linyu's eyes. She glanced back at Lin Wan, who was sitting not far away, fuming.
Brother Yichen feeding me, hugging me... it really was all just to make Lin Wan angry.
Su Linyu lost some of her appetite and poked at the rice in her bowl with her chopsticks. As she watched Brother Yichen eating, her gaze suddenly stopped on the chopsticks in his hand.
Wait...
Just now, Brother Yichen used those same chopsticks to feed me, didn't he!
Which means... Brother Yichen and I just indirectly kissed!!!
The disappointment in Su Linyu's heart vanished in an instant.
"Brother Yichen! Wait a second!!"
Jiang Yichen paused mid-motion and looked at her in confusion.
Su Linyu hurriedly took out her phone, snapped a picture of the chopsticks, and posted it to her Moments.
Caption: Ahhh! Brother Yichen and I ate with the same pair of chopsticks. We indirectly kissed. I'm so happy~
"Brother Yichen, can I post it?" Su Linyu asked, her eyes pleading.
Jiang Yichen pressed a hand to his forehead and nodded.
"Thank you, Brother Yichen. You're really so good to me." Su Linyu jumped up excitedly and posted it.
In less than a minute, the comments section exploded, full of heartbreak stickers.
Jiang Yichen smiled helplessly and went back to eating.
Su Linyu also put away her phone and kept paying close attention to every little thing he did. The moment he seemed thirsty, she ran to buy him water. When he had no more dishes, she immediately moved food from her side to his.
Jiang Yichen felt as though he was about to be spoiled rotten by Su Linyu.
"Boys, the written exam results are out! Hurry up and check!"
Someone suddenly shouted in the cafeteria.
In an instant, every student grabbed their phones and logged onto the school's website.
Su Linyu moved the fastest and was the first to enter the site.
She did not bother checking who ranked first. Instead, she searched Jiang Yichen's name directly.
"Rank 29999, Jiang Yichen, total score 420, exam time used 29.35, subject scores: 60, 60, 69, ..."
!!!
When Su Linyu saw Jiang Yichen's passing result, a look of surprise appeared on her face.
But when she saw the exam time of 29.35 minutes, and how the seven subjects had all been deliberately pinned right at the passing line, she was completely dumbfounded. She turned to stare at Jiang Yichen.
Brother Yichen... was controlling his score?!