After the Breakup I Took It Easy and Became Invincible

Chapter 61. The Fiancée Who Prepared a Gift for Herself

[ Ding! Congratulations, Host, for making a slacker choice. You have been rewarded with one “Surprise Blind Box.” Would you like to open it? ]

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Su Linyu had prepared a gift for herself, and now there was even a system prompt to go with it. Was this really okay?

Jiang Yichen did not understand, but he respected it.

Ah! This girl must have known long ago that he would not prepare a gift, so she had done this to keep him from being embarrassed.

Pure. Too damn pure. She was an even greater warrior of pure love than he had been in his previous life!

Jiang Yichen’s eyes trembled as he looked at Su Linyu holding the bouquet, her smile radiant beyond compare, and a trace of guilt rose in his heart.

“Brother Yichen, how did you know I like peonies?”

Su Linyu held the flowers in both hands and leaned in to smell them, delighted beyond measure.

Then she looked at the open necklace box in her hand, and her eyes instantly lit up. “Wow! The necklace is so beautiful. Did you pick it out specially for me, Brother Yichen? I’m so happy.”

“Brother Yichen, can you help me put it on?” Su Linyu picked up the necklace and looked at him, her eyes full of anticipation.

Jiang Yichen froze for quite a while before slowly reaching out to take the silver-white necklace set with a shimmering sapphire-blue gem from Su Linyu’s hand. He unclasped it and wrapped his hands around the back of her neck.

Su Linyu’s cheeks turned pink. She bit her lower lip, unable to hide her excitement. Feeling the warm breath Brother Yichen exhaled, her heart began to pound like a startled deer.

Ahhh! Today was simply one of the greatest moments of her life. Brother Yichen had actually taken the initiative to put a necklace on her.

A week ago, Brother Yichen had still been treating her with cold indifference. Now, she felt as though she were living in a dream.

“All done.” Jiang Yichen finished and looked over the dazed, smiling Su Linyu with a faint smile. The necklace suited her perfectly.

Too bad he had not been the one who prepared it for her.

Sigh!

“System, open the Surprise Blind Box,” he thought to himself. He could not let Su Linyu keep giving and giving forever. Otherwise, what would make him any different from Lin Wan?

[ Ding! Opening the Surprise Blind Box. The recipient’s most cherished wish is now being fulfilled... ]

A few seconds later, Jiang Yichen frowned. Why was there no reaction at all?

The last time, at the graduation ceremony, the Surprise Blind Box had created a scene that had stunned the entire audience. But this time...

Hm?

Suddenly, it felt as though someone had pushed him from behind. Jiang Yichen’s arms moved with complete naturalness as he embraced the absentminded Su Linyu and whispered in her ear,

“My dear, do you like the gift I gave you?” he asked instinctively, his breath brushing against her ear.

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No! System, what the hell kind of surprise is this?

But when Su Linyu heard those words, her mind shut down on the spot, and disbelief flooded her face.

Ahhh! She reached out and pounded the wall beside her over and over. This was the first time Brother Yichen had ever addressed her like that.

Something she had only dared imagine in her dreams had now become reality. Overwhelmed with excitement, she said, “I like it! I like it so, so much.”

“I’m so happy. From now on, I’ll treat Brother Yichen twice as well as before... no! A thousand times, ten thousand times better.”

“...” The corner of Jiang Yichen’s mouth twitched. Now he understood.

To Su Linyu, his attitude was the best gift of all.

He slowly released her and looked at her shy expression. It was hard to imagine how she had become like this.

Was it because of her controlling father, Su Zhan?

Back in high school, Su Linyu had often tried to please him, but she had never gone this far. Could it be because of the way he had neglected her for four years?

Jiang Yichen could not make sense of it. He had not been able to understand it in his previous life either.

Forget it. He would come to understand her little by little in the future.

“Brother Yichen, hurry and look at the surprise I prepared for you. I spent the whole night researching it and picked the most suitable one.”

Holding the bouquet, Su Linyu smiled sweetly, a smile so soft and beautiful it seemed as though it could melt a person’s heart.

Jiang Yichen gave a slight nod and cut open the exquisitely wrapped cardboard box, which stood close to two meters tall.

Inside was not something else, but precisely the top-tier gaming pod he had asked Uncle Feng to buy last night. The specifications were even higher than the ones he had described.

“Did you install surveillance cameras in my house? How did you know I wanted to buy a gaming pod?”

“I have the contact information for everyone in this villa. I asked Uncle Feng, and he told me.”

Su Linyu grinned and explained, “But do not worry, Brother Yichen. I only have their phone numbers. On V, you are the only person I chat with.”

She opened her chat app to show him. He was pinned at the top, marked as special attention, and the only person she talked to.

Jiang Yichen could not help freezing for a moment. He glanced at the dark circles beneath Su Linyu’s eyes.

She did not even play games. Back in high school, just so she would have something in common with him, she had cleared every game he played and then asked him to queue up with her.

And now, she had stayed up the entire night just to buy the gaming pod best suited for him?

Looking at the pinned chat and the special-attention mark on her phone, he suddenly felt an overwhelming sense of security from this absurdly reassuring sight.

In his previous life, Lin Wan had never let him look at her phone. On the rare occasions he had secretly glanced at it, he had seen flirtatious messages between her and Ye Chengyu from the Student Union, and his heart had clenched painfully.

That kind of anxious insecurity was truly unbearable.

“Thanks. Then let’s spend today properly playing games. I haven’t played in four years.”

A trace of nostalgia surfaced in Jiang Yichen’s heart. Back in high school, after a dull day of cultivation, the thing that excited him most was queueing up with Tang Long and Chu Xingchen to play Glory of Warriors.

But after entering university, even sneaking in two matches would earn him a lecture from Lin Wan. She said that people who played games had no future and could never give her the life she wanted.

Little by little, he stopped playing.

Now that he had chosen to slack off, he might as well do whatever felt comfortable.

Jiang Yichen grabbed Su Linyu’s hand and carried the gaming pod into the villa’s specially built esports area.

The top-tier gaming pod was spacious and supported two-player queueing. Its nutritional circulation system was also extremely complete, so even if they played for an entire day, they would not go hungry.

“Brother Yichen, what game are we playing? I was afraid you would not like what I chose, so I downloaded every hugely popular game on the market.”

“Delta.”

“Okay, okay~ I’ll play Stinger and keep you safe.” Su Linyu smiled sweetly.

Jiang Yichen nodded. Just as he was about to put on the headset, the sound of knocking came from the door.

“Come in!”

Uncle Feng, dressed in a neat suit and leather shoes, walked in with a composed expression and dignified bearing.

“Uncle Feng, what is it?”

Uncle Feng hesitated for a moment and looked at the gaming pod beside them, sighing inwardly.

They had already reached a critical period in the struggle over the heir position, yet the young master still had the mind to play games. Sigh!

“Young Master, the family held a clan meeting last night to select the heir. Your status as an heir has been temporarily retained, but...”

This heir business again. If his parents were not worried, he would not want it at all.

He already had the system. The longer he slacked off, the stronger he became, not to mention the various gift packs.

If he kept slacking off long enough, he could lie there until he became a Martial God, and the resources from the rewards alone would be enough to build several Jiang families.

What was the point of fighting over the heir position? It was exhausting and thankless.

Jiang Yichen said blandly, “But what?”

“But... the final decision was that you and Jiang Feng will compete one month from now in the Huaxia Team League. Whoever wins the championship will become the Jiang family’s heir,” Uncle Feng explained.

Jiang Yichen raised an eyebrow. So that brat Jiang Feng really thought he could not compete without the Yanhuang Team?

Naive!

“When the time comes, things will work themselves out. We’ll know the result when the league starts. I’m going to play games first.”

“Huh?”

Uncle Feng froze. “Young Master, the Master has investigated it. Jiang Feng has taken in your Yanhuang Team, and he also poached some members from the two powerhouse teams, Thunder Team and Phoenix Team, with high salaries.

“Young Master, you really should take this seriously. Spend this month preparing well for the league. Do not let the Master and Madam worry.”

Poaching people?

Jiang Yichen narrowed his eyes slightly. In the last league, Thunder Team and Phoenix Team had cleared obstacles for the Yanhuang Team so they could win the championship, and most of the resources had been funneled toward Yanhuang.

Quite a few members of Thunder Team and Phoenix Team had been very dissatisfied with him as their boss.

Now that Jiang Feng was poaching them with high salaries, it was only natural that he would succeed every time.

So was he supposed to persuade them to come back? But if he did not, what about the league...?

Just then, the system’s voice rang out.

[ Ding! Slacker choice triggered... ]