『He Wanying, loyalty, 86!』
After signing the Contract, when Lu Sheng looked at He Wanying’s panel, a new loyalty panel appeared.
As the loyalty panel appeared, information about how loyalty was judged automatically surfaced in Lu Sheng’s mind.
Loyalty ranged from 0–100.
Below 50 meant harboring a second heart, 50–60 meant a slight favor, and 60–70 meant initial trust.
At 70–80, as long as he did not order the other party to do something that violated her own principles or harmed her own interests, she would agree without hesitation.
At 80–90, it meant the other party would prioritize his orders first and would complete them even at the cost of part of her own interests, and as long as there were no major upheavals, loyalty within this range would almost never drop.
As for above 90, that meant complete trust, and even if he told the target to die, the target would not even frown.
So did that mean that as long as it reached 90, he could do whatever he wanted?
Ahem, Lu Sheng shook off his wild thoughts. He definitely had not harbored any bad intentions just now; it was just that, as someone who had always had excellent grades, he suddenly really wanted to raise this loyalty to above 90.
However, he had not expected that right after signing the Contract with He Wanying, her loyalty to him would already be as high as 86.
That was enough to show just how fervently He Wanying longed to become stronger in her heart.
Lu Sheng muttered in his heart.
Looking at the worshipful face of He Wanying, who was staring at him, Lu Sheng pointed at the frost around them that was slowly melting.
“The rest of this, you can handle yourself, right?”
“I can!” He Wanying nodded solemnly. “Later I’ll go resign, and from now on I’ll focus on being your maid.”
As she said this, He Wanying’s face subconsciously flushed bright red again.
Even though she had already signed a master-servant Contract, she was, after all, a girl who had received many years of higher education in modern society.
Though because of her family situation and her own personality she always seemed very cold, she would occasionally read some ancient romance novels, and whenever she thought of the master-and-servant plots in those stories, her face could not help but burn.
“Mm.”
“Tomorrow is the school’s newcomer secret realm trial, and we’ll team up, just the two of us.”
Lu Sheng did not care about He Wanying’s little thoughts. After giving his instructions, before He Wanying could recover, he took the initiative to leave the massage room.
“If I don’t head back, my big sister will beat me up too!”
Lu Sheng muttered in his heart. Just like Zhang Dapao, he was also required to go home early every day.
If it had not been in order to make He Wanying willingly become his servant today, he would have left long ago.
There had been no need to extend the massage and then get the uniform massage again; he was just a newly awakened class holder after all. 288+288+300, for a total of 876 yuan, was almost all the savings he had accumulated over his 3 years in high school.
“Big campus belle He, with her SSS-rank class! I hope she doesn’t let me down…”
Lu Sheng took one last look at the massage parlor, felt that the money he had spent on this massage trip was truly worth every penny, then turned around and left.
However, what neither Lu Sheng nor He Wanying knew was…
In the capital of Great Xia, several thousand kilometers away, in a government building guarded by heavy troops, inside the conference room on the top floor…
Boom!
A multicolored pillar of light shot up into the sky from within the conference room, violently tearing through the silent night.
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
Red alarms blared one after another, and countless researchers inside the building sprang into action.
“It has appeared, it has appeared!”
The white-haired old man suddenly pushed open the conference room door. He clutched several freshly printed energy charts in his hand, his cloudy eyes fixed on the violently flickering seven-colored light spot on the sand table, and his voice trembled slightly with excitement.
“The prophecy… has come true! Location… Jiangnan Province… the energy source is locking on… a city in the southeastern part of Jiangnan Province… Lanjiang City! Quickly! Highest-priority alert, notify the High Office of the Profession Administration Bureau for me!”
“SSS, this is definitely an SSS-rank awakened! Prepare a flying mount for me, I must rush to Lanjiang City immediately!”
The old man’s tone was firm and left no room for doubt as he spoke.
…
The night was as dark as ink, completely swallowing the neon lights in the center of Lanjiang City.
The late-night bus rattled along and dropped Lu Sheng at the terminal station, a suburb on the very edge of Lanjiang City.
After passing through a stretch of cotton fields rustling in the night wind, Lu Sheng finally stopped in front of a somewhat shabby white bungalow.
This was his home, a gradually withering cotton plantation on the far outskirts of Lanjiang City.
The low white bungalow looked especially quiet under the moonlight, and only the room at the very eastern end still had its light on. The window was fogged with a thin layer of moisture in the rapidly cooling night air, and faintly, a vigorous yet deliberately light and cheerful female voice could be heard from inside.
“Thank you, boss 『Li Lintian』, for the sunglasses! Boss, you’re so generous…”
“Yes, yes, yes, yes! Today I’m drawing from the Fire God banner for you. Within 255 pulls I’ll max out the constellations on your designated 4-star character; however many extra pulls it takes to max them, I’ll top up that many pulls for you! With the pity, you definitely won’t lose out!”
“What? You want to see little Sheng?! Him, huh, he went out to celebrate with his friends after awakening today and hasn’t come back yet…”
Hearing sister Lu Xueyao’s voice, a trace of warmth rose in Lu Sheng’s heart, tinged with a bit of sourness.
But as soon as sister’s next words came out, the emotions he had just been brewing inside instantly vanished, replaced by a head full of black lines.
“What is it? Anqi baby, have you taken a fancy to my little brother? That won’t do. I picked him up by the roadside when I was little, and it wasn’t easy to raise him this big! I’m planning to keep him as my little husband raised from childhood! My brother and I have a very good relationship! If you want him… you’ll have to pay extra!”
“And he’s just 18 this year, a freshly graduated pure boy from high school. Do you have any idea how high his value is?”
This good sister of his kept shouting all day about tying him up and selling him to the rich ladies in her streaming room as a warm-bed little puppy, so she could hug their thighs and live a prosperous life!
When he pushed open the front door, a familiar smell, a mix of instant noodles and old book pages, rushed to greet him.
The living room was small and old, with clearly visible cracks on the walls, but it was tidied up to be especially neat and clean.
On the wall hung a photo of his parents in the cotton plantation, holding Lu Xueyao by the hand and him in their arms, their smiles radiant at harvest time.
The cotton fields in the photo stretched endlessly like clusters of white clouds, dazzlingly white, forming a harsh contrast with the sparse, yellowing cotton stalks outside the window under the moonlight now.
Then Lu Sheng’s gaze fell on the room at the very eastern end. The door was not closed, the room was done entirely in pink, and it was filled with merch from various games he did not even recognize.
Sister Lu Xueyao was sitting at the desk with her back to him, staring intently at the two computer screens set side by side in front of her.
One displayed a game screen, her fingers flying across the keyboard as she ground the Abyss on behalf of a paying client; the other showed the streaming room interface, where the bullet comments were scrolling by rapidly.
Lu Xueyao wore pink cat-ear headphones and was deliberately using a raised, energetic voice to interact with her viewers, completely unaware that her younger brother Lu Sheng had come home.
Seeing his sister still chatting leisurely with the fans in the stream, Lu Sheng’s gaze turned distant as memories from his body’s previous life surfaced in his mind.
When he was still in swaddling clothes, their parents had died in an accident, leaving behind only his barely teenage sister and his own ignorant, childish self.
In her youth, relying on Great Xia’s subsidies and the small amount of savings their parents had left behind, sister had slowly raised him bit by bit until, after she turned 18, she awakened the game streamer class. So she simply became a game streamer at home, making money by power-leveling for clients and livestreaming games.
As for the cotton plantation, due to poor policies in recent years and the fact that their fields were not in a high-yield area, they had suffered losses for several consecutive years.
However, because the cotton plantation was their parents’ hard work and the last bit of longing left to the siblings, sister Lu Xueyao was never willing to let it lie fallow or transfer it. Every year she would rather lose money and insist on hiring people to plant it herself.
Fortunately, relying on her pretty looks and sweet voice, plus the good entertainment value of her stream that brought her some popularity, after deducting daily expenses and the plantation’s costs, she was still able to save about 50–60,000 yuan a year from her streaming income.
After finishing a thrilling and intense battle, Lu Xueyao took a long breath during the loading gap, then once again smiled and began interacting with the friends in her streaming room.
“Anqi baby, my little brother really isn’t as great as you think. Sure, he’s handsome, he does have an 8-pack, he can cook, and he’s very considerate and good at taking care of people, but he sometimes sleepwalks, and he eats a lot; he can down at least 3 big bowls of white rice every meal!”
“When he was little, he even wet his pants, and it was always me, being both his sister and his mom, who changed him!”
“Friends in the stream who keep trolling, if you call me mom again I’ll mute you all~”
Just as Lu Xueyao was putting on a disgusted expression and continuing to slander her own little brother, she soon saw Lu Sheng behind her through the camera.
“Sis, I’m back.”
Lu Sheng spoke.