Regarding “Fusion,” Xu Yinsheng had only learned a smattering: the Succubus Eye, which entices and seduces, subtly making the other person believe you.
According to his future self, the more characters she had transformed into, the more “fusion materials” she could choose from, and then… the more erotic games she could play with Zhao Yicheng in bed.
Xu Yinsheng thought of this and inwardly scoffed at his future self.
To possess such a superpower and then to underutilize it for erotic games!
He gently brushed the foam off the tea with the lid.
Xu Yinsheng spoke in an incredibly calm voice.
“Shimo, aren’t you in Tianlin City? How did you end up here?”
“It’s winter break, I’m out traveling,” Jiang Shimo said with a smile.
“That’s why I came to rely on you, Cousin. I want to stay in your villa for a few days and tour Binhai City. I heard there’s a very famous online celebrity hot spring here.”
“Cousin, you wouldn’t mind, would you?”
“I don’t mind,” Xu Yinsheng shook his head, taking a sip of tea.
“But my partner might mind a bit.”
It was a joke.
Given his daily gender transformations, inviting someone else to stay at his villa would be pure madness, just asking for trouble.
He had even rejected Zhao Yicheng’s earlier suggestion to stay for a few days, using the excuse of needing personal space with “Xu Ying.”
Jiang Shimo wasn’t angry at the rejection.
Instead, her star-like eyes sparkled, and she leaned forward slightly, asking curiously, “Cousin, are you in a relationship?”
“Yes,” Xu Yinsheng casually opened his phone, tapped on the photo album, and handed it to her.
Jiang Shimo took the phone and gasped in surprise, her small eyes gleaming with envy.
“Wow, Cousin found such a handsome boyfriend!”
The young girl’s admiring gaze was very gratifying to Xu Yinsheng, as if he had returned to those happy times when he would embrace a pretty young girl in a bar and shout, “Tonight’s bill is on Young Master Xu!”
“Yes.”
He instinctively nodded, but then instantly felt something was off.
“Huh? What did you say?”
“Your boyfriend, Cousin,” Jiang Shimo said, with innocent eyes, holding the photo from the phone album as if she had seen the protagonist of a real-world novel.
Her eyes sparkled with curiosity.
“Don’t worry, Cousin, I won’t tell Auntie and Uncle.”
Saying this, she shook the phone showing the photo.
The ultra-high-definition screen clearly displayed a couple: a handsome young man embracing a languid girl in pajamas, her long hair draped over her shoulders, her eyes hazy with sleep, leaning sweetly in the young man’s arms.
Xu Yinsheng’s face went dark.
This was a photo he and Zhao Yicheng took at the hot spring hotel.
He remembered it being the next morning; he hadn’t even woken up yet when Zhao Yicheng picked him up, saying it was a free activity for couples’ rooms, no charge, purely a freebie.
“Cousin, are you a 1 or a 0?”
Jiang Shimo leaned in, her eyes flashing with excitement, asking as she looked at the phone screen in his hand.
“Shipping everything will only hurt you.”
“…Cough, cough, this is your cousin’s brother.”
He subtly pulled back the phone, tapped delete, slid his finger, found another picture, and tapped it.
“This is the one.”
In the phone’s album was a woman in sportswear, beautifully dressed, like a mythical succubus existing only in the night, exuding a beautiful yet deadly aura.
“Is that cousin-in-law?”
Jiang Shimo looked at the photo of the woman with a distinctly wicked, almost fey aura, then at her own cousin, who seemed frail and effeminate.
“Bad woman at a glance.”
Cousin, that’s a bad woman.
She clearly wants your money.
Don’t let her trick you out of both your wealth and your heart!
Bad woman impression increased by one.
“Yes, Xu Ying, my girlfriend.”
Xu Yinsheng put his phone down.
“She’s not home today; she went shopping with her sisters again.”
“When I have time, I’ll let her meet you.”
“She doesn’t like strangers in the house,” Xu Yinsheng said, feigning helplessness, subtly rejecting her request to stay.
“I can recommend a few five-star hotels for you instead.”
Bad woman impression increased by 10086.
Jiang Shimo puffed out her cheeks like an angry pufferfish.
“Hmph, fine then. If I have to stay out, I’ll stay out.”
Xu Yinsheng looked at the incredibly cute loli in front of him, feeling an itch to poke her head.
He placed a card on the table and pushed it towards her.
“I’ll cover your travel expenses in Binhai City, consider it my compensation, Cousin.”
In the circle of young wastrels, even though his IQ wasn’t the highest, nor his EQ, why did he manage to charm the most attractive and highest-quality ladies?
Why else?
Because he had money!
Money could solve most of the world’s problems.
Like when a lady asks five thousand for a drink.
“Then thank you, Cousin.”
Jiang Shimo took the card and smiled sweetly at him, muttering complainingly, “It’s just that my favorite idol is having a concert soon, and one ticket has been scalped up to 200,000. Mom called me a gullible fool and limited my card when I wanted to go before.”
That certainly is a gullible fool.
Xu Yinsheng thought to himself.
Flashy but impractical, effeminate, all based on marketing and hype.
I really don’t know who still falls for this stuff.
He had a wild friend whose family business was in the entertainment industry, and he once complained that concerts these days were so bad even dogs wouldn’t watch them.
But words spoken were like water poured outāa promise was a promise, and he couldn’t go back on his word.
Although Xu Yinsheng felt a bitter taste, he couldn’t take back the offer.
***
After seeing the loli girl Jiang Shimo off, Xu Yinsheng played games for a few days.
Seeing his rank drop by another three stars, he put down his phone and listlessly began cleaning the villa.
Actually, a cleaning lady came to the villa every week, but Xu Yinsheng was just too bored, so he had to find something to do.
Sweeping, mopping, wiping tables and chairsāhe wasn’t very skilled at these chores, but he insisted on doing them alone.
“What’s this?”
Xu Yinsheng looked at a small black object, about the size of a coin, in his palm.
It had fallen from the chandelier while he was cleaning the bedroom.
If he hadn’t been mopping the floor at the time, he might have accidentally stepped on it and crushed it.
Upon closer inspection, it somewhat resembled a camera, yet it was far too tiny, seemingly capable of being crushed with just a little pressure from his hand.
His phone in his pocket suddenly vibrated, drawing his attention.
Xu Yinsheng pulled out his phone.
It was Zhao Yicheng calling himāno, calling “Xu Ying.”
The phone had dual SIM cards; one was Xu Yinsheng’s, and the other was Zhao Yicheng’s reward to “little kitty” after that “little game.”
He answered the call.
On the other end was an extremely gentle male voice, completely unlike the sinister, axe-wielding madman from last time.
“Xu Ying, let me treat you to dinner.”
Camera?!?!