GRMFBS CH193

Zhan Yunkai was extremely disappointed, and his enthusiasm for going home instantly waned.

If his wife wasn’t home, what difference did it make whether he went back or not? Forget it, he wouldn’t go back; he’d continue working overtime.

Zhan Yunkai decided to ask Approaching Science if Monster Doctor had found any new Candle Dragon Remnant Shadows to snatch.

Zhan Suiru also saw the messages in the group chat and silently lit a candle for her dad.

She sat cross-legged on the sofa, a stray hair falling over her forehead. Simulated sunlight shone in from the simulated window, faithfully reflecting the time outside.

It was already morning. She had unknowingly pulled an all-nighter again.

Xiao Ran stood to her front right, bringing her breakfast and condemning her recent frequent all-nighters with disapproving eyes.

Another “Zhan Suiru” puppet stood to her right. This was the result of her recent all-nighters.

“Zhan Suiru” also yawned: “I want to catch up on my beauty sleep.”

Zhan Suiru blinked: “Not yet. In two days, you have to go see our little brother.”

She had tried her best to make this puppet look exactly like her, but only by passing the family test would it be considered a success.

Mom and Dad weren’t home recently, and her socially anxious brother wouldn’t make things difficult for it, so she had to find Yan Yan.

Yan Yan was very sharp. If it could deceive Yan Yan, it would surely deceive the rest of the family.

Zhan Suiru checked the puppet one last time, stretched, and messaged her brother asking when he was free.

On the other side, yesterday, Zhan Jinli finished beating up the Tie Lao Ghost King, who didn’t fight back.

The Tie Lao Ghost King didn’t dare to fight back. Getting beaten up without fighting back would be the end of it; otherwise, if Senior Lin Yuan used his divine power of “fortune and misfortune come together,” he wouldn’t be able to bear it.

How could he be so busy that he forgot to change the puppet’s office?!

Zhan Jinli cracked his wrists and let the sensible Tie Lao Ghost King go: “That puppet…”

He suddenly received a message from the Five Ghosts. He had arranged for these five little ghosts to watch the shop, and on the other hand, to look after his family. The Five Ghosts wouldn’t contact him recklessly unless there was an emergency.

Zhan Jinli stopped and started reading the message.

His younger brother went to his cake shop and took a pile of bread and cakes he made???

What did his brother take these for? He couldn’t eat anything this sweet.

Zhan Jinli still remembered the pained expression on his brother’s face when he accidentally ate a piece of bread he made at home last time.

Zhan Jinli pondered for a long time but couldn’t figure out why Zhan Yan took so much bread. He was very worried and had no mood to chat with the Tie Lao Ghost King anymore.

“Handle it yourself; I have something to do and am leaving first.”

Zhan Jinli left after speaking; it was obvious he was in a hurry.

Tie Lao Ghost King: What news is so important? Why didn’t such important news come earlier? He could have taken one less beating.

Tie Lao Ghost King looked around. The “Lin Yuan” puppet was still bound by ghost energy. After watching the whole chaotic scene, it praised: “As expected of this Seat! Even this Seat’s follower and imitator is so strong!”

Tie Lao Ghost King: …This thing needs adjustment.

He couldn’t bear to destroy it. Such a puppet with high intelligence and strength wasn’t cheap.

Wait until he found Artisan to help him change the puppet’s personality settings, then change its appearance, and continue to make it work.

Oh right, where was that cat demon?

Tie Lao Ghost King found the curled-up cat demon ghost in the corner furthest from his office.

The cat demon ghost was helpless. He knew he saw something he shouldn’t have, but he didn’t want to! He wanted to run, hide far away. He didn’t even want this month’s salary.

But this hall was Tie Lao Ghost King’s magical artifact. If Tie Lao Ghost King didn’t open it, he couldn’t run out!

He could only watch helplessly as Lord Tie Lao was beaten up by Lord Lin Yuan.

Even more despairing was that he was the only one there; that puppet didn’t count.

Tie Lao pulled him out. The shivering cat demon looked at him pitifully: “Meow…”

Tie Lao indeed didn’t want to keep this cat demon ghost who saw his dark history, so he proposed a suggestion to the cat demon ghost: “Do you want to reincarnate? You’ve contributed a lot during this time; I can raise your reincarnation place by a level.”

After reincarnation cleansing, the cat demon wouldn’t remember anything, hey hey!

The cat demon ghost’s eyes lit up, and he started nodding vigorously.

Yes, yes!

He didn’t want to become a ghost cultivator. It was hard for a demon cultivator to become a ghost cultivator. His ultimate goal of working hard was to reincarnate well and cultivate again!

“Lord Tie Lao, can I remember my past life? I don’t want memories of the underworld, just a little bit about cultivation when I was alive, okay?”

Tie Lao Ghost King satisfied the cat demon ghost’s small wish, took out the Ghost King Seal, stamped him, and sent him into the Minghe for reincarnation.

After sending off the cat demon ghost, Tie Lao Ghost King put his office door back on and worried about the “Lin Yuan” puppet.

Sigh, now Artisan wasn’t accepting messages or tasks. When could this puppet be adjusted? Better not let it appear before adjustment. Hope Senior Lin Yuan calms down soon and comes back to help him work…

Senior Lin Yuan had already rushed back to his cake shop via the Yin Road.

He had to see what was going on with his own eyes.

The five little ghosts scrambled to recount what happened to him, interspersed with a lot of “It was all his idea!”, “I tried to stop him!”, “They were all involved!” and other words.

Zhan Jinli glanced at them.

The five little ghosts shut up instantly and shrank obediently.

Lord Lin Yuan’s aura is so strong! Is the plot of the counterattack return officially starting?

Zhan Jinli opened the freezer.

The bread he had stocked before leaving was more than half empty.

…Did his brother really take all this? Even if he ate bread for three meals a day, it would take days to finish, right?!

Zhan Jinli took out his phone.

Zhan Jinli: “Why did you take so much bread?”

Zhan Yan: “To prank classmates.”

“I lost a game of Truth or Dare with them, and they asked me what was the scariest thing I’ve ever eaten.”

“I said it was the bread you made, sweet enough to explode.”

“They insisted on not believing me.”

“Brother, can you make a concentrated version next time? Making it into sugar balls or small cookies is fine too.”

Zhan Jinli stumbled over this request.

He had never heard such a request!

Zhan Jinli paused for a long while before slowly typing “Okay.”

Fine. Pranking classmates it is. As long as it wasn’t his brother changing his taste and starting to devour his bread like crazy.

Zhan Yan breathed a sigh of relief when he saw his brother’s reply.

Very good. As long as his brother’s logistical support kept up, he could continue to flip through gossip feed frantically!

Hmm, his sister wanted to visit him. He hadn’t seen his sister for months. This time, he should seize the opportunity to contact her more. Maybe he could find relevant keywords and uncover more things his sister did using the Red Crystal vest. What was her relationship with Artisan? Why did Artisan give the apocalyptic world fragment to his sister? Hope Artisan’s trouble wouldn’t implicate his sister…

Ah, Dad also messaged him, using the Demon King vest. Was he not planning to go home since Mom wasn’t there?

Zhan Yan kneaded bread balls, stuffing them while searching for various gossip feed.

Helping Deep Shadow check Monster Doctor, cooperating with the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau to check Chronicle, helping Dad find Candle Dragon Remnant Shadows, and most importantly, Artisan.

So busy, so busy. Continue stuffing bread balls.

Zhan Yan stuffed bread balls for two days straight and didn’t notice his WeChat inbox was exploded by his ordinary social circle until Bao Qingshan knocked on his door.

“Zhan Yan, are you hungry? Come out and eat something?”

Zhan Yan was engrossed in gossip feed: “You guys eat, I’m not hungry.”

Bao Qingshan managed to drag him out after much persuasion. Zhan Yan remembered, oh right, they agreed before that he would cook and the others would buy groceries and wash dishes. He hadn’t done anything for two and a half days.

Zhan Yan turned off the Gossip System and walked out of the room to find Mi Man there too. Several lunch boxes were on the table, all freshly packed. There were also some fruits and yogurt.

[Mi Man, Bao Qingshan, Chu Chengcheng, and Cheng Yichu are very worried about your condition. After discussion, they think you might be eating sweets frantically to relieve stress due to too much pressure from the online storm.]

Mi Man greeted him: “Come help me taste, see if I’ve learned cooking!”

Chu Chengcheng: “Want an apple? I just bought them, very sweet.”

Cheng Yichu: “And yogurt, this is my favorite brand.”

Zhan Yan felt a bit sour in his heart.

Sob sob sob, his teachers and classmates were so nice!

But he really couldn’t eat anymore!

He just finished showing off a lot of bread balls…

And what was that online storm?

Everyone’s kindness couldn’t be let down. Zhan Yan reluctantly ate a little more.

“I, burp, thank you guys, burp. But I really, burp, really can’t eat, burp, anymore.”

Everyone hurriedly persuaded him.

Stop eating, stop eating, or you’ll burst.

Zhan Yan checked his message box and gossip feed to find out what happened again.

It was still about that game advertisement. The game was about to go online, and the official account released some news about the game content every day. Seeing their little boss’s popularity was online, the person in charge took the opportunity to announce the character setting played by the little boss.

Not a text version, but an animation. Qi Ye personally took charge when she had time. With the skills of a network boss and her orthodox artistic aesthetic, this ten-minute animation was exquisite enough to be called art. Although the plot was simple, it was moving enough.

What a “beautiful, strong, and miserable” character who appeared sunny and cheerful on the surface but was actually black-bellied and loved pranks.

This animation went viral, dragging Zhan Yan, whose popularity hadn’t gone down yet, along with it.

Along with the popularity came various evaluations and speculations.

His sister was busy recently and couldn’t clear all malicious messages as cleanly as before.

So it was because of this. Sigh, online news wasn’t important. Just treat it as adding some “information concealment points” for him.

Zhan Yan managed to gloss over the bread-eating matter, but he couldn’t fool Old Bao—he felt Zhan Yan must still be secretly stuffing sweet buns.

Bao Qingshan was very worried, looking like he wanted to say something but stopped every day. Zhan Yan couldn’t do anything about their Kusong stream “spiritual sense,” so he had to pretend not to see.

Two days later, his sister came to see him.

Zhan Yan snapped out of the gossip feed and stood at that intersection again.

Bright sunlight shone on the road surface, a few sparrows chirped on the utility pole, and a yellow dog ran past the roadside.

Following Ghost King Lin Yuan and Tianshi, this intersection was about to welcome Red Crystal!

Ah, what a magical intersection!

Zhan Yan continued to add voice-over for himself in his heart.

His sister’s car stopped beside him. She pushed open the passenger door and beckoned him: “Get in.”

Zhan Yan got in the car and gave directions to his sister.

He had refreshed so many melons these past few days that his brain felt a bit mushy.

This was the first time he met his sister after stripping her vest, but he was now a knowledgeable person; his sister dropping a vest could no longer excite him.

The route Zhan Yan pointed out passed the veterinary station.

A yellow dog stood at the entrance of the veterinary station, barking and cursing inside.

His sister drove and glanced over there: “Is that the veterinary station where you work? What’s wrong with that dog?”

Zhan Yan didn’t even need to look; he recognized the dog by its familiar cursing.

“Yes. That dog was neutered at the veterinary station a while ago. After recovering, it comes over to curse every day. Just ignore it.”

The veterinarian who performed the surgery and Zhan Yan both tried to coax this dog. The veterinarian gave it a lot of delicious food, but it refused to accept.

Zhan Yan asked, and the big yellow dog said he had just chased a beautiful little female dog, but the vet’s knife cut off his happy life.

This hatred was immense; how could a mere few cans of food cancel it out?

Zhan Yan negotiated with it: cursing was fine, just don’t bite.

Zhan Yan guided his sister back to his lodging to rest—his sister brought him a pile of reserve food in the car, which had to be put in the fridge first.

“Sis, sit first; I’ll get you something to eat.” Zhan Yan ran happily to wash fruits for his sister.

Bao Qingshan was also in the rental today. He came out to say hello and saw Zhan Yan’s sister opening the fridge, wanting to stuff the things she brought into it.

But after opening the fridge, she stood there motionless for a long time.

Zhan Suiru saw the situation inside the fridge remotely through the camera on the puppet. It was piled with many packages of bread and pastries that looked very familiar.

Weren’t these the bread from her brother’s bakery? Why were there so many here with Yan Yan? Did her brother send them when he came last time? Was his brain broken?

Zhan Suiru controlled the puppet to open a bag of bread and sniff. Ah, this extremely sweet smell was indeed her brother’s Artisanship!

Zhan Yan was still washing fruits by the sink, the sound of water covering the noise over here.

Bao Qingshan took the opportunity while Zhan Yan went to wash fruits to tattle: “He has been eating these super sweet things recently, several bags of sweet bread a day.”

Zhan Suiru: …Zhan Jinli, how did you lead Yan Yan’s taste astray?!

Zhan Suiru ignored the puppet for now, opened her phone, and poked her brother frantically.

Look at what you’ve done!

Zhan Jinli: “?”

Zhan Suiru made the puppet take photos of the piles of bread in the fridge and sent them to Zhan Jinli.

Zhan Suiru: “His classmate said he didn’t even eat meals before, eating your bread three times a day.”

Zhan Jinli was shocked.

Zhan Jinli: “How is that possible?”

“How could he eat it when it’s so sweet?”

“Before, he would make a pain mask just eating a slice of the normal sugar version.”

“And he told me before that he took these to prank his classmates.”

Zhan Suiru: “So you knew Yan Yan took a pile of bread and cakes from you long ago?”

“Why didn’t you say anything?”

Zhan Jinli: “He said he wasn’t eating them.”

“Could you have misunderstood?”

Zhan Suiru: “…”

“You believed him just because he said so?”

“Yan Yan can lie.”

“He ate them all. Several of his classmates saw it.”

Zhan Jinli was even more shocked.

The former Ghost King finally realized that his simple-natured brother could actually talk nonsense!

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