Chapter 280: The Night Before Departure

Nighttime, in the second-floor living room of the Wang family house.

Everyone was in their pajamas.

Standing beside Zhu Nan, Ning Xueluo was sternly lecturing the younger girls in front of her.

“We are going to the Ancient Martial World with Haoran tomorrow. You must behave and wait here for our return! Understood?”

“Yes!”

The younger girls, Xia Xinyan, Liu Xinyao, Yun Ling’er, Zhou Yingying, Chen Muyu, Lin Qingzhi, Wang Yuxiao, Liu Yunshuang, Su Yan, and Lin Xiaowei, along with maid Zhuque, obediently responded.

Chen Ranni sat on Wang Haoran’s lap.

Wang Haoran looked helplessly at Ning Xueluo, who was still giving instructions on stage.

Considering Gu Yan and Murong Bufan were the protagonists, Gu Yan could never rise up unless he divorced. He was just a constantly mocked little nobody.

So Wang Haoran decided to set off for the Ancient Martial World to check on Murong Bufan.

Using his “Protagonist Location Detection” skill, Wang Haoran found that Murong Bufan was always on the move and never stopped. He wondered what he was busy with.

He planned to go alone and use a portal to bring the others later. But Ning Xueluo and Zhu Nan insisted on going with him. They claimed that since they originally came from the Ancient Martial World, they should lead him there as if returning to their maternal home.

“Actually… I know the way to the Ancient Martial World quite well…”

“And I’ll be back in no more than three days after setting up the spatial teleportation array over there…”

But his words fell on deaf ears as they turned to pack their bags.

Ning Xueluo even made calls to gather everyone for a meeting.

As the eldest sister, she wanted to say a few words publicly. Since she was eager, Wang Haoran let her be.

Bored, he pulled Chen Ranni onto his lap and playfully explored why softness could be so springy.

Being teased this way, Chen Ranni, who had been attentively listening to Ning Xueluo’s speech, wriggled shyly. This only excited Wang Haoran further.

He turned Chen Ranni around to face him. Feeling his growing excitement, she clung closer, both enthralled by each other.

Her sighs of pleasure drew everyone’s attention.

“…”

They only glanced before minding their own business again.

But Chen Ranni couldn’t help her shame and buried her face in Wang Haoran’s chest, too embarrassed to lift it.

***

Night, past ten o’clock.

In his room, Wang Haoran took out three dice.

“Since everyone made an effort to come, I should be proactive.”

“I’ll start with whichever room corresponds to the sum of these dice numbers!”

“If it’s over fourteen, I’ll roll again!”

He numbered each room and threw the dice.

“Hmm… fourteen… that’s Xiao Yuzi…”

“Seems like her relatives haven’t left yet…”

“Though I could teach her new skills now…but…”

As he pondered this, there came a knock at the door.

Before he could respond, someone opened it and walked in.

“Qingzhi?”

“Yes.”

Lin Qingzhi nodded and promptly locked the door behind her.

From experience, she knew that taking the lead meant ensuring privacy.

“Haoran… do you like it?”

She lifted her nightgown, revealing long, slender legs encased in black stockings.

“Very much!”

“In that case, keep looking…”

Lin Qingzhi smiled shyly at his response and then gently sat on his lap.

“Does that please you?”

***

As Lin Qingzhi exercised her leg muscles…

Unaware that someone else was approaching the room stealthily.

“…Damn! Who is it?!”

“Not only did they get here first but also locked the door!”

“Do they want to hog him all to themselves?!”

Yun Ling’er angrily placed her hands on her hips. With Wang Haoran leaving tomorrow for three or four days, she considered tonight special!

But her ambitions were thwarted by a locked door.

She couldn’t just break down her own home’s door!

“No way… I must get in tonight!”

“…I’ll find Wang Yuxiao! She can unlock it!”

Storming off only to crash into someone with a “bang—”

“Who?!”

Feeling the small frame she bumped into, Yun Ling’er recognized them immediately.

“So small… is it XiaoYan?”

“Ling’er?!”

In the dark, Xia Xinyan also jumped at the collision.

***

Next morning…

When Chen Muyu, the only one left untouched by chaos, showed up at the villa to bid Wang Haoran farewell, she found no one around.

She waited on the sofa until almost noon.

Seeing a string of people magically reappear one after another left her shaking uncontrollably, spilling tea from her cup.

With trembling hands and disbelief, she muttered to herself,

“…Ridiculous… utterly ridiculous…”

“—So goddamn ridiculous!!!”