“Thank you, Mei Mei, you’re the best. You knew I hadn’t had breakfast yet~”

With a head of messy, uncombed hair, Lu Xiaoyao hugged the breakfast Mingmei brought her, feeling deeply touched.

Seeing this, Mingmei felt a little guilty, “Ah… well, I ordered too much breakfast, so I thought I’d bring you some.”

As Mingmei spoke, she was about to leave, but Lu Xiaoyao enthusiastically pulled her into her room, which was so cluttered there was almost no place to stand.

“Have a seat, let me wash my face first.”

With that, Lu Xiaoyao cleared a small space on the table, put the breakfast on it, pointed to a spot where Mingmei couldn’t see anywhere to sit, and turned to wash up.

Mingmei stood there silently, looking at the housekeeping robot in the corner, leaning pitifully against a stuffed toy, as if it hadn’t been charged in time.

No wonder the room was such a mess!

“Oh, last night I stayed up half the night online. I never expected there would be so many hidden Zerg!”

Lu Xiaoyao finished washing up and came out to share her online discoveries with Mingmei, but Mingmei had already seen most of the news yesterday.

“It is said that they not only infiltrated the Empire, but also did many things in private.”

As Lu Xiaoyao said this, she suddenly looked at Mingmei slyly. Mingmei followed up by asking, “What did they do?”

“In recent years, many of the younger generation of some families have had accidents. They want to undermine the strength of the Empire from the root.”

“Really?” Mingmei deliberately feigned a skeptical look, already recalling that the starnet hadn’t disclosed this information last night. “Did the authorities say anything?”

“Oh, of course they haven’t said anything yet, but this time, so many old families and many deeply hidden ones have been dug out. This must have been a joint effort by other families. To make the other families act so decisively and put in so much effort together, it’s not as simple as just saying that the other party is a Zerg to make them do it~”

Mingmei suddenly remembered Lu Xiaoyao’s identity; she wasn’t just anyone, so she would naturally know this news more quickly than others.

Holding the breakfast Mingmei brought, Lu Xiaoyao sat directly on the edge of her bed, eating breakfast while saying, “To be honest, Mei Mei, my family… also knows some powerful people. Do you remember the family next door and my childhood sweetheart I told you about before?”

“Um… um!” Mingmei nodded.

She still remembered Lu Xiaoyao buying toys for her childhood sweetheart’s “child.”

“Their father, it is said that his death was also related to the hidden Zerg… This time, their family has also deployed a lot of power.”

As she spoke, Lu Xiaoyao continued to eat while sitting on the bed, leaving Mingmei there to think.

In fact, Lu Xiaoyao’s hints were already very obvious. As her neighbor, Lu Xiaoyao’s family must also be powerful, but some of her behaviors were indeed not…

“Then… what about your family?”

“Hmm?” Lu Xiaoyao looked up, meeting Mingmei’s probing eyes, and heard her ask, “Did your family also cooperate this time for similar reasons?”

Hearing Mingmei’s question, Lu Xiaoyao lowered her head abruptly, stirred the breakfast in her hand, and after a long while, let out a soft, almost inaudible “hmm,” which could be regarded as confirming Mingmei’s words.

…

Central Military Academy, Psychological Counseling Room.

“Oh? Mei Mei is here?”

As soon as Mingmei entered the counseling room, she saw her uncle and Mu Chen drinking morning tea.

Half of the refreshments in front of them had been eaten.

“Yeah…”

Mingmei nodded, her gaze sweeping back and forth between Ruan Xun and Mu Chen. Although Uncle Ruan Xun had said last time that Mu Chen was his assistant, Mingmei still found it quite strange when she actually encountered it.

Mingmei sat down, and Mu Chen poured her a cup of hot tea smoothly. Mingmei took it and skillfully picked up a small piece of refreshment to taste.

“Fortunately, it’s a little sweet~”

“Try this tea, it’s not too sweet when paired with the refreshments.” Mu Chen advised gently, without explaining too much.

Mingmei listened to him and obediently took a sip of tea, nodding slightly to acknowledge his statement.

Throughout the whole process, Ruan Xun just held his teacup and watched their interaction with a smile, without saying a word.

Hmm~ They look quite well-matched.

Looking like he was enjoying the show, he waited until Mingmei’s clear black and white eyes looked at him before he restrained himself slightly, coughed pretentiously, took a sip of tea, and asked, “Mei Mei, your dark circles are so obvious, didn’t you sleep?”

“With such a big event last night, I’m not the only one staying up late. Just take a walk around the school and you’ll know that everyone is like this.”

As Mingmei spoke, she glanced at Mu Chen again, and then realized that he didn’t have dark circles.

Mingmei: How is this guy like my second brother?

“You were asleep last night?”

Faced with Mingmei’s sudden question, Mu Chen nodded, “After exiting the game yesterday, I felt a little tired and went to sleep directly in the virtual reality pod. I woke up in the second half of the night and only then did I realize that so many things had happened last night. I didn’t fall asleep much after that…”

Someone who wakes up after sleeping doesn’t count as staying up late; it’s just an early rise.

“So you just stayed up until dawn?”

It’s not for nothing that Ruan Xun is a wingman. This question, Mu Chen wanted to say was beautiful.

“No, I just got up and made some breakfast and refreshments to share with close people~”

He didn’t say explicitly who he was sharing with. Of the two people present, Ruan Xun raised his eyebrows, drank his tea, and remained silent.

As for Mingmei, although she also took a sip of hot tea with a blank expression, the redness of her earlobes was so obvious that even Ruan Xun couldn’t bear to watch.

Tsk!

The cheesy tricks of young love!

“By the way, my psychological decompression room is missing a batch of equipment. Mu Chen, you can take my application and bring back all that equipment, okay?”

Here it is, Ruan Xun is about to break up the couple. He was enjoying the show just now, but in the blink of an eye, he couldn’t stand to watch anymore.

Mu Chen’s smile was forced, “Okay…”

It was fortunate that Ruan Xun chased Mu Chen away. If he hadn’t, Mingmei would have almost forgotten the real reason she came here, right?

“Speak, what did you come to me for?”

As soon as Mu Chen left, Ruan Xun set the counseling room door to refuse entry to others after a visitor had arrived. At this time, Mingmei also became serious and asked about Lu Xiaoyao’s affairs.

Lu Xiaoyao had once said that she was kidnapped when she was a child, and today she said that her sister also died as a result, which made some of the information Mingmei had received previously seem to not match up.

Therefore, she thought of Ruan Xun.

“I think you must know, Uncle, you’re so smart.” Mingmei even gave Ruan Xun a compliment at the end.

“I do know, but your Uncle Yan Hui knows this matter even more clearly, and he’s the one who handled the other matters. You can ask him more.”

Even if Mingmei flattered him, Ruan Xun still wouldn’t say some things that shouldn’t be said.

Naturally, Mingmei’s expression was a little unnatural when she heard this. If she could ask Uncle Yan Hui, she wouldn’t have asked Ruan Xun, right?

“Uncle Yan Hui… I can’t seem to contact him.”

When Mingmei finished eating the breakfast Mu Chen brought this morning, she received a short message from Yan Hui, saying that in order to compensate her for the little scare the previous game had given her, the next new game would help her relax.

Then she realized that she hadn’t paid attention to this uncle who had been working overtime all the time for several days, so she planned to contact him to connect with him.

But, she never expected that she wouldn’t be able to contact him.

Listening to Mingmei’s words, a look of understanding flashed in Ruan Xun’s eyes, and he gave Mingmei a teasing smile.

Obviously, he knew where Yan Hui was.

“I did receive a message recently.”

“What?”

“Your dad and mom’s trip seems to be ending early and they’re coming back for a visit.”

“Hmm?”

“Because someone used your mother’s data to model her in the game~” Ruan Xun smiled, “Although the data was adjusted later, it seems that your dad already knows about this. Just imagine, the feeling of your wife suddenly becoming the dream lover of many people~ You probably won’t be seeing your Uncle Yan Hui for a while.”

Mingmei: “…”