Chapter 129 Ruan Ruan’s Uncle, Where’s Yan Hui?

“Uncle Ruan Ruan, where’s Uncle Yan Hui?”

At breakfast, with the whole family gathered around, Mingmei looked at the empty seat beside Ruan Xun.

Yan Hui always sat there, but he was nowhere to be seen today.

“He went back to the company,” Ruan Xun replied, not even looking up from his baozi.

The kind where you pack your bags and run away overnight.

“Is that so?”

Mingmei was about to ask why when Mu Chen placed a delicate pastry in front of her, encouraging her to try it.

This obvious attempt to silence her made Mingmei glance at Mu Chen. Remembering what happened in the game last night, she leaned over and whispered, “Did you really tell on him?”

“No… your parents found out themselves.”

Mu Chen wasn’t so lacking in tact as to report Uncle Yan Hui, who had been helping him connect with his future wife, to his future father-in-law the moment he got out of the game. Was he planning on never seeing his girl in the game again?

“What about Xiao Song? Doesn’t he usually get up early, exercise, and then eat breakfast? Why is he gone too?”

Mingmei noticed that Ming Song’s usual spot was also empty and asked her older brother and sister-in-law.

“Ah… Dad thinks Xiao Song has a knack for managing the company, so he wanted him to go back to the Federation early to continue handling business.”

Ming Qi guiltily took a sip of porridge. He couldn’t help but look at Ming Yi, thinking about how the game had upset his parents. As he looked, he cursed under his breath, “He’s gone crazy thinking up ways to make money, even partnering with his uncle.”

Look at the mess it’s made.

“Ah, but the holiday isn’t over yet. It’s too rushed to go back to his world…”

Mingmei felt that Ming Song’s departure wasn’t as simple as her brother made it out to be, but her dad nodded in agreement, saying that Ming Song really did need to put his money-making skills to work in the family’s restaurant business. Mingmei didn’t press the matter.

Mu Chen, who had been watching the whole time, silently placed another pastry on Mingmei’s plate and remained silent.

After exiting the game last night, he was thinking about the pastries he would make for Mingmei this morning. While preparing the fillings in the kitchen late at night, he happened to witness the truth of the matter.

Yan Hui running away overnight, Ming Yi failing to catch him and dragging Ming Song out for a scolding, Ming Qi and his wife trying to dissuade him but getting dragged into the mess by their unlucky son, resulting in a large family drama of everyone facing the wall in punishment.

Last night, Mei Shi and Ming Yi impulsively watched Lu Xiaoyao’s livestream, and then Liu Liu and the Main Brain curiously joined in.

Right at the beginning, Mei Shi, guided by her intuition, blurted out, “I don’t think our daughter is a good person?”

Although Lu Xiaoyao’s livestream was shut down midway, if even Gui Gui could find ways to continue the stream, there was no reason Mingmei’s parents couldn’t manage it.

So, with the help of Liu Liu and the Main Brain, they even started watching the livestream directly from Mingmei’s perspective.

As a result, Ming Yi’s guess was confirmed in the ending where Mingmei “self-destructed.”

After watching,

Mei Shi: Is that my kid??

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Ming Yi: She must have been corrupted by her uncle!

Liu Liu: ???

Where’s my well-behaved and cute goddaughter??

The Main Brain silently informed them of the situation.

Previously, the couple hadn’t paid much attention to these games, only knowing that the games researched by Yan Hui and the Main Brain were selling very well and doing good business. She hadn’t really experienced anything like that.

But after witnessing last night’s livestream, Mei Shi and Ming Yi were worried about Mingmei’s performance in the game, worried that she wouldn’t be able to separate herself from the character.

So, after the livestream ended, Mei Shi and Ming Yi wanted to “chat” with Yan Hui about whether the technology of arousing people’s emotions and stimulating emotional fluctuations was really mature.

Good grief!

Wasn’t that a clear sign of guilt?!

…

Federation, Planet Wei.

“What are you chatting about so happily?”

During their vacation on Planet Wei, Wang Wenfei and the others were either online playing games to practice or diving in the sea to catch fish. Today, Mei Ruita had been lazily lying on a deck chair, constantly playing with her optical brain.

Seeing this, Wang Wenfei, who had just come out of the sea, couldn’t help but wonder why she was acting so out of character today.

“Chatting with someone,” Mei Ruita replied with a smile, her cat-like face arousing Wang Wenfei’s curiosity.

“Looks like this person has a high EQ.”

“Tsk! You’re making it sound like I’m hard to get along with.”

With that, Mei Ruita glared at Wang Wenfei, then turned her attention back to her optical brain, asking Wang Wenfei or herself, “Are there people in this world who are good to you for no reason?”

“What are you thinking about?” Wang Wenfei glanced at Mei Ruita, then lay down on a deck chair next to her, took a juice from the robot and took a sip through the straw, then said, “Don’t tell me you still believe that. When I first started being good to you in the game, it was just because I wanted to. It’s only after seeing each other for a long time that we’ve become really good friends.

Don’t let anyone fool you so easily. You haven’t been following your grandfather all these years for nothing!”

“Pfft~ Ahahahaha!”

Hearing Wang Wenfei’s words, Mei Ruita instantly laughed so hard that tears almost came out, and she raised her hand to cover her eyelashes to hide the hint of sarcasm that flashed across her eyes.

She sighed, then said, “Yeah, how could anyone be so stupid as to think I’d believe that?”

Hearing Mei Ruita’s words, Wang Wenfei perked up, “Are you saying someone’s been targeting you? What’s going on?”

“They’re not targeting me, they might be targeting Julian.”

“Huh?”

…

Empire, Central Star.

“You’re saying… Mother has been acting strange lately?”

Lu Gui didn’t expect that Lu Xiaoyao, who had been livestreaming in her room every day, would notice their mother?

Seeing the suspicious look in her older brother’s eyes, Lu Xiaoyao got angry and put her hands on her hips, “What?! Just because I’m livestreaming and playing games every day doesn’t mean I can’t tell that something’s wrong with Mother, right?”

“What’s wrong?”

“Recently, she hasn’t been letting the little robots bring me milk and juice anymore. She seems very busy and is ignoring me.”

Lu Gui: “…”

“Hey, hey, don’t give me that speechless look! Unlike you, I accept everything Mother gives me to eat and drink, and she sends it to me every day.

Unlike you, she always tells the robot butler to send it back, so it’s normal that she doesn’t send you food, but it’s different for me!”

Lu Xiaoyao wasn’t showing off to her brother, she was seriously analyzing the facts.

“Recently, she’s been going out a lot. I asked the Sens next door, and Aunt Marie didn’t say that Mother had been looking for her lately.” As Lu Xiaoyao spoke, she looked at Lu Gui’s increasingly gloomy face, then quickly added, “Don’t get angry yet, let’s take our time with this…”

“Take our time? School starts in a few days, and then it’ll just be Grandpa and her at home. What if she’s stupid, and her brain doesn’t work right, and she does something to hurt Grandpa?”

Lu Gui sneered and asked her, “We survived in the past purely by luck. Luck doesn’t always favor our family, you know?”