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    The next morning, Bai Yao hung up the voice call with Honey Peach Milk as soon as he opened his eyes.

    Last night, realizing he had been tricked again, Bai Yao muted himself directly and didn’t respond to him anymore. The two of them farmed until almost four in the morning. The dungeon ended, and Bai Yao successfully completed his apprenticeship. Before logging off, Honey Peach Milk took him to the NPC to confirm the wedding time—nine o’clock tonight.

    It’s now twelve noon, Liu Yucheng should still be asleep.

    After washing up, Bai Yao brought the lunch Aunt Yang had prepared upstairs, ate while turning on the computer to play the game. Confirming that Honey Peach Milk wasn’t online, he took out the QR code, recharged, and bought 500 full-server megaphones in the game store, preparing to give Liu Yucheng a little “surprise” after he woke up.

    In the afternoon, nearly six o’clock, Bai Yao walked out of the basement gym, unhurriedly, holding his sweat-soaked shirt.

    Aunt Yang saw him come up, turned off the vacuum cleaner in her hand, and smiled, pointing to Bai Yao’s phone charging on the living room table, “Uh… well, your phone rang just now, rang several times, I didn’t mean to see it… Do you have a partner? Oh, that’s great!”

    Bai Yao first gave a light hum, then added, “Not really a partner, I guess.”

    He took his phone upstairs, threw the dirty clothes into the laundry basket, and then casually unlocked his phone and clicked into WeChat.

    Bed Exclusive Master: Are you there?

    Bed Exclusive Master: As soon as I logged in, many people added me as a friend. Why does it seem like everyone in this server knows me overnight?

    Bed Exclusive Master: Some people even asked me for red envelopes, saying they envied me for marrying a rich man.

    Bed Exclusive Master: Did you do something bad while I wasn’t online?

    The messages were sent an hour ago.

    Bai Yao had already thought about how to reply: Tonight, there will be many people from the whole server attending the wedding [smiley face]. It’s my first marriage, so it definitely has to be a bit grand.

    Bed Exclusive Master:?

    Bed Exclusive Master: How many people is “many people”? How many wedding invitations did you get from the NPC?

    Bai Yao: Saying “how many” is a bit of an underestimation, isn’t it? I sent out 1200 wedding invitations, my hands are sore from clicking the trade button [hehe].

    Bed Exclusive Master: …

    Bai Yao: [Pleadingly] Aren’t you happy that everyone is coming to our wedding?

    Introverted person, tremble, tonight I’ll let you experience the joy of being cyber-surrounded by the masses.

    As long as he dared to say “no,” Bai Yao would immediately go to the NPC to cancel the scheduled wedding and send out all the remaining 50 megaphones, saying that [Honey Peach Milk], this scumbag, suddenly regretted the marriage.

    Who told him to cause trouble and try to get information out of me last night?

    Bed Exclusive Master: Good boy.

    Bed Exclusive Master: I was so happy I almost cried just now, I didn’t expect you to be so invested in our wedding.

    Bai Yao:…?

    Bed Exclusive Master: [Game Screenshot]

    Bed Exclusive Master: I got 1500 wedding invitations and I’m sending them out now. The more people who come tonight, the better… Oh right, remember to save an invitation for your roommate, thank him for the successful matchmaking [happy smiley face].

    After reading these two messages, Bai Yao threw his phone onto the bed with a look of disgust, and went into the bathroom without looking back.

    Liu Yucheng is definitely pretending.

    Even if he’s not that socially awkward in the game, judging from when we teamed up with random people, he’s still the type who doesn’t like to talk. So he must be extremely nervous right now.

    Bai Yao decided not to call him out yet, and see how things go tonight.

    Tomorrow night is New Year’s Eve, Aunt Yang has a holiday, so she’s leaving two hours earlier than usual today. Before leaving, she told Bai Yao many things, such as if his mother doesn’t come back for the New Year, there’s plenty of food she prepared in advance in the refrigerator, Bai Yao can just take it out and heat it up to eat; she has already set up automatic feeding for the fish in the fish tank, Bai Yao doesn’t need to manually feed them, but if the temperature of the fish tank is lower than a certain degree, he needs to press which button to adjust the temperature…

    At eight o’clock in the evening, Bai Yao sat alone in the living room, listening to the noisy sound from the TV, a sense of anxiety emerged.

    He’s alone at home again. And the next few days will probably be this deserted.

    Thinking of this, Bai Yao lost his appetite, casually shoveled a few mouthfuls of dinner, turned off the TV, and went upstairs, locking the door behind him and sitting down in front of the computer.

    Log in to the game, the screen loads, open the friends list, this set of actions has been memorized by Bai Yao’s hands and muscles, he doesn’t even need to think about it anymore.

    Honey Peach Milk is online and is in the main city. After hesitating for three seconds, Bai Yao set off for that main city.

    After the engagement, the two people’s names for each other are in a special color, the game is set up this way to make it easier for those couple players to find each other at a glance in the crowd. So as soon as Bai Yao landed, he saw Honey Peach Milk standing on the flying platform in the main city, and the archer jumping around like a monkey near Honey Peach Milk, Zhang Yifang.

    Bai Yao opened Zhang Yifang’s game friend chat and privately messaged: Go jump somewhere further away, stay away from my husband.

    Ferryman: Hehe~

    Ferryman: Already calling him “husband”~? Brother Yao, why didn’t you tell me you guys are getting married today? That’s too fast!

    Ferryman: Did you see that nude alt selling wares in the corner over there? He actually knew you were getting married before me! If Honey Peach Milk hadn’t sent me an invitation, I wouldn’t have known.

    Bai Yao: …Sorry, forgot to notify you separately.

    Honey Peach Milk: You’re here? Do you see me?

    Bai Yao: Yeah, I’m chatting with my roommate, wait a bit.

    Honey Peach Milk: Oh, next time you see me, can you acknowledge me first? I thought you didn’t notice me.

    Bai Yao: He’s my real-life friend after all, wait a moment.

    Honey Peach Milk: Go ahead.

    Honey Peach Milk: Sigh, I really can’t compare to the people around you.

    Bai Yao was about to type when he suddenly heard a noise outside the window, startling him.

    The noise wasn’t someone setting off firecrackers, it sounded more like something happening at the gate of their front yard.

    Bai Yao clenched his fists, first stood up and turned off all the lights in the bedroom, then stood by the window and quietly pulled open the curtains a little – unfortunately, he couldn’t see anything from this direction.

    He picked up his phone, opened Honey Peach Milk’s WeChat, and sent a voice message: “There’s a strange noise in our yard, someone might have broken in.”

    After speaking, he took a baseball bat from the cabinet, took it to the study, while adjusting his disordered breathing, while monitoring the situation outside through the surveillance.

    The surveillance didn’t see anyone, but the yard door was wide open.

    The hairs on Bai Yao’s body instantly stood on end – usually, if they scanned their face to enter the yard, the yard door wouldn’t open so wide, but would automatically open the small door next to it.

    The most recent record in the face scan showed Aunt Yang’s scene of returning home after buying vegetables this morning.

    Even when entering the car, they usually enter from the back door, because the back door leads directly to the garage; the front door is not impossible to enter, but it tests driving skills.

    The most crucial thing is that none of the security systems set by his mother sounded.

    Bed Exclusive Master replied with a voice message: “What’s going on? Do you need to call the police?”

    Bed Exclusive Master: “Do you have anything you can use to defend yourself?”

    Bed Exclusive Master: “Send me your location, I’ll call the police for you now.”

    There’s no time to think so much now, Bai Yao’s hands were trembling with tension.

    After sending the location, Bai Yao said, “Our neighborhood has dedicated security personnel… wait a bit, if I don’t reply to you within 10 minutes, then call the police.”

    Bed Exclusive Master: “Okay.”

    Bed Exclusive Master: “Why don’t you turn on the video?”

    Without saying a word, Bai Yao directly made a video call, anyway, his Moments already had his selfies, he wasn’t afraid of showing his face.

    As soon as the video connected, Bai Yao saw a black sweater that Liu Yucheng had never worn before; but judging from the figure and Adam’s apple, it was obviously Liu Yucheng himself.

    Bai Yao took a screenshot, turned his gaze back to the surveillance, and then heard a rustling, familiar sound.

    Their surveillance is silent; this sound was coming from the garage on the first floor.

    “Damn, there must be someone in the garage!” Bai Yao gripped the baseball bat tightly, “I have to go take a look.”

    “Don’t.”

    Honey Peach Milk said in Yuan Shuang’s voice: “I think, you better not go anywhere.”

    “When I encounter this kind of thing, I like to strike first.”

    Bai Yao gritted his teeth and said, “When I was a kid, a man followed my mom to our house… and was eventually beaten away by me!”

    The inconspicuous scar hidden in his hair was also left at that time.

    That day was Bai Yao’s tenth birthday, and his mother finally rushed home before 12 o’clock, but behind her was a rogue following her.

    The other party was a tall and strong man, and his mother was very scared, shrinking behind the sofa and not daring to speak; Bai Yao initially didn’t dare to do anything either, and as a result, his head was scratched by the man with a stick, and the birthday cake on the table was also smashed to the ground during the fight.

    Later, his mother was so scared that she cried and rushed him to the hospital, Bai Yao didn’t know if she called the police or not; he was beaten until his head was bleeding, but he was particularly proud of himself – he had grown up and could protect his mother.

    He didn’t know what happened to that strange man later, anyway, he never saw that person again.

    Honey Peach Milk didn’t respond, Bai Yao instructed again: “I’m going, don’t make a sound.”

    He put his phone in his pocket, took the baseball bat, and quietly went downstairs, then slowly moved towards the garage.

    When he walked to the garage door, he saw that the light inside was on, and his heart was in his throat.

    A thought suddenly popped into his head – could it just be a thief? Coming to steal something?

    Anyway, the car can’t be stolen, and the other things in the garage aren’t worth much, so let him steal it…? Wait for the thief to leave and then call the police, would that be better?

    Bullshit, still strike first!

    Bai Yao cheered himself up, raised his hand and prepared to twist the garage door, but the doorknob turned by itself first.

    The next second, the garage door was “whoosh”ed open.

    Bai Yao was startled, and the phone he had stuffed in his pajama pants also slipped to the ground. But he didn’t bother to pick it up, and immediately opened his mouth: “Mom? How is it you! You scared me to death… Hey, where’s your car? Didn’t you drive it back?”

    Bai Junyi was about to explain her hard journey, when she saw Bai Yao’s phone on the ground out of the corner of her eye, with the video on.

    A man with slightly delicate features was staring at the camera, craning his neck as if he was very curious about what was happening on their side.

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