Chapter Forty-One: Let Nangong Yuchen Help You...

“What are you doing, Nangong Yuchen?”

Nangong Kexin’s fair, lovely face flushed crimson in an instant, and faint veins seemed to pulse at her temples. She had never imagined that her younger brother, after bringing a strange little girl home, would be harboring such thoughts.

“Kexin, I—”

Nangong Yuchen hastily drew back his arm, but before he could explain further, his sister stormed over and sent him flying with a single kick.

At that moment, Shangguan Yueling quickly put on a pitiful expression and burrowed into Nangong Kexin’s arms, saying tearfully, “Waaah... thank you, sister!”

“Don’t be afraid. Sister’s here...” Looking at the little girl in her arms, Nangong Kexin felt a touch of guilt. After all, it was her younger brother who had done something like this to the child. She gently stroked Shangguan Yueling’s fragrant shoulder, as though comforting her.

Nangong Yuchen, who had just clambered up from the floor in a sorry state, lifted his head and saw Shangguan Yueling baring her little tiger teeth at him in a triumphant smile.

“Kexin, get out of the way. I’m going to throw this brat outside!”

Furious, Nangong Yuchen strode to the bedside, and by the look of it, he truly meant to drag her to the door and fling her out.

“I think I should be the one throwing you out!” Nangong Kexin snapped without thinking. She remembered that her younger brother had never been like this before. Only a few months apart, and he had developed this sort of taste? It was one thing if he acted like this with her, but the little girl before them was an outsider. If anything happened, who would take responsibility?

“...”

With no other choice, he could only sit sullenly on the floor bedding, though the fury flickering in his eyes made it seem as if he would march over at once and hang Shangguan Yueling up for a beating.

“Humph. Wash up and go to sleep already. You still have class tomorrow!” Nangong Kexin climbed under the covers with the little girl and urged Nangong Yuchen on.

A while later, after Nangong Yuchen went into the bathroom, the two beauties, one large and one small, huddled beneath the blankets and chatted quietly.

Although Nangong Kexin wanted to ask how the girl had met her brother, and why she had been found unconscious in the woods, the conversation was mostly led off course by the mischievous Shangguan Yueling.

...

More than twenty minutes later, Nangong Yuchen finished showering, put on his sleep clothes, and came out of the bathroom. Usually at home he never wore them, but ever since Nangong Kexin had moved in, he had no choice but to put them on.

Just as he reached the bedroom door, he heard a conversation drifting out from inside.

“Sister, let me tell you, all men like big chests. Yours are so small. Your future boyfriend definitely won’t like them!”

A few seconds later, Nangong Kexin’s embarrassed voice sounded: “B-b-but, h-how can they get bi-bigger?”

“Eh?” Hearing such scandalous talk, Nangong Yuchen stood frozen on the spot, his face darkening with black lines. He instantly regretted bringing this little girl home. If she spent a few more days with Kexin, goodness only knew how badly she would corrupt her!

Just as he was about to step inside, he heard the next part of the conversation, and his whole body stiffened.

“Well, I heard that if a woman has a small chest and wants it to grow, she can let her boyfriend massage and knead it every day. It’ll get bigger really fast!”

“What? That... that absolutely won’t do, how could I...”

Tap, tap.

Nangong Yuchen truly dared not listen any further, or who knew what thunderbolt of indecency Shangguan Yueling might unleash next. He deliberately made his footsteps heavy so the two of them would hear him, then walked in.

But to his surprise, the little girl did not care at all and went on talking to herself. “You can let Nangong Yuchen help you rub it every day. It’ll definitely get bigger, maybe even bigger than mine!”

She did not know the two were siblings!

As soon as the words left her mouth, Nangong Yuchen, who had just come in, was struck dumb.

Help Kexin rub her chest?

At that thought, his wheat-colored face flushed instantly.

As for Nangong Kexin lying on the bed, her lovely face was practically dripping blood. She had never imagined that Shangguan Yueling would say such a thing right in front of Nangong Yuchen. One must know that she was his sister. How could such a thing...

Snapping back to his senses, Nangong Yuchen, uncharacteristically red-faced, stared at the bewildered little girl and ground out, “Shangguan Yueling!”

With that, he strode forward, grabbed the petite Shangguan Yueling, and lifted her from the bed before heading for the door. At that moment, he had already forgotten that she was a first-rank mecha warrior!

“Ah... Nangong Yuchen, don’t throw me out! I know I was wrong, okay?” Shangguan Yueling flailed her arms and legs in midair, but it was still impossible to stop her from being tossed out. Just as Nangong Yuchen opened the front door and was about to hurl her outside, Shangguan Yueling suddenly lowered her tone and said, “I really was wrong! There are monsters outside. If you throw Sister Lingling out, they’ll definitely eat me!”

“Monsters?” Nangong Yuchen froze at those two words.

“Yes, yes! Right now, monsters have appeared in the District D and District E areas of Ruxia City. I don’t want to be eaten by them!” Seeing the situation turn, Shangguan Yueling hurriedly explained.

In truth, what she was thinking was that once her stamina recovered tomorrow, she would absolutely blast Nangong Yuchen into the heavens. Otherwise, if news got out that she, the little devil, had been put in such a state, wouldn’t she become the butt of everyone’s jokes?

“Nangong Yuchen, forget it. It’s already past midnight, and Lingling has nowhere else to go. Let her sleep with me tonight,” Nangong Kexin said. She did not entirely believe Shangguan Yueling’s talk of monsters; the only reason she tried to stop Nangong Yuchen was that it was too late at night.

Hearing this, Nangong Yuchen could only close the door and put the little girl back down.

Tap, tap, tap!

Shangguan Yueling dashed onto the bed in a blur and hurriedly burrowed under the covers, fearing that Nangong Yuchen would throw her out again.

Clearly, her worry was unnecessary, because Nangong Yuchen’s mind was consumed by her earlier words.

“Monsters have appeared in the districts of Ruxia City!”

Unlike Nangong Kexin’s disbelief, he believed it deeply.

Because he knew that Shangguan Yueling was a first-rank mecha warrior, and also a member of the reconnaissance squad. She would never say such a thing without cause.

Was not the café in District B where they had worked before the same place where Xia Yue and Chen Hao had turned out to be first-rank monsters? If that was true, then did it mean the whole of Ruxia City was already sliding into a crisis of monster invasion?

The more he thought about it, the more alarmed he became. It seemed he had begun to guess why Shangguan Yueling had exhausted all her stamina, why she had fallen unconscious in the woods, and why a perfectly good mag-rail car had suddenly been snapped clean in two!

Perhaps all of it was true: the little girl who never knew how to behave had said monsters had already begun appearing in Ruxia City, and tonight she had even gone through a fierce battle with them.

“Yuchen?” Nangong Kexin, seeing her brother stand rigidly in place without moving, could not help but call out in puzzlement.

“Oh, oh!” Nangong Yuchen smiled awkwardly and quickly switched off the light before lying down on the bedding he had made.

“Go to sleep. You still have class tomorrow,” Nangong Kexin said, somewhat exhausted. Though the events of tonight were harrowing, and although she had recently experienced life-and-death peril, she did not show any lingering fear. Still, the weariness in her mind quickly dragged her into sleep.

“Mm.”

Half an hour passed. In the dark, quiet room, Nangong Yuchen still had his eyes open, with no trace of sleepiness.

He was deeply worried about his and his sister’s safety. This was the outskirts of District D. If one night, after school, they ran into a monster on the way back, what then?

After considering it for a long while, he began to think that he should rent another place somewhere within District C.

But in District C he was afraid of being discovered by Zhou Haoran’s people, so he still had to think carefully. As for the remaining Districts B and A, the rent would be at least several thousand a month. If he rented there, how would he explain that expense to Kexin?

Was he supposed to tell her about Cheng Tianyou’s mecha?

The moment that thought appeared, he rejected it outright. He did not dare utter a single word about that matter, because the fewer people who knew, the safer it would be, and it would also be better for his sister. After all, the Lu family was far too powerful. If he were exposed, he feared he would be reduced to ashes in an instant!

Turning it over and over in his mind, he found no solution, and before long, he drifted into an irritated sleep...