Part 2
Elvis: “Zhizhi, I’m sorry. I…”
[The Prince is actually apologizing?]
Yun Yingzhi shouted, “Your Highness!”
Elvis: “…”
Yun Yingzhi: “Do you even want a future?”
Elvis: “…”
Yun Yingzhi: “Do you know how much I am suffering right now because of you?”
Elvis: “Zhizhi, no matter what happens, I will resolve it with you. You…”
Yun Yingzhi: “Can you even teach a ‘bear kid’ properly?” He angrily held up two fingers. “Since you mentioned the children to me, you must already know. Jiaojiao and Taotao are exactly like you were when you were young. They…”
Elvis’s voice was filled with confusion. “Jiaojiao and Taotao?” What were those?
Yun Yingzhi, who was in the middle of his frantic output, felt his eyelid give a heavy twitch. “…”
He suddenly felt like something was wrong. Looking at Elvis’s expression, he seemed…
Not to know about Jiaojiao and Taotao?
If he didn’t know, then why did he mention “children” just now?
Yun Yingzhi blinked, his pupils shaking with shock.
Elvis added, “Exactly like I was when I was young?”
Yun Yingzhi was a bit lost, but that didn’t stop the “rebuttal machine” in his angry state from functioning normally. “If they aren’t like you, could they possibly be like me?”
What Yun Yingzhi didn’t know was that almost in the next instant, lines of text flashed across the bottom of the Star Glory official appraisal platform.
[Yes! Of course they’re like you!]
[They definitely aren’t like the Prince! They’re like you! Like you!]
[But Beauty Yun Yingzhi, can you have a bit of self-awareness? Think about the source weapons you made from the preliminaries to the semi-finals. Then think about the workbench you smashed with one hand when your two ‘bear babies’ were fighting. Can you really say with a straight conscience that they aren’t like you?]
In the livestream, Elvis paused for a moment and said, “Zhizhi, you’re right. It’s all my fault. Please don’t be too angry for now.”
[Prince, I misjudged you!]
Yun Yingzhi: “Of course it’s all your fault! How could I not be angry? Right now, I…”
Suddenly, a knock sounded at the door.
Yun Yingzhi’s gaze shifted, his beautiful eyes turning toward the door. “Who is it?”
A female voice came from outside. “Young Master Zhizhi.”
Yun Yingzhi recognized it as a servant of the Yun family. His voice softened as he asked, “Is something the matter?”
After a pause, the person outside said, “Well… Young Master Zhizhi, Young Master Yinghui asked us to contact you.”
Yun Yingzhi: “Huh? Brother?”
Only then did Yun Yingzhi realize that because he was in a call with Elvis, he hadn’t noticed Yun Yinghui’s communication requests or the pile of unread private messages.
His brow furrowed imperceptibly. Would Yun Yinghui contact him because the two “bear cubs” had done something again?
Aside from Yun Yinghui, many other people had contacted him as well.
Just as he was about to open the chat interface with Yun Yinghui, the voice outside continued, “Young Master Zhizhi, Young Master Yinghui told me to inform you that you and Prince Elvis are currently…”
A question mark slowly formed in Yun Yingzhi’s brain.
The person outside finished: “…currently on a livestream.”
Yun Yingzhi: “…”
Yun Yingzhi: “…………”
Currently on a livestream?
What did that sentence mean?
In other words…
His frantic venting at Prince Elvis just now… had been seen by everyone watching the livestream?
What had he just said? What had he exposed?
Yun Yingzhi: “…”
Without even noticing it himself, his body began to sway. Then, amidst Elvis’s worried voice, he turned into a pile of limp noodles and collapsed directly onto the ground.
At this moment, Yun Yingzhi gave off a feeling completely opposite to his previous “rebuttal machine” state; he looked like a flower caught in a violent storm—beautiful and fragile.
Yun Yingzhi was in a daze, utterly lost.
At this moment, all sorts of comments flashed in the chat.
[Yun Yingzhi collapsed! Did he get hurt?]
[Wait—I don’t know why, but I really want to laugh right now. Hahahahahaha! Sorry, my jaw just dropped from laughing too hard.]
[I just want to ask: how did this Yun Yingzhi smash a workbench back then?]
[I’ve already filed a complaint against the Star Glory organizers. How could they use such a low-quality workbench? What if a participant gets hurt?]
Yun Yingzhi’s eyelashes trembled. He, who already looked incredibly fragile, felt even more delicate at this moment.
The person outside pushed the door open.
The maid stepped forward quickly and propped Yun Yingzhi up, saying anxiously, “Young Master Zhizhi, Young Master Zhizhi, are you okay?”
Yun Yingzhi slowly snapped out of his daze. Looking at the maid, his ink-black eyes held two pools of tears, and his voice choked up. “I… I want to go to an outer planet to farm…” His mental state had completely collapsed beyond the stars; he didn’t even know what he was saying. His head was filled with: It’s over, it’s over, it’s over…
He was finished…
At this moment, let alone the livestream audience, even the maid on the scene couldn’t hold it in and let out a “pfft” of laughter.
[Hahaha!]
[Hahahahahaha!]
Rows of joyful comments flashed past, and then, the crowd’s joy turned to sorrow.
Belatedly, Yun Yingzhi, the focus of everyone’s attention, shut off his communication with Elvis.
Immediately, the livestream was filled with wails of grief.
The majority of them did the same thing: they wanted to know more about the past of this “human world scumbag” who slept with the Prince but openly declared it was impossible to be responsible.
They wanted to learn more about Yun Yingzhi.
At the same time, they heard the last question Elvis asked before the livestream was cut.
He asked, “What are Jiaojiao and Taotao?”
A group of people in the Star Glory official livestream replied:
[They are your two cubs!]
[They are the two ‘super-bear cubs’ that Yun Yingzhi is dumping all his own bad habits onto.]
[By the way, here’s a friendly tip: I heard an unknown individual has appeared at the Yaoming Battle Arena’s 3v3 battlefield with these two cubs. The two of them are only tiny beans, yet they’re already on the arena. I just want to ask: what kind of genes did Yun Yingzhi pass on to those two?]
Yun Yingzhi entered self-isolation.
He locked himself in his room and pulled the curtains shut. He didn’t want to go anywhere right now.
However…
Self-isolation wasn’t something Yun Yingzhi could achieve just because he wanted to.
Not long after, Yun Yinghui returned with the two cubs.
Upon arriving home, the two little cubs hopped off Yun Yinghui and charged toward Yun Yingzhi’s room with a series of “Da-da-das.” Even Yun Yinghui’s long legs were slower than the cubs, whose speed left afterimages. It was clear how much they wanted to see Yun Yingzhi.
What left Yun Yinghui speechless was the egg cub.
Usually, the egg cub would use spatial teleportation for short distances, but this time he didn’t. He was probably in such a rush that he forgot to use his ability.
Yun Yinghui saw the two cubs climb the stairs and rush to Yun Yingzhi’s door.
The rabbit cub patted the door with his little paw, urging Yun Yingzhi to open it. “Da?”
The egg cub knocked on the door with his shell.
Silence reigned inside. Yun Yingzhi only wanted to be a hermit; he didn’t want to come out at all.
However, hearing the rabbit cub’s voice made his eyelids twitch. Still reeling from the taste of “social death,” his trembling hand opened his personal terminal.
No matter how much one experienced social death, time still marched forward.
He received 999+ unread private messages.
During his period of self-isolation, many people had sent him communication requests and private messages. Ironically, among them were Admiral Yun and his wife.
Yun Yingzhi sniffled and directly blacklisted them. In passing, he also blacklisted the culprit of this entire mess, Prince Elvis. Then, he sent a message to Yun Yinghui: [Brother, I want to be alone for a bit.]
Unable to help himself, he also sent a “river of sorrow” emoji of a figure clutching its head and crying.
Outside the door, the rabbit cub’s patting became louder. “Da da da!”
The egg cub followed suit with “Thump, thump, thump” as he knocked with his shell.
Yun Yingzhi hoped his brother would take the cubs away quickly.
To his relief, he heard Yun Yinghui’s voice in the next moment.
Yun Yinghui: “Jiaojiao, Taotao, don’t be troublesome. Your daddy needs some quiet. Go take a nap with Eldest Uncle for now.”
The patting continued. The rabbit cub’s voice came through: “Da!”
And then…
Yun Yingzhi felt a ripple of spatial energy.
His eyelid twitched. In the next instant, he saw the egg cub, who had used spatial teleportation to enter the room.
The egg cub immediately pounced onto Yun Yingzhi with joy.
Yun Yingzhi caught him.
The rabbit cub outside the door clearly knew his beloved daddy and the egg cub were alone in the room. He had been “Da-ing” just a second ago, but now he let out an “Awoo!” and patted the door even harder…
With a bang, the door was broken.
The rabbit cub immediately rushed into the room and pounced into Yun Yingzhi’s embrace.
Yun Yingzhi caught the bunny.
Yun Yingzhi: “…”
His eyelid twitched violently. He looked at the egg cub, then the rabbit cub, and then turned his gaze to Yun Yinghui standing outside the door.
Yun Yinghui’s movements were very practiced. He used his ice ability to condense repair tools and fixed the door the rabbit cub had broken within minutes.
Yun Yingzhi: “…” Right now, he didn’t even have the energy left to scold the two “bear cubs.”
Looking at Yun Yinghui, he said lifelessly, “Brother, I’m finished.”
Yun Yinghui: “…”
Yun Yinghui thought of the conversation between Yun Yingzhi and Elvis.
He was indeed a bit “finished.”
Yun Yinghui walked over to Yun Yingzhi, stroked his head comfortingly, and said, “Zhizhi, it’s okay. These are all small problems. Everyone will forget.”
Yun Yingzhi looked at his brother expectantly and asked, “Re—really?”
Yun Yinghui lied through his teeth. “Yes.”
Yun Yingzhi: “…Brother, I think I’ll pack my bags and take Jiaojiao and Taotao to a remote life-planet to farm.”
Yun Yinghui was silent for a moment before saying, “Zhizhi, Brother will go with you to farm.”
Yun Yingzhi’s body swayed again.
So… as expected…
Even his brother thought he had lost so much face that he needed to go to a remote planet to farm?
Yun Yingzhi pounced into Yun Yinghui’s embrace, tears falling in large drops. He felt incredibly aggrieved.
He asked, “Brother, what are the people on the Star Network saying about me now? Wuwuwu…”
He comforted himself in his heart: Life is short. Just endure it, and a lifetime will pass by.
Yun Yinghui looked at Yun Yingzhi and silently listed the labels in his mind:
True Scumbag, Scapegoat Hero, the Empire’s Number One Delicate Flower, Emperor of Plucking Wool, Fragile White Rabbit, Brutal Warplane…
There were simply too many.
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