A City had something new to talk about today.
Someone had seen the famous head of the Luo family, bringing his wife and son all the way to beneath an overpass, hugging a shabby young man who had a fortune-telling banner beside him and was dressed in tattered clothes, crying out, “Son! Son!”
At that moment, at the Luo residence.
The center of attention, Xi Yu, carefully put away his fortune-telling banner and spoke the first sentence since meeting them.
“You three are all destined to die young.”
As Xi Yu’s words fell, the crying abruptly stopped.
Mrs. Luo looked at Xi Yu through tearful eyes. “You… hate us this much?”
“Xi Yu, what nonsense are you talking about! How can you curse your own parents like that?” Luo Chengan looked at Xi Yu with an unfriendly expression.
Anyone who had been someone’s son for more than twenty years would have a hard time accepting being told overnight that they were not their biological child.
Luo Chengan’s resistance toward Xi Yu was almost uncontrollable. His face was pale as he scolded, “Dad and Mom didn’t intentionally switch us at birth. If you’re angry, blame me. Why take it out on them?”
Mrs. Luo had given birth to her child in a remote little town back then.
It was not until three months ago that they learned their son had been switched at birth.
For these three months, they had searched nonstop. After much difficulty, they had finally found him.
At the same time, they also learned what kind of miserable life Xi Yu had lived all these years.
The family who had mistakenly taken Xi Yu had died in a car accident before he was even one year old. Xi Yu had been raised bit by bit by the people in the small town, but all they had managed was to keep him from starving to death.
Through all kinds of coincidences and twists of fate, the Xi Yu of today had been created.
Looking at the tattered clothes patched all over Xi Yu’s body, Father Luo could not help shedding tears as well. “Your mother and I are sorry to you. It’s only right that you resent us.”
If they had not been careless, their biological son would not have had to suffer like this.
Xi Yu frowned in confusion. He dodged Father Luo’s hand, which was covered in tears and mucus, and stared straight at Luo Chengan.
Luo Chengan felt uncomfortable under his gaze and straightened his back. “Why are you looking at me! It’s not my fault!”
Why was Xi Yu looking at him like that? He was aggrieved and upset too.
Father Luo had his hand dodged by Xi Yu. He sniffled and withdrew it, then cautiously said, “Don’t be angry. Chengan isn’t angry at you. He’s always been tough-talking but soft-hearted since he was little. Actually, he helped us look for you too, and he even prepared a room for you.”
“I know,” Xi Yu said.
Luo Chengan said, “What do you know! I didn’t prepare a room for you!”
Upon hearing this, Xi Yu stared at Luo Chengan. Then, in front of everyone’s eyes, he suddenly ruffled Luo Chengan’s hair and muttered, “Such pure gold. Let me absorb a little.”
The tearful Mrs. Luo: “…”
The cautious Father Luo: “…”
Luo Chengan, being vigorously sucked like a cat: “…”
Luo Chengan could not hold it together anymore. With his hair sticking up like a chicken’s nest, he wailed, “Xi Yu, you can’t humiliate someone like this! Pervert!”
Xi Yu ignored him completely. Only after he had absorbed enough did he let out a long sigh. “So refreshing~”
He had wanted to say it the moment he saw Luo Chengan.
Luo Chengan’s body was filled with merit. A hazy golden light completely enveloped him. Only someone who had done countless good deeds in a previous life could possess so much merit.
Logically speaking, someone like this should have a long-life destiny.
However, the three people before him all had a dense black mist between their brows. Even though Luo Chengan had golden light protecting him, it could not block the signs of an early death.
Xi Yu took a lollipop out of his pocket, held it like a cigarette, and said to Luo Chengan, “Stop wailing. Didn’t I just absorb a couple of mouthfuls from you?”
It was not as if he had only absorbed Luo Chengan’s merit. As compensation, he had also absorbed several mouthfuls of the black mist around the vital point on Luo Chengan’s body.
At the very least, that would allow Luo Chengan to live a few more months.
Luo Chengan hid in Mrs. Luo’s arms, sobbing and hiccupping as he cried even louder. “Dad… Mom… Wuuu… I’m not clean anymore. I want to die.”
“You don’t have to want to. The three of you combined don’t even have three years left to live. You’ll die soon. But you’re lucky—you met me.”
Xi Yu untied the cloth pouch around his waist, took out a stack of talismans, and waved them proudly. “These are Evil-Repelling Talismans I drew myself. They can block the baleful energy on your bodies.”
Luo Chengan was still sobbing and hiccupping, but Mrs. Luo stopped crying instead. Her eyes lit up. “Are you giving them to us?”
Although they were just scraps of paper, they were given by her son. Did this prove that her son did not hate them that much?
“Thank you, Xiaoyu.” Mrs. Luo happily took them. “I’ll definitely keep them safe.”
Xi Yu was confused. “Keep them safe for what? Stick them to your foreheads when you sleep. Otherwise, they won’t work.”
“Ah????” Father Luo hesitated. “Stick… stick them to our foreheads? Wouldn’t that be a little frightening…”
Before Father Luo could finish, Mrs. Luo slapped him and glared at him. Then she smiled ingratiatingly at Xi Yu. “We’ll stick them to our foreheads. Definitely. We’ll listen to Xiaoyu.”
Luo Chengan protested, “I’m not sticking it on! Xi Yu, don’t bring that fortune-telling nonsense back here! This isn’t under the overpass! We… wuwuwu…”
Mrs. Luo covered Luo Chengan’s mouth and said firmly, “Xiaoyu, he’ll stick it on.”
Xi Yu looked at his now-empty hand, then at the thick stack of talismans in Mrs. Luo’s hands. He asked uncertainly, “You want all of them?”
Before Mrs. Luo could say anything, Xi Yu put on a pained expression. “Fine. We’re all family.”
Hearing the words “all family,” Mrs. Luo’s eyes suddenly reddened.
Before she could become emotional enough to cry, Xi Yu took out a card reader.
“Evil-Repelling Talismans are twenty each. Since you’re taking so many, I’ll give you the wholesale price. There are seventy-three in there, which comes to 1,460. I’ll round it off for you—1,500.”
Luo Chengan angrily pulled down Mrs. Luo’s hand. “Who rounds off like that!? With the way you do business, you haven’t been beaten to death yet… wuwuwuwuwuwu!”
Mrs. Luo covered Luo Chengan’s mouth with both hands. The smile on her face was somewhat stiff, but she still said gently, “It’s only right. Xiaoyu worked hard to draw them.”
“Old Luo, pay him.”
“Sure thing.”
Father Luo took a card from his wallet. Xi Yu operated the card reader with a flurry of beeps, then returned the card to Father Luo with a beaming smile.
“Welcome to shop with us again~”
With that, he stood up and walked toward the door.
Mrs. Luo hurriedly stood up. “Where are you going?”
Father Luo and Luo Chengan also stood up, looking as though they were about to stop him.
Xi Yu picked up his plastic bag from the doorway and carried it inside. Looking at the three serious faces, he asked,
“Where’s my room?”
Xi Yu took a hot shower, then rolled around on the soft bed with an utterly contented expression.
Finally, he did not have to sleep under a bridge anymore.
Although the Luo residence was surrounded on all sides by evil spirits and even had a soul-locking formation laid down, the environment was still first-rate.
Since he had occupied this body’s physical form, he might as well save its parents.
He could consider it rent.
That’s right.
Xi Yu was not the owner of this body.
He had died a thousand years ago, his primordial spirit shattered and his soul scattered. It was not until twenty years ago that he suddenly opened his eyes inside this body.
Xi Yu did not understand how he had managed to come back to life, much less in this manner, but that did not stop him from being happy.
Being alive was wonderful. Who would not want to live?
Xi Yu hugged the blanket between his legs, yawned, and asked the person who had been standing outside the door for at least half an hour,
“Are you coming in? If not, I’m going to sleep.”
Luo Chengan at the door: “…”
Luo Chengan pushed open the door and reluctantly walked over to the bed, his face gloomy.
“This was originally my room.”
Xi Yu sat up and asked uncertainly, “Then should I leave?”
Luo Chengan paused. “That won’t be necessary.”
“Then… you leave?”
The moment Xi Yu said this, Luo Chengan instantly looked like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. His face darkened.
“In your dreams! I’m telling you, all the Luo family’s properties, companies, stocks—all of them are yours! But if you want to drive me away, I have plenty of ways to kill you!”
“You should know who I am, right?” Luo Chengan said proudly. “A big star! If you want to drive me away, I’ll definitely find someone to expose you online. By then—hehe.”
Xi Yu was silent for a moment. He pointed seriously at Luo Chengan’s head and suggested,
“Have you ever considered getting this checked?”
Luo Chengan’s smug expression froze. He angrily pointed at Xi Yu.
“You shameless street vendor who cheats people actually dares to insult me!”
He was trembling with anger.
“Looks like I have to let you see what my methods are!”
After saying this, Luo Chengan looked around. Suddenly, he picked up the glass beside the bed and let out a cold laugh before smashing it hard onto the floor!
Xi Yu: “…”
“You have to clean the floor afterward, okay?”
He really did not want to sweep.
Hearing the hurried footsteps outside, a malicious light flashed in Luo Chengan’s eyes.
“Xi Yu, I’ll teach you what methods are.”
After saying that, Luo Chengan fell to the floor, looking as though he were about to burst into tears.
“I know you don’t like me, but please, don’t drive me away.”
Then he turned his head and saw Father and Mother Luo frozen at the doorway. His expression immediately became panicked, and he hurriedly got up to explain.
“Dad, Mom, Xi Yu didn’t push me on purpose. I accidentally fell myself. Don’t blame him. He just hates me—”
Luo Chengan sniffled twice, his eyes wet with tears.
Xi Yu: “…”
Sometimes he really wanted to call the police, but he had no idea how he was supposed to explain this to them.
Xi Yu simply gave up and looked toward Mr. and Mrs. Luo.
“I have no way to defend myself.”