Rong Ci watched his bright smiling face and didn't speak. Su Jingyang continued to greet him hey hey. Rong Ci squinted his eyes and immediately took a step back, saying to him, "Smiling so treacherously, what do you want to do?"

Su Jingyang's eyes were bright and his tone was passionate: "Nothing, really nothing. It's just that when I saw you, it's like I saw the light: hope, the lamp that guides me forward...!"

Rong Ci hissed, interrupting him: "Say it directly."

"Oh," Su Jingyang said: "Someone wants to mess with us. You know martial arts, we'll be more at ease together with you."

Rong Ci's eyes flickered slightly when he heard his words, his expression was a little more solemn and he glanced around.

"Don't look for them, they just noticed that I found them and dispersed. I don't know which corner they're hiding in waiting for an opportunity to move."

Rong Ci's voice softened and he lifted his chin at him, signalling to him: "Hurry up, I'll wait for you." Su Jingyang nodded happily and said vigorously, "Alright, I'll be ready soon!"

In fact, everything was already cleaned up, they just needed to turn off the lights and close the doors. After Su Jingyang finished, he led Ah-Xuan with Ling Li and said to Rong Ci who had been waiting by the door: "Let's go."

Rong Ci walked forward side by side with Su Jingyang. Looking sideways towards him, he asked, "If I didn't come today, what were you going to do?"

Su Jingyang answered honestly, "Of course we'll spend the night in the restaurant. After all, we have a child, I can't force a confrontation with Ah-Li."

Rong Ci was speechless: "What if I haven't come today, but tomorrow or the day after tomorrow?"

"We'll rely on the officials of course, I don't believe a mere restaurant can bend the law." Su Jingyang felt that the boss was crazy, using means like these against a competitor was disgusting. It was better to spend that time figuring out how to improve their business. Su Jingyang thought for a while and then said: "It's impossible, plus, I can ask Young Master Liang to help me out... hey, why are you looking at me like that?"

Rong Ci said coldly: "Looking for Young Master Liang every day, blabbering about Young Master Liang every day, are you planning to marry him in the future?"

"When did I go looking around for Young Master Liang every day? When? I'm merely friends with him. I beg you, don't talk nonsense. "

Rong Ci said: "Since you're just friends, there should be a distance between friends."

Su Jingyang said strangely: "Distance between friends? It stands to reason that you and I aren't friends, what distance should be between us then?"

Rong Ci seemed to be stopped by this. He blinked and said nothing for a moment.

Su Jingyang's voice was a little lower, "Besides, I won't stay here in the future, and I won't be with anyone here, so don't just randomly guess about it."

Rong Ci's pace paused for a moment, and his gaze slowly fell on Su Jingyang. His red lips moved and he was about to speak, Su Jingyang suddenly let out a puzzled sigh and turned his head to looked behind him.

Ling Li silently led Ah-Xuan behind them several steps without even noticing his very slow crawl. Su Jingyang called Ah-Li, Ling Li seemed to suddenly return to his senses. He suddenly raised his head, looking at him with a confused expression.

"Ah-Li, you have to follow us!" Su Jingyang hurriedly ran back and pulled him to the front and walked together, letting him and the child be sandwiched between the two. Su Jingyang felt that it was safer in the middle, so he did this subconsciously. He didn't notice that Ling Li's figure was a little evasive.

Ah-Xuan rubbed his eyes and asked Su Jingyang to hold him. It seemed that he was very sleepy. Su Jingyang picked him up and let him sleep on his shoulder. Ling Li quietly walked behind, while Su Jingyang held the child, he quietly went to position himself on the side.

Ah-Xuan fell asleep after a while, and no one spoke anymore.

Su Jingyang always noticed that Rong Ci had been staring at him from time to time, but when he turned his head to confront him about what he was looking at, his eyes were looking elsewhere.

Su Jingyang returned home confused. Maybe that group changed their plan, maybe they were amazed by Rong Ci, such a spirited person. Anyway, they didn't encounter any trouble on the road.

Su Jingyang remembered what he was going to do today. At night, he didn't sleep together with Ling Li. When he packed up and laid on the bed, he just closed his eyes and immediately entered the dream. Strangely, that the man didn't entangle him like usual, but lay motionless, breathing gently.

Su Jingyang sat cross-legged and thought, remembering that the system no. 1 said that this person actually had no self-consciousness, but because of the strong willpower, has innate reactions. So, even though this person isn't aware of the current situation, he also wanted to resist the system?

How badly Su Jingyang wanted to work with him to kill that dog system! ! ! However, this idea was too naive, and reality was too cruel.

If they didn't do it today, the two of them might not be able to get out of this dream.

Su Jingyang propped his cheek and sighed silently in the darkness. After a while, Su Jingyang felt himself getting drowsy. Su Jingyang suddenly noticed the person next to him begin to get impatiently agitated, turning over from time to time. It seemed that the system's control still wasn't enough.

When the man turned over, he accidentally touched Su Jingyang's leg. His breath suddenly stopped, and finally, he no longer endured it. He pulled the still slightly unresponsive Su Jingyang and pressed him under him.

Su Jingyang closed his eyes and gritted his teeth while enduring the violent collision of this person in his body. He was still thinking if all this was really just a short and fuzzy dream for the man, it would be better if it weren't so real and long.

But since the second time he woke up, Su Jingyang stared at the stubbornly discoloured mole on the palm of his hand and sobered. This kind of life can only continue to the uncertain future.

It'd be better— it'd be better to just get pregnant and give birth to a baby with gritted teeth. At least he wouldn't be depressed because of this strange man again and again.

When he realized what he was thinking, Su Jingyang's eyes widened in horror. He suddenly sat up,— what was he thinking of? Did he just think about giving birth to a baby? ! ! He was in disbelief, and he felt that the only reason he would have such subconscious musings was because he'd been persecuted by the system for too long. He was going crazy! Su Jingyang suddenly lost control of his emotions. With a quilt over his head, he slammed his head against the wall and made a loud noise. He then fell back on the bed, frightening Ah-Xuan, who had just got dressed and went to come to play with him, into fainting.

...

When Rong Hua came, she found Rong Ci feeding the chickens in the yard again. She couldn't help showing his admiration, "I never would've thought that you would treat a chicken so preciously!!"

Rong Ci glanced at her with black eyes, saying: "Because it's unlucky if it dies, I'll be scolded."

"What's unlucky? Who'll scold?"

"Come in." Rong Ci didn't answer her questions.

When Rong Hua followed and sat at the table, she soon forgot about this and talked to him about business, "Your dear mother's crying with the elders every day, saying that you've failed her hard work and are unwilling to follow her arrangements." She sneered coldly: "It's funny, you're the City Lord and the patriarch of the Rong clan. When have you ever needed to follow her arrangements? What's more, it's your marriage. Her face is really thick."

Rong Ci laid down on the recliner, using his arms as a pillow. It seemed as if he was wandering away with the clouds thinking about something, uncaring about what she said.

Seeing that he was indifferent, Rong Hua didn't get angry but said annoyedly: "I think, if she wants you to get married so much, you should just marry Jingyang back! Didn't the Wizard say that you're destined to have no children unless you meet the alien of the world and marry him back? Maybe Jingyang's the alien? Marry him and you'll have children, isn't that good?"

When Su Jingyang was mentioned, the expression on Rong Ci's face was only slightly different. The corners of his mouth moved, "Alien being? He's a purely different breed."

Rong Hua was very annoyed, "Master Wizard, too. He only knows this, isn't he unable to figure out when and where this person will appear? Rong Ci, you should also think of a way. The situation in Rongcheng really isn't optimistic."

Currently, the population of Rongcheng city had been declining every year, the number of newborns had also been decreasing year by year. This was all because of the orthodox Rong bloodline numbers being too insufficient to fill the energy of the Wuqun Mountain. Although Rong Ci had already laid down a law that allowed intermarriage with foreigners, there was still little effect in the short term. If the situation continues, Rongcheng's decline will be a foregone conclusion.

Rong Hua asked, "Do you really want to give way to your brother later?"

Rong Ci shook his head and sarcastically said, "Even if this position's handed over to him, he won't be able to sit on it."

Rong Hua frowned and wondered, "What do you mean? Why wouldn't he be able to sit on it? Isn't he your father's..." Rong Hua stopped abruptly. She immediately realized and looked at Rong Ci with a face full of disbelief, "No! How could it be?! How could your father allow this to happen?!"

Rong Ci's eyes were dark, without making a sound. Rong Hua stared at him for a while and continued to ask: "Rong Xia is really not your father's child?"

Rong Hua thought of something and suddenly stood up, asking him: "What about you? Do you and that woman have a mother-son relationship?"

Rong Ci looked at Rong Hua for a moment and said, "No, she didn't give birth to me."

Rong Hua stood up abruptly. She clutched the whip in her hand, face full of anger. He kept walking back and forth, "No wonder, no wonder. That woman has been bad to you, cursing you to die when you were at your weakest! It turns out you're not mother and child!" Rong Hua stopped and looked at him again. "But why the hell is this?! Why did your father do this?! And that woman, is her brain filled with mud? He doesn't have the blood of the Rong clan, yet she wants her son to be the Lord of the City. I think she wants to kill him! You might as well fulfil her wish!"

"My father did this, he has his own reasons." Rong Ci said slowly: "That woman has a simple mind, she doesn't even know the responsibilities of a matriarch and City Lord. Let her make trouble. As I said, she can't make any waves."

Rong Ci didn't continue the topic. He raised his eyebrows and said to Rong Hua: "Aren't your hands itching? Go and solve some personal matters with me."

Rong Hua was full of irritability with nowhere to vent. She knew that Rong Ci wouldn't easily tell her these things, she could only agree for the time being.

The two were about to set off. As soon as they entered the yard, they suddenly heard the person next door slashing something vigorously. Su Jingyang's voice was also very noticeable.

Rong Ci curled his lips and left Rong Hua without even thinking about it. He leapt over the wall and fell lightly, approaching Su Jingyang in a very leisurely manner.

"Being so noisy so early in the morning, what are you doing?" After Rong Ci asked, the smile on his face gradually disappeared. He lowered his eyes and saw that Su Jingyang's face was flushed with hard work, cutting something.

It was the ladder that Su Jingyang used to climb up the wall every day.

To talk to him, deliver food to him, quarrel with him, and often peep over the wall.

Now, this ladder was being chopped down.

Su Jingyang took the time to raise his head and saw him suddenly appear, but he wasn't very surprised, people with martial arts always like to brag. Su Jingyang continued to chop the ladder with his axe, panting while he replied: "This ladder's broken, and there's no firewood at home, so I'll chop it to use as firewood! I can also use it to roast sweet potatoes, aren't I very witty... Huh???"

Su Jingyang straightened up and looked at the figure that had turned and flew away. He wiped off his sweat with a puzzled expression, took a deep breath, and continued to chop the ladder.

*eating sweet potatoes*