Chapter 18: Trouble Has Arrived

“Suisui, Niannian, both of you, come here for a moment.”

Song Bai called out to Song Suisui and Song Niannian.

Song Niannian: “Coming, just let me put something down.”

Song Suisui: “Coming!”

Song Suisui entered Song Bai's room first and asked curiously, “Brother, what is it that you need us for?”

“Wait until Niannian gets here, then we'll talk together.”

Just as he finished speaking, Song Niannian arrived.

“I'm here. What's up, Brother?”

Seeing that everyone was present, Song Bai instructed Song Niannian, who was near the door, to close it.

“Brother, why are you being so mysterious?”

Song Bai smiled, then pulled out two antique-style vanity boxes from under the bed.

Although Song Suisui didn't know how to appraise antiques, she could tell that these two vanity boxes were made of expensive materials.

“These are good things I scavenged from the scrap yard. Take them back and use them.”

“Brother, there must be more than just these vanity boxes. If it were just these, you wouldn't need to be so mysterious,” Song Niannian said, knowing her eldest brother well.

“Hehe, each of you pick one. You'll know once you open them.”

“Sister, you choose. I'm fine with anything.”

Seeing that the two vanity boxes looked much the same, Song Suisui said nonchalantly, “No need, Niannian, you choose first.”

Song Suisui glanced at her and saw Song Niannian smiling at her.

Since they were both more or less the same, Song Suisui stopped declining and simply took the one decorated with either plum blossoms or peach blossoms.

The other one, decorated with chrysanthemums, naturally went to Song Niannian.

After receiving the boxes, Song Niannian and Song Suisui opened them at the same time.

Inside Song Suisui's box was a pair of jadeite bracelets, a jadeite bead necklace, a gold bracelet, and a white jade Buddha.

Song Niannian's was similar, though her jadeite bracelet wasn't solid green, but rather "Spring Color" (multicolored jadeite).

After seeing the contents, Song Niannian and Song Suisui tacitly closed the boxes, placed them back on the table, and returned them to their brother.

“What do you mean by this?” Song Bai asked, looking bewildered.

Song Suisui glared at him. “What else could it mean? They're too valuable, so we're giving them back to you.”

“Yeah, Brother, keep these. You can give them to your future wife later.”

Song Bai: “...” He was speechless.

“Don't overthink it. It took me several years to scrape together enough to get these two vanity boxes; I specifically sought them out for you two. If you don't want them, haven't I wasted my effort?”

As he spoke, he pushed the boxes back toward them again.

Hearing this, Song Suisui and Song Niannian hesitated for a moment before finally accepting them.

Receiving the precious gifts, Song Suisui said to Song Bai with a beaming smile, “Brother, don't worry. Since I've taken your things, when you get married in the future, I will definitely prepare a luxurious dowry for you!”

Hearing this, Song Niannian also expressed that she would prepare a dowry for him.

After hearing their words, black lines appeared on Song Bai's forehead.

What on earth were these two talking about?

He was a grown man; did he need two little girls to provide his wedding gifts?

Wouldn't that make him look useless?

*Knock, knock, knock...* There was a knock on Song Bai's door.

Song Tong's voice came from outside: “Open up... You three are whispering without including me? That's so unfair! Open the door, quick!”

The three inside couldn't help but laugh at his words. Song Niannian opened the door and let Song Tong in.

Once inside, he plopped down onto the desk.

He wasn't surprised at all to see the vanity boxes Song Bai had given to Song Niannian and Song Suisui.

Instead, he looked at Song Bai teasingly and said, “You finally managed to get them together.”

Song Bai ignored him and said to Song Suisui and Song Niannian, “It's fine now. You two go back to your rooms and sleep. Suisui has been running around all day and must be tired and sleepy.”

“Alright then, we're going.”

Song Niannian and Song Suisui returned to their rooms, smiling as they clutched their respective vanity boxes.

Song Suisui opened her box to admire the contents once more, then stored the vanity box inside her spatial ring.

After being jolted by the truck all day until her bones felt like they were falling apart, Song Suisui fell asleep the moment her head hit the pillow.

Before sleeping, she always felt like she had forgotten something.

FF had waited all day without seeing any movement from Song Suisui.

It couldn't help but check what she was doing, only to see that she was fast asleep, snoring away.

It suddenly felt very wronged!

Clearly, when it arrived, the Main System had said that humans loved systems the most.

Yet its host didn't seem to like it very much.

How heartbreaking...

In her sleep, Song Suisui had no idea she had broken a system's heart.

At this moment, she was dreaming of sleeping on a bed of money.

In fact, the moment she received Song Bai's gift, the thought in Song Suisui's mind was: *Why would I need a golden finger? Why would I need some crappy system?*

*If I cling to the thighs of my brother and sister, I'll eventually lie flat and reach the pinnacle of life!!!*

...

After a night of sweet dreams, Song Suisui woke up early looking radiant.

Seeing Song Suisui happily brushing her teeth, Song Tong said to Song Bai with a smile, “I can't believe it, our Suisui is actually a little money-grubber!”

“Isn't that quite cute?” Song Bai replied with a light laugh.

Carrying a good mood, he went to his job at "Muddling Through" for the day.

After work, Song Suisui was preparing to wait for the bus to go home.

Suddenly, she saw a woman acting suspiciously, carrying a child out of an alleyway.

The moment Song Suisui saw her, she felt something was wrong!

So, she quietly followed.

After following her for a while, Song Suisui realized the woman's counter-surveillance skills were poor.

“She doesn't look like a human trafficker!”

Muttering to herself, regardless of whether she was a trafficker or not, Song Suisui continued to follow.

Because the woman looked too strange; the way she looked at the child just now was as if she were looking at a dead person.

That was why Song Suisui continued to follow; after all, her combat strength was more than enough to handle this woman.

Following unhurriedly behind the woman, Song Suisui was curious to see where she was taking the child.

Walking along, they eventually went further and further away, finally arriving at a riverbank.

Seeing the woman stop, Song Suisui suddenly felt a jolt.

*Holy crap! This woman isn't going to throw the child into the river to drown, is she?!*

Song Suisui's guess was correct. The woman lifted the sleeping child and was about to throw them into the river.

However, just as the child left her hands, Song Suisui snatched them back in a hundred-meter sprint.

Of course, she fell into the river because of it, but when had Song Suisui ever suffered a loss? Before falling in, she also knocked the woman into the river.

As she fell into the water, the child in her arms would surely swallow a few mouthfuls of water.

Fortunately, Song Suisui knew how to swim. A few seconds after falling into the river, she surfaced. She lifted the child above the water and swam toward the shore.

The woman was clearly also a swimmer; seeing that Song Suisui had saved the child, she swam toward her.

Song Suisui felt a gaze filled with malice. Looking back, she immediately met a pair of eyes as venomous as a snake's.

She couldn't help but curse inwardly and quickly swam toward the riverbank.

The child had actually woken up when they fell into the water.

However, Song Suisui had covered his nose and mouth; it was only when she lifted him above the water that she released her grip.

Although the child was terrified into a stupor, he was very smart. Knowing that Song Suisui was saving him, he didn't struggle after waking up and obediently let her hold him.

But looking at his blank expression, Song Suisui wasn't sure if he had been scared witsless!

(End of Chapter)