Qi Xiuyi is about to explode with anger!

Listen, just listen to these words.

What does he mean, there’s nothing that can be compared to him?

What does he mean, humiliating himself? What does he mean, it would be more effort-saving to lie at home??

It’s true that his transcript isn’t pretty.

But it’s also true that he’s never taken it seriously, never tried!

Qi Wendong hasn’t even witnessed his true potential. On what grounds does he dare to conclude that he’s incapable!

Qi Xiuyi angrily knocked away Qi Wendong’s hand that was pressed against his chest, grabbed him by the collar, and pulled him right in front of him.

Both his hands were injured and heavily bandaged, with only the tips of his ten fingers able to move slightly. This made his action less of a grab and more of a forceful pull.

Qi Xiuyi roared, “What do you mean, humiliating myself? If you’re so capable, then come and compete with me fair and square! What kind of skill is it to pull strings behind my back and have Dad make me repeat a year? Qi Wendong, don’t you look down on people!”

Qi Wendong raised his eyebrows high. “Oh, can’t see yourself clearly, and you’re mistaking kindness for ill will.”

“Fine, if you’re so capable, then make up for all the subjects you failed last semester. Do you have that ability?”

He saw the momentary stiffness on Qi Xiuyi’s face.

Taking the opportunity, he yanked his collar back, a victorious, mocking expression on his face.

“Oh my, that’s one or two dozen subjects~”

“But then again, I’m confident that even as a transfer student, I can make up for all the credits I’ve missed in two semesters. But that has nothing to do with you. If you had that kind of ability, you wouldn’t be here being laughed at by me.”

Qi Xiuyi had zero resistance to Qi Wendong’s taunts!

His brain, which had just been slightly cooled by reality, was instantly reignited with fury by Qi Wendong’s “Even as a transfer student, I’m confident…”!

Qi Xiuyi: “Who said I can’t?!”

Qi Xiuyi roared, “If you can, I can! Let’s compete with our grades next semester and see who’s more capable, you or me! If you have the ability to defeat me, then from now on, I’ll listen to whatever you say at home. How about it!”

“Beep.”

The sound of a phone suddenly cut through Qi Xiuyi’s rage.

His eyes, burning with anger, glared at the phone Qi Wendong was holding far away. The fire in his mind suddenly stalled.

At some point, Qi Wendong had already hung up the phone.

Now, the screen of the phone showed the system’s default recording interface. On the page, the striking “00:02:57” had already stopped ticking.

Seeing that he had finally noticed his phone, a particularly wide smile spread across the wicked, curly-haired young man’s harmless face.

His hand, held far out beyond the railing, lightly pressed the play button on the recording.

An overly familiar voice, distorted, roared from the phone:

“…That’s because I wasn’t trying to test well!…”
“…If you’re so capable, then come and compete with me!…”
“…Let’s compete with our grades next semester!… If you have the ability to defeat me…”

The expression on Qi Xiuyi’s face completely froze.

Qi Wendong unhurriedly extracted himself from his physical pressure, patted his own collar, and even leisurely tucked his hair behind his ear.

It was just that the smug pride in his bright eyes couldn’t be hidden at all.

Qi Wendong chuckled, lifting his eyelids to look at him. “Qi Xiuyi, as your sworn brother, my advice for you to repeat a year and switch majors is sincere. You still have the power to regret your choice now.”

“But if you insist on not listening to my advice and stubbornly compare yourself with me just for the sake of a little face, I’m not afraid to accept the challenge.”

“I don’t need you to be my dog and obey me if you lose. What’s the point of that?”

“How about we change the bet: from the day you fail, this recording will become the morning alarm for our entire family—especially you. You must listen to it to wake up every day. How about it?”

Qi Xiuyi’s eye twitched violently. He stared stiffly at Qi Wendong’s phone.

After a long moment, he forced out a sentence: “And what about you? If you lose, what’s your stake?”

Qi Wendong: “I advise you to calm down first, use your reason and think before you speak…”

He met Qi Xiuyi’s defiant gaze and sighed. “Alright, alright. Since you’re so unconvinced, then—”

“If I lose, from now on, I will do whatever you say at home. How’s that?”

At this age of fiery passion, a tiny spark could inexplicably ignite into a sea of fire.

Qi Xiuyi believed he was calm at this moment.

He believed he had limitless potential.

And he sincerely hoped to prove that he was no worse than the person in front of him.

Thus, he gritted his teeth, word by word, each word ringing with conviction: “It’s a deal. I will not lose.”

Qi Wendong smiled charmingly, composed and unhurried. “I hope your ability matches your stubborn mouth.”

Qi Xiuyi kicked the wall in anger and stormed off!

…

Lin Chen leisurely returned to his room, took off the clothes that had been messed up, and changed into a new set.

On his phone, which he had casually tossed aside, there was no call history at all.

The only thing there was a continuously blinking message notification.

Since the early morning, his message notifications had been popping up non-stop.

The sender, of course, was that good boss who was always concerned about his son’s fate.

03:36:37
Third Dad: [He ran away from home?!]
Third Dad: [Where did he go??]
Third Dad: [Is this what you meant by “a little risk”???]
Third Dad: [Don’t forget clauses XX and XX of the contract. If anything happens to him during your term of employment, you will be fully responsible!!]
Third Dad: [Answer the phone!]

03:40:05
Third Dad: [I’ll be at the private airport in twenty minutes.]
Third Dad: [If you can’t give me a good explanation and solution before I take off, I will make you regret sending that text message to my phone that day.]
Third Dad: [At that time, your first charge will be fraud.]

03:48:21
Third Dad: [How did you get his location? Did you put a tracker on him?]
Third Dad: [You deliberately forced him out of the house.]
Third Dad: [Aren’t you afraid something will really happen to him out there?!]

04:12:49
Third Dad: [Look at his injuries.]
Third Dad: […How can you sleep at this age when you hear the vibration and don’t look at your phone?]

04:41:33
Third Dad: [I told you to look at your phone, not to go to sleep!]
Third Dad: [An! swer! the! phone!!]

09:30:57
Lin Chen: [Yo, Third Dad Big Boss, why aren’t you sleeping so late at night?]
Third Dad: [Time difference.]
Third Dad: [(Screenshot of early morning records.jpg) Is this how you treat your big boss?]
Third Dad: [About the incident in the early morning, aren’t you going to give an explanation?]
Lin Chen: [Don’t pour so much unnecessary worry on a successful adventure. Success is success, there are no ifs, good daddy ^ ^]
Lin Chen: [Instead of dwelling on a successful adventure, how about you consider a question first—]
Lin Chen: [He’s not happy studying business. Has daddy considered letting him switch to a major he likes?]
Third Dad: […Unless absolutely necessary.]
Third Dad: [It’s a bit embarrassing.]
Third Dad: [If he really can’t handle business, I can donate another building to get him graduated.]
Lin Chen: [If you always carry him forward, when will he learn to walk on his own?]
Lin Chen: [But, I understand your attitude. Alright, then let’s watch a good show, voyeuristic Third Dad Big Boss!]

AC9999 was very interested in the messages on the host’s phone and read them much more diligently than the host did.

As soon as the host returned to the room, it cheered happily in his mind: “Host, host! Look at your phone, Third Dad Big Boss praised you!”

Lin Chen was confused. “Why do you call him Big Boss too?”

The System said loudly, “Following the host’s lead, striving to be an excellent system!”

Lin Chen: “Then please remember, the boss’s boss is not your boss. Recognize who your host really is.”

The System: “Um… huh?”

Lin Chen leisurely changed his clothes, sat down at his desk, took out the notebook he had brought into the Qi family, opened the investment agreement document he was halfway through editing, and then reached for his phone to take a look.

Just as the System had said.
It was indeed a compliment.

Third Dad: [Truly worthy of thirty-six years of experience. You’ve got something.]

Lin Chen thought for a moment and, for once, replied seriously.

Lin Chen: [Entrust the money and your son to me. I’ll be diligent, you can be at ease ^ ^]

…

The winter break at B University was never long. Among all universities of the same level, it was often the school with the latest vacation and the earliest start of the semester.

Qi Xiuyi didn’t care about this.

He wasn’t much of a travel enthusiast. When he did travel far, nine times out of ten it was to attend an offline auction in another city.

So, the early or late start of the semester had almost no impact on him.

But this year, for the first time, he hated how early the school started.

Qi Xiuyi: “…Why do I have to stay at the dorm?!”

On the morning of the first day of school, Qi Xiuyi was so shocked by the bombshell Qi Wendong dropped at the dinner table that he jumped out of his chair.

Qi Wendong held his porridge, sipped it in small mouthfuls, and glanced up at him. “If you don’t dare to stay, then don’t. No one’s forcing you. Why are you getting so agitated?”

Qi Xiuyi grumbled with great dissatisfaction, “What do you mean, I ‘don’t dare to stay’? Qi Wendong, are you trying to start a fight again!”

Qi Wendong sighed leisurely. “Well, that’s true. Some people had to rely on cramming with me early in the morning just to barely pass two or three subjects last semester. If they were to live in the dorm, tsk tsk~”

Qi Xiuyi glared at him fiercely. “Don’t count your chickens before they hatch, Qi Wendong. The bet was about this semester’s grades, not last semester’s. What’s the point of you laughing at me for last semester’s subjects?”

Qi Wendong’s eyes crinkled with a smile. “Oh my, so confident. So, do you dare or not?”

Qi Xiuyi sneered. “Do you think the same trick will work on me twice? Heh, you underestimate me, Qi Wendong. Am I that impulsive? I won’t stay. I dare, but this young master just won’t stay. What are you going to do about it!”

A month ago, the day after Qi Xiuyi had challenged Qi Wendong, his mind had cooled down, and he quickly came to regret his impulsive actions from the previous day.

It was just that he had always been someone who cared about his pride and refused to lose.

Just like in the past when he could play around freely, at every auction, he, Qi Xiuyi, would never be soft-hearted or back down!

But the more it was like this, the more he disliked Qi Wendong.

He especially disliked the Qi Wendong who, every day during the vacation, would walk around in front of him with a professional book, occasionally taunting him with things like, “It’s still not too late to regret and admit defeat now. It’s just waking up to your own childish words every morning, what’s the big deal”!

So much so that after a month of being together, things like his father being busy expanding the market abroad and not being able to come home for the Spring Festival didn’t seem like a big deal anymore.

Now, every day and every night, his mind was only focused on one thing:

He had to make Qi Wendong genuinely bow his head to him and admit that his judgment was wrong!

—He really, really hated this condescending look on Qi Wendong’s face!!!

Therefore, even in a trivial moment like at the dinner table, Qi Xiuyi wanted to make Qi Wendong understand that he was not someone he could lead around as he pleased!

Who would have thought that in the face of his refusal, Qi Wendong showed no disappointment or annoyance at all.

Instead, he wore an expression that said he had expected it, nodded, and said, “You haven’t lived in a group setting before, have you? Hmm… it’s understandable if you don’t dare. With your temper, you’d probably get into a fight on the first day in the dorm.”

A slight chuckle escaped from Qi Wendong’s throat, as if in mockery, or perhaps in delight after teasing a small dog.

He casually placed his empty bowl on the table and turned to the butler, saying, “See? I told you there was no need to handle the dorm procedures for him. Just dropping me off at the dorm area will be enough. I have a lot of credits to catch up on this semester, so I won’t be coming back usually. If I have time on the weekend and want to come home, I’ll let you know in advance.”

“As for a certain someone who’s twenty and still doesn’t dare to leave home…” Qi Wendong said casually, “just let him stay at home. It’s not like we can’t afford to keep him.”

“What do you mean, I don’t dare to leave home?!” Qi Xiuyi couldn’t bear it any longer and leaped up in anger.

“Qi Wendong, don’t go too far! You want to stay at the dorm? Fine! Staying at the dorm it is, what’s the big deal! I’m telling you, Qi Wendong, with that mouth of yours, you’ll definitely get beaten up within three days of moving into the dorm. Don’t you come crying to my dorm asking me to help you get even!”