Chapter 18: One to Twenty

Big Brother, this is your compensation for wasted youth and emotional damage!

Lin Yaoyao handed Lin Qingshan a storage ring. Inside were a full five million spirit stones.

Compensation for wasted youth?

Emotional damage compensation?

Lin Qingshan had never heard such strange terms. Still, his sister had done all this to get justice for him.

“Yaoyao, thank you.”

Her brother must be hurting badly after having his engagement called off. Lin Yaoyao had no experience with love, so she didn’t know how to comfort him.

“Big Brother, Zhang Lingyu isn’t worthy of you. You’ll definitely meet a wonderful girl someday!”

The Zhang family had come to break off the engagement, and Lin Yaoyao had handled it with solid reasoning and perfect composure. Lin Xuanzhong was astonished. Was this still his daughter, the one who spent all her time eating, drinking, and being willful and spoiled?

“Little Five, you’ve grown up… you’ve become sensible! When I go down to the netherworld and see your mother, I’ll have something to say for myself.”

Lin Xuanzhong patted Lin Yaoyao’s head, tears almost falling from his old eyes.

Why was the little old man being so sappy?

Lin Yaoyao turned away and held back her tears. Even though she wasn’t the original owner, after three years in this world, she had long come to see the little old man as her true father.

“Dad, Big Brother, since I did so well, don’t I get a reward?”

Lin Qingshan and Lin Xuanzhong exchanged smiles and told her to pick whatever she wanted from the family storehouse. Any treasure was fine.

“Let me borrow the Golden Silk Armor and your life tablets.”

Golden Silk Armor? Life tablets?

Lin Qingshan looked incredulous. His little sister really hadn’t changed. She was starting to swindle her family again.

The Lin family’s Golden Silk Armor had been passed down through generations, always worn by the family head. The founding ancestor had escaped death many times on the Demon Realm battlefield thanks to that armor.

A life tablet carried its master’s spiritual energy and could automatically block attacks.

What would a girl want with these things?

Lin Xuanzhong worried that Lin Yaoyao was being lovestruck over some man again. Back then, to please that boy from the Bai family, she had given away the Lin family’s ancestral Xuanpo Spirit Stone.

“Little Five, are you planning to give these to some young master?”

Give them away? It seemed the little old man still thought she was the love-struck fool she used to be.

Lin Yaoyao quickly explained. She wanted the Golden Silk Armor and the life tablets so that she and Third Brother could pass the final round of the academy assessment.

The academy assessment?

Setting that aside, his useless son Lin Qingshan skipped every academy assessment by faking illness or making excuses. Lin Xuanzhong had long grown used to it.

“Yaoyao, don’t fool us with such a clumsy lie. Tell us the truth. What do you really need these for?”

Even Big Brother Lin Qingshan didn’t believe her. Lin Yaoyao couldn’t convince them no matter what she said.

Lin Yaoyao took out her identity token for the big competition. Lin Qingshan and Lin Xuanzhong took turns inspecting it, afraid of missing a single detail.

It was real!

The identity token was real!

Lin Xuanzhong was overjoyed. He clasped his hands and bowed three times to the heavens. He never expected his useless son and worthless daughter to actually pass the first two rounds of the academy assessment.

Ancestors, protect us!

Heaven bless the Lin family!

The little old man got this excited over an academy assessment. Lin Yaoyao laughed along.

Lin Qingshan gave her a thumbs up. “Yaoyao, great job!”

Just a little bit of progress, and her family gave her encouragement and approval. That feeling was wonderful.

In her previous life, if Lin Yaoyao ever failed to get first place, her parents would criticize, belittle, and blame her the moment she got home. Those scenes had been a nightmare she couldn’t shake off.

“Yaoyao, I’ll have someone deliver the Golden Silk Armor to you!”

“Life tablet, here!”

Lin Qingshan took off his life tablet without hesitation and handed it to her. Lin Qingshan was at peak Foundation Establishment, so his life tablet was more than enough for this big competition.

“Thank you, Big Brother. I’ll return it after the competition.”

Lin Qingshan shook his head. “No need. Keep it for protection. I won’t be competing in anything from now on, so I won’t need it.”

Then he made an excuse and left. She watched his dejected figure and felt terrible.

He had once been heaven’s favored son. A brother this good didn’t deserve this kind of fate.

Lin Xuanzhong also gave her his life tablet. Lin Yaoyao planned to give it to Lin Feiyuan for protection. That way, neither of them would get hurt in the big competition.

As for the Lin family storehouse, Lin Yaoyao thought it over and decided to tell Lin Xuanzhong after the competition.

The Zhang family had teamed up with the Ye family to come break off the engagement, and Lin Xuanzhong already had his hands full. As the family head, he had no peace at all. The Lin family was facing trouble from inside and out. Lin Yaoyao couldn’t bear to hit the little old man with another shock.

Lin Yaoyao had just returned to her courtyard when Chunyu rushed over, out of breath. “Miss, you’re finally back! Something huge has happened!”

Something huge?

“Third Young Master has gone to smash the Tianyuan Casino!”

Lin Feiyuan had come to the courtyard looking for Lin Yaoyao several times today but never found her. Chunyu saw that Third Young Master was very anxious, but she didn’t dare ask questions. She sent someone to look for Lin Yaoyao, but the search came up empty.

When the Zhang family came to break off the engagement, Lin Xuanzhong had dismissed all the servants from the front hall and forbidden anyone from coming near. Naturally, no one knew Lin Yaoyao was there.

When Lin Feiyuan left, he left behind only one sentence: “Tell your miss that I’m going to the Tianyuan Casino!”

Only after asking Baozi did Chunyu learn that Third Young Master was planning to smash the place. She was scared out of her wits and waited for Lin Yaoyao to return.

The Tianyuan Casino had branches all over the Nine Provinces Continent. Its background was mysterious and its power was enormous. Even little children knew the name of the Tianyuan Casino.

Offending them would bring destruction to the Lin family!

Lin Feiyuan, you have no brain! What madness had gotten into him?

Lin Feiyuan hadn’t been gone long, so Lin Yaoyao took a shortcut with Chunyu, hoping to stop him before he did something stupid.

Thank goodness!

Lin Yaoyao arrived at the Tianyuan Casino first and blocked Lin Feiyuan at the door. The guy had brought a lot of people. By the look of it, he really had come to smash the place.

“Third Brother, what are you doing? Send these people back right now!”

Lin Yaoyao didn’t give Lin Feiyuan a chance to argue. She directly scolded the group and told Chunyu to take them back for punishment.

Under Lin family law, assembling a crowd to cause trouble cost twenty lashes per person.

Lin Feiyuan shouted at them not to leave, but the look in Miss Five’s eyes could kill. Her presence was more imposing than the family head’s. No one dared make a sound. They all obediently followed Chunyu away.

“What’s gotten into you? Why did you bring people to smash a casino? Do you think you can afford to offend the Tianyuan Casino?”

Lin Yaoyao was truly angry this time. If she had been careless for a moment, Lin Feiyuan could have brought disaster to the entire clan.

The way Lin Yaoyao scolded people sent more fear through Lin Feiyuan than his father ever could.

“Yaoyao, the Tianyuan Casino has gone too far! They set up betting odds for the finalists of this academy assessment. Everyone else’s odds are one to two. But for you and me, they’re one to twenty! Isn’t that just looking down on us and treating us differently?”

Wow! There’s a good thing like this? That’s fantastic!

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