Chapter 636 - 398: Single Dog and Henpecked Husband

Chapter 636: Chapter 398: Single Dog and Henpecked Husband

"Whoosh..."

The hairdryer continuously blasted out waves of heat. Sitting at her vanity, Su Yue lifted a slender hand and ran her fingers through her soft hair.

After a short while, she had finished drying her damp hair.

Once her hair was dry, Su Yue reached out and pulled off the bath towel wrapped around her, revealing her stunning figure for a brief moment.

A moment later, Su Yue emerged from the bedroom, her figure swaying gracefully in a flimsy, white silk slip dress.

Upon reaching the living room, she was about to grab her phone to ask Lin Li to play some games with her.

Just then, her phone rang. It was a video call from her mother, Zheng Qiuyi.

DING-DONG.

Her slender finger tapped the screen, answering the call.

An ageless woman with a face mask on appeared on the screen, leaning against her headboard in a white bathrobe.

"Mom, what’s up?" Su Yue asked.

"Do I need a reason to call my own daughter?" Zheng Qiuyi retorted, gently tapping the mask on her face.

Completely outmatched, Su Yue looked at her mother and said helplessly, "That’s not what I meant."

Seeing her daughter surrender, Zheng Qiuyi smiled smugly. "Your father and I are coming back next Friday. Is there anything you want us to buy for you? I can bring it back."

Su Yue thought for a moment. She didn’t really need anything, so she shook her head. "There’s nothing I need."

"Forget I asked. It was a pointless question anyway," Zheng Qiuyi said. "I’ll go out shopping in the next few days. Autumn is just around the corner, after all! I’ll just pick out some clothes for you."

"Mom, please don’t. The clothes you buy are things I can only wear casually. I can’t wear them to school," Su Yue quickly protested.

She didn’t mean that the clothes her mother bought were tacky or didn’t suit her.

With Zheng Qiuyi’s sense of style, anything she picked out would naturally be high quality. The main issue was that the clothes she bought for Su Yue were always expensive.

As a regular teacher, showing up to school in an outfit that cost at least ten thousand yuan was simply inappropriate.

"Then just wear them on your days off! You can wear the clothes you bought yourself when you go to school," Zheng Qiuyi said dismissively.

"Alright, fine! Buy them if you want," Su Yue relented, knowing her mother had already made up her mind.

The two chatted for a while longer before Su Yue suddenly asked, "Where’s Dad?"

When her daughter asked about her husband, Zheng Qiuyi smiled and said, "Your dad went out to see an old friend." ℴℴ𝘮

"Oh." Su Yue nodded. She didn’t press for details; after all, her dad had a lot of friends, and she didn’t know all of them.

"Alright, I’ll let you go then. It’s Monday tomorrow, so you have work. Get some rest... Oh, right! When I go shopping, I’ll send you a few pictures before I buy any clothes. If you don’t reply, I’ll just decide for myself."

"Okay." Su Yue nodded, and then she and her mother ended the call.

After hanging up, she checked the time, pulled up her chat with Lin Li, and sent him a message.

Lin Li replied almost instantly. The two of them started a voice call and partied up for a game.

...

Several moths fluttered around a streetlamp. Every so often, one would spiral down into the nearby grass, twitch a few times, and fall still.

The dim, yellow light of the lamp illuminated a small patch of ground where two middle-aged men sat on a park bench. One was handsome with a refined air about him, while the other had rugged features and a wild temperament.

"Want a smoke?"

"Nah, I’ve got to head home soon. If my wife smells smoke on me, I’ll never hear the end of it."

"Tsk... Man. Being henpecked sounds terrifying."

"It’s not about being henpecked. Smoking is bad for you. She’s just looking out for me."

"Alright, alright, whatever you say. You’re not henpecked..."

"Liu Shijie," Su Chen began, "over the past decade, you’ve rarely returned to Blue Star. Even when you did, you’d only stay for a few days before heading back to the Spirit Realm. Is there a reason you’ve been back for so long this time?"

"Hah..." Liu Shijie exhaled, a plume of white smoke billowing from his lips. He then turned to his old friend.

"Recruiting."

"Recruiting?"

"Mhm. The main reason I’m back on Blue Star for so long is to recruit some people. Once I’ve gathered a full team, we’re going to explore a certain perilous land," Liu Shijie explained.

"Your squad still needs more people, even with its current strength? Sounds like the place you’re planning to explore this time is no joke," Su Chen remarked.

"You want to know more?" Liu Shijie said with a smile. "If you’re curious, I can tell you about the place we’re planning to explore."

Su Chen looked at his old friend’s smile and shook his head. "Forget it. I’m out of that life now. There’s no need for me to know all the details."

"..." Liu Shijie fell silent. He took a long, deep drag on his cigarette, its tip flaring brightly.

"Hah..."

Another long plume of smoke billowed from his mouth as he spoke.

"’The lap of luxury is a hero’s tomb.’ The ancients really knew what they were talking about... I remember when I first met you, you were always saying, ’So long as there’s life, there’s adventure.’ Look how things have changed."

"..." Su Chen was silent for a moment, then he smiled at his old friend. "To use the slang of today’s youth, a ’single dog’ like you could never understand the happiness of a man with a wife and daughter."