Chapter 38: Who Wouldn't Want to Be Kept?

Ye Chen, upon hearing the person's words on the other end of the phone, was instantly shocked beyond measure.

"What the heck is this? What unforgettable night? I'm still just a kid!"

Ye Chen thought to himself, he had figured it out—the person calling was just looking for trouble.

"I don't know you at all, and besides, I'm just a kid—I've had no 'unforgettable night' with you."

After Ye Chen spoke, loud laughter came from the other end, her voice clear and lovely to hear.

But at this moment Ye Chen was puzzled, she furrowed her brows and asked, "What are you laughing at?"

"I'm laughing at your wild imagination."

The girl on the other end of the phone said while laughing.

"Huh?!"

Now Ye Chen was even more confused.

The girl on the other end seemed to sense Ye Chen's confusion and spoke up to explain: "Do you still remember that night when someone matched hacking skills with you?"

Ye Chen, upon hearing that, immediately blurted a curse, "Damn! It's you!"

"Yeah, it's me—surprised or not, expected or not?"

The voice on the other end was playful, but after Ye Chen learned her identity, hearing it now felt like a completely different scene—he felt utterly terrified.

"I really do feel quite surprised and quite unexpected."

After Ye Chen spoke, he also realized a problem: with such terrifying learning ability, if placed in the world of cultivation, this person would definitely be a child of destiny for a realm.

"Bringing her along might yield unexpected gains."

Ye Chen thought to himself, having made up his mind, if there's a chance he will definitely go meet this person.

At that moment, the voice on the other end rang again: "Want to meet? It's also a good chance for me to see what kind of monster you are."

"Me? Fat-headed and big-eared, wearing sexy little white socks—you sure you want to look?"

After Ye Chen spoke, a disdainful voice came from the other end: "Isn't that just Zhu Bajie? Fine, I'll wait for you at the coffee shop on Donghuan Lu—hurry up."

Before Ye Chen could say anything, the other end hung up.

Ye Chen glanced at his phone watch, brows slightly furrowed, "I didn't even know what excuse to use to meet her, yet she proposed meeting—what a coincidence."

After Ye Chen spoke, his body moved accordingly; he found a deserted corner, resumed his true form, and rushed to Donghuan Lu.

He said to that person that he was still just a child, to match his identity, and doing so would also lower the other's guard, which would be advantageous for his gathering in.

Ye Chen clearly understood that such heaven‑chosen ones usually have their own pride and won't easily be used by others; his doing this was to strike at her Dao heart, making her serve him.

Ye Chen's speed was fast; at the eleventh minute he arrived at the place she had mentioned.

Ye Chen entered the coffee shop; the moment he stepped in, he heard a familiar voice humming a song, and he walked toward the direction it came from.

That person hadn't noticed Ye Chen's arrival, still humming, until Ye Chen sat down opposite her, and then she reacted.

She looked at Ye Chen, a hint of confusion in her eyes, and said to him, "Little kid, I'm waiting for someone here—why don't you go elsewhere?"

After hearing her words, Ye Chen chuckled slightly and said, "Oh? You say there's a chance the person you're waiting for is actually me?"

After Ye Chen spoke, the girl's face filled with disbelief.

Seeing her reaction, Ye Chen said, "Actually you don't need to be so surprised; let's properly introduce ourselves—I'm Ye Chen."

After hearing Ye Chen's words, the girl finally came to her senses, responding somewhat dazedly, "I'm Gan Yi."

She had thought Ye Chen was at least a high schooler, never imagining he wasn't even in elementary school; now she felt her proud talent, in Ye Chen's eyes, was utterly feeble.

"How did you find me?"

Ye Chen asked, he was very curious about this, after all that day he clearly remembered he had erased all traces, so she shouldn't have been able to find him.

Upon hearing Ye Chen's words, Gan Yi sighed, seeming still to lament the huge gap between people.

Ye Chen also didn't rush Gan Yi's answer, but waited quietly.

After a moment, Gan Yi seemed to come back to her senses, accepting the fact; she looked at Ye Chen and said, "Actually that day, before you logged out, I had locked onto you, but you cleared things too fast, so I didn't fully lock on.

However, I have an advantage—I can keep watching the computer, but you can't, so I just lurked, lurking on your parents' use of that computer to go online, thus I could lock onto you."

After hearing that, Ye Chen bluntly called it rash.

"Want something to eat?"

Gan Yi asked Ye Chen.

"No thanks, tell me why you came looking for me."

After Ye Chen spoke, Gan Yi immediately replied, "I said it already—I want to see what kind of monster you are."

"Now you see—I'm not a monster, I'm human."

"Tch, what if you're some ancient monster?"

Ye Chen: "?!"

Gan Yi seemed to notice Ye Chen's off mood, and whispered to him, "I'm telling you, some things are better believed to exist than not; some things should still be treated with reverence."

Gan Yi said this; after Ye Chen heard her words, he instantly felt she knew something—after all, someone like her who often "surfs the net" always finds things ordinary people don't know.

"Oh? According to what you're saying, you don't believe in science?"

"I naturally believe in science, but the world is huge—some things really can't be said."

Gan Yi told Ye Chen, seeming not to regard him as a child at all, telling him everything.

"So what do you believe in?"

Ye Chen asked.

"I believe in everything, but I don't believe in fate; when I was in junior high, my teacher told me that with my stupid brain, learning anything would be pointless, yet I don't believe in fate, and now all my hacking skills are self‑taught."

After Gan Yi finished speaking, Ye Chen gave her an admiring look; he is a cultivator with divine sense, his learning ability unknown how many times stronger than an ordinary person's, yet even so he only managed to tie with Gan Yi.

"Some teachers truly don't deserve to be teachers."

After Ye Chen spoke, Gan Yi nodded, quite in agreement with his words.

Just as Ye Chen was about to say something more, he suddenly saw that Gan Yi's body was surrounded by rings of light!

At the same moment, the system's voice suddenly sounded in his mind.

【Your luck is not bad; you actually met a person bearing the Mandate of Heaven. Although he is still just an ordinary person now, his future achievements are limitless. If possible, I hope you, the host, will get on well with him, after all, who wouldn't want to eat soft rice?】

The system's words left Ye Chen in silence.

"System, you really understand me; I have bad teeth, so I just like eating soft things."