Chapter 51: This isn't making things difficult, it's helping

"Is it you?" Qingshan Li was stunned for a moment.

The hand holding the bamboo sword loosened a little, but his brow furrowed.

"This isn't my fault," Miyase Yaeko said with a smile. "Think about it yourself—after seeing the pictures you sent, who could still resist the impulse in their heart?"

That was true.

Seeing her appearance, her hair seemed not yet dry, and Qingshan Li's anger lessened somewhat.

"I can understand, but couldn't you wait for me to open the door?" he said.

"This is my subordinate's mistake." Miyase Yaeko changed into slippers and walked in. "When she knocked, I might have unintentionally shown a bit of anxiety, so she just rammed the door."

He really needed to move house.

This thin iron door was like a mad dog with a chain but no one holding it—very dangerous.

A female bodyguard walked in from outside the door, silently closing the door and standing like a rain umbrella at the entrance.

"Sit first." Qingshan Li put down the bamboo sword.

Miyase Yaeko knelt at the low table in the living room; her hair tips could even spread across the floor, a witch's gorgeous beauty arising naturally, a breathtaking aesthetic.

Even that broken table gained a touch of antique charm.

"Senior Miyase, this is all we have at home." Ono Mizuki poured a cup of water.

"Thank you." Miyase Yaeko smiled.

Qingshan Li sat opposite her, posture casual: "I haven't written the rest yet, totaling about three hundred pages of manuscript paper (four hundred characters per page)."

"When I read the three thousand words you sent me, I really wanted to know the next plot, but now that I'm in front of you, I'm not in a hurry anymore." Miyase Yaeko smiled. "Let's talk about something else."

Qingshan Li knew what she wanted to say.

"I plan to publish with Mikami Ai," he said.

"Did she arrive before me?"

"She called."

"I also thought about calling, but in the end I chose to come in person." Miyase Yaeko looked at Qingshan Li.

"I have already promised"

"I paid for the coffee, okay."

Ono Mizuki, who was gentle and quiet in front of outsiders, silently looked at Qingshan Li.

Since things had come to this, let the storm come more violently.

"Mizuki, why don't you pour me water?" Qingshan Li was displeased, very much like a chauvinistic Japanese man.

Ono Mizuki got up to pour water.

Without a doubt, Qingshan Li was a real man.

After Ono Mizuki brought the water, Qingshan Li spoke again, having thought it over during that time.

"Classmate Miyase, you're putting me in a difficult position," he said.

A criminal confessing his sins to a priest in the confessional—should the priest testify in court? Qingshan Li was in exactly such a dilemma at this moment.

"What I want is not this book, but your second one," Miyase Yaeko suddenly said.

". The second one?"

"The second one." Miyase Yaeko repeated. "Is that still difficult?"

Mikami Ai had specially established a publisher to publish her novel, spending so much thought and effort, only to publish one book.

Qingshan Li picked up the water cup and took a big gulp as if drowning his sorrows.

"Pfft!"

"This water... cough! Cough! Cough!"

"Sorry sorry!" Ono Mizuki hurriedly apologized to the guest.

"Miss!" The bodyguard had already rushed into the house.

Miyase Yaeko raised her hand, stopping the bodyguard's next move.

"The second book, plus the competitive publishing rights for all your future books, okay?" Miyase Yaeko asked.

"Yes, cough cough, yes! Sorry!"

In a sandpit, the effort made to survive was actually walking toward hell.

Only then did Miyase Yaeko take out a handkerchief and wipe the water splashes from her clothes.

"Excuse me." She stood up gracefully, bowing slightly to the two of them. "I look forward to your novel, and really want to see it soon."

After she left, the room seemed to still have a faint, rich fragrance.

"Didn't put too much salt, did you?" Qingshan Li smiled bitterly, his mouth still bitter.

"It seems I put you in a difficult position." Ono Mizuki said uneasily and guiltily.

"Quite the opposite, you saved me once." Qingshan Li's smile became happy.

"What's with the coffee?"

"Material collection." The smile began to disappear.

"Aren't my sister and I the first to read the novel you wrote?"

"After it's finished, you and Mika will definitely be the first. I only showed them three thousand words because I wanted them to publish it." Qingshan Li's expression was serious.

Ono Mizuki's seemingly casual question made him feel her true feelings: she was a bit upset about not being the first reader.

"Mm." Ono Mizuki spread her hands.

"Mm?" Qingshan Li was doubtful.

"I want to read it too."

"No, believe me, not letting you read it is definitely for your own good."

"Are you writing H novels?"

"'Living with My Blood-Unrelated Sisters, I Became an H Novelist to Earn Money and Support the Family, and They Voluntarily Help with Material Collection After Learning the Truth' — maybe there's a light novel like that, but there's no such reality. I don't write H novels."

"Brother."

"Hmm?"

"You're disgusting." Ono Mizuki's sweet little face was full of contempt.

"About that, I have self-awareness." Qingshan Li smiled.

That smile made Ono Mizuki dislike him, yet made her smile.

"I don't care!" She started acting spoiled, "I must see it!"

"You can look, but don't regret it, and don't blame me."

"Mm!"

The two came to Qingshan Li's bedroom.

"Here." Qingshan Li handed her 8 pages of manuscript paper.

"You've written so much." Ono Mizuki took it, looking while sitting down.

Then, she sat half-sitting half-standing, stunned there.

The handwritten manuscript paper seemed to have magic power; everyone who looked at it would have their soul taken away, experience another world, and then come back.

Qingshan Li put both arms on her shoulders, smiling as he pressed her down to sit.

He inadvertently glanced at her neckline.

She needed to buy new clothes; the clothes Ono Mizuki was wearing were so old the neckline could be used as a plate right there.

Qingshan Li retreated, sat on the bed, then lay down with both arms as a pillow behind his head, slowly revealing a smile.

—System, thanks.

The system helped not only him, but also the Ono Sisters.

Just because of this, he wouldn't feel ashamed for using the system.

He would continue using the system, making himself more reliable, letting those he cared about gain happiness, and making the world more lively.

Besides, he wasn't doing bad things.

Geniuses in various fields, second-generation rich born with great wealth and status — he who possessed the system was only slightly better than their innate conditions, with not much difference.

His abdomen suddenly felt a heavy pressure, Qingshan Li almost bent into a lobster.

Then his gaze was blocked.

"What about the sequel?!" Ono Mizuki rode on him, pointing at the manuscript paper and shouting loudly.

Qingshan Li smiled leisurely: "I said don't look, but you insisted on looking yourself."

"Sequel! Sequel! Sequel! I want the sequel!"

"Don't sit, don't sit!" Qingshan Li's stomach was almost flattened, his whole body about to turn into an hourglass, letting out a scream.

Being chased from home until running out of the corridor, Ono Mizuki gave up.

If serialized online, it really might happen that "because the novel I wrote was good, I was kidnapped by a beautiful girl."

Why not an uncle? Only the system welcomed uncles.

Qingshan Li caught his breath, breathing the fresh air of the cool spring night, and smiled.

On the way back, also send the photo to Ono Mika; who knows what she, who always acts like the elder sister, would become.

"Stop."

Near the Dental Hospital, the Earring Man, Long-haired Man, Red-haired Woman, and Blonde Girl with Black Butterfly Bow suddenly appeared.

"Oh!" Qingshan Li smiled, "I was looking for you too!"

Today was truly double happiness arriving at the door.

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