144 - Senior Said

Translated by rabbitrisu

“Miss Su Yi.” Su Zimo sat there and said directly. “The lipstick in your hand has an ominous aura, perhaps you should use it sparingly.”

Su Zimo chose not to hide anything at the dining table, but he didn’t deliberately want to embarrass Su Zixiang, who was Su Yi’s boyfriend.

It’s just that since Su Zixiang talked about breaking up with the illegitimate girl in front of everyone, he likely had some bad thoughts before bringing Su Yi here. At that point, Su Zixiang’s image as a good cousin in Su Zimo’s eyes was completely shattered.

Since Su Zixiang wanted to make Su Gan feel ashamed, Su Zimo didn’t have to stay his hands.

The most important thing, after all, was that this was the Su family dinner. The people present were the people closest to Su Zimo.

If he still had to hide in front of those people, then wouldn’t Su Zimo be too tired to live, ba?

Su Yi was stunned after being stopped by Su Zimo. She couldn’t even think for a while. She didn’t know what to do next. She just wanted to leave the meeting for a moment and find a quiet place to calm down and think about what kind of wish she should make next.

Although Su Yi was very cautious every time she made a wish, the lipstick paste was getting shorter and shorter, so every wish was important.

Did the Su family directly recognize her identity?

But even if she admitted that she was an illegitimate daughter, wouldn’t she still get nothing? She spent so much effort to not get some pocket money from the Su family!

While Su Yi was hesitating, Su Zimo’s words instantly pulled her back to reality.

What did he say…

The lipstick has an ominous aura?

What did he say…

It should be used sparingly?

Su Yi, who had risen from her seat with the lipstick, was stunned for a moment. She looked at the young man who sat at the main seat at the family dinner, who she hadn’t yet dared to look at. His thin-rimmed glasses reflected the crystal lamp in the dining room and concealed his eyes, but gave the seemingly young man a mysterious atmosphere.

“Momo?” Even Su Gan, who sat to his side, looked confused.

“It’s nothing, as long as Miss Su Yi understands.” Su Zimo smiled faintly. “Furthermore, Zixiang. It’s best not to say the words ‘illegitimate daughter’ so lightly. Even in ancient times, people could recognize their relatives by taking drops of blood and seeking evidence. Not to mention the development of the world today; paternity tests are much more powerful than Zixiang’s casual words.”

Su Gan couldn’t help his happiness. After all, his precious son was talking to him.

“It sounds, Zixiang, like you’ve already determined that this lady is an illegitimate daughter of the Su family. Are the skills you’ve learned over the years enough for you to support your guess without any evidence?” Su Zimo turned to look at Su Zixiang.

Su Zixiang suddenly felt right then that Su Zimo was no longer the ‘other child’ who had been defeated, let alone the patient who had been a ‘fool’ for four years. There was an inexplicable sense of oppression.

What’s even more strange was that some of this sense of oppression didn’t come from Su Zimo himself.

Yes, it seemed to come from behind Su Zimo… behind that person there seemed to be a pair of eyes staring at him intently.

It was a cold and lifeless look, even more terrifying.

“I thought Zixiang would be more cautious once he returned from abroad.” Su Zimo pulled his eyes away, pretending to speak with the tone of elders advising the younger generation. “Now that technology is so advanced, it’s not just paternity tests. Even if someone wants plastic surgery to look like another person, it’s not difficult. If the person that Zixiang brought to the Su family today has ill intentions, that would be bad.

“Why? As the head of the Su family, why is my cousin bullying an ordinary woman?” Su Zixiang averted his gaze and didn’t look at Su Zimo, then grit his teeth and said, “Just because she looks similar, you’re accusing her of deliberate plastic surgery?”

“It’s because I know her.” Su Zimo said casually. “The daughter of the owner of the flower tea shop in Jiangdu on Xincheng Street is named Su Yi. The last time I saw Miss Su Yi was in the first half of the year, right? At that time, she didn’t look like this, but her behavior, habits, and voice haven’t changed. Miss Su Yi was negligent.”

Su Zimo was actually guessing about the matter, but unlike Su Zixiang, he could say uncertain things as long as the evidence was conclusive.

When others looked at Su Zimo, they could also believe the same about the ‘conclusive evidence.’

Although Su Yi held a powerful ghost tool in her hand, her character was still that of a young woman who hadn’t graduated from university. She hadn’t experienced society, and she still liked to dream.

After being called out by Su Zimo, she couldn’t even think how to refute him. Su Zixiang, who had a certain understanding about Su Yi’s family background, also had a trace of doubt in his eyes.

But if Su Zixiang relented now, it meant that he was going to be under Su Zimo again. He continued ignoring Su Zimo, then snorted coldly and said, “Master Su, do you think plastic surgery is like a child pinching rubber? How could it be possible to have no traces left in such a short time?”

“Then you need to ask Miss Su Yi what the effect of the lipstick in her hand is.” Su Zimo’s performance was as calm as a clear sky.

Su Zixiang didn’t get angry, he laughed instead.

Su Zimo smiled without saying a word, and just looked at Su Yi.

“Su Zimo. The Su family is not yours to lay down the law, and no one will ask you to call a deer a horse! ¹ I also ask First Uncle Su and Su Yi to take a paternity test tomorrow. Is that alright? Su Yi, do you have a problem?” Su Zixiang was convinced that Su Yi must be Su Gan’s and Su Zimo was just trying to protect his shortcomings.

“I have no problems!” Su Yi finally found an opportunity and quickly nodded.

For Su Yi, not only was it easy to modify a paternity test, even if she took one now, there wouldn’t be a problem. It’s just that two people were needed for the paternity test, so Su Yi couldn’t take one now.

Su Yi answered very positively, so Su Zixiang relented and was even emboldened toward Su Zimo with a provocative tone.

“With that lipstick, it’s not difficult to modify the results of a paternity test.” Su Zimo didn’t waver at all. There was no need for him to waver.

Su Yi took a deep breath. Su Zimo’s tone sounded like he knew the lipstick in her hand very clearly, even better than she herself knew it.

“Okay!” Su Zixiang suddenly got up like Su Yi. His tone was difficult to conceal. “You really mean that a deer is a horse, complete nonsense. Su Zimo, I know you have never been able to understand me. We can be considered the same in that. Everyone knows what First Uncle has done! Even if you stop it now, the media will soon know about it!”

Su Zixiang spoke, almost threatening Su Zimo at the dining table.

It’s not that Su Zixiang, a top student who had just returned from abroad, was so capable. Even if he was studying abroad, he wouldn’t think of such a conspiracy.

It’s just that in Su Zixiang’s view, there was a factor that ensured his win in a fight against Su Zimo, so he spoke as bluntly as Su Zimo.

Su Zimo didn’t make any rebuttals toward Su Zixiang’s remarks that he ‘can’t understand him’ because he saw that his cousing had something to say. Instead of interrupting, he just sat there quietly, listening to Su Zixiang’s words.

“Su Zimo. You don’t have to think of me as an enemy vying with you for the wealth of our rich family.” Su Zixiang had a wry smile on his face. “In the beginning, I did try my best to make the Su family mine. Back then, after all, the Su family of this generation was left to my untalented father and a few similar uncles. You who had always had good prospects, became like that again. At that time, was I not the only one who could support the entire Su family without falling?”

Su Zimo smiled back. What Su Zixiang said really was the truth, and he thought so at the time.

Even if Su Hewen supported the Su family’s important business, he could always leave one day. It was impossible for him to accompany the Su family ’til the end, not to mention that Su Hewen never considered himself part of the Su family.

“I worked so hard for that goal, but in the end, the family business still fell into your hands. A person who was ill for four years suddenly came back to his senses at the right time to receive what I should have taken. I think this must be a big joke made by fate.” Su Zixiang sneered twice.

“Zixiang, what are you talking about?” The second son of the Su family interrupted.

In Su Duan’s heart, he had actually had the same idea as Su Zixiang countless times. Even now he felt that his precious son was the most suitable to inherit the Su family.

But the world had changed after all. The arrival of the nightmare world had turned many things upside down.

Su Duan knew that Su Zimo had some abilities that normal people couldn’t handle. The reason why he stopped him at that moment was because he hoped that Su Zixian wouldn’t be harmed by Su Zimo’s abilities.

But what Su Duan received was just the cold and contemptuous eyes of his son. From Su Zixiang’s point of view, his interruption was only denying his efforts and ambitions from beginning to end.

But soon Su Zixiang laughed again: “It’s a pity that you’re all wrong. I don’t have ambitions for the real wealth of the Su family. Those things are no different to me than mud on the ground. Whoever wants them can take them.”

Su Gan and Su Ni, who originally wanted to interrupt together, showed some strange expressions on their faces after hearing what their second nephew said.

Compared to Su Zimo, who didn’t care much about the situations of those around him, Su Gan the other two uncles were better able to understand their nephew Su Zixiang, including his ambitions that began showing when he was young and frivolous.

Although Su Zixiang was becoming more restrained, Su Gan and the others didn’t think his ambition would disappear so easily.

And… They didn’t know what wrong medicine Su Zixian took today, but he gave up his goal completely. It seemed like he was forgetting himself.

It’s just that when he said just now that he gave up contending for the Su family, his tone didn’t seem to be lying. That tone even shook Su Gan and the others.

Did Su Zixiang really give up competing with Su Zimo for the family property?

Although Su Gan thought that Su Zixiang’s ambition was impossible to attain from the start, he still thought this matter was a bit strange.

Seeing Su Zixiang’s appearance, it was as if he had gotten a treasure better than the Su family.

“Do you know why?” Before Su Gan and the others could ask, they heard Su Zixiang say something they heard often recently. “Cousin, this world has changed.”

Su Zixiang’s smile became confident.

“Really?” Su Zimo didn’t seem to understand what Su Zixiang was saying.

“Really.” Su Zixiang wasn’t surprised by Su Zimo’s performance. “Cousin, you shut yourself up in a crystal palace like this. You think you’re a dear son who is protected by the entire world… Even if you know a lot of news from the internet, you shouldn’t understand the influence the existence of the nightmare world has on the world today, right?”

“I know a little bit.” Su Zimo responded with a smile, as if he was talking face to face with a close cousin. He wasn’t moved by the passionate words, just like Su Zixiang’s previous speech.

His apathy and demeanor annoyed Su Zixiang, who usually thought that his self control was extraordinary.

If the person sitting in front of him right then was anyone other than Su Zimo, Su Zixiang would be able to maintain a gentleman’s attitude and slowly overcome his opponent’s mental defenses.

But it was Su Zimo sitting there!

To be honest, since Su Zimo fell ill four years ago, Su Zixiang felt that he finally found a chance to pick his name up out of the mud!

As long as Su Zimo fell, then his name would no longer overshadow him as it did when he was a child or even later in Su Zixiang’s future career.

But as fact had proved, when he saw Su Zimo standing there again, this ordinary human who looked fragile and weak could still easily provoke his emotions and anger.

Obviously… obviously just a small, ordinary person.

“Obviously just an ordinary person…”

In order to calm himself down and not forget himself, Su Zixiang said what he was keeping in his heart: “Cousin, you may not know that I’m a veteran who has experienced the nightmare world nineteen times.”

“By the way, you may not know what that identity means, do you? I can tell you that in this world, we are already the closest existence to spirits and gods.”

“So you’ve given up being a human being?” Su Zimo asked with a smile.

“……” Su Zixiang smiled again without anger. “You’re really a short-sighted ordinary person. I usually wouldn’t bother to communicate with you people, but as a member of the Su family, I still want to speak to you so you can live more comfortable in the approaching troubled times.”

“Trainers like us can come to realize the truth about the nightmare world. There are so many more words and so much more depth than what you can learn from the internet.”

“The appearance of the nightmare world isn’t a game created by aliens circulating on the internet. It’s existence is definitely not to help the trainers grow. Even if the nightmare world was really created by aliens, their purpose was not to help us, but to invade our world!”

When Su Zixiang said that, the rest of the Su family felt nothing.

Because of su Zimo’s relationship with Ghost Umbrella, they also knew a lot about the nightmare world. Especially for Su Gan, what Su Zixiang said wasn’t as scary as the horror stories his wife told when she was alive.

So while Su Zixiang was speaking energetically, his father Su Duan looked at him in surprise, and Su Yi beside him looked at him in admiration.

Those two pairs of eyes were good enough for Su Zixiang.

But when Su Zixiang looked at the people he really wanted to shock, he found that Su Zimo was apathetic, Su Gan was apathetic, and Su Ni was busy playing with his daughter…

Apathy, apathy, apathy, apathy…

The most irritating thing was that the housekeeper and the maid standing off to the side were also apathetic!

Ignorant ordinary people!

“There are only a handful of people who have experienced the nightmare world nineteen times.” Su Zixiang was forced to emphasize again.

Housekeeper Mu, who had experienced the nightmare world nineteen times, looked at the second young master apathetically.

“Don’t think that the ghosts in the nightmare world have nothing to do with ordinary people like you. As the nightmare world appears hear longer and longer, more and more ghosts will appear in the real world where you can’t see them! They may even be next to you!”

The expression of the group of people were calm. Su Zixiang felt like someone had grabbed his nose and punched him.

“Didn’t I say it before? Su Yi has a physique that attracts malicious spirits, and I’ve dealt with several malicious spirits following her. If there aren’t any veterans like me who can get rid of malicious spirits, even if you’re the head of the Su family, one day you’ll be attacked inexplicably. It may be a ghost that’s hidden from ordinary people like you.”

“As for the consequences, I won’t say more.” After Su Zixiang finished speaking, he took Su Yi beside him and sat down together.

“You can continue protecting the Su family business, and I’ll continue rising.” Su Zixiang looked at Su Zimo. “But I still want to remind everyone that when the nightmare world completely invades, the numbers in any industry, stock, or bank will become worthless.”

“The future of this world depends on the actions of trainers.” Su Zixiang relaxed. “Ordinary people can also buy ghost tools that trainers use, but most of the products sold now are inferior. The Su family’s abilities may not permit you to buy good ghost tools.”

After Su Zixiang said everything he wanted to say, his entire body felt at ease, as if he had been oppressed by Su Zimo for only a small portion of his life. Today was the most comfortable day for him.

Then, he began looking at everyone sitting at the table with a look asking ‘do you understand?’

When Su Zixiang looked at Su Zimo, he heard the other person ask calmly: “So, what do those things have to do with the woman pretending to be my father’s illegitimate daughter?”

“……”

“If you still want to use the lipstick, you can use it now.” Su Zimo let Su Zixiang’s words pass by as if they were a gust of wind, then turned to look at Su Yi. “If you don’t use the lipstick now, Miss Su should never use it again.”

Footnotes

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