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• {Year : 12.2} •

Arriving in another city, Lin Shen's parents brought him to a taxi. The parents and Lin Shen were on vacation to visit their relatives.

The former Heavenly Emperor had heard of those relatives, but never met them ever since he was born. Apparently my parents married without their support, even eloping.

'So, I'm the product of their elopement.' Lin Shen shrugged. Who cares? His parents was always the best in his eyes, should his 'relatives' still dislike them, he'll just dislike back and ignore.

"Little Shen, listen." Lin Mama suddenly spoke, nervous. Patting his soft hair as she placed him on her lap, she said. "When you meet your grandmother and auntie, be obedient, okay?"

Lin Shen just remained motionless, as if ignoring that. 'Hmph!'

Lin Papa wryly smiled and sighed. "Shen, I know you're feeling indignant for us, but you don't have to. We did this ourselves, and they also knew."

"We also knew that they would cut our relations off, even viewing us as strangers when met in person." His father continued, shaking his head. "Oddly enough, they suddenly called us and wanted to meet us..."

"Hmph! Maybe they saw my adorable son and want to take him away from us!" His mother was angry at them for cutting off their relations, even though she was the one who eloped. "If they do try, I'll... I'll..."

She was at loss of the words since she didn't know if she could keep him... Lin Shen glanced up and rolled his eyes. "Mom, they can't take me away because they cut their relations to us. So that basically means I'm not a member of their family, right?"

"...Oh." Lin Mama dumbly nodded and was surprised. What a smart son she had! She hugged him tightly and muttered as she planted her face in his soft black hair. "I have such a cute son and you're also smart! What a lucky woman I am!"

"Yes." Lin Shen shamelessly nodded. "Indeed, lucky woman you are."

Lin Papa just covered his eyes from the taxi driver in embarrassment. 'I-I don't have a thick face like you both, so can you two stop?!'

The taxi driver glanced at the mirror and rose one of his eyebrow. He whistled as if nothing happened

"We're arriving." The taxi driver announced, seeing they were close by the address given.

The parents and Lin Shen prepared to exit the vehicle. As they moved about, Lin Shen noticed he received several text message from Ying Yue.

"Hey! Hello, it's your cute girl friend, Ying Yue 💞!" The first text message stated, much to Lin Shen's amusement. The next message said.

"Me and Yu Yan are waiting for you forever, no matter what! 🤗"

'...Waiting for me, your mother!' The former Heavenly Emperor cried, why aren't they taking the hints that he only looked at them as sisters?

The last message was normal, this time. "How is your vacation going??? 😚"

'Hey?! Aren't you a whole different person when you're on phone?!' Lin Shen felt like this girl became bolder because she and him were not talking in person... He took his time and replied.

"Visiting few people, maybe I'll be forced into an marriage arrangement with someone! 😱" The former Heavenly Emperor grinned and nodded in satisfaction, this should make her stop.

Immediately after it was sent, only three seconds passed by when a text message was received. 'What the f*ck! So fast?!'

"What?! 😨 Nooo! You'll only marry either me or Yu Yan! Or else... 🤔 ...I'll cut your third leg! 😠"

'...' Lin Shen sweat dropped and wondered if she even understood what third leg meant. He also wondered who told her about that. He shivered and sent a text message. "Uh, I was joking! 😅 Don't worry, I won't get married to someone I don't know! 🙂"

He really wanted to add 'and it won't be either of you', but it would hurt their feelings and their tight bonds... He shook his head and let it go. If he did ever fall in love with one of them, he would then accept it over time. 'Yes, over time.'

"Good! Hmph hmph! If you had not answered that, me and Yu Yan would definitely ignore you forever! 😤" Ying Yue unreasonably sent this text message. Lin Shen just rolled his eyes and began to leave the taxi vehicle when they arrived.

"Talk to you later, just arrived. 👋" He then put his phone in his pocket. The phone made a ding sound, indicating a text message received, but he ignored it.

Lin Shen and his parents came out of the vehicle and in front of them was a huge hous- no, a mansion. 'Wow, they're rich.'

"Little Shen, don't fall for their riches!" His mother panicked when she saw her son looking amazed. Lin Shen rolled his eyes.

"Mom! I'd choose my family over riches!"

This in turn, only made her pick him up and hug him. "Ah, I have such a filial son!"

Lin Papa just stood aside and watched as a man in fancy suit approached with a maid following behind. The man in fancy suit was a butler, apparently. "Hello, honored guests."

"Oh, uncle!" Lin Mama exclaimed, knowing this guy from her childhood. "It's been awhile!"

"Yes, young miss." The butler smiled slightly, glad she was doing okay and looked even more... beautiful...? But his eyes turned steely when it was directed at the handsome father. "Please, come in."

The butler had always thought this man was the one who made the young miss elope, so he was understandably cold. But when he noticed the cute boy in the young miss's arms...

"This... this is your son...?"

"Yes! Little Shen, this uncle is someone who took care of me a lot when I was little!" The mother nodded, enthusiastically introducing each other. "This is my cute son, Lin Shen!"

"I... Wow..." The uncle butler was at loss of words, with tears coming out of his eyes. He gracefully turned and wiped them off. "The young miss has grown up..."

"Uncle!!!" The mother was embarrassed, but still smiled. Lin Shen just looked at the butler and placed him in 'ok people' list mentally.

"Haha." The uncle butler laughed as he led them inside. The maid was behind them, taking care of their luggage. As they neared the mansion, the butler slowly became stoic and said. "The madam said that your young sister will be coming soon, from her high school classes."

"...I see." Lin Shen's mother nodded slowly, sighing that she missed her sister's ceremony.

Stopping before the door, the uncle butler told the maid. "Take their luggage to the guest rooms."

"Yes." The maid bowed slightly and obeyed, exiting as she carried their luggages. They then entered.

Lin Shen glanced and sensed that she placed the luggages in two different rooms, one for himself and one for his parents. But what he didn't understand was that there was two separate beds in his room while there was one large bed in his parents'...

"Hey, am I going to sleep in same room as someone else?" Lin Shen asked the uncle butler. The butler stiffened and looked surprised, but regained his composure.

Bowing slightly, he responded. "...Yes, young master. You will be sleeping in the same room as your young aunt."

"...Eh?" The mother of Lin Shen twitched her mouth. This meant trouble if her sister was going to be alone with a cute boy like her son... "Maybe he should sleep with us?"

"No." The uncle butler declined quickly. "Madam has set this up."

Rolling her eyes, Lin Mama muttered. "Of course she did..."

"Little Shen, don't fall for your young aunt's tricks to keep you here, alright?" His mother worriedly told. Lin Shen just nodded and thought.

'What tricks could she possibly have to make me stay here? I've lived a very long time to know a lot of dirty tricks.'

The family of three continued to follow the uncle butler, going to the madam, in other words, Lin Shen's biological grandmother from his mother's side.

"Madam, young miss and her son have arrived." The uncle butler announced the moment they took a step into a living room. Lin Papa didn't mind being excluded from his announcement, as he already knew the reason why.

"Oh, let me see them!" A elderly woman with slight white hair quickly approached them. She noticed that her first daughter looked fine and even looked more beautiful... Jealously burned in her heart as she asked, holding Lin Mama. "How did you get much more beautiful?!"

"...Mom!" Lin Mama was embarrassed as she was holding her son. The grandmother of Lin Shen finally saw him and nearly fainted out of shock.

"Oh my god!" She staggered back, frightening Lin Mama and uncle butler. She then pointed her trembling finger at her first daughter, accusatorily. "D-did you kidnap this cute child?!"

"..." They were speechless, even the former Heavenly Emperor was speechless in front of this grandmother of his.

• {Year : 12.3} •

"Yo." Lin Shen received a text message from his sworn brother, Jack. He groggily got up and rubbed his eyes.

He had accidentally drank an large amount of alcohol because the uncle butler thought this drink would be drank by the handsome man who was Lin Mama's husband. Lin Shen, being a still developing boy, couldn't handle it. Even with his cultivation, the uncle butler surprisingly had planted something too powerful in the alcohol. He directly rolled eyes and fainted on spot.

Few minutes afterward was uncle butler being forced to sit on floor while he was ruthlessly reproached by everyone in the mansion. Even the maids did so. Lin Shen slept in the guest room provided, sleeping in the comfortable bed.

"Hey. 👋" Lin Shen sent back.

Several seconds after, Jack sent another text message.

"When are you coming back? 🤔"

"Why?" Lin Shen asked, he was pretty sure Jack wasn't an impatient person.

"Uh, I just wanted to be near you."

Lin Shen took a moment to take that in and processed. He then began to carefully push in letters in the message box and then it was sent after being checked.

"...Hey, do you like guys? Don't worry, I'm not discriminating but I'm not gay. 😰"

"..." This was what he received after few minutes of no reply. Lin Shen felt like his bond with Jack was slowly cracking with this newfound infor-

"I'M NOT GAY, YOU IDIOT! 😡 I ONLY MISSED YOU! 😤" Jack angrily sent the text message after heaving a smoke of anger.

Lin Shen just looked at it and pondered out loud. "Eh? Did I overthink things?"

Shaking his head, he sent a apology. "Sorry. 😓 It's just your text was so weird that it made me think that you were one. 🤷‍♂️"

"And I should be coming back two weeks later." He added to which Jack responded to.

"Alright, thanks for telling." Jack had a devious look as he pushed in the next message. "Now I can get those two lovestruck girls to calm down. 😈"

"..." Lin Shen now realized. Ever since the two girls, Ying Yue and Yu Yan, had kept pestering him with text messages, he added more vacation time, unknown to those two.

Groaning, he just resumed sleeping next to this beautiful auntie of hi- Wait, beautiful auntie?

Lin Shen nearly screamed out loud as he jumped off the bed. He had been so hung over that he never sensed his young aunt sneaking in his bed!

He quickly checked his chastity through a method and heaved a sigh of relief. 'Thankfully, it's not stolen.'

The beautiful auntie moved and woke up when she didn't feel the heat on her chest anymore. She slowly got up and was met with a scared and cute boy covering himself... She suddenly felt like she was a perverted pedophile...

"Um..." She weakly chuckled. "I-I was feeling c-cold...?"

Lin Shen rolled his eyes and wandered off to bathroom of the guest room. The beautiful aunt sighed, depressed. She was sure she made a bad impression of her on the cute nephew of hers.

• {Year : 15} •

With junior high finally out of his life, Lin Shen moved onwards to high school. Lin Mama cried tears of sadness at this. Her little son was no longer little anymore!

Lin Shen had grown to be a handsome man with lean muscular body. His pitch black hair that felt soft and silky went to his shoulder with his star like eyes.

He had already beaten the Second Promotes Third Tribulation when he tried breaking through to next realm from Second Stage : True Master. But after few years, he also advanced from Third Stage: Battle King, easily unlocking the Four Great Extraordinary Meridians.

He was now at Fourth Stage: Inborn with a Void Core in his origin dantian. His Void Core emitted sharp aura as well as a slight holy and draconic aura. Lin Shen had already condensed eight Immortal Bones, but the final bone he was currently condensing was a divine bone. He was able to condense a divine bone due to his Mouth Acupoint's active skill, Divine Dragon's Roar. His master, the supreme being, was helping too since this was even more delicate progress.

Jack, his sworn brother, also grew up to be an handsome blond man who could easily go in modeling career. Since he was a cultivator, his body was lean as well, and looked ridded of impurity. Jack also found out that Lin Shen was a cultivator and was ecstatic, so both of them traded informations with Lin Shen mostly helping out. He was now at Second Stage: True Master. But he was clueless to which stage his sworn brother was at, as Lin Shen would always keep that a secret. He also couldn't find out for himself, since Lin Shen had hid his cultivation.

Ying Yue and Yu Yan recently found out about cultivation and decided to become one too after confirming it was real, so they got to First Stage: Beyond Mortal, after undergoing the hundred days of foundation building. They received suitable cultivation techniques from Lin Shen so they were able to cultivate better than normal.

Both of the girls grew up to be beauties that could easily enter modeling career if they intended to. Their soft and white skin looked ridded of impurities. They also had beautiful face and had well-proportioned bodies.

But no matter what, Lin Shen always looked 'beautiful' and 'handsome' than everyone... It was as if he was a deity, so they, the mortals, couldn't possibly dare to try beat him in that part.

Currently, Lin Shen and his three friends were walking together to their high school. They all still went to the same schools, and even went in same class which surprised them.

Ying Yue was still crushing on Lin Shen, but still never acted on it as she already knew he only saw her as sisters. She could only try to make him fall in love her. Yu Yan moved on and began to date Jack, becoming his first girlfriend as well as first boyfriend for her. Though she still liked Lin Shen as a romantic interest, Lin Shen looked like he wouldn't look at her as one aside from sister.

"Alright, I have something to do so I'll see you all in class soon." Lin Shen suddenly announced to his friends. Jack, Ying Yue, and Yu Yan nodded and went to the class without asking. They already knew if he would tell them the reason, then he would've already done so.