The Bai family's nanny team left two contact numbers for complaints, and then left with a sigh.

Bai Miaomiao glared angrily at her roommates: "Are you going to betray me?"

Ruan Bei smiled and said, "It's not as serious as you make it out to be."

Qin Gu chimed in, "Of course we can ignore it. But if you really get food poisoning, that young master, who's your brother, right? Do you think he'll punish you?"

“My brother would never punish me,” Bai Miaomiao retorted instinctively, then pouted unhappily, “Fine, I won’t eat then.”

Zeng Peng dreads dealing with such complicated options: if he complains, he'll feel bad for his brother; if he doesn't, the other man's family will plead with him politely. Luckily, he came to terms with it himself.

"What's so good about ice cream? Want to play some games?" Zeng Peng invited enthusiastically.

"Open what?" Bai Miaomiao didn't understand.

"Playing together? You've never done it before?"

Bai Miaomiao shook her head, confused: "What is playing online games?"

Ruan Bei continued sewing the small pillow, casually explaining for Zeng Peng, "He asked you to play games together."

"Just play games, why call it 'teaming up'?" Bai Miaomiao muttered, already turning on the computer. "What game? How much does it cost?"

Zeng Peng turned the computer screen towards him: "This? You haven't played it before? It's free to play, but you have to pay for skins. You can play without buying skins."

He asked curiously, "Didn't you ever hang out with friends in high school?"

This game is so popular!

Bai Miaomiao leaned over for a look, then shook her head: "I've never played this before. I have a game room at home, and I have a lot of game consoles. My brother bought them all for me. Please come to my house to play sometime."

"I used to play games with friends... well, not really friends, just people I played online with. I know how." Bai Miaomiao pouted. Those annoying guys were talking badly about his brother behind his back, they had no good intentions.

“Okay,” Zeng Peng readily agreed, looking quite interested.

"Download it first, come over and watch me play a round, then I'll explain it to you."

Bai Miaomiao dragged her stool over and sat down next to Zeng Peng. They talked and listened, and it was quite harmonious.

Ruan Bei shook his head and smiled, carefully put the sewn little pillow into the box and put it away, and continued sewing the little quilt.

Qin Gu was looking at the materials his master had compiled. Back when Ruan Bei said that he was being suppressed at every turn when he was in the same place as Lu Sibai, Qin Gu felt something was wrong and asked his master for help.

However, they knew too little information, and it was a matter from a previous life. Fate is such a mysterious thing that a slight mistake can lead to a world of difference. Qin Gu did not dare to draw any conclusions easily and just looked at the information first.

Anyway, most of the materials his master gave him were in classical Chinese, and some were in a mix of classical and vernacular Chinese. It didn't bother his roommates when they saw them; he just said it was a hobby of his and that he was just looking at ancient texts.

Their current majors already cover a wide range of topics, so this is a ready-made excuse.

The content he was seeing now was quite interesting. Qin Gu placed those pages in front of Ruan Bei and let him look at them.

Ruan Bei put down what he was holding and began to study it carefully.

The paper contained methods for borrowing luck; the master had compiled very comprehensive information, listing many different methods.

On a more sinister level, there are practices such as raising ghost children, using Gu worms, casting spells, and drawing lots for luck.

Raising a ghost child to borrow luck usually involves borrowing the ghost's fortune. These ghosts are typically children who died young, whose good fortune has not yet dissipated, and whose souls are extracted and trained into ghosts through some cruel means.

This is an extremely evil and sinister technique. My master only mentioned it briefly; he certainly wouldn't explain how to train the little ghosts, but he did write a lot about the consequences.

The little ghost is already dead, and its fortune will gradually dissipate. If it can be reincarnated before its fortune runs out, it may be blessed in its next life.

It can be used to borrow luck, but the little ghost's luck will become thinner and thinner with each borrowing, until it is all bad luck, which will directly backfire on the host.

In other words, raising a ghost child to borrow luck is a dead end; the more you borrow, the faster you die.

Gu worms are now extremely rare. At least in all the years Qin Gu has cultivated, he has never heard of any Gu worms appearing. It seems that this lineage has been broken.

Curses are a one-time thing; they're supposed to be about borrowing luck, but it's more like finding a substitute.

If someone is having particularly bad luck and is about to suffer misfortune, they will cast a curse, and the person being cursed will suffer misfortune in their place.

This curse only works once. If the person continues to be unlucky, they either have to suffer the consequences themselves or another curse will be cast.

This kind of curse is harmful to others and beneficial to oneself, and has many restrictions. For example, there are requirements for the person being cursed. Not just anyone can be cursed. At the very least, one must have had contact with the person who is borrowing the curse. The deeper the relationship, the easier it is to cast the curse.

You also need to know the person's birth date and time, and have something about that person, preferably blood or hair, or at least something that has been used.

Therefore, this kind of curse is usually used to trick acquaintances, and the closer the relationship, the worse the trick will be.

The reason why they are listed as people who borrow luck by their masters is because the person who is cursed is taking the blame for others, which is essentially depleting their own good fortune. It is equivalent to having their good luck borrowed by others.

The last type is called "borrowing luck." It uses the word "borrowing" and doesn't even bother with any pretense of modesty. Although it borrows luck but doesn't return it, this one is even more blatant.

This is usually a family-based activity, involves a lot of work, and is mostly done by unfilial descendants who try to extract the blessings of their ancestors. They can only extract from their own family, not others.

The materials given by the master included an example: a family that had accumulated good deeds for a hundred years, with ancestral graves in a feng shui treasure land, and the family had lived a prosperous and peaceful life for generations. However, one generation produced an unfilial son who became addicted to gambling.

Not only did he lose all his family fortune, but he also met a shady cultist who claimed he could use his ancestors' blessings to change his luck. So he had the cultist extract his family's good fortune in exchange for his own gambling success.

He enjoyed himself for a few years, winning countless money and returning to his extravagant lifestyle.

However, luck always runs out, especially with such unrestrained behavior.

As a result, a mudslide destroyed his family's ancestral graves. He had consulted a feng shui master when choosing the burial site, and there was no way a mudslide could have passed through there.

Even if the ancestral graves are gone, the ancestors can still move. They could even grab the coffin lid and beat this unfilial descendant to death.

Later, this person's fate was certainly tragic. His family was destroyed, his right hand was chopped off by the casino to collect debts, and he died a violent death on the roadside, with no one to claim his body.

Besides these, there are some more unconventional and rare methods, all of which have many restrictions.

None of these seem to fit. The only one that's somewhat plausible is that curse—to mess with Lu Sibai when he's in trouble, making him suffer instead.

But thinking about it carefully, it doesn't seem quite right. He has at least started cultivating now. Thinking back, although Lu Sibai is strange, he doesn't seem like a person from the Xuanmen sect at all.

If someone is helping him, then he must have met that person before, since they've been sabotaging him so frequently.

However, among the people we usually see, there isn't one who is a suspect.

Aside from these evil arts, the following information caught Ruan Bei's attention.

The materials my master gave me said that there are also relatively upright methods for borrowing luck.

For example, if a person has great fortune, he will naturally be able to protect his family, which is somewhat similar to the ancient concept of bestowing titles and privileges upon one's wife and children.

Extending this further, if a family is at the height of its fortune, it will protect its members. The closer the main branch is to the center of power, the more protection it will receive.

This is actually a form of borrowing luck, but it's passive and won't have any adverse consequences.

However, in such cases, the luck borrower and the person experiencing good fortune are usually connected by their own energy, sharing both prosperity and adversity, and often have some kind of kinship.

There is another type: if there was no connection initially, but a relationship was later established.

For example, someone is extremely unlucky, so unlucky that they're about to die. They find a master who doesn't want his disciple to die, so he saves him whenever he's in danger.

This master is a person of good fortune, and his good fortune is enough to offset the bad luck on his disciple. He is also determined to protect his disciple's life, which is equivalent to actively lending his good fortune to his disciple and helping him to avoid disaster.

The master-disciple relationship can be changed to lovers or friends. This newly established relationship must begin with affection, and the person with the destiny must be completely willing to do so, even at the cost of their own life.

Of course, this doesn't apply to people like police officers and doctors whose professions affect their survival. If someone is critically ill and is saved by a doctor, it simply means they were destined to survive, and there's no question of luck involved.

Upon seeing this, Ruan Bei immediately pulled Qin Gu aside and whispered in his ear, "I think that person looks a bit like this one, but not quite."

The dormitory space was small, and Bai Miaomiao, who knew Lu Sibai, was also there. Although they had lowered their voices, and Bai Miaomiao was engrossed in the game, Ruan Bei still paid attention.

"Why doesn't it look like it?"

"He's not unlucky at all!"

Ruan Bei felt that compared to Lu Sibai, he was the unluckier one.

Judging from his methods alone, Lu Sibai was juggling multiple relationships, practically an octopus with all his philandering. Ruan Bei couldn't understand what he was after. Was he enjoying the thrill of being adored by countless people?

If it's for the sake of borrowing luck, then it makes sense; none of those whom Lu Sibai takes a liking to are ordinary people.

The term "those with good fortune" does not refer to a single individual, but rather to a group of people with strong luck. They are usually the best in their field and outstanding individuals.

Of course, not all industry leaders are lucky. Some people are more capable than lucky, and even if their luck is just average, they can still reach the top of the industry through their own efforts.

Those who possess good fortune are bound to be extraordinary.

Lu Sibai's admirers are quite remarkable. As for Lu Siyuan, he's definitely not a good-for-nothing. He's capable, has a good family background, and is good-looking. Apart from being blind and brain-dead, he's an outstanding young man.

Fang Ruoxian, who had an affair with Lu Sibai, came from a family that was still quite wealthy, though not as rich as the Lu family. Moreover, she was a very famous celebrity, extremely popular in the entertainment industry.

There's also a friend of Lu Siyuan's, who doesn't seem to have gone abroad yet. Anyone who can be in Lu Siyuan's circle can't be poor, and they're bound to be heirs.

There are others, but Ruan Bei is too lazy to list them all. These people must have better luck than the average person.

However, this kind of passive borrowing of luck doesn't mean that a person is just an ordinary person, and then someone with good fortune thinks, "I have a lot of luck, so I can share some with you," and then they share it.

It must be that the person who borrows the luck first suffers misfortune and is in danger, and the person with the luck wants to save and help him, has this mentality, and takes action.

Lu Sibai is so unlucky!

Even when the fact that the two of them were switched at birth was exposed, Ruan Bei still felt that Lu Sibai was very steady.

Qin Gu rested his chin on his hand and thought for a moment before saying, "Have you ever considered that perhaps..."

He pursed his lips, casually replied with a sentence, and then typed what he wanted to say on his phone to show Ruan Bei: "Perhaps while the Lu family firmly stood on Lu Sibai's side, the Lu family's, including your, fortune had already been borrowed?"

The Lu family, or rather Lu Minghai, is fortunate; otherwise, the Haiming Group would not have developed to its current state. While his own abilities certainly play a role, luck also plays a part.

Putting aside everything else, when Haiming Group was growing and expanding, its biggest rival and obstacle, the CEO of Bai's Group, died. Later, Bai Sen investigated and found that it had nothing to do with Lu Minghai. He just happened to stumble upon this opportunity.

Lu Minghai's fortune is intertwined with that of his wife and children. Ruan Bei is, after all, a son of the Lu family. If they both choose Lu Sibai and consider him a member of the Lu family, they might unknowingly benefit from his good fortune.

“It still doesn’t feel right.” Ruan Bei sent him the same message: “Even if Lu Sibai and I were switched back, he wouldn’t be so unlucky, would he? My parents and sister are so good to me.”

“But… in that situation in the previous life, it was unlucky for Lu Sibai, right?” Qin Gu replied.

Ruan Bei lowered his head, devastated. Yes, he wouldn't consider his mother, who was now in a vegetative state, a burden, but Lu Sibai certainly wasn't.

From the young master of the Lu family to the death of his father and the illness of his mother, he was a commoner son who didn't even have a house and had to rent a place to live. For him, it was a misfortune.

Thinking about it this way, the logic made sense for the time being, but soon Ruan Bei had new questions.

"How did he know he would be switched back? Otherwise, why would he have contacted those people beforehand?" Ruan Bei didn't know about the others, but Lu Siyuan's good friend had already developed feelings for Lu Sibai before Ruan Bei was taken back.

However, Lu Sibai's methods were still relatively immature at that time. Although his relationship with Qin Shen was not explicitly stated, everyone knew what was going on.

When she tried to board the second boat, she was accidentally hit by the first one. To protect herself, Lu Sibai cried and complained to Qin Shen.

Then everyone assumed that the unlucky guy had bullied and pressured Lu Sibai, since Lu Sibai was still a minor at the time, and that man was his brother's friend, a few years older than him, and usually had a rather carefree and unreliable personality.

Qin Shen was furious, and Lu Siyuan also fell out with that person. Then, that family, not daring to offend both the Qin and Lu families at the same time, sent their child abroad.

During the years Ruan Bei spent in the Lu family, he listened to all sorts of gossip about the wealthy. Whenever there was a banquet, he would sneak into a corner and hear a lot of interesting news.

However, this was just his speculation. Lu Sibai insisted that he was the victim, but Ruan Bei had seen him chop up a bunch of people and thought that the guy might be innocent.

"I don't know about that," Qin Gufa said. "Is it possible that Lu Sibai already knew you two had made a mistake?"

Ruan Bei thought for a moment and nodded: "Maybe."

"There's one last question." Ruan Bei tapped her phone to type: "How did Lu Sibai know that this could be used to borrow luck?"

Qin Gu: "..."

Good question.

They discussed it for a long time, but it was all based on the assumption that Lu Sibai knew about metaphysical methods. What if he didn't?

But looking at it, it really doesn't seem like it.

But you can't just guess to determine if it is true.

"It would be best to see it with my own eyes," Qin Gu said.

Ruan Bei became interested: "You can read fortune?"

He learned to observe qi, but he had never seen any qi on a person; it was always a blurry blur.

Qin Gu: "...No."

Luck is closely related to a person's fate, and their rudimentary aura-gazing technique is simply incapable of discerning a person's luck.

"That……"

“But I can tell whether he is…”

Send a message: "Are you a member of the Xuanmen sect?"

He could tell whether someone had cultivated or not.

Ruan Bei was a little worried. He had suffered too many losses in his previous life. To be honest, he felt that he was having a kind of stress reaction. Kun Kun said that he wanted to meet her, and he was afraid that Kun Kun would be tricked by Lu Sibai.

"Let's keep talking about it for now. Military training is coming up soon, and I won't have time to go out."

Moreover, they might not be able to intercept Lu Sibai's itinerary.

After chatting for a long time, they only came to a vague conclusion. Qin Gu was somewhat dissatisfied, but Ruan Bei thought it was alright, at least they had some clues.

He patted Qin Gu on the shoulder and whispered, "With you all here, I'm not afraid at all. Let him do whatever he wants. This time, I won't let him get the short end of the stick."

"What loss are you going to suffer?" Zeng Peng's loud voice suddenly rang out.

Ruan Bei was startled. He turned around and saw that Zeng Peng's computer was turned off.

"Aren't you going to play anymore?" Ruan Bei asked.

Zeng Peng shook his head frantically: "I'm not playing anymore, I'm tired."

Ruan Bei couldn't believe it. Zeng Peng must have been holding back during high school. He'd been playing games like crazy these past two days, sitting for days on end. How could he be tired after only a short while?

Bai Miaomiao's computer was still on. Reluctantly, she said, "Let's play one more game. I promise I won't mess up this time."

Ruan Bei: "..." Got it, got it.

Zeng Peng, who just met his roommate today, was too embarrassed to criticize him directly. He really couldn't carry him; Berlin was too bad!

"I'm done playing, I'm hungry, I'm going to get something to eat."

Zeng Peng took out his meal card and asked the others, "Do you need to bring anything?"

With a father who's a great cook, Ruan Bei never misses a meal. He stood up, stretched, and said, "No, Kun Kun and I are going out to eat. Do you want to come along?"

During military training, we'll probably be eating in the cafeteria every day.

Upon hearing this, Zeng Peng said, "Let's do it together then. Berlin is here to report for duty today, so our dorm is officially complete."

Bai Miaomiao glanced at her computer screen and finally chose her newly acquainted friends: "Let's go out to eat together, it's on me."

He pulled out his wallet and put it in his pocket, then suddenly became happy: "You called him 'Kunkun' just now, what's that name? Why did you call him that?"

The name Kunkun is just as bad as Miaomiao. With Kunkun sharing the firepower, Ruan Bei and the others probably won't laugh at him anymore when they find out his real name is Bai Miaomiao.

"Hmm... that's his nickname." Ruan Bei looked at Bai Miaomiao's smile and vaguely understood why he was happy.

Qin Gu immediately added, "Only family members and the most important people can be called that."

Bai Miaomiao was extremely disappointed; he was a famous person, someone everyone could call out.

"Then how can Ruan Bei be called that?"

Zeng Peng answered the question proactively: "I know, they grew up together since they were little, best buddies, childhood sweethearts!"

Qin Gu silently turned his gaze to him, waiting expectantly for his next words.

Zeng Peng grinned at him and said, "Right, Qin Gu?"

Qin Gu: "..." What about the child bride?

"Is a childhood friend the most important person? Isn't that just a friend?" Bai Miaomiao didn't quite understand. He had several playmates he had grown up with, but he didn't think they were as important as Qin Gu said.

"The most important person is Xiao Bei." Zeng Peng is unreliable, so Qin Gu will step in himself.

Bai Miaomiao: "...Understood."

Zeng Peng looked around and felt that something was amiss, but he couldn't figure out why.

However, Qin Gu's special treatment of Ruan Bei was quite understandable. After all, they had a good relationship, and even among his friends, there were degrees of closeness and distance, which was normal.

“I understand now.” Zeng Peng didn’t understand; he just wanted to fit in.

Ruan Bei: "..." I don't really understand what you guys know.

"Let's go eat," Ruan Bei called to them as they went out.

The four of them went out for dinner together. Just as they locked the door, Ruan Bei's phone rang. It was Ruan Xi calling.

Ruan Xi said that she was downstairs and had brought over some things for Ruan Bei to pick up.

They were going downstairs anyway, so they went down together. Ruan Bei felt that his sister's arrival was too timely, and it was a good opportunity for Bai Miaomiao to see the deep affection between the siblings.

Ruan Xi is doing her internship and is going home today. Her father asked her to bring some food for Ruan Bei.

In summer, food doesn't keep well, so Mr. Ruan makes snacks like spicy beef jerky and pickled chicken feet, a big bag of which he shares with his classmates.

Ruan Bei introduced Ruan Xi and Bai Miaomiao to each other. Bai Miaomiao had no doubts at all. Ruan Bei and his sister looked a bit alike!

Ruan Bei's lips really do resemble Ruan Xi's; they are neither too thin nor too thick, and the shape is beautiful and elegant.

Most importantly, both siblings have pearly white lips, with a small, cute, and playful cupid's bow.

However, this was purely a coincidence; Ruan Bei was certain that his sister had absolutely no connection with the Lu family.

Bai Miaomiao followed Ruan Bei and politely called her "sister".

Ruan Bei asked Ruan Xi if she wanted to go out to eat with them, but Ruan Xi declined, saying she had to go back to school.

After saying goodbye, Ruan Bei ran upstairs to put down the things her sister had given her, and the four of them went out to a small restaurant for a meal.

Although Bai Miaomiao was a pampered young master, he didn't have the spoiled temper that some people have. The ordinary little restaurants outside the school were crowded and there were no private rooms.

You could tell he wasn't used to it, but he didn't say anything unpleasant. When the food was served, he sincerely praised it when he ate something he liked, saying it tasted delicious and that it would be better if the environment were nicer.

After eating and drinking their fill, the four young men took a stroll back together. There were many young students in the area, and quite a few girls they encountered along the way were looking at them.

Ruan Bei and Qin Gu have always stood out from the crowd since they were young and are used to it. Bai Miaomiao is even less so. Only Zeng Peng is a little uncomfortable.

Ruan Bei started a conversation with Zeng Peng to ease his emotions. After chatting for a while, he noticed that Bai Miaomiao was staring at the freezer in the roadside shop without moving.

Ruan Bei immediately became wary: "You can't buy ice cream."

Bai Miaomiao shouted, "When did I say I wanted to buy ice cream! I'm not buying it."

"Then what are you looking at?"

"I'm looking at that freezer," Bai Miaomiao said. "What do you think about me buying a refrigerator for my dorm room?"

Ruan Bei and his two companions: "..."

"Although I really want to, the dormitory building will most likely have power outages," Ruan Bei said.

"What does 'power rationing' mean? Does it mean we can't use electricity freely? I can pay for my own electricity."

"No," Qin Gu said, "it's a voltage limit. If the voltage exceeds a certain level, the power will be cut off. The refrigerator has a high power consumption and can't be powered."

Bai Miaomiao said dejectedly, "The dormitory is so hot, and there's no air conditioning..."

He had a pair of round, doe-like eyes, and his listless appearance made him look rather pitiful.

Ruan Bei thought, if he felt that way, no wonder Bai Sen spoiled his younger brother so much.

"Actually, there is a way."

As soon as Ruan Bei started speaking, Bai Miaomiao looked up in surprise: "What method?"

Ruan Bei coughed lightly: "Modify the circuit."

In his previous life, his dorm room was full of liberal arts students. They never changed the electrical wiring in their dorm, but some boys in other dorms did, and then they started using all sorts of random appliances. I heard they even bought a small washing machine for their dorm room.

Bai Miaomiao asked with great interest, "How should we change it?"

Ruan Bei was just talking; he didn't really intend to do it. Back then, the dormitory where he put a washing machine burned out the entire dormitory building's electrical circuit, and he was directly criticized in a public notice.

Essentially, this is extremely dangerous, and even with the technology, it is not recommended to attempt it.

Ruan Bei advised him, "Don't rush. Modifying the circuit is very troublesome and requires a lot of preparation. We're about to start military training, so let's talk about it after that."

After military training is over, Bai Miaomiao may not remember this incident. Even if she does, it's not a problem. Ruan Bei believes that Bai Sen is not here now. If he were, he certainly wouldn't let Bai Miaomiao go without air conditioning in such hot weather.

"Okay, call me when you're making changes." Bai Miaomiao was really easy to please.

Ruan Bei laughed and said, "Let's buy a small electric fan to tide us over. We can clip it to the bed rail and use it at night."

So the group first took Bai Miaomiao to buy an electric fan. When they got back in the evening, the group of big boys, who had just finished eating, didn't miss out on the snacks that Ruan's father had made.

Bai Miaomiao had never tried pickled chicken feet before. At first, she couldn't accept it and wondered what was so good about chicken feet. But once she started eating, she couldn't stop. Even though it was so spicy, she kept gasping for breath and still wanted to eat more.

Ruan Bei was right. As soon as their military training started, the school sent people to rewire Building 6, and then new air conditioners were delivered and installed.

It turned out that when the Bai family's nanny went back, she reported Bai Miaomiao's dormitory situation to Bai Sen. Feeling sorry for his younger brother, Bai Sen simply installed air conditioning in the entire dormitory building.