Yin Chengjue rushed to the Murong family's residence in the city. He thought he would be stopped at the gate, but to his surprise, as soon as the car arrived at the gate, before Yin Chengjue could even get out, the gate slowly slid open to both sides.

Lined up on both sides of the gate were bodyguards, all dressed in black bodysuits with dark red belts around their waists. They were tall, broad-shouldered, and muscular.

Does this mean we should fight?

Yin Chengjue remembered Rong Yu saying that he had taken down all the bodyguards in his house before he was able to escape. Looking at the scene before him, he silently took off the watch on his wrist.

After thinking for a moment, he loosened his tie, tossed it onto the passenger seat, took off the necklace around his neck, lightly stroked the ring on the necklace with his fingertips, kissed it, and then carefully gathered it in his palm and put it into a small box in the trunk.

Then, Yin Chengjue decisively got out of the car, twisted his neck and wrist, and walked inside.

Ten minutes later, the butler rushed into the hall, his usually meticulously combed hair now loose, and he was slightly out of breath: "Mr. Murong!"

Whoosh!

Three pairs of eyes turned to look at them simultaneously, and even the husky nestled in Rong Yueya's arms turned its head at the sound.

housekeeper:"……"

I almost forgot that today is a rare day when the whole family is home.

Butler: "A fight has broken out outside."

"A fight broke out? He escaped?" Murong Anbang's first reaction was that Rong Yu had escaped again, and he looked at Rong Yueya.

Rong Yueya paused in her act of stroking the dog's head: "That's impossible. I specially ordered it. The quality is absolutely guaranteed. There's no way he could break free. Besides, I paid a high price for this bodyguard. He used to be a mercenary. Even if he could break the lock, he couldn't beat those people."

Butler: "...It's not the third young master, it's a guest who just came in, ah, the second young master's girlfriend."

Murong Shu exploded: "I already said she's not my girlfriend!"

Butler: "Ah, yes, yes, she's definitely not the second young master's girlfriend." The butler remembered what he had just seen and quickly corrected, "He was fighting with the bodyguard. It took me a long time to see clearly that it was with a man, so she must be the second young master's boyfriend."

Murong Shu, who had just breathed a sigh of relief: "..."

Murong Shu stood up abruptly, strode into the kitchen, quickly grabbed a broom, kicked it off, and walked out with only the bare stick in his hand.

Murong Anbang glared at him: "You unfilial son! What are you going to do! Tear the house apart!"

Murong Shu: "I'm going outside to beat him up!" With that, he rushed out in a flurry of activity.

"Oh dear, look how excited he is! The person is already at the door, and he can't wait to go and greet them. That's really something." Rong Yueya covered her mouth and smiled, "Young people just can't keep their composure."

Seeing that their understanding was getting increasingly skewed, Murong He finally couldn't help but explain to his second brother, "Actually, it's not like that..."

Butler: "Hey, hey, hey! They're here! They're coming!"

Before he could finish speaking, two men burst in, wrestling. One was grabbing the other's hair, the other was pulling on the other's ear. Both were grimacing, their faces were red, and their clothes were torn to shreds.

Looking behind them, they saw a large mass of people lying on the ground, a dark mass, with groans of pain rising and falling.

"Alright! What kind of mess is this, fighting back and forth like this!" Murong Anbang slapped the armrest, finally speaking up to stop the fight that had broken out for no apparent reason.

However, the two still didn't let go, clinging tightly to each other and glaring at one another.

"Oh my, it really is a close call? Young people are so energetic~" Rong Yueya put the husky in her arms down, took out her glasses case from her pocket, put on her glasses, and studied Yin Chengjue for a while, frowning repeatedly: "Oh my! Why do I feel like Xiaoshu's boyfriend looks a little familiar?"

Yin Chengjue: "What?"

Murong Shu: "Get out of here first!"

Murong Shu was about to cover Yin Chengjue's ears when he spoke, but Yin Chengjue nimbly dodged him.

Yin Chengjue wiped the blood from his mouth where he had been punched, and his gaze swept over the faces of the people on the sofa. Even though he had never met them before, he could guess who they were from their sitting positions and postures. So he said, "Dad, Mom, Big Brother, hello."

Murong Shu: "You bastard!"

Murong Anbang didn't speak, but just frowned as he looked at Yin Chengjue, as if there was something he couldn't figure out.

Rong Yueya smiled and said, "Oh my, this young man is quite handsome! Come and sit down, would you like some oranges?"

This style is quite different from what I imagined. Shouldn't I be lecturing him or threatening him, and then using various methods to force him to back down?

Yin Chengjue looked at Murong Shu, who had been punched so hard he had two black eyes and was still glaring at him angrily—wasn't this guy the normal type? Were those people on the sofa cheap actors who didn't even understand the script?

"Murong Shu, come here! Look at the mess you've made!" Murong He couldn't bear to look at the scene and called his younger brother over to sit down.

Murong Shu reached out to grab Yin Chengjue: "Let me get him out of here first!"

Yin Chengjue avoided him and strode over to the sofa where the others were sitting, saying, "I'm sorry I couldn't come in person today. I'd like to ask if Xiaoyu is here?"

"You know you came uninvited!" Murong Shu said angrily.

Rong Yueya asked in surprise, "You're looking for Xiaoyu? What do you want with Xiaoyu? Didn't you come to see Xiaoshu?"

Yin Chengjue was stunned: "No, why would I look for my second brother?"

"Who is your second brother! Don't make up relatives randomly!" Murong Shu emphasized again.

Murong He rubbed his temples: "Mom and Dad, you've misunderstood. He's Xiaoyu's boyfriend, and has nothing to do with the tree."

Yin Chengjue straightened his clothes to make himself look as neat as possible and stood up straighter: "Yes, I am Xiaoyu's boyfriend. I apologize for bothering you today. It's just that Xiaoyu hasn't come home all day, so I came to find her. I came suddenly and didn't bring any gifts. Next time I will definitely be well prepared before coming back with Xiaoyu."

Since things had come to this, Yin Chengjue had no choice but to bite the bullet and face whatever tricks they came up with!

"Xiaoyu's boyfriend?" Murong Anbang looked at Yin Chengjue with even more strange eyes: "You, haven't I seen you somewhere before?"

Rong Yueya's smiling expression also disappeared: "I remember now, I have indeed seen him before, he is Xiaohe's precious son. He used to come to our house to play when he was little. Time flies, he has grown up so much."

Frequently?

Yin Chengjue was stunned. He didn't really remember his childhood. He had seen photos before and thought he had just visited the Murong family. He never expected that he had actually visited them often when he was a child.

Murong He and Murong Shu looked at each other in bewilderment.

Reminded by Rong Yueya, Murong Anbang also remembered, but his expression became even stranger, as if he was a little conflicted and found it difficult to talk about.

Yin Chengjue was unusually at a loss, feeling that things were completely different from what he had imagined, and were even veering in an even stranger direction.

Yin Chengjue would rather they all be like Murong Shu, using their fists to speak, than look at him with those... well, pitying eyes.

"You guys don't object to us? Xiaoyu and I are both men, don't you object?" Yin Chengjue finally asked.

Upon hearing this, Rong Yueya asked in surprise, "Why would you think that?"

After a pause, Rong Yueya seemed to understand something and sighed, "Xiaoyu told you, right? This is how Xiaoyu explained it to you? She said we oppose homosexual couples and won't let you come to see us, is that right?"

Yin Chengjue's gaze shifted back and forth between Murong He and Murong Shu.

Murong He subtly avoided eye contact, while Murong Shu snorted, "What good can come of men fighting men? Shouldn't opposition be... Ouch! Dad! You've hit the wrong person! Why are you hitting me!"

"I'm going to smash you! What era are we living in! Still using that discriminatory stuff? I think you've gone back in time!" Murong Anbang said angrily.

"Awooooo!" Murong Xiaosi let out a few excited cries.

Rong Yueya glanced at Murong He, who was sitting upright to the side: "You were involved too, weren't you? I don't believe you think the same way as Xiaoshu. You're just helping Xiaoyu lie to people, aren't you? Lying to others that we're disgusted by this? Hmm?"

Murong He: "...No, Mom, listen to me."

Rong Yueya: "Or is it that Xiaoyu has some kind of leverage over you?"

Yin Chengjue: "Wait! What does this mean? What lie? No, can we ignore all that for now? I want to see Xiaoyu first. Is he here? You didn't do anything to him, did you?"

Murong Anbang glared: "Why should you care about him? You should worry about yourself first!"

Yin Chengjue: "What..."

Rong Yueya: "Xiao Jue, don't misunderstand. He means exactly what he says. Xiao Yu is fine now. We brought him back for his own good. But you..." Rong Yueya gave him that sympathetic look again, leaving Yin Chengjue completely confused.

Rong Yueya: "Xiao Jue, do you really like Xiao Yu?"

"Of course!" Yin Chengjue said without hesitation, "I love him, and I want to live with him for the rest of my life."

Rong Yueya: "...Uh, is this your own thought? You're really not being coerced by him?"

Rong Yueya asked with a conflicted expression, "Xiaoyu...he didn't do anything too outrageous to you, did he?"

Rong Yueya murmured softly, "Could it be Stockholm syndrome?"

Because he was sitting close by, Murong He heard what was said: "...Mom, I don't think so."

Author's Note: Yin Chengjue: It must be because I'm fighting the wrong way...

Rong Yu: ...Another day of being forced to shed my skin.