Chapter 57 Dusk

Ulysses

Shi Hanqiao had a rare dream. When she woke up, she could no longer remember the specific content of the dream. The only thing she remembered was that she and Luo Wusheng were very close in the dream.

It was normal for friends to be close to each other, so she didn't waste her time thinking about it.

Unlike her who slept soundly, Luo Wusheng next door had a sleepless night, or to be more precise, he suffered from insomnia.

He works very hard every day and suffers from insomnia only a few times.

It had been a long time since he felt so sleepy physically but his mind was so active and distracted that he tossed and turned in bed, unable to fall asleep.

My mind is filled with images that have appeared in the past and are combined with my wild imagination. The images are of different scenes, different times, and different backgrounds...

The only thing that remains unchanged is Shi Hanqiao.

He closed his eyes and opened them again, opened them again, and closed them again. Luo Wusheng sighed helplessly. When he opened his eyes again, the sunlight was shining through the curtains.

He had a sleepless night, but fortunately he had strong mental strength to hold on. After going downstairs, except for Shi Hanqiao who glanced at him twice, no one else noticed that he was in poor condition.

"The first round of doubles is about to begin." Josephine exclaimed.

In addition to random selection, teams can be formed freely in the school's double mecha competition, just like the Covia siblings and Josephine and Luo Wuming.

Luo Wuming echoed: "Yes!"

"Why aren't you in the same group with Ulysses?"

As for the internal competitions in the school, Luo Wusheng was not worried even if there were opponents from higher grades. He just let them fight on their own and at most collected public information and provided it to them.

He is needed to take charge of the team competition. If he takes charge of the doubles competition as well, he will take on too much, which will be detrimental to the team members' self-analysis and growth during the battle.

"He's back in the capital," Josephine said. "My mom called him back. I don't know what happened. She's so mysterious."

"He won't be participating in this doubles competition. Regarding the mecha practical class results, he'll compete with the teacher after he returns, and the system will give him a comprehensive score."

"Okay, I understand."

Luo Wusheng nodded, his eyes narrowing slightly.

The Black family is a complex family, and the current head of the family is Sia Black, the mother of Josephine, Magda and Ulysses, a strong but romantic Alpha.

There are also many people in the main family of the Black family. Xia has two younger brothers, one is named Xiwen and the other is named Leia, the latter is Tan'an's successor queen.

Xia also had two marriages. The first was to the younger brother of the head of the Corvia family. She gave birth to a pair of brothers who were more than twice Josephine's age, but then died in childbirth. The second and current husband was from the Bai family. They gave birth to Josephine and Magda.

As for Ulysses, he was an illegitimate child who was not presentable.

His Beta father was of humble origin, a top-tier barmaid on the capital planet. Betas are known to have difficulty conceiving, but who knew he would be so lucky to have a child after a fling with the anonymous Xia.

After Beta became pregnant, she had no idea whose nobleman's child it was. Anyway, it was always right to give birth to the child, as every big family has a few illegitimate children.

After Ulysses was born and the physical examination was completed and the data was uploaded, Xia learned about the existence of such a child. After giving Beta some money, she took the little Alpha back to Black Manor and trained him to be a close guard of Josephine, who was born a few days after him.

He was indeed an illegitimate child, but his position in the manor was not that of a young master, but merely that of a servant. In other words, a bound servant who could never escape.

After all, other servants are bound by contracts and can leave when the time is up or they don't want to, but Ulysses is bound by blood and can never escape.

"How's Joyce? Is she adjusting to school?"

Xia was sitting behind the desk processing documents, and asked the person who came in without even raising her head.

Joyce's nickname for Josephine, and of all the children, Sia only calls Alpha's daughter by her nickname, and only to her does she ask, "Are you adapting to school life?", the kind of normal, caring questions a normal family would ask their children.

"Very good, she and Luo Wuming will participate in the Sphinx's double mecha competition together."

Ulysses answered expressionlessly, standing three meters away from the desk, like an emotionless reporting machine.

"She has always been very close to Luo Wusheng and the others."

Xia rubbed her thumb ring, a rare doting smile in her eyes, "Does she like him?"

"dislike."

"So, they're just friends?"

Xia frowned slightly. She thought her daughter chose Luo Wusheng because she liked him. If that was the case, then it would be perfect. If Josephine was with him, then the Russell family would have to rely entirely on the Black family.

Her child and Luo Ningyou's child could be considered as a joke of their youthful recklessness.

However, it is friendship, just like they were back then.

Everyone knows Tan An's intentions. Xia Ya has heard about it for a long time, but when the Luo family arranged for Luo Wusheng and Shi Hanqiao to do pheromone matching, she became a little restless.

If Joyce liked it, she wouldn't mind competing with her brother-in-law, but now her daughter only had friendship, so she couldn't do anything.

However, Mr. Luo was a bit cruel in this matter. It would have been fine if he just stood by and watched, but he stood on Tan An's side and forced the child to take a pheromone test with Shi Qi's daughter.

Fortunately, Luo Wusheng is no longer the child who was perfunctorily treated by family affection.

I don’t know if Luo Wusheng still holds a grudge against Leia. When Xia thinks of what happened back then, she gets a headache. Her disappointing brother!

If Joyce fell in love with Luo Wusheng, one of the reasons she was happy to see it happen was because she hoped he would no longer harbor any deeper prejudice against the Black family. Having seen the treacherous and cunning world of power, Xia still hoped that love could resolve the grudges of the older generation among the younger generation, even for those children who had not yet been exposed to reality.

However, she also knew that this was just a thought.

Luo Wusheng's industries cover a wide range, from people's food, clothing, housing and transportation to military machinery...

In addition, he didn't know whether he was winning people's hearts through interests, favors or leverage. If he was given time, he would surely develop into a powerful force.

She was in awe that an Omega could achieve this, it was a pity that Joyce didn't have his own methods.

But when she thought about Luo Wusheng's experience, she decided to forget it. She couldn't bear to see Joyce suffer so much.

"Well, they're just friends."

Ulysses answered in a serious tone.

"Okay, I got it."

Xia turned the ring and said, "Go out."

She called him all the way back from West Asia to the capital planet just to check on her daughter?

Ulysses retreated steadily, and just as he placed his hand on the handle, the cold voice of the Alpha, who was also his mother, came from behind him.

"I don't care who you contact, but I don't want to see Joyce get hurt because of you in the league."

The cold touch spread from his fingertips to his whole body. Ulysses lowered his eyes. No wonder he was called back from West Asia. It turned out that it was for Josephine to warn him.

"I understand, Patriarch."

He let go of the handle, straightened his body, and like other trained servants in the house, he lowered his head meekly to hide the dark color in his eyes.

He maintained a statue-like standing posture, standing still, not daring to leave easily, waiting for his master's order again.

Xia was processing documents at the desk unconsciously for several hours, until the sun set in the west. The afterglow of the setting sun outside the window fell on the artificial lake, as if coating the world with a layer of gentle glow.

She raised her head and looked at the person who had disappeared into the shadows in surprise: "You're still here, go down."

"Yes, Patriarch."

The feelings of injustice and resentment had been buried deep in my heart for more than a decade, and the few hours of waiting in the afternoon were nothing compared to them.

Ulysses remained calm and retreated politely like a tamed machine.

Xia walked to the window and watched Ulysses leave the manor without losing any manners.

When I grow up, I have my own thoughts.

He has good patience and is good at disguising himself.

It’s good to grow up and know what you want to fight for.

As long as Joyce wasn't harmed, Xia didn't care what the illegitimate child did. She turned her gaze towards the artificial lake. Her usually cold eyes softened unconsciously when she thought of her deceased friend.

"Ayou, what a pity."

"The two children didn't feel anything, and our wish was unfulfilled."

The setting sun's rays fall on the water, creating shimmering waves that draw your gaze. The scenery remains as picturesque as ever, yet time slips by unnoticed.

Under the same sunset, beside the Star-Moon Lake of the Sphinx, Luo Wusheng ended the communication. The originally quiet space became lively as dusk fell.

During the day, the Star-Moon Lake is empty and quiet, but at night you can see couples walking along the lakeshore and in the bamboo forest, so the Sphinx Star-Moon Lake is also known as the Lovers' Lake.

The young man, who was alone, turned off the screen and walked back, and happened to meet the Covia siblings who were returning together.

"What, are you reconciled?"

Albert said, "Use her plan tomorrow, and mine in the next battle."

Tomorrow, Thursday, the first round of the double mecha competition will officially begin, and the two of them are scheduled to be in the first game.

Although there is no pressure for them to advance in the early stages, their attitude towards the battle itself is very serious - they do not take any game lightly or slackly.

Luo Wusheng nodded to show that he understood, but his mind was still thinking about the cold war between him and Shi Hanqiao.

Although this cold war did not affect their daily life or their relationship, and could even be considered a strange and interesting experience, he still wanted to end the silent atmosphere between them.

His first match with Shi Hanqiao is next Monday, and he has to end the cold war before then.

Luo Wusheng was a little troubled.

In the evening, while having dinner with Shi Hanqiao, he felt a little drowsy. After a sleepless night and connecting to the No. 01 military system to command three battles, even his mental strength of 2S+ could not withstand the tossing and turning.

But thinking about ending the cold war with her, Luo Wusheng went to Shi Hanqiao's room as usual to deal with documents.

There wasn't much to do today, and he finished it in a short while. The girl A opposite was still drawing the design draft. She must have failed in revising the model during the day.

He owns the mecha manufacturing industry. In recent years, the innovations have been in ornamental mechas. The styles of real offensive mechas are constantly being improved, but there is almost no innovation.

The brilliance of the predecessors was too great, and the market had a wide variety of mecha styles up to S-class, while mechas above 2S-class were basically custom-made. The difficulty of innovating mechas that were generally suitable for a certain class soared, making breakthroughs difficult.

Shi Hanqiao scrapped two or three more drafts. Some problems could be realized during the design process, while others could only be discovered during assembly.

Despite the successive failures, she was not discouraged. She simply overturned her previous ideas and started designing again.

Another failed attempt. She paused, stood up, stretched her stiff body, and rested for a while.

Noticing that the young man was resting with his eyes closed, she looked at the time. It was half past seven.

Are you sleepy so early today? Shi Hanqiao covered him with a blanket, and then his watch flashed and vibrated.

Woman A took two steps back to check, to prevent the noise and light from disturbing the young man's rest.

The pop-up screen read "Mom is calling."

When praying...

Shi Hanqiao raised her eyebrows, somewhat surprised. Based on the original owner's memory and the Star Network search, she judged that Shi Qi should not have contacted her at this time.

Since she called, something must have affected her.

Girl A had no intention of caring about all this, but the news brought by the Hunyuan Bell forced her to be extra cautious about everything around her.

In order to reduce the impact of the noise on the sleeping young man, Shi Hanqiao walked to the window and clicked to receive the communication.

Luo Wusheng's eyelashes trembled on the sofa.

【Author’s words】

Mou Sheng: I really just woke up...