Chapter 37 Online Dating 4

The forum homepage that Endless Returns comes with is bustling with activity, with hundreds of new posts added every day. Besides a few strategy posts, outfit posts, and landscape photography posts, the homepage is filled with countless gossip posts, some true and some false, all of which are lively and crowded with people enjoying the show.

Yuan Ying awkwardly swiped the screen and saw Lai Si's name.

Knowing yourself and your enemy is the key to victory. To get close to Lai Si and gain his trust, you need to understand this famously wealthy tycoon beforehand. Fortunately, the general public pays close attention to the big names on the leaderboard, and there are countless posts about Lai Si.

After searching by ID, most of the posts that popped up were related to Lai Si and his apprentices. Yuan Ying clicked on the highly popular post that had been up in the comments for a long time.

Little Money the Gossipmonger: There are many rich people, but endless rewards are especially plentiful. Want to know who's the richest? Little Money points to the legendary Lai Si in the heavens. Hello everyone, I'm Little Money the Gossipmonger. Yesterday, after reviewing the leader of the Heavenly guild, Fox, I've come to the much-anticipated Lai Si. This master has plenty of money, excellent skills, and a great temper—who wouldn't like him? I'm sure everyone is very curious about Lai Si, especially about him and his apprentices [sunglasses]. As everyone knows, Lai Si loves taking on apprentices, and each one he takes on is extraordinary, a story of love and hate [shaking head]. Let's start the review from the 100th floor. Those with money, please support with money; those without, please support with your presence. Little Money guarantees the content of this post is true and unadulterated.

Hurry up and strip the dead scalper!

Finally, a unified summary post! Who understands the misery of onlookers scrambling around the forum!

Little Money (a user): Haha, everyone is so enthusiastic! I have nothing to repay you with but the real deal!

Chigua Xiaoqian: Lai Si's first apprentice, whom I believe everyone is familiar with. His ID is Ganfengzou, a pure healer Tianluo. When Lai Si picked him up, he had just finished the newbie quests. We don't know why the master specifically chose such a dusty new account. Can any fellow gossip enthusiasts provide some details? Lai Si was extremely attentive to Ganfengzou, not only personally guiding him through leveling up, quests, and dungeons, but also helping him adjust his meridians. Even more enviable is that whenever new costumes or mounts are released, Lai Si buys one for Ganfengzou!

Little Money the Gossipmonger: It is said that Gan Fengzou infiltrated the Heavenly Realm and even joined a high-level combat group there. Who wouldn't be envious of such treatment? For a while, the world was flooded with the saying, "If you're going to be an apprentice, be like Gan Fengzou; if you're going to become a master, worship Lai Si Shen!"

Heh heh, my master said it's all fake! It's all lies made up by the heavens to trick people into joining the gang [silently shedding tears]

Who hasn't shipped Feng Lai? Feng Lai made it onto the Weibo annual CP list, and all the female fans here are responsible!

Although it's a bad ending now, it has its own unique charm... This underworld master and disciple duo is so cool!

Little Money the Gossipmonger: Haha, it seems everyone knows what happened afterward. I won't go into the details of the falling out between Lai Si and Gan Feng Zou here; search the gossip thread for more information. Putting aside everything else, Gan Feng Zou's skills were barely passable, not disgracing his sect. After becoming Lai Si's bound healer, the two of them dominated the arena. This apprentice has a volatile temper and is extremely protective of his master. If he sees anyone talking about Lai Si, he'll offer a bounty of at least 3,000. Gan Feng Zou will even use a Peach Mountain alt account to ambush people, killing them until they dare not mention Lai Si again. Because of this, some observant people have discovered that Gan Feng Zou's understanding of Peach Mountain is very strong, even comparable to top-ranked Peach Mountain players!

Gossipmonger: Back then, the Celestial Court and the Netherworld, Heaven Above and Slaughtering Heaven were locked in a fierce battle. The night Heaven Above dropped a character, a post surfaced in the early morning exposing Gan Feng Zou, with various pieces of evidence pointing to Gan Feng Zou's main account being Slaughtering Heaven's infamous battle maniac, Feng Ting Bu Zhi. This stirred up a hornet's nest! People from Heaven Above questioned Gan Feng Zou, who didn't respond. But when Lai Si asked, Gan Feng Zou immediately admitted it, claiming he only created the alt account to relax and not intentionally get close to Heaven Above to do 007. No one believed this at the time. To prove his innocence, Gan Feng Zou stood his ground and let Lai Si kill him with his main account, and even used his alt account to create fireworks. As a result, Lai Si unilaterally severed their master-disciple relationship, and Gan Feng Zou's account, now bearing a gray master-disciple title, never logged in again.

Little Money the Gossipmonger: Regarding the truth, I wonder how you all interpret it. At first, I thought Fengting was not only good at scheming, but later, Fengting's various actions and the fireworks before Ganfeng went offline made me think... maybe it really was just a coincidence?

The fireworks that night were so beautiful and poignant. Feng Ting, after that, as you rampaged across the battlefield, did you recall the moments with the members of the Lutian Gang, or your master's gentle and persuasive commands in the wheat field? Feng Ting, do you dare to look directly into Lai Si's disappointed eyes?

The wind stopped but the demon in his heart was still there. Lai Si suppressed it, but when he was abandoned by his master, I want to ask you, when you face a real demon appearing in the world, can you still suppress it?

: Let me translate for the person upstairs: Wind Stop God, please don't kill me, I'm just an innocent bystander!

Gossipmonger: Perhaps wanting to escape the gossip brought by Feng Ting, Lai Si quickly took on a second apprentice, ID: Little Bear Doesn't Eat Honey, a broad-chested, mature man named Jian Cheng. As for his personality, according to sources in the heavens, based on Little Bear's active behavior, he seems to be a calm and reliable adult man, far superior to the hot-tempered type. For a time, master and apprentice got along very well. When Feng Ting tried to stop Lai Si from explaining, Little Bear boldly stepped in: "Don't bother him." Tsk tsk, tsk tsk. However, soon after, on a dark and stormy night, Little Bear bombarded Lai Si with ninety-nine sets of "Three Lives Three Worlds" confessions on Tiannv Mountain. Lai Si decisively rejected him, and there was no further news of Little Bear after that.

He was busy with work afterwards, so it should be A.

Just between you and me, Little Bear hasn't given up. He says he's ready to stand before Lai Si in a better light.

My bear milk!!! Thank goodness I didn't give up!

Little Qian, the gossipmonger: I have to say, Master Lai Si really attracts this kind of apprentice, haha ​​[sunglasses]. The third apprentice, and the one we generally dislike, has the ID "Green Plum Wine." At first, she was a cute girl, and Little Qian was very pleased, thinking that Master Lai Si had finally found a reliable apprentice. But later, Green Plum Wine revealed her true gender, and her main account turned out to be the leader of a notorious, toxic killer guild from the other server. She went from loving Lai Si to hating him, saying she would destroy the Heavenly Realm. Of course, in the end, she was also killed and forced to leave the server by our Lai Si.

The funniest thing about this guy is that he felt that the fox was secretly annoying him, so he asked Lai Si who he would choose between him and the fox. Of course, Lai Si told him to get lost, since the fox was a close friend of Lai Si's in real life!

Some people think that becoming an apprentice means becoming a sister-in-law, without even looking at what happened to the previous ones. Our sister-in-law is not so casual! She hasn't even confessed yet, but she's already acting like the rightful wife, seeing everyone else as a mistress.

Uh... to be honest, I was warned by Qingmeijiu in a private message before, told to stay away from Laisi. Heaven knows I just wanted to have a 1v1 spar with Laisi.

That's how it is with men who prefer sons...

Gossipmonger Xiaoqian: The fourth one is just as bad as Qingmeijiu, ID: Congqianman. This guy, this guy is quite something. It was only after seeing all the gossip about Congqianman that Xiaoqian understood the power of a man's teasing. Tsk tsk, that's the aroma of tea! Congqianman appears to be a well-behaved crybaby, but secretly he did a lot behind Laisi's back. The biggest one was blocking Jianghu Yibeijiu's path, trying to force Yibeijiu to back down. Yibeijiu had only expressed affection for Laisi, without any other inappropriate behavior, yet Congqianman harassed him like a mad dog. The ending was predictable; he was buried along with his previous partners!

The gossipmonger says: He took on a few more apprentices sporadically afterward, but none of them lasted. Looking back, Lai Si's luck with apprentices is truly terrible! Conversely, he has a lot of romantic opportunities, but most of them are bad matches. It's been over half a month since the master took on any apprentices. If Lai Si continues to take on apprentices, we sincerely wish him to find a satisfactory, obedient apprentice—not necessarily someone with exceptional skills, but someone who is a normal person and doesn't cause trouble!

...To be honest, if I could become Lai Si's apprentice, I might even be tempted to become his wife. Lai Si is rich, skilled, has a beautiful voice, and is supposedly quite handsome. He's also not as arrogant and idiotic as others. Who wouldn't like him? He's so good to his apprentices; it would be such a blessing to not be his romantic partner!

Coward! I only dare to dream of [sunglasses] having a black slave to power-up my character, endless fashions, countless rare beasts to ride, a maxed-out homestead, and all those high-ranking players in the sky calling me "Sister-in-law"—that's the ultimate status! Most importantly, hehe, I can video chat with my sweetheart tonight! [wink][wink]

Get lost! Don't you dare covet my sweet, rich, and beautiful girl!

I'm terrified! Does the expert know that you call him "Little Nice Guy" on the forum and even made him into a clay sculpture?

Fox once said that Lai Si doesn't read forums much. His skills are top-notch, so the strategy posts on the forums are useless to him.

They thought the little one could see their sincere words of love [fingers emoji]

: Unbelievable! [vomiting]

The subsequent replies were mostly praise for Lai Si and unrealistic daydreams.

Lai Si has a very good reputation on the forum.

A refined and elegant young nobleman?

Not entirely.

Yuan Ying thought that if Lai Si's true colors were revealed... the forum homepage would be in chaos again.

...

The boss fell to the ground, and the small group farming in the sky hesitated, each refusing to go up and loot the chest—it was common knowledge that the Sky Realm was a place of bad luck, except for the vice-leader, who was incredibly lucky. The members focused their attention, their game characters turning to look at the central flying star.

I can picture them longingly behind the screen without even looking.

[Team] Hooked Silk Side Slide: Perform the Lingyun Brocade technique! Aww, Amitabha! This faithful woman wishes to exchange ten years of her ex-boyfriend's lifespan for this golden light critical strike!

[Team] Hook and Slide: Go, Pikachu!

Lu Xuejin smiled and opened the box.

The glittering Lingyun Brocade was prominently featured.

[Team] Hook and Slide: !! Nice, I love you!

[Team] Lost Soul for Eight Hundred Years: Nice, nice, we love you! [jumping emoji] [jumping emoji]

[Team] Fox: [Sprinkling flowers]

[Team] Lai Si: Hang up for a while.

Lu Xuejin opened her phone and slowly scrolled through it.

The first apprentice, jokingly referred to by netizens as a deeply closeted closet, was frantically sending messages, reaching 87 in the blink of an eye. Without even opening them, Lu Xuejin knew that Feng Ting was definitely repeating the same old story, offering various ways to explain that he wasn't responsible for leaking the faction war strategy.

It definitely wasn't him. Lu Xuejin was well aware of his innocence.

Because he did everything.