The villainous second male lead at the beginning? No! He's the white moonlight!

While Ye Linyuan was having a good time, Pei Sijing was having a much harder time.

Wiping stools, pouring wine, cutting watermelons were one thing, he could even barely tolerate picking out strawberry seeds, and he could even understand peeling sesame seeds, after all, some fairies were indeed too outrageous.

But what does it mean to comb the hair of a paramecium?

Seeing Shen Shuying walking over with a petri dish, Pei Sijing really wanted to smear the petri dish on her face, which used to look quite pretty but now looked increasingly hateful!

He had never heard of such an outrageous request in his entire life!

Moreover, what kind of good person would bring a petri dish of paramecia to someone else's birthday banquet?

This is nitpicking, this is absolutely nitpicking!

"Ms. Shen, I'm sorry, I really can't fulfill your request."

Pei Sijing said in a deep voice, and at the same time handed the petri dish back to Shen Shuying.

Shen Shuying did not take the petri dish, but instead crossed her arms and looked at Pei Sijing with a cold smile.

"You're just a waitress, what right do you have to refuse me? I'm the second young lady of the Shen family! Do you know what kind of family we are? We're a prestigious and powerful clan! My father is Shen Tiannan, the city lord of Haicheng!"

"You've offended the Shen family. Do you even want to stay in Haicheng?"

As Shen Shuying finished speaking, Pei Sijing fell silent instantly.

He never imagined that Shen Shuying had such a powerful background and such a big influence.

He had heard that Haicheng Lord Shen Tiannan had two extremely beloved daughters. His eldest daughter was the captain of Haicheng's security brigade. She was exceptionally capable and had become the captain of the security brigade without Shen Tiannan's knowledge. Shen Tiannan was always very proud of her and would tell everyone he met about it.

Whether they were genuinely unaware or feigning ignorance is another matter entirely.

As for his second daughter, she is said to be even more favored than his eldest daughter, but because she is still in school, few people know anything about her.

If the woman in front of you is really Shen Tiannan's second daughter, then her willfulness is understandable.

After a long silence, Pei Sijing, looking frustrated, took Pei Yangmin back, gritted her teeth, and nodded stiffly.

"I...comb!"

After Pei Sijing said this, it was Shen Shuying's turn to fall silent.

This is different from his script with his sister Shen Wanmeng. Shouldn't he be so angry at his own excessive demands that he breaks down on the spot? Only then can he find a reason to kick him out.

Only then can the older sister arrest him.

Why isn't this following the expected pattern?

Shen Shuying, unwilling to give up, asked Pei Sijing for confirmation.

"Are you sure you want to comb the cilia of my paramecium?"

Pei Sijing, who was initially feeling aggrieved, suddenly became very wary after hearing Shen Shuying's sudden confirmation.

Could this capricious second young lady have other tricks up her sleeve, waiting to be used on me after I reject her?

"I'm sure, it's just combing the cilia of a paramecium, that's a piece of cake!"

A piece of cake?

Not far away, Ye Linyuan, who was chatting with Xiao Ruoxi, Su Shiyu, Ye Xi, and Ye Xin while listening intently to what was happening over there, almost choked on his own saliva.

Paramecium are quite small, normally between 0.1 and 0.3 millimeters. To a normal person, they are just tiny dots.

Paramecium cilia are even shorter, only 0.01 to 0.03 millimeters long. How can you comb them?

Even if Pei Sijing had the extraordinary ability to comb the cilia of a paramecium, a paramecium normally has 3000 to 6000 cilia, so combing the cilia of a paramecium would probably take an unknown amount of time!

This is a piece of cake?

This is countless times more difficult than preparing a whole Manchu Han Imperial Feast!

However, on the other hand, Pei Sijing's ability to endure today shows that his ambitions are not small!

It seems I need to get my eldest sister, second sister, and sister Shiyu to do more preparations.

Thinking of this, under the gazes of the girls who were almost bursting with jealousy, Ye Linyuan directly pulled Su Shiyu into his arms. With Su Shiyu's face full of shyness, he leaned down and whispered in her ear his guess.

After listening to Ye Linyuan's guess, Su Shiyu nodded slightly and then shared the information she had recently received.

"Ah Yuan, I've also received some news these past two days. Foreign capital is injecting funds into the portion of the Su family's assets controlled by Zhao Xinyue. Perhaps that's what gives them their confidence."

Ye Linyuan frowned slightly and said in a deep voice.

"Foreign capital? Can you find out where the capital comes from?"

"We can't find out yet, but we should know soon. But don't worry, A-Yuan, no matter who it is, we've made ample preparations."

Su Shiyu gently kissed Ye Linyuan's cheek, and her face instantly filled with confidence (or perhaps shyness?).

"Thinking about cooperation now is too late. No matter who comes, it's just making the food a little more plentiful so we can eat a little more."

"There will be no other outcome!"

Su Shiyu spoke with great confidence, and of course, she had the right to be confident.

He had been preparing for this day for four years, and he had also brought in the Ye and Xiao families to participate. Although the Liu, Mo, Bai, and Gu families were not invited, they were also prepared to join in and get a share of the pie at any time.

No matter how much capital Zhao Xinyue brings in, or what kind of capital it is, it will never be a match for her!

It's simply about making this cake more abundant!

In other circumstances, Ye Linyuan wouldn't worry. After all, family members understand each other. Whether it's his eldest sister Ye Qingyan, his second sister Ye Qingxin, or his childhood sweetheart Su Shiyu, they are all outstanding individuals with exceptional abilities.

But Pei Sijing is a male protagonist in a female-oriented novel, and who knows what kind of weird accidents might happen to him. Although he has almost broken his protagonist halo, the system has not clearly stated that he is no longer the male protagonist!

Even a lion will exert all its strength to hunt a rabbit!

Moreover, the male protagonist is a special case!

Name: Pei Sijing

Age: 27

[Favorability: -100]

[Tags: A dark-themed male protagonist in a disqualified plot, a genius in both literature and martial arts, whose personality has drastically changed]

[Note: Is a male protagonist who will stop at nothing to achieve his goals still a male protagonist? Perhaps, but, are kings and generals born with their titles? The male protagonist is also a carbon-based life form, and so are you; he can be replaced!]

One's own investigative abilities don't lie. Even though Pei Sijing has been tormented by Luo Qingyue and Luo Qingxuan, and even the investigative abilities' evaluation of him is getting lower and lower, the word "male lead" is still clearly there!

Even though he had plundered a lot of the other party's male protagonist status, and he also possessed a system, what really worried Ye Linyuan was an old saying!

Whitewashing weakens you by three points, while turning evil makes you ten times stronger!

A normal male protagonist is nothing special; a male protagonist who turns evil is truly terrifying!

Of course, for Ye Linyuan, there is not much difference between a normal male protagonist and a male protagonist who has turned evil. It's just that one is a waste and the other is a slightly stronger waste!