I'll give my daughter one more second.

Yukino was unwilling to reveal the truth, and Wu Shen certainly couldn't force her. She must have her reasons for wanting to keep it a secret, and everything could only be left to nature.

"Thank you for understanding..." Yukino's voice was barely audible.

"It's nothing, just a small favor." Wu Shen shook his head. He never expected that Yukino Yukinoshita, who was usually cold and sharp-tongued, would have such a vulnerable and unknown side.

"Your sister should have already left. I'll go to other floors now and try to find Wuyi and the others."

Previously, Wu Shen's plan to go to other floors was delayed because of the sudden appearance of Yukinoshita's older sister, Haruno. Now that the matter has been resolved, Wu Shen immediately intends to take action.

"Okay, thank you." Yukino nodded.

Then, just as Wu Shen took a few steps, he saw Wu Yi standing on the escalator on the second floor, waving and shouting at Wu Shen's area, "Brother, I'm back!"

Yu Yin, who was also missing, stood to the side, covering her face and holding her forehead. She seemed to feel too embarrassed. She turned her face to the side and muttered to herself, "I don't know this guy. I don't know this guy."

"With a loud bang in the sky, Wu Yi makes a dazzling entrance!" Wu Yi said with a grin, her small body rushing into Wu Shen's arms like a cannonball.

Fortunately, Wu Shen was prepared to react when he saw the way the dancer was charging, otherwise both of them would have definitely fallen to the ground.

"You finally decided to come back? What were you doing running off to earlier!" Seeing the lost dance costume return, Wu Shen felt a huge weight lifted from his heart. Although he was very happy, he still put on an angry expression.

This time, Wuyi needs to be taught a lesson; she absolutely cannot run around like that next time!

"Daddy, I was wrong... Waaah..." Before Wu Shen even started lecturing her, tears welled up in Wu Yi's eyes, as if they might fall at any moment.

What Wu Shen fears most? Crying, tantrums, and threats of suicide, especially when it's a little girl doing it—it's doubly damaging to him. Seeing Wu Yi's pitiful state, his heart softened, and his grand educational plans were completely forgotten.

"Alright, alright, I won't say it this time. But remember not to do it again next time." Wu Shen quickly patted her hair, smoothed her back, and began to coax Wu Yi to be happy.

“Wu Shen, there’s nothing wrong with education. But there’s a difference in priorities. How could you make your cousin cry?” At this moment, Yukino and Amane also reunited, and the atmosphere between them was much more harmonious.

Hearing the faint sobbing, Yukino cast a slightly reproachful glance at them.

"What a huge injustice!" Wu Shen thought to himself. "Where's your coldness and sharp tongue, Yukinoshita? You're spoiling this child way too much, aren't you?"

At this moment, Yuyin looked at Wuyi speechlessly, thinking that no wonder she had asked that UMR sister to buy her a small bottle of eye drops before she came back. It turned out that she planned to use it in this kind of situation.

When Mai saw Yu Yin's gaze, she took advantage of Wu Shen and Yukino's conversation to give her a thumbs up, touched her "tears," and revealed a mischievous expression that showed she had a plan.

It's all a scam! What happened to the trust between people?

Although Wuyi avoided a lecture and a spanking by using this trick, seeing Wu Shen's worried expression, she vowed in her heart never to sneak away again.

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Chapter 40 Big Boss Yono

"What exactly did you guys go about?" Wu Shen asked.

With his sharp eyes, he had just caught a glimpse of Wu Yi's little actions out of the corner of his eye, and the whole truth came to light. However, Wu Shen just found the mischievous Wu Yi quite adorable, and his anger subsided considerably, so he decided not to continue scolding her.

Mai must have learned her lesson after this incident. Although she's mischievous, she's always been a well-behaved little girl.

"We were planning to have a showdown, and then we went to the game area. Then we met Big Sister U·M·R, and she brought us back! She even helped me catch a bunny plushie." Mai turned around, holding the pink bunny plushie in one hand, and pointed to the girl not far away with the other.

Wu Shen and Yukino looked in the direction Mai was pointing and then noticed a girl behind them whose clothes and behavior were a bit strange, who was about to sneak away.

Seeing that the two had noticed her presence, the girl could only slink forward sheepishly.

U·M·R? Is that a person's name?

"Thank you for bringing my sister back. I was very worried after she went missing." Yukino bowed slightly to the girl.

"N-no, it's nothing. It was just a small favor. Don't worry about it." The girl blushed and waved her hands nervously.

However, she was wearing a mask, so her entire face couldn't be seen. Wu Shen didn't understand why she was dressed like that.

"I don't know what to call you?" Wu Shen asked, taking over the conversation.

"Hmm... just call me U·M·R." The girl thought for a moment, then lowered her beret before answering.

Is her real name U·M·R? What does that mean? Is it some kind of "doing good deeds anonymously, calling myself a Young Pioneer or a living Lei Feng" routine?

Do Japan have such strange customs? If that's the case, I'll give myself a title—SSR! Perfect! It sounds like it's full of lucky charm. By the way, can UMR be considered a name? Wu Shen silently complained to himself.

However, seeing Yukino's equally surprised look, Wu Shen probably knew that he had misunderstood.

"Um... Miss UMR, thank you for helping my sister return. Is there anything we can do to repay you?"

"It's nothing serious, I just did it on a whim. But speaking of rewards... could you four help me with an event? I'm not very confident I can win alone." The girl thought for a moment and said somewhat shyly.

She meant well by helping others without expecting anything in return. However, since there were four more people here, their chances of winning would increase significantly if they were willing to participate.

So, despite feeling ashamed, the girl stammered out her request.

Wu Shen and Yukino exchanged glances. After Yukino nodded in agreement, Wu Shen replied, "It would be great if there's anything we can do to help. I wonder what kind of help we can offer?"

"I'm here today for a large event in the mall. The winner will receive a very rare pillow as a reward. Apart from the three-story management center, there's an event venue on each floor, making a total of four floors and three venues. I'm going to one venue; could you please help me with the other two?"

“Okay,” Wu Shen and Wu Yi replied in unison.

Because of the tight schedule, after verbally agreeing on the meeting point, the girl left first and headed to the event venue on the first floor. Yukino took Amane to the second floor, while Wu Shen took Mai and rushed to the game event on the fourth floor.

When they arrived on the fourth floor, registration for the competition had already begun. Wu Shen quickly joined the queue and started chatting with Wu Yi.

"Huh? Isn't this the little boy from earlier? What a coincidence! Why aren't you walking with Yukino-chan? Did you two have a fight?" Wu Shen looked up when he heard the familiar voice and saw Yukino-chan who had left earlier.

Come to think of it, the other person was heading to the fourth floor when they left, and we actually ran into each other again? What bad luck.

Although Wu Shen himself had a good impression of Yang Nai, given Yukino's resistant reaction, Wu Shen was now highly wary of this charming and sophisticated beauty.

"We just bumped into each other by chance. You've misunderstood," Wu Shenping said calmly.

"That's right, my brother already has a woman he loves! How could he possibly be fooling around with other women!"

Mai, a naive six or seven-year-old girl, has a natural and keen sense of awareness of Haruno's disguise. Although she can't explain why, she subconsciously feels a bit resistant to the woman in front of her.

"Whose cute little girl is this? I didn't see her before?" Yang Nai looked down in surprise at the voice and noticed the pink-haired little girl that Wu Shen was holding.

"This is my younger sister. Is there anything I can help you with?"

"You're still young, you don't know. Men are all philanderers. Maybe your brother is cheating on you with two women at the same time." Yang Nai ignored Wu Shen and squatted down to tap Wu Wu's little nose, smiling as she spoke.

"Hmph, it's none of your business. The woman my brother has his eye on is incredibly charming!" Mai confidently raised her head and pouted.

“My Yukino is quite charming too. But this young man…” Haruno suddenly changed the subject, “We live in a monogamous society now, so I hope you won’t let Yukino down. If I find out you’re unfaithful, I won’t let you off easily.”

"You don't need to worry about my affairs. Besides, you already knew that Yukinoshita and I weren't in that kind of relationship, right?" Wu Shen sighed softly.

He'd be a fool not to see it by now. Although Yukino kept calling him her sister's boyfriend, her reaction told him it was all an act. She'd known all along that she and Yukino weren't in that kind of relationship.

If a normal person discovered their younger sister's boyfriend was cheating, they would have already started to scold her harshly, and Wu Shen might even have been slapped a few times. Frankly speaking, this older sister of Yukino's lacks the self-discipline expected of an actress.

"Just a heads up, don't call me 'little boy,' my name is Wu Shen." Wu Shen's eyes showed a hint of helplessness.

"Wu Shen? That's a surname. Are you from the Celestial Empire?" Yang Nai finally showed a hint of surprise.

“Yes, I’m an international student.” Wu Shen nodded; he was used to this kind of surprise.

"Speaking of which, little boy, what are you doing queuing up here?" Yang Nai was clearly the type who "humbly listens but never changes his ways." Even though Wu Shen had already stated his name, the other party still called him "little boy."

"It's nothing..." Wu Shen didn't answer directly. He had a premonition that once Yukino's older sister got involved, nothing good would happen.

So, in order to ensure things went smoothly, Wu Shen decided to never mention the activities taking place here.

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Chapter 41 Smuggling into Europe

However, Wu Shen clearly oversimplified the matter.

Seeing Wu Shen's expression of being ready to die and unyielding, Yang Nai rolled her eyes slightly, ran to the back of the queue, and used her superb social skills to find out what kind of event it was from other people.

"Eh? I didn't expect you to be interested in limited edition body pillows. Is it some kind of erotic body pillow?" After gathering enough information, Yang Nai leaned in again with a mischievous grin.

Wu Shen wasn't sure if it was just his imagination, but he felt that Yukino's older sister was quite interested in him. Being noticed by a beautiful woman should have been a great thing, but Wu Shen's biological instincts told him that he absolutely couldn't let his guard down.

Otherwise, you might be led astray by the other party if you're not careful.

"It's just a cat-face pillow. And it's not something I wanted; I was helping someone else with an event." Wu Shen tried his best to maintain an indifferent expression.

"Does the little girl want it?" Yang asked gently, her hands supporting her slightly bent knees.

To outsiders, she was the perfect older sister figure. Other children her age would probably have become very familiar with her by now, but Kasumigaoka Mai was more perceptive than the other children. Instead of answering the question, she hid behind Wu Shen.

"Looks like he's still a shy little guy." Although the situation was a bit awkward, Yang Naiqi's reputation for excellent communication skills was well-deserved. With a simple sentence, she diffused the awkward atmosphere and stood up to face Wu Shen again.

"It looks interesting. Why don't I join this event too?" Yang Nai said to herself, looking at the long line of people, as if she were talking to Wu Shen.

Wu Shen glanced at Yang Nai, inwardly feeling utterly devastated. He was practically screaming in his head, "What is it about me that interests you? Can't I just change?"

"Yukinoshita's older sister, you're also interested in cat face body pillows?"

"The promotional image is surprisingly cute. Also, don't be so formal, just call me Haruno."

"Big sister, I don't know you well..." Wu Shen thought to himself.

“After all, I share the same surname as Yukino. Since you have no relation to Yukino, you must still be calling her by her surname, right? If you also call me ‘Yukinoshita,’ then it won’t be distinguishable from Yukino.” Haruno used Wu Shen’s previous denial to turn the tables on him.

Wu Shen was truly speechless at Yukino's explanation. If he continued to call her Yukino's older sister or directly address her as Yukino, it would be tantamount to admitting that his relationship with Yukino was so close that they could address each other by their first names.

If the name is Yang Nai, it's tantamount to the other party's scheme succeeding. It's practically an unsolvable problem.

"Is it alright to address her as 'Sister Yukinoshita'?" Unfortunately, Wu Shen, who came from China, had plenty of ways to circumvent her linguistic traps when it came to the issue of address.

"Don't you think it's too long?" Yang Nai blinked.

"It's alright," Wu Shen said, trying to keep himself to himself as quiet as possible.