It's time to give out the rings, Admiral!

"Brother...Brother..."

"It's okay, Unicorn. Why don't you introduce yourself to Xiaorou like everyone else?"

"Um... Hello, Sister Xiaorou, I'm a unicorn, hehe, brother, is that okay?"

The situation changed drastically, leaving the girl somewhat bewildered. It was one thing for such a beautiful golden retriever to suddenly appear, but then even more cute and pretty girls suddenly popped out from behind it, and she heard them introducing her so affectionately. She couldn't understand what was going on, or why so many girls had come to her and her brother's house with him. The girl stiffly turned her head, wanting to ask her brother what was going on.

She glanced at the blonde girl who called her brother "brother-in-law," then at the purple-haired girl who, like herself, called her brother "brother," and then at the girl on the other side who even called her brother "father" and looked so much like the flaxen-haired woman in the photo her brother had sent her before. She felt as if something inside her was about to collapse.

"Brother...brother, who are they?" the girl asked tremblingly.

"They are all my ship girls, Xiaorou. How about it? Isn't this surprise enough? Although I didn't prepare a gift for you, they prepared a lot of gifts and red envelopes for you. They're afraid you'll be overwhelmed with gifts, hehe."

"Oh, right, Xiaorou, let me introduce you to your sisters-in-law. This is Lexington, my virtuous secretary ship, and this is Illustrious, my 'true initial ship.' You've already seen them in the photos I sent you before, right? They are my marriage ships, your sisters-in-law."

"So, you were worried I wouldn't find a girlfriend before, are you satisfied now? They're all ship girls who are very caring, so you don't have to worry about no one taking care of you when I'm not around, right?"

"…………"

More than one wife from who-knows-where, a sister-in-law from who-knows-where, yet another sister from who-knows-where, and even a daughter from who-knows-where…

The girl choked on her words, clutching her chest and gasping for breath. She felt that she must have accidentally entered the nightmare she had before.

Looking at the eight beautiful women in front of her, she glanced at her brother's expression, staggered back a few steps, and almost couldn't breathe. Suddenly, everything went black, and her legs went weak. Before her mind went completely dark, all she could see was her brother's panicked and incredulous expression...

"Xiao Rou!?!?!?!..."

Volume 1, Chapter 504: It Was Just a Dream

"Ouch... My head hurts so much, what's going on? This, this is my room? How did I suddenly fall asleep?"

In the dimly lit room, the girl slowly woke up alone in her familiar bedroom. The pale yellow light stimulated her cornea, and the intense discomfort made her feel dizzy. She touched her head and struggled to sit up from under the covers. It wasn't until a while later that she realized she was lying in her own bed without even knowing how.

"I remember I was just in the yard preparing dinner ingredients for Aunt Zhang. How did I suddenly end up in the room?"

The girl was a little dazed. She only remembered that she seemed to be washing fish in the yard, but she couldn't remember what happened after that.

Rubbing her eyes and enduring the dry and uncomfortable feeling coming from her throat, she felt like she was back when her father used to force her brother to drink, and she couldn't bear to watch and wanted to drink some for him, but accidentally drank until she blacked out. She had a very subtle feeling of discomfort.

The feeling wasn't as unpleasant as being truly drunk, but it was just as intoxicating, even causing some gaps in her memory.

"What exactly happened... Hmm... I seem to remember... Wang Jing came looking for me..."

The cool breeze under the moonlight stirred the curtains, and the girl pondered deeply. She had a feeling that something very important had happened afterward, perhaps even related to her brother, but it was as if her brain was refusing to recall, and she just couldn't remember what had happened after that.

The sun had long since set outside the window, and under the bright moonlight, one could still hear the cicadas chirping in the woods surrounding the village, and of course... there was also a cacophony of voices coming from outside my own room.

“Yu Chen, you’re back now, but why did you bring so much stuff back? It must have cost a lot of money. With that money, you could have bought Xiao Rou some clothes.”

"It's alright, Aunt Zhang. It didn't cost much. It was just a little trouble to bring it back. I'm not short of money now. There will be plenty of opportunities to buy Xiaorou new clothes in the future."

"Oh, yes, yes, Sister Zhang, haven't you seen how successful Yu Chen has become? Spending this little bit of money is nothing. Look at the girls he brought back, they're all so pretty, like fairies. They don't look like they're short of money at all."

"Even so, we can't just spend money like this. We bought so many things that I don't need at all. Look at these health supplements. With the money we have, we could have bought so many new books for Yaya."

"This and that, how can you put them all together? Besides, isn't this just Yu Chen's kind intention? Just accept it. Oh, by the way, Yu Chen, where's Xiao Rou? Shouldn't she be the most excited right now? Why haven't I seen her?"

"Xiao Rou, this girl... she... she just fainted from being too excited and is resting in her room now..."

The girl sitting on the bed was a little dazed. That familiar and extremely kind voice entered her ears one by one, as if knocking on the box that held her memories. The so-called "memories" floated into her mind like flowing water.

The girl touched her cheek blankly, her eyes widening little by little. After a while, as if she had gotten used to it, she let out a long, relaxed sigh.

"Phew... It was all just a dream. I was so excited to see my brother that I accidentally fainted. I knew it! Otherwise, how could I have seen my brother bring back so many ship girls? That's such an absurd thing!"

"I don't know where my wife came from, I don't know where my sister-in-law came from, I don't know where another sister came from, and I don't even know where a daughter came from. Really, even though my brother has already come back, I still have such a terrible dream. It seems that I have been too nervous lately."

"But this dream was so realistic that I can still remember what the fox spirits my brother brought back in the dream looked like. Phew~ Luckily it was just a dream, otherwise I might have fainted from a heart attack."

"Alright! Su Yuru, now that you're awake from the dream, stop thinking about all this nonsense. Let's hurry up and go find my brother! He must be worried sick about me since I fainted from excitement!"

After sorting through her memories, the excited girl couldn't help but smile. Confirming that what had just happened was just a nightmare, the beautiful girl threw off the covers, ready to run out and jump into her brother's arms to make sure he had taken good care of her during the past month without her by his side.

However, when she suddenly lifted the covers and saw what she was wearing inside, the girl froze, her face turning bright red. Then, she covered her mouth, feeling both shy and happy.

She still remembered that before she fainted from excitement upon seeing her brother, she was wearing the pretty little dress she had prepared to welcome him home. But now, in bed, she was only wearing a thin nightgown. She had fainted from excitement, so she certainly couldn't have changed her own clothes. The person who changed her must have been...

The girl blushed. To give her brother a good impression, and also to allow her breasts to grow freely and quickly, she didn't wear a bra when changing clothes. If her brother were to change her clothes, then... well, he'd definitely see everything...

Having realized this, the girl, blushing and cupping her cheeks, couldn't help but let her thoughts wander and began to make connections.

My older brother used to be reluctant to have any close contact with me. He always said that there was a difference between men and women, and that if we got too close, other boys would misunderstand. Every time I heard him say that, I would get really angry. What difference between men and women? What about misunderstanding? It would be better if they misunderstood. Anyway, I already belonged to my brother and could only belong to him. What was there to be afraid of?

However, now that my brother has helped me change my clothes, and even... even seen all of my private parts, does this mean that my brother has changed his mind?

The girl pondered with a mixture of shyness and joy, but her hands didn't stop moving. Her eagerness to see her brother made her hastily change out of the thin nightgown she had never seen before. She didn't even have time to think about where the nightgown came from before she found the beautiful dress she had just worn on the bedside table.

She quickly dressed and tidied herself up before heading out. But just then, before she could even get out of bed, a familiar, surprised voice suddenly drifted into her ears from beside her.

"Ah, Little Rou, you're awake?"

Volume 1, Chapter 505: I won't listen! I won't listen!

"Ah, Little Rou, you're awake?"

The sound came from the direction where the door to the girl's bedroom had opened at some point. Phelps, who was standing in front of the girl's bedroom door, was pleasantly surprised to find that the girl had woken up. She was looking at the girl on the bed with joy, holding a small red plastic basin in her hand, which contained some steaming warm water and a brand new towel.

Phelps had intended to use the hot water to wipe Xiaorou's body, because after Xiaorou saw her father in the yard and accidentally fainted, it was as if she had a terrible dream. In her dream, Xiaorou kept calling for her brother, and she was covered in cold sweat. Her furrowed brows and fearful appearance in her dream startled even Lexington, who had been specially arranged to take care of Xiaorou.

Phelps smiled slightly. Now that Xiao Rou had woken up, he could finally relax a little, as he had been worried about the girl's condition.

She tiptoed to the girl's bedside and placed the small plastic basin on the bedside table. But after putting it down, she noticed that the little girl on the bed seemed to have suddenly stiffened and remained motionless after hearing her voice, as if she had seen something unbelievable. Xiao Fei tilted her head in confusion.

To be honest, if you put Xiaorou and Phelps together, Phelps looks younger than Xiaorou, who is almost fifteen and already a beautiful young woman. However, Phelps has become the wife of his admiral, and Xiaorou will even have to call her sister-in-law. Even though it sounds a bit strange, Xiaorou can only call the girl Xiaorou "little sister".

"Little Rou, what's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"

Seeing that the girl still didn't respond, Phelps, her cute brows furrowed, couldn't help but become worried. She reached out to check if her little sister was alright, but the next second...

"You! You! You! You! You! You!!"

"Don't come any closer!!!"

Suddenly, the girl on the bed let out a piercing scream. She grabbed the blanket and covered her head with it. She kicked her legs back and created a considerable distance between herself and Phelps, who was almost startled, standing on the side of the bed.

"Little Rou, don't get excited, or you'll faint again."

Upon hearing Phelps' voice again, the girl, still in a daze, felt her vision go black and nearly fainted again.

She took two deep breaths and heard Phelps's extremely worried voice, which cleared her vision slightly. Her lips were taut, and her fair face showed an expression as if she had seen something that shouldn't exist in this world. Her slender finger pointed at Phelps, trembling slightly. Her chest heaved violently, and she was panting heavily, making one worry that the girl might faint at any moment.

"You! You! You! What are you still doing here?! Aren't you someone who only appears in dreams?!"

The girl was on the verge of a breakdown. Ever since she heard that voice she shouldn't have heard, she felt as if the world she saw had suddenly collapsed completely.

She found it hard to accept this terrible reality, suspecting that she was still having a terrible double nightmare. She bit her tongue hard, but almost cried out from the pain. The girl then covered her mouth tightly.

The girl was in so much pain that she had to confirm that she wasn't dreaming and that everything she was seeing was real, so real that it was enough to give her a heart attack.

Why? Why is this girl who calls her brother "Dad" appearing in front of me again?! Shouldn't everything that just happened have been just a terrible dream?!

Gripping the sheets tightly, the girl, whose head was spinning from the repeated blows, cried out in her mind. Regardless of whether it was real or not, she couldn't accept that her brother had brought a wife home, and so many of them at once. How could she possibly admit to such a thing!

"Little Rou, you look so pale. Are you alright? Would you like to lie down?"

Phelps was also startled. Although she could understand why Xiao Rou didn't want to see her, she really didn't expect Xiao Rou's reaction to be so intense. She wanted to comfort the girl and calm her down so that she wouldn't faint again in a moment of impulsiveness after just waking up. But no matter how hard she tried, the girl in front of her didn't seem to have any intention of communicating with her at all.

"I won't listen! I won't listen! I won't listen!!! This is all a dream, all a dream! Once I wake up, you will all disappear!!"

The girl on the bed covered her ears, simply becoming a coward, trying to escape this cruel reality. She screamed loudly, unable to believe that her brother had not only suddenly gotten a wife behind her back, but also had a daughter.

She gritted her teeth and looked at the girl by the bedside, who was flustered and at a loss because of her reaction. Her face looked so much like the woman named Lexington that her brother had mentioned. Her eyes reddened with grievance.

Even though the reality was undeniable, she just couldn't believe that her brother would do something like finding so many wives for her behind her back. It must be these women who had deceived him. Although this girl named Phelps did look somewhat like her brother, she just couldn't believe it!

But what about his daughter and sister-in-law? Could it be that his brother has been lying to him all along?

He lied to himself about going to Tsugawa to take the admiral exam, when in fact he had known these ship girls for a long time and just wanted to meet them secretly behind his back; he lied to himself about successfully passing the admiral exam and creating so many ship girls, so that he could have a legitimate reason to bring them back; he lied to himself about wanting to become an admiral so that he could live a happy life in the future, when in fact he just wanted to have an affair.

It has to be said that at this moment, the girl's imagination reached its peak. If the boy were here and heard his younger sister's thoughts, he might feel guilty and break out in a cold sweat. He did know his girls a long time ago, but he didn't know it. He did have a reasonable excuse to bring them all back, but it was all an accident. He also planned to explain everything to Xiaorou.

"It's all my brother's fault, it's all my brother's fault, sob sob..."

In short, the girl felt extremely wronged. The thought of her brother being devoured by these terrible women without any share for her caused the last glimmer of light in her eyes to disappear.

Although the older brother may have been deceived as well, the fact that he was deceived in the first place is definitely his fault for being too foolish!

She exuded a strong sense of resentment. The girl had made up her mind. If her brother was really as she imagined, then she couldn't be blamed. For her own happiness, she had no choice but to take the last resort. As for what her brother would do next, that was no longer her concern.

"Little Rou, wait a minute, I'll go get Sister Lexington right now! Sister Lexington!..."

Seeing that the girl was determined not to communicate with him, Phelps had no choice but to give up on trying to persuade her alone. He turned around and ran out of the girl's room, then went to ask for help from outside...

Volume 1, Chapter 506: Why? Why is this happening?

Phelps jogged out, leaving behind a girl with resentment and grievance in her eyes, sitting on the bed and crumpling the innocent sheets beneath her.

He actually brought back so many ship girls, and some even have daughters! My brother went to Tsugawa and was indeed corrupted by those bad women there. He was showing off those women in front of me, which hurt Xiaorou's heart. Since you are so heartless, brother, don't blame me for being ruthless.

She gritted her teeth and vented her anger on the bedsheets, as if the sheets beneath her were the bad women who had corrupted her brother, and she wanted to tear them all to shreds.

"No, no, this isn't right. My brother would never lie to me. He's so slow-witted and foolish, he couldn't possibly have that kind of ability. So why do I feel like something's off? I feel like there's something I haven't thought of yet."

With Phelps gone, the girl was left alone in the bedroom. The noise from the living room had no effect on her. She focused on how to implement her plan discreetly and without being hindered, and gradually calmed down.

Her brain, which had been clouded by the events of the afternoon, started working again. After briefly recalling what had happened and her conversation with her brother, she discovered something that surprised her.

Because the girl named Phelps looked a lot like that threatening woman with flaxen hair, and she called her brother "Dad," and her brother didn't deny it, he subconsciously assumed that she was his daughter with that woman. But in reality, there was no evidence to prove that she was really his daughter.

"I understand now, they were lying to me, trying to make me give up on my brother!"

She pounded her palms hard and suddenly realized that this might just be a scam targeting her. Otherwise, her brother had only been in Jinchuan for a little over a month, not counting the more than twenty days he spent on the ship going back and forth. How could a daughter suddenly appear out of nowhere?

Even if ship girls are beings of pure will, they couldn't possibly give birth in just one month, right? Besides, this girl doesn't look much younger than me!

The girl sitting on the bed calmed down immediately. After thinking it over, she found many things that didn't make sense. If it was true, as the girl said, that her brother was her father, then it would have to be as she had imagined. Unless her brother had met that woman named Lexington a year ago behind her back, it wouldn't be possible!

But there's no way my brother would do that. It's not that I'm speaking ill of him, but with his slow-witted personality, how could he possibly take the initiative to pursue a girl? I've already hinted at it to him so many times, but he doesn't know. Even that vixen Zhuo Yuelin is still just a "little sister" in his eyes.

Besides, given my brother's personality, if he were really going to do this, he wouldn't keep it from me! So the only remaining possibility is that my brother was deceived by them, and the poor brother was even forced to become a sucker! He hadn't even gotten married yet, and suddenly he had a daughter out of wedlock!

At that moment, the girl felt she understood everything, but she also became unusually angry.

These wicked women dared to deceive my brother and even tried to take him away from me! This is intolerable! Moreover, even if I know that my brother didn't actually have a daughter with another woman, it doesn't mean my crisis has lessened. These women will definitely try every means to take my brother away. This is only the beginning of the war!

It wasn't until now that the girl came to her senses. In what she had imagined as her "first encounter," she had already fallen into a disadvantageous position. She gritted her teeth, thinking about how to turn the tide. Moreover, despite the sudden increase in the number of enemies, all of whom had been brought back by her brother, she found herself not as sad as she had imagined, even though she felt betrayed.

That's true. Even if her brother has so many girls around him, what can she do? Can she really leave him and live alone? Putting aside whether she'd even want to do that, she only has her brother left. If she leaves him, what will she have left? Can she endure life without him? Just thinking about it makes her feel like she's dying even in just over a month; imagine being separated from her brother for even longer…

Moreover, even if... even if I ultimately fail to defeat these despicable women, I probably won't leave my brother, otherwise I wouldn't have immediately thought of that last resort of forcing him into marriage...

"Why, why did this happen? My brother's return and his becoming an admiral were both such happy things, so why did it turn out like this?"

As she fiddled with her braided hair tied with a floral rope, the girl, suddenly feeling a bit listless, pouted her lips in grievance. She still harbored some resentment, but no longer for her brother deceiving her; instead, she resented herself for not stopping him or for shamelessly insisting on going to Tsugawa with him.

She was also angry, but even more angry at those bad women for daring to lie to her brother, and at her own slowness in not realizing it at first.

Compared to the initial feeling of almost having a heart attack and being rushed to the hospital when she saw her brother bring back so many girls, including more than one wife, the girl felt that after thinking about it for a long time and calming down, she was almost able to accept this terrible fact.

Instead of wallowing in self-pity and sighing here, you should use that time to think about how to get your brother back from those bad women!

Being alone and powerless, the alliance with Zhuo Yuelin couldn't just be a delaying tactic or empty words. Rather than have his brother taken away by these wicked women, it would be better for him to share his brother with Zhuo Yuelin. At least in front of Zhuo Yuelin, he could still hold the upper hand...

Waaah... I wonder if my brother has ever been... done that to him by those wicked women. If he has been tormented by those vile women with their lewd bodies, it will be even harder for me to win him back... Do I even have breasts that big...?

In short! I absolutely cannot forgive those wicked women who dared to deceive my brother! Even if they were ship girls, a hundred of me wouldn't be enough to defeat them, and I would never give up! My love for my brother is deeper than anyone else's, and I will never give up on him.

"Little Rou, you're awake? What happened? Xiao Fei told me you seemed unwell just now. Are you alright?"

Suddenly, she heard another gentle and virtuous voice. Looking at the woman's perfect face and her concerned and worried eyes as she appeared at the door, the girl who was encouraging herself suddenly froze.