91. Younger sisters are still rather useful, after all.

“Why do you look like you want to laugh so badly? And you seem a little off tonight...” Chen Sheng stroked his chin, tilting his head slightly as he gave her a sidelong look.

“No, I don’t!” Yu Youxin denied it at once.

Her little face turned solemn.

How could she possibly admit something like that!

“Then should I log into the game first? I’ll wait for you in Three Rivers City?” Chen Sheng said, but just then he noticed a call coming in, so he went to answer it.

“Bro!”

The moment he heard that voice, Chen Sheng knew who it was.

His little sister, Chen Youyou.

“Mm.” Chen Sheng answered coolly.

“Brother, your dearest little sister is calling you, and you’re this cold to me?”

“Just say it. What do you want to buy this time? Or do you need pocket money?” Chen Sheng said straightforwardly.

“What do you mean? Brother, in your eyes, does your adorable little sister only ever call you to ask for pocket money, or to make you buy something?” Chen Youyou said, sounding very dissatisfied.

“If not, then what?”

“I want to stay at your place for a few days, Brother.”

“You’re on break?” Chen Sheng was surprised. It wasn’t winter vacation yet!

“Yeah. For some reason, the school suddenly announced a week off, and then Mom and Dad told me not to come back home. They said I should just go stay with you for a few days.”

“No problem.”

Chen Sheng agreed at once. Once Chen Youyou arrived, he would have her and Yu Youxin sleep on the floor together, and he would just take back his bedroom. What a brilliant plan.

As expected, sisters were still somewhat useful after all.

“Then come pick me up. I’m almost there.”

“Alright.” Chen Sheng, pleased with his own calculations, set down his phone and looked at the young girl before him, inviting her proactively. “I’m going to pick up my sister. Want to come with me?”

“Picking up your sister? In that case... I think I’ll just wait for you to come back.” Yu Youxin stretched lazily, then walked to the sofa, flung herself into it, and reached out to pick up the novel lying on top of a snack box.

It was the one she had been reading earlier, only half-finished.

“Then I’ll go bring her back first.” Chen Sheng had no objections.

The young girl nodded and watched him leave. She was about to keep reading, but then, very suddenly, she sat up straight again.

“Huh? If Old Chen’s sister is coming, then won’t Old Chen realize that he isn’t playing a game at all, but has actually transmigrated?”

This was a very serious problem.

Because the “Old Chen” who treated that world as a game was the real “Old Chen.” Otherwise, he would just be “Old Chen” behind one mask after another.

He might even never dare wear those gold-rimmed glasses again.

And that was not what she wanted to see.

Based on her understanding of Chen Sheng over the past three years, the chance of him never wearing those glasses again was extremely high, because this man was truly unmatched when it came to playing it safe.

Otherwise, now that he had long since shed his mortal shell, he would have been like everyone else, clocking in and out every day and waiting for holidays.

If it had been anyone else, they would already have used those extraordinary powers to get rich, then chase after luxury cars, mansions, beautiful women, and everything else, indulging themselves to the fullest.

But Chen Sheng?

He was like some old Taoist or old monk living in seclusion in the mountains after years of cultivation, content to live simply and take joy in humble circumstances.

As for those extraordinary powers, he kept them hidden extremely well.

He neither went about playing the hero nor displayed his greatness before others.

Unless he himself ran into danger.

If Chen Sheng had mastered the second level carved into that stone, Yu Youxin believed he had probably already reached that realm. But the first level? Then there was only one possible explanation: he was timid.

Thinking of this, Yu Youxin could not help feeling troubled. She sat cross-legged and, like Chen Sheng, rubbed her smooth, delicate chin with a small hand.

She tried to think deeply, hoping to come up with a solution.

Yet less than three seconds later, she collapsed back into the sofa and buried her face in the cushion.

“Wahhh... I can’t think of anything...”

Yu Youxin felt that it must be because of her injuries, which had seriously affected her clever little brain, leaving her unable to think of a solution.

So she decided to examine herself again.

Within those clear, almond-shaped eyes like a pool of pure water, a ghastly green light suddenly flickered, and then an incredible thing happened.

In an instant, the lovely, graceful young girl transformed into a stone maiden.

As if carved from white jade.

On the left side of that stone body’s abdomen was an irregular black hole formed by injury.

That black hollow looked utterly out of place against the white-jade-like body.

Around it, cracks spread outward like a spiderweb, continuously expanding until they nearly covered the entire stone body, leaving only the head intact.

Now and then, wisps of black mist could be seen seeping out from those cracks.

However, this had not happened because someone dug her out.

Rather, someone had interrupted her gestation process and then used the source of all evil to awaken her ghostly nature, causing her attempt to return to life to fail. Under the clash of yin and yang energies, she had fractured apart on her own.

Originally, the cracks had already been about to spread to her head, but that worsening trend was suddenly halted last night. A trace of pale golden blood had flowed out from within the skull, trying to repair the crack nearest the head.

The stone maiden looked as though she might shatter into pieces at any moment, yet she moved without the slightest hindrance. In fact, she had even gone hopping and skipping into the bathroom, remarkably agile.

Looking at herself in the mirror, the stone maiden could not help but clench her small fist.

This grudge, she would definitely avenge!

She had been an unmarried young lady, never even having known a man before being buried in the earth. It was simply a tragedy beyond words!

Because of her special bloodline and the special place where she had died, after becoming a corpse of stone that would never decay, she had finally spent a thousand years lying beneath the ground before gaining the chance to return to life. Yet at the very last moment, someone had ruined everything and caused her effort to come to nothing.

“Damn it! And the worst part is, I don’t even know who did it...”

The more she thought about it, the angrier the stone maiden became.

If someone had not interrupted her gestation process, she would not still be without a man now. This was even more miserable than Old Chen, who had spent more than twenty years single from the womb.

“Best hope I never find out who did it. Otherwise, I’ll make you taste what a thousand-year curse feels like. We won’t rest until one of us is dead!”

After grinding her teeth in fury for a while, and confirming that her brain was not being affected by her injuries, the stone maiden could only suppress her power. The ghastly green light in her white-jade eyes began to fade, and along with it, her body returned to its previous state, becoming flesh and blood once more.

This was not an illusion of any kind.

Although her return to life had failed, there was still a trace of yang energy left within her body. Using that yang energy to restore the surface vitality of her body was no difficult matter.

“But what about Old Chen’s sister?”

Yu Youxin thought of this problem again, and it immediately made her restless. She even could not help pressing both hands to her cheeks and squeezing them into all sorts of shapes.

Just then, a sound of footsteps came from outside.

“I’m back!”

It was Chen Sheng’s voice.

Yu Youxin immediately looked toward the door, though not because of Chen Sheng.

“So that means this problem... I never needed to worry about it in the first place...” she murmured under her breath.