Volume 1, Chapter 54: Grandfather's Arrival

Meng Xiaohan had slept a little too long. It wasn’t until noon, when Xu Jie returned from school, that she was still sound asleep in bed.

“Xiaohan, you’re still not up?”
“That child, what time is it already!”

Groggily, Meng Xiaohan opened her eyes.
“Mom, hasn’t Dad come back yet?”
Rubbing her tousled hair, she casually pulled her phone out from under the pillow and began scrolling.

Typical young people!
They can’t sleep without their phones before bed!
And the first thing they do upon waking is reach for their phones!

“Not yet, he should be back soon. By the way, how was the situation with Tianhu’s family resolved last night?”
Xu Jie, a public school teacher, was well-informed.
Her daughter had not come home all night, and she had even complained to Meng Tianming about how unruly young people have become nowadays.
Staying out all night, and Meng Tianming doesn’t even manage it properly!

It wasn’t until she arrived at school today that she found out what had happened.

“They were all taken away, what else could be done?”
Meng Xiaohan opened her phone and instinctively launched a short video app.

Ah—
A sudden scream echoed from the room.
In her pajamas, Meng Xiaohan jumped out of bed and dashed out without caring about her appearance.

“What are you yelling about, child?”
“Mom, Jelly’s gone viral!”
“What?” Xu Jie had just tied on her apron, about to wash vegetables and cook.

“I’m saying, Jelly is famous now!”
Meng Xiaohan, a little excited, held up her phone and dragged a chair over to Xu Jie.

“Look, over five thousand people!”
“What five thousand people?” Xu Jie looked at the phone, confused.

On the screen, Guo Dong was leaning against a tree, fast asleep.
Beside him, Heizi, his dog, rested quietly.
The man and his dog were live-streaming themselves sleeping.
More than five thousand people were watching him sleep live!

Clearly, Xu Jie and her daughter were on completely different wavelengths. She shook her head and sighed.
“That kid probably didn’t sleep all night again. The money’s all settled now—what’s he so busy for?”

Meng Xiaohan also focused on Guo Dong.
Watching him asleep by the tree made her feel a little heartache.

For a moment, both of them overlooked one thing:
Over five thousand viewers had been watching the streamer sleep for over an hour.
How bored must people be nowadays?

However, Meng Xiaohan didn’t think about these things. She tucked her phone away and hurried into the room to change clothes.
Not long after, dressed and casually brushing her teeth, she grabbed her phone and ran out again.

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“Hey, it’s almost mealtime. Where are you going?”
Without looking back, Meng Xiaohan said, “To the vegetable garden!”
She ran quickly, heading toward the hillside behind the village.

At this time, the villagers were returning from tending the fruit trees.
Seeing her, they teased her one by one.
But Meng Xiaohan ignored them all and rushed straight to the garden.

When she arrived, Guo Dong was still asleep!
She tiptoed over to the phone and said softly to the live stream:
“Sorry everyone, the streamer didn’t sleep last night and might be too tired. I’m going to end the stream now. When he wakes up, he’ll explain to you all!”

She had never live-streamed before and wasn’t sure if that was the right thing to say.
Before anyone in the chat could respond, she ended the broadcast.

Goodness!
This was the second time!
The first time, the stream was cut off without a word.
This time at least she gave a heads-up, but she still should have said goodbye!

“The one who stopped the stream is a girl!”
“Wow, who would have thought, Jelly actually has a woman rooting for him!”

“Jelly” was Guo Dong’s online nickname, something he had typed in casually when registering the account without much thought.

Meng Xiaohan quietly approached Guo Dong and reached out to pinch a leaf on his head.

Swish!
Guo Dong suddenly opened his eyes.

“Xiaohan!”
His tense expression immediately relaxed.

Heizi didn’t even open his eyes and kept sleeping soundly on the ground.

“What are you doing sleeping here? If you’re tired, go home and rest!”
Meng Xiaohan instinctively pulled back her hand, scolding him with displeasure.

“No, I was just resting a bit!”
Guo Dong stood up and brushed dust off his pants, smiling sheepishly.

“Here, your phone!”
Guo Dong was momentarily stunned but took the phone from Meng Xiaohan.
“Why do you have it?”

Meng Xiaohan: “...”
“You were live, and you didn’t turn it off? You just kept letting people watch you sleep?”

Guo Dong smacked his forehead.
“I forgot again! We agreed it would only be half an hour.”

Meng Xiaohan rolled her eyes in exasperation.

“By the way, it’s only been two days—how did your followers grow so fast?”
“What followers?”
“The ones in the live chat!”

She snatched the phone back and unlocked it easily since it wasn’t locked.

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This careless man!
Meng Xiaohan muttered, showing Guo Dong the screen.

“Over eight thousand followers—this growth is way too fast.”
Guo Dong was still confused; he had no idea what was going on.

“That can’t be right. When I was streaming this morning, there wasn’t a single viewer!”
Meng Xiaohan: “...”
Turns out he didn’t know anything, and here he was trying to be a streamer.

“Look, the donations from fans have already reached seven or eight hundred!”
“That much?”
Guo Dong was dumbfounded, staring at the backend data, speechless.

If he had known making money was this easy, he wouldn’t have worked so hard.

“All right, don’t overthink it. Go home and get some rest. I’ll think about how to use your account to make something out of it.”
She pushed Guo Dong gently down the hill.

“I’m already rested, not sleepy!”
“Go home!” Meng Xiaohan glared at him.

Guo Dong immediately lost his mood, chuckled softly, and obediently walked down the hill.

For some reason, Meng Xiaohan’s angry look just now made him feel a little proud.

Before they even reached home, the familiar voice from the yard was already heard.

Slightly startled, he hurried inside.
“Grandpa, why are you here?”
The question implied that Ren Guoliang was not welcome to come, but it had been a long time since Ren Guoliang had visited!

Ever since Guo Dong could remember, it had been many years.

At this moment, Ren Guoliang was sitting calmly in the yard with Guo An.
Rarely did the two manage to sit together in peace and chat.

“Couldn’t stay at home, so I came to stay a few days!”
Ren Guoliang smiled broadly when he saw Guo Dong.

This grandson had given him such a pleasant surprise!

Since the day his ears were healed, his mind had been filled with the acupuncture technique Guo Dong had used on him: the Ghost Gate Thirteen Needles.

He had studied acupuncture all his life but never mastered this technique.

He was almost certain that Guo Dong was using the Ghost Gate Thirteen Needles.

“What’s wrong, is the family causing trouble again?”
Rarely did Guo Dong joke with Ren Guoliang.

“Don’t mention it. They were arguing about divorce last night!”
Ren Guoliang sighed in frustration.

So he came to Xiantao Village to avoid the trouble—out of sight, out of mind.