Jian Jingyu stuffed several small cakes into his mouth in a row. When he turned around, he realized Wang Tianwei was choking so hard her eyes were rolling back!
"Holy crap! Sister Zebra, quick! Drink something!"
He grabbed a drink from the side and poured it straight into her mouth. Over there, Huang Yan had already started cutting the cake...
"Ugh, ah! ... I'm alive again."
Wang Tianwei patted her chest, finally swallowing that mouthful of cheese.
"People are up there speaking, and you're down here eating? You have no manners at all."
Wang Xian had appeared beside them at some unknown point. Keeping a smile on her face as she looked toward Huang Yan, she parted her lips to speak.
After she finished, she waited for a long time but didn't hear any reaction from Wang Tianwei.
Turning her head, she found that Wang Tianwei had already taken her friend to another table!
"Was that alcohol you just gave me? It was a bit spicy."
"Huh? Let me taste... It really is alcohol! Tastes good... but we can't let Sir Huang know!"
"They actually have sea urchins! Quick, quick, quick! I'm craving them so badly!"
Jian Jingyu grabbed two empty plates nearby, and Wang Tianwei picked up the tongs and started piling food onto them!
The two cooperated perfectly, moving from left to right with movements as uniform as an assembly line.
"Are you even listening to me?"
Wang Xian followed them, gritting her teeth. She was determined to make Wang Tianwei speak today!
Jian Jingyu was eating a sea urchin with a small spoon. Hearing this, he glanced at her.
"Sister Zebra, who is this?"
"A relative."
"Sister Zebra? Hmph! Did you give someone a fake name again? Hey, do you know her real identity?"
Wang Xian didn't know the origin of "Sister Zebra" and thought she was pretending to be someone else.
Jian Jingyu looked at her as if he were looking at an idiot.
"I don't know, but you do? Sister Zebra, your relative... doesn't seem very smart."
Wang Tianwei nodded in complete agreement.
"Indeed."
"!"
Wang Xian was about to lash out, but someone called her by her full name.
"Wang Xian!"
Wang Kaiyu walked over with an unfriendly expression.
"Do you have a problem?"
Seeing this cousin with S-class mental power, Wang Xian felt a bit intimidated, but her words remained unforgiving.
"At someone else's banquet, the host is speaking, and they are eating? Do you think this is polite, cousin?"
Wang Tianwei and Jian Jingyu were eating one sea urchin after another. Wang Kaiyu narrowed his eyes slightly.
"What does it matter to you?"
Wang Xian was annoyed.
"We all share the surname Wang! Today, I will discipline you on behalf of Third Uncle!"
Hearing this, Wang Kaiyu couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"Come, look over there."
He stretched out a hand and pointed backward.
"My dad is right there, and he's perfectly alive and well! Is it your turn to 'replace' him in disciplining us?"
"Wang Kaiyu! My parents are here today too! Don't think I'm afraid of you!"
"And so?"
The group gathering together was slightly eye-catching, and young people nearby who recognized them quickly gathered around.
"Yo! Isn't this Fu Xingyuan's number one pursuer? Why don't I see Fu Xingyuan?"
"He probably avoided her on purpose!?"
"Don't be so harsh, didn't you see her family members are still here?"
"Haha? Family? Ask Wang Xian if she's willing to admit she's from Wang Tianwei's family?"
"Ah! I didn't even notice Wang Xian was here too!"
The greasy-haired boy they had just seen didn't speak, but stared over with an unfathomable expression.
"Who is the guy next to her? Did she change targets?"
"Wang Tianwei, are you going to hide behind Wang Kaiyu again? Can you act a little bit like an older sister?"
"Stop talking, she even ran off to Shuomo Star to heal her broken heart! Hmph, so pathetic..."
"What's wrong with Shuomo Star?"
Jian Jingyu asked in confusion.
The boy who spoke froze for a moment.
"What kind of good place is Shuomo Star!? Half of its area is covered in yellow sand! She gave up a perfectly good spot at the First Military Academy to attend Qilin, that's just giving up on herself!"
"Going to Shuomo Star to attend Qilin is giving up on oneself?"
"What else? Who doesn't want to go to the First Military Academy!? Her brother skipped a grade to enter the first year!"
"Having a genius younger brother is tough, isn't it? If Wang Tianwei went to the First Military Academy, wouldn't she be forever overshadowed by her brother?"
"Guan Wen! Do you want to fight me?"
Wang Kaiyu spoke irritably.
"Hahaha, please don't! Why would I, a commander, fight with a single soldier like you?"
"Wang Kaiyu, what are you pretending for? In the past, when your sister clung to Fu Xingyuan and did all those terrible things, didn't you always pretend not to know?"
Wang Xian was also provoked into a temper by the crowd's chatter and spoke recklessly!
As soon as she finished, someone immediately chimed in.
"Exactly!! What kind of hero grabs people from behind to fight!? You're just a violent maniac, it's not for Wang Tianwei at all!"
The person eating sea urchins looked over sharply; it seemed this was someone who had been beaten up by the little brother before.
"Bullshit!!"
Wang Kaiyu's blood boiled, and he wanted to fight!
Was it that he hadn't tried to persuade Wang Tianwei before? Which time had he tried to talk nicely and not ended up half dead from anger!?
But she was his sister! No matter what she did, she was his biological sister! How could he really not care!?
Wang Tianwei quickly grabbed Jian Jingyu's arm, handed him the plate holding the sea urchins, and didn't forget to pull a tissue to wipe her mouth.
Jian Jingyu also put down the plate and enlarged the virtual screen of his optical computer.
"Dad, did you hear that? They said attending Qilin on Shuomo Star is giving up on oneself."
"...Calling your parents when you can't win an argument!? Are you a child?"
"Brother... the person on the video looks like Chief Judge Jian..."
"Holy crap! It really is Chief Judge Jian!"
Jian Xian's gaze was calm as it swept over the young, immature faces one by one.
"Jingyu, enlarge the screen a bit more."
Jian Jingyu obediently did as told.
"Shuomo Star is connected to the Ninth Military District, guarding twenty-five interstellar black holes in the north, and linking the Eighth and Tenth Military Districts. It is the hub between war zones. The half buried in yellow sand that you mentioned is because the interstellar battlefield decades ago was located right here. Does your First Military Academy not even teach history?"
Jian Xian's voice was not loud, but every word was resonant, leaving the group of boys and girls in front of him unable to lift their heads.
"As for Qilin... unfortunately, every generation of my family has graduated from Qilin. I'm truly sorry for 'giving up on ourselves'."
"Chief Judge Jian, we weren't talking about the Jian family..."
"I saw the family crests you are wearing, and I can roughly figure out which families you children belong to. If you don't know history, I will suggest that your families find a few more teachers to tutor you."
"..."
They were doomed now! The kids who had come over to pick a fight regretted it endlessly!
Regardless of whether the adults in their families knew Chief Judge Jian, their perfectly good summer vacations were going to end early!
"We... were just joking!"
"Right, we didn't mean that Shuomo Star is bad! We were just joking around with friends! Young Master Jian might have misunderstood."
"Are you saying I can't understand human speech!?"
Jian Jingyu was furious!
He was standing right here! And these people still wanted to retract their statements!?
"Cough, cough, everyone meant no harm... Tianwei, do you want to explain to Young Master Jian?"
Wang Xian pretended to be calm. Her dad cared about face the most! As a lieutenant in the First Military District, he also frequently dealt with the Chief Judge. If her dad found out about this...
Wang Tianwei brushed her hair back and stepped into the frame.
"Uncle Jian, there is no need to lose your temper. I have already informed everyone who needs to know."
