SWNOVELXO Ch. 5
Chapter 5: Sister’s Shock! Lin Fan’s Resentment Value Explodes
The latter half of the birthday banquet turned entirely into my, Chu Yun’s, personal show.
The relatives who previously scorned me now wore fawning expressions, holding their wine glasses and praising me with phrases like “Little Yun is truly a hidden gem” and “A true dragon doesn’t reveal its claws.”
The elites of Jingdu City also flocked to chat with Chu Xiaotian and me, their words filled with awe and curiosity about my “miraculous” medical skills.
From a useless playboy, I seemed to have become, overnight, the Chu family’s brightest rising star.
I was the center of attention.
Meanwhile, the banquet’s original “chosen one,” Lin Fan, was forgotten in a corner.
He stood like an awkward statue, watching me bask in the limelight, his face so dark it could drip water.
Every admiring glance cast my way felt like a scalding steel needle piercing his heart.
He sensed that his protagonist aura was being inexplicably stolen by me!
Humiliation!
Rage!
And a trace of fear he refused to acknowledge even to himself!
After all, if you said I was just a blind cat stumbling upon a dead mouse, that wasn’t entirely true. At the very least, my performance today was strange, completely different from usual, and no one knew why.
…
After the banquet ended, the Chu family returned to their villa.
As soon as we entered the living room, Chu Qingxue couldn’t hold back any longer. She strode up to me, her usually icy eyes now brimming with shock and confusion.
“Chu Yun.”
Her voice trembled slightly.
“When did you learn medicine? Why didn’t I ever know?”
“What are you up to?”
All eyes in the living room instantly focused on me, including those of the patriarch, who, after a cup of tea, looked more energetic than ever.
This was the question on everyone’s mind.
Heh.
I yawned, slumping onto the sofa with a still-half-asleep, lazy demeanor.
“Oh, that?”
I scratched my ear, saying carelessly:
“Learned it online. Medical forums, short videos, that sort of thing. Just picked it up casually. Haven’t you heard? Bilibili is the best university…”
“Sis, you know your brother’s a genius.”
“Maybe our old Chu family had a divine healer ancestor or something, and the genes mutated, awakening in me.”
This nonsense, of course, even I didn’t believe.
But I said it with such confidence and irreverence that it left everyone momentarily speechless.
A genius?
Using that kind of excuse to explain my life-saving medical skills?
It was like rubbing everyone’s intelligence into the ground!
Yet the facts were right before their eyes.
Chu Qingxue’s chest heaved with anger at my attitude, but she had no way to argue. Her perception of her brother was undergoing a seismic shift—
He was no longer the useless good-for-nothing.
Instead, he seemed mysterious, unfathomable, even… reliable.
Meanwhile, Lin Fan, standing not far away, trembled slightly upon hearing this conversation.
Learned online?!
Gene mutation?!
Bilibili?!
What a load of crap!
His “Taiyi Divine Needle” was an ancient inheritance, earned through countless hardships and near-death experiences before he barely mastered it!
Now, the glory that should have been his, the divine skill that should have shocked the world, had been casually stolen by me with the absurd excuse of “learning online”!
He felt like a clown who’d given his all, while I, Chu Yun, was the audience member who stole all the applause with a casual clap.
[Ding! Detected strong resentment from the original protagonist Lin Fan. Resentment Value +1000!]
[Congratulations, Host, for earning Slacker Points: 100!]
The cold mechanical voice echoed in my mind, making the smile on my lips even wider.
Nice!
Lin Fan was like my personal ATM!
The more resentment he felt, the richer my rewards, and the more comfortable my slacker life became.
I savored the thrill of toying with the Dragon King.
My previous life was too tragic, tortured by Lin Fan for over a million words!
From today on, I’d make sure Lin Fan fully experienced what it meant to “have power but nowhere to use it, have swagger but no chance to show it”!
…
At the same time.
In another top-tier family in Jingdu City—
The Qin family.
In a brightly lit study, a woman in a fiery red dress, with a stunning figure and breathtaking beauty, was intently reading a file.
She was the eldest daughter of the Qin family, Qin Yueyao. She had secretly attended the banquet to pay respects to Chu Xiaotian before leaving.
“Interesting.”
Qin Yueyao swirled the red wine in her glass, a cold smile playing on her lips.
“The notorious useless young master of the Chu family called the police at the banquet to arrest a gang claiming to be the ‘Asura Hall,’ then performed a miraculous healing, saving the patriarch on the verge of death?”
“Calling the police was adorably foolish.”
“Saving someone was a divine feat.”
“This Chu Yun—is he genuinely clueless, or is he playing the pig to eat the tiger?”
Her captivating phoenix eyes glimmered with intense interest.
In the original novel’s plot, she was dazzled by Lin Fan’s moment in the spotlight, when a group of black-clad men hailed him as the “Dragon King,” and fell for him at first sight, even willingly becoming his sidekick.
But now, my series of bizarre, almost comical actions had successfully captured her full attention. Lin Fan, meanwhile, remained nothing but a spineless nobody in her eyes.
…
At the Chu family villa.
Lin Fan returned alone to the room he shared with Chu Qingxue. The moment he closed the door, the restrained and pathetic expression on his face vanished, replaced by a vicious scowl.
“Chu Yun…”
He hissed my name through gritted teeth, slamming his fist into the wall, leaving a shallow dent in the solid surface!
“You think you’ve won? I, Lin Fan, crawled out of a pile of corpses! You think you can beat me?”
Just earlier, his top Heavenly King, Greedy Wolf, had reported—
The one who called the police was me, Chu Yun.
The officer who responded was Huang Chenfan.
But Greedy Wolf and the others had contacted a Jingdu bigwig, who got them released without charges.
Lin Fan wasn’t thrilled with this outcome, but he could accept it. Still, my inexplicable disruption today left him choking on his anger.
Hmph!
“Just you wait!”
“Medical skills, huh? Divine healer, huh?”
“I’ll soon show you what a true divine healer is! I’ll make you spit out everything you gained today, a hundredfold, and leave you disgraced and ruined!”
He’d take back the spotlight!
He’d make the whole of Jingdu City know who the real divine one was!
Meanwhile, in the living room, as I prepared to head upstairs to sleep, I glanced instinctively at Lin Fan’s tightly shut door.
I could clearly sense a fresh wave of resentment brewing and rising behind that door.
The corner of my mouth curled into a faint smile—
“Dragon King Son-in-Law?”
“Heh, no rush.”
“Your Dragon King days might soon turn into ‘Worm King’ days.”
“Just wait. Your good days are still to come.”