He looked like a brother-in-law targeted by a mischievous sister-in-law.
Unable to do anything about her, he could only offer advice.
Su Rui disliked this look of his and directly sneered at him, "Don't act as if none of us know any better, as if you're the only sensible one. Xie Lian, you need to get this straight: Zhou Lianhe tried to murder my niece!"
"The fact that I didn't make him pay with his life is already the result of my niece pleading for him!"
The opinion of the Xie Family didn't matter at all!
Su Rui still wore that overbearing expression. She raised her chin at Xie Lian, "Xie Lian, what I just said was a notification, not a request for your opinion."
Since he had already given up on the child, she would leave her entirely to the Su Family!
Xie Lian wanted to say something more, but inside the examination room, Su Rui's assistant suddenly strode out and whispered something into Su Rui's ear. Su Rui snapped her head up to look at the assistant.
The assistant nodded, and Su Rui hurried into the examination room, leaving Xie Lian right at the door.
Xie Lian wanted to follow her in, but before he could step through the threshold, the assistant shut the door with lightning speed, nearly breaking his nose.
"!" The Scientific Research Institute people were going too far!
He was a viscount, no matter what!
Inside the examination room, zero people cared about Viscount Xie's anger; they were busy discussing the changes in Xie Yongsheng's brain nerves and brain waves.
Hearing them talk about brain waves made Xie Yongsheng feel a momentary pang of a guilty conscience.
After all, she was a soul from another world. If they saw through her abnormality, with her current strength, she probably wouldn't be able to escape...
Just as Xie Yongsheng was pondering how to escape from this place, Su Rui grabbed Xie Yongsheng's hand with tears of joy, "I knew it! How could someone as brilliant as my sister ever give birth to a muggle?!"
"Our Yongsheng is a growing, combat-capable Guide! One of a kind in the entire world!"
She said these words with pride.
Hearing this, Xie Yongsheng finally felt much more at ease, and her whole body relaxed.
"Little Aunt, what does 'growing' mean?" Xie Yongsheng tried hard to feign suppressed excitement. Alas, she usually disdained putting on a facade, so her attempt at looking restrained ended up looking like she was weeping with joy, making her appear utterly pitiful.
It completely melted Su Rui's heart.
"Growing means that you will advance from D-rank to C, B, A, or even S-rank and above!"
Their Yongsheng was a genius!
Most importantly, no Guide of this type had ever been discovered in the Federation before.
Xie Yongsheng's appearance broke the barrier that only innate ability allowed for career advancement, representing the possibility for ordinary citizens to undergo bifurcation!
Above all, this might even allow existing Sentinels and Guides to upgrade their ranks, increase their strength, and strengthen human combat capabilities!
Once this project succeeded, it would definitely go down in history books.
And she would become the fourth research PhD of the Su Family to be ennobled, following her sister!
Just thinking about it made her so excited!
Xie Yongsheng could feel that she was currently like a monkey in a Grand View Garden; all the researchers in the examination room looked at her with eyes as burning as if she were a pile of merit points.
She knew very well that her charm stemmed from those three words: "growing type."
Stepping down from the instrument, Xie Yongsheng ignored the burning gazes around her and looked at Su Rui, "Little Aunt, what was the outcome of my marriage?"
Su Rui, who was still immersed in her fantasies, snapped back to reality instantly.
She looked at Xie Yongsheng with guarded caution, "Your engagement has already been called off. You can fly freely from now on and won't have to chase after Zhou Lianhe anymore."
Now that the little girl had agreed to break off the engagement, she shouldn't even think about failing to call it off!
...
After Xie Yongsheng was found to have a special physical constitution, the Scientific Research Institute specially added many examinations for her. It was late into the night when Villiers finally brought Xie Yongsheng away.
By the time she left the Scientific Research Institute, Xie Yongsheng's situation had already been reported to the school.
Because of her special status, the school had specially formulated a different educational plan for her.
Among them was a course requiring her to participate in joint training sessions alongside the Sentinels.
Thus, Xie Yongsheng's originally quite relaxed schedule became packed to the brim, leaving her no time at all to do divination to earn merit points.
Regarding this, Xie Yongsheng expressed her view: Indeed, you cannot have your fish and eat it too.
Looking at the merit points Xie Lian had just transferred over via her optical computer, she ordered quite a few more magical props for herself.
Keeping today's merit points at her lucky number for the day: 7.
With abundant merit points, Xie Yongsheng began to tinker with her belongings, such as Tarot cards of various colors and witch robes of various colors.
From then on, she would decide her daily affairs according to each day's lucky color and lucky number.
Having arranged everything, Xie Yongsheng slept her last relaxed night of sleep, got up bright and early the next day, and joined the Sentinels' joint training.
The D-class Sentinel joint training had already been underway for many days, and the sudden addition of a new face naturally sparked everyone's curiosity.
Especially upon seeing that the newcomer was Xie Yongsheng, the school's celebrity figure, everyone's curiosity reached its peak.
"Why is she here?"
"I remember she's a Guide, right?"
"Is it because we have a mission tomorrow, so they specifically had her come and get familiar with us to serve as our backup Guide?"
"Doesn't look like it, look at the clothes she's wearing..."
Only then did everyone shift their attention to Xie Yongsheng's attire.
She was wearing the same style of training uniform as the Sentinels; the only difference was that the hair ribbon she tied was pink, unlike everyone else's.
After a few days of fermentation, her classmates all knew that Xie Yongsheng had been acting a bit mystical lately, so they had grown accustomed to her eccentricities.
At most, they just wanted to complain about Xie Yongsheng.
Why was she so obsessed with looking pretty?
Tying a pink hair ribbon—was she terrified the enemy wouldn't be able to spot their location?
Had she no fear of exposing herself!
At this thought, none of them were willing to form a team with Xie Yongsheng, and they all shunned her with disgust.
Especially when the training instructor asked them to divide into teams, the classmates protested one after another.
"Instructor, I don't want to be on her team!"
"Right! She hasn't even participated in learning pod combat, yet they make her come and train with us—it's obvious she's here to drag us down! We don't agree!"
"If she comes, I'm leaving!"
The classmates already disliked Xie Yongsheng, and now having to train with her made everyone extremely resistant.
In their impression, Guides should live inside the White Tower.
This joint training of theirs was directly related to the mission they would take next month, and everyone wanted to get high scores so they could claim the high-paying missions posted by the senior students.
With such a dead weight dragging them down, they could forget about taking on any missions next month!
Complaints and protests rose in a chorus.
"Enough!" The classmates' protests drew an angry roar from the instructor. "Even if Xie Yongsheng hasn't participated in joint training or undergone systematic training, she is still one of you now!"
"If you lack unity and camaraderie like this, when you encounter powerful Exotic Beasts in the future, are you going to abandon your comrades fighting side by side with you too?!"
The instructor's words could not be described as anything less than heavy.
"Didn't you say you didn't want to be on her team? Now, all of you are on Xie Yongsheng's team!" He was determined to fix their attitudes!
Was the combat zone a place where they could voice opinions at will?
Inside the combat zone, the only answer they were allowed to give was: "Yes!"