Stuck on the highway, I just flew home on my sword!

Cheap saxophone background music plays in the "Peninsula" café.

Lin Ye sat in the booth, feeling that every second was torture.

The woman opposite him was named Wang Manman, the "good girl" that his second uncle mentioned.

The real person is more impactful than the photo.

Her face was covered in foundation as thick as if the paint had just been scraped off a wall, her false eyelashes were long enough to be used as fly swatters, and the cheap perfume she wore smelled like it was hitting Lin Ye on the head.

Next to her sat a young man in his early twenties with blond hair, playing video games with his legs crossed and the speakers blasting loudly, occasionally exclaiming "Holy crap!"

"Lin Ye, right?"

Wang Manman looked Lin Ye up and down, her gaze lingering on his logo-free down jacket for two seconds, a hint of undisguised contempt flashing in her eyes.

"The person who introduced you said you work in the city? What do you do for a living?" Wang Manman picked up her coffee and took a sip, striking a pose like an interviewer.

Lin Ye leaned back in his chair and answered truthfully, "A planner from a GG company."

"A project planner?" Wang Manman scoffed. "The salary must be low, right? Eight thousand?"

"Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not, but on average it's five or six thousand," Lin Ye said honestly.

He wasn't lying; this was indeed his real income before he began cultivating immortality.

"Five or six thousand?"

The blond-haired guy next to her suddenly looked up, as if he'd heard a joke, "Sis, this salary isn't even enough for me to buy skins. Are you sure you want to talk to him?"

Wang Manman glared at her younger brother, and when she turned to look at Lin Ye, her expression became even colder.

"Mr. Lin, since this is a blind date, I'll be frank with you."

Wang Manman slammed her coffee cup heavily on the table. "You know my situation. The men who want to date me could stretch from here to the edge of town."

"I'm only willing to come out to see you because of Aunt Wang."

Lin Ye nodded: "Yes, then I'm really sorry to trouble you."

Wang Manman didn't catch the sarcasm in Lin Ye's words. Instead, she raised her chin, took out an A4 sheet of paper covered in writing from her bag, and slammed it on the table.

"This is my draft prenuptial agreement. Take a look at it first."

Lin Ye glanced at it and almost burst out laughing.

Good heavens, this isn't a prenuptial agreement, it's practically a contract of servitude.

"First, the bride price must be 500,000 yuan, not a penny less."

"This is the market price here, and I don't want to lose face because of it."

"Secondly, I've found a large apartment in the city that I like. Your family will pay the down payment, and you can pay the mortgage, but the property certificate must only have my name on it."

"This gives me a sense of security."

"Third, and most importantly."

Wang Manman pointed to the blond-haired younger brother next to her, "I only have one younger brother. He just graduated from university and doesn't have a job yet."

"After we get married, you must hand over your salary card to me for safekeeping. Every month, we will set aside 5,000 yuan for my brother to pay off his car loan until he pays it off."

Lin Ye raised an eyebrow: "My monthly salary is only five or six thousand. If I give it to him, I'll only have a few hundred left. Am I supposed to starve?"

"Then why don't you drive for Didi or deliver food after get off work?"

Wang Manman retorted confidently, "How can a man support his family if he doesn't have any ambition?"

"Besides, he's my only brother. We're family. If you don't help him, who will?"

The blond guy, who had been playing games, chimed in, "Yeah, brother-in-law, I've had my eye on that Civic for ages."

"If you can't even afford this much money, you shouldn't waste my sister's youth."

The way he addressed him as "brother-in-law" was utterly disrespectful, and it was as if he took it for granted that the man was being taken advantage of.

Lin Ye wasn't angry.

I even found it a little funny.

He, the current sect leader of the Shushan Sword Sect, a cultivator at the Transcendent Realm, a being capable of leveling a mountain with a single sword strike, was actually sitting here being taught a lesson about how to behave by two ants.

This absurd contrast made him want to applaud this mundane life.

"What? Are you scared and not saying anything?"

Seeing Lin Ye remain silent, Wang Manman assumed he had backed down, and her tone became even more aggressive, "Lin Ye, don't think I'm being demanding."

"Look at your own situation. Both your parents are dead, you live with your second uncle, you have no money and no house."

"I only gave you this opportunity because you're an honest person."

"If you agree, let's finalize this today."

"What if you disagree..."

Wang Manman snorted coldly, "Once you step out that door, I'll ruin your reputation in Qinghe Town and make sure you stay single for the rest of your life!"

In the corner, Bai Zhi, who was eavesdropping, was so angry that she almost crushed the glass in her hand.

"This is shameless! Absolutely shameless!"

Bai Zhi, biting her straw, her face flushed red, exclaimed, "This isn't a blind date, it's robbery!"

"How can this flying man be so spineless? Why doesn't he flip the table?"

As the pride of the Dragon Pavilion, she had never seen such a scoundrel's face before.

If it were her, she would have slapped those two awful siblings so hard they'd be stuck to the wall and never be able to get them off.

Just when Bai Zhi was feeling frustrated and disappointed.

Lin Ye over there finally moved.

He picked up the glass of water in front of him, which had long since gone cold, and gently swirled it.

"The requirements are indeed not high."

Lin Ye looked at Wang Manman, a playful smile curving his lips. "But I have a question."

"What's your question?" Wang Manman frowned.

Lin Ye leaned forward slightly, staring at Wang Manman's eyes, which were covered in eyeshadow, and said softly:

"Are you worthy?"

The moment those three words were uttered, the air seemed to freeze for a second.

Wang Manman was stunned, seemingly unable to believe that this seemingly timid and poor guy dared to speak to her like that.

Immediately afterwards, her face turned a deep liver color.

"What did you say? Say it again?!"

Wang Manman suddenly stood up, pointed at Lin Ye's nose, and screamed, "You penniless bastard, you don't know what's good for you, do you?"

"Believe it or not, I'll post this on my WeChat Moments right now and expose you, you lecherous bastard!"

The blond-haired guy next to Lin Ye slammed his phone on the table, stood up, and shoved Lin Ye, yelling, "Damn it! How dare you talk to my sister like that? You want to die?"

Other customers in the cafe turned to look, and some started recording with their phones.

Lin Ye sat in the chair, completely still.

He didn't even bother to dodge the hand that the blond-haired man reached out to him.

He simply flicked the side of the water glass with his right index finger, which was under the table.

A glistening drop of water leaps from the cup.

Lin Ye twitched his fingers slightly, and his spiritual energy meticulously enveloped the droplet of water.

Shushan Secret Techniques: Mantra (Simplified Version)

This is a low-level technique used in the cultivation world to interrogate demonic cultivators. It can cause people to lose their rationality and control for a short period of time, involuntarily revealing their deepest secrets.

When used on ordinary people, the effect is simply overwhelming.

"go."

Lin Ye silently recited in his heart.

The droplet of water transformed into a streak of light barely perceptible to the naked eye, flying precisely into the mouth of Wang Manman, who was opening her mouth wide, ready to hurl insults.

Wang Manman swallowed the drop of water.

next second.

Her previously angry and distorted expression suddenly froze, and her eyes became somewhat vacant and unfocused.

"Sis? What's wrong? Scold him!" the blond-haired man urged when he saw his sister suddenly hesitate.

Wang Manman opened her mouth.

This time, what came out of her mouth was not profanity, but a string of "truths" that were enough to make the whole room explode.