The first dream, nine dragons pulling a coffin!
Blue Star, Dragon Country.
In a coastal city, a pink Maybach drove onto the ring road.
Driving was a youthful and beautiful young woman.
She was fashionably dressed, with a graceful figure and a beauty that rivaled any popular actress.
She was humming a tune, seemingly in a great mood.
“Orchid finger twirls ~ ♫ Mortal World ~ ~ like ~ ~ water ~ ~ ♬”
“Three feet red ~ ~ ♫ ……”
However, as she drove, she suddenly noticed something amiss.
Ever since entering this city, the various cars on the road, their emblems were all three-pointed stars and circular badges!
“Eh? How strange…”
“Xingyun, look, in this city… why are they all Mercedes-Benz cars?”
Liu Menger asked curiously.
In the passenger seat, a casually dressed, handsome young man answered with a natural smile.
“Maybe some celebrity who really liked Mercedes-Benz cars came from this place.”
“It’s fine, Maybach is also Mercedes-Benz, so we’re just doing as the locals do!”
Lin Xingyun replied with a playful grin.
His phone suddenly rang, and he answered it casually.
“Hello? Mom, yes, we’ve arrived in Guanhai City.”
“Okay, okay, we’ll be careful, don’t worry too much.”
“We’re just attending a class reunion, what could happen?”
“Oh… then I’ll tell Dreamer again…”
Not long after, Lin Xingyun hung up the phone.
With a wry smile, he said to Liu Menger.
“Dreamer, my mom said that your family’s dowry was too much.”
“It would be unseemly if my family didn’t give a bride price.”
“She said she still wants to match the amount of your family’s dowry, giving a bride price of eight million eight hundred eighty-eight thousand, and also…”
Lin Xingyun hadn’t finished speaking.
Liu Menger immediately pouted, throwing a big tantrum, clearly unhappy.
“Xingyun! How many times have I told you, no bride price, no bride price!”
“How difficult it must have been for Aunt Liu to raise you alone!”
“And these past few years, Aunt Liu has treated me like her own daughter.”
“How can I bear to let her pay any bride price?!”
Liu Menger said, puffing out her cheeks.
But her eyes were full of sympathy and pity.
Because as far as she knew, Lin Xingyun’s father had mysteriously disappeared before Lin Xingyun was born.
Leaving only Lin Xingyun and his mother to depend on each other all these years.
Fortunately, Lin Xingyun’s mother, Liu Fengyi, came from an excellent family and had a successful career.
She was the president of a large local enterprise, a typical strong woman.
So, even though they were an orphaned son and a widowed mother living together, their living conditions were still very affluent.
And Liu Menger’s parents were also local wealthy merchants, owning many businesses, with a considerably solid family background.
“But Dreamer… your family is giving so much dowry, and my family isn’t giving any bride price…”
“Won’t this make others think… that I’m actually a live-in son-in-law???”
Lin Xingyun asked with a strange expression.
He hadn't expected that he would, unknowingly, become a live-in son-in-law!
“Oh, you’re so silly! If you don’t say it and I don’t say it, who will know?”
“How long have our two families known each other? And we’re still doing this?”
“Do we have to learn from those nouveau riche and upstarts?”
“Putting out all the bride price, dowry, and gold and silver jewelry for relatives and friends to see?”
“How tacky!”
“I don’t want that at all!”
Liu Menger pouted, seemingly still in a huff.
Then, after a moment’s thought, she said to Lin Xingyun.
“Eight million eight hundred eighty-eight thousand for the dowry, there’s nothing to discuss about that.”
“You don’t like driving, so the few cars in the dowry are mine, and those few houses are yours.”
“And those dozen or so large fishing grounds.”
“You love fishing, and I don’t, so if you don’t take them, who will?”
“As for those company shares, our two families will be one family from now on.”
“Aunt Liu understands business matters better than us, so there’s even less reason to decline!”
“It’s decided, I’ll talk to Aunt Liu, she’ll definitely listen to me, in short, don’t mention any more bride price!”
“Really! We’re getting married in just over a month…”
“And you’re still saying such mood-killing things, you’re making me so angry!”
Liu Menger said, a little resentfully.
She couldn’t help but reach out and pinch Lin Xingyun’s thigh.
Lin Xingyun felt a bit speechless.
It was Liu Fengyi’s suggestion, but he was the one who got pinched!
However, he didn’t mind, and looked at Liu Menger with a playful smile.
“Alright! Okay, I’ll listen to you.”
“Baby, don’t be angry anymore, let me tell you a joke.”
“Hmph! Hurry up and tell it! If it’s not funny, I won’t talk to you!”
Liu Menger snorted, urging him impatiently.
Lin Xingyun cleared his throat and began to tell it seriously.
“It’s like this.”
“You know I like fishing, right?”
“Last week, when I went to your family’s fishing ground, I caught the biggest fish I’ve ever caught in my life!”
“Guess what kind of fish it was?”
“Hmm? What kind of fish?”
Liu Menger asked with a bewildered expression.
Because, in her memory, last week, he didn’t seem to have brought home any big fish.
Lin Xingyun, however, put on a straight face and revealed with a chuckle.
“It’s my undying love for you~~~”
“Pfft—!”
Liu Menger was stunned for a moment, but still couldn’t help but laugh.
Her face was a little flushed, and she shyly and happily patted Lin Xingyun a few times.
“You… aren’t you corny!”
“Alright, alright, you go to sleep for a bit, don’t disturb my driving!”
Liu Menger’s expression brightened considerably, and she continued to concentrate on driving.
Seeing this, Lin Xingyun reclined his seat and closed his eyes peacefully for a short nap.
In his mind, he couldn't help but recall the bits and pieces of his life since arriving in this dream world.
…
In this life, he and Liu Menger were born on Blue Star.
From childhood, they had always been in the same class.
Their two families had also always been neighbors and had a harmonious relationship.
And just seven years ago, after they both turned eighteen, it was the height of summer, with cicadas chirping.
On the third day after the college entrance exam.
Liu Fengyi in modern attire