Ruan's grandfather furrowed his eyebrows before he blatantly opened them as if danger was lurking around the room. He glanced at the side only not to see his favorite grandson, He stood up and saw the time in the low luminesce of darkness that it was four in the morning.
He walked outside to the pond before he saw the person he was looking for sitting under the grace of the goddess of the night. The shimmering light rode on top of his skin as he approached his grandson.
"Are you... talking to that fish?"
He could see his grandson turned frigid as he turned around. The koi was gaping its mouth nonstop unaware of what's happening. "Eh, well, yes..."
"Bahahaha!" his grandfather laughed before he sat down and pat his back with a smack of a thousand mountain.
"Good! You are beginning to unveil yourself, there is no shame in admitting what you are doing, that is the first step toward happiness. What others may think or speak ill about you, you get to decide what to do not them. At the end of the day, your life is more important than some stupid society that does not care about you even if you die on the street."
*ding
Ruan suddenly got a notification on his special smartphone. Under the completed easy quest of talking to a koi fish, there was a quest with a golden letter that caught his attention.
*tap
The animation started before revealing the information of the quest.
'Reward: 10.000.000 LP'
His entire body felt a jolt of lightning from his hands. The reward was an astonishing ten million life points.
(What the hell, ten million points! This is not only going to change my life but it will also change the entire world) he gulped at the number that could make money knelt in its present.
His thumb slowly scrolled up before he saw the rank of the said quest.
'Rank: SSSS'
His eyes closed in dismay as he read the four-letter that stood above all the grading system. He had hope something easy could come out but of course, it won't be like how he wanted it. He took a deep breath before he flicked his thumb downward.
His pupils were immediately shrunken as his eyes opened wide. It was something that he didn't expect at all. Something so simple yet he didn't notice until now. The quest written on the phone made him rethink all the events that were happening. The strange thing that he should have wondered in the first place, was finally the quest blessed upon him.
'Quest: Find out grandfather, Yuan Tey's real identity.'
(What...) thought Ruan.
(I always had a hunch, but I never thought that I was right) Ruan glanced at the ever-smiling grandfather of his. His bulky figure was not fit for his age, or maybe it was not fit for the current world they were living in.
He swallowed his saliva but before his grandfather asked, "Hmm? why are you smiling against an empty screen?"
(Huh? Empty?) he looked at the phone he was holding and noticed that he was still on the quest page with everything still there. He gave the phone to his grandfather without hesitation, "Here grandpa, try and hold on to it."
Yuan Tey held the phone without a slight doubt before he furrowed his eyebrows. There was no button on the phone and the screen was pitch black. He flipped it over only to see a flat surface with no camera on the back. It was thin enough for him to break but when he pinched until the veins around his index finger and thumb popped up, it didn't even leave a crack.
"Ha!"
Suddenly, he smashed the phone against the rock to Ruan's bulging eyes of disbelief. The phone bounced before it entered the pond and immediately it was surrounded by the koi fishes. One koi managed to eat it before puke it out and another received it. It was puked over and over again until every fish got the taste of it.
"Oh my god, grandpa wtf?!"
"Bahahaha!" laughed Yuan before he picked up the phone from the bottom of the pond. He wiggled it down to get rid of the water before giving it back to his grandson without any remorse but with a grin instead.
Ruan's hand shook as he received the phone but turned serious as he saw how the screen didn't crack and still clean as if nothing happened. There were no bruises on it either, everything was as fresh as how he received it.
(I see, must be that identification thing, only the identified can see the content of the screen) thought Ruan before he looked at his grandfather, "Grandpa, can you tell me, just who exactly are you?"
"I mean, just look at you, your figure seemed so refine despite your age, your muscle, and your skin as if they were stuck in your prime years. The hospital that I was in, it's considered one of the best on the planet, yet, you with your sandals just broke into it as if it was your own backyard, not to mention it's already past the visiting time."
"Also, father, even with his wheelchair, seemed nonchalant about all this. He didn't even worry about the price of such a room. Not to mention it was VVIP, the best they can offer—"
Yuan Tey suddenly patted his grandson's head and rustled his hair, "Ruan, you will gradually learn about this in the future. The world you see now is still plain, but once you understand that this world is not what it seemed, then and only then, you will understand."
"The word 'Tey' behind your name is heavier than the gods."
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(Those were the words he said) thought Ruan as he was staring at the day sky from the window of a car.
"Young master, we are approaching Master Suan's house, shall I drop you here?" asked the driver.