61: All under one roof

Father Lin and Mother Lin exchanged glances, both seeing the same thought on each other's faces.

Their daughter's professional awakening had failed!

Or rather, the awakened profession was extremely undesirable.

Lin Yao had been lively and cheerful since childhood, and had never been so disheartened, except when Lin Yu was ill.

Mother Lin's heart felt as if an invisible hand was clutching it, aching terribly. She quickly took two steps forward, grabbing her daughter's hand, which was ice cold to the touch.

"Yao Yao, what's wrong? Is it... is it because the result isn't good?"

She asked cautiously, afraid that any word might upset her daughter.

"It's alright, Yao Yao. No matter what profession you awakened, you are still Mom and Dad's pride." Father Lin also hurried over to comfort her, his voice trembling slightly. "At worst, we just won't go down the path of a professional! We'll just go to a regular university, find a stable job, and live our lives just the same!"

Five years ago, when their son awakened an Epic-tier profession, they were overjoyed, thinking the Lin family was about to soar.

The result was five years of nightmares.

Now, with their daughter's awakening result seemingly unsatisfactory, they instead felt a sense of 'it's just as we expected' reassurance.

Perhaps, a simple life is the true path?

Lin Yao looked up, seeing the genuine worry and heartache on her parents' faces. She opened her mouth, but couldn't utter a single word.

What could she say?

Say that she had awakened the Mythic-tier profession, Omniscient Sage?

This result, far from being undesirable, was explosively good! It was a top-tier talent capable of shaking the entire Linzhou City!

But she just couldn't be happy.

The moment she thought of the greedy and ugly faces of those people on the podium, the moment she thought of how they valued her like a commodity, even planning out her reproductive tasks for the next few decades...

She felt waves of nausea.

What good was a Mythic-tier profession?

In front of those true behemoths, she was still pitifully small, at least for now.

She couldn't even help her brother alleviate a tiny bit of pressure.

This achievement, which should have brought immense joy, now felt like a huge boulder, weighing heavily on her heart, making it hard for her to breathe.

"I... I..."

Lin Yao's eyes reddened, and large tears welled up, but she still couldn't speak.

This appearance further confirmed Father Lin and Mother Lin's suspicions.

"Sigh..." Father Lin let out a heavy sigh. He reached out, wanting to pat his daughter's shoulder, but his hand lifted halfway and then fell weakly.

He turned his head, looking at Lin Yu, who was silent beside him, a hint of pleading on his face.

"Xiao Yu, you should talk to your sister. You... you have experience. Don't let her get stuck in a rut too."

As soon as these words left his mouth, Father Lin himself felt his face burning.

Asking a son who had been stuck in a rut for five years, almost destroying the family, to tell someone else not to get stuck in a rut?

This was an enormous irony.

But now, he could only rely on Lin Yu.

After all, Lin Yao had always listened to Lin Yu the most since childhood.

Mother Lin was already holding her daughter, starting to sob softly.

"My Yao Yao, why is your fate so bitter..."

"It's alright, it's alright. Mom's here. The sky won't fall..."

The atmosphere in the living room was extremely oppressive.

Just then, a gentle female voice interjected.

"Oh, sister-in-law, don't cry yet. The child just got back. If you cry, she'll feel even worse."

Lin Yu's gaze shifted.

He then realized that there were far more people in the living room than just their family of four.

On the sofa, in the corner, several people were standing and sitting.

The one speaking was his maternal aunt.

Beside his maternal aunt sat his paternal uncle.

And on the single sofa on the other side sat a well-maintained middle-aged woman, who was Su Qingxue's mother, Mother Su.

Su Qingxue stood behind her mother, head bowed, twisting the hem of her clothes, not daring to look towards Lin Yu.

Mother Su apparently still didn't know what had happened in the parking lot. Seeing Mother Lin cry, she also got up and walked over, patting Mother Lin's back.

"Exactly, sis. The child is still young. What's one failure? Our Qingxue also didn't awaken a combat profession, did she? For girls, these things aren't that important."

His maternal aunt also came over, holding Lin Yao's other hand.

"Yao Yao, don't be sad. For us girls, we don't necessarily have to fight and kill. Look at your maternal aunt, me. I've lived an ordinary life, and isn't that pretty good?"

His paternal uncle also stood up, hands behind his back, adopting the air of an elder.

"Alright, stop crowding around. Awakening is nine parts destined by heaven, one part hard work. Since the result isn't ideal, accept reality early. Yao Yao's academic performance has always been good, hasn't it? Getting into a good university for theory or culture isn't bad either."

They each spoke a sentence, their words filled with 'concern' and 'understanding'.

As if they were all genuinely thinking of Lin Yao.

But under Lin Yu's Analysis Eye, all disguises were exposed.

When his maternal aunt said, "Isn't that pretty good?", there was a fleeting micro-expression at the corner of her mouth, a standard, suppressed joy. Her hand on Mother Lin's back unconsciously patted twice, which wasn't comfort, but celebration.

When his paternal uncle said, "accept reality," his chin was slightly raised, a typical gesture of contempt, stemming from his belief that he stood higher than others.

And Mother Su, when she mentioned her daughter, her orbicularis oculi muscles did not contract, which was a standard social fake smile. Her true emotions were boastfulness and pity.

These subtle actions, imperceptible to ordinary people, were infinitely magnified under Lin Yu's 500 points of mental attribute and the bonus from his Analysis Eye.

In an instant, the true thoughts in the hearts of these relatives appeared clearly in Lin Yu's mind, like bullet comments.

Maternal Aunt: "Excellent! This girl from the Lin family also failed! Let's see how she'll show off her daughter's good grades in front of me now! Although my son isn't ambitious, at least he wasn't outshone!"

Paternal Uncle: "I told you, this generation of the Old Lin family is no good. They had a crazy son, and now the daughter is also useless. Luckily, I didn't lend them money back then, otherwise it would have all gone down the drain."

Mother Su: "Sigh, how pitiful. But it's also good. This way, my Qingxue will appear even more outstanding. In the future, when Yao Yao looks for a job, she might even have to come to us for help."

One by one, the masks of hypocrisy were torn off, revealing the truest and ugliest desires beneath.

Not a single person genuinely felt sorry for Lin Yao.

They were either relieved, disdainful, or calculating how to extract the last shred of superiority from the Lin family's misfortune.

This was even more sickening than the naked greed of those company representatives at the awakening ceremony.

Because those people were enemies.

And these people in front of him were 'family'.

Su Qingxue seemed to feel Lin Yu's gaze, her body trembled almost imperceptibly, and she buried her head even lower.

She was extremely afraid of Lin Yu now.