21st Century Necromancer

Despite having an important experiment at hand, as time passed day by day, her energy was inevitably drawn into the matter of returning to China with Chen Yu.

In Japan, a girl's first visit to a boy's home is a very important event, signifying that the relationship between the boy and the girl has stabilized, and may even have reached the stage of discussing marriage. It is less about visiting as a girlfriend and more about visiting as a future member of the family, to see the boy's parents.

Given this context, girls naturally place extra importance on their first visit to a boy's home. From wardrobe choices to etiquette, there's simply too much to consider. Some have even written books and established guidelines to prevent girls from making a bad impression on the boy's parents due to any faux pas during their first visit.

For Jounouchi Hiromi, however, the issue was particularly serious. She was going to China!

What she knew about China was limited to the facts that Chen Yu was Chinese, China was a large country, Chinese food was tasty, and Shanghai was a city there—and that was about it.

She had no idea what customs were involved for a girl's first visit to a boy's family in China, nor did she know what preparations to make, not to mention the gifts to bring. Jounouchi Hiromi had no clue what Chen Yu's parents might like.

So she went online to search for relevant information, but the varying advice she found left her completely overwhelmed!

Some suggested doing household chores during the first visit to showcase one's domestic capabilities, while others recommended winning over the boy's mother to swiftly manage the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationship. Some even said that it's essential not to talk too much, answering only when asked...

As for gift suggestions, there was a plethora of ideas: some said to bring alcohol for the father, others suggested cigarettes, and yet more advised giving the mother cosmetics, perfume, scarves, or clothes...

All these diverse suggestions had Jounouchi Hiromi feeling completely frazzled, more tired than after performing eighteen major surgeries.

"Mr. Chen Yu, what exactly should I prepare for my first visit to your home?" Looking at the list of tips she had noted down from the internet, Jounouchi Hiromi emitted a helpless cry for help at Chen Yu, who was busy packing his luggage.

"Prepare? Just get a small gift for my parents, and then help my mother with the cooking to show off your homemaking skills," Chen Yu explained to Jounouchi Hiromi and then went over to take the notebook from her hands. Looking at the list of tips, he couldn't help but laugh.

"What's so funny? These are all things that people have worked hard to summarize! Give it back to me!" Jounouchi Hiromi snatched her notebook back, embarrassed and annoyed at Chen Yu's laughter.

"Because it is indeed quite funny!" Chen Yu grabbed Jounouchi Hiromi's hand and sat her down on the sofa before explaining, "China is a vast country, and Japan's land area is just about the size of one of China's provinces, so each province in China has different customs and traditions.

This is like how the lifestyle habits of people in Hokkaido are definitely different from those of Okinawans. The differences in customs across the provinces in China are significant."

"Eh? Is China that big?" Jounouchi Hiromi looked at Chen Yu in surprise, having known that China was large but never having realized that Japan was only as big as a single Chinese province.

Chen Yu smiled at Jounouchi Hiromi and took her laptop from the coffee table. Opening a search page and bringing up a world map, he pointed at the vast territory of China and then at Japan, resembling a long worm: "China is the third largest country in the world by land area, just after Russia and Canada, and most of their territories are uninhabited. China is different; most of its territory is populated by Chinese people. Hence, China is also the most populous country in the world.

The land area of Japan is roughly equivalent to China's Yunnan Province. Even the whole of Europe isn't as big as China, so if you rely on these so-called tips from the internet about your first visit to my home, you're likely to be misled."

"Then what should I do~?!" Jounouchi Hiromi pouted, slouching on the sofa with a troubled expression on her face.

"Don't worry, I've prepared everything for you!" Chen Yu smiled at Jounouchi Hiromi, taking out two boxes and handing them to her: "These are the gifts I bought yesterday. One is for my mom, a scarf and a necklace, and the other is for my dad, a box of tea leaves and a teapot with cups."
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Looking at the gifts Chen Yu had prepared, Jounouchi Hiromi felt moved that he had already taken care of everything. However, along with the appreciation, she also felt a little annoyed.

Setting aside the gift boxes, Jounouchi Hiromi scrunched her nose and pinched Chen Yu's ear: "If you had already prepared these gifts, why didn't you bring them out earlier? You must have been enjoying watching me trying so hard to find out what I should pay attention to, right?"

"I'm wronged! Wronged! I was busy packing and didn't know you were researching this," Chen Yu pleaded with a pained expression, appealing to Jounouchi Hiromi: "Stop pulling my ear, it's going to fall off, wife!"

"Who's your wife, you dead man!" Jounouchi Hiromi softened at Chen Yu's 'wife' and sat slack on the sofa, blushing and turning her face away.

"Now that you're ready to go home with me, are you thinking of backing out?" Chen Yu hugged Jounouchi Hiromi and whispered in her ear.

"Dead man! Shut up!" Jounouchi Hiromi elbowed Chen Yu and didn't want to deal with this annoying man.

But after all the teasing, Jounouchi Hiromi asked a critical question, "Mr. Chen Yu, do your parents know about you being a Transcendent?"

This question made Chen Yu pause; he hadn't expected Jounouchi Hiromi to ask this. Still, he quickly shook his head and said, "They don't know. Before I came to Japan, even though I had inherited the Necromancer legacy, I didn't have many special abilities, so I didn't tell them."

"Do you plan on telling them?" Jounouchi Hiromi looked at Chen Yu, genuinely concerned about the choice he would make.

"Would you tell your mother you're now a Blood Knight?" Chen Yu countered, not waiting for Jounouchi Hiromi to reply, he shook his head: "They wouldn't understand, and they wouldn't accept it, so it's better not to tell them."