DLJWAV CH4

Although he didn’t understand why Zhong Chi held hostility towards him, this clearly wasn’t the place to talk.

Ao Ruize nodded slightly at Zhong Chi, then left with his people.

Only then did the milk dumpling lying on top of Ao Ruize’s head smack its lips and say the rest: “He’s really good-looking.”

“I really want to marry him as my wife.”

Ao Ruize: “…”

Small system, big dreams.

The milk dumpling was in high spirits, ignoring the fatigue from depleting its spiritual power: “By the way, who is he?”

Ao Ruize thought for a moment: “He seems to be the heir of the Zhong and Chi families now. I heard he’s been close to Lin Gaolang recently, and the three families seem to have plans for a marriage alliance.”

Speaking of this, Ao Ruize stopped in his tracks.

His fair-weather friends were confused: “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing.”

Ao Ruize started walking again.

He just thought of something.

That is, given that the strength of the Zhong and Chi families is not inferior to the Lin family, and neither family is currently facing any crisis, yet they are preparing to ally with the Lin family through marriage—

Does this mean that this matter has Zhong Chi’s tacit approval?

In other words, Zhong Chi has taken a fancy to Lin Gaolang—

Thinking of the recent trend in the Heavenly Palace and the Underworld of going to small worlds to find high-quality husbands, Ao Ruize frowned.

Immediately after, the milk dumpling’s weak voice sounded: “Zhong Chi?”

“He doesn’t exist in my deductions?”

“And with the Zhong and Chi families being so powerful, with his help, wouldn’t it be even harder for us to deal with Lin Gaolang and Le Zhan?”

“Not necessarily.”

Ao Ruize’s brow quickly relaxed again.

As he spoke, he didn’t forget to hook his finger, mobilizing all the surrounding spiritual energy for the milk dumpling to absorb better.

He thought, a dignified Dao Lord, even if his judgment is clouded for a moment, shouldn’t be wrong all the way to the end.

Besides, even if Zhong Chi’s taste is really that bad and he chooses to help Lin Gaolang, he’s not afraid of him.

After all, he doesn’t think a Dao Lord whose head is full of love and romance can be his opponent.

“Forget him, let’s go home.”

The milk dumpling quickly stopped caring about these things too.

Because it found that the surrounding spiritual energy suddenly became abundant, so it immediately busied itself absorbing spiritual energy to heal its internal injuries.

Soon, Ao Ruize returned home.

The living room was empty, with no one around, except for many toys scattered on the floor.

Ao Ruize lay on the sofa, took out his phone, and prepared to play a couple of games first.

But as soon as he turned it on, he saw over forty missed calls on his phone.

All from Old Master Xiao.

Nine out of ten, Old Master Xiao knew about his gambling, so he came to settle accounts with him.

Run—

Ao Ruize stood up immediately.

Mainly because although the old man was over seventy, having nothing to do at home, he ran to argue with the parrot raised by Grandpa Liu’s grandson next door every day, so his scolding skills had skyrocketed recently.

Can’t afford to provoke him, can’t afford to provoke him.

But unexpectedly, as soon as he walked, he stepped on something.

He looked down, and it was an ugly ceramic Ultraman toy.

If he remembered correctly, this seemed to be his little nephew Xiao Yangxi’s favorite Ultraman toy because it was handmade by his father, Ao Ruize’s adopted brother.

A bad feeling suddenly rose in Ao Ruize’s heart.

Sure enough, he turned his head and saw a child about five or six years old holding a doll, looking at him in disbelief.

Seeing Xiao Yangxi, the milk dumpling instantly forgot about healing: “Host, let me tell you, your adopted brother Xiao Ruicheng is not a good thing. You must be careful of him.”

“He responds to your every request. You didn’t want to study finance, he helped you plead with your parents; you didn’t want to enter the company, he helped cover for you; you gambled, he sent you money without a word…”

“Everything he did was to raise you into a waste and seize the Xiao family’s assets.”

“According to your predetermined fate, the Xiao family’s tens of billions in assets indeed all fell into Xiao Ruicheng’s hands later, and you could only get one or two hundred million in dividends every year.”

The milk dumpling was furious.

“This Xiao Yangxi is even less of a good thing. After taking over the Xiao family from Xiao Ruicheng, whenever he found you an eyesore, he stopped your cards and later even kicked you out of the Xiao family…”

But as it spoke, its voice gradually became smaller.

Because it saw Xiao Yangxi’s eyes slowly turning red, and immediately after, the corners of his mouth turned down, and tears fell patter patter.

The key is that Xiao Yangxi is extraordinarily cute, with round eyes and long eyelashes like small brushes…

Milk Dumpling: “…”

Milk Dumpling: “…………”

Milk Dumpling: “………………”

Who can resist this?

The milk dumpling’s voice trembled instantly: “Host, although neither Xiao Ruicheng nor Xiao Yangxi are good things, and we absolutely cannot let them off, but, right now… can you apologize to Xiao Yangxi first?”

Ao Ruize: “…”

Apologizing is impossible.

That’s not a quality a hedonist should possess.

So Ao Ruize sighed directly.

And the sound was even louder than Xiao Yangxi’s crying.

Xiao Yangxi: “…”

Interrupted by Ao Ruize like this, he suddenly couldn’t cry anymore.

Most importantly, Ao Ruize’s sighing not only didn’t stop but became heavier with each breath.

Xiao Yangxi’s small face wrinkled instantly. Finally, he couldn’t help but walk over and ask: “Little Uncle, what’s wrong?”

Ao Ruize looked at him and said: “I suddenly learned something today. A group of bad guys wants to harm our family.”

“What?”

Xiao Yangxi’s eyes widened instantly: “Who wants to harm our family?”

Ao Ruize reached out and pinched his tender white face: “The Lin family and Le Zhan.”

“If they really succeed, our family will go bankrupt, and you won’t be able to eat your favorite sugar oil cakes anymore. And Grandpa and Grandma, you know, they are already old…”

So they definitely couldn’t withstand such a big blow.

Xiao Yangxi’s eyes turned red again instantly: “No, I can’t let anything happen to Grandpa and Grandma.”

“Is there any way to save the Xiao family?”

Ao Ruize: “There really is. A Taoist priest in the temple taught me.”

Xiao Yangxi’s eyes lit up: “What way? Can you tell me?”

“Of course I can tell you.”

The next second, Ao Ruize changed his tone: “It’s just that, for this method, I donated a lot of money to the temple, so I can’t tell you for free.”

Xiao Yangxi reflexively said: “Little Uncle, are you trying to trick me out of my pocket money again?”

Ao Ruize immediately said righteously: “I know it was wrong of me to trick you out of your pocket money before, but this time, I’m really not trying to trick you. After all, no matter how jerky I am, I wouldn’t joke about the safety of the Xiao family.”

Xiao Yangxi felt that Ao Ruize made a lot of sense.

So he gritted his teeth, ran back to his room, and when he returned, he had a piggy bank in his hand.

“All the pocket money I received this year is here. Mom said there’s over a million, take it all.”

“Easy, easy.”

Ao Ruize immediately took a piece of paper and a pen from the drawer, wrote two lines of numbers on it, and handed it to Xiao Yangxi.

“Here, this is the method the Taoist priest taught me.”

Xiao Yangxi took the note and looked at it, feeling a bit confused: “What, what does this mean?”

Xiao Yangxi looked up, only to find that Ao Ruize had already walked far away holding his piggy bank. He said: “Your little bit of money is only enough to buy that note, so the rest is up to you to comprehend.”

The milk dumpling who witnessed all this: “…”

Although, but—

“Host, be a human!”

Ao Ruize didn’t care, even quickening his pace: “If a nephew isn’t for playing with, he’s useless.”

On the other side, after listening to Ao Ruize, Xiao Yangxi, lying on the sofa and pondering over the note for more than half an hour, also slowly realized.

Wait, if the Xiao family was really in danger, why didn’t Little Uncle tell Grandpa and Grandma, but instead told him, a kid who couldn’t do anything?

And isn’t Uncle Le Zhan on very good terms with their family? How could he want to harm them?

Thinking of this, Xiao Yangxi completely realized. Thinking about the piggy bank taken by Ao Ruize and the Ultraman stepped on by him, his eyes turned red instantly.

So when Old Master Xiao, Xiao Ruicheng, and the others returned, what they saw was Xiao Yangxi with red eyes, throwing himself into their arms, crying and cursing ‘Little Uncle is bad’.

Learning of Ao Ruize’s deeds, Old Master Xiao’s face turned green.

Most importantly, this wasn’t the first time Ao Ruize had done such a thing.

The year before last, Ao Ruize learned from short videos and exchanged a pile of coins for Xiao Yangxi’s pocket money because the arcade machines in the nearby mall could be played directly with coins. How could a few-year-old child resist this temptation?

Last year, he tricked Xiao Yangxi out of his pocket money with a pile of H coins because although H coins weren’t valuable, their denominations were larger than the money in Xiao Yangxi’s hand, so Xiao Yangxi fell for it.

These were somewhat tolerable; at least Xiao Ruize exchanged something for the money.

This year he was even more excessive, actually tricking Xiao Yangxi out of all his pocket money with just a piece of white paper with a string of numbers written on it.

Moreover, didn’t he just win over two hundred million?

He’s not lacking Xiao Yangxi’s little bit of pocket money.

Old Master Xiao: “Where is that bastard? Where did he go? Call him back for me.”

The butler on the side also had an indescribable expression: “Little Young Master’s phone is turned off.”

Old Master Xiao instantly got even angrier: “Bastard, bastard thing.”

Seeing this, Xiao Ruicheng comforted Xiao Yangxi while saying: “It’s okay, it’s okay. Dad will reimburse you double the money later!”

“As for that Ultraman, Dad will make you another one, guaranteed to be better than that one.”

Xiao Yangxi’s crying instantly lessened a lot. He sobbed and said: “Really?”

“Really, when has Dad ever lied to you?”

Only then did Xiao Ruicheng look up and say: “Dad, Little Brother… is just playing with Yangxi. Don’t take it to heart.”

Old Master Xiao: “Is there anyone who plays with their nephew like this?”

He turned to scold Xiao Ruicheng: “You too. That brat is insensible, and you, as the big brother, don’t know how to discipline him. You just think about smoothing things over every day…”

Xiao Ruicheng smiled bitterly inside, habitually touching the top of his head which was almost bald from touching.

Did he dare to discipline him?

He hadn’t done anything yet, and rumors were already spreading outside that he would stop at nothing to raise Ao Ruize into a waste and seize the Xiao family’s assets.

If he disciplined him, rumors would spread again that he dared to act wildly on top of Ao Ruize, the legitimate heir, before even becoming the head of the Xiao family.

Moreover, when it comes to spoiling Ao Ruize, who can compare to Old Master Xiao?

If Old Master Xiao really wanted to teach Ao Ruize a lesson, he wouldn’t be the one getting scolded right now.

However, the fact that Ao Ruize was still willing to tease Xiao Yangxi, and Old Master Xiao was still willing to scold him, did it mean they didn’t take those rumors to heart at all, and they really treated his family as family members?

Thinking of this, listening to Old Master Xiao’s reprimands, Xiao Ruicheng’s heart felt much more settled instead.

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Author’s Note:

Now–

Ao Ruize: A Dao Lord whose head is full of love and romance is nothing to be afraid of.

Later–

Zhong Chi tentatively released the beginner skill ‘scratch palm’.

Ao Ruize: …

K.O!

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