DLWAV CH23

The milk dumpling, still reeling from Ao Ruize’s unexpected dominance in the stock market—completely shattering its perception of him as a useless rich second-generation heir—suddenly stumbled upon the scene of Zhong Chi flirting with Ao Ruize and calling him “boyfriend.” It screamed, “Ahhh…”

Ao Ruize casually sealed it deep within his sea of consciousness.

Looking at Zhong Chi, he felt as if his heart was no longer his own.

Are all the Dao Lords of the Heavenly Palace so… good at flirting with men?

In comparison, he, the gong who had only just thought about hugging, was simply too weak.

It was a bit embarrassing.

So if he rejected him now, he would probably be pointed at and criticized by people (readers).

Most importantly, his heart was moved.

Even though this was different from the steps in the romance guide he had searched up during his insomnia last night.

Ao Ruize’s Adam’s apple bobbed up and down. “Of course.”

“Then, let’s go to your place.”

His voice was deep and magnetic, causing Zhong Chi’s heart to beat even faster instantly.

But he didn’t regret it, even though he was so shy he didn’t know where to put his hands and feet.

After all, what was reserve compared to the temptation of a burning hot chest?

So Zhong Chi struggled to suppress his increasingly rapid breathing and feigned calmness. “Okay.”

When the Xiao family had fallen on hard times previously, Ao Ruize had been brought home by Zhong Chi once, and he had even slept at Zhong Chi’s house for a night.

But back then, he and Zhong Chi had only just met, so even lying on the bed in the guest room, he couldn’t conjure up any other thoughts.

But stepping in here this time, Ao Ruize’s state of mind was completely different.

After all, he just hadn’t had a boyfriend before; he wasn’t a block of wood.

So as soon as they entered, he turned around and pressed Zhong Chi against the door.

He lowered his head, his nose almost brushing against Zhong Chi’s forehead.

He said, “How does Mr. Zhong wish to exercise his legitimate rights?”

The confined space, the overwhelming masculine scent, the burning heat under his palm that he had been longing for, and the other person’s eyes filled only with him, as if ready to devour him whole the next second—Zhong Chi could no longer control his breathing; it became heavy.

He could no longer look directly at Ao Ruize.

But that didn’t stop him from summoning his courage after a few seconds of stiffness to reach out his hand. Although the moment he touched Ao Ruize’s arm, feeling the scorching heat under his fingertips, he instinctively pulled his hand back as if burned.

His breathing became even more erratic, but having come this far, how could he give up halfway?

So the next second, he mustered his courage and pressed his entire palm against it.

His tone was airy. “J-just like this.”

Zhong Chi’s hands weren’t small, and his knuckles were distinct. The key was that probably due to his privileged upbringing, his hands didn’t even have a callous, smoother than the skin on Ao Ruize’s arm…

Ao Ruize’s gaze fell directly on Zhong Chi’s neck, which had turned bright red, and the volcano in his heart could no longer be contained.

He lowered his head, his lips pressing against Zhong Chi’s neck.

The temperature there wasn’t high, yet it burned him so much he couldn’t help but clench his fingers, giving rise to a unique sense of satisfaction from the bottom of his heart.

He suddenly remembered what Zhong Chi said last night when he tried to button the two buttons on his shirt that were habitually left open.

Zhong Chi said he had wanted to do that for a long time.

Ao Ruize thought, turns out I’ve wanted to do this for a long time too.

“You—”

Ao Ruize’s lips were too soft, causing Zhong Chi’s breath to hitch, and he instinctively tightened his fingers.

Hearing this, Ao Ruize only lifted his head slightly, chuckling low. “Other men get kissed by their boyfriends. I should get that privilege too, right?”

Zhong Chi: “…”

Is this the legendary “learning and applying immediately”?

Zhong Chi instinctively licked his lips.

But how could he not be moved?

Ao Ruize understood.

Eye to eye, Ao Ruize brushed past Zhong Chi’s cheek and pressed against his lips.

The movements went from clumsy to practiced, the breath from hot to scorching, and Zhong Chi’s hands gripping his clothes went from tense to relaxed…

Ao Ruize finally understood the true meaning of “heavenly thunder triggering earthly fire.”

He didn’t know how long it lasted before he finally released Zhong Chi.

Zhong Chi could barely stand steady. With both arms around Ao Ruize’s neck, he leaned his whole body into Ao Ruize’s embrace, breathing more rapidly than ever before.

His lips were stained with a glossy sheen, and as the moisture in the corners of his eyes slowly faded, a sense of satisfaction surfaced bit by bit.

Zhong Chi finally knew why those couples outside liked to stick together so much.

Because it was simply too wonderful.

The two embraced quietly like this until their breathing completely calmed down, until a small car drove past the villa, the honking sound thoroughly breaking the sweet atmosphere around them.

Ao Ruize then let go of Zhong Chi.

He lowered his head. “It’s getting late, so I’ll… head back first.”

“Mm.”

Zhong Chi said softly.

Then he paused, pursing his lips as he buttoned up the buttons on Ao Ruize’s shirt that he had accidentally undone just now, one by one.

Although his heart was filled with reluctance.

But he still didn’t ask him to stay.

Not because he felt things were progressing too fast, but because just touching and kissing had nearly made his heart explode. How could he dare to think further along those lines?

Thinking of this, he took one last look at that patch of bronze skin, then walked Ao Ruize to the door. “Then, goodbye… see you tomorrow.”

Ao Ruize’s voice had long since softened. “See you tomorrow.”

“Alright, go back inside.”

Zhong Chi: “Okay.”

Although he said that, he still waited until Ao Ruize got into the car and the vehicle completely disappeared around the corner before going back in.

Unbeknownst to them, in the villa next door, a young man who was just about to drive his car into the garage happened to take in the entire scene through the rearview mirror.

Although by the time he reacted, Zhong Chi had already turned and gone back inside.

Fortunately, he had already captured the scene just now.

Looking at the photo on his phone of Zhong Chi and Ao Ruize walking out of the villa hand in hand, he couldn’t help but curse, “F*ck,” and then, as if thinking of something, he suddenly laughed excitedly again.

On the other side, it wasn’t until the car had driven more than ten miles away and three or four songs had played on the stereo that Ao Ruize remembered the milk dumpling he had sealed deep in his sea of consciousness.

Ao Ruize let it out.

“…Bastard, you’re not human…”

The milk dumpling was cursing up a storm.

Upon realizing Ao Ruize had released it, instead of restraining itself, its voice grew even louder. “What is going on with you and Mr. Zhong? How did he become your boyfriend?”

“He’s my wife! I saw him first—”

“Don’t you know ‘friend’s wife, do not touch’?”

As it spoke, the milk dumpling’s eyes turned red.

From anger.

Ao Ruize: “…”

Actually, what the milk dumpling said seemed to be true.

But right at this moment, his phone rang.

The message was, of course, from Zhong Chi.

He said: [Boyfriend, miss you.]

Ao Ruize couldn’t help but chuckle.

He stopped the car and replied only: “Mm.”

“Then I’ll come find you tomorrow morning and bring you breakfast?”

Zhong Chi: [Okay.]

Only then did Ao Ruize restart the car, casually replying to the milk dumpling who had witnessed all of this: “Oh.”

He was even a little smug. “But he’s my wife now.”

Milk Dumpling: “…”

The milk dumpling burst into tears with a “waaa.”

Crying over Ao Ruize’s inhumanity.

Most importantly, it didn’t understand how Zhong Chi could fall for Ao Ruize.

Although Ao Ruize was completely different from what it thought—he wasn’t the useless rich second generation heir it assumed, but a deeply hidden, black-bellied schemer.

—After all, it had just been weaned; it wasn’t stupid. If Grandpa Xiao and the others could think of it, how could it not?

“But you are a whole five years older than him! Rounding up, that’s fifty years older!”

Ao Ruize: “…”

Should he say the milk dumpling needed to go back to elementary school for further studies, or that its perspective was still too small?

Because if you really counted, he was more than fifty years older than Zhong Chi.

Milk Dumpling: “And… and you even cheat children out of their pocket money—”

Ao Ruize countered, “Despite all that, Mr. Zhong still fell for me. That proves it’s true love!”

“So give it up!”

Milk Dumpling: “…”

The milk dumpling cried even louder.

Ao Ruize decisively sealed it back into the depths of his sea of consciousness.

At that moment, he arrived home.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the door, he saw Grandpa Xiao sitting on the sofa, with a feather duster right by his hand.

Ao Ruize: “…”

One look and he knew it was meant for him.

But when did he make the old man angry again?

Before he could turn and run, Grandpa Xiao’s phone rang.

Grandpa Xiao instinctively took out his phone to check; it was a call from an old friend.

Answering the phone, he picked up the feather duster and walked toward Ao Ruize. “You bastard, stand right there…”

Only to hear his old friend say, “Old Xiao, should I say your precious son strikes fast, accurate, and hard, or should I say he’s petty and seizes every opportunity to disgust the Lin family?”

“…Wait, the Lin family is almost played to death by your precious son; they aren’t even worth your son making another move.”

Grandpa Xiao: “What?”

His old friend: “You don’t know? …”

The next second, Grandpa Xiao’s hand holding the feather duster froze in mid-air.

He didn’t react until the call ended.

More than ten seconds later, he suddenly beamed with joy.

“Good lad, you’ve really got it.”

“You don’t act often, but when you do, you bring back a treasure for our family.”

Ao Ruize: “…”

He didn’t need to guess to know what Grandpa Xiao was talking about.

“How did you know?”

Grandpa Xiao: “It’s all over WeChat Moments. How do you think I know?”

He didn’t care whether his future child-in-law was male or female, because back when his wife couldn’t conceive no matter what, he had already prepared for the worst.

Moreover, Ao Ruize liked Zhong Chi; how could he possibly dislike him?

After all, if any family could land a child like Zhong Chi—good-looking, sensible, and capable—they’d probably wake up laughing in the middle of the night.

Then he realized something, and the feather duster in his hand went up again. “You little rascal, I’m your biological father after all, yet you didn’t even tell me about such an important thing.”

Heaven knows how much he had worried about Ao Ruize’s lifelong happiness recently. Just this afternoon, he was so angry at him that he didn’t even eat dinner properly.

And it turned out he actually already had a partner.

Ao Ruize: “…”

While the Xiao family was thrown into a flurry of excitement, another place was even livelier than the Xiao household: Lin Gaolang’s temporary residence.

It was called a temporary residence because Lin Gaolang had been kicked out of the Lin family.

This matter went back to the celebratory banquet at the Xiao Corporation, where Ao Ruize had declared in front of all the guests that the reason he went to play in the Y Country stock market was that Y Country had offended him.

After that vice president died suddenly, the financial circles of Y Country targeted the Lin family branch in Y Country.

Soon, the Lin branch was routed under the encirclement and suppression of Y Country’s financial world. It wasn’t until they took out half of their family assets to compensate those large financial companies in Y Country for their losses that the Y Country financial circle barely let them off the hook.

Then, the people of Y Country turned around and cut off the iron ore exports to Shallow City’s Lin Heavy Industries.

Shallow City’s Lin Heavy Industries was instantly paralyzed.

Crucially, the reason Lin Heavy Industries could stand out among China’s numerous steel plants was mainly due to its reliance on cheap, high-quality iron ore from Y Country, allowing it to wage price wars with other steel plants.

Now without this advantage, and unable to find a stable source of goods in the short term, the prospects for Lin Heavy Industries were already bleak.

On the other side, Grandpa Xiao and Xiao Ruicheng took Ao Ruize’s bank card and acquired shares of Lin Technology at a huge premium, then charged directly into the Lin Technology board of directors, taking the seat of the second-largest shareholder. Once the shareholders’ meeting was held at the end of the month, the chairman of Lin Technology would change to Xiao Ruicheng.

With both largest subsidiaries lost, the Lin family suffered a crushing defeat.

The large crowd of the Lin family naturally vented all their anger on Lin Gaolang, the culprit.

Then Lin Gaolang was directly kicked out of the Lin family, leaving with nothing but the clothes on his back.

Even this temporary residence was secretly found for him by Sun Xuebo, for the sake of their cousin relationship.

—Because, implicated by Lin Gaolang, the Sun family hadn’t been having a good time recently either.

But coincidentally, at this very moment, Lin Gaolang received more than a dozen calls. They were all from his former mortal enemies, or the idle rich second generations he had looked down upon and offended before, including Ao Ruize’s fox friends and dog friends.

They all had only one purpose: to tell him that Xiao Ruize and Zhong Chi had hooked up.

Listening to what they said: “Young Master Hai is awesome, intercepting even this kind of victory.”

“We actually feel a little sorry for you. Originally you just lost your family property and inheritance rights, now you’ve even lost your wife.”

…

Bang!

Lin Gaolang’s phone shattered again.

“Adulterous pair, adulterous pair!”

Because Lin Gaolang had long regarded Zhong Chi as something in his pocket.

Yet now, he had hooked up with Xiao Ruize, putting a green hat on him and turning him into a joke once again.

No.

Maybe they had hooked up long ago—

Thinking back to when he framed Xiao Ruize for drugging Zhong Chi, and Zhong Chi had chosen to believe Xiao Ruize immediately, Lin Gaolang’s eyes nearly split with rage.

No need to guess; Xiao Ruize did it on purpose.

All to stomp his face thoroughly into the mud.

“Xiao Ruize, you deserve to die, you deserve to die—”

Speaking of this, Lin Gaolang’s voice stopped abruptly.

Immediately following, his voice turned vicious: “And Zhong Chi, you deserve to die too.”

“Since that’s the case, then you both go die—”

Just then, the phone on the ground rang again.

Lin Gaolang assumed it was another mortal enemy messaging to mock him, so he unhesitatingly stomped on the phone. The already shattered phone instantly turned into a pile of junk.

But what he didn’t know was that this message was from Sun Xuebo, intended to tell him that Le Zhan, whom they had sent to the mines in Y Country, had escaped back.

……

Early the next morning, Ao Ruize went out, packed a portion of shrimp dumplings, a portion of fresh meat wontons, a sandwich, and a cup of black rice soy milk from Huangming, and went to Zhong Chi’s place.

How could Zhong Chi finish so much food?

But it didn’t matter if he couldn’t finish; he could save it for dinner.

—After all, this was the first breakfast Ao Ruize had delivered to him; how could he bear to waste it?

However, after glancing at Ao Ruize’s lips, Zhong Chi suddenly changed his mind.

He pushed the half-eaten sandwich to Ao Ruize. “I’m almost full, but I want to eat a few more shrimp dumplings. Help me finish the rest of the sandwich?”

Ao Ruize’s gaze fell on the neck that had already flushed a thin red, and he readily agreed, “Okay.”

He took the sandwich Zhong Chi handed over and took a bite right where he had bitten.

Zhong Chi’s neck instantly turned redder.

Because wasn’t this a form of intimate behavior between lovers?

Though not as intense as a kiss, it was enough to stir the heartstrings.

So next, he boldly fed a bitten steamed dumpling to Ao Ruize’s lips, then took a bite of the sandwich from Ao Ruize’s hand, right where Ao Ruize had bitten…

Ao Ruize: “…”

Ao Ruize had ample reason to suspect Zhong Chi was deliberately flirting with him.

And as always, he couldn’t hold back.

So he chose to lower his head and kiss Zhong Chi’s lips.

Then, before Zhong Chi could react, he raised his hand to clasp the back of his neck, pulling him into his arms.

“Mmph.”

Zhong Chi sat directly on Ao Ruize’s lap, the empty soy milk cup in his hand dropping to the ground.

At first, he just instinctively grabbed Ao Ruize’s clothes, but later his hands uncontrollably moved to Ao Ruize’s waist…

He thought, no wonder couples in passionate love could kiss anytime, anywhere. Before, when he encountered similar situations, he thought it was unsightly, but now…

His toes couldn’t help but curl up.

In short, by the time Zhong Chi was full and Ao Ruize was full, it was already half an hour later.

Holding Zhong Chi and cuddling for a while, Ao Ruize said, “I heard a new equestrian club opened in Nanshan District. Want to go check it out?”

Zhong Chi hadn’t ridden a horse in a long time either. He said, “Okay.”

However, probably because the mini-vacation was ending, there were many people returning to the city, so they hit a traffic jam just after leaving.

Ao Ruize glanced at the map. “This section of the road seems almost completely blocked. How about we go somewhere else?”

“There happens to be a shooting club nearby. What do you think?”

Zhong Chi: “Sure.”

Ao Ruize immediately turned the steering wheel and got off the viaduct.

But what they didn’t know was that right behind them, a long line of cars followed them off the viaduct, including a small car and a pickup truck.

The person sitting in the small car was none other than Lin Gaolang.

Upon arriving, seeing Zhong Chi impatiently putting his hand into Ao Ruize’s hand as soon as he got out of the car, the unshaven Lin Gaolang’s eyes instantly turned even redder.

“Slut, slut.”

But it didn’t matter; they wouldn’t be laughing for long.

Thinking this, Lin Gaolang took a deep breath, then took out his phone and made a call: “Go.”

Sure enough, as soon as he hung up, the pickup truck behind him accelerated and rushed towards Ao Ruize and Zhong Chi.

Seeing this scene, a hideous smile appeared on Lin Gaolang’s face.

He had to admit, he was indeed no match for Ao Ruize.

But it didn’t matter.

Although he couldn’t win against Ao Ruize, he could send Ao Ruize to his death, and watch them die with his own eyes—

And afterward, no one would suspect him.

Don’t forget, the ones who wished to eat his flesh and drink his blood right now included the people from the Y Country financial world.

Once something happened to Ao Ruize, they would be the primary suspects.

Even if someone suspected him, it didn’t matter.

He was about to go abroad, and his flight was in half an hour.

By then, the sky is high for birds to fly, and the ocean is wide for fish to leap.

By the time he returned in glory, Ao Ruize would likely have already turned into a pile of yellow earth.

So the final winner was still him, and could only be him!

Thinking this, watching the small pickup truck getting closer and closer to Ao Ruize and Zhong Chi, his expression became increasingly ferocious: “Go to hell, you adulterous pair…”

But what he didn’t know was that almost at the same time, to his left, an SUV was also rushing towards him at flying speed.

And sitting in the car was Le Zhan, with an equally ferocious expression.

Seeing this scene, countless screams rang out.

“Watch out!”

“Get out of the car, quickly!”

Ao Ruize and Zhong Chi also spotted the pickup truck and the SUV immediately.

Ao Ruize’s first reaction was to protect Zhong Chi beside him and dodge to the side, but he then discovered an old lady holding a child standing behind them.

He made a prompt decision, directly releasing two streams of divine power, shooting explosively towards the two vehicles.

But right at this moment, out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw Lin Gaolang in the small car not far away.

The next second, the milk dumpling’s voice rang out: “It’s Lin Gaolang—”

“He wants to kill you?”

Ao Ruize narrowed his eyes. He turned to look at the SUV rushing straight for Lin Gaolang’s car and withdrew one stream of divine power.

The next second, the left front tire of the pickup truck suddenly went flat. Immediately following, under the driver’s shocked gaze, the vehicle lost control, scraped past Ao Ruize’s clothes, and crashed directly into the gate of the shooting club.

The marble gate was smashed in half. The upper half fell directly onto the pickup, completely blocking the driver’s cabin door, so the driver couldn’t escape immediately even if he wanted to.

Seeing this, Lin Gaolang’s expression froze instantly.

After reacting, he was instantly furious: “Trash, trash…”

Such a close distance, and he could still mess up.

But just then, he suddenly realized that the screams outside hadn’t decreased but had actually increased.

“Watch out.”

“Brake, brake quickly—”

Lin Gaolang turned his head abruptly, only to see an SUV accelerating towards him.

In the driver’s seat, Le Zhan laughed ferociously: “Go to hell—”

His memory went back to two months ago.

At that time, he was ecstatic that the Xiao family was about to go bankrupt, and he was about to obtain twenty percent of the Xiao family assets and become Lin Gaolang’s groom.

But in the blink of an eye, he was kidnapped.

And the person who kidnapped him turned out to be Sun Xuebo, Lin Gaolang’s cousin whom he deeply admired.

Because Sun Xuebo had always looked down on him, before sending him to the Y Country mines, Sun Xuebo came specifically to see him one last time.

To humiliate him, Sun Xuebo told him everything.

Only then did he know that everything was just his wishful thinking. Lin Gaolang didn’t love him at all; he even loathed him to the extreme.

Lin Gaolang’s personality wasn’t cold at all. He just wanted to force him to break off the engagement so he could smoothly marry a wealthy lady or young master who could bring him assistance, which was why he was extremely cold to him.

Lin Gaolang knew about him and Lin Ming from beginning to end.

The reason Lin Ming targeted him was also because Lin Gaolang secretly sent people to give Lin Ming the idea.

One could imagine that in his previous life, when the Le family was in peril, the reason Lin Gaolang moved against Lin Ming was not to save the Le family, but to annex the Le family and crush his competitor Lin Ming along the way.

Even his final death in a car accident, just like his father’s, was actually Lin Gaolang’s doing.

He hated Lin Gaolang to the bone.

He was unwilling.

So he didn’t hesitate to sell his body, submitting to a fifty or sixty-year-old man, just to escape the mines and return to China.

But what he never expected was that due to his sudden disappearance and unknown fate, his father fell ill and never recovered.

His so-called uncles and cousins swarmed in, and his father passed away just like that.

The Le family’s assets also fell entirely into their hands.

Now learning the news of his return, his so-called uncles and cousins, worried that their newly divided assets would be lost, were chasing him all over the world.

And the culprit behind all this was Lin Gaolang—

He had no other road to walk now, so he decided to die and start over.

Because he felt that since he could be reborn once, maybe he could be reborn a second time.

But before that, he wanted Lin Gaolang to die a horrible death too—

Lin Gaolang’s expression froze completely. He immediately wanted to open the door and flee, but it was too late—

The next second, Bang!

The SUV crashed directly into him, instantly smashing the small car against the wall. Before the airbags could deploy, the driver’s cabin had already caved in. Lin Gaolang didn’t even have time to leave a last word before only half of his head remained.

Seeing this scene, Le Zhan, also bleeding from the head, smiled with satisfaction.

Then he closed his eyes directly, waiting for his rebirth.

Seeing this, the milk dumpling instantly breathed a sigh of relief: “Thank goodness, thank goodness. If that pickup truck hadn’t suddenly lost control, Lin Gaolang might have actually succeeded this time.”

Ao Ruize only said, “See, I told you back then we could strike first, like finding a hitman to directly eliminate Le Zhan and Lin Gaolang.”

“But you wouldn’t let me.”

“Now look, they beat us to it.”

Milk Dumpling: “…”

The milk dumpling fell silent immediately.

Because thinking about it this way, this matter really was its fault.

Ao Ruize suddenly smiled.

Because looking at Le Zhan, he instantly understood his intention.

Want to die?

Not that easy.

Ao Ruize flicked another stream of divine power out.

Le Zhan, who had just been rescued from the driver’s cabin and was on the brink of death, instantly sobered up again.

Seeing the enthusiastic crowd around him, his face changed instantly.

Why didn’t he die?

If he didn’t die, how could he be reborn, how could he start over—

Most importantly, he had just crashed into and killed Lin Gaolang.

If he was still alive, prison awaited him.

He immediately tried to break free from the others’ support, wanting to jump into the burning car.

But both his legs were broken, so let alone jumping into the fire, even standing up was a problem.

In the end, he could only watch helplessly as he was strapped onto a gurney by the arriving medical staff and loaded into the ambulance.

He screamed hoarsely, “No—”

Seeing this, Ao Ruize withdrew his gaze with satisfaction.

Then he looked down at Zhong Chi in his arms. “Are you okay?”

The reason he asked about Zhong Chi’s condition only after dealing with everything else wasn’t that he didn’t care about Zhong Chi, but because he knew that a person who could sit on the throne of a Heavenly Palace Dao Lord by his own strength couldn’t be weak.

Zhong Chi was certainly not a weak person.

But he was still stunned.

Although his subconscious told him that even if that pickup truck had really crashed into them, he could have easily dodged it.

But in the moment of crisis, Ao Ruize’s first reaction was to protect him.

He really hadn’t chosen the wrong boyfriend!!

If not for the people all around, Zhong Chi would have wanted to kiss him right then and there.

Even though his lips were still swollen.

Zhong Chi could only say, “I’m fine.”

But he was still a little disappointed.

Need to find a chance to get it back, Zhong Chi thought.

Although such an incident occurred, it didn’t stop Ao Ruize and Zhong Chi from continuing their itinerary.

And while Ao Ruize was having the time of his life, and Zhong Chi was seizing every opportunity to openly kiss Ao Ruize’s face, this incident quickly spread throughout the entire upper class of Shallow City.

After all, a life was lost, which was big news in itself.

Moreover, the deceased was Lin Gaolang, who had been at the center of controversy recently.

Hearing that the one who crashed into and killed Lin Gaolang was Le Zhan, who had been missing for several months, and that the other car at the accident scene was aiming for Ao Ruize and Zhong Chi, the old foxes and young foxes of Shallow City instantly guessed what had happened.

It turned out Lin Gaolang wanted to kill Xiao Ruize and Zhong Chi, but Xiao Ruize and Zhong Chi were lucky and escaped, while he himself was crashed into and killed by Le Zhan.

There was only one point they couldn’t figure out no matter what.

Where did Le Zhan get such great resentment towards Lin Gaolang that he would risk mutual destruction to crash into Lin Gaolang’s car?

One could imagine how angry Grandpa Xiao was after learning about this.

But after thinking about it, there really wasn’t much he could do.

Because Lin Gaolang was already dead.

Le Zhan was looking at a life sentence minimum.

So he could only help Le Zhan sue all those uncles and cousins of his.

A week later, as Le Zhan wished, the Le family assets returned to his hands, and all his uncles and cousins were sent to prison.

Immediately following, Le Zhan was sentenced to life imprisonment for intentional homicide, going to keep his uncles and cousins company.

So even though he got the Le family assets, it was useless.

And his miserable days were just beginning.

—He had been seeking death, even trying to attack the bailiff in court to get the judge to sentence him to death, but Grandpa Xiao wouldn’t grant his wish.

But what Grandpa Xiao didn’t expect was that precisely because of this, Le Zhan remembered Sun Xuebo kidnapping him and selling him to the Y Country mines through the Lin family’s connections.

With the mindset that if he wasn’t having a good time, the Lin and Sun families shouldn’t either, Le Zhan sued them all.

Grandpa Xiao and other families naturally wouldn’t let go of such a good opportunity.

So very quickly, Sun Xuebo and the fifth son of the Lin family—Lin Gaolang’s uncle—were thrown into prison. Under Xiao Ruicheng’s suppression, in less than half a month, the Sun family declared bankruptcy.

Another half month later, Lin Technology changed owners, Lin Heavy Industries was forced to declare bankruptcy due to insolvency, and other Lin subsidiaries were mostly swallowed up by other families. Upon hearing this news, the old patriarch of the Lin family vomited blood on his 75th birthday and never got up, passing away shortly after.

The Lin family members scattered like birds, and the Shallow City Lin family disappeared from China’s high society overnight.

For a time, countless people sighed in emotion, including Grandpa Xiao.

And Ao Ruize.

He said, “That’s it?”

“Can I say that my previous actions were actually just a warm-up?”

And then Lin Gaolang and the others just suddenly all kicked the bucket.

Milk Dumpling: “…”

Do you dare say that in front of Lin Gaolang and the others’ graves?

See if they don’t dare to rise from the dead and fight you desperately?

But these weren’t important. What was important was that Lin Gaolang and Le Zhan were both dead, and their mission was complete.

—This was the first mission it had received, and it was completed so easily.

“Awesome—”

The milk dumpling instantly forgave Ao Ruize for snatching its wife.

It danced excitedly in Ao Ruize’s sea of consciousness.

Wait—

The milk dumpling snapped out of it. “There’s still one person unresolved—”

That was Ao Ruize’s adopted brother, Xiao Ruicheng.

Then it was dumbfounded. “Wait, something’s wrong…”

According to its deduction, Xiao Ruicheng’s family shouldn’t be good people.

Especially Xiao Yangxi, who was the biggest ungrateful wolf. After getting the Xiao family, he became arrogant, freezing Ao Ruize’s cards whenever he was unhappy.

But what was happening now?

When the Xiao family was in trouble, Xiao Ruicheng actually prepared to sell all his private property to help the Xiao family pay off debts.

Now Xiao Yangxi’s catchphrase had directly become ‘You don’t know how amazing my little uncle is’…

“T-This isn’t right…”

Ao Ruize just smiled and said, “What’s not right?”

Actually, he was also very curious about what made the milk dumpling think Xiao Yangxi giving him more than two hundred million in dividends a year was mistreating him.

“Do you want to look at your previous deduction results carefully again?”

Hearing this, the milk dumpling instinctively pulled up its previous deduction results.

Xiao Yangxi Side Story—

My name is Xiao Yangxi, forty-eight years old, the current head of the Xiao family.

I am actually not of the Xiao family bloodline because my father was just an adopted son of the Xiao family.

But my grandfather wasn’t without a son.

So I actually have a Little Uncle.

However, this Little Uncle of mine is really hard to describe.

From a young age, he liked to bully me, like tricking me out of my pocket money, snatching my snacks, and even stealing my toys…

At that time, my father always comforted me, saying Little Uncle just looked unreliable but was actually a genius.

I was only a few years old then. In my perception, Father was the most amazing person in the world; he couldn’t lie, so I believed his words deeply.

Only after I grew up did I know that my father was really lying to me.

My Little Uncle was truly unreliable.

He didn’t study finance, didn’t enter the company, didn’t marry, didn’t have children, and only focused on eating, drinking, and playing.

So my grandfather preferred to hand over the entire family business to my father, who had no blood relation to him, rather than to my Little Uncle.

But even so, after I became an adult, I still pinned my hopes on getting along well with my Little Uncle.

Because at that time, my grandfather, my father, and my mother had all left me one after another.

He was the only elder I had left in this world.

But later, I don’t know if it was because he got old, but he started to intensify his behavior, especially the habit of scattering money everywhere. Other elderly people would at most use their pension and savings to buy some health supplements, but he used the money I earned losing all my hair to invest in this today and support that tomorrow. In the end, tens of billions were spent without making a single splash. Later, he even fell in love with extreme sports, going missing every few days.

I hated having such an elder.

But because I was too soft-hearted, even though he was so unreliable, I still always wanted to pull him back to the right path. At least at his age, he shouldn’t be playing extreme sports every day.

Even though his hair was thicker and blacker than mine by I don’t know how many times.

Until later, I accidentally fell into a trap designed by Lin Gaolang and the Sun family. Other families in Shallow City swarmed in, and traitors appeared within the Xiao Corporation. In the blink of an eye, the Xiao family was in imminent danger.

But I didn’t even have time to despair—

That night, an extra three billion suddenly appeared in my account.

It was from a person named Jin Boshi.

He was still collecting scraps at forty-five, but at fifty, he transformed into the founder of Jinshi Green Technology. Not long ago, he became a new tycoon on the China Rich List and also my new idol.

Immediately following, the Weston Company from Country N in Africa sent a representative overnight to acquire all the accumulated products of the Xiao Corporation.

At noon the next day, several companies, large and small, pooled tens of billions and requested to buy shares in the Xiao Corporation.

That afternoon, all the executives of the three major banks who had colluded with Lin Gaolang were dismissed.

On the morning of the third day, the official websites of many companies that tried to follow Lin Gaolang to get a piece of the pie were hacked.

Evidence of their tax evasion was posted directly on their official websites.

…

The crisis of the Xiao Corporation was resolved inexplicably just like that.

I also inexplicably gained a bunch of uncles, ranging from eighty or ninety years old to teenagers.

By the way, my son was already twenty-eight at the time.

So I really wanted to say back then, I desired some care from elders, but that didn’t mean I wanted a group of teenage uncles.

Later I learned that these people were all those my Little Uncle had once sponsored.

They had never come to the Xiao family before because they felt their achievements weren’t great enough. If they came rashly, outsiders might say they were trying to cling to the Xiao family.

The moment I knew this, I was bewildered.

But the matter didn’t end there.

Lin Gaolang was unwilling to accept defeat because the sunk cost was too great.

So he colluded with the Lin family branch in Y Country, preparing to stage a comeback.

Hearing this news, the Xiao Corporation was forced to be on high alert again.

But what we waited for wasn’t an attack from the Lin family, but news that my Little Uncle had mortgaged all his shares, took more than ninety billion to the Y Country stock market, and made a profit of more than thirty billion.

However, before I could react, my Little Uncle had lost all that thirty-plus billion along with his principal.

The people of Y Country publicized this matter on the foreign internet. For a time, the internet was full of condemnation against the Xiao family, and the Xiao family was once again in imminent danger.

But I never expected that half a month later, things would take a shocking reversal again.

My Little Uncle had long anticipated this, so he had reached a cooperation agreement in advance with the Chinese financial circle and my new uncles. Just as the Y Country financial circle was besieging him heavily, the Chinese financial circle and my new uncles quietly bought a large number of low-priced Y Country stocks… and then slashed the Y Country stock market for more than nine hundred billion in one breath, equivalent to a quarter of Y Country’s GDP.

Everything that followed was logical. The Lin family branch in Y Country was severely damaged. The Shallow City Lin family, under everyone’s siege, soon declared bankruptcy. Lin Gaolang was already older, and when his legitimate and illegitimate children fought over the family property, they accidentally pushed him down. He was paralyzed directly and never stood up again.

For the first time, I experienced what it means to “watch him build a tall building, watch him entertain guests, watch his building collapse.”

And all of this took less than two months.

I also experienced for the first time how awesome it is to have the care of an elder.

Because of this incident, I became known as the “Number One Lucky Guy in the World” and the “Invisible Richest Man in Eastern and Western China”—

Because of that nine hundred billion, my Little Uncle alone took more than three hundred billion. And since my Little Uncle had no children, plus the big chunk of meat I bit off from the Lin family, my invisible net worth surpassed the original richest men in Eastern and Western China.

But that’s not important. What is important is that my Little Uncle, this Little Uncle of mine who was scorned as Shallow City’s number one dandy when young and Shallow City’s number one old dandy when old, just moved his fingers, and a shadow was cast over the Y Country stock market, and the huge Lin family fell apart just like that.

Everyone’s jaw dropped, including mine.

I remembered what my father once said again.

He said, your Little Uncle just looks unreliable; he is actually a genius.

Only now do I understand that my father really didn’t lie to me.

I also realized why my Little Uncle bullied me back then.

He wasn’t actually bullying me; he was expressing closeness to me, soothing the constantly anxious and sensitive hearts of my father and mother.

Because at that time, everyone said the reason my father granted my Little Uncle whatever he asked, indulging my Little Uncle in not studying finance, not entering the company, and just eating, drinking, and playing… was all to raise my Little Uncle into a waste and seize the Xiao family property.

My Little Uncle is indeed a genius.

After figuring this out, I felt very guilty for misunderstanding Little Uncle for decades.

But the next day, the guilt in my heart was swept away.

Because I was told that my seventy-year-old Little Uncle ran off to climb the Himalayas.

I decided, I’m freezing his cards today…

……………………

Seeing this, Milk Dumpling: “…”

So this was the reason Xiao Yangxi froze Ao Ruize’s bank cards at the drop of a hat later on?

The milk dumpling shut itself away in guilty silence.

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