Half an hour later, Shen Lang drove Tang Wuzui to the Nanling Baihua Apartment.
Baihua Apartment, this was Nanling's most luxurious apartment, with a monthly rent of twenty thousand. For an office worker like Tang Wuzui to live in such a high-end apartment, if Shen Lang didn't know about her stock trading skills, he would have suspected she was being kept.
"What? Aren't you coming up for a cup of tea?"
After arriving downstairs, Tang Wuzui's lips curved slightly, forming a playful smile. She asked, "Want to come up for a cup of coffee?"
"Can I interpret that as an invitation?"
Shen Lang looked at Tang Wuzui and smiled, "If you admit you're inviting me, then I'll come up. Otherwise, I won't. .oΓg"
"Then I'm not inviting you. My best friend Qin Lianyue is still upstairs, so I won't take you back. Maybe next time."
Tang Wuzui pursed her lips, said with a smile, and then got out of the car.
As Tang Wuzui walked away, she waved her hand and quickly went upstairs.
After Tang Wuzui went upstairs, Shen Lang checked the time and then drove back to the villa.
When Shen Lang returned to the villa, he thought Yu Xiao and Yu Fei would have already returned and be watching TV in the living room. However, upon entering, he found the villa lights off, still dark.
Shen Lang took out his phone and checked the time, realizing that Yu Xiao and Yu Fei should have already returned home from school by now. It was unusual that they weren't home as they normally would be.
Out of curiosity, Shen Lang took out his phone and called Yu Xiao. Less than ten seconds after the call connected, Yu Xiao's voice came through, saying, "Brother Shen, do you miss me already?"
Hearing Yu Xiao's cheerful laugh, Shen Lang breathed a sigh of relief. At least he knew Yu Xiao was safe. So he smiled and said, "I just got home and noticed you and Xiao Fei aren't here as usual, so I called to ask."
"Brother Shen, Xiao Fei and I are buying late-night snacks at the snack street. We'll be back soon. We can eat together then," Yu Xiao said. "Don't worry about us, we'll be back quickly."
"Okay—"
Shen Lang heard her and smiled, "Be safe, and call me if anything happens."
Yu Xiao and Yu Fei were both innocent children, and Shen Lang had too many enemies now, so he sometimes couldn't help but worry about their safety.
After the call ended, Shen Lang turned on Nanling TV to watch financial news. He saw that the stock of Nanguo Winery was rising more and more wildly, almost reaching five hundred yuan. Many people were selling everything they had, even their retirement savings and children's tuition fees, to invest.
Shen Lang saw the frenzy of the stock investors through the screen, but he also shook his head with a sense of helplessness for their future misfortune.
This stock had been manipulated by Tang Wuzui and her associates from the beginning, with the intention of harvesting them. Tang Wuzui and Qin Lianyue had already made a fortune and withdrawn, while others were jumping in one after another.
The final outcome for them would be only one: bankruptcy and ruin.
Shen Lang didn't know the extent of the impact of this stock market storm, but he was sure that in the near future, Nanling would probably see people jumping off buildings every day.
However, that's how stock trading is; sometimes you make a lot, and sometimes you lose so much you want to jump off a building.
Shen Lang sighed, turned off the TV, and walked straight to the villa's refrigerator. He took out a can of chilled beer and a straw.
After opening the cap, Shen Lang used the straw to drink the beer. Even so, his eyes never left the time on his phone.
Time ticked by, and fifteen minutes passed in the blink of an eye. Shen Lang started to feel a bit anxious.
What Shen Lang didn't know was that at this very moment, at a snack street about eight hundred meters from the villa, Yu Xiao and Yu Fei were walking out of a late-night food stall, carrying their packed snacks.
After coming out, Yu Xiao and Yu Fei each got on their electric scooters and were about to ride back to the villa.
However, just as they put on their helmets and were about to ride back to the villa, suddenly, a man about 1.75 meters tall, tall, with a thick beard and cold, ruthless eyes, blocked their path.
"Dad..."
Seeing the man in front of them, Yu Xiao and Yu Fei's faces instantly turned pale, and their eyes filled with fear as they called out.
That's right, the man in front of them was none other than Yu Xiao and Yu Fei's father, Yu Laogou.
However, looking at Yu Laogou, all Yu Fei and Yu Xiao's eyes held was fear and unease.
"Two bitches, after not seeing each other for so long, you still remember me as your father? I thought you had forgotten your own biological father because of that wild man Shen Lang."
Yu Laogou's eyes were sinister, like a viper's, cold and dead. He stared intently at the sisters Yu Xiao and Yu Fei, as if he wanted to bite them to death the next second.
"Yu Laogou, ever since you schemed against us last time with Tiantianshangren, we have no relation. We don't have a father like you, and you don't have two daughters like us. You shouldn't be here."
After a brief moment of fear, Yu Xiao's face showed an incomprehensible resilience. She said to Yu Laogou, "Please move aside, we're going home."
"Home?"
Yu Laogou sneered at the mention of home. "In such a hurry to go back and sleep with that brat Shen Lang?"
"Bitch, truly lewd, not at all decent."
"Yu Laogou, shut your mouth."
Hearing Yu Laogou's vulgarity, Yu Fei shouted, "You have no right to judge us. Get lost, or don't blame us for being rude."
"Oh, isn't this my paralyzed daughter? What, your legs are healed and your courage has grown? You even dare to yell at me?"
Yu Laogou sneered, "Believe it or not, I'll cripple you again."
"Yu Laogou, you can try."
If it were before, Yu Laogou's words would have made Yu Fei cry. But now, facing Yu Laogou, Yu Fei showed no fear in her eyes and said with a cold smile.
"Brat, you've really gotten brave. You even dare to talk back to me. Fine, I'll teach you a lesson today."
Faced with Yu Fei's defiance, Yu Laogou was furious. He raised his hand to slap Yu Fei.
This was his own daughter, but Yu Laogou showed no hesitation in hitting her. In the blink of an eye, the slap was heading towards Yu Fei's face.
However, what was completely unexpected was that Yu Fei, facing the incoming slap, remained calm and even let out a cold laugh.
The next second, Yu Laogou's slap was less than two centimeters away from Yu Fei's alluring face, but he could not land it no matter how hard he tried.
Because, at some point, Yu Fei's slender arm had locked tightly onto Yu Laogou's wrist, preventing him from moving even an inch further, no matter how hard he struggled.