"Thank goodness, I've finally seen that troublemaker off," Luo Mingtian muttered, wiping a bead of sweat from his forehead. His wife, Su Dongmei, was even more stunned by the scene, her brow furrowed slightly.
"Lao Luo, what's wrong?" Su Dongmei finally couldn't help but ask, her husband's behavior today was too abnormal and strange.
"Hoo~" Luo Mingtian let out a sigh, his gaze nervously fixed in the direction the red sports car had departed. He swallowed hard. "I just received news from my informant that something big has happened to the Chen family in the imperial capital!"
Su Dongmei, "Uh..."
"The Chen family in the imperial capital??" Clearly, Su Dongmei was a bit confused by this statement. However, it wasn't entirely her fault, as the Chen family in the imperial capital had nothing to do with them.
"What happened to them?" Su Dongmei pondered, though she couldn't shake the feeling that this matter was undeniably related to Ye Xuan, their son-in-law.
Luo Mingtian recalled the information from his informant, still trembling. "The Chen family in the imperial capital has been annihilated."
"Moreover, it's highly likely that Ye Xuan is involved in the annihilation of the Chen family. It seems the Wang family, one of the four great families of the imperial capital, made the move. According to the intelligence, the annihilation of the Chen family was a gift from the Wang family to Ye Xuan. As for why they gave such a gift, that remains unknown."
Su Dongmei was utterly dumbfounded by Luo Mingtian's words. "What did you say?"
"The Chen family in the imperial capital was wiped out, and it was a gift from the Wang family, one of the four great families, to Ye Xuan. Are you sure?"
Su Dongmei's lips twitched, her eyelids leaping uncontrollably. This news was too shocking for her. A gift for their son-in-law that directly annihilated a family, and a second-rate aristocratic family in the imperial capital at that. She knew exactly what this implied. This news was far more astonishing than the fact that Ye Xuan was the owner of Tianhai Wanhao Group! After all, while Wanhao Group was powerful, it was still inferior to the Chen family, a second-rate aristocratic family in the imperial capital.
"Absolutely certain." Luo Mingtian didn't hesitate, casting a meaningful glance in the direction his daughter and son-in-law had left. "That informant is a confidant I've cultivated for many years, absolutely trustworthy."
"It's just strange, what exactly is the relationship between our son-in-law and the Wang family, one of the four great families of the imperial capital, that the Wang family would go to such lengths for Ye Xuan?"
The implications sent chills down his spine! Su Dongmei took a deep breath. At this point, she understood why Luo Mingtian's attitude towards Ye Xuan had clearly changed after taking the call on the balcony. So, this was why... such a major event had occurred in the imperial capital. Honestly, if this hadn't come from Luo Mingtian's own lips, she would have thought it was a joke.
"Gulp~" After a long period of stunned silence, Su Dongmei swallowed hard. "If that's the case, isn't Ye Xuan's identity far more terrifying than we imagined?"
Su Dongmei spoke, and Luo Mingtian, hearing her, didn't refute. Instead, he nodded silently. They weren't fools; anyone could figure out what it meant for the Wang family in the imperial capital to treat Ye Xuan with such regard. However, it was precisely as they were barely processing this news that their resolve to never offend their son-in-law was strengthened. Even if they didn't know Ye Xuan's true identity, destroying their Luo family would be as easy as crushing an ant.
Why, you ask? Are you kidding? The Chen family in the imperial capital somehow offended their son-in-law, and the Wang family wiped them out with a flick of their wrist. This was nothing short of a show of favor.
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Meanwhile, in the supercar.
"Honey, have you noticed my dad acting strangely today?" Luo Tianyi asked curiously, tilting her head as she recalled her father Luo Mingtian's expression during the family banquet.
"Strange? Really?" Ye Xuan smiled gently. Luo Mingtian, his father-in-law, had seen the information on his phone precisely because Ye Xuan had intended it. With this intelligence, it was easy to understand the reason for his father-in-law's change in attitude. He probably thought Ye Xuan was the one who annihilated the Chen family in the imperial capital.
"Of course, I feel like Dad is definitely hiding something from us." Luo Tianyi, channeling her inner detective, analyzed it repeatedly, replaying her father's unusual actions in her mind.
"Hiding something from us?" Hearing his wife's words, Ye Xuan pondered for a moment and made a 'bold' guess. "Wife, could it be... that father-in-law and mother-in-law are pregnant? Are you going to have a younger sibling?"
Luo Tianyi, "Uh..."
"Ye Xuan! What nonsense are you talking about!!" Luo Tianyi's mouth twitched upon hearing the rascal's outlandish suggestion. She couldn't even imagine such a possibility, but... was it really not the case?
"What nonsense? Don't you remember? Father-in-law and mother-in-law were actively trying to have a younger brother for me before. Pregnancy would be normal." Ye Xuan spoke nonsense with a serious expression, but it made Luo Tianyi panic, and panicky at that. Oh heavens! Could it be that Dad and Mom really... they had another child, and she was going to have a younger sibling??
"N-no way! This is absolutely impossible!!" The thought of her younger sibling being the same age as her twin babies sent goosebumps all over Luo Tianyi. The image was simply unthinkable.
"How is it impossible? But... wife, what if your parents really have a younger brother for me?" Ye Xuan, increasingly outlandish, had clearly entered his daily teasing mode. Luo Tianyi was completely hoodwinked, her mind reeling.
"This, I... I don't know." Luo Tianyi's face turned as red as a beet. This... it couldn't be, could it? Mom and Dad were over forty. Having another child, while not impossible, was just too difficult for her to accept. But, what if it was true?
The more she thought about it, the more flustered she became. She couldn't even imagine how she would get along with a younger brother or sister more than twenty years her junior. This was a disaster! She truly hoped the scoundrel's guess was false and wouldn't come true! If Ye Xuan knew Luo Tianyi's thoughts at this moment, he would probably laugh himself to tears. His wife was too easily 'fooled'.
However, under Ye Xuan's misleading influence, Luo Tianyi successfully believed him and asked with lingering fear, "Honey, if... if that's really the case, what should we do?"
Of course, if Luo Tianyi knew this possibility was a smokescreen created by that scoundrel from the very beginning, she might pounce on him and want to bite him to death.