Li Wujiang had finished hitting and scolding. It was time to discuss business.
Zi Ye and Shen Zui had to be asked to leave.
Yang Xiao had allowed them to be present earlier to help dissuade Li Wujiang from taking her anger out on her beloved grandson.
Now that Zi Ye and the others had successfully completed their mission,
it was time to discard them.
Zi Ye, who really wanted to stay but knew her grandmother would never allow it, pouted reluctantly and walked out of the reception room with Shen Yun.
“Wujiang’s mom hitting people was too brutal.”
Zi Ye wasn’t very familiar with Shen Yun, only seeing her as “Jun Lin’s sister-in-law.” As they walked down the stairs, she couldn’t help but complain.
Shen Yun nodded.
She also felt that the few times Li Wujiang had hit Li Qianfan were indeed excessive.
But from a mother’s perspective—
the harder the beating, the deeper the love!
The two of them chatted as they walked out of Victoria and continued east along the sidewalk, discussing whether Li Wujiang was a “competent mother.”
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Shen Yun bought two skewers of candied hawthorn and handed one to Zi Ye.
Zi Ye, who had been crying her eyes out just moments before, immediately let out a crunching sound and praised the candied hawthorn for being delicious.
The heartache she felt for her brother, who was almost beaten to death, vanished almost instantly.
Shen Yun envied Zi Ye’s mindset—
“Chong Chong jie, do you think I should call Sister-in-law (Zi Yu) and have her come over?”
Zi Ye suddenly thought of something and asked Shen Yun.
“It’s best not to.”
Shen Yun thought for a moment and suggested, “Once Dean Su arrives, she’ll be in a difficult position seeing Aunt Wujiang scold her son. Otherwise, Empress Dowager Xiao would have had her come over long ago.”
Zi Ye nodded.
Then she sighed, “Alas, poor Qianfan Gege, he really deserved to be beaten. Activating 209, such a big thing, and he didn’t even tell me.”
Tell you?
Even if Qianfan had told you, what would have changed?
Shen Yun secretly chuckled. When she looked up at Zi Ye, she saw two people walking towards them not far ahead.
It was a man in his forties wearing a dark blue stand-collar Zhongshan suit, and a woman in her thirties wearing a white trench coat.
Actually,
there were many pedestrians on the evening street.
But for some reason, Shen Yun’s eyes were immediately drawn to this couple amidst the crowd.
Or rather!
When she happened to look up, it was as if a magnet had attracted her gaze, and she was drawn to the man!
“What’s wrong?”
Zi Ye, who was eating candied hawthorn and talking to Shen Yun, casually asked as she took a step back. Seeing the odd look in Shen Yun’s eyes, she followed her gaze.
Zi Ye also—
immediately saw the man!
First, she was stunned, and then a feeling of ecstasy surged through her eyes.
Zi Ye immediately dropped her candied hawthorn and, like a bird returning to its nest, rushed towards the man with a joyful cry, “Dad! Dad! Why are you here?”
Many passersby were attracted by Zi Ye’s shouts and instinctively looked over.
They saw the eternally youthful and beautiful young woman, still more than three meters away from the man, leap into his arms.
Without a word.
She proceeded to plant 12345678 kisses on his face.
The man instinctively hugged his daughter, tilting his head back as much as possible, pretending to dislike being kissed.
But the deep, doting affection in his eyes made it obvious even to a blind person.
Li Xiao.
Li Xiao, the master of Long Xu and one of the four major powers in the world, had quietly arrived in Qingyun at this hour when the lights were starting to come on.
“Alright, alright.”
Li Xiao pushed his beloved darling away, feigning disgust, and wiped the saliva from his face, “Don’t think that calling me ‘Dad’ a few times and kissing me a few times will make me forgive you for your foolishness in falling for Kahn at school behind my back.”
“Who is Kahn?”
Yang Zi Ye looked bewildered, “Old Li! Even if you are my biological father, you can’t falsely accuse me of dating behind the family’s back during my prime study years. Especially since the Kahn you mentioned is probably a foreigner, right? Do you mean to say that your daughter can’t find a husband in the East and must marry a foreigner? Don’t you think that falsely accusing me like this is a humiliation to yourself?”
Li Xiao—
Fine.
My dear daughter, you have truly mastered the art of shamelessness.
You’ve even surpassed your teacher.
Li Xiao could never bear to scold this precious daughter. Every time, he was left speechless by her sharp wit.
If this were Li Qianfan—
he would have been kicked eight meters away long ago!
After successfully shutting Li Xiao up, Zi Ye cleverly changed the subject.
She looked at the beautiful young woman behind Li Xiao and bowed respectfully, “Aunt Bai Wei, you’re getting younger every year after not seeing you for years.”
Bai Wei—
her nickname was Bai Wei, and her real name was Shen Piaomiao!
The eldest princess from Piaomiao Village, she followed Li Xiao in conquering overseas twenty years ago and was also Mao Maochong’s eldest sister.
Due to the marriage between Li Qianfan and Du Junlin, the generational relationship between the Shen and Li families had become completely muddled.
However, it didn’t matter; they could just call each other as they always had.
“Zi Ye’s words are indeed sweet.”
Shen Piaomiao, with a hint of weariness in her eyes, smiled and gently patted Zi Ye’s head in return. Then she looked up at Shen Yun, who was more than ten meters away.
After Zi Ye and her father had exchanged greetings, Shen Yun, who now also recognized Li Xiao and his companion, quickly walked over.
Shen Yun placed her right hand on her chest and bowed deeply to Li Xiao, “This is Shen Yun of the Su family, paying respects to Dragon Lord Li.”
Previously, when introducing herself, Shen Yun would refer to herself as Shen Yun of the Lingnan Shen family.
However, the Lingnan Shen family had quietly retreated.
The patriarch, Shen Yue, had also permanently resided in Piaomiao Village.
Su Nanyin, who could not follow him, had sold her assets and gone to Si Jiu, establishing her own family and calling herself a member of the Su family.
Therefore, it was natural for Shen Yue to introduce himself as Shen Yue of the Su family when introducing himself to others.
She respectfully addressed Li Xiao as Dragon Lord, which was the most formal way.
She couldn’t possibly call him father-in-law, could she?
Her elder sister, Shen Piaomiao, was standing right there.
“Shen Yun, hello.”
Li Xiao also nodded slightly in return.
Shen Yun then shared a gentle hug with Shen Piaomiao, “Elder Sister, did you come from Piaomiao Village this time?”
Shen Piaomiao’s quiet return to the country with Li Xiao could only be for the matter of Shen Yue permanently residing in Piaomiao Village.
“Yes.”
Shen Piaomiao patted Shen Yun’s back and said softly, “If you encounter any difficulties in the future, don’t forget to call me. Alas, among you three sisters, you are the one I worry about the most.”
“Alright, alright.”
After their embrace, Zi Ye linked her arm through her father’s, “The street is no place for catching up. Let’s go back to Victoria. Grandmother, Mother Wujiang, and Aunt Nanyin are all there, teaching Qianfan Gege a lesson together. Old Li, you really need to discipline my Mother Wujiang this time. If I hadn’t stopped her, she would have beaten my brother to death.”
Li Xiao replied, “Isn’t it only natural for a mother to beat her son? If he’s beaten to death, so be it. We can just have another one.”
Zi Ye—
could only give her father two big thumbs down.
“Bai Wei, you and Shen Yun go find Wujiang and the others.”
Li Xiao said, “Zi Ye, you take me to see someone.”
Zi Ye instantly understood, “You want to see Sister-in-law Zi Yu!”
Yes.
Su Zi Yu was scheduled to depart for Long Xu tomorrow afternoon.
Just before her departure, her father-in-law, Li Xiao, whom she had never met, had suddenly arrived in Qingyun. Without even seeing his son, who was near death, he went to see her alone, undoubtedly to brief her on the basic situation of Long Xu in advance.
This way,
Su Zi Yu would be as prepared as possible.
With the strong support of her father-in-law obtained in advance, Su Zi Yu would undoubtedly have more confidence when she went to Long Xu.
From this, it could be seen that Li Xiao was indeed paying close attention to Su Zi Yu, his daughter-in-law.
“Okay, we’ll go first.”
Shen Piaomiao agreed, took Shen Yun’s hand, and led her away quickly.
“I’ll call Sister-in-law first.”
Yang Zi Ye took out her phone, “It’s almost dark, let’s not make a wasted trip if she’s not at the hospital.”
Li Xiao nodded.
With his hands behind his back, he looked up and casually surveyed the city.
Buzzing.
When Su Zi Yu’s phone rang, she was at Jinfeng Fashion, next door to Ziyu Fashion.
She was leaving for Long Xu tomorrow and had a lot of things to attend to.
However, her mother, Ning Xiaolan, had called her half an hour earlier, asking her to hurry over to Jinfeng Fashion.
This was because Wei Jinfeng had invited reinforcements to negotiate with Old Master Su!
Ideally, Li Qianfan should have been the one to handle this matter.
But Old Master Su had personally seen Li Qianfan leave the company in a hurry, so he must have had an urgent matter to attend to.
Moreover, it wasn’t a major negotiation, and Old Master Su didn’t want to cause any more trouble for his beloved son-in-law because of it.
The Su family of three would first negotiate with Wei Jinfeng to see what his intentions were.
“Zi Ye, I’m at Jinfeng Fashion, negotiating with someone.”
Su Zi Yu whispered into the phone after receiving Zi Ye’s call, “Wei Jinfeng has invited a big shot to deal with the matter of your brother threatening him the other day.”
“What big shot? How big is he? Is his head as big as the sky?”
Zi Ye had a personality that was always eager for trouble. Upon hearing Su Zi Yu’s words, her face lit up with joy, and she pressed for details.
Su Zi Yu didn’t know how to answer.
“Sister-in-law, I’ll be right over to meet that big shot myself!”
Zi Ye ended the call and looked at her dad, “Old Li, someone is bullying your daughter-in-law. You, as her father-in-law, should go and take a look yourself, shouldn’t you?”