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Chapter 620: Six Hundred and Twenty-Six
Chapter 620: Chapter Six Hundred and Twenty-Six
“Master Li is being too polite,” said Su Wenyue. Although her mind was preoccupied, she maintained her composure as she rewarded the ceremonial official with a gratuity and exchanged pleasantries. She then instructed the housekeeper to see the official out with great care.
“Not foolish,” Ling Ruonan shook her head, “this should be the smartest decision.”
“That’s good, I was afraid you would blame me for not taking the opportunity to make requests to Great Grandfather.” Luo Ziling said, then laughed again, “Yesterday, after beating up the descendants of the Ling Family, today Great Grandfather still treats me as an honored guest. Those who were beaten by me, if they knew about this, would probably be so angered they’d vomit blood.”
“Indeed,” Ling Ruonan nodded her head, and then immediately added with a somber reminder, “This is also the key to the problem. Therefore, I believe there are deeper things we haven’t considered—things we haven’t considered are the crux of the matter. I always feel that things are not simple, and your rash actions yesterday wouldn’t easily be forgiven by those two old people. Maybe one day their thoughts will change, and that may be a deadly threat to us. It’s possible they are just using us as cannon fodder. Alas, even I can’t make sense of it anymore, it gives me a headache.”
“Mom, it seems that we are just pawns in their hands, and pawns that can be sacrificed at any time,” Luo Ziling said with a wry smile on his face, “The adage ‘No affection in royalty’ couldn’t be more true.”
“Ling’er, don’t lose heart. Although all of this could be a trap, it could also be an opportunity, a chance for our family to be united, a chance for us to gain more benefits. You want the Luo Family to become a mighty household, right? Then let’s make good use of this opportunity. They use us, we use them; we all get what we need. As long as we are the ‘cockroaches’ that can’t be killed, in the end, we will surely be the ones to profit.”
Upon hearing Ling Ruonan put it that way, Luo Ziling suddenly had an epiphany, “Mom, I understand what you mean. Let’s work hard together; I believe we will have the last laugh.”
“Hmm,” Ling Ruonan nodded earnestly, then said, “From now on, we mustn’t give up any opportunities, striving to have enough strength to resist before we fall out with them.”
Luo Ziling nodded earnestly too.
Then, he gave Ling Ruonan a good massage, and only after she had peacefully fallen asleep did he leave her villa.
Still not asking Wuyue for a ride, Luo Ziling stealthily left the neighborhood. Only after circling the nearby area twice to make sure he wasn’t being followed did he head in the direction of the school.
An issue that had seemed monumental was thus “resolved” in a theatrical manner; Luo Ziling, although finding it a bit absurd, felt his mood much lighter.
Feeling relaxed, his steps became more light-hearted as he headed back to school.
He planned to discuss the matter with Yang Qingyin, so after leaving the neighborhood, he sent her a message, saying he wanted to treat her to a late-night snack.
Yang Qingyin replied back quickly, agreeing to his request and asking if he had good news. Luo Ziling simply answered that they’d talk when they met.@@novelbin@@
The two agreed to meet at a teahouse near the school.
With three kilometers to the school and only half an hour left, Luo Ziling quickened his pace.
But as he reached a secluded place, suddenly, a sense of danger appeared without any warning.
This alarmed Luo Ziling, who immediately heightened his vigilance.
The instinctive sense of danger had been honed from harsh training with his grandfather since he was young.
Fearing accidents when he grew up, his grandfather had been very strict with his training from a young age.
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During training, they often attacked him while disguised as the enemy, the aim being to hone his reaction ability to danger.
By the end, whenever there were strong opponents around or a murderous aura appeared, he could sense the danger, his body’s instinctive response to danger had been trained just like that.
On the day he was ambushed by gunmen, and the previous few times he’d encountered trouble, he’d had a premonition.
Even that time when he was walking down the street, intimately nestled with Yang Qingyin under an umbrella enjoying the romance, once the attackers appeared, he reacted immediately; otherwise, his injuries would have been more than just a few scrapes.
After being shot at while with Ling Ruonan last time, his sensitivity to danger had increased even further.
Today, when he was on his way to the old house, he wore the bulletproof vest given to him by Lin Lan, but a bulletproof vest can only protect parts of the body, not provide full coverage. Fearing another sniper or gunman attack, as soon as he sensed danger, he immediately darted into the darkness, using the buildings and trees as cover, preparing to escape.
As he darted away to take cover, he cursed incessantly in his heart at those who took cold shots at him from behind; these people were despicable, robbing him of any peace in his life.
If he found out who they were, he would definitely teach them a fierce lesson, making them wish they could neither live nor die.
Just as Luo Ziling darted away and slipped into a nearby small park, planning to use the darkness as cover to escape, two tall figures in black silently followed him into the park.
Although there are streetlights in the small park by the roadside, they are not very bright; the abundance of trees and bushes adds to the gloomy atmosphere. In the summer, many people stroll here at night, but now it’s deep autumn and the evenings are quite chilly, leaving the small park almost devoid of people. The dim lights barely reveal the faint outlines of the two figures in black, compounding the chill in the eerily quiet park.
“All right, I’ll listen to you, housekeeper,” Han Yu replied without complaint, clearly indulging Su Wenyue as he followed her instructions to head inside.
“Complaining about my nagging? You’re such a big man yet you’re becoming more like a child. You used to remind me to look after my health, but look at how careless you are, especially now in early spring when there’s so much rain. You’ll be the one in pain when your leg ailment flares up.”
Su Wenyue said this irritably; he thought she was nagging, but she was right. The weather had been clear for only a short while before it started raining again, a ceaseless drizzle clouding the skies and casting a gloomy pallor. A sense of restlessness overcame her, and she couldn’t shake the feeling that something was about to happen.
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