On the same night, in the Yun mansion.

"Ha! I thought that woman ran off with Lin Zhou because she loved him. Her daughter now turns out to be someone else's." the gossipy Yun Jifeng had already found this out through his means.

"What did you say?" General Yun, who had grown accustomed to his son's incessant gossip, was stunned.

"That little brat called Qian Li his brother."

"What Qian Li?"

"Qian Ye's son, that little doctor."

"Qian Ye…" General Yun mumbled. "Impossible. They didn't have anything to do with each other."

"You can choose to not believe me if you don't want to. She called him her brother in front of Lu Aotian and begged for his life."

General Yun had heard enough. "So what if she's his daughter? It has nothing to do with me."

Though inside he was thinking; Qian Ye was his friend decades ago. Although their friendship ended long before she escaped, Xia Rou would never like him because she was her enemy's friend. Unless he... How dare he?

"There's more good news." Yun Jifeng suddenly said.

"You punk. Why don't you say everything at once?"

"Fine I'll say it. But what do I get in return?"

"What do you want?" General Yun was displeased. This rascal was being calculative even with his own father.

"Not much. I want 5% more of Lu Enterprises shares."

"Haven't you been buying them on your own?"

"That's right. But you know how hard it is to deal with those old geezers. All the shares I got were through threatening a few of the shareholders into submission. The rest of them would rather die than sell their shares."

"Then leave it. Do you have to buy them?" he was getting annoyed at his son.

"How else will I become super awesome?"

At a loss, General Yun could only close one eye and transfer his 5% of Lu Enterprises shares. He had acquired this secretly. He wasn't sure how his son found out but it was better to not agitate him.

"Fine. You got what you wanted. Tell me the good news now."

Yun Jifeng enjoyed the feeling of being superior. He could finally control his father. It wouldn't be too long before he took over the business world. When that time came, he would be better than Lu Aotian. Wan Jia would come running and begging to be with him. But, for rejecting him repeatedly in the past, he wouldn't let her off easily. He would have to teach her a good lesson before making her his.

(Avalorian: "Talk about being delusional.")

Now that he thought about it, wasn't it exciting? The woman he fancied the most was the daughter of his father's former lover.

"…"

Truly, a mad dog would never give birth to a bunny.

"Are you going to speak or what?" General Yun forcibly pulled him out of his fantasy.

"Oh, I forgot you exist. The news is, those Lu brothers had an argument at last. When he let Qian Li off because Wan Jia said so, Lu Shaoting's reaction was quite satisfying."

"How do you know?"

"The same way I know that what Wan Jia said today."

"…" Fine. He had his connections.

"Remember to use this chance well."

Yun Jifeng stopped pacing around, sat down and gave a venomous smirk. "If anything were to happen to Qian Li at this time, who do you think would be the first suspect?"

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While Yun Jifeng made his evil plans, Lu Shaoting was speeding through the city. He drove around aimlessly for two hours before driving to Southside. He was going to talk to his brother but when he checked the time and saw how late it was, he changed his mind and went to the Lu residence instead.

It was 12am already. His father and girlfriend should be asleep. He went to Little Jia's room to check on the little girl.

He was surprised to see Su Ling sitting on the little girl's bed. Little Jia was practically sticking onto her as she listened to her future aunt tell her a story. He watched the scene with a warm smile, imagining how she would read stories for their children.

"Second uncle!" Little Jia noticed him and flashed a cute smile.

The remaining negative thoughts that Lu Shaoting still had faded away with Little Jia's smile. He went to her side and picked her up. How could she be this cute? "Why are you still up? Little children shouldn't stay up late."

"Second uncle, aunty is reading me a story. She is awesome!"

Su Ling at the side "…" You're the awesome one.

When Little Jia couldn't get through to her parents, she went to Su Ling and cutely requested for a bedtime story. When Su Ling said that she didn't know how to tell stories, the little girl blinked at her with those big eyes. Her exact words had been, "Second aunty, in future, my little cousins will want to be told stories, too. It's nice to practice."

Such words coming out of a four-year-old's mouth had rendered her speechless.

…

"You don't look happy." Su Ling said when she had put Little Jia to sleep and returned to her room with him.

"Don't believe Little Jia's nonsense. She's just a child." Lu Shaoting dismissed.

"Children are more sensitive than adults, and she's more sensitive than other kids. Anyway, I realized you are unhappy even before she pointed it out."

Lu Shaoting took her hand and pulled her to him. "Really? Then why don't you make me happy?"

"Hey, we are at your father's house. Where are your hands going?"