No sooner had Li Churan left the Wang family than she arrived at the research lab.

"Professor Ouyang, how is it? Can you make it?"

A middle-aged man in a white lab coat and black-rimmed glasses removed his gloves; this was Professor Ouyang Hui.

"Mr. Li, please come with me!"

Li Churan followed Professor Ouyang Hui to a spacious laboratory.

Professor Ouyang Hui, as if opening Pandora's box, took out a gun half the height of a person from a safe, and then, without hesitation, pulled the trigger on several chained zombies.

Several rhomboid bullets shot out like meteors, scattering across the ground. The moment they landed, the ground seemed to be enchanted, instantly freezing into icicles. The struggling zombies were transformed into translucent ice sculptures, as if time itself had been frozen.

"Mr. Li, what do you think of this?" Professor Ouyang Hui was clearly very satisfied with his experimental results.

"Professor Ouyang, if we were to mass-produce this kind of freezing gun, how long would it take?" Time was of the essence; he had to act quickly.

"Time will be short. We've already found a way to mass-produce it, but it will require a lot of funding and resources," Professor Ouyang said, observing Li Churan's expression.

"I'll figure out the funding! Could you give me a rough estimate of how much funding I'll need?"

“…” Professor Ouyang walked up to Li Churan’s ear and whispered a few words in her ear.

"How could there be so much?" Although Li Churan knew that the expenses would be considerable, he did not expect it to be so much, which was beyond his expectations.

"We have indeed spent a lot of money, but there's nothing we can do! There are some parts that our Federation doesn't have yet, so we need to buy them from other Federations. But they're under strict blockades right now, so we can only get them from the black market, where the price is more than ten times higher!" Professor Ouyang shook his head helplessly.

Li Churan frowned, unsure of what to say. Should she give up now?

No, absolutely not!

"Professor Ouyang, you guys start manufacturing it first. I'll figure out the funding." Li Churan grabbed his suit jacket from the sofa, turned around, and walked towards the door.

"Mr. Li! Where are you headed now?"

"I'll go find sponsors!"

On a brightly lit street, a man in a suit and tie, exuding an air of superiority and seemingly out of place, sat on a bench. His brow was furrowed, and the ground was littered with cigarette butts.

He had just discussed the funding with Wang Sicong, but Wang Sicong immediately adopted a evasive attitude, clearly just trying to brush him off.

But he doesn't have a better solution right now.

He could clearly sense that Wang Si was now somewhat wary of him.

Since Wang Sixong is unrighteous, then we can't blame him for being unjust.

He picked up his cigarette like it was trash, threw it into the trash can without hesitation, then stood up, his long figure casting a heavy shadow on the ground. He strode over and got into a Maybach parked by the roadside.

Half an hour later, Li Churan's Maybach stopped downstairs at the building where she and Wang Siyuan lived.

He took a deep breath, opened the car door, and strode upstairs.

Wang Siyuan was in the kitchen supervising the chef as he prepared the meal.

"Add one more braised prawn, Chu Ran loves it!"

"Don't make the spicy chicken too spicy!"

Chu Ran has been coming home for dinner almost every day lately, and she feels like she has hope again.

As long as she acts as a virtuous wife and loving mother, Chu Ran will definitely be moved.

She now regrets not meeting Chu Ran sooner, otherwise she wouldn't have done those absurd things in the past.

Just as she was arrogantly staring at the chef, Aunt Liu tiptoed in. "Miss! Mr. Li is back!"

"What? Chu Ran is back!" Wang Siyuan took off her apron and quickly walked out of the kitchen.

At that moment, Li Churan was changing her shoes in the entryway.

"Wait!" Wang Siyuan shouted.

Li Churan looked bewildered. "What's wrong?"

"Um, Chu Ran, let me help you change!" Wang Siyuan said ingratiatingly. She remembered that in the soap operas she had watched before, housewives always changed their husbands' shoes.

As a wealthy young lady, she went to such lengths for Chu Ran; he would surely be moved to tears, then he would pick her up and carry her straight to the bedroom…

Wang Siyuan had already imagined what would happen next and was indulging in her own fantasies.

"No need!" Li Churan didn't feel anything, only thinking that Wang Siyuan was up to something again.

How could such a shrewd old man like Wang Sicong have such a brain-dead daughter?

Is this what the ancients meant by "use seven parts of your cleverness and leave three parts for your descendants"?

Wang Sicong must have prematurely exhausted all of his daughter's intelligence and wit.

However, what Li Churan didn't know was that Wang Siyuan's romantic nature and intelligence were entirely inherited from her mother.

A naive and foolish rich girl.

Originally, Wang Siyuan should have taken her mother's surname, Ying, but her mother insisted that she take the surname Wang.

That's right, Wang Sicong was also a son-in-law who married into the family! He was originally just an ordinary test-taker, but he accidentally won the favor of a rich young lady, which led to his meteoric rise in rank.

Her mother was just lucky; Wang Si was not as cold-blooded as Li Churan.

"Chu Ran, are you hungry? I've already asked the chef to prepare the food!" Since she was exposed last time, she was too embarrassed to continue pretending to be a chef, since it wasn't something she was good at anyway.

"Okay!" Li Churan nodded. He had something to say to Wang Siyuan.

"Hurry up and serve the dishes!" Wang Siyuan ordered, and the servants quickly brought out the dishes and set out the cups, bowls and plates.

"Chu Ran, let's eat!" Seeing that everything was ready, Wang Siyuan quickly pulled Li Chu Ran to sit down.

"Chu Ran! Let's eat quickly!" Wang Siyuan served Li Chu Ran the dishes attentively.

"Chu Ran, are you busy at work today? Are you tired?" Wang Siyuan looked at Li Chu Ran's handsome profile with starry eyes.

"You must be exhausted!" Li Churan glanced at her indifferently.

"So what have you been busy with today?" Seeing that Li Churan was willing to talk to her, she quickly asked.