Chapter 120: I am already a son-in-law, a son-in-law of the Wen family. Will the Wen family give me...?

The cold wind kept hitting the carved window frames of the meeting room.

Wen Yunzhi raised his eyes and looked at Gu Yifeng: "Mr. Gu, you don't have to get involved in this disaster."

"You're not a member of the Wen family. If you withdraw now, you can still protect yourself. The Investigation Bureau won't make things difficult for you."

Wen Yuran also whispered in agreement, "Yes, we appreciate everything you've done. But you shouldn't gamble your life on the fate of others. Let's go, there's still time."

All eyes were on him, as if waiting for this "outsider" to see the situation and leave on his own initiative.

After hearing this, Gu Yifeng didn't move, but his smile deepened. After all, he had already lost face today, so this last little bit didn't matter.

"Mr. Wen, Mrs. Wen."

He pointed at himself, then at Wen Yi, who lowered her head, and said calmly, "Why am I not considered a member of the Wen family? Before returning to Yuexi Mountain, I was already a de facto son-in-law. I just needed to go through the formalities."

He shrugged and said seriously, "I'm a traditional person. I've given myself over to you physically and mentally. I have no choice but to accept this role as your son-in-law. You, the Wen family, can't deny it."

There was silence in the hall.

Wen Chi almost spit out his tea—Fuck! How shameless!

Even Wen Yunzhi, who was usually calm, couldn't help but twitch his eyelids, as if he was shocked by Gu Yifeng's rogue behavior.

Wen Yi was so frightened that she didn't dare to look up, her voice weak: "You...you must be kidding!"

"I'm not kidding."

Gu Yifeng put away his smile and said seriously, "Wen family, will you give me this title or not?"

Wen Yi suddenly covered her mouth, her heart almost jumping out of her chest.

What is he doing? Has he been possessed by XNA1?

Wen Yunzhi was silent for a long time, then said in a serious tone, "The Wen family is facing internal and external troubles, and the situation is about to collapse. You... have to intervene at this time?"

Gu Yifeng tightly grasped Wen Yi's hand, with a slight smile on his face: "From the moment I met her, I was already involved."

Wen Chi sneered and blurted out, "Alright! Since you want to be a member of the Wen family so badly, how about I arrange for you to guard the ancestral hall?" He looked at me with sarcasm, "We just need someone to sweep the floor and burn incense."

Gu Yifeng was not annoyed, but nodded with a smile: "Okay. Maybe one day the ancestors will show up and take a liking to me as their son-in-law, and write me into the family tree."

Wen Chi's pupils trembled: "Excuse me, what is your face made of?!"

"Forget it..." The veins on Wen Yunzhi's forehead jumped, and he raised his hand to stop Wen Chi from saying anything further.

"Let him be."

No one spoke for a while. Wen Yunzhi poured himself a cup of tea, took a sip, and said slowly:

"The Wen family's internal troubles lie within their hearts. Many members are already wavering. They fear losing their innate power, and even more so, being purged in the future as 'aliens.' Everyone is in danger, preferring to live as puppets of alien consciousness rather than perish at the hands of humans. If we don't act, civil war within the family will break out."

Wen Yuran sighed: "... Is it true that the Wen family's century-old heritage will be destroyed in our generation?"

The wind was howling outside the window, and the atmosphere in the house became more depressing.

Wen Yunzhi closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, only determination remained in them: "Since people are divided, let's clean up the mess first." His voice was not loud, but every word was clear: "Those who wish to live and die with the Wen family will stay. We will bear life and death together."

"What about the others?" Wen Chi immediately pressed. "Those who wavered—what are you going to do with them? Kill them? Imprison them?"

Gu Yifeng took the initiative to stand up at this moment: "I have some ideas about this."

Wen Chi snorted coldly and was about to open his mouth to refute, but Wen Yunzhi raised his hand to stop him.

Gu Yifeng adjusted his cuffs and continued, "The second type of people—those who want to stay out of trouble and remain neutral—can leave. But there are three conditions."

"First, undergo a dynamic genetic scan. I need to confirm that these XNA1 gene carriers are not qualified to be vessels for alien consciousness."

He paused, "Second, sign a letter of commitment to permanently disable your supernatural powers. If you choose to leave, I can forge their identities, arrange special channels for them to be sent overseas for asylum, and provide a sum of start-up capital. From then on, they will live in anonymity and never look back."

Third, you must undergo neural marker implantation to monitor your ability use. If you are detected using abilities, all protection will be terminated immediately. I don't need to explain what that means."

Wen Yuran was surprised: "Mr. Gu, is your strength so strong?"

Wen Chi scoffed. "Falsifying identities? Sending them overseas? Providing funding? Either he's just bragging, or... Mr. Gu is more than just a wealthy man." He stared at Gu Yifeng. "How can you, a researcher like you, get so much money? Money laundering? Arms? Or do you have a Communist Party background?"

Everyone held their breath, their eyes shifting back and forth between the two.

Gu Yifeng just smiled lightly, not at all embarrassed, but calmly said: "What you said... is too low-end."

He raised his eyes, his tone somewhat teasing, "When Mr. Wen becomes my brother-in-law, I can take you to play with me."

Wen Chi's face turned pale and his knuckles cracked.

Gu Yifeng, however, was neither hurried nor slow. He changed the subject, his tone suddenly becoming cold: "Finally, if anyone chooses to betray, is willing to become a puppet of alien consciousness, or sells out the family to the outside world... I can handle it."

Wen Chi frowned: "What do you mean? Are you planning to kill and silence the witnesses? It's not your turn to clean up the Wen family's traitors!"

Gu Yifeng's smile didn't reach his eyes: "No. It's much more valuable than that."

"Over the past few months, I've successively acquired three underground research institutions: 'X-Deep Blue Research Institute,' 'New Era Biology,' and 'Zero Point Genes.' They had been secretly researching superpower suppression technology for the military, accumulating nearly ten years of data. After I injected capital, I accelerated the final stage."

He spoke casually, as if he were buying three cabbages. "We are researching a 'genetic autoimmune program'—essentially a CAR-T cell therapy targeting XNA1. Simply put, it's about inducing the human immune system to misidentify XNA1 as a cancer cell or virus, initiating targeted elimination. It's already in human trials, and its safety and effectiveness have been preliminarily verified."

Wen Yi suddenly looked up, dumbfounded, and said, "Human experiments?! You, you're using living people for experiments?!"

Gu Yifeng said bluntly: "That's right, the experimental subjects are those high-risk criminals with special abilities who have been arrested by the Investigation Bureau and sentenced to death."

He raised his eyes, scanning the crowd, and said frankly: "Since they are destined to be executed anyway, they might as well make some contributions to science before they die. Oh, right, right—" He turned to Wen Yunzhi and whispered, "Mr. Wen, if there is a traitor in the family... I don't mind you sending it privately. It just so happens that the laboratory is short of samples."

"Doing this... isn't immoral, right?" Wen Yi's voice trembled slightly.

Gu Yifeng nodded confidently: "Yes, I have no morals."

Wen Yi: ...

Wen Chi couldn't help but swear: "Fuck! Gu Yifeng, are you talking like a human being? Using living people for experiments, how is this different from being a villain!"

Gu Yifeng smiled: "Difference? Of course there is."

"By doing this, I've eliminated the threat and deterred others. I've made the betrayer's life more meaningful, and his death more worthwhile. Three birds with one stone." He said seriously, "Besides, the agreement of 'I'll trade the experiment for a reduced sentence or even a death sentence' is quite reasonable, isn't it?"

Wen Chi: ...

Wen Yunzhi's face showed no emotion. He asked in a deep voice, "Mr. Gu is a scientific researcher. He believes in science and pursues truth. However, this behavior is unethical and against the will of heaven. Do you really want to destroy your own beliefs with your own hands?"

Gu Yifeng walked to Wen Yi, gently held her hand, and glanced at everyone.

"If 'science' can't save her," his smile faded, "then it doesn't deserve to be called science."

"Truth? Ethics? Morality? I don't care."

"From today on, she is my only truth. I can break my body for the truth."

Gu Yifeng paused here, his tone slightly more sincere, and said to Wen Yunzhi: "I know this is crazy... Because I am a scientist, I know the cost. But this time, I choose to trust my intuition and compromise for love - willing to go to hell for her."

The house was dead silent.

Wen Yi stared at him in disbelief, her eyes wide. Her gaze slowly fell on Gu Yifeng's hand, which was holding hers—his hand, with distinct joints and long, slender fingers. They had held hands countless times before, but never before had they given her such a strong sense of security.

The desire to live grew deep in her heart. Tears gathered in her eyes and she gently leaned on his shoulder.

"Wen Yi!" She was suddenly pulled away. Wen Chi said in a deep voice, "I'll take you away. Stay away from this lunatic."

"Brother! I don't want to go back. I want to be with him." Wen Yi struggled, her tone stubborn, and looked straight at Wen Chi.

"You--" Wen Chi's eyes were dark, and he turned to look at Gu Yifeng, murderous intent in his eyes.

"She won't go with you." Gu Yifeng stretched out his arms and hugged Wen Yi into his arms.

Wen Chi sneered: "Mr. Gu, I see you want to go to hell now, I don't mind giving you a ride."

"What are you doing?" Wen Yuran frowned and scolded in a low voice.

Wen Yunzhi remained silent, his eyes slowly sweeping over the two men who were arguing with each other, and finally fell on his daughter.

Gu Yifeng frowned and said no more. He took her hand and walked to Wen Yunzhi. He reached into his pocket, took out a velvet box, and opened it - a sapphire ring lay inside, with an oval-cut main stone inlaid with sparkling diamonds.

Under the gaze of everyone, he bowed his head to Wen Yunzhi: "Mr. Wen, I know this is inappropriate at this moment, but please believe in my determination to love and protect her. No matter what the future holds, I will never be separated from her. Even the barriers of time and space cannot stop us from being together."

Wen Yunzhi lowered his eyes and finally smiled faintly.

"The road you're on is already difficult enough. I don't need to hinder you any further." He spoke in a calm tone, his eyes looking at Wen Yi with a thousand words hidden in them. "I neither support nor oppose your relationship. Whether you can be together or not is entirely up to you two."

It was quiet all around, and the sound of breathing could be heard clearly.

Gu Yifeng was slightly startled. He didn't expect Wen Yunzhi to give way. A smile suddenly welled up in his eyes. He turned to look at Wen Yi and said gently, "Yiyi, tell me now, are you willing to marry me?"

He asked this question, but without waiting for Wen Yi to answer, he took her left hand and put the ring on her ring finger again. Finally, he glared at her and said fiercely: "Don't dare to take it off again this time!"

*

When leaving the conference room, Gu Yifeng suddenly stopped.

He said seriously, "Wait, it's not over yet."

Wen Yi: “?”

"We have to go to the ancestral hall to pay our respects to our ancestors."

"Why?"

"We must first please our ancestors and strive to be included in the family tree as soon as possible."

“…”

The two walked side by side into the mountain path.

The night sky is as dark as ink, and the bright moon hangs high in the sky, as if it is a palace in heaven, and gods are quietly watching over the world.

"When did you... start preparing for all this?" Wen Yi suddenly asked, "Acquiring a laboratory, researching targeted cell therapy... We were together every day, but I didn't even notice."

"From the first time I saw you."

Wen Yi raised an eyebrow: "Stop lying, I had to wait for several days to see you back then."

"When have I ever asked you to wait?" He turned his head to look at her, "It's always me who waits for you."

She was stunned, and when she thought about it, it seemed to be true.

"Can that treatment really save me?"

He shook his head. "I'm not sure. You're a very special being. All the experimental results in front of you may be worthless. We can only try it once."

Wen Yi asked softly, "Do you still have time to do your own research next?"

"I gave up long ago."

She looked up suddenly, staring at him in disbelief. "You're going to give up your research? Give up the path you've been on for over a decade? Just for me?"

“Is it worth it?”

Gu Yifeng smiled and raised his hand to stroke her hair: "For me, scientific research is just a means, not a goal."

He took her hand and interlocked their fingers. "I used to think that everything I did was a pursuit of the laws of the universe. But now I understand that the force that pushes me forward is not the pursuit of science, but something that science cannot explain. Among countless life paths, I chose this one."

He slowly stopped, and Wen Yi followed suit. The wind blew through the forest, casting swaying shadows on the trees, and the mottled moonlight quietly fell on them.

"It allows me to recognize you among thousands of people at a glance."

He gently held her in his arms and bent down to kiss the corner of her lips.

"This inexplicable power may be love."

"It is the only power in this world that can transcend time and space, driving me step by step towards you."

He rested his forehead against hers, "So I don't need to pursue anything anymore. And there's no need to feel sorry for me."

"My answer is already in my arms."

"From now on, I have only one goal in life - to survive with you."

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Wen Gu: Hey, you slept with me, how can you not give me a legitimate status? If you don't let me marry into your family, I will make a scene [dog head]

Wen Yi: ...Mom, I'm scared [laughing and crying]

Wen Chi: Damn, is this guy’s face made of titanium?