After leaving the "quill pen" shop, Xu was in a great mood on his way home.

"I've never seen you so happy before."

Sitting to the side, Gu Yi joked, "I feel like you're about to jump up, you rascal."

"Is there? Perhaps."

Xu Shi didn't deny it, "But being able to hear some things about my mom, and also learning that she's a very capable person, is definitely something to be happy about, isn't it?"

Anyway, he knew nothing about it before... mainly because he had no way of finding out. He probably only had a vague memory from when he was a baby. After his mother passed away, his father always kept quiet about her. The strange estrangement between father and son may have been partly due to this.

As for Su Lin? If you ask her, she'll definitely tell you everything, but unfortunately, she knows very little about it. Well, there's nothing we can do about that; it's never easy to make up a story about these things…

That's why Xu Shi was so excited when he heard his grandfather talk about these things. He even felt that a certain emptiness in his heart was being gradually filled.

Actually, he was still quite engrossed in the conversation. If he didn't have some other things to arrange, he might have stayed at "Feather Pen" and had another long talk with the old man.

"That's true."

Miss Black Rabbit nodded. "From what the old man said, Auntie is indeed a very interesting and perfect person."

"At least I'll have something to think about in the future, right?"

Xu Shi leaned back. "Before, I could only see her photos. I couldn't really imagine what she looked like. How can you fill in the blanks if you don't know them, right?"

"And my dad... I kind of miss him."

As he spoke, he became somewhat melancholy.

Despite the estrangement, it's true that the two met three times and argued twice while the old man was alive. But it's undeniable that Xu Cheng treated him well, and there was no strange complex of blaming the child because of his wife's death. At least, what was lacking was only spiritual communication, while he was always there for his child's material needs.

Hearing this, Su Lin, who was in the front row, also felt a strange sense of emotion.

The truth is that the master treated her and the young master similarly; there was no beating or scolding. In fact, because of the strained relationship with the young master, he confided in her more often, so she understood this deeply.

In a sense, the master is really a good person, but he's just not good at expressing himself to the young master?

Thinking of how the old man used to sigh when he mentioned Xu Shi, and the instructions he gave her in his last few years, she smiled helplessly.

"You know what? Some people describe parents as magical wish-granting machines."

Xu Shi closed his eyes and whispered, "But they are the kind of clumsy wish-granting machines. Their abilities may not be very strong, and they are by no means omnipotent. But they will still try their best to find loopholes and take detours, just to fulfill your wish as perfectly as possible."

Parents from past lives, and parents from this life... It's a pity we can't see them anymore. Some things we only learn to cherish after we lose them.

"oh."

Gu Yi wholeheartedly agreed, especially since her feelings about it were perhaps even deeper.

After all, Xu's parents were at least big shots, but her mother was just an ordinary person in Sin City. However, she still raised her by herself... Speaking of which, she and Xu Shi were the opposite. She never knew who her father was. When she asked her mother, her mother would say that he was a heartless bastard.

Looking back now, Miss Black Rabbit only feels that her mother is a superhero.

"Okay, okay, why are you acting so unlike yourself when you're just trying to hear a story?"

However, she only commemorated it a little in her heart. Xu, that rascal, needed comforting more, so she thought for a moment, then leaned over, took Xu Shi's hand, and said, "Didn't Grandpa say I look like Auntie? Come here, come here, Mommy loves you... um..."

Before she could finish speaking, she met Xu Shi's strange gaze and realized that what she had said might have been inappropriate.

"So, you can play video games with your grandpa, but at least learn something else, right?"

Xu Shi rolled his eyes at her. It was quite remarkable that Miss Black Rabbit hadn't improved her emotional intelligence at all during such a good opportunity for cultivation... Her attempts to comfort him were ineffective and sounded more like she was trying to take advantage of him.

However, given that her intentions were good, he didn't say much, but simply flicked her forehead lightly.

"Ouch, that hurts!"

"If you talk nonsense again next time, you'll be in for a world of hurt."

Xu Shi refused to spoil her and raised his hand expressionlessly.

"There won't be a next time. Go ahead and be sad yourself. Nobody will comfort you."

Gu Yi shrank back and complained in the most timid tone.

"Haha, alright, alright."

Xu Shi smiled and said, "I know you didn't mean that... Let's talk about something serious. You'll probably be busy for a while, so cheer up!"

"How exactly do you mean it?"

Miss Black Rabbit nodded with a pout, but didn't object.

Although she didn't care much about what was happening outside, she knew that Xu Shi had some messes to clean up recently.

She reiterated her previous statement: "Just do whatever you're asked to do."

"Afterwards, I will contact the inspection bureau and work with them to build a security system."

Xu Shi explained in detail, "This matter definitely requires you, as the person in charge of 'Snake Ring,' to step in. Use your expertise to help me keep a close eye on a few key areas that need to be guarded against."

"...Would the inspection bureau agree?"

Before Gu Yi could say anything, Su Lin asked first.

On the surface, it didn't seem like a problem, but upon closer inspection, she realized that this matter had a significant impact... mainly because as a result, the "Snake Ring" could monitor a wider area using network methods, and it was possible that it would even extend to the entire City of Night Sin.

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