"Baby, come with Daddy."

Zhou Siyu held Yu Ling in her arms, covered his eyes with her hand, nodded to Yu Wei, then tore through space and took Yu Ling back to the car.

"I am his father. How much money do you want?" Yu Wei walked step by step toward Dreadlocks with his hands behind his back, stopping about three meters away from him.

Yu Wei raised his hand and snapped his fingers, lifting the fat man high into the air. The vines suddenly loosened, and the fat man screamed as he fell to the ground, instantly ceasing to breathe.

"I...I...I don't want money...I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, please let me go...I...I was blind to your greatness...I deserve to die..." Watching helplessly as the fat man was smashed to pieces, the dreadlocks wet themselves in fear, kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy: "I was wrong, I was wrong..."

“You deserve to die.” Yu Wei moved his fingers, and the vines instantly wrapped around the dreadlocks’ hand, tightening continuously. The dreadlocks’ wail rang out, and before he fainted, he only heard the man say, “I can’t even bear to hit my own child. Who gave you the guts to hit him?”

After dealing with the group, the blood-red vines vanished instantly. Yu Wei took out a handkerchief to wipe his hands, opened his communicator, and said calmly, "We encountered some violent debt collectors, they're dead. Come and handle it."

The alliance does not allow private lending, let alone usury. Usury combined with violent debt collection is enough to get these people shot.

After a question was asked on the other end, Yu Wei looked down and glanced at the boy on the ground. "The victim is injured. I'll take him to the hospital first."

After saying that, she carefully picked up the child and teleported to the hospital.

"Daddy...Baby's scared..." Yu Ling cried incessantly in Zhou Siyu's arms, her ears and tail drooping, looking very pitiful.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, Daddy's here. Daddy will protect you."

Yu Ling's once clean shirt was now dirty and wrinkled, her shoes were covered in mud, and there was a red mark on her neck from being strangled.

Zhou Siyu was heartbroken and forgot all about Yu Ling's 19-point math score. She hugged him, kissed and coaxed him, and gave him soothing pheromones until he finally calmed down.

“Daddy…Baby wants a big brother…” Yu Ling sniffed, “Leng Leng has a big brother…Everyone is afraid of his big brother and doesn’t bully him, but Ling Ling doesn’t have a big brother, so everyone bullies me…”

“Lingling has brothers too, Nian-gege and Leng-leng, they are both your brothers.”

“But…they all have their own fathers…” Yu Ling squeezed out a snot bubble, “Brother Leng Leng said that Brother Nian is his brother, not Ling Ling’s…”

Does Lingling really want a brother?

"Um."

"Then Daddy will ask you a few questions." Zhou Siyu took out two candies from the snack box. "Daddy has two candies. If Lingling doesn't have a brother, then you can eat both. But if Lingling has a brother, then you can only get one. In that case, will Lingling still want a brother?"

“Hmm…” Yu Ling frowned, rested her chin on her hand and thought seriously. After a while, she put two candies in Zhou Siyu’s hand and took one more from the box. “Brother will buy candies for Lingling, so Lingling will have three.”

"You're quite shrewd." Zhou Siyu chuckled, tossed the candy back into the box, and clapped her hands. "What if your brother doesn't buy you candy, but instead shares it with you?"

“Hmm…” Yu Ling bit her finger and thought for a while, “Then baby will give the candy to brother, and brother will give it to baby, that’s fine.”

"I can't argue with you, you little rascal." Zhou Siyu poked Yu Ling's forehead. "We'll talk to Yu's father about this when he gets back."

He doesn't like having outsiders in his home, so he didn't even hire a nanny and used robots instead. He would have a hard time adjusting to having a strange child suddenly appear in his house.

Even so, Zhou Siyu still communicated with Yu Wei via video. Yu Wei softened his tone and smiled gently. After hearing Yu Ling's words, he turned to look at Zhou Siyu and then looked through the window at the child sitting in the chair.

“Since Lingling likes it, let’s bring it back.” Zhou Siyu said casually, as if the person in front of him was not a person, but an ordinary toy.

"You have two choices now: come home with me, or go to the orphanage." Yu Wei gently touched the invisible communicator and said, "Understood."

"I want...I want to go back and see..." The child lowered his head, nervously fidgeting with his fingers: "My dad...he..."

"His future is not something you should worry about, given that he illegally purchased and sold controlled psychotropic drugs."

Seeing that he didn't speak, Yu Wei stood up, but as soon as he took a step, his clothes were grabbed.

The child seemed to have made a great decision, tilting his head back and shouting, "I...I'll go with you..."

Yu Wei was not surprised by this answer. After helping the child carry what could not be considered luggage, he took him to the mall.

"The paperwork can be completed within a day. What's the child's name?"

Chu Yunmu browsed through the forms. This child was special; his father had just been arrested, and the adoption procedures involved multiple institutions, including the court, police station, welfare home, and military region. Only someone of Yu Wei's caliber could have completed it in a single day.

"Name?" Yu Wei turned his head and looked at the child. "What's your name?"

The child shook his head, and seeing Yu Wei frown, immediately added, "They call me Xiao Mao."

Yu Wei frowned even more deeply and said to Chu Yunmu on the other end of the communicator, "Yu Lie, the Lie of coldness."

"OK."

"This is troublesome."

Yu Wei hung up the communicator, turned to the child and said, "Remember, your name is Yu Lie, the 'Lie' of 'cold and ruthless.' You'll have one chance to change your name after you grow up. If you don't like it..."

"I really like it." Yu Lie quickly said, clutching the hem of his clothes somewhat awkwardly, "Th...thank you."

“No need to be so polite, we’re family.” Yu Wei smiled and ruffled Yu Lie’s hair. “Your name is Yu Lie, and you have a younger brother named Yu Ling.”

"Then... what... what's your name?"

Yu Lie's eyes were filled with curiosity. He had already washed up, and his small, round face had a pair of eyes that showed a mix of nervousness, fear, and curiosity. His thin hands were clutching the hem of his clothes.

“Yuwei, with the water radical and the character 'wei'.”

Yu Wei pointed to the virtual screen that was playing the news; it was a live video of his speech from yesterday.

Yu Lie stared at the news, his eyes wide and his mouth involuntarily agape. The chairman of the Alliance Military Command, the executive chairman of the Interstellar Alliance… the people on TV were right in front of him. Two parallel lines that should never have intersected had unexpectedly crossed paths. It all felt like a dream.

After changing their clothes, Yu Wei took Yu Lie to meet up with Zhou Siyu. Yu Ling happily pulled Yu Lie along and led him to run wildly in the amusement park.

During lunch break, Zhou Siyu finished reviewing all of Yu Lie's information. Holding a photo of Yu Lie's former residence, she couldn't help but say, "I never imagined that such a glamorous city would have such a dirty and chaotic corner."

“No matter how bright the sun is, there will always be places it can’t reach.” Yu Wei held Zhou Siyu’s hand and looked at him, saying, “What we need to do is to let this light shine on as many unknown corners as possible.”

This is their mission, and this is their goal.

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