Chapter 19 After School Yu Chao glanced at her in the rearview mirror, Yu Tang…
Yu Tang started calling her brother on her smartwatch while in the car. She knew she wouldn't have made Mo Fei as a friend if it weren't for her brother's help. She also reminded Yu Yanting to take his blood pressure medication on time and not to get angry, since anger is the worst thing for someone with high blood pressure.
Yu Chaoxian gave him a cold look. He had seen Yu Tang off, and Yu Tang hadn't even said thank you. Now, instead, she was thanking Yu Yanting. Yu Tang was a complete ingrate.
Holding Yu Chaoxian's things, Yu Tang felt a little sleepy and hungry. Between eating, drinking, and sleeping, she chose to eat and sleep at the same time. She closed her eyes, chewed a sandwich, and then drank some coffee. The car drove very steadily, and Yu Tang ate very regularly. Whenever the car stopped and waited for the green light, she would chew a sandwich, and when the car crossed the street, she would drink some coffee.
"Yu Tang, whose breakfast are you eating?" While waiting for the green light, Yu Chaoxian tugged at the corner of Yu Tang's mouth, forcefully waking the girl up.
"Sorry, I thought you weren't going to eat anymore." Yu Tang glanced at the sandwich with only one bite left and the half-finished cup of coffee, feeling a little embarrassed, but still managed to explain, "I'm a little hungry, so..."
"You know to eat when you're hungry, but what am I supposed to eat when I'm hungry? You only care about yourself and not others, right?" The man's tone sounded like he was deliberately picking a fight, but Yu Tang had no evidence. "If your brother didn't eat, did you eat his breakfast too?"
"When you get home... there will be food, and there's also food along the way. There's a really good shrimp wonton place, you can stop by for wontons. There are also many tea restaurants." Yu Tang didn't know why Yu Chaoxian suddenly brought up her brother. Of course, she wouldn't eat her brother's food. Not only would she not eat it, but if her brother was very hungry, she would even give him her own food.
Yu Chaoxian could tell from her expression. He scoffed, "An ungrateful wretch!" He stepped on the gas and sped off. Yu Tang was caught off guard and bumped her head on the seat. It hurt a little, but she endured it.
Holding the sandwich in her hands, she asked him, "There's only one bite left, do you still want to eat it?"
Yu Chaoxian frowned as expected: "Are you trying to get rid of a beggar?"
Yu Tang figured Yu Chaoxian wouldn't actually reach out to take it, so she simply raised her hand and stuffed the last bite into her mouth, her cheeks puffing out. After finishing the last bite, Yu Tang noticed that the car was already parked on one side of the school gate.
So when Yu Tang saw Yu Chaoxian's outstretched hand, she was stunned and wondered what he meant. Did he expect her to vomit it all up?
Then Yu Tang saw the arm that had rolled up the sleeves of the sweatshirt reach under her skirt. Yu Tang suddenly remembered that the arm had been pressed against her lower abdomen that morning. She had forgotten that Yu Chaoxian was her nephew, but he was also... male.
The arms with their smooth, muscular lines exuded power. Yu Tang's breath caught in her throat as she recalled being lifted up like that morning, the force that made it impossible for her to break free, and the feeling of suffocation. Suddenly, she felt a little afraid of such masculine strength.
Just as Yu Tang was nervously wondering how to react, she felt a lightness on her leg.
Yu Chao first took the cigarette, lighter, and cell phone from her lap.
Yu Tang breathed a sigh of relief when she realized that Yu Chaoxian hadn't been touched. She glanced at Yu Chaoxian out of the corner of her eye, and sure enough, he looked very impatient. It seemed that Yu Chaoxian only disliked her.
"Then I'm going to school." Yu Tang said as usual before getting out of the car. This had become a habit, because Yu Yanting had been in the car before.
Yu Chaoxian, with a cigarette dangling from his mouth, impatiently waved his hand away.
Yu Tang understood: the smoking was a sign of irritability, and the raised hand was a signal for her to get lost.
Yu Tang entered the school with a group of students wearing the same school uniform. Yu Chaoxian watched that figure enter the teaching building, then turned his gaze to the Yu family's business base.
The base is located on the border between Taicheng and Yueguo. The area is densely forested and shaded by trees, making it impossible to even see from a drone. Without a guide, there is no way to get up the mountain.
The Bentley was parked in the city, and Chen drove a Hummer to pick up Yu Chaoxian.
Chen Diao glanced at the man in the back seat who was resting with his eyes closed: "Boss, Mickey is at the hospital and can't be free. Should we send two other people to accompany you?"
“No need.” Yu Chaoxian suddenly opened his eyes and asked, “Is there anyone smarter?”
Chen Diao skillfully drove up the mountain. "I trained two of them myself. Even if Guan Zhongpeng doesn't like them, he can't find fault with them. After all, we spend a lot of money training mercenaries every year. But as you know, in recent years, Uncle Yu's business has decreased, and he has also reduced his investment in training mercenaries."
The car drove deep into the dense forest, turned several steep uphill slopes, and the training ground was behind it. The wheels kicked up yellow sand, which, mixed with thick gunpowder smoke, swept over us.
Yu Chaoxian stood on the command platform after a long absence. Most of the people on the shooting range below had never seen Yu Chaoxian before. A few looked up curiously. Chen Diao fired a shot, and the enemy, who was half a beat too slow, was about to have their temples pierced.
The brown-haired boy below dodged in time; if he had been half a second slower, it wouldn't have been the cardboard box that got smashed by Chen Diao's bullet, but him.
The brown-haired boy, who had been warned, quickly threw himself back into training, but couldn't help glancing at the seat next to Yu Chaoxian. A dimple appeared at the corner of his mouth, and his green eyes were full of ambitious desire.
A pair of wolf eyes. Yu Chaoxian seemed to see a second Chen Diao in that boy. He raised an eyebrow: "What's your name?"
Chen Diao immediately understood; it seemed Yu Chaoxian was quite satisfied with the young man: "Ivan."
"And the other one?" Yu Chaoxian looked at the boy who was focused on practicing his shooting without being distracted at all, his amber eyes fixed on the red heart.
Chen Diao looked over and saw that this was the one he was most satisfied with in every aspect. "His name is A-Jin, the first place winner in the base training competition."
Chen Diao knew that Yu Chaoxian had a premise for employing people: he was less likely to give important positions to those with families, because having family members meant having weaknesses.
Yu Chaoxian stood on the command platform and glanced at the firearms currently used by the troops. Many of them were outdated models, and even if they were used for training, they should be replaced.
Back in his office, Yu Chao first looked at the procurement budget prepared by Chen Diao, and then pointed to the rifles and body armor: "Change the rifles to FAL assault rifles, use SBA protective armor for body armor, replace the sniper rifles as well, and add another batch of M4s and AUGs. The funds will come from my side."
Chen Diao understood Yu Chaoxian's meaning. If the business was to grow, the weapons had to keep up. Besides, he was in the weapons business. Losing business because the weapons couldn't keep up was one thing, but losing his life was another.
Yu Chaoxian threw the documents on the table, lit a cigarette, and said, "Where's the list?"
Chen Diao took out a well-organized list from the drawer: "These are Guan Zhongpeng's subordinates, and the list below is Guan Zhongpeng's customer orders."
Yu Chaoxian exhaled a puff of smoke and sneered, "Things have really changed. Guan Zhongpeng is retiring like my old man? Is this all the people left?"
“Uncle Yu intends to withdraw from the business and has dismissed many people,” Chen Diao stated frankly. Besides his own men maintaining high-intensity training according to Yu Chaoxian's instructions—including shooting, sniping, grenade launchers, helicopters, and armored vehicles—survival training was also conducted regularly. Of course, Yu Chaoxian's command was indispensable, so the combat strength of Chen Diao's men was far superior to that of Guan Zhongpeng at present.
Chen Diao stared at the list, a ruthless glint in his eyes: "Should we... remove Guan Zhongpeng...?"
"Get rid of him?" Yu Chaoxian continued, picking up where Chen Diao left off. "Not now. He was a witness to what happened back then, and there are some things only he knows."
Chen Diao immediately realized that Guan Zhongpeng had been following Uncle Yu all along. When the eldest brother's mother passed away, Guan Zhongpeng should know a lot of inside information. However, since Uncle Yu was still alive, the eldest brother could not get more truth from Guan Zhongpeng.
However, Yu Chaoxian wasn't in a hurry to get information out of Guan Zhongpeng, since it was a fact that Yu Yanting had forced his stepmother to be unfaithful to Zhou Ningxuan.
Now he has plenty of time and can slowly wear them down.
Chen Diao brought over ice and wine, and Yu Chaoxian suddenly asked, "What time is it?"
"It's 4:30, still early." Chen Diao poured wine into the glass in front of Yu Chaoxian.
The afterglow of the setting sun shone through the window onto the wine, giving it an alluring red hue.
His aunt doesn't attend evening self-study at school; she gets out at 7 PM. It takes her two hours to get back to the city from here, but he's tolerated it for a week, so what's two more hours?
Yu Chaoxian reached out, picked up his coat from the sofa, and took out his phone. Sure enough, he saw a message from Yu Tang. It was sent more than two hours ago, a long message.
【Xiao Xian, I get out of school at 7 PM. There will be some traffic on Jingshi Road, so Jingming Road will be smoother. Please be careful on the road. I can wait for you for a while.】
Judging by the time, it must have been sent to him around lunchtime.
He was so afraid that he wouldn't pick her up. Yu Chaoxian completely forgot the murderous look on his face when he dropped her off that morning. Instead, when he saw the tearful, pleading emoji in the message, he naturally thought of Yu Tang and projected that crying emoji onto Yu Tang's face.
This crybaby is begging him like that, she does look a little pitiful. But really, he didn't say he wouldn't pick her up.
Yu Chaoxian had no idea how careful Yu Tang was when she sent this message.
Yu Tang thought that if she bypassed Yu Chaoxian and sent a message to her brother, her brother would definitely scold Yu Chaoxian, and Yu Chaoxian would immediately know that she was the one who complained, and in the end, she would be the one to suffer.
Besides, she had already promised Yu Chaoxian that she wouldn't tell her brother, so Yu Tang, who was very committed to keeping her promise, did a lot of mental preparation before sending this message to Yu Chaoxian. To avoid making the message sound too harsh, she even added a little emoji at the end. Before sending the message, Yu Tang carefully read it over to check for any typos, and even made sure to use every punctuation mark.
Yu Chaoxian had already gotten up and gone to the door. He said to Chen Diao behind him, "Let's talk about the rest over the phone."
Chen Diao was extremely curious. Who sent that message? He had never seen his boss smile like that before. He had seen a murderous smile, but what did a smile with upturned lips and slightly curved eyebrows mean?
After school, Yu Tang finally received Yu Chaoxian's reply: [Three minutes.]
Although it was only three words, Yu Tang understood that Yu Chaoxian meant he would only give her three minutes, and if he didn't see her within three minutes, he would leave immediately.
Yu Tang quickly said goodbye to Mo Fei, turned around and ran to the school gate, her eyes darting around. She looked carefully at the intersection of Jing Shi Road and Jing Ming Road. Her quick back-and-forth gaze finally stopped at the intersection of Jing Ming Road, where she saw the familiar Bentley.
The driver's side window was open, revealing a wrist with sharp and beautiful lines. A cigarette was held between his fingers, and smoke rose from between his fingers and quickly dissipated.
Yu Chaoxian had seen Yu Tang looking for him in the rearview mirror early in the morning, looking silly. He was holding his schoolbag in his arms, but this time he was holding it in front of him.
It wasn't that Yu Chaoxian could spot her at a glance among the many students wearing the same school uniform; rather, Yu Tang truly stood out among the group of students. Yu Tang wore a blue and white school skirt, her hair tied in a ponytail, the ends swaying with her steps, brushing against her fair and delicate neck. Her shapely and smooth legs were longer and straighter than others, and her ankles were also more slender.
In short, everything is different.
Even her rosy, moist lips, which she loved to eat, were more delicate and rosy than others.
Not to mention those rather large eyes, filled with fear, yet still insisting on looking at you. The moment Yu Chaoxian raised his gaze, Yu Tang immediately lowered his head in fright.
That's all the ambition they have.
Yu Chaoxian finished his cigarette, and Yu Tang had already gotten into the car, panting heavily, as if she was really afraid he would leave. Yu Chaoxian glanced at her in the rearview mirror; Yu Tang was secretly looking at him.
Yu Tang held her schoolbag tightly, the heavy bag pressing down on her knees. The abrasions near her knees had almost healed. She would look up at Yu Chaoxian for a while, then look down again, wanting to speak but not knowing how to start.
"You only have eyes, but you have a mouth, so why don't we sew it up for you?"
"We still need to use it." This frightened Yu Tang so much that she dared not say anything more.
"Afraid of me?" Yu Chaoxian asked knowingly, and casually tossed the gun that was lying between their seats into the back seat.
With a thud, Yu Tang's heart skipped a beat. She shook her head insincerely and denied it: "No, I'm not afraid."
Yu Chaoxian didn't mean to scare her; it was just that when he teased Yu Tang, her facial expressions and reactions were really funny.
Yu Chaoxian pretended to ask her, "How about this, what kind of people do you think aren't scary? I'll learn from them."
Yu Tang glanced at him out of the corner of her eye, thinking that he couldn't learn it, but she didn't dare to deny him directly. She pointed her index finger tip slightly at the pendant on the car, "Just smile like him."
The car belonged to Yu Yanting. Yu Chaoxian's gaze followed the direction Yu Tang was pointing and landed on the Maitreya Buddha pendant.
With a warm smile and kind eyes.
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