e-booksonline Chapter 224 Past Events
Chapter 224 Past Events
At first, Xiao Yan did not expect this little girl to be so stubborn.
When he returned to his room after drinking, it was already past midnight. As soon as he reached the door, he saw a dark figure huddled by the door frame. Upon closer inspection, he realized it was Han Kexin squatting there. Perhaps she had been squatting there for too long, because she had fallen asleep leaning against the door.
Xiao Yan frowned, reached out to wake her, but stopped. He opened the door instead, and Han Kexin fell backward, startled awake from her dream.
"You're back?" She looked delighted, still on the ground as she spoke.
"What are you doing here?" he asked.
"Of course, it's to ask for your help."
"I've already said I won't go," Xiao Yan said expressionlessly.
"Then I'm not leaving here," she said, resorting to her usual stubbornness.
"Then do as you please." He didn't argue much, went straight into the house, and then closed the door without hesitation.
"Hey!" Han Kexin was about to speak, but all she found was a bare wooden door.
But this did not make the little girl give up.
The next morning, when Xiao Yan opened the door, he saw her still squatting outside, watching Han Kexin rubbing her sleepy eyes. He asked, "Why are you still here?"
"I won't leave unless you agree," she said defiantly.
He ignored her, closed the door and walked out, with her following closely behind.
When the two walked out onto the street, although it was only a short time before dawn, it was already bustling with people and lively with various shouts and calls rising and falling.
He walked into a breakfast stall, ordered a basket of steamed buns and a bowl of soy milk. He ate with relish, the food steaming hot. Han Kexin stood next to him, her eyes glancing at the buns on the table from time to time, but her hand couldn't help but touch her stomach, clearly she was hungry.
Xiao Yan glanced at her sideways and asked, "Why have you been following me?"
"Please help me," she replied simply, perhaps too hungry to say much.
He then asked, "Why are you so persistent?"
The other person just pouted and didn't say anything.
"Are you hungry? What would you like to eat?" In the end, he gave in.
"Soup dumplings!" Han Kexin said happily. Before she could finish speaking, she had already sat down at the table, showing no sign of politeness.
The freshly steamed buns were quickly brought to her.
Xiao Yan watched as she carefully bit open the dumpling's skin, sucking out the broth, and repeatedly sticking out her tongue because the broth was too hot. He asked, "You care about your sister a lot, don't you?"
Han Kexin took another bite of the bun skin, saying as she ate, "Of course, it's all because you adults are always causing us worry."
"It must be a very special feeling?" he murmured.
"What?" She stuffed the rest of the soup dumplings, skin and filling, into her mouth, her cheeks puffed out like table tennis balls, and looked at the other person with a puzzled expression, clearly not understanding what the other person meant.
"The feeling of missing someone must be very special," he explained.
"Huh?" Her eyes widened. "You don't have anyone you care about, do you?"
"Everyone is born into this world as an independent individual. No one can care about anyone forever, and no one can truly understand anyone else. So what's the point of being attached?"
She shook her head and said, "I don't understand."
"You'll understand when you grow up."
"Tch, trying to act all grown-up in front of me again. I don't want to understand all this high-sounding stuff, I just want my sister to come back safe and sound."
He glanced at her and saw that she was about to take a bite of the second soup dumpling. He guessed that at this moment, besides her sister, only these few dumplings in front of her were on her mind. Thinking of this, he suddenly had an idea and said, "I agree to help you with this."
"Really?" she asked incredulously, not expecting the other person's attitude to change so suddenly.
The latter nodded seriously.
"Great!" The girl clapped her hands happily, unable to contain her pride, and said, "It seems that my persistent tactic really worked."
"It's not because of you, it's just that I suddenly felt I might find the answer I'm looking for on this trip." He bluntly denied her contribution.
"As long as the goal is achieved, that's all that matters," Han Kexin said nonchalantly, quickly stuffing the remaining soup dumplings into her mouth. She wanted to tell her sister the good news.
Xiao Yan watched her happy expression from the side, his gaze bright and deep.
The sound of a nightingale drifted from the night sky, and Han Kexin snapped out of her reverie, glanced at the red wine in her hand, raised her glass, and drank it all in one gulp.
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The next morning, when Qin Xiaochuan returned to school, he could hear people talking about what happened the night before. As a well-known technology group in China, Yuheng Group suddenly broke out in such big news, and almost overnight it became the talk of the town.
"Xiao Chuan, did you see this news?" As soon as Qin Xiao Chuan returned to his dormitory, Gao Xiang surrounded him, showing him his phone. The phone screen displayed a photo of the mechanical behemoth breathing fire last night.
"I didn't expect these kinds of photos to circulate online," he thought to himself, but then he heard Gao Xiang continue, "My god, this is huge! I thought this kind of thing only existed in movies."
"With today's advanced technology, we can even build behemoths like aircraft carriers and space stations, let alone this. As long as you have money, there's nothing you can't build," Qin Xiaochuan said dismissively.
"Damn, how can you be so calm?" The other person looked at him in disbelief. "You didn't come back last night either. Confess honestly, is this related to you?"
Qin Xiaochuan remained noncommittal.
"There really is a connection?" Gao Xiang said excitedly. "That's so cool! If I had known this, I would have chosen to major in spiritual studies back then."
"Forget it. If you really do that, you'll be worried about finding a job after graduation." He gently shook his head, as if the other person was just acting on a whim.
Gao Xiang continued flipping through the news and said, "Speaking of which, the guy who tried to steal Shiyi from you last time should be that heir of the Yuheng Group, right? He was so arrogant last time, but this time he's really taken a big tumble. It's like heaven has eyes, hahaha."
Upon hearing this, Qin Xiaochuan couldn't help but recall the scene of his battle with Si Chennan last night, especially the look in Si Chennan's eyes at the end, where he desperately tried to defeat him despite the backlash of his spiritual power. That look was deeply etched in his heart.
"Sigh!" He couldn't help but sigh softly, turning to ask, "What did the news say?"
"It is said that Yuheng Group has been illegally developing new weapons in secret, among which the most destructive weapon is this mechanical behemoth. Last night, it went berserk due to loss of control and is now completely under the control of the Demon Hunter organization."
Gao Xiang swiped his phone and continued, "As the legal representative and direct person in charge of the company, Si Haotian has been treated as a criminal suspect and has been taken into custody by the Demon Hunters. The technology exhibition hall under the Yuheng Group has been sealed off, and the illegally manufactured new weapons have also been taken over by the Demon Hunters organization. Next, the Demon Hunters will launch a comprehensive investigation into this incident."
"There are more comments below." Gao Xiang scrolled to the very end and said, "'Si Chennan, the young master of Yuheng Group, is still in school.' And there's a photo below as well." He zoomed in on the photo and then handed his phone to Qin Xiaochuan.
Qin Xiaochuan glanced at it; it was a picture of a person sitting in a classroom from behind, and it did indeed look like Si Chennan. It must have been secretly taken by one of his classmates.