Chapter 345 - 329: A Surprise for the Father-in-law - The Future Plan for Rongcheng

"You ungrateful girl. Now that you have a boyfriend, you don’t even come back once or twice a semester! Honestly!" Liu Yan shot Qi Fei a look, her mature charm on full display. Wu Yun thought, ’If those guys from the Cao Family Army saw her, they probably wouldn’t be able to control themselves.’

Liu Yan stepped past Qi Fei and, upon seeing Wu Yun, smiled warmly. "Xiaowu! I’ve heard Feifei mention you so many times! Now that we’re finally meeting, I have to say, I think our Feifei really hit the jackpot!"

Hearing her mother’s words, Qi Fei whined, "Oh, Mom! How can you talk about your own daughter like that?"

Liu Yan glared at Qi Fei before turning back to Wu Yun. "I’m so grateful that you’re so good to Feifei! Buying her a house and a watch... you’re spoiling her rotten!"

"Auntie! Qi Fei is very thoughtful. She gives me a lot of good advice, and we get along really well!"

Seeing the two of them about to launch into a session of mutual flattery, Qi Fei couldn’t help but cut in. "All right, all right! Let’s talk inside! Wu Yun’s here, and we’re not even going to let him in the door?"

Hearing her daughter, Liu Yan gave a sheepish smile. "Oh, silly me! Xiaowu, please, come on in! Let’s go sit down inside."

Wu Yun nodded with a smile. "Just a moment, Auntie! I need to grab something."

Wu Yun then had Hawkeye open the trunk, from which he retrieved two large gift packages and a smaller one he had prepared.

"You came all this way, you didn’t have to bring gifts!" Liu Yan said with a cheerful laugh.

"It’s Wu Yun’s first visit, so of course he bought something for you and Dad! I promise you’ll be pleased!" Qi Fei said, sparing Wu Yun the awkwardness of having to reply.

The three of them walked into the villa, chatting and laughing.

"Xiaowu! Please, make yourself at home. Think of this as your home too, so just relax! I’ll go get Uncle Qi. He’s still busy in his study!"

As she headed upstairs, Liu Yan called back to Qi Fei, "Feifei! Go get Xiaowu a glass of water!"

After Liu Yan went upstairs, Qi Fei got up with a resigned sigh. She walked over to the water cooler, filled a paper cup with warm water, and took a sip, deliberately leaving a lipstick mark on the rim. Only then did she present the cup to Wu Yun, pointing to the mark. "You can only drink from here, my dear Xiaoyunzi~!"

Wu Yun resignedly took a large gulp.

Just then, Qi Guo came downstairs with Liu Yan, padding along in his house slippers.

Wu Yun stood up and greeted him with a smile, "Uncle Qi!"

"Well, look at you, leaving us old-timers in the dust!" Qi Guo joked, plopping down on the sofa. "Your game company is raking it in now! I bet your net worth has reached a whole new level. Meanwhile, us old folks are just treading water!"

Wu Yun, of course, knew exactly what Qi Guo meant by "a whole new level."

Qi Fei and Liu Yan, however, were out of the loop, so Qi Guo gave them a brief explanation.

After some small talk, Wu Yun smiled and pointed to the gifts in the corner. "Uncle Qi, with the New Year here, I wasn’t sure what you and Auntie liked, so I just picked up a couple of bottles of liquor and some tea."

Qi Fei, however, thought Wu Yun was being far too modest and worried her dad might actually take him at his word and drink it casually. "Dad! Those two bottles are thirty-year-old Maotai! Wu Yun spent twenty thousand a bottle on them! And the tea cost tens of thousands!"

Qi Guo wasn’t surprised. For someone like Wu Yun, this really was a casual purchase. He just smiled and said, "Well then, I’ll save them for a special occasion!"

Wu Yun then produced a small box. "Auntie, Qi Fei and I picked out a bracelet for you. I hope you like it!"

Qi Fei added, "Mom! Weren’t you just saying it was time to replace your old bracelet? So, Wu Yun bought one for you. It cost 560,000!"

Seeing her mother about to protest, Qi Fei quickly smiled and said, "Mom, don’t say no! It’s a gift from Wu Yun’s heart! If you refuse, he’ll think you don’t like it~!"

Liu Yan hesitated, then said, "Xiaowu... in that case, thank you. You’ve spent far too much money."

Qi Fei, acting like a little girl showing off a new toy, boasted to her mother, "Wu Yun also bought me a Jade Bracelet—it was 1.98 million!"

"What!"

"How much!"

Even the gentle Liu Yan and the worldly Qi Guo were taken aback. Qi Guo was about to say something, but Wu Yun cut in, "Senior, why don’t you take Auntie to try on her bracelet? You can grab your Jade Bracelet at the same time."

The sharp-witted Qi Fei immediately understood that Wu Yun wanted to talk to her father alone. She smiled and linked arms with her mother. "Come on, Mom! I’ll show you my Jade Bracelet first. It’s in the car."

Once the two women had left, Wu Yun smiled. "Uncle Qi, you’re in real estate development, right? I have a couple pieces of information that I hope you’ll find helpful."

At this, Qi Guo’s interest was piqued.

Wu Yun pulled several folded sheets of paper from his laptop bag.

Wu Yun first unfolded a store-bought map of Rongcheng. "Uncle Qi, I’m sure you know that several new subway lines have been planned for Rongcheng. Some are even under construction already."

Qi Guo nodded, already having an idea of where Wu Yun was going with this.

Still, Wu Yun’s next words shocked him. "Uncle Qi, I paid a certain price to obtain the planning maps for lines 3 through 18."

’It’s true,’ Wu Yun added silently. ’The price was a few thousand from the System’s store, for information that was common knowledge in my past life.’

But in the eyes of a real estate developer in the present day, this planning map was nothing short of a treasure map.

If Wu Yun were just a college student, Qi Guo might have dismissed this as a doodle he’d made in his spare time. But Wu Yun was the boss of several major companies with an estimated net worth in the tens of billions. It was inconceivable that he would go to such lengths just to swindle his future father-in-law.