Chapter 1302 - 1274: Calling Me Grandpa Works Too

Chapter 1302: Chapter 1274: Calling Me Grandpa Works Too

"I’m here to tell you something: I’m going away for a month. If you need anything this month, go to your senior brother."

"Where are you going? Don’t tell me it’s like last time again, gone for several months in one shot?"

Qian still had psychological shadows from last time.

Noticing the teasing look Yu Minglang shot over, Qian immediately tried to cover it up.

"It’s not like I’m worried about him, okay? I just, just... I’m only worried my own studies might be affected!"

She would’ve been better off not saying that. The moment it came out, even Qian herself felt like an idiot—wasn’t that basically confessing she was worried about him?

Thankfully, Qio Yu Xuan only smiled in satisfaction and didn’t expose Qian’s vanity.

"This time I’ll be back in a month. I’m going to a symposium. The reason I called you over was to have you look at this."

Qio Yu Xuan handed over a stack of documents. Qian took it and looked down; on the cover of the bound booklet were two big letters, JR. Qian raised an eyebrow when she saw it.

"It’s information from JR Laboratory?"

Qio Yu Xuan nodded. "Yep, those damn brats. They’re my arch?nemesis. I’m going this time specifically to slam them."

Qian wasn’t unfamiliar with this lab. It was an independent organization with a lot of internationally recognized psychiatry research patents. Compared to low?key Seven?Mu Farm, JR’s name was clearly much bigger. Anyone studying psychology would know this famous institution.

Qian had already known in her last life that this place was pretty badass, but she hadn’t expected Qio Yu Xuan to say they were his mortal enemy.

"You didn’t call us here just to say this, did you?" Yu Minglang felt something was off. If it was just a business trip, there was no need to summon Qian alone.

"Exactly. Because this is pretty serious. It looks like the farm’s non?public secrets may have been leaked. Our sect’s non?transmissible implanted hypnosis seems to have partially fallen into their hands. I’m going over now to investigate that." Qio Yu Xuan paused and shifted his gaze to Qian.

"To put it more bluntly, I suspect someone from JR came over and hypnotized your former father and his neighbor."

"...Chen Lin is just Chen Lin, what former father!" Qian was struck dumb. She’d heard of ex?husbands, but ’ex?father’? What the hell was that.

"You mean Chen Lin and his neighbor were both tampered with by people from JR? They sent someone over to cause Chen Lin to attack Qian?" Yu Minglang finally got it. Wasn’t this exactly what he and Qian were investigating?

Qio Yu Xuan nodded. "Right. There’s a high chance it was them."

"What’s the point of doing that? Why target Qian?"

"First off, their implanted hypnosis tech is incomplete. If they want the full version, they have to start with my core disciples. The others have unpredictable whereabouts and strong self?defense awareness, so they’re hard to target. Take your senior brother, for example—look at that smug face that’s just asking for a beating. You think anyone can actually get to him?"

That was true. Outsiders only saw her as a normal woman; Yu Minglang’s identity was so special no one could get close. People who didn’t know Qian’s background would indeed assume that the youngest Closed-door Disciple, Qian, was the easiest to go after.

"So, Chen Lin was instigated by JR people to come at me? But I don’t think that’s how it went, because at the time his state was clearly: he wanted me dead. And the kind of dead with no evidence left, corpse destroyed, that sort."

"What exactly happened, I’ll only know after I investigate. My preliminary judgment is that they haven’t fully mastered the implanted hypnosis technique. It led to a hypnosis failure. Look at your ’former father’—didn’t he get back?lashed into becoming mentally ill afterward?"

Qio Yu Xuan’s explanation neatly addressed the questions Yu Minglang and Qian had had this trip. Thinking of it this way, it was no wonder Qian couldn’t get the truth out of the neighbor.

"Is there any risk on this trip?" Qian hadn’t meant to ask, but it slipped out.

Qio Yu Xuan immediately clutched his chest. "Ah, the risk is huge. I might never come back. How about you call me ’Dad’ one more time? So I won’t die with regrets~"

"You—" Qian’s heart shot into her throat, but then Qio Yu Xuan suddenly broke into a big grin.

"Haha, fooled you. The risk is practically zero!"

Daily teasing of Qian, life is cute to the point of ridiculous~

Before Qian could blow up, she heard her daughter waking up, so she flipped Qio Yu Xuan the middle finger.

"Seeing you already pisses me off!"

"Flipping off your advisor, be careful or your thesis might get failed and you won’t get your degree~"

Qian stuck out her foot and stomped hard on Qio Yu Xuan, then swept up her daughter with a dominating air and left.

Qio Yu Xuan chuckled and said to the remaining Yu Minglang, "Look at her—whose girl has a temper like mine, daring to flip me off?"

"Honestly, I don’t feel the slightest bit sorry for you." Yu Minglang felt that at least half of Qio Yu Xuan’s positioning in Qian’s heart was self?inflicted.

Handsome for three seconds, tops. Every time Qian just starts to soften up a little toward Qio Yu Xuan, this guy pulls some stunt to piss her off.

But what impressed Yu Minglang most was that every time, Qio Yu Xuan would dance right on Qian’s bottom line, making her so mad she was about to explode, wishing she could spit at him on her way out and declare she’d never see him again in this lifetime. Yet it’s useless—next time she sees Qio Yu Xuan, Qian forgets she’d been played by him. Over and over, it’s always the same.’

"Hey, Xiaoqiang, let’s go!" Qian wrapped up her daughter and said to Yu Minglang.

"Not staying to eat with me?" Qio Yu Xuan asked.

"I lose my appetite the moment I see you!" Qian just hated how Qio Yu Xuan never learns his lesson and lies to her every time. The old man just loved to provoke her.

Qio Yu Xuan didn’t get angry, only cheerfully walked Qian to the door. Qian linked arms with Yu Minglang and walked a few steps. When she turned back and saw Qio Yu Xuan still standing at the door watching her leave, that look in his eyes made Qian feel really uncomfortable.

"Not going?" Yu Minglang asked when he saw Qian frozen in place. After she glared at him, he suddenly realized.

"Oh... Honey, my stomach hurts, probably from hunger. Why don’t we have a meal with your dad before we go?"

That line was very considerate of Qian’s feelings. Clearly it was Qian who wanted to stay, but it was Yu Minglang who said it out loud.

Even so, Qian was still embarrassed and angry. "Who’s my dad?"

"Me~" Qio Yu Xuan shot his hand up, thrilled like a grade?schooler trying to answer first. After Qian glared him down, he wilted and slowly lowered his hand, mumbling.

"As long as you eat with me, you can call me ’uncle’ if you want."

"..." Xiaoqiang finally got to witness someone with even flimsier morals than herself.

To eat with Qian, things like dignity could be flushed right down the toilet~

For this meal, Qian was set on eating him out of house and home. She picked the most expensive seafood restaurant in the city and ordered a huge tableful of all kinds of seafood.

"Qian, can you even finish this? We already have Australian lobsters, why did you order two Ise lobsters on top of that?" Yu Minglang saw her picking only the priciest dishes and asked.