Chapter 153 Threat

Jiang Huai's eyes suddenly lit up...

"Right, President Song is entirely correct. That is the superficial part. In the shadows, he wants to attach himself to the Zhong family, but he will not succeed in that either!"

Yang Fan chuckled to himself. Nonsense, with the dozens of metaphorical locks he had placed himself, even if Jiang Huai were to marry Zhong Ziyan, he would never be able to pluck that flower.

As long as he wished, those locks could stay fastened for a full year without any problem!

"Once we trap his funds, a year from now, when you successfully eliminate Jiang Tao, won't the money he invested all be yours?" President Han added.

"Indeed. But let's make it clear beforehand, you cannot keep this all to yourself. You have to give a share to the rest of us!"

"A share, of course, absolutely!" Jiang Huai instantly felt that victory was securely within his grasp!

"But are you certain there won't be any profits within this year?"

"Whether there are profits or not is entirely up to me to decide. We will spend a year on construction and simply keep it closed to the public. Constructing this place genuinely requires two to three billion; let's just let Jiang Tao make wedding clothes for us!"

"That is a brilliant idea!"

...

"Competition in Tianhai is a bit less intense, so everyone should expand their business here. President Han, I think the North District area of Tianhai looks quite promising. And President Song, don't you think the waterways in Tianhai also hold tremendous development potential, especially with the semi-finished scenic spot located near Mowang Mountain?"

"Really?" President Song asked.

"Why would I lie to you? Tianhai is poor, which is precisely why we must invest more! Tell me, leaving so many idle tourist attractions in Tianhai undeveloped—isn't that just a waste?"

"Very well then. President Han, how about we go survey the place tomorrow?"

"Certainly, it would be my pleasure!"

The matter was thus settled. As the four of them headed downstairs, before they even reached the bottom floor, Yang Fan faintly heard the sound of barking dogs.

He momentarily thought he was hallucinating. Could it be that with Ai Xiaomei absent, he was actually missing this little pest of a sister?

This was unmistakably the sound of Ai Xiaomei's two dogs.

However, just as he rounded a corner and stopped dead in his tracks, he thought to himself: *You really did come!*

"Big brother, little dogs, go call your brother over."

Yang Fan felt like he wanted to face-plant into the floor...

"Why are you all here?" Not wanting to speak to Ai Xiaomei, Yang Fan walked straight over to the table and looked at Zhao Jing.

"We came because we felt like it!" Zhao Jing said with a smile. Right beside her, Xia Yufei and Wu Qian had also arrived!

"Yufei!"

"Mengnan!"

The two of them excitedly embraced...

"Tonight, you're all sleeping at my place. We're going to stay up and chat!"

"Sounds good!" Zhao Jing said, looking at Wang Yun.

"I'm coming too!"

"We don't want you. We're going to talk about girls' secrets, so you can just sleep by yourself tonight!" Zhao Jing declared.

"Did you hear that? They don't want you, but that's fine—my dogs want you!"

Classmate Ai Xiaomei was truly a scene-stealer who wreaked havoc wherever she went, specializing in digging pits for Yang Fan to fall into.

"Go away, you can sleep with your dogs tonight!" Yang Fan patted Ai Xiaomei on the head.

Without wasting any words on him, Ai Xiaomei simply shoved the dogs directly into Yang Fan's arms.

"Sister Zihan and I are going to sleep at Sister Wang Yun's place too. Bye-bye!"

"Take your dogs with you!" Yang Fan shouted, but Ai Xiaomei had already bolted out the door, followed closely by Wang Yun, Zhao Jing, Wu Qian, and Xia Yufei.

"Give me a hug before you leave!" Yang Fan cried out in his heart.

"Woof... woof woof!" Yang Fan stood there holding two lethargic dogs in his arms—the kind that wouldn't budge even if you set them down on the floor.

"Who on earth brought Ai Xiaomei along?"

"I'll let you hold these two little puppies tonight," Zhao Mengnan offered, making Yang Fan so moved he almost wanted to hug her on the spot.

Then, catching the expressionless look on Lin Ruo's face, he decided it was better not to, lest Lin Ruo start lecturing him again about not even sparing Xia Yufei's best friend.

Lin Ruo and Lin Xi stood up!

"Have you both eaten your fill?"

"We're full," Lin Xi replied, while Lin Ruo remained silent.

They walked straight out...

This was a private dining room, and now that everyone had left, Yang Fan was the only one remaining. He had been planning to spend some intimate time with Wang Yun tonight, yet despite having so many wives, he was actually going to sleep alone!

Suppressing his gloomy mood, Yang Fan walked back out to the main lobby.

"Uncle, didn't I just see little auntie and the others arrive?" Liu Haoyu asked.

"Mhm, they all went over to Yun'er's place to sleep."

"Then why didn't you go?" Zhang Chen asked.

"How could I bear to abandon you guys here?"

"Oh, give it a rest. It's more like they didn't want you, right? Come on, what heaven-defying trouble did you cause this time?" Xu Tao chimed in, taking the opportunity to mock him.

"Am I that kind of person?"

Everyone responded with heavy looks of disdain!

Well, by this point the rest of the group had dispersed, leaving only Zhang Chen, Xu Tao, and Liu Haoyu behind!

"So, how is it? Are the two of you nearing the finish line on your romantic journeys, or are you planning to keep wandering?"

"Depends on which aspect you're talking about. If you mean mistresses, there are plenty," Zhang Chen said.

"And did they throw themselves into your arms, or did you have to force your way through?"

...

After joking around with the three of them for quite a while, Yang Fan finally returned to the villa complex.

He video-called Zhao Jing and saw them all lying across a massive bed, dressed only in sleepwear. Zhao Jing was wearing something entirely translucent, causing Yang Fan to inwardly collapse. *I want to go too! Sleeping together in a giant bed with four beauties right there...*

"I want to come over!"

"We don't want you!"

Zhao Jing chuckled and said, "Did you hear how Wang Yun described you? You're nothing but a wolf in sheep's clothing—we can't invite a wolf into our house!"

"I'm a sheep in wolf's clothing!"

"Then you're only wearing the wolf skin so you can commit misdeeds!"

Seeing how alluring they looked nearly drove him crazy, so Yang Fan decisively hung up. This was pure temptation! They were definitely doing it on purpose.

Thinking of giving Ai Xiaomei a stern lecture, he opened a video call with her instead, only to find Ai Xiaomei bouncing up and down on a bed. Whatever he said, she didn't hear a single word. After exchanging a few brief remarks with Xu Zihan instead, a sighing Yang Fan hung up the call.

In the middle of the night, Lin Ruo came over. Lin Ruo gave him a massage every night like clockwork, treating it almost as a daily obligation—though it was strictly of the variety where only Lin Ruo could touch him, while he was forbidden from touching her back.

While enjoying the full-body massage, he mentioned his suspicions regarding Leopard.

Lin Ruo agreed that it was highly probable. Since both Leopard and Ying existed as the core figures of redemption, Leopard undoubtedly harbored some unknown secrets.

"I previously used memory pupils to probe into Leopard's past, but I always felt there was some hidden mechanism within this redemption."

"You don't need to worry about that. Just tell me all the addresses you probed again tomorrow morning, and I'll go investigate them personally. We might have missed something."

In the darkness, Yang Fan nodded and recited several locations!

"Over the next few days, you should spend time properly keeping company with them, so you can stop complaining that I keep you on too tight a leash," Lin Ruo said.

"But I *want* you to keep me on a leash."

"Just how twisted is your mind? I scold you every day, yet you always tell me I'm being good to you."

"Be touched!" Yang Fan laughed.

"Not touched! And take your hand away right now!"