Chapter 267 - 227: If Only Our Family Had a Son-in-Law

The bathroom door opened. A fair, slender arm, glistening with water, reached out from the steam-filled room to take the bath towel from Su Yue.

BANG.

After the door closed, Su Yue asked her mother inside the bathroom, "Mom, what did Dad go back to handle? He seemed to be in such a hurry... Did something big happen?"

Zheng Qiuyi, who was drying herself with the towel, paused when she heard her daughter asking about what her husband had gone back to handle. Then, she spoke to her daughter outside the door.

"One of our family’s deep-sea fishing boats was attacked by a Mutant Beast at sea on its return trip."

"Huh?" Su Yue gasped, then quickly asked with concern, "Is everyone on board okay?"

"There were no casualties among the crew, but the hull of the fishing boat suffered a lot of damage..." Zheng Qiuyi said to her daughter outside the door, continuing to dry herself with the towel.

Hearing there were no casualties, Su Yue breathed a sigh of relief. "Well, as long as no one was hurt. The ship is just a bit damaged; that’s not a huge problem. You can just get someone to fix it."

"Exactly! As long as no one was hurt, that’s what matters..." Zheng Qiuyi put on her nightgown, then looked in the mirror, brushed a lock of hair from her forehead, and took out a face mask to apply.

"Mom, it seems like our family’s deep-sea fishing boats have been getting attacked by Mutant Beasts more and more frequently over the past year or two," Su Yue said, reflecting on the recent situation.

Zheng Qiuyi, who was applying her face mask, hummed in agreement. She checked that the mask was applied properly and then spoke to her daughter outside the door.

"Let’s hope the frequency of Mutant Beast attacks on the fishing boats goes down in the future! Otherwise, it’s going to have a huge impact on our family’s fishing business."

Su Yue thought about her dad rushing home and said, "Mom, when you were on the phone earlier, you told me that Dad placed another new order with the shipyard to expand his deep-sea fishing fleet.

"The future is so uncertain. Isn’t it too risky for Dad to be expanding the fleet right now?"

CLICK.

The bathroom door opened, and Zheng Qiuyi, her face covered by a blue mask, walked out of the steamy room.

"Xiaoyue, you don’t need to worry about this kind of thing. Since your father decided to expand the family’s deep-sea fishing fleet, it means he’s already taken the potential future risks into account.

"Even if deep-sea fishing becomes much more dangerous in the future, your dad has a backup plan to deal with it...

"Besides, to be honest, our family has plenty of cash flow. Even if the fleet is forced to stay in port in the future, we can adjust and handle it with ease."

"Sigh, Dad really works so hard," Su Yue lamented.

"He does. He was planning to stay here with you for a few more days! Now this has happened, and he has no choice but to go back early to check on the crew that was attacked by the Mutant Beast and boost their morale," Zheng Qiuyi said as she walked toward the living room.

Su Yue followed her mother and sat down on the sofa. Just then, a related news report appeared on the TV.

"It would be nice if our family had a son-in-law. When things like this happen, he could help share the workload."

Zheng Qiuyi, still in her blue face mask, leaned back against the sofa, glanced at her daughter beside her, and made a blatant hint.

"..."

Su Yue was watching the pretty news anchor on TV report on the Mutant Beast attack on her family’s fishing boat.

When she suddenly heard her mother’s blatant hint, she had no idea how to respond and could only pretend she hadn’t heard.

"You little rascal..." Seeing her daughter’s silence, Zheng Qiuyi raised her left hand, extended a slender index finger, and poked her daughter’s slim waist.

"Hey!" Su Yue, having been poked in her slender waist, let out a sudden yelp. She rubbed the spot and looked at her mother in confusion. "Mom, what was that for?"

"Hmph..." Zheng Qiuyi snorted lightly and didn’t answer.

Seeing her mother’s reaction, Su Yue instantly understood. Her mom was getting back at her for ignoring her comment.

"I’m going to take a shower." Afraid her mother would bring up the son-in-law topic again, Su Yue immediately stood up and walked briskly toward her bedroom.

’This girl... It looks like I’ll have to put some pressure on her. Otherwise, she’ll just keep procrastinating. Before I know it, she’ll be thirty and still won’t have found a boyfriend.’

Zheng Qiuyi watched her daughter’s retreating back as she entered the bedroom, touched the face mask on her cheek, and muttered to herself.

...

After exchanging a few messages with Su Yue, Lin Li put away his phone and thought happily.

’Even though I didn’t get to play any games at the arcade tonight, I got Su Yue to promise me a meal. I’d say that’s a huge win.’

In a great mood, Lin Li crossed the road and headed toward where he had parked.

He had parked his car in the underground garage—not because he didn’t want to park at ground level, but because all the surface spots were already taken by the time he arrived.

It couldn’t be helped. There weren’t many parking lots in this area, and with so many people coming to the musical fountain plaza to hang out, Lin Li was actually lucky to have found a spot at all.

"Hm?"

Just as Lin Li entered the garage and was about to head down to the fourth basement level, he suddenly stopped in his tracks.

’These guys...’

’Are they following me?!!’

Lin Li turned and frowned at three tall men in the distance.

"Boss, I think that guy noticed we’re following him," the man with the dragon tattoo on his left arm whispered to the bald man wearing a thick gold chain when he saw Lin Li look their way.

"If he’s spotted us, then let’s just go teach him a lesson!" said the hot-tempered man with a tiger tattoo on his right arm.

"There are people around! It’s not good to make a move here. Let’s wait..." Despite his rough appearance, the bald man with the gold chain was surprisingly calm and collected.

"Heh, interesting..." Lin Li saw the three tall men in the distance stop and watch him, muttering something amongst themselves.

He chuckled, then turned and continued walking into the underground garage.

"Boss, he must know we’re following him. Why would he still dare to walk into the underground garage?" the man with the dragon tattoo asked in confusion.

"Stop overthinking it! Let’s just go get him. We need to hurry and follow, don’t let the guy find a chance to slip away," said the hot-tempered man with the tiger tattoo.

"This guy seems pretty confident! In a minute, I’m going to make him kneel and beg for mercy," the bald man with the gold chain said ominously, a cold glint in his eyes.

Then, he led his two lackeys and hurried toward the entrance of the underground garage that Lin Li had just entered.

The men were very familiar with this area, and they knew the underground garage like the back of their hands, especially the corners that didn’t have security cameras.

After entering the underground garage, the three men followed Lin Li from a distance, putting on an act like they were just passersby heading to their own cars.

Lin Li, walking unhurriedly ahead, had of course noticed the three tall men following him.

Although he didn’t know why these three tall men were following him, it didn’t make him nervous in the slightest.

If this were the old Lin Li, before he became a Cultivator, being suddenly followed by three men who clearly looked like trouble, he would definitely have been nervous.

He would have tried everything to escape them, or if all else failed, he would have called the police.

Any passerby who saw the situation would have thought that Lin Li, facing these three tall, unsavory-looking men, was a sheep being eyed by three vicious wolves.

But the reality was... it wasn’t yet certain who was the sheep and who was the wolf.

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