Quan Jinbei and Shi Yaoguang both looked at Wei Jinyan with shining eyes.
Wei Jinyan scoffed, "Don’t you think it’s quite unseemly to be publicly flaunting your affection in front of an elder who’s been single for over forty years?"
Shi Yaoguang bit her lower lip, feigning innocence, "When did we ever flaunt our affection?"
Quan Jinbei seriously chimed in, "Perhaps Mr. Wei is experiencing hallucinations."
Wei Jinyan clutched his chest, his eyes brimming with obvious anger, "You’re going too far!"
Watching Shi Yaoguang and Quan Jinbei play off each other made him feel even more aggrieved.
"After all, we’re family..." Wei Jinyan looked at Shi Yaoguang with even more accusation in his eyes, "Why must family act ?"
Shi Yaoguang thought for a moment, then nodded, "You’re right."
As she spoke, she suddenly beamed with a radiant smile, "Uncle also said that we’re family, and there should be no secrets between family."
"Wait, wait a minute!"
He quickly made a gesture to stop her.
Shi Yaoguang raised an eyebrow: "Uncle?"
Wei Jinyan twitched at her calling him this, his mouth twitching.
"I’m not really used to you suddenly calling me that."
He raised his hand to wipe his forehead, his cold sweat pouring down, "Maybe you shouldn’t call me that."
Shi Yaoguang raised an eyebrow, showing a saddened expression, "Does uncle really dislike me that much?"
When had he ever disliked her?
Shi Yaoguang continued with a look of helpless and pitiful sorrow, "If uncle doesn’t like me, why have me return to inherit the family business?"
"To hand over the family business that one has worked hard to build up over many years to someone you dislike would be better off d to charity."
She let out a long and melancholic sigh, her eyes looking at Wei Jinyan filled with a touch of resentment.
What a beautiful misunderstanding.
How should he clarify himself?
No, that’s not right.
He had always been innocent.
He had fully accepted his niece Shi Yaoguang; if it had not been so, he wouldn’t have reacted this way.
How could someone capable of steering a consortium be a simpleton?
Only in front of those close to him would he restrain his presence.
Now, seeing Shi Yaoguang turn the tables and say he didn’t like her, Wei Jinyan felt utterly wronged.
"I don’t dislike you, you..." he paused, "please don’t misunderstand, it’s just that I’m not quite used to you calling me uncle, that’s all."
Upon hearing this, Shi Yaoguang immediately went from crying to smiling, "So uncle just isn’t used to it? No problem."
"If I call you a few more times, won’t you get used to it, uncle?"
As Wei Jinyan watched her do this, he felt another jolt in his heart.
They say that unrequested favors signal a hidden agenda.
The attitude of Shi Yaoguang strangely matched the thoughts in his own mind.
However, he felt that it probably wasn’t the case.
After all, he had already handed over the family business.
Having gained the most valuable thing, the family business, Shi Yaoguang shouldn’t covet anything else, right?
With this thought, he felt somewhat relieved.
Shi Yaoguang looked at him, her smile taking on a mischievous edge.
"Uncle, I knew you were the best, we’ll definitely get along well."
That ominous feeling in his heart grew stronger.
Just as he was thinking this, he heard Shi Yaoguang shift the topic, saying, "Since uncle insists, we might as well not wait for a specific date—how about we visit the Wei Family now?"
Wei Jinyan showed a troubled expression, "The Wei Family headquarters are abroad, and it will take some time to get there—"
"No problem, I have a way."
Shi Yaoguang said, her lips curving into a smile that revealed a perfect set of eight teeth.
A worse feeling built up in his heart.
As it turned out, his premonition was right.
At the same time, he felt relieved that there was nothing wrong with his heart, otherwise...
He might have been scared to death.
Before coming, he had investigated his niece Shi Yaoguang, but the information he had indicated that initially, she had been unpopular and maliciously ostracized by Shi Yiqing, which made her timid and cowardly by nature.
Later, after accidentally witnessing Shi Yiqing’s affair with Quan Sicheng, her disposition underwent a drastic change in a short period of time, making her wholly different from before.
At that moment, she displayed a wise demeanor.
Of course, that was not the point.
The results of his investigation had never told him that his niece was unscientific!
In fact, had he not seen it with his own eyes, had he not experienced it personally, he would have never believed that magic could exist in this world.
The Wei Family’s base was on a private island abroad.
Of course, this ’island’ description was only because it looked like an island.
In reality, the Wei Family’s location was in a city so economically developed and self-governed that it could be considered a small nation.
This island and the Quan Mansion were worlds apart.
Even by plane, it would take two days of travel.
Shi Yaoguang brought him back to the island in an inconceivable amount of time.
They hadn’t even used any flying vehicles.
"Unidentified object attacking—"
After Shi Yaoguang activated the Formation and brought Wei Jinyan to their destination, the Wei Family’s location, their security system issued an intruder alert.
The Wei Family lived in a place directly built like a castle.
The defence of the castle was undoubtedly excellent.
It could be said that within this castle, even in the event of an actual attack, the automatic security system could resolve it with utmost speed.
Such a defense system’s advantage was that no fish could slip through the net.
The downside, however...
Was that it could potentially harm their own people.
Many consortium headquarters were located in this city.
As a self-governing city, it was not subject to any country’s jurisdiction, yet it lay within the territories of certain nations.
In short, the security of this place needed to be guaranteed by themselves.
This led to many families equipping themselves with top-tier defense systems.
This was news known by nearly everyone on the island.
As such, unless one had a death wish, or a particularly special agenda, no one would dare to trespass into another’s domain.
For intruders of this kind, there was only one inevitable outcome.
Precisely because the policy was to rather mistakenly kill than let anyone slip by, the Wei Family castle’s defense system would automatically attack any suspicious person that appeared within the castle.
Wei Jinyan had not thought of this at all before.
He watched in horror as a dense swarm of flying knives headed in their direction.
Just as he closed his eyes, bracing to be pierced like a hornet’s nest, the unexpected occurred.
Shi Yaoguang stepped in front of him...