Chapter 100: It Seems Something Was Missing

“Never let me go!”

“Then I’ll just bind you to me forever,” Lin Ruo said with a laugh.

“Will you agree or not?”

“Then let me ask you a question too,” Lin Ruo said. “If you had to make a choice, would you choose me, or everyone in the world except me?”

“I’d choose both!”

Lin Ruo smiled and said nothing more.

“I’m going to sleep with Lin Xi,” Yang Fan said.

“What are you up to?”

“Didn’t you tell me to treat Lin Xi a little better?” Yang Fan asked.

“No!”

“Wasn’t that your word? Once we have the marriage certificate, I can touch her. You can’t go back on your promise!”

Lin Ruo froze for a moment, then still rose from Yang Fan.

Yang Fan left in high spirits. Lin Ruo remained with her back to him.

In the other bedroom, Lin Xi was awake as well...

Yang Fan lay down beside Lin Xi and gathered her into his arms. “What are you thinking about? You’re not asleep either.”

“It’s all my fault. My sister loves you so much!”

“What nonsense are you saying? How is that your fault? All right, stop overthinking. Let me hold you and sleep for a while.” Yang Fan held Lin Xi even tighter.

“When the day comes that I break your slave mark, that will be the day we truly become husband and wife!”

The next day, Yang Fan woke at ten. By then, he was the only one left in the room.

He got up and activated the enhanced version of Eye of the Net, spreading it to cover the entire resort.

This enhanced version of Eye of the Net was much more expensive to rent. Yang Fan only had a few treasured cards in reserve, and he, Lin Ruo, and Lin Xi each possessed one.

Before the month-long deadline had passed, they could only make do with what they already had. After all, Eye of the Net had a limited surveillance range, and today they had no choice but to use the enhanced version.

The Tianhai government, the Tianhai police, and all the investors; the fan groups of Xu Zihan, Zhao Mengnan, and the others; the reporters; the massive exhibition hall that could hold twenty thousand people was packed to the brim.

On the other side, Zhang Hai of the Tianhai Police Bureau had deployed all available officers, and Wang Yun was helping maintain order as well.

Lin Ruo and Lin Xi were protecting Xu Zihan, while the people from Jingtian, along with Zhang Chen and Xu Tao from Fanmei, were busy without pause.

It felt as if the whole resort was awake except for him.

Yang Fan did not want to move in bed, so he lay there a while longer, until Wang Yun called to wake him. Only then did he get up.

“We’ve been busy since dawn, and you were still asleep? I thought you were already in the exhibition hall,” Wang Yun could not help but scold.

“Nobody called me to get up at all!” Yang Fan said gloomily, waving to the Tianhai police officers. They were all old acquaintances.

“If nobody wakes you, you just keep sleeping? Fine, go do what you need to do!” Wang Yun gave him a shove. Yang Fan thought about it and realized he ought to get breakfast.

He wandered into the resort hotel. Ye Bing was leading An Lan and Xiao Yu through the final inspection, since everyone would be having lunch here at noon.

“Mr. Yang.”

“Sister Bing, we’re all family here. Just call me Yang Fan!”

“Yang Fan,” Ye Bing called.

“That’s better. How are the two deputy managers Yun’er introduced?”

“They’re very good,” Ye Bing said.

Behind her, An Lan and Xiao Yu’s understanding of Yang Fan deepened yet another layer, and their gratitude only grew.

Yang Fan immediately became a little haughty, but that haughtiness lasted only half a second before he saw Wang Yun’s parents and the leaders of Tianhai City coming downstairs.

“Yang Fan, we’ve been looking for you since early this morning. Where on earth did you disappear to?” Director Zhang Hai asked with a smile.

“I’ve been asleep until now. Nobody woke me up.”

“Out there is such a mess, and you can still sleep that soundly?”

Director Wang’s wife and husband said nothing. This son-in-law of theirs, they were very satisfied with.

“Young people need more sleep now and then; there’s nothing wrong with that,” the mayor of Tianhai said with a smile.

“Director Wang, this time you’re the one who should treat us. Where else are we going to find such an excellent son-in-law?”

“Absolutely, absolutely, I’ll treat everyone!”

As they spoke, they were about to head out. Yang Fan hurried over to see them off.

“Yang Fan, go eat. Don’t worry about us. After you finish eating, you’ll probably be busy, so we’ll just stroll around on our own.”

“All right, Dad, Mom.”

Yang Fan called them warmly, watching them leave before returning to the table. He was still sleepy.

“And Hao Yu? He shouldn’t have much to do today either, right?” Yang Fan asked.

“He’s still asleep too,” Ye Bing said.

“Let him sleep. He may not be able to accept it in his behavior yet, but in his heart he’s already accepted it. Don’t rush him.”

“It’s fine. If it were me, I’d need time too,” Ye Bing said with a smile as she sat down. She sent An Lan and Xiao Yu off to finish the last inspection.

“There are so few of us in this house, and we’re genuinely very happy to have you join us,” Yang Fan said with a smile while eating.

“Knowing all of you makes me happy too,” Ye Bing said. She truly was happy; the Liu family was really thriving now.

After chatting with Ye Bing for a while and talking about those mountain estates, Liu Hao Yu got up for breakfast, and Ye Bing was there to greet him as well.

In truth, Liu Hao Yu had really come to accept the fact that Ye Bing had become his stepmother. Yang Fan patted Liu Hao Yu on the shoulder, and after the two of them finished eating, they headed toward the backstage area of the exhibition hall.

“Uncle, this resort has every facility imaginable. If we were to build such a luxurious exhibition hall ourselves, it would cost at least a hundred or two hundred million, no chance otherwise.”

“I’m already looking for an organization similar to Redemption, hoping to make another killing.”

Yang Fan had made up his mind. This time, his target would be Jiang Bo and the person standing behind him.

“This time we’re going to pull off a big one. We’re going to take the top spot in Tianning. My estimate is that after this job, the Liu family should rank somewhere around fiftieth or sixtieth.”

“That strong?”

“Exactly that unreasonable,” Yang Fan said happily. Pluck away the flower that was Zhong Ziyan, take the Zhong family for himself, and bring down Jiang Bo—that should be about right for that ranking.

“But I keep feeling like we’ve missed something. We were too busy before to think about it, but now that we’ve come back to the resort, the doubt is even stronger.”

“What is it, Uncle?”

“It doesn’t add up at all. Think about it: in the Redemption organization, A Ying and A Bao—although A Bao’s status is lower than A Ying’s, the gap shouldn’t be that huge.

“But look at what we got: for the third-tier trading estates, A Ying and A Bao each had one. For the second-tier trading estates, each of them had one as well. For the first-tier trading estates, there was one.

“Yet look at this: A Ying has a resort, while A Bao only has some houses and cars. Redemption would never favor one over the other to this extent!”

“Uncle, do you mean that even if A Ying’s status is a little higher than A Bao’s, A Bao must still have something equivalent to this resort? At the very least, it can’t be much worse!”

“Exactly. The more I think about it, the more wrong it feels. No, we still have to find it and make another windfall. That’s much faster than earning money slowly.”