Abstinence Admiral Don't Bite, the Softer Mermaid Top Thug

Chapter 184 Can I see you?

The next day.

Lu Lianbai led Jing Xiaoyu, who had changed into formal attire, to the engagement banquet venue in the city center.

The banquet was far more grand and magnificent than he had imagined, with high-level starships and spaceships arriving in droves and parking on the tarmac above the city center.

In contrast, Lu Lianbai, who had taken the maglev train from the old town and transferred several times to finally arrive at the heart of the bustling city with his little fish cub, seemed somewhat out of place.

As Platinum stated, since the invited guests to the engagement banquet were all prominent figures and celebrities in the capital, the banquet entrance was equipped with three fully protective security check systems, so rigorous that only guests on the invitation list could be identified to enter the venue.

Lu Lianbai understood this point, but he was not discouraged.

He found a decorative stone pier in a corner of the semi-circular fountain railing outside the venue.

I carried Jing Xiaoyu to sit on the stone stool and turned on the water bottle so that the little one could drink water in time.

Jing Xiaoyu was well-behaved and self-disciplined throughout, keeping her father's instructions in mind and giving herself a sip of water every ten minutes.

He didn't care or ask why his father hadn't taken him to the more luxurious and lively banquet hall entrance in the center of the fountain.

All he knew was that his father brought him here to wait, so that he could see his mother as soon as possible.

In fact, Jing Xiaoyu and her father did not have to wait too long.

As Jing Xiaoyu replenished her water for the fourth time, another low hum of a starship engine came from the sky above the city center.

The pure black starship sliced ​​through the jellyfish-shaped clouds in the sky and hovered steadily in the middle of the tarmac.

Immediately afterwards, the hatch opened.

The two protagonists from this engagement party, dressed in perfectly matched custom-made blue and white suits, walked hand in hand down the gangway.

A burst of enthusiastic applause erupted both inside and outside the banquet hall, offering heartfelt blessings to the two families who were getting married.

Lu Lianbai stood with his hands at his sides under the fountain outside the banquet hall, his deep eyes fixed on Jing Weimian, who was about to walk along the red carpet to the fountain.

He, like the onlookers, was kept outside the fence.

He watched as Jing Weimian and he got closer and closer.

Getting closer.

Just as those two words were about to be uttered.

Jing Xiaoyu, who had been carried by Lu Lianbai to rest on the stone bench, seemed to have sensed the presence of her relatives.

In that instant, without even asking, Jing Xiaoyu was already certain that the person walking towards her was her mother, whom she and her father had been thinking about day and night for a whole year!

Without telling her father, Jing Xiaoyu took it upon herself to climb down from the stone pier.

Like a little calf, he panted and pushed his way through the crowd on the other side of the fence.

Without thinking, she shouted in a childish voice towards Jing Weimian's direction, "Mom...Mommy! Mommy!"

"Baby--"

Lu Lianbai was caught off guard. By the time he realized what was happening, his little fish, who couldn't even walk very well yet, had already rushed into the crowd of onlookers and was swallowed up by the throng.

However, both the Jing family and the Gu family attached great importance to this engagement banquet, and they would not allow any mistakes or errors to occur in any part of the engagement banquet.

Therefore, Jing Xiaoyu mustered all her strength and finally managed to rush through the gaps between the adults to the front of the fence.

The words "Mom" that had been called out several times were suddenly cut off.

Before Jing Xiaoyu could even see what his mother looked like, he was picked up and taken away by two tall, large human uncles in black uniforms who suddenly appeared in front of him.

at the same time.

Jing Weimian treated the engagement ceremony as if she were simply completing a task. She walked down the red carpet and posed for photos with the media on both sides of the red carpet.

But just as she and Gu Lixi were about to walk down the red carpet and enter the banquet hall, a child's tender, aggrieved voice called out from behind, "Mommy..."

Although Jing Weimian knew that there was a child among the onlookers looking for his mother, the faint, indistinct cry of "Mom" still made her stop in her tracks as if possessed.

Gu Lixi, who was walking beside her with her arm in hers, noticed her sudden stop and also slowed down slightly.

He tilted his head slightly, looked at her gently, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Before Jing Weimian could answer him, she turned her head and looked in the direction of the child's cry.

The railings on both sides of the red carpet were packed with people. When they saw Jing Weimian turn around, the crowd waved enthusiastically at her.

Jing Weimian wore a faint smile, but her sharp gaze fell on the back of the crowd—

A tall, muscular man, seemingly in distress, turned his back to her and quickly chased after the security personnel.

Jing Weimian's gaze lingered on his somewhat austere and stern back.

A subtle, indescribable emotion swept through my heart, only to vanish in an instant.

Gu Lixi followed Jing Weimian's gaze and also noticed the tall, slender man with his back to them at the back of the crowd.

Gu Lixi narrowed his eyes inscrutably, and tightened his grip on Jing Weimian's hand slightly.

"Not asleep?"

Gu Lixi's soft call brought Jing Weimian back to her senses. Her eyelashes fluttered slightly as she finally looked away.

Then she heard Gu Lixi gently remind her, "It's almost time, we should go in."

Jing Weimian gave a faint "hmm" and walked towards the banquet hall with her eyes lowered.

She knew that both sets of relatives and guests were still waiting for them in the banquet hall.

Before entering the center of the banquet hall, Jing Weimian asked Gu Lixi to go ahead and deal with the people in front of her.

She glanced around and then looked at Chen Yan, who was standing on the other side of the banquet.

Soon, Chen Yan, having received her signal, walked through the clinking glasses of guests and came to her side. "General, did you call me?"

"Ah."

Jing Weimian glanced towards the entrance of the banquet hall again, her brows furrowing slightly as she spoke.

"It looks like there's a child looking for their mother behind the red carpet fence. Could you go out and check on the security side for me?"

Chen Yan was taken aback that their general would concern himself with such a trivial matter. He paused for a moment, then nodded and replied, "Yes, I will investigate immediately."

After Chen Yan left, Jing Weimian absentmindedly returned to the center of the banquet hall and drank some wine with the guests.

A short while later, the bracelet beeped. Jing Weimian put down her wine glass slightly, said "Excuse me" to the guests who came forward to socialize, took a few steps back, and answered the call.

Chen Yan said on the phone, "General, I checked with the security system and confirmed that a child almost ran over the barrier on the red carpet when you and Mr. Gu entered. Security personnel took the child away immediately so the engagement banquet could proceed as planned. The child's father is here to pick him up now. Uh, just a moment—"

A deep, cold male voice came through the communication frequency, seemingly the father of the child Chen Yan had mentioned.

Jing Weimian remained calm and composed. "Chen Yan?"

After a few seconds, Chen Yan spoke again, "General, the child's father asked if he could come in and see you. He said he has something he wants to ask—"

Before he could finish speaking, Gu Lixi approached Jing Weimian and looked into her eyes with gentle tenderness.

"Sleepless, the engagement ceremony begins."