I bought a secret manual of the Hehuan Sect for ten yuan.

"Mr. Lin, Mrs. Lin, it's nice to see you again!"

Qin Ge greeted Lin Chen and his wife with a smile.

Mr. and Mrs. Lin were both stunned, their minds nearly short-circuiting.

Is this really Qin Ge? He actually took the initiative to greet me, and he was so polite.

Han Xiuyun's body involuntarily took two steps back, her eyes fixed on Qin Ge's hand.

She felt uneasy, sensing that Qin Ge was holding back something.

Qin Ge might be polite to anyone, but he would never be polite to her!

The last time they met, Qin Ge insisted that she had sent assassins to kill him in Donghai, and the two had a huge falling out. How could he possibly be so polite!

Conspiracy! It's definitely a conspiracy! This kid's up to no good!

Granny Chen, standing to the side, also stared wide-eyed, her old eyes filled with disbelief.

When Han Xiuyun went to Donghai to see Qin Ge, she accompanied him the whole time. Except for the first time when Qin Ge was a little polite, he never paid any attention to Han Xiuyun afterwards!

"Mom, Dad, what's with those expressions? Someone's greeting you!"

"Never seen a human before?"

Lin Yao was actually quite embarrassed, with her parents on one side and Qin Ge on the other, the atmosphere was so strange it gave her goosebumps.

"Your parents don't seem too happy to welcome me, so I'll be going now!"

After Qin Ge finished speaking, he turned around and left, decisively and cleanly.

The entire hall was silent, like a sheep pen that had just been raided by wolves.

Everyone stared blankly at Qin Ge's departing figure until it completely disappeared from sight.

Is he really gone?

Even Lin Yao was momentarily stunned. What trick was this bastard up to now?

"Yaoyao, is he really gone?"

Seeing her daughter hang up the phone, Han Xiuyun immediately went up to ask her what was wrong. She knew without a doubt that her daughter had called Qin Ge.

"I'm gone."

Lin Yao breathed a sigh of relief. Although she was still a little dazed and didn't understand why Qin Ge had really left like that, it was good that it saved her from embarrassment.

He's really gone?!

Lin Chen and the others looked at each other in bewilderment, while Liu Yuzhou, Granny Chen, and the others breathed a sigh of relief, feeling completely relaxed.

The air felt fresher, and breathing became easier.

"It's good that he's gone!" Han Xiuyun stepped forward, grabbed her daughter, and looked her over from left to right. "You should stay away from that kind of person in the future. I don't think he had any good intentions!"

"Did that bastard think that by tricking you, he'd get a share of the Lin family's fortune?"

"He's dreaming! A toad trying to eat swan meat!"

Lin Yao: "..."

"Yaoyao, what happened?"

"You weren't kidnapped, you were in Seven Star Bay..."

Lin Chen spoke up to break the awkward atmosphere, though he looked a little embarrassed.

A guest is a guest, and besides, Qin Ge brought Lin Yao back. Leaving like this made him feel indebted.

"Yes, I thought I was going to die too." Lin Yao's thoughts drifted back to the day of the Seven Star Bay explosion. "Qin Ge saved me..."

She told everything she knew truthfully, and after she finished speaking, the entire hall fell silent once again.

Lin Chen and the others were all sorting out their thoughts, deeply shocked.

So Qin Ge has been doing so much lately? The key question is, isn't he being a bit too aggressive?

Liu Yuzhou and Granny Chen were shocked and ashamed. Qin Ge was so fierce that it made them, who took so much money from the Lin family every year, seem very stupid for being useless at the crucial moment!

"Mom, who did you just call a toad?"

"That beauty cream you've been using lately, the one called Viro, do you know where it's made?"

"Currently, Qingcheng Beauty is the fastest-growing cosmetics brand in the entire East China Sea!"

"Do you know who the owner of Qingcheng Beauty is? It's Qin Ge!"

"Don't assume everyone's eyeing the Lin family's assets. I don't even care, so why would Qin Ge possibly be interested?"

"Mom, can you please stop acting like you're seeing an enemy every time you see Qin Ge? He just tried to be nice to you, but you didn't even acknowledge him."

Lin Yao was exasperated with her own mother; how could she have such a strong prejudice against Qin Ge?

"So what? Human desires are limitless. Who would complain about having too much money?"

"You think just saying hello counts as a gesture of goodwill?"

"Didn't you see how he treated me before?"

"I've raised you for nothing! You're not even married yet and you're already siding with outsiders!"

Han Xiuyun remained outwardly strong, but inwardly she was deeply moved.

No wonder Qin Ge mocked her for not investigating thoroughly enough when they were in the East China Sea. I never expected him to have such a background.

No wonder he looked down on ten million; it was too little...

......

"Miss Shen?"

"Looking for Jinghong?"

"Since you're here, why don't you go inside?"

As soon as Qin Ge returned to Jingshan Villa, he saw Shen Yulan pacing back and forth outside the gate, glancing into the villa every now and then.

"ah!!"

"I...I..."

Shen Yulan looked up and saw Qin Ge, then quickly looked away, stammering with her cheeks flushed.

Why do you look like you've been caught stealing?

Qin Ge pushed open the door and entered. "Jinghong, Miss Shen is here!"

Shen Yulan took a deep breath and slowly exhaled, bit her lip, and followed Qin Ge into the room.

"Jinghong has returned to the East China Sea." Yang Xin'er glanced past Qin Ge and nodded slightly to Shen Yulan behind him.

"She went back?" Qin Ge asked in surprise. "So suddenly, why didn't she wait for me?"

Yang Xin'er said, "Hall Master Yu told her to go back immediately; he knows what happened in Jinling."

"Weren't you planning to go to Jiangcheng? How will she wait for you?"

"I forgot." Qin Ge turned to look at Shen Yulan. "You've come at a bad time; Jinghong isn't here."

"What do you need her for? If it's urgent, just call her yourself!"

Seeing Shen Yulan's uneasy appearance, he muttered to himself, "How could such a nice girl suddenly become so silly?"

"Um, can I come with you?"

Qin Ge turned around and was about to step into the house when Shen Yulan suddenly blurted out this sentence from behind.

Shen Yulan regretted her words as soon as she finished speaking, and her pretty face blushed even more.

She herself didn't know where those words came from.

"With whom, and where are you going?"

"You don't mean you want to come to Jiangcheng with me, do you?"

Qin Ge was full of question marks, and Yang Xin'er also looked at Shen Yulan with confusion.

"Yes, I also have something to do in Jiangcheng. If you don't mind, we can travel together."

Since things had come to this point, Shen Yulan could only continue making things up.

"What a coincidence?" Qin Ge asked, a look of realization dawning on her. "So you didn't come to see Jinghong, but rather you heard from her that I was going to Jiangcheng?"

"Let's do it together!"

Jiangcheng is not too far from Jinling. Qin Ge had already asked Yang Xin'er to help prepare a car. He planned to drive there directly after dropping Lin Yao off.

"No...right..." Shen Yulan lowered her head like a child who had made a mistake.

"What do you mean, 'yes' and 'no'? So, are you coming to Jiangcheng with me?"

"Okay~"

With a beautiful woman by his side, Qin Ge certainly didn't mind.

This is a genuine Earth Realm martial artist; if given the chance, he wouldn't mind increasing his power by even a fraction.

It doesn't matter if it doesn't work out. Having such a beautiful woman with me will at least make the journey more pleasant and less boring.

Looking at Shen Yulan, Qin Ge suddenly recalled a line: "Stopping the carriage to admire the maple forest at dusk..."