Old Harden, can you handle having your vision-shifting abilities on all the time?

Xu Yanle asked, looking completely bewildered, "Why do we need to reissue it?"

The police officer in charge of household registration replied, "Your father, Xu Xing, has already moved his household registration to Chang'an. Now, the head of household needs to be registered under your name, so we need to open a separate household registration book."

Xu Yanle held her phone, feeling as if all her strength had been drained away.

He mumbled a reply in a daze and hung up the phone.

Gao Min noticed his expression was off and asked, "What's wrong?"

Xu Yanle didn't say anything, she just stood there blankly.

"I asked you what's wrong!"

Gao Min raised her voice.

"My dad moved his household registration."

Xu Yanle's voice sounded like it was being squeezed out of her throat, "I'm the head of the household now."

Gao Min was stunned for a moment, and then her face turned ugly.

She understood what this meant, of course. Xu Xing was completely cutting ties with them, even moving his household registration – it was a move to sever all contact.

"It's all your fault!"

Xu Yanle suddenly exploded, glaring at Gao Min with a voice full of anger, "You insisted on making the child take your surname, Gao, and now my dad's rich, and I have absolutely nothing to do with you anymore!"

"He blocked all my contact methods, and now he's even moved my household registration. Are you satisfied now?!"

Gao Min was stunned by his shout. She opened her mouth to retort, but didn't know what to say.

"Didn't you want a divorce? Go get one tomorrow!"

Xu Yanle became increasingly agitated as he spoke, "Now that the child has taken your surname, I'm not going to care about anything else!"

After he finished speaking, he opened the car door and started the Mercedes-Benz GLC.

"Yanle! Where are you going!"

Zhao Jinhua quickly called out.

Xu Yanle ignored her, stepped on the gas, and the car roared out of the street, quickly disappearing into the night.

Zhao Jinhua stamped her feet, "This...this...Xu Xing is such a scoundrel! Zixuan is his own grandson! How could he be so heartless?"

"We're all family, can't we sit down and discuss things calmly?"

Gao Min stood there, her face alternating between pale and flushed. Seeing her mother jumping up and down, she also erupted: "It's all your fault! If you hadn't persuaded me to insist on the child having the Gao surname, things wouldn't have turned out like this!"

Zhao Jinhua was taken aback by her outburst: "You child, how dare you talk to me like that!"

"Am I wrong?!"

Tears streamed down Gao Min's face. "If you hadn't been constantly nagging me, saying that the surname Gao sounds better than Xu, and that we should give Xu Xing a hard time so that we could live a better life afterward, how could I have done such a stupid thing!"

"Now that's settled! Xu Xing's success has absolutely nothing to do with our family! Are you satisfied now?!"

Zhao Jinhua was rendered speechless by her shout; she opened her mouth but ultimately said nothing.

The mother and daughter stood at the entrance of the police station, one crying and the other cursing, attracting the attention of passersby.

"What are you looking at!"

Zhao Jinhua yelled at the passersby, "Haven't you ever seen someone arguing before?!"

The passerby shook his head and quickly walked away.

Gao Min wiped away her tears and turned to leave.

"where did you go!"

Zhao Jinhua called out from behind.

"go home!"

Gao Min didn't even turn her head. "If you want to stand here, then stand there!"

Zhao Jinhua gritted her teeth and finally followed after them, carrying the child.

……

Inside a luxury goods recycling shop.

Xu Xing put his arm around Chen Xinyi's waist, feeling her soft body pressed against his side, his nostrils filled with the faint scent of her perfume mixed with the warm fragrance emanating from her body heat.

He leaned down and whispered in her ear, his tone teasing and ambiguous: "Didn't you want to have my baby? There's no time like the present, let's do it now."

Chen Xinyi rolled her eyes at him, reached out and lightly punched his chest, and said reproachfully, "Having a baby is no problem, let's get our marriage certificate first."

She said this mostly as a joke, wanting to see how Xu Xing would respond.

Unexpectedly, Xu Xing wasn't intimidated at all. He pulled out his ID card, which he had secretly taken from his dantian space, and waved it in front of her: "No problem. Shall we go to the Civil Affairs Bureau now? I remember the marriage registration office doesn't close until the afternoon. We should still make it in time."

Chen Xinyi was stunned for a moment.

Looking at the ID card in Xu Xing's hand and his serious expression, a feeling that was hard to describe welled up in my heart.

She was just joking around to tease him, but she didn't expect him to actually pull out his ID card.

Chen Xinyi was indeed somewhat moved at that moment.

If a man is willing to get a marriage certificate with you, it at least shows that he's not just looking for a fling.

But she quickly regained her composure.

"Come on, you."

Chen Xinyi pushed his hand back, her tone tinged with helplessness and amusement, "If I really went with you to get the marriage certificate, Lin Wan would probably kill me with a knife."

Xu Xing chuckled and hugged her tighter, saying nonchalantly, "I'll stop her for you then."

"Can you stop them?"

Chen Xinyi glanced at him sideways, "If she really gets angry, ten of you wouldn't be enough for her to chop up."

"You can only get your turn after I've finished cutting you down."

Xu Xing said with a grin, "When the time comes, I'll just stand in front of her and let her slash me a few times to vent her anger. Once she's tired of slashing, you'd better run away."

Chen Xinyi was amused by him, but after laughing, she felt even more worried.

She leaned against Xu Xing's chest, her fingers unconsciously twisting the hem of his clothes. After a long silence, she whispered, "Let's leave it at that for now. As for having children... we can have them without getting married."

Xu Xing looked down at her: "Wouldn't that be too unfair to you?"

Chen Xinyi bit her lip. "There's nothing I can do about it. After all, I stole my best friend's boyfriend."

Then she patted Xu Xing again and complained, "It's all your fault. Why couldn't you just push me away back then?"

Xu Xing said speechlessly, "What nonsense are you talking about? I'm a normal man, and a very strong one at that. How could I possibly refuse a beauty like you?"

After saying that, he suddenly bent down and picked Chen Xinyi up in his arms.

"what!"

Chen Xinyi was startled and quickly grabbed his neck, "What are you doing! Put me down!"

"Live for today, for tomorrow we die. Why think so much?"

Xu Xing carried her out, his tone both carefree and domineering, "Anyway, things have already come to this, it's too late for you to regret it."

"Who said I regret it!"

Chen Xinyi struggled to get down, "Put me down right now, I can walk myself! What if Lin Wan happens to come by and sees you and lets you choose?"

Xu Xing continued walking without stopping, saying nonchalantly, "Of course I choose you."

Chen Xinyi was taken aback: "Are you serious?"

"Of course I'm serious."

Xu Xing looked down at her, his eyes serious. "If she hadn't met me a few days earlier, and if you, you idiot, hadn't insisted on helping me out, none of this would have happened."

Upon hearing this, Chen Xinyi suddenly felt an indescribable sense of regret.

Yes.

If she hadn't foolishly helped Lin Wan back then, introducing Xu Xing to her shop and arranging for them to meet and have dinner together...

Maybe she's Xu Xing's official girlfriend now.

Thinking of this, Chen Xinyi felt so regretful that she wished she could travel back in time and slap herself twice.

"I should have been more careful not to be so foolish as to help them out in the first place."

She muttered something, her tone full of frustration.

Xu Xing smiled, picked her up, and walked out of the store, heading straight for the Maybach parked by the roadside.

Chen Xinyi patted his shoulder, "Put me down, I can walk by myself."

"I won't let go."

Xu Xing said firmly, "Now that we've picked him up, there's no reason to put him down."

Chen Xinyi rolled her eyes, but the corners of her mouth unconsciously turned up slightly.

She stopped struggling and nestled obediently in his arms, letting him carry her across the long street.

Pedestrians on the roadside turned their heads to look, some casting envious glances, others offering kind smiles.

Chen Xinyi buried her face in Xu Xing's chest, her ears turning bright red.