As the strongest successor of the Li family's medical arts, Li Lianyi deeply understood the importance of health preservation and was a person with a very regular lifestyle.
However, last night, she browsed the Divine Net forum and stayed up late for the first time in her life. Moreover, she was woken up the next morning by a call from her cousin, Li Xiaoman.
"Cousin, it's so early, is there something you need?" Da Feng Novels
Li Lianyi groggily picked up her phone and asked vaguely.
"Huh... Lianyi, did the sun rise from the west today? You're actually sleeping in?"
Li Xiaoman sounded a little surprised, then seemed to connect something and asked with a sly smile, "Lianyi, you weren't also paying attention to the matter of the Dragon King Hall Master last night, were you? Or rather, it's more accurate to say you were worried about your fiancé?"
"Cousin, I was thinking about a drug concoction method last night, so I slept late."
Li Lianyi didn't tell the truth, perhaps out of embarrassment or to conceal something.
"I thought you were worried about your fiancé!" Li Xiaoman didn't suspect anything.
"What about him?"
Li Lianyi's heart skipped a beat, and her sleepiness vanished, but her tone was calm.
"Last night, the Dragon King Hall Master bloodied the headquarters of the Triad. That Triad was controlled by the Sato family. After the incident, the president of the Japanese Martial Arts Society, Tengu Takehiro, and Sato Tenichi led people to our residence to take Jiang Wuming away for interrogation, but they were stopped by Dean Xia Xueqin.
However, according to Dean Xia Xueqin, it wasn't her who protected Jiang Wuming, but Marshal of the Military Department, Qi Wufu. Marshal Qi Wufu called Dean Xia Xueqin at a critical moment, which then deterred those Japanese people, and Jiang Wuming was not taken away."
Li Xiaoman shared the information she had learned.
"Oh."
Li Lianyi replied with a single, understated word, but one could imagine that the situation last night must have been very tense.
"Hey, Lianyi, why don't you have any reaction after hearing all this? That's Marshal Qi Wufu! There are tens of thousands of martial artists in Long Country, how many can make Marshal Qi Wufu personally step in to protect them? Your fiancé has a lot of face!"
Li Xiaoman was displeased. She called Li Lianyi early in the morning to share this information, not to get a simple "oh" in response.
"Cousin, you also said that the Dragon King Hall Master did that, and it has nothing to do with Jiang Wuming. The people from the Japanese Martial Arts Society wanted to take Jiang Wuming away, which is unreasonable and improper behavior. Marshal Qi Wufu encountered it, so naturally, he had to stop it – this concerns the dignity of Long Country's martial arts world!"
As Li Lianyi said this, she secretly suspected that Qi Wufu knew Jiang Wuming's true identity, or perhaps even called at the perfect moment.
"What you're saying makes a lot of sense."
Li Xiaoman was led astray by Li Lianyi's words.
"Cousin, that's all for now, I need to get up."
Li Lianyi said, ending the call. Then she opened Dragon Chat and found no new messages from her pinned friend.
This discovery made Li Lianyi frown. She then, uncharacteristically, became a little angry and directly clicked on the friend dialog box, changing the nickname "Wuming" by one character.
Wuliang.
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Suzhou.
Oriental Xiaoyao, who had also been browsing the Divine Net forum and dark web forums all night, was in much better spirits than Li Lianyi.
As a nine-star martial artist, her bodily functions were incomparable to Li Lianyi's. Not sleeping for a short period had no effect on her.
As usual, she got up early and drove Su Shiyun to the Su Group.
After the car drove out of the old Su family mansion, Oriental Xiaoyao noticed that Su Shiyun seemed to be in good spirits, showing no signs of staying up late.
This struck her as a bit strange, so she tentatively asked, "Shiyun, you look like you slept well last night."
"Yes, the company affairs were a bit much a few days ago, so I slept relatively early last night."
Su Shiyun nodded, then felt that Oriental Xiaoyao was a bit unusual today.
Since Oriental Xiaoyao began acting as Su Shiyun's bodyguard, protecting her as instructed by Jiang Wuming, she had become accustomed to being taciturn. This was the first time in many days that Oriental Xiaoyao had proactively initiated a conversation with Su Shiyun!
"Xiaoyao, why are you suddenly asking me this?"
Su Shiyun couldn't help but ask curiously.
"Shiyun, aren't you paying attention to the Hall Master's affairs?"
Oriental Xiaoyao asked back, knowing that Su Shiyun was aware that Jiang Wuming was the Dragon King Hall Master.
"What happened to Wuming?!"
Su Shiyun's expression changed drastically. Her tone was no longer as relaxed and casual as before, but filled with nervousness, and even her body tensed up.
"The Hall Master is not in danger, he just did something significant in the Land of Bears."
Oriental Xiaoyao stated truthfully, but she felt a bit confused.
From Su Shiyun's reaction, she could be one hundred percent sure that Su Shiyun was very worried about Jiang Wuming's safety.
That worry was no less than her own!
But similarly, she could also be certain that Su Shiyun knew nothing about what Jiang Wuming had done.
This made her feel a bit contradictory.
"Xiaoyao, you scared me to death!"
Hearing Oriental Xiaoyao's words again, Su Shiyun patted her chest, looking as if she had narrowly escaped a disaster.
"Shiyun, you're very worried about the Hall Master's safety, so why aren't you paying attention to his affairs?" Oriental Xiaoyao finally couldn't help but ask the question that was bothering her.
"Alas... it's precisely because I'm worried about him that I don't pay attention to anything about him."
Su Shiyun sighed softly, a hint of melancholy appearing on her pretty face.
"Why?" Oriental Xiaoyao was confused.
"Because, whatever Wuming does, besides worrying, I can't help him with anything. Instead, my worry might even cause him trouble.
Therefore, I made a great resolution to force myself not to pay attention to anything Wuming does.
This way, I can concentrate my energy and do my best in the matters he has arranged for me.
This is the only thing I can do for him!"
Su Shiyun looked out the window, recalling Jiang Wuming's figure, and spoke softly. It seemed like she was responding to Oriental Xiaoyao, but in reality, she was strengthening her own resolve.
"So that's how it is!"
Oriental Xiaoyao suddenly understood. Then she suddenly remembered something.
When Su Shiyun learned that Li Lianyi was Jiang Wuming's fiancée, during their cooperation with Long Teng Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of the Li family, in the vital energy and blood medicine business, she had unreservedly shared all the core technologies of the vital energy and blood pills' formulations and refining methods with Long Teng Pharmaceuticals.
At that time, everyone in the Su Group strongly opposed it, but Su Shiyun insisted on doing so, with the reason that since Jiang Wuming and Li Lianyi had a marriage engagement, the Su family could not let business affect this engagement.
Handing over all the core technologies of the vital energy and blood pills was her way of showing sincerity to Jiang Wuming and demonstrating it to Li Lianyi and the Li family!
If, one day, Jiang Wuming were to marry Li Lianyi, she would directly transfer all the shares of the factory that produced the vital energy and blood pills to the Li family, as a betrothal gift for Jiang Wuming marrying Li Lianyi!
And before that, she would put in one hundred and twenty percent effort to make the vital energy and blood pill business successful, even making it the number one pharmaceutical company globally, thus making this betrothal gift more substantial!
There is a kind of care that is not constant attention but is kept deep within one's heart.
Like parents caring for their grown children who are establishing their own families.
Like a confidante caring for someone with whom it is destined not to be together in this life.
Or like Su Shiyun.
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