Chapter 125: A Timely Arrival

【Surveillance is surveillance, don't dress it up in such high-sounding terms!】

【Jin Liangjin is the worst...】

【In this comic, both of those old geezers, Jin Liangjin and Yin Shuyi, are no good.】

【Do you guys feel like the male supporting character's screen time has increased? Ming Tan has been written out; is the author planning to make the male supporting character the new protagonist?】

【The comment above, didn't you see the author's latest notice? The protagonist was changed temporarily.】

Ling Wu looked at the comments before him. In the past, comments would only appear when he came into contact with the protagonist, but Jin Liangjin was clearly not the protagonist. He thought of the prompt from the 001 system, which said he had obtained 1/6 of the Protagonist Luck.

So... had he become the new Child of Luck?

"Knock!"

"Knock!"

"Knock!"

The study's peach-wood door was knocked on again. Jin Liangjin seemed to have thought of something; his gaze shifted from Davis to Ling Wu's face, a look that was quite intriguing.

Then, he said: "Enter."

Fang Kai opened the door and walked in, still wearing those mature and steady black-rimmed glasses, dressed in a thin brown trench coat, looking vigorous. He stared at the two young backs in the study, stunned for a moment, before saying: "Head of the Family."

His words stopped abruptly.

Jin Liangjin saw his concerns: "There are no outsiders here."

Fang Kai understood: "About that batch of TJ-44 Agent..."

"Fang Kai, you've come just in time." Jin Liangjin interrupted him, putting on a show for Ling Wu, and said: "From now on, stop all research at the Gene Research Institute."

"This is an order."

Indeed, Jin Liangjin was always a man of his word.

After a long while, the atmosphere in the study was chillingly silent. Jin Liangjin rubbed his temples, raised those steady and self-possessed eyes, and waved at Davis: "Take the Eldest Young Master out first."

Eldest Young Master?

Only then did Fang Kai subconsciously turn his head, wanting to look at the young man's face, but that person took the initiative; his lean, upright body turned from the shadows, revealing his superior features to his field of vision.

Yet, his heart trembled violently; it was a face he had not expected.

Under the crystal chandelier, Ling Wu's usually cold and humble temperament radiated a sharp edge. At the center of that edge flickered a teasing and calm composure toward prey, making one dare only to look up in awe. He extended his hand: "Director Fang, it has been ten years."

"I am Ling Wu."

I am Ling Wu...

Ling! Wu!

Fang Kai's heart stopped beating; he nearly lost his footing. He felt dizzy and lightheaded. Looking at the hand Ling Wu extended, he felt as if it were the ghastly white bones of a demon from hell, capable of carving the flesh from one's body. The sense of familiarity he felt at the coffee shop instantly transformed into a soul-snatching scimitar, crossing time and space to claim his life.

Even though ten years had passed.

How could he... how could he forget Ling Wu's face!

How could he!

Fang Kai could never have imagined that after that inhumane failed human gene experiment back then, Ling Wu, the most outstanding test subject who had been injected with the TJ-27 Gene Agent, could actually survive.

He was, after all, a calculating man, and he quickly steadied himself, pretending to be normal as he shook hands with Ling Wu: "Eldest Young Master."

"Mm."

Ling Wu caught a glimpse of the fingers hanging by his trouser seams trembling slightly, and he patted Davis's shoulder with satisfaction: "Let's go, my little bodyguard."

Little bodyguard?

Davis looked at his own tall and powerful physique; it didn't fit the word "little" at all. He could only follow Ling Wu out of the room in annoyance.

"Click!"

The study door closed again.

Ling Wu came out of the villa and saw Gu Xin entering through the side door as he passed the garden. He remembered that when he had Xi Huaizhi investigate the fingerprints on the interrogation agent used on Jin Shaoyu, the data sent over included a photo of this person.

Gu Xin worked for Jin Shaoyu.

Then, what was he doing at the Jin Family looking for Jin Liangjin?

Gu Xin was walking hurriedly toward the villa when he was suddenly called out—"Gu Xin."

He turned back in a hurry and saw Ling Wu standing under the flower corridor covered in white roses, staring at him with deep eyes, with Davis, the subordinate specifically cultivated by Jin Liangjin, following at his side.

Ling Wu stepped in front of him: "How is Shao Yu's condition?"

"The Second Young Master's condition has improved, but it's a serious injury that requires careful recuperation and rest." Gu Xin had been by Jin Liangjin's side for many years and knew that he wasn't just asking about Jin Shaoyu's health. He replied flawlessly: "The young master sent me to the old residence to handle some matters for him... If you have no other orders, Eldest Young Master, I will take my leave."

Ling Wu said: "No rush."

"Gu Xin, if I remember correctly, you have been working by my father's side since I was seven years old, right?"

Gu Xin replied truthfully: "Yes."

How could he not hear that Ling Wu was warning him?

If Gu Xin was one of the people in the entire Jin Family who had the deepest impression of Ling Wu, it was because the timing that year was particularly coincidental. He had just stood out from the Jin Family's Reserve Force and had the strength to stand by the Head of the Family's side.

That year, there was a traitor in the underworld organization under the Jin Family's control. It was Gu Xin who performed the meritorious service of capturing the man. At the time, the basement was dimly lit, and the traitor was pressed to the ground, sweating profusely from fear, begging for mercy incessantly, wishing he could swear to the gods above that he would be loyal from then on.

Jin Liangjin just looked at the traitor without joy or anger.

Sitting properly on the leather sofa nearby was a little boy carved from jade, wearing a linen shirt tied with a black silk scarf, covered by a dark vest embroidered with gilded patterns, and wearing simple, stylish harem pants.

Jin Liangjin said to the little boy: "A-Wu, I taught you, how should one deal with those who are disloyal?"

Ling Wu stated: "Kill."

"Very good." Jin Liangjin squatted down affectionately, touched his head, and said: "Then A-Wu, help Father kill him, okay?"

Gu Xin opened his eyes wide in disbelief, looking at the exceptionally soft and obedient Ling Wu. That was the first time he had a more accurate and clear understanding of Jin Liangjin's cold-bloodedness and cruelty.

He actually let a seven-year-old child pull the trigger to kill someone.

Jin Liangjin: "Gu Xin, give the gun to the young master."

There was no such thing as disobedience in Gu Xin's principles; even though he felt compassion in his heart, he still stepped forward and respectfully handed the gun in his hands to Ling Wu with both hands.

"Father."

Jin Liangjin's hawk-like gaze fell upon him, filled with pressure: "Survival of the fittest, Ling Wu, you won't defy me, will you?"

Ling Wu had no choice.

He delayed taking it, his still-childish face looking up at him, and asked Jin Liangjin in a very soft tone, making a very modest request: "Father, if I kill him... can I go out to play?"

"I want a little lamb doll."

Jin Liangjin nodded: "A good child can have whatever reward they want."

Gu Xin bet in his heart that Ling Wu wouldn't dare to pull the trigger; what a joke, a seven-year-old child should be in the yard playing with mud and marbles, what kind of thing is brandishing knives and guns?

He thought this with a mocking air.

"Bang!"

The gunshot rang out, and before the curve of Gu Xin's lips had even flattened, that traitor was dead.

Gu Xin was horrified, but at the same time, he vaguely caught a glimpse of Jin Liangjin's shadow on Ling Wu, exactly the same.

It was only heard that after that, Ling Wu fell ill for half a month.

Gu Xin regained his composure and stated his position: "Eldest Young Master, one must be loyal to their duties in their position; the matter entrusted to me by the Second Young Master cannot be delayed, so I will take my leave."

Ling Wu let him go, satisfied: "Mm."