Chapter 8: Mixed Doubles

Ah, what? You didn't hear what I said—confess and be lenient, resist and be strict?

Ye Chen was bewildered by Ye Nan, and he asked, puzzled: "What the heck is it?"

Ye Nan sighed and shook his head slightly upon hearing his words.

"Eh, you, you—how could you…"

Ye Chen saw Ye Nan always speaking in riddles, and he dropped the act, saying: "Old geezer, if you weren't my dad, I'd beat the shit out of you for acting like a riddler."

Ye Nan heard Ye Chen's words, his eyes widened in disbelief, and Lin Ruoxi silently handed over a pack of Seven Wolves.

"If a child is not educated, it is the father's fault; your mistake, my fault—I must give you a proper lesson today."

Ye Chen, hearing Ye Nan's words, suddenly realized he was just a kindergarten kid, and this speech would surely earn him a harsh beating.

Moreover, there's an old saying: "He who knows the times is a hero." So he slid forward with a sliding tackle to Ye Nan's front, shouting: "Dad! I! Was! Wrong!"

Ye Chen's tone was utterly sincere; Ye Nan looked at Ye Chen's pitiful eyes, which made him hesitate for a moment to strike.

"Seven Wolves is still too harsh; use this instead."

Lin Ruoxi said, handing Ye Nan a slipper.

This hitting force is just right—dazing without hurting the brain.

Ye Chen saw this, his eyes widened instantly, and he exclaimed: "Mom, you really are my birth mother!"

"No more nonsense—with such arrogant words, today I will definitely let you try mixed doubles."

Ye Chen wanted to run, but he couldn't, and he still couldn't reveal his cultivation; thus, his miserable cries echoed in the room.

After a short while, Ye Nan and his wife finally stopped, and Ye Chen's buttocks had already turned bright red.

"Sigh~ you really can bring yourself to strike."

Ye Chen, covering his buttocks, said.

Ye Nan and Lin Ruoxi each took turns hitting, even developing a rhythm.

"At such a young age, not behaving well—if you do this again, I'll put Seven Wolves on you."

Ye Nan said irritably.

"Got it."

Ye Chen replied.

After saying that, he looked at Ye Nan and said: "By the way, have you forgotten something?"

"What?"

Ye Nan was a bit confused; he didn't know what Ye Chen was referring to.

"I got addicted to hitting you and momentarily forgot what it was."

Ye Chen: "……"

"It's just that An Yu's dad called—what did you two say?"

"Oh~ this, you brat—did you today play hero and save the beauty at kindergarten?"

Ye Chen, upon hearing Ye Nan say the four words "hero saves the beauty," looked utterly incredulous.

"Can this even count as hero saving the beauty?"

Ye Chen said in disbelief.

"Why not? When a girl is at her most helpless, lending a hand—that's hero saving the beauty."

"This… you're old, you say whatever you want."

Ye Chen, unable to explain, chose to go along with Ye Nan's words.

"No wonder it's my offspring—you have quite the demeanor I had back then; back when I was in school, I was also a top figure."

"Come on, just you?"

Lin Ruoxi couldn't stand Ye Nan boasting in front of Ye Chen any longer, and she interrupted his speech.

"What's wrong with me? Back then, with just a guitar, I dominated the campus music scene!"

After Ye Nan finished speaking, he turned to look at Ye Chen, and as soon as he turned his head, he saw Ye Chen's eyes full of disbelief.

"What kind of look is that? Don't you believe your old man?"

"From the moment you said 'you have quite the demeanor you had back then,' I don't believe a word."

"You don't even believe your old man, wife—tell me, isn't that the case?"

"All right, little Chen, go to sleep early—don't listen to your dad's nonsense."

Lin Ruoxi finished speaking, pulled Ye Chen into the room, leaving Ye Nan alone in the living room, solitary and desolate.

"You, you…"

Bang!

The door was shut; it seemed the closing was too loud, causing Ye Nan's eyes to droop a little.

"You don't believe me, huh? Well, I'll prove it to you!"

He said that, then returned to his own gaming room and took out a guitar that had been gathering dust for ages.

He looked at the guitar, gently caressing it with both hands.

"After I show off my guitar skills, you will surely be shocked by my musical talent."

Ye Nan held the guitar, lightly plucking the strings; after hearing Ye Nan's guitar music, Ye Chen in the room showed an expression worse than eating feces.

And at that moment, the system's voice suddenly sounded.

【The host is suffering from soul-crushing music; this tune actually makes people want to jump off a building. I can't help but sigh—being able to play the piece like this truly counts as a notable figure.】

【But the host withstood this demonic sound; the reward is a set of Nine Mystic Sound Strings, which can turn sound waves into attacks—all things in the world can become music; before infusing spiritual power, it is just an ordinary piece, but after infusing spiritual power, it can kill invisibly.】

Ye Chen, listening to the system's words, was somewhat speechless; he never expected that one of his major killing moves would actually come from his own father.

Indeed, when safe, the greatest danger comes from one's own father.

Just as Ye Chen was dazed, the other neighbors seemed unable to bear this "wonderful music", shouting loudly: "It's the middle of the night—are you still not letting people sleep!"

As the sound faded, Ye Nan's guitar also came to an abrupt stop.

The anger in the neighbors' words was hard to conceal; it was only nine o'clock, yet that neighbor said "the middle of the night", obviously to preserve Ye Nan's last shred of dignity.

And Ye Chen, at this moment, was hiding under the covers, chuckling to himself.

……

At nine in the morning, today being Saturday, Ye Chen didn't have to go to kindergarten.

Ye Chen opened his eyes on the bed; he hadn't slept all night, and now, whether he slept or not made little difference to him.

He only needed to practice as usual to keep his spirits full.

After a night's effort, his cultivation also successfully broke through, reaching the sixth level of Qi Refining.

"Sixth level—this progress is really fast."

Ye Chen said, got up, walked out of the room, went to the bathroom, and washed his face and brushed his teeth in one smooth motion.

After finishing those, he walked out of the bathroom and came to the dining table; at that moment, Lin Ruoxi had already prepared breakfast.

Ye Nan sat in front of Ye Chen, scrolling through short videos on one hand and eating buns on the other, as if last night's incident had hardly affected him.

"Yesterday, a girl named Feng Lele mysteriously disappeared on Chang Le Street in Dachang City; preliminary judgment is that she was abducted—please, all parents, pay attention, keep an eye on your children, and avoid contact with strangers."

"\"Dachang City—isn't that where we are? \""

After saying that, Ye Chen began to curse: "These traffickers are not human; they deserve to be beaten with sticks and shot like a dragon."

Ye Nan, cursing under his breath, looked up at Ye Chen and said: "You also need to be careful—unless I or your mom come to pick you up, no one else may, not even relatives, understand?"

"\"Understood. \""

Ye Chen replied affirmatively.

After responding to Ye Nan, he lowered his head and started eating the buns.

"\"Child abduction, traffickers…\""

【In this perilous world of cultivation, a person's life or death means little, but refining blood from children is utterly against heavenly law! You may choose to kill them, or turn a blind eye—after all, this world is simply too dangerous.】

Ye Chen listened to the system's words; regarding this matter, Ye Chen could not tolerate it at all—in his previous life, how many families were torn apart by traffickers?

In his previous life, he could do nothing, but in this life he decided to take action.

"\"Since we're in Dachang City, there should be a trace of her aura. \""

He decided to go to the place where the little girl had the incident to take a look; moreover, he only needed to find the girl's aura to locate her whereabouts.

But the problem now is that, after hearing this news, Ye Nan and Lin Ruoxi would certainly not let him go out alone.

Just as he was worrying, he suddenly noticed a white sheet of paper to the side.

When he saw that white paper, an idea immediately came to mind.