Chapter 93

On the way back, Professor Wu finally spoke up for Su Nianchu: "Lu Chen, even if Xiao Su is your subordinate helping you with work, she is, after all, a girl—be polite when you speak to people."

"You respect girls that much? Then have you been polite when speaking to Xie Wantang?" Lu Chen raised an eyebrow and countered.

"This… this is different." Professor Wu had no idea; this kid was waiting for him here.

"What's so different about it? Isn't Xie Wantang a girl? Or is she a boy?"

"Of course not; I just think that Xie Wantang isn't right for you, while Xiao Su is more likable."

"She's the one you like; otherwise, why not hire her as your maid? How about that?"

"You little brat…"

Professor Wu was so angry he couldn't speak.

Lu Chen also held in his anger, without trying to appease him.

After a while, Professor Wu finally spoke: "Anyway, I'm telling you, Xie Wantang just won't do; with your genes, you ought to have more offspring—how could she bear children for you?"

"Xiao Su is different—her butt is big and round; Grandpa tells you she'll surely be good at bearing children."

The old man thinks far ahead; unlike young people, who consider personal preference when marrying a wife or husband.

Whether you like it or love it, none of that matters.

Having children is the greatest need of a man and woman's union.

Young people don't understand.

Having children is the ultimate purpose of marriage; therefore, finding a good partner for bearing children is the ultimate goal of marriage.

So, good genes are far more important than any romance or love.

"Why did you tell Xie Wantang that King is dead?" Lu Chen didn't want to hear him spout nonsense anymore, and started to pursue his earlier rash talk in the private room.

"What else should I say? Expose you? Do you even remember that you used to be King?" As he said this, Professor Wu couldn't help but get angry and let out a big snort.

……

Regarding this, Lu Chen couldn't refute; whenever the matter was brought up, even slightly, his grandfather's attitude was always like this.

Lu Chen felt sorry that he could no longer continue as King to bring glory to his grandfather.

But there was no choice; his life had more important things to do than just being King.

He believed that surely a new generation would appear to replace him.

Take that Queen, for example—his grandfather used to mention her often, didn't he?

He said that guy was a promising seedling.

Just taking that English name, Lu Chen guessed the person was female; as for age, Lu Chen didn't make random guesses.

Seeing Lu Chen fall silent whenever he mentioned this, Professor Wu kept prodding him: "Lu Chen, you say you've made yourself neither human nor ghost—what exactly are you after?"

"Your parents are basically research maniacs, and you're going crazy with them? You really believe that human memories can be extracted and loaded into crystal cores?"

What Professor Wu could not accept the most was this heaven-defying experiment.

Lu Chen, such an outstanding person with such excellent genes, actually willingly became a guinea pig for his parents?

The most excessive part was that they actually extracted the memories concerning King from Lu Chen's body.

After the surgery, Lu Chen remembered everything else, except the fact that he himself was King—he had completely forgotten it.

When Professor Wu finally learned of this, he was on the verge of going mad with anger.

He kept whispering in Lu Chen's ear over and over, telling him to remember that he was King, but Lu Chen had lost the ability to distinguish voices.

The King he had spent so much time cultivating was destroyed by them just like that.

Over these years, he has never found another person like Lu Chen who could replace King.

If there were, he would give the name King to that person.

Anyway, it's just a codename.

King can be anyone, and anyone can be King.

But no matter who becomes King, they must possess King's original abilities and standards.

Currently there is none, so to him King is as good as dead.

He didn't think there was anything wrong with saying that to Xie Wantang.

"Professor Wu, scientific research is inherently like this; those who can experiment in this field must have big imaginations, dare to break conventions, and try things ordinary people wouldn't dare."

Huh—

Professor Wu didn't buy it, saying it as if their bunch of so-called maniacs were impressive.

To calmly extract a person's memory, call it storage, and with so many people in the world, if there's ever a mistake, everyone's memories would get jumbled—wouldn't the whole world be in chaos?

This experiment is fundamentally heaven-defying, simply violating the natural and human ways.

He is outright opposed to it.

Yet, ironically, he has three such maniac family members around him.

"All right, Grandpa, let's not talk about this anymore."

……

A single "Grandpa" soothed all of Professor Wu's mania.

……

In the blink of an eye, Saturday arrived.

During this period, Xie Wantang went out early and returned late every day with Xie Ningmeng to the private acupuncture room of Xie Family Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Others thought she was doing special acupuncture rehabilitation, but in fact she used this time to make various sachets—sleep‑aid, mosquito‑repellent, and even digestion‑aiding ones.

These digestion‑aiding sachets were specially developed by Xie Wantang for infants and toddlers.

This sachet was also formulated together with several senior doctors of Xie Shi Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic; it is absolutely healthy and eco‑friendly.

Xie Wantang also signed a cooperation agreement with Xie Shi Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic, worth seven figures a year.

It earns more than she does from livestreaming with Xu Yanqiu, and she only handles production; sales are entirely handled by the medical hall, and it is made to order.

Xie Wantang also didn't run into Su Nianchu again.

Upon learning that Xie Wantang could be free of her wheelchair on Saturday, Xu Yanqiu prepared a big dinner in her new house on Saturday night and invited Xie Wantang to a sisters' gathering to welcome the newborn.

Xie Wantang agreed.

On Saturday morning, Xie Wantang drove herself to LC Technology.

Until today, she and Lu Chen had been like two parallel lines, with no intersection.

Shen Ye also had no news, but before he returned to Sijiucheng, he told Xie Wantang.

She knows he is handling a case.

After parking, Xie Wantang asked a staff member, and under the staff's guidance, she arrived at the voiceprint training class classroom.

When she entered the classroom, several people had already arrived.

She wore a staff name tag on her chest, and seats were assigned by name.

There were sixteen trainees in total; aside from the two recommended by Lu Chen, the others were recruited by Professor Wu based on their résumés.

A fair number of applicants were eliminated this time.

Xie Wantang's name was placed in the second spot of the first row.

To her left was the one called Su Yang.

When Xie Wantang shifted her chair and made a noise, she startled Su Yang, who was dozing at his seat; he turned, saw Xie Wantang, was about to greet her, and was stunned by her.

Didn't the boss say Xie Wantang would be in a wheelchair for a long time?

Where is her wheelchair?

How did she walk in so openly and directly?

Not putting on the act any more?