Chapter 53

He's not your husband

Half an hour later, Huang Bingbing lazily walked into the governor's office in her pajamas.

She plopped down opposite Zhou Ruoxi, her eyes and posture filled with hostility.

"Seventh Sister, what do you want from me in the middle of the night?"

"Who told you to go to the martial arts academy to contact Yang Ding?"

"What's wrong? He's not your husband, why the rush?"

Suppressing her anger, Zhou Ruoxi asked, "Did Dad send you?"

"You are his most beloved daughter. Go ask him. You can only control the law enforcement bureau, not us."

Zhou Ruoxi's father had five concubines, and in addition to his twelve children at home, he also had ten illegitimate children outside.

These illegitimate children do not bear the surname Zhou, their identities are fake, and they will not participate in the evaluation of Jiangling University.

They are not allowed to acknowledge their relationship openly, and no one knows about it.

After they come of age, they will all join a secret service called "Stinger" to do shady things, such as removing the Queen's spies planted in important positions in Jiangling City.

Huang Bingbing is the youngest of these illegitimate daughters. Her real name is Huang Azi, or Zhou Azi.

The Sting organization is managed by illegitimate children, who recruit assassins known as "dark slaves" everywhere. Xiang Tianyou is currently being groomed by Huang Bingbing.

"What's your plan?"

"I'm not telling you, I'm not telling you."

"Who do you think you are?"

Zhou Ruoxi slammed her fist on the table in anger.

Huang Bingbing sneered, "Hmph, what are you asking me about? We, the Stinger, can do the work that the law enforcement bureau can't do, and we can kill the people that the law enforcement bureau dares not kill."

"We do all the dirty work for the Zhou family. It's not you, Zhou Ruoxi, who protects the Zhou family, but us, Poisonous Thorn."

Even if Zhou Ruoxi was furious, there was nothing she could do.

My father's illegitimate children were raised as suicide squad members from a young age; each of them is insane and psychologically twisted.

This twenty-two-year-old girl, in particular, is a perverted person with male-hating syndrome.

She believed that men should be slaves to women, not have multiple wives and concubines.

"I have received the latest news that the BUG grooms of the other three city-states have all died. The queen is furious and is preparing to send down eight grandmasters to investigate, so you cannot touch Yang Ding for the time being."

"I'm going to make a move. The eight grandmasters don't have the energy to search through all four city-states."

"This means we're being watched, understand? Besides, the eight grandmasters are reorganizing the other three city-states. We can just preserve our strength and watch the show. Why drag trouble into our own hands?"

"Do you think your underhanded tactics, with your bunch of scruples, can withstand a single blow from a Grandmaster?"

Seeing Huang Bingbing's reluctance, Zhou Ruoxi worried that she would harm her family, so she could only patiently persuade her.

"The Queen is a prophet. The other three bugs might just be a decoy. Her target is our Jiangling City, so don't make any rash moves, or I'll make you wish you were never born."

"But that Yang Ding is very arrogant. The secret agents I trained are going to kill him," Huang Bingbing said.

"Yang Ding is just an ordinary mortal, a pawn testing the waters. He poses no threat to us. We can ignore him. Our opponents are the imperial high command, not him, understand?"

"What if I could recruit him as a secret slave?"

"What makes you think you're so special? He's not short of money, or are you prettier than Ye Rou?"

"Hmph, I understand men better than you, you old maid."

This touched a nerve with Zhou Ruoxi, who waved her hand and said, "Get out, get out! As long as he's alive, I don't care about anything else."

"Just you wait. Once I've tamed him, I'll give him to you as your gigolo."

"Shut up!" Zhou Ruoxi snapped.

boom!

The water dispenser suddenly exploded.

The exploded mineral water first remained suspended in the air, then quickly merged and solidified, turning into seven chilling, transparent ice spikes that hovered in front of Huang Bingbing.

"Don't push your luck. If I kill you, Dad will just scold me at most."

These words clearly provoked Huang Bingbing, who bit her lip until it bled and dared not be arrogant anymore.

……

Instructor's Building.

Ye Rou, Yang Ding, and Fang Jing searched the entire house but couldn't find the book called "Evolution Theory".

"Could it be that our phone was tapped and they sent a space-age ability user to take the book before we did?" Ye Rou asked.

Fang Jing used her powers to scan the room and shook her head.

"There are no signs of spatial tearing or folding, so no one should have been here."

Yang Ding looked at the hundreds of books on the bookshelf and said, "Honey, your sister reads so many books, don't you read a single one? I can't find any of them anywhere!"

"Honey, I get dizzy when I see words. For example, your name, if I don't look carefully, I might see it as Yang Xiang or Changjing."

"Pfft!" Fang Jing burst out laughing. "My dad said that Rou is like her father, upright and honest, with a pure heart, and is most likely to become a grandmaster in the future. Ke is like her mother, meticulous and talented in both literature and martial arts."

Ye Rou, whose reaction time was rather slow, finally snapped out of it. She put her hands on her hips, glared at Yang Ding, and asked in a cute but fierce tone, "What's with that expression? Do you think your wife is illiterate?"

"No, no, no." Yang Ding quickly hugged Ye Rou. "My wife is just innocent and adorable."

"Honey, I'm so sleepy from reading too much, I don't want to look anymore."

"Let's look for it again tomorrow. It might come out if we don't look for it now."

On the bed, Ye Rou snuggled into his arms, pressed against his neck, and pestered him to tell her about her discoveries.

Yang Ding, who has studied history, believes that this is the Queen's attempt to weaken the power of the vassal states.

"If these city lords are allowed to turn all the geniuses and awakened talents in the youth class into their own people, a bunch of grandmasters will emerge in a few decades, and the empire will be completely undermined."

"The Queen is one of the few time-manipulation ability users, possessing wisdom that transcends time and space. She is the most suitable person to lead humanity in resisting the alien beasts," Ye Rou analyzed.

"Theoretically, that's true, but humans, once they've had a few days of peace, will start vying for power and profit. Power means cultivation resources, and the higher your cultivation level, the longer you live. Even a Grandmaster isn't the ceiling for humanity, is it?"

"It shouldn't be that; it's just that cultivation resources are limited."

Ye Rou pressed her lips against Yang Ding's neck and asked lazily:

"Then why not assign me to another awakened one, instead of an ordinary person?"

Yang Ding shook his head. "I don't know. Maybe it's fate, or maybe I have some special talent."

Ye Rou wholeheartedly agreed and nodded sincerely, "Yes, my husband does indeed have extraordinary qualities."

"Another possibility is that our union has a higher chance of producing a martial arts genius."

At this point, Ye Rou suddenly perked up and looked at the safe.

"Before my mother died, she wrote a book about awakened beings, I think it was called 'The Theory of Awakening Evolution'. She advocated breaking the aristocratic monopoly on reproduction and letting the system randomly match people, so as to allow awakened beings to combine with ordinary people as much as possible."

"After several generations, the entire human race can awaken, thereby achieving a dimensional ascension and securing a place in the vast universe."

"But since it's a manuscript, the title hasn't been decided yet."

"Where?"

"It's in the safe."

Ye Rou quickly got up, opened the safe, and took out a file box.

Inside was a thick layer of A4 paper manuscript, with neat handwriting, showing that the mother-in-law was a gentle and quiet woman.

Yang Ding never expected that his wife not only came from a family of martial arts masters, but also from a scholarly family.

No wonder her temperament is so different from those flashy, cheap women.