“Great!” Gu Yanzhong exclaimed, thrilled, “As long as you keep chipping away, no matter how strong they are, you’ll catch up, maybe even overtake them one day!”
Ye Chen sighed, “It won’t be that easy going forward, this Africa trip showed me they’re running an internal overhaul, splitting up their dead soldiers and families, holding them hostage against each other to force loyalty to Po Qing, convincing whole bases to defect might be off the table now, unless I go full slaughter, but those dead soldiers are pitiful in their own right, even if their hands are stained with innocent blood, their families and kids aren’t.”
Gu Yanzhong sighed at that, “Can’t persuade them, can’t kill them all, that’s gonna make things trickier down the line.”
Ye Chen nodded, “Yeah, so after this, I’ve shifted gears, no more charging in, I’m leaning on the AI model to set up global surveillance, gather more leads before I move next.”
Gu Yanzhong nodded, he’d wanted Gu Qiuyi to have kids with Ye Chen first partly because he feared Ye Chen’s revenge quest would drag on too long.
With Ye Chen’s nature, he wouldn’t rest until Po Qing was gone, leaving no room for romance, making that three-year pact they’d set seem moot.
Back when they made that deal, neither he nor Ye Chen knew the full scope of Po Qing’s secrets, he’d figured three years was enough for Ye Chen to sort out his unhealthy marriage with Xiao Churan, once that was done, Ye Chen could marry his daughter as the Ye family heir.
Then they learned about Po Qing, a vendetta steeped in blood and looming threats, Gu Yanzhong knew he couldn’t help take them down, so he dropped the three-year talk.
He figured they’d set a new date once Ye Chen wiped out Po Qing.
But the road ahead was perilous, and with his limited sway, worried Ye Chen might not make it, he’d floated the idea of his daughter bearing Ye Chen’s kids first.
At first, he thought it was improper for a father to think that way.
But when he tested the waters with his wife, she backed it full-on.
The Gu family’s rise owed much to Ye Changying’s support back in the day;
Gu Yanzhong’s life today owed even more to Ye Chen’s rejuvenation pill.
His daughter Gu Qiuyi had loved Ye Chen for years, never once wavering.
Lin Wanqiu felt it was time for the Gu family to take a step forward.
The couple clicked, and Gu Yanzhong handed the task of convincing their daughter to Lin Wanqiu.
Lin Wanqiu video-called Gu Qiuyi, hinting at Gu Yanzhong’s fear that Ye Chen might fall, cutting off Ye Changying and An Chengqi’s bloodline, and Gu Qiuyi, without a beat, said, “I’m about to quit showbiz anyway, if Brother Ye Chen’s willing, I’ll have his kid, if he’s not up for getting physical, I’d even do IVF!”
Lin Wanqiu hadn’t expected her daughter to brush it off so lightly.
She knew Gu Qiuyi, in her twenties, had never dated, saving herself for Ye Chen, still pure, so she shot down the idea, telling her, “You’re untouched, no way you’re doing IVF, Chen’er might not be able to give you a public title or a proper wedding right now, but as a man, he’s gotta give you the rites you deserve!”
