"Beep beep beep..."

The communicator buzzed with a series of busy signals, while the twilight of the setting sun spilled through the floor-to-ceiling windows into the huge office, reflecting on the faces of those inside.

Lin Haifeng put down the communicator, squinting without any expression.

Lin Tianxue’s expression mirrored her father’s exactly.

Fran glanced at Lin Haifeng, then at Lin Tianxue, but finally lifted his teacup, sipping the tea lightly, indicating he did not want to get involved in these family affairs.

Behind Lin Haifeng, a tall figure wearing a mask lurked in the shadow of the wall corner.

"What’s this called?"

Lin Tianxue spoke first, not angry, just plain and indifferent.

"This is called a warning; Wen Yu is warning you!"

"You know, Wen Yu is someone you can’t provoke, I can’t provoke, you can’t provoke, the whole Yanjing combined can’t provoke; right now nobody can provoke him."

Lin Haifeng emphasized the seriousness of the matter again.

"No, I’m not talking about Wen Yu; I’m asking you, my father, what’s this called?"

"Warning? Or a crackdown? Deliberately not telling me Wen Yu needed the Esoteric Level skill upgrade scroll, deliberately not telling me Sun Xuewei is someone Wen Yu wants to protect, deliberately revealing the intelligence about the Esoteric Level skill upgrade scroll to me, oh my, you are using these tactics on your daughter, father, you really think highly of me..."

Lin Tianxue’s words were full of resentment, a smart person clearly understands the cause and effect of this matter. In fact, the four people in the command room now are all smart people, but obviously, the smartest would not lay out this matter clearly on the table.

Therefore, Lin Tianxue is still not smart enough.

Perhaps it was her personality, or perhaps it was because her father was someone in a high position, anyway... Lin Tianxue just said it, openly and boldly...

"Bang!"

The desk was smashed to pieces, and at this moment, Lin Haifeng’s veins bulged on his head, not too late to smash the desk, the old man jumped up, pointed his finger at Lin Tianxue’s nose and began to curse!

"Yes! I’m warning you!!! Look at you, what have you become now? Huh? Stirring up trouble in the military, the military is the country’s crucial tool, how can you, a woman, intervene!"

"Forming factions, engaging in selfish cliques, you think I don’t know about these things? I know them all! If you weren’t my daughter, I would have shot you long ago!"

Lin Haifeng’s anger was palpable, but Lin Tianxue only smirked coldly until Lin Haifeng finished cursing, gasped heavily, and sat back in his chair, when Lin Tianxue finally spoke calmly.

"Dad, what does stirring up trouble mean? What does being a woman mean? You just look down on me because I am a woman. I know, your old generation has this patriarchal mentality, it doesn’t matter, I don’t blame you, but you need to understand!"

"Lin Kuangliu is dead! Dead! He is dead!!! You have no son! You only have me as your daughter! I and Yu Qiong are your family, who will you nurture if not me? Nurturing those bastards born from those duplicants?"

"Slap!"

A crisp slap sounded, Lin Tianxue’s cheek visibly reddened and swelled, at this moment, Lin Haifeng calmed down instead, expressionless, emotions wholly suppressed, only his body trembled slightly...

"Get out! I will only say it once, get out..."

Soft words, yet hinted that Lin Haifeng had already reached the peak of anger, Lin Tianxue only gently rubbed her cheek, accompanied by a gentle leap of the tiny Soul Beast on her shoulder, Energy Wave slowly spread, and soon, the swelling on her face disappeared.

Lin Tianxue resumed her usual icy demeanor, not even looking at Fran on the side and the Shadowed Demigod, walked straight out of the office.

"Bang."

The office door was violently pushed open, revealing Fang Bai’s pale face outside the door.

Lin Tianxue glanced at Fang Bai, her tone calm, yet carried an unmistakable authority.

"Come home with me."

...

Listening to the footsteps outside the office growing further away, Lin Haifeng curled up in the chair, eyes blank.

The all-powerful Lin Haifeng encountered a dilemma he couldn’t solve...

"I’ll be leaving now."

Fran also didn’t want to be an eyesore here, simply greeted Lin Haifeng and walked straight out of the office, leaving only Lin Haifeng and Demigod Kuangliu, the "once" father and son, in the room.

The room was silent, until Lin Haifeng took a heavy breath and asked the Demigod behind him: "How’s Lin Que doing lately?"

Lin Que, Lin Haifeng’s grandson, though a child born from two duplicants, through a variety of assessments and tests, even Wen Yu personally verified, confirmed this child was no different from a normal living being.

This is Lin Haifeng’s biological grandson, his surname is Lin.

This is also Lin Kuangliu’s biological son, but...

"The nanny is taking care of him."

The Demigod behind spoke flatly, without any special emotion in his tone.

He does not recognize this son, or rather, the newly born Demigod no longer even recognizes his own father...

"If there is nothing else, you should visit him more, he is your child after all."

The old man’s advice slipped past the left ear of the Demigod and out the right, this kind of talk, Lin Haifeng had said who knows how many times over the past five years, but what does that change?

Blood ties? The Demigod’s physical makeup is actually closer to that of the divine beast species and Tang Haofei’s bloodline...

Lin Haifeng probably also knew Demigod Kuangliu’s thoughts, just sighed silently, as if to himself.

"Xiao Xue... sigh... her actions are getting bigger and bigger recently, not only does she draw in Qin Tian, but also the one called Ray and Marcus, I have warned her before, Qin Tian seems stupid, but isn’t easy to mess with, after all, he had some ties with Wen Yu before, and Ray and Marcus, these two give me a strange feeling, exactly because of this, I have never used them heavily; now it’s good, all the shoulds and shouldn’ts are done by your good sister, I’m really afraid one day, she will make a big mistake, invite some trouble she can’t handle."

"She just wants to pave a golden road for Yu Qiong, she is not wrong."

The Demigod argued for Lin Tianxue—when Kuangliu was alive, the mother had died young, the father was busy with work, the siblings were closest, although Lin Tianxue, now a wife, was not good to Lin Que...

But since the Demigod didn’t want to acknowledge the son in the first place, whether good or bad, what does it matter? 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

"No, she stole what was yours..."

Lin Haifeng’s eyes gleamed, his tone solemn: "This position of mine, sooner or later, will be yours!"

"Oh?"

The Demigod behind, hidden in shadow, listened to the words spoken sharply, his mouth slowly curling into a cold smile.

What you like, may not be what I want...