With that, Lin Tai nodded at Ye Huan and turned to leave.
In truth, Lin Tai was furious right now. At a moment of life-and-death crisis for the company with the hacker attack, Lin Qingyun, as the eldest son of the Lin family, not only failed to help Lin Xi weather the storm, but instead came to cause trouble for her. This made him immensely disappointed in his eldest son. Demoting Lin Qingyun to the security department was his way of trying to toughen him up.
"S-Security... captain?"
Lin Qingyun’s head was ringing. Just a second ago, he was the grand young master of the Lin family, the president and director of the Lin Group—and the very next second, he had somehow become a security captain?
"Captain Lin, the safety of the Lin Group is in your hands now. Hahahaha..."
Lin Canglan patted Lin Qingyun on the shoulder and walked away with a hearty laugh.
Lin Qingyun was so furious that his prostate flared up with a dull ache. He violently whipped his head around to glare at Ye Huan, his expression twisted with malice.
"You pig-slaughtering bastard, this is all your fault! If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have ended up like this. I'll beat you to death..."
With a roar of anger, he swung a fierce palm at Ye Huan's face.
Ye Huan casually caught Lin Qingyun's wrist, paused for a split second, and then instantly returned to normal. He casually shoved Lin Qingyun's hand away, snapped a crisp salute, and shouted at the top of his lungs:
"Captain Lin!"
Pfft!
The sight was so utterly absurd that Lin Xi couldn't hold it in and burst out laughing, hurriedly grabbing Ye Huan and pulling him toward the exit.
"You pig-slaughtering bastard, I'm not finished with you..."
Lin Qingyun roared with rage as he stared at Ye Huan's retreating back.
...
After Ye Huan and Lin Xi got into the car, Lin Xi turned sideways in her seat, keeping her eyes fixed on Ye Huan's profile.
"Staring at me with such infatuation—don't tell me you've fallen in love with me?"
Ye Huan turned his head to look at Lin Xi, asking with a grin.
"Ha! You haven't even fallen asleep yet, and you're already starting to dream?"
Lin Xi curled her lips in a sneer, then asked with genuine curiosity:
"It's strange—how does a pig-slaughtering peasant like you know anything about hacking?"
Hearing this, Ye Huan turned unusually solemn.
"If you'd been through what I've been through, you'd be full of talents too!"
When he was eight years old, he was sold by human traffickers to a killer training camp. In a place where human life was utterly worthless, aside from being forced every day to undergo grueling training in all kinds of assassination techniques, he also had to master a vast array of other skills.
Things like hacking, espionage, proficiency with every kind of firearm, and more. Anyone who slacked off, or lacked the talent to learn them, was ruthlessly put to death.
"Oh, listen to you, like you're some kind of big shot!"
Lin Xi scoffed dismissively, then asked:
"Just how good is your hacking anyway?"
Without missing a beat, Ye Huan replied, "Second best in the world!"
There wasn't an ounce of exaggeration in those words, nor was there any false modesty.
Before entering Trapped God Prison, his hacking skills were barely passable—nothing special to write home about. But after going to Trapped God Prison, he met the globally recognized number one hacker locked away in there: the Cult Master.
After studying under the Cult Master for a year, his hacking skills advanced by leaps and bounds, though compared to the Cult Master, there was still a considerable gap. It wasn't that his talent fell short of the Cult Master's; it was simply that hacking required long, unbroken hours of study and total immersion. And that was something Ye Huan simply couldn't stick with.
Ye Huan's most legendary achievement was hacking the computers of every single government official in Beautiful Country, Fusang, and Kimchi Country, and treating the whole lot of them to twenty-four hours of uncut adult films.
"S-Security... captain?"
Staring at Lin Tai's retreating back, Lin Qingyun felt his head spinning in a daze!
Just a second ago, he was the grand young master of the Lin family, the president and director of the Lin Group—and the very next second, he had somehow become a security captain?
"Captain Lin, the safety of the Lin Group is in your hands now. Hahahaha..."
Lin Canglan deliberately laughed as loudly as he could just to rub it in.
Lin Qingyun was so furious that his prostate flared up with a dull ache, but he didn't dare snap back. Instead, he whipped his head around to glare furiously at Ye Huan, his expression twisted with malice.
"You pig-slaughtering bastard, this is all your fault! If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have ended up like this. I'll beat you to death..."
With an angry cry, he swung a fierce palm at Ye Huan's face.
Ye Huan casually caught Lin Qingyun's wrist, paused for a split second, and then instantly returned to normal. He casually shoved Lin Qingyun's hand away, snapped a crisp salute, and shouted at the top of his lungs:
"Captain Lin!"
Pfft!
The sight was so utterly absurd that Lin Xi couldn't hold it in and burst out laughing, hurriedly grabbing Ye Huan and pulling him toward the exit.
If she didn't run now, Lin Qingyun really might end up fighting Ye Huan to the death!
"You pig-slaughtering bastard, I'm not finished with you..."
Lin Qingyun shrieked in hysterical, unbridled fury at Ye Huan's retreating back.
Dragged out of the cybersecurity department by Lin Xi, Ye Huan couldn't help asking:
"Does your big uncle Lin Qingyun have kids?"
Confused as to why Ye Huan would ask such a random question, Lin Xi answered anyway:
"He has two sons."
Ye Huan looked stunned. Just a moment ago, when Lin Qingyun tried to slap him, Ye Huan had caught his wrist and accidentally felt his pulse, revealing that Lin Qingyun suffered from absolute infertility. Yet Lin Xi was claiming he had two sons.
Holy crap!
Lin Qingyun's hair color must be a very vibrant shade of green!
The two of them arrived at the underground parking garage!
Once they were in the car, seeing that Lin Xi had turned sideways to stare at him the entire time, Ye Huan asked:
"Staring at me with such infatuation—don't tell me you've fallen in love with me?"
"Ha! You haven't even fallen asleep yet, and you're already starting to dream?"
Lin Xi curled her lips, then asked with genuine curiosity:
"It's strange—how does a pig-slaughtering peasant like you know anything about hacking? Was it just out of some hobby?"
Hearing this, Ye Huan turned unusually solemn.
"If you'd been through what I've been through, you'd be full of talents too!"
When he was eight years old, he was sold by human traffickers to a killer training camp. In a place where human life was utterly worthless, aside from being forced every day to undergo grueling training in all kinds of assassination techniques, he also had to master a vast array of other skills.
Things like hacking, espionage, surgery, proficiency with every kind of firearm, and more—and if you dared to slack off even a little, a brutal beating was guaranteed.
"Oh, listen to you, like you're some kind of big shot!"
Lin Xi scoffed dismissively, then asked:
"Just how good is your hacking anyway?"
Without missing a beat, Ye Huan replied, "Second best in the world!"
There wasn't an ounce of exaggeration in those words, nor was there any false modesty.
Before entering Trapped God Prison, his hacking skills were barely passable—nothing special to write home about. But after going to Trapped God Prison, he met the globally recognized number one hacker locked away in there: the Cult Master.
After studying under the Cult Master for a year, his hacking skills advanced by leaps and bounds, though compared to the Cult Master, there was still a considerable gap. It wasn't that his talent fell short of the Cult Master's; it was simply that hacking required long, unbroken hours of study and total immersion. And that was something Ye Huan simply couldn't stick with.
Ye Huan's most legendary achievement was hacking the computers of every single government official in Beautiful Country, Fusang, and Kimchi Country, and treating the whole lot of them to twenty-four hours of uncut adult films.
"You aren't trying to make me go work in the Lin Group's cybersecurity department, are you?" Ye Huan asked.
"I am considering it!"
Lin Xi nodded. With Ye Huan's level of mastery in hacking, he would definitely be able to beat back any incoming enemies attempting to breach the Lin Group's network.
"I don't want to go!"
Ye Huan refused flatly. He had once hidden his identity to work as a network security engineer at a major Wall Street firm, and it was terribly boring.
"What if I order you to go?" Lin Xi asked.
"I can introduce you to a hacking expert who's even better than me," Ye Huan said.
Lin Xi's eyes lit up: "How good is he?"
"As long as he's holding down the fort, the Lin Group will become the safest place on earth—speaking strictly in terms of network security, of course," Ye Huan said.
"Really?" Lin Xi looked skeptical.
"When he gets here, you can test him out and see for yourself!" Ye Huan shrugged.
"Fine!"
Lin Xi decided to humor him for now. "Grandpa told me to find a job for you here at the Lin Group. Since you don't want to go to the cybersecurity department, you can just be a security guard in the security team!"
Hearing that, Ye Huan panicked: "I just offended Lin Qingyun on your account, and now you want to stick me under his command? He's going to torture me to death!"
"That's exactly what I'm hoping to see!" Lin Xi said with a smug grin.
Ye Huan: "..."
That was when Ye Huan remembered: the whole reason Lin Xi married him was to get her revenge. Of course she wasn't going to miss a golden opportunity to torture him through Lin Qingyun.
...
In a dimly lit study!
A balding middle-aged man in his thirties or forties was hammering away furiously at his keyboard.
Yet no matter how hard he tried, he simply couldn't close the adult film playing relentlessly across his computer screen.
Uncut in high definition!
"My intelligence was completely wrong. The Lin Group actually has a hacking expert whose skills far outclass mine."
The man muttered in absolute shock.
He was the very hacker who had breached the Lin Group's network!
"Squeak!"
At that moment, the study door was pushed open from the outside, and a young man and woman walked in.
The man was dressed entirely in black.
The woman was dressed entirely in white—even her hair and shoes were white.
Both of their faces were frighteningly pale, making them look like ghosts!
"Who—who are you people?"
The man snapped to his feet, asking with a mixture of shock and terror.
"Hell Gate, Black and White Impermanence!"
The young man in black replied expressionlessly.In fact, while Ye Huan was playing against the hacker, he casually traced the IP address of the hacker's computer. Using that IP, he pinpointed the hacker's location, and then used his computer to send a text message to "Dizang", the bald fatty of Hell Gate.
He ordered Dizang to capture the hacker and extract the mastermind behind the scenes.
...
After dropping Lin Xi off at home, Ye Huan drove Lin Xi's car back to his own place in Cello Bay.
As soon as he entered the house, he saw Yaoji wearing a bathrobe, lying sideways on the sofa in an extremely sexy and seductive posture, watching Empresses in the Palace.
"Why aren't you asleep yet at this hour?" Ye Huan asked.
"My King, you're back!"
Seeing that Ye Huan had returned, Yaoji hurriedly got up and threw herself into Ye Huan's arms, acting coquettishly:
"I was waiting for you. If you didn't come back, how could I possibly fall asleep?"
That afternoon, she had gone upstairs intending to sneak a peek at Ye Huan taking a bath. When that failed, she went back to her bedroom and slept the whole afternoon, planning to have a decisive battle with Ye Huan tonight until dawn.
"Waiting for me?"
Ye Huan's expression turned playful. His hands wandered over Yaoji's body as he asked:
"What? Do you want to serve me in bed tonight?"
"I am the King's woman, and serving you is my bounden duty!" Yaoji said without a shred of shyness.
Ye Huan pushed Yaoji away, pinched her chin, and said:
"I took you in, not to make you my tool for venting desires. All right, go to sleep!"
With that, he walked toward the second floor.
Yaoji was dumbfounded. Ever since she followed Ye Huan out of Trapped God Prison, she had been looking forward to spending a romantic night with him. Only then would she truly be considered the Underworld King's woman.
She had even prepared herself to compete with Lin Xi for the position of Queen, specifically finding the television series Empresses in the Palace to study palace intrigue.
As a result, judging by Ye Huan's intent, he had no intention of sleeping with her at all.
"It seems my path to becoming Queen is a bit bumpy!"
Yaoji muttered to herself in utter disappointment.
Chapter 32: You Know Nothing About My Strength
This little vixen!
Ye Huan's index finger twitched, his lust thoroughly ignited by Yaoji, but he ultimately managed to suppress the impulse to pounce on her, saying:
"We just arrived in Pengcheng today, and too many things have happened. I need to calm down and sort out my thoughts, and figure out how to live here from now on."
Reflecting before bed was his habit. With that, he pushed Yaoji aside and walked toward the second floor.
Hearing this, Yaoji panicked. She had taken eight baths that afternoon, put on sweet-smelling lotion, and had even figured out what positions to use, and now he was just calling it quits because he didn't feel like it?
Looking at Ye Huan's back, Yaoji pouted aggrievedly, tears almost welling up in her eyes.
"Consider it good things taking time!"
Yaoji comforted herself, then turned off the TV and went upstairs to sleep, thinking to herself that she would wake up early tomorrow and have a morning workout with the Underworld King.
In her sleep, a terrifying killing intent woke Yaoji up.
Out of her assassin's instinct, Yaoji rolled off the bed and onto the floor, lying flat and listening intently.
Then she heard movement coming from the back garden, and the killing intent was also coming from the back garden.
She crawled under the window, carefully stood up, lifted a corner of the bed curtain, and looked outside.
She saw Ye Huan practicing his blade in the garden!
And the killing intent was being released by none other than Ye Huan!
"My King, why aren't you sleeping in the middle of the night and practicing martial arts instead? Are you suffering from insomnia?"
Yaoji glanced at the time—it was only four-ten in the morning. She opened the window, jumped out, and asked.
When she said this, she was quite upset. The Underworld King had insomnia and would rather practice by himself than come find her.
Insomnia was easily solved—exercise with her for an hour or so and he would naturally feel sleepy.
"I always wake up at four every morning to practice!" Ye Huan said.
Yaoji was incomparably shocked. No wonder the Underworld King was so powerful; it turned out he was this diligent.
To work hard in places where no one notices, and to shine in places where everyone looks—that was the Underworld King indeed!
"Yaoji, do you want to be the number one on the Global God of War Rankings?"
At this moment, Ye Huan stopped and asked.
Yaoji's eyes lit up: "Yes!"
Although she knew that even if she claimed the throne of number one on the Global God of War Rankings, she wouldn't necessarily be the strongest fighter in the world—at least Ye Huan, the Butler, and that bald fatty from Hell Gate were stronger than her.
But at least on paper, she would be the world's number one expert, which was already pretty cool and awesome!
"Good. Starting tomorrow, you will wake up at four in the morning to practice with me. Your foundation and talent are both quite good. Under my guidance, in a month at most, you will surpass the number one on the God of War Rankings!" Ye Huan said.
A month?
Yaoji's heart surged with emotion: "Then you should start guiding me right now!"
"Go back and put some clothes on first!" Ye Huan said.
Clothes?
Yaoji looked down!
Holy shit!
She wasn't wearing any clothes at all!
...
At six-thirty in the morning, Lin Xi, who had been sleeping soundly, suddenly sat up in bed like a corpse revived, scanned the bedroom once, and breathed a sigh of relief:
"So it was just a dream..."
She had been frightened awake by a dream. In the dream, Ye Huan had violated her in a KTV private room. Like Xiang Yingxin, she had stumbled out of the room leaning against the wall, blood streaming down her legs, leaving a bloody footprint with every step she took.
When she leaned against the staircase railing, taking difficult steps down toward the first floor, she saw Shen Huamei, Su Lei, and those people pointing at her and saying filthy things, with Xiang Yingxin saying the most vicious ones of all.
And then she woke up in a fright!
"I actually had a wet dream, and the male lead was that scumbag and jerk Ye Huan..."
While feeling utterly ashamed, Lin Xi couldn't help but recall the scene from five years ago when Ye Huan took advantage of her and humiliated her, instantly filling her chest with fury.
Angrily, she grabbed her phone from beside the pillow and called Ye Huan...
...
Ye Huan and Yaoji had just finished their martial arts practice, taken a shower, and were getting ready for a hearty morning workout.
Just as they hugged each other and were about to lock lips, the phone rang.
Lin Xi: "Scumbag Ye, I order you to come to my house immediately."
Ye Huan glanced at the time: "It's only six-thirty. Didn't you tell me to be downstairs at your house by eight?"
Lin Xi: "I changed it to earlier!"
With that, she hung up the phone.
Ye Huan depressedly put away his phone, looked at Yaoji—who was already prepared for battle—and said:
"Lin Xi wants me to go pick her up now."
Without Ye Huan needing to say it, Yaoji had heard it herself, seeing as her lips were less than a centimeter away from Ye Huan's mouth.
At that instant, Yaoji was furious. She had gotten all ready for a morning workout with Ye Huan, only for it to be ruined by that little cabbage.
She wanted to throw a tantrum, make a fuss, unreasonably stop Ye Huan from going to pick up Lin Xi, and even complain a bit about Lin Xi.
But just a second later, Yaoji dismissed all her thoughts.
"Go ahead. Drive slowly on the way. After dropping that little cabbage off at the company, remember to buy yourself something to eat. Not eating breakfast is bad for your health."
Yaoji said tenderly and sensibly.
After saying that, she mentally high-fived herself like crazy.
Listen!
Everyone listen!
How sensible, how considerate, how gentle, and how lovable she was.
Unlike that little cabbage, who called at six-thirty in the morning demanding in an authoritarian tone that Ye Huan come pick her up. So unreasonable, so inconsiderate, so annoying, and so repulsive.
The King would surely feel the difference between herself and that little cabbage!
As long as she kept this up, the King would definitely grow to like her more and more, and hate that little cabbage more and more.
When a certain breaking point was reached, the King would banish that little cabbage to the cold palace and elevate her—his favored concubine—to the throne of Queen!
"I will!"
Ye Huan cupped Yaoji's pretty face, kissed her, and then quickly dressed and hurried away.
As soon as Ye Huan left, Yaoji dropped her facade completely!
"Little cabbage, you better hope I don't catch you, or I'll stab you to death!"
Furious, Yaoji paced back and forth in the bedroom, muttering viciously to herself.
...
Ye Huan sped to the downstairs of Lin Xi's building and called her:
"I'm here!"
Lin Xi: "Wait!"
With that, she hung up.
Ye Huan didn't think much of it, put away his phone, and sat there waiting. But this wait lasted for a full hour.
At precisely eight o'clock, Lin Xi walked out, timing it to the second.
Today, Lin Xi was wearing a silver professional suit—intellectual, wise, walking with a brisk breeze, and exuding a powerful aura.
However, what Ye Huan focused on was the generous breasts, slender waist, and round hips accentuated by the professional suit.
"You came out at eight, yet you called me at six-thirty telling me to get over here. What is the meaning of this?"
At this moment, Ye Huan had zero mood to appreciate Lin Xi's beauty, and asked with displeasure.
"Article 3 of the marriage agreement: after marriage, the female party has the right to dispose of all the male party's time. I'm already being considerate by not making you come at one or two in the morning!"
Lin Xi opened the door, sat in the passenger seat, and said expressionlessly.
Only then did Ye Huan realize that Lin Xi had deliberately made him come early just to exact revenge on him.
"What? Are you angry?"
Seeing Ye Huan's dark face, Lin Xi's mood instantly improved, and she deliberately grinned to provoke and anger him.