Ye Huan casually grabbed Lin Qingyun's wrist, paused for a split second, and then returned to normal. He let go of Lin Qingyun's hand with a flick, snapped a crisp salute, and shouted loudly:
"Captain Lin!"
Pfft!
This scene made Lin Xi burst out laughing, and she hurriedly grabbed Ye Huan and ran outside.
"You pig butcher, I am not finished with you..."
Lin Qingyun stared at Ye Huan's retreating back and roared in fury.
...
After getting into the car with Lin Xi, she turned sideways and stared at Ye Huan's profile the entire way.
"Staring at me with such infatuation, you couldn't possibly have fallen in love with me, could you?"
Ye Huan turned his head to look at Lin Xi and asked with a smile.
"Ha, you haven't even gone to sleep yet and you are already dreaming?"
Lin Xi curled her lips and asked curiously, "It's strange, why would a pig butcher like you learn hacking skills?"
At the mention of this, Ye Huan turned rarely serious and said, "If you had been through what I've been through, you'd be versatile too!"
When he was eight years old, he was sold by human traffickers to a killer training camp. In that place where human life was worthless, besides being forced to undergo various assassination skill training every day, he also had to learn all sorts of other abilities.
For example, hacking, espionage, various firearms, and so on. Those who refused to learn, or lacked the talent to master them, were brutally killed.
"Talked about as if you're amazing!"
Lin Xi sneered and asked, "How impressive are your hacking skills?"
Ye Huan didn't even think about it before answering: "Second best in the world!"
There was not an ounce of exaggeration or false modesty in those words!
Before entering the Prison of Trapped Gods, his hacking skills were barely passable, hardly worth boasting about.
But after going to the Prison of Trapped Gods, he met the globally recognized number one hacker imprisoned there, the Leader.
After studying under the Leader for a year, his hacking skills advanced by leaps and bounds, though compared to the Leader, there was still a huge gap.
It wasn't that his talent was inferior to the Leader's, but rather that hacking was a field requiring long-term, deep immersion and relentless study.
And that was something Ye Huan could never bring himself to do!
Ye Huan's most legendary feat was hacking the computers of all the top government officials in Beautiful Country, Fusang, and Paocai Country, treating them to a twenty-four-hour marathon of adult films.
Chapter 31: High-Definition, Uncensored
"Gu—guard captain?"
Lin Qingyun stared at Lin Tai's retreating back, his mind buzzing in utter disbelief!
Here he was, a proud young master of the Lin Family, who the previous second was the president and chairman of Lin's Group, only to be reduced to a security captain the next?
"Captain Lin, the security of Lin's Group is all on you from now on, hahahaha..."
Lin Canglan intentionally laughed loudly to provoke Lin Qingyun.
Lin Qingyun was so furious that his prostate throbbed with dull pain, yet he didn't dare snap back. Instead, he turned his angry gaze toward Ye Huan, his face twisted in a ferocious expression.
"You pig butcher, this is all your fault! If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have ended up in this state. I'll beat you to death..."
With that, he swung a furious slap toward Ye Huan's face.
Ye Huan casually grabbed Lin Qingyun's wrist, paused for a split second, and then returned to normal. He let go of Lin Qingyun's hand with a flick, snapped a crisp salute, and shouted loudly:
"Captain Lin!"
Pfft!
This scene made Lin Xi burst out laughing, and she hurriedly grabbed Ye Huan and ran outside.
If she hadn't dragged him away, Lin Qingyun really might have fought Ye Huan to the death!
"You pig butcher, I am not finished with you..."
Lin Qingyun stared at Ye Huan's retreating back and let out a hysterical, furious roar.
After Lin Xi pulled him out of the cybersecurity department, Ye Huan couldn't help asking, "Does your eldest uncle Lin Qingyun have any children?"
Lin Xi couldn't figure out why Ye Huan would ask such a thing, but she still answered, "He has two sons."
Ye Huan was stunned. Just now, when Lin Qingyun tried to slap him, he had grabbed his wrist and inadvertently felt Lin Qingyun's pulse, discovering that Lin Qingyun was suffering from infertility.
Yet Lin Xi claimed Lin Qingyun had two sons.
Holy shit!
Lin Qingyun's hair color was looking quite green!
The two of them arrived at the underground parking garage!
After getting into the car, seeing that Lin Xi was sitting sideways and watching him the whole time, Ye Huan asked, "Staring at me with such infatuation, you couldn't possibly have fallen in love with me, could you?"
"Ha, you haven't even gone to sleep yet and you are already dreaming?"
Lin Xi curled her lips and asked curiously, "It's strange, why would a pig butcher like you learn hacking skills? Is it because you enjoy it?"
At the mention of this, Ye Huan turned rarely serious and said, "If you had been through what I've been through, you'd be versatile too!"
When he was eight years old, he was sold by human traffickers to a killer training camp. In that place where human life was worthless, besides being forced to undergo various assassination skill training every day, he also had to learn all sorts of other abilities.
For example, hacking, espionage, surgery, various firearms, and so on. Anyone who dared slack off was guaranteed a severe beating.
"Talked about as if you're amazing!"
Lin Xi sneered and asked, "How impressive are your hacking skills?"
Ye Huan didn't even think about it before answering: "Second best in the world!"
There was not an ounce of exaggeration or false modesty in those words!
Before entering the Prison of Trapped Gods, his hacking skills were barely passable, hardly worth boasting about.
But after going to the Prison of Trapped Gods, he met the globally recognized number one hacker imprisoned there, the Leader.
After studying under the Leader for a year, his hacking skills advanced by leaps and bounds, though compared to the Leader, there was still a huge gap.
It wasn't that his talent was inferior to the Leader's, but rather that hacking was a field requiring long-term, deep immersion and relentless study.
And that was something Ye Huan could never bring himself to do!
Ye Huan's most legendary feat was hacking the computers of all the top government officials in Beautiful Country, Fusang, and Paocai Country, treating them to a twenty-four-hour marathon of adult films.
"You don't want me to go work in the cybersecurity department of Lin's Group, do you?" Ye Huan asked.
"I do have that in mind!"
Lin Xi nodded. With Ye Huan's level of expertise in hacking, he would certainly be able to beat back any incoming enemies attempting to breach the network of Lin's Group.
"I don't want to go!"
Ye Huan refused decisively. He had once hidden his identity and worked as a cybersecurity engineer at a major Wall Street firm, and he found it thoroughly uninteresting.
"What if I order you to go?" Lin Xi asked.
"I can introduce you to a hacking expert who is even more formidable than me," Ye Huan said.
Lin Xi's eyes lit up: "How formidable?"
"As long as he is holding down the fort, Lin's Group will become the safest place in the world. Of course, I'm talking about cybersecurity," Ye Huan said.
"Really?" Lin Xi was a bit skeptical.
"When he arrives, you can test him and see for yourself!" Ye Huan shrugged.
"Fine!"
Lin Xi temporarily gave Ye Huan the benefit of the doubt and said, "Grandpa told me to arrange a job for you at Lin's Group. Since you don't want to go to the cybersecurity department, go be a security guard in the security squad instead!"
Hearing this, Ye Huan panicked: "I just offended Lin Qingyun on your account, and now you want me to work under him? He'll torture me to death."
"That's exactly what I want to see!" Lin Xi said with a smug smile.
Ye Huan: "..."
Only then did Ye Huan remember that the whole reason Lin Xi married him was to exact revenge. How could she possibly miss the chance to torture him by proxy through Lin Qingyun?
...
In the dim study!
A bald middle-aged man in his thirties or forties was tapping frantically at his keyboard.
Yet no matter how hard he tried, he simply could not close the adult film playing on his computer screen.
High-definition and uncensored!
"Our intelligence was inaccurate. Lin's Group actually has a hacking master whose skills far surpass mine."
The man muttered to himself with a look of shock.
He was the very hacker who had breached the network of Lin's Group!
"Creak!"
Just at that moment, the study door was pushed open from the outside, and a young man and woman walked in.
The man was dressed all in black;
The woman was dressed all in white, right down to her hair and shoes, which were also white.
Both of their faces were frighteningly pale, making them look just like ghosts!
"Who—who are you people?"
The man stood up abruptly, asking with a mixture of shock and panic.
"Hell Gate, Black and White Impermanence!"
The young man in black replied expressionlessly.
As it turned out, while engaging in a duel with the hacker, Ye Huan had traced the IP address of the hacker's computer. Through that IP, he locked onto the hacker's location and then sent a text message using his computer to Ksitigarbha, the bald, chubby fellow from Hell Gate.
He ordered Ksitigarbha to capture the hacker and interrogate him to find out who was pulling the strings behind the scenes.
...
After dropping Lin Xi off at home, Ye Huan drove her car back to his own residence in Tianqin Bay.
As soon as he stepped through the front door, he saw Yaoji wearing a bathrobe, lounging sideways on the sofa in an extremely sexy and seductive posture while watching The Legend of Zhen Huan.
"Why are you still awake so late?" Ye Huan asked.
"My Lord, you're back!"
Seeing Ye Huan return, Yaoji hurriedly sprang up and threw herself into his arms, cooing coquettishly, "I was waiting for you! With you not back yet, how could I possibly sleep?"
That afternoon she had gone upstairs intending to peek at Ye Huan taking a bath. When that failed, she returned to her bedroom and slept all afternoon, plotting to have a showdown with Ye Huan lasting straight through till dawn.
"Waiting for me?"
A playful expression crept across Ye Huan's face as his hands wandered over Yaoji's body. He asked, "What? Do you want to serve me in bed tonight?""I am the King's woman, and serving in your bed is my bounden duty!" Yaoji said without a trace of shyness.
Ye Huan pushed Yaoji away, pinched her chin, and said, "I took you in, but not to use you as an outlet for my frustrations. Alright, go to sleep!"
With that, he walked toward the second floor.
Yaoji was dumbfounded. Ever since she followed Ye Huan in the Prison of Trapped Gods, 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 fight for the position of Queen with Lin Xi, specifically studying palace intrigue by watching the television series *Empresses in the Palace*.
Yet, judging by what Ye Huan meant, he had no intention of sleeping with her at all.
"It seems my road 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 felt his heart race, his desires thoroughly ignited by Yaoji, but he managed to suppress the urge to push her down. He said, "We just arrived in Pengcheng today, and too many things happened. I need to calm down, sort out my thoughts, and figure out how we are going to live here from now on."
Reflecting before bed was his habit. With that, he pushed Yaoji away and walked toward the second floor.
Hearing this, Yaoji panicked. She had taken eight baths that afternoon, put on fragrant lotion, and even figured out which positions to use, and now he was just going to cancel because he didn't feel like it?
Watching Ye Huan's retreating back, Yaoji pouted aggrievedly, tears almost welling up in her eyes.
"Consider it good things taking time!"
Yaoji comforted herself, then turned off the television and went upstairs to sleep, thinking about waking up early the next morning to have a morning workout with the Underworld King.
In her sleep, a terrifying killing intent woke her up.
Out of assassin instinct, Yaoji quickly rolled off the bed and flattened herself on the floor, listening intently.
Then she heard movement coming from the back garden, and the killing intent was coming from there as well.
She crawled to the edge of the window, carefully stood up, and lifted a corner of the curtain to look outside.
She saw Ye Huan practicing his blade in the garden!
And the killing intent was being emitted by none other than Ye Huan!
"My King, why aren't you sleeping in the middle of the night and practicing martial arts here instead? Are you suffering from insomnia?" Yaoji checked the time; it was only four-ten in the morning. She opened the window, jumped out, and asked.
As she said this, she felt quite resentful. When the Underworld King suffered from insomnia, he preferred to practice martial arts by himself rather than come to her.
It was just insomnia; an hour or two of exercise with her would make him sleepy.
"I always wake up at four every morning to practice!" Ye Huan said.
Yaoji's heart was filled with incomparable shock. 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 the whole world watches—that described the Underworld King perfectly!
"Yaoji, do you want to be the number one on the Global God of War Rankings?"
At that moment, Ye Huan stopped and asked.
Yaoji's eyes lit up. "I do!"
Although she knew that even if she climbed to the throne of number one on the Global God of War Rankings, she wouldn't be the strongest expert in the world—at least Ye Huan, the Butler, and that bald fatty from Hell Gate were stronger than her.
Still, on the surface at least, she would be the number one expert in the world. That was already pretty cool and awesome!
"Alright, then starting tomorrow, you will wake up at four in the morning to practice with me. Your foundation and talent are not bad. 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 excitement. "Then you can start guiding me right now!"
"Go back inside and put some clothes on first!" Ye Huan said.
Clothes?
Yaoji looked down!
Holy shit!
She wasn't wearing any clothes!
***
At six-thirty in the morning, Lin Xi woke up from a deep sleep, suddenly sitting up in bed like a corpse revived. She scanned the bedroom and let out a sigh of relief.
"So it was just a dream..."
She had been woken up by a nightmare. In the dream, Ye Huan had violated her in the KTV private room. Like Xiang Yingxin, she had staggered out of the room leaning against the wall, blood streaming down her legs. With every step she took, she left a bloody footprint.
When she leaned against the stair railing, taking difficult steps down toward the first floor, she saw Shen Huamei, Su Lei, and those people like Xiang Yingxin pointing at her and saying filthy things, with Xiang Yingxin saying the most vicious ones.
Then she woke up in a fright!
"I actually had a wet dream, and the male lead was that scumbag Ye Huan..."
While feeling extremely ashamed, Lin Xi couldn't help but recall the scene from five years ago when Ye Huan had taken advantage of her and humiliated her, filling her chest with rage.
In anger, she grabbed her phone from beside the pillow and called Ye Huan...
***
After finishing their martial arts practice and taking a shower, Ye Huan and Yaoji were just about to have a thorough and vigorous morning workout.
They had just embraced and were about to lock lips when his phone rang.
Lin Xi: "Scumbag Ye, I order you to come to my place right now."
Ye Huan glanced at the time. "It's only six-thirty. Didn't you tell me to be downstairs at your place at eight?"
Lin Xi: "I moved it up!"
With that, she hung up the phone.
Ye Huan put away his phone, feeling a bit depressed. He looked at Yaoji, who had already prepared herself for battle, and said, "Lin Xi wants me to pick her up now."
Without Ye Huan needing to say it, Yaoji had heard it herself. After all, her lips and Ye Huan's mouth had been less than a centimeter apart.
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 picking up Lin Xi, and even complain a bit about Lin Xi.
Yet only a second later, Yaoji rejected all of her own thoughts.
"Go ahead. Drive slowly on the way. After dropping off that little cabbage at the company, remember to buy yourself something to eat. Skipping breakfast is bad for your health," Yaoji said gently and sensibly.
After saying this, she mentally gave herself a high-five.
Listen!
Everyone listen!
How sensible, how considerate, how gentle, and how likable she was.
Unlike that little cabbage, who called at six-thirty in the morning and used an ordering tone to make Ye Huan pick her up. She was so lacking in sense, 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 detest that little cabbage more and more.
When a certain tipping 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.
The moment Ye Huan left, Yaoji dropped her gentle act entirely!
"Little cabbage, you'd 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 a full hour.
Right at eight o'clock, Lin Xi walked out, timing it precisely.
Today, Lin Xi was wearing a silver professional suit—intellectual, astute, walking with the wind, and exuding a powerful aura.
However, what Ye Huan focused on was the generous bosom, slender waist, and rounded hips accentuated by the professional suit.
"You came out at eight, yet you called me at six-thirty to come over. What's the meaning of this?"
At that moment, Ye Huan had zero mood to appreciate Lin Xi's beauty and asked with displeasure.
"Article Three 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, got into the passenger seat, and said expressionlessly.
Only then did Ye Huan realize that Lin Xi had deliberately made him come early out of revenge.
"What? Angry?"
Seeing Ye Huan's dark expression, Lin Xi's mood instantly improved greatly. She deliberately grinned to provoke him.
"Of course I'm angry. I had a dream where you were also wearing this outfit. I had just ripped your clothes apart and was about to have my way with you when you called and interrupted my dream!"
Ye Huan fired right back without hesitation, knowing full well what kind of words would infuriate Lin Xi.
***
Chapter 33: Sending Lin Xi a Short Video
Lin Xi rolled her eyes at Ye Huan. "Moron!"
With that, she opened the door and got into the car!
Ye Huan didn't rush to get in. Today, Lin Xi was wearing a silver professional suit—intellectual, astute, walking with the wind, and exuding a powerful aura.
However, what Ye Huan focused on was the generous bosom, slender waist, and rounded hips accentuated by the professional suit.
Especially when Lin Xi got into the car, that posture was simply enchanting.
"What are you looking at?"
After getting into the car, Lin Xi turned her head and saw Ye Huan staring lecherously at her thighs. She quickly closed the car door and shouted angrily.
"I had a dream last night. In the dream, you were also wearing this outfit. I tore your clothes to pieces and then had my way with you!"
Ye Huan shrugged and made up a wild fabrication.
"I'll beat you to death..."
Enraged, Lin Xi opened the car door, stepped out, and lunged at Ye Huan.