Chapter 365: Chapter 365: The Kid is Angry, Needs to be Coaxed
The wolf-eared child, dressed in a little white suit, puffed up with anger once he was sure that his parents were not injured and in no danger.
But his fury lasted only a few seconds.
He saw Su Wan take out a lot of tasty treats from the Space Button.
Most importantly, they were all fish products!
Even Little Gu Chen’s favorite grilled squid was among them!
At that, the wolf-eared baby’s anger completely dissipated.
Because of the establishment of the eleventh district, the Federal Empire became busy.
The location of the eleventh district was not far from the tenth.
Therefore, the security of the tenth district had to be reorganized.
Gu Jue became busy again.
Su Wan attended classes as usual, with everyone bustling about.
After that incident, the Insectoids disappeared again for a while.
However, they launched a few similar incidents on other planets.
Each planet suffered losses to varying degrees.
People began to realize the importance of the Universe Alliance, focusing even more on the Federal Empire as its core.
They started to coordinate and methodically defend against the Insectoids.
It was during this time that the First Starship Fleet, which had stopped recruiting for two years, reopened its enrollment of new members.
Su Wan also entered her final year as a military academy cadet in the graduating class.
She could participate in the recruitment assessment of the First Starship Fleet.
However, for graduating cadets not on urgent missions, those who passed the selection would continue their remaining studies at the academy.
There would be no holidays, and they would focus on intensive training and mission execution.
But due to their deep admiration for the First Starship Fleet, every student was earnestly preparing, hoping to pass the assessment!
Beyond that, those who were even more anxious were the graduates of the past two years.
They had been working at their jobs for two years already.
Logically, if they never relaxed their training, their chances of joining the First Starship Fleet might be much greater!
It just so happened to be Lin Ranyue’s birthday, and the children came back from various places to celebrate with her.
Even Su Yun, who hadn’t contacted her for a long time, showed up with a gift.
Lin Ranyue initially thought that her oldest son had some ulterior motive again.
But fortunately, from start to finish, he didn’t do or say anything out of line but patiently played with Xiaoluo and Little Gu Chen.
Lin Ranyue let out a sigh of relief.
No matter what, even if they couldn’t be as harmonious as other families, they could at least appear to be on the surface.
Su Wan knew her mother’s thoughts. Today was her mother’s birthday, and naturally, she didn’t want her mother to be unhappy.
As for Su Ni, he was still as carefree as ever.
But when he played with Little Gu Chen and his younger brother Xiaoluo, sparks seemed to dance in his eyes.
Gu Lei gave them the space, allowing them to enjoy each other’s company.
He busied himself with public affairs in the study.
But this harmonious atmosphere was abruptly interrupted by a communication.
Someone called Su Ni.
"Su Ni, your dad is missing!"
The smiles on everyone’s faces froze.
It had to be said that Su Zhen really had the ability to affect their moods with sheer power.
Everything else was secondary.
But now that someone has disappeared, Su Ni couldn’t just ignore it, since he’s still a public figure.
He might even care more about this than his brother or sister.
And he’s also the one who’s the easiest to soften his heart.
Su Ni said somewhat awkwardly, "Big brother, how about the two of us head over to the Security Bureau and ask what exactly is going on?"
Su Yun put down the toy in his hand and hummed in agreement.
However, before leaving, he turned back to Su Wan and asked, "Xiaowan, will you also be participating in the Starship Fleet’s assessment?"
Su Wan looked at him quietly, "I will."
Su Yun was silent for a moment, then said, "Then, let’s work hard together."
After saying that, he left.
Su Wan slightly raised her eyebrows, she had thought that this brother of hers would ask her for help, to pull some strings or something.
But, she guessed he knew that even if he did ask, she wouldn’t help.
Meanwhile, Lin Ranyue was frowning in distress, "What’s going on with Su Zhen exactly?"
A perfectly fine birthday gathering, it was so hard to get all the children together, and there were no conflicts, how rare.
But then...
Su Wan comforted her mother, "It’s okay, if there’s anything, just let Su Ni and the others handle it, don’t overthink. By the way, let me tell you something about Xiaochen, that child..."
With a few words, she shifted her mother’s attention.
Cecilia didn’t leave either, she stayed and accompanied Lin Ranyue.
This made Lin Ranyue feel a bit better.
Watching the children swimming back and forth in the pool, Lin Ranyue curiously asked, "Cecilia, don’t you and Xiaoni plan to have children?"
Cecilia’s expression paused momentarily.
Lin Ranyue quickly added, "Cecilia, don’t overthink it, I didn’t mean anything by it, just asking. If you two don’t want children, that’s fine too."
Although Lin Ranyue was a mother-in-law, she didn’t have any intentions of pressuring them.
As long as the children were happy, that was all that mattered.
She was just chit-chatting and had no intention of meddling in the children’s lives.
Seeing Lin Ranyue’s anxious look, Su Wan said to the side, "Cecilia, you don’t have to treat her like a mother-in-law, just like a sister. This is just girlfriends chit-chatting, don’t think too much about it."
Cecilia looked at them and then said softly as her eyes dropped, "It’s me who doesn’t want children."
Su Wan: "Oh, if you don’t want them, then you don’t want them. Actually, when it comes to children, things will work out as they are meant to. Like Commander Gu and me, we didn’t want children either, but Xiaochen came along, it’s fate, just go with the flow."
After she finished speaking, she digressed and moved the topic elsewhere.
And Cecilia didn’t continue to say anything.
Su Ni and Su Yun returned three hours later, both of them had grim expressions when they arrived.
Su Ni didn’t even know how to start talking about it.
It was Su Yun who glanced at him and said, "There’s no way around it, we have to talk about this matter, no matter what."
He looked towards his mother Lin Ranyue and sister Su Wan and said, "Su Zhen has disappeared, and it’s been three days already. The Chen’s restaurant said that one day after Su Zhen left work, he just never showed up again. The surveillance confirmed that, as usual, he left the restaurant."
Chen’s restaurant, like the other restaurants, always wanted to defeat the Su Family restaurant.
Then, with the Insect Beasts cuisine becoming a craze throughout the Federal Empire, they also spent a huge sum of money to hire new chefs.
However, after a dining incident that sent customers rushing to the hospital for emergency treatment, the trend was suppressed.
The business at Chen’s restaurant went from bad to worse.
Chen blamed everything on the Su Family restaurant, all on Su Wan.
So, he took out all his pent-up irritation on Su Zhen.
Constantly yelling and screaming.
Su Zhen was really depressed, but he couldn’t just quit, as there was nowhere else to go.
Later, upon Su Zhen’s disappearance, the Security Bureau suspected that it might be related to Chen’s restaurant.
Su Ni said, "The Security Bureau is still investigating and collecting evidence, then using surveillance to track down where he went."
