The Female CEO Falls in Love with Me

Chapter 1182: Chapter 370: Empty City Stratagem?

Chapter 370: Empty City Strategy?

Hearing Zheng Tian say that as long as his daughter agrees, this time it’s not like before with a touch of humor, it’s clearly well-thought-out. This made Duan Haibo frown, unsure how to comment.

Compared to before, from Zheng Tian’s words earlier, he somewhat learned about Li Yan and Zheng Tian’s daughter’s situation, and knew she had faced many dangers. "You’re certainly capable of keeping her safe," this also showed Zheng Tian’s helplessness, and wasn’t solely to curry favor with Li Yan.

Li Yan was a bit displeased, how should Nian Yufei feel about this? Is this the attitude a father should have?

Yet facing Zheng Tian’s genuine expression, he couldn’t scold him.

Considering Zheng Tian formed an Assassin Group for Nian Yufei, and didn’t hesitate to bow to Hu Yingxiong’s crew, if he can avoid distressing his daughter, he absolutely would! Last time he brought people to City S to meet Li Yan, the intention was clear: if he thought the person was acceptable, he’d use coercion and inducements to make Li Yan agree to accompany Nian Yufei. However, at that time he realized Li Yan couldn’t be controlled by him, which led to a strategy change.

And now he also sees, Li Yan, regarding Nian Yufei, may have pity, care, or reminiscence for past times, but doesn’t have romantic interest.

"Old Zheng, let’s not say more, it’ll only make things awkward for everyone. When I saved Nian Yufei years ago, she was just a child, even now, she’s just a half-grown kid. Her feelings towards me are mere hero worship. As she grows up she’ll naturally understand. It’s okay for you to say this to me, but if you say it to her, it might taint her pure admiration. This way, it’ll become difficult for us to interact in the future."

Zheng Tian nodded silently, acknowledging Li Yan’s reasoning was sound, he was just overly concerned. Perhaps, once Park Changnan is taken out, Fei’Er won’t need many people following and protecting her on outings, allowing her to live the life of an ordinary girl. Over time, her mindset will surely change. Li Yan’s last sentence was equivalent to a clear indication: if he continues speaking this way, he will no longer interact with him, which neither he personally nor Nian Yufei would want.

"How about... having a meal? I wonder if Hu Yingxiong can even eat!" Once again, Duan Haibo broke the awkward silence.

...

After that, they spent two days playing in Chong City.

Chong City is surrounded by mountains on the east, south, and north, open on the west, flat in the middle, forming a horseshoe-shaped basin. While not a historical or cultural ancient city, it boasts its own splendid natural beauty, with the picturesque and serene Jingpo Lake to the north, and eight major scenic spots including the "Hanging Water Tower" waterfall and Da Gu Mountain; Majestic Yubai Mountain to the south, towering Baiyun Peak, gleaming Celestial Pool, roaring Yubai Waterfall, scattered hot springs, and stately beauty pine trees competing for splendor. Looking east, you can not only experience the frontier village aspect of "Day observing Three Kingdoms scenery, night hearing foreign sentiment," but also browse the undulating Yubai Mountain range, vast primordial forest, and flowing Tumen River.

Sightseeing is good, serving as a diversion. But whether Li Yan or Duan Haibo, neither is accustomed to touring and sightseeing with such a large group of people, even when traveling to relax, they’re often alone. If wanting to go with others, it’s with MM, traveling with a bunch of big men to sightsee is quite a damper... They’re not much interested in the local Weili Race’s situation, or imitation Liguo-style stores and life etcetera.

Hu Yingxiong and Jackman, initially intending to give Li Yan a scare on the first day of meeting, unexpectedly got a scare from Li Yan instead, and were very well-behaved the following days. Jackman’s gun and Hu Yingxiong’s throat wound serve as reminders for them to tread carefully with Li Yan.

That evening, members of ’their’ organization who had first arrived in Chong City contacted Li Yan through Yue Yao. Li Yan asked him to wait in the hotel’s café, then went down first alone to understand the situation.

In the café, Li Yan immediately recognized the target upon entering, and directly sat down opposite the young man.

The young man sat up straight, not daring to be careless. Seeing Li Yan appear before him, he immediately became excited, with a touch of fanaticism and respect, softly addressed him as, "King, you’ve come personally?"

"Li Tianyu? It’s you who came to Chong City from Liguo this time?" Li Yan nodded, indicating him to relax.

Seeing Li Yan take out a cigarette, Li Tianyu quickly leaned forward to light it. Besides that assembly at Cloud Island, he had only met Li Yan once alone (when someone hired an assassin to injure Chen Mingying, intending to act at the hotel, it coincidentally collided with Li Yan dining with Hai Fu, causing him to contact Yue Yao to cancel the task), never expecting his idol, leader King would still remember his name, making him quite excited.

"Actually, I’m here to learn, and Brother Xi is with me, he’s now watching Park Changnan’s place, and asked me to inform you." Li Tianyu answered respectfully.

Brother Xi? Li Yan guessed he was referring to Liu Xi. It became clear, Li Tianyu, however clever, is still considered a newcomer and can’t take on big responsibilities yet. Originally internally at the "Gun" level, now advanced to "Blade" level, industry-wide it’s equivalent to a B-Class assassin. Indeed needs training, be it skills or experience. Whereas Liu Xi is already at the "Fist" level, permitted by Li Yan to join Feng Wuqing, Shi Jian’en in undertaking S-Class tasks. Considered an A-Class pushing for S-Class assassin.