Early the next morning, the An family’s living room was filled with visitors.
Sitting at the head of the table is the current head of the An family, Father An; while sitting on the left side of him are his sons and his daughter, and the guests from outside; and sitting on his right side are a dozen of the actual elders of the An family, who look the youngest to be over 60 years old, a genuine group of seniors and elders of the An family.
In the future world, a thousand-year-old family like the An family would normally have a family head who made external decisions, while internally, there would be a group of elders who acted as guides to the whole family, and even the family head could not disobey their orders.
This time, Father An had called these elders in order to silence these elders, so that they would give up for the time being and expel the An family oldest son from the An family’s circle of power.
Father An looked at the elders sitting on his right and sneered in his heart, but said calmly on the surface,
“I have convened this clan assembly to make an announcement, and that is to temporarily hand over the affairs of the An family to my daughter, An Mu Lan, who has been acting as the assistant to the president of Ling Xihan for all these years. I wonder if the elders have any objections to this proposal of mine?”
The elders of the An family did not move, and a relatively young elder, speaking slowly and with a trifle of dissatisfaction in his voice, said,
“Clan head, we acknowledge that you are a capable and qualified clan head, but that doesn’t mean that we, the elders, all have to listen to you. You previously allowed your rotten sons to manage the affairs of the family, and what happened? You recall how much trouble they have caused our An Family over the past few years, and how much they have disgraced our An Family. The An family’s reputation is in tatters, and they continue to do as they please.”
He cursed first, and when he saw that Father An’s face remained unchanged, he coughed twice in defiance, then sat back sarcastically.
The eyes of the group of elders fell on the eldest of them all, and the old man narrowed his eyes and said,
“For the An family, back then I chose you as the head of the family so that you could lead our An family to glory, and over the years, you’ve always done a good job, but this time, you’ve crossed the line!
The so-called patriarch’s first priority is to put the legacy and development of the An family as a top priority, but look at how you’ve done it, pushing your childish son into the acting patriarch position, then letting him cause trouble, and now trying to push your daughter out, don’t think that because we old men have aged, we’re really deaf and blind, we admit that Mu Lan is capable, but how old is Mu Lan this year, she’s only just graduated from university a few days ago? Are you going to use the An family as a toy for you to raise your children?”
He spoke in an unhurried manner, and after he had finished, he even gave a light glance at Father An, causing his face to flush red at once, hurriedly explaining that,
“Second Uncle, you misunderstand. I ……”
Father An struggled to explain, but the elders just sat on the sofa without moving. Father An hadn’t had anyone disrespect him like this since he became the patriarch, and today these people were acting like a straight-up slap in his face, and it was all because of his four unworthy sons.
This made him stand up in anger and yell at his sons, who were sitting to his left,
“Oldest! I’ve already negotiated a marriage with the Li family, you get this lowly woman out of here now, I don’t want to see her in front of me again.”
Father An had originally intended to retreat as an advance to satisfy the Elders first and to plan things afterwards, but he had overestimated his son.
Only to see that the oldest clenched his fist on his knee, he gritted his teeth and looked at Father An as if he were dead, then looked at Ye Zixuan with a sad, grieved face, Ye Zixuan had long been frightened by this serious environment at this time and was now teary-eyed, which made the oldest very impatient.
He retorted regardless,
“Father, I really love Ye Zixuan, please don’t break us up, she is a good girl, I have been such a jerk all these years because I didn’t have her by my side to support me, but now that she is back, she will become my wife and be a qualified matriarch’s wife, she is so gentle and kind, she will definitely be able to carry our An family forward. ”
Father An was dumbfounded!
The second one, who was better at reading people’s faces than the older one, just raised his glasses on the bridge of his nose calmly and said,
“Big brother, I know you love Ye Zixuan, but you can’t be capricious and put the An family out of your mind,”
When Father An heard these words, his face finally looked better, but what the second one said next almost made Father An faint with anger.
The second continued,
“I love Zixuan too, we both can’t live without her, but the An family is equally inseparable from you, so it’s better for me to marry her, I don’t want to be the patriarch anyway, as long as big brother marries Miss Li, we can continue to be together.”
When An Mu Lan heard this, her eyes glazed out of their sockets. Father An was even worse, he could no longer stand and his figure was wobbly.
Ah, how pathetic, thought An Mu Lan, sitting on the sidelines, gloating.
Father An was simply furious, his fingers trembling as he pointed at the second oldest, unable to utter a word in anger.
At this moment, Lao San added to the chaos and stood up, his teary-eyed eyes extended his arm towards Ye Zixuan in a gesture similar to a call. He said,
“Brothers, I love Zixuan, I would give everything I have for her, my heart, my liver, my life and my love!”
He twisted his face, as if wiping away tears, and then said righteously,
“So, it’s better for me to marry Zixuan. Brothers, you must do what father says properly, the An family is fine without me, but without you, it’s like a flying bird leaving its wings, a soaring fish leaving the sea, a house losing its pillars, how can you be so unreasonable. The An family will have no future without you, so you must be good.
Even if Zixuan and I get married, we can still be together forever as we remember, and I won’t get in the way of you communicating your feelings.”
When An Mulan heard this, the five features on her face completely shifted and a mouthful of old blood stuck in her throat, she raised her eyes and carefully looked at Father An, seeing that his expression at this moment was not much different from her own.
An Mu Lan’s heart tsked and sighed: worthy of being a heroine with a Mary Sue aura over her body, even though so many years had passed, even though the weather had changed her initial appearance, the true love between them would never change!
What’s with the QY vibe?
At that moment, a slightly cool palm landed on her hand, An Mu Lan turned her head to look over and saw a smiling Ling Xihan, who, in a rare moment of disregard for the scene, came close to her ear and whispered,
“It’s a good thing you’re genetically mutated or I would have returned you.”
An Mu Lan nodded, yes, she was excluded from the core of the An family, and now it seemed fortunate that this was the case, or else there would have been another brain dead.
The scene became entertaining as Father An collapsed unsteadily onto the sofa, his face had an expression of irony as he gritted his teeth and looked at Ye Zixuan, that look, as if he saw Ye Zixuan as the culprit.
The elders of the clan, worthy of being elites who had lived half a lifetime, remained lofty and calm even under such circumstances, handsome and very dashing!
At this time, the grumpy fourth son rose to his feet, his gaze sweeping coldly over the crowd present, and said,
“Isn’t it just a patriarchship? Why can’t I be the head of the clan? Do you all have to hold on to us and force us to death before you are satisfied? Father, I think you are also old and it is time for you to retire from the stage of history, after this, I will be the one to carry the An family forward, and as for you old and immortal people, I will be the first to clean you up.”
Father An covered his heart with a broken expression of “You’re heartless, you’re shameless, you’re unreasonable”.
The fourth son spun around in a dashing manner and cursed everyone present, one by one, without repeating the words, fully enriching An Mu Lan’s vocabulary and thinking: I am impressed.
He paced slowly to Father An’s side, picked up the cup of tea that was sitting next to him and played with it, saying viciously,
“I have put the □ in today’s tea, none of you can escape today.”
The crowd looked at him with a what’s-his-name expression, which gave him great satisfaction, and lifting his head, he said,
“Go to hell.”
The crowd still looked at him with that what’s-his-name expression, which was, how shall I say, complicated. But simply put, it’s the look of looking at an idiot.
An Mu Lan couldn’t look anymore, she reminded kindly and in a whisper,
“But, Fourth Brother, none of us, apart from Father and our three brothers, have ever had tea?”
The Elders, Ling Xihan and Zhang Yao: “Yes.”
Fourth: “……”
Oldest, second and third: “……”
Father An: “You brat!”
With that, a mouthful of old blood spurted out and he collapsed on the ground.
The image of blood splattering three feet is what An Mu Lan has now seen.
The scene rose in confusion as the oldest of the Elders spoke into his personal terminal,
“Come in, you guys.”
The door opened forcibly from the outside and a large group of people poured in. Police officers in green uniforms tied up the fourth son and took him away; doctors in long white coats carried away the eldest, the second and the third, as well as Father An; maids in pink dresses cleaned up the blood on the floor of the room.
It all happened so fast and so suddenly that it was all resolved before An Mu Lan could get back to her senses.
The old man looked unchanged, only holding his cane, and with the help of those beside him, he walked up to An Mu Lan and held out his hand.
An Mu Lan was quick to reach out for a handshake, but his dry, thin hand turned in the direction of a fair-complexioned, sharply boned hand, and he said in a respectful tone,
“President Ling, I’ve made you laugh, but it’s all going according to our plan, and I hope you won’t forget our agreement.”
Ling Xihan smiled lightly and said gently,
“Naturally, I won’t forget, but Elder, there’s one more thing you haven’t said, right?”
The elder came to his senses and said to An Mu Lan,
“After this, the patriarch of the An family who is in charge is yours, so marry and have children with President Ling and live a good life, do you hear me?”
An Mu Lan made an out-of-sorts “Huh? Ah! Ah ……” a few times, then watched the group of elders leave.
It was only when Ling Xihan took her hand and walked outside the An residence that she came back to her senses and said with a surprised look on her face,
“You did this, didn’t you? How did you do it? How did you get so clever? Here, give me a kiss.”
And with that, she kissed her forcibly.
The corners of Ling Xihan’s mouth curled up slightly and she wrapped an emotional An Mu Lan in her arms as she said,
“I said I would settle this matter, I just spoke to the elders of your An family about something that solved your An family’s immediate problem. After that, I ordered a few more people to get in your brothers’ heads and whisper on their ears a bit. I didn’t expect things to go so well either, it’s been a long time since I’ve met an opponent like this, other than being a bit disgusting, it’s not bad.”
That said, there was a bit of lamentation, because such a brain-dead opponent will really never be seen again.
An Mu Lan snickered, a light shone in her eyes, and with a big smile on her face, she said,
“I love you! You’re a brilliant woman!”
“Well, you’re getting all worked up over a little thing, lets go home, I’m hungry.”
Ling Xihan rubbed her long hair and said dotingly.
An Mu Lan stood obediently with her head bowed, allowing her to be rubbed and pinched.
Suddenly, a white light flashed before her eyes.
An Mu Lan’s gaze glinted and she vigorously pushed Ling Xihan aside before a violent collision came to her body and she felt the wind and pain. Her body landed on the ground with a “thud”.
She collapsed in a pool of blood, and felt the blood inside her body as it trickled out, what a familiar sight, it reminded her of when she had died.
With a pale face, Ling Xihan stood up and walked over to pick up An Mu Lan.
Then without the slightest emotion, as if looking at a dead man, she glanced at Zhang Yao who was sitting in the flying car laughing maniacally, before turning around and entering a flying car and heading to the hospital.
In the white corridor, Ling Xihan lit a cigarette and smoked it slowly; she hadn’t smoked in a long time. She had always been a heavy smoker and couldn’t quit, but then how did she quit?
Thoughts drifted through her mind as a familiar girl, pouting, put her arm around her and wrinkled her nose,
“Don’t smoke, they say that’s bad, it affects the quality of kissing.”
Ling Xihan extinguished her cigarette, then turned around and left the hospital.
The doctor’s words** echoed in her mind,
“The Miss An Mu Lan, who has suffered a severe trauma to the back of her head, has affected the nerves in her brain and may become a vegetable, but President Ling, please rest assured that our hospital will do our best to treat your fiancée.”
A vegetable?!
No matter what, before that happens, she needs to find a person and get it off her chest.