52: Chapter 52 The Young Mistress's Secret

"Hello, Uncle and Auntie!"

Su Fan greeted the middle-aged couple in front of him.

He couldn't help but marvel inwardly that the rich truly focused on skincare; although Qin Xiaoxiao's parents were over fifty, they looked as though they were only in their thirties.

"Oh, Xiaoxiao, is he your boyfriend, Su Fan?"

A stunningly beautiful woman, full of charm with a striking cleavage, wearing a high-fashion red dress and bright red lipstick, asked Qin Xiaoxiao with a smile while holding the arm of a man with mixed-race features.

Qin Xiaoxiao nudged Su Fan gently with her elbow and whispered, "My sister, Qin Lulu."

"Hello."

Su Fan shook hands with Qin Lulu, though he did not add any title.

When Qin Lulu shook his hand, she leaned over slightly, revealing a large expanse of snow-white skin beneath her deep V-neck; the scale was much more spectacular than Qin Xiaoxiao's!

Qin Lulu's mixed-race husband also walked over to shake Su Fan's hand: "My name is Owen, my Chinese name is Xiao Kai. Welcome to our Xiao Family as a guest..."

Owen, Xiao Kai, he is a member of the Xiao Family?

Then his mother must be a foreign woman...

Su Fan had just paused in a daze when he was pulled away by Qin Xiaoxiao to meet more people. The Four Great Families had many descendants, and people like Wang Hui and Xiao Kai were merely among the direct lineage.

Wealthy Families placed particular importance on procreation.

Three generations from the Su, Qin, Xiao, and Wang Families appeared together in the Xiao Family banquet hall, almost filling the entire hall. At a glance, there were at least several hundred people.

After Qin Xiaoxiao pulled Su Fan away, Qin Shen looked at his wife and muttered to her, "Xiaoxiao is supposed to marry into the Wang Family... How could you allow her to have a boyfriend like this?"

Su Min rolled her eyes at him: "Who allowed it? This girl is acting on her own!"

Looking at Su Fan's back, Su Min added, "However, I think this Su Fan is actually quite good. He's gentle, a bit shy, looks like an honest person, and his cultivation level isn't low either. He has a bright future, and he's quite a good match for our Xiaoxiao..."

Upon hearing this, Qin Shen glared at her, his face dropping immediately: "Stop talking nonsense! Our Xiaoxiao must marry into one of the other two Great Families. If not the Wang Family, then the Su Family; there is no other choice."

"Alright, old man, I'll listen to you..."

Su Min rolled her eyes and pouted, then looked at Qin Shen and asked, "Then should we make them break up? If those two have already done that, what will you do?"

"That's true. This Xiaoxiao is too willful. You should discipline her!"

"Can't you discipline her? You old man, honestly..."

The two of them muttered and argued.

At this moment, Qin Xiaoxiao did not know her father's attitude was so firm. Seeing that most people looked at Su Fan with new respect, the corners of her mouth couldn't help but lift slightly. She maintained a smiling expression the whole time, socializing with the guests.

Naturally, she had completely forgotten that this time she was acting with Su Fan, and that Su Fan was not her real boyfriend.

Within the crowd, Wang Hui looked at Su Fan with ill intent several times, but in such a large setting with many elders from the Four Great Families present, even a playboy like him wasn't arrogant enough to dare to go up and cause trouble for Su Fan.

Although Su Fan felt very uncomfortable at this moment, he still kept a smile on his face, politely exchanging pleasantries with a crowd of strange Young Masters and wealthy young ladies.

Only then did he truly witness just how luxurious and exaggerated the lives of the social elite really were!

A large cake with a diameter of ten meters had actually cost 5 million to customize, and a casual bottle of wine could cost as much as tens of thousands; this was simply burning money!

Many things here were purchased three years ago because now, with the whole world infested by Mutant Beasts and roads blocked, it was impossible to import goods.

After the Spiritual Qi recovery, Great Xia maintained its original social order, legal order, and national order. However, most industries such as commerce, industry, and services had declined, causing the economic level to regress by thirty years, roughly returning to the level of the period between 2000 and 2008.

Yet money, that thing, did not become worthless as predicted on the internet; on the contrary, it became more and more valuable.

"I didn't expect that even with the Spiritual Qi recovery, the Four Great Families still maintain the same extravagant lifestyle as before the Spiritual Qi recovery..."

Su Fan sighed inwardly; could it really be as Wang Hui said, that even with the Spiritual Qi recovery, the poor remain poor, and the rich remain people above others?

After walking around, he whispered to ask Qin Xiaoxiao if these bottles of wine worth tens of thousands were becoming rarer with each one consumed since they couldn't be imported...

Unexpectedly, his words were overheard by some of the Young Masters and wealthy young ladies. The Young Masters laughed uproariously, bending over, while the wealthy young ladies covered their mouths and laughed elegantly.

Just as Su Fan was looking puzzled, suspecting he had said something wrong...

Qin Xiaoxiao quickly explained to him...

It turned out that every Family had its own winery. These wines didn't need to be imported from Europe; they were just labeled with European brands, but the craftsmanship was all the same...

"This..."

Su Fan was speechless.

In the entire Ninth Safe Zone, with a population of thirteen million, the happiest people were probably the few hundred present in this Xiao Family banquet hall at this very moment, right?

So what if Spiritual Qi has recovered? Foundation Establishment Cultivators serve as their bodyguards, and even the Justice Bureau has to protect their interests...

For a moment, Su Fan thought back to the housing unit he lived in, less than sixty square meters, partitioned into two bedrooms and a living room, with one kitchen and one bathroom, so small it was like a pigeon coop...

And also, he had risked his life to capture ferocious criminals like Huang Lang and Deputy Bureau Chief Liu Yang, received a 500,000 bonus, and was incredibly happy, thinking he had made big money...

As a result...

When he saw the true, extravagant lives of the Four Great Families, he was deeply shocked!

It also instantly refreshed his understanding of what it meant to be rich!

At the same time, he also genuinely doubted from the bottom of his heart: was it really the right thing to do to join the Justice Bureau and give his all to maintain such an order? Did such maintenance have any meaning?

Spiritual Qi has recovered, the whole world has changed, so why have some things remained the same?

...

On the other side, Qin Lulu smiled and waved to the guests, then walked out of the banquet hall alone to a secluded area outside to answer a phone call.

"That Xiao Chen, has he been taken care of?"

As she spoke, Qin Lulu's expression changed abruptly, instantly transforming from charming and dignified to fierce and ruthless, filled with Killing Intent.

She was actually not a Mortal, but a Cultivator with a higher cultivation level than Qin Xiaoxiao. This point, let alone Qin Xiaoxiao not knowing, even Qin Shen and Su Min didn't know, and not even a few people in the entire Ninth Safe Zone were aware of it.

Because her information was never registered with the Superpower Affairs Administration.

"Young Mistress, it has been taken care of."

The reply came from the phone.

"Did you get the item?"

"I got it."

"No one saw you, right?"

"Please rest assured, Young Mistress, no one saw me. Even if someone had, so what? He is just a Xiao Family illegitimate child; no one will care about the life or death of an illegitimate child..."

A hoarse male voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Very good, you did well. Come over tonight... I'll reward you..."

Qin Lulu licked her bright red lips with her tongue, bit her lip with her teeth, and said in a low voice.

"Young Mistress... I have official business..."

"Useless man."

Qin Lulu cursed under her breath, then hung up the phone.

When she returned to the banquet hall, her face instantly restored to a blooming smile, and she exchanged pleasantries with the guests...