The Wife's Million-Dollar Successful Evacuation The Weasel Spirit Came to Life... Su Su's Compromise

"What on earth are these people doing?"

Lin Baizhi said in a disgruntled tone, standing by the roadside with her arms crossed.

To play it safe, the short-haired woman had stopped the car by the road instead of continuing to drive onward to search, deciding to pause for a short rest and wait.

With the short-haired woman pulling over, Lin Baizhi and the female bodyguard following behind naturally could not move forward any further.

Even if Lin Baizhi wanted to keep searching, she did not have the map provided by Brother Dou Dou... That map was the only copy in the young miss's hands, sent back by the madam herself.

Lin Baizhi dragged her gaze down from the sky, shifting her sight to the black luxury car not far away where Shen Qinghan was also parked.

Tap tap tap, she walked over with slightly hurried steps.

The short-haired woman, who had left the driver's seat to stand guard outside and keep watch, heard the noise and looked over, eyeing the approaching Lin Baizhi with a wary expression as she marched over with an imposing aura.

However... considering that Lin Baizhi and her young master were evenly matched in strength, the short-haired woman chose not to step in to stop her further.

With the other party's physical stats, even if a real fight broke out, her young master would not suffer a loss...

Thankfully, the person here was Lin Baizhi. If it had been Dongfang Zhixia, the short-haired woman would have gone into a full-on stress response.

There was an absolute gap and suppression in raw stats, and she could never let her young master fall into such a passive situation. That was the awareness she held as a retainer of the Du family, and she would even stake her own life on that promise!

"Knock knock knock."

While the short-haired woman was lost in her wandering thoughts, Lin Baizhi had already reached the back of the car and rapped on the door.

"Whoosh whoosh..."

The car's rear window slowly rolled down. Shen Qinghan sat in the back seat, turning his head slightly to look at Lin Baizhi outside the car, and spoke in a calm tone.

"Something you need?"

Lin Baizhi: "???"

What made it seem like she was the one begging him for a favor!

He only put on the act of a soft, delicate little white flower and played that role in front of Ye Cheng, did he really think Lin Baizhi was some kind of weak, helpless little softie who couldn't take care of herself?

She could punch his brain so hard it would get all mixed up!

Remember, Lin Baizhi's motto... Useless old thing, ugh!

Lin Tianxiong: "..."

In a certain sense, Lin Baizhi was a total meritocrat, someone who believed that strength reigned supreme and the strong preyed on the weak. If you didn't agree?

Then you just had to suck it up. Who told you to be that weak in the first place?

That was exactly why everyone at the Lin's Group started missing Lin Tianxiong after he stepped down. The old boss was way better... even if he was pretty strict back then.

But at least you never had to worry that a tiny little mistake would get you fired the next day just because your left eyelid twitched a couple extra times.

Gentleness only showed when you had something to compare it to, and the same went for kindness.

If she had never met Ye Cheng, Lin Baizhi's intended path would have been that of a cold, unfeeling new queen of the business empire, who would spend her entire life working to lift the Lin family into the top three most prominent families in Dahai City.

If she couldn't pull that off in her generation, that was fine too—there would be the next generation, and the one after that, generation after generation without end, but she had to be the one to kickstart that process.

But after meeting Ye Cheng, Lin Baizhi's whole script went completely off the rails.

She felt like... making money didn't seem all that interesting anymore, it was just whatever. It was way more fun to figure out how to pop out a whole soccer team of kids, and spend every day snuggling up to all the soft, sweet, lovely people around her.

This is the kind of life that's actually worth living. All those years before were nothing but a miserable drag.

Spending every single day just grinding for money? What a total joke!

You make a mountain of cash, splurge on those big three luxury brands, and then what?

Spend the rest of your life stuck with someone you don't even like, pop out a bunch of kids you don't care about, and keep carrying on this so-called "family glory" nonsense?

Pfft. People who know this is a future scenario might get it, but anyone else would think this is the hell you end up in after doing something terrible!

Lin Baizhi is a sharp, no-nonsense girl. She locked in a few hard truths when she was really little: her brother is hers, every single woman that gets near him is no good, they're all enemies... and last but far from least, she's going to absolutely blow her brother's mind!

She wants to unlock all the defeat CGs!

She wants that soccer team roster!

Every time Lin Baizhi lets her mind wander down that path, her hallucinations peak, and before she knows it, her consciousness goes fuzzy and she drifts off into a deep sleep.

After months and years of this, her health keeps getting worse and worse. Lin Tianxiong can't wrap his head around it no matter how hard he tries. How come after all these years of careful, doting care, his daughter is still so frail, no better off than she was back when she was living in the orphanage?

It's so weird. Where on earth is the problem?

"Shen Qinghan, why did you stop?" Lin Baizhi asked with a cold face, her tone sharp with dissatisfaction and accusation.

Shen Qinghan silently pressed the button, and the car window slowly rolled up... click, it shut completely, perfectly sealed.

The furthest distance in the world just had to be this, right? One person inside the car, one person stuck outside, separated by a pane of glass, staring at each other.

Lin Baizhi: "???"

"Shen Qinghan, what's your deal? Don't think you can play dumb by staying quiet. Hurry up and keep driving! What if we can't find my brother?"

Lin Baizhi was starting to lose it.

Ugh, this annoying little troublemaker!

Lin Baizhi fumed and ranted outside the car for a while, then suddenly noticed the driver's side window was still cracked open. She just hauled herself right in through that gap.

"Shen Qinghan, did you hear me talking to you? Stop pretending you can't hear. Hurry up and move this car, go help me find him! If you don't feel like looking anymore, that's fine too, just give me my brother's whereabouts and I'll go find him myself!"

"If you're so capable, go find him yourself. I can stop whenever I feel like it." Shen Qinghan's tone was completely calm, but every single word landed right on Lin Baizhi's sore spot.

That was a full, unfiltered critical hit, no less!

And then...

Ora ora ora ora —

Muda muda muda muda —

The two of them started brawling inside the car all over again, a literal, no-meta physical fight.

The short-haired woman standing off to the side just stared: "..."

Family head fondness points +1 +1 +1...

Meanwhile, at the western border of Longguo.

"Dammit, will you guys cut it out? You've been chasing nonstop!" Du Wanyi grumbled.

Even with Du Wanyi's absurdly top-tier stamina and stats, after sprinting nonstop for dozens of kilometers, she was starting to hit her limit, fine beads of sweat popping up on her forehead.

But thankfully, her effort paid off.

She finally pulled it off.

She burst out of the primeval forest in one go, and made it to the western border of Longguo. Staring at the several-meter-tall barbed wire fence right in front of her, Du Wanyi finally let out a huge breath and wiped the sweat off her forehead.

"Nyah nyah nyah, you can't catch me, mad? You can't get me, nyah nyah nyah..."

Du Wanyi made a silly face at the armed helicopter still chasing her from behind, set Ye Cheng down on the ground, and flashed two big international friendly gestures right at it.

"Think you can catch this old lady? You'll have to train for another hundred years first!"

With that, Du Wanyi hoisted Ye Cheng over her shoulder, held Da Huang in her arms, and leaped into the air. She soared right over Longguo's border, crossed the vast snow-capped mountains on the other side of the boundary, and vanished beneath the expanse of white snow.

Moments later, armed helicopters arrived and hovered to a stop. The crew on board stared at the border line in stunned silence.

If they hadn't misseen what just happened, did they just get mocked?

Luckily, they had the flight recorder. Two soldiers jumped down from the aircraft carrying high-definition recording equipment, and began examining the traces Du Wanyi left behind when she fled.

"Uh... these look like the victim's footprints, right?"

"Then what's this one over here? Looks like a dog paw print to me."

"A dog paw print? Are you sure? You can't be seeing things, let me take a look... hiss, you're right, it really does look exactly like a dog paw print."

"So... don't tell me a yellow weasel has cultivated into a spirit?"

"No way, didn't they say no spirits are allowed to form after the founding of our country?"

"I know that's the rule, but how do you explain this?"

The two soldiers fell silent. The pilot still up in the sky manning the aircraft was equally quiet, watching the black dot in the snowy mountains climb and traverse the terrain at a speed of dozens of meters per second, until it disappeared completely.

Everyone was dead silent.

The pilot had overheard the two soldiers' discussion down below, and glanced again at the "monster" that had long since vanished entirely into the vast snowy mountains not far off.

"Actually, I'm on board with the yellow weasel spirit theory."

The two soldiers: "..."

That one comment settled the debate. In the end, all three of them voted in favor of the explanation that a yellow weasel spirit was the culprit. They snapped photos of the weasel paw prints left at the scene, then the helicopters turned around and headed back the way they came.

Meanwhile, over in Bear Country, the snow was falling thick and fast. The Dongfang family's private jet touched down at an airport covered in a thin layer of snow.

"Mom, are you sure we didn't end up in the wrong place?"

The second the door slid open, a frigid cold wave swept right over them. Dongfang Zhixia spoke, her tone flat and speechless. Right then, it wasn't just Dongfang Zhixia who was dumbfounded — Su Su, who was in charge of this whole operation, was completely stunned too.

Logically speaking... this shouldn't be possible, but... those two old foxes definitely did come here.

The uncertainty in Su Su's eyes quickly hardened into certainty. She nodded and said firmly, "This is the right place, Zhixia, we can't be wrong!"

Dongfang Zhixia heard that and didn't question or press further. She just nodded back.

"Alright then, let's start looking for them. Where are the Shen and Lin families' people right now?"

It didn't take long for the Dongfang family's logistics staff to send over the travel route the eldest young lady and Sister Lin had been taking in Bear Country.

Yep, that's right. It was the two old guys pulling their coordinated trick again. Since they were putting on a show, they might as well go all the way with it. If they just tricked Dongfang Zhixia into coming abroad for a minute and she realized what was up and turned right back around, that would be no different than not tricking her at all.

As for the route... it led straight toward the most remote mountain ranges in Bear Country.

Dongfang Zhixia frowned, the more she looked at the route the more off it felt. "Where on earth have they run off to?"

Su Su craned her neck to glance at the route, and her heart jolted too... how did they get so far out?

"Don't tell me we got played? Zhixia, what if we head back and check again?" Su Su had caught on by now that the data was weird, totally unreasonable. It had only been a short amount of time, and the Shen and Lin family's people had already traveled hundreds of kilometers.

Run off to some godforsaken mountain range?

You're saying that Ye Cheng vanished for less than two days, and somehow made it all the way to the mountains here in Russia? Is that what you mean?

Su Su: "……"

Those two old foxes, how dare they play me for a fool! Just you wait, the both of you!

Su Su ground her teeth in fury, silently jotting this score down in her heart, already planning to get back at the two old tricksters once she got back home.

How dare they pull a stunt like this even on something this important!

"Forget it, let's just keep searching as we are. We don't have any more time to waste." Dongfang Zhixia frowned, turning down the suggestion to head back.

They had already come all this way, and the heavy snowstorm had delayed their landing by several hours, so they'd already burned through too much precious time. If they turned back now, they'd definitely never catch up.

At this point... they might as well take the gamble.

Dongfang Zhixia knew perfectly well in her heart that she... had probably been tricked too.

Ugh...

She'd changed her mind. If they managed to find that certain troublemaker this time, all that had happened before would be wiped clean...

"Let's go."

Dongfang Zhixia lifted her head to glance at the vast white world outside, pulled her overcoat on, and stepped down out of the plane. Su Su stood rooted to the spot, opening her mouth as if to speak but then holding back, a heavy, uneasy feeling settling over her.

Ugh, that little Ye rascal, you better be alright...

This time, if we find Ye Cheng, we'll sit down and have a proper talk about what comes next, ugh...

Su Su watched her daughter's lonely, stubborn back, looking like she was slowly giving in to something...

...

Thousands of kilometers away, inside a certain cave.

The campfire crackled and popped, its sparks chasing away the biting cold, when twisted black text suddenly appeared before Ye Cheng's eyes...

[Blessing from Su Su +1 +1 +1……]

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