"Tsk, tsk, tsk! Tsk, tsk, tsk! Extravagant, too extravagant!"
Wang Tianwei wandered around the aircraft specifically sent by Taihe to pick up Huang Yan, finding everything novel.
"There's even a lounge!? What kind of drinks do they have!?"
This guy was seriously rich!
In her memory, Yida's aircraft was much plainer than this. At least it didn't have a lounge!
Huang Yan shot her a sidelong glance.
"For someone whose mental power has only recently upgraded, don't even think about it."
Then he turned to the bartender and said,
"Give her a non-alcoholic drink."
"Right away."
"Hehe, hehehe..."
Wang Tianwei, her little scheme exposed, could only laugh awkwardly.
"It's a five or six-hour journey in total. If you drink and your mental power becomes unstable, I won't know where to find a doctor for you."
"We can get there in just five or six hours!?"
She clearly remembered it took her twelve hours when she came to school!
Even when her parents came to Planet Shuomo to see her last time, Yida's aircraft took about eight or nine hours, right?
Huang Yan ordered a drink for himself.
"The aircraft is equipped with Taihe's new energy engine, making its propulsion speed twice as fast as before."
"What!? A new engine!? Can I go take a look!?"
Wang Tianwei marveled as she opened her optical computer, editing and sending a new message to Wang Kaiyu.
Her little brother said he would come to pick her up, and she didn't want him to still be absent by the time she arrived.
"...This is aircraft energy, it's different from what mechas use."
"I know, I'll just look! I absolutely won't touch it."
"...If you actually dismantled it, we wouldn't be able to go back. Little O, take her to the control room for a look around."
"Yes, Miss Tianwei, this way please."
"I'll be right back!"
Wang Tianwei excitedly held up her sweet water and followed the robot away.
Sir Huang is the best!
Otherwise, where else would she get to see this kind of cutting-edge energy structure!?
Huang Yan pulled up his hood, sat on the sofa in the lounge, and opened his optical computer, reading up on something unknown.
Huang Taihe couldn't tear his eyes away from this scene on the surveillance monitor.
His son had grown a few centimeters taller than before, his skin was tanned, and he was thinner... but now he looked more like a real man!
The days when he used to cling to his lap to read were gone forever, and now the child didn't even like talking to him...
"Sigh..."
Who would have thought that to see his own son, he had to sneakily pull up surveillance footage?
Even before Huang Yan returned, he had already controlled the robots in the old family estate to clean his room. If he didn't still have access to the old estate, he wouldn't have known that his son had no intention of returning to their current new home...
The optical computer suddenly vibrated; it was a video call from his wife.
"Honey, is Huang Yan arriving today? Do you think we need to prepare anything else at home?"
On the screen, Lin Xue was wearing a dark green dress, looking elegant and dignified. By her legs was their chubby son, Huang Haoyan, who had just turned five.
"Daddy! Is my big brother coming back?"
Lin Xue bent down and picked up her son.
"Daddy! When brother comes back, I can show him my new model!"
"...Your brother needs to focus on his studies right now. He's very busy and might not have time to come back."
Huang Haoyan's little face was full of disappointment.
"He's been busy for so long, isn't he done yet? What exactly is brother doing?..."
Lin Xue gently bounced her son a couple of times to cheer him up, but Huang Haoyan still looked unhappy, so she turned to ask her husband,
"Since school is on break, where would Huang Yan go if he doesn't come back? ...Is he going back to the old estate?"
Huang Taihe avoided her gaze.
"Yeah... You don't need to prepare anything, and don't say too much to the kid."
"...I understand... Then do you have time recently? Haoyan wants to go to the mecha amusement park. Shall we pick a time this week?"
Huang Taihe's gaze uncontrollably shifted back to the surveillance screen.
Huang Yan was leaning against the spaceship's glass alone, with no one around him...
Meanwhile, his five-year-old son was being held in Lin Xue's arms, looking at him with eyes full of anticipation.
"...I don't have time this week. If Haoyan wants to go, you take him. I have things to do, I'll hang up now."
"Alright, then for Huang Yan's birthday this year, should we prepare as usual or?"
"...We'll talk about it when the time comes."
Huang Taihe gave a few perfunctory replies and hung up the phone. His eyes were still on the monitor, but his thoughts drifted back to the past.
For Huang Yan's eighteenth birthday, Shen Xi had mentioned so many times that she would definitely dress up and attend their son's coming-of-age ceremony...
Just as he was thinking about this, the surveillance screen suddenly went black!?
Huang Taihe restarted it a few times to no avail. Burning with anxiety, he dialed the captain's video call.
"What's going on!? What did you encounter? Why did the spaceship's surveillance suddenly cut off!?"
Was the CEO actually idle enough to watch their spaceship's surveillance!?
The captain imperceptibly uncrossed his legs and sat up straight.
"The current flight is completely normal. The surveillance cut off might be due to wiring or signal issues. We will investigate immediately!"
Huang Taihe suddenly remembered that Huang Yan had just been operating his optical computer for quite a while...
"So the spaceship didn't encounter any emergency situations?"
"The panel doesn't show any special situations... Barring any accidents, we will arrive at Planet Tianshu within five hours."
"...Investigate it, and restore it as soon as possible."
"Yes, sir!"
Hanging up the communication, the pitch-black screen in front of him reflected his own face.
"Heh... It seems his mental power is fine."
Lin Xue put her son back on the ground. Huang Haoyan grabbed the hem of his mother's skirt.
"Mommy... Then can I still see my brother in the summer?"
Lin Xue squatted down.
"Haoyan, do you really want to see your brother? Why? Don't you have a lot of friends?"
"But none of them have as good physical skills as my brother! And they aren't as good-looking as him! Brother can lift me up with just one hand!"
The world of a five-year-old boy was still very simple; he just felt that his brother was the most handsome in the Federation!
Lin Xue didn't want to raise her only son to be a useless good-for-nothing, so she could only try to be tactful.
"But he's not your biological brother..."
Huang Haoyan picked up his toy from the sofa.
"Daddy said brother is his son, and I am his son too! So he is my real brother!"
Lin Xue only felt powerless. She had so many words in her heart, but facing her five-year-old son's innocent face, she couldn't say anything.
"...Mommy is going to rest for a while, you play by yourself, okay?"
Huang Haoyan's little mouth pouted high.
"It must be because you misunderstood brother last time and didn't apologize. He's angry, that's why he isn't coming back!"
"Haoyan! Mommy did that for you!"
"But you didn't believe me at all! I told you I accidentally broke my own head! And you still scolded brother!"
Lin Xue's hands and feet went cold, freezing in place.
"I didn't... scold him..."
Although she didn't like Huang Yan, she hadn't reached the point of deliberately wronging and framing him!
There was only that one time... just that one time!!
Haoyan went to Huang Yan's room to play. She was really too lazy to stop it anymore, but who would have thought that halfway through, she would hear her son's heart-wrenching cries?
She stumbled upstairs, only to see Huang Yan holding her son and looking for the medical kit, while Haoyan had a large gash on his head! The wound was bleeding profusely!
At that time, she couldn't listen to a single word. She snatched Hao Yan away and hysterically screamed at Huang Yan to stay away from her son! She even yelled that if he had a problem, he should come at her, the mother...
Immediately after, she furiously dialed Huang Taihe's comms... completely failing to hear what her own son was mumbling so indistinctly.
Only later did she find out that Hao Yan had asked his older brother to help him pick out a honeydew-flavored nutrient solution. The toddler had then wanted to look at the mecha model on the shelf in Huang Yan's room... He gave it a tug with his little hand and ended up bringing it crashing down on himself. Huang Yan had even tried to shield him from the blow...
Lin Xue rubbed her temples, a headache coming on.
Truthfully, she was relieved that Huang Yan wasn't coming back for the summer vacation. She still didn't know how to face the boy...
She also wasn't sure if this incident was the reason he had given up on the First Military Academy, insisting instead on traveling all the way to the distant Shuomo Planet to attend Qilin...
But she was just a mother trying to protect her son. Was that so wrong?
