Yu Ningxue was absolutely furious. Great, this bastard was busy chatting with a beauty!

On the other side, Le Yaoyao directly charged over.

Seeing Le Yaoyao storming towards Xiao Tian with an accusatory demeanor, Yu Ningxue was taken aback. Could it be that the uncle she mentioned was Xiao Tian?

At this moment, Xiao Tian was eloquently speaking English, completely oblivious to the unnatural expressions on the women’s faces around him.

"Hey, what’s with those expressions?" Xiao Tian asked, puzzled, wondering if his jokes weren’t funny anymore.

He noticed the women pointing behind him, making Xiao Tian suddenly feel a chill rising up his spine.

Then, suddenly, his ear was tugged by someone.

"Un-cle, in-law, your job is really quite something! Isn’t it tiring?" Le Yaoyao asked, enunciating each word through gritted teeth.

Xiao Tian looked embarrassed: "Uh... It’s alright, it’s alright!"

Noticing something amiss, the women around him quickly scattered, each giving Xiao Tian an ambiguous smile before leaving.

Xiao Tian found himself in a difficult situation, thinking to himself that these times really were degenerate. Despite being a gracious host, entertaining these foreign guests with jokes, albeit racy ones, at least they had a good time, right?

Unexpectedly, it ended like this.

"Uncle!" Le Yaoyao said sternly, hands on her hips, "Do you think your behavior is fair to me, my aunt?"

Le Yaoyao originally intended to question Xiao Tian with ’Do you think you’re fair to me?’ but felt it was inappropriate, so she brought up Lin Bingxuan instead.

"Actually, we were just discussing work!" Xiao Tian tried to make a final effort, thinking he could talk his way out of it, provided Le Yaoyao didn’t understand English.

Hearing Xiao Tian’s excuse, Le Yaoyao laughed out of anger: "Alright, uncle-in-law, I’ll just repeat what you said in English to my aunt. I might not understand, but my aunt is a genius fluent in twelve languages!"

"No, no, no!" Xiao Tian hurriedly pleaded: "Dear little madam, please don’t, give me a break!"

Le Yaoyao was still relentless, but then noticed Yu Ningxue not far away and suddenly had an idea. She pretended to be magnanimous and said, "Alright! Since you’re begging me, I’ll let it slide this time!"

Xiao Tian breathed a sigh of relief, realizing this girl was really hard to handle. It seemed he needed to find a chance to teach her a lesson.

"However!" Le Yaoyao’s tone changed, pointing at Yu Ningxue, "To show your sincerity, uncle-in-law, fire her!"

Xiao Tian turned his head and found it was Yu Ningxue. At that moment, he almost wished to slap himself. How could he let people approach without noticing? He indeed had let his guard down lately.

Given Xiao Tian’s skills, he could have easily noticed when Yu Ningxue and Le Yaoyao reached the door, but he had been too relaxed.

Le Yaoyao looked smugly at Yu Ningxue, the latter smiling as she walked over. At that moment, she finally understood that the person in front of her was Lin Bingxuan’s niece.

Xiao Tian managed a wry smile, bracing himself to introduce the two, "This is Yu Ningxue, and this is my niece, Le Yaoyao."

Le Yaoyao was taken aback, starting to seriously scrutinize Yu Ningxue. Honestly, Yu Ningxue indeed was a rare beauty, but she fell short when compared to herself and her aunt.

The little girl made a biased judgement in her mind.

Seeing the people passing by throwing curious glances in their direction, Xiao Tian knew he couldn’t let this drag on and pulled the two of them out of the venue.

Yu Ningxue suddenly received a call to return to the police station, which made Xiao Tian feel for the first time that Bai Tao was actually quite adorable.

Now only one of them, Le Yaoyao, was left to deal with, which was much better than handling two.

After a lot of sweet-talking and offering several benefits, the little girl finally bounced away, completely unaffected by the discomfort from being body-slammed.

Once Le Yaoyao was gone, Xiao Tian wiped a cold sweat from his brow, muttering to himself, "It seems it’s time to let the two of them meet, or these situations will only happen more and more!"

...

Shanghai Airport.

A man in a sky-blue trench coat stepped out of the airport, getting into a stretched Lincoln limousine.

The man’s features were handsome, his eyes as deep as the ocean, as if staring too long would make one lost in them.

This man’s identity was also extraordinary—the Sea God, ranked fifteenth on the Dark List.

This time he had been commissioned to come to Shanghai to protect a batch of artifacts for the Turner Group, and the employer’s offer was shockingly high, even Sea God found it tempting.

This trip would be enough for him to take a two-year break. Thinking of this, Sea God’s mood was particularly good, and he even looked at Jerry with a softened gaze.

In the car, Jerry carefully observed Sea God, finding it increasingly unusual. Most hitmen on the Dark List had average looks and were good at hiding their special features.

Yet this one was dressed in blinding attire, with a look above the average, flaunting himself as if afraid of not being noticed.

After exchanging pleasantries, this Sea God said not a word, his aloofness making him unlikeable.

Especially Heizi, sitting next to Jerry, who after learning about Sea God’s fee for this job, resented Sea God immensely.

Seeing Sea God’s ostentatious dress and pretending to be aloof gave off a ’I’m an expert’ vibe.

He couldn’t help but sneeze right into the water cup in front of Sea God.

Sea God’s face changed, his previously good mood vanished, and he looked at Heizi with increasingly dangerous eyes.

Heizi felt uneasy under Sea God’s gaze, having to call upon his inner strength to calm himself, trying to suppress the annoying feeling.

And next to him, Jerry didn’t stop it, as he also wanted to see what kind of skills this high-profile expert, heavily hired by the family, possessed.

Using his inner strength to resist, Heizi found the pressure from Sea God getting heavier, as if he were sinking into the ocean, his breathing becoming labored.

He used all his inner strength, and Jerry felt the temperature dropping, until a thin layer of ice formed on the water in front of him.

At the peak of his power, Heizi felt a darkness before his eyes, and then his surroundings changed; he was no longer in the luxurious car but in an endless ocean.

"Hypnosis? No! Illusion Technique?"

Heizi was utterly terrified, truly feeling fear, more overwhelming than his previous encounter with masked Xiao Tian.

Heizi closed his eyes and finally realized the truth. Sea God’s gaze at him wasn’t actually that powerful, his ranking was nineteen, and Sea God’s was fifteen.

With only four ranks difference, it shouldn’t be this vast of a gap!