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Chapter 25: Close to the face and open up

The little boy seems to be doing well these past few days. Although he's still skinny, he's gained some weight in his face.

No wonder they were bullied.

His good looks were the main reason he was bullied.

"Catching ghosts? How old are you to be catching ghosts? It's more like the ghosts will catch you." Cheng Mai pinched the few remaining chubby cheeks on his face. "Go to school obediently, or I'll make you get a beating."

"I don't want to go to school. Those kids are all bad. My master taught me..." The child seemed to remember something when he mentioned his master. He glanced cautiously at Cheng Mai and then shut his mouth.

He still remembered what his master had done to the Cheng family.

“It’s a new era, even ghost hunters aren’t illiterate anymore. Your little Qian brother is a graduate student, and you, a kindergarten kid, want to hunt ghosts? Go back to school and don’t force me to beat you up during the happiest years of your life.” Cheng Mai thought for a moment, “Doesn’t he have a name yet?”

“If you want to register it in your name, you also need to go through the adoption procedures. I asked before, and that old Taoist priest always called him ‘little devil,’ he really doesn’t have a name.”

"I'm not going to school, I'm not going, I'm not going!" the child shouted, then darted behind Meng An as soon as he saw him. "I want to go ghost hunting with Uncle Meng An."

"They're quite good at finding a backer." Cheng Mai looked at the child hiding behind Meng An. The child was no longer cowering like before, but to be honest, he was quite deserving of a beating.

Meng An seemed to like him very much, and lifted him up with one hand, letting him sit on his shoulder.

"I'll take care of him." This means she has adopted him.

"But my father is a person, and he needs to go to school."

“I will teach you,” Meng An said.

The child hugged Meng An's neck affectionately, saying, "I want Uncle Meng An to take care of me."

“He’s like you.” Meng An’s words left Cheng Mai speechless.

She remembered her mother saying that she was the same age when General Meng An was murdered.

Even their personalities are probably exactly the same.

The child, perched on Meng An's shoulders, made a face at Cheng Mai, showing a significant increase in courage.

"Then he needs an identity and a name, right?" Cheng Mai compromised. Perhaps it would be good to have a child by his father's side.

“Nian Shi”.

The merchant guild, which appeared out of nowhere, suddenly gave a name.

Everyone looked at him because of his name.

“Nian Shi? What does it mean?” Cheng Mai felt that the name was a bit grand, and the child might not be able to handle it.

"I like it." After saying that, Shang Xingjian turned around and went back.

Extremely willful.

But since the merchant guild had already bestowed a name upon him, Xiao Nianshi's name was now settled.

Surprisingly, the merchant registered the child under his name.

Shang Nianshi.

Shen Luo handled this matter personally.

After this matter was settled, Xiao Nianshi had a foothold in this world.

The two remained curious.

"Could this really be the boss's illegitimate child?" Cheng Mai muttered to herself. Otherwise, why would she want to take the son from her? This child was clearly brought back by her.

The main issue is that she was still raised by her father, so why does she have to take his surname?

Shen Luo glanced at the office, confirming that the boss was playing games inside, before whispering, "I think it's possible, after all..."

"I can hear you." Youyou's voice came from the boss's office, and the two of them immediately shut up.

The boss has ears to hear everything, so you can't say a bad word about him.

But there are always those who are not afraid of death, such as Cheng Mai, who was fine at the moment, and she actually ran to the boss's office.

"Boss, Nian Shi isn't really your son, is he?" Cheng Mai asked, grinning as she played her game. Shang Xingjian glanced up at her, then looked down and continued playing. "Guess."

Cheng Mai was shocked, leaning on the table as he looked at Shang Xingjian, "Really? So it's true that you killed your wife to prove your Dao in order to become a god?"

The merchant's hand paused slightly while playing the game, but only for a moment.

"I originate from the Way of Heaven, and was born a god."

Cheng Mai exclaimed, "Then why did you kill your wife to prove your Dao?"

The character in the game was knocked out again. He looked up at the curious woman who was close by, and moved even closer. Their eyelashes almost touched.

Cheng Mai froze, momentarily forgetting to back away.

"You want to know that much?" Shang Xingjian said.

Cheng Mai seemed to be bewitched, his mind went blank for a moment, and he didn't seem to understand the meaning behind his words, only nodding instinctively.

Merchant Jian suddenly stood up and took a step back. "Then think about it."

As he moved away, Cheng Mai suddenly snapped back to reality, realizing what had just happened. He cursed himself inwardly, wondering how he could have almost been bewitched by his good looks.

"Are you really going to let Nianshi stay with my father? He should go to school."

"General Meng An's literary and military talents are in no way inferior to any of the great masters of today. Wouldn't he have learned more from being personally taught by General Meng An than from going to school?"

Cheng Mai paused for a moment, seemingly considering his words, before snapping, "Are you insulting me?"

Let's just say she's a failure of the nine-year compulsory education system.

Shang Xingjian neither admitted nor denied it.

Cheng Mai stormed off, cursing and swearing.

Hu Hu was outside looking in the mirror, fixing her makeup. "She managed to survive even with her face covered in 'big shots,' so Xiao Cheng is definitely the boss's darling."

Cheng Mai stopped and looked at Hu Hu, who was admiring herself by herself.

"You won't get your salary next month either."

Hu Hu was instantly shocked. She put down the mirror and said seriously, "How can the boss be like this? It's just a close-up shot, why are you being so stingy?"

Cheng Mai smiled. "Very good. That's exactly the kind of self-awareness I want in someone who's a fence-sitter."

Shen Luo is highly capable at work. Cheng Mai only needs to clarify the direction for her to execute, which is similar to her assistant Yang Fan.

However, this also shows that the boss is really incompetent.

Upon discovering a problem, one should promptly offer sarcasm. Cheng Mai delivered a burst of cheerful satire and decisively fled before the business guild could dismiss its staff.

Hu Hu once suspected that the boss's brain had been taken out, otherwise why would he be so indulgent towards Cheng Mai, a mere mortal?
Back in the day, the boss literally stripped her of her tendons and skin and roasted her!
"There's a problem, there's definitely a problem." Judging from her fox-like sixth sense, there was absolutely something wrong.

"Boss, Mr. Cheng, urgent report from Fengcheng!" Xiao Wang rushed over from the technical department.

Cheng Mai, who had just emerged, happened to stop Xiao Wang.

"Tell me what happened."

"Ten minutes ago, Xiaoqian sent a distress signal, and then we lost contact with her." Some time ago, at Chengmai's request, Xiaowang developed a dedicated internal communication line, mainly for internal emergency communication.

Shang Xingjian also came out of the room. "What do you mean by 'can't be contacted'?"

Xiao Wang said anxiously, "We've tried all sorts of methods, both internal and external lines, but we still can't contact Xiao Qian. It shows that his psychic abilities are switched off and his phone is out of service."

“Fengcheng isn’t developing very rapidly, but there are very few places without cell phone signal, and Mr. Zhu’s shopping mall certainly won’t be in a remote location,” Shen Luo analyzed. “Boss, how about I go over there?”

"You're coming with me." These words were clearly meant for Cheng Mai's ears.

"Me?" Cheng Mai pointed to herself, but before she could refute Shang Xingjian, he had already left. She looked at Shen Luo, "Me?"

Shen Luo nodded and gave her a nudge, "Go quickly, don't worry with the boss here."

Watching the person leave, Hu Hu clicked her tongue, swayed her hips, and returned to her workstation: "What did I say? A company-funded trip has already been arranged."

(End of this chapter)