Lu Mingfei doesn't want to be a superhero

“Uh… in the racing game I play, the Maybach is modeled like this.” Lu Mingfei brought up the game again as a way to deflect criticism.

"What a crappy game, with such boring details." Su Xiaoqiang muttered under her breath, feeling that she had lost face in front of Lu Mingfei.

As if trying to make amends, she added, "Besides, if the umbrella is in the trunk, won't the person taking it get wet?"

The car gradually drove into a villa area. The quiet road was lined with carefully trimmed trees, and the unique villas were hidden in the rain. Some windows were still lit, like ship lights on a dark sea.

Su Xiaoqiang glanced at Lu Mingfei and found him resting his chin on his hand, gazing out the window with a normal expression and a blank look in his eyes, as if the scenery of the villa area was nothing special to him.

Su Xiaoqiang narrowed her eyes slightly, sensing that something was amiss.

The car slowly came to a stop in front of a villa, and Lu Mingfei quickly took off Su Xiaoqiang's coat.

"What's gotten into you again?" Su Xiaoqiang glanced at him.

"I already said I was only wearing my underwear, so I can minimize the damage by going to get the umbrella." With that, Lu Mingfei didn't give Uncle Li a chance to stop him and jumped out of the car.

"Uncle Li, open the trunk!" Lu Mingfei's voice came from outside the car.

Uncle Li was a little at a loss—as the driver, he shouldn't have let the passenger get wet in the rain to get an umbrella.

"Uncle Li, open the trunk," Su Xiaoqiang said.

Uncle Li could only obey, while silently marveling that Miss's friend was no ordinary person.

Soon, Lu Mingfei walked to the passenger seat with an umbrella, eagerly opened the door for Su Xiaoqiang, and smiled, "Please."

The rain was quite heavy; Lu Mingfei's hair got soaked in the time it took to grab an umbrella.

Su Xiaoqiang sat in the passenger seat, watching a boy in front of her with his hair sticking to his forehead and dripping wet, wearing only underwear that accentuated his muscular physique, smiling broadly as he held an umbrella for her...

Su Xiaoqiang suddenly covered her face.

What a bizarre and absurd scene this is!

With a deep sigh, Su Xiaoqiang unbuckled her seatbelt, got up, and stepped out of the passenger seat.

"Thank you for your help, Uncle Li. You don't need to see me off. You can go straight home," Su Xiaoqiang said.

Uncle Li is just a driver; he should have been off work and home by now.

“Miss,” Uncle Li suddenly looked troubled, “it seems Ms. Mei took the day off today?”

"Oh right! I almost forgot." Su Xiaoqiang suddenly realized.

"Who is Ms. Mei?" Lu Mingfei asked curiously.

“She’s my family’s housekeeper. Aunt Mei is a workaholic. She hasn’t had a vacation in two years. My dad gave her a special two-week leave,” Su Xiaoqiang said casually.

That's why she and Uncle Li didn't immediately remember that Aunt Mei was on holiday.

“Miss, Ms. Mei isn’t here, and neither are the master and madam. Doesn’t that mean it’s just you and Mr. Lu at home?” Uncle Li asked, looking troubled.

"Huh?" Lu Mingfei's eyes widened.

Su Xiaoqiang gave him a murderous look, and Lu Mingfei immediately shut up.

“It’s alright,” Su Xiaoqiang waved his hand. “This thing is very safe, safer than my dad’s golden retriever.”

Lu Mingfei thought to himself, "Although I am indeed an upright and good young man, is it really okay for you to compare me to a dog?"

Su Xiaoqiang offered a few more words of advice, and Uncle Li could only leave with a worried look on his face.

"Stay away from me!" Even with an umbrella, even though she was only two steps from the door, Su Xiaoqiang really didn't want to be next to a perverted naked man.

Lu Mingfei held the umbrella over Su Xiaoqiang's head, then took two steps back, leaving half of his body soaked in the rain.

"Alright, let's get a little closer," Su Xiaoqiang added after a pause, "but not too close!"

……

As he helped the young lady into the villa, Lu Mingfei put down his umbrella and followed her into the living room.

The restaurant was open-plan, and Lu Mingfei could see at a glance that there were some bowls, chopsticks, plates, and a half-empty bottle of red wine.

Su Xiaoqiang saw it too and sighed, "Sigh, Dad is really something. Aunt Mei is on vacation and he and Mom can't even take care of themselves anymore. They don't even clean up after themselves after eating."

"The logo on that bottle... should be the bar at Screaming Eagle Winery?" Lu Mingfei glanced at the bottle.

"You can recognize this?" Su Xiaoqiang was a little surprised, then raised an eyebrow. "Want to try some? If you beg me, I can pour you some."

"Forget it, this winery only uses Cabernet Sauvignon grapes to make wine, and it tastes like blackcurrant. I just can't get used to it," Lu Mingfei complained.

Su Xiaoqiang remained silent for a few seconds.

If she remembered correctly, when her father took this bottle out of his wine cellar, he proudly said that this kind of wine was only produced in a maximum of five hundred cases a year, and that he had spent six thousand dollars on this bottle, and that he had only managed to get it after a lot of trouble.

Su Xiaoqiang glanced at Lu Mingfei, who was wiping the water out of his hair with toilet paper, and her eyes gradually sharpened.

This thing is really weird!

Update! Because a friend is coming to Xi'an, I need to adjust my sleep schedule, so the update is a little late. Sorry!

Chapter 8 Dragonborn

As the Maybach drove down the street, raindrops clung to the car body and were flung away at the very end.

Driver Uncle Li slammed on the brakes and brought the car to a stop.

He decisively took out his phone and dialed a number: "Hello, sir."

"Old Li, did you take Xiaoqiang home?" A deep, magnetic middle-aged male voice came through the phone. "We've spoiled this kid. It's so late at night and you still have to work overtime. Thank you for your hard work."

“Sir, this is my duty. I’m calling you because I have something important to tell you,” Uncle Li said.

“If it’s not particularly important, you can handle it yourself. I still have a bunch of documents to process,” the man’s voice was filled with deep exhaustion. “Although I was mentally prepared, building a smelting industrial chain from scratch is still more difficult than I imagined.”

“Master…” Uncle Li hesitated, unable to finish his sentence.

“Old Li, I know what you’re trying to say. I know my own health condition. I can only hold on for a few more years. Mining alone won’t lead to anything. I have to develop a more advanced industry for the company. If we can have our own smelting industrial chain, we won’t just be able to make money by buying mines.”

"I, Su Jiannan, will not fall until I have established a mature smelting industrial chain for the company and cleared the obstacles for Xiaoqiang to inherit my position." The man's tone was not heavy, but it was firm and resolute.

“No, sir, what I wanted to talk about was Miss Mei,” Uncle Li said. “Miss Mei took the day off, didn’t she? Tonight, she met a boy on the street wearing only his underwear. She said he was her classmate, so she took him home and said she wanted to let him stay for the night…”

"What?!" The voice on the other end of the phone suddenly became shrill.

"Miss told me not to worry about it, but I feel I must tell you..." Uncle Li said.

"You did the right thing, come pick me up from the company right away!" Su Jiannan said, but then he immediately changed his mind, "No, you go home and keep an eye on those two, I'll drive back myself!"

"Sir, do you have a car parked at the company?" Uncle Li asked worriedly.

"I... never mind, just come pick me up, and hurry!" Su Jiannan said.

The faint sounds of documents and a thermos falling to the ground could be heard from the other end of the phone.

……

Meanwhile, at Su Xiaoqiang's home.

"Stop wiping, just go take a shower."

Su Xiaoqiang said to Lu Mingfei, who was drying his hair with a tissue.

"Thank you." Lu Mingfei said with gratitude.

"Wait, I'll go get you a change of clothes," Su Xiaoqiang said, looking Lu Mingfei up and down. "You're about the same height as my dad, so you can wear his clothes. I'll go get you a set."

After unexpectedly awakening his "superpowers," Lu Mingfei not only gained more muscle, but also grew taller, now reaching nearly 1.8 meters.

Su Xiaoqiang scrambled up the stairs, then came down a moment later, carrying a white shirt and a pair of slim-fitting suit trousers, along with a plastic box, which she tossed to Lu Mingfei.

“These are my dad’s clothes from when he was young. They’re a bit old-fashioned, but you can wear them anyway,” Su Xiaoqiang said.

After hearing this, Lu Mingfei dared not complain, so he immediately took it and touched the plastic box.

"What is this?" Lu Mingfei asked curiously.

"It's underwear! Unopened!" Su Xiaoqiang said with a dark expression.

"Oh, oh, oh..." Seeing that things were not going well, Lu Mingfei ran into the bathroom in a flash.

"You come out here!" Su Xiaoqiang's expression changed drastically.

She's very clean; that's her private bathroom.

"What's wrong?" Lu Mingfei poked his head out.

Su Xiaoqiang wanted to say something, but in the end she sighed and said, "It's nothing."

She always felt that letting Lu Mingfei into her private bathroom was something quite shameful to admit.

Why not just pretend it never happened, let Lu Ming take an unusual shower, and then change everything inside tomorrow after he comes out? That would be the same thing.

Su Xiaoqiang leaned back on the sofa and played on her phone for a while, preparing to review some English vocabulary.

The door was suddenly pushed open, followed by a loud thud and a flurry of footsteps.

Su Xiaoqiang turned around, her face full of surprise: "Dad? Uncle Li?"

Two middle-aged men strode in. The one in the lead looked tall and refined, wearing gold-rimmed glasses. Although his hairline was already quite high, his hair was still neatly combed, making him look nothing like a mine owner.

The person following behind him was Uncle Li.

"Where is he?" A fierce glint flashed in Su Jiannan's eyes behind his gold-rimmed glasses.

As soon as he saw that wild boy, he immediately told Old Li to throw him out. It was raining heavily outside, so he could let him get soaked and sober up.

"What? Where is he?" Su Xiaoqiang was stunned for a moment before she realized, "You mean Lu Mingfei?"

"Lu Mingfei?" Su Jiannan was also stunned. "The boy who went missing from your class?"

"Missing?" Su Xiaoqiang blinked.

"This morning, his parents posted a message in the parents' group saying that their son, Lu Mingfei, has gone missing. He left home yesterday morning and hasn't returned. They have already reported him missing to the police and are asking other parents if they have any clues."

Su Jiannan took out his phone and showed Su Xiaoqiang the messages in the group chat.

[Lu Gucheng: My nephew, Lu Mingfei, went out yesterday during the day and hasn't returned yet. It's very likely he's been kidnapped by bad people. We, the parents, have already reported him missing to the police. If any parent in the group has any information about my nephew Mingfei, please let us and the police know. We would be extremely grateful! (bowing in gratitude)]

“Look, this is the message. He sent it many more times after that, but we couldn’t do anything about it,” Su Jiannan frowned slightly. “Is Lu Mingfei having a fight with his family or what? His uncle is almost going crazy looking for him, but he still won’t go home?”

“Uh… this might not be his fault,” Su Xiaoqiang said, defending Lu Mingfei.

The murderous glint in Su Jiannan's eyes intensified.