Protecting Liu Chang'an (2-in-1)

The next morning, Liu Chang'an sat under the sycamore tree, disassembling the drone.

The fact that men are adept at removing the back and front clasps of women's bras shows that men enjoy taking things apart and experience an indescribable pleasure from it; even this aspect is similar.

Liu Chang'an used to disassemble alarm clocks, motorcycles, tractors, trucks, sewing machines, radios, televisions, refrigerators, washing machines, and so on. Of course, he's not very interested in disassembling those things anymore. But drones are still worth taking apart. Drones range from low-end to high-end, from civilian to military, and there are many interesting aspects to them. If he has the opportunity in the future to disassemble a big toy like an F-22 or an A380, that would be even better. Seeing the top applications of materials science and modern technology there is amazing, like seeing your first love shyly taking off her vest in front of you... It might even be more satisfying.

This drone is quite large, not the small, hard-to-find type, making it relatively easy to disassemble. However, the advancements in modern modular structures made it quite challenging for Liu Chang'an to disassemble by hand. After all, many joints require special tools to unfasten, and some parts are simply glued together. People unfamiliar with the structure are unsure whether they will damage it by using brute force.

After a morning of dismantling, Zhou Dongdong, as always, ran downstairs to play in her innocent and lively manner.

"Brother Chang'an, why are there so many little flying pigs here?" Zhou Dongdong raised her hands behind her back and stopped not far in front of Liu Chang'an.

"Come this way." Liu Chang'an beckoned.

Zhou Dongdong ran behind Liu Chang'an, climbed onto his back, and peered out at the plump, dark-colored piglets.

"These are bats, and many bats carry parasites, like Ebola and SARS." Liu Chang'an didn't want Zhou Dongdong to come into contact with these things.

What are you doing catching so many flying pigs?

"Do you think you can eat it just because you call it a little flying pig?"

"No way! I wouldn't want to eat everything!"

Liu Chang'an stood up and threw a large net full of bats into the carriage.

So it really wasn't edible. Zhou Dongdong remembered that the things her brother Chang'an threw into that car were all things she hadn't taken out to eat.

So Zhou Dongdong continued playing by herself, found her airplane wings at the bottom of the stairs, and started running around the sycamore tree with a whooshing sound.

Liu Chang'an washed his hands and continued disassembling the drone.

The morning in Junsha seemed as peaceful as any other morning before.

In the luxurious penthouse on the top floor of Baolong Center, Zhu Juntang was the first fairy in Junsha District to get her bottom exposed to the sun.

Sunlight streamed through the French windows, the curtains already drawn. The gentle morning sunlight bathed everything in the room in a soft pink hue, including Zhu Juntang's fair cheeks, delicate collarbones, and shoulders that were just the right size to fill a palm.

When a man puts his arm around a girl like this, the feeling of her shoulders being filled by his palms makes him want to pull her even closer.

Qin Yanan is not as petite as Zhu Juntang; she is much taller and has a larger frame, which makes her figure appear more proportionate. If Qin Yanan's bones were as slender as Zhu Juntang's, her upper body would probably appear hunched over.

"Liu Chang'an caught a whole basket of bats sometime during the day. Where do you think he got them from?" Qin Yanan got up very early and lay on the bed observing Liu Chang'an through binoculars.

Zhu Juntang reached out and grabbed wildly in the air, then rolled over and hugged Qin Yanan. It was more comfortable to sleep with something in your arms than a pillow or anything as warm and soft as Yaya.

"There's also a drone, which looks expensive. He probably can't afford it, and it's completely wrecked." Qin Yanan continued curiously. Liu Chang'an was indeed very capable, but also very poor. It seemed that he was content with living a life that satisfied his preferences under the current conditions, and didn't have a strong desire to earn better conditions to satisfy his higher-level desires or improve his quality of life.

Zhu Juntang raised her hand and pulled Qin Yanan's underwear down halfway. Qin Yanan quickly turned around, swatted her hand away, and pulled it back up.

"What are you doing?" Zhu Juntang groggily opened her eyes, rubbing the corners of her eyes. Luckily, the little fairy still didn't have any eye boogers after waking up. "When I was interested in Liu Chang'an before, you didn't care. Now it's the other way around. Don't go crazy like this. Liu Chang'an is just a lunatic."

"What if what he told you is all true?" Qin Yanan looked at Zhu Juntang meaningfully and said, "Maybe not all of it is true, but perhaps most of it is."

Zhu Juntang had already told Qin Yanan some of the stories Liu Chang'an had told her when she was harassing Liu Chang'an. Qin Yanan recalled Zhu Juntang's past behavior and realized that she had unintentionally helped Liu Chang'an get rid of Zhu Juntang's harassment. However, Zhu Juntang already obtained enough clues, but she didn't investigate them further, which Qin Yanan could also use.

Qin Yanan felt that Liu Chang'an's stories about being imprisoned by Qin Shi Huang and then by the Han Dynasty were mostly made up to amuse Zhu Juntang. However, Zhu Juntang's various speculations about Liu Chang'an being Ye Chenyu were completely reasonable. When Zhu Juntang seriously researched things that she was extremely interested in, her intelligence was still quite normal.

Now Zhu Juntang no longer believes it, but Qin Yanan does, and unlike Zhu Juntang, she won't waver; Qin Yanan is much more determined than her.

"So you're starting to suspect he's your great-grandfather and great-grandmother's mysterious older brother too?" Zhu Juntang sat up, recalling with a wry smile the various illusions she had when she was fooled by Liu Chang'an.

There's always a moment when you realize how incredibly stupid and unbelievable you were in the past.

"Yes." Qin Yanan readily admitted, "You're not allowed to tell your mother what I'm doing; this is a secret."

"I didn't tell my mother when I did my own investigation." Zhu Juntang is still very loyal.

"Have you replied to what I asked you to inquire about?" Qin Yanan asked.

"I'll check my emails."

Zhu Juntang got up, without wearing slippers, and ran briskly into the study with her soft little feet.

Qin Yanan also got out of bed. She wore a pair of fluffy slippers, which she felt didn't suit her at all, but there was nothing wrong with it; there was nothing unlovable in Zhu Juntang's bedroom.

Looking at Zhu Juntang's back, Qin Yanan felt a little envious. Although Zhu Juntang was not tall, she had a well-proportioned figure and a youthful energy, unlike herself who was already too mature.

Qin Yanan retrieved her phone from the living room and saw a new message.

"This ID number only has one round-trip train ticket purchase record to Minzhou during the Dragon Boat Festival, and a round-trip high-speed rail ticket purchase record to Jinling a couple of days ago. There is no record of leaving the country."

Qin Yanan replied with a thank you message, deleted it, and took her phone back to her bedroom.

I visited Old Madam Su Mei and my great-grandfather Qin Peng.

Qin Yanan's lips curled slightly. These clues were enough to explain a lot. He said he was going to Taiwan with Ye Chenyu, but the train tickets were only for him. Was Ye Chenyu a child under 1.2 meters tall who didn't need a ticket? Or did Mr. Ye Chenyu buy a standing ticket?

Qin Yanan originally respected Mr. Ye Chenyu very much, but now, under these doubts, Qin Yanan couldn't help but make a joke.

He took the high-speed rail to Jinling, obviously to see his great-grandfather. The question is, since he clearly went to Taiwan, why is there no entry or exit record?

Minzhou is close to Taiwan, so there's no doubt he left the mainland from there. Did he use connections with smugglers? Was he illegally immigrated?

As Qin Yanan was pondering this, Zhu Juntang rushed to the bedroom door and waved to Qin Yanan, saying, "Come quick!"

Qin Yanan quickly followed.

Zhu Juntang pulled Qin Yanan into the study, plopped down on the sofa, and tapped the touchpad. A video appeared on the large screen on the wall.

"This kidnapped man is my uncle, Zhu Changzhe. Look at this man! Ye Chenyu, Ye Chenyu, alive, young, looks to be in his thirties at most!" Zhu Juntang had already closed the study door tightly, directly shutting off the main circuit and backup power for the entire floor, leaving only the computer's battery to power the main unit and huge screen in the wall.

Qin Yanan had already met him twice, and she didn't make a fuss like Zhu Juntang.

This confirms that Ye Chenyu truly exists in this young form, and that the "Ye Chenyu" I saw twice was simply someone who looked like Ye Chenyu.

But how did his and Liu Chang'an's identities change? Disguise isn't very reliable.

"Pause this frame, take a screenshot... a little further ahead, a little further ahead, yes, yes, when the camera captures his eyes clearly." Qin Yanan directed Zhu Juntang.

Zhu Juntang disliked that traditional mice caused chafing on the skin between her thumb and forefinger when using the computer, so she had this touch ball custom-made. Qin Yanan didn't think it was very easy to use, but Zhu Juntang obviously found it much more convenient, otherwise Qin Yanan would have snatched it away long ago.

Zhu Juntang took a screenshot and, under Qin Yanan's direction, zoomed in on the eyes. Although it wasn't a 4K video, on such a large screen and from such a distance, the eyes were already very clear.

"Just looking at these eyes, who do you think they resemble?" Qin Yanan turned her head to look at Zhu Juntang.

"What can you tell just by looking at the eyes?" Zhu Juntang thought that unless someone had dead fish eyes or cross-eyed eyes, it would be easier to make the connection if they knew someone with those features. But staring at these eyes for a while, Zhu Juntang couldn't help but wonder, "The eyes... the eyes look a bit like Liu Chang'an's!"

"Yes, if you look at the photos in my great-grandfather's study, the photos from that period aren't very clear, but judging from the general outline, Ye Chenyu in the photos is similar to the screenshots we're seeing now, but the eyes give a slightly different impression, perhaps it's psychological. But these eyes are exactly the same as Liu Chang'an's." Qin Yanan pointed to the video, "The day Ye Chenyu kidnapped Zhu Changzhe was the same day Liu Chang'an told me that he and his great-grandfather went to Taiwan to see your great-grandmother, but the traffic records only show Liu Chang'an, while only Ye Chenyu was on Taiwan. What does this mean?"

"Liu Chang'an is indeed Ye Chenyu!" Zhu Juntang exclaimed excitedly, and she believed it again.

Qin Yanan nodded. The evidence was conclusive. She was not the judge, and Liu Chang'an was not the criminal. There was no need for his personal confession; it was simply a matter of his own judgment.

"He still fell into my hands! So he was some kind of unbelievable supernatural human. No wonder my great-grandmother wanted to block news from Lush Forest, delete all the video information in Lush Forest, and even put the recording disk into the shredder." Zhu Juntang became excited and smug.

"So how did you get this video?" Qin Yanan wasn't as excited as Zhu Juntang; she was considering more practical questions.

"I asked Grandma Shu yesterday, but she wouldn't tell me. However, she let slip that Zhu Changzhe was also there that day. I thought I'd just get lucky, since Zhu Changzhe's driver is the younger brother of one of my followers. So I asked her to inquire, and I didn't expect to actually find out." Zhu Juntang couldn't help but sigh. The world really does revolve around me. When I need something to happen, even established history from the past will naturally become useful to me.

Zhu Juntang, a girl blessed by the gods.

"Could it be that Grandma Shu deliberately led you to investigate? I don't think that shrewd old woman would let something slip so easily," Qin Yanan asked with some suspicion.

"You're overthinking it. You think it's some kind of power struggle within a wealthy family?"

"A dramatic performance? Haven't you experienced one yourself?"

"Anyway, so what if she deliberately let it slip? Unless someone instructed her, why would Grandma Shu care so much? The only people who could instruct her are my great-grandmother and my mother. What motive would they have to instruct her to let it slip to me? If they knew in advance that you and I had these clues, would they investigate the relationship between Ye Chenyu and Liu Chang'an?" Zhu Juntang woke up in the morning with a very clear mind.

"I'm just being cautious." Qin Yanan nodded, lowering her voice. "In short, we need to be constantly vigilant in protecting Liu Chang'an from now on."

Zhu Juntang nodded solemnly, yet somewhat unwillingly, "But I want to get rid of him."

"What are you talking about? Even if we discover his secret, do you think you can get rid of him? My great-grandfather and your great-grandmother might even listen to him." Qin Yanan was much more shrewd than the seemingly clever Zhu Juntang.

Qin Yanan was certain that if she didn't keep an eye on Zhu Juntang, Zhu Juntang might send out a whole van Bread Man... ugh, a whole van full of people to test Liu Chang'an. She absolutely loved doing that.

"How about I send out my Bread Man?" Qin Yanan had just thought of it when Zhu Juntang suddenly had a bright idea, "I heard he's incredibly good at fighting."

Qin Yanan rolled her eyes at her. Even Qin Yanan might not be able to beat her Bread Man. Qin Yanan thought for a moment, "Bear with it for now, don't go looking for Liu Chang'an. I have a plan to implement."

What plan?

"I'm telling you, but you can't ruin my plans. Don't send anyone to test me!"

"Okay!"

My cold should be better, but it'll flare up tomorrow!