Grandpa's Gift: A Diamond Crown

On Sunday morning, Dad hummed a little tune as he busied himself cooking in the kitchen.

Ever since his precious daughter returned, he had always worried that she might go hungry or wear herself out, so he had personally honed his cooking skills.

A steaming breakfast sat on the dining table.

There were eggs and milk, a bowl of fish head and tofu soup simmered until milky white, fried chicken legs, pan-seared steak, and ham sausages.

Beside them was a plate of washed red strawberries. They were clearly cultivated, the most expensive kind, each one big, round, sweet, and red all the way through.

"Precious Huohuo, these strawberries are from that boy from the Li family. Have a taste."

Her mother, Jian Yan, beamed as she spoke.

As a mother with only one daughter, she had always done her best to give Ye Huo the best.

Whether it was food or things to use.

Her eldest brother, sitting at the dining table, suddenly gave Ye Huo a black box.

"Precious Huohuo, this is for you."

Ye Mo handed it to his sister.

Ye Huo opened it and was instantly delighted.

It was a military drone weapon-the Stinger, a battlefield divine weapon for counter-sniping and assassination.

There were eighteen drones in total, packed in two layers.

Each drone was only the size of a palm and carried a small explosive with a three-gram payload. Its firing power was terrifying enough to knock a person unconscious on the spot.

Its power was comparable to that of a rifle.

Besides the bomb, it carried a miniature camera and could use facial recognition to attack its target.

Its reaction speed was ten times that of a human.

In other words, it could react the moment it scanned a target's face.

Ye Huo glanced at the instructions inside. The eighteen drones formed a single unit.

When dealing with a target barricaded indoors, the first drone would blast a hole in the glass, and the others would fly through it to snipe the target.

Working together, the miniature drones' combat power shot through the roof!

"Thank you, big brother."

Ye Huo spoke happily.

This was a weapon money couldn't buy. Her big brother really doted on her, preparing a whole set as a gift for her.

"No need to thank me."

A smile tugged at her eldest brother's lips, and his voice was full of affection. "Huohuo, this is a weapon newly developed by my unit. Keep it safe, and if you run into bad guys, use these to knock them out!"

"Yes, big brother."

Ye Huo happily accepted the gift.

She played with the white drone between her fair, slender fingers.

The ammunition detached.

I really want to find a chance to see how it performs in a live combat exercise!

Ye Mo's face was full of smiles.

Other girls her age loved playing with Barbie dolls.

But his sister was different. She liked playing with guns, ammunition, daggers, and other weapons of iron and blood.

Looking at it that way, his little sister was truly adorable!

His precious little sister was the most adorable person under heaven!

Dad, Ye Chuan, looked at the aircraft in his precious daughter's hand, the corners of his mouth lifting in a sweet smile. "Precious daughter, what's so good about a toy aircraft the size of your palm?

"If you like them, Dad can ask his classmates at the research institute to design you a pink airplane you can fly for fun. How about it?"

"Dad, I'd like that."

At the mention of an airplane, Ye Huo's eyes lit up.

She couldn't help smiling, a breathtaking smile appearing on her delicate little face. Every gesture she made exuded her uniquely aloof and noble air.

The moment Ye Chuan saw his daughter's smile, his heart felt as though it had tasted honey, sweet and warm!

Ah!

His heart pounded!

How could his precious daughter be so beautiful? One look at her and his heart melted.

As if injected with chicken blood, Ye Chuan said excitedly, "Precious Huohuo, don't worry. Dad will get out the design drawings and tools right now and contact my old classmates at the aviation institute. We'll design a pink airplane for my precious daughter that's one of a kind in the whole world! Then my precious daughter can fly to school!"

Flying to school was so cool!

Ye Huo gave her dad a thumbs-up.

Jian Yan didn't care about the airplane. As a mother, she would always put her precious daughter's safety first.

She made a very serious demand. "Huohuo's dad, you must personally supervise the work and build the safest, most rigorously designed, and most beautiful airplane in the world for our daughter, understand?"

"Yes, as you command, my lady wife."

Ye Chuan's voice was deep and resonant, his face full of affection.

True to his word, he immediately pulled up his contacts and got in touch with his brothers at the aviation research institute.

Mom gazed fondly at her precious daughter.

With her red lips, white teeth, and bright eyes, Ye Huo was the very picture of a pretty young girl.

Of all the girls she had ever seen, her own precious daughter was the prettiest.

Her mother, Jian Yan, gazed at her precious daughter with a tender expression.

She could never get tired of looking at her!

So adorable, so beautiful-worthy of being the precious daughter she had given birth to!

"Precious Huohuo, will you go shopping with Mom after we finish eating?"

"Okay, Mom."

Ye Huo agreed.

Her eldest brother, Ye Mo, immediately chimed in, "Mom, I'm going too."

"Wife, I'm going too," Ye Chuan said with a smile.

"Then our whole family will go together."

Old Master Ye came downstairs carrying a set of jewelry.

He had bought it at an auction a few days earlier. The pink gemstone crown was worth 170 million.

He had bought it especially for his precious granddaughter.

He was the richest man in the country.

For eight generations, his ancestors had had nothing but sons.

His father and grandfather had only had sons.

People outside the family had all laughed at the Ye family for being unable to have a daughter.

His father and grandfather had died in melancholy, their only regret before death being that they had never seen a daughter born into the Ye family.

At long last, the pattern had been broken in this generation.

Old Master Ye never said it aloud, but he truly doted on Ye Huo.

His precious granddaughter was his little padded jacket.

As her grandfather, he would dote on his precious granddaughter for the rest of his life, give her the most delicious snacks and the prettiest clothes, and prepare several sets of jewelry for her every year as her future dowry.

Ye Huo took the pink jewelry box and opened it. The crystal crown was set with pink diamonds as big as pigeons, their light dazzling.

Their color was magnificent, just like a streak of light in a pink galaxy.

It was simply too beautiful!

"Grandpa, the gift is so beautiful."

Ye Huo spoke calmly.

Even as the queen of mercenaries, having traveled across half the globe over the years,

and seen countless treasures,

she was still dazzled by the pink diamond crown, which radiated a noble brilliance.

"My precious Huohuo, I'm glad you like it!"

Old Master Ye gazed at her lovingly. All these years, his reason for living had been to wait for Ye Huo to return.

His precious granddaughter was cool and beautiful, perfect, and better than everyone else at everything.

She was the granddaughter he had waited generations for.

The more he looked at Ye Huo, the more excited he became, until his eyes grew a little moist.

Old Master Ye wiped away his tears and held out a card. "Huohuo's mom, you're the greatest contributor to this family. Thank you for giving birth to precious Huohuo and giving this old man someone to care about for the rest of his life!"

"Dad, don't say that."

Jian Yan was flattered and taken aback.

Ever since she married into the Ye family, Old Master Ye had worn a serious, cold, unsmiling expression all day, as though someone owed him 1.8 million.

The whole family was afraid of him.

No one had ever seen him smile, and everyone thought he had been born unable to smile.

She had never expected precious Huohuo's arrival to melt the heart of this stubborn, coldhearted old man.

Whenever he had nothing to do, he would watch Huohuo and smile nonstop.

Seeing that Jian Yan wouldn't accept it, Old Master Ye forced it into her hand. "Take it. Huohuo is my darling, and the granddaughter our Ye family has waited generations for.

"You've contributed so much to this family. This is a bank card with no spending limit. Take it and buy precious Huohuo whatever you want!"

"Dad, then I won't stand on ceremony."

Jian Yan accepted it.

Old Master Ye chuckled. "That's more like it. All these years, the house has been full of boys, like a monastery. They were so noisy they gave me a headache. My precious granddaughter is the adorable one. Grandpa loves looking at her!"

"That's right, precious Huohuo. You're the pearl in our palm, our darling, the pride of the whole family!"

Jian Yan pulled her precious daughter into her arms, kissed her, and said sweetly, "From now on, Mom, Dad, your grandpas, and your brothers won't let you suffer the slightest grievance."

"Mom."

The corners of Ye Huo's lips curved up slightly, and she gave her mother a tight, warm hug.

This family was so warm!

Her eldest brother watched enviously and added from the side, "Huohuo, you don't know how fierce Grandpa is. When we were little, he'd kick us around and wouldn't spare us even a single smile! Who would have thought he'd dote on you to the heavens? You're the pearl in the whole family's palm. From now on, you can walk sideways around this house if you want!"

"You brat! In my eyes, you're grass, and my Huohuo is a treasure. If you dare bully my precious granddaughter, see if I don't peel your skin off!"

Old Master Ye roared in his booming voice, startling Ye Mo into immediately sitting up straight.

Sure enough, his grandfather only wore a kindly smile when facing his precious granddaughter. When facing grandsons like them, he turned into the great demon king again.