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Chapter 9 – Chen Feng’s Suspicion

Xiao Daiyu didn’t know her parents in both lives. Due to the nature of her previous career she let go of the need for a family, so it had been a long time since she had longed for parental love. Seeing as she was currently a child, she buried her head in Chen Feng’s chest while he patted her head.

Chen Feng sighed in relief after she stopped crying but didn’t notice her ears turning red.

Their adorable interaction was seen by the waitress who had just come in with the meals in but did not want to disturb them. She really wanted to have a picture of such a cute daughter and father moment, unfortunately she wasn’t allowed to have her phone on her during work hours.

After a few minutes, Xiao Daiyu reluctantly released Chen Feng and slowly went back to her seat, perhaps Chen Feng could see her reluctance and chuckled.

Their ‘interrogation’ ended just like that.

When they finished their meal, Chen Feng drove her to an orphanage. It was late afternoon when they arrived.

Seeing the pair coming in, the caretakers couldn’t believe that they weren’t related.

Chen Feng filled in the paperwork of Xiao Daiyu’s personal info himself. Usually, the people at the orphanage had to do it themselves since the kids were usually abandoned by their parents at the gate, so it was strange that someone else was doing it instead. Watching their interactions, they noticed that the man wasn’t as simple as he seemed, but they did not comment on it. Their little orphanage really couldn’t afford to offend big bosses.

“What’s your name?” Chen Feng asked.

“Unnamed,” Xiao Daiyu smiled meaningfully, but Chen Feng didn’t understand her.

‘Unnamed’

Agents like them were normally orphans and usually didn’t have names, rather, they received their codenames when the organization assessed their capabilities after going through hellish training.

Xiao Daiyu was unironically named ‘unnamed’, not only to add mystery to her profile as an agent, but because the organization described her potential as ‘unlimited’. Unfortunately she was killed while she was killed by people that felt threatened by her abilities before she could begin to grow them.

Chen Feng saw her dazed state and carefully assessed her eyes for any emotion that would give her away. After all, no child could do what she had done earlier. But as he looked at her black eyes he decided her name.

“Then your name will be Daiyu from now on, it means ‘black jade,’” Chen Feng said with a smile, “you’ll be called Xiao Daiyu,”

Chen Feng normally had an insincere smile, but if anyone who knew him well saw him right now, they would definitely see the warmth it contained. They would also question if they had eye issues or were hallucinating, but that’s besides the point.

Xiao Daiyu was dumbfounded at the unexpected affection, but quickly covered it up with a happy smile.

“How old are you?” After filling in the name, Chen Feng continued his questions.

Xiao Daiyu shrugged as she was not sure herself.

Buzz-

Chen Feng took his phone out of his pocket and opened the messages his nephew had sent. When he saw what he wrote, his eyes deepened.

[The little girl’s eyes are very similar to yours]

He had naturally noticed as well, but with his nephew’s second opinion he was more sure of his theory. An unknown emotion took over his eyes, but it was gone in a flash.

“You should be around 6.”

Xiao Daiyu obediently nodded, but the caretakers objected.

“Mister, Xiao Daiyu looks to be around 5 at most… I think 6 is a little bit old,” a kind-looking old woman spoke.

“She seemed to have lived in the streets for quite a while before I found her, and she was quite malnourished. Due to lack of proper nutrition she would not be able to grow the same as others her age. If you feed her well she’ll start to look her age.”

The kind-looking old woman saw the logic in this and nodded and… As for food, if their donations were enough this year to feed the children, they definitely wouldn’t mistreat them.

No one objected anymore.

“I’ll donate 5 million every year for the orphanage, make sure they’re all well fed and have enough commodities,” Chen Feng took out a cheque and wrote 5,000,000 with his signature.

The caretakers were delighted.

Xiao Daiyu and the caretakers saw him out until his car was out of sight.

She pouted and reluctantly went in with the caretakers.

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“You’ve taken your sweet time”

Seeing his uncle arrive, Shan Yijun stood up and followed him back to the car. Shan Yijun didn’t criticize his uncle like he used to, but watched Chen Feng’s expression.

His uncle was unusually quiet. He didn’t even smile like he usually did, even in front of Shan Yijun’s iceberg of a father.

It was a rare moment of solemness for his uncle.

Shan Yijun watched as Chen Feng decisively took out his phone along with a small ziplock bag that contained a lock of black hair. He assumed that it was from that little girl.

His call went through after one ring, Chen Feng didn’t greet the other person but directly ordered them.

“Investigate what happened to that woman 7 years ago then meet me at our mansion in Yun town as soon as possible.” It was quick and bare, with no explanation of what it was for. He hung up after talking.

Shan Yijun was surprised. That could only mean one thing, it was possible that that little girl was actually…

While on the other side of the phone, Lu Ji stared speechlessly at his phone. He felt like strangling his past self for choosing to follow this ungrateful fellow.

Unfortunately, they were childhood friends.

Forget it, I’ll forgive you this one time…

Lu Ji had already forgotten how many times he had told himself that.

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