Rebirth of the Godly Prodigal

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Oh, so this was what it was about. Simply put, after my 18th birthday, I will become a core member of the family, so I have to start doing business and earning money. But I always squander, no wonder Dad and Mum are a bit worried for me.

Luckily, my luck is not bad most of the time. All those things that I spend money in have earned quite a bit of money—there’s no need to fear then, I shall just carry on like usual and ignore how others think about me. It’s not like I’m spending other people’s money, anyway.

“Ten million?” Hong Dali thought for a while. “That’s quite a bit of money. Do you have any suggestion for me, Dad?”

“Hehe, I suggest that you make it grand! As grand as possible!” Hong Weiguo proudly said, “I want the whole world to know that my Dali is a grown man now! You’re independent now! Not the child that you used to be! Therefore, this time, it must be grand and astonishing. And it’s best if they will never be able to forget it!”

OK, this is indeed my own father, he couldn’t hate to let the entire world know that I’m an adult now. Looks like I’m going to promote from a little prodigal to a big prodigal! This is not bad at all!

But carefully thinking about it, there are benefits in making the ceremony into a grand event. It will at least let others know how important I am to Hong Weiguo. This is probably his real intention—for me, he isn’t concerned about how much he needs to spend, this will cause other’s to reconsider before they think about touching me.

The coming of age ceremony isn’t the aim, the aim is to show Hong Weiguo’s attitude towards me!

Thinking of this, Hong Dali smiled. He might not be good at other stuff, but that didn’t include squandering. This was his specialty! He instantly said, “Dad, I just thought of a plan. I guarantee that it will be astonishing!”

Hong Weiguo smiled and said, “Oh? Let me hear about it.”

Hong Dali’s eyes glittered like stars. “Dad, do we have a cruise ship in our family?”

“You mean you want to host the ceremony on a cruise ship?” Hong Weiguo touched his chin. “We do have one that’s not bad. I remember that it was about 80,000 to 95,000 tons. The price was 88 million, or was it 96 million? I can’t really remember.”

“Er…” Hong Dali was a bit depressed. “That’s a bit too large…”

“Is that very large?” Hong Weiguo strangely asked. “It will, of course, be better for your ceremony to be as grand as possible. I was still thinking that this one was a bit too small.”

“Er, I think I didn’t explain clearly.” Hong Dali sniffled, grinned and said, “I was thinking about moving the cruise ship to Fengyuan Lake and host my coming of age ceremony there…”

Hong Weiguo: “…”

Lan Ruoxi: “…”

The two of them were dazed for a while before Hong Weiguo laughed loudly. He excitedly patted on Hong Dali’s shoulder and said, “You’re indeed my son, you have the boldness! The foresight! The magnanimity! Then, it’s decided!”

He excitedly stood up and paced around in the living room. “Yup, putting a cruise ship in Fengyuan Lake is a brilliant idea, it will definitely shock them! It’s decided! But our cruise ship is too big. And it’s not easy finding a small one…”

Lan Ruoxi smiled and said, “Speaking of which, I remember that I saw some news somewhere about this.”

She placed Quentin on the ground, went into the study room, and searched through the documents. A short while later, she told out a piece of newspaper. “A few days ago, I happened to see news about this second batch of the Golden Long River series, represented by ‘Golden Long River One.’ They have finished testing in the waters and were strictly designed according to the ocean cruise ship’s standards. Each of them cost 30 million or so. The ship is 130-meters long, 24-meters wide, and 6 floors tall. There are a total of 200 plus rooms, including standard rooms, executive rooms, luxury suites, and also presidential suites. The maximum number of passengers it can hold is 570. It’s truly a fifth-generation large-sized luxury cruise ship.”

After introducing the ship to them, Lan Ruoxi showed Hong Weiguo the photo on the newspaper. “What do you think of this one?”

“Not bad, not bad at all!” Hong Weiguo’s eyes were instantly lit-up. “Dali shall use this for his coming of age ceremony! I shall call them now to buy one.”

Therefore, the venue of Hong Dali’s coming of age ceremony was decided.

After discussing a few more details, Wang Mingyu came back. He respectfully said, “Master, I have done a simple check on him.”

Hong Weiguo: “OK, tell me.”

Wang Mingyu said, “This Lin Yingyi does indeed have a daughter called Lin Zixuan. He’s an honest businessman and has a franchise of roast duck restaurants called ‘Lin’s Beer and Roast Duck.’ The business can be considered to be not bad, and his total assets are about 20 million or so. However, most of them are fixed assets such as the restaurants and so on. Thus, his liquid assets are only about three million or so. According to our intelligence, his moral quality is not bad, and he is an honest, upright person. He has never done any dirty at other’s back before, even though his business has already expanded to such a scale. Overall, he can be considered to be a good person.”

“Yup, it’s fine as long as his background is clean.” With this information, Hong Weiguo finally eased his mind. He smiled and said, “Looks like our Dali has some ladies luck. He can find such an outstanding girl just by randomly picking her up from the streets.”

Lan Ruoxi grinned and poked Hong Dali’s head. “Little rascal, I see that this Lin Zixuan is not bad too, let’s raise her as your child bride. What do you think?”

Hong Dali sniffled. “Mum, isn’t she going to be my Sister, aren’t you thinking too far ahead?”

“It’s not like you are connected by blood, what are you afraid of.” Lan Ruoxi smiled and said, “I’m waiting for you to bear me a grandson, a granddaughter is also fine. Your Dad and I already thought of names for them. If it’s a boy, he will be called Hong Dalong. If it’s a girl, she will be called Hong Xiaofeng…”

Seeing his mother thinking so far ahead, Hong Dali decisively surrendered. “I’m going back to sleep now. If we go on any further, you’re probably even going to talk about my grandson…”

“Yo, is our little prodigal shy? Hehe.” Even Lan Ruoxi’s eyes were smiling too. “It will be wonderful if four generations of our family can live together. Speaking of which, you little rascal have to buck up!”

Hong Weiguo laughed loudly and said, “Look at you, aren’t you scaring Dali away? OK, don’t chat anymore, have an early rest. I really have to go and see this Lin Yingyi tomorrow morning.” As he said so, he softly instructed Wang Mingyu, “Mingyu, send someone to keep guard over Lin Yingyi’s house and spy on him. See if Lin Zixuan really ran away from home or was purposely sent here. See if he is really anxious, then come back and report to me.”

“Yes, Master.” Wang Mingyu instantly replied.

…

Tianjing City East district, Lin Yingyi’s house.

Lin Zixuan’s father, Lin Yingyi, was about 40 years of age. He was usually refined in manner, but now, his face was malevolent and roared, “Damn bastard! Dog! He actually dared to kidnap my Xuanxuan! I’m going to kill him! Kill him!” Then, he trashed everything in sight and was frightening to look at.

Lin Zixuan’s mother was slightly plump, her skin was very white, and she would have looked quite pretty. But now, her face was full of anxiety, and her eyes were red. She sat there with her head lowered, occasionally sniffing from crying. She cried, “Old Lin, stop throwing things. You have smashed almost everything in the house in just this short while. Hurry up and think of something.”

She cried sadly. Obviously, this matter had caused the family to be worried sick.

Five million wasn’t a small sum to them—they were people who barely made it into the ranks of the upper-class society.

Lin Yingyi shouted, “Think of something? I have thought of everything, but I’m still lacking one million not matter how I tried. What can I do? What am I supposed to do? If anything happens to Xuanxuan, how am I supposed to live on!”

Lin Zixuan’s mother cried again and said, “If there’s really no, no other methods, then just sell this house. It should be enough. No matter what, it’s more important to rescue Xuanxuan. After all, she’s your biological daughter.”

“Sell the house?” Lin Yingyi’s voice trembled. “Where should we stay if we sell the house? Also, even if we want to sell the house, there is not enough time.” As he said this, he slapped himself hard. “It’s all my fault! It’s my f*cking fault! Why did I have to force her to study from day to night!”

“What’s the point of saying all these now.” Lin Zixuan’s mother cried and said, “Even if we have no money, we can still earn it. Xuanxuan is so good looking… If those kidnappers… we must rescue her first no matter what!”

“I know.” Lin Yingyi sat on the sofa and violently rubbed his hair. “Wait for me to see Xuanxuan tomorrow first, sigh.”

…

As Lin Yingyi and his wife were worrying, there was a shadow outside their door. The person recorded everything and slowly walked back, then turned around and left.

…

They couldn’t sleep that night.

Early morning on the second day, Lin Yingyi got out of bed and dressed neatly. He sucked in a deep breath and took a look at his wife who only just managed to fall asleep before leaving the house. He murmured, “Sigh, hopefully, Heaven will bless us. Even if I have to sacrifice my life, I will rescue Xuanxuan.”

As he said so, he lightly closed the door.

Two rows of tears rolled down from the corner of his wife’s eyes as she quietly cried.

After leaving the house, Lin Yingyi took the car and directly went towards Tianjing City’s west fourth loop. Recently, the popularity of this area was huge. The location of Ye Lai Xiang was very obviously marked on the car’s navigator. Coupled with the fact that there wasn’t a lot of cars on the road yet this early, Lin Yingyi reached the entrance of Ye Lai Xiang in just half an hour.

Ye Lai Xiang had not yet opened at this time, but there was already a Soaring Angel parked at the door. Although Lin Yingyi could be considered to be quite wealthy, buying such a car which cost as much as four to five million was something that he didn’t even dare to imagine. Therefore, he couldn’t help but keep looking at it.

Unexpectedly, just as he was looking at the car, two people alighted from the Soaring Angel and actually walked towards him.

“It isn’t against the law just look at a car, right?” Just as Lin Yingyi was thinking about this, one of them knocked on his car window. “Are you Mr. Lin Yingyi?”

“Yes, I am. You guys are…” Lin Yingyi was a bit frightened, not sure what their objective was.

“Our boss wants to see you. It’s regarding your daughter, Lin Zixuan.” The two guys didn’t say anything extra and walked back after they finished saying that.

Lin Yingyi felt that things were getting quite weird today. He totally couldn’t guess what was going on. But considering the other person’s background and that it had something to do with his daughter, even if he were going into the dragon’s den, he still had to go up their car.