Max Level Return—I'll Protect That Fragile One

”Young Madam...” Miss Xu Xingguang turned her head to look at Huo Wen’an and laughed as she scolded him, ”You’re really taking advantage.”

Huo Wen’an raised his left hand with the Luo Fei Stone Ring, shook it in front of Xu Xingguang, and boasted with some pride, ”Look, it’s blue.”

He held Xu Xingguang’s hand, smirking, ”Xingguang, you’re in love with me every moment.”

Xu Xingguang did not pull her hand away.

She lowered her gaze towards Huo Wen’an’s neck. Huo Wen’an wore a loosely styled tunic and was thin. From above, she could see the hint of spring beneath his collarbones.

Realizing Xu Xingguang was sneaking a look at him, Huo Wen’an felt a secret joy.

He was about to remind Xu Xingguang to restrain her gaze a little, to mind the occasion, and not to act lovestruck in broad daylight, when Xu Xingguang said, ”Huo Wen’an, looking at your face, I feel like I could go seven times a night. But seeing your body, as thin as a bamboo stick, makes me feel like even once is too much.”

”You should hurry up and recover, and get those abs back.”

Huo Wen’an: ”...”

In the cockpit, Cheng Yue, and Zheng Lie in the front, were stifled with laughter, their shoulders trembling.

Huo Wen’an’s face alternated between blue and red. Suddenly, in annoyance, he stood up and walked into the bedroom, closing the curtain, vowing not to speak to Xu Xingguang for the next hour.

Lying on the bed, Huo Wen’an lifted his tunic, gazing at his rib-like thin body, could not help but sigh.

He couldn’t blame Xu Xingguang for disliking him; even he disliked himself.

Upon arriving at the Pilot Mansion, Huo Wen’an walked ahead sulkily, his body language screaming, ’I’m angry, come and comfort me.’ Xu Xingguang smiled, eventually catching up, intertwining her fingers with his.

Huo Wen’an didn’t have the heart to shake her off.

Back at the mansion, Huo Wen’an asked Xu Xingguang to help him draw up a recovery plan. Xu Xingguang indeed got her laptop, sitting at the outdoor coffee table by the palace, typing up the plan.

Just as she finished, she heard the blare of a ship’s horn.

Zheng Lie spoke a few words over the walkie-talkie to someone afar, then walked over to inform Xu Xingguang, ”Miss Xu, Xu Zeqing and Hong Ruhai have arrived. Should we let them in now?”

The cook had already prepared dinner, Xu Xingguang closed her laptop, stood up, ”Bring them in.”

”Got it!”

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Xu Zeqing had been on Divine Concealment Island for only two months.

Originally over fifty, maintaining a reasonably standard healthy figure, he had toiled for over a month in hard labor on Divine Concealment Island and was tortured by Zheng Lie with water punishment for a period, now emaciated beyond recognition.

The once confident and spirited President Xu now walked bent over and cautious. His calculative, ruthless eyes now looked numb and lifeless.

Two months ago, Xu Zeqing confidently set foot on Divine Concealment Island, thinking he would become like his uncle Hong Ruhai, working as a gardener for the Huo Family.

Upon arriving on Divine Concealment Island, as soon as he disembarked, an unfamiliar man took him to the Pilot Mansion.

Full of joy, he thought he had received the favor of the Huo Family Leader, able to work at the Pilot Mansion. You know, his uncle had struggled his whole life on Divine Concealment Island without the qualification to work at the Pilot Mansion.

But what Xu Zeqing did not expect was that after arriving at the Pilot Mansion, he was assigned the hardest, most exhausting, and most disrespectful job!

He, the former president of Qinglang Daily Chemical Company, ended up building a house for a pig on Divine Concealment Island!

Those days, he bent over like an ox working in a pit while the pig stood lordly at the edge, squealing and watching.

He was so hot and sweaty, nearly fainting from heatstroke several times, while that pig lounged under a parasol eating imported fruit!

Xu Zeqing had never felt such a strong dislike for a pig in his life.

After the pig villa and pig pool were built, the Lord Captain threw a grand housewarming ceremony for the pig.

Watching the pig decked out in a red jacket, wearing a big red flower, strutting into the pig villa he had built himself, he was so angry he fainted on the spot.

When he awoke, he found himself taken to a mortuary, thinking he had been transferred to work there, he secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

But that night, when he saw several men uncover a coffin and pull someone out from a coffin filled with water, and that person turned out to be his uncle, he realized he was in trouble.

He had been tricked by Hong Ruhai!

When he first learned this, Xu Zeqing was utterly furious with Hong Ruhai, but when he found out it was all because they had schemed against Xu Xingguang, leading to Lord Captain’s revenge, Xu Zeqing was dumbfounded.