7 Maidens System - Chapter 52 The Root Of Problem

Beijing, Central Business District.

Beijing Central Business District is located on the east side of the city. It is sandwiched between the 3rd Ring Road and the 4th Ring Road and currently still undergoing large-scale development. This is the gathering place for most of the prestigious companies in China. It could be said that one of the developing company’s goals is to establish their offices here, some even treated it as a symbol of success.

The street was bustling at this moment, it filled with white-collar workers walked around during their lunch break. Normally, they would have a meal at their respective company’s cafeteria. Though the meal there was very cheap and quality was not bad, still having the same meal every day could make people get bored easily thus, some were preferred to eat outside more.

In a certain skyscraper, on the highest floor which usually is the location of the CEO office. At this moment, a tall short-hair lady dressed in a common professional black suits walked hurriedly towards the gorgeously carved milk-white door with a ‘CEO’ sign on it. She quickly opened the door without knocking on it and stepped into a spacious room.

The room was decorated in a black and white tone, every piece of furniture has only two colors, either black or white which made a room became dulled and lifeless. The only thing that made the atmosphere seem to have a little sign of life was muffled piano sounds that came from the computer. The tall lady hurried to walk to in front of the desk, she bowed slightly and solemnly said.

“Master, Young Master has already come out of that place with Miss Dongfang. It seemed Lin Ming didn’t do anything to him.” She looked at the woman who calmly flipping through the document in front of her with respect.

She has long jet-black hair that neatly tied up, allowing her graceful swan-like snow-white neck to be seen. Her heaven-sent face is so beautiful beyond words and doesn’t seem to belong to a mortal world at all, along with slightly slanted crescent brows, gentle light pink colored lips, and a cold misty eyes, which made her beautiful to the point it makes one powerless against it.

She wore a white-colored close-fitting business women’s suit, which made her radiated the nobleness and holiness from her body. Her young-looking appearance could make people subconsciously thought that she should be around her mid-twenties but the truth is, she’s 39 years old this year.

Without raising her head to look at the woman in front of her, she calmly said, “Lunmei, why don’t you knock the door first.” Her voice was very cold that could make any listeners feel as if they were in the north pole.

Lan Lunmei was startled for a moment before hurried to bow, “I was wrong, Master. Please punish me.” Cold sweats appeared on her forehead, she trembled in fear.

“How is he now?” She said while still flipping through the document and didn’t bother to look at Lan Lunmei.

Lan Lunmei heaved a sigh of relief in her heart, she raised her head, “Report Master, it is confirmed that Young Master has a stage 4 of Qi Gathering Realm cultivation base. It was started around a month ago after he defeated those thugs with his brilliant boxing skills, Young Master rarely show his power in front of anyone until last week when he participated in Zhou Feng’s party.”

“3 days ago, he concealed himself and went out to make a ruckus every night. His target was the Black Dragon gang. Except our people, no one knows his identity up until now.” She said with a serious expression.

The woman stopped her action and raised her head to looked at Lan Lunmei, her cold eyes staring straight into Lan Lunmei’s eyes, “So you still can’t find the cause of his recovery?”

Being staring by the woman in front of her, Lan Lunmei shuddered and bowed deeply, “I’m sorry, Master. We still don’t know how Young Master recovered his Spirit Root, and his cultivation technique didn’t resemble to any of Su family or Shen family. His Spiritual Qi seems to be purer than anyone among 5 martial family. Our people started to report this after he admitted to the hospital last month. Young Master seems to be a new person. His personality has also changed.”

“Furthermore, his talents in terms of study and music are top-notch. Young Master never show these talents before that incident…” She was abruptly stopped speaking when she saw the woman raised her hand to stop her.

“I’ve read the report about this already. What I want to know right now is how he recovered his Spirit Root. Since you guys didn’t know about it, there is no point to say anything further… tell our people, if they still let anything happen to him like the last time, I want them to commit suicide after this… Now you can go.” The woman said with a cold expression.

Lan Lunmei felt a chill running down to her spine, she hesitated for a moment as if she wanted to say something.

Seeing her hesitation, the woman asked, “What is it?”

Lan Lunmei took a deep breath before she replied, “Master, Young Master seems to have an affair with a woman named Meng Xin. She has been abused by Zhou family and has been forced to be a prostitute before. I don’t know if…” She carefully asked and wait for the woman to give her an order.

The woman frowned slightly, “If she has a slight ill intention towards him, just eliminate her.” She plainly answered without much concern.

“Understood, Master.” Lan Lunmei respectfully replied and bowed deeply before left the room.

The room turned back to the previous atmosphere, a muffled piano sounds still rang out from the computer on the desk. The woman turned her head to looked at the monitor, her previous cold expression suddenly vanished and replaced with a gentle expression. Her gaze filled with affection, she reached out her slim fingers to touched the screen, more precisely, the position she had touched was on the young handsome man’s face who playing a piano in the video.

“…Is this heaven will?” She muttered to herself. A short moment later, her expression reverted back to the previous deep cold, a killing intent appeared on her eyes.

“Lin Ming, you dared to touch my son!” Her voice was contained a deep hatred reverberated through the room. The temperature in the room seems to dropped instantly.

……

“Say Wifey, what do you want to eat?” In the Mercedes-Benz car, Shen Tianyun asked playfully at Dongfang Mengrou. She wore a long sleeve shirt that revealed her snow-white shoulders and a tight mini skirt seem to try its hardest to hold her well-round butt. Today, she was exceptionally beautiful.

Earlier, Shen Tianyun had use Impression Points function on her because he was curious about her current attitude towards him. A transparent window appeared on her head with 『Dongfang Mengrou : 87 「Trust」』on it. This status made him feel at ease, at least, she didn’t hate him.

With Ling Wufeng’s presence, Dongfang Mengrou has no choice but to comply with him, “How about the Rainbow Fragrance? It’s been a while for me to go there.” She said while rested her head on Shen Tianyun’s shoulder.

Shen Tianyun greedily inhaled her body fragrance without care, he even rubbed her slim waist while doing it, “As your wish, Wifey… Ouch!!” Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain coming on his waist as he looked down and saw her long slim fingers pinched him hard. His pervert actions abruptly stopped.

“Don’t get too far.” Dongfang Mengrou whispered. Shen Tianyun smiled wryly and took his hand away in a defeated manner.

They had arrived at the Rainbow Fragrance restaurant in next 15 minutes. When they walked into the hall, Lin Xueyue already waiting for them at the VIP table.

She put her teacup down and gazed at a new coming couple, a faint smile appeared on her face, “You’ve worked hard.” She said softly.

Shen Tianyun sat opposite her and shrugged his shoulders, “Thanks to Rou’er, If she didn’t come I probably buried there.” He said casually.

Dongfang Mengrou was leaning on the chair as she crossed her arms in front of her chest, frowned, “Shen Tianyun stop calling me ‘Rou’er’ already, we don’t have to act now, aren’t we? And even I don’t show up, you probably have some tricks in your sleeve right? I don’t think that you would be courting death by meeting Lin Ming on that desolate place without any life insurance.” She said coldly. From her expression, she didn’t seem to joke about it.

Shen Tianyun rendered speechless from this 180 degree turned attitude from her, earlier, she was still a coquettish wife and now she became cold and indifference all of sudden. He forced a smile, “Yeah, I do have some tricks but I can only use once.”

Yesterday, the system suddenly upgraded the lottery function out of nowhere, it now cost him 10,000 Fame points to draw a lottery. He had spent 100,000 Fame points on it, and the result was quite good. He got attribute thrice, 2 of them were 10 Constitution attributes which sent him into an A rank with 132 points and another one was 10 Reflexes attributes but it didn’t make his reflexes ascend to a new rank. It is still a C rank with 95 points.

The other 7 draws were items and pills. He was satisfied with the appearance of [Invisible Talisman (A)], it could make him become invisible for 10 minutes which is becoming his trump card. Another one was [Appearance Changing Talisman (A)], this talisman could change the target’s appearance into whatever the user wanted a target to be for 8 hours. This item made him grinned evilly for a while, he has a good way to use it. The third one was the same old [Appearance Changing Pill (B)] that could change his appearance for 3 hours.

What made him excited the most was probably the [Heavenly Spiritual Congealment Pill (A)], this pill could enhance the user’s Spiritual Qi absorption for 10 times and it will last 10 hours! If he were to use this, without a doubt, his cultivation would increase by leaps and bounds. Unfortunately, he only got one. The rest were trash items that isn’t worth to be mention. He had decided that before using this [Heavenly Spiritual Congealment Pill (A)] he needed to solve the problem of his natural talents first. From Grandma Su’s expression in the last time, he got a hunch that she definitely knew something about his untalented in cultivation. How could a direct descendant of Shen and Su family be this untalented?

At this moment, Ye Qingyi walked to Shen Tianyun’s side and said, “Tianyun, Boss Cai wanted to meet you. She said that there is a problem with your new stores.” Her words made a frowned expression to appeared on everyone’s face.

Shen Tianyun nodded, “Understood, Thank you, Big Sis Yi.” He said with a warm smile. The group immediately went to see Cai Ning on the second floor.

In Cai Ning’s study room, everyone sat on the sofa. Cai Ning sent a stack of papers to Shen Tianyun and said.

“This is a warrant for illegal purchasing real estate. It is issued by Bureau Chief Ding Han. Someone has made a move against us.”

The group reading a warrant and frowned deeply, Dongfang Mengrou was the first to say, “This is definitely Lin Ming’s doing. He has some relationship with this Ding Han in the past.”

Cai Ning nodded her head, “From my investigation, it was Zhou Feilong who approached Bureau Chief Ding in the first place and recently Zhou Feilong has received new stores on Huafeng street out of nowhere. I suspected that it coming from Secretary Lin.”

Shen Tianyun and Lin Xueyue looked at each other with a smile on their lips. At this moment, Ye Qingyi knocked the door and came in to served a tea for everyone, her eyes swept on the warrant, she hesitated a bit before she said, “I don’t know if this related or not, this morning, I saw Bureau Chief Ding, Mister Zhou and one man at the coffee shop. I remembered that man is the bodyguard who came with Secretary Lin here in the last time.”

Everyone turned to look at her, Shen Tianyun nodded, “Thank you, Big Sis Yi. This information is very important for us.” Ye Qingyi shook her head and smiled at him.

“Do you have any idea?” Lin Xueyue asked.

Shen Tianyun grinned, “Of course, I already expected this to happen sooner or later. If they want to play, let us play as well. They only want to delay us for a while… Do you know about the mysterious man that attacked the Black Dragon gang recently?” He asked in an excited voice.

Cai Ning and Dongfang Mengrou nodded their head. They have heard about the mysterious black clothes man, this man probably has a deep grudge with the Black Dragon gang.

“Don’t tell me it is related to you?” Dongfang Mengrou asked curiously.

Shen Tianyun chuckled, “That’s right, I have hired a veteran soldier to caused a ruckus on the Black Dragon gang side. Tonight, I will tell him to attack our stores. Since it was in a police’s hand right now, they have to take responsibility for it if anything happened on our stores. We could use this to denounce this Ding Han and ask for compensation from them. After that, every night, I will send him to make trouble on nearly stores around that place. Without a doubt, this could keep Ding Han busy for a while and maybe we can tarnish his reputation from this. Although this plan is quite childish but it has quite highly effective.” He explained.

Everyone seems to understand something, Lin Xueyue smiled, “I see, so you want to send them a message right?”

Shen Tianyun nodded, “Yes, if they still try to delay us further, I will send my people to attack Zhou Feilong’s stores next. I don’t think that anyone could catch this man, even that Lin Ming’s bodyguard is not his opponent. I can guarantee it.” He flashed a confident smile. Everyone was looking forward to seeing the show.

……

“Grandma, are you sleeping? I have something to ask you.” After he took a bath, Shen Tianyun went straight to Grandma Su’s room. He wanted to ask about cultivation matters.

A short moment later, Grandma Su opened the door with a warm smile on her face, “Come in, Little Yun.” Shen Tianyun quickly walked into her room.

He sat on the chair, his expression was serious, and was about to ask the question, but it was Grandma Su who spoke first, “You want to ask about why you are so untalented in cultivation right?” Her words made Shen Tianyun surprised slightly, he nodded his head in reply.

Grandma Su silent for a while, her dried lips parted gently, “Do you know about Spirit Root?” She asked.

His [Supreme Celestial Scripture] has the information about the Spirit Root. Everyone has born with a Spirit Root, it is located in a Dantian and operated as an organ that allowing people to absorb a Spiritual Qi from Heaven and Earth. It is also used to determines their innate talent, the higher rank of Spirit Root, the more talented people could become. When Grandma Su asking this question, Shen Tianyun immediately understood that there was something wrong with his Spirit Root.

“Yes, I know about it.” He replied.

Grandma Su face turned cold, “When you were born, there is someone sneakily destroyed your Spirit Root. At that time we didn’t know about it until your Grandfather found out later. We quickly asked your mother about it, she was surprised as well and immediately investigated it. Later, she secretly told us that it was Zhao family and Lan family who did it behind her back.” An obviously hatred could be notice in her voice.

A cold smile appeared on Shen Tianyun’s face, he won’t believe that his mother, Lan Qingcheng didn’t know about it in the first place. Towards this ‘mother’, he didn’t have any good impression on her at all, on the contrary, he even hates her for abandoned her son. Perhaps, it was because he was an orphan in his past life, he was despised those irresponsible parents who tossed their children away as if they were garbage.

“Why do they fear of an infant? Even when he grows up, I don’t think he can cause trouble for those families.” He asked, the ‘he’ in this sentence was referred to the former master of this body.

Grandma Su smiled coldly as well, “It was because you have possessed the famous Shen family’s Spirit Root, the God(Shen) Spirit Root.”