Quick Transmigration: Why did you provoke him? He's love-struck!

Chapter 386 The Bride of the Sea God (45)

Not long after, Si's father and Nolan walked out of Si Lan's house together.

Nolan opened the back door for Si's father, waited for him to get in, and then went around to the driver's seat.

He was sitting in the driver's seat, fastening his seatbelt, when his father suddenly asked, "Do you have a driver's license?"

"No." Nolan smiled and looked up to meet his gaze in the rearview mirror. "However, the operating principles of machines in the human world are not difficult; I've studied them."

Si's father's eyes dimmed slightly.

Nolan drove steadily and safely to the Si Group building, then got out of the car and went around to the back to open the car door for Si's father.

After getting out of the car, Si's father didn't rush to leave. Instead, he looked Si up and down thoughtfully and said, "The merfolk have evolved quite quickly."

Nolan smiled calmly.

Nolan's smile vanished as he watched Si's father enter the group's building.

He drove back to Si Lan's house and ran into Yan Zhen downstairs, who had just dropped off Si Lan's mother. He immediately said, "Your dad is suspicious."

"I know."

"You know?" Nolan asked in surprise.

"Don't you know?" Yan Zhen asked back.

Nolan was a little confused: "...Should I know?"

"Didn't you offer to take him to the company because you sensed he was suspicious?"

“No,” Nolan said. “I’m worried that if he takes Wei Shucheng away, you won’t have anyone to use when you need someone.”

Yan Zhen: "..."

Nolan pressed further: "How do you know he's become suspicious?"

Yan Zhen explained, "Although he has retired, he has held power in the Si family for so many years. He is not easily fooled. Regarding Si Lan's coma, the explanation I gave was half true and half false. As long as he investigates, he will be able to find out the false part and know that I am lying."

Having witnessed firsthand how freely merfolk could move on land, he knew, if he was smart enough, that the merfolk's desire for revenge against humans was beyond his and the Si family's control.

He now only has two choices: either disband the New Territories Research Institute, shut down the mermaid merchandise industry, and reach a reconciliation with the mermaids, or report the danger posed by the mermaids to the national authorities so that the government can intervene. However, this option carries certain risks.

Nolan listened intently: "What risks?"

"If the national institutions fail to handle the situation properly, it will incite even greater hatred among the merfolk towards humans. As a leader in the merfolk commodity industry chain, the Si family will definitely be the first target of the merfolk's revenge."

Nolan understood: "So President Si would rather take the initiative and handle this matter himself than hand over the future of the Si family to the relevant institutions and let them decide the fate of the Si family?"

“Yes.” Yan Zhen said, glancing at Nolan, “I thought you offered to take my dad to the company to show him the intelligence of the merfolk, and to indirectly warn him that the merfolk are not easy to mess with… You didn’t say anything stupid on the way, did you?”

"No!" Nolan winked at her. "I didn't say a word the whole way. I just wanted to send him away and come back to be with you as soon as possible."

Yan Zhen: "..."

She pushed Nolan's face away from hers: "Speak properly, stop acting all innocent."

Back at Si Lan's house, Yan Zhen was at a loss when he saw Si Lan lying on the bed, a dozen bodyguards and Assistant Xu in the nanny's room.

Si Lan is alright; she was poisoned and will be unable to move for a short period of time.

But what should be done with these bodyguards?

After pondering for a while, Yan Zhen called Nolan over: "Get the bodyguards to the basement of the villa on Changming Road and lock them up with Qiao Yun."

Nolan pointed at Assistant Xu and asked, "And what about her?"

"She and Si Lan were taken to Xinnan Mountain."

Once Yan Zhen made her decision, she took action. She called Wei Shucheng for help and moved everyone, including Si Lan, downstairs. The bodyguards were escorted back to the villa by Nolan.

She and Wei Shucheng then sent Si Lan and Assistant Xu to Xin Nanshan.

Xin Nanshan Villa was previously used to imprison Wei Shucheng. There is no internet or signal here, it is far from human habitation, and the windows are welded shut with anti-theft steel bars. Once the door is locked, it is a complete luxury prison.

After getting Si Lan inside, Yan Zhen woke up Assistant Xu.

"I'm entrusting my sister to your care." Yan Zhen said to Assistant Xu with a smile, "I've checked, there's food and drink in the refrigerator, and all the daily necessities are provided. You and her can stay here without worry. You'll be paid three times your regular salary. I'll come and pick you up once everything is settled."

Under Yan Zhen's sinister gaze, Assistant Xu forced a nod and said, "Okay."

After a busy day and night, it was already evening when we left Xinnan Mountain.

Back at the villa on Changming Road, Yan Zhen was both hungry and tired. She originally wanted to order some takeout to eat, but when she entered the door, she found that Nolan, who had returned earlier, had turned on the gas and was cooking noodles.

"You're back." Nolan turned around when she heard the noise, wearing a bear apron. "It'll be ready to eat in five more minutes."

Yan Zhen: "..."

She was worried that Nolan would get burned, and instinctively wanted to help him.

But considering my tendency to be a kitchen disaster, I figured I'd probably do more harm than good if I went in.

So she stood in the kitchen doorway and asked, in a perfunctory manner, "Do you need my help?"

"No need," Nolan refused decisively. "I can manage."

Yan Zhen glanced at the iPad next to the sink and knew that Nolan wasn't messing around, but was cooking noodles according to a video tutorial, so she simply ignored it.

After lying on the sofa and waiting for a few minutes, Nolan excitedly brought out a steaming bowl of... instant noodles.

"Try it!" Nolan said. "I followed the instructions exactly, down to the amount of water, the heat, and the cooking time—not a single mistake!"

Yan Zhen met his expectant gaze, picked up a few noodles with her chopsticks, and tasted them.

"How is it? Does it taste good?"

"……not bad."

How bad can instant noodles taste?

Yan Zhen was indeed hungry, and quickly ate half of the instant noodles.

Looking up, she saw Nolan squatting beside her, watching her with a smile in his eyes. She twirled some instant noodles with her chopsticks: "Want to try?"

Nolan shook his head: "Fish don't eat hot food."

Yan Zhen understood, blew on the noodles twice to cool them down, and brought them to his lips: "It's ready."

Nolan bit her chopsticks and ate the instant noodles with a touch of gratitude for how much she cared about her.

When Yan Zhen saw him eat it, he immediately beamed with joy, patted his head, and exclaimed, "Mermaids eating instant noodles? The world is full of wonders!"

Nolan, who was still chewing on instant noodles, almost choked when he heard her words: "What do you mean?"

Yan Zhen got up and walked towards the bathroom: "Wash the dishes."

"……Oh."

Yan Zhen quickly took a shower and went to sleep.

When she woke up in the morning, she first took a stroll around the basement.

Most of the bodyguards who had been locked up there had woken up, but Nolan had done something to them, and they were all sitting on the ground listlessly. When they saw her, they didn't even have the strength to speak.

On the contrary, Qiao Yun, who was originally locked up there, suddenly found himself with so many "fellow sufferers" overnight, and he was very emotional.

Upon seeing Yan Zhen and Nolan arrive, he began cursing Nolan through the basement door, calling him "you despicable, shameless dead fish."

Enraged, Nolan grabbed a handful of pebbles from outside and smashed them against his head through the ventilation window, causing him to bleed profusely.