Lin Chen quickly finished cooking the meal.
"Wow."
Seeing the dishes being served, Shen Qing exclaimed in surprise. Each dish looked even more exquisite than anything she had eaten before.
"Auntie Qingqing, the dishes Daddy makes are the most delicious!"
"You should try them quickly!"
Lin Xiaoxi giggled.
Shen Qing nodded, "I won't stand on ceremony then. I've wanted to freeload a meal for a while, but I haven't had the time recently."
She carefully savored each bite of the dishes.
She exclaimed in amazement, "Lin Chen, you're amazing! I've thought I'd seen your limit several times, but you keep surpassing it. Why is there such a big difference even though it's all food?"
Lin Chen smiled and said, "That's hard to say. Even if you understand the principles behind it, you still wouldn't be able to make it."
Shen Qing nodded slightly.
"I understand."
"To praise someone's talent, the ancients would say: 'His brushstrokes startle wind and rain, his poems move gods to tears.' I can only say you're awesome."
Xu Mengyao chuckled, "So, Xiaoxi, you need to read more books and not learn from your Auntie Qingqing."
Shen Qing pouted.
"Mengyao, it's a shame to have such good food without wine."
"With such good dishes, should we have some red wine?"
Xu Mengyao shook her head, "I can't drink alcohol."
Shen Qing was stunned for a moment, then exclaimed in surprise, "Mengyao, are you pregnant again? How far along are you?"
"One and a half months."
"No one else knows yet, so keep it a secret, okay?"
Xu Mengyao smiled.
Shen Qing nodded and looked at Lin Xiaoxi, "Xiaoxi, you're going to have a younger brother or sister next year. Are you happy?"
"Of course, I'm happy!"
Lin Xiaoxi nodded.
Time gradually passed. As they were finishing their meal, Xu Mengyao's phone suddenly rang. It was an unfamiliar number.
"Hello?"
Xu Mengyao answered.
The other party continued to persuade, "Mr. Lin, in your country, scientists are not the most powerful, nor are the rich. Power is the most important thing."
"But in our country, it's different. We respect science, and scientific technology can be transformed into a lot of money."
"Money is everything here."
Lin Chen said indifferently, "Are you done? I'm hanging up."
"No, wait... Mr. Lin, please wait."
"Mr. Lin, if you come to our country, you will be an absolute superior. You won't be cyberbullied. Your descendants will also inherit your wealth and status."
"Oh, and your parents are getting old. As long as you come over, we have the means to make them live longer."
The other party tried his best to entice him.
"Even if you have a good relationship with this government, what about the next one? Or the one after that? Mr. Lin, if you come to our side, you won't have these kinds of problems at all in the future."
Lin Chen sneered, "You've really gone to great lengths."
"To win me over, you've put on such a big show."
The other party said, "Mr. Lin, you've misunderstood. Your experience with cyber violence has nothing to do with us. We just don't want your talent to be buried."
"As long as you agree to come, we promise to provide you with no less than ten billion US dollars in research funding every year."
"You can use this money however you want."
Lin Chen was too lazy to say more and hung up the phone.
Xu Mengyao looked at Lin Chen, "Honey, what's going on?"
Lin Chen said, "It should be an American. It's about what we expected. They want to win me over to the US."
"This is probably the last attempt to win me over."
Xu Mengyao's heart tightened.
If this last attempt to win him over failed, what awaited Lin Chen next would not be enticement, but destruction.
Shen Qing said, "As expected, someone is stirring things up behind the scenes. I was wondering why so many people on the internet were standing up."
Xu Mengyao said to Shen Qing, "Qingqing, don't get involved in this kind of thing. It might be dangerous."
"You've come at a bad time. If you had come before, we could have gone shopping. It's not convenient to go shopping now."
Shen Qing nodded.
She squatted down and hugged Lin Xiaoxi, "Xiaoxi, you need to take a nap at noon. Auntie Qingqing is leaving now, okay? Auntie Qingqing will come to see you again in a while."
"Okay, okay."
Lin Xiaoxi nodded.
Soon, Shen Qing said goodbye and left.
Five minutes later, Shen Qing called, "Mengyao, you must not leave the residential complex. There are now many media reporters outside your complex."
Lin Chen took the elevator to the rooftop.
They couldn't see outside the complex from their balcony, but they could see it from the rooftop of their building.
Liu Feng and the others were blocking many reporters outside the complex.
"Hmph."
Lin Chen snorted coldly in his heart.
So many reporters had come all at once. Lin Chen didn't believe that no one had organized them.
"It's time to say it."
Lin Chen muttered in his heart.
He called Xu Mengyao, "Honey, you stay at home with Xiaoxi. I'll go out and talk to those reporters. It's not good for them to be gathered here like this."
Many reporters were gathered, and many people had also gathered around.
"Honey, be careful."
Xu Mengyao said with some worry.
Lin Chen said, "Don't worry. If it comes to a fight, I can take on all of them without even breaking a sweat. Besides, with Liu Feng and the others, I won't even need to do anything."
"Okay."
"Honey, go and come back quickly."
Xu Mengyao instructed.
Lin Chen took the elevator to the first floor and left the complex.
"Lin Chen is out!"
"Let's see how Lin Chen responds later."
"Master Lin, are you planning to go abroad?"
Before Lin Chen could get close, the reporters shouted loudly.
"Quiet."
Liang Jingtian shouted.
A dozen of them stood guard with guns, ready for action. There were even several snipers on standby on the surrounding high-rise buildings.
There were also people from the National Security Bureau in the crowd.
Liang Jingtian and the others would act quickly if there were any abnormalities.
The crowd of reporters quieted down.
They and many of the surrounding people were watching Lin Chen, some of them secretly live-streaming with their mobile phones.
Lin Chen walked closer unhurriedly.
He glanced at the crowd of reporters and said indifferently, "Everyone, whether you're here to gain traffic or for other ulterior motives, you shouldn't be here."
"If you leave now, I may not pursue the matter."
Not a single one of the dozens of reporters left.
One of the reporters said, "Master Lin, you have tens of millions of fans online, and many of the disaster victims are also your fans. Why are you so heartless and not donating a single penny?"
"Lin Chen, are you planning to go abroad?"
"Lin Chen—"
Several reporters spoke up righteously.
Many people in the live-streaming rooms were also questioning him.
Lin Chen raised his hand, and the crowd quickly quieted down.
Lin Chen said, "How do you know I haven't donated?"
A reporter immediately questioned, "Lin Chen, major charitable organizations have no record of any donations from you. Don't tell me you made anonymous donations."
Lin Chen said indifferently, "If I have donated, how about you donate one ten-thousandth of my donation amount?"
Another reporter said, "One ten-thousandth? I have no problem with that, but one thing, it can't be a donation made after the exposure."
"Only the money you donated before the exposure counts!"
One ten-thousandth. If Lin Chen donated ten million, they would only need to donate one thousand. They could afford that much.
"I have no problem either."
"I also have no problem."
The other reporters spoke up one after another.
Lin Chen said, "Let's just calculate based on the donations before the exposure. You guys are too chaotic. Raise your hands if you agree."
"Think carefully."
