area51novel Chapter 17 My mom is urging me to go on a blind date, and the billionaire tycoon's queen is que
Chapter 17 My mom is urging me to go on a blind date, and the billionaire tycoon's queen is que
Lin Xian stared at his black-screened phone, tossed it onto the cloud-shaped sofa, and rubbed his temples in exasperation.
He had just built this sky garden 10,000 meters above the ground and hadn't even had time to catch up on his afternoon nap.
His mother's incessant phone calls shattered his dream of lying down.
Blind dates are impossible for me, absolutely impossible in this lifetime.
But if he dares to stand me up, Mom will definitely come up the fiber optic staircase with a broom handle and beat him.
Lin Xian yawned and snapped his fingers at the holographic butler in mid-air.
"Open a teleportation portal for me, set the coordinates to the entrance of the Left Bank Cafe in town."
A dark blue spatial rift slowly unfolded before him, its edges shimmering with steady quantum light.
Lin Xian didn't even bother to change his clothes, wearing only a loose white shirt and floral shorts, and stepped inside in flip-flops.
In the blink of an eye, he stood steadily on the busiest street in the center of Qingshui County.
The midday sun shone on the asphalt road, and the air was thick with a stifling heat.
As soon as Lin Xian pulled his foot out of the spatial rift, he noticed that something was wrong with the atmosphere around him.
The town center, where even a Santana is a rare sight normally, was now completely blocked off, turning into a massive auto show.
Thirty heavy armored armored vehicles lined up like a Great Wall of steel on the road outside the coffee shop.
Hundreds of top-notch bodyguards dressed in black suits and sunglasses stood guard every three steps, blocking off the entire street so that not even a fly could get in.
The townspeople, who had gathered to watch the spectacle, crowded outside the police line, whispering amongst themselves, their eyes practically bulging out of their sockets.
"My goodness! Which country's president has come to inspect our Qingshui County?"
"You don't know anything! Didn't you see the exclusive logo of Shanghai's largest conglomerate printed on the train carriage?"
"I just saw it with my own eyes; those carriages were filled with gold bars, it made my eyes water!"
Lin Xian scratched his messy hair, ignoring the exaggerated entourage, and walked straight to the glass door of the coffee shop.
Two burly bodyguards in black immediately reached out to stop him, their muscular faces taut.
"Halt! This coffee shop has been booked out by our young lady today. All irrelevant people, get out of here."
Lin Xian didn't even lift his eyelids, just about to have the system release a micro-current to teach them a lesson.
The glass door of the coffee shop was suddenly pushed open from the inside.
A stunningly beautiful woman, exuding confidence and charisma, strode out.
The woman had neat, short hair that reached her ears, and her features were so exquisite that she resembled a beautiful ice sculpture, exuding an aura of a powerful and domineering figure.
She is none other than Mu Qingxue, the cold and beautiful queen who is worth hundreds of billions and is the head of the number one conglomerate in Shanghai.
Those business tycoons who wielded immense power on Financial Street didn't even dare to raise their heads in front of this woman.
But at this moment, when Mu Qingxue saw Lin Xian wearing brightly colored floral shorts, a fervent light burst forth in her usually cold eyes.
She shoved aside the two bodyguards blocking her way, her high heels clicking rapidly on the stone pavement.
"Get out of the way, all of you! Who gave you the audacity to stop Mr. Lin!"
The two bodyguards trembled with fear and quickly lowered their heads to retreat below the curb, not daring to breathe.
Mu Qingxue walked up to Lin Xian, her chest heaving violently, so excited that her breathing became erratic.
Just half an hour ago, she arrived here in her private plane to inspect the project and witnessed firsthand the miracle of half a barren mountain rising from the ground and taking off tens of thousands of meters into the sky.
At that moment, her once-proud wealth of hundreds of billions became less than a stack of waste paper in the face of this earth-shattering force.
She used her entire family's intelligence network to find out that this amazing man was going on a blind date at the Left Bank Cafe today.
So she mobilized all of the group's cash flow and gold reserves overnight, surrounding the place completely.
Lin Xian looked at the panting, aloof beauty in front of him and took half a step back.
"You're also one of the blind dates my mom arranged for me?"
"This old lady has good taste these days; she's much better than those matchmakers in the east of the village."
Mu Qingxue took a deep breath and did something that made everyone in the room collapse on the spot.
This high-and-mighty chaebol queen actually knelt down on one knee in front of Lin Xian's flip-flops in front of hundreds of people on the street without hesitation.
She held a thick document in both hands, her posture so humble it was almost groveling.
"Mr. Lin, I am Mu Qingxue from Shanghai, and I would like to propose to you!"
"Those thirty trucks outside are loaded with fifty tons of pure gold bars, as well as absolute controlling stakes in all the conglomerates under my name."
"These hundreds of billions of assets are all the dowry I brought. I only ask that you grant me the right to move into your sky garden!"
The entire venue fell silent; the air seemed to freeze completely at that moment.
The townspeople watching outside the cordon gasped in shock.
The two bodyguards who had blocked the door earlier suddenly collapsed to their knees, their minds reeling.
His own cold-blooded CEO, who doesn't even give the world's richest people a second glance, actually knelt down and proposed to a country bumpkin wearing floral shorts.
They even have to pay exorbitant dowries of hundreds of billions of yuan?
This world is absolutely insane!
Lin Xian looked down at Mu Qingxue, who was kneeling on one knee, and then looked at the long line of armored trucks outside.
He stroked his chin, his brow furrowing in a frustrated arc.
"Fifty tons of gold bricks? Are you out of your mind?"
"My rooftop garden is full of rare and precious flowers and plants; where would I find the space for all this junk?"
When Mu Qingxue heard this disdainful remark, her heart skipped a beat, and her palms were covered in cold sweat.
She lowered her head even further, her voice trembling noticeably.
"Mr. Lin, please calm down. It was my oversight. These mundane things are indeed unworthy of your paradise."
"If you're willing to take me in, I can be the head steward of your territory!"
"From now on, I'll take care of all your troubles in the secular world—financial management, purchasing supplies, dealing with those annoying flies!"
Lin Xian raised an eyebrow; those words struck a chord with him.
He now has unlimited funds from the system, but it's quite a hassle to keep a proper record of every purchase.
His mother's phone call earlier, urging him to get married, was also incredibly annoying.
If a professional chaebol queen were to act as his shield and head housekeeper, then the final piece of the puzzle for him to return to his village and lie down would be completely complete.
"Being my wife is out of the question. My harem is quite deep; I'm afraid you'll drown."
"However, I could consider being a full-time housekeeper, and while I'm at it, I can also help deflect all the marriage-urging phone calls from my mom."
Mu Qingxue suddenly raised her head, unable to hide the surprise on her usually icy face.
She, a CEO with hundreds of billions in assets, was overjoyed, like a little girl who had won the lottery, when she heard that she could only be a housekeeper.
"Thank you for taking me in, Mr. Lin. I'll have my bodyguards take this bulky gold to the bank to melt it down and convert it into digital bills!"
She stood up, deftly pulled out her walkie-talkie, and dismissed the intimidating convoy outside in just a few words.
The townspeople, witnessing this swift and decisive scene, looked at Lin Xian as if he were the Jade Emperor descended from heaven.
With this connection, who in Qingshui County would dare to provoke the Lin family in the future?
Lin Xian yawned, feeling a little hungry.
"Alright, stop standing there and come back to heaven with me for lunch. Little Sweetie said she wants hot pot today."
Mu Qingxue nodded vigorously and obediently followed behind Lin Xian, not even bothering to brush off the dust that had gotten on the hem of her haute couture suit.
Just as Lin Xian was about to refuse because he thought the gold took up too much space.
With a loud bang, the heavy glass door of the coffee shop was violently smashed open from the outside.
The glass door slammed against the wall, making a shattering sound as it succumbed to the pressure.
Covered in mud and drenched in sweat, the icy policewoman An Xin stumbled in.
An Xin was panting heavily, her chest heaving violently, clearly exhausted to the limit.
Her police boots left several blood-red muddy footprints on the clean wooden floor of the cafe.
Mu Qingxue frowned, stepped forward to block Lin Xian, and resumed her cold and stern aura as a tycoon queen.
"Where did this wild girl come from, daring to disturb Mr. Lin!"
An Xin didn't even look at Mu Qingxue; her bloodshot eyes were fixed on Lin Xian, who was wearing flip-flops.
She swallowed a mouthful of bloody saliva, her legs went weak, and she collapsed forward as if all her strength had left her.
Lin Xian reacted quickly, grabbing her by the collar of her police uniform and preventing her from falling flat on her face.
An Xin grabbed Lin Xian's wrist, her nails turning white from the force.
She bit her pale lips, her voice hoarse as if she had swallowed a handful of sand.
"Lin Xian... there's a group of armed foreign mercenaries in the old forest behind the mountain! Quickly, get the villagers and escape!"