Dragon King's Son-In-Law

by Dragon King

  Although the nightlights in the heart of New York City were pretty, Xie Yujia wanted to go home and have dinner with her family.

  They took the subway back to Brooklyn, and they went back just in time to enjoy the freshly cooked dumplings made by Xie Yujia’s mom.

  Little White was now ‘locked up’ in Hao Ren’s necklace. Because Zhen Congming was on Little White’s side before, Hao Ren didn’t put it in his storage space.

  However, he couldn’t let it run around now, so he had to lock him up.

  Since everyone was there for dinner, it had a great atmosphere. Xie Yujia looked happy and a bit more charming than before with her pink cheeks.

  “Ren, why not stay here for the summer?” Xie Ming suddenly asked after a bite of dumpling.

  Hao Ren looked up with a surprised look, and Xie Yujia looked at Hao Ren with anticipation.

  “That would be good. I’ll stay here for two more days, but Ren can stay here. I’m sure his visa allows him to stay here,” Hao Zhonghua said.

  “That’s not a problem! Staying for the summer is not a problem at all,” Xie Ming said as he patted his chest.

  “Yeah. I like Ren. Stay for the summer with Yujia,” Xie Yujia’s mom, Cheng Qian, said with a smile.

  Hao Ren and Xie Yujia were childhood sweethearts, and the two families were very close as well.

  Xie Ming asked Hao Ren to stay with them not only because they wanted to match Xie Yujia and Hao Ren up; it was also because they wanted to thank Hao Ren for taking care of Xie Yujia at East Ocean City.

  Of course, Xie Yujia and Hao Ren were a perfect match after taking both family background and age into consideration.

  If they wanted to date each other, Xie Ming and Cheng Qian would never object to it. Instead, they would support and encourage them to be together.

  They had been in the U.S. for a while now, and they were more open. If Hao Ren and Xie Yujia were in a stable relationship and wanted to live together, it was fine by them. Moreover, they thought Hao Ren was a good kid.

  “If Ren doesn’t want to stay here for two months, we’ll give you some money! You guys could go to Niagara Falls, Disneyland, the Grand Canyon, San Francisco, Mead Lake, Hollywood… We’d pay for all your expenses! If you want to go to Canada for a few days, we’ll organize it for you as well!” Xie Ming looked at Hao Ren and said with generosity.

  “Ming, you said it yourself!” Zhao Zhonghua pointed at Hao Ren happily.

  “I said it!” Xie Ming patted his chest again. “As long as you two want, I’ll pay for everything!”

  Xie Yujia originally just wanted to spend a peaceful summer with her parents. Now that her dad said this, she wanted to go a little bit.

  “It’s ok, Uncle. I’ll pass this time.” Hao Ren shook his head and smiled. “I’m not too familiar with the U.S.”

  “What’s the matter? It’s a good opportunity! Treat it as a trip!” Xie Ming tried to convince him.

  “Dad!” Xie Yujia started talking, looking a bit embarrassed. “If Hao Ren doesn’t want to go, you don’t have to force him.”

  Hao Ren looked at her and felt a bit guilty.

  If it were before, he would have stayed and played in the U.S. for the whole summer. However, he had promised to go through the special training with Zhao Kuo. Therefore, he couldn’t stay at Xie Yujia’s place.

  “Hehe… Our Ren is a bit shy. He’s too used to home.” Hao Zhonghua tried to make the situation less awkward. Then, he glared at Hao Ren, not understanding why he didn’t accept Xie Ming’s invitation.

  It would be beneficial for his English if he stayed in the U.S. for two months.

  “Don’t worry. Treat this as your home.” Cheng Qian smiled and reached out to pat Hao Ren’s firm shoulder.

  There were usually multiple kids in an American family, and Xie Yujia’s parents’ neighbor had four kids.

  Cheng Qian helped her husband with their business in the day and missed her daughter at night. Sometimes, she wished she had a son.

  However, she couldn’t have any more children at her age. That was why she liked Hao Ren and treated him as her godson.

  Xie Ming and Zhao Zhonghua were men who were more careless, and they didn’t think through a lot of stuff and weren’t as delicate and thorough with many things. Cheng Qian was a woman and tended to pay attention to details.

  She could tell that Hao Ren and Xie Yujia were a secret couple through things such as how they looked at each other, how they held hands when going up and down the stairs, and how they went out together. Cheng Qian knew her daughter well and knew she had a crush on this Little Older Brother.

  The timing was perfect for the two to slowly progress into an official relationship. It was going to be beautiful.

  “Mom, why are you staring at him?” Xie Yujia looked a bit discontent as she poked Cheng Qian with the back of her chopsticks.

  “Hehe, hehe…” Cheng Qian giggled a bit. Hao Ren looked better and better in her eyes.

  “What a dumb daughter of mine! She needs to hold tight to such a good guy. Obviously, Ren liked Xie Yujia,” she thought.

  Xie Yujia was pretty and kind, smart and considerate.

  She hadn’t even held a boy’s hand before since this Little Older Brother was always on her mind. In a sense, she was extremely conservative.

  There was no way Hao Ren didn’t like such a good girl.

  “Young people should be proactive!” Cheng Qian was shouting on the inside.

  “Mom…” Xie Yujia murmured when she saw her mom staring at Hao Ren.

  “Kids your age should go out and see the world. You guys could travel by yourselves and book your own hotels. Your dad and I won’t interfere at all,” Cheng Qian said to Xie Yujia.

  Xie Yujia was clever, so she understood what her mom meant. Going out together for several weeks on their own, they would be in the same room all the time. It wouldn’t be hard to guess what could happen then.

  “Hehe…” Hao Zhonghua smiled and looked at Hao Ren. “Ren, why don’t you reconsider?”

  He liked Yujia. In his mind, if the two were to date each other, it would be a great thing.

  With Hao Ren’s personality, he would for sure treat Xie Yujia well given his character.

  Xie Wanjun was also very attentive to this conversation.

  He thought Hao Ren was a bit weak and unreliable before. However, now he knew that Hao Ren was honest and strong. In a way, he admired Hao Ren.

  If Hao Ren stayed in the U.S. this summer, they could play a lot of basketball together.

  “No. It’s really fine. I’ll just stay for a few days,” Hao Ren said.

  “Sigh…” Xie Ming sighed helplessly.

  Cheng Qian also looked disappointed. She didn’t understand what Hao Ren was thinking. She knew he liked Xie Yujia, so she couldn’t understand why he wouldn’t stay.

  It seemed like Xie Wanjun was a bit disappointed as well. He was hoping that Hao Ren who he became appreciated could really become his cousin’s boyfriend and husband.

  “Mom, I’m full. I’m going up to rest. I’m tired today.” Xie Yujia put down her chopsticks and smiled. Then, she walked straight upstairs.

  Hao Ren was very observative and saw that her eyes were a bit red.

  “I’m full too!” Hao Ren followed her up the stairs.

  Xie Ming watched them leave and smiled powerlessly. “Just let them figure it out,” he said.

  “If Hao Ren hurts Yujia in the future, I’ll break his leg!” Hao Zhonghua made a promise to Xie Ming.

  He and Xie Ming were best friends for tens of years. He liked Yujia from the bottom of his heart because she was kind and considerate. If Hao Ren were to break her heart or play with her feelings, Hao Zhonghua would not spare his son!

  Not only would he give Hao Ren a lesson, but Grandma also would!

  “It’s all right. Let the kids figure it out themselves.” Xie Ming opened his hands and shook his head.

  From Xie Ming’s perspective, even if Xie Yujia and Hao Ren
’s relationship didn’t work out, it shouldn’t destroy his friendship with Hao Zhonghua.

  With Yujia’s appearance, temperament, and his own relationships, Xie Ming felt like he could easily find a good guy to protect her!

  In Hao Ren’s mind, he wanted to hurry up and improve his own strength! This was a time when the strong devoured the weak. If he were weak, he wouldn’t be able to protect the ones he loved!

  Since there was one Black Wolf, there would be thousands who were like him.

  486 The Trading Center on Fifth Heaven

  “Yujia…” Hao Ren rushed to the stairs and turned around immediately to stand in front of Xie Yujia.

  Xie Yujia looked at Hao Ren, and then she tightened her lips and went to her room.

  “Yujia.” Hao Ren reached out his hand, trying to stop her.

  Xie Yujia didn’t pause her steps. Therefore, her soft belly ran into Hao Ren’s arm.

  “My parents just want you to stay for a bit longer. Why are you saying no to that?” Xie Yujia pouted and felt a bit upset.

  She didn’t have too much expectation for Hao Ren. All she wanted from him was for him to spend some time with her parents.

  After all, she had been staying at his home for a while and was taken good care of by his parents, so she figured that it was time for her parents to look after him in return.

  As for the trip around the U.S. and Canada, she didn’t really care about that.

  Xie Ming and Cheng Qian had cared for Hao Ren when he was a child.

  Xie Ming and Cheng Qian tried to run some businesses in those days, so Xie Yujia’s family was more well-off. On the contrary, the financial situation of Hao Ren’s family was quite tight since Hao Zhonghua and Yue Yang were only focusing on scientific research.

  Luckily, Xie Ming always helped out Hao Zhonghua and brought Hao Ren snacks and toys as if Hao Ren was his own child.

  Sometimes when Hao Zhonghua and Yue Yang were too occupied with their research that they didn’t have time to take care of Hao Ren, Xie Ming and Cheng Qian would take Hao Ren back to their home and let little Yujia and little Ren sleep under the same blanket.

  Today, Hao Ren flatly refused Xie Yujia’s parents’ sincere invitation, which really upset Xie Yujia.

  It wouldn’t be a big deal to her if Hao Ren hurt her feelings, but he hurt her parents’.

  As someone who could never think that detailed, it was impossible for Hao Ren to figure out what was on Xie Yujia’s mind.

  All he knew was that Xie Yujia was in a bad mood. Therefore, he touched her arm and said, “I know your parents are very nice, but I have something really important going on in the summer.”

  “What?” Xie Yujia looked up at Hao Ren with her watery eyes.

  “Zi’s Third Uncle wants to tutor me on cultivation, which might take over a month,” Hao Ren said.

  “Zi’s Third Uncle?” Xie Yujia wrinkled her pretty nose and faintly remembered how incredible Zhao Kuo was during the battle with Hao Ren at the Dragon God Shrine.

  Hao Ren stared at Xie Yujia, trying to figure out her reaction.

  Xie Yujia raised her head with a slight pout. She looked quite adorable from such a close angle.

  “Fine. Since he is willing to teach you, you should try to learn from him,” Xie Yujia said.

  She used to cultivate from scratch by herself. Therefore, the results were never satisfactory.

  However, many of her issues had been solved after Su Han offered to tutor her, and she elevated a lot faster.

  Therefore, she understood how much of a difference it would make when someone had guidance. Although Su Han only taught her for a couple of days, her cultivation speed increased over three or four times. Hao Ren would level up even faster if Zhao Kuo could guide him continuously for a month.

  Xie Yujia was sincere and didn’t try to act at all when she said those words.

  “Alright.” Hao Ren didn’t beat around the bush and nodded.

  “He is really simple-minded. He isn’t even trying to comfort me further,” Xie Yujia thought as she looked at Hao Ren, feeling powerless.

  “I’ll go to Fifth Heaven with Little White in a bit. Are you coming?” Hao Ren asked.

  “I’m not going. I want to spend more time talking with my parents since I just got home tonight.” Slightly lowering her head, Xie Yujia opened the door to her bedroom and answered.

  Underneath her silky black hair, her beautiful neck gave out a soft luster.

  Hao Ren lowered his head and smiled as he looked at her figure.

  Xie Yujia turned around and said suddenly, “The room my parents prepared for you is next door, and the bathroom is down this way.”

  “Ok.” Hao Ren gave her a slight smile.

  “Leave Little White with me before you go back. I have to take care of the spiritual herbs on Fifth Heaven.” Xie Yujia added.

  All the anger on her face had disappeared, and she was as sweet and soft as she used to be.

  “Ok.” Hao Ren couldn’t help smiling.

  “Humph…” Xie Yujia stared at him before closing the bedroom door.

  Hao Ren went into his room while lightly slapping his face. “No one could be as considerate as Yujia.”

  Whoosh…

  Little White couldn’t wait anymore. It jumped out of the storage space instantly as Hao Ren got in his room.

  It looked around the room anxiously while shaking its butt, which made it apparent to Hao Ren as to what it wanted to do.

  “No, not now!” Hao Ren rushed to grab the bag on the table and covered Little White with it.

  Poop…

  As soon as Hao Ren finished his words, Little White’s golden poop came out of its butt and fell into the bag that Hao Ren was holding.

  Hao Ren felt disgusted even though it wasn’t stinky…

  However, the poop was the perfect fertilizer for the spiritual herbs, which couldn’t be thrown away…

  “You damn dog! Go to Fifth Heaven!” Hao Ren slapped it on the head.

  “Eh…” Little White felt aggrieved and started to wail.

  Based on its strength, it was strong enough to beat Hao Ren. However, it didn’t have the gut to fight back…

  “Stop pretending…” Hao Ren slapped it on the head again. “Let’s go to Fifth Heaven!”

  “Ruff… Ruff…” Little White jumped out the window and transformed into its snow lion form with a red energy sphere around it.

  It was already a level 2 spirit beast, and it wasn’t dumb. It already learned how to create the red energy sphere from Zhen Congming, which was a basic technique.

  Hao Ren also jumped out of the window and sat on Little White’s back. Then, they flew to Fifth Heaven.

  A streak of golden light appeared in the east and flew toward Hao Ren.

  Buzz… Buzz… The inspector’s token on Hao Ren’s waist started to vibrate, and he instantly realized that the person flying toward him was also an inspector.

  Soon, that person also realized that Hao Ren was an inspector, so he circled around and flew back to the corner in the east.

  “There are inspectors even in New York,” Hao Ren thought and flew to Second Heaven while sitting on Little White.

  However, it wasn’t something that was unbelievable.

  Since there were many inspectors all around the world, it wouldn’t be strange to see some in a big city like New York. Even Qin Shaoyang had traveled to Europe for a few years before.

  Since Xie Yujia would be living in New York for a while, she would be monitored by the inspectors in New York. However, she had the mark on her shoulder which was left by old Grandma, so there would be no inspector who dared to take the risk and bother her.

  Whoosh…

  Little White created a multicolor streak of light in the red energy sphere and flew toward Fifth Heaven.

  The area between Second and Fifth Heaven was where dragon cultivators and human cultivators could meet.

  Among the human cultivators who were hanging around, there was no one
brave enough to get close to them.

  Since Hao Ren didn’t have any interest in dealing with these people, he and Little White just flew to Fifth Heaven directly.

  Bang… Hao Ren broke through the fragile array formation, and the air filled with nature essence caressed his face.

  Clouds and fogs were everywhere on Fifth Heaven.

  There was still some distance from where Hao Ren and Little White entered to Ethereal Summit.

  Spirit beasts were good at looking for directions. Moreover, Little White had been trained by Zhen Congming, which made it even more impossible for them to get lost.

  They flew over many summits, but not one single sect dared to stop them.

  Little White’s speed was equivalent to the speed of Nascent Soul Realm cultivators. Whoever wanted to block a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator on Fifth Heaven was looking for death.

  Bang!

  Little White flew into Ethereal Summit while carrying Hao Ren on its back, and a streak of white light was left wherever Little White flew by.

  The spiritual herbs in the valley seemed like they changed a bit after a few days. Hao Ren opened the bag in his hand and poured it into the field.

  Little White’s poop fell into the middle of the field bit by bit. Its poop was the perfect fertilizer for the spiritual herbs since it could give the herbs over ten-year of energy.

  “Go to the valley!” Hao Ren threw away the bag and slapped Little White on its head.

  Little White flew to the valley aggrievedly.

  Hao Ren noticed that there were more messages left on the bulletin board at the entrance of the valley, but most of them were messages that were asking for elixir pills or wanting to trade elixir pills, dharma treasures, and cultivation techniques.

  Hao Ren didn’t need any of them and ignored them.

  However, there was one message that drew Hao Ren’s attention.

  “Three ten-thousand-year golden trees for 30 Beauty Pills.”

  Since this spiritual herb could be used for cultivating the Seven-Core Five-Color Lotus, Hao Ren was thrilled.

  He went back to the valley while stepping on his sword energy.

  He entered the Treasure Light Pavilion and found a jade board snatched by Zhao Yanzi before and a red pen.