After the True Heiress Travels Back
Chapter 130: Not leaving, staying overnight?

Chapter 130: Chapter 130: Not leaving, staying overnight?

Shen Antai appeared to Shi Yaoguang as a rather magical figure.

Leaving home...

No, after wandering away from home for many years, in the end, he actually didn’t even find a sect to swear fealty to—truly a tragedy.

Shi Yaoguang silently sighed, and then heard the old man’s stomach growl.

"Grrrumble~"

Hearing the noise from his stomach, Shen Antai really wished he could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

Shi Yaoguang gracefully pretended not to hear it, and Quan Jinbei remained expressionless.

Their efforts were in vain.

Because...

After that bout of growling, his stomach acted as if a switch had been flipped, gurgling non-stop.

Shi Yaoguang felt embarrassed on his behalf.

Fortunately, she had stashed some dry food in her space, thinking that the old man wouldn’t be going anywhere anytime soon; she simply took out two pieces of bread and a bottle of water, and handed them to him.

The old man, even though starving to the point of deploying long-term empty fortress stratagems, hadn’t shifted his focus from things related to cultivation.

Seeing Shi Yaoguang materialize bread from thin air, his eyes shone with a faint green light.

Quan Jinbei frowned slightly and stepped in front of Shi Yaoguang to shield her.

The old man looked him over, and then turned his eyes away with disdain, "Move aside, I don’t want to look at you."

Quan Jinbei, "I don’t want you looking at my wife, either."

The old man, "..."

He touched his nose in embarrassment and decided to defend himself, "I had no ill intentions; I just thought it was a bit magical."

"So, little miss," he continued, "where did you get that bread from?"

As he spoke, he swallowed, "Aren’t you the legendary, what’s it called..."

"What’s it called?"

"Let me think..." Shen Antai smacked his head, extremely excited, "Sleeve Universe! It’s that magical treasure where you can flick your sleeve and carry lots of stuff!"

Shi Yaoguang, "I can’t do that."

"Oh..." The old man felt somewhat disappointed.

Then, he thought something was amiss.

"Where did you hide the bread, then?"

"Space Button," Shi Yaoguang replied, taking out a Space Button to show him, "Here, this is it."

"This?" The old man had the expression of an elderly person baffled by a smartphone, "It doesn’t look any different from a normal button, does it?"

Shi Yaoguang, "Aside from being able to hold ten cubic meters of stuff, no, it has no difference from a normal button."

Shen Antai was stunned, "Ten cubic meters? All in this tiny button?"

"Yeah."

Shi Yaoguang nodded her head and cleared her throat subtly, "You can get to know these things later. For now, you should eat first, old man."

"Eh, eh, okay..."

Shen Antai unwrapped the bread, washed it down with water, and finished the food in a few bites, then looked at her again with shining eyes.

"Little miss, where did you get this Space Button? Can you sell it? I’m quite interested..."

He said, rubbing his hands together and chuckling, "It doesn’t matter if it’s a bit expensive, as long as you can sell it to me."

Before Shi Yaoguang could reply, Quan Jinbei spoke up, "Mr. Shen, I fear you may have forgotten what you’ve said before."

Shen Antai, dissatisfied with being interrupted, blew his beard and glared, "What did I say?"

Quan Jinbei’s tone slowed, "You said you wanted to sever worldly ties and not get involved with mundane matters."

"When Mr. Shen from the Shen Family looked for you, you said you didn’t want to return to the Shen Family. That from now on, nobody should bother you for the sake of gold or worldly possessions."

Shen Antai’s face stiffened, and then, with very unconvincing acting, he dismissed the statement, "Did I really say that? Did I? I don’t think so."

Quan Jinbei, "..."

Shi Yaoguang pursed her lips, barely managing not to laugh out loud.

Seeing Shi Yaoguang’s expression, Shen Antai coughed awkwardly and tried to maintain his composure, "Even if I said that before, that was just me being hot-headed! My own son, whom I personally raised, wouldn’t his old father need support if he asked for it?"

Shi Yaoguang felt that made sense.

Quan Jinbei once again undermined his efforts, "CEO Shen said the same thing at that time, it was you, old man, who gave up on your own. You also said, if he dares to spend a penny on you, you wouldn’t recognize him as your son."

Shen Antai: "!!"

Quan Jinbei: "Many people heard that."

Shen Antai: "!!!"

He had thought having a son meant he had everything, as long as he knew where the Space Button was purchased, he could have one too.

In the end, he actually had no! money!

Does that make any sense?

The old man thought about it and suddenly realized a problem.

He looked at Quan Jinbei with a suspicious gaze, his tone slightly dissatisfied, "How come you know so much about the Shen Family’s affairs?"

Quan Jinbei: "Coincidentally, I was present when you and CEO Shen severed ties."

"You?"

Shen Antai carefully recalled the past, but could not remember Quan Jinbei being there.

Quan Jinbei said, "I wasn’t feeling well at the time, I went in a wheelchair."

With such a distinctive description, the old man remembered instantly.

After remembering, he looked at him incredulously, "You, you’re the Quan Family kid?"

Quan Jinbei acknowledged with a sound.

Shen Antai’s eyes nearly bulged out, "Wasn’t it said your constitution was weak, that you were fated to die young? You’ve been wheelchair-bound since childhood, how come now..."

As he spoke, his gaze shifted to Shi Yaoguang.

He suddenly revealed an expression of realization, "Ah~ I understand now!"

Quan Jinbei’s eyelid twitched, "What do you understand now?"

"Surely it was this young lady who saved you, right?"

Though it was a question, his tone was one of certainty.

Quan Jinbei had always felt that the old man was all show.

To be precise, he had always thought that the old man’s pursuit of the metaphysical realm was just for fun.

After all these years, apart from his self-introduction just now, mentioning that he had become a high-ranking official in a folksy Metaphysics Organization, there had been no buzz at all.

Now it seemed he was even more...

Indescribable indeed.

In his heart, Quan Jinbei tagged the old man as unreliable.

Shen Antai, in his heart, tagged him with the same label.

Shi Yaoguang watched the undercurrents between the two men emerge and couldn’t help but show an amused expression.

"Are you two seeing eye to eye?"

"Pfft."

"Cough cough."

Both men shot Shi Yaoguang a look that spoke volumes without saying a word.

Shi Yaoguang shrugged, "It’s not me talking nonsense, you two just appear too..."

Quan Jinbei cut her off before she could finish, as he wanted nothing to do with any deep connection to the troublesome old man.

"It’s getting late, when do we leave this place?"

At Quan Jinbei’s words, Shi Yaoguang felt it was time to go back.

Upon hearing this, Shen Antai immediately panicked, "Don’t go, you guys!"

Quan Jinbei raised an eyebrow, "If we don’t go, are we supposed to stay the night?"

The old man did not hesitate to say, "Of course!"

What’s wrong with staying overnight?

No problem at all!

Shen Antai’s eyes sparkled as he looked at Shi Yaoguang, pleading, "When you were young, I knew at a glance that you were a kind-hearted good child, you wouldn’t leave grandpa alone here, would you?"