It wasn’t only Madam Meng, the other several senior executives of the Meng family also all went blank for a moment when they heard Meng Feixuan say the reduplicated word. For a while, they all thought they had misheard.

Their Meng family’s heir was a weathered, resilient “high mountain flower”!

Just saying the reduplicated word wasn’t enough for the high mountain flower, who then provided a new idea: “Otherwise, sir, you can ride me, and I’ll take you charging together. My driving skills are really great.”

Madam Meng: “…” She seemed to have heard “da”?

And hadn’t her son always been secretive about his disability? Why was he happily playing wheelchair now?

The executives were collectively baffled, vaguely seeing their proud high mountain flower, who had once defied wind and snow, slowly wither.

Only Xie Ran remained calm and expressionless, quietly going over to push the wheelchair and taking the lead out of the lounge, whispering: “Take away those weird modal particles you learned online.”

Meng Feixuan: “Okay, sure.”

Xie Ran: “…” It was definitely his AI.

Xie Ran pushed Meng Feixuan at the front, Madam Meng and other executives trailing behind. The group, led by staff, arrived at the outdoor plaza in front of the mall.

The plaza faced the city center gymnasium, with a wide open view, already cleared in advance, surrounded by a circle of guardrails. Outside the guardrails were many security guards holding batons, the arrangement very tight, showing how much Meng Corporation valued the opening performance.

Outside the guardrails, the crowd was already densely packed with many Haijing city residents who had come just to watch the excitement.

Inside the guardrails were the best seats for watching the performance, which had been set up with seating and attendants greeting guests. Only invited guests could enter.

The first public appearance of the Meng family heir after his car accident six months ago was undoubtedly the biggest news of the day. Therefore, as soon as Meng Feixuan arrived, the media’s flashlights never stopped, and the distinguished guests all stood to greet him. Even Xie Ran received quite a bit of attention.

Xie Ran remained calm. In his original world, he was frequently headline news in major financial media and had been a celebrity. This scene was nothing to him.

The only problem was that now Meng Feixuan had a body, his behavior became more and more inflated. He enthusiastically said: “Sir, come closer, let’s take a handsome photo together. I’ll have someone force the media to put our high-definition photo on the front page!”

Xie Ran tapped his shoulder: “Sit properly.”

“Oh.” Meng Feixuan sulked and shrank back.

Madam Meng, walking beside, hesitated but finally took a deep breath and silently comforted herself: her son’s behavior getting worse was better than him being lifeless before.

Not long after they arrived, the entrance stirred again. This time the media was even more excited. A dignified middle-aged man, escorted by security and surrounded by the crowd, walked in. It was none other than Meng Corporation’s current leader, Meng Siyun’s father, Meng Yucheng.

Meng Yucheng was busy with business and had not originally planned to attend the opening ceremony of Haimeng Mall. He had taken time off specially to see Meng Siyun.

Haimeng Mall was originally a project managed by Meng Siyun, who had been pushing it smoothly. It could be said that as long as Haimeng opened successfully, Meng Siyun’s influence inside the group would rise further, making his takeover of Meng Corporation certain. Unexpectedly, six months ago there was such an accident, almost breaking Meng Siyun, and the Haimeng project was temporarily handed over to Meng Siyun’s cousin Meng Sien.

This opening ceremony was also initially handled by Meng Sien. But a few days ago, Meng Siyun’s condition suddenly improved. Meng Yucheng was overjoyed and, to help Meng Siyun recover quickly and to reestablish his own position after being away from the power center, Meng Yucheng transferred the organizing work of the opening event back to Meng Siyun, which meant back to Meng Feixuan.

Meng Feixuan didn’t really care about this, he only became active after hearing that Madam Meng asked Luo Huixing to invite Xie Ran to participate in the opening.

After Meng Yucheng arrived, he immediately went to see Meng Feixuan. Seeing his son was still thin but much more energetic, he felt relieved and then spoke with Madam Meng, his tone full of satisfaction: “Siyun looks quite good.”

Madam Meng’s expression was complicated: “He is… quite good.”

Meng Yucheng didn’t notice her hesitation in tone, and glanced at Xie Ran sitting with Meng Feixuan: “Is this the internet celebrity you mentioned?”

Madam Meng: “Yes.”

After discovering that Meng Siyun’s improvement seemed related to this little internet celebrity, she immediately told Meng Yucheng.

“He looks alright,” Meng Yucheng commented, then added: “Find a chance to talk with him, give him some benefits — money and resources aren’t a problem. Let him accompany Siyun properly.”

In their circle, supporting celebrities or internet celebrities was normal. But the Meng family had strict family values, and Meng Siyun was aloof himself. He had no such preferences before. Now suddenly changing, Meng Yucheng’s reaction was like others’: they just thought it was Meng Siyun’s post-trauma reaction, looking for comfort this way.

Meng Yucheng didn’t take Xie Ran seriously. To him, internet celebrities and stars were the same — solvable with money and resources, which the Meng family had plenty of.

Unexpectedly, after he said this, Madam Meng’s face showed hesitation. After thinking a moment, she said: “Yucheng, I think Siyun’s feelings for Xie Ran might not be so simple…”

She told Meng Yucheng the details she had seen about Meng Feixuan and Xie Ran’s interactions.

Meng Yucheng’s brows gradually furrowed, somewhat disbelieving: “You mean… Siyun depends on this little internet celebrity and listens to him a lot?”

Lady Meng gave a glance toward Meng Feixuan: “You see for yourself.”

Meng Yucheng turned to look and was shocked, a series of question marks appearing in his mind.

To him, the Meng family was a top-tier wealthy family, and Xie Ran was just an unknown small internet celebrity. If he had the chance to be chosen by Meng Siyun, even if he wasn’t very scared, he should try hard to please Meng Siyun.

However, what appeared before Meng Yucheng’s eyes was completely opposite, even reversed.

Xie Ran sat with relaxed posture in the chair, legs crossed, leaning his hand casually on Meng Feixuan’s wheelchair armrest, his hand gently supporting his face, eyes coldly staring straight ahead, indifferent to the surroundings — clearly an upper hand position.

In contrast, Meng Feixuan leaned his entire upper body unreservedly toward Xie Ran, actively hooking his arm around Xie Ran’s.

The degree of Meng Feixuan’s lean…

Meng Yucheng suspected that if his son’s legs allowed it, he might have climbed onto Xie Ran.

Moreover, Meng Feixuan kept leaning his head against Xie Ran’s ear, bothering him. Xie Ran didn’t know if he was helpless or just used to it, he neither pushed Meng Feixuan away nor paid much attention. Probably Meng Feixuan said ten things for every one indifferent reply.

Meng Yucheng asked his wife in confusion: “Does this internet celebrity cast spells or something?”

Madam Meng shook her head and gave him the same confused look.

“Well, as long as Siyun improves, everything else is a small matter,” Meng Yucheng soon regained composure and, not sure if he was speaking to himself or his wife, asked: “Is Xie Ran’s background clean?”

“Clean, just… quite ordinary,” Madam Meng replied. They treated Meng Siyun’s matters cautiously, and when asking Luo Huixing to invite Xie Ran, they also had someone thoroughly investigate Xie Ran’s identity background.

Meng Yucheng understood her meaning and sighed: “Ordinary is ordinary. Siyun is like this, if he likes him, that’s enough.”

A top wealthy family like the Mengs naturally had high standards for the heir’s spouse. In the past, given Xie Ran’s background and work, at most he would have flirted with Meng Siyun for benefits, joining the Meng family would have been impossible.

But times had changed. For Meng Yucheng and his wife, the most important thing now was to get Meng Siyun back on his feet, so they did not care about Xie Ran’s background.

Of course, others in the Meng family would definitely have opinions. If Meng Siyun took over the group, shareholders would require him to marry someone who could help the Meng family’s development. An internet celebrity streaming host would be unsuitable in any aspects.

Luckily, these were issues for the future. Maybe Meng Siyun’s enthusiasm for Xie Ran was temporary, even if he later frequently changed partners like other rich playboys in the circle, that would be fine.

Meanwhile, Meng Feixuan was still bothering Xie Ran by holding his arm. Though Xie Ran was as still as a mountain, he was faintly troubled. Previously, when Meng Feixuan only attacked with words, Xie Ran could choose to block him, now Meng Feixuan had a body, and Xie Ran could not ignore him.

And this was while Meng Feixuan’s legs couldn’t move.

Xie Ran seriously thought about whether he could violently format a human’s physical actions like controlling a computer program.

While Xie Ran was thinking, a young man somewhat resembling Meng Siyun approached, looking at Meng Feixuan with concern: “Brother, you finally agreed to come out and move around, that’s really great. You don’t know, I was nearly worried to death these days.”

This was Meng Siyun’s cousin Meng Sien, also the person who had replaced Meng Siyun to take over Meng Corporation in Meng Siyun’s memory.

Meng Feixuan’s harassment of Xie Ran was forcibly interrupted. He was quite annoyed and treated Meng Sien coldly, waving a hand impatiently: “Enough, I know.”

Meng Feixuan’s attitude surprised Meng Sien, who was taken aback.

Meng Sien’s father Meng Yuguan and Meng Yucheng were brothers and major shareholders of the Meng family, but their business philosophies differed greatly, and their relationship was poor. Each had their faction and they competed openly and secretly.

Therefore, Meng Siyun and Meng Sien’s relationship was never close. But Meng Siyun was always very well-mannered since childhood, never rude to Meng Sien before.

Meng Sien’s face was a bit unnatural but he kept smiling and said: “Brother, during your injury, I handled the group’s affairs. The opening event was suddenly handed to you a few days ago. Honestly, the time is tight. If you don’t understand something, I can help…”

He didn’t finish because he noticed Meng Feixuan kept looking at him with a smirk.

Meng Sien doubted himself and lowered his voice.

Meng Feixuan then said meaningfully: “Little brother, you are very attentive.”

Meng Sien: “…?” Whether it was a mistake or not, he felt that “little brother” sounded harsh.

Meng Sien’s smile stiffened: “I was just worried about you…”

Meng Feixuan: “Really? Why are you so kind?”

Meng Sien felt his smile was about to fail, his expression stiffened more: “Brother, what do you mean by that?”

“What do you mean?” Meng Feixuan sneered coldly: “You know very well.”

Meng Sien’s face suddenly changed, and his eyes darkened.

At that moment, the elegant and beautiful host announced that the opening performance was about to start and invited the person in charge, Meng Siyun, to the front to direct.

Meng Feixuan ignored Meng Sien, turned to look at Xie Ran: “Sir, come with me.”

Xie Ran glanced around. The Meng family’s seniors and Haijing city celebrities were all present. If he went with Meng Feixuan to direct the opening, it would definitely cause a stir in their circle.

…But what did it matter?

Meng Feixuan didn’t care, and neither did he.

Xie Ran leisurely stood up and pushed Meng Feixuan’s wheelchair forward, asking as he walked: “What did you just say to Meng Sien?”

“Ah, nothing,” Meng Feixuan shrugged: “I’m the wealthy heir now, he’s my cousin and my biggest competitor. According to TV drama scripts, I should treat him badly.”

“…” Xie Ran knew his AI logic was unique, but he never expected this reason.

“Also, from my TV-watching experience, he might be the prime suspect in my car accident!” Meng Feixuan continued: “I didn’t have time to act out that scene just now, otherwise I would have!”

Xie Ran: “…”

The logic was indeed that logic. But the Meng family was no ordinary family. A TV-drama-level plot like this they would be aware of. Since Meng Sien ultimately succeeded in taking over the Meng family, either he was truly innocent or very clean about it.

Xie Ran recalled the sudden provocation from Brother Yang earlier — who had passed that message to Brother Yang?

Xie Ran chuckled lightly, glanced at Meng Sien out of the corner of his eye. Meng Sien’s expression was very unnatural and vaguely panicked.

Meng Sien naturally had no idea that Meng Feixuan’s divine move was purely the AI following TV drama logic.

Xie Ran tapped Meng Feixuan’s head: “No need, I’ll handle it.”

Meng Feixuan obeyed: “Okay.”

Xie Ran asked again: “What if Meng Sien is innocent?”

“Ah, then I didn’t say anything!” Meng Feixuan said righteously: “I only want him to know inside himself. If he’s innocent, he shouldn’t panic!”

Xie Ran: “…Hmm.”

A logic genius.