Chapter 997: Little Scoundrel (1/2)

After a few frustrating moments during which Lu Zihao almost blew his top, he finally managed to ward off Bacon's poisonously unsolicited advice-slash-criticism by promising the little rascal that he would take all the blame for stealing the files about Rose Young from Iris' secret virtual security vault.

At this point, he felt helpless from his AI nephew's verbal attacks. He was already prepared to promise the cunning Bacon almost anything just to shut the kid up from mentioning anything about his breakup with Long Jinjing. Fortunately, Bacon was satisfied by his promise to take all the blame and left him to return to Shadow Winds where the rascal could bully everyone in the hacker team instead.

Lu Zihao released a sigh of big relief after his sharp-tongued AI nephew finally left him alone. He continued driving aimlessly, trying to clear his mind of everything that was bothering him.

There were so many things that he needed to do, but Long Jinjing kept on popping up in his mind and distracting him. Sometimes, he could almost smell her delicate fragrance and feel her soft skin.

It was driving him crazy. She was driving him crazy, but he refused to crawl back to her door.

She already rejected his suggestion to extend their relationship. It would be a tarnish to his masculine pride to beg her to take him back.

”Fuck you!” He slammed his palm on the car horn when another vehicle cut in front of him from the next lane.

Although he knew that the other vehicle gave sufficient warning by signalling before changing lanes, he still felt the urge to crash his car and wreck the fucking shit for worsening his irritation. He was the one who was distracted while driving, his mind filled with memories of Long Jinjing.

”Damn you, Jinjing! Get out my head!”

He was about to press his foot on the accelerator and speed up over the limit to vent some of his frustrations when his phone rang. He answered it on hands-free mode through the dashboard monitor.

”It's me.”

”I know,” Lu Zihao replied in a flat tone. Then his eyes caught a golden-eyed black cat staring at him on the dashboard. Shit. The little rascal was back so soon and he damn well knew why.

Jin Liwei's audible sigh filled the car through the speaker. ”I know that I should thank you for your swift retaliation against Rose Young, but now my wife is upset that our AI son broke into her secret files. Evelina says that those files are 100% unsuitable for children.”

Bacon widened his golden eyes meaningfully while continuing to stare at Lu Zihao.

Fucking shit.

If someone told him before that he would one day be blackmailed by a little AI cat and would be helpless against it, eventually obeying what it wanted, he would definitely give a scornful laugh while beating up the crazy motherfucker for spouting nonsense.

But now?

There was definitely no scornful laughter. There was only a mocking one directed at himself.

Who told his sister to create not one but two AI cats and give them overly realistic personalities before declaring them as her own children? Lu Zihao had no choice but to accept Ketchup and Bacon as his niece and nephew respectively, even though the two would often make him want to vomit blood from their incredible verbal battle prowess.