CH 46

Chapter 46: Broadcast Exercises

Gu Changjin had been under great psychological pressure for the past few days. After talking with Shi Qingyang, he relaxed a lot, but he was still very worried about his niece.

In fact, he thought about telling Cheng Xuze about this, but Cheng Hong was Cheng Xuze’s son. Gu Changjin was just a housekeeper. Over the years, Cheng Hong had been doing very well. Apart from treating Cheng Ran poorly, he couldn’t find anything to fault with Cheng Hong

In fact, if he hadn’t taken care of Cheng Ran all the time, he wouldn’t believe that Cheng Hong would treat his son like this.

In that case, how could Cheng Xuze believe him over his own son? Even if Cheng Xuze chose to believe him, it was just a radiation energy inducer. Cheng Hong could fool him by saying that he just wanted his son to succeed. Cheng Xuze might be furious, but if nothing happened to Cheng Ran, for what reason would be break with his son?

At that time, nothing would happen to Cheng Hong other than being by Cheng Xuze, but as for them– they would have to deal with Cheng Hong.

Moreover, Cheng Hong was his benefactor, after all. Subconsciously, Gu Changjin hoped to have the best of both worlds.

Although Shi Qingyang had pieced together some of the truth, he didn’t expect there to be such an inside story. He could see that Gu Changjin cared about Cheng Ran very much, but to this extent… Gu Changjin already regarded Cheng Ran as a family member.

“Grandpa Gu, as long as nothing unexpected happens, your niece will be fine. If we go through with this and Cheng Ran doens’t awaken, Cheng Hong will give up.” Shi Qingyang used to say ‘Ranran’s father’ respectfully, but now he called Cheng Hong by name out of anger.

Just because Cheng Ran doesn’t have radiant energy, this is how he treats Cheng Ran? That man really didn’t treat Cheng Ran as his own child!

If Shi Qingyang had a chance, he must get back against Cheng Hong.

“Master… He probably doesn’t want to recognize the young master.” Gu Changjin smiled bitterly.

“Grandpa Gu, let’s tell Ranran about this first,” Shi Qingyang said after thinking.

Shi Qingyang was wondering how to tell Cheng Ran about this, whe suddenly, a knock came at the door.

Apart from them, Cheng Ran was the only one in the family. When Gu Changjin opened the door, he saw Cheng Ran outside: “Grandpa Gu, have you seen Qingyang? Qingyang!” As soon as he finished asking, Cheng Ran saw Shi Qingyang in the room. He smiled, his eyes bending to crescents.

“Ranran, is something wrong?” Shi Qingyang asked.

Cheng Ran was embarrassed: “I can’t sleep…” After he returned to his room, he counted the lollipops carefully, and then remembered Shi Qingyang.

When playing the game, Shi Qingyang brushed his card for him. In his opinion, these lollipops were what Shi Qingyang gave him. Each of them was very precious.

At first, he thought about hiding them all. But later, he thought that the dried meat given by Shi Qingyang when he first met him grew moldy after he had left it under the pillow for a long time. He gave up on this idea, studied the shelf life, calculated the time, and decided to eat one a week.

After such a tumult, he couldn’t sleep. He even remembered the people and things he saw during the day, and even the crying child in the playground.

At that time, he thought that all the lollipops were what Shi Qingyang had given him. Naturally, he was reluctant to give them to others. Now when he thought back, he thought that the crying child was very pitiful, and in fact, he should have given one… Or asked the child’s father to swipe the card once, and then help the child play a round…

He was even thinking about that child, so he naturally wouldn’t forget to think about Shi Qingyang. Suddenly, it occurred to him that Shi Qingyang had let him do whatever he wanted all day, but Shi Qingyang himself didn’t play anything.

Cheng Ran didn’t know anything about the world. At that time, he didn’t think there was anything wrong. Now, he felt more and more guilty. Finally, he just got up and went to find Shi Qingyang. Along the way, he could go to sleep with Shi Qingyang.

Shi Qingyang gave him permission to open his room, so he went in quietly. He wanted to sneak into the bed and set an early alarm clock. Unexpectedly, Shi Qingyang was not there at all, but in Gu Changjin’s room.

“Qingyang, why are you here with Grandpa Gu?” Cheng Ran asked curiously.

If the expression on Cheng Ran’s face weren’t so simple, Shi Qingyang would think that the other party was questioning his backstabbing lover.

Cough, if things hadn’t turned out this way, Cheng Ran would have wanted to “attack” him at night, but finally found him in Gu Changjin’s room… Shi Qingyang felt sorry that he could not be attacked at night, but he soon pulled his mind back. Seeing Cheng Ran’s innocent expression, he thought of Cheng Ran’s actions, and suddenly didn’t know what to say.

“Young master, you have grown up. You should sleep alone.” Gu Changjin also guessed the reason why Cheng Ran would find out. Unwilling to glare at Cheng Ran, he glared at Shi Qingyang instead.

“But…” Cheng Ran wanted to say that Shi Qingyang agreed to his love relationship. It was okay for them to sleep together, but suddenly he found that Gu Changjin looked very wrong: “Grandpa Gu, are you sad? If you don’t feel good, you can read books and eat some sugar. In fact, it’s good to go out to play. Qingyang took me to the amusement park today. It’s fun, and everyone was very happy. Let’s go out tomorrow, do you want to go together?”

Were they going to bring this big light bulb1 on a date? If so, they couldn’t play happily. Of course, more importantly, Cheng Ran might not be able to go out to have fun next time. Shi Qingyang sighed: “Ranran, we have something to tell you.”

Gu Changjin knew what Shi Qingyang was going to say. He looked at Shi Qingyang in surprise and finally did not stop him.

It was time for Cheng Ran to grow up.

Shi Qingyang didn’t hide anything. He told Cheng Ran that his father wanted Gu Changjin to inject him with a radiation energy inducer.

He thought that Cheng Ran would be very sad when he heard this. Unexpectedly, Cheng Ran’s expression didn’t change at all. He was silent for a while, and then looked at Gu Changjin: “Grandpa Gu, when is the injection?”

“Ranran, you can’t take the injection,” Shi Qingyang said directly.

“No injection?” Cheng Ran was in a trance. The last injection left a deep impression on him. Of course he didn’t want to do it again, but…

“But aren’t I useless without radiant energy? My father said that if I could have radiant energy, I would be a great soldier and become a powerful man. If I didn’t have radiant energy, I would be a useless waste.” He had little contact with Cheng Hong, and every time he made contact with his father, Cheng Hong would tell him about this.

Even if Cheng Hong didn’t say these things, Cheng Ran had always wanted to have radiant energy. It didn’t need to be too strong, so long as it was enough for him to mix medicine.

“Compared to having strength, being alive is more important. If you have an accident, you will be left with nothing,” Shi Qingyang spoke.

Cheng Ran didn’t know much about death before, but now, he was full of nostalgia for the world. He quickly said: “Yes, I don’t want to inject radiation energy inducers again. Last time, I thought I would die. It felt like there were two forces fighting in my body, trying to divide me into two parts…”

At first he was only subconsciously obedient, but now he soon sobered up.

“Ranran, since this is the case, we have to make some preparations,” Shi Qingyang said. As long as Cheng Hong didn’t come to visit, things wouldn’t be as difficult as they seemed. At most, Cheng Ran wouldn’t be able to go out for a long while.

Cheng Hong was very popular in Anhang City. He did things fairly and won’t bully. Therefore, he had won many people’s favor.

Everyone knew that Cheng Hong was a very self-disciplined and serious person. He seldom smiled. Except, when facing his children, his whole person would be much softer.

Cheng Hong seldom considered his own wants, but he was willing to pay attention to his two children. Cheng Zhen was 15 years old and would be injected with the radiation energy inducer in a few months. He was more interested in him.

Cheng Hong, who had always been reluctant to get along with others, still contacted the city leader Li Rong, who was difficult to deal with. Then, he even found a pharmacist brought by Li Rong to Anhang City for the sake of his son, and asked him to help prepare the medicine for conditioning his body, so that his son could have the best state when injecting.

Even when it came to the radiation energy inducer, he also pulled on a lot of his connections, and finally sent his son’s information to ask someone to specially configure a version.

For these reasons, he didn’t even care much about Gu Changjin’s delay in injecting Cheng Ran with radiation energy inducer. In fact, up ‘til now, he didn’t even think about Cheng Ran.

Cheng Ran was the child he received after participating in an experiment.

He went to Central City to study, where he got to know Qin Liu and fell in love with her.

Most men and women in love thought about their future. When he talked with Qin Liu, he thought of their children.

Everyone wanted to have a child who was gifted or directly born with radiant power. Cheng Hong was no exception. He even wanted more than ordinary people, because his brother was a natural warrior, but Cheng Hong’s talent by contrast was very poor. He couldn’t compare with his eldest brother anywhere. Over the years, he always felt inferior in front of his eldest brother and his father.

He had worked hard enough, but was destined to be inferior to his big brother. Such a situation made him more and more disgusted with his big brother, and in the end, he just wanted to surpass his big brother.

What should someone do if they can’t compare with others? Some people would choose to work hard, some people would choose to relax, and some people would choose to have a child and let their children surpass others. Cheng Hong thought of this last point.

Pursuing Qin Liu, on the one hand, was because Qin Liu was truly excellent; on the other hand, it is also because Qin Liu had a good talent. At that time, he began to find something to eat for Qin Liu, which was said to be good for future children. His behavior of focusing on children only later annoyed Qin Liu. When Qin Liu was angry, he inadvertently mentioned one of her friends had participated in an experiment. It was said to be a cultivation experiment for S-class natural radiation warriors.

Give your own cells, process them in the laboratory, and then conceive… One might give birth to monsters, but one might also give birth to natural radiation wielders.

Cheng Hong was lucky enough to finally join the experiment. Even the fetus with his genes was said to perform best among all the experimental objects.

However, in the end, though it succeeded, the child began to reject radiation energy after birth. Cheng Hong then didn’t want that thing at all, and the research institute didn’t plan to give the child to him. But somehow, in the end, when the child was more than two years old, the research institute suddenly sent the child to him, having him take good care of it, and asking him provide the child’s body data.

He had no feelings for the child, and completely ignored it, but he had a little hope that the child would awaken and give him a surprise.

At the same time, in order not to let people find out what might happen to Cheng Ran, he simply shut Cheng Ran away, which made it convenient for him to control Cheng Ran.

He had always hoped that Cheng Ran could have a good talent, but now it seemed that was obviously impossible.

Cheng Hong returned home with a potion that he had spent a lot of time procuring when he received a call from Gu Changjin.

Cheng Ran’s story couldn’t be known, so he had talked to Gu Changjin long ago. Gu Changjin wasn’t allowed to send Cheng Ran to the hospital, let alone tell Cheng Xuze about him. Now Gu Changjin contacted him to tell him that the first-aid equipment and medical equipment had been fully prepared.

After a few days of not seeing him, Gu Changjin seemed to be in a very bad state. Cheng Hong looked him over a few times and knew that Gu Changjin should have been distressed for Cheng Ran. At the same time, he was relieved.

If Gu Changjin didn’t respond, he would worry about whether Gu Changjin had other thoughts. Now, everything seemed to go according to plan.

Of course, even if Gu Changjin said anything, he also had a way to deal with it. Cheng Hong just wanted his son to have radiation energy, so he would give the child a radiation inducer. This was for the good of the child. Even if there was an accident… It was just an accident. After all, Cheng Ran’s constitution was too rare.

Cheng Hong took another look, and then found that the medical equipment behind Gu Changjin was also very complete. For Cheng Ran’s safety, Gu Changjin obviously spent a lot of effort.

“Now that everything is ready, you can give him the injection,” Cheng Hong said.

“Master…” Gu Changjin hesitated.

“Don’t worry. It’s just a radiation inducer. It’ll be fine. I’ll come over in a few days,” Cheng Hong added.

With red eyes, Gu Changjin, who looked thin, nodded.

After hanging up, Cheng Hong checked his itinerary, ready to spare two days to see Cheng Ran. If a miracle could happen, he could treat Cheng Ran better. Cheng Ran could be coaxed into not having any anger then.

“Are you adjusting your itinerary?” Qin Liu asked immediately after coming home.

“Didn’t you see?” Cheng Hong said. He and Qin Liu were husband and wife. Some of their communication terminals were connected, so some of his behaviors could also be seen by Qin Liu.

“I also want to free my schedule to go with you,” Qin Liu said.

“Haven’t you always been uninterested in Cheng Ran?” Cheng Hong frowned slightly, puzzled.

“What Cheng Ran, aren’t you going to Yangtze City for the Almighty Elixir?”

“Almighty Elixir? What?” Cheng Hong asked in puzzlement.

“Half an hour ago, the Cheng family held a press conference. They said that they would open a pharmaceutical factory, producing a warm and nourishing radiant medicine that can improve physique. It’s said it can be drunk by children and pregnant women,” Qin Liu said, “There was a lot of noise around the Cheng family, so I paid more attention to them. Only then did I learn about it.”

“What?” The 川 wrinkles between Cheng Hong’s eyebrows seemed more and more profound. His face was very bad: “I didn’t know at all, right…” Cheng Xuze actually mentioned earlier that the family wanted to produce medicine, so he wanted Cheng Hong to go back to Yangtze City, but Cheng Hong refused without hesitation.

“Do you know anything?” Qin Liu asked, “Should we go back quickly? I told you earlier that you should have a good relationship with your father, so that Xiao Zhen can directly find Ran Xue to take the medicine he wants…”

“I contacted Ran Xue, but she refused me directly. They didn’t treat me as a family at all. Why should I ask for nothing?” Cheng Hong snorted coldly, but went to see the contact terminal in his hand.

The drug conference held by the Cheng family was still going on. Because the Cheng family had never been involved in the pharmaceutical industry before, few people came to the conference. However, some pharmacist friends of Ran Xue came. After they tasted the medicine, they all shared the same unanimous praise.

Cheng Hong was furious. He was always trying to do his best, but Cheng Xuze always hid everything from him…

“This Almighty Elixir is safe after testing. The first batch of medicine will be put on the market in ten days,” Qin Liu added. She attached great importance to her career and strength. Because of this, she always wanted to give her children the best so that they could become outstanding in the future.

“Let’s go to Yangtze City.” Cheng Hong gritted his teeth. Cheng Ran failed last time. This time, he didn’t hold much hope. In contrast, he cared more about this Almighty Elixir..

When he met Cheng Xuze before, he really shouldn’t have gotten angry because Cheng Xuze cared about Cheng Ran. Cheng Xuze had always been had radiation riots, but now he suddenly recovered. At that time, Cheng Hong should have realized that Ran Xue was not simple.

While Cheng Hong and Qin Liu planned to go to Yangtze City, Shi Qingyang was still worried.

He contacted Cheng Xuze and fixed the time for the pharmaceutical release conference for Cheng Xuze. However, he was not sure whether Cheng Hong would change his itinerary because of the Almighty Elixir’s pharmaceuticals. Therefore, he planned another matter.

He gave Cheng Xuze a skill that could break through his own limitations after training, so that those who could not advance, could continue to advance.

Of course, this skill was false.

Although Shi Qingyang was outstanding in his last life, his greatest achievement was to study the radiation energy blocking method. Of course he couldn’t take out such things that went against the sky. However, Shi Qingyang didn’t have exercise equipment in the beginning and often exercised himself. Therefore, he studied an ancient activity called ‘broadcast exercises’2 and developed a set of movements after improving them.

This action could exercise the body and stretch every joint. As for breaking through itself, that was him overexaggerating.

However, he had shown a lot of magical things before, so Cheng Xuze believed him very much and didn’t doubt him at all. After he got this set of martial skills, he even demonstrated it on the spot…

Then, Shi Qingyang said that he gave this set of martial skills to the Cheng family, and Cheng Xuze must not divulge it to people outside the Cheng family. At the same time, once he started practicing these skills, it could not be stopped easily, and it had to be done for two hours every day. Not only that, he also gave one session for every ten days. The whole set of 10 sessions, divided into three months.

The reason for this was, of course, to prevent the Cheng family from being greedy and aggressive.

If you wanted to see results, it depended on your personal qualifications… Shi Qingyang was not afraid of Cheng Xuze suspecting  him of deceit, because if there was no accident, he could completely break through his own limitations in the future. He would be a living example.

After Cheng Xuze practiced according to the rules, although he didn’t feel any benefits, he didn’t find any disadvantages. After thinking about it, he found his eldest son to practice with.

At this time, Shi Qingyang seemed to mention Cheng Hong unintentionally.

Cheng Hong was also Cheng Xuze’s son, and although he had a bad relationship with Cheng Xuze, he hadn’t made any big mistakes. He thought about Cheng Hong, and in the end, contacted him and planned to let Cheng Hong make his own choice.

Footnotes

1 – Light bulb: Chinese slang for “third wheel”, bringing another person on a date who just gets in the way. [return]

2 – Broadcast exercise: Or radio calisthenics. It’s uh… you know when kids or old people turn on the radio and do exercises, like jumping jacks and things like that. [return]