The car drove slowly along the road. Just as Lin Yan was about to reach home, a new message came from Zhang Mingzhi on his phone.
GP23, freshly released!
The next morning, Lin Yan and Su Mojin slowly opened their eyes.
"Honey, let's lie down a bit longer!"
The morning sun shone into the room. Su Mojin's fair arms wrapped around Lin Yan's neck, pulling him back from getting up. Her slender legs, exposed, were wrapped around Lin Yan's waist, her entire body hanging onto him.
Intimate and dependent.
In Lin Yan's arms, the little girl pouted her red lips, staring at Lin Yan as if daring him to get up and she would bite him.
"No, wife, it's already seven o'clock. Do you want to rush for the flight at noon?"
Lin Yan looked at the little kangaroo hanging on him and said with a doting smile.
"Honey, just a moment. We'll get up at half-past seven, okay?"
Su Mojin opened her slightly blurry big eyes and said coquettishly.
"Then I'll get up first?"
"No, I can't sleep without hugging you."
Lin Yan had no choice but to lie back down on the bed. Su Mojin had slept very early yesterday, but unfortunately, they had done some "important things" at night, so she was a bit reluctant to get up this morning.
They slept until almost eight o'clock. Su Mojin, dragging her tired body, got up, changed her clothes, got on the plane at the airport, and continued to catch up on sleep.
At eight in the evening, the plane slowly landed at the East District Airport.
Su Mojin, carrying two candied hawthorns, got into the Cullinan. As soon as she got in the car, Su Mojin stuck out her little tongue and complained.
"Honey, the candied hawthorns here are so expensive."
Although Su Mojin had married into a wealthy family, she still had a slightly materialistic personality. The twenty-six yuan per candied hawthorn made the little girl complain constantly.
"Things near the airport seem to be quite expensive."
Hearing this, Lin Yan found it a bit cute and patted the little girl's head to comfort her.
"Honey, you eat one too. We won't come here next time. I feel like that uncle just deliberately ripped me off! No wonder he didn't even display the price. I should have known better than to eat so quickly."
The little girl took a candied hawthorn off the skewer, held it in her small hand, and offered it to Lin Yan's mouth, saying indignantly.
Following Lin Yan for these past few days had formed a habit: she would take a bite before asking the price. She didn't expect to encounter a price gouger. It was understandable, though; if you get out of a Cullinan, who else would they rip off if not you?
After sleeping all the way on the plane, by the time they got home, they were completely free of drowsiness.
Lin Yu'an and Lin Yu'ning were still at Lin Yan's parents' place, so they didn't need to worry too much about them. The elders took better care of them than their own parents and were very experienced.
"What are the test results for GP23 so far?"
Sitting in a corner of the sofa, Lin Yan called Zhang Mingzhi. It wasn't even nine o'clock yet, and Zhang Mingzhi hadn't slept, so he answered quickly.
"Young Master, our car upgrades have reached a bottleneck, and the improvements are not particularly significant. You'll likely have to come and test it personally tomorrow."
Zhang Mingzhi's words came from the phone. Lin Yan could tell from his tone that the car's upgrades didn't seem to be going very smoothly.
"Okay, I understand. I'll go to the base personally tomorrow."
The year-end car upgrade was different from the minor upgrades in between. This was a major upgrade, a generational product, and could not be taken lightly.
The term "generational" meant that next year their factory car would no longer be codenamed GP22 but GP23, representing a new generation. At the same time, the other five major manufacturers would also undergo a year-end major upgrade.
After hanging up the phone, Lin Yan looked up at the television that had just been turned on.
Unexpectedly, Su Mojin wasn't watching a romance drama today but a horror film.
As the film played, Su Mojin curled her feet up on the sofa and picked up a bucket of popcorn.
Seeing her like this, Lin Yan also felt a bit interested, but not in watching the movie, rather in watching his wife.
After a long while, Lin Yan stared for a bit. The little girl seemed to be engrossed in the movie, her beautiful eyes fixed on the screen ahead, completely unaware that Lin Yan had already finished his call.
What kind of drama has the most immersion? Those who often watch movies know that it's definitely not romance dramas. When the male and female leads in a romance drama get together, you'll only feel sweetness, not immersion. But horror films are different. The sense of being there is incomparable to other films and television shows; it's incredibly realistic.
At this moment, Su Mojin was completely immersed in the plot, her hand holding the popcorn even faltering slightly.
Lin Yan glanced at the screen. The film had clearly entered an early climax. The male lead and his companions were exploring an ancient and damp cave. This kind of plot was naturally cliché. It was estimated that some monsters or ghosts would appear in the cave later. Despite being cliché and predictable, the audience was still very drawn in.
This was because such plots built up anticipation very well in the early stages.
Looking at his own little wife, Lin Yan's lips curved into a smile, a mischievous thought arising. He took out his phone and opened the smart home page.
Soon, just as Lin Yan had expected, the next scene indeed featured the male lead and his group encountering a monster, and a very terrifying one at that, with tentacles all over the place. It wasn't particularly scary, at least not to Lin Yan, but it was certainly disgusting.
Facing the monster that suddenly appeared on the screen, the little girl was so scared that she took a step back, her delicate body trembling, and pressed against the back of the sofa. But her eyes were still glued to the screen. This look of being clearly afraid but unable to look away was somewhat amusing. No, in Lin Yan's eyes, it was quite cute.
The next second, the monster lunged towards the camera.
"Ah—"
Seeing the monster with its gaping maw and tentacles flailing in the air, Su Mojin screamed in fright. The next moment, the room lights went out.
"Ah————"
The scream intensified immediately. Su Mojin found Lin Yan almost instantly and threw herself towards him.
In the darkness, Lin Yan felt a slight pain in his chest as she collided with him, but his hands instinctively wrapped around his wife.
"Honey, I'm scared..."
The little girl's voice trembled slightly, but not too much. Having grabbed Lin Yan, she felt as if she had found her anchor, filled with a sense of security.
"Cough, cough, little girl, are you sure I'm safe?"
Lin Yan coughed twice and changed his tone, speaking in a strange voice.
"Don't be silly. Your acting can only fool me."
Su Mojin tightened her grip. Lin Yan's strange voice didn't scare her; instead, it made her relax a lot.