Star Official saw the young man barge into the restaurant. Sophia immediately went into battle mode, erecting a wall of wind between them while reaching out to grab the young Star Official.

The surrounding airflow concentrated with her movements, forming an invisible hand that gripped the young man as if in a tight cage. With a mere thought from Sophia, the immense pressure would shatter the young man into pieces...

Bound and with his arms hanging down, the young man rubbed his thumb and middle finger together, snapping his fingers.

With the crisp sound, it seemed as if some rule vanished in the dark. Sophia was shocked to see that the hand of airflow she had condensed passed right through the young man's body before collapsing.

"Sophia, he is the Lord of the Sun we are meant to support!"

Chen Shu's words dispelled all of Sophia's vigilance, fighting spirit, hostility, and seriousness. She widened her eyes in astonishment.

This young man was Qi Shishe, the Lord of the Sun that the President was cultivating. Sophia sized up the young man from head to toe, as if trying to see through every cell of his body.

At that moment, she realized that the young man looked somewhat familiar. It seemed that she had seen him somewhere before, but she couldn't quite remember.

Sophia turned her head to look at the President and said, "Who is he?"

Chen Shu smiled and said, "You should have seen him before, seen him in the data. His Spirit Realm ID is called Yuanshi Tianzun."

Sophia abruptly turned her head back and exclaimed, "Yuanshi Tianzun? No, didn't Yuanshi Tianzun die?"

She remembered Zhang Yuanqing's face now. She had indeed seen it in the data, but Yuanshi Tianzun had returned to the Spirit Realm two months ago. This was a universally known fact.

"How could the Lord of the Sun cultivated by the President fall so easily?" Chen Shu gazed at her son, whom she hadn't seen in a year, with a smile on her face.

"You're finally willing to see me. Sit down, I'll have the chef make you a steak." Her tone was as strong as ever, not asking if he had eaten or what he wanted to eat.

Zhang Yuanqing, as always, argued, "I don't want it!"

Chen Shu had already summoned a maid and asked her to pass the message to the chef.

Zhang Yuanqing pulled out a chair and sat down, getting straight to the point: "I've met the family scum."

He hinted to Chen Shu that he already knew everything.

Chen Shu, not gentle or weak, but refined and elegant, nodded. "I wasn't planning on keeping it from you forever. When you were still a Saint, I wanted to come clean with you, but he kept stopping me."

"Come clean about what?" Zhang Yuanqing looked at her with deep eyes.

"Come clean about why I haven't cared about him all these years, come clean about how I'm so busy that I don't come home all year round and am too lazy to even make a phone call..."

If it were a year ago, Zhang Yuanqing would definitely have asked that, but now he had lost interest in complaining about his mother neglecting him.

These were things that children cared about, and he was no longer a child.

However, after so many years of strained mother-son relations, he couldn't immediately bury the hatchet and put on a show of maternal love and filial piety with Chen Shu.

Sophia looked at Zhang Yuanqing and then at Chen Shu. Her intuition told her that the President and Yuanshi Tianzun had an extraordinary relationship.

"He is my son!" Noticing the subordinate's scrutiny, Chen Shu smiled slightly and introduced him.

"Can you revise your wording?" Zhang Yuanqing raised an eyebrow and retorted.

Chen Shu readily complied, "Okay."

Zhang Yuanqing rolled his eyes!

Sophia was shocked. Yuanshi Tianzun was the President's son! The most watched genius in the Second District, the rising young powerhouse like a comet, was actually the President's son!

If this were spread within the organization, the entire Jishi Society would be in an uproar!

Chen Shu added, "She is Sophia, the Ruler of Jishi Society. She joined Jishi Society when she was still an Extraordinary Wayfarer and worked as my assistant, all the way until now."

Sophia was a Ruler she had personally cultivated. Zhang Yuanqing sized up the ascetic-style Overseer and then looked at his queen-like mother. "I can see that you two have the same style. Without a few years of getting along, your temperament and aura wouldn't be so compatible!"

"Sophia, go wait in the living room. I have something to say to him," Chen Shu said.

Sophia nodded, got up, and left the restaurant. After she had gone far away, Chen Shu picked up a glass and took a sip of warm water. "Your uncle should have told you everything. You're here because you want your mother to hug and kiss you, or do you still have any doubts that you need me to supplement?"

Zhang Yuanqing's mouth twitched. "Where is your husband's doppelganger?"

Chen Shu frowned slightly, displeased. "That's your father."

"A dog's father is still a dog!" Zhang Yuanqing retorted sharply.

Chen Shu tactfully avoided continuing the mutually damaging topic and said, "Your father's doppelganger is in a very safe place. You don't need to know yet. Reviving him is not something you need to worry about either. At least at this stage, you don't need to consider reviving your father because the difficulty is too high."

Zhang Yuanqing didn't say anything melodramatic like "Why can't I know?" or "That's my father." He changed the subject.

"Do you know where Chu Shang and Master Wuhen's doppelgangers are?" Chen Shu looked at her son gently.

"Don't ask such stupid questions!" Zhang Yuanqing took a deep breath and thought for a moment. "Tell me about you and Zhang Tianshi in the past. I'll consider what to ask after I hear it."

An ordinary mother might be hesitant to talk about her youthful love affairs with her son, but Chen Shu wouldn't. She spoke without hesitation. "Your father worked as an auxiliary police officer when he was young. He was very outstanding. His investigation skills and personal martial strength were both exceptional. Your grandfather admired him very much and repeatedly wanted to give him a formal position, but he refused."

"Once, your father helped the Public Security Bureau solve a major case. Old Chen invited him to our house for dinner. That was the first time I saw him. From then on, he kept coming to our house, inviting me to watch shadow plays, go dancing at the dance hall, and sing karaoke. Over time, we fell in love."

"Your grandparents both approved of this marriage. The only thing they were dissatisfied with was that Zhang Zizhen refused to settle his household registration in Songhai and refused to become a formal employee. He took a meager salary, did the hardest and most tiring work, and was always sunny and cheerful like an idiot!"

Zhang Yuanqing didn't expect his father to have worked as an auxiliary police officer. "Why didn't he become a formal employee?"

Chen Shu smiled and said, "At that time, he was already... One day, he said that he was a direct disciple of the Free and Unfettered School and bore the important task of maintaining world peace. To better punish evil and promote good, he became an auxiliary police officer. The reason why he didn't become a formal employee was because if he ate the government's rice, he would be subject to the government's constraints, which didn't conform to the Free and Unfettered philosophy!"

As always, chuunibyou. Zhang Yuanqing said with emotion, "A wild Wayfarer could brazenly work as an auxiliary police officer. The system was indeed chaotic back then."

"The social system was chaotic back then, that's right, but when it came to Spirit Realm Wayfarers, both the government and the organization attached great importance to it and never slackened. Your father was able to sneak into the Public Security Bureau as an auxiliary police officer because he had another identity."

At this time, the chef came over with the fried steak. Chen Shu stopped talking and waited for the chef to set the cutlery and leave before gesturing for her son to taste it!

Zhang Yuanqing perfunctorily cut a piece, chewing as he said, "It's too greasy. Continue."

"Your father was able to work as an auxiliary police officer in the Public Security Bureau and fully display his abilities because Dog Elder was protecting him."

Chen Shu smiled and said, "He used to be Dog Elder's informant."

So that was the case. Zhang Yuanqing solved a doubt in his mind. "No wonder the Three Free and Unfettered Sons didn't know Zhang Tianshi's true identity, but Dog Elder knew everything clearly. Back then, Dog Elder played the role of backer, thigh, elder, and so on."

"Later, as your father's level increased and the enemies he encountered became higher and higher in rank, he also paid more and more attention to hiding himself." Chen Shu said calmly about the past, telling the details of her life.

"Most of the things he did, I didn't know, and I never asked. It wasn't until after the battle for the Luminous Compass that everything changed." Chen Shu's eyes revealed nostalgia, reminiscence, and the deepness of savoring the past.

"One day, your father came home covered in blood, saying that he had caused trouble, entered a place he shouldn't have entered, and touched things he shouldn't have touched. He was seriously ill and never went out again. We spent a peaceful time, during which I became pregnant with you. And his body was getting worse and worse, no longer with the brilliance of the past!"

"Later, the Chu family was exterminated, and your father brought back Jiang Yuer, whose real name was Chu Yu. Jiang was her mother's surname. She couldn't continue to be surnamed Chu, and she didn't want to be surnamed Chen, so she followed her birth mother's surname."

"After the Chu family was exterminated, your father often woke up at night, covered in cold sweat. He didn't know what he was afraid of. I asked him countless times, but he refused to say. I would occasionally hear him muttering to himself, 'Impossible, I couldn't have not calculated it, I couldn't have not calculated it!'"

Zhang Yuanqing frowned. Zhang Zizhen was already a peak Ruler at that time. Even if he didn't specialize in Starry Sky, he could see the evolution of all things and the direction of the world through the Art of Observing Stars. But it seemed that there was something he didn't calculate, so he was brooding over it!

What happened at that point in time?

"Did you ask your uncle about it afterward?" Zhang Yuanqing asked when he didn't understand, feeling that there was no need to brainstorm and guess.

Chen Shu shook her head. "The things your father didn't even tell me, how could he tell your uncle?"

After a pause, she continued, "Not long after the Chu family was exterminated, he began to go out frequently again, not knowing what he was investigating. Suddenly, one day, he said that he was going to do something big. If he didn't come back, he told me to be prepared to take my parents and go abroad!"

Simply outrageous!