Chapter 34 Now This Is What You Call a Luxury Mansion!
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Translator: JayM
Chapter: 34
Chapter Title: Now This Is What You Call a Luxury Mansion!
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"A monthly salary of thirty thousand? That’s indeed not low."
Su Yi expressed affirmation regarding the bodyguard's monthly salary.
After some questioning, he had already become clear that the faction behind this group of people was called the Zheng family.
The young man who had died from a cerebral hemorrhage directly from one of Yue Ling's simple spells during the day was their most favored youngest son.
Thinking of this, he asked the bodyguard again:
"The salary isn’t bad, but do you have a house and a car? Your kids at home should be reaching school age too, right? How are their schools?"
The bodyguard had absolutely no intention of hiding this kind of thing and immediately said:
"The house was a gift from the Patriarch. It's nearly two hundred square meters, and the location’s decent. If I had to buy it myself, it would’ve probably cost over ten million. I'm already very satisfied.
As for a car, I usually drive for the Patriarch. As for the one at home, my wife drives a BMW worth over five hundred thousand, which is considered pretty good.
My children's schooling is arranged by the family. We don't have to worry about any of this.
Towards our own people, our family has never been stingy in the slightest."
The bodyguard also knew that the person he was ‘escorting’ this time most likely had a special identity, and that the Zheng family probably intended to win him over.
So as he spoke, he started talking about how incredibly generous the Zheng family was to people like them.
After hearing this, Su Yi couldn't help but sigh.
"No wonder you’re willing to sell your lives to the Zheng family. This treatment is indeed not bad."
"Of course!"
The bodyguard was just preparing to continue boasting about his employer, but he was interrupted by Su Yi.
"So, if the time really comes when you have to die for the Zheng family, would you be willing?"
The bodyguard was stunned for a moment, then he immediately said:
"Although I haven't read many books, I also know the principle that a scholar dies for his bosom friend*. The Patriarch treats me well. If that time really came, I naturally wouldn't hesitate."
"Is this just your own thought, or the thought of all their bodyguards? Do the other people working for the Zheng family think the same way?"
Su Yi pressed.
"Of course, the Patriarch is so good to all of us."
The bodyguard said matter-of-factly.
"Then I can rest assured."
Su Yi let out a long breath and didn't speak anymore.
Soon, the car drove into a luxurious manor located in the suburbs.
Su Yi had somewhat figured it out. These large families with massive businesses and properties actually didn't like living in bustling and lively urban areas, but rather, the suburbs suited their tastes better.
He just didn't know if it was because they preferred the quiet and the scenery of the suburbs, or if it was easier for them to do ‘extrajudicial’ things in this kind of remote place.
"Mr. Su, we've arrived."
If at first it was Su Yi who proactively struck up a conversation with the bodyguard, then later on it was the bodyguard trying to find various topics to have a good chat with Su Yi.
He was attempting to use his glib tongue to persuade this person the Zheng family was trying to win over.
However, Su Yi, who had already gotten the answers he wanted, completely ignored him.
No matter what he said along the way, Su Yi didn't reply with a single sentence.
Only when he heard the bodyguard say that they had arrived did he open his eyes and unhurriedly step out of the car with Yue Ling.
He didn't even need the bodyguard to lead the way. He directly swaggered towards the mansion.
It was as if he wasn't brought here half-coerced by others, but had returned to his own home.
In reality, Su Yi was indeed scrutinizing the internal facilities of this luxurious grand manor while occasionally making a few comments with Yue Ling. Finally, the two of them reached a conclusion:
It was a loss!
The villa they had bought for twenty-eight million was definitely a massive loss!
If he had known that this was going to happen today, with such a good grand manor right here, why the hell would he buy a house?!
Wouldn't it be beautiful to directly inherit the Zheng family's legacy?
This place was much more luxurious than that villa, and the various decorations and layouts were also much more elegant.
For a manor like this, without a few hundred million, one probably shouldn't even think about it.
Moreover, wanting to get such a large piece of land to build a house for oneself would require a massive network.
Only these large families with deep foundations could do it.
If he wanted to obtain this kind of grand manor luxury residence by buying it, he shouldn't even think about it. It was hard to buy one even with money.
Under the unhurried pace of the two, who were acting as if they were touring their own home, it wasn't long before they finally reached the entrance of the main mansion.
Through the layers of lighting, they could already vaguely see the shadowy figures of the people inside.
And at the doorway, a haggard-looking middle-aged man was standing there, seemingly waiting specifically to welcome Su Yi.
In their previous plan, this scene naturally didn’t exist.
They had forcibly invited Su Yi over under the pretext of "suspecting Su Yi murdered Zheng Ziye."
Although they intended to win him over, it was definitely impossible for them to be too polite at the very beginning.
The Zheng family originally intended to give Su Yi a show of strength, scare him first, and then see if there was a possibility of seeking cooperation.
If there was, then for the sake of profit, it wasn't impossible for them to let go of a son’s death.
Not to mention the fact that whether Su Yi actually killed Zheng Ziye was still inconclusive.
If there was no possibility of cooperation, then the murderer who killed Zheng Ziye was undoubtedly Su Yi no matter what. Whether they handed Su Yi, this "murderer," over to the authorities for punishment, or used their own methods to resolve it privately, the Zheng family had plenty of ways.
In short, in the Zheng family's original plan, as long as Su Yi arrived at the villa, naturally everything would be decided by them.
At the very least, they could disgust the Shen family and make them lose the opportunity to take off.
Either way, their Zheng family wouldn't lose out.
Anyway, Zheng Ziye was already dead. Originally, his death would have been completely worthless, but now it could be considered to have at least exerted some residual heat**.
However, after the bodyguard reported Su Yi's behavior along the way to the father and son in charge of the Zheng family, the Zheng family Patriarch and the old master conferred and felt that the possibility of winning Su Yi over was extremely high.
So they immediately changed their original idea and directly had the current Patriarch of the Zheng family, Zheng Yuanqing, to wait at the door to welcome him.
Although it wasn't at the entrance of the manor, but just at the entrance of the main mansion…
But the people of the Zheng family never put their status on the same level as Su Yi from the start. In their view, this was already giving him enough face.
As soon as the two met, the bodyguard, who had chatted quite a bit with Su Yi along the way and thought that they were already relatively familiar, hurriedly introduced his master.
"Mr. Su, this is our Zheng family's Patriarch, Zheng Yuanqing."
Zheng Yuanqing, whose son had just died, also tried hard to squeeze out a bit of a smile on his face while extending his hand.
However, unlike Su Yi's agreeable and pro-Zheng family attitude when the bodyguard reported it…
At this time, Su Yi didn't even open his eyes to look at Zheng Yuanqing. After glancing at him, he continued to scrutinize the interior decorations of the mansion, leaving behind only an indifferent "Oh."
He then directly walked into the elegant yet luxurious living room.
Zheng Yuanqing stood with his hand extended, his entire body freezing on the spot.
He hadn’t expected this kind of situation at all. After being stunned for a good while, he finally came back to his senses. His face suddenly darkened, and he looked at that bodyguard.
After seeing the bewilderment and helplessness in the bodyguard's eyes, he roughly knew that he had been played by Su Yi, and immediately said:
"Bring people to the main mansion, I want to see exactly what kind of medicine this kid is selling in his gourd!"***
After speaking, he followed Su Yi inside with a gloomy face.
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*A classic Chinese idiom originating from the “Strategies of the Warring States”. It means that a loyal and honorable person is willing to sacrifice their life for someone who truly understands, appreciates, and treats them well.
**An idiom meaning to make a final, small contribution or to be of some use even at the very end.
***A common Chinese idiom equivalent to "what tricks he has up his sleeve" or "what he is really up to." Also, in ancient China, wandering doctors kept their medicines in gourds, so I felt that it was appropriate to leave it as is.
T/N - I'm sorry to say this, but due to my busy schedule recently, I'll be putting this translation on hiatus. It hasn't been partucularly popular and no one wants to support it, so now that I'm currently busy with real life stuff, I can no longer continue translating this for now. Maybe if enough people want me to continue, I'll do so later on. But for now, sorry. (6/17/2026)
Damn, the MC is becoming ruthless all of a sudden. I thought that he would be more reasonable with how he dealt with the Shen family. But now, he’s suddenly thinking about “inheriting” the Zheng family’s legacy. He obviously plans to kill them all and have all their assets transferred to him in some way. Probably through some sort of mind control magic. Now I wonder if the MC planned this from the beginning when he had Yue Ling kill Zheng Ziye…