After Luo Liansheng left Ling Mingrui's villa, he returned to Ling Ruonan's villa.

When he got back, Ling Ruonan and Luo Ziling were already home.

Luo Yuqing was also present.

"Grandpa, you've returned?" Seeing Luo Liansheng appear, Luo Yuqing was the first to run up to greet him, "You've been busy all day; what have you been busy with?"

"There were many things to handle, so I just got back now," Luo Liansheng chuckled as he patted Luo Yuqing's arm, full of affectionate love, "I initially planned to have dinner with you all tonight."

"Then let's make it tomorrow," Luo Yuqing said coquettishly as she linked arms with Luo Liansheng, "Tomorrow we'll ask Ziling to cook us dinner. He hasn't cooked dinner for us in a long time."

"I say, isn't the kitchen your women's domain?" Luo Ziling replied a bit sulkily, "Why can't you enter the kitchen?"

"I can't cook!" Luo Yuqing said proudly, "My ambitions don't lie in the kitchen."

"As if my ambitions are confined to the kitchen."

"Your cooking tastes pretty good, doesn't it?"

Luo Ziling glanced at Ling Ruonan, who was carrying fruit, and seriously said to Luo Yuqing, "When my mom had me, aside from crying, eating, drinking, and other basic activities, I couldn't do anything. You were the same. If you can't do something, you just have to learn it. Wasn't my mom also someone who didn't do household chores before?"

Luo Yuqing originally wanted to rebut, but seeing Ling Ruonan, she ultimately just said, "I'll learn to cook after I get married; isn't that how many women do it? Okay then, tomorrow you cook, and I'll help you. Don't complain anymore."

Luo Ziling said no more.

"Grandpa, where did you go today?" Luo Ziling also sat close to Luo Liansheng and asked quietly, "I thought you were coming back for dinner."

"Dinner was spent with your Great Grandfather," Luo Liansheng did not hide his whereabouts, "Haven't checked up on him for quite a few days now. Went today to give him a checkup and treat him, and had a drink with him."

At this, Luo Liansheng glanced at Ling Ruonan.

Ling Ruonan knew that Luo Liansheng surely talked about important matters while dining with Ling Jinhua.

But she didn't ask anything in front of Luo Yuqing.

"Tomorrow, I'll go see Yang Yuanshan, the Old Sir Yang, he's probably desperate waiting for me," Luo Liansheng chuckled as he told Luo Ziling, "You should come with me tomorrow."

"Alright!" Luo Ziling agreed readily.

After chatting for a while, Luo Yuqing said she had to return to school as the student council had activities planned for the next morning.

As she left, she reminded Luo Ziling that the day after tomorrow there would be a trial shoot for the promotional ad, so he should find time for it.

"If you don't have time then, watch out for me smacking you!" She left a fierce threat for Luo Ziling.

Luo Ziling thought that he shouldn't have anything lined up for the day after tomorrow and thus readily agreed to Luo Yuqing's demand.

After Luo Yuqing departed, Luo Liansheng recapped some of the day's events to Ling Ruonan and Luo Ziling.

In the morning, Luo Liansheng prepared a few medicines and treated Huang Chen's mother in the afternoon before visiting Ling Jinhua.

He checked Ling Jinhua's health and treated the old man, then stayed for dinner with Ling Jinhua.

During dinner, Luo Liansheng voiced his requests to Ling Jinhua and shared them with Ling Ruonan and Luo Ziling.

Luo Liansheng actually put forth such conditions to Ling Jinhua, which surprised both Ling Ruonan and Luo Ziling greatly.

Upon hearing Luo Liansheng talk about the evening meeting with Ling Mingrui, Ling Ruonan fell into deep thought.

However, she quickly understood Luo Liansheng's intentions behind these actions.

Luo Liansheng did not hide his intentions either and directly explained them.

"Ruonan, your grandfather truly does not want the Ling Family to continue like this. He hopes the Ling Family will remain strong and wants to set up everything for the family's future. Therefore he deeply wishes to live a few more years. Only Ziling and I can ensure his health. I believe, he also understands that only the two of us, grandfather and grandson, can maintain his health. Others might have the ability, but he wouldn't want to risk it. Since this is the case, we need to ensure that we don't fall under the Ling Family's pressure if we're to survive and let the Luo Family thrive."

At this point, Luo Liansheng solemnly told Ling Ruonan: "For over half a year, many actions taken by the Ling Family have truly been disheartening. The more disheartening part is many actions were implicitly or even secretly sanctioned by your grandfather. However, those few descendants of the Ling Family, including your brother, aren't capable enough to wrap things up completely. We've tolerated and tolerated again, but they haven't learned restraint. The demands Ziling and you placed on them won't teach them much of a lesson. So, I had to directly lay the situation before your grandfather and father. I believe that by directly stating things to them, they would take notice. At least, the threat from the Ling Family would largely dissipate."

Ling Ruonan lightly nodded, acknowledging what Luo Liansheng said: "Dad, only you could speak to them like this. However, my father should still be pretty decent towards us, some things I think he doesn't know."

Luo Liansheng nodded: "Your grandfather isn't entirely satisfied with your father either. He is keen on nurturing Ling Zhengping, believing Ling Zhengping has more pioneering spirit compared to your father. Your father, though, only wishes to preserve things as they are. However, Ling Zhengping is truly reckless, unable to accomplish big matters. Your father's capabilities are quite difficult to top, which your father is aware of. If we step out now to challenge Ling Zhengping, it might indeed be a fatal blow. The Ling Family cannot allow Ling Zhengping's future to be ruined, therefore they must placate us. Alongside, the meeting is about to commence, they fear us stirring trouble at times like these all the more. Raising these demands now, they dare not refuse. Our Luo Family, though humble, as its backbone, I cannot watch us Luo Family members suffer misfortune. We're merely safeguarding ourselves, nothing else."

Luo Ziling did not foresee these matters with the same depth as Luo Liansheng and Ling Ruonan, and only now did he grasp things somewhat upon hearing them.

He soon voiced his complaints: "Letting the four Ling Family members follow me was actually not punishment for them but a means to temper them, allowing them better growth. It was nothing of glory for me, merely entitlement; silly me felt proud for several days."

"Quite right," Luo Liansheng nodded, immediately chuckling: "Those four from the Ling Family combined wouldn't be a match for you. If you create some divide among them, handling them becomes even simpler. Anyway, grandpa believes the likelihood of further trouble from the Ling Family has decreased significantly; ahead, our main concerns remain the Chen Family and Yang Family."

"Don't forget the Fang Family!" Luo Ziling reminded.

Luo Liansheng paused but nodded, "Indeed, they aren't as amicable as they appear on the surface. It's all driven by interests!"

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