King of Soldiers with X-ray Vision

Jiangzhou International Airport. As the flight from San Francisco to Jiangzhou touched down, all 238 passengers followed the ground crew into the secure corridor. Amidst the crowd walked a young man of about twenty-five or twenty-six, with a sharp short haircut and dressed in a well-worn denim outfit. He was speaking into an old Nokia phone.

"Is this a threat? Auntie, I never thought you could be so ruthless. The moment I landed, I got a call from the Swiss bank—every cent of four hundred million dollars frozen, and even the house in Jiangzhou sold off. Are you trying to leave me destitute?"

"And now you want me to marry some woman I've never met, supposedly the most beautiful in Jiangzhou, and I have to do it right away. If I refuse, you’ll have me beaten up. This is naked coercion… Hello? Hello?" Just as the young man was reaching the crux of his complaints, the old phone died abruptly, leaving him so exasperated he nearly smashed it.

Several passing passengers shot him odd glances, but he paid them no mind. What really troubled him was his domineering aunt, who had somehow arranged for him to marry a woman he’d never met, with no chance to refuse—a situation that was utterly absurd.

He sighed lightly. After ten years away from his homeland, this was his welcome home: a forced marriage, a so-called childhood engagement, a supposed local beauty from a prominent family. None of it concerned him. His sole purpose in returning was to find Xu Jie’er, the younger sister of his late friend Xu Tian.

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