Dragon Raja: Lu Mingfei, let them live with regrets for the rest of their lives.

"Yearn for it? Do I?" Nuonuo looked confused upon hearing this. "Uncle, you're overthinking it. I just want to see blood. Otherwise, I'm afraid I won't be able to stab Chen Chen to death."

"Just a casual question: Why do you hate Chen Chen? I'm genuinely curious about just how terrible your family background was."

Nono sighed: "Uncle, please don't ask anymore. You'll understand when you reach my age."

"……Row."

After dinner, the two took a walk to digest their food.

I happened to see a couple on the street, holding their child's hand.

Nono looked over, and before she could say anything, she felt her hand being grasped by a large hand. She looked up and saw Lu Mingfei with a gentle expression.

"It's okay, Nuonuo, you still have me."

Nono's lips twitched: "Uncle, your hands are sweaty. Do you have sweaty hands?"

Lu Mingfei was taken aback, then a sad expression appeared on his face.

As the saying goes, getting older makes everything a struggle.

However, Nono did not pull her little hand away.

Perhaps he couldn't match Lu Mingfei's strength, or perhaps he felt this wasn't so bad.

Having a powerful boss makes me feel quite at ease.

The next day, Lu Mingfei and Nuonuo continued to train on the balcony. Nuonuo was quite talented and her dodging skills were quite impressive.

Just then, the phone rang.

Lu Mingfei made a pause gesture, indicating a halftime break.

Nono immediately deflated and sat on a small stool, holding an electric fan to cool herself down.

In the sweltering summer heat, the concrete rooftop was scorching hot.

The electric fan was very powerful, blowing Nono's bangs up and making her open her little mouth and whimper.

On the other side, Lu Mingfei came to the railing, picking at the scraps of metal while talking to the newcomer.

The voice on the other end of the phone was deep and magnetic; just by listening to the voice, one could imagine an elegant and refined gentleman.

"Hello, I am Chen Chen. My subordinates told me you wanted to see me."

"Hello, I am Ricardo, and I will not change my name or surname."

"Mr. Chen, let me correct you on one point. It's not that I want to see you, but that you keep bothering me," Lu Mingfei said calmly.

"Mr. Li, how is my daughter doing with you?"

Lu Mingfei glanced back at Nuonuo, who was whimpering. Nuonuo had been eating and drinking well these past two days and was in much better spirits. He smiled and said, "At least she's more energetic than when I first met her."

"Really? I understand. The child will run away on his own if he's not feeling well."

"You called me today, you didn't just talk about this, did you? I'm busy with work, let's get straight to the point."

“Okay? I like communicating with straightforward people. Mr. Li, what conditions do I need to offer to get my daughter home?”

"Your life."

"...Mr. Li is also a humorous person."

Lu Mingfei remained silent.

Chen Chen on the other end of the phone remained silent for a while before speaking:

"It seems that Nuonuo's arrival in Rongcheng was not accidental. Mr. Li, we are both adults. Can you really take a child's joke seriously? This makes one question the professional ethics of the world's number one assassin."

"I prefer to be called a chivalrous knight-errant rather than an assassin. A chivalrous knight-errant doesn't act for money. Mr. Chen, could you satisfy my curiosity? What kind of conflict exists between you and Nuonuo that would force her to pay for your life?"

Chen Chen sighed, "Children's words are often just child's play. There's a misunderstanding between Nuonuo and me."

Mr. Li, is it always the adults who are wrong? This society needs adults to build it.

Sometimes, children are the most terrifying. They are young, unaware of right and wrong, unable to distinguish good from evil, and ignorant of adults' sense of propriety and choices.

"It sounds like I've misunderstood you?"

"The misunderstanding is cleared up. Nono paid an assassin to get rid of me, but I absolutely cannot hurt Nono."

Mr. Li, if you understand the hardships and love of an elderly father, please let Nuonuo go home.

I love her; she is my most beloved daughter.

I will send someone to pick her up.

"Pick you up, my foot!"

Lu Mingfei's phone was snatched away, and Nuonuo shouted loudly into the phone before throwing it violently downstairs.

"Holy crap! Someone's throwing things from a high place!" Lu Mingfei yelled, flipped over, and jumped off the rooftop.

Nono was left standing there, stunned.

She never expected Lu Mingfei to jump off the building; it was the seventeenth floor!

Chapter 173 Perhaps Lu Mingfei can really become Nuonuo's father?

A gust of wind blew by, and Nuonuo came back to her senses, quickly looking down.

Nothing.

There was grass downstairs, and Nuonuo guessed that Lu Mingfei had fallen into the grass. She turned around and was about to run downstairs, looking flustered.

Reality is reality; a leap of faith can really kill someone.

Uncle, please don't die!

It's all my fault, I didn't mean to hurt you...

When Nuonuo placed her hand on the doorknob of the door leading to the rooftop, the door suddenly opened inward. She looked up and saw Lu Mingfei holding a cell phone.

"It is very impolite to throw other people's things around, and throwing objects from high-rise buildings is an even more serious crime."

"Forget about hitting someone, what if it hits a wild khaki...and breaks my phone?" Lu Mingfei said, somewhat angrily.

According to Galileo's experiment with the iron tower and the iron ball, objects fall with equal acceleration. In other words, if Lu Mingfei is half a beat slower than the phone, then he will never catch up with the phone.

But are the laws of physics the only standard?

Lord Bull is turning in his grave long ago.

So Lu Mingfei successfully protected his phone and quickly ran back upstairs.

People downstairs looked up and saw a dark shadow flash by, assuming it was just the glare of the sunlight.

Lu Mingfei felt it was necessary to properly educate Nuonuo. This child was too daring, acted without considering the consequences, and was reckless; she would get into trouble sooner or later.

"Nono, I really have lost control of you..."

Lu Mingfei had just begun his rambling when he felt the little beast's attack, and Nuonuo buried her face in his stomach and cried.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. I'm so glad you're not dead..."

Upon hearing this, Lu Mingfei's expression softened slightly. He patted Nuonuo's head and said gently, "To avoid punishment, you can cry within ten seconds? Hakino, are you a child prodigy?"

Nono: ...?

Ten minutes later, inside the rented room.

Lu Mingfei sat on the sofa with his legs crossed. Nuo Xiaomei stood in front of him with her head down and didn't say a word. She was quiet and reserved, rarely showing her usual obedient nature.

"Nono, do you have anything else to say?" Lu Mingfei asked expressionlessly.

Nuonuo looked up at Lu Mingfei with a guilty expression and her eyes were still red. She closed her eyes and said, "I have to take responsibility for my actions. I was wrong this time... I have nothing more to say. Please do it quickly."

“Fine, I’ll grant your wish. Hold out your hand,” Lu Mingfei said in a deep voice.

Nono stretched out her right hand, but then remembered that she needed to use her right hand to eat with chopsticks that evening, so she withdrew it and used her left hand instead.

Lu Mingfei didn't hold back either, using his own hand as a ruler to slap Nuonuo's little palms.

Nono gritted her teeth and endured the pain.

For some reason, Lu Mingfei's slaps hurt more than the ruler, but Nuonuo was a strong-willed woman. She had already lost her composure by crying in front of Lu Mingfei, and she absolutely could not let it happen again.

After twenty strokes, Nuonuo's palms were completely red, but she didn't utter a sound, showing great backbone.

"This will not be repeated."

"Ow."

Seeing that Nuonuo seemed to know she had made a mistake and had been punished, Lu Mingfei stopped keeping a stern face and pulled her to sit next to him.

"Hi~"

Nuonuo suspected that Lu Mingfei was doing it on purpose, deliberately pulling her swollen little hand.

But she was in the wrong first, so she didn't argue back, but instead pushed him away and ran out of the house.

She's already run away from home, her second time running away. Where could she go? Where is her home anymore?

"Does it hurt?" Lu Mingfei asked softly. "Let me check."

"It doesn't hurt, I don't need it," Nono said calmly.

"Then are you blaming me?"

“Why should I blame you, Uncle? Although I’m a bit naughty and disrespectful to you sometimes, I know right from wrong, good from evil. Doing something wrong is doing something wrong,” Nuonuo emphasized.

Upon hearing this, Lu Mingfei understood that Nuonuo was refuting Chen Chen's slander against her over the phone.

"Killing Chen Chen, in your opinion, wasn't doing something wrong?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"...Uncle, are you trying to kick me out?"

Nono whispered, "I can learn to cook and do housework from now on. If you're tired, I'll provide you with a lap pillow. I'll say goodnight to you when we go to sleep at night, and I'll also provide ear cleaning services. If you don't have money, I can go out to work and earn money to support you... Please don't send me away, okay?"

Besides, since you taught me martial arts, you are my master. As the saying goes, "A teacher for a day is a father for life."

I'll take care of you in your old age and see you off when you die, okay? As long as you don't kick me out.

Lu Mingfei was listening to Nuonuo's pleas for mercy, wondering what the difference was between her and Luoli's mother, when in the blink of an eye Nuonuo had become his daughter again.

But Nuonuo's words touched Lu Mingfei's soul. He suddenly realized that becoming a father meant that he would have to take on the responsibilities of cooking, cleaning, and earning money to support the family.