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Chapter 974 - 974 948 Beauty's Thoughts!

974: Chapter 948: Beauty’s Thoughts!

Unbearable!

974: Chapter 948: Beauty’s Thoughts!

Unbearable!

Tang Xiao abruptly changed the subject and suddenly asked,

“By the way, before you formatted it, did you really never watch the videos inside?”

“What’s there to watch?

Just your videos of crying and acting coquettishly, what’s so good about that?”

Chu Yunxuan retorted with deliberate disdain.

“Fine, fine!

As long as they’re gone, that’s good, that’s good!”

Tang Xiao leisurely walked over to the washstand, intently admiring her reflection in the mirror.

Chu Yunxuan glanced over and chuckled,

“What’s the matter?

Stunned by your own supreme beauty?”

“Pfft!”

Tang Xiao looked left and right in the mirror, murmuring to herself with a sigh,

“I was just thinking, how wonderful it would be if I could maintain this youth and beauty forever!”

“Sadly, time spares no one.

We will all grow old eventually, sooner or later we’ll become haggard and no longer beautiful and charming!”

Chu Yunxuan let out a light laugh, washing her hands as she said,

“With proper care, you can maintain your elegance and beauty until your fifties or sixties, just like the older generations of actresses who still don’t show their age.

There are plenty of them, and you and I aren’t even thirty yet, what’s the rush?”

“Besides, you also have Jie, who is so skilled in medicine, right?

He even developed something as amazing as the Detox Pill.

You could ask him to try developing medicine for beauty and skin care to keep you forever young!”

Tang Xiao shook her head slightly and sighed,

“Do you think I don’t want that?

Do you think I haven’t asked?

It’s no use!”

“Why is it that even if one lives a lifetime without illness or pain, they still age and die?”

“Isn’t it because all the organs and cells in our bodies are constantly proliferating and dying?”

“When the rate of renewal can’t keep up with the rate of death and decay, life slowly comes to an end.”

Chu Yunxuan smiled and asked, “So you’re saying, within our lifetime, it’s impossible to achieve immortality?”

Tang Xiao turned her head and gave her a cold glance.

“What are you thinking?

Immortality?

Cultivation and becoming an immortal?

Throughout history, have you ever seen anyone immortal, living as long as time itself?”

“Even though today’s medical technology seems very advanced, it still can only delay aging, and in the end, we must all die nonetheless!”

“Jie said that the human body could actually live for two hundred years, but due to various diseases, germs and pollution, people usually only live to seventy or eighty!”

“So, the emergence of the Detox Pill will to some extent increase human lifespan, but it does not mean immortality!”

“The best example is my Old Mr.

Tang; he might be able to live for another twenty or thirty years, but after that, he can’t prolong his life anymore!”

“Unless biomedicine and genetic engineering make major breakthroughs in these twenty to thirty years…”

…

Chu Yunxuan pretended to listen very seriously.

If Tang Xiao was willing to talk about all these, it meant she had completely stopped worrying about the dashcam.

So why not quietly be an audience for a while?

What’s the harm in that?

Moreover…

Tang Xiao just gave her a billion!

With so much money, hiring herself to be an audience for a year or even ten years would be more than adequate.

Of course.

Tang Xiao, as the president of the conglomerate, often deals with top social figures.

Her words were extremely valuable, full of deep meaning.

Take, for instance, the casual topic of life that came up.

Chu Yunxuan could gather quite a bit of useful information from it.

One; Tang’s Pharmaceuticals will continue to expand the production of the Detox Pill, further lowering costs and prices, allowing more ordinary people to benefit.

Though the Detox Pill isn’t a cure-all, it can eliminate toxic substances and harmful bacteria and viruses in the body, thereby greatly improving human health and indirectly achieving the effects of detoxification, beautification, and prolonging life.

But the problem with the Detox Pill is that it can’t cure everything.

So the second piece of useful information is that the research focus of Tang’s Pharmaceuticals will be on diseases that the Detox Pill can’t cure, and they will attempt to make strides in genetic engineering, striving to prolong human life.

The third piece of information is that even Old Mr.

Tang could live for another twenty to thirty years, and that humanity will face a new serious problem—the surplus of the working-age population.

Imagine, those who should be in their sixties or seventies playing with their grandchildren, now only halfway through their lifespan.

Still strong and at the peak of their experience and skills, of course, they can continue to contribute to society, working for another three to four decades.

So if the elderly delay retirement, how will the youth find jobs?

And what about the large number of retirees who are supposed to be enjoying their twilight years?

They won’t die for decades, so what should they do?

Are they supposed to take their grandchildren to and from school every day, then go shopping, cook, and dance in the square?

It might be fine short-term, but to live like that for decades, who could stand it?

The grandchildren should be grown-up by then.

Therefore, Chu Yunxuan estimated that before long, there would be regulations to delay retirement age and encourage the public to start businesses.

The fourth piece of information is that the economy is going to explode.

The significant increase in human lifespan means a boost in social vitality.

In the future, people from twenty to forty-five might be called youths.

From forty-five to ninety would be considered middle-aged, and only after ninety would one be considered elderly.

With the explosive increase in the number of the young and middle-aged, issues like difficulty accessing healthcare and the high cost of medications would almost vanish.

People, untormented by many illnesses, would certainly live more carefree and enjoy life to the fullest.

There would be more newborns, a greater demand for housing, more educational needs, a larger tourism market…

Longevity greatly extended!

Population greatly increased!

The effect that would be truly showcased is an economic explosion.

An economy that is more vibrant, higher house prices, larger cities, more congested traffic…

…

Tang Xiao’s seemingly idle chit-chat, her “nonsense,” was enough to inform Chu Yunxuan about the future trends.

She also knew better about the choices made by the conglomerate in this inevitable trend—to increase investment in scientific research.

The more people there are, the more vibrant the economy, the more high-end technology is needed.

Only then can humans’ growing material and cultural needs be satisfied, and only then can money be earned continuously.

And with such strategic thinking, willing to invest heavily, Tang Xiao and Wu Jie were targeting future markets worth trillions, so what’s compensating Chu Yunxuan a billion?

That’s but a drop in the bucket.

“Alright, I’ve said so much, I should go back now!”

Tang Xiao washed her face.

She always preferred to go without makeup, and even for tonight’s celebration banquet, she did not apply heavy makeup.

After all, naturally born with a beautiful face, she didn’t need makeup at all.

After sending Tang Xiao off, Chu Yunxuan checked her makeup.

She wasn’t heavily made up either, just lightly accented makeup that enhanced her already pretty face to appear more elegant.

However, the ‘performance’ earlier had been a bit too intense.

She had shed quite a few tears, and her makeup was somewhat smeared.

Might as well take off the makeup – barefaced, I’m still a disaster for the country and the people.

Before long, my phone chimed.

A transaction of such a vast sum couldn’t have cleared instantly.

Glancing at the long string of numbers, Chu Yunxuan remained remarkably calm.

“So a billion and a million are really just a string of numbers after all!”

“Money that isn’t spent is not really money; it’s just cold, hard numbers!”

“What use do I have for this billion then?

I’d rather have Jie given to me.”

…

Chu Yunxuan muttered to herself as she removed her makeup.

Back in the banquet hall, Tang Xiao had already put the dashcam incident and the billion-yuan matter out of her mind.

She believed Chu Yunxuan, with whom she’d once had a special relationship, wouldn’t harm her.

And a billion yuan in compensation made her feel she had done right by Chu Yunxuan.

Of course.

During a lull in the festivities, Wu Jie, once he heard about it, was also unconcerned.

Both Chu Yunxuan and Tang Xiao were unlikely to do him any harm.

As for severing ties with Chu Yunxuan and compensating her with a billion…

Wu Jie, long accustomed to Tang Xiao’s spendthrift wife antics, took it all in stride.

Detox Pills were still selling for tens of thousands each, still bringing in hundreds of billions per day.

So, spending a billion was of little consequence.

However, as the banquet ended, Tang Xiao volunteered to drive back to Genlong Village overnight.

Claiming she had to deal with Tianyuan corporate business the next day, she wanted to visit Old Mr.

Tang and her parents before leaving.

Especially Old Mr.

Tang, who had played a significant role in mending their relationship – he certainly deserved a visit.

Seeing Tang Xiao proactively change and start to embrace her family, Wu Jie saw no reason not to support her.

Anyway, Blue Planet had started working at the intelligence center, using supercomputers for vast calculations, large data centers for massive information storage…

and with Phantom overseeing, Wu Jie had little to worry about.

…

Around eight o’clock that night.

The couple returned home unexpectedly, without prior notice.

Tang Long and Wu Jianguo were playing cards with Old Mr.

Tang, while Liao Lan was busy with needlework.

Tang Xiao hadn’t even become pregnant yet, and she had already started preparing baby clothes and shoes.

Her eagerness to hold a grandchild was quite evident.

Seeing the young couple walk in hand in hand, Tang Pingde and father and son Tang Long couldn’t help but exchange smiles.

Now that they were reconciled, it was naturally time for a family meeting.

The sole key topic of the meeting was pregnancy.

Now that it was golden October, if she could conceive by year’s end, by next National Day, Tang Long and the others could be playing with their grandchild.

If such fertility pressure had been applied in the past, Tang Xiao would surely have objected.

But now…

A maternal glow flickered in her beautiful eyes.

She knew she had made mistakes, that their renewed relationship was hard-won, and that she was still under scrutiny.

If her performance in apology fell short, it would be irrevocable.

And the best way to completely bind Wu Jie to her was to bear him a child.

So…

Tang Xiao, altering her previous evasiveness, actively engaged in the conversation.

It wasn’t long before they were even drafting several names for the child.

Wu Jie’s task was formidable.

Two children weren’t enough – he had to father at least three, ideally four.

As for the fines for exceeding China’s birth limits…

What’s the problem with that?

They had so much money they couldn’t spend it all; they could afford to pay even a hundred billion yuan fine per extra child.

So that evening, Wu Jie knew there wouldn’t be any peace after the gathering.

Back on the fourth floor, their private sanctuary, as soon as the door was closed, Tang Xiao began her persuasive tactics.

She knew that whether or not she could become pregnant was entirely up to Wu Jie.

The reason she hadn’t conceived before was that Wu Jie had employed medical measures to prevent it, otherwise, she would have been visibly pregnant long ago.

Now that she wanted to conceive, she needed Wu Jie’s approval.

In deep autumn, Genlong Village was already freezing cold, the wind howling.

After closing doors and windows and drawing the curtains, the pool was filled with hot water.

Warm as spring, blissfully content.

…

The next day.

Wu Jie was sleeping soundly when he heard knocking at the door.

Groggily, he donned a robe and opened the door to find his mother with two big bowls of fried eggs.

Taking them back to the bedroom, he woke Tang Xiao to eat her fill before continuing their rest.

He had thought that after lunch Tang Xiao would set off for Jiahuan City Airport, but she stubbornly refused to leave.

Insisting on making chicken soup then and there, they had no choice but to return to their room and sleep away the afternoon until it grew dark.

At night, another of the family’s hens was sacrificed to make nutritious soup for the couple.

And his father had even poured Wu Jie a glass of Tiger Wine, purported to be very strengthening, with the ability to ensure the birth of a boy.

For the next two days, various pretexts kept them at home, and they were indulged with all manner of nourishing foods.

Goodness!

The whole family acted as if they were running a breeding program.

They were pampered with great care, as if they wanted to lock Wu Jie and his wife away in a room.

But this soon became too much, not just for Tang Xiao, but Wu Jie felt overwhelmed as well.

What had originally been a pleasant matter turned sour; who wouldn’t grow tired of it?

After another two days, Tang Xiao claimed the urgent need to attend to corporate matters and to undergo a comprehensive pre-pregnancy check-up, and finally, they let her go.

Wu Jie was sick of it too, feeling that he could be even more detached than an enlightened monk.

At the airport, he bade Tang Xiao farewell and reminded her to take her medicine daily to stay healthy.

Wu Jie returned to the Science Research City, ready to immerse himself in work for a few days.

But at the critical moment, Chu Yunxuan laid her cards on the table…