Chapter 3 - Daughter?

Dong Hu was apologizing and explaining something to Liu Feng. However, it could be seen that Liu Feng slapped each side of Dong Hu’s face five times. After the slapping finish, Liu Feng entered into his friend’s car and left.

“How was I to know that Zhang Han, that beggar, would be able to win? I’m sure that I was definitely tricked with that car! Fuck!”

Dong Hu cursed out in rage as he entered the Ford Mustang and stepped on the pedal.

“Vroom!”

The Ford Mustang surged forward at a high speed. But when Dong Hu stepped onto the brake, he discovered that the brake of the car was indeed not working.

Looking at the precipitous mountain slope that he was getting closer and closer to, Dong Hu’s face turned deathly pale as his pupils contracted.

The harsh sound of a car flipping resounded throughout the mountain area. People who were leaving looked over to where the noise came from.

A sneer appeared on the corner of Zhang Han’s mouth as he started the Ferrari back up and slowly drove away from the mountain.

Right now, Zhang Han was currently living in a shabby apartment building at Shangjing City’s Wuhuan road. On the journey towards the apartment, Zhang Han began to ponder.

“As of now, I do not have even a trace of qi and I am currently not able to use any divine techniques that I’ve learned. Basically, I am but a mere mortal right now.”

“My spatial ring is gone too!” There was a bit of pain in Zhang Han’s heart. “The powers that I have collected for 500 years are all gone!”

“Wretched Ninth Heaven Thunder God, since you made me rebirth as myself again, why didn’t you at least give me some powers too?”

Zhang Han grumbled to himself for a while, took a breath, then stopped thinking about it. This was just how he was. Open-minded and optimistic, he would not dwell on a matter for too long. Of course, he had his limits. If he so chose, Zhang Han would seize on a matter and never let go. After all, he wouldn’t have remained in Shangjing City for five years when he was kicked out of the family.

“Do I still have any other powers?”

Zhang Han began to ponder. The number of powers he once had was beyond measure, even to the point that he could not remember how many powers he possessed.

Suddenly, Zhang Han’s eyes lit up and he quickly raised his head as he moved his hand towards his left ear.

After digging his left ear for a while, he pulled out a half inch long thin needle .

The needle tip’s entire body was crystal white, like an immortal jade. Looking at it, Zhang Han’s eyes filled with excitement.

“Ninth Heaven Thunder God, seems like you actually left me with a power! Thunder-Yang Tree and a few seeds. These are exactly the things I need to get some power!”

[The 'Yang' of Thunder-'Yang' Tree is the 'yang' of yin and yang.]

In the Divine World, Thunder-Yang Tree was also a relatively rare treasure. Its abilities were very formidable. Not only was it an energy source capable of acting like spiritual medicinal herbs, it could also grow some Thunder-Yang Wood. Thunder-Yang Wood was a kind of wood which was necessary for a lot of medicinal pills. Even if a person didn’t ingest the wood, they could directly absorb the wood’s energy. The energy of the wood itself would enable the person to reach the Xiantian Realm in an instant.

Zhang Han thought to himself:

“However, Thunder-Yang Tree is only able to grow Thunder-Yang Wood once every hundred years. Right before I rebirthed and was undergoing the Heavenly Tribulation, I remembered that it was about to grow out Thunder-Yang Wood. So, it should take about five years for the Thunder-Yang Wood to grow out.”

Zhang Han shook his head, “Forget that. No matter how long it takes, the first thing I have to do is to find a good place to plant the Thunder-Yang Tree and absorb it’s energy . After absorbing the energy, I will be able to reach Qi Refining Realm. At that point, I will be able to use my Treasure Smelling Nose. Adding to those seeds that I placed within the Thunder-Yang Tree, my future seems bright!”

Thinking about it, Zhang Han could not help but start laughing.

The sound of Zhang Han’s laughter woke up the little princess.

She rubbed her eyes and looked at Zhang Han as she said in a sweet voice,

“Daddy, I’m hungry.”

Zhang Han’s laughter came to a halt as he turned his head to look at the little girl. For a moment, he had actually forgotten about this little girl.

“Little girl, I am not your father. We are about to reach my house. I will find something for you to eat later,” Zhang Han said as he sneered.

Upon hearing that, the little princess looked as if she had been horribly wronged. She wanted to say something, but at the same time did not dare talk. She did not understand why her daddy had just said that he was not her daddy.

With the Ferrari parked below the old apartment, there was a kind of dissonance when viewed by passers-by. He carried the little girl upstairs. Entering his room, he noticed that the furniture was old and shabby, and the room was in a mess. Only the small blanket on the bed and the pink suitcase beside it were new.

Zhang Han’s brows twitched. Sitting down on the sofa, he placed the little princess on the coffee table in front of him and examined her in detail.

The little girl’s face was exquisite. She had pretty brows, small and delicate nose, big lustrous eyes, cherry lips which were as thin as a willow leaf and the adorableness and gracefulness of a princess. However, her five sense organs did not have Zhang Han’s masculinity.

[Five sense organs refers to nose, eyes, lips, tongue, and ears.]

Perhaps that was a good thing.

“Is this really my daughter? That can’t be right,” Zhang Han mumbled to himself, when all of a sudden, a tearing pain bubbled forth in his mind.

Twenty years of memories came tumbling out!

At this moment, Zhang Han also understood everything. It turns out that when those 500 years of divine memories rushed into this body of his, it suppressed the twenty years of memories of his body.

After absorbing the twenty years of memories of this current life of his, Zhang Han was somewhat stupefied.

Why did the course of development change in this life?

In his previous life, his parents and sister met with an aviation accident and died. But right now, within his memories, his parents had disappeared bizarrely five years ago; his second uncle, Zhang Ming, still hated his entire family; his sister ran away from home and her whereabouts were unknown. His sister, however, would transfer money to him every month. And as for himself, he was still chased out of Zhang Family by Zhang Ming just like in his previous life.

“Could this be god giving me a chance to make up for my mistakes?”

Joy could be seen in Zhang Han’s eyes.

Zhang Han also became aware of the origin of this little girl in front of him.

Her mother was called Zi Yan. Zhang Han was not familiar with her and only knew that she was a celebrity who had once starred in quite a few box-office movies. Five years ago, when Zi Yan was about to reach the peak of her career, Zhang Han had just fallen into the abyss from the peak of his hedonistic life.

After what that could be counted as a matter of a hero saving a beauty, the two of them slept together. However, who would have thought that the ‘bullet’ that was shot out would be so accurate? Who would have even predicted that Zi Yan would retire right when she was about to reach the peak of her career to hide in North America and give birth to the little princess that was currently in front of Zhang Han.

Right when this little princess was about to reach her fourth year, she began saying that she wanted her father. At that time, Zi Yan had the intention to come out of retirement and back into the entertainment industry, and so she returned to China.

Upon reaching China, Zi Yan brought the little princess to this shabby apartment and gave the little princess seven days to stay with Zhang Han. Perhaps, Zi Yan was also trying to get the little princess to give up on this loser father of hers.

When Zhang Han and Zi Yan met, because of Zi Yan’s indifference, his pride flared up and they had a big quarrel. In the end, Zi Yan cursed him out and left, while Zhang Han thought to himself, “The so-called Celebrities are nothing but a bunch of actors or actresses. Why the hell does she put on such airs?” Of course, this was Zhang Han’s opinion before his rebirth.

Today was his third day with the little girl.

After confirming that the little girl was indeed his own daughter, Zhang Han’s attitude changed. He stared in a daze at the little girl and mumbled with grief:

“A girl?”

“God, are you playing a joke on me? How am I going to pass on my legacy if my child isn’t a boy?”

In a moment, emotions surged up in him as he gloomily picked up a cigarette that was on the coffee table, lit it up and took a deep inhale with the cigarette.

The little princess started coughing.

This caused Zhang Han to a pause. Although he wanted a son to carry on his legacy, this little girl was, in the end, his own daughter. Zhang Han sighed as he extinguished the cigarette and stood up to go get a cup of milk for the little girl to drink.

“Thank you, daddy,” The little princess said timidly.

Looking at his daughter’s shy look, Zhang Han sighed once again. If this was a boy, he would have said, “Dad, I am hungry. Don’t laze around and quickly get a cup of milk for me.”

Instead his daughter was too shy and delicate to say anything.

However, as quickly as those emotions came, they disappeared. As Zhang Han was watching the little girl gracefully drinking milk, unknowingly, a trace of tenderness appeared in his expression.

Having finished drinking the milk, the little girl placed the baby bottle onto the coffee table, then stretched out both of her slim and tiny arms while speaking in a cute voice:

“Daddy, hug hug.”

Zhang Han carried her in his arms and the little girl let out a shy smile as she said happily:

“Daddy? You are my hero. I love you.”

The little girl did not mind that her father was slovenly and kissed Zhang Han’s cheeks.

Zhang Han’s heart melted.

This kiss made Zhang Han feel a warm and tenderness which he had not felt for a very long time.

It filled the hollowness of Zhang Han’s five hundred years of loneliness.

“I finally have a child! And so what if it’s daughter? Isn’t it said that a daughter’s love is like a goose down jacket in winter, right?”

Zhang Han began to laugh heartily.

Although the little princess within his arms did not know why her daddy laughed, seeing him laugh made her laugh too.

In a moment, the room was filled with laughter and comfort.

“Daughter, did your mother give you a name?” Zhang Han asked gently.

“Yes, mommy already gave me a name…” The little princess raised her hand and pointed to herself as she spoke in a cute voice, “I am…am called Emily.”

After hearing this, the smile on Zhang Han’s face immediately disappeared. Even the muscles at the corner of his eyes could be seen twitching, revealing out just how unhappy he felt right now.

“Emily?” Zhang Han said, “This woman is too cruel!”

That his daughter was not surnamed Zhang…Well… Just what was the meaning of this?

“Daddy……” Seeing Zhang Han’s expression, the little princess thought that he was angry at her and tears filled her eyes.

“Hey, hey, hey. Don’t cry, don’t cry, daddy is not talking about you,” Zhang Han said.

“Daddy, don’t be angry……” The little princess said timidly.

Zhang Han shook his head and said, “Daddy just felt that your name is not good. Let’s pick a new name for you instead, okay?”

“All right, all right!” Seeing that her daddy was not angry at her and was even going to pick a new name for her, the little princess became happy once again.

“You should be called……” Zhang Han pondered, and in less than two seconds, he looked towards the little princess within his arms and said, “You should be called Zhang Yumeng, and your pet name should be Meng Meng. What do you think? Do you like that name?”

Zhang Han looked at the little princess with a look of anticipation.

However, the little princess in his arms hesitated.

“But, but I still prefer Emily. That is the name mommy picked for me.”

Zhang Han expression stiffed up as he said solemnly, “That won’t do!”

But his solemn expression caused the little princess’s expression to change and it could be seen that tears were about to burst out from her eyes anytime soon.

Upon seeing that, Zhang Han immediately changed his tone and said in a gentle voice, “My little darling……”