Best Friends

Two sports cars quickly entered the villa's courtyard before stopping in front of it, one black and one pink. A young man with short black hair, wearing a long-sleeved black shirt, got out of the black one. His build is almost the same as Eddie's but slightly shorter, and he is more casual.

A young blonde woman gracefully gets off the pink sports car. She looked young and attractive with short bangs covering her forehead, and her appearance was quite sexy with a sleeveless red cotton dress wrapping her tall but slightly plump body, which was combined with a short black skirt, long black stockings, and red high heels.

Eddie and Natasha walked out from the building side by side, and both of them were wearing formal clothes to attend tonight's event.

"Yo! Ed! Why are you wearing such formal attire?" Jordan inquired as he pulled his girlfriend over to them, but both of them were taken aback by Eddie's level of cultivation. "When did you break through to the foundation realm?"

"This morning." Eddie answered briefly. "What is the real purpose of tonight's event?"

"The new ruin on the border with Russia." Eddie raised an eyebrow. "According to my sources, the ruin is not the usual one. They heard many beast sounds coming from it, so we might face many fierce beasts inside."

"Beasts, eh?" Eddie muttered while nodding. "I have decided that I will join all of you to challenge the ruin."

"Are you sure about that?" Jordan seriously asked. "Your cultivation has just broken through to the foundation realm, and the minimum requirement to enter the ruin is the tempering realm. We don't know what kind of beasts we will face inside, and it will be too dangerous for you."

"Nath, you have to stop Eddie, or he'll get hurt." Jordan's girlfriend spoke to Natasha.

Natasha helplessly shook her head. "Leah, you yourself have known Eddie for a long time, so you should already know his character. Once he has decided something, he will never change his mind again. By the way, you two don't need to worry about him; he can protect himself, and you guys will be surprised to see his fighting ability."

"Nath, I never doubted Eddie's fighting abilities, but the beasts in the ruins are a different story, and—"

"Stop talking and leave now." Eddie pulled Natasha into both sports cars. "You will see my changes after we enter the ruin, and I will not lose to them."

Jordan couldn't help but sigh hearing that, and he immediately left with Eddie. Meanwhile, Leah and Natasha drive the pink sports car.

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"What do you think about them?" Jordan asked Eddie, who propped his head on the car door and stared ahead.

"Don't mention them in front of me; I don't care about them." Eddie changed the topic directly. "Will cultivators from other countries attend tonight's event?"

Jordan nodded. "Some of them have arrived this afternoon, and some others will arrive tomorrow morning. After they rest for a day, we will leave for the ruins."

"Which of them has arrived?" Jordan immediately explained to Eddie the identities of the young cultivators who had arrived and would attend tonight's event. "Felix Lerch from Germany is the strongest among them, right?"

"That's right." Jordan answered him with a nod. "Felix Lerch came with his girlfriend, Eva Feulner. Their cultivation has reached the perfection stage of the tempering realm, and they will break through to the forming realm soon. Nicholas Grant and Aleena Mitchell from England are no less strong than them, and they have deadly combined techniques. There are many other young cultivators who will come and join the expedition this time, but America, the Netherlands, and France are absent because other ruins have appeared in their countries."

Eddie turned to his best friend with a raised eyebrow. "What actually happened? This is the first time four ruins have appeared at the same time, right?"

"I feel that their simultaneous appearance is truly unusual, and senior cultivators from all countries are investigating this matter now." Eddie fell into a daze after hearing that, and he felt that the appearance of the four ruins had something to do with the appearance of the golden-haired woman. "So, when are you going to marry Natasha, Ed?"

Eddie smiled before telling his best friend. "I have proposed to Nath, and she has agreed to marry me. I still have to convince her parents, but I have to reach her level first. When I succeed in reaching that level, I will go to see her parents to officially propose to her."

"Aunt Gracia is considering matching Nath with your half-brother, Jamie Lie." Eddie's face instantly darkened after Jordan said that. "She contacted me this afternoon and asked about Michael Lie's past, but I didn't say anything to her."

"Did Nath tell her mother about them?"

"Yes."

"Will their children attend this event?"

"Jamie and Yuning will not be attending the event as they will join their parents for dinner with Nath's parents." Eddie nodded slightly to Jordan. "However, your half-sister from your mother will attend it, so you will meet her later. Nathalie Kho is quite pretty and sociable, and her cultivation is relatively fast. She is only 20 years old, but her cultivation has already reached the tempering realm."

Eddie said nothing, as he was not interested in his half-siblings from his biological parents. He then activated the system and asked. "Did you notice anything unusual about me?"

Jordan briefly glanced at him before shaking his head. "What do you mean by something unusual about you?"

"Nothing." Eddie was still confused about how Natasha could see the system. 'Since Jordan can't see these screens, maybe it's true that Nath can see them because she is registered as my lover.'

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"Did Eddie really propose to you, Nath?"

"See this ring?" Natasha showed Leah the diamond ring on her left ring finger. "I was surprised at first, but I'm happy because he finally proposed to me. Unfortunately, he's too stubborn, and he doesn't want to marry me before he gets my parents' blessing."

"Haha." Leah softly laughed. "Eddie's always been like that, right? He knows what it's like to be abandoned by his biological parents, so he doesn't want you to experience the same thing, and he wants to convince your parents for your happiness."

"You're right." Natasha then asked her. "How is your relationship with Jordan? Have you two thoughts about getting married?"

Leah actually sighed. "Nath, you know Jordan's character, and he's not a serious guy like Eddie. I know he loves me because we've been dating for six years, but he still hasn't thought about marrying me."

"Have you asked him directly about this matter?"

"A few times." Leah sighed again. "Every time I talk to him about marriage, he constantly changes the subject. His parents have helped me talk to him, but he doesn't seem to want to get married yet, so I decided to let the issue slide and wait for him to be ready."

Natasha nodded in understanding. "Jordan always listens to Eddie, so he should be able to convince him to marry you."

"No need." Leah refused outright. "There's no point in forcing Jordan if he's not ready, and it's fine for me to wait for him to be ready. By the way, Nathalie Kho will be attending this event, and I can't wait to see Eddie's reaction to meeting his half-sister for the first time."

Natasha was curious about that, but she fully understood her lover's character. "For Eddie, the Chen family is his true family, and he doesn't care about his biological parents or siblings, so you won't see any reaction from him when he meets Nathalie Kho later."

"Yeah, you're right."

Natasha looked at the black sports car in front of them before continuing. "I hope Eddie will be willing to accept his parents, especially his mother. Vivian Zhang was indeed wrong to abandon him at the Chen family's doorstep, but she had no other choice at that time. She was too young, and her family was poor. If she didn't leave him, he would definitely suffer or even die."

"If Vivian Zhang hadn't abandoned Eddie there, you two would never have met, let alone become love birds." Leah spoke with a teasing tone.

Natasha smiled and nodded at her. "I'm grateful to Vivian Zhang because she abandoned Eddie, and I got a boyfriend who loves me so much because of her, so I hope he is willing to forgive and accept her."

"I hope so, but we can't force Eddie, right?" Leah suddenly got an idea and conveyed it to Natasha directly. "What do you think about that?"

Natasha thought for a moment. "I believe we can accomplish it, but we must act in secrecy to prevent Eddie from discovering our plan."

"You can accompany Eddie, and I will talk to Nathalie Kho so he won't find out about our plan."

"All right."

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"What are you reading, wife?" A man in his early fifties asked Gracia Wen.

"These are reports on Michael Lie's past." Gracia showed the documents in her hands to her husband, Steven Tan. "I didn't believe it at first after hearing about this matter from Nath and Jordan, so I asked our people to investigate it. He used to have a relationship with Vivian Zhang, and they had a son. However, he left her to marry Selena Yep, but unfortunately, there is no information about the identity of their son."

Steven immediately read the documents. "Are you investigating this matter because of Jamie and Nath?"

"Yes." Gracia nodded. "I want Nath to marry Jamie, but it doesn't seem possible. Our daughter already has a bad impression of Michael, and she will never accept his son."

*Ting Ting*

Hearing the sound of the bell, Steven closed all the documents. "It has to be Michael and his family, so we'll talk about this again later."

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