She hadn’t expected him to say that, feeling a sense of awkwardness at having her secret exposed, and reflexively retorted, "I didn’t."
Su Jinnian rely glanced at her: "You’d better not have. Move out as soon as possible, or I’ll educate you and him with the reality of blood."
What reality of blood?
Su Xingyu’s heart skipped a beat, startled by the murderous intent in his words. The teenager in the white shirt ntioned "blood" as casually as if discussing the weather, indifferent, as if crushing a tiny ant.
She knew it was impossible. An entity like the Blade Group wasn’t sothing a tiny ant could compare to. The boy, be it concerning Blade, Lu Shifeng, or Lu Shifeng’s woman, trying anything against him was like a mayfly trying to shake a tree. Yet, sohow, his voice carried a kind of composure as if he was in control of everything, making her heart tremble like thin ice.
She looked at her brother, nervously saying, "Don’t act recklessly, don’t do anything illegal."
The youth’s lips curled into a twisted smile, resembling pale flower petals, as he looked at his sister, "Are you worried about him? Or about ?"
Su Xingyu grew even more anxious, "What exactly do you do? Jinnian, where have you been all these years, how co there’s been no news at all? Is the money you earn... is it clean?" She could no longer believe he earned it by any legal ans. Ever since marrying Lu Shifeng, she knew every prominent family in the Chinese circle, even though she might forget so smaller powers, but she rembered those capable of threatening the Lu Family’s level.
There was no one nad Su Jinnian among them.
So there was only one possibility left: his money and power ca through illegal ans. If he walked the dark path, whether he could threaten Lu Shifeng was hard to say.
The word "blood" was too arrogant, too terrifying.
Yet Su Jinnian continued to smile, looking quiet and delicate, like a beautiful boy not yet out of school.
He gave his sister a brief glance, said nothing more, stood up, and left the café.
"Hey!" Watching her brother leave, Su Xingyu couldn’t help but call out, but the youth didn’t turn back, his frail figure quickly disappearing amidst the traffic outside the glass doors.
Su Xingyu, laden with worry, picked up the black card he’d left on the table and went to the bank ATM on the street corner to check it. She found it was an advanced card without a password, usable by anyone. The amount inside was astronomical to her, she had to count several tis to get it right.
All in U.S. dollars.
He was being modest, how could this money only ensure her and Han’s lifeti of comfort? This could sustain her and Han’s lifetis, next lifetis, and even the ones after that, enough to squander mountains of gold and silver!
The figures inside the card shook her to her core, and she returned ho with even more unease than before.
Mrs. Gui t her in the living room, brewing a cup of Mingqian Longjing tea, smiling as she said, "Madam, this is this year’s new tea, please try it."
Su Xingyu, distracted, took a sip and asked, "Where is Lu Shifeng?"
Mrs. Gui said, "The young master has been very busy recently, he will probably be ho late today as well. Just now, the driver called to say not to wait for him for dinner."
Su Xingyu nodded. Ever since the "Fengyu" cara he specially made for her was released, he had been very busy every day. At first, Su Xingyu thought he was busy updating the caras under his company and introducing models with new technology to the market. But later, she realized sothing was off. The cara product line of Blade Group didn’t account for a large part of the entire group’s industry, not enough to keep him so busy.
What exactly was he busy with?
She did not ask; after all, besides the cara line, she knew nothing about the other industries of Blade Group.
She stayed ho, had dinner with Han and Jue, and after playing with the children for a while, was still restless, her brother Su Jinnian’s words continuously echoing in her mind, along with his expression when he said "blood," indifferent, as if life and death were nothing but dust.
Preoccupied, she put Han and Jue to bed early.
But she couldn’t sleep, huddled under a blanket on the living room sofa waiting for Lu Shifeng.
Late at night, Lu Shifeng returned ho.
Seeing the dust-covered him, she was surprised; since falling out four years ago, she had never waited on the sofa for him to co ho. Today, what was up?
"Xingyu?" He called her softly.
Seeing him, she stood up from the sofa, and the instant their eyes t, mories of four years ago surged back. Back then, newly married, she tread carefully, forced to comply with his tyrannical ways, having to wait for him each night, helpt him out of his coat, acting every inch the submissive wife.
But those things, she hadn’t done for a long ti.
Feeling sowhat awkward and not knowing why, she stood there, unsure of what to do.
But he removed his coat himself, loosened his tie, and then walked over to her, "What’s up, waiting for for sothing?"
"...Mm." She nodded lightly, not knowing where to start, organized her thoughts, and then asked, "If I told you I have a twin brother, would you be surprised?"
Lu Shifeng’s expression changed: "Su Jinnian? He has been to see you?"
Su Xingyu widened her eyes in surprise, looking up at him, "How do you know? You know him? You know he’s my brother?"
A barrage of questions caused Lu Shifeng’s expression to grow serious.
He said, "I was planning to talk with you about this in so ti, but since you know, we might as well chat now. Xingyu, you have a twin brother. I’ve already sent soone to verify this, and also inquired your biological father, Su Zhongxiao. Indeed, you are twins. This brother of yours is a dangerous person."
A dangerous person?
Unexpectedly, she thought of her brother’s pale face with a faint, indifferent smile, like any casual, carefree beautiful boy from any school. How dangerous could soone like him be?
She looked puzzledly at Lu Shifeng, waiting for him to continue.
Lu Shifeng did continue, "When you were five, the sa year the Mu Family went bankrupt, your grandfather falsely claid to the outside world that your brother had died, secretly sending him to the United States to be raised by a friend of his. This friend of your grandfather is a financial giant on Wall Street, a Las Vegas gambling king, a capital tycoon, and a legend in the making. Your brother grew up under his careful upbringing, outshining the master, becoming a young financial wizard on Wall Street, making everyone tremble with fear. He has a nickna, which you might not have heard before—’Assassin.’
"Assassin?" Su Xingyu felt her heart tighten, recalling her brother’s indifferent eyes.
Lu Shifeng said, "The world of capital is arguably the most bloodthirsty in the world, creating instant millionaires overnight or causing bankrupt suicides the next. Your brother, at the age of fourteen..."
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