Chapter 77: Chapter 76 Jealousy in the Heart
After Mrs. Jiang left, Su Qingxue was alone in the hotel. Just then, Ye Langfeng appeared.
"Miss Su!" he said with a smile.
"It’s you!" Su Qingxue panicked; she hadn’t expected him to show up.
Ye Langfeng said, "Aren’t you happy to see , Miss Su? I just want to co into your room and... talk about life!"
"I’m not interested! Get lost!" Su Qingxue snapped.
Ye Langfeng sneered, "No one refuses . How dare you? Since you insist on being shaless, I’ll teach you today what it ans to take sothing by force!"
He imdiately lunged at Su Qingxue. This was in the hotel corridor—his actions were utterly reckless.
Terrified, Su Qingxue was about to scream for help when a large hand shot out, grabbing Ye Langfeng’s wrist and stopping him in his tracks.
The newcor was Ye Fan. He had just returned from another hotel and couldn’t believe this was happening. Soone dares to take advantage of my woman? Isn’t he courting death?
Ye Langfeng barked, "Let go of , or Laozi will make sure you never leave Shangjing!"
"Is that so?"
Ye Fan kicked out, sending Ye Langfeng crashing into the wall. He crumpled, grimacing in pain.
Ye Fan stepped forward, grabbed him by the hair, and snarled, "If this were a deserted place, I would have already sent you to the Western Heaven for daring to touch my woman!"
Su Qingxue stepped forward. "Ye Fan, let it go. He’s Mrs. Jiang’s son. Let’s just give Mrs. Jiang so face and let him go."
Hearing this, Ye Fan sneered at Ye Langfeng. "Consider this
giving her face. Now, scram!"
Ye Langfeng struggled to his feet. "Fine," he said to Ye Fan, "just you wait. You’ll see how I deal with you. And you," he spat at Su Qingxue, "don’t think you can act all high and mighty just because you’re my mother’s guest. The Shangjing Ye Family will never cooperate with you!"
"That’s not for you to decide," Su Qingxue said coldly.
"Just you wait! Don’t you dare leave this hotel!" With that, he turned and fled.
Then, Su Qingxue said, "Ye Fan, let’s leave this hotel."
"Why?" Ye Fan asked.
"I know you aren’t afraid of trouble," she said, her voice tinged with frustration, "but it’s better to avoid contemptible people like him if we can."
"Alright," Ye Fan said. "Let’s go to the Huayu Hotel. I’ll call that old fox Walker; he can ensure your safety there."
"Okay," Su Qingxue nodded.
Actually, Ye Fan was sighing in relief. Su Qingxue hadn’t asked him about last night! If she had, he knew he would be dead for sure, even if the mory was wonderful. He figured an opportunity like that only ca once in a lifeti. It was a night worth cherishing and dreaming about.
Ye Langfeng was furious. In a place like Shangjing, he was sobody with a reputation, yet he had been beaten. As a man, how could he endure such humiliation? He imdiately went to find his mother, Mrs. Jiang.
He said to her, "Mom, I was beaten."
"By whom?" Mrs. Jiang asked, bewildered. Her son could be a bit spineless, but they had always spoiled him, which made him arrogant. Still, who in all of Shangjing would dare to hit her son?
Ye Langfeng explained, "It was that Miss Su you’re doing business with. I like her, so I was pursuing her, and her bodyguard hit !"
Mrs. Jiang’s initial fury quickly vanished. She couldn’t afford to be angry about this. "Do not provoke her," she said sternly.
"Why not? Mom, you shouldn’t be doing business with people like her! And we can’t let this go. Our Ye Family has a reputation in Shangjing. If word gets out, we’ll be a laughingstock!" Ye Langfeng complained.
"This is an order. Don’t ask why." Her tone was indisputable. Her feelings were complicated. Her eldest son had beaten her youngest, and neither of them knew the truth. She had no intention of telling them.
"Fine! If you won’t stand up for , I’ll handle it myself!" Ye Langfeng said angrily.
SLAP!
Mrs. Jiang struck him across the face. Ye Langfeng crumbled instantly. His mother, who had always doted on him, had actually hit him.
Mrs. Jiang said again, "I will say this one last ti. I usually let your arrogance slide, but if you dare to cause trouble over this, don’t bla
for being ruthless!"
Ye Langfeng gave his mother a complicated look. "Fine," he sneered. "What a wonderful mother you are."
With a chilling expression, he turned and stalked away.
Watching her arrogant son leave, Mrs. Jiang’s heart ached with sorrow and turmoil. She knew that if he continued down this path, he was bound to suffer for it. It was all their fault for spoiling him for so many years. A sudden wave of exhaustion washed over her.
「That night, at a high-end club in Shangjing」
Several influential and powerful young masters were chatting when Ye Langfeng walked in.
"What took you so long?" one of them asked, annoyed.
"I was bullied," Ye Langfeng said, getting straight to the point. "By an outsider."
"Who would dare bully you!" soone imdiately asked.
These young masters all revolved around one person who carried an aloof aura of authority; he was the center of their group. This was Young Master Guo of the Guo family, the head of Shangjing’s eight great clans, also known as the Shangjing Young Commander. Of course, his status wasn’t the absolute highest in Shangjing. Above the eight great clans were the four millennia-old families, whose power could sway the entire Divine Land. So, while the Guo family led the eight great clans, they were still no match for the four millennia-old families. Nevertheless, Young Master Guo was a formidable figure in his own right.
He spoke up. "Start from the beginning. Who is this person?"
"She’s a woman doing business with my mother. I saw how beautiful she was and tried to make a move, but her bodyguard beat
up. I went to my mother to complain, but she refused to do anything! She said I was too arrogant and that being taught a lesson would be good for . I can’t accept this!"
Ye Langfeng grabbed a glass of wine and downed it in one gulp.
Young Master Guo’s interest was piqued. "Oh? How strange. Show
a picture of this woman."
Ye Langfeng sent the picture from his phone. The mont Young Master Guo saw it, he was captivated. It was impossible not to be; Su Qingxue’s image had completely enthralled him.
He set his phone down. "Not bad, not bad at all. A real beauty," he remarked. "We can handle this for you. By tomorrow, her bodyguard will be on his way to the Western Heaven. But a beauty like this... are you planning to keep her all to yourself?"
Ye Langfeng felt a pang of resentnt; he had, in fact, planned to have her all to himself.
Young Master Guo then declared, "This woman is to be shared among all of us."
"Fine!" Ye Langfeng agreed through gritted teeth.
"Good. You can go ho now," Young Master Guo said. "Just watch
perform tomorrow."
Ye Langfeng nodded and walked out, his heart heavy with resentnt.
After he left, Young Master Guo instructed the others, "Tomorrow, find soone to kill that bodyguard and bring the woman to . Rember to pin the murder on Ye Langfeng."
The other young masters understood imdiately. They all knew that while Ye Langfeng was supposedly one of them, in Young Master Guo’s eyes, he was nothing more than a dog to be kicked around at will.
Young Master Guo continued, a wicked smile playing on his lips, "The Ye Family has always refused to join the alliance of the eight great clans, preventing us from uniting against the four families above us. This is the perfect opportunity to fra him and force the Ye Family’s hand. It seems he’s not such a useless dog after all. His value has finally erged."
The other young masters broke into laughter, all thinking that Young Master Guo’s plan was truly brilliant.
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