An Yiqing’s willow-like eyebrows lifted slightly, and a teasing glimmer flashed through her eyes as she mocked, "Since when did Xuandu City become your Huang Family’s? Just a merchant who started with marine products, do you really think you can be the master of Xuandu City?"
By this time, Huang Yiyi was already so angry that she had lost all reason. However, the dignified-looking man, Chen Feng, who accompanied her, vaguely sensed something more to the situation.
It was indeed marine products that had laid the foundation of the Huang Family, but this was a fact known only in high society, virtually unreachable to the ordinary citizen. Watching An Yiqing’s face filled with playful intent, Chen Feng faintly felt that her identity must not be so simple.
He looked worriedly at Huang Yiyi, who was flushed with anger, his mouth opening and closing in indecision, not sure what to say.
Although he fancied Huang Yiyi, in the face of her unclear identity, Chen Feng still thought it best to keep quiet.
Chen Feng’s brain indeed worked better than Huang Yiyi’s, and he was smarter than her too. But that was by just a tiny bit. When Huang Yiyi turned around and coyly pulled at his arm, looking up at him with tearful, aggrieved eyes, Chen Feng was completely bewitched.
"Brother Feng, is this how people from Xuandu City bully me? I’m never coming back, never again!" While shaking Chen Feng’s hand, Huang Yiyi pouted sorrowfully and declared, "Brother Feng, don’t miss me. Once Yiyi’s gone, visiting me in Nan City will be just the same..."
Chen Feng was utterly dazzled by this act of coquetry mixed with a threat.
He already liked Huang Yiyi, and the thought of never seeing her again in Xuandu City was unbearable for him.
This simply wouldn’t do!
"Dear Yiyi, don’t cry. Oh my, when you cry, it just breaks my heart!" Chen Feng said with evident distress as he reached out to wipe the tears from Huang Yiyi’s face and then looked up coldly at Gu Yelin and An Yiqing.
"I don’t know from which family the two of you hail, but isn’t it a bit too much for you to gang up on a fragile woman ?" Though Chen Feng’s tone was cool, he was not overly aggressive. After all, he might have been enthralled by Huang Yiyi, but he still retained some smarts.
However, Chen Feng’s indirect questioning only elicited raucous laughter from An Yiqing.
"Pfft...giggle giggle..."
A delightful laugh filled the air, and An Yiqing, clutching her belly in jest, looked teasingly at the confused Chen Feng and tearful Huang Yiyi, speaking softly, "Sir, are you perhaps mistaken? This ’auntie’... no no, this ’sister’ obviously looks older than me, how could she be described as fragile? Oh, right! You were correct; this ’sister’ does indeed appear... quite fragile (feeble-minded)..."
Gu Yelin watched the mischievous An Yiqing with a smile in his eyes, his gaze brimming with adoration. Seeing her laughing so hard that it hurt, he stretched his arms to pull her in, comfortably allowing An Yiqing to lean on him and take the weight off herself.
Huang Yiyi was no fool, and she could certainly understand the subtext in An Yiqing’s words. Watching the man she fancied be so tender and considerate towards the woman she despised, she burned with rage. Such tenderness should belong to her!
"You dare to call me feeble-minded! You, you... wuu wuu wuu... Brother Feng, you have to speak up for me! Yiyi is being bullied!" Huang Yiyi turned her tear-filled eyes to Chen Feng, appearing pitiful.
Chen Feng had always been partial to Huang Yiyi, and An Yiqing’s scathing sarcasm only stirred his urge to protect and cherish her.
"Miss, what do you mean by these words? Yiyi is just an innocent young lady, she doesn’t deserve your humiliation! I demand that you apologize to her! Otherwise, I will certainly use my family’s influence to pursue this matter to the end!"