Su Changfeng let go of Wu Xueqing and said to the hotel manager, "If I were to stoop to your level, you’d already be dead by now. Get lost."
Su Changfeng’s words felt like a weight off the hotel manager’s heart. Even if his boss found out about this and he lost his job, it was better than losing his life.
"What should we do about those people upstairs next?" Zhu Lie asked Su Changfeng.
"You won’t need to bother. Each of them should lose an arm, that’s enough," Su Changfeng said coolly.
These words made the hotel manager’s scalp tingle. To break everyone’s arms—how cruel. It seemed like he’d only been kicked, after all, he really had shown mercy.
"Go home and rest with your colleagues," Su Changfeng turned around and said to Wu Xueqing.
Wu Xueqing felt a bit unwilling; she had finally met a man she liked, and she didn’t want to give up just like that. Moreover, she didn’t believe that Su Changfeng was truly married.
"Did you use being married as an excuse to brush me off?" Wu Xueqing asked.
Su Changfeng smiled and said to the hotel manager, "Tell this beautiful lady here what kind of person Su Changfeng is in Jiang City."
The hotel manager was stunned. Is he Brother Changfeng? Is this Su Changfeng himself?
But Su Changfeng was known as a coward in Jiang City. Then why is he so formidable now? And why is he so close with Zhu Lie!
The hotel manager swallowed hard and didn’t speak. Even if he didn’t understand why Su Changfeng, who was so powerful, was called a coward, saying such rumors in front of Su Changfeng would take more than courage.
Seeing the hotel manager’s terrified expression, Su Changfeng continued, "If I tell you to say it, don’t dawdle, or Zhu Lie will take you away."
Scared by these words, the hotel manager shivered and quickly said, "Su Changfeng married into the Shen family as a son-in-law three years ago. In Jiang City... he’s widely known as a coward."
After saying these words, the hotel manager cautiously glanced at Su Changfeng, realizing he wasn’t showing any signs of anger, and finally felt relieved.
Yet, meanwhile, a question arose in the hotel manager’s mind. Su Changfeng had a good relationship with Zhu Lie, and judging from the situation, his status shouldn’t be low. Why can he tolerate people calling him a coward?
Moreover, over these three-plus years, even beggars on the street could mock him. In the hotel manager’s eyes, this was an undeniable shame, something even he couldn’t endure.
When Wu Xueqing and Cheng Sixue heard about the son-in-law situation, they were utterly shocked.
Not only was he married, but he was a live-in son-in-law!
Even though such a phenomenon wasn’t unusual nowadays, most people saw being a live-in son-in-law as equivalent to saying the man is incompetent—a man with no prospects. It was about a man’s dignity, something most men would reject. But why would someone as outstanding as Su Changfeng choose to become a son-in-law?
Compared to Cheng Sixue, Wu Xueqing was even more shocked because she had already learned from Wu Feng about Su Changfeng’s true identity. He was the young master of the Beijing Su Family—a noble family even in Beijing. So why did he become a son-in-law to a small noble family in Jiang City?
"Now you know everything, right? The neighborhood is complicated at night. You should head back." After speaking, Su Changfeng walked out of the hotel.
After Su Changfeng left, Cheng Sixue said disdainfully, "Even though he isn’t kept by a woman, choosing to be a son-in-law is scarcely different, isn’t it? I didn’t expect to misjudge him this time." Follow current novᴇls on NovelHub(.)net
Wu Xueqing smiled wryly. Her stance had completely changed compared to Cheng Sixue because she didn’t think marrying in was a loss of dignity nor being kept; the young master of the Beijing Su Family, with assets nearing ten billion, couldn’t possibly choose to marry in without a reason.
Could it be that he deeply loves a woman in the Shen Family, so he gave up his hidden identity to become a live-in son-in-law?
Wu Xueqing’s gaze turned particularly longing, imagining how happy that woman must be now.
"He’s not like what you described," Wu Xueqing said.
"Wu Xueqing, your attitude shifted way too fast. Besides, he’s already married; you needn’t speak for him," Cheng Sixue scoffed.
Wu Xueqing wouldn’t disclose Su Changfeng’s true identity to Cheng Sixue because Wu Feng had previously warned her about it.
"Either way, he saved me this time; otherwise, tonight would have been a nightmare for the rest of my life," Wu Xueqing said.
Cheng Sixue nodded without speaking further. Judging from the damage to Wu Xueqing’s clothes, if Su Changfeng hadn’t rescued her, her life would have drastically changed tonight. Speaking well of Su Changfeng for this was indeed justified.
Su Changfeng and Zhu Lie returned to Charming, just as Feng Bin emerged from a private room.
"What’s the situation now, have you made him talk?" Zhu Lie asked.
Feng Bin wiped sweat from his forehead, evidently having exercised rigorously, and said, "That guy’s mouth is really tough; he only agreed to talk after we took off his shoes."
Mentioning taking off shoes implied Feng Bin had smashed all ten of his fingers. Su Changfeng grinned, "Wow, you really are quite ruthless."
Feng Bin chuckled ruefully; he dared not boast his harshness in front of Su Changfeng and quickly said, "Brother Changfeng, that guy said the mastermind is a woman, surname Ye, but he wasn’t clear on the specifics."
"Surname Ye?" Su Changfeng frowned, though it was a crucial clue that also immediately reminded him of Ye Qingcheng. However, in Su Changfeng’s eyes, Ye Qingcheng wasn’t someone who resorts to such petty tactics.
She carried herself with a proud aura and is a wealthy heiress from the M Country Su Family. Her actions weren’t typically discreet; if she planned to target Charming, she’d likely send people straight to smash the venue, which was more her style.
"It must be Ye Qingcheng," Zhu Lie said nonchalantly.
Su Changfeng shook his head, saying, "But this doesn’t seem like Ye Qingcheng’s way of doing things. If she wanted to deal with Charming, she wouldn’t send these few people to make trouble."
Consider the Gu Family incident, where they forced Gu Changsheng to kneel and exit Jiang City’s business world. Such a high-profile approach was more characteristic of Ye Qingcheng, hence Su Changfeng could confirm that this wasn’t orchestrated by her.
"If not Ye Qingcheng, then who else? Do you have other enemies with the surname Ye?" Zhu Lie asked.