Bang!
“I brought your sister back! And you do this to her?!”
Li Wentian slammed his hand heavily on the table.
The veins on the back of his hand bulged, pulsing one by one.
He pressed one hand on the coffee table while holding a stack of photos in the other.
A video was playing on the tablet on the sofa.
“Since I brought her back, what do you think that means? Don’t you understand?”
“But! But she’s a liar! She lied to you! And she wants to lie to me too!”
Li Qing lifted her head and spoke stubbornly.
Her eyes were slightly red, and a glimmer of tears sparkled around her sockets.
“Who’s lying? Who are you saying is lying?!”
Li Wentian slammed the documents onto the tea set.
The water stains on the tea table quickly soaked the entire stack.
“I said she’s lying to us! She’s just a ! She’s faking it! She’s not what we saw at all! I don’t want this sister!”
Li Qing stood up abruptly, clenching her fists tightly.
Her father’s reaction was truly disappointing to her.
Li Wentian’s complicated and angry gaze made her feel drenched to the bone.
She didn’t want to keep talking to this father of hers at all.
“I showed you the evidence! Since you won’t do anything to her, then let me handle it!”
Li Qing spat out a harsh sentence, then without even looking at Li Wentian, she stomped out the door.
Li Wentian opened his mouth, paused, then picked up the stack of documents from the tea table and stacked them together with the tablet on the sofa.
He held them in his hands.
Li Wentian glanced at the door, then refocused his attention on the documents in his hands.
“Qing’er…”
As an old father, he let out a helpless sigh.
“I just want to give your sister what she deserves. Why are you so unreasonable…”
He relaxed onto the sofa, rubbing his temples with both hands and pinching the bridge of his nose.
“Ah Kun.”
In the room, after he spoke, a gaunt figure emerged from nowhere and stood behind Li Wentian.
“I’ll have to trouble you again this time. Keep an eye on Qing’er for me.”
“But… on your end… my sister isn’t here. Who will watch over your safety?”
Nangong Kun hesitated.
“Don’t worry about me. I haven’t been going anywhere lately. The security force around me is sufficient. Right now, I just want to find the person who instigated Qing’er to do this. Find that person for me. If you can kill…”
Li Wentian was somewhat irritable.
He took a deep breath and let out a sigh.
“Anyway, I don’t want to see that person again.”
Nangong Kun nodded.
“I understand.”
“How is Elder Hongyi doing lately? I haven’t visited him in a long time.”
Li Wentian thought of his lifesaver, and his tone softened a bit.
“You two siblings have worked hard all these years. If it weren’t for you and A Li, I wouldn’t know how to handle some things. Anyway… thank you.”
Li Wentian’s tall figure looked very weary.
He collapsed onto the sofa, entirely losing his usual dignified and meticulous image.
“Lord, you should take care of your own health. Grandfather has practiced ancient martial arts for many years. As long as he doesn’t overexert himself, he can probably live for several more decades. You don’t need to worry about that.”
Nangong Kun teased lightly.
“If you want to see the young misses get married and have children, you can’t afford to look like this. You should keep your bedroom activities to a minimum.”
“Hahaha…”
Li Wentian let out a low laugh, the laughter gradually fading.
“What do you think? Is there anyone suitable to be a mother for Qing’er and Xi’er? I really can’t manage on my own.”
As the helm and real power holder of the Li family, all of the Li family’s corporate groups—even with professional teams managing them—required more mental energy for important decisions than for some major cooperation deals.
Nangong Kun had been by Li Wentian’s side for so long, soaking in his experience, that he also saw problems with a far-reaching perspective.
“I haven’t met Miss Xi’er, but mainly Miss Qing’er… You’d better not consider that. Miss Qing’er caused enough of a stir last time. If it happens again now, I’m afraid it will be hard to clean up.”
Nangong Kun recalled that Li Wentian had previously considered remarrying, but Li Qing had sabotaged it every time.
“Forget it. Go ahead. Keep an eye on Qing’er for me. You know, you’re the only one I trust to do this.”
“Yes, Lord. I’ll tell Ling and the others to be extra careful with you. Don’t move around casually lately. Once you leave this area, no matter how strong the brothers under your command are, without me by your side, it’ll be hard to guarantee your safety.” There was still worry in Nangong Kun’s words.
“It’s fine. I know.”
Li Wentian waved his hand.
“Go. By now, Qing’er has probably gone to find her accomplice.”
“Yes.”
Behind him, there was no sound for a while.
“The Nangong family’s Five Elements Eight Trigrams Formation…”
As if thinking that he could not learn such a profound and mysterious martial art, Li Wentian let out a long sigh.
“Why am I even thinking about these things?”
Li Wentian sat up straight, picked up the full teacup on the table, held the tea in his mouth, swished it around, then spat it into the bucket under the tea tray.
He stood up, took his phone out of his pocket, and called his secretary.
“What’s today’s schedule? Arrange it. Let’s begin.”
…
Li Qing slammed the sports car door shut hard.
Sitting in the driver’s seat, she pounded the steering wheel with both hands again.
While starting the car, she picked up her phone and dialed a number.
It connected after a while.
“What do I do… Mm, it didn’t work. My dad is just partial to that bitch.”
At that, Li Qing slammed the steering wheel again, this time hitting the horn.
A passerby was startled by the horn sound and was about to scold someone, but when he saw the prancing horse emblem on the front of the car, the words got stuck in his throat.
In the end, he could only mutter discontentedly, “So what if it’s a Ferrari.”
Inside the car, Li Qing didn’t even look.
She just continued talking to the person on the phone.
“What? That’s not good. I don’t want to affect my father… Yeah, I just want that bitch to leave on her own. No need to make a big mess.”
Li Qing listened carefully to the other end of the line, organizing her thoughts.
“My dad doesn’t care about her past. Right now, even if she asks for the moon and stars, my dad would probably get them for her.”
Li Qing said jealously.
Her father had never smiled like that in front of her.
She was afraid that what he had planned to leave for her would all be given to that bitch Li Ruoxi, without even asking for Li Qing’s opinion.
The more Li Qing thought about it, the more upset she became.
Li Ruoxi had done so many shameless things, yet she still put on an innocent act.
“She said she won’t compete with me for these things. I really wonder where she gets the nerve to say that in front of me. She still thinks she has a share in those things… You’re right. A woman so poor she has to —how could she have any dignity? If you gave her money, she’d probably eat shit.”
Li Qing complained bitterly to the person on the phone.
“Mm… You said… That’s right! As long as it doesn’t hurt my father’s reputation, I’ll accept any means.”
Li Qing paused, then said seriously, “This time, I’m going to finish her off myself.”
Soon, the line went dead.
Li Qing put down her phone and looked out the window at the passing scenery.
“You! Are! Dead! Bitch!”
…
Nangong Kun saw the pink Ferrari drive around the corner, then turned his own steering wheel and followed Li Qing in his inconspicuous white sedan.
“Sister.”
Nangong Kun said into his Bluetooth headset.
On the other end came Nangong Li’s cold voice.
“Speak.”
“Heh…”
Nangong Kun had no temper with his sister. Knowing Nangong Li’s personality, he didn’t waste words.
“Miss Qing might do something harmful to Miss Xi soon.”
“So?” Nangong Li’s tone said “you don’t need to tell me.”
She already knew.
“Try to avoid overlapping schedules and activities with Miss Xi and Miss Qing. I’m already investigating who’s behind Miss Qing. I should find out who’s pulling the strings soon.”
“Mm.”
“Your side…”
Beep, beep, beep…
Nangong Kun smiled bitterly.
This sister of his… What kind of family member was she?
No one in the Nangong family was as cold and indifferent as Nangong Li in her bones.
“Sigh. I hope sister can take good care of Miss Xi.”
Nangong Kun was a bit worried.
He dialed another number.
“I need a team of surveillance personnel… Following? You’re overthinking it. It’s about Lord Wentian. Do it or not, suit yourself.”
Nangong Kun hung up without waiting for a reply, then dialed another number.
“Any news from the Black Mist targeting the Li family lately… Mm… Two million? If it’s not accurate, then prepare your own death.”
Nangong Kun repeated the process.
Hang up, call, hang up, call…
After repeating it eight times, he had already followed Li Qing’s car to an underground bar.
He didn’t go in. He just scanned the surroundings.
“The Lord was right. If no one were guiding Miss Qing on this… Heh… I want to see who’s scheming against the Li family.”
Nangong Kun didn’t linger.
As soon as the light turned green, he drove off in another direction.
…
Li Ruoxi had been holed up in the family library ever since she came back yesterday.
She searched over and over again for information about vampires.
“Miss, what exactly are you looking for?”
Nangong Li wasn’t about to believe Li Ruoxi’s excuse that it was just a hobby.
“Ah… Sister Li, how did you get here?”
Li Ruoxi turned around in surprise. Nangong Li was holding a tray with a sandwich and a glass of milk.
“Not even eating breakfast before coming here. I thought they didn’t prepare anything for you.” Nangong Li said reproachfully.
“Eat this first.”
She placed the breakfast in front of Li Ruoxi, speaking in a tone that left no room for refusal.
“You can’t say no.”
Before Li Ruoxi could speak, Nangong Li cut her off.
“Do you think searching alone is better than having a group of people help you find it?”
Nangong Li pulled out a chair and sat down next to Li Ruoxi.
“No, it’s not that…”
Li Ruoxi was also troubled.
These things were really hard to involve others in.
“Really, Sister Li, I just wanted to take a look out of interest.”
Li Ruoxi explained weakly.
“Forgotten Ancient Creatures — The Cursed Land of Capasia”
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