Chapter 40: A 20 Million Loss for Nothing

Chapter 40: Chapter 40: A 20 Million Loss for Nothing

Ye Feng looked at Wang Luyao and said with a slight smile, "After this is over, my demand is still the same: I get to see your chest. Do you agree?"

Wang Luyao stared blankly at Ye Feng. ’To still be driven by hormones at a time like this... I have to hand it to him, I really do.’

She gritted her teeth and said to Ye Feng, "Ye Feng, if you can actually get us out of here alive today, I... I’ll agree."

Ye Feng smiled slightly. "I hope you remember what you said. Don’t stand me up again."

With that, he slowly turned to face Shen Qing.

Shen Qing thought Ye Feng’s voice sounded familiar. Looking at his back, she was struck by a sudden, ominous feeling. The moment Ye Feng turned to face her, she froze completely.

’It’s him! It’s him! It’s really him!’

Ye Feng looked at Shen Qing and said with a slight smile, "President Shen, do you think I have the right to act arrogant in front of you now?"

Hearing this, Qin Long, who was standing nearby, flew into a rage. He glared at Ye Feng and roared, "You bastard, do you have any idea who you’re talking to? This is our President Shen! President Shen!"

"How dare you be so insolent in her presence? You’re courting death!"

He then turned to Shen Qing and urged through gritted teeth, "President Shen, this bastard is too damn arrogant! Give the order to kill him! Kill him now!"

But what he saw next nearly made his eyes pop out of their sockets.

Shen Qing was staring blankly at Ye Feng, her face pale, standing as still as a statue. She only snapped out of her trance when the cigar in her hand burned down to her fingers.

She staggered over to Ye Feng and stopped in front of him. Wringing the hem of her clothes with her hands, she looked like a docile kitten as she greeted him with a bowed head.

"B-Brother Ye."

In that moment, she was no longer the imperious queen. She was a schoolgirl who had made a mistake, standing before her strict master.

All of her previous composure and imposing aura had vanished.

Qin Long was dumbfounded. Wang Luyao was dumbfounded. Li Chao was dumbfounded. Everyone present was dumbfounded!

’What the hell? How could some unknown country bumpkin completely dominate Shen Qing, the queen of Jiangcheng?’

Ye Feng clasped his hands behind his back, leaned down slightly to look at Shen Qing, and said with a grin,

"Shen Qing, is this how you manage your people?"

"I... I was wrong," Shen Qing stammered, her voice trembling.

"Is this how you’ve been raking in money all these years?" Ye Feng asked again.

"I... I was wrong." Shen Qing’s entire body started to tremble.

"Is the Hundred Flowers Building always this brazen? So quick to fight and kill? So eager to take lives?" Ye Feng’s voice was calm, but anyone could hear the killing intent laced within his words.

Shen Qing’s heart clenched in terror. She shrieked, "Brother Ye, it’s all my fault! I failed to discipline them properly! I’ll give you a proper account today. Just say the word—should I have them thrown in the river or just chopped to pieces?"

Hearing this, Qin Long and his men nearly pissed themselves in fear. He knew Shen Qing’s methods all too well—when she talked about killing, she wasn’t bluffing.

He scrambled on his hands and knees over to Shen Qing, kowtowing repeatedly as he shrieked,

"President Shen, I was wrong! I’ll never dare to do it again! Spare my life!"

When Shen Qing just stared at him coldly without a word, Qin Long turned and began kowtowing to Ye Feng, begging for mercy.

"Brother Ye! I was blind and failed to recognize your greatness! I’ve offended you, and I’m kowtowing to apologize! Please, be merciful and spare my life!"

With that, he started slamming his head against the ground. THUMP! THUMP! THUMP! His forehead was soon scraped and bloody, but he didn’t dare to stop.

The thugs behind him also began kowtowing and begging for their lives.

A single sentence from Ye Feng finally allowed them all to let out a long sigh of relief. "Get up. This is your only warning."

"Thank you, Brother Ye! Thank you!"

The men were so moved they were on the verge of tears. They had been snatched from the jaws of death!

Ye Feng then looked at Qin Long and asked nonchalantly, "Hey buddy, let me ask you something. This high-interest loan my girlfriend owes... are you still planning on collecting?"

Qin Long nearly crapped his pants. He shook his head so fast it looked like a blur and shrieked,

"Brother Ye, your girlfriend is our... oh, no! I mean, she’s our matriarch! How could we possibly dare to ask for the money? We don’t want it! We don’t want it at all!"

One of his underlings looked at Qin Long with a pained expression. "Brother Long, that twenty million is everything we have. Why don’t we at least ask for the principal back..."

The words had barely left his mouth when Qin Long smacked him hard across the face and roared, "Ask for my ass! We offended our matriarch! We should be paying *her* for emotional damages, got it?"

The underling didn’t dare utter another peep.

Nearby, Shen Qing fixed her gaze on Qin Long and spoke in a cold voice, "Qin Long, I ordered you to cease all loan-sharking operations. Why did you defy me?"

Qin Long’s face was a mask of misery. "President Shen, I would never dare to defy your orders! But that kid, Li Chao, he tempted me. He told me to collect on this high-interest loan from President Wang and to do whatever it took to back her into a corner. He promised that whatever amount I managed to collect from her, he would give me the same amount on top of it."

"I couldn’t resist the temptation, so I worked with him to come and collect this debt from Wang Luyao."

Hearing this, Wang Luyao spun around and stared daggers at Li Chao, her face turning pale with fury.

Seeing her gaze, Li Chao immediately shrieked, "Qin Long, don’t you dare slander me! This has nothing to do with me!"

"You motherfucker!" Qin Long was furious that this bastard was still trying to lie his way out of it. With a roar, he charged forward, pinned Li Chao to the ground, and started beating him mercilessly.

Li Chao screamed in agony under the assault, and soon he was struggling to breathe.

Shen Qing frowned. "That’s enough. Let him go. It won’t do us any good if he dies."

Only then did Qin Long release Li Chao.

Li Chao struggled for a moment before managing to get to his feet. He staggered off into the distance.

After putting some distance between them, he suddenly whirled around to face Ye Feng, his voice dripping with hatred as he spat through gritted teeth,

"You bastard! This isn’t over between us! Sooner or later, I’ll be back to settle this score. Just you wait!"

With that, he limped away.

"That motherfucker is still running his mouth? You think I won’t go after you and chop you to bits?" Enraged, Qin Long grabbed a machete and prepared to give chase, but Shen Qing held up a hand to stop him.

"The Li family is not to be trifled with. There’s no need to make a mortal enemy of them."

Only then did Qin Long halt.

He turned back to Ye Feng, a sycophantic smile plastered on his face. "Brother Ye, I truly offended you today. How about I treat you to a meal to make amends?"

But Ye Feng just shook his head. "Some other time. I have important business to attend to right now."

He then looked at Wang Luyao beside him. "Let’s go. I’m going to see your chest right now."

With that, he grabbed Wang Luyao’s hand and turned to leave.

Qin Long and his men were left staring, completely dumbfounded. ’He’s not even trying to be discreet!’

’The boss is really on another level. So brazen! What a badass!’

Shen Qing watched Ye Feng and Wang Luyao’s retreating figures, her eyes wide with disbelief.

’Doesn’t Ye Feng already have Xiao Yufei? How can he be acting so intimate with Wang Luyao now?’

’Does he just have a weakness for women?’

At this thought, Shen Qing’s eyes suddenly lit up, and she murmured to herself,

"’Young Building Master... this means I have a chance to rise, too!’"

「...」

Ye Feng pulled Wang Luyao into the car and got straight to the point. "All right, take it off. I want to see your chest now."

Wang Luyao was so furious she could have exploded. "Ye Feng, are you an idiot? I’m a respectable, unmarried woman! You yelled about seeing my chest in front of all those people! How am I supposed to show my face in public anymore?"

Ye Feng thought about it and realized he had been a bit too eager. He scratched his head. "You’re right, I was a little hasty. My bad. I apologize. Now, can you take it off?"