novelraw Chapter 201 - I Want Him to Speak
Chapter 201 - I Want Him to Speak
"Hmm, just teach him a lesson, and don’t actually hurt him. The main thing is to stop this pretty boy from pestering and to have him leave Tianhai," Qian Duoduo thought for a moment and decided to add, "Ji Yunhu was once an underworld boxing champion, with a heavy hand. If Lin Feng is seriously injured by accident, my grandfather will definitely suspect me, which would be troublesome."
Moreover, considering how Sister Meimei and Sister Wan’er feel about Lin Feng, it’s clear their feelings for him are not ordinary. If Lin Feng were to be seriously injured, it would upset both dear sisters. Although such a scumbag pretty boy isn’t worth it, my sisters don’t know the truth. They might even blame me, and that would be losing more than I gained.
"Don’t worry, I’ll handle it well," Ji Yunhu understood Qian Duoduo’s instructions and immediately turned to leave. Dealing with this sort of thing was easy and wouldn’t cause much trouble. The most important thing was to get it done quickly.
Watching Ji Yunhu go, Qian Duoduo pondered the information she had just reviewed, unable to understand one thing: how such an obvious pretty boy like Lin Feng could deceive everyone—was his trickery really so sophisticated that he could fool them all?
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Not long after, Leng Mei and Ding Wan’er also arrived at the Peerless Hall, and the three sisters started chatting.
"Duoduo, you’ve arrived!"
"Yeah, I just got here a little while ago,"
"Today, just the three of us sisters should have a good meal and chat."
"Duoduo, is it fun being the boss?"
"Fun? There are endless issues to deal with every day, and I don’t even have time to go shopping."
"Aren’t we all the same? There’s so much to handle at school, too,"
"By the way, Duoduo, do you have a boyfriend?"
"How could I? Boys run away when they see me. What about you two sisters?"
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It wasn’t easy for the three sisters to get together, so naturally, there were endless topics to discuss. They chatted and laughed joyously, greatly deepening their bond. Unknowingly, they spent several hours eating until it was time to part. They were reluctant to leave and not yet satisfied, promising to meet again the next time Qian Duoduo was free before she left Tianhai.
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After seeing off her two sisters, Qian Duoduo finally took out her phone. She had felt someone message her during the meal but didn’t have time to check. Now that her sisters had left, she could deal with matters conveniently. If nothing unexpected had happened, it should have been Ji Yunhu letting her know that the job was done.
However, when Qian Duoduo checked the message from Ji Yunlong, she was so surprised that she was at a loss for words. The message was brief, just a few words, but it was enough to indicate there was a problem.
"The job’s gone bad, need to meet and explain."
Qian Duoduo became increasingly confused the more she thought about it. Suddenly, she remembered her grandfather once mentioned that Lin Feng was an expert. Could it be that what her grandfather said was true? Ji Yunhu was Tianhai’s top hitman, and even among gangs, he was regarded as a formidable player, not to mention that Ji Yunhu was no ordinary fighter. He was once the champion of the underground boxing ring for half a year, and his combat skills and killing techniques were rich and varied. He had killed dozens of opponents with his own hands. For such a strong man to teach a university teacher a lesson should have been a piece of cake—so how could he have possibly botched the job?
Could there have been some unexpected complications? Perhaps someone else wanted to interfere, and Ji Yunhu, heeding my instruction not to expose himself, gave up? But that shouldn’t be the case either. If it wasn’t feasible at the moment, he could have slowly waited for a chance. How could he suddenly give up and tell me that he messed things up and still need to explain it to me in person? What exactly is going on here? I must find out.
"You two come up; we’re still at Peerless Hall." Qian Duoduo dialed Ji Yunlong’s number, said a sentence, and then hung up before sitting in her chair pondering over Lin Feng’s matter. What kind of person was this pretty boy who not only deceived people so impressively but also caused a mighty warrior like Ji Yunhu to fail? In normal circumstances, Ji Yunhu would not have failed.
A few minutes later.
Ji Yunlong and Ji Yunhu, the brothers, appeared at the entrance of Peerless Hall. Seeing Qian Duoduo inside mulling over matters, they started sweating profusely, though each was worried about different things.
What Ji Yunlong feared was that the information he had provided to Boss Qian was flawed. Such a mishap should have never happened. No boss would fail to be enraged by such an incident. It was his first task in Tianhai for the Boss and he had botched it. Thinking about it now scared him; he didn’t even know yet what Boss Qian would do to him. Such a seemingly simple task, how could it have gone so wrong? What would Boss Qian think of him now...
Ji Yunhu’s worries were even more numerous. This was the Boss’s first direct task to him and he had screwed it up. How would Boss Qian punish him...
But this really wasn’t my fault. If Lin Feng had been just a university French teacher as described in the information, I could have taken him down effortlessly. But the current situation was completely different. I, a prestigious assassin, was thoroughly confused by the beating I received, not even understanding how it happened. I genuinely didn’t want it to turn out this way. I was simply no match for that Lin Feng.
Looking at Ji Yunlong and his brother standing at the door, I couldn’t deny feeling angry. There must have been a problem with one of these two. Otherwise, such a straightforward task wouldn’t have encountered any complications. Either Ji Yunlong’s information was wrong, or something had gone wrong when Ji Yunhu took action. In any case, this outcome was the result of these brothers’ incompetence in handling the matter.
Yet, in the blink of an eye, I noticed Ji Yunhu was bruised and swollen. It was obvious he had been beaten, but what was utterly baffling was who could have managed to do this? In all of Tianhai, there seemed to be no one capable of beating him up like this. So what happened? How did it end up like this when he went to teach Lin Feng a lesson as I had instructed?
Could there have been some expert who intervened, or was there some massive accident? Li Yunhu shouldn’t have ended up like this; there must have been something unknown that happened.
"What’s the situation? How could such a simple task be botched?" Qian Duoduo’s voice was extremely cold. Now that things had come to this, it was necessary to figure out what had happened. The task hadn’t been completed, and speaking of anything else was of no use; even a thousand reasons couldn’t excuse their failure to accomplish the task.
"Boss... Chairman, it’s my fault, there was an error in my information..." Ji Yunlong, wiping sweat, hurried to respond. Although he was somewhat afraid, these things had to be said; there was no escaping it. If his brother hadn’t come back in such a state, he would never have believed any of this to be real. That Lin Feng could leave his brother, an expert among assassins, so disoriented without any indication of such skill in his information, could only mean one of two things.
Either Lin Feng had always been a hidden master, or nobody witnessed Lin Feng in action. However, either situation had put him in a bind, botching the task in front of Boss Qian and causing his brother such severe injury. His luck today was just too bad. Once I get out of here, I’ll have to take care of the person who collected the information. At a time like this, to dare to double-cross me, isn’t that just seeking death?
"I don’t need you to tell me; I want him to tell me." Qian Duoduo stopped Ji Yunlong, who was about to speak, because the more she listened to Ji Yunlong, the angrier she became. She pointed her slender fingers at Ji Yunhu and said, Ji Yunhu’s injuries were too strange. He was an ace among assassins, yet he had been beaten up here in Tianhai; the idea was inconceivable.
As soon as Ji Yunlong heard Boss Qian say this, his cold sweat instantly soaked his back. How could I be so unlucky to encounter such a situation? Boss Qian must be furious, and it was quite a substantial anger. What should I do? The more Ji Yunlong thought, the more frightened he became. Boss Qian’s methods were feared by everyone in the syndicate - what would Boss Qian do to him? As he thought, he trembled, the scenes of Boss Qian’s rise to power still vivid in his memory...
"Boss, I’m ashamed. I didn’t understand what was happening before Lin Feng beat me to a pulp." Hearing Qian Duoduo question him, Ji Yunhu felt today was endlessly bleak. What on earth was happening today? Unexpectedly called by the boss to teach someone a lesson, he thought a university French teacher would be no challenge, an easy target. But upon actually finding Lin Feng, he realized things were not as simple. What the hell, a university French teacher? The man was at least on the level of an AA-ranked expert and shouldn’t have been able to beat me this severely. What rank could he possibly be?
My God!
Why is my luck so terrible today, to have crossed paths with an expert of unknown rank? No wonder I was discovered as soon as I approached him and got beaten senseless before exchanging even a few words. The most frustrating part was that, being an ace assassin, I would not have suffered such a heavy blow even from an AA-ranked expert. Who fights like this, aiming only for the head and not hitting anywhere else? And those moves were too fast; I didn’t even have time to react before he kept hitting me repeatedly. Once he stopped, I had turned into a swollen, bruised mess, like a pig’s head.
However, I’m somewhat relieved about one thing: that Lin Feng never intended to take my life from the very beginning. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be just a bruised and swollen head. Such a ruthless person could play with my life as easily as tossing a toy. Tianhai has never heard of such a ruthless person; how did he suddenly emerge?