My Sexy CEO Wife

Chapter 544 - 541: Cannot Violate Principles

Yuan Feihu slightly furrowed his brow, speaking in a grave voice, "Go inform Lord Dong that his son has been captured by Gao Fei. Make the situation sound serious..."

"Understood," Liu Ziqi nodded. "I'll go right now." After saying this, Liu Ziqi turned and left.

Yuan Feihu paced the room with his hands behind his back, muttering softly, "Should I tell City Lord Bai about this? If I hide it... and City Lord Bai finds out later, he will definitely blame me... No matter, I should still see City Lord Bai. Right now, only he has the power to restrain Gao Fei." Having made up his mind, Yuan Feihu hurriedly departed.

...

The lords of Chaotic Wind City, Bai Daqing, and Xi Liang City's Dong Feitian almost arrived at Gao Fei's military camp at the same time.

"Lord Dong!" Bai Daqing stepped forward to greet him. "You're here for your son, aren't you?"

"Hmph!" Dong Feitian snorted coldly. "You're asking the obvious! Release my son immediately! Otherwise, I won't let this go!"

Bai Daqing's brows slightly creased. "Calm down, let's talk slowly, no need to rush..."

"Since it's not your son who was captured, of course you're not worried," Dong Feitian roared. "Bai Daqing, listen well. If my son suffers even the slightest grievance, I will hold only you accountable!"

"Relax, your son is fine," Bai Daqing finally managed to persuade Dong Feitian. "Come, I'll take you to meet someone."

"Who?"

"The person who captured your son."

"Good! I've been looking for him. His name is Gao Fei, right? He must have the courage of a bear and the gall of a leopard to dare capture my son. He must be tired of living," Dong Feitian said.

"Do me a favor, don't get angry just yet. Listen to what Gao Fei has to say. I know Gao Fei; he's not reckless. There must be some misunderstanding," Bai Daqing urged.

Bai Daqing pulled Dong Feitian deeper into the military camp.

"City Lord Bai," Gao Fei quickly stepped forward, greeting Bai Daqing with a fist-and-palm salute.

"This is the lord of Xi Liang City, Dong Feitian," Bai Daqing said, pointing to Dong Feitian.

"So this is the renowned Lord Dong, welcome, welcome," Gao Fei said with a smile on his face.

Dong Feitian's gaze was icy as he stared at Gao Fei. "You're Gao Fei?"

"Yes," Gao Fei nodded.

"You captured my son?"

"Yes," Gao Fei nodded again.

"You've got guts! How dare you capture my son!" Dong Feitian's eyes widened in anger as he bellowed, "Release my son immediately, or I will slap you to death!" As he said this, Dong Feitian raised his palm, a murderous aura exploding from him.

"Don't get excited," Bai Daqing grabbed Dong Feitian. "Let's listen to what Gao Fei has to say first. It's not too late to get angry once we have the facts straight." Turning to Gao Fei, Bai Daqing signalled with his eyes, "What exactly happened? Why did you capture Lord Dong's son? Speak the truth now; not a single detail must be hidden."

"Here's what happened…" Gao Fei explained everything exactly as it occurred, without exaggeration or concealment, sticking solely to the facts.

"It's just a matter of two lowly soldiers, isn't it? Even if they weren't alive, their deaths wouldn't matter," Dong Feitian snorted. "I thought it was something significant."

Bai Daqing's brows furrowed slightly, but he said nothing.

Gao Fei refused to listen any further and spoke directly, "What's with soldiers? Can they be humiliated at will?"

"The soldiers who have died at my hands in these years, if not ten thousand, there have been eight thousand. Are you going to arrest me too?" Dong Feitian sneered.

"I really would like to arrest Lord Dong, but unfortunately, I do not have the power to do so."

"What? You want to arrest me too? You truly do not know the immensity of heaven and earth! Enough, I can't be bothered to talk nonsense with you anymore. Hurry up and release my son. In consideration of City Lord Bai's face, I might spare your life."

"I made it very clear just now, your son has violated the law and should be severely punished by the law."

"Say that again!"

"Even if I said it a hundred times, it would still be the same!"

"Good! Good! Good!" Dong Feitian laughed out of extreme anger: "It's been a long time since someone dared talk to me like this. Your courage is really not small!" At this point, Dong Feitian reached out and grabbed towards Gao Fei.

"Snap!"

Bai Daqing caught Dong Feitian's wrist and said with a steady face, "Lord Dong, what are you doing?"

"Let go!" Dong Feitian roared, "If you won't discipline your subordinate, I'll help you!"

"As long as I am here, you won't be harming Gao Fei."

"You... "

"You heard it just now. It was because your son was hitting people in the street that Gao Fei arrested him. This is all your son's fault."

"It's just two soldiers, what's the big deal?"

"His Majesty the Emperor once said that every commander must cherish the soldiers and not arbitrarily scold or beat them, lest they face severe sanctions." Bai Daqing said indifferently, "If Lord Dong continues to be unrelenting, I will have to seek His Majesty the Emperor to judge this matter for us."

"You..." Dong Feitian's face twitched viciously, glaring at Bai Daqing: "Fine! I take back my words! I will properly compensate those two soldiers, and as for my son... He is young and impetuous and doesn't understand things. I will take him back and make sure to strictly discipline him, so he won't cause trouble anymore." Saying this, Dong Feitian paused, "I hope City Lord Bai can do me this favor and let me take my son back."

Should he give face to Dong Feitian? Bai Daqing sighed inwardly, surely he had to, for such a trivial matter, making an enemy out of Dong Feitian was not worth it.

After pondering for a moment, Bai Daqing then turned his head to look at Gao Fei, "Gao Fei, go and bring over Lord Dong's son."

"City Lord," Gao Fei hastily said, "you're not really thinking of letting him go, are you?"

"Lord Dong has already promised to properly compensate the two soldiers, and later, I will have Lord Dong's son go and apologize to the two soldiers. Let's just leave the matter at that," Bai Daqing waved his hand: "It's not good to keep dragging this on."

"That won't do." Gao Fei's stubborn temper came up, shaking his head vigorously: "I can agree to anything else, but I cannot agree to this one thing."

"You!" Bai Daqing's face darkened, "Gao Fei, you are becoming more and more audacious, even ignoring my words."

"I must listen to City Lord's words, of course," Gao Fei said neither servile nor overbearing, "but I must also stand by my own principles!"

"You..." Bai Daqing was so angry he couldn't speak.

"Humph..." Dong Feitian sneered, "City Lord Bai, is this how you discipline your subordinates? Aren't you a bit too lenient? If a subordinate talked back to me, I would slap him to death."

Bai Daqing's face turned iron-blue. If it were anyone else talking back to him, causing him to lose face, he would've turned on them by now. But Gao Fei... Gao Fei had saved his life, he was his life-saving benefactor. Bai Daqing didn't have the heart to turn on him, even if he wanted to.