The person Si Kongxue was pointing at was none other than Nan Renyi, who had just been helped back to his feet.
“You... you’re crazy?” Nan Renyi sputtered. He had been livid with rage, but he now stared at the fiery beauty before him in utter disbelief.
But Si Kongxue couldn’t be bothered to offer even a single word of explanation. She simply fixed her gaze on Li Xiaofei and said, “Well? Don’t you claim to like me? As long as you kill him, I’ll sleep with you and bear your child. Do you have the guts?”
In that moment, the fire that had long been smoldering within her heart had been fully ignited. The strict upbringing she had endured felt like a suffocating net, tightening around her every second.
Her seemingly privileged life, admired by all, felt more like strings around a finely crafted puppet being manipulated at will. Family ties had shackled her for twenty-one years. Now, she was being forced to meet, get engaged to, and eventually marry this useless scoundrel, Nan Renyi. Her entire future was to be bound to this degenerate.
To outsiders, she was the beautiful, noble daughter of power and wealth, born with a golden spoon in her mouth. But in reality? Perhaps she was merely her parents’ most satisfying creation. She was a meticulously polished masterpiece meant to be sold off at the highest price.
Now, this pale, fat, yet wildly unrestrained oddball from Chongque City was like a spark falling into the boiling pool of oil that was Si Kongxue’s heart. Suddenly, she felt the urge to explode and let loose completely. To disregard everything. Even if it meant eternal damnation.
Li Xiaofei’s eyes shifted to Nan Renyi. The four bodyguards sensed danger and closed ranks around Nan Renyi like it was the end of the world. They shielded him tightly in their midst.
Nan Renyi wanted to say something tough. But the moment he saw Li Xiaofei’s gaze, his courage deflated. A sudden realization struck him. Not only could this man kill him but he also dared to do it.
“Woman, you’re being a little ungrateful.” He sneered and said, “I took a liking to you. I’m giving you the chance to sleep with me, to receive my favor. That is your honor. And yet you dare to set conditions for me? Don’t you think you’re underestimating the heavens a little too much?”
Si Kongxue’s pupils dilated as she tried to puzzle through Li Xiaofei’s response. Nan Renyi and the onlookers were equally confused.
Such an utterly shameless line. What kind of person could say something like that with such a straight face before a crowd of people in broad daylight?
Even Huang Dinggou in the opposite box covered his eyes in shame.
This is why Brother Chen is so famous in Chongque City. It’s because he is such an oddball.
He had thought that, after everything that had happened recently, Brother Chen’s mental circuits would finally become more normal. Who could have guessed... He really was a pure phoenix chick.
Huang Dinggou fell into deep thought.
Wait a minute. Didn’t the saying go, ‘There must be a phoenix chick within seven steps of where a hidden dragon is’? Why haven’t I found one until now?
“Bitch,” cursed Nan Renyi as he finally couldn’t hold back any longer.
When he saw Li Xiaofei refuse to kill him, he thought this lunatic had come to his senses and knew when to back down. With that assumption, his lost courage surged back.
“Si Kongxue, you stinking whore! We’re engaged! I’m your fiancé! And you, you bitch, actually asked an outsider to kill your future husband?” Nan Renyi immediately pointed at Si Kongxue’s nose and started cursing.
The more he cursed, the more agitated he became. He said, “I’ve known all along you were a slut who’d sleep with anyone, but I didn’t think you’d go this far! Haha... You want a fat pig like him to kill me? Does he even have the guts? I am the young master of the Azure Swallow Merchant Guild! In Chongque City, who dares—”
A faint glint flashed as his voice abruptly cut off. A snow-white spear had pierced through Nan Renyi’s mouth. The spear tip gracefully emerged from the back of his head.
“You dare insult me? You’re courting death,” said Li Xiaofei, slowly withdrawing his spear.
A piece of trash like you dares to curse at me? I’ll skewer you.
“Guh... guh...” Nan Renyi’s eyes widened in shock. His hands desperately clutched at his mouth.
He tried to speak. But blood gushed like a spring, filling his ruined throat. Not a single word made it out. Nan Renyi didn’t understand.
Why? That fat bastard had clearly said he wouldn’t kill him. So why did he suddenly strike?
The icy chill hidden within the Flying Snow spear, along with the power of laws infused into the spear technique, frantically eroded and shredded every last strand of vitality within Nan Renyi’s body.
The four expert guards said nothing. They picked up their young master’s corpse and turned to leave. It wasn’t that they were negligent. Nor was it that they didn’t want revenge. But that single thrust from Li Xiaofei had shattered all their fighting spirits. They were not his match.
Li Xiaofei turned toward Si Kongxue. His gaze was filled with undisguised avarice. Si Kongxue felt as though she had been stripped bare. Her entire body burned like a raging flame.
“I’ll go with you.” She spoke loudly.
The venue erupted into a cacophony of disbelief and shock.
The guards and servants behind her surged forward to stop her.
However, Si Kongxue simply raised her snow-white chin, her eyes blazing as she met Li Xiaofei’s eyes. “Do you dare to take me away?”
Damn it, Li Xiaofei cursed inwardly.
Things weren’t unfolding the way he had imagined. According to the information he had gathered, Si Kongxue was supposed to loathe Li Qingchen. Yet, after all the teasing and near-humiliation he had just subjected her to, she was now saying she wanted to go with him?
Li Xiaofei stroked his chin. The greasy sensation beneath his fingers confirmed it, he was still a fat slob. There was no way she was interested in his looks. Could she have extraordinary vision and had somehow seen through the disguise of this fat exterior to the peerless beauty hidden within?
“What’s wrong? You don’t dare?” said Si Kongxue, laughing. Her smile was filled with provocation and contempt.
Li Xiaofei grabbed her and pulled her into his arms. He said, “Hahaha, afraid? Today, I’ll show you what it means to be a real man!”