Chapter 148: Tonight, You Take the Lead

After a long while, Feng’s father finally composed himself. “Feng Li is your older brother. He will be returning to the Feng family.”

“Do as you please!”

“He intends to join the Feng Corporation.”

“Impossible.”

Feng Su refused outright. Anger gradually surfaced in his father’s eyes, but when he met Feng Su’s cold, steely gaze, he forced it down and said as calmly as he could, “Feng Li is your brother. I have only three children, and I hope that, from now on, the three of you will… stay out of one another’s way.”

“Do you really think that’s possible? Besides, you have more than three children. You should have four.”

“You… You investigated me?”

“One son has already returned to claim his heritage. Why not bring the other one back as well? How could a child of the Feng family be left wandering outside?”

With a faint laugh, he took Li Jiuwei by the wrist and led her away.

What would Feng’s father do?

“Do you think he’ll agree?”

“A son born in his old age—his precious heir. I looked into that boy. He’s fifteen.”

During his marriage to Feng’s mother, Feng’s father had cheated on her and fathered a child with another woman.

The adoptive mother of Feng Li was one woman.

The mother of this illegitimate son was another.

Feng’s father was a romantic man, generous with his affections.

He was always giving women children!

After going downstairs, Li Jiuwei did not leave with Feng Su. She intended to stay and wait for Shen Tang to wake up.

Feng Su had something else to attend to and left first.

He seemed to be in an unusual mood today, but she did not think much of it.

Perhaps he simply needed time to adjust after taking over the Feng Corporation.

When Shen Tang woke up, she was very quiet.

Li Jiuwei, however, told her everything she had done. Shen Tang immediately threw her arms around Li Jiuwei.

“Jiuwei… You shouldn’t have dirtied your hands for me.”

“Dirty hands can be washed clean. Without you, my life would have no meaning.”

Shen Tang was her very life.

More precisely, they were each other’s lives. After so many years together, their lives had long since eclipsed their own individual selves.

Lying in Li Jiuwei’s arms, Shen Tang said sourly, “If only I were a man. I would marry you and take you home. I’d never let Feng Su have you.”

Li Jiuwei pinched her cheek. “Tang is my best friend!”

“Of course.”

The Shen family wanted Shen Tang to marry Wang Peng, but she was naturally unwilling.

Wang Peng was not only an ignorant, useless wastrel, but also a two-hundred-pound mountain of flesh barely five feet three. The Shen family was using Shen Tang for an alliance purely to disgust her.

Once Shen Tianmi had climbed into Wang Peng’s bed, what expression would Bai Xiaojie wear?

Li Jiuwei was truly looking forward to it.

If they had not plotted against Shen Tang, Li Jiuwei would never have dealt them such a vicious blow.

During this period, she had ruined quite a few people.

Jiang Huaiting and Li Xinchun.

Shen Moxu and Li Yuci.

In the afternoon, Li Jiuwei and Shen Tang left the hospital together. Li Jiuwei did not want Shen Tang to return to the Shen family, but Shen Tang refused.

How could she watch the show if she left?

This time, the Shen family would belong to her.

Li Jiuwei departed.

Unfortunately, the moment she arrived at Suwei Manor, she saw Jiang Huaiting standing outside.

He looked utterly haggard. His eyes were bloodshot, and the gaze he fixed on her held not only anger but pain.

His hands clenched into fists. In a hoarse voice, he asked, “Why?”

“I’m doing a good deed—bringing two people who love each other together.”

“Jiuwei, you never forgave me, did you?”

Jiang Huaiting’s voice trembled.

“Those who do wrong deserve punishment. As for forgiveness? That is a matter for God.”

Li Jiuwei smiled brightly, and Jiang Huaiting’s heart began to ache with countless sharp pains.

The pain swept through his limbs, through his entire body.

He watched Li Jiuwei’s retreating figure and could no longer utter another word.

Perhaps even the heavens pitied him.

A fine drizzle soaked his body, and the chill spread all the way into his heart.

Jiang Huaiting hated himself, but he hated Li Xinchun even more.

It was her fault. Everything was her fault.

The news that Jiang Huaiting had left reached Li Jiuwei, and it put her in a foul mood.

Memories of the past rose before her eyes, leaving her restless and irritated.

She immediately drove off alone to clear her head.

On the road, however, she saw Feng Su standing with Ye Chu. She had no idea what they were talking about.

Ye Chu suddenly rushed forward to embrace Feng Su, but he dodged her in time.

“Brother Su—I only want to give you a hug.”

“Ye Chu, you used Jiuwei as an excuse to ask me out. Was it all just to deceive me?”

“I… I had no choice…”

“Shut up!”

Feng Su shot her a fierce glare. Ye Chu pressed her lips together and dared not speak again, but she was unwilling to watch him leave.

She hurried after him. “I was wrong to deceive you, but, Brother Su… I also know that three years ago, you slept with a woman outside. Tell me—if I tell Li Jiuwei about it, do you think she’ll leave you?”

In an instant, Feng Su’s hand closed around Ye Chu’s throat, and a deep, icy menace began to radiate from him.

“You’re courting death.”

Ye Chu laughed. “Brother Su, you’re afraid. Even the heir apparent of the capital has a day when he feels fear.”

“Ye Chu, if you don’t want the Ye family to go bankrupt, you’d better watch what you say.”

His threat left Ye Chu incredulous.

Bankrupt?

How dare he?

There was not the slightest trace of affection in Feng Su’s eyes. Ye Chu knew exactly what he was capable of.

Deep down, she was afraid of him.

“I… I promise I won’t say anything recklessly…”

Feng Su released her, and Ye Chu fled in disarray. His thoughts were in utter turmoil.

Three years earlier, before he had met Li Jiuwei, he had indeed spent a night with a woman.

At the time, he had fallen into an enemy’s trap and drunk something he should never have touched.

He had stumbled into a room by accident. He did not know who the woman was, nor what she looked like. The only thing he knew for certain was that she had been innocent.

It had happened a long time ago.

Feng Su had deliberately tried to forget it, but Ye Chu’s sudden mention of the incident forced him to examine it again.

When Feng Su turned around, he happened to meet Li Jiuwei’s gaze. Surprise flashed through his eyes.

The next instant, Li Jiuwei drove away.

When Feng Su returned to Suwei Manor, he discovered that Li Jiuwei had not come back.

He called her. At first, no one answered. When he called again, the line was deliberately disconnected.

Feng Su let out a low sigh.

She was angry.

Night fell.

Li Jiuwei returned drunk. Without paying any attention to him, she went straight to her room, washed up, and went to bed.

Feng Su entered carrying a glass of honey water and sat down beside her. “Jiuwei, drink some water.”

“I don’t want any.”

“Jiuwei…”

“Leave me alone.”

Feng Su set down the glass and stared at her back. “Ye Chu and I aren’t what you think, Jiuwei…”

Suddenly, Li Jiuwei sat up and knocked Feng Su onto the bed. Her slender fingers undid his clothes, revealing his powerful physique.

His abdominal muscles were sharply defined, his lines intensely sensual.

He was utterly intoxicating.

“Feng Su, you’re my man. Everything about you belongs to me.”

“All right. Everything I have is yours. Tonight… you’re in charge.”

A gleam flashed in Feng Su’s eyes. Li Jiuwei stared at him.

“You really want me to take charge?”

Feng Su did not answer, but the amusement in his eyes was unmistakable.

Against the glass window, long hair drifted as the reflection revealed two entwined figures.

Li Jiuwei could clearly see Feng Su, and she could also see how readily her actions drew all kinds of responses from him.

She could control Feng Su’s emotions as well—

A wicked idea took shape in Li Jiuwei’s mind, and she grew increasingly audacious.