“Darling, don’t be in such a rush to kill him!”
Jiang Ruyu said excitedly, “His panda-type blood is extremely valuable.
Since he came back alive, we can get some more from him.
If we send it up the chain, we’re sure to be rewarded!”
“You’re right!”
Xu Mingsheng sneered.
“Jiang Ning, for the sake of all the blood you gave us, I’ll let your mother go if you surrender without a fight.
Otherwise, you’re both dying today!”
“As if you could!”
Jiang Ning looked up and sneered.
“Hmph.
All you did was pick up the trash I threw out.
What’s there to be proud of?”
“Bullshit!
What are you talking about?”
Jiang Ruyu’s face changed, and she shouted, “Mingsheng, listen to me!
He’s lying!
I never let him touch me when we were together!”
“Never touched you?”
Jiang Ning sneered.
“I know your body like the back of my hand.
You have a red mole under your left breast, a butterfly-shaped birthmark on your inner right thigh, and you’re a ‘white tiger’…
If I’d never touched you, how would I know all that?”
“You…”
Jiang Ruyu was stunned.
‘I know I never let Jiang Ning touch me!’
‘But I can’t figure out how he knows such intimate details about my body.’
Seeing the look on Jiang Ruyu’s face, the guests in the hall were about seventy or eighty percent convinced.
It seemed the rumors that had been flying around were true after all.
The esteemed Young Master Xu of the Changsheng Group had actually married a beautiful “widow” from a previous relationship.
He had thoroughly disgraced the Xu family.
The more Xu Mingsheng thought about it, the angrier he became.
He raised his hand and slapped Jiang Ruyu across the face.
“You bitch!
Didn’t you say he never touched you?
You were lying to me!
And I actually believed it was your first time!
You even said you lost your virginity from a bicycle accident!”
Jiang Ruyu tried to explain, “I…
I don’t know!
Mingsheng, believe me, you’re the only man I’ve ever been with!
It really was my first time!”
“Then how does he know your body so well?”
“I…”
Flustered and furious, Jiang Ruyu pointed at Jiang Ning.
“You…
tell me!
When did you spy on me?”
Jiang Ning said with contempt, “Spy on you?
You were the one on your knees, begging me to marry you.
Is there any part of you I haven’t played with over and over?
Why would I need to spy?”
Although Jiang Ning had never been intimate with Jiang Ruyu, he had mastered the Celestial Eye.
To him, it was as if she wasn’t wearing any clothes; he could see every detail on her body at a glance.
“Enough!
Fucking bitch!
I’ll deal with you after this is over.”
Xu Mingsheng had been pushed to the brink of madness.
He roared, “Ah Hu!
Break his legs, but keep him alive!
I want to drain his blood again and make him wish he were dead!”
Ah Hu cracked his knuckles and walked forward, a savage grin on his face.
“Kid, I don’t know what tricks you pulled just now, but today you’re a dead man.”
The two men were in completely different leagues.
One was a mass of knotted muscle with calloused fists, towering over Jiang Ning and outweighing him completely.
“This kid’s finished.
Brother Hu is Young Master Xu’s top enforcer.
I hear he used to be an underground fighter abroad and has killed more than a few people.”
Just as a smug Ah Hu came to stand before Jiang Ning, about to open his mouth, Jiang Ning suddenly struck.
A single finger jabbed directly into his throat.
The burly Ah Hu clutched his neck, his eyes wide with terror as he stared at Jiang Ning, and collapsed with a heavy THUD.
Jiang Ning had no intention of sparing the thug who had broken his mother’s arm.
With a single finger, he had sent him to his death.
“Wh-what just happened?” Xu Mingsheng stammered, stunned.
Jiang Ning had moved so fast that no one had time to react.
With one unbelievable finger strike, Xu Mingsheng’s top enforcer had been silenced forever.
“He…
he killed someone!”
Seeing that Ah Hu was truly dead, someone in the hall screamed, and the crowd began to flee in a panic.
“Bastards!
Get back here!
All of you!”
Seeing that no one was listening, Xu Mingsheng yelled at the security guards, “All of you, attack!
I’ll take full responsibility if you kill him.
If you don’t, I’ll kill you!”
The security guards shouted their acknowledgment and, mustering their courage, began to close in.
“With this bunch of useless clowns?”
Jiang Ning snatched a ceramic bowl, crushed it in his hand, and flicked his wrist.
Countless tiny porcelain shards shot out like bullets, felling every one of the guards who were closing in.
Then, Jiang Ning leaped into the air, grabbing both Jiang Ruyu and Xu Mingsheng by the throat.
“You…
You’re a Martial Artist.”
Xu Mingsheng stared at Jiang Ning in disbelief.
A Martial Artist’s physical prowess far exceeds that of an ordinary person; a hundred men are no match for one.
Martial Artists are typically ranked into four tiers: Celestial, Earth, Profound, and Yellow.
A Celestial Level Martial Artist is known as a Grandmaster, while a Congenital Martial Artist who has surpassed the Grandmaster level is called a Terrestrial Immortal.
Martial Artists hold an extraordinary status and are usually employed by great families as retainers or Honored Guest Elders.
After all, even a low-level Yellow Level Martial Artist is not someone a minor family can afford to provoke.
“Jiang Ning, I’m begging you, let me go!
I know I was wrong!
Xu Mingsheng forced me to do it all!
You wanted to be with me, right?
Just spare me, and I’ll let you do whatever you want to me.”
Jiang Ruyu’s eyes were filled with terror.
She pleaded for her life, even deliberately pulling down the bodice of her wedding dress to reveal her stunning cleavage.
Hearing that Jiang Ning was a Martial Artist filled her with dread.
She knew what she’d done to him; he must be itching to kill her.
And now, killing her would be effortless for him.
“Hmph.
Now, I find you filthy.”
Jiang Ning flicked a finger across her neck, slicing her carotid artery.
Terrified, Jiang Ruyu clamped a hand to her neck, but blood gushed between her fingers like water from a broken faucet, spraying all over Xu Mingsheng’s face.
“Darling, save…
save me!”
With a look of pure terror, Jiang Ruyu reached for Xu Mingsheng.
A moment later, she felt all the strength drain from her body through the gash in her neck.
Her pristine white wedding dress, stained with crimson blood, created an image of strange, morbid beauty as she collapsed.
Jiang Ruyu could never have imagined that what was supposed to be the happiest day of her life would end up being her last.
“Don’t…
don’t kill me!
This has nothing to do with me!
I don’t know anything!”
Terrified by Jiang Ning’s brutality, Xu Mingsheng’s legs began to shake.
A moment later, a foul-smelling stream of liquid trickled down from his crotch.
“But you had my mother’s arm broken.”
Jiang Ning grabbed both of his arms and twisted sharply.
With two sharp CRACKS, Xu Mingsheng’s arms were broken, the white shards of bone piercing through his flesh.
“AAAAH!”
Xu Mingsheng screamed in agony, the excruciating pain from his broken arms causing him to pass out.
“How dare you!”
Shortly after Jiang Ning broke the man’s arms, a furious roar echoed through the hotel lobby.
Immediately, a figure flew through the air, his leg descending on Jiang Ning’s head like a giant python.
Jiang Ning frowned.
He released Xu Mingsheng and raised his arm to block.
After a quick exchange of blows, both fighters retreated a few steps.
“A Profound Level Martial Artist.
No wonder you’re so arrogant!”
A thin, black-clad old man now stood before Jiang Ning, staring at him coldly.
His triangular eyes, like those of a viper, radiated a chilling, vicious cruelty.
“You vile cur!
How dare you cause such a scene at a Xu family wedding banquet.”
Moments later, a group of people surged into the hall from outside the hotel.
Amid the wreckage lay the lifeless body of Jiang Ruyu and the unconscious Xu Mingsheng, his arms twisted and broken.
The man leading them was none other than Xu Jiangshan, Patriarch of the Xu family—one of the eight great families of the East Sea—and Xu Mingsheng’s father.
Seeing the scene in the hall, the Patriarch’s face went white with rage.
He pointed a trembling finger at Jiang Ning and cursed, “You fiend…
to act with such cruelty!
Who sent you?
Why are you doing this?”
Jiang Ning replied coldly, “There’s no why.
I did it because I wanted to.
Stop wasting my time with pointless questions.”
“Good!
Very good!”
Xu Jiangshan’s face went white with fury.
In all his years, he had never seen anyone behave with such arrogance in his presence.