In Yu Se’s mind, Longcheng belonged to an uncharted world waiting to be developed. The wealthy families he had managed to make contact with so far were already two:
The Xiao family of Xiao Lin, and the Lu family of Lu Yunchen.
And now, a Feng family had come into the picture.
Although Yu Se never really read web-based melodramatic novels, it didn’t mean he never read other genres, such as the earlier batch of Jin Yong, Gu Long, and Wong Kar-wai, the later batch of Nobel Prize literature collections, mixed with a portion of world classics.
Studying medicine was an extremely grueling undertaking, requiring a massive investment of time and energy to delve into medical knowledge and memorize all sorts of complicated theories and case studies.
Whenever he managed to steal a moment of leisure amidst the busyness, he would still seize the opportunity to find other books to alleviate the pressures of studying.
The fictional world he currently inhabited instead gave Yu Se a bit of a novel feeling, especially resembling being in a martial arts world where several major families fought openly and covertly, featuring both polite superficial interactions and secret contests and rivalries.
Overall, Yu Se was still full of curiosity about this so-called Feng family.
The result did not disappoint.
What best reflected a wealthy family’s assets and status was, firstly, social influence, and secondly, the wealth and resources mastered by the family.
The Feng family clearly did both of these things exceptionally well.
The Feng family’s ancestral residence was built on the side of Mount Qing, which possessed supreme geomantic feng shui. This was simply not something that could be accomplished with ordinary wealth; the entire villa complex backed the mountain and faced water, scattered in an orderly fashion, possessing both classical elegance and modern luxury. Inside the villa complex, green trees shaded the grounds and the fragrance of flowers drifted about, making it feel like an existence akin to a utopia.
Yu Se had previously been deeply shocked by the backer’s luxury, but now, coming to the Feng family’s ancestral residence, he felt the sins of the capitalist world even more profoundly.
At the same time, he perceived instinctively that dealing with this family required even greater caution and care, as the more deep-seated a family’s qualifications, the more unfathomable they were.
The bodyguard who invited him parked the car near the flowerbeds close to the buildings, and a butler dressed in exquisite attire immediately came forward to welcome them.
The butler ritualistically stated his surname, Jin. When he saw the name tag printed with Cankang Male Obstetrics Private Hospital near the chest of Yu Se’s white lab coat, his entire person went bad.
“Sir, could you please hand your white lab coat over to me for temporary safekeeping?”
These two sentences were uttered extremely abruptly; if the butler hadn’t possessed sound professional composure, he probably would have started stripping Yu Se’s clothes on the spot right then and there.
Yu Se was wearing a clean and neat shirt underneath, so it didn’t really matter. He took off the lab coat and handed it to Butler Jin.
Butler Jin turned and shoved the lab coat behind him, then glared fiercely at the two bodyguards in the back. “You two returned at the exact right moment, the family head has arrived.”
The logic of these two sentences was also exceptionally incoherent. However, the two bodyguards instantly turned ashen, their originally tall, mighty bodies trembling uncontrollably like two candles about to burn out, swaying precariously in the wind.
Their eyes were filled with genuine fear and unease, constantly glancing toward the glass room diagonally opposite the flowerbed.
It was as if the so-called family head mentioned just now was currently like a raging flood dragon confined in a glass house, baring its blood-red jaws at them, preparing to devour anyone in its path.
An oppressive and terrifying atmosphere instantly permeated the air, suffocating to the point where even breathing became exceptionally difficult.
An inexplicable chill rose in Yu Se’s heart, and his gaze involuntarily cast itself toward that seemingly calm yet crisis-laden glass room.
He tried to pry into something through the crack of the half-drawn curtains, but besides blurred light and shadow and occasionally flashing silhouettes, he saw nothing.
Butler Jin had originally intended to lead Yu Se around the long way.
But he couldn’t.
The family head was sitting inside that glass room; the vehicles driving back from the manor grounds and the figures stepping out of the cars had probably long been taken into the other person’s field of vision. If they didn’t go over to say hello, it would likely invite suspicion.
Right now, he could only hope the family head hadn’t seen the white lab coat Yu Se was wearing.
Butler Jin led the way in front, whispering, “Sir, could you please help tell a little white lie? I will definitely reward you handsomely afterward.”
Yu Se said, “What lie?”
Butler Jin said, “Later on, you must disguise yourself as a newly hired ordinary family doctor. No matter what else I say, you just need to agree with it.”
As he spoke, he used one hand to gently pull open the door of the glass room, and a wave of even more intense oppression washed over them, as if the entire space were shrouded in invisible gravity.
Butler Jin stepped across the threshold first, his posture humble and cautious, every step seemingly measuring the distance to the family head.
Yu Se followed closely behind, secretly plotting the role-playing about to be staged in his mind, while fine beads of sweat spontaneously oozed from his palms.
The interior of the glass room turned out to be completely different from its exterior. The glass material on the outside was for visual transparency, while the inside adopted special soundproof and heat-insulating materials, creating a serene atmosphere isolated from the outside world.
Soft lighting spilled over the exquisite furniture, bright and full of luxurious beauty.
The so-called family head sat on a wide sofa, his expression as calm as water, yet his gaze as sharp as an eagle’s, seemingly capable of penetrating the human heart.
Then, Yu Se accidentally made eye contact with the other person.
His heartbeat also came to a sudden, stagnant halt.
What a pair of jade-like, glazed-colored eyes, absorbing all the lush vibrancy from the entirety of Mount Qing, green to the point of richness, green to the point of translucency, green to the point where anyone gazing upon them would involuntarily indulge and drown within them.
A foreigner?
Not at all.
Instead, he was a genuine mixed-race beauty, flawlessly blending the strengths of both East and West. He possessed both the three-dimensional facial contours unique to Europeans and the unique, warm skin of Asians. His facial features were delicate yet three-dimensional, his bridge of nose prominent yet not lacking softness. His lip shape was exquisite and upturned slightly, resembling a graceful young beauty stepped straight out of an oil painting.
Mm…
Not quite the age of a youth anymore, but because he was too breathtakingly beautiful, it made people worry that this person before them would never age.
The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Ahahaha!
Yu Se now knew why Duan Yu fell in love at first sight upon seeing Wang Yuyan for the first time, willingly becoming a bootlicking simp.
Beauty is not a crime.
Just from that single soul-stirring glance exchanged with the Feng family head, Yu Se was already standing in place like an ignorant bumpkin who had never tasted anything good since childhood, his heart beating like a drum.
Until the Feng family head picked up the riding crop placed beside him and lashed it across the man kneeling before him.
“Crack!” With a splash of blood and gore, a bloody streak was instantly whipped across the man’s chest. Although it didn’t damage his internal organs, it still scraped off a layer of skin, and after the skin split open, a string of scarlet blood beads oozed out.
Ahahaha!
Yu Se’s soul had originally scattered into the wind because of seeing a beauty, and then scattered into the wind again because the beauty swung a whip.
Oh Yu, Oh Yu, what shall I do with you?
The Feng family head remained completely unmoved, utterly devoid of any understanding of pity. He tossed the blood-stained whip to someone beside him and asked the kneeling man indifferently, “Do you know you were wrong?”
The man kneeling on the ground looked to be in his early thirties, his upper body stripped completely bare, revealing only a robust physique sculpted from working out in the gym year-round.
His chest was large, and its shape was extremely fine.
Now adorned with two or three whip marks, his entire body was suffused with an aura blending cruelty and tenacity.
The man gritted his teeth tightly, sweat rolling down his forehead like disconnected beads, dripping onto the whip-inflicted wounds and bringing a sharp, intense sting.
“As the eldest brother, I will manage Zhile seriously.” Feng Cheng, the eldest young master of the Feng family, clenched his jaw tightly. Although his spine remained upright and he didn’t utter a single groan, exhibiting absolute tenacity, refusing to yield, and preferring death over bending, every word and sentence still expressed utter loyalty and submission to the family head.
“Little Uncle.”
The Feng family head slightly narrowed those jade-glazed eyes, within which flashed a layer of complex light.
There were still two other people standing in the room, both personal bodyguards of the family head. Feng Yinchen could be considered as giving his nephew enough face by not humiliating the other party in full view of everyone.
Feng Yinchen stretched out a single finger toward Yu Se and crookened it. “You, come here.”
Yu Se’s body stiffened, his fingers tightening involuntarily. He hadn’t expected Feng Yinchen to call him out by name at this moment.
I just came in! Why are you staring at me?!
Butler Jin, standing to the side, didn’t dare to interrupt or refuse at all.
Feng Yinchen’s personality was fickle, vicious, and unfathomable. He was the most supreme existence in the entire Feng family, and no one dared to pick a fight with him.
The gazes of the few people in the room instantly converged on Yu Se, bringing an unprecedented wave of pressure.
Yu Se slowly got to his feet, every step feeling like he was walking on the blades of a knife as he trudged toward Feng Yinchen. His heart beat like a drum, almost leaping out of his chest, and he had no idea what awaited him.
He stopped walking once he reached Feng Yinchen, even though it was obviously he who was standing while the Feng family head was sitting.
Yet the relative height of the two was entirely unrelated to visual determination.
As a doctor, Yu Se had seen his fair share of people with different personalities, but such ultimate beauty combined with ultimate viciousness embodied so vividly in a single person—
This was truly his first time.
Those jade-glazed eyes seemed like bronze mirrors capable of insight into the human heart, yet also resembled bottomless green pools, striking fear into people’s hearts.
Yet in a daze, he was also deeply captivated by the other person’s god-defying beauty.
This person must definitely be the protagonist of this fictional world.
Yu Se was extremely certain; people in ordinary novels would never be portrayed to such a breathtaking degree of beauty.
Only someone who was the protagonist could represent the absolute peak of the entire book’s aesthetic scale.
Yu Se didn’t dare hold eye contact with him for too long, terrified that he would be madly sucked into those eyes and never be able to break free.
He was simply too innocent, even though his personality was steady, and even occasionally possessed a hint of natural dullness in certain aspects.
Harboring a sliver of unbefitting fantasy toward an especially gorgeous person was definitely human nature.
Yu Se thought: This guy should be able to give birth too.