Lu Chengfeng elegantly crossed his legs, a smile on his face as he watched Da Nao and his ten men.
Da Nao and his nine underlings stared at Lu Chengfeng in astonishment.
Lu Songwen, the boss of Chengzhong, was a textbook coward.
When had he developed such a powerful aura?
This... It was like he was a completely different person!
Of course, Lu Chengfeng knew his arrogant demeanor was making these thugs suspicious.
But Lu Chengfeng couldn't care less what these ants thought.
As long as he could get past the group's top brass, the opinions of anyone else in the group didn't matter.
"As long as I, Lu Songwen, haven't stepped down, I am still one of the group's five bosses."
"If you're not going to stand up to talk to me, then get lost. We're not talking."
Lu Chengfeng said coolly.
The ten men exchanged glances. Their top priority, they thought, was to take over his bathhouse. It was a direct order from their boss.
Let's let him have his moment.
Fing Hell!
Once the transfer agreement is signed, we'll make him wish he were dead!
"Fine! I'd like to see how many more days you can play boss!" Da Nao retorted, pursing his lips defiantly.
"Brothers! We'll stand and talk!"
Da Nao and his nine men stood in a line before Lu Chengfeng.
"Lu Songwen—" Da Nao began harshly.
"Call me Brother Wen." Lu Chengfeng's gaze locked onto Da Nao.
"I'll say it again. As long as I, Lu Songwen, am one of the Donghai Five Tigers, you little shits will call me Brother Wen."
"This is a fucking rule of the underworld! And it's a rule of our Qiangsheng Group!"
"No 'Brother Wen,' no talk." Lu Chengfeng stared coldly at Da Nao.
Da Nao had no choice. Gritting his teeth in frustration, he forced out, "Brother Wen."
Lu Chengfeng then turned his gaze to Da Nao's other nine underlings.
"What about the rest of you? Are you deaf? Or mute? Don't you know to greet a boss of the group when you see one?"
The nine thugs looked at each other, momentarily stunned by Lu Chengfeng's refined and scholarly aura.
"Brother Wen!" the thugs called out reluctantly.
Lu Chengfeng smiled. "Good boys. It's good that the younger generation knows their manners. Alright, you may speak now."
Da Nao said in a sarcastic tone, "Then I'll get straight to the point, Brother Wen. I've taken a liking to your Da Fuhao Bathhouse."
"I'm here tonight to inform you that I'm taking this place!"
"I don't think you'd dare to object, would you?"
Lu Chengfeng took an elegant sip of tea and said deliberately, "Bosses are forbidden from snatching each other's territory, let alone trying to crush one another. That's a group rule. Don't you know that?"
"Fuck your rules!"
Da Nao's pent-up fury finally exploded.
"Brother Wen, I'm showing you fucking respect by calling you that! Without that respect, you're fucking nothing!"
"Two useless punks, Tian Ji and Xiao Liu, and that old piece of trash, Zhu You! That's a grand total of three men!"
"Now look at our Jiucheng Gang! We have five hundred men!"
"Buying your place is me doing you a favor! Do you understand what I'm saying, you son of a bitch?!"
"Even if I'm fucking standing, I still have more status than an impotent bastard like you!"
Lu Chengfeng didn't get angry. He maintained his smile and asked, "And what if I refuse to sell?"
Da Nao smirked coldly and glanced at Wen Lanlan. "Do you dare?"
"Your wife is so beautiful. It would be such a shame if she were to get gang-raped one day, wouldn't it?"
"And how tragic would it be if you were to get hit by a fucking truck one day!"
"If you dare to say no right now, I'll walk out of here this instant!"
"And I guarantee your whole family will have a surprise waiting for them tomorrow!"
At the side, the nine thugs leered at Wen Lanlan.
Lu Chengfeng chuckled. "Alright! I admit it, you've scared me. How about this? You guys head back to your own place first."
"I'll change my clothes, grab my ID, and come to your place in an hour to sign the transfer agreement."
"How does that sound?"
Da Nao let out a vicious laugh. "Fuck! You know what's good for you! Brothers, let's go back to the bathhouse and wait for him! If he dares not to show, I'll fucking kill him!"
With that, Da Nao turned to leave with his men.
Just then, Da Nao spotted a high-quality, sexy silk nightgown belonging to Wen Lanlan draped over the back of the sofa.
He snatched the pink silk nightgown and held it to his nose, taking a deep sniff.
"Sister-in-law, this is so soft and smells so good. I'll be taking it, hahaha!"
After saying this, Da Nao stuffed the silk nightgown into the front of his greasy pants.
"Bastard!" Wen Lanlan was, after all, a boss's wife. How could she endure such a humiliation? She erupted in fury.
"Da Nao! I, Wen Lanlan, am a wife of a group boss! Does your Jiucheng Gang have no fucking rules?!"
"Believe it or not, I can have Dou Ye finish you!"
Da Nao's eyes roamed lecherously over Wen Lanlan's curvy figure. "Sister-in-law, once I'm the boss, you can be with me. You'll still be the boss's wife!"
"I'm a real beast! I guarantee you won't be able to get out of bed!"
"Hahahahaha!"
With that, Da Nao swaggered out with his men.
"Lu Songwen!" Wen Lanlan's eyes welled with tears.
"A subordinate publicly humiliated your wife! Can you really just stand there and take it? And you said you were changing! I think you're just turning into a coward hiding in his shell!"
Lu Chengfeng ignored Wen Lanlan and turned his head. "Tian Ji, get me the machete."
Tian Ji said, "Brother Wen, you—"
"It's time to get to work."
Lu Chengfeng stood up and coldly took off his watch.
Wen Lanlan, Tian Ji, and Xiao Liu were momentarily stunned.
"Brother Wen, what are you going to do?"
"Enough talk! Get the machete!"
...
The streets of Donghai were listless in the middle of the night, lit by dim, yellow streetlights.
But the Jiucheng Gang's four bathhouses in the Chengzhong Area were bustling with activity.
With a machete in his right hand, Lu Chengfeng vaulted over the road barrier with his left and arrived at a bathhouse called Xingfu Bathhouse.
At that moment, two cashiers at the front desk were cracking melon seeds.
Five thugs guarding the place were playing cards and drinking.
When a masked Lu Chengfeng appeared at the entrance holding a machete, the thugs immediately sensed trouble and reached for their own blades.
Lu Chengfeng rushed towards the counter and immediately severed the landline's telephone cable.
In this era, brick phones were pitifully rare. As long as the landline was cut, the bathhouse would become an information island, unable to call for help in the short term.
"Fuck your mom! Who the hell dares to cause trouble at a Jiucheng Gang establishment—"
Before the leading thug could finish his sentence, Lu Chengfeng launched himself into the air and sent the man flying five meters with a spinning back kick.
"Get him!"
The other thugs saw this and immediately swarmed him.
But Lu Chengfeng was like a Flood Dragon emerging from the sea!
Every swing of his blade drew blood.
In a flash, all five thugs were on the floor, wailing in pools of their own blood.
The second location...
The third...
He repeated the process.
In less than twenty minutes, the thugs at all three bathhouses had been cut down and left lying in pools of blood.
Meanwhile, at the Hua Zhonghua Bathhouse where Da Nao and his nine underlings were stationed, they still hadn't received any news.
They were still waiting for Lu Chengfeng to arrive and sign the agreement.
The ten men had placed their machetes by the edge of the pool. With their heavily tattooed bodies exposed, they soaked in the water, passing around Wen Lanlan's sexy nightgown.
"Brother Nao, what the fuck kind of material is this? It feels amazing."
"Brother Nao, these city women really know how to dress! Look at this thing, it's see-through, shows off the skin... just looking at it makes you want to fuck her!"
"Fucking hell, I can't take it, just thinking about that woman Wen Lanlan!"
Da Nao's eyelids were heavy as he toyed with the nightgown.
After a long moment of thought, Da Nao finally made up his mind. He said sinisterly, "Later, after Lu Songwen signs the agreement and we take over his Da Fuhao Bathhouse, he'll have no territory left. He won't even count as a group boss anymore!"
"We'll just finish him off right then and there!"
"Then I'll take you all to his house, and the ten of us brothers can have some fun with Wen Lanlan together!"
"We'll fuck that slut to death! That'll teach her to prance around in such slutty clothes!"
"Yeah!"
A wicked glint appeared in the eyes of the nine thugs.
"Boss... I think someone's here to wreck the joint!"
Just then, one of the thugs caught a glimpse of a black shadow flitting past.
Da Nao raised his arm, which was covered in a large Orient Loong God tattoo, and held up Wen Lanlan's sexy nightgown to admire it. "You're seeing things," he said. "Who the fuck has the balls to come wreck a Jiucheng Gang joint—"
Before Da Nao could finish, he suddenly felt a cold sensation in his chest.
He looked down and was horrified to see the tip of a sharp blade protruding from his chest, having been stabbed clean through from his back...
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