Su Jingxue shuddered when he heard those words. They were the exact words he had just said.
“How dare you!” Su Mu’s eyes were red with fury as she shrieked, “Someone, bring out the family punishment!”
The servants who had just witnessed Su Ni kill a wolfdog with her bare hands stood there holding their sticks, none of them daring to step forward.
Seeing this, Su Mu screamed furiously, “What are you waiting for? Beat her!”
Su Ni crossed her arms, completely fearless. In a calm, almost leisurely voice, she said, “Tomorrow is Su Mengyao’s birthday banquet. I don’t mind showing up covered in injuries.”
Su Mu hadn’t expected her to pull something like this.
The Su family had invited celebrities and influential figures from all walks of life to tomorrow’s birthday banquet. They simply couldn’t afford to lose face in front of all those guests.
By then, Su Jingxue had recovered. He wiped the remaining pool water from his face, his eyes filled with hatred, and shouted, “Mom, you can’t just let her off like this! At worst, lock her up tomorrow. Then we can make sure no one hears her no matter how much she screams.”
Su Ni glanced at him and drawled, “Sure. When the banquet starts, you can all have fun downstairs while I provide the accompaniment from upstairs. I’m sure it’ll be absolutely spectacular.”
Su Mengyao hesitated.
Tomorrow was the most important day of her life, and she didn’t want anything to go wrong. So she quietly urged, “Mom, if the Huo family finds out we’ve locked Sister up, I’m afraid that wouldn’t be a good idea.”
No matter what, Su Ni was still Huo Shiyue’s fiancée, and anything that happened to her would reflect on Huo Shiyue as well.
Su Mu was genuinely frightened now.
Su Ni might be nothing more than a wild girl from the countryside, and they could do whatever they wanted to her, but the Huo family was someone they absolutely could not afford to offend.
Su Ni curled her lips.
She hadn’t expected that she would get to “bully people with her connections” one day.
Deliberately trying to scare Su Mu, she said, “Oh, dear. What if Huo Shiyue finds out that you’ve beaten up his fiancée and made him lose face? What if he gets angry and retaliates against the Su Group…”
Thinking about what had happened to the people who had dared to oppose Huo Shiyue, Su Mu’s face instantly turned deathly pale, and her body began trembling uncontrollably.
Seeing how easily she’d frightened her, Su Ni immediately lost interest. She waved her hand and turned to leave.
“If you’re not going to hit me, then I’m leaving.”
Seeing her walk away just like that, Su Jingxue pointed at her and began cursing.
“Su Ni, just you wait! Once the Huo family breaks off your engagement, I’ll make sure you wish you were dead!”
Su Ni ignored him completely and walked straight toward her room.
Once she returned, she dialed a number.
“Did you find the people I asked you to look for?”
“Good. Keep them under protection in secret. Tell them that I can help them get justice for their deceased loved ones.”
Su Ni’s gaze turned cold.
This was the “big gift” she had prepared for Su Jingxue.
Su Mengyao’s eighteenth birthday banquet went ahead as scheduled.
No matter how skeptical outsiders were of the marriage between Huo Shiyue and Su Ni, as long as their engagement still existed, they had to show the Su family some respect. As a result, even more guests came than expected.
No one knew what strings Su Mu had pulled, but she had actually managed to invite Huo Minghui.
Su Mengyao was currently accompanying him. Although Huo Shiyue had already woken up and she no longer thought much of Huo Minghui, she didn’t mind having another backup option.
Seeing the scene before him, Su Zhengguo was grinning from ear to ear. Given enough time, the Su family’s standing in Jingbei would surely rise to an even higher level.
The three Su brothers were also busy circulating among the guests, raising their glasses again and again, brimming with confidence and satisfaction.
Su Mu had specifically ordered people to keep an eye on Su Ni and forbid her from going downstairs.
Su Ni had never been interested in today’s banquet in the first place. At that moment, she was leisurely reading a medical book in her room.
The poison in Huo Shiyue’s body was rather troublesome. Although she could use her own blood to make medicine that would detoxify him, she didn’t want to end up dying from excessive blood loss.
So she still needed to find a safer and more reliable way to cure him.
Unfortunately, some people simply couldn’t resist digging their own graves.