At the engagement banquet, the guests had eaten and drunk their fill. As the protagonist of the event, Mu Xinyi was no exception.
Gulp!
Mu Xinyi swallowed hard, her face blushing so red it looked like blood might drip from her cheeks. She glared at Qin Ge, angrily saying, “Qin Ge, you’d better not be lying to me. If you are, I’ll make sure you regret it!”
Qin Ge patted her shoulder in a soothing gesture and sighed, “You finally cracked. With your usual personality, once you’ve suffered a loss, you’d never let yourself get humiliated again.”
Mu Xinyi felt like her brain was always half a beat behind whenever she was around Qin Ge. In frustration, she gave up resisting and snapped, “Mind your own business! Cough, cough…”
Qin Ge gave her a reassurance pill, figuratively and literally, “Relax. I’ve got no reason to lie to you.”
Truthfully, if Mu Xinyi hadn’t been such a cunning loli—so adept at weighing pros and cons—he wouldn’t have needed to resort to threats. Binding their interests together was necessary. Rather than coercion, Qin Ge much preferred complete conquest—both mentally and physically.
The satisfaction of leaving no room for future trouble was far more lasting and fulfilling than mere short-term pleasure.
That said, special situations called for special treatment.
Qin Ge wasn’t stubborn. He didn’t know if a twisted melon tasted sweet, but he knew it quenched thirst.
After resuming his role as a diligent and persistent “captain,” Qin Ge didn’t forget his actual objective.
The banquet was drawing to a close.
At this hour, the timid Lin Xiaojin was surely anxiously awaiting his arrival. After all, in a place where she was unfamiliar with everyone, sticking close to him was the safest option.
But Qin Ge deliberately didn’t show up. Instead, he had a female chauffeur send Lin Xiaojin straight home.
To put it nicely, he was building anticipation in her heart—making her long for his presence even more.
To put it less nicely… Lin Xiaojin still needed some time to stew.
As the banquet dispersed, Qin Ge and Mu Xinyi made their way to the main hall together.
Seeing them, the Mu Family patriarch and Chen Kai both frowned.
“Xinyi?”
“Qin Ge?!”
Just then, from outside, Chen Yuan—who had gone to chase the assassin—stormed back in. In his hand, he dragged a burly man like a dead dog.
Spotting Qin Ge in the banquet hall, a sneer formed in Chen Yuan’s heart.
A rich pretty boy like him? No comparison at all.
No matter how rich he was, he only had one life. If Chen Yuan wanted to take it, he could slap Qin Ge into a corpse on the spot.
Facing the Mu patriarch, Chen Yuan threw the corpse aside and reported, “Sir Mu, I found the assassin. But he took poison beforehand and committed suicide out of guilt.”
Hearing this, Mu Xinyi—dressed in an embroidered wedding gown with a coat over her shoulders—hurried forward to inspect the corpse.
“Miss Xinyi, don’t worry. With me around, something like today will never happen again,” Chen Yuan said as he gazed at Mu Xinyi’s delicate loli face, his thoughts running wild. This chapter was taken from g.com without permission.
He’d had his eye on this Mu Family heiress for a long time. She might not be breathtakingly beautiful, but her allure to any man was absolutely overwhelming.
All her buffs were maxed out.
A top-tier, legal loli!
Mu Xinyi looked up and gave him a crisp slap.
Pa!
The sound of the slap echoed through the banquet hall.
Face filled with fury, her chest rising and falling with anger, Mu Xinyi roared, “Useless! You were told to capture the assassin, and you brought back a dead man!”
“Now that he’s dead, what can we ask him? How do we know this isn’t just a scapegoat you found?”
Chen Yuan clutched his cheek in a daze, “Miss Xinyi?”
He remembered that she used to smile at him.
Why had her attitude changed so drastically today?
Pa—!
Mu Xinyi slapped him again, her voice thunderous, “That one was for your blindness! My name is Mu Xinyi. You may call me ‘Young Miss’ or ‘Miss Mu,’ but who gave you, a servant, the right to call me Xinyi?”
In the past, impressed by his strength, she’d even considered recruiting Chen Yuan as a deathsworn. But now, with Qin Ge by her side, Chen Yuan had no value left to her.
She no longer needed to care about his feelings.
Even the Mu patriarch couldn’t stay silent seeing this. He tried to intervene, “Xinyi, what are you doing? Chen Yuan has done no wrong. Are you trying to discourage those who serve our Mu Family?”
Upon hearing that, Mu Xinyi retracted her now sore right hand and gave Chen Yuan another slap with her left, roaring, “You’re just a servant, and you dare drive a wedge between me and my father? Are you blind?!”
Slap slap slap!
Qin Ge couldn’t hold back his applause.
Brilliant!
Absolutely brilliant!
It was as if the Goddess of Slaps herself had opened the door—this was divine!
Chen Yuan’s face twisted with rage, blood vessels crawling across his eyes. He glared at Qin Ge with murderous fury and growled, “Qin Ge!?”
Qin Ge rolled his eyes with supreme disdain, “What’s wrong with your brain? I’m just clapping. How does that offend you?” This chapter is updated first at g.com.
“What, mad now? Don’t tell me you’re planning to hit a weak and fragile girl?”
Chen Yuan’s pupils shrank. He was on the brink of losing control, a murderous aura bursting from his body. Mu Xinyi staggered back in fear, terrified he might slap her to death on the spot.
Chen Yuan exhaled heavily, then turned to the Mu patriarch and shouted, “Old dog! Today’s humiliation—I’ll repay it a hundredfold!”
Hmph!
He snorted in fury, then turned and stormed off.
Immediately after, a series of system prompts rang in Qin Ge’s mind.
[Child of Destiny Chen Yuan has developed intense killing intent toward the host. Reward: +5,000 Destiny Villain Points.]
[Child of Destiny, humiliated and furious, has been utterly defeated by slaps. Reward: +??? Destiny Villain Points.]
Tsk tsk tsk!
Truly worthy of being a Child of Destiny.
Qin Ge couldn’t help but admire the man’s restraint. If it were him, forget three consecutive slaps—he would’ve kicked her straight into the wall the moment she raised her hand.
Burning with rage and still able to walk away after a single insult?
What, trying to build hate and pad the word count?
If it were him, the Mu Family wouldn’t even see a single uncracked egg or a single squirming worm the next day. That’s how thoroughly he’d wreck the place.
“I was so scared! Brother Qin, I was terrified!”
After ruthlessly slapping Chen Yuan, Mu Xinyi promptly dove into Qin Ge’s arms, demanding he fulfill his promise. She clung to him tightly, full of dependence and affection.
The Mu patriarch’s pupils trembled violently. Chen Kai was still standing right there!
What was his daughter doing?!
Flirting with Qin Ge in front of her fiancé?
Giving Chen Kai a green hat?!
Chen Kai, son of the powerful Chen Family from Magic City. Even if the Chens weren’t as strong as the top families like the Wangs or Huangs, their background wasn’t far off.
In Chen Kai’s eyes, Mu Xinyi had always been his.
Now, seeing her nestled in Qin Ge’s arms like this—how could he not be enraged?
Crack!
Chen Kai nearly shattered a molar from grinding his teeth. Trembling with fury, he roared, “Mu Xinyi, what do you think you’re doing?!”