Wang Chenning’s words made Luo Yuqing burst out laughing. "You really get me! Let’s go with your idea. Have them smash up their own cars, and we’ll let this go!"
In stark contrast to Luo Yuqing’s delight, everyone else was completely stunned. A chill ran down their spines.
After all, not a single one of the luxury cars on the scene had cost less than two million new.
Even though these people were all rich and powerful, destroying a car worth several million was bound to hurt. Not only that, but it was incredibly humiliating.
Worse, Luo Yuqing wanted them to smash their own cars. It was like rubbing salt in the wound—stabbing themselves with their own hands.
But with even Li Mingchao speaking so deferentially, none of them dared to cross Luo Yuqing again. They could only do as they were told.
Zhao Xiao’an, who had been quiet the whole time, merely sighed without comment.
At this point, it had become a battle of face. Even if Luo Yuqing hadn’t been there, she wouldn’t have let it go so easily. She would have made sure to thoroughly humiliate them before dropping it. She just hadn’t expected Wang Chenning to be even more vicious than Luo Yuqing.
’She had underestimated him.’
The police came and went.
Both sides of the conflict stated they had already reached an agreement on how to resolve the matter and didn’t need the police to get involved.
If it had been ordinary people, the police certainly wouldn’t have let it slide. But they knew the people involved were anything but ordinary.
Since neither side wanted them to intervene, the police were happy to grant them the favor and let them handle it themselves.
Besides, their higher-ups had also told them not to get involved.
They simply instructed hotel security to delete the surveillance footage from the area.
And so, many people experienced a night they would never forget.
CRASH! The Maserati GT’s headlight shattered. The Bugatti Veyron’s headlight was also viciously smashed by its own owner.
In less than ten minutes, all the luxury cars that had come to back them up were reduced to a pitiful state through the "efforts" of their owners.
All the headlights were shattered, and neither the windshields nor the windows were spared.
’A pair of lunatics!’ That was everyone’s assessment of Wang Chenning and Luo Yuqing.
Their hearts were bleeding. They wished they could tear Luo Yuqing and Wang Chenning apart with their bare hands.
Li Mingchao, however, breathed a sigh of relief.
He knew Luo Yuqing didn’t want to take things further. She just wanted to vent and, more importantly, make a scene big enough to make everyone fear her.
The cars looked like they’d been through hell, but once the glass and headlights were replaced, they would be more or less back to normal.
A few hundred thousand, a million at most, would cover the repairs. A quick calculation showed that the total cost for the seven or eight luxury cars would be under ten million.
Getting off with just a ten-million-yuan bill after pissing off Luo Yuqing? They should consider themselves incredibly lucky.
If Luo Yuqing hadn’t been willing to let it go, the price they would have had to pay would have been immense.
Although Li Mingchao felt relieved, the rage in his heart was indescribable.
He had never been so humiliated in his life. He felt murderous.
The Li family might not be as powerful as the Zhao family, but they were no ordinary family.
Li Mingchao couldn’t exactly do whatever he pleased in Yandu, but people always showed him respect wherever he went. After all, a young master of the Li family was not someone to be trifled with.
But today, he had been utterly and completely humiliated.
The frustration festering inside him was immense; there was no way he could just swallow this insult.
’Wang Chenning, I’ll teach you the meaning of regret!’
* * *
"I never would have guessed you could be so devious," Luo Yuqing said, grinning at Wang Chenning after they sat down in a private room at the seafood restaurant. "I never even thought of making them smash their own cars. That move was vicious—more brutal than anything I could’ve come up with. That was the most satisfying humiliation I’ve ever seen. They probably want to tear you limb from limb, to make you die a death by a thousand cuts."
"Do you have to jinx me like that?" Wang Chenning retorted with a laugh. "I only did it to stick up for you, didn’t I? If they try to get back at me, you’d better have my back!"
Luo Yuqing rolled her eyes at Wang Chenning. "I was just about to ask you why you were so bold. Weren’t you afraid they’d retaliate? So this was your plan all along, to use me!"
"Luo Yuqing!" An extremely irritated Zhao Xiao’an shot Luo Yuqing a glare. "You’d better clean up this mess properly. Don’t drag Wang Chenning down with you, understand?"
"I know, I know!" Luo Yuqing reached out and pinched Zhao Xiao’an’s cheek, replying playfully, "I won’t let your little sweetheart get hurt!"
Zhao Xiao’an smacked Luo Yuqing’s hand away with a SLAP! "If you keep talking nonsense, I’m not eating with you!"
"Hmph, you’re not the one paying!" Luo Yuqing dismissed her. "Wang Chenning is treating us. As long as he doesn’t kick me out, I’m staying!"
Wang Chenning watched them bicker with a grin. There was a certain charm to beautiful women having a temper tantrum, and he enjoyed the show.
His amused grin earned him another eye-roll from Zhao Xiao’an.
"Do you know who Li Mingchao is?" Luo Yuqing asked Wang Chenning with a smile. "Or any of those other guys?"
"Nope," Wang Chenning said, shaking his head. "Doesn’t matter who they are. If they dare to bully my friends, I’ll step in."
"Then let me fill you in."
Luo Yuqing didn’t beat around the bush and gave Wang Chenning a rundown of Li Mingchao and the key figures with him.
The Li family was an old, established family with considerable influence, primarily on the economic front.
Li Mingchao was one of the favorite grandsons of the Li family patriarch, Li Baoguo. The man with him today was his cousin, Li Mingxuan. Both of them are quite outstanding, and the Li family has placed high hopes on them.
"Li Mingchao is definitely not your average person," Wang Chenning said, nodding thoughtfully. "Faced with a situation like today’s, he kept his cool and knew when to yield. He’s more capable than most."
"Good that you realize that," Luo Yuqing said with another smile, then shot a teasing remark at Zhao Xiao’an. "Xiao’an, you’ve got good taste!"
"None of your business!" Zhao Xiao’an snapped, still looking irritated.
Luo Yuqing ignored her and continued talking about Li Mingchao.
Eventually, the conversation turned to Yang Xiaofei.
"Li Mingchao and Yang Xiaofei are very close. He’s a year older than her, and they went to the same middle school and high school. Li Mingchao started pursuing her back in middle school, and both her father and his parents approve of the match. Yang Xiaofei’s younger brother, Yang Xiaodong, really looks up to Li Mingchao and even calls him ’Brother-in-law’ in public.
"You’ve met Yang Xiaofei, right? What do you think? Starting to feel something? She’s gorgeous, has an amazing body, and on top of that, Yang Liansheng just put her in charge of the Yang family’s business. If Li Mingchao marries her, the Yang family’s fortune will be in trouble."
Wang Chenning’s heart skipped a beat.
’No wonder Li Mingchao was looking at him so strangely just now. That guy must know about the engagement between him and Yang Xiaofei.’
’For Li Mingchao to still try to steal her away, knowing full well about their engagement... he’s got some serious nerve...’