Obsessed with matters of men and women like this, if the ancestors of the Pei family saw them from the underworld, they would probably be so angry their graves would smoke.
Pei Kexin could only let him follow her upstairs.
To prevent him from doing anything to her after entering the room, when the elevator reached the designated floor, Pei Kexin pretended her phone rang before entering the room.
She handed him the room card, letting him open the door first, while she stood two steps away from the door to answer the phone.
"Hello, honey, are you awake?"
"Mmm. I haven't eaten yet. I'm with Zong Rui now and we're about to eat. Have you guys already eaten? Second brother personally delivered breakfast to you? He's by your side now too..."
The room card beeped as it swiped open the door. Hearing Pei Kexin's words, Pei Zongrui suddenly turned his head.
Pei Kexin thought he was scared and continued to make up a story on the phone, "Big brother wants to know what Zong Rui's situation is now? He..."
*Snap*.
Pei Zongrui reached out and slapped the phone she was "talking on" to the ground.
He stomped on it several times until the screen was completely shattered.
He looked up, his eyes red as a rabbit's, his face as dark as if he were about to devour someone.
"Pei Kexin, if you dare to complain to my dad and the old man, next year on this day will be your death anniversary!"
Pei Kexin never expected him to be so audacious, to threaten her, to smash her phone!
Their eyes met. After a moment of surprise and calculation in her heart, a smile appeared on her face.
"I wasn't going to complain to your dad. I've been behaving so well lately, and all the clients have given positive feedback. How could I complain?"
"Zong Rui, you're tired. The work intensity has been too high lately... Come, come, go into the room to relax and rest. It's Auntie's fault, Auntie won't say anything more."
She tried to coax him as gently and considerately as possible, wanting to lure him into the room first.
Her cautious demeanor was such that she was practically begging to be his dog.
Pei Zongrui liked this side of her.
Seeing that she had softened, he finally turned to open the door.
"Let's relax and rest together. Auntie, wouldn't it have been better to be like this earlier? Men like gentle and sensible women, you know this... Aren't you coming in?"
Pei Kexin stood outside the door, pretending to pick up the shattered phone.
"There are company files in the phone. It would be bad if someone picked them up and leaked the information. You go in first, I'll pick up these pieces and then I'll come in."
Pei Zongrui turned and inserted the room card into the slot. The room lights turned on, and he instinctively took a step inside to survey the layout.
"The furnishings are quite nice, very clean and neat, suitable for work, but it lacks something for romance. Auntie, I never thought that one day, we two..."
He turned back to look for Pei Kexin, who was about to embrace him romantically at the door.
But where had she gone??
Pei Kexin seized the opportunity when he turned around, grabbed the shattered phone's motherboard, quietly stood up, and ran towards the stairwell.
To her dismay, as soon as she went down one floor, the lingering Pei Zongrui caught up again.
She prayed for the elevator to come up quickly so she could get rid of this lunatic.
"Pei Kexin! You're playing me, you bastard?! Trying to sneak away? Sneaking away right under my nose? Do you think so little of my intelligence? Are you tired of living?"
He slid down the stair railing like a nimble catfish and appeared in front of her.
Pei Kexin didn't even see how he got down before he blocked her way.
At that moment, she was terrified. She waved her bag and hit him with all her might, shouting with all her strength as she did so.
"Fire! Someone help! Come out and save me! There's a fire!"
"You're asking for death! I originally wanted to treat you well today, to let you experience gentleness, but you refuse a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit! Pei Kexin, then don't blame me for being impolite!"
He pulled the strap of her bag and with a sudden forceful tug, yanked Pei Kexin towards him.
Then, grabbing her arms, he effortlessly tossed her over his shoulder like a piece of clothing.
Pei Kexin, slumped over his shoulder, her vision black and her head spinning, thought it was over.
Her lifetime of good reputation, she never expected it to end like this...
Pei Zongrui, triumphant and smug, was preparing to take her back to "deal with her properly." But as he took his first step, a fist swung in front of him.
With a "clang," his vision went black, and he crashed headfirst into the wall.
Pei Kexin, who was on his shoulder, was immediately pulled away.
Zhan Jingchen's eyes blazed. He scooped Pei Kexin up with one arm, turned her to shield her from harm, lifted his leg, and kicked Pei Zongrui in the back again.
"Ah!"
After hitting the wall, he bounced back, and Pei Zongrui, dizzy and disoriented, fell to the ground again.
"Are you alright?"
Only then did Zhan Jingchen have the chance to look down at Pei Kexin.
After the terrifying ordeal, Pei Kexin was initially shocked and angry, but upon suddenly seeing Zhan Jingchen, she felt a surge of surprise.
"Why are you here?"
Zhan Jingchen didn't answer her. He let her stand properly, then walked over to Pei Zongrui, grabbed him by the hair, and lifted him entirely.
"Let's go back to the room to talk."
Pei Kexin led the way, and the three of them entered the room in a peculiar formation.
Upon entering, Zhan Jingchen locked the door from the inside and kicked Pei Zongrui in the stomach again, sending him to his knees.
"You dare to lay hands on my wife? Are you even human?"
"If you don't want to be a human today, Uncle will oblige. Kexin, find some scissors. You can't control it, right? Uncle will take the trouble to cut it off for you."
Pei Kexin was not a kind-hearted, forgiving saint who let others' mistakes slide.
On the contrary, her style was to be petty and seek revenge.
Therefore, now that she had the upper hand, even if Zhan Jingchen didn't make him pay, she wouldn't let him off the hook.
When Zhan Jingchen asked for scissors, regardless of whether it was true, she went to find them anyway.
The hotel room had a first-aid kit and a sewing kit. In the sewing kit was a small pink plastic pair of scissors that she had used the previous night to cut off clothing tags. She found them instantly.
Holding the scissors, she went to give them to Zhan Jingchen. Zhan Jingchen grabbed Pei Zongrui by the hair, forcing him to look up.
"You are truly disgusting and have opened my eyes. Pfft! Do you want to be dealt with horizontally or vertically? Pick the style you prefer."
As the eldest grandson of the Pei family, Pei Zongrui had never suffered a major setback since childhood.
Among the rich second-generation individuals of similar age in Nan City, apart from the notorious Yao Dongzhuo, he feared no one.
Especially this soft-rice eater who had suddenly appeared in the family, this good-for-nothing.
Uncle?
He never took him seriously at all!
On the contrary, Zhan Jingchen's heavy-handedness and threats were, in his eyes, an act of self-sabotage.
"Scumbag! You dare to show off in front of me when you're on par with our family's dog?"
"Hit me? Pei Kexin, you soft-rice eater, don't expect to return to Nan City! I'm going to tell my dad, tell my grandpa! You're dead! The Pei family will never even open the back door for a dog like you..."
Pei Kexin hated it most when he called her a dog.
She had tolerated it repeatedly before in front of his parents, but today she finally didn't have to.
"Slap!"
Mid-sentence, Pei Kexin grabbed the handbag on the nearby coffee table and hit him on the head again.
Then she instructed Zhan Jingchen.
"I haven't had breakfast and I'm out of energy, so I'll leave him to you. As long as you don't kill him, do whatever you want. When you're tired of playing, come downstairs to find me."