After confirming that Dai Paipai had been killed, Li Qianfan suddenly realized.
He had already regarded that woman as one of his closest people!
Uncontrollable grief made Li Qianfan lose control of his emotions.
Even.
In his mind, the scene of Dai Paipai crying and shouting "Dad, come save me" before she died flashed by.
Pain, sorrow.
Self-reproach for failing to protect his loved ones was like a knife, fiercely piercing Li Qianfan's heart.
Tears finally flowed down.
A man doesn't shed tears easily, only when his heart is broken!
"What are you crying about, a grown man? Aren't you ashamed!"
Seeing Li Qianfan actually shedding tears, Su Nanyin found it amusing, disdainful, and even more annoyed. She cursed and kicked at him.
With a snap.
Li Qianfan raised his hand and grabbed her heel, his fingers tightening forcefully.
Ah!
Su Nanyin immediately felt as if her heel was about to be crushed, and she cried out in pain.
Li Qianfan's face contorted, and he growled in a low voice, "Paipai was my woman! She's dead, so what if I cry? Do you think I'm like you, a demon, without any humanity!?"
Su Nanyin froze.
Her heel no longer hurt.
It was because Li Qianfan had openly called her a inhuman demon!
Where was the knife?
There was no knife.
But Su Nanyin held a bottle of wine in her hand.
Without thinking, she raised the wine bottle and smashed it fiercely towards Li Qianfan's head.
Guang!
The sound of the wine bottle breaking in the early morning was particularly jarring.
Another person appeared at the door.
It was Zhai Xin.
As Mo Hongti's secretary, filling in for her in the office, Zhai Xin knew something major must have happened when Su Nanyin sought out the young master at this hour.
She dared not follow her and ask what was going on.
She could only stand at the office door, looking west with a worried expression.
Soon.
Zhai Xin heard Li Qianfan's angry shouts and the sound of the wine bottle breaking.
Without a moment's hesitation, she rushed over at full speed.
"Young Master!"
Upon reaching the door, Zhai Xin exclaimed in alarm, "What's wrong?"
After taking a hard hit to the head with the wine bottle, his vision went black, but he regained clarity in that instant.
He shouldn't have treated Su Nanyin with such an attitude.
After all, letting Dai Paipai die was something both Li Xiao and Li Wujiang had tacitly agreed to.
Su Nanyin had merely seen that the family of three could not bring themselves to do it and had taken the initiative to be the villain.
In fact, he not only shouldn't have taken his anger out on Su Nanyin for Dai Paipai's death, but he should have been grateful to her.
But he had—
Li Qianfan hurriedly released Su Nanyin's foot, wiped the wine from his face, and said in a low voice to Zhai Xin, "It's nothing. Zhai Xin, you should go back and rest."
Zhai Xin hesitated for a moment, then bowed and retreated, turning to leave.
Li Qianfan listlessly got off the ground.
Su Nanyin had put all her strength into smashing the wine bottle at him.
She had broken his head.
However, this superficial wound was nothing to Li Qianfan.
He possessed an incredibly uncanny self-healing ability.
It was said that at his peak, even if Su Nanyin were to stab him all over with a knife, by the time she finished stabbing his head and reached his feet, the wounds on his head would have already healed.
Li Qianfan got out of bed because the glass shards all over the bed needed to be cleaned up.
Lifting and rolling up the bedsheet would do the trick.
The glass on the floor, however, needed to be swept up with extra care.
As he swept the glass shards on the floor, he dared not look at Su Nanyin, who was sitting in a chair.
After smashing him with the wine bottle, Su Nanyin had been sitting there in a daze.
Tears were also streaming down her cheeks.
The pain of her right heel being bruised and rapidly swelling was secondary.
The key was heartache.
She had already done what the Li family should have done, bearing the reputation of a villain. Not only was Li Qianfan not grateful, but he had also called her an inhuman demon!
Li Qianfan silently cleaned up the glass fragments and went into the bathroom.
He washed his face and checked the wound on his head.
It was no problem at all.
When he came out, Su Nanyin was still sitting there, one foot resting on the edge of the bed, still in a daze.
Li Qianfan found the first-aid kit, took out some Hong Hua oil, walked up to her, and apologized with his head down, "Guanyin, I'm sorry."
"It's nothing."
Su Nanyin wiped her face and said in a calm tone, "I came to see you at this hour to tell you that Dai Paipai is gone. She was rescued."
Huh?
Li Qianfan was stunned.
"I had already calculated that you would never be able to bear to kill her. You would also calculate that after you let her go, I would send someone to kill her."
Su Nanyin said calmly, "You did let her go, and I did send someone to kill her. But just as my person was about to kill her, someone knocked out my subordinate and let her leave Qingyun. That person who saved her was the fourth person besides you, Junlin, and Bai Ziyan who formed the White Belly Bird. She claimed to be the shadow of the White Belly Bird, and someone loyal to you."
Li Qianfan said nothing.
He just stared at her blankly.
His eyes, however, were gradually brightening.
Of course, he could tell that everything Su Nanyin said was true.
Dai Paipai was gone, having been saved from an assassination attempt and left Qingyun alive!
But Li Qianfan had mistakenly thought that Su Nanyin meant Dai Paipai was dead when she said she was "gone," which caused him to lose control and become emotional.
He couldn't help but shed tears.
He was ridiculed by Su Nanyin, who thought he was too sentimental, and he couldn't help but kick her.
Then.
Her right foot was injured.
And Li Qianfan's head was smashed by a wine bottle.
"Besides asking if you can figure out who your shadow is."
Su Nanyin's expression was calm, as if nothing had just happened.
She just said seriously, "I want to ask for your opinion on whether to send more people to hunt her down before Dai Paipai escapes Tian Dong. After all, I failed once. If I'm going to do it a second time, it's best to get your consent."
"Don't send anyone to hunt her down!"
Li Qianfan replied decisively without thinking.
"I knew you would say that."
Su Nanyin nodded and asked, "Then, can you figure out who your shadow is?"
Li Qianfan couldn't think of anyone.
He knew more than a handful of female martial arts experts, but none of them would have a relationship with him based on "loyalty" to him.
"Then forget it. It seems even your parents don't know your true capabilities, let alone I, a heartless demon?"
Su Nanyin sneered, placed her foot down, and stood up.
As soon as she stood up, her foot suddenly stumbled.
Pain.
It hurt so much that her vision went dark.
She felt as if the bone in her right heel had been broken by Li Qianfan.
She hastily reached out for something to hold onto to maintain her balance.
Li Qianfan immediately reached out and supported her arm.
The darkness before Su Nanyin's eyes faded, and then she recoiled as if shocked, gritted her teeth, let out a muffled groan, and limped towards the door.
"Ahem, Guanyin, shall I help you apply medicine?"
Li Qianfan coughed dryly and asked.
Su Nanyin didn't look back, didn't stop her feet, and said indifferently, "As a heartless demon, how can I be qualified for Young Master Li to help me apply medicine?"
Li Qianfan—
He could only watch as she limped out of the guest room and slammed the door shut.
Upon returning to her room, Su Nanyin was already sweating profusely from the pain.
She sat on the sofa, looked down at her swollen, purplish-blue right foot, and coldly took out her phone, calling Li Wujiang again.
"You saw Qianfan?"
Li Wujiang was still quite sharp.
"Mm."
Su Nanyin grunted, her voice stiff, "I've been injured by your son, and I can't walk now. Come to Qingyun and pick me up."
Ah!?
Li Wujiang was stunned.
However, Su Nanyin didn't give her a chance to speak further. She turned off her phone, supported her forehead with her hand, and leaned back on the sofa.
Her face was full of pained exhaustion, and she closed her eyes.
The sky was dimly lit.
It was early winter.
Before the sun came out, a thin layer of white mist quietly enveloped the Flowing Water Pavilion.
If one looked down from the mountaintop, the Flowing Water Pavilion, faintly visible within the mist, appeared to be in an immortal realm.
Jiao Yin, accustomed to waking up early for morning practice, was doing warm-up exercises like leg stretches and waist extensions in the small pavilion in the backyard.
Buzz buzz buzz.
The phone on the bench beside her lit up.
Jiao Yin, dressed in a white training uniform with her hair tied in a ponytail, immediately lowered her left leg that was resting on a pillar and reached for her phone.
Seeing the caller ID—
Jiao Yin's delicate eyebrows furrowed slightly.
But as she answered the call, her face was filled with respect, "Madam."
Madam—
The Madam who called Jiao Yin was the most mysterious chief executive of the Dark Net!
Even Jiao Yin, the third executive, didn't know the true identity of the chief executive, nor did she know what capacity she operated in.
"Director Jiao."
The chief executive of the Dark Net went straight to the point, "The General Advisor (Jiao Yin knew the General Advisor was Yamaguchi Kyōka) and I have just decided on a plan that cannot be confirmed yet."
Jiao Yin asked, "What plan?"
Madam was silent for a moment before replying, "The Gestation Plan."