Young Master Hei Yan wore a disdainful expression and said in a commanding tone, “Name your price and transfer it to me right now.”
That sounded far too magnanimous. Wang Luan thought she should also be a bit magnanimous herself, otherwise she would really be letting down this dandy young master’s bearing, so she nodded and said, “Alright, two hundred billion.”
The other three people present all fell silent for a moment. Hei Yan laughed coldly in anger. “You fucking bought it for twenty billion and want to sell it to me for two hundred billion? Is your Wang family that short on money?”
“Just ten times the price. You don’t accept it because you’re short on money?” Wang Luan’s tone was puzzled. “If you can’t afford it, why did you say just now that I should name the price?”
Seeing how this dandy young master didn’t treat people like people, she had thought he wouldn’t treat money like money either, and would directly agree in one breath.
Although Yan Qiongyu had already experienced Miss Wang Luan’s ability to suddenly choke people to death with her words, this was still the first time he had seen this level of output. He thought that no matter who it was, they would feel heart palpitations for Hei Yan on the opposite side.
Hua Xinran had clearly experienced this kind of heart palpitations. She scolded angrily, “Wang Luan, how can you talk to Hei Yan like that!”
Hei Yan yanked his arm out of Hua Xinran’s grasp, flicked the cigarette butt in his hand toward Wang Luan, clenched his fist, and threatened, “Wang Luan, we haven’t seen each other for years and you dare to mock me now. You’ve really grown some guts. You want to fight me?”
Yes, the original Wang Luan had seen Hei Yan when she was young, had been beaten by him until her nose and face were bruised, and in the end hadn’t even gotten a single apology.
Wang Luan frowned and glanced at Hei Yan, then said to the bodyguards waiting nearby, “Didn’t you hear this person say he wants to hit me? Aren’t you going to stop him?”
The bodyguards who had been poised to act instantly rushed forward. If the young master of the Hei family were injured at their hands, they might be punished, but if Miss Luan of the main family were injured under their protection, that would not be something simple punishment could resolve.
Hei Yan was instantly surrounded by a group of bodyguards, staring at Wang Luan in disbelief.
His impression of Wang Luan was still stuck at the stage where she was that withdrawn, cowardly child who didn’t even dare cry out loud after being beaten. He had never imagined she would ridicule and mock him like this. He was immediately like an enraged lion.
“Are you even an Alpha! Hiding behind bodyguards and not daring to accept a challenge! I really look down on you!”
Wang Luan felt even more puzzled. “Did you ever look up to me before?” If he had looked up to her, he wouldn’t have come so righteously demanding things.
“My situation is something everyone knows. You used to call me trash plenty of times. Challenging a piece of trash you call trash, do you still think you’re impressive?” Wang Luan was used to laying everything out plainly. Her tone wasn’t sarcasm, yet was more sarcastic than sarcasm.
“If you can’t snatch something from someone else’s hands and then resort to making trouble and wanting to hit people, may I ask, are you an adult? Are you mentally sound?”
Yan Qiongyu had originally wanted to step out at the right time and say something, but since he rarely got to see the usually negative Miss Wang Luan display such strong aggression, he stood to the side with interest and watched her perform, pretending to be a harmless decorative vase and providing Miss Wang Luan with a beautiful backdrop.
Hei Yan, however, could no longer hold back. His face full of viciousness, he cursed “fuck,” kicked two blocking bodyguards away, and charged toward Wang Luan, determined to teach her a lesson.
Before Wang Luan and Yan Qiongyu could react, Hua Xinran screamed first.
“You’re not allowed to hurt Hei Yan, or I won’t let you off!” Hua Xinran was frantic with rage. “I’m contacting our bodyguards right now to have them come over. Just you wait!”
The two of them had arrived via a super jump ship, and their bodyguards had been left behind and hadn’t caught up yet. Who would have thought Wang Luan would dare let people make a move against them. Seeing those bodyguards surround Hei Yan, Hua Xinran was terrified.
Wang Luan looked at the scene with annoyance, feeling utterly sick of these Alphas who resorted to violence at the slightest disagreement. She said to the personal butler waiting nearby, “Have all the bodyguards come over and hurry up and send this thing away.”
The personal butler secretly cried out in misery in his heart, responded with a yes, and gave a look to the remaining bodyguards who were standing awkwardly to the side, signaling them all to go up.
Even if Hei Yan was an Alpha of fairly high rank, these hundreds of bodyguards weren’t pushovers. Once they got serious, they quickly subdued him.
The bodyguards had to watch their strength, but Hei Yan didn’t care about that. As a result, several bodyguards were injured, while Hei Yan was still full of vigor and struggling.
Relying on his family background, Hei Yan had always been lawless and arrogant outside. Everyone gave face to the Hei family behind him, and no one had ever dared treat him like this. He felt enormous humiliation. Even after being restrained, he kept cursing nonstop. Several bodyguards couldn’t hold him down, and the scene fell into a temporary stalemate.
All of a sudden, Hei Yan’s movements stiffened. His whole body convulsed once, and he collapsed to the ground, completely motionless.
Everyone was stunned. Hua Xinran, who had been jumping and shouting to the side, shoved the bodyguards aside and pounced over, crying out, “Hei Yan!”
“It’s fine, it’s just an anesthetic sedative.”
Wang Luan heard Yan Qiongyu say this beside her, and at the same time felt a cold little object being stuffed into her hand. She instinctively picked it up and took a look— a miniature anesthetic gun.
The others all happened to look over this way because of Yan Qiongyu’s words, and at a glance saw the thing in Wang Luan’s hand. Immediately, they all revealed expressions of understanding.
Wang Luan: “……………………”
Just now, everyone’s attention had been drawn to Hei Yan struggling and hurling curses, and no one noticed Yan Qiongyu’s underhanded move. Now this black pot was directly poured onto Wang Luan’s head.
The bodyguards who had almost thought Hei Yan had suffered a sudden illness and were feeling a headache hurried over to check. Sure enough, they found a tiny injector on Hei Yan’s neck. The angle of the injector was too tricky; in the earlier chaos, no one had noticed when it had been fired.
Hua Xinran angrily yanked out the injector stuck in Hei Yan, then flung it backhandedly toward Wang Luan, shouting, “I won’t let you off!”
Yan Qiongyu happened to reach out and caught the injector, not letting it hit Wang Luan.
Wang Luan felt that she had exceeded her speaking quota just now and didn’t want to talk anymore. She simply waved her hand and turned her head to leave.
The personal butler understood her meaning, stepped forward to clean up the mess, and instructed the bodyguards, “Hurry up, send Young Master Hei and Miss Hua back to their own flying ship.”
Wang Luan and Yan Qiongyu walked a long way off, and could still hear the personal butler earnestly communicating with Hua Xinran, persuading her not to continue making trouble: “Miss Hua, you should hurry and take Young Master Hei back to have him checked. If there’s any problem with his body, it’ll be troublesome.”
The sounds behind gradually became indistinct. Wang Luan turned her head to the side and saw Yan Qiongyu playing with that injector.
“Are you done with your business? Nothing else after this, right?” Wang Luan asked.
Yan Qiongyu stopped pretending to be foolish. “I guarantee there’s nothing else after this. Thank you for Miss Wang Luan’s cooperation. You’ve worked hard.”
Wang Luan lightly pointed at him with her finger, held back and held back, then said, “You… sleep on the sofa yourself tonight.”
Yan Qiongyu said gently, “Alright.”
In reality, after washing up, Wang Luan monopolized the big bed in the vacation cabin by herself, while Yan Qiongyu sat on the sofa and didn’t sleep all night.
He somehow produced several compressed capsules, assembled a small analyzer, and put the injector into it.
Extract information, compare information.
In the end, he reached a conclusion: he and Hei Yan did not have a blood relationship.
The head of the Hei family, like the head of the Li family, was also a suspected candidate for his biological father. It was just that the Hei family head was in poor health and in recent years almost never attended any banquets or events. He couldn’t see the Hei family head at all, and could only first look for a way among the Hei family’s next generation.
Hei Yan was impulsive and irritable, willful and domineering, and not particularly smart. He was one of the more approachable targets of the Hei family’s generation.
When Yan Qiongyu was still at the academy, he knew that Hua Xinran was Hei Yan’s fiancée, and deliberately put on a bit of a show in front of her. Sure enough, it made her treat him as a rival.
This young miss was strong in jealousy and arrogant. She could freely enter and leave the academy, often traveling everywhere with her fiancé Hei Yan, and also liked to show off her life to the outside. Thanks to the information she inadvertently revealed, it made it convenient for him to achieve his purpose.
On the very day his engagement with Wang Luan was confirmed, Hua Xinran and Hei Yan went traveling to another distant star system together.
He calculated their return time and created a time difference.
Let Miss Wang Luan buy in advance the Sky Garden–class travel flying ship that Hei Yan had previously declared he wanted to reserve, then take a photo of himself and his fiancée watching a meteor shower on the travel flying ship, and post it to his personal account.
In this way, those noble classmates of the Rose Division Academy who had been watching him would naturally pass this news along to Hua Xinran.
What followed— them coming over to cause trouble— was only a matter of course.
Of course, how smoothly this matter went still exceeded his initial expectations.
Half of the credit had to go to Wang Luan, who was friendly toward him. During this period of time, Wang Luan had been very cooperative with all sorts of his actions, saving him a great deal of trouble.
Closing the data window, Yan Qiongyu stood up and walked past the foot of the bed. He glanced at Wang Luan, who was sunk into the bedding and sleeping soundly, then withdrew his gaze and walked to the window, standing there and gazing at the stars in the sky.
He stood silently in the darkness for a long time, until his body felt numb. Only then did he quietly sit back down on the sofa and import the genetic information he had just obtained into his own database.
He confirmed that Hei Yan, the youngest son of the Hei family head, had no blood relationship with him, but for the time being he could not completely rule out the possibility that the Hei family head was his biological father.
What if Hei Yan was a green hat worn by the Hei family head? In the chaotic aristocratic circle, this was also possible.
He still needed to find other members of the Hei family for comparison, preferably with a chance to obtain the Hei family head’s own genetic information.
Wang Luan woke up in the middle of the night and saw Yan Qiongyu crouched in a corner of the sofa. She didn’t know what he was thinking about. The faint glow of his intelligent terminal illuminated his face, making his expression look gloomy and terrifying.
Half-asleep, Wang Luan’s heart suddenly gave a heavy thump: she was startled by this scene like something out of a horror movie. As it turned out, no matter how good-looking someone was, under this kind of lighting they could still look like a ghost.
With lingering fear, she turned over and went back to sleep. Perhaps because of this, she had a nightmare in the latter half of the night. When she woke up in the morning, she only felt a headache, while someone who hadn’t slept all night was still radiant and refreshed, his beautiful face shining in the morning sunlight, with none of last night’s illusory ferocity and coldness.
“Are you sure there’s nothing today?” Wang Luan asked again while eating breakfast.
“There won’t be any problems. Today, Miss Wang Luan can relax and enjoy herself,” Yan Qiongyu replied gently.
Just as Yan Qiongyu said, the day passed peacefully. Hei Yan didn’t come back to cause trouble, and Wang Luan spent the day skiing with reluctance at the thought that the holiday was about to end.
That evening, they took the Sky Garden back to the Wang family residence in the Imperial Capital Star Circle. The butler came to welcome them and also did not mention anything about Hei Yan.
Wang Luan knew that whatever happened to them outside would be reported to the butler. Since it wasn’t mentioned, that meant the Wang family head hadn’t pursued the matter.
Thinking about it, it was easy to understand. The Hei family and the Wang family were both engaged in energy development and had always had a poor relationship. Everyone tacitly maintained only a surface-level courtesy.
Although Hei Yan had lost face in her hands, it was merely a small conflict caused by grabbing something, and neither side was injured. The two families couldn’t very well tear their faces apart over this.
If this time it had been Wang Luan who suffered a loss at Hei Yan’s hands, she could only accept her bad luck. The Hei family wouldn’t punish Hei Yan for it, and the Wang family wouldn’t seek justice for Wang Luan either—just like when Hei Yan beat Wang Luan as a child, when the two families tacitly treated it as “a conflict between children.”
As for this incident, perhaps the Wang family head would even feel gratified that his daughter had finally shown some backbone.
