Xue Chen's drunkenness evaporated in an instant.
But before he could utter any threats to Liu Yutong and the others, Scarface reached out and slammed his face hard onto the dining table.
Bang!
That familiar pain shot through him instantly.
"Ah!!!"
Seeing this, Yu Xin stepped forward, tilting her head to look at Xue Chen. Her slightly upturned peach blossom eyes were smiling.
"Surprised, Young Master Xue?"
"You spent so much money, hired so many 'brothers', created such a big scene... did it ever cross your mind that the people you went through all that trouble to find to scare us were actually our own people?"
"Don't forget, this is Pearl City!"
Xue Chen's face turned purple with rage. He glared at Yu Xin, wishing he could bore a hole through her face with his stare. Gnashing his teeth, he forced out the words.
"You'd better let me go, or I'll make sure every single one of you regrets this!"
"Oh, I'm so scared."
Yu Xin leaned in slightly, cupping her hand by her mouth and lowering her voice to tease him.
"Hey, to be honest, Young Master Xue, watching you buddy up with Brother Scarface, boasting and drinking just now... you actually looked kinda cute."
"Yu Xin! You damn..." Xue Chen completely lost his composure and roared.
Liu Yutong, who had been watching coldly from the sidelines, gave a timely cough.
"Yu Xin, that's enough playing around."
"Alright, Sister Yutong."
Yu Xin immediately obediently returned to Liu Yutong's side, her change of expression so swift it was as if the person who had just infuriated Xue Chen moments ago wasn't her at all.
Xue Chen now turned his gaze to the girl in the little black suit.
He had to admit, Liu Yutong possessed a unique aura he had never seen in any other woman.
She wasn't just simply beautiful; she carried a commanding presence, a kind of authority he had only ever seen in his father's generation.
He never expected to sense that kind of feeling from a girl who looked barely seventeen or eighteen today.
No wonder, no wonder the Ten Thousand Dragons Society could become the largest syndicate in Pearl City, and even a society like the Righteous Union had been subdued by them.
Which meant, from start to finish, he had fallen into a pit they had dug.
To be precise, he had jumped into it himself.
Because it never occurred to him that the two largest syndicates would both take orders from one person.
This situation would be unbelievable anywhere.
As the saying goes, two tigers cannot share one mountain. It's highly unlikely for two major syndicates in one place to be on good terms.
But in Pearl City, it was different. Both societies were connected to Liu Yutong, which was truly rather unbelievable.
Also, he couldn't quite figure out why they would do this. It made no sense at all.
"Liu Yutong, tell Scarface to let me go, and we'll consider this matter settled, how about that?"
"Young Master Xue, do you think I'd believe you?"
"From the very beginning, our Ten Thousand Dragons Society doesn't seem to have had any feud with you, right? You came demanding we hand over Wanhui Youxuan, then you went to my turf to mess with my company, and now, you've even set your sights on my people."
"Tell me, how should I deal with you?"
"Liu Yutong, you can't..."
Before Xue Chen could finish, Liu Yutong waved her hand. "Then let's give him the lesson he asked for, as he suggested."
Hearing this, Scarface stopped holding back. He immediately called over another man, and right in front of Xue Chen's horrified expression, the two of them dragged him off the table and pressed his face against the floor.
But just as they were about to proceed with dragging Xue Chen, there was a sound at the private room door.
Knock, knock, knock.
Someone gently rapped on the doorframe.
Then, three figures walked in.
Leading them was a tall, slender young man with an extraordinary bearing. Beside him was a somewhat flamboyant young man with dyed silver-white short hair.
Apart from these two men, a woman followed behind them.
The woman had chestnut-colored long hair and wore a pair of black sunglasses that covered nearly half her face. Though her full features were obscured, she exuded a cool, aloof aura befitting a noblewoman from a prestigious family.
Yu Xin recognized the two men in front: Zhou Muchen and Lu Hong, both major young masters from this province.
The young master from the neighboring province, Gu Yebai, hadn't come this time.
As for this woman with the cool, noble air, Yu Xin was seeing her for the first time and didn't know her.
"Director Yu, we meet again."
"This lady must be the young mistress of the Ten Thousand Dragons Society, Ms. Liu Yutong, right?" Zhou Muchen looked towards Liu Yutong, who clearly had the strongest presence and aura in the room, and asked with a smile.
"And you are?" Liu Yutong, having never met these people before, frowned slightly.
Seeing this, Yu Xin immediately stepped forward to introduce them to Liu Yutong. "Sister Yutong, this is Young Master Zhou Muchen, and this is Young Master Lu Hong. They are the ones I met in Perch City last time."
Liu Yutong immediately knew who they were. She hadn't expected the two top young masters from the province to have come as well.
After introducing the two gentlemen, Yu Xin turned her gaze to the woman wearing sunglasses, her smile unchanged. "As for this beautiful lady, I must admit my eyes are clumsy, this is our first meeting. May I ask how to address you?"
The chestnut-haired woman didn't answer immediately. She merely lifted her chin slightly, her gaze seeming to assess Liu Yutong through the sunglasses.
The reason she had suddenly followed Zhou Muchen here was because she had heard about the remarkable young woman who had appeared in Pearl City. Barely eighteen or nineteen, she had built a fortune worth hundreds of millions from scratch and single-handedly nurtured the strongest force in Pearl City's underworld.
This naturally piqued the curiosity of her, who had always been fiercely competitive, about this extraordinary woman Zhou Muchen spoke of.
She even felt a desire to measure herself against her.
To see who was the true favored daughter of heaven.
That's why she had come with Zhou Muchen today.
"My name is Zhu Silin."
Zhu Silin gave a simple introduction, her tone straightforward yet carrying an edge.
"I've long heard of Ms. Liu's remarkable methods in Pearl City. I came specifically today to see for myself."
Then, she looked down at Xue Chen with his face pressed to the floor. "It seems I've arrived just in time, not missing this good show."
Xue Chen's face flushed a deep purple, a mix of shame and fury.
Not only was he being humiliated by having his face rubbed against the floor for the second time, but Zhou Muchen and the others were witnessing it for the second time as well.
Now, any shred of his dignity was completely gone.
At this moment, he would rather have been beaten or roughed up by Liu Yutong and her crew than be seen by Zhou Muchen in such an embarrassing state.
Liu Yutong remained neither subservient nor arrogant. "So it's Ms. Zhu. A pleasure."
Zhu Silin said, "Ms. Liu, by acting like this, aren't you showing far too little regard for our Cloud Mountain Club?"
