Lu Yuanhong said unhappily, "Don't talk to me like that. You had that assassin commit murder and arson, causing such a commotion. Do you want us to be caught red-handed?"
"You, you actually don't want Gu Susu to die at all." Jia Nanfang looked at him, resentment in her heart, and said, "It's because she resembles that woman that you can't bear to see her die. You said you'd send someone, but you just wanted to placate me. You say you hate that woman, but you don't really hate her; you just feel that woman never gave you maternal love. After hearing the news of that woman's death, you were still sad for a long time..."
Lu Yuanhong was enraged by her words. He slapped her and said angrily, "Don't think that just because you have some dirt on the Shu family, you can defy me again and again. I can give you everything you have today, and I can turn you back into a beggar on the street!"
Jia Nanfang covered her face and cried, "You've forgotten your own daughter, but you've never taken care of her for a single day, and you have no feelings for her. Now you have two sons, and you're accompanied by beautiful women, enjoying your family happiness. How could you still think about avenging our daughter?"
"I already promised you I would deal with Gu Susu. Why don't you believe me?" Lu Yuanhong frowned when he heard her mention Shu Yan and said, "I understand how you feel, and I tried to save her, but she wanted to die herself. I hope you understand that it's in the past, and no one can change it except by accepting it."
Jia Nanfang didn't understand why he could say such cold words.
Now she finally saw that he was an extremely cold-blooded and numb person. Long ago, he had poured all his energy into how to get revenge on the Shu family, as if only by taking revenge on the Shu family could he make up for all the shortcomings in his life.
Jia Nanfang was immensely disappointed in him. Just as she was about to say something else, her phone rang.
She calmed her emotions, answered the call, and listened to what the other person said, her face growing more and more grim.
Lu Yuanhong felt that something major must have happened again and asked, "What is it?"
"The assassin disguised as a nurse was discovered while retreating. She jumped to her death during the police pursuit." Jia Nanfang looked at him, flustered.
Actually, that assassin could have retreated. It was she who gave another order, telling the assassin to kill the person Lu Yuanhong sent before leaving. She feared that the person sent by Kun Sang would speak ill of her to Lu Yuanhong upon his return, and she had always disliked Kun Sang. It would be better to eliminate this minor figure.
"Very good." Lu Yuanhong laughed in anger. "So the police took her body? Although she can never speak again, who's to say the police won't find anything from her body! This is your great deed! From now on, you are not allowed to bribe my people behind my back. If there's a next time, don't blame me for turning ruthless!"
Lu Yuanhong couldn't be bothered to look at her again. He turned and left indifferently.
Jia Nanfang took two steps back and sank onto the sofa. She had thought it would be easy for a professional assassin to eliminate a newcomer, but she hadn't expected the assassin to die by jumping off a building in the hospital. The police would definitely investigate her identity.
If they found out she wasn't a hospital nurse, would they find out that the assassin was an illegal immigrant from Cambodia? And if they also found out that she had worked as a dishwasher in Lu Yuanhong's restaurant, would they find evidence related to them?
Now, it was a mess. Although Gu Susu had been eliminated, would their unspeakable deeds really be discovered by the police?
...
In the basement gym, Qin Tianyi, wearing only a white tank top and black shorts, was furiously punching a hanging sandbag alone. Only by doing this could he vent the anger and frustration in his heart.
A Mei gently pushed open the door. Seeing A Ban sparring with the sandbag, she felt that he exuded a dangerous yet captivating aura.
His face and his body were like two extremes: such an ugly face, yet such a perfect physique.
Young, firm, strong, and with those subtly visible muscle lines... it was a male body she had never dared to imagine.
At Lu Yuanhong's age, no matter how well-maintained, he was just a fat, pale body heading towards old age, completely incomparable to A Ban's physique.
A Mei couldn't help but close her eyes, imagining A Ban sweating profusely with her in her mind.
Qin Tianyi suddenly sensed someone at the door and stopped. He looked up and saw A Mei. "Miss A Mei, why are you here again? This is not a place you should be."
A Mei snapped back to reality, startled. How could she be fantasizing about these things in broad daylight? Blushing, she asked, "Are your scratches better? Why aren't you resting in your room and exercising here?"
"Oh, those little scratches are nothing." Qin Tianyi grabbed a large towel, wiped off his sweat, and draped it over himself. He always felt that A Mei's gaze towards him was a bit strange. "Besides, this is the profession we're in. We need to train our skills when we're free."
"That's true." A Mei walked in and tried to shake the sandbag. With her strength, she couldn't move it at all. Trying to find conversation, she said, "It's so heavy. Doesn't your fist hurt when you hit it?"
"It doesn't hurt. Miss A Mei, what do you need me for..."
Before he could finish, A Mei moved closer, took one of his hands, and looked at the back of his hand. "You say it doesn't hurt, but the bandage wrapped around it for boxing is already red. Let me rub it for you."
Qin Tianyi didn't have time to push her away before she was already rubbing the back of his hand. "Just now, you didn't look like you were training; you looked like you had a grudge against this sandbag. Is something bothering you?"
Qin Tianyi quickly pulled his hand back. "No, I always train like this..."
A Mei then seemed to lose her balance and leaned towards him. Suddenly, she boldly hugged him and asked, "Have you ever had a girlfriend? Have you ever been close to a woman?"
Qin Tianyi stepped back, blocking her, and said with an air of disinterest in women, "I'm not interested in women. Please, Miss A Mei, respect yourself."
A Mei seemed deeply hurt and wanted to get closer to him.
Qin Tianyi, however, quickly fled the gym as if escaping, feeling extremely disgusted by A Mei's forwardness.
A Mei watched his retreating figure and couldn't help but smile, thinking he had never been with a woman before and had fled in embarrassment because he was shy.
Lu Yuanhong had initially asked her to get close to A Ban and seduce him, which she was unwilling to do and felt very wronged.
But Lu Yuanhong said that if they wanted A Ban to dedicate his life to them, he needed to have someone he cared about.
He told A Mei not to actually get involved with A Ban, but just to capture A Ban's heart.
Perhaps Lu Yuanhong thought that since A Ban was so ugly, A Mei would never genuinely fall for someone of A Ban's low status, so he confidently and boldly let A Mei provoke A Ban.
But now, as A Mei interacted with A Ban, she increasingly found A Ban to be a very interesting man. She developed an inexplicable affection for him and even fantasized about actually having something with A Ban.