Watching Chu Lingtian’s back, hands stuffed in his pockets, as he walked away casually, Cai Hong’s mind replayed his domineering words. She could no longer control her trembling body and collapsed onto the ground.
“Mom, Mom, are you okay?”
Su Feifei snapped back to reality and rushed to help Cai Hong up.
“Feifei, this Chu Lingtian, who, who is he? Why is his martial prowess so formidable?”
Cai Hong’s face was filled with terror, her previously overbearing and arrogant demeanor completely gone.
After all, a dozen bodyguards in black suits had charged at Chu Lingtian. Yet, Chu Lingtian, with his hands in his pockets and an incredibly calm expression, had taken them down one by one. In just one minute, he had kicked all of them to the ground, and not a single bodyguard could get up to fight again, demonstrating the terrifying effectiveness of Chu Lingtian’s combat skills.
“I, I only know he was a soldier. After retiring and returning to Dachang City, he became a security guard in the underground parking lot of Baoxue Company.”
Su Feifei, equally stunned by Chu Lingtian’s terrifying skills, replied to her mother Cai Hong’s question with disbelief.
Before this, Su Feifei had indeed asked her agent, Li Lanjuan, to secretly investigate Chu Lingtian’s background. The information she received was: Chu Lingtian was an orphan, had served in the army for five years without achieving any significant rank, and after retiring, he was hired as a security guard at Baoxue Company.
In reality, few people knew that the day before Chu Lingtian returned to the city, his public personal information files had been altered, and his true personal details were classified as top-secret national documents, inaccessible to ordinary individuals.
In other words, all the personal information that Chu Lingtian could be investigated for now was fabricated.
Furthermore, Chu Lingtian only obeyed the Monarch. Without a direct call from the Monarch, he could ignore any other person’s orders. If necessary, he had the authority to restrain any military or political official in the country.
However, Chu Lingtian would certainly not abuse his power. If he were to do so, the Monarch would not have entrusted him with such significant authority so confidently. Moreover, resolving the pervasive issue of rampant evil forces couldn’t be achieved with a few simple commands; it required a step-by-step, gradual approach.
“No wonder this good-for-nothing has such high martial skills, turns out he was a soldier.”
Cai Hong got up from the ground, her face, previously pale with terror from Chu Lingtian’s formidable skills, now replaced by anger and disdain.
The primary reason was that Li Lanjuan had told Cai Hong that Chu Lingtian was just a small security guard in charge of an underground parking lot. This made Cai Hong believe that with her influence and so many bodyguards in black suits, suppressing Chu Lingtian would be easier than crushing an ant.
Who would have thought that more than a dozen skilled bodyguards would be instantly incapacitated by Chu Lingtian? At that moment, Cai Hong was so frightened that her mind raced, thinking that Li Lanjuan’s information must be incorrect. With Chu Lingtian’s terrifying combat power, how could he possibly be just a mere security guard?
Cai Hong was afraid that Chu Lingtian might possess some other terrifying, unknown identity.
Now that her daughter Su Feifei had personally confirmed it, Cai Hong no longer felt she had underestimated Chu Lingtian. She now believed Chu Lingtian was just a man who had served in the army for a few years, possessed some skills, but lacked ambition and true power.
“Mom, Chu Lingtian is my friend, don’t call him a good-for-nothing like that…”
Before Su Feifei could finish her plea, Cai Hong interrupted her with a fierce look.
“If he’s not a good-for-nothing, then what is he? Five years in the army, achieving nothing, and returning to the city only to work as a poor, humble security guard. A man with no power and no ambition like him is a good-for-nothing in my eyes!”
“Su Feifei, I’m warning you. From today, from this very moment, I forbid you from having any contact with a good-for-nothing man like Chu Lingtian. Otherwise, don’t acknowledge me as your mother!”
After issuing her threat to Su Feifei, Cai Hong stomped angrily towards the elevator entrance and went upstairs.
Su Feifei turned to look at Chu Lingtian’s retreating figure at the hotel entrance, frozen in place, not knowing what to do.
“Feifei, you should listen to Aunt Cai. You and Chu Lingtian are truly from different worlds. You are a beloved, stunning superstar, and he is just a powerless, penniless security guard. It’s hard even to be ordinary friends, so forget it, don’t meet again.”
Li Lanjuan advised Su Feifei while pulling her towards the hotel elevator entrance.
Su Feifei followed Li Lanjuan’s steps, her expression a little dejected, and for a moment, she didn’t know how to proceed.
Before the cinema incident and witnessing Chu Lingtian fight with her own eyes, Su Feifei had a stubborn refusal to be defeated. She felt that Chu Lingtian was the first man who dared to disregard her beauty and figure so dismissively, and she didn’t believe that relying on her stunning looks, tall stature, ample curves, and extraordinary aura as a superstar, she couldn’t conquer Chu Lingtian’s heart.
But just now, she had almost been cornered by fans like Chen Yuan and Yuan Jing in the cinema, leading to potentially immeasurable severe consequences. If it weren’t for Chu Lingtian’s courage and resourcefulness, Su Feifei would have been ruined.
It was Chu Lingtian who escorted her, Su Feifei, safely back to the hotel, and who had instantly defeated more than a dozen skilled bodyguards in black suits without sustaining any injuries.
In that moment, Su Feifei had genuinely begun to admire Chu Lingtian. He was neither subservient nor arrogant, low-key yet capable, and possessed a sense of humor. He exuded an intangible masculine charm that even made her want to get closer.
However, what her mother Cai Hong and agent Li Lanjuan had said did have some truth. She, Su Feifei, and Chu Lingtian were from different worlds, and even being ordinary friends would be difficult.
In the afternoon, after work.
As soon as Chu Lingtian picked up Liu Bingxue in his car, he was met with Liu Bingxue’s cold inquiry:
“I heard you were absent from duty again this afternoon. Were you out fooling around with other women?”
Chu Lingtian’s heart sank, thinking, “Damn, how come Liu Bingxue’s intuition is as accurate as her sister Liu Huohuo’s, that little vixen?”
“I was attending to important business.”
Chu Lingtian glanced at Liu Bingxue and replied.
A dismissive smile appeared on Liu Bingxue’s beautiful face. She clearly didn’t believe Chu Lingtian and asked, “Important business? What important business?”
“Secret.”
Chu Lingtian smiled.
“Hmph, secret? You’re just making excuses for your absence from duty and your lack of ambition.”
Liu Bingxue snorted disdainfully.
“By the way, has our company officially signed the endorsement cooperation agreement with Su Feifei?”
Chu Lingtian remembered this matter and asked.
Liu Bingxue replied, “Not yet. Goddess Su will be coming to our company again in a few days to sign the official endorsement cooperation agreement.”
“When Su Feifei comes again, I’ll request leave from work.”
Chu Lingtian said.
“Why?”
Liu Bingxue frowned, asking in confusion.