"What?
You nearly got me killed, and I used the right way of biting you to make you retract your foot, pulling both of us back from the brink of death.
And yet you call me a dog—
Li Qianfan, whose heart had finally calmed down from its restless pounding, paused for a moment before a look of understanding dawned on him when Su Nanyin asked if he needed a rabies shot.
He knew Su Nanyin was joking.
She was trying to use this teasing manner to cover up her "crime" of going mad and trying to drag Li Qianfan to death with her, to mend her completely shattered image of nobility.
As long as Li Qianfan retorted a few words, their relationship could return to how it was before.
As if what just happened had never occurred.
But.
Just as Li Qianfan pursed his lips, about to say 'dog legs aren't afraid of bites,' he keenly caught a fleeting look of smugness in Su Nanyin's eyes.
Why was she smug?
It was because she was deeply convinced that even if she made a grave mistake towards Li Qianfan, she could easily handle this boy.
In her subconscious, she had already appointed herself the empress of Li Qianfan.
Li Qianfan's future development, even his life and death, were all decided by her!
Even if Li Qianfan had a powerful background and great capabilities, he wouldn't escape her grasp!!
The moment he realized this—
Li Qianfan's brain suddenly crashed.
He could no longer hear anything, see anything, just petrified on the spot in a most eerie manner.
Yet, he could clearly feel!
Something he had always refused to admit, refused to ponder deeply, something he had desperately suppressed in his heart, suddenly roared out from a door.
What was that thing?
Li Qianfan suddenly thought of it.
Su Nanyin, who was looking down to inspect her wound, happened to nudge him with her elbow: "I'm asking you a question. Tell me, should I get a rabies shot?"
Li Qianfan's left hand moved on its own!
He raised his hand—
Slap!
A palm strike landed fiercely on that mouth-shaped wound.
The wound, which had already stopped bleeding, ruptured again under the heavy blow, and blood droplets splattered.
How much must that have hurt?
Su Nanyin, completely unprepared, trembled violently from the pain and suddenly looked up, opening her mouth to let out an ear-piercing scream.
Li Qianfan's left hand, with a speed imperceptible to the naked eye, clamped over her mouth.
He forcefully stifled the scream that was about to erupt.
Unable to dilute the pain with a scream, Su Nanyin could only use the tears that welled up to relieve it.
Li Qianfan, unable to control his left hand (or rather, the deepest parts of his heart), turned a blind eye.
He just stared ferociously at Su Nanyin, devoid of his usual 'humility, filial piety,' and the like.
His increasingly mature face was now somewhat contorted.
Especially his gaze at Su Nanyin, which was like a demon looking at an annoying morsel to be devoured.
'What's wrong with Qianfan? How could he hit me, look at me like that!?'
Su Nanyin was terrified by such a Li Qianfan.
She couldn't feel any pain at all.
She even stopped trembling, just staring at him blankly, a never-before-seen fear surfacing in her eyes.
The two of them stared at each other, unmoving, for a long time.
Caw caw—
A crow flew overhead, its wings flapping.
Hoo!
Li Qianfan let out a soft breath and withdrew his hand from Su Nanyin's mouth, immediately clenching it into a fist and menacingly shaking it in front of her eyes.
As if he wished he could smash that beautiful head into pieces with one punch.
Su Nanyin, frightened, hastily closed her eyes.
She cried out in a terrified voice, "Qianfan, what's wrong with you!?"
"What's wrong with me?"
Li Qianfan, gritting his teeth, hissed, "Su Nanyin, do you really think that relying on Chongchong and Yaoyao, and your peerless beauty and charm, you can arbitrarily oppress me, provoke me, use me, manipulate me, and even try to control my entire life!?"
What?
I oppress you, provoke you, use you, manipulate you, and even control your entire life?
What are you talking about?
Su Nanyin, her eyes closed, quickly opened them.
Li Qianfan's eyes staring at her were filled with a strangeness she had never seen before.
She wanted to say something but couldn't utter a single word.
Li Qianfan said—
"Don't think I don't know what you're thinking."
"And don't think I don't know what you've done!"
"Actually, more than twenty years ago, when the elders of Li Family Village proposed to Yaoyao with me in their arms, you were quite unwilling in your heart."
"But for the overall interests of the Shen family, a marriage alliance with my Li family was the most beneficial, especially for you."
"Because I am my mother's only son, my grandmother's eldest grandson, and on the day I was born, I was chosen to be the village chief of Li Family Village. If Yaoyao married me, she would undoubtedly become the village chief's wife. Her future prospects would be at least like my mother's. The key point is that Yaoyao might become the future madam of Longxu."
"For these reasons, you agreed back then."
"If you hadn't given your consent, even if Uncle Shen had worn out his mouth, he couldn't have made Yaoyao my fiancée!"
"Everyone in the world knows that Uncle Shen's principal wife is from Misty Township!"
"Because he came into this world with the mission to guard Misty Township."
"But among the madams of the Shen family, you were the one who called the shots!"
"You are fair-skinned and beautiful, praised as Guanyin for your beauty, but that's secondary. The crucial thing is that your schemes are incredibly deep."
"Looking through the inner circles of the wealthy families over the decades, the only person who could outrank the principal wife and call the shots was you, Su Nanyin!"
"To permanently control the Lingnan Shen family, you agreed to the proposal from Li Family Village. You wanted to use the power of the Li family to maintain your rights within the Shen family."
"But since you had already made such plans, why didn't you properly teach Yaoyao to treat me objectively?"
"'Yaoyao believed the rumors in the martial world and mistakenly thought I was a small-time hooligan, showing me all sorts of displeasure. That's because she was young and ignorant, unable to see the true nature of things!"
"And you?"
"Su Nanyin, tell me, damn it!"
At this point, Li Qianfan reached out and grabbed Su Nanyin's collar, yanking her fiercely into his embrace.
Ah!
Amidst Su Nanyin's cry of surprise, their noses were almost touching.
Click, click.
Su Nanyin's teeth were chattering.
Li Qianfan's breath, exhaled towards her mouth, continued, "Can't the young Yaoyao see what she can't understand, and you can't either?"
Su Nanyin could certainly see!
Her mouth moved, but she still couldn't say a word.
She was already consumed by fear.
Li Qianfan's eyebrows twitched incessantly: "Since you could see through it, why didn't you correct Yaoyao when she developed a wrong perception of me, but instead let it fester?"
Su Nanyin didn't know how to answer this question.
"It's because, in your heart, you felt that I, Li Qianfan, despite my profound background, was not worthy of Yaoyao."
Li Qianfan let go of her, then raised his hand and shoved her away forcefully.
With a bang.
Su Nanyin fell heavily onto the leaf-strewn ground, her back of the head hitting a small stone, causing significant pain.
However, she showed no reaction, merely biting her lip tightly and slowly sitting up.
Li Qianfan no longer looked at her.
Even.
He no longer let out those demonic, low growls at her.
He looked at the flowing clouds in the sky, his eyes narrowing slightly.
His voice, neither rushed nor slow—
"You thought that when I, Li Qianfan, grew up, I would inevitably become a man like Gao Fei, Li Nanfang, Shen Yue, or Li Xiao."
"That many women would eventually surround me."
"In your eyes, Yaoyao was destined not to be my only one."
"The best outcome for Yaoyao after marrying me would be to become Shen Yinbing to Gao Fei, Yue Zhitong to Li Nanfang, Zhan Xiaobai to Shen Yue, or Lu Ziqi to Li Xiao."
"That wasn't what you wanted."
"You wanted Yaoyao to be my only one."
"But for Yaoyao to be my only one, you had to make me fear her, so I wouldn't dare to fool around with other women behind her back; you also had to shape Yaoyao's perception of me, so that even if I truly considered her my only one, you would still make Yaoyao maintain an attitude of disdain in front of me."
"After sorting out these two points, there was still the most important one."
"That is, you had to find ways to make my mother realize that Yaoyao was my only one. Besides Yaoyao, I absolutely could not show favor to any other woman. Thus, when I was just a few years old, you subtly spread rumors about me, saying I was a born hooligan."
"Upon hearing these rumors, my mother's instinctive reaction was to discipline me strictly."
"This is also the main reason why my mother disciplined me strictly from the age of three, and would hit my hands for even the slightest mistake."
"My mother is a war god; her specialty is killing; on the battlefield, all her intelligence could be unleashed."
"But in terms of the intricate schemes and struggles of daily life, eighty of my mothers combined wouldn't match one Su Nanyin!"
"You started planning when I was just a child."
Li Qianfan said this, then turned to look at Su Nanyin, his left hand pinching her chin.
Very hard!
Su Nanyin's face turned pale, trembling uncontrollably, her eyes on Li Qianfan like she had seen a ghost.
"Su Nanyin, how utterly heartless must you be."
Li Qianfan grinned slightly: "That you would use all your schemes on a child of a few years old?""