"Su Ziyu, you don't need to waste your effort trying to provoke me with words,"
Du Junlin's teeth loosened from her bitten lip.
She said coldly, "Let alone that Li Qianfan, who grew up in a women's nest, likes gentle older sisters and more mature aunts. Even if he liked seventy-year-old grandmothers, that's just his personal preference and has nothing to do with marriage."
Su Ziyu remained silent.
Her face was filled with a gentle smile, which gradually faded.
"As long as it's a girl, she will have a love for beauty. And no girl doesn't want to be like you."
Du Junlin's gaze swept over Su Ziyu's black-stockinged legs.
She continued, "I also want to wear black stockings and high heels. Swing my waist as I walk, strutting like a cat. Greet everyone as 'brother' and dote on my husband as if he were my son."
*Click.*
Su Ziyu put down the stacked high heels.
She sat up straight.
She finally realized that the cool Du Junlin was not simple at all.
Looking at Du Junlin again carefully, she found her somewhat familiar, as if she had seen her somewhere before.
"But I can't."
Du Junlin said expressionlessly, "Because those drug lords, smugglers, and overseas night raiders who treat human lives as grass, and the guards who protect our safety, are all the kind of people who flaunt their bodies with every step they take."
Su Ziyu pursed her lips, unsure what to say.
"Even when I sleep, I have to keep one eye open, in case of sudden appearance of criminals. What I carry with me is not lipstick, nor condoms. It's a handgun and a steel knife."
Du Junlin asked slowly, "Is it because I chose this special job, shoulder this special mission, developed a cold personality, and have a habit of resorting to violence at the slightest provocation, that Li Qianfan doesn't like me, and you have the right to steal my fiancé?"
Of course not!
Even though Su Ziyu had ten thousand reasons not to yield to Du Junlin.
She still stood up, placed her hands on her lower abdomen, and bowed deeply to Du Junlin: "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have used Qianfan's shorts to attack you. And I shouldn't have profaned the price you paid for being cold to protect our peace with a sister's tenderness."
Alarm bells rang!!
This time, it was Du Junlin whose alarm bells were ringing in her heart.
She wasn't worried that Su Ziyu would use her age advantage (sometimes an older sister's age is also an advantage) to attack her.
But Du Junlin was truly worried about Su Ziyu's personality of "admitting mistakes, apologizing, and correcting them."
What man wouldn't like such a girl?
"You don't need to apologize to me. I'm just telling you that our professions are different."
Du Junlin's gaze was solemn, and she said slowly, "And I don't feel like you owe me anything because of it. After all, while I'm fighting for this country, you are also contributing to this country in your own way. I protect the borders, you pay taxes, we are equal."
Su Ziyu slowly sat down again: "Have we met somewhere before?"
"We met more than two months ago."
Du Junlin said, "It was at Qingyun Railway Station. You were standing in front of his car, waiting for him to return from Sijiu. I walked up to you and asked, 'Are you Su Ziyu?' You replied 'Yes,' and then I left."
Su Ziyu then understood.
No wonder Du Junlin looked a little familiar.
Du Junlin asked, "Did you know that Li Qianfan was injured when he returned from Sijiu that time?"
"What?"
Su Ziyu was stunned.
"You don't even know he was injured, and you still have the nerve to claim to care about him the most?"
Du Junlin snorted coldly, her defiant expression returning.
Before Su Ziyu could say anything, Du Junlin took out something she had prepared earlier from under the table.
A knife!
It was a command saber with a gem-inlaid hilt and a narrow blade that was intimidating even within its sheath!!
Su Ziyu didn't think Du Junlin was going to draw a knife on her.
If Du Junlin wanted to kill her, it would probably only take one punch to break her throat.
She, a third-dan black belt, was nothing in front of Du Junlin, known as the Little God of War.
"The name of this knife carries immense significance."
Du Junlin looked down at the knife and explained softly, "It's not a legend, but a fact. This was the command saber used by the Emperor of Gaul when he swept across the entire European continent. Therefore, it is also known as the Blade of the Emperor."
Su Ziyu listened quietly.
"This knife was presented as a betrothal gift by the eight elders of Li Family Village, in front of more than a dozen top family heads, when they proposed to me on Li Qianfan's hundred-day banquet."
Du Junlin lightly stroked the Blade of the Emperor with her left hand and looked up at Su Ziyu: "When Li Qianfan initially tried to have your name enshrined in the ancestral hall of Li Family Village, he had no idea. Without this knife, even if your name were to be enshrined, I could use this knife to drive your name out!"
She was not lying.
She was stating a fact.
A fact that Li Qianfan, Ye Tianjiao, and even Li Wujiang, along with the current eight elders of Li Family Village, were unaware of!
This fact had been sealed in the genealogy enshrined in the ancestral hall by the former great elder 20 years ago.
Two months ago.
Even when Li Qianfan opened the ancestral hall and took out the genealogy, trying to have the great elder write Su Ziyu's name, he would have seen the annotation in the "Madam of Li Family Village" column: "The one who wields the Blade of the Emperor!"
"This is a secret. It was a rule agreed upon 20 years ago when the great elder of Li Family Village met alone with my father after successfully proposing on behalf of Li Qianfan. It was to prevent Li Qianfan from abandoning me in the future, finding a new love, and wanting to replace me."
Du Junlin's eyes finally showed a trace of pride.
She said softly—
"Only the one who wields the Blade of the Emperor can be the Madam of Li Family Village."
"The Blade of the Emperor belongs to me."
"Su Ziyu, you do not have it."
"Therefore, I am Li Qianfan's wife."
"And you, Su Ziyu, are the mistress who deserves my disdain."
"The tenderness of an older sister is merely a way to please Li Qianfan, or perhaps a means to bear him children, but it certainly does not grant the right to replace me."
"I didn't reveal this knife before because I didn't know about that rule."
"After I returned heartbroken from Sijiu last time, my father told me this secret."
"This is also why my father dared to go to Li Qianfan's biological father and say that if you dare to be his wife, I will kill you!"
"Su Ziyu, you have no idea how extraordinary Li Qianfan's background is."
"You have no idea how serious the consequences would be if he didn't marry me."
"Do you really think Aunt Wujiang is a beggar, and Li Qianfan's father is an international thief?"
"The night is long, I'll tell you in detail."
Du Junlin spoke eloquently.
Time ticked by, and it was unknowingly midnight.
During this time.
Du Junlin continued to speak, while Su Ziyu remained silent.
Li Qianfan called Su Ziyu nine times. She finally lied to him, saying that Vice President Huang and others were working overtime and would not be home tonight.
But she would definitely call him in the early morning to wake him up.
Slowly.
Su Ziyu's complexion began to turn pale.
Indeed, a few days ago, Gao Lingwang had told her some things.
But what Gao Lingwang said was far less detailed than what Du Junlin was saying.
Absolutely no exaggeration—
Finally.
Du Junlin mentioned the 209 virus.
"The Ai virus that Pai Pai was infected with was undoubtedly a meticulous setup by the dark web, the progenitor of darkness."
"A certain CEO of the dark web had already targeted Li Qianfan."
"Pai Pai's genes integrating with the 209 virus is a tremendous surprise to the dark web."
"The dark web will use the 209 virus to control Pai Pai, forcing Li Qianfan to have relations with her in order to save her."
"It was because of your earlier show of courage, being held hostage by Lan Yunhai, that Li Qianfan had to expose his strength, and was subsequently targeted by the dark web."
"If the dark web can control Li Qianfan, the benefits they will gain are beyond your imagination!"
"Their influence in the Eastern Lands will increase exponentially."
"At that time, countless innocent citizens will suffer!"
"Su Ziyu."
Du Junlin looked into Su Ziyu's eyes and asked lightly, "Do you think you can provide Li Qianfan with much help? Or do you think your love is more important than the countless masses who are about to be poisoned by the dark web?"
Su Ziyu remained silent.
Her face turned paler, and her eyes were filled with despair.
Du Junlin knew her goal had been achieved.
She encouraged herself again: "Some people, from the moment they are born, are already endowed with special missions. I am like that, and so is Li Qianfan. We are destined to fight these dark forces to the death on battlefronts you cannot see and will never understand! Only when we step forward can you urban girls have a peaceful life, wearing black stockings and high heels, and posing flirtatiously on Douyin."
*I didn't pose flirtatiously—*
Su Ziyu wanted to say this, but her lips merely trembled slightly.
The information contained in Du Junlin's words was simply too immense.
She couldn't digest it all at once!
Her mind was buzzing.
She was completely unable to form coherent words to communicate with Du Junlin.
To put it more bluntly, Su Ziyu was stunned by the blow.
Du Junlin did not tell Su Ziyu about Yang Xiao's previous visit.
Because she knew very well that since Empress Xiao only appeared to warn her and then left before Su Ziyu arrived, she did not want to reveal her identity.
If Du Junlin dared to speak carelessly.
She might very well get slapped!
"Su Ziyu. I've booked a guest room for you. Think carefully here tonight."
Du Junlin picked up the Blade of the Emperor, held it in her arms, and walked towards the door: "Finally, I'll leave you with four sentences."
"Darkness (specifically the dark web) has descended."
"You might gain Li Qianfan's love."
"But you are not worthy of him, to fight the darkness together with him!"
"However, I can allow you to stay by his side like Chu Yazhi, as a mistress!!"
These were the last four sentences Du Junlin left before walking out the door.
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