Chen Tianjue spun around and kicked Black Tiger to the ground, then walked over and stomped fiercely on Black Tiger's face several times!
Black Tiger's face was covered in blood from the kicks, and he dared not speak another word.
"In that case, I will go back with you to take a look first."
Di Longxuan seemed to trust him completely, without the slightest trace of doubt on his face.
Chen Tianjue could not help feeling a secret thrill of joy, while a barely perceptible coldness flashed in his eyes, like the glint of a hidden blade that vanished in an instant!
Liu Jiangxue watched everything, extremely worried in her heart. She quietly exchanged glances with Di Longxuan, signaling him not to believe Chen Tianjue's words.
Yet Di Longxuan seemed not to understand at all. "Jiangxue, I'll go with Young Master Chen first, and I'll come find you later."
With that, he walked out with Chen Tianjue.
After the two left, Liu Renxing sat in a chair with a pale face, his heart pounding with anxiety, unable to find peace!
"I have a feeling Chen Tianjue is definitely tricking him into going over there to kill him. What kind of friendship has there ever been between the Chen Family and the Di Family?"
"This brat simply deserves to die. A stray dog who has lost his family—how could he possibly dare to fight Young Master Chen?"
The stepmother Feng Lin said coldly.
Having said that, she fixed a gloomy glare on Liu Jiangxue and asked, "What did this brat come to find you for? I heard you had a secret crush on him back in the day. Have you been waiting for him all this time?"
"I—I wasn't waiting for him..."
Liu Jiangxue quickly shook her head.
She knew how ruthless her stepmother was. Once she found out that she liked Di Longxuan, Feng Lin would only fan the flames and get Chen Tianjue to kill him.
"Heh, I can guess just by looking at your expression that you and this brat are most likely having an affair. Let me tell you not to dream about it—a stray dog is not worthy of our Liu Family's daughter, and you must marry Young Master Chen!"
Feng Lin said coldly.
"Your stepmother is right. Di Longxuan probably won't be coming back. Don't have any more contact with this kind of person from now on. He has already become a public enemy of the entire Zhangtai City, and our Liu Family cannot be implicated with him."
Liu Renxing said with a resolute expression.
Liu Jiangxue could not help crying.
Di Longxuan, whom she had longed for in her dreams every night, had just returned; was he about to be killed? If all this really happened, she would truly go crazy.
Yet faced with her miserable expression, her parents showed not the slightest bit of sympathy; instead, they felt she was simply foolish to the extreme.
"Stop crying and hurry up and pack up. We are going to bring some gifts to the Chen Family, apologize first, and then make our stance clear: we have half to do with Di Longxuan!"
Feng Lin gave Liu Jiangxue a shove and said.
Liu Renxing hurriedly nodded. "Well said! It was Di Longxuan who pestered my daughter, and we knew nothing about it. The Liu Family has always longed to form an alliance by marriage with the Chen Family, and we must completely distance ourselves from this lunatic Di Longxuan!"
Although he was the head of the Liu Family, he had always been henpecked by his wife.
To Liu Renxing, Feng Lin's words were like infallible strategies—he had to listen, and he had to obey!
Regardless of whether Liu Jiangxue could accept it, the two immediately prepared lavish gifts and urged her to get in the car and head to the Chen Family together.
Meanwhile, on the other side, Di Longxuan and Chen Tianjue had already arrived by car at the Chen Family mansion.
At the sight of the mansion before him, Di Longxuan narrowed his eyes!
Cold light flickered in his gaze.
For this mansion was clearly a villa that once belonged to the Di Family, and Di Longxuan used to stay here often!
"This is my family's property, isn't it? Now it has become the Chen Family's?"
Di Longxuan asked coldly.
Chen Tianjue, holding a piece of white gauze over his face, chuckled and explained, "After your Di Family met with disaster, many assets became ownerless. My father was afraid they would be seized by outsiders, so he acquired quite a few, and this villa is one of them. Since you've returned, it will naturally be returned to you."
These words sounded quite proper.
Di Longxuan nodded as if completely devoid of vigilance. "Thank you. Your Chen Family... is truly kind."
"Heh, we are family friends, not outsiders. Let's go inside and talk!"
Chen Tianjue said with an enthusiastic expression, as if the previous conflict between the two had long been forgotten.
Di Longxuan followed him straight into the mansion.
Among the many properties of the Di Family back then, this villa could rank in the top three. It was extremely large, with a courtyard covering a hundred acres, and the scenery was magnificent.
That was why Di Longxuan had loved staying here.
Once inside, as he revisited familiar paths, scenes of nostalgia inevitably welled up in his heart—the time he first came here with his parents to inspect the place, his excitement while trysting with Yan Lingfei here...
Yet just as Di Longxuan and Chen Tianjue walked to the middle of the courtyard, the back gate suddenly slammed shut!
From several buildings inside, a large number of tough, capable men swarmed out!
Each and every one of them had fierce looks in their eyes, brandishing machetes!
At the high vantage points of several buildings, sniper rifle barrels even emerged!
"Di Longxuan, you idiot! To actually believe what I said, hahaha!! Your Di Family is already wiped out—what qualifications do you have to associate with my Chen Family!"
"You stray dog, how dare you fight with me for a woman and beat my face to a pulp? Today I'll let you taste what it's like to wish you were dead!"
Chen Tianjue immediately turned around and plunged into the elite fighters behind him.
There was no longer any trace of kindness on his face, replaced instead by double the murderous intent and ferocity!
At the same time, a chubby middle-aged man slowly walked forward. He was none other than Chen Tianjue's father and the current head of the Chen Family, Chen Haoxin!
"Heaven truly helps me! The Di Family was simply born for my Chen Family to destroy!"
"Thirty percent of the Di Family's assets became our Chen Family's—it was truly exhilarating back then!"
"The Di Family also has a massive fortune deposited in the bank, and for so many years no one has been able to withdraw it. Now that Di Longxuan has delivered himself to our door, this massive fortune is also going to become our Chen Family's!!"
When Chen Haoxin finished speaking, he threw his head back and laughed wildly!!
Chen Tianjue also laughed with frantic excitement!
Compared to the tens of billions of fortune the Di Family had stored in the bank, the pain on his face was truly something he could forget about!
Di Longxuan heard this, and only then did he understand why Chen Tianjue had acted out a play to invite him over.
As it turned out, it was to use him to withdraw the Di Family's tens of billions from the bank!
"So you're saying your Chen Family also participated in the Di Family's murder case back then?"
The look in Di Longxuan's eyes suddenly grew icy cold!
Chen Haoxin said grimly, "Dirty work like murder—how could our Chen Family go and do that? But your Di Family's money—our Chen Family would be fools not to take it!"
"You brat, cooperate obediently right now. As long as you get the Chen Family the Di Family's tens of billions from the bank, we'll spare your dog's life!"
Chen Tianjue said coldly.
"Where do you get your confidence? What makes you think you are my match?"
Di Longxuan asked coldly, looking around. Although the elite force mobilized by the Chen Family numbered over a hundred, in his eyes they were nothing more than clay chickens and earthen dogs!
With the breakthrough of his Profound Dragon Vein, his entry into the mortal world meant he was a true dragon!
Who could possibly oppose him?!
"You brat are truly like an idiot. The thugs of my Chen Family have all undergone military region training, and more than half of them have killed people on real battlefields. You might be able to fight a dozen or a few dozen, but can you fight over a hundred!"
Chen Haoxin said domineeringly with wide-open eyes.
Chen Tianjue even pointed all around. "Besides, no matter how fast you are, can you be faster than a bullet?! The Yan Family, Zhang Family, Gu Family, and Li Family were all too lenient with you. If you dare to act presumptuously today, bullets will execute you directly!"
As his voice fell, a series of footsteps suddenly sounded from afar!
"Ah... this...!"
It turned out the Liu family members had arrived. Upon seeing the impending battle before him, Liu Renxing was so frightened that the calves of his legs turned to jelly!
In his heart, he secretly rejoiced that he had listened to his wife; otherwise, after finishing off Di Longxuan, the Chen Family would certainly have finished off the Liu Family next!
"This is truly satisfying! All hail the Chen Family Head! Such an upright figure as Young Master Chen actually had his face beaten to a pulp by Di Longxuan—my heart aches so much. I have come specially to apologize to you!"
Liu Renxing hurriedly bowed from the waist!
Behind him, five assistants carrying various precious gifts all bowed as well!
"Chen Family Head, doesn't Young Master Chen like Liu Jiangxue? We don't want any bride price; they can consummate their marriage tonight for all we care! To be able to form a marriage alliance with the Chen Family is the honor of our ancestors smoking with auspicious vapor!"
Stepmother Feng Lin pulled Liu Jiangxue forward, nodding and bowing ingratiatingly.
She completely ignored Liu Jiangxue's tear-streaked face and her body's resistance.
Chen Tianjue, holding his face, looked coldly at Liu Jiangxue and pointed at Di Longxuan!
"Now, talk him into cooperating with my Chen Family to handle the procedures at the bank. I can spare his life; otherwise, today I'll have him killed!"
"Brother Xuan..."
Hearing this, Liu Jiangxue's tears fell in a torrent, her entire body trembling.
"Are you deaf? Hurry up and persuade Di Longxuan! As long as Young Master Chen's business is settled, you will still be Young Master Chen's fiancée. How magnanimous Young Master Chen is!"
Feng Lin shouted harshly.
"Hurry up! This concerns the future of our Liu Family! Do you really want to go down with this murderous maniac? He's not worth it, nor is he qualified!"
Liu Renxing shouted.
Liu Jiangxue's body trembled even more violently, and her tears gushed forth. Yet under this crushing pressure, her fear of her family and her dread of the Chen Family were finally shattered!
If she truly could not escape this time, why not act as her true self for once?!
Liu Jiangxue lunged forward and threw herself into Di Longxuan's arms!
"I—I cannot harm Brother Xuan! I just love Brother Xuan!! I've loved him since university, I dreamed of him in my dreams, and I waited for him for five years! Even if we die together, I will not harm him!"
"Jiangxue, you..."
Even with his towering murderous aura, Di Longxuan's iron bones dared not move for a moment!
He knew Liu Jiangxue's feelings for him, and he knew her stubborn personality; he truly never expected Liu Jiangxue to say such burning words.
Feng Lin's facial muscles twitched with fury. "Rebellion! This is outright rebellion! He's just a stray dog without a family—what do you like about him? Do you like that he's poor?!"
"Get back here immediately! What qualifications does he have to even touch you?!"
Liu Renxing was also so angry that he stomped his feet hard!
Yet Liu Jiangxue had already thrown caution to the wind, hugging Di Longxuan tightly and refusing to let go.
Hearing this, Di Longxuan looked coldly at Feng Lin, then back at Liu Renxing!
"Was she wrong? Why shouldn't she love me, and why shouldn't I touch her?"
"Watch closely, the two of you. Today, not only am I going to kiss her, but I am also going to make the Chen Family cancel this engagement of their own accord!"
With those words, Di Longxuan lowered his head and kissed Liu Jiangxue on her fair, delicate forehead!
Liu Jiangxue's body gave a slight shudder. Though gripped by extreme terror, her face flushed red, and the resolve in her heart to stand and fall together with Di Longxuan grew even firmer!
"Brother Xuan, in this lifetime, I will never leave you!"
"Rest assured. Whatever you like, you shall have. After today, no one will ever force you again."
With that, Di Longxuan pulled Liu Jiangxue into his arms and walked toward Chen Tianjue!
On the sidelines, Liu Renxing and Feng Lin were fit to burst with rage!!
They had originally intended to come and apologize to curry favor and form a marriage alliance, but they never expected things to spin out of control and evolve into the very situation the two of them least wanted to see!
"Liu Jiangxue, you truly are a bitch! This time you're going to drag the Liu Family down with you!!"
"I'm so angry! Starting today, Liu Jiangxue is expelled from the Liu Family and severed from all relations with me!! Young Master Chen, Family Head Chen, kill her however you please, I don't care anymore!"
The two shouted viciously.
Chen Tianjue's eyes had turned as cold as blades of ice!
"Di Longxuan, it seems you refuse a toast only to drink a forfeiture. And you, Liu Jiangxue, you cheap bitch, you insist on continuing your cheap ways. Fine! Then I'll grant the two of you your wish to be mandarin ducks in death!"
He waved his hand heavily!
"Beat Di Longxuan to a pulp, but keep him alive! As for Liu Jiangxue, capture her alive! Today I hand her over to you all to play with—play with her however you want! A cheap bitch like this, I don't want her anymore!!"
"Well said! As expected of my son, what a domineering thing to say!"
Chen Haoxin laughed wildly and unrestrainedly!
In his view, he would soon acquire the Di Family's tens of billions in the bank!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! The hundred-odd thugs before them had already surrounded Di Longxuan and Liu Jiangxue tightly!
Liu Jiangxue turned pale with fright, her body shaking violently. Even as the young lady of the Liu Family who had seen grand scenes, she had never witnessed such a brutal and murderous spectacle!
"Bow your head and bury it in my arms. Pay attention to nothing else, and I will take you on a slaughter!"
Di Longxuan's cold voice reached her, and Liu Jiangxue obediently buried her head against his sturdy chest!
Then—boom, boom, boom! His fists struck like a skyful of artillery fire, turning elite fighter after elite fighter into bloody mists and rains of gore!
The blood on the ground steadily increased, and the stench of blood filling the air grew ever more intense! Chunks of shattered flesh began to rain down all around!
This scene was simply crazed beyond belief!
The hundred-odd thugs rapidly dwindled, reduced to just half in a mere dozen seconds or so!
Chen Tianjue, who had previously been full of arrogance, could no longer help panicking. He roared at the top of his lungs, "Open fire! Are you all idiots? Why aren't you opening fire immediately!"
The snipers sprang into action instantly!
Several gunshots rang out from all directions, and bullets whistled toward Di Longxuan!!
Feng Lin and Liu Renxing, who had been paralyzed on the ground with terror from his methods, once again felt a wave of schadenfreude at this sight!
"He still wanted to fight the Chen Family—he's simply an idiot!"
"He's definitely going to die a miserable death this time! Serves him right!"
Yet no sooner had the two finished speaking than they saw Di Longxuan tear off all ten fingers of a thug right in front of him!
Clasping Liu Jiangxue, his figure spun through the air—swish, swish, swish! Those ten fingers shot forth like ten bolts of lightning, striking in ten different directions!!
Six snipers had their heads pierced right through!
Two brawny henchmen holding rocket launchers also had their windpipes pierced through!
As for the remaining two: one was the butler who stood at a high vantage point with binoculars directing the encirclement of everyone, and the other was the elderly patriarch of the Chen Family watching the commotion from a third-floor window!
All ten of them were sent packing to the Western Paradise in the span of a single second!
The remaining thugs had already had their wits scared out of them and broke and fled directly!
Generous though the Chen Family's pay was, it wasn't worth losing one's life over.
"What are you all doing? Stand your ground, all of you! Get back up there and kill Di Longxuan, hurry!!"
Chen Tianjue shrieked like a madman.
Yet no one listened; in the blink of an eye, they had all run away.
In the twinkling of an eye, the scene was left with only the grandfather and father of the Chen Family. From commanding a hundred followers at a single call, they were reduced to fighting a lone battle!
"You—what do you want? I advise you not to act rashly! My Chen Family is a branch of a Luodu prominent family, do you want to die?!"
Chen Tianjue retreated in terror, shouting with a contorted expression.
Yet just as his voice fell—splash!
Two strands of vital energy swept past, and his legs were instantly gone!!
Chen Tianjue crashed to the ground, howling in agonizing pain, "My legs! I've become a cripple—Dad, kill him quickly!!"
"My son! You dare to mutilate my son like this!! I'll fight you to the death!"
Chen Haoxin produced a handgun and, with bloodshot eyes, began firing frantically at Di Longxuan!
Who would have thought that Di Longxuan would raise his hand and flick out several streams of vital energy, causing the incoming bullets to burst apart in midair one by one!
In the end, Chen Haoxin emptied his entire magazine without managing to kill Di Longxuan, and he roared in madness, "No!! I won't let you live!"
"What qualifications do you have to control my destiny!"
As soon as Di Longxuan finished speaking, he flicked out two more streams of vital energy!
Chen Haoxin likewise crashed instantly to the ground, losing both legs and becoming an absolute, thorough piece of trash!
The father and son wailed in excruciating pain, but no one on either side dared to step forward to rescue them; earlier, to ensure secrecy, the two of them had ordered all their relatives to temporarily leave the mansion.
Now, no matter how piercingly or miserably they shrieked, not even a single relative came over to help!
"I give you both twenty-four hours to return all of the Di Family's assets, or you die!"
"Furthermore, right this instant, annul the engagement with the Liu Family. If Jiangxue is not satisfied, the two of you die right now!"
Di Longxuan said in a voice as cold as ice.
Seeing that Di Longxuan's eyes were as cold as an abyss devoid of any emotion, Chen Tianjue shook with terror and no longer dared harbor the slightest thought of defiance!
"Liu Renxing, the engagement between your daughter and me is canceled as of now! I will never set my sights on her again—hurry up and agree to the cancellation, hurry!!"
"My son will never disturb Liu Jiangxue ever again! He will never dare to fight you for a woman again!"
Chen Haoxin also shouted in a frantic rush.
Liu Renxing had already been so frightened that all the color drained from his face!
The entire development of events had not followed his predictions in the slightest.
He could only nod in terror, "Good, good, I agree! Canceled, canceled!"
Yet Feng Lin, sitting trembling on the ground in fear, burst into a furious rage upon hearing this!
"Di Longxuan, what are you acting all high and mighty for? Even if our Liu Family's daughter doesn't marry the Chen Family, it won't be your turn! Liu Jiangxue will have plenty of talented young gentlemen behind her; besides killing people, what other abilities do you have!"
In Di Longxuan's arms, Liu Jiangxue gave a frightened start!
Ever since her father Liu Renxing married this stepmother ten years ago, she had been bullied at every turn!
That woman had practically become the nightmare of her life.
Hearing this, Liu Renxing hurriedly tugged at the hem of her jacket. "Stop running your mouth! Do you want to die?!"
"I do want to die! Let him kill me if he has the guts! I am Liu Jiangxue's mother—let him try killing me!"
Feng Lin let out the full fury of her shrewish nature!
"Very well, I grant your wish."
Di Longxuan said indifferently, and threw a punch!
Before Feng Lin could even react, she was turned into a bloody rain!! Splattering across the sky, she vanished from the human world!
"Ah!! My wife—my wife is gone!! Di Longxuan, you—you are too ruthless!! She is Jiangxue's mother after all!!"
Liu Renxing immediately burst into a loud, wailing cry!
"You are mistaken. She was only Jiangxue's stepmother, and moreover a stepmother who kept forcing Jiangxue to jump into a fire pit. From today on, if anyone dares to bully Jiangxue again, they must first answer to my fists!"
Di Longxuan said coldly.
Upon hearing this, Liu Renxing was too terrified to voice any further condemnation, and could only break down in loud, wretched sobs.
Di Longxuan showed not a shred of pity. Looking at her father, Liu Jiangxue was astonished to find that she felt not the slightest bit of sympathy...
Over all these years, just to please her stepmother, her father had done far too many things that harmed her.
Had Di Longxuan not suddenly appeared, she would surely have been married off to Chen Tianjue over the next few days, becoming a toy for him to corrupt, toy with, and cast aside...
"My words will not be spoken a second time. The two of you, remember them well!"
With that, Di Longxuan flicked his finger!
Six ice needles instantly condensed in the air and pierced into the bodies of the Chen father and son. The two immediately writhed on the ground in agony, while terrifying frost began to spread across their skin.
Di Longxuan took hold of Liu Jiangxue's hand. "Let's go. Don't return to the Liu Family for now."
"Mn!"
With reddened eyes, Liu Jiangxue nodded emphatically.
Hand in hand, the two of them left the Chen Family mansion together.
When the golden autumn wind and jade dew meet once more, it surpasses countless encounters in the mortal realm. Meeting Liu Jiangxue once again, Di Longxuan finally discovered what was truly worth cherishing and what true affection meant.
As for Liu Jiangxue, though she had lost the protection of the Liu Family at this moment, her heart felt utterly secure.
She looked at the tall and majestic Di Longxuan beside her, feeling like a little stream flowing safely into the embrace of towering mountains...