"Tee-hee—"
Accompanied by a silvery, enchanting giggle, Liang Kun, whose mind had been wandering and blood boiling, snapped back to reality.
Once he came to his senses, lingering fear gripped his heart.
Though he had only zoned out for a moment, he could clearly feel that both his heartbeat and his pulse had been violently racing. If that laughter hadn't jolted him awake just then, his heart might literally have burst.
Regaining his focus, Liang Kun looked at Xia He again. While he no longer felt that overwhelming, animalistic urge, there was no denying that this gorgeous woman possessed a face and figure capable of stirring anyone's desires.
"I'm telling you, Boss, if you don't want to die, you'd better kill that thought right now. Xia He can literally cause you to drop dead on the spot!"
Seeing Liang Kun's incorrigible, wandering eyes, Yan Liang was utterly speechless.
His brother here was truly a starving ghost for sex, daring to provoke literally anyone.
While feeling speechless, Yan Liang was also intensely shocked.
In his wildest dreams, he never expected that the Xia He he had summoned would turn out to be *this* Xia He.
Scrapper — Xia He!
One of the Four Maniacs of Quanxing, born with a beauty that drives men obsessed and utterly incapable of refusal. More than that, she could manipulate other people's lust at will, dragging her opponents into a mire of desire until they were reduced to cripples.
Xia He's appearance left Yan Liang profoundly shaken.
Because of her, Yan Liang's thoughts immediately turned to Baron, whom he had yet to meet.
If Xia He was indeed the Xia He from the Four Maniacs of Quanxing, then Baron...
Could he possibly be the one who mastered the Six Storehouses Thief, one of the Eight Wonders...
Baron Grills!
If that really turned out to be the case, then spending his single Gold Legendary redemption on this was an absolute steal.
What a regret!
If he had known things would turn out like this, he would have found some way to rake in eight hundred million or a billion. Ruling all of Hong Kong back then wouldn't have been a problem at all!
Only, it was already too late for that.
Still, with the appearance of Xia He and Baron, his internal ambitions shifted slightly.
If previously he had only wanted to rely on his cheat to successfully push Liang Kun to the top, wash his hands clean, and live out a wealthy tycoon's life, now, the arrival of Xia He and the yet-unseen Baron naturally changed his perspective.
He still wanted the comfortable life of a tycoon, but he wanted the power to dominate everything else just as much...
...
Drop dead on the spot?
Liang Kun recalled his pathetic state just moments ago.
To be honest, that boiling, about-to-explode sensation left him genuinely terrified.
Now, with Yan Liang's reminder—coupled with the collection of freaks and weirdos under Yan Liang's command—how could Liang Kun fail to guess that all of this was most likely the work of the woman before him?
Even the fearless Liang Kun couldn't help shivering at that thought.
At this moment, the look he gave Xia He was filled with far more terror than greed. In fact, he felt like slipping away right then and there.
After all, beautiful women were great, but you needed your life to enjoy them, didn't you?
He had no desire to become a human time bomb.
"Hehe...
Don't worry, Xia He was just joking with you. Of course, if you actually try any crooked ideas, there probably isn't much I can do to help you. Though Old Li here could always refine you into a nice, careful little specimen!"
Seeing the fearless Liang Kun acting like a terrified young bride, Yan Liang couldn't resist teasing him a bit.
"Damn it!
Are you fucking treating me like a boss at all? Is that any way to talk to your elder brother?"
With Xia He right there, Liang Kun still needed to save a bit of face, so he cursed under his breath a couple of times before standing up.
"I give up, you win!
I've still got business at the film company, so I'm heading out."
With that, Liang Kun readied himself to bolt, not wanting to stay here for another single minute.
Just as he reached the door, however, he remembered the purpose of his impromptu visit and turned back to say,
"Oh right,
there's a Hung Hing meeting tonight. Don't be late."With that, he didn't stay a moment longer, hurrying off like a frightened rabbit with his men to handle the matters of the film company.
...
"You're Xia He of the Four Maniacs of Quanxing?"
Yan Liang didn't try to make him stay. It wasn't until Liang Kun had been gone for quite a while that he turned to ask Xia He.
"If there's no one else by that name, I suppose it must be me."
Xia He didn't deny it. She nodded, then added, "Though there are no Four Maniacs of Quanxing to speak of now. In front of the boss, I am just a weak woman."
With that, Xia He flashed Yan Liang a seductive look.
Good grief!
Seeing the endless charm radiating from every movement Xia He made, Yan Liang couldn't help being startled, subconsciously trying to steel his composure.
Yet very quickly, he realized something.
Enticing though Xia He's every gesture was, to him it was merely alluring in a purely visual sense, without exerting any actual influence over him.
Could it be...
that he possessed the legendary virtue of Liu Xiahui?
Before long, a quick check of the system revealed that it wasn't any such virtue on his part.
Rather, it was because Xia He originated from the system.
Consequently, the abilities of characters originating from the system had no effect on him whatsoever.
However,
unaware of this, Xia He saw that Yan Liang was completely immune to her powers. A flash of surprise crossed her eyes before her gaze narrowed into crescent moons as she said,
"As expected of a dragon among men, Master is truly unaffected by his subordinate's desires..."
"Stop, stop, stop!"
Hearing Xia He drop the word "Master" with an extremely high sugar content, Yan Liang hastily cut her off.
"Talk normally from now on.
If you keep acting like that, you'll give someone diabetes!"
"Fine then!"
Hearing Yan Liang put it that way, Xia He had no choice but to drop her coquettish pose, standing before him with a completely calm expression.
"You..."
Seeing Xia He suddenly turn so serious, Yan Liang found himself momentarily struggling to adjust.
...
"Hey, hey, hey!
How can you be like this? You took the television apart, the least you can do is put it back together!"
Just as the atmosphere turned somewhat awkward, a commotion broke out from the hallway outside, followed by a flurry of shouting and scolding.
Relieved at the distraction to break the awkwardness, Yan Liang promptly got up, opened the door, and stepped out of the room.
With the awkwardness in his heart needing an outlet, Yan Liang stood right at the doorway and roared toward the western end of the corridor.
"Are you bastards ever going to finish?
First thing in the morning, and you won't even let people sleep?"
That single shout gave the occupants of a room not far from his tenement apartment a considerable start.
Especially the man who had just been shoved halfway out the door, whose face turned pale white with fright. He shivered all over and stammered with a guilty conscience:
"B-Brother Leung, w-we were just fooling around!
W-we had no idea you were home. S-sorry, I'm so sorry..."
Recognizing the speaker as none other than Fang Zhanbo, Yan Liang didn't even need to think to know what was going on.
It was nothing more than this scumbag bullying Little Jew again.
"I'm telling you, kid, have you grown bold again just because I haven't been back in a few days?
Didn't I tell you that if you ever bullied Little Jew and the others again, I'd break your legs?"
As an old neighbor of Yan Liang's, Fang Zhanbo was well aware of Yan Liang's reputation out on the streets.
Yet over the years, the latter had never used his status to bully the neighborhood residents.
In fact, whenever they crossed paths, they would always exchange polite greetings.
Although the man had warned him in the past, Yan Liang was rarely at home most of the time, so Fang Zhanbo hadn't taken it to heart.
Never had he expected to run right into him like this. He immediately put on a crying face and wailed:
"Brother Leung, I was wrong! I'll never bully them again, please, I'm begging you to give me a chance!"