Chapter 81: Unlocking His Key Words!

Lin Feng was stunned, his brows furrowed as he took in the scene before him.

He hesitated, unable to decide.

He hadn’t made up his mind.

Should he pretend to faint, or should he fight?!

As the two men in black drew closer, Chu Lingshuang let out a cold laugh. “So, from the very beginning, this was a trap set by your Gu family?”

Her cheeks flushed, her breathing noticeably heavier.

“That’s right!” Gu Wenxuan’s laughter grew more brazen. He boasted shamelessly, “Taking you is equivalent to taking the Chu family. Tonight’s banquet was arranged for you alone—”

As he spoke, pride blossomed across his face. “Tomorrow morning, someone will come. By then, you’ll be with me, and no matter how hard you try to explain, you’ll have to swallow your losses in silence!”

This was something his grandfather had specifically instructed.

As the premier family in the capital, the Chu clan seldom appeared in the public eye, but should a scandal like this break out, they would be forced to suffer for the sake of their reputation.

After all, Chu Lingshuang’s mother had personally agreed to all this—the true purpose of tonight’s banquet was nothing less than a matchmaking ceremony between him and the eldest lady of the Chu family!

Once he had Chu Lingshuang, the rest were mere trivialities, easily resolved however he wished.

“Hmph.”

Chu Lingshuang suddenly let out a cold laugh. Despite the fever burning within her, she still fought to restrain herself. She glanced obliquely at Lin Feng. “Aren’t you going to act?”

Lin Feng instinctively pressed his lips together. It seemed he had underestimated them; the Gu family had been holding back all this time, only to unleash their ace here?!

With the Gu family’s interference, wasn’t this the perfect opportunity for him to slip away?

He narrowed his eyes, watching the two men in black close in, then slumped his body to feign weakness, collapsing onto the sofa.

“Miss, I can’t... I feel dizzy too...”

Lin Feng shamelessly played the part of an invalid, letting the two men in black grab his arms.

Chu Lingshuang’s expression shifted abruptly; a fire of unprecedented fury blazed in her eyes!

Damn it, he actually dared to feign faintness?!

She was livid, yet the inferno within her raged even more violently!

“Hahahahahaha!”

Seeing this, Gu Wenxuan burst into loud laughter.

“Chu Lingshuang, oh Chu Lingshuang, have you forgotten your bodyguard tasted your food for you?”

Chu Lingshuang bit her lip hard, the pain helping her regain a shred of clarity. Murderous flames flared in her gaze.

“Convenience store, factory, DNA...”

She pressed her lips together and spat out those words one by one...

Gu Wenxuan seemed to hear the greatest joke of all, laughing so hard he clutched his stomach, tears nearly streaming down his face. “Miss Chu, you’re really losing it, uttering nothing but nonsense, hahahahaha...”

He had no idea how important those words were to Lin Feng!

They were precisely the trigger words to awaken him!

Lin Feng, still pretending to be unconscious, gritted his teeth. Alright, you want to play games?

“Miss Chu, maybe I should help you out. You seem to have lost your senses…”

Watching Gu Wenxuan laugh and approach step by step, he suddenly clenched his fists.

The moment Gu Wenxuan’s hand was about to touch Chu Lingshuang, darkness swept over his vision!

Then came two piercing screams.

“Ah!”

When he snapped out of it, Gu Wenxuan was shocked to find Lin Feng standing before him, while the two men in black lay on the floor, clutching their stomachs in agony.

“You… weren’t you… ah!”

He wanted to ask—didn’t Lin Feng eat the same food? But Lin Feng didn’t give him the chance, seizing his wrist.

Gu Wenxuan cried out in pain, trying to pull his hand back, but then his calf was hit, his kneecap feeling as if it had been shattered, forcing him to kneel!

The next second, his wrist was twisted backward so violently it was deformed!

The intense pain shooting through his limbs left Gu Wenxuan in agony; his eyes widened in disbelief, about to speak—but Lin Feng struck him hard across the face, stars exploding in his vision.

“Slap slap slap!”

Several blows later, Gu Wenxuan’s mouth was bloodied, his swollen face resembling a pig’s head as he passed out on the floor.

Lin Feng rubbed his numb palm from the beating, then tossed his jacket onto Chu Lingshuang.

With a smooth, skillful sequence, he said coldly, “That should be enough, Miss Chu?”

It was Lin Feng’s scent…

The jacket draped over her carried a crisp, masculine fragrance, fueling the burning fire inside her even more.

Chu Lingshuang’s eyes were bloodshot; she barely registered Lin Feng’s words, her gaze fierce as she stared at the men on the ground. She barked, “Kill them!”

“Me?”

Lin Feng paused, she wanted him to go all the way? To kill members of the Gu family—one of the four great clans?

Come on, you’re Miss Chu; you have people to clean up after you. Why should I do it?

Wouldn’t I be hunted to the ends of the earth?

He had hoped to be free after this banquet, but now she was forcing his hand—he wasn’t having it!

“If you want them dead, do it yourself. I don’t want to be chased down!”

He shot her a look. If not for your threats, Miss, I’d have just played dead and escaped!

“Useless!”

Chu Lingshuang cursed him, her rationality nearly gone.

She pointed to the rope Gu Wenxuan had prepared. “Tie them up!”

“That I can do.”

Lin Feng nodded, setting to work binding the three men, finishing with a skilled knot.

He’d gone a bit overboard just now; those men wouldn’t wake for a while, and even if they did, tied up as they were, they’d only be helplessly furious.

At least Chu Lingshuang was now quite safe.

Lin Feng pressed his lips together. Perhaps it was the exertion just now, but his blood was surging; he felt something off in his body.

He realized instantly—it must be the food he’d eaten.

No wonder.

He’d only had a little, while Chu Lingshuang had eaten almost all of it, so his symptoms appeared later than hers.

Given the current situation, if he didn’t leave now, something really would happen!

Clenching his fists, he said coldly, “Alright, do as you please, Miss Chu. I’m leaving.”

He turned to go.

But before he could reach the door, Chu Lingshuang’s voice rang out again. “Leave?”

She sat up, her eyes fierce and red, staring hard at Lin Feng. “If you dare leave, I’ll hunt you down wherever you go!”

Hiss!

Lin Feng was furious!

He spun around, voice thunderous. “What more do you want?”

“Carry me to the bedroom.”

Chu Lingshuang raised her hand, pointing directly to the inner chamber.

It was the only bedroom here.

Undoubtedly, a place Gu Wenxuan had specially prepared.

Carry her there?!

Was she kidding?!

In their current state, if they touched, it would be over—especially with the fever rising, all he wanted was to find a place to take a cold shower...