Pampered by Short-Lived Bigshot

Chapter 1322 - 759: Suppression by Strength, Dog-Eat-Dog Infighting (6th Update)

No one expected Si Yushan to make a move. Even Si Qingxiao’s heart skipped a beat in shock, let alone everyone else.

You Yunzhi walked to her daughter’s side, but her gaze stayed fixed on her own younger brother. She didn’t believe Lou Hao had the guts to do something like this. This matter had better not drag him down with it, otherwise...

That last bit of remaining affection between them would be cut off clean.

Jiang Chengsi’s breathing sank, and he reached back to touch his slightly cool nape.

Si Yushan had always treated him amiably; to suddenly turn like this, switching from a gentle, scholarly gentleman to such a forceful mode, was genuinely a bit terrifying.

And when Huo Qinqi suddenly spoke, he only felt another chill along the back of his neck:

"Mr. Si is trained."

"Tr–trained?" Jiang Chengsi turned his head to look at him, stiffly.

"You can tell from the way he kicked—he’s holding his strength, not just using brute force to stomp." The system had learned a few things; compared to ordinary people, the difference in moves was still very obvious.

Jiang Jinsang suddenly nudged Jiang Chengsi’s arm. "Fourth Brother, feeling the pressure?"

"Me, what pressure would I feel? It’s not like I did anything guilty."

Even as he said that, Jiang Chengsi was still uneasy inside.

**

At this moment, Si Yushan moved again.

Lou Hao, who’d been kicked to the ground, had crashed down on his back and hadn’t caught his breath yet when he felt someone grab his collar, and his whole body was yanked up by a powerful force.

It was like he’d been hoisted up in one go; for an instant, half of both feet were off the ground.

The tight fist in his collar constricted his neck, making it even harder to breathe.

When his gaze slammed into those deep, dark, vicious eyes, the pain in his shoulder was instantly forgotten. "Mr. Si—" His throat was locked so tightly he couldn’t even get a full word out.

Completely overpowered, unable to move.

"Drugging my daughter—my Si Yushan’s daughter—is she someone you can touch?"

Si Yushan’s fingers twisted tighter as he clenched his fist...

And drove it hard into Lou Hao’s face again!

Lou Hao had already been beaten into a pulp by Jiang Chengsi earlier and had long lost the strength to fight back, so he was even less capable of withstanding Si Yushan.

With just one punch, Si Yushan loosened the hand gripping his collar, and the man slumped to the floor like a pile of mud, collapsing down in a heap.

Even his cries of pain were so weak they were barely audible.

If it were an ordinary matter, Si Yushan wouldn’t be this angry. But what parent could hear that someone wanted to ruin their child and not fly into a rage? Beating him under such fury was only what he deserved.

Though the people present were shocked, no one stepped in to stop the fight.

"Brought this on himself. If he’d laid a hand on my daughter, I’d have fucking killed him long ago."

"And today of all days, when it’s the Si Family’s big celebration—such bad luck."

...

Standing off to the side, Lou Xingyu was completely dumbfounded. Though Si Yushan was decisive and ruthless in the business world, he had always been mild in private. It wasn’t until Si Yushan spoke that his senses finally snapped back.

"Drag him out of here. Keep an eye on him. Call the police."

Si Yushan’s words were resolute. He was certainly going to punish Lou Hao, but that one phrase—"call the police"—snapped Lou Xingyu’s mind fully back into place.

"Mr. Si—"

"Just now you said that whatever I did—sending him to the police or anything else—you had no objections. So what now? You want to stop me?" Si Yushan brushed a hand over his suit, his expression cool, with not a trace of his usual demeanor.

"I, I just..." Lou Xingyu really had made up his mind earlier to sacrifice the pawn to save the king, but this was still his own son. Watching him get beaten by Si Yushan, how could he harden his heart completely?

The key was, with all the arrows now pointed at him, the Si Family would never let him off; his life as he knew it would truly be over.

More importantly, even if he "abandoned the pawn to save the king" as he claimed, the Si Family might not actually let the Lou Family go.

They’d clearly been incited by someone else, so why should that bastard walk away without a scratch while their family had to suffer this catastrophe?

If someone had to go down...

Then everyone would go down together!

No one was fucking getting out of this unscathed!

With that thought, Lou Xingyu stopped caring about anything else and said directly:

"Mr. Si, I’m not trying to plead for him. I just want to tell you the truth."

"The truth?" Si Yushan lifted his hand to neaten his sleeve, something opaque flickering in the depths of his eyes.

"In your eyes, our family is nothing. Honestly, I really did hope my son could marry your daughter. Looking across all of Beijing, how many families with a marriageable young man wouldn’t want your daughter as a daughter-in-law? Maybe I was too anxious, and my thoughts and actions were extreme."

"I might have had the criminal intent, but someone had to lend me the guts for it."

"If no one had egged me on, how would I have dared do something like this?"

Lou Xingyu had gone all in now, speaking loud and clear, obviously ready to drag everyone involved down with him.