Chapter 66 - This is War.

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Honglin watched the romantic scene in front of him and continued struggling intensely against the bodyguards that were restraining him. He said. "Leave my fiancée alone! She is not yours anymore!"

Jihai didn't even spare him a glance, keeping his eyes in the woman in his arms. "Are you sure about that, Honglin?"

"She is no longer yours anymore, you scoundrel! You should be dead! You hear me? Dead!" He said.

"Then you must be the biggest fool in the world." Jihai"s eyes sparkled as he guided her to stand beside him, his hand gripping hers tightly. "Did you think that it was that easy to snatch the woman I love away from me?"

Honglin looked at Jihai, hatred corroding his heart. "Jihai, do not think that just because you have become famous and rich, you can do whatever you want! Chunlan, come here!"

Honglin's secretary ran to him with an anxious pace, whispering into his ear desperately. "Sir, I just got a call from headquarters. Tangxi Hotels has just signed an alliance agreement with Star Blade Enterprises. They just terminated all their contracts with our law firms this evening!"

Honglin froze when he heard the news, his eyes darting straight at Chunlan who kept an expressionless face and stayed silent though all of them heard what the secretary had said.

His eyes widened in rage, his heart bursting in flames. "You devious sŀut! You betrayed me! You deserve to die!"

Chunlan's lips curved to a taunting smile as she turned to his direction. "Why? Because you are just finding out you are the biggest fool in the room? Lin-ge, don't be so pathetic...."

She cautiously walked to stand in front of him, keeping some distance away from him. "You still haven't settled all the debts you owe me. This is just the beginning, why do you look so angry?"

Honglin felt like tearing her into pieces, her red lips mocking him as she stood beside his enemy to trick him. "What have you done, Chunlan?"

"Oh, I am just making history. Over 50 companies has pledged their loyalty to Star Blade Enterprises in less than 14 days. Honglin do you know, even my father couldn't that in his prime!" Her watery eyes glistened with admiration.

"You will regret this, Chunlan. I will make you pay for what you have done to me. You are nothing but a tramp who moves from one man's bed to another just for power!" Honglin sneered.

Jihai's eye signal prompted a bodyguard to land a dozen of punches on Honglin's abdomen making him grunt then finishing it with a swift kick to his ċhėst. People gasped and retreated each of them with horrified expression especially some ladies who went to the extent of fainting to solidify their dainty appearance.

"Thank you all for attending the party. It has been a wonderful night but now its time for you all to go. Please leave." Jihai said to the crowd.

When he saw everyone leaving, he said to Honglin. "You failed to kill me, Honglin but that does not mean you did not wound me. I am going to return this gift to the so called Wen Family Patriarch. When you recover, tell him that from now on, this is war."

Jihai walked away holding Chunlan who followed him demurely. She still had so many questions to ask him but he stayed silent and she didn't want to speak either. Suddenly, he stopped and gazed at her with curiosity as they stood in front of his car. "What do you want to ask? You can only ask me one question right now. I will explain everything later."

She nodded, grabbing his hand tightly. "Are you okay? Its been so long, are you truly unharmed?"

Jihai looked at her, his heart flooded with warmth and emotion for the first time since he arrived in China. He had finally done it. He was now the most powerful man in China, the man with the most authority in the country. But looking at her, he had realized why he always felt empty. He said. "I am okay, Lan'er."

He found himself encroached in a hug immediately with Chunlan wrapping her arms around him. Two men who were planning to approach them quickly turned around to give them privacy, both of them looking a little bit uncomfortable.

She whispered. "I am so proud of you, Jihai. No one can hurt you anymore."

She knew the world she lived in had no time for weak and incapable people. Her eyes stung a little as she thought, if Jihai was dating a normal girl from a normal world, he would be living a normal life.

"Its my fault, Jihai."

He withdrew from her embrace, his fingers wiping the tears falling on her cheeks. "I would never regret the things I did to protect you, to provide for you and to love you..Because to me, you will always be worth it."

He moved closer to her, his eyes and heart focused on her red painted lips. Just when he could feel her warm breath on his face, Yin Tao walked to them and said. "First Young Mistress, your father had ordered us to bring you home immediately."

Chunlan turned to reply to Yin Tao, her head colliding with Jihai's jaw, his eyes scrunching in pain making him let go of her hand. From a far distance, she could hear distant peals of laughter coming from the two men who stood far from them. She said. "I will be going back home, then. Take care of yourself."

"Okay." He bade her goodnight.

Chunlan arrived home to the precarious atmosphere at home, her father's bodyguard guiding her to her father's study. Unknown to her, her two little sisters were kneeling down on the rugged floor and her mother was standing behind her father who was sitting opposite them.

Huizhong stared at his blind daughter who had just arrived and threw one of the books on his table at her. "You unfilial daughter, how dare you!"

Chunlan who was blind helplessly felt the book hit her shoulder, her knees growing weak as she knelt down immediately. "Father, please let me explain!"

"Explain what?! That you, my first daughter told your sisters to terminate all contracts with the Wen Law Firms or the fact that you knew all this while that wretched boy, Bai Jihai was alive? I will beat you to death today!" Huizhong tried to stand up, his body filled with rage but his wife's hands restrained him, trying to soothe him quietly.

Chunhua and Chunying quivered in fear, their eyes closed tightly not daring to say a word at all. Instinctively, they hid behind their senior sister trying to avoid their father's fiery temper, his intimidating aura subduing them intensely.

Haifeng looked at her three daughters, her heart filled with pity. "Huizhong, Chunlan must have had her reasons, let's hear what she has to say."

He took a deep breath to calm himself, suppressing his anger as he hit the table with his knuckles. "Speak!"

All the three girls flinched with their father's command but only Chunlan managed to speak up, her hands holding her sisters' own in comfort. "It all started like this......."