Tang Feng actually wasn’t surprised by this outcome.

He had upgraded his Martial Arts Mastery to LV2, but it had cost him a full 10 million.

He couldn’t say he could handle a hundred martial arts experts, but dealing with petty thugs was a piece of cake.

At this time, Zhao Huaqiang had been revived by his subordinates and was looking at him with a terror-filled gaze.

Tang Feng slowly stood up and walked toward him.

Two of the underlings immediately stepped forward to block his path.

But when they met Tang Feng’s gaze, an inexplicable shiver ran through their hearts, and they subconsciously scattered to the sides.

Tang Feng squatted in front of Zhao Huaqiang. “Tell me, who instructed you to follow Miss Jiang?”

Zhao Huaqiang glanced at Jiang Zi, who was behind Tang Feng, and ground his teeth. “No one ordered me, I had my men follow her because I fancy Miss Jiang…”

“I want to hear the truth.” Tang Feng didn’t wait for him to finish and cut him off directly.

“I’m telling the truth.” Zhao Huaqiang’s expression was very sincere; had it been anyone else, they might actually have believed him.

But Tang Feng wasn’t so easily fooled.

“It seems I need to show you some color before you really understand I’m not someone to be trifled with.”

He slowly stood up, turned his head to Jiang Zi, “Close your eyes and cover your ears. Don’t open them until I tell you to.”

Jiang Zi knew what might happen next and obediently closed her eyes and covered her ears.

Only then did Tang Feng pick up the cleaver that Zhao Huaqiang had dropped, spun it with a flourish in his hand, and then plunged it with the blade facing down “plop” into Zhao Huaqiang’s thigh.

“Ahh…”

Zhao Huaqiang’s wretched scream echoed down the entire street.

Even his battle-hardened henchmen felt their scalps tingle.

This young man was just too ruthless.

“Still not talking?” Tang Feng, holding the knife handle, looked up at Zhao Huaqiang.

Zhao Huaqiang’s entire body was trembling violently, but he still insisted through clenched teeth: “Really, it was my order…”

Before he could finish, Tang Feng twisted the cleaver in his hand sharply, “Won’t speak the truth yet?”

Zhao Huaqiang was in so much pain he almost passed out, his blood already pooling on the ground, “I… what I said is true…”

Tang Feng raised his thumb, “You really are tough, still refusing to talk? Then let me educate you. If my knife moves forward three more centimeters, it will sever your femoral artery. Once it ruptures, you’ll go into shock within five minutes and might even die. Are you sure you want to die protecting this secret?”

Zhao Huaqiang trembled even more fiercely, fear evident on his face, “I… I’ll tell… It was… Xu Hongyuan who sent us to follow her…”

He whispered a name in Tang Feng’s ear.

After hearing it, Tang Feng chuckled, “Go back and tell him, Jiang Zi is my woman. If he dares to continue his wishful thinking, even if he’s the king of heaven, I won’t let him off.”

Zhao Huaqiang didn’t dare to make any more threats at this point and quickly nodded.

“Do you have a cigarette?” Tang Feng felt that not smoking a cigarette to pull off a cool act at a time like this would be somewhat failing to live up to his feat.

“Yes.” Zhao Huaqiang hurriedly took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, offered one to Tang Feng, and lit it for him.

“Cough cough…” No sooner had Tang Feng taken two drags than he started coughing violently.

Shit, looking cool failed!

“Don’t run into me again.” He took the cigarette from his mouth, stuffed it into Zhao Huaqiang’s, and patted his shoulder.

Then he stood up, took Jiang Zi by the hand, and left.

In fact, Jiang Zi had opened her eyes much earlier and witnessed the whole process of Tang Feng dealing with Zhao Huaqiang.

Although the scene was a bit bloody, which scared her,

she was at the same time charmed by Tang Feng’s dashing demeanor.

Having a man like that for protection felt incredibly safe.

It wasn’t until the two were far away that Zhao Huaqiang stood up with the help of his underlings.

The bald man cautiously approached, “Boss, are you alright?”

Zhao Huaqiang, who had his anger bottled up with nowhere to vent, slapped him across the face, “You TM still have the face to ask? Why didn’t you say earlier that this kid is so good at fighting?”

The bald man felt wronged, “I knew he could fight, but I didn’t know he could fight so well, not even you are a match…”

“Enough, keep today’s events a secret to all of you. Whoever dares to let it out, I’ll chop him up first. Do you hear me?” Zhao Huaqiang ordered his underlings.

“Yes.”

In reality, they didn’t need him to spell it out; they wouldn’t dream of spreading such a humiliating incident.

Being beaten to a pulp was just too embarrassing.

“Boss, what do we do now? Should we continue to follow Jiang Zi?” The bald man had to ask the awkward question.

Zhao Huaqiang glared fiercely at him, “Fine, if you really want to keep following her, you can continue.”

The bald man, recalling Tang Feng’s ferocious manner, couldn’t help but shiver, “Then let’s not follow. But how do we explain this to Mr. Xu?”

Zhao Huaqiang pondered for a moment, took out his phone, and dialed a number.

The call was quickly answered, and he recounted the recent event.

Of course, he did not mention the part where he betrayed his boss under Tang Feng’s coercion.

The person on the other end was silent throughout, only speaking after Zhao Huaqiang was done, “Don’t hang up, I’ll have someone check on this kid’s background.”

Zhao Huaqiang waited on the phone for about five minutes before he heard the person speak again.

“We’ve got it, this kid is an Appraiser at Ya Garden.”

“Ya Garden? That seems to be the antique shop opened by Qin Yanan, right?” Zhao Huaqiang was startled at the mention of “Ya Garden.”

“That’s right, the kid is Qin Yanan’s man and he’s currently living in Qin Yanan’s apartment,” the man on the phone continued to speak, his voice quite magnetic.

“Mr. Xu, Qin Yanan is not someone to be trifled with lightly, we…”

“Qin Yanan indeed shouldn’t be provoked lightly. And Wang Xiaodao is also residing in her apartment now. If we offend her at this point, it’ll definitely disrupt our plans.”

“So, what do we do now?”

“Stop having your men follow Jiang Zi for now. Once our plan is complete, we’ll settle both the new and old accounts together.”

“Yes, Mr. Xu!”