CH 50

Li Can sat in the car, the ashtray next to him has accumulated three or four cigarette butts, but he still sat there and continued to smoke. He didn’t know what he was waiting for, whether he wanted to see Tang Er Yuan come back, or whether he wanted to see Tang Er Yuan leave with Zhou Ze.

As the smoke lingered, a light suddenly came on in the passenger seat, and at the same time light music started to play.

The phone kept ringing and the caller was Tang San Yuan.

Li Can picked up the phone, swiped his finger gently, and the phone unlocked. Tang Er Yuan always found it troublesome, so he didn’t set a password lock. Li Can picked it up and pressed answer directly. Without waiting for Tang San Yuan to speak, he said, “It’s me.”

When Tang San Yuan heard Li Can’s voice, he was stunned, “How come you have my brother’s phone?”

He didn’t wait for Li Can to answer before his voice gave a pause, like he had discovered some big secret, he took a sharp breath, “There is no moonlight and the wind is strong1月黑风高 (yuè hēi fēng gāo): a metaphor for a dangerous environment, lone A single O……I understand, I understand……just take it as I didn’t ask anything, you guys continue……continue……”

Tang San Yuan mumbled to himself and hung up the phone, not giving Li Can a chance to answer at all.

Li Can: “……” You’re thinking too much.

He put the phone down, thought about it and picked it up again, stared at it for a while, then picked it up, closed the car door and walked towards Drunk on Radiant Gold Paper

He walked faster and faster, as if he had waited for a long time and finally waited for a reason to walk into Drunk on Radiant Gold Paper, and walked in with some impatience.

He first approached the foreman and asked for the room number where Tang Er Yuan was. He had been here with Tang Er Yuan several times before, and the foreman knew who he was and that he knew Tang Er Yuan well, so he did not hesitate to tell him Tang Er Yuan’s room number.

Li Can thanked the foreman and found the private room directly.

He paused at the door before raising his hand to knock, but before his hand touched the door, it opened from the inside and a man rushed out of the room and ran straight towards the direction of the bathroom, looking like he was about to throw up.

Li Chan frowned in disgust and withdrew his eyes. The door of the room was ajar and he looked through the gap in the door. There was a group of people sitting in the room, but there was no Tang Er Yuan among those people, only Zhou Ze who was drunkenly fighting with those people, he only faintly swept a glance at Zhou Ze before moving his gaze away.

He turned around and wanted to take a look around to see if he could find Tang Er Yuan, but as soon as he lifted his feet, the conversation in the room stopped him in his tracks.

In the box, a man slurred his words and asked Zhou Ze loudly, “Why do you suddenly want to marry Tang Er Shao2I’m gonna put it as Tang Er Shao cos second young master Tang is too troublesome? Didn’t you go abroad to pursue your true love?”

“What’s the use of having true love when you’ve lost all your money?” Zhou Ze was so drunk that he had no qualms about saying what was in his heart, “Without money, true love is worthless, money is more important, but unfortunately I understood it too late.”

The man asked drunkenly again, “Then why did you……want to marry Tang Er Shao so soon after you……returned to China? Since money is more important, what kind of relationship are you talking about if you don’t go and earn money?”

“Of course it’s for the money.” Zhou Ze laughed loudly twice, his voice hoarse and laughing in a very unpleasant manner as he clutched the bottle of wine and slurred his words: “The Li family has been able to develop so rapidly in the past few years, is it not because their family has a powerful background? What our Zhou family needs most now is to have a backer in the political arena that we can rely on, by then I will be able to make Zhou Group develop even faster……Moreover, my father has promised me that if I can marry Tang Er Yuan and succeed in bringing in General Tang, he will let me inherit Zhou Group and give me the equity.”

The man’s head, eroded by alcohol, reacted for a moment before asking, “Aren’t you taking advantage of Tang Er Shao’s feelings?”

“Taking advantage?” Zhou Ze snorted, his tone disdainful, “Tang Er Yuan has liked me for so many years and has been chasing after me for so long, It’s not like you don’t know. Even after I went abroad these years, he didn’t empathise. What I’m doing now is just helping him get what he wants. If I can be with him, he can’t wait to be happy. How am I taking advantage? I’m being kind and doing a good deed.”

The people around him were too drunk to listen to what he was saying, they were just crying in agreement.

“You’ve given so much to for Zhou family! It’s tragic!”

“It’s too tragic! Wu wu wu wu……”

“You’re selling your looks and your body!!! It’s been hard on you!”

……

A group of drunken men cried and wailed, having long since lost their minds from drinking, as if Zhou Ze had really suffered much for the Zhou family.

Zhou Ze sat down on the floor of the sofa, no longer having his usual dignified look, holding the bottle of wine and gulping it down, the wine dripping onto his clothes, which he didn’t care about.

The room was noisy, but Li Can heard what Zhou Ze just said clearly. His fist became tighter and tighter and his face became heavier. His anger surged in his heart, and he kicked the room door open.

The group of drunken people in the room were startled and Zhou Ze was barely sober enough to see who was kicking in the door before he was caught off guard with a punch to the face.

Li Can tugged on his collar, his expression as cold as a cold pool, and punched him several times in quick succession. Then he tugged on Zhou Ze’s collar and pinned him against the wall, his voice cold as never before: “I’ve warned you, not to bully Yuan Yuan.”

Zhou Ze’s back hit the wall, his face crinkled together in pain, his body shivered with cold, his eyes widened, completely awake. He heard Li Can’s words and slowly recalled what he had just said, he couldn’t help but blush with regret, he opened his mouth, weak and feeble retort, “I’m not……I……”

The words he had just said were heard by so many people here, how could he change them with just a few words? It was too late to take back what was said.

His face turned ugly in an instant, and he turned to break free from the shackles, only to be punched in the stomach by Li Can.

He cried out in pain, cold sweat dripping down his face, unable to speak in pain, his body shrinking into a ball like a spasm.

But Li Can did not let him go, punching him furiously, punch after punch, his eyes full of angry fire.

Zhou Ze struggled hard, but he could not escape. His strength was already inferior to Li Can’s and now that he had drunk so much wine, his arms and legs were sore and weak, so he had no strength to resist.

The people around suddenly woke up from the alcohol but they stood and looked at each other, afraid to stop them. The only son of Li’s family is different from them and he was a man of real ability. They could not afford to mess with him, and now Li Can had a fierce look in his eyes. Everyone was frightened, so they didn’t dare to go forward to stop him easily, for fear of being offended by Li Can and accidentally injured.

Li Yi had just accidentally fallen asleep and woke up to see this scene, he said not good in his heart, not caring to watch the show, and ran out to find Tang Er Yuan.

He knew that Tang Er Yuan and Li Can were close and although he didn’t know their real relationship, he could guess that Li Can hitting Zhou Ze so suddenly must have had something to do with Tang Er Yuan.

Tang Er Yuan let the wind blow him on the balcony for a while, made up his mind and was walking back. He wanted to go back and make it clear to Zhou Ze that he could not marry him.

After he had made up his mind, he was so relieved that he walked much lighter, and he was even thinking that maybe he could ask Li Can out for a drink later.

As soon as he rounded the corner, he bumped into Li Yi who was in a hurry and had a look of anxiety on his face.

Tang Er Yuan took two steps forward, “What’s wrong?”

Li Yi was panting heavily and hurriedly said, “Quickly come back with me, it’s not good!”

Li Chan tugged Zhou Ze and did not let go and his punches used strength. He wanted to throw more punches to vent for Tang Er Yuan, but he ended up accidentally stepping on a wine bottle on the ground. He did not stand still, he directly lunged forward and slipped to the ground, Zhou Ze took the opportunity to roll over and pressed him back, his red eyes were red, he raised his hand and was about to punch him down.

When Tang Er Yuan heard Li Yi’s words, he hurriedly ran towards the room. As soon as he pushed open the door, he saw that Zhou Ze was suppressing Li Can’s body, his hair was dishevelled, his eyes were bloodthirsty red, and he waved his fist towards Li Can, and at a glance, that punch contained all his strength.

Tang Er Yuan’s pupils snapped open, rushed over, picked up a wine bottle on the table and without hesitation, smashed it on Zhou Ze’s head.

There was a clang and the room was silent for a moment, silent, not a sound at all.

The crowd sucked in a breath of cold air, all stunned by this sudden scene.

Tang Er Yuan reacted with a shock himself, and the surrounding crowd was even more stunned, one of them couldn’t help but say in a shaky voice, “Brother, did you help the wrong person?”

Aren’t you Zhou Ze’s fiancé?

Tang Er Yuan: “……” I don’t know, you guys don’t ask me.

He blinked, loosened his five fingers and threw the wine bottle in his hand to the ground, not forgetting to pat the dust that was on his hand.

Zhou Ze heard the sound of the bottle breaking, as if he just reacted, covering his head and screaming in shock.

Li Can pushed Zhou Ze, whose head was dripping blood, away, stood up and gave Tang Er Yuan an appreciative look before picking up his mobile phone and calling for an ambulance.

The moment the bottle in Tang Er Yuan’s hand hit Zhou Ze’s head, all the anger in his heart dissipated, on the contrary, he was now in a few moments of pleasure.

Zhou Ze covered his head and collapsed to the side, in too much pain to speak. The young masters who came to their senses looked at each other, no one could react, just what was going on?

The ambulance soon came and pulled Zhou Ze away. Li Can checked that although Zhou Ze had lost a lot of blood, the wound was not big, so there should be no serious injury.

Everyone hurriedly dispersed, no one wanted to get involved in the entanglement between the Li, Tang and Zhou families, and no one wanted to see how Zhou Ze was hurt. That bottle of wine just now from Tang Er Yuan was a good indication, would Tang Er Yuan marry him? It’s simply impossible.

This Zhou Ze really knows how to put gold on his face, obviously he is a scum who takes advantage of feelings, yet he talks as if he is giving alms to Tang Er Shao, Tang Er Shao used a bottle of wine to sober him up just a little bit. Tang Er Shao didn’t even agree to marry him, what is he bragging about?

After everyone left, only Li Can and Tang Er Yuan were left in the room and Tang Er Yuan stood frozen in place, still somewhat unresponsive.

Li Can walked over to him and took his hand, saying softly, “Let’s go.”

Tang Er Yuan looked up at him and blinked his dark eyes innocently.

Li Can couldn’t help but hook his lips, lowering his head and kissing him on the forehead, smiling lowly and saying, “Good boy, Yuan Yuan, you did a great job.”