After the fake young master left home, he discovered that it wasn't raining at all outside.

Zhu Yan and Xu Zhiyuan exchanged a glance, both of them guessing who the visitor was.

"Knock knock knock!!!"

The loud knocking on the door started again, this time even more forceful.

"The forest is deep."

The aggressive knocking on the door aroused the dissatisfaction of everyone.

Lin Shen put down the data tablet in his hand, walked to the door, and pressed the doorknob.

The moment the door opened, a group of men in black rushed in. Lin Shen reacted quickly and immediately pressed down on the door of the private room.

However, the other side had too many people. The bodyguards outside the door pushed Lin Shen aside and rushed into the room in a swarm.

This big move made Zhu Yan, Lu Ze, and Xu Zhiyuan all look at them involuntarily.

"Who are you people?" A group of people stormed in aggressively, and Lu Ze was the first one who couldn't sit still.

"Who goes there?" At that moment, a middle-aged man in a black suit walked in from outside. He was pot-bellied and had his hands behind his back. He walked into the room through a path cleared by the bodyguards. "Someone you can't afford to offend."

Following the sound, their gaze fell upon this imposing middle-aged man.

He is Li Da, a member of parliament from Country H.

"I thought you were some big shot, daring to raise my price and try to steal my stuff." Li Da walked into the private room, glanced at the three men, and sneered disdainfully, "Heh, just three greenhorns."

Li Da, like an eagle surveying its territory, made no attempt to sit down on the sofa.

Zhu Yan only brought Lin Shen with him this time. Outnumbered, they really couldn't gain any advantage in a fight.

"Mr. Li, what is the meaning of bringing so many people to my private room? This aggressive demeanor could easily lead me to misunderstand."

Seeing that the visitor had some status, Lu Ze didn't speak too definitively or directly break off relations; instead, he adopted a conciliatory attitude.

"You must be the young master from the Lu family, one of the four newly emerging prominent families in the capital. Since you know my identity, you still dare to offend me? Don't you want to die?" Li Da didn't give Lu Ze any face. In his eyes, the Lu family was just a bunch of second-rate merchants.

"Li Da, are you really going to push your luck? Your behavior is breaking the rules of the auction house. If I report you, you'll be in big trouble." Lu Ze wasn't going to tolerate him either.

Li Da was completely unfazed by Lu Ze's nonchalant threat, and even took it as a sarcastic remark.

"Here, I am the rule."

Zhu Yan leaned back on the sofa and glanced at Li Da sideways. Xu Zhiyuan, on the other hand, seemed a little curious. "Little Yan Yan, I didn't expect there would be people in the capital who don't know you."

Xu Zhiyuan was referring to the last succession ceremony, in which all the powerful and influential people in H country were present. Logically speaking, no one would be so blind as to be so short-sighted.

"He is not qualified to attend." Zhu Yan's tone was indifferent, as if he were talking about someone insignificant.

"Get out of here now, and you'll avoid any physical pain." Zhu Yan tapped his fingers casually on the sofa, his contemptuous gaze falling on Li Da.

"What did you say? You want me to get lost? What a joke." This was the first time Li Da had been so disrespected and ignored. "You're pretty arrogant. This is the first time someone has dared to try and take something from me. You'd better think about how you're going to beg for mercy later."

Since that's the case, Zhu Yan has nothing more to say.

"Let's do it."

Zhu Yan's casual opening remarks threw the scene into complete chaos.

Of course, it wasn't too chaotic, because with Lin Shen, Xu Zhiyuan, and Lu Ze taking action, Li Da's bodyguards were no match for him and were all subdued and forced to the ground, suffering terribly.

Xu Zhiyuan casually threw the bodyguard he was holding back on the ground, and then approached Li Da step by step.

In the blink of an eye, Li Da saw his men fall to the ground one after another, leaving him all alone. He panicked instantly, stood up shakily from the sofa, and looked at Xu Zhiyuan with horror as he approached with ill intent.

"You...you stay away! I...I'm warning you, I'm a distinguished member of Congress from Country H, you can't touch me! Otherwise, the President will definitely punish you."

It's clear that Li Da is really panicked, even bringing in the president.

But he didn't know that Zhu Cheng was actually Zhu Yan's backer.

"Really?" Suddenly, a familiar voice came from outside the door. "You've got some nerve, daring to threaten others using my name."

"Big brother?" Zhu Yan looked up after hearing the voice, and the person who came was Zhu Cheng.

"Ayan?" Clearly, Zhu Cheng didn't know that the person in this private room was his younger brother.

He happened to be at the auction today, just passing by, when he heard loud fighting sounds coming from this private box. He vaguely heard his own name, and out of curiosity, he came to take a look.

Unexpectedly, they ran into Zhu Yan here.

"What? Big...Big Brother?" The moment Li Da saw Zhu Cheng, it was as if he had found a savior. He was about to run to him for help in a sorry state when he was surprised to hear "Big Brother" before he could react.

He never imagined that this arrogant young man would actually be Zhu Cheng's younger brother.

Zhu Cheng wasn't stupid. When he came in and saw this scene, he understood that someone had come to cause trouble for his brother again.

His first instinct was not to ask Zhu Yan why he had suddenly appeared there, but to help his brother resolve the problem at hand.

"Say those words again in front of me." Zhu Cheng did not answer Li Da's question.

Now that things have come to this, how could Li Da not understand Zhu Yan's identity? He never expected to run into such a tough opponent.

"It's a misunderstanding...it's all a misunderstanding." Li Da's change of attitude was so quick that Lu Ze and the others were caught off guard.

"You must have misheard me. I didn't say anything." Li Da laughed, but his smile was anything but sincere.

"He just said that's the rule in the capital." Zhu Yan, being kind-hearted, specifically helped Li Da recover his memory. "Brother, is that true?"

Li Da: !!!

My original words weren't exactly like that, so why are you embellishing them?

"The ruler of the capital?" Zhu Cheng's lips curled into a faint, cold smile as he scrutinized Li Da. "I had no idea that the ruler of the capital had changed."

"Bang—"

Trembling with fear, Li Da no longer had the courage to stand. With a loud thud, his knees hit the ground.

"Mr. Zhu, I spoke arrogantly. You are the ruler of this capital. How could I dare to have such a presumptuous idea? It was all a misunderstanding."

When Li Da is arrogant, he doesn't care about anyone, but when he's cowardly, he's truly cowardly, with snot and tears almost mixed together.

"Who told you that I am the ruler of this capital city?" Zhu Cheng walked closer to the sofa, stood behind Zhu Yan, and put his hand on Zhu Yan's shoulder.

"That's...?" Li Da was really ignorant; he couldn't even see the situation clearly.

"How did you get to this position if you have no sense of propriety?" Zhu Chengyou, who had a phobia of stupidity, kicked Li Da.

"The one who governs this capital city is naturally my younger brother."