A master of both medicine and martial arts, he picked up a beautiful CEO as his wife.

Ye Feng really knows how to play this trick.

The evidence secretly slipped into the old man's hands—the video of the family dinner, the receipt for the drinks, and the hallucinogen test results from the hospital blood test—was more effective than any reasoning. The elders who had watched Lin Yuqing grow up successively expressed their opinions:

"That child, Yuqing, was terribly wronged by others. Anyone who continues to gossip about her is making trouble for the Lin family!"

With these companies backing them up, the situation completely changed in just three days.

That ignorant woman tried to gossip, but her elder slapped her back!

As for Lin Yuqing's initiative that night, Ye Feng didn't mention it at all. Outsiders only need to know that she was the victim.

That's enough!

Lin Yuqing didn't say anything to thank him, but in the following days, Ye Feng's breakfast quietly changed from one bowl to two, and there was also an extra plate of his favorite braised beef. No one mentioned this, and it was best to pretend they didn't see it.

Unfortunately, the peace and quiet lasted only a few days before uninvited guests appeared at the door again.

A silver-gray Rolls-Royce came to a steady stop outside the manor gate. A young man in his late twenties stepped out. He wore a custom-made suit and an expensive watch. He was quite handsome, but his arrogant and disdainful air about him could be smelled from afar.

That's right! That's Qin Yu, the young master of the Qin family in Beicheng.

That is, the 'ideal match' that Lin Zhenshan had always wanted to give Lin Yuqing to!

The Qin family is one of the four great families in Beicheng, on par with the Lin family, with a strong foundation.

Qin Yu is the only son of the Qin family in this generation. He has been pampered since childhood and has had whatever he wants. In his eyes, this marriage with the Lin family was already a foregone conclusion. Now that the Lin family has fallen on hard times, it is Lin Yuqing's great honor that the Qin family is willing to lower itself to marry into the family!

"Yuqing!"

Qin Yu strode into the lobby, acting as if he were already familiar with the place, as if this were his own backyard, with an extremely gentle smile.

"I haven't seen you for a few days, have you missed me?"

Lin Yuqing frowned slightly, not even giving him a proper look:

"Qin Yu, what are you doing here?"

"Uncle's health isn't very good. I'm your son, so it's alright for me to come and check on you!" Qin Yu's smile remained unchanged, but his eyes had already passed over Lin Yuqing and landed on Ye Feng's side.

From the faded tank top to the plastic slippers on his feet, Qin Yu's brows furrowed deeper and deeper, his eyes revealing undisguised disgust, as if he had seen something filthy.

"this……"

He asked in a tone that suggested he was sizing up a servant.

"My bodyguard," Lin Yuqing said calmly.

"bodyguard?"

Qin Yu chuckled, his laughter laced with disdain. "Yuqing, are your bodyguards hired by the Lin family, one of the four great families? And you... buddy, which construction site were you transferred from?"

The servants standing nearby couldn't help but cover their mouths and chuckle.

Ye Feng wasn't angry. He looked Qin Yu up and down, left and right with amusement, and clicked his tongue twice.

"Pretty boy, so handsome!"

Qin Yu's smile froze instantly: "What did I say?"

"I was praising you." Ye Feng's sincere expression didn't seem sarcastic at all, but rather like he was seriously studying you: "You have fair skin, delicate hands, and perfectly manicured nails. You've never done any rough work. You were born into a good family and are very fortunate. It's a pity." Suddenly, he changed the subject, squinted his eyes, put his hands behind his back, and leaned closer. His eyes swept over Qin Yu's face like an old Chinese medicine doctor diagnosing a patient with a difficult disease!

"It's a pity that your forehead is bluish, the bridge of your nose is dark, and your eyes are black; your blood and energy are weak, you look pale and thin! You're very weak!"

He paused, then spoke slowly, as if making a casual guess, yet also as if he already knew the answer: "I guess you always experience night sweats, and wake up feeling weak all over with lower back and knee pain. You look so radiant during the day, but you're actually severely depleted inside, aren't you?"

The color drained from Qin Yu's face.

He truly feels as if his bones have been removed, his whole body is weak, and he suffers from severe night sweats. He's been to several of the best and most expensive private clinics for numerous tests, but the specialists in suits all stammered and couldn't give him a clear diagnosis, only vaguely saying, "You're in a sub-healthy state; you need to rest!"

This was his secret, a secret he hadn't even uttered a word to his bedmate, for fear of tarnishing his image as the heroic and extraordinary young master of the Qin family.

But this bodyguard from the construction site, just by glancing at me from afar, and... and... he got it all right right away?

A chill suddenly ran down his spine, and for the first time, he felt an inexplicable fear of this "bodyguard from the construction site"!

But these fears quickly disappeared, because their own arrogance soon covered them up!

A person from the countryside wouldn't know anything about medicine. Perhaps it was just a lucky guess, a blind cat stumbling upon a dead mouse.

Qin Yu comforted himself in this way, and his face regained its calm and composed smile, though this smile looked a little awkward compared to before.

"Playing tricks!" He exhaled through his snort, too lazy to bother with Ye Feng, and instead turned to Lin Yuqing, scolding her like a parent disciplining their child: "Yuqing, you're so old, yet you still have such an unreliable person with you, spouting nonsense about quackery and superstitions. What will people think of you? What will they think of the Lin and Qin families?"

"The Lin and Qin families!" Lin Yuqing sneered, emphasizing her words, "Qin Yu, when did I agree to this marriage? It was your Qin family's doing all this trouble; you can talk to yourselves about it!"

"You'll agree to me sooner or later!" Qin Yu grinned confidently, seemingly certain of victory. "Don't you know what kind of person your uncle is? Don't you know what's best for you right now? The Lin family is in its current state, what is it lacking? Yuqing, you know it very well!"

He paused, then continued, "You need funds, you need connections, you need the support of those in power. You know what's best for the Lin family! Our Qin family can provide all of these!" He then glanced at Ye Feng, "And what about your expert? Can you provide him?"

Qin Yu's words were full of veiled insults, thoroughly humiliating Ye Feng.

The hall fell completely silent.

Lin Yuqing's face was ashen, her fingers clenching tightly around her knuckles, causing her excruciating pain. She wasn't oblivious to the coercion in Qin Yu's words—the Lin family's financial difficulties were a closely guarded secret, yet Qin Yu spoke of it with such certainty, clearly indicating he had thoroughly investigated the Lin family's affairs. This marriage was definitely not as simple as it appeared on the surface.

Ye Feng, however, felt no shame whatsoever! He stood to the side, arms crossed, slowly cracking open the last few sunflower seeds, then spitting the shells on the ground and chuckling.

"I'm not in a hurry to give it to you!" Ye Feng walked over, stood in front of Qin Yu, and stared at him coldly, expressionless, with a nonchalant air. "Young Master Qin, your visit is ostensibly to visit someone in the hospital, to catch up, and to discuss a 'perfect match' in marriage. But what you're really up to—"

Ye Feng suddenly lowered his voice, enunciating each word clearly, like a sharp, cold knife slicing through the outer layer of hypocritical sugar-coated bullets:

"Is it really a marriage alliance? Or is it about swallowing up the Lin family?!"

Qin Yu's smile froze!