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

"Bullshit!!!!" Qin Yu tried to remain calm, but his words were incoherent with anger. "I'm the eldest young master of the Qin family, and I'm in great shape! You, on the other hand, are just a country bumpkin who can't even speak proper Mandarin, trying to put on airs and spout nonsense in front of me, trying to fool me!"

"Whether you believe it or not is up to you." Ye Feng shrugged, stepped back to Lin Yuqing's side with an attitude of 'I'm telling you nicely, don't listen,' and ignored him.

This stubborn and unyielding attitude infuriated Qin Yu, and his face darkened. He was used to being arrogant in Dongyang and had never been bullied by a bodyguard before.

"Yuqing," he turned around and glanced at her, then looked at Lin Yuqing with a smug smile. "You should get rid of this shady character around you as soon as possible. It's an arrangement between our two families' elders; if word gets out that you and a bodyguard have an improper relationship, it won't look good on your reputation!"

"Marriage?" Lin Yuqing sneered. "Qin Yu, when did I ever agree to your marriage?"

"You'll have to agree sooner or later." Qin Yu laughed, a smug laugh filled with confidence.

"You know what a wise man your uncle is, what he does that benefits the Lin family, and what the Lin family needs right now!" Qin Yu said to Ye Feng with a sidelong glance, his tone full of sarcasm.

"We can't give that bodyguard away!"

"What can the Qin family offer?" Ye Feng suddenly asked slowly, a toothpick he'd somehow acquired dangling from his mouth. "To prolong the Lin family's life, or to collect their corpses?"

Qin Yu's expression changed slightly, and he asked, "What are you trying to say?"

"I know what I'm saying." Ye Feng strolled over to them, looking nonchalant, but his words were vicious. "Lin's Group is currently facing a tight cash flow situation. At this time, someone at the board meeting proposed investigating President Lin's extramarital affairs and her mother's shareholding, causing widespread panic and creating internal and external troubles."

Lin Yuqing glanced at Ye Feng; he hadn't been told anything about those messages.

"And your Qin family just happened to come knocking on our door at this time to discuss marriage, visiting you, reminiscing about old times, and giving you a good lecture. Young Master Qin, are you offering help in your time of need or taking advantage of your misfortune?!"

Qin Yu's eyes widened immediately.

"you--"

"One sentence is all it takes to expose you." Ye Feng interrupted him directly, too lazy to listen to his nonsense. "Once the Lin family gets involved with the Qin family, President Lin's shares and position are nominally still with the Lin family, but who actually calls the shots! After the marriage, the Lin family's shares will naturally be combined, and the board's proposals regarding private life will automatically disappear. How respectable and clean! The Lin family gains face, and the Qin family gains substance."

"As for President Lin himself, whether he's willing or not..."

He waved his hand dismissively.

But it was extremely cruel to the heart.

"Speak your mind. Who cares about you? In your schemes, she's just a piece of fat meat to be used to exchange for control of the Lin family, right?"

"Is that right, Young Master Qin?"

Silence reigned.

Lin Yuqing stood still, feeling a chill run down her spine, a feeling that seemed to rise from her feet to the top of her head.

She had suspected that the Qin family's scheme was not so simple, but she never expected that someone would strip away the hypocritical veneer of this "marriage alliance" in front of all the servants.

Layer upon layer, dripping with blood.

She suddenly remembered many things that had happened recently: a strange and tricky suggestion from the board of directors; several small shareholders who usually couldn't get along with each other starting to unite and question her qualifications as president; and then Qin Yu's perfectly timed "visiting her in the hospital and proposing marriage".

Everything that seemed unrelated was connected by a single sentence from Ye Feng:

It turned out to be a series of elaborate schemes.

First, they used the board's proposal to put her in a difficult position, making her besieged by internal and external forces, surrounded by enemies, and with no way out. Then, they had the Qin family come out and put on a show of helping her in her time of need, leaving her with no way out except to marry Qin Yu and throw the Lin family into the Qin family's pocket.

The more pressure they put on her, the less room she has to retreat. From the very beginning, this game was never intended to leave her a way out.

She was almost fooled. If Ye Feng hadn't exposed her in front of everyone, she would still be in the dark and might have actually gritted her teeth and considered marrying Qin Yu for the sake of the Lin family, this "tough nut to crack".

Thinking about these things, Lin Yuqing broke out in a cold sweat, and her eyes turned much colder as she looked at Qin Yu.

"You..." Looking at Ye Feng, Qin Yu was so angry that his face turned pale, his chest heaving, but he couldn't utter a single powerful word.

Because every word Ye Feng said accurately struck the Achilles' heel of this scheme, not a single word was off. The feeling of being stripped naked of his scheme and unable to utter a single word was something he experienced for the first time—a feeling of utter humiliation.

"Qin Yu." Lin Yuqing took a deep breath, her voice as cold as the dead of winter when she spoke again: "Go back and tell the Qin family what I said—I would rather die than go with you in this marriage. I can handle the difficulties of the Lin family myself. Don't trouble the Qin family and waste your time."

"You'll regret this." Qin Yu completely tore off that hypocritical gentleman's mask, his face so gloomy it looked like it could bleed. He glared fiercely at Lin Yuqing and then gave Ye Feng a vicious look: "A dog bodyguard dares to look down on my Qin family."

"Ha! Ha! I'd like to see just how arrogant you, Lin Yuqing, can be!"

After uttering those harsh words, Qin Yu turned and left.

As he walked out the door, he seemed to remember something, took out his phone, turned around, and whispered a lot, his face filled with gloom and hatred.

Ye Feng happened to see that scene clearly.

I dialed that number and it connected.

The person he was referring to clearly had a surname.

"plum"

Ye Feng's eyes narrowed slightly, and the smile on his face gradually faded.

The Li family!

That night, a group of people drove into his rented room and chased after Lin Yuqing with machetes in hand!

Without revealing her feelings, she touched her chin. After seeing Qin Yu get into the car, the taut string in her heart slowly twitched again.

The Qin family, the Li family, and that suddenly proposed motion—the threads involved in this game are definitely not as simple as Boss Lin imagines; they are probably much longer.

The most terrifying thing is that Qin Yu made that call right in front of him, yet it felt like a deep secret. This confirmed one thing for Ye Feng: they didn't know he had the ability to hear sounds from so far away, nor did they know that he and the person who took down his group that night were actually the same person.

This is a time difference.

Before he can figure out the opponent's strength, he must understand this game of chess. Otherwise, when the three of them join forces, the Lin family's boat might not even capsize in time.

"What is he doing?" Lin Yuqing, who came out from the inner room, looked at him standing there with a silly grin on his face.

"I'm thinking," Ye Feng stroked his chin, then said with a smile, "Your young master Qin has a truly terrifying temper."