Chapter 125: She’s Terrifying!

Chapter 125: She’s Terrifying!

The moment her younger brother Li Ruotai opened with, “Sis, have you heard?” without any context at all, Li Ruobing froze for a moment.

“Sis, you don’t know?” Now it was Li Ruotai’s turn to be puzzled.

“Know what? What are you talking about?” Li Ruobing was baffled again.

“Su Qingying! The eldest miss of the Su family!” Li Ruotai said quickly, then asked, “Wasn’t she with you yesterday? She even stayed at your place. Haven’t you two been pretty close lately? You haven’t heard?”

Of course, Li Ruotai knew Su Qingying had stayed at Li Ruobing’s home yesterday because Li Ruobing herself had told him.

Recently, Li Ruotai had been dealing with a major problem of his own, and he called his sister Li Ruobing almost every day around noon. Today was no exception. During their call at noon, he had asked whether there was some misunderstanding with the Su family and whether she wanted him to step in.

He knew about what had happened yesterday at the mouth of the alley outside Wu Chen’s home.

There had been too many people there at the time. Especially after Madam Su arrived, the two sides had dozens of bodyguards between them, completely blocking the alley entrance. It would have been impossible not to draw onlookers. And among those onlookers had been the underling of an underling of one of Li Ruotai’s men—a small-time hoodlum.

Li Ruotai’s people were spread all across Donghai.

Almost every small-time hoodlum in Donghai’s underworld could serve as his eyes and ears.

Of course, they did not report every little thing to him.

Yesterday was different because Li Ruobing had openly identified herself. The hoodlum who saw her knew she was Young Master Li’s sister, so the information was reported up the chain until it reached Li Ruotai.

But Li Ruotai had heard that after Madam Su arrived, she had shaken hands with his sister and spoken to her amicably, so he had not called to ask what was going on.

He knew his sister liked handling her own affairs. She was fiercely strong-willed by nature and hated it when he barged into her business without warning.

Li Ruotai was protective of his sister, but he knew where the line was.

So he had not called specifically about it. It was only during their conversation at noon today that he mentioned it in passing. Li Ruobing had not said much, only that it was a minor misunderstanding, that she and Su Qingying were friends, that Su Qingying had even stayed at her house the night before, and so on.

The instant Li Ruobing heard her brother say the name “Su Qingying,” she shot to her feet, her expression changing dramatically.

“Sis… what’s wrong?” Li Ruotai heard something was off. He could even hear that his sister’s breathing had gone uneven.

“What did you hear?” Li Ruobing asked directly. “Tell me. Hurry up and cut the crap!”

“Sis, you really don’t know!” Li Ruotai said at once. “Hey! I only just heard myself. News leaked from Jinfu’s board meeting. They only wrapped up a little while ago… Su Qingying rebelled against her own parents at the board meeting! She’s seriously something. She used some minor issue to go after Madam Su—she was deliberately picking a fight! I heard she’d secretly secured half of Jinfu’s directors in advance, including the support of important people like Tang Deyang. Mother and daughter argued at the board meeting, and then…”

Li Ruotai poured out everything he had just heard to Li Ruobing in one breath.

He repeated it exactly the way it had been described to him, making the whole thing vivid and dramatic.

Only with his own sister would he have the energy to talk this much without even finding it tiring.

Li Ruobing listened in astonishment without saying a word.

“…After Madam Su walked out, the resolution passed, and Su Qingying got unanimous support!”

At the end, Li Ruotai clicked his tongue admiringly. “Tsk! She’s incredible! Better than me! She actually dared to rebel against her own family and seize power—and she pulled it off! Who knows how long she’d been plotting this in secret. At this point… I’m afraid even if Su Ruiwen comes back, there’s nothing he can do to her. He can’t exactly disown her… She’s his only daughter. There’s just no move left!”

When it came to reading people and social dynamics, Li Ruotai really was better than Li Ruobing.

As soon as he heard what had happened, he immediately realized that even if Su Ruiwen came back, there was little he could do about Su Qingying. She was his only child, his sole heir. There truly was no good solution.

Li Ruotai finished speaking, but Li Ruobing still said nothing.

She was still caught in the shock.

If she had not known the inside story, she would not have been so shaken. She would have been surprised for a moment, and that would have been it.

But she did know the inside story. She even knew specifically what had happened. Even knowing what had happened, she had still been unable to figure out how success could possibly be achieved—and now, all of a sudden, it had succeeded!

“Sis, you still there?” Li Ruotai asked, puzzled again.

“Ah, yeah…” Li Ruobing came back to herself.

“What’s wrong with you, Sis? What happened…?” Li Ruotai asked again.

“Nothing. It’s nothing. I just thought of something.” Li Ruobing’s tone returned to normal.

“Okay, then. I just wanted to tell you. Nothing else…” Li Ruotai sounded as if he was about to hang up, but then suddenly added, “Oh, right, Sis! I think… when you deal with Su Qingying from now on, you’d better be careful. Don’t get too close to her. Whatever you do, don’t bare your heart to her…”

“Hm? Why?” Li Ruobing asked, not understanding what he meant.

“Sis, don’t you think she’s terrifying?” Li Ruotai explained, his tone deliberately making the whole thing sound ominous. “Her! Donghai’s number-one beauty! Donghai’s number-one heiress! Daughter of Donghai’s richest man! The favored daughter of heaven in everyone’s eyes, practically perfect—good personality, good temper, well brought up, highly educated, brilliant, and beautiful to that degree… Sis, think about it now. Don’t you seriously find her terrifying?”

Li Ruobing finally understood what her brother was getting at.

“No one can name anything bad about her. Everyone agrees she’s sensible and obedient. The impression she gives the outside world is too good—so good you can barely find a single flaw…” Li Ruotai continued. “But today she successfully seized power, using methods this thunderous, settling everything with one decisive blow! She got it done in one shot! Sis, don’t you think the depth of her scheming is terrifying?”

“She’s way too terrifying! I feel like if a woman like her had lived in ancient times, she’d be the kind who could suddenly usurp power, launch a rebellion, and make herself empress…” Li Ruotai was exaggerating a little by the end.

But Li Ruobing completely understood what he was trying to express.

Even Li Ruotai thought Su Qingying was a frightening, terrifying woman!

The kind that made the hairs on your body stand on end!

Because… the contrast between the Su Qingying of before and after was simply too great!

Enormous beyond imagination!

Li Ruotai only said all this because he cared about his sister. He deliberately exaggerated because he was afraid she might choose the wrong friend. When dealing with someone like that, you absolutely had to keep your guard up.

And yet!

Li Ruobing knew the truth!

The terrifying one was not Su Qingying, but the man behind Su Qingying—Wu Chen!

The degree to which Wu Chen was terrifying was several levels beyond even what Li Ruotai currently imagined from everything he knew!

Because… there had been no long period of secret plotting at all. The preparations for this enormous upheaval had taken only a few hours last night.

“All right, I got it. I’m hanging up.” Li Ruobing ended the call immediately, then rapidly scrolled through her contacts and dialed another number at once.

Wu Chen!