Chapter 144: Who Are You? Why Are You Around My Daughter?

Chapter 144: Who Are You? Why Are You Around My Daughter?

Li Ruobing shot to her feet. “Alone? What is there to say behind my back?”

Her reaction was violent because she was frightened. Once again she had no idea what Wu Chen was planning. And she knew perfectly well that if she were not in the room, her father would never speak to him with this much restraint.

And now Wu Chen was the one asking for it?

“Bingbing.” Li Maoren looked up at his daughter with a frown. “Take your brother and go outside.” It was not an invitation to discuss the matter. It was an order.

“I’m not going,” she fired back at once. “What have you got to say that’s so unfit for daylight? I’m not even entitled to hear it?” She was only reaching for an excuse.

“Xiao Wu is the one who asked to talk alone. Why are you arguing with me?” Li Maoren’s face darkened as he threw it back at her.

That actually left her with nothing to say.

“Ruobing.” Wu Chen stayed seated on the sofa. He reached up and tugged lightly at the hand of the woman standing beside him, then looked up with a smile. “Let me talk to your father alone. Don’t argue. There are things Uncle and I can’t easily say with you here. He’s been managing your feelings this whole time. Some things are better said in the open…”

Li Ruobing turned her head and glared down at him sidelong.

She was angry.

Furious.

In the car on the way over she had explained the situation to him in detail: her father had flown in first thing that morning because of Atai, and meeting his daughter’s boyfriend was only incidental. All they had to do was handle it carefully and get through it.

Wu Chen had never told her what he intended to do.

And now it had come to this.

Yet angry as she was, she could hardly turn her temper on Wu Chen. She could not argue with him. That would make her look far too guilty, as though there were something she was afraid of having exposed.

She glared coldly at him for several seconds, then abruptly shook off his hand.

“The two of you talk, then.” She turned, came round the sofa, and strode out on her heels.

Li Ruotai followed his sister at once.

On his way out he added, “Uh… Dad, Brother-in-law, you two talk. Sis and I will step out…”

The siblings left the room.

The corridor outside was full of bodyguards.

Li Ruotai came out last and drew the door gently shut. Li Ruobing, meanwhile, was seething. She stopped a few paces on, face like ice, then spun round and asked in a low voice, “Atai. Are there cameras in that room?”

“Uh… yes.” Li Ruotai hesitated, then nodded. “But they’re not on.”

Crown Entertainment had hidden cameras practically everywhere, used for filming people quietly and collecting leverage. That included this artfully appointed suite of his. It was called his private suite, but in practice it served for receiving important clients, and the cameras were generally only switched on when an important client came.

Today the guest was his own father. Of course he had not turned them on.

“Can you turn them on? Where can we watch?” Li Ruobing asked.

“Well…” He hesitated, and glanced around.

The corridor held not only his bodyguards and Li Ruobing’s but Li Maoren’s as well. Every one of them his father’s trusted man.

Was it really wise for his sister to say this so openly?

For Li Ruobing there was nothing unwise about it at all.

She simply wanted to know what Wu Chen meant to discuss with her father, and she did not care in the least if her father found out that she wanted to know.

“We’re only going to watch. You know Dad’s temper—aren’t you afraid something happens? And you know what your brother-in-law is like,” she said rapidly. “Just the two of us. When they’re done, delete it.”

Several of Li Maoren’s bodyguards in the corridor wore rather odd expressions as they listened.

But they would certainly not speak up, nor try to stop them.

At most they would tell Li Maoren afterward.

Li Ruobing and Li Ruotai were his own daughter and son. They were hardly going to…