The two men stood on the brink of a fight, each with his own thoughts.
Xu Bingning, seated on the sofa, also noticed Chu Feng's sudden arrival.
She raised her eyes slightly, and surprise flickered across her cool face.
Her elegant brows drew together at once, her eyes filled with confusion.
Chu Feng?
Bingning silently questioned what she was seeing. It made no sense!
Wasn't he cleaning the house? What was he doing at the Imperial Capital International Hotel?
She couldn't figure it out.
Today was the engagement banquet of the Bai family and the Liu Family, two of Forty-Nine City's most powerful families.
Security was among the tightest in the Imperial Capital. Without a special invitation, no one could even get through the hotel's ground-floor entrance.
Even the most basic invitation she carried, for a seat at the very back,
had cost the Xu Family a fortune and countless favors. They had fought hard to secure that lifeline.
Chu Feng was a spineless live-in son-in-law who had spent two and a half years in the Xu Family without accomplishing a thing.
How had he managed to get into an exclusive event packed with the city's elite?!
The more Bingning thought about it, the less she understood.
Chu Feng, whose attention had been fixed on his beautiful wife like radar, naturally caught the brief flash of surprise in her eyes.
At that moment,
an indescribable warmth surged through his chest. His heart nearly melted!
Of course...
Bingning definitely has a place for me in her heart!
If she didn't care about me at all, why would she look so shocked to see me here?!
She's obviously worried about my safety!
His three years of swallowing humiliation and quietly giving his all hadn't been for nothing!
At that thought,
the murderous