Cloudy Mist Bar

Manager Li left, and Ling Yun prepared to get busy making a grand feast.

Why a grand feast?

For one thing, he could tell Chen Li did not have much confidence in him, so dinner would be a good chance to showcase his culinary skills and win her over.

For another, Little Qian Qian seemed to have mentioned treating her godmother, Qin Lan, to a meal.

"Chen Li, stay for dinner tonight." Ling Yun handed her the design blueprint and spoke.

"That's right, Lili, Little Yun is planning to open a hotel, you should get a taste of his cooking." Lin Qiuyan also agreed with her son keeping Chen Li for dinner.

After thinking it over and over, Chen Li finally nodded. She really had never eaten his cooking, and she happened to be uneasy about the hotel Ling Yun was opening anyway; she had even originally planned to invite a descendant of an imperial chef from Capital City back to be the head chef.

The ingredients needed for the dinner were abundant in the void, having absorbed spiritual energy year-round, and they tasted exceptionally fragrant.

Just as Ling Yun was busy with the grand feast, over on Qian Qian's side.

"Hello, it's me. What? Where are you guys? I'm coming right now!" Gao Feifei said angrily.

"What's going on, Feifei!"

"Yeah, Feifei!"

"My younger brother and some of his friends were beaten up at Cloudy Mist Bar."

"Feifei, do you want to go alone?"

"Yes, this is none of your business."

"What kind of talk is that? We are good friends and besties, how can we let you go alone? Let's all go together, there are more of us and it's broad daylight, we don't have to be afraid."

"Sisters, what do you say?"

"Mm, I agree."

Lin Yueyan was a bit hesitant. If she were by herself she definitely wouldn't be afraid, but her little niece was with her. If something happened, how would she explain it to her aunt and cousin?

"Aunty, let's go, I'll be very good." The little one's eyes darted around. She didn't even know there was danger, and seemed to think it would be fun!

Since they all said so, thinking that if something really happened, those people couldn't possibly lay a hand on a child, the group hurried off to Cloudy Mist Bar.

Inside the bar, a group of people surrounded several young men, with physical clashes breaking out from time to time. Gao Feifei's younger brother, Gao Yunjie, was right in the middle, but he was injured, and his right arm was fractured.

"Why call people over? No matter who comes, they won't be able to protect you. Heh heh, how dare you offend me, Lin Zhongtian."

"Damn it, Lin Zhongtian, you dare hit me? Don't you know who my dad is?" Gao Yunjie said through gritted teeth, glaring at Lin Zhongtian.

"Humph, I know. It's just Gao San from the Jiangbei National Security Bureau, right? I'm hardly going to be scared of that. You wouldn't dare tell your old man about this anyway, and besides, I already hit you. What can you do to me?" Lin Zhongtian was not nervous at all.

"What do you want in order to let us go? This matter was our fault, I apologize to you." Gao Yunjie also knew they were in the wrong here and had no choice but to back down.

"If apologies worked, what would we need the police for?" Lin Zhongtian pointed at the corner of his eye. "Look at my eye, I damn near went blind! Beat them all, I'll take responsibility if anything happens."

Several bodyguards and a crowd of lackeys rushed at them once again.

"Stop, stop right now! What are you all doing? How can you hit people?" Gao Feifei and the others arrived just in time.

Everyone turned back to see only a few pretty figures.

"Yo yo, so these are the helpers you called? Haha, you're killing me." Lin Zhongtian laughed loudly.

"What did you do to my younger brother?" Seeing that her brother's arm was injured, Gao Feifei instantly grew anxious.

"What, feeling heartbroken? Today I'm going to break one of his legs as well, and nobody who comes will stop me!"

"Sis, why did you come here? Hurry up and leave, I don't need you to manage me."

Gao Yunjie was greatly alarmed. He knew what Lin Zhongtian was like, and if these girls including his sister came here, something bad was bound to happen. This was a sheep entering a wolf's den!

"Now that you're here, don't even think about leaving. I happen to have a bellyful of anger with nowhere to vent."

Hearing Lin Zhongtian's words, Gao Feifei and the others all turned pale! When all was said and done, they were just women, only eighteen years old. Where had they ever seen this kind of scene?

Hearing this, Gao Yunjie and his friends immediately put up a resistance as well, but they could not suppress the other side.

"Mister, you... you... guys, is there any ice cream in the shop? Qian Qian... is hungry." The little one ran up to the bar counter and asked the bartender, rubbing her little belly.

Her voice was very small, but everyone in the bar heard it. Everyone looked at the little one and froze for a moment.

Lin Yueyan's expression changed. Oh no, she hadn't paid attention earlier; how had her little niece run off to the bar?

Brother Qiang, who was watching the show from a corner, also heard her words.

He suddenly felt a little bit familiar, turned his head to look, and his expression changed slightly with a trace of disbelief. Then he rubbed his eyes, afraid that he was seeing things from drinking too much.

At the same time, he called a few of his underlings over. "Hurry up and verify, is she the one?"

Hearing her voice, those few little underlings were scared out of their wits. They hadn't been drinking, and they saw it crystal clear—it was her!

"Boss, boss, it is, it is her." The speaker stammered, his legs turning to jelly!

Once he got confirmation, Brother Qiang couldn't even stand steadily. This was the daughter of that great personage! He hurried over to stand in front of her, his heart crawling with panic. "L-L-Little Princess, what are you doing here?"

Little Qian Qian turned around, looked, and saw it was an acquaintance. Adopting her father's tone to stir up trouble, she said, "Oh, it's little Qiang. Qian Qian is hungry and wants to eat ice cream."

A dead silence fell over the scene. This child was too outrageous. In this territory, who didn't know that Brother Qiang hated others calling him little Qiang the most? Whose child was this, why was she so lacking in manners?

"Xiao Huang, quick, hurry outside and buy some ice cream back." Brother Qiang's face lit up with a pleased expression. Never mind how she got here; satisfying her demand was paramount.

Everyone felt like they had heard wrong. No way? Was this still Brother Qiang?

Hearing Qian Qian's words, Lin Yueyan panicked as well. Just as she was thinking about how to pick her up and bring her back, Brother Qiang's words struck her like a thunderbolt.

Those who had previously followed Brother Qiang to collect debts at Ling Yun's rental house didn't even dare breathe loudly, their hands and feet trembling.

"Then buy it back quickly, okay? Qian Qian and Little Tiger are both hungry." As she spoke, she even stroked the little milk puppy she was holding in her arms.

"Little Princess, just wait a bit longer, it'll be bought back in a few minutes." Brother Qiang wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Yueyan, how does Qian Qian know that person?" Jiang Ning poked the dazed Yueyan.

"I... I don't know either! I only arrived in Jiangbei today, okay? Stop talking, let's hurry over there. At the very least she's an acquaintance of Qian Qian's, maybe she's a friend of my cousin." With that, she pulled the rest of them along.

"Aunty, aunties, why are you guys coming over? Qian Qian doesn't have money to treat you to ice cream, you know!"

The little one's face was full of conflict. She had gone through so much trouble to sneak over to buy ice cream precisely to keep them from finding out, and now look—they had all come.

When Brother Qiang heard that the Little Princess had actually come with these three girls, he was relieved that it wasn't that great personage himself, but he still didn't dare to neglect them, waiting on them with utmost care.

Gao Yunjie and his crew hadn't expected that the little friend Sister Feifei had brought actually knew Brother Qiang, and judging by the look of it, Brother Qiang seemed quite afraid of her. They instantly became delighted.

"Brother Qiang, do you know these few?" Lin Zhongtian suddenly asked.

"Mn, Lin Zhongtian, I know them. I'm protecting them too, you should go back." How could Brother Qiang not tell that Lin Zhongtian wanted to keep them here? If he didn't protect them, that great personage wouldn't spare him!

"You say you know them just like that? You say you're protecting them just like that? Damn it, today I'm going to capture them!"

Lin Zhongtian had only brought a few bodyguards, but he also had Old Pan, an Innate Realm expert, right by his side, so his confidence was sky-high.

"Lin Zhongtian, if you want to die, don't drag me down with you." Brother Qiang's expression changed. Remembering the methods of that great personage, his legs, which had just stiffened up, turned to jelly again.

"Humph, small fry like you lot can't stir up any big waves. Calling you Brother Qiang was just giving you face. Bah!"

"Brother Qiang, Brother Qiang, I bought it back, the ice cream is bought back." Xiao Huang ran over drenched in sweat.

Before Brother Qiang could speak, the little one snatched the ice cream right out of Xiao Huang's hand and even shared one with Little Tiger. The two little fellows started licking away right there, not caring about the situation at all. There were still four or five left in the bag, obviously because Xiao Huang had bought extra, and the little one licked her ice cream while her eyes darted around.

"Aunty... Qian Qian is treating you guys to ice cream. We'll leave as soon as we finish eating, Daddy is almost done making dinner." The little one clearly seemed a bit anxious to go back.

Under such a tense situation, how could they have any appetite to eat? They could only say, "Qian Qian, aunties don't want any, you can have it all. When you finish eating we'll leave."

"Leave? Who told you that you'd be able to leave? Make a move, capture them, and if their Wild Wolf Gang dares to stop you, beat them." Lin Zhongtian instructed the bodyguards.

"Brothers, if you don't want to die and be ground into dust, block them for me!" When he said this, he heavily emphasized the word dust.

The two sides stood confronting each other just like that.

Instantly, a terrifying aura of danger enveloped the entire bar.

Aside from Gao Feifei and the other girls who couldn't feel it, everyone else broke out in cold sweat, the pressure so heavy it nearly made it hard for them to breathe.

"My lord, it has nothing to do with me!"

Overwhelmed with panic, Brother Qiang directly dropped to his knees, covered in cold sweat, not even daring to reach out and wipe it away.

The rest of the Wild Wolf Gang members trembled in their hands and feet, recalling that debt-collection night, and then followed Brother Qiang's example and dropped to their knees.

Shortly after he finished speaking, that terrifying aura of danger and pressure bearing down on their bodies vanished.

Brother Qiang and the others returned from the brink of death, gasping for huge breaths of air.