Bei Ya's sudden appearance had utterly ruined all his interest. Yu Lian wore a dark expression as he reluctantly bought himself a decent outfit and changed into it, then returned to the Pearl Shadow Club with Lin Qi.
In the most luxurious private room of the Pearl Shadow Club, the gloomy-faced Yu Lian took out a huge pile of gold coins. One moment, he arranged them into a giant flower on the table; the next, he stacked them neatly into brick-like blocks. The glittering coins clinked brightly against each other, and the sound improved Yu Lian's mood considerably.
"One million gold coins to get rid of him!" Yu Lian looked at Lin Qi with utmost gravity. "What a waste! How could that bastard Bei Ya possibly be worth that much? Taking out Marshal Beian would probably only cost this much. So I've decided—I'm going to use these million gold coins for something else!"
Lin Qi raised an eyebrow. "Oh? And what would that be?"
A trace of strange lewdness suddenly crept into Yu Lian's smile. "I know Marshal Beian is choosing candidates to be Bei Ya's fiancée, and what I'm going to do is seduce every single one of them into bed! Best of all, I'll get Bei Ya's fiancée pregnant with my child. That'd feel far better than cutting him down with one stroke!"
Holding a glass of water, Lin Qi froze. He nearly crushed the glass in his grip.
After not seeing him for several years, Yu Lian had become even more lecherous than he had been at school. Moreover, he and Alda were practically birds of a feather. Their minds seemed to have been born filled with women's bodies, and the tiny bit of brain matter they had left was likewise crammed with the gleaming shine of