Silence.
After the deathly stillness—
"Fuck! Murder!"
The bar instantly descended into chaos. The customers screamed in terror, frightened by Boye lying in a pool of blood, and fled outside in a rush.
Lin Tianyou was somewhat dumbfounded. In the blink of an eye, the other man had taken down all his lackeys, and with extreme brutality, completely disregarding the consequences.
This man was either a wandering criminal or a member of some top-tier wealthy family's direct lineage, with deep backing and no taboos.
The bar instantly became empty.
Su Rui rolled his neck and crooked a finger at Lin Tianyou.
"Heh, which family are you from?" A sinister look appeared on Lin Tianyou's face, but his tone remained arrogant. "You dared touch a member of the Lin family. Have you considered the consequences?"
"Don't test me. My background may be ordinary, but dealing with you won't be a problem." Su Rui smiled brightly. In this life, he truly had not changed the world's course too much. Aside from making some money to improve his quality of life, he had basically done nothing to raise his social status.
"Heh heh..." Lin Tianyou sneered nervously. Though he was somewhat panicked inside, he remained calm on the surface. "Do you believe that within three days, I'll make you kneel and deliver this woman to my bed?"
He had the confidence. The Lin family had operated in Tongzhou City for years, and no one had ever dared defy him. Whatever he wanted to do, he could do. No woman he wanted to sleep with could escape.
His smooth-sailing life had forged his unrestrained personality, even twisting it into something somewhat perverse.
Su Rui stepped forward steadily, his body as imposing as Mount Tai. He strode over the booth sofa, grabbed Lin Tianyou by the back of his collar, and without hesitation smashed a wine bottle over his head.
Clean and decisive!
Shards flew everywhere, while liquor mixed with blood ran down Lin Tianyou's scalp.
"Fuck!" Lin Tianyou's head buzzed, and his mind went blank. Only after ten-odd seconds did he react, as intense pain spread throughout his body. The blow had completely sobered him up, and his eyes burned with extreme fury and disbelief. "Do you fucking know who I am? I'll kill your whole family..."
Bang!
The wine bottle shattered over Lin Tianyou's head again!
The sight left the several Security Guards present utterly dumbfounded.
It was fucking brutal!
After running wild in Tongzhou City for so many years, this was the first time Lin Tianyou had been humiliated so badly.
"I've killed more people than you've ever seen." Su Rui's heart was as firm as stone. He truly was not lying; in one of his past lives, he had launched a terrorist attack that threw a foreign country into complete chaos.
Reckless, arrogant, without any bottom line or restraint.
Expressionless, Su Rui took out his phone, dialed a string of numbers, and turned on speakerphone.
Su Rui's call was answered quickly.
"Hello?" The voice from the phone sounded wary and weary. This was his private number, known only to the family's direct lineage and the group's core members.
With just that one word, Lin Tianyou recognized the person on the other end as his father, Lin Group's helmsman, Lin Jiatao.
"Boss Lin, your son is quite good at stirring up trouble... Have you forgotten what was said at the last Far East Chamber of Commerce meeting? At a time when we're in the eye of the storm, if you can't keep your own people in line and they bring trouble to the chamber, withdraw from it yourself!" Su Rui spoke with repeated sneers. "In Tongzhou City, we can raise up a Lin family, and we don't mind sinking one either!"
Lin Jiatao was somewhat stunned on the other end. Tianyou had caused trouble again?
Was the other party from one of the chamber's other ruling families?
Though the Lin family counted as wealthy in Tongzhou City, compared to the Far East Chamber of Commerce—a giant spanning several provinces and countless industries—they were not worth mentioning at all.
If the other party had not deliberately supported them and used all kinds of resources to assist them, the Lin family could never have risen so quickly.
At last month's meeting of the chamber's members, the chairman had personally attended, offered guidance on the current situation, and ordered the major families and groups to restrain their subordinates so they would not invite trouble under the present circumstances.
This had been an internal meeting. No one dared leak it outside.
The other party knew his private number and knew about this matter...
Lin Jiatao's attitude became respectful and wary. He carefully asked, "You are...?"
"Who gave you those 1.5 billion back then?" Su Rui asked.
"Director Su..." Lin Jiatao's scalp went numb. Back when the Lin Group had fallen into crisis and suffered a funding shortfall that had nearly driven it into bankruptcy, it had been a chamber director who stepped in and lent him 1.5 billion, allowing him to survive the crisis. "Yes, I understand!"
This young man was a direct descendant of Director Su's family?
"If there is a next time, we'll make the Lin family collapse the same way we made it rise. Understand?" Su Rui deliberately crouched in front of Lin Tianyou so he could hear the conversation between himself and Lin Jiatao.
"Understood! Understood!"
"..." Lin Jiatao fell silent for a moment before pleading, "This is my fault. I will personally go to the chamber and give Director Su an explanation. I'm fifty-two this year... Tianyou is my only son. Please... show mercy."
Silence.
Lin Tianyou gritted his teeth. He had never encountered such a situation before; even his own father could not protect him.
"Darling, should I dig out his eyes," Su Rui raised his brows and looked at Li Ruobing sitting nearby, "as an apology to you?"
"Disgusting!" Li Ruobing answered decisively, tossing out those two words.
"Tianyou! Apologize!" Lin Jiatao roared through the phone. He truly feared that Director Su would cripple his son in a fit of rage. After all, the Su family and the Lin family were not on the same level at all. The former was a river dragon running rampant across the entire south, while the latter was only a little flood dragon in Tongzhou's tiny pond.
Lin Tianyou's breathing became hurried, and his eyes turned bloodshot.
"Didn't you fucking hear him?"
Lin Jiatao's furious roar came from the phone again.
"I'm sorry! I'm a bastard! I was wrong!" Lin Tianyou's eyes bulged as he bent his body at a perfect ninety-degree angle toward Su Rui and Li Ruobing. "Big Brother, Elder Sister-in-law! Please show mercy and forgive my recklessness!"
Li Ruobing remained cold and gently swirled her wine glass.
Yet thoughts churned in her mind.
If Su Rui's previous lack of restraint and direct beating of Lin Tianyou and the others had merely proven his fighting ability and courage, then Lin Jiatao's fear now, forcing Lin Tianyou to bow and apologize to Su Rui, was far beyond imagination.
Who exactly was Su Rui?
"Forget it... I have other things to do." Su Rui tilted his head. "Later, compensate the bar for everything you damaged. Understand?"
Lin Tianyou said nothing and merely nodded through gritted teeth.
Su Rui stepped forward, wrapped an arm around Li Ruobing's slim waist, lightly bit her lips, and winked. "Let's go, darling... wife."
A bastard would be a fool to turn down an advantage... Who told you to say I was your boyfriend just now?
The matter had been resolved, though not in the way Su Rui had originally intended, by directly swatting Lin Tianyou dead.
But it was enough.
On the last night of this life, with a beauty by his side, Su Rui did not want blood to stain his hands and ruin the mood.
The two left the bar. Li Ruobing allowed Su Rui to hold her without resisting, staring at him with bright eyes instead.
"You weren't working with Lin Tianyou, setting up this whole scheme just to trick me, were you?"
"You're overthinking it." Su Rui chuckled.
Li Ruobing also felt it was unlikely. Although the Li family stood at the top of Tongzhou City, the Lin family was not far behind. It was impossible that just because Su Rui wanted to pursue her, the entire Lin family would throw away its dignity and act along with him.
The lights of a Pagani Huayra flickered, followed by the roar of its engine.
"Su Rui... is that really your name?" Li Ruobing's beautiful hair was blown into disarray by the wind. With a little alcohol stirring within her, her eyes were alluring as she softly said, "This rebirth stuff sounds like nothing but a lie!"
"Whether it's real or not is no longer important..." Su Rui chuckled. "Tomorrow, you'll forget me and begin your life again."
The supercar slowly drove into an upscale villa area, where the wealthy gathered.
"I told you, tonight you'd willingly come with me." Su Rui wrapped an arm around Li Ruobing's waist, pinched her smooth, fair chin with his other hand, and smiled wickedly. "If you want to run now, it's a little too late..."
Li Ruobing did not retreat in the slightest. Suddenly, she wrapped her arms around Su Rui's neck and kissed him directly.
Having held the position of chief executive officer at Mingzhu Group for too long had left her feeling intensely repressed, but tonight, she felt an unprecedented sense of release and novelty from Su Rui.
It was a carnival after recklessly unleashing one's true nature.
With this man, she could experience pleasure unrestrained by any rules!
Feeling the trembling of the warm, supple body in his arms, Su Rui's lips curled up as he responded passionately.
Two patrolling Security Guards passed by and tactfully switched off their flashlights.
Working in a wealthy district required that much awareness.
Still, they cursed silently to themselves a few times. Those damn rich people really knew how to have fun...
"Let's go upstairs..." Though Su Rui had been reborn countless times, he still possessed a sense of propriety. "I don't have the habit of letting people watch for free."
Su Rui took a handbag from the car.
"What's that?" With the faint glow of the streetlights, Li Ruobing saw a bow tie.
"Some... auxiliary clothing that stimulates male hormones." Su Rui gave a strange smile, leaned close to Li Ruobing's ear, and asked, "Maid outfit, office outfit, bunny girl outfit—which one do you choose? Or... shall we try every set once?"
Li Ruobing gave a cold snort, her delicate brows stern.
"You don't like them?"
"No..."
After a long while, she said, "I... want to be on top."
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