Running his mouth in front of the deputy mayor? A reckless rich kid found himself surrounded by fully armed SWAT officers!

The man's gaze swept arrogantly over the bustling construction site, then across the diners at the courtyard entrance, his eyes brimming with greed.

"Well, look at you. Using my family's money to make something of this godforsaken backwater, huh?"

"A parking lot, a campsite, and even a fucking natural swimming area?"

He had already asked around about Chen Lin when he entered the village.

He was Liu Asheng, the cherished son of Mr. Liu from Magic City.

No sooner had he finished speaking than more than thirty burly men jumped out of the dozen or so black SUVs behind him.

Every one of them had bulging muscles and hostile eyes. They completely blocked the courtyard entrance.

Liu Asheng was certain of one thing: where could Chen Lin, a penniless fresh graduate, have gotten so much money?

He must have pocketed his family's thirty million!

The smile on Chen Lin's face remained, but it no longer reached his eyes.

Finally.

A few days later than I expected.

He patted the hem of his clothes, his tone as casual as if he were discussing the weather.

"Your family's affairs have nothing to do with me. Believe it or not."

"Ha!"

Liu Asheng rocked back and forth with laughter, as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world.

"Whether I believe you doesn't matter!"

His laughter stopped abruptly, and his eyes turned cold.

"What matters is that you're paying me today!"

Chen Lin spread his hands helplessly. "Then there's nothing I can do."

"Nothing you can do?"

The flesh on Liu Asheng's face twitched. He pointed toward the distant construction site, then at the farmhouse courtyard behind him.

"If you don't pay, you won't drive a single pile into the ground on that shitty project!"

"And as for this shitty restaurant,