Niu Hulu Xingchen

Lu Yize's brows knitted into a deep furrow. "What do you mean?" he asked, puzzled.

"What the fuck are you playing dumb for?" Lu Xingchen folded his arms and looked at Lu Yize, his lips curling into a cold, mocking smile.

"You didn't know Lu Xingchen had claustrophobia? You deliberately locked him in that dark little room anyway."

Lu Yize lowered his eyes, his expression darkening slightly. He completely failed to notice why Lu Xingchen was talking about his own affairs as though they belonged to someone else. "...I didn't know."

"Then go die." Lu Xingchen arched his delicate brows slightly and smiled, adding even more brilliance to his already striking face-a stark contrast to the words leaving his mouth.

"Your whole Lu family was on the same side when it came to handing Lu Xingchen over to that fat CEO, weren't you?"

"You gave your tacit approval too. Lu Yize, your family is a bunch of coldhearted, cold-blooded trash who'll do anything for profit. You could sell Lu Xingchen out over a single project. Was the Lu family really that desperate for this one project?"

Lu Yize looked at Lu Xingchen disapprovingly. "You don't understand. This project is very important. Besides, you're not that young anymore, and President Fei is a fine-looking man. We wouldn't hurt you."

"If you suck, get better! It just proves you're incompetent. You have to sell your own little brother to land a single project. Lu Yize, tell me, what good are you?"

Lu Xingchen's tongue seemed steeped in poison. His words spared him no mercy.

"Grandpa entrusted Lu Corporation to you. If he knew, down in the underworld, that you were selling his beloved youngest grandson to secure a project for the company, what do you think he'd think? Would you dare face Grandpa after you died?"

Lu Xingchen knew that Lu Yize admired Grandpa Lu more than anyone and had even always regarded him as his role model in life.

In his youth, Grandpa Lu had fought on the battlefield and earned military honors several times. After retiring, he founded the Lu Group. His life had been the stuff of legend. Who in the Capital didn't respectfully address him as Old Lu?

Lu Xingchen's little mouth was like a machine gun, firing nonstop with devastating force.

"That fat CEO, whatever his name is, has such a big, greasy head and fat ears that I could render over a hundred pounds of lard out of him."

"If you think he's so great, why don't you offer yourself up? Why couldn't you bear to send Lu Yichen instead? It's just because you think Lu Xingchen is easy to bully."

At the mention of Grandpa Lu, Lu Yize's face turned deathly pale.

That's right. Grandpa loved Lu Xingchen most...

No!

If Grandpa knew Lu Xingchen had been found, only to turn into this lunatic, he definitely wouldn't like him.

Grandpa valued rules and good manners above all else.

After Grandpa passed away, Lu Xingchen went missing. For a time, Lu Yize had hated himself for being useless. Now that Lu Xingchen had been found, Lu Yize felt he had finally given Grandpa an answer.

His eyes bloodshot, Lu Yize insisted, "Stop twisting things. The Lu family feeds you and provides for you. You've enjoyed wealth and luxury, so you have to contribute when the family needs you. Chenchen is still young. How could we bear to send him away?"

"Hahahahaha! You know perfectly well what my life in this family has been like. Stop fucking playing dumb. Fucking wealth and luxury? If I remember correctly, Lu Yichen was born just one day after me."

As though he had heard the greatest joke in the world, Lu Xingchen strode forward and grabbed Lu Yize by his suit lapels, disdainfully crushing his pathetic pride with words spoken into his ear.

"And another thing, Lu Yize. Do you really think you became the Lu Group's CEO through your own ability? You know perfectly well how you got that position."

Lu Yize shoved Lu Xingchen away and brushed his shoulder in disgust. Smiling like a cruel, depraved tyrant, he spoke with contempt.

"So what? Lu Xingchen, what ability do you think you have to take back what belongs to you from me?"

"We've got plenty of time." Lu Xingchen casually tossed the stick in his hand into Zhou Fenglan's face.

Zhou Fenglan let out a piercing roar. "Lu Xingchen! Get out of the Lu family! Get out! You're not welcome here!"

Lu Xingchen held out his hand and said impatiently, "Xiao Huang's medical expenses and Tofu's cleaning fees come to ten million. Once I get it, I'll leave."

Hearing this, Lu Yichen could hardly believe his ears and exclaimed.

"Lu Xingchen, you're insane! You dare demand ten million for two animals? Are you robbing us? Yize, don't give him anything!"

Lu Xingchen's earlier words still lingered in Lu Yize's mind.

Lu Xingchen had been missing. There was no way he could know about these things. Who had told him?

There was no way Lu Yize would hand over ten million just because Lu Xingchen demanded it. "And if I don't?"

Lu Xingchen tilted his head, looking at the disheveled Lu family with a faint, ambiguous smile. He knew Lu Yize valued the Lu Group above everything else.

"I remember Lu Corporation is competing for a partnership project with Country A. If a scandal broke now about the Lu family selling their son for personal gain, do you think the other companies would let this scandal pass?"

"I heard you spent a full two years preparing for this partnership, Yize. I imagine the other companies have put plenty of effort into securing the Country A project too. What do you think they'd do if they caught wind of this little joke about Lu Corporation?"

"Lu Xingchen! Don't you dare!" Lu Yize's eyes bulged with fury.

The Country A partnership project had consumed nearly all of Lu Yize's efforts over the past two years. He would not allow anyone to interfere with it.

Lu Yize strode forward and swung his hand down hard.

At some point, the dog-beating stick that had been on the ground had reappeared in Lu Xingchen's hand. He used it to deflect the force of Lu Yize's arm.

The next second, he rammed the stick into Lu Yize's throat.

"Urgh! Urgh! Urgh!!!"

Lu Yize's mind blanked for a moment. A thick, foul stench filled his mouth, triggering his gag reflex. He dropped straight to his knees and vomited up even his bile.

Lu Xingchen abruptly stepped back and casually tossed the stick in his hand into Zhou Fenglan's face in disgust.

The Lu family's courtyard was a wreck, filled with furious roars.

"Lu... Xingchen!!!"

"Get out of the Lu family!!!"

Lu Xingchen's cool voice rang out like a demon's whisper. "Lu Yize, I'll be waiting for your transfer. Otherwise, I can't promise I won't go straight to Lu Corporation's rivals and tell them some interesting stories."

Lu Xingchen kicked open the Lu family's front door and swaggered into his room. He packed Tofu's cat carrier and some expensive dog and cat food into bags.

While he was doing so.

A servant who had no idea what had happened even ordered him around. "Fourth Young Master, we just mopped this floor. Don't just walk in here whenever you please. We'll have to mop it all over again."

The old Lu Xingchen would certainly have apologized meekly, then knelt back down on the floor and wiped the dirtied spots clean with a rag.

But the current Lu Xingchen was Niu Hulu Xingchen.

He delivered a swift slap. The loud smack stunned all the servants waiting to laugh at Lu Xingchen.

"What about now? Are you sure you want me to clean it myself? I don't mind using you to mop the floor."

"If the floor gets dirty, cleaning it again is your job. Understand?"