Chapter 275: Entangled by Peach Blossom Debt

Lin Yuan: "……"

This, things aren't easy to handle.

A few days ago, Lin Yuan even kidnapped this woman and locked her in a dog cage.

Today she invited me to breakfast??

This totally feels like a Hongmen banquet.

"Hehe, Miss Hong is really courteous." Lin Yuan smiled sheepishly.

"Xiao Lin, you're here, hurry up and sit down to eat breakfast. Your girlfriend has been waiting for you for a while." At that moment, Xu Nainai also noticed Lin Yuan and warmly greeted him.

Lin Yuan could only scratch his head and walk over awkwardly.

"Xiao Lin, did you make Yan girl angry? I saw her face wasn't looking good all morning, cold as ice. You'd better go apologize to Yan girl later." Xu Nainai pulled Lin Yuan aside and said softly.

Lin Yuan shook his head, "Um, there's a slight disagreement."

Xu Nainai advised, "You young folks, having disagreements is normal; just talk it out. You'll apologize later, got it?"

Lin Yuan could only nod embarrassedly, "I know."

Lin Yuan came to the food stall and sat down.

"Eat up, I specially ordered this for you." Hong Wenyan's icy eyes spoke as she handed Lin Yuan a steaming box of soup dumplings.

"Why are you being so polite?" Lin Yuan felt a bit embarrassed.

Hong Wenyan's eyes spoke, merely giving him a cold stare.

That gaze made Lin Yuan feel a bit guilty.

"Eat? Why aren't you eating?" Hong Wenyan asked coldly.

Lin Yuan suddenly pulled out a silver needle, inserted it into each soup dumpling, and tested them for poison one by one.

Lin Yuan was genuinely a little afraid.

He feared Hong Wenyan would suddenly poison the food and kill him.

Seeing this, Hong Wenyan's eyes grew even colder, a black line appearing on her forehead.

"Are you sick?" Hong Wenyan said coldly.

Lin Yuan gave an embarrassed laugh, "When you're out and about, be careful, okay."

After testing, finding the soup dumplings had no poison, Lin Yuan finally relaxed and began to eat.

He picked up his chopsticks, grabbed a soup dumpling, and brought it to his mouth.

He lightly bit down; the thin dumpling skin instantly burst, and the rich, delicious meat juice instantly filled his mouth.

That texture and flavor were simply incredibly delicious.

Xu Nainai's soup dumplings are truly the best at the breakfast stall.

They outshine all breakfast stalls within several kilometers.

"Is it good?" Hong Wenyan tilted her head and asked coldly.

Her jet-black long hair hung down lightly, the tips still carrying a faint scent of cold cedar—not the sweet floral fragrance of ordinary women, but that icy cedar aroma.

One cannot deny that Hong Wenyan is truly beautiful.

The slight upward tilt of her eyes' corners, even the shadow of her falling lashes, exudes allure.

Although she clearly wears a tailor-made high-end suit, the pearl buttons on the collar glowing with a warm sheen, the aura she radiates is like a thin layer of ice—an oppressive presence born from years spent in the extreme path circles.

Her beauty isn't meant to please anyone; it's more like an exquisite yet dangerous weapon that makes people want to glance twice, yet dare not approach easily.

"Delicious." Lin Yuan nodded.

"Inviting you to breakfast today is to give you a choice. I offer you a path: if you choose to join my K Group, our grudges can be wiped clean, past grievances resolved." Hong Wenyan said in an icy voice, slowly.

Lin Yuan startled at the words, he replied, "I've said it many times already—I won't join your K Group."

Hong Wenyan picked up a spoon, scooped a mouthful of wonton into her mouth, and while eating the wonton, she calmly said, "I've discussed this with my father; we understand your concerns, you don't want to engage in gray-market business. We can give you a brand-new platform—we'll invest, establish a new company that does legitimate business. You would manage that company and work for us. That way, you wouldn't have to worry about legal risks, how about that?"

For Hong Wenyan to say this, her posture truly is lowered.

It seems their K Group really wants to invite Lin Yuan to join.

They've given Lin Yuan plenty of face.

But Lin Yuan still shook his head, "Sorry, I won't join."

"Why? I've already given you such good terms, and you don't have to do gray-market business, yet you still reject me?" Hong Wenyan's eyes narrowed slightly, she really was a bit angry.

Her sincerity is already enough!

"Because 'near vermilion makes one red, near ink makes one black.' You are ink, so I must stay away from you. Besides, I've already joined the Divine Phoenix Group; I could never betray the Divine Phoenix Group, I won't be a fence-sitter." Lin Yuan took a bite of soup dumpling and replied coldly.

Hong Wenyan's eyes turned icy cold in an instant, a flash of killing intent crossing her gaze.

"Do you know? If it were before, upon encountering someone like you, I would hack you to pieces and throw your corpse into the Qiantang River to feed the fish." Hong Wenyan gritted her teeth and said coldly.

Lin Yuan snorted coldly in reply, "You also want to kill me now, you just can't."

Indeed, the reason Lin Yuan can still sit here.

Is not because Hong Wenyan is soft-hearted.

But because she cannot kill Lin Yuan, that's all.

"You……" Hong Wenyan trembled with anger.

Meanwhile, Xu Nainai saw their conversation growing colder and colder, fearing they would quarrel too fiercely.

So Xu Nainai thought to come over and mediate.

"Xiao Lin, Yan girl, Grandma also doesn't know what happened between you two. But anyway, anything can be set aside and talked about slowly; you young folks shouldn't act on impulse. Don't let arguing drain your feelings." Xu Nainai advised.

Xu Nainai still very much hopes Lin Yuan and Hong Wenyan end up together.

"Grandma, I still want to drink your wedding wine." Xu Nainai smiled kindly.

As a result, Hong Wenyan said coldly, "We've already broken up! Lin Yuan, you'll regret today's decision."

Having said that, Hong Wenyan stood up directly and was about to leave!

"Tch, crazy woman, truly unreasonable." Lin Yuan also coldly retorted, stood up and was about to leave.

They went their separate ways.

"Xiao Lin... Yan Yatou..." Xu Nainai's aged face showed some anxiety. She didn't want to see Lin Yuan and Yan Yatou break up.

Xu Nainai's anxiety caused her blood pressure to spike suddenly.

"Plop!" Xu Nainai, due to high blood pressure, suddenly saw darkness and collapsed to the ground!

"Xu Nainai!" Lin Yuan had only taken a few steps when he instantly reacted and rushed over.

Hong Wenyan also gasped, her beautiful eyes widening, and hurried over.

Xu Nainai lost consciousness due to high blood pressure.

Lin Yuan and Hong Wenyan hurriedly helped Xu Nainai up.

But Xu Nainai was already unconscious, her consciousness not clear.

No matter how Lin Yuan shouted, he couldn't wake Xu Nainai.

"What should we do?! I'll call 120!" Hong Wenyan felt a sense of helpless guilt for the first time.

"Xu Nainai, this is nerve compression caused by cancer cells due to high blood pressure! Quickly send her home, I'll use Acupuncture to treat her!" Lin Yuan said anxiously.

He and Hong Wenyan together sent Xu Nainai home.

Lin Yuan helped with Acupuncture treatment at Xu Nainai's home.

But Hong Wenyan didn't believe Lin Yuan's medical skills.

She directly summoned the best Western doctor from the provincial capital.

But when that renowned Western doctor arrived at Xu Nainai's home and examined her condition, he simply shook his head.

"Sorry, Miss Hong, this patient's cancer cells have spread throughout the body; it's beyond help, I can't treat her... she won't live long..." The Western doctor directly refused treatment, turned and left.

Xu Nainai's condition is such that no doctor dares to treat it.

Because it's basically untreatable, with cancer cells spreading throughout the body, this is a terminal illness.

Neither Chinese nor Western medicine can cure it.

Medical skill, after all, is just medical skill.

One cannot defy fate.

After Lin Yuan administered Acupuncture treatment for over an hour, Xu Nainai finally woke up.

After waking up, Xu Nainai tremblingly reached out and grabbed Lin Yuan's and Hong Wenyan's hands.

She placed their hands together, her voice trembling and hoarse, saying, "Yan Yatou, Xiao Lin, Grandma just wants to see you both doing well; please don't argue, okay? Grandma still hopes to live long enough to drink your wedding wine..."

At this moment, Hong Wenyan burst into tears, her tears falling uncontrollably.

Lin Yuan's eye sockets also turned a bit red.

"Xu Nainai, rest assured, I and Lin Yuan... we won't break up." Hong Wenyan said this to reassure Xu Nainai, as she had no choice but to lie.

Lin Yuan felt somewhat complicated, glanced at Hong Wenyan, and also did not expose her.

After the two had comforted Xu Nainai, they then left her home.

Hong Wenyan said coldly, "Lin Yuan, our grudge isn't over. But since Xu Nainai's health is poor, I'll temporarily set aside my intention to kill you, letting you live a bit longer; once Xu Nainai's health improves, I'll kill you."

After saying that, Hong Wenyan left coldly.

However, before leaving, Hong Wenyan specially hired a nanny to come and care for Xu Nainai.

Lin Yuan pursed his lips, "Tch, who's afraid of whom? If it weren't for the fact that you helped Xu Nainai call a nanny, I'd have locked you in a dog cage already."

Hong Wenyan, who had just walked not far away, heard this and her delicate body trembled.

She was so angry she gritted her teeth, but she suppressed her anger and got into the car to leave...

Night, Goddess Bar headquarters.

Su Zhiyuan occasionally came to the Goddess Bar for consumption these days, but when she came to the headquarters, she didn't see Lin Yuan's figure.

Strange, these days, could Lin Yuan have disappeared??

Shen Shiyuan, Su Zhiyuan's friend, also came along; the two friends planned to fairly compete, pursuing Lin Yuan together.

Let's see who finally manages to catch up.

But the result was that the two friends came to the Goddess Bar consecutively for several days, yet still didn't find Lin Yuan.

Su Zhiyuan couldn't help but grab a bar staff member and ask, "Hey, could you ask where the bar's priest went? Why haven't I seen him for days?"

The staff guy replied, "Priest? You didn't know? The priest has been promoted, now he's the general manager of Goddess Bar's second branch, and he's currently managing the second branch, which is the Qing Chun Lu branch."

Upon hearing this, Su Zhiyuan and her friend Shen Shiyuan exchanged a glance.

Their eyes were filled with surprise and doubt??

That guy Lin Yuan actually got promoted??

And he even became the general manager of the second branch??

This guy's promotion is a bit too fast!

So the two friends that very night went straight to the Goddess Bar's second branch...

Goddess Bar, Qing Chun Lu branch.

Lin Yuan was leaning lightly against the second-floor railing, looking at the dance floor below, at the energetic music and the patrons.

Since its opening, the Qing Chun Lu branch's business has been consistently good.

Lin Yuan is very satisfied; if this trend continues, he should be able to get a decent bonus by year-end.

Lin Yuan thought to himself.

Being able to make money is good.

But what he didn't know was… Actually, according to the salary of professional managers in their gray industry, for someone at Lin Yuan's level, a bar general manager's monthly pay starts at no less than 100,000.

But he was screwed over by the Goddess.

To exploit him, the Goddess only gave him a measly monthly salary of 20,000.

Lin Yuan, this idiot, is still kept in the dark, and is still foolishly working hard.

Meanwhile, beneath the bar's dance floor, two graceful figures were walking into the bar.

Su Zhiyuan and Shen Shiyuan, these two best friends, were coming to Nvshenjiubaerdian for the first time.

The two entered the bar, their gazes sweeping around inside.

Soon, the two discovered Lin Yuan leaning on the railing on the second floor.

At that moment, Lin Yuan on the second floor also noticed the two below.

Lin Yuan's expression changed?

Damn! How did Su Zhiyuan and Shen Shiyuan, these two girls, come here?

Lin Yuan, fearing entanglement, turned around and tried to escape.

Who knew, from downstairs came Su Zhiyuan's cheerful shout, "Lin Yuan!"

Shen Shiyuan also shouted cheerfully, "Lin Yuan! Why are you running?! We saw you!"

But Lin Yuan had already turned and run!

Damn, the peach blossom debt has arrived!

Shen Shiyuan and Su Zhiyuan, these two women, have been constantly chasing after Lin Yuan.

Naturally, Lin Yuan dared not contact them, avoiding them if he could!

"Chase!" Su Zhiyuan and Shen Shiyuan directly pursued him upstairs...