Chapter 40 My Mom Is Living With You?

"Clang!"

With the sound of a hidden weapon shattering the glass, Lan Fang started in fright. "What is going on?"

Her expression was tense as she looked anxiously at Qin Feng’s face.

"Swish!"

Immediately following, another hidden weapon came hurtling through.

Another window was smashed, making Lan Fang shiver involuntarily and causing the ample curves of her chest to heave up and down.

"Aunt Lan, are you alright?"

Qin Feng took a deep breath, trying his best not to peek, though he still couldn't entirely help himself.

"I—I'm fine."

Still lingering in fear, Lan Fang hastily covered herself upon realizing her charms were half-exposed, her pretty face flushing crimson. "What on earth is happening?"

Qin Feng looked in the direction where the hidden weapon had embedded itself in the wall.

Drawing upon years of life-and-death combat experience, he instantly deduced where the assassin who threw the weapon was hiding.

"Aunt Lan, hide here for a moment. I'll be right back."

"Ah?" Lan Fang gasped in shock. "No, it's too dangerous outside! You can't go."

Before her voice could fade, Qin Feng’s figure had already vanished from the spot.

***

Outside the residential compound.

Atop a tall tree within a hundred-meter radius.

Sun Zihang was puffing on an expensive cigar, looking with an annoyed expression at the burly man beside him.

This man was none other than the Inner Force expert dispatched by Li Ao to assassinate Qin Feng.

His name was Po Jun.

"Po Jun, are you certain you didn't kill that punk?"

Sun Zihang found Po Jun's failure utterly incomprehensible.

Was this supposed to be an Inner Force expert?

Could his reputation be entirely undeserved?

With a gloomy expression, Po Jun said, "That person's reflexes are extremely fast. He is definitely no ordinary man; I'm afraid he is also an Inner Force expert."

His greatest specialty was launching sneak attacks with hidden weapons.

Yet, he had failed this time.

"What? That punk could be an Inner Force expert? Are you joking?"

"Since when does an Inner Force expert work as a lowly intern doctor in a hospital?"

"Could it be that you're just making excuses for missing your mark?" Sun Zihang asked bluntly.

However, a single sharp glance from Po Jun instantly caused him to wisely shut his mouth.

"Let's go. Since this person has already noticed us, there will certainly be no second chance."

Seeing Po Jun prepare to leave, Sun Zihang muttered a few curses under his breath, feeling thoroughly displeased.

When they returned, how was he supposed to report this to Li Ao?

"Hey, since you're here, won't you have a cup of tea before leaving?"

Suddenly, an indifferent voice echoed out of nowhere.

Instinctively alert, Po Jun assumed a defensive stance.

"Who's there?"

"Have the guts to show yourself instead of playing ghosts in the dark!"

The next instant, Qin Feng slowly emerged, a blade of dogtail grass dangling from his lips.

"Qin Feng!"

Sun Zihang's eyes widened in shock. "Y-You... how did you appear so quickly?"

Ignoring him entirely, Qin Feng swept his gaze toward Po Jun and said indifferently, "An Inner Force martial artist who resorts to petty, sneaky behavior is truly despicable."

"Killing you myself would dirty my hands."

"End your own life."

With a single, simple sentence, he demanded that Po Jun commit suicide.

Po Jun was stunned for a moment before his expression darkened.

Sun Zihang, on the other hand, burst into laughter, pointing mockingly at Qin Feng. "Kid, have you lost your mind from fright? Telling an Inner Force expert to take his own life—who do you think you are?"

"Is that so?"

Qin Feng chuckled softly.

When his gaze swept back toward Po Jun, the latter felt an immediate sense of near-suffocation, as if a giant hand were gripping his throat and rendering him completely immobile.

Grandmaster pressure?!

Terror gripped Po Jun's heart, and he knew his fate for today was sealed.

Resigned, he accepted his end. Though filled with reluctance, he bowed to Qin Feng. "Thank you, Your Excellency, for granting me the right to end my own life."

Clearly, a Grandmaster-level powerhouse had a thousand and one ways to kill him.

Taking his own life was already the best outcome.

At least it afforded him some dignity.

Following that—

Under Sun Zihang's incredulous gaze, Po Jun picked up a sharp weapon and directly slashed his own throat. Blood welled up, and he died on the spot.

"This..."

Sun Zihang's face turned pale, and he was too shocked to string a complete sentence together.

What was going on here?

Why would this man commit suicide?

Had he lost his mind?

"Your turn."

Qin Feng said indifferently, "He took his own life. What do you suppose your fate will be?"

Terror clutched at Sun Zihang's heart, and he trembled violently. "Q-Qin Feng, it was Li Ao who explicitly ordered your assassination! It has nothing to do with me."

"Every debt has its debtor, every wrong has its perpetrator. If you have the guts, go find him!"

"So it was him." A frosty glint flashed in Qin Feng's eyes. If he had known this earlier, letting that man walk away at the Phoenix Pavilion had been letting him off far too easily.

"Why did he make a move against me?"

"Speak!"

Hearing this, Sun Zihang felt his soul leave his body and stammered, "I-I don't know either! He was the one who sought us out."

"I'm afraid you must have offended him somewhere."

Qin Feng frowned.

That Li Ao hailed from the Li family.

The Li family was the foremost of the four major clans today.

Could the other party's move against him be related to what happened back then?

"Rest assured, I won't kill you just yet."

Qin Feng said coldly, "Go back and tell Li Ao that if he knows what's good for him, he has three days to cripple his own hands and feet as an apology to me."

"Otherwise, the Li family can be erased from Yunhai."

"Scram."

"Y-Yes, yes..." Although shocked by Qin Feng's arrogant words, Sun Zihang didn't dare say anything more; frightened out of his wits, he hurriedly fled.

"Qingluan, help me thoroughly investigate the Yunhai Li family."

Qin Feng dialed a phone call and issued his instructions.

If the Li family was truly connected to the Qin family, they would undoubtedly suffer the exact same fate as the Bai family.

Some blood debts—

Now that he had returned, he would collect them back, bit by bit.

To offer them as a sacrifice to the spirits of the Qin family in heaven.

Returning inside.

The meticulous Lan Fang had already cleaned up the shattered glass inside the house.

She looked at the returning Qin Feng and said, "I've already made a call. A crew specializing in glass replacement will be here shortly."

"How are you? Are you alright?"

Seeing the concern in Lan Fang's eyes, Qin Feng felt a warmth in his heart and smiled faintly. "I'm fine, Aunt Lan. I just startled you earlier."

"Silly child, Aunt Lan is fine. As long as you're safe."

"Back then, Aunt Lan couldn't help your family, and I've carried that guilt in my heart all these years. If something were to happen to you now, how would I ever have the face to see your parents?"

Aunt Lan tenderly helped Qin Feng straighten his disheveled collar.

Just like a mother.

Gentle as water.

"Alright, leave this place to me. You still have to work tomorrow, so go get some sleep."

"Okay."

Qin Feng gave Lan Fang a deep look and returned to his bedroom.

Strangely enough—

He slept with unprecedented peace that night.

Early the next morning.

Qin Feng was awakened by the ringing of a phone.

Entering the living room, he picked it up to check.

It was Lan Fang's phone, and the caller was none other than Xu Banxia.

"Hello? Director Xu, what do you need with Aunt Lan?"

Qin Feng asked, his eyes heavy with sleep.

"Qin Feng? Why is it you?"

Xu Banxia demanded anxiously, "Where is my mother? Where have you kidnapped my mother to?"

"..."

Speechless, Qin Feng replied, "What does that have to do with me? It was clearly Aunt Lan who took the initiative to come find me."

"Alright, I'm almost late. I need to go to work."

"Hold on!" Xu Banxia said anxiously, "Consider today as taking a leave of absence. I'll drive over to pick you up right now, send me your address."

"Oh."

Qin Feng hung up the phone and texted Xu Banxia an address.

As luck would have it.

Lan Fang had just stepped out of the bathroom.

Qin Feng subconsciously looked over, and two streams of nosebleed instantly gushed from his nostrils...

Followed immediately by Lan Fang's piercing shriek: "Ah—!"