"Lei Liming! If you dare to touch me, I swear I won't let you and your Lei family off!" Liu Ruyan's dagger trembled slightly in her hand. It wasn't that she feared death, but because she had been poisoned with the soft-sinew powder, she had no strength left in her body, making even suicide difficult.
"Heh heh! Revenge on me? Revenge on our Lei family? Hmph! To tell you the truth, your Liu family is finished.
I know you're already that brat Lu Fan's woman, you've long since become a slut! But I'm going to do it to you anyway. I want to make Lu Fan and your Liu family enemies. Then I'll use the Liu family to destroy Lu Fan, or have Lu Fan destroy your Liu family.
However, since you said that today, you're as good as dead. Hmph! You little bitch, come here! I'll kill you after I've had my fill!" A sinister glint flashed in Lei Liming's eyes. After speaking, he lunged at Liu Ruyan.
*Slap...* Suddenly, a golden silk whip flew from behind and instantly coiled around Lei Liming's neck. *Swish...* A blood-red mark instantly appeared on Lei Liming's neck.
"So it was the Ma family and your Lei family behind all this, hmph! I don't care who you are, your Lei family is doomed. I'll destroy it." As the words fell, Lu Fan pulled the golden silk whip in his hand towards him. *Whoosh...* Lei Liming was pulled into Lu Fan's embrace.
However, how could Lei Liming endure the golden silk whip around his throat? It choked him so much that his eyes rolled back. *Slap...* Lu Fan slapped Lei Liming's chest. *Pfft...* Lei Liming was about to spit out a mouthful of blood.
*Slap...* Lu Fan suddenly reached out and covered Lei Liming's mouth, forcing him to swallow the blood back down.
"I don't want you to die so quickly. We'll take it slow. I want you to experience a hundred ways to die!" A fierce light flashed in Lu Fan's eyes. Daring to scheme against his woman, killing him a hundred times wouldn't be enough.
"Xiao Fan..." The dagger in Liu Ruyan's hand clattered to the ground. As her spirit relaxed, her whole body went limp, and she had no strength left.
Lu Fan threw Lei Liming to the ground, rushed over to hold Liu Ruyan in his arms, and popped a pill into her mouth.
A moment later, Liu Ruyan slowly stood up from the ground. She walked step by step to Lei Liming's front and *thump...* kicked him in the groin.
"Ah..." A scream of agony erupted. Lei Liming, who was about to faint, woke up in pain and rolled on the ground.
"Xiao Fan..." Liu Ruyan threw herself into Lu Fan's arms and began to cry.
"It's alright now, Ruyan. Let's go!" Lu Fan gently patted Liu Ruyan's fragrant shoulder and said softly.
"Wait a moment!" Liu Ruyan suddenly emerged from Lu Fan's embrace and walked to the nearby coffee table to pick up her phone. The phone was actually recording.
"You were recording?" Lu Fan asked in surprise.
"I was afraid that if I died, you wouldn't understand and would go looking for my father's trouble.
In fact, it was all my second uncle's doing! He committed many wrongdoings himself, and the Lei family caught him. To curry favor with the Lei family, he insisted on marrying me off to the Lei family, to rely on the Lei family's power! To protect himself!" Liu Ruyan said.
"You were bullied within the family, what about your father? What about your clansmen?" Lu Fan was somewhat annoyed. This matter was too disgraceful. The Liu family, as rumored, was so powerful, but they were actually bullied by outsiders in their own home.
"My father was sent away by my second uncle on the pretext of official business. My grandfather believed the words of Boss Ma from the Divine Calculation Sect and pretended not to know anything. Alas! Xiao Fan! Fortunately, you came in time. If you had been any later, you would only have been collecting my corpse. *Wuwu...*" Liu Ruyan sobbed on Lu Fan's shoulder.
In the Liu family's small reception room, Old Master Liu Qiannian had a look of shame on his face. After listening to Liu Ruyan's recording, he realized that he had been tricked by Boss Ma and the Lei family and had almost become their tool.
The second son, Liu Lanfeng, knelt on the ground, weeping profusely, looking as if he regretted his actions.
"Second brother! You... you're a high-ranking official, how could you do such a thing!" Liu Chifeng glared at his second brother kneeling on the ground, furious. But he couldn't hit or scold him, so he could only pace around!
His beloved daughter had almost been ruined in such a way, how could he not be angry? But with the Old Master present, he dared not do anything.
"Big brother! I know I did wrong, but I did it to protect the Liu family! If my affairs were exposed by the Lei family, not only I, but our entire Liu family would be implicated! The status we worked decades to build would be completely ruined!" Liu Lanfeng said with a sense of justification.
"You still have the nerve to talk about what you did! You... tell me, who did you do those things for?" Liu Chifeng roared. Liu Lanfeng was corrupt to the core and acted as a protector for others. He became rich through illicit gains, but it was a disaster for the Liu family! Once discovered, everyone would be implicated. Even if they weren't directly implicated, the Liu family's future would be completely gone.
"Did I do wrong? Without what I did, would the Liu family be where it is today? Hmph! At this point, you're blaming me! Without me, do you think you could have held your official position so steadily?" Liu Lanfeng said dismissively.
"Stop arguing! Think about how to resolve this. What's the use of arguing?" Old Master Liu Qiannian shouted, banging the table in anger.
"Hmph! It's easy to resolve this matter. Whoever did it should take responsibility! And you should go and confess before others expose the matter!" Lu Fan said contemptuously from the side.
Lu Fan had intended to deal with this so-called second uncle in his own way, but Liu Ruyan wouldn't allow it. She said she wanted to give the Old Master some face! Hmph! What face? The Old Master was senile!
*Swish...* Liu Qiannian and Liu Chifeng's eyes lit up simultaneously. To preserve the Liu family's status, someone had to take the fall! Then... whoever did it had to bear the consequences!
"What? Old Master, you can't do this! I did it for the Liu family, for all of us... You can't push me out..." Liu Lanfeng cried out immediately. He knew best what he had done. How serious was it, how could he not know?
...
The next day, a major news headline broke. A big tiger had fallen. The entire provincial capital was instantly in an uproar.
"Xiao Fan! What's going on with the Liu family?" Yan Menghan immediately called Lu Fan upon hearing the news. He knew that the Liu family was Liu Ruyan's family. He had to remind his brother Lu Fan about this matter.
"Brother Yan! The Divine Calculation Sect colluded with the Lei family..." Lu Fan briefly explained the whole incident.
"The Divine Calculation Sect again! The Ma family! Lu Fan, come to the capital. We need to discuss how to deal with the Ma family!" Yan Menghan said after a moment of thought.