Chapter 85: Bet Against Me, and You Are Certain to Lose

Yu Fanwei ground his teeth in fury, straining to wrench Chen Yang’s hand away while glaring and snarling, “Let go of me. Let go.”

Smack!

Without another word, Chen Yang landed a vicious slap across Yu Fanwei’s right cheek and went on, “Say ‘Master Chen.’”

That single blow stunned everyone in the private room.

Arrogant.

He was simply too arrogant.

Chen Yang had actually dared to strike Yu Fanwei. That was arrogance beyond measure.

Yu Fanwei’s eyes widened from the slap, his gaze turning ferocious as if he wanted to devour someone alive. “You bastard, I’ll kill you!”

Smack!

Yu Fanwei had no power to fight back in front of Chen Yang. No sooner had he spoken than Chen Yang slapped him again.

This time, fear began to creep into Yu Fanwei’s heart.

Chen Yang looked at him coldly and said, “From this moment on, if you don’t call me Master Chen, I’ll keep slapping you until you do.”

“Master Chen, Master Chen!” Yu Fanwei cried out hastily.

He was truly frightened now.

More than that, he no longer wanted to lower himself to Chen Yang’s level. Since the wise man avoids immediate loss, then fine—he would say it.

Chen Yang narrowed his eyes, a satisfied smile spreading quickly across his face. “Very good. Good boy.”

With that, he shoved Yu Fanwei aside and warned in a frosty tone, “I know your Yu family will come for revenge. Fine. If you want to play with me, I’ll play with you to the end. I’m only afraid that in the end, it’ll be you who can’t afford to keep playing.”

After speaking, Chen Yang turned to the troubled-looking Shen Donghua and smiled faintly. “Mr. Shen, let’s go.”

Shen Donghua hurriedly nodded. “Oh, all right, all right.”

Chen Yang strode toward the private room door, leaving Yu Fanwei and his men staring after him with strange expressions.

Shen Donghua quickly followed. Once they had left Bamboo Garden, he immediately said to Chen Yang, “Mr. Chen, this may not be appropriate. Really, this may not be appropriate.”

Chen Yang glanced at him and asked calmly, “What’s inappropriate about it?”

Shen Donghua sighed. “Mr. Chen, now that you’ve offended Yu Fanwei, won’t the Yu family find every possible way to make trouble for us? The North Suburb New City project is bound to be affected. In business, sometimes one step back opens a vast sky. If the ones who provoked you this time had been the Southern Alliance of Commerce, I’d say your handling of it was absolutely fine.”

“But unfortunately, this time it was the eldest young master of the Yu family. So I feel your approach was a little too improper.”

“So what you’re saying is that you’re worried the Yu family will take revenge?” Chen Yang asked lightly.

Shen Donghua frowned. “Wouldn’t they? Of course they’ll take revenge, won’t they?”

“So you’re very afraid of the Yu family’s revenge?” Chen Yang asked again.

Shen Donghua looked at him. Seeing how composed Chen Yang remained, then thinking of himself and the panicked look on his own face, he suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

So he quickly glanced at Chen Yang once more, then lowered his head and said, “Mr. Chen, do you think my concerns are a little too much like needless anxiety?”

“Not needless anxiety exactly. It’s a normal concern. But it doesn’t matter—I have it under control.” Chen Yang smiled at him.

Since Chen Yang had said as much, if Shen Donghua still wore a complaining expression, he would only become a laughingstock.

With that thought, Shen Donghua said no more. He silently calculated that, at any rate, everything still had Mr. Chen behind it. He only needed to keep his head down and do the work.

Chen Yang and Shen Donghua returned to Huaqing Company.

As for the matter of Yu Fanwei being beaten, it naturally spread like wildfire into the ears of the Yu family.

Once the Yu family heard about it, each and every one of them flew into a rage.

In a little place like Linhai City, someone had actually emerged who dared to strike the Yu family’s young master. It was simply outrageous.

The Yu family unanimously decided that they had to retaliate, and retaliate properly.

As for Chen Yang, he left work at six o’clock as usual.

When he got home, he saw Qin Muxue and Su Xiaoling sitting on the sofa, speaking in hushed voices about something.

But the moment Qin Muxue looked up and saw him return, a smile blossomed on her face. “Chen Yang, you’re back?”

“Yes,” Chen Yang said with a chuckle. At the same time, he thought to himself, My wife really is getting nicer and nicer to me.

Qin Muxue continued smiling. “Let me tell you some good news. Xiaoling’s piano training studio has opened, and these past couple of days she’s been recruiting students.”

“Is that so?”

Hearing this, Chen Yang immediately smiled at Su Xiaoling, whose face was bright with delight. “Congratulations, Cousin Xiaoling.”

Su Xiaoling rolled her eyes, seemingly dismissing his congratulations with disdain.

At that moment, Qin Muxue smiled again. “Chen Yang, do any of your coworkers have children who want to learn piano? Help Xiaoling introduce some students.”

“What? Is enrollment really such a problem?” Chen Yang asked.

Qin Muxue sighed. “How could it not be? Piano lessons are bound to be expensive. Ordinary families can’t afford them, while children from wealthy families will definitely prefer a larger training school. So Xiaoling’s position is a little awkward, isn’t it?”

“Is that so?” Chen Yang smiled again.

At the same time, he thought to himself that recruiting students was actually something he could handle. Such a small matter was nothing at all.

Just as Chen Yang was about to speak and help Su Xiaoling, Su Xiaoling suddenly cut in, “Sister Xue, why are you telling him all this?”

“Xiaoling, the main thing right now is to solve the enrollment problem. More people means more channels,” Qin Muxue persuaded her.

Su Xiaoling snorted in contempt. “What kind of students could he possibly find for me?”

“Uh...” Chen Yang didn’t take offense at her words, but he also wasn’t planning to hide anything anymore. He looked at her and said, “Uh... sorry, but I really can solve your enrollment problem. How many students can your studio take at full capacity?”

“Full capacity?”

When Qin Muxue and Su Xiaoling heard this, both of them looked surprised.

Full capacity?

Did Chen Yang mean he could actually fill Su Xiaoling’s studio?

Qin Muxue had some faith in him and quickly smiled at him. “Chen Yang, you can really fill Xiaoling’s studio?”

Chen Yang immediately said, “Of course. It just depends on whether certain girls are willing or not.”

Su Xiaoling knew at once that he was targeting her with that remark and promptly rolled her eyes. “Could you stop bragging?”

“From the look on your face, you don’t want me to help you find people, do you?” Chen Yang said with a faint smile.

Su Xiaoling stared straight at him. “Fine, then go find them. Let me see whether you can really fill my studio. I’m planning to enroll thirty students for now. Go on—find thirty students for me.”

Find thirty students? For Chen Yang, that was certainly no difficult task.

But with Su Xiaoling’s careless attitude, if he simply went out and found them just like that, it would be far too dull.

After thinking it over, Chen Yang came up with a rather good idea and laughed. “How about this: if I just go and find them without any stakes, it’ll be terribly boring. Why don’t we add a little wager?”

“A wager? What do you mean, you want to gamble with me?” Su Xiaoling asked.

“Don’t put it so unpleasantly. I can’t exactly help you for nothing. Let’s do this: if I find thirty students for you, you call me brother-in-law for a month. If I can’t find them, I owe you a month of dinner—you can ask me to treat you to dinner any night within that month, and you can eat whatever you want and spend whatever you want. How about it?” Chen Yang said with a smile.

Hearing this, a complicated look rose in Su Xiaoling’s eyes.

Calling Chen Yang brother-in-law for a month was not difficult in itself, but for her to get over that inner hurdle was still a bit hard.

Still, she and Chen Yang were already at loggerheads here. If she didn’t dare agree and backed down, wouldn’t that be too humiliating?

So Su Xiaoling stiffened her neck and said, “Fine, then bring it on. Who’s afraid of you?”

Chen Yang chuckled softly.

Then he looked at Qin Muxue and said, “Muxue, you have to be the witness. Don’t let her go back on her word later.”