Chapter 415 - 405: Demon!
"Who... who the hell are you? What... what the hell do you want?" Du Zhengxu screeched hysterically, his phone crashing to the ground as he raised a trembling finger to point at Qin Fan.
Seeing the phone slip from her husband’s hand, the middle-aged woman cried out in alarm, "Zhengxu, what’s wrong? What happened?"
"I can’t get through! I can’t reach anyone!" Du Zhengxu screamed frantically. "They’re not answering, their phones are unreachable, or they’re turned off! They must have received a secret order! Damn it! God damn them all!"
"I’ll call the station! I’ll call the station!" the woman cried, fumbling for her phone.
"It’s useless! Don’t bother calling!" Du Zhengxu bellowed. He then turned to glare at Qin Fan’s mocking smile and screamed again, "Tell me who you are! What the hell do you want? What!"
"Didn’t I tell you? I’m the Du Family’s nightmare," Qin Fan grinned. "As for what I want... you’ll find out soon enough."
He leisurely took his phone out of his pocket, but before he could dial, the middle-aged woman shrieked, grabbing a chair and lunging at him. "You little bastard, I’ll kill you!"
"Get lost!" Qin Fan snarled. Without even looking, he lifted his foot and kicked the lunging woman.
BANG!
With a sickening thud, the woman’s features twisted in agony. The force of the kick sent her flying off her feet, hurtling toward the reinforced floor-to-ceiling window.
CRACK!
SHATTER!
The reinforced window exploded outward under the impact.
Watching the woman’s body smash through the window and disappear, Du Zhengxu and Du Tianyu clutched their heads and let out piercing, hysterical screams.
"NO!"
"NO!"
"NO!"
From the twenty-ninth floor, there was no doubt what the result of such a fall would be. Their screams could not stop what was already happening. For a moment, the woman’s final, pitiful scream echoed from the abyss outside, cut short by a sickening splat from the ground far below. A spray of red and white painted the pavement.
「In the hospital room.」
Completely indifferent, Qin Fan dialed Chang Yuanyi’s number.
"Master Qin, what’s up?" Chang Yuanyi’s cheerful voice came through the line.
"Do you know where the Du Family’s private hospital in Shanghai is?" Qin Fan asked, getting straight to the point.
"I do! What’s going on?" Chang Yuanyi replied, confused.
"Good. Get some men over to their hospital’s top floor. I’m there now," Qin Fan ordered.
"Get some men? Master Qin, what’s happened? How many do you need? Just give the word! My main base is in Jinling, but I still have connections in Shanghai!" Chang Yuanyi said eagerly.
"Have your men gang-rape Du Tianyu. As for how many, you decide. The only rule is that she stays alive," Qin Fan said with a malicious smirk.
On the other end of the line, Chang Yuanyi’s mind went blank, filled with a deafening buzz. "Master Qin, are you... are you serious? Or is this a joke? This... this is...!"
Chang Yuanyi might have been a scoundrel, but even he had lines he wouldn’t cross. If he did something like this, the old master back home would probably break all his limbs.
"I’m not in the mood for jokes. I’m giving you ten minutes to get your people here." With that, Qin Fan forcefully ended the call.
「On the other end of the line, in Jinling.」
Chang Yuanyi, who had been playing chess with his grandfather, froze completely. His father, watching the game from the side, frowned deeply. "What is it?"
After a moment’s hesitation, Chang Yuanyi chose his words carefully. "Dad, Grandfather... Qin Fan has asked me to do something... utterly depraved. I... how should I handle this?"
"A general’s glory is built on ten thousand corpses. The path to power is never clean," Grandfather Chang said, setting down his chess piece. He looked at his grandson solemnly. "If he weren’t Qin Fan, I would never say this to you. But he *is* Qin Fan, and you want to rise through the ranks. Yuan Yi, do you really think you have a choice?"
Chang Yuanyi stared, incredulous. "Grandfather, you approve?"
"Don’t waste any more time," Grandfather Chang replied, placing his final piece on the board before standing and walking out of the study.
Chang Yuanyi’s gaze shifted from his grandfather’s retreating back to his father. "Dad..."
"Listen to your grandfather," his father said, then he also rose and left.
In an instant, Chang Yuanyi was alone in the book-scented study. From beginning to end, neither his father nor his grandfather had asked what the "utterly depraved" act was. With their blessing, what did Young Master Chang have left to worry about? Nothing at all. He immediately picked up his phone and dialed a number with a Shanghai area code.
The moment the call connected, he barked, "Get your men together! Go to the top floor of Du Zhengxu’s private hospital, find Du Tianyu, and gang-rape her! This is an order from my boss, Master Qin. Move now!"
"What? Young Master Chang, you can’t be serious!"
"Am I in the mood to joke with you? You have eight minutes. Eight minutes!"
Parroting Qin Fan’s domineering tone, Chang Yuanyi hung up without waiting for a reply.
「Back in the hospital room.」
Qin Fan’s kick had sent his wife, Shulan, flying to her death. His phone call had sealed his daughter’s fate. For Du Zhengxu, who had clawed his way up from a penniless country boy to a renowned business tycoon in Shanghai, it was all too much. His mind snapped. "You’re a demon! A demon!" he raved.
"That’s right. I told you I was the Du Family’s demon," Qin Fan said with a jeering laugh. "And this is only the beginning." He then began to walk slowly toward Du Tiancong.
As the demonic face loomed larger and larger in his vision, Du Tiancong shrieked in terror, "Stay back! Don’t come near me! Get away! Get away!"
"Don’t hurt Cong! Don’t you hurt him! I’m begging you, please!" Du Zhengxu, now completely unhinged, lunged at Qin Fan.
But before he could even get close, Qin Fan flicked his wrist. The Hemp Vine Whip materialized in his hand and lashed out without him so much as a glance.
CRACK!
The whip struck Du Zhengxu’s shoulder with the sickening crunch of shattering bone.
"ARGHHH!"
The agony was immense. Du Zhengxu collapsed to his knees, his shoulder destroyed, letting out a gut-wrenching howl that shook the entire room.
Ignoring the kneeling father, Qin Fan grabbed Du Tiancong and hauled him from the bed. The boy began to thrash, his voice raw with terror. "Let me go! Get away! Get away from me!" His entire body was wracked with violent tremors.
A demon...
Reflected in his terrified eyes, he saw a demon smiling.
Looking down at the boy, who was completely consumed by fear, Qin Fan asked with a wicked grin, "Young Master Du, do you know what the most miserable fate in the world is?"