Chapter 38 : Directly Calling the Liu Family Head to Terminate the Engagement (Full Chapter)
The sour aroma of red wine drifted through the air. As expected of a bottle Tang Jianren had treasured for years—it was the second most expensive wine in his collection!
The grape fragrance was rich and intense.
"Ruyin!!"
The Tang family members were all startled by Tang Qingmo's act of splashing wine. Tang Xianxi rushed over to Liu Ruyin's side, checking on her anxiously.
"Tang Qingmo!! How dare you! How dare you treat me like this!?"
But Liu Ruyin no longer had the presence of mind to care about Tang Xianxi. Tang Qingmo's actions had enraged her to the extreme. Red wine dripped from her face and hair, twisting her expression into something terrifyingly grotesque!
Tang Ruoling, standing to the side, was also frightened by the scene before her.
She suddenly remembered that when she had taken Tang Qingmo to the hospital last night, she had been splashed too!
But thinking about it again—
Tang Qingmo had splashed water, not wine, on her yesterday…
By that logic, her status was actually higher than Liu Ruyin's!
Tang Qingmo looked at Liu Ruyin, who resembled a vengeful ghost, and merely sneered.
"I saw Miss Liu daydreaming in broad daylight, so I kindly splashed you awake."
"What did you say!?"
Ignoring her completely, he pulled out his phone and dialed a number.
...
"Is this the Liu family head?"
"!?"
Liu Ruyin was stunned.
Was Tang Qingmo calling her father!?
But how did he even have her father's phone number!?
Naturally, the system had provided it. After the call connected, Tang Qingmo switched to speaker mode at maximum volume so everyone present could clearly hear the voice from the phone.
"Who is this?"
A middle-aged man's voice came through the speaker—Liu Ruyin instantly recognized it as her father's!
"Tang Qingmo. We met once before—your former future son-in-law," Tang Qingmo replied with a cold smile.
"Qingmo?"
The man's voice was filled with confusion, clearly not expecting such a call.
After the original owner of this body had been brought back into the Tang family, he had met the Liu family head once.
At the time, seeing how timid and meek the original Tang Qingmo was, the Liu family head had looked down on him somewhat. However, since he carried Tang blood, marrying into the true Tang family would allow the Liu family to form a powerful alliance and solidify their standing in Modu (Demon City).
Thus, he had instructed Liu Ruyin to give up on Tang Xianxi and instead develop a relationship with Tang Qingmo.
But how could the rebellious Liu Ruyin possibly obey!?
"Qingmo… how did you get my phone number? And what is this about?"
Knowing the caller was his future son-in-law, the Liu family head maintained a courteous tone despite his inner disdain.
"I have plenty of ways to obtain your number, Liu family head. I'm calling today to inform you of something important."
Tang Qingmo spoke lightly, but his gaze toward Liu Ruyin was icy cold, sending a surge of dread through her heart.
"Something important?"
Without wasting words, Tang Qingmo went straight to the point.
"Yes. I'm calling to inform you that I'm terminating the engagement with your daughter."
"!!?"
"!!?"
Liu Ruyin was instantly shocked, and the Liu family head on the other end of the line fell into stunned silence as well.
Neither of them could have imagined that Tang Qingmo—who for the past three months had indulged Liu Ruyin in everything, working tirelessly without complaint—would take the initiative to cancel the engagement!
"Q-Qingmo… what's going on? Haven't you and Ruyin been getting along well lately? Why suddenly break off the engagement?" the Liu family head asked hurriedly.
"I get along well with Miss Liu?" Tang Qingmo laughed mockingly.
"It seems, Liu family head, that you don't care in the slightest about what happens between your daughter and your future son-in-law."
"Anyone paying even minimal attention would know how your daughter humiliates her fiancé. Just now, she even sent two martial artists to 'teach me a lesson.'"
"What!?"
The Liu family head knew exactly who those two martial artists were—weren't they the bodyguards he had personally assigned to Liu Ruyin!?
How could Ruyin order them to deal with Tang Qingmo!?
"Qingmo, there must be some misunderstanding here!" the Liu family head immediately said.
"There's no misunderstanding. You can ask them yourself."
Tang Qingmo walked over to the two black-clad men who had been scorched unconscious by lightning and kicked one of them hard in the stomach.
"Get up."
"Ugh—!!"
One of the men woke up in pain but immediately pretended to faint again.
Are you kidding!?
Waking up now—was he asking to be beaten to death by Tang Qingmo!?
But the next second, the familiar crackling bzzt sounded above him.
"If you don't wake up, I don't mind giving you another round of electrotherapy."
As he spoke, Tang Qingmo raised his palm, yellow lightning flashing violently within it.
The bzzt bzzt sounds continued to echo…
"A-Ah! I'm awake!"
The black-clad man jumped up instantly and even shook his companion awake.
However, the other man's kneecap had been shattered, so he could only remain sprawled on the ground!
"Good. Then please help me explain to the Liu family head how your young miss ordered you to properly 'educate' me~"
Tang Qingmo handed the phone directly to the two men.
They immediately glanced awkwardly at Liu Ruyin, only to see her glaring at them furiously, her entire body trembling with rage.
!?
If they told the truth, would the short-tempered young miss beat them later!?
But—
They looked back at Tang Qingmo.
He was smiling brilliantly, and the lightning in his palm suddenly surged larger—
BOOM—!!
A deafening thunderclap exploded!
"EEK!!"
If Liu Ruyin beat them, they might be bedridden for two days at most—but Tang Qingmo would literally take their lives!!
"Family Head, the young miss ordered us to teach Young Master Qingmo a lesson because Young Master Xianxi was bullied last night!"
"She said Young Master Qingmo was nothing but filth on the ground, completely unworthy to be compared to Young Master Xianxi! She even told us to break one of his arms so that a toad like him would stop dreaming of eating swan meat!"
"She said Young Master Qingmo had no right to steal Young Master Xianxi's things, that the person she loves is Young Master Xianxi, and that she would never look at Young Master Qingmo!"
The two black-clad men revealed everything Liu Ruyin had said to them, without hiding a single word.
With every sentence spoken, Liu Ruyin's face turned another shade paler…