Chapter 117: I Killed Your Father For You
"Chu Yifeng, are you really going to commit such a monstrous betrayal? Do you even know that's your grandfather?" In the Chu Family courtyard, Chu Peiyu pointed toward Chu Yifeng, who had Chu Tianxiang in a chokehold not far away, and bellowed in rage.
"Chu Yifeng, what is wrong with you? Why are you doing something so monstrous and despicable? You sent people after Xiaoyan and me again and again. Last time, you nearly wiped out the entire Chu Family. And now you've brought all these people here and killed so many. Don't you realize the Chu Family is now the laughingstock of all Nanjiang City?" Chu Qianqian, standing behind Fan and the other members of Wolf Fang, yelled in fury.
"Monstrous and despicable? Really? This old bastard should have died long ago. Every single one of you from the Chu Family deserves to die. I'm just avenging my mother!" Dozens of people, each one an expert, stood behind Chu Yifeng. With one hand still gripping Chu Tianxiang's neck, Chu Yifeng turned and pointed a finger at the Chu Family members.
"Chu Peiyu. Yes, you are my father. But in front of all these people, do you dare say out loud who my mother was? You don't. Because you're nothing but a piece of trash. A cockroach that's only fit to live in the sewers!"
"Years ago, you went to a bar drinking, and you took a fancy to my mother. First, you used your status as the Second Young Master of the Chu Family to coerce her into submitting to you. Then, after you found out she was pregnant, you put on a false front and promised you'd let her move into the Chu estate and become the Second Young Mistress. But what happened?"
"After I was born, you and Chu Tianxiang looked down on my mother just because she was a bar hostess. You said she had disgraced the Chu Family's reputation. You refused to even let her through the gates, and on top of that, you snatched me away from her side!"
"Did you think I went all these years without knowing? What a joke! Your wife—the one Zhou Fan killed—told me herself when she was scolding me once. So I went to find my birth mother, but by then, she was already on the verge of death. Do you know what she told me as she was dying?"
"She told me not to be angry with you, not to hate you. That foolish woman... even on her deathbed, she was still thinking about you. But... are you even worthy?"
Tears streamed down Chu Yifeng's face as he spoke, his eyes filled with a resentment so deep it was as if he wanted to skin every Chu Family member here alive. "If it weren't for my mother's final words, and for the fact that you've treated me reasonably well all these years, you would have already died last time!"
For a moment, the courtyard fell utterly silent. You could have heard a pin drop.
Chu Qianqian stared in disbelief, her gaze shifting between Chu Peiyu and Chu Tianxiang. She wanted to say something but didn't know where to begin. After all, she wasn't truly a member of the Chu Family.
"Old bastard, if you knew it would come to this, would you still have refused to let my mother through the Chu Family's gates?" Chu Yifeng looked half-mad. He had the upper hand now—Fan and the Wolf Fang members were all injured, and Chu Tianxiang was his hostage. He slapped Chu Tianxiang across the face and demanded harshly.
"I would still refuse her. The reputation of the Chu Family will not be ruined by one woman!" Chu Tianxiang stood up straight, as if he hadn't felt the sting of the slap at all, his voice ringing with conviction.
"Damn it! You old bastard, you're courting death!" Chu Yifeng's fury finally boiled over. With a furious roar, he moved to strangle Chu Tianxiang right then and there.
SWISH!
But at that exact moment, with a sharp whistle of air, a dagger flew in from a distance. Before anyone even noticed, it buried itself right between Chu Peiyu's eyebrows.
Chu Peiyu couldn't believe it, even in death. He had been killed, just like that.
Fan and the others, instantly on high alert, whipped their heads toward the direction the dagger had flown from. Chu Yifeng and the men behind him also turned to look.
"The old villain Chu Peiyu is dead! Sister! Dad! Mom! Can you see this from the heavens? You can finally rest in peace!"
A figure appeared at the main gate of the Chu estate, where he dropped to his knees. He threw his head back to the heavens and cried out in anguish. Behind him stood Chu Wen and several others.
"Zhang Lei! You're still alive!" As Chu Yifeng stared at the man kneeling and crying on the ground, fire practically shot from his eyes, and he spoke through gritted teeth.
In Chu Yifeng's mind, Chu Peiyu could die, but only by his hand. No one else had the right. This, combined with the fact that Zhang Lei had used him in the past, piled new hatred on top of an old grudge.
"Chu Yifeng, long time no see. Don't worry, you don't have to thank me—even though I did kill your father for you." Zhang Lei gave a disdainful sneer as he slowly rose to his feet.
"Kill him! Kill him for me!" Chu Yifeng roared, pointing at Zhang Lei and commanding the men behind him.
On the other side of the courtyard, Fan's gaze was locked on the few people standing behind Chu Wen and Zhang Lei. He had seen them before. In fact, he knew two of them quite well.
The twins, Li Xing and Li Yue, were standing right there among them.