The Peerless Beauty Stuck With Me

Chapter 1747 - 1746: Wronged

"Were you just joking earlier?"Duo Lei and the Eldest Son of the Yan Family exchanged glances, doubting each other, only to find neither was at fault. But what did it matter if neither had betrayed the other? Their trust was completely shattered, and though they might pretend to cooperate happily in the future, there would always be a rift between them.

"Of course, I was joking. I'm not the least bit interested in a guy with squinty eyes and an extremely ugly face, let alone having anything to do with him. But I just tested you, and found out that your friendship is as flimsy as plastic flowers, gone with a puff of wind. Honestly, that feeling is refreshingly satisfying."

Tang Rao, who feared nothing more than a world at peace, knew full well they were already quite unhappy. Yet he continued to fan the flames, determined to destroy the little remaining plastic friendship between them.

"Tang Rao, what exactly do you want?"

The Eldest Son of the Yan Family could no longer tolerate Tang Rao's unpredictable nature. Tang Rao's meddling made him feel constantly insecure.

"Shouldn't I be asking you what you want? After all, you poisoned my Kao Shan Sect and disrupted the camaraderie between me and those around me. I haven't even come to trouble you about it, yet you're the one feeling wronged?"

Among everyone here, Tang Rao was the one most aggrieved.

"Boss Yan, think about it. I'm the one you're using as a target, letting you hit me right on mark. After one shot, if I don't come back at you, and you aim for a second, I start to feel uncomfortable. If I don't talk to you, I fear the anger within me might explode and hurt your neighbor!"

Hurt the neighbor, meaning Duo Lei, of course?

Duo Lei couldn't help but grab at something. That fear rising from the depths of his heart was a feeling only he truly understood.

"This has nothing to do with me. I don't even know what's going on. I won't take the blame for this."

Previously, Duo Lei took in the Eldest Son of the Yan Family for Tang Rao's money. Now, he was selling him out to save his own life. Between money and survival, of course, survival is more important!

"Duo Lei, you...!"

The Yan Family's Eldest Son only had Duo Lei as an ally. If even this sole ally planned to abandon him, it showed how utterly despairing the reality of this world was to him.

"Hahaha, Tang Rao, I indeed want to kill you. I vowed to kill your entire family before killing you, letting your family die one by one in front of you. After that, I'll personally send you down the Huangquan Road. So what? That is your deserved punishment. If not for you, I wouldn't have fallen to this state. Do you know, the Yan Family I was supposed to inherit is gone, removed from the entire East Island? I have nothing left. This is all because of you. You deserve to die. Your whole family deserves to die!"

In front of the Yan Family's Eldest Son, there were only Duo Lei and Tang Rao. Normally, he wouldn't flinch even slightly, but seeing Tang Rao felt like seeing his own executioner.

The fear emanating from his core was something he couldn't hide.

"You know better than I do how the Yan Family fell. Blaming me now is a bit unfair, isn't it?"

It was the Yan Family that had offended so many people before. Tang Rao was merely a trigger. The main reason didn't lie with Tang Rao.

"If it weren't for you, my family wouldn't be in this position. It's all because of you!"

Overwhelmed by hatred, the Yan Family's Eldest Son couldn't see reason now, and arguing with Tang Rao was pointless.

"Fine, let's say it's all my fault. So, do you intend to avoid our grievances like last time, or do you want to settle it with me once and for all?"

Tang Rao's mention of "avoidance" left the Yan Family's Eldest Son in a poor emotional state. Some words are harsh when spoken, and calling him out for avoidance was a direct slap to his face.

"So your name is Duo Lei, right? Do you want to be tied to him, or stand aside and wait for us to settle our grudges so we can repair our already sparse friendship?"

The former or the latter?

Duo Lei didn't hesitate at all to choose the latter.

"This is a matter between you two. I'm really sorry I inadvertently took him in. I didn't know who he truly was at first. I'll just step aside, and whatever you two need to sort out, be my guest."

Duo Lei stepped back, and Tang Rao appreciated and acknowledged someone as insightful as him.

"Duo Lei, you!"

Who was the one planning with him to trap Tang Rao? The one who spoke with ambition before, and now at the critical moment, turned traitor first – it was Duo Lei himself.

"Yeah, it's me. I'm just that kind of person. Duo Lei made his name through crooked deals. People in our line of work don't target anyone specifically. Unlike you, who've got deep-seated conflicts with Tang Rao that won't just vanish."

Duo Lei, a clear-sighted man, was a typical businessperson who could distinguish between business and grudges. Faced with irreconcilable enmities, he'd rather terminate a business deal.

"Fine, now I've seen right through you, Duo Lei. To think you're that kind of person, fine, fine, fine!"

The last reliance beside the Yan Family's Eldest Son had betrayed him. Now, he had nothing left to cling to.

In his hands, he tightly gripped a pair of forks, and Tang Rao thought that the Yan Family's Eldest Son could do much more, but perhaps not.

Aside from having the Instant Transfer Talisman, Tang Rao indeed overestimated him slightly.

"You've got late-stage divine power, and you're still using a pair of trashy forks as divine artifacts? Is your Yan Family out of money, or did they never value you enough to give you anything decent?"

The Yan Family had always favored the second son with resources, and what Tang Rao said offhandedly became a fatal blow to the Yan Family's Eldest Son.

"Shut up! My Yan Family's business isn't for you to comment on!"

In a fit of rage, the Yan Family's Eldest Son thrust his double forks toward Tang Rao. As for the first strike, Tang Rao easily dodged it. "I told you those things are trashy, and you still didn't believe it."

"Tang Rao, don't push people too far!"

With clenched teeth, the Yan Family's Eldest Son gripped his double forks tightly.

"Yes, I'm pushing you too far. I want to ridiculed you as incompetent. If you want to prove otherwise, get yourself a decent divine artifact to show me."

Tang Rao's attempt at provocation seemed to have no effect on the Yan Family's Eldest Son whatsoever. He simply listened, letting it go in one ear and out the other.

"See? I told you you're incompetent. And to think you're a late-stage divine being. How about I just let you go and not push you too far, what do you think?"