Some of the men present came from powerful circles in the city, but none of them had ever encountered Li Hanchen before. However, they found his aura deeply imposing.
Why did they not know about a man like him showing up in the city?
“I’m warning you. Don’t do anything you will regret.” Wang Tie covered his head as it bled and looked at Li Hanchen in shock. “Do you know who we are? Are you Mu Sheng’s boyfriend? Aren’t you worried I will destroy Mu Sheng’s career?”
The moment Wang Tie spoke, Li Hanchen noticed that Wang Tie had undone his belt and had already taken off his pants halfway. Utter coldness emerged in Li Hanchen’s eyes.
Qin Kai could sense Li Hanchen’s cold aura as he stood beside him. Qin Kai had worked for Li Hanchen for years, but he had never seen him so angry. Despite Qin Kai’s exceptional composure, he could not help retreating from the intense aura radiating from Li Hanchen.
Li Hanchen promptly said, “Shut the door.”
“Yes, Mr. Li.” Qin Kai nodded reverently before turning to shut the door. He even sealed the gaps in the door with tape to ensure it was properly soundproofed.
“Hey! Why are you closing the doors?” Before Wang Tie could finish his sentence, Li Hanchen had already kicked him away and smashed his head with a hefty white wine bottle.
Li Hanchen had struck him much harder than Mu Sheng.
He could sense that the man in black went all out and had every intention of killing him.
Wang Tie and the other men in the room were terrified. They hurriedly knelt and begged for forgiveness.
The other women in the room stood in the corner and trembled. They were blown away by Li Hanchen’s good looks but were even more shocked by his ruthlessness.
Those big shots always got what they wanted, but when they had to kneel and beg for mercy, they did not feel sorry for them. Instead, they were happy to see it.
A long time ago, they were deceived into seeing them for a part in their movies and threatened into drinking. After they drank the wine, they passed out.
By the time they regained consciousness, they had already become their playthings. Since they had to depend on them for their future, they could only submit.
The women glanced at each other when they saw how Li Hanchen wanted to slaughter those men. They felt envious.
Mu Sheng was a very lucky girl.
When they were offered to the men, they wished someone would stand up for them as well. If they had someone like Li Hanchen, they would never have ended up like this.
Qin Kai stepped forward when Wang Tie was about to get beaten to death. “Mr. Li, Young Madam is still waiting for you outside.”
The darkness in Li Hanchen’s eyes finally regained light before he flung the wine bottle to the ground.
Wang Tie and the others instinctively trembled when they heard the wine bottle rolling on the ground.
Li Hanchen turned to straighten his clothes before striding out, leaving Qin Kai to take care of the incident.
Tang Tiantian stood beside Mu Sheng outside in a daze and had yet to recover from the shock. “Sheng, I am so sorry.”
If Mu Sheng was not strong enough to handle the situation, any other woman would have succumbed to those men in there.
“It is not your fault,” said Mu Sheng coolly.
Tang Tiantian looked at the tightly shut doors. “I wonder what’s going on inside.”
She got a huge shock when she saw the coldness radiating from Mu Sheng’s boyfriend and felt he might genuinely kill those men.
The door suddenly opened just as Tang Tiantian was looking at it. Li Hanchen strode out with an imposing aura.
Tang Tiantian sensed a chill when she saw him and automatically shrank backward.
Li Hanchen looked at Mu Sheng. Since she had left her coat in the room and she was only dressed in a form-fitting sweater, her slender waist could be seen.
Mu Sheng sensed Li Hanchen looking at her waist, but she did not feel annoyed.
In comparison to the lewd stares coming from those men earlier, Li Hanchen was not the same. She could even sense his concern.
Li Hanchen unbuttoned his suit jacket as he walked over immediately and draped it over Mu Sheng’s shoulders.
Tang Tiantian opened her eyes wide when she witnessed the sight. The fear in her heart dissipated. It was so sweet of him to do that.
“Come on. Let’s go home.” Li Hanchen held Mu Sheng’s arm as they walked out, but they bumped into two people on their way out.
“Young Master Chu, are you unhappy with the food? I have hired two pretty girls to play some music for you. They will be here in five minutes.” Li Ming followed beside Chu Xuan as he attempted to convince Chu Xuan to stay.
Chu Xuan unexpectedly halted, so Li Ming stopped walking as well. He raised his head and saw Li Hanchen pulling Mu Sheng along.
Mu Sheng was not wearing a mask, so everyone turned to look at her breathtaking face.
Just by looking at her eyes earlier, Chu Xuan could already tell she was pretty. Now that he had finally seen her face without a mask, he knew he was right.
His eyes landed on Li Hanchen standing beside Mu Sheng. For some reason, he suddenly felt intimidated.
He had never felt threatened in a long time.
Li Hanchen also noticed Chu Xuan’s presence, but he simply took a glance before veering his eyes and walking off with Mu Sheng.
Li Ming kept staring at Mu Sheng. When he saw her walking out unscathed, he felt disappointed and, at the same time, a little relieved.
“Do you know them?” said Chu Xuan as he finally broke his silence.
Li Ming snapped out of his thoughts and waved his hand unnaturally. “Why would I know them? Of course, I don’t know them.”
Chu Xuan glanced at Li Ming before striding off.
Li Ming wanted to attempt to keep him. “Young Master Chu, those girls are already here.”
However, Chu Xuan did not respond. When he got to the door, he bumped into two elegant young women walking into the club dressed in cheongsams with their instruments.
Chu Xuan recalled the gorgeous woman in the corridor after glancing at them.
His lips curved into a smile.
This dinner was not an entire loss now that he had seen the beauty.
Li Hanchen pulled Mu Sheng straight out of the club with Tang Tiantian following behind them. Tang Tiantian touched her freezing arms and said, “Erm… I can get a car on my own. Don’t bother sending me back. See you.”
The moment Tang Tiantian finished her sentence, she turned to leave without waiting for a response from Mu Sheng and Li Hanchen.
After Tang Tiantian had gone some distance, she finally exhaled in relief. Mu Sheng’s boyfriend was undoubtedly gorgeous and manly, but his aura was simply too intimidating. She wondered what their typical interaction was.
Since Lanting Private Club was in a quiet location, there was no one around. Mu Sheng and Li Hanchen stood beside the car under the dim streetlamps.
“What are you doing here?” Mu Sheng raised her head slightly as she looked at Li Hanchen perplexedly. How did he know she was here?
The moment Mu Sheng asked, Li Hanchen recalled how she came here on her own and put herself in grave danger.
Anger rose in Li Hanchen’s eyes and even his voice sounded harsh. “Why didn’t you check first? How could you come on your own? What if something terrible happened to you?”
Mu Sheng opened her eyes wider. “I…”
Just as she was about to speak, Li Hanchen suddenly squatted down. Mu Sheng lowered her head in shock.
Her shoelaces had annoyingly come loose, and Li Hanchen was patiently doing them for her.
In Mu Sheng’s impression, Li Hanchen always seemed like an important man and would never lower himself to anyone.
However, Li Hanchen was half squatting on the ground and looked submissive as he helped to tie her shoelaces. An inexplicable emotion rose in Mu Sheng’s heart.
“I am sorry.” Li Hanchen had suppressed the fury in his heart while he was tying the shoelaces. He stood up and said, “I shouldn’t have spoken so harshly.”
Mu Sheng pursed her lips. “It’s okay.”
Li Hanchen was just worried and she could sense it keenly.
“Let’s go.” Li Hanchen opened the car door and gestured for Mu Sheng to get in.
The car quickly left Lanting Private Club’s parking lot.
All the employees standing at the entrance looked at each other.
Someone almost got beaten to death in one of their private rooms. Lanting Private Club had already called for an ambulance and even planned on reporting this to the police.
Now that someone had gotten beaten up on their territory, they had to get the police involved.
Even though those victims could barely speak, they struggled to tell them not to report the matter.
There was utter fear in their eyes when they were carried out of the club. It seemed as though their fate was hanging at a hair’s breadth over a cliff.
That fateful night, while the doctors were treating them, big news exploded in the entertainment industry.
News about the renowned director Wang Tie and his investors colluding to deceive actresses into sleeping with them for parts in his movies exploded overnight and flooded the internet.
The public went through every single crime they committed, and someone even pointed out over 100 girls were abused.
This shocking number instantly sent the public into a rage.
[Oh god! Over 100 girls? Are they even human? How could they do this because they have power in the industry? This is absolutely disgusting.]
[They used drugs and threatened those girls. This is simply shocking. They even did this to a 14-year-old actress. They are animals. This is insane! This is criminal! They must get punished!]
[I can’t believe it. Wang Tie recently appeared on an entertainment program and promoted the charity he had done in a poor mountain region. I really liked him for that. Now that this has happened, he is clearly a wolf in sheep’s clothing.]
Despite those men’s insistence not to involve the police, they quickly found out about this.
On the very same night, the police formed an investigation team to establish evidence of their crimes.
Three minutes after the team was officially formed, before they had even warmed their seats, someone left a big package at the police department entrance.
The police cautiously opened the package only to realize it was filled with a lot of information.
All the evidence of their crimes for the last two decades was in there. Even evidence of Wang Tie’s involvement in smuggling was included in the evidence.
The police checked the surveillance in an attempt to find out who provided the evidence, but all they could see was a homeless man placing the package at their doorstep. He simply said someone paid him $200 to do it.
The police finally gave up trying to find out who it was. They simply assumed that some helpful member of the public wanted to help apprehend these awful men.
The investigation team verified the evidence overnight and provided reports first thing in the morning and even came up with suggestions for how to handle those criminals.
Many members of the public sent banners and gifts to thank the police for doing such a good job at punishing those criminals swiftly.
The police department could only smile as they quietly accepted the gifts while they quietly saluted the kind soul who provided them with the evidence in their hearts.
Tang Tiantian had never encountered such a situation before. After she went back that night, she kept having nightmares in her sleep. When she woke up in the morning, her face was pale, and she felt furious.
“This is all Tian’s fault. What kind of director is this?”
Tang Tiantian pulled off the blanket. She had to extort Jiang Tian of a feast to help alleviate the trauma he had put her through from making her see those hooligans.
Tang Tiantian waited in the office all day but Jiang Tian did not show up. Even his phone was off, so he was completely uncontactable.
Tang Tiantian felt a little worried. This had happened in the past, but Jiang Tian always came back after a couple of days and refused to tell her what happened.
Tang Tiantian suppressed her worry and patiently waited for Jiang Tian to come back to work.
Meanwhile, at the villa…
Mu Sheng did not get any work for two days, so she spent those days having fun at home.
An argument had broken out at the national ski team while Mu Sheng was having fun at home.
“Mu Sheng has excellent skiing skills. Why isn’t she good enough to join us?”
The team captain, Wang Tian, frowned as he said, “How could you let her join us? She is too old. Also, she did not go through the usual recruitment process and get tested. How could you let some random person join us? Moreover, she is an artist. This is utterly embarrassing!”
Qin Lei looked angry when he heard what Wang Tian said. “How could you say that? If she goes through the recruitment process and takes the test, it will take two years before she can join us. By then, it would be too late.”
“It can’t be helped.” Wang Tian looked at Qin Lei with the look of a winner. “Thanks for going through all the trouble for trying to help the team.”
The moment Wang Tian spoke ambiguously, Qin Lei knew Wang Tian was simply trying to get in his way because of a personal grudge.
Qin Lei used to be team captain. Now that Wang Tian had taken over last year, he wanted to use his new power. Also, Wang Tian’s disciple was a rising star on the ski team. It was only natural that he did not want Qin Lei to steal the limelight using Mu Sheng.
Qin Lei could not bear the thought of wasting Mu Sheng’s talent, so he softened his attitude. “Captain Wang, she is really talented. Can’t you make an exception and take her in?”
Wang Tian smiled smugly when Qin Lei lowered himself to beg. “I can’t just let her join us. Why don’t you tell her to participate in WG and come back as champion? If she does, I guarantee she will get accepted.”
“That’s too much!” The moment Wang Tian brought up the competition, Qin Lei raised his head angrily. “No one in the country has ever won the competition before!”
