47: Chapter 48 I, Liu Ruyan, am as worthless as grass! What are you afraid of if I'm insane?

"Hmph! Xiao Shanhe, who do you think you are? Get lost!" Chairman Liu Zongnan scolded domineeringly.

"Don't kneel there, you're interfering with our family business." Vice Chairman Liu Zongkui sneered sinisterly.

"Xiao Shanhe, who are these people you called here?"

Xiao Shanhe was stunned for a long moment, then immediately replied, "Liu... Vice Chairman Liu, some of them are extras I hired with money..."

"Most of them are thugs and hooligans roaming the streets of Jiangzhou! They're all local ruffians and gangsters!"

Vice Chairman Liu Zongkui said "Oh," "That's easy to handle!"

"Go tell those gangsters, whoever kills Ye Yun or Liu Ruyan with their own hands today, I'll reward them with 5 million!"

Xiao Shanhe's eyes lit up, his pupils dilating. "Yes, Vice Chairman Liu!"

Immediately, he scrambled to his feet and walked toward the group of fierce gangsters.

In fact, given Vice Chairman Liu Zongkui's cunning and scheming nature, heavy rewards would surely attract brave men.

If this chaos provided an opportunity for these gangsters to actually kill Ye Yun and Liu Ruyan, it would be much more cost-effective than hiring assassins on the dark web.

It would even be more cost-effective than his secret weapon—the Wolf-Destroyer Death Soldiers—which he had spent so much effort training.

After all, the cost of hiring the witchcraft shaman Miao Jiuli from the lands of Raojiang with heavy gold, adopting that batch of special orphans, and having Miao Jiuli train them into Wolf-Destroyer Death Soldiers through hellish, demonic witchcraft was not cheap.

"Liu Ruyan, you wicked beast, what kind of madness are you acting out again?" Chairman Liu Zongnan walked straight up, furious.

He put on the airs of the Chairman of the Liu Family, and as Liu Ruyan's biological father, he claimed to have the standing to reprimand her.

"Hehe!" Liu Ruyan sneered with a bone-chilling coldness.

That sorrowful, crazed smile was like a spider lily from the deepest, darkest depths leading to the underworld.

The spider lily, also known as Manjusaka in Sanskrit, is a flower that blooms in the underworld. It blooms on the other shore—the shore of life. The language of the flower is "sad memories." Legend has it that this flower is a guiding flower that can evoke memories of the deceased's life.

Buddhist scriptures say: The spider lily blooms for a thousand years and withers for a thousand years, the flower and leaves never meeting. Feelings are not caused by karma, and fate determines life and death.

"Who are you? What right do you have to shout here? Why are you barking?"

"Whatever madness I, Liu Ruyan, am acting out, it's none of your damn business!"

Chairman Liu Zongnan glared at Liu Ruyan with sharp eyes. "Insolent!"

"I am your father!"

"What kind of attitude is this? Is this how a daughter speaks to her father?"

Liu Ruyan laughed miserably and crazily.

With desperate, hollow eyes, she glanced at Chairman Liu Zongnan, then at Ji Fengxia, Liu Feiqing, Liu Zifeng, and the rest of the Liu Zongkui family.

Her words were like thousand-year-old ice, enunciated word by word: "Father? Daughter?"

"To hell with your father! To hell with your daughter!"

"And you all..." Liu Ruyan pointed at Ji Fengxia, Liu Feiqing, and the others.

"Are you going to tell me, 'Oh, you are my real mother! You are my real sister, my real brother! You are my real uncle!'"

"Ugh! I feel sick just saying such titles!"

"Family? Hehe! Relatives? Hehe! To hell with your blood relations!"

"What? Have you all agreed to kill me together? What's the matter? Do you want me to carve out my flesh to return to my father and scrape my bones to return to my mother? Or do you want me to disembowel myself and scoop out my intestines?"

"Carving out flesh, disemboweling, scooping out intestines, scraping bones to show gratitude for the upbringing of parents. Unfortunately, you are not worthy!"

"Since I was young, in your eyes, there was only Liu Feiqing! Only Liu Zifeng!"

"What am I? Oh, Ji Fengxia, you were probably right, I was just a placenta you accidentally raised!"

"Hehe, you group of people, every time you open your mouths, it's like spewing diarrhea, talking about the reputation of the Liu Family, the dignity of the Liu Family..."

"Are you superior to others? Standing on the moral high ground, pretending to be a moral hypocrite!"

"I, Liu Ruyan, live as lowly as grass, and my life is as cheap as dust!"

"I cannot climb up to you noble aristocrats of society, so I voluntarily sever all ties."

"So, if you are sensible, please roll yourselves into a ball and get lost, quickly and roundly!"

Sharp! Cold! But it was like a needle, deeply piercing Ye Yun's heart!

Perhaps moved by Liu Ruyan's unfair treatment! Or perhaps, piecing together fragments of broken memories, he felt empathy for his own life experience! Or perhaps, he and Liu Ruyan were in the same situation, both discarded like worn-out shoes!

Once upon a time, he was regarded by the Ye Family as a cursed star. Since childhood, the treatment he and his twin brother, Ye Xun, received from the family was worlds apart!

Ye Xun enjoyed the comfortable and affluent life of a true young master. He was held in the palm of their hands for fear of falling, kept in their mouths for fear of melting... He could summon the wind and rain, getting whatever he wanted.

And Ye Yun? Hehe! He ate worse than the family pet dog!

When he joined the army, he originally thought that by risking his life in battle, he could completely escape and flee that cold family. But in the end... When he was conferred the title of General Zhenbei by the War Department and promoted to Marquis of the North... he was framed, and all his honors were given to his brother, Ye Xun!

Because in the eyes of the Ye Family... Ye Xun was the only heaven-sent prodigy!

Ye Yun listened to Liu Ruyan's cold and desperate questioning of Chairman Liu Zongnan and the others. His heart broke! His heart ached!

Perhaps, for Liu Ruyan, she had long since stopped hoping to repair her relationship with her family!

Chairman Liu Zongnan's facial muscles twitched, twisting into a hideous and ferocious expression. Vice Chairman Liu Zongkui also stepped forward, scolding angrily:

"Sure enough, a bitch is a bitch, heartless and cold-blooded!"

"If it weren't for the Liu Family, what would you, Liu Ruyan, be?"

"You keep shouting about severing ties, fine! If you really have the ability, hand over Fanya International and get out of the Liu Family!"

Liu Ruyan laughed even more coldly and arrogantly.

"Hahaha, Vice Chairman Liu Zongkui! You are just a bastard who eats people without spitting out the bones! An old schemer!"

"Fanya International was given to me by Grandfather. It was on the verge of bankruptcy, and I personally revived it. It is the hard work into which I poured my youth and time!"

"Why the hell should I hand it over to you? Is there no brain matter in your head, just a tumor?"

"Don't forget, back then, I just graduated from university and came to Jiangzhou alone. You used so-called 'tests' and various secret tricks to trip me up, wishing you could crush me to death."

"I relied on my ability and skills to revive Fanya International and make it big and strong. If your eyes are green with envy, go see an ophthalmologist!"

"Don't come here and embarrass yourselves!"

"We are all living our first lives, I, Liu Ruyan, do not think that just because you claim to be my relatives, I will indulge you!"

Vice Chairman Liu Zongkui pointed at Liu Ruyan and said indignantly to Chairman Liu Zongnan, "Big Brother! You saw it, right? You heard it, right?"

"What... what kind of thing is this? A rebellious daughter!"

"Leaving such a promiscuous, slutty woman who sleeps with thousands and crawls with thousands in the Liu Family will sooner or later be a disaster!"

"She will completely ruin the entire family. In my opinion, don't hesitate. She must be executed! If the scourge is not removed, the family will not prosper!"

Chairman Liu Zongnan said gloomily, "Second Brother, I have long since considered this wicked beast dead!"

"Do whatever you want, go ahead!"

A murderous chill flashed across Vice Chairman Liu Zongkui's face. He laughed sinisterly twice, waved his hand, and shouted to Xiao Shanhe,

"Xiao Shanhe, your chance for revenge has come!"

"As long as you can kill Liu Ruyan, and anyone who tries to help Liu Ruyan, it has nothing to do with our Liu Family!"

"Our Liu Family will never hold you accountable!"

"Do it!"

The fire of hatred burned in Xiao Shanhe. He had already agreed with those gangsters: whoever killed Ye Yun or Liu Ruyan could get 5 million! Under heavy rewards, there are bound to be fools!

Therefore, Xiao Shanhe roared, "Brothers, kill Ye Yun, kill Liu Ruyan! 5 million is ours!"

"Charge, kill!"

In an instant, that gang of local ruffians and gangsters "swished" and drew half-meter-long machetes... and various weapons like baseball bats, charging toward Liu Ruyan...