Chapter 57: Kneel

Seeing that Lin Chen still had the heart to joke with Su Man, seven or eight burly men flew into a rage and charged at him, startling Su Man into a shriek.

Immediately following, a series of dull thuds echoed through the room. All the thugs collapsed to the floor, groaning and unable to stand up ever again.

Looking at Su Man, Lin Chen said with exasperation, "What are you screaming your head off for? I wasn't beaten to death by these guys, but I'm about to be scared to death by you!"

Su Man was left completely dumbfounded. She knew Lin Chen was An Xueyao's bodyguard and must have had some skills, but she never imagined he would be this ferocious, taking down a group of muscular men in mere seconds.

Hearing Lin Chen's complaining tone, Su Man smiled sheepishly. Then her expression shifted, and pointing toward the doorway, she cried, "Oh no, that bastard is trying to run!"

Hearing Su Man's warning, Li Qifeng, who had turned around and was attempting to bolt through the door, sped up his steps.

Before he could cross the threshold, however, Lin Chen picked up a wooden chair nearby. Pinpointing Li Qifeng's position entirely by the sound of his footsteps, Lin Chen hurled it fiercely.

Thud!

"Aah!"

With a miserable scream, Li Qifeng crashed to the floor.

Su Man walked over to Li Qifeng and slammed her foot mercilessly down onto his face!

Lin Chen muttered inwardly that this woman was quite vicious.

"Argh!" Li Qifeng let out another shriek, his nose completely crushed.

"You bastard, who do you think you are, trying to pull a fast one on me? Believe it or not, I'll throw you into the sea to feed the fish!" Su Man raged.

Stepping forward, Lin Chen looked down at Li Qifeng with a beaming smile and said, "What? Weren't you going to make me kneel and break my limbs?"

Li Qifeng shook his head frantically. He wished he were dead right now; had he known Lin Chen was such a powerhouse, he wouldn't have provoked him even if it meant his life. This was simply walking right into a trap just to get beaten up.

Lin Chen's expression turned frosty. "Since I don't need to kneel for you anymore, how about you kneel for me instead, or perhaps I should use a chair to break your limbs?"

Gritting his teeth against the pain, Li Qifeng immediately scrambled up, knelt before Lin Chen, and begged with a tearful, wretched expression, "It was my fault for being blind and failing to recognize a master. Please spare me; I swear I'll never dare do this again. If I had known how formidable you are, nothing could have induced me to provoke you."

Lin Chen gave a cold snort. "So what you're saying is that if I weren't this strong, you would still have tried to cross me, right?"

Without waiting for Li Qifeng's answer, he lifted his right foot and, with a series of sharp crunches, snapped Li Qifeng's limbs.

"Aah!"

Li Qifeng let out a piercing scream, his face distorted by the agonizing pain. "You... you said that if I knelt, you wouldn't break my limbs..."

"What I said was that I wouldn't use a chair to break your limbs. I didn't use a chair just now; I just stepped on them with my foot. Scum like you don't deserve to bargain with me," Lin Chen said indifferently.

Su Man's lips parted slightly in astonishment at Lin Chen's decisive ruthlessness. The guy was practically bloodthirsty, far more merciless than she was.

Next, she noticed Lin Chen taking a step forward as if preparing to leave.

"Lin Chen, you can't leave!" Su Man blurted out anxiously.

Turning his head, Lin Chen asked, "Why not?"

Su Man raised her voice. "You haven't sold the pill formula to me yet! Our business negotiation isn't finished!"

Lin Chen replied flatly, "I already told you, I'm not selling. Even if you offered ten billion, I wouldn't sell it to you now."

"Why? Just because I was only willing to offer one million at first? How can you be so petty!" Su Man asked, flushed with frustration.

"First, I gave you two chances, and the prices you offered made me extremely dissatisfied—it was practically an insult to my intelligence. You lacked sincerity. Second, you tried to threaten me, and I detest being threatened more than anything else."

"You..." Su Man fumed. "I don't care! You took such huge advantage of me, so you have to sell the formula to me!"

Lin Chen chuckled lightly. "Please, you were the one who dressed like this and had me come over here. How on earth did I take advantage of you?"

"I... You..."

Su Man's face flushed crimson, but she couldn't find a single word to retort.

Just as Lin Chen was about to step out the door, he suddenly turned back and added, "Oh, by the way, the annual salary An Xueyao pays me isn't a few hundred thousand. Calculated annually, it's twenty million."

With that, he vanished beyond the doorway.

Su Man stood frozen in shock, followed immediately by a bitter smile.

An annual salary of twenty million—no wonder he wasn't interested in the one million she offered, and why, when she later raised it to five million, she had foolishly thought that five million would surely blow his mind.

With martial prowess this formidable, he was far from the simple peasant she had imagined him to be. She had been wrong right from the start.

This time, her own cleverness had completely backfired on her!

As Su Man stood there consumed with regret, an elderly man walked in through the door.

Catching sight of him, Su Man said with some displeasure, "Old Qian, why did you only show up now? When that gang of men appeared earlier, why didn't you step forward to teach them a lesson?"