Chapter 41: Miss Su

Su Qing stared, her eyes wide, covering her mouth with her hand. She was absolutely certain that the child was at most a few months old, yet he had managed to leap down from an adult's shoulder. While everyone else was still in shock, Tang Xuan said, "Little Xuan, let's go." Little Xuan leapt high, landing back on Tang Xuan's shoulder.

"Holy cow!"
"Am I seeing things?"
"That kid can actually jump that high!"

Su Qing could not hold back and let out a sharp cry. Seeing that Tang Xuan was about to leave, she grabbed him. Tang Xuan frowned, "What do you want?" Realizing her action was too forward, Su Qing quickly let go. "I... I'm fine."

After leaving the airport, just as Tang Xuan was about to hail a taxi, Su Qing stepped in front of him again. "What exactly do you want?" Tang Xuan didn't have much patience to waste on her. She was beautiful, but unfortunately, she had encountered Tang Xuan, a man uninterested in a woman's appearance.

Su Qing looked at the Little Xuan on his shoulder and said, "I want to know how old he is."
Tang Xuan replied, "Two months."

Su Qing was stunned. A two-month-old infant, by all logic, should still be swaddled, yet he could walk and jump! Just then, a luxury car pulled up in front of Su Qing. The driver stepped out and said respectfully, "Miss, please get in." Su Qing specifically glanced at Tang Xuan, but the luxury car and its driver seemed to cause him no psychological ripple at all. In his eyes, she, a young heiress, was no different from an ordinary passerby.

"I can give you a ride to the city center."
Tang Xuan waved his hand and got into a taxi.

Junyang City possessed the largest auction house in the country, with seventy percent of the top-tier items flowing through it. Tang Xuan had no interest in collectibles; his focus was entirely on rare medicinal herbs. Upon arriving at the Biyun Hotel to check in, he bumped into someone he never expected to see: Huang Fei!

The moment Tang Xuan saw her, Huang Fei saw him too. "What are you doing in Junyang City?"
Facing her interrogation, Tang Xuan replied with four words: "None of your business."

Huang Fei turned pale with rage. "Don't think I don't know that you're just relying on the expert behind you. Do you really think I believe you were the one who killed Qin Feng?"

After returning to the capital, Huang Fei had carefully pondered the matter. Qin Feng dying at Tang Xuan's hands? That was a ludicrous and laughable notion. Although Tang Xuan had broken free of his previous fate, it did not mean that, at such a young age, he could kill a master at the late stage of the Thunder Realm. Therefore, Huang Fei was absolutely certain that Tang Xuan had someone backing him, and that it was this person who had killed Qin Feng. While this was enough to make her wary, she would never bow her head in front of Tang Xuan.

"If you want to die, I can send you on your way."
Although Tang Xuan occupied the body of Tang Shiliu, he was not the real Tang Shiliu, and Huang Fei was not his mother. Thus, killing her would cause him no guilt. The only reason he held back was to keep this hatred so that Tang Shiliu could eventually take his own revenge.

"Tang Shiliu, no matter what I've done to you, I am the one who gave birth to you. Do you really dare to kill me?" Huang Fei believed that by holding this over him, she could do whatever she wanted in front of him. She thought that because she had given this man life, she could control him forever. She was wrong.

Tang Xuan suddenly grabbed Huang Fei by the throat and lifted her into the air. Her feet left the ground, kicking and struggling. Very quickly, her face turned crimson, and she reached the brink of suffocation. The hotel staff were paralyzed with shock. This was the hotel lobby, after all—was he really going to commit murder in public?

"Sir, please calm down, don't kill anyone!"
"Sir, let her go, she's going to die!"

Tang Xuan tossed her aside casually. Huang Fei flew more than ten meters away. The staff breathed a sigh of relief. Huang Fei gasped greedily for fresh air, her eyes filled with murderous intent as she looked at Tang Xuan. "You dare treat me like this? I will make you regret it!"

After checking in, Tang Xuan headed for the elevator, intending to return to his room to rest. No sooner had he left than Su Qing appeared at the front desk. "Miss Su," the two receptionists said respectfully. The Biyun Hotel was a property of the Su family, and Su Qing was its manager. She had seen everything that just happened.

"What was that about?"
The two receptionists shook their heads; they didn't know what had happened—the man had simply grabbed the woman's throat out of nowhere. If they hadn't intervened, the woman might have died. "Miss Su, we don't know. The man acted like he had a manic disorder, going berserk for no reason."

Su Qing said, "Show me his registration information."
"Tang Xuan."
Su Qing checked Huang Fei's information as well. "This Huang Fei is from the Tang family of the capital. But there is no one named Tang Xuan in the capital's Tang family."

Su Qing didn't know what kind of relationship the two had, but she knew that this man named Tang Xuan had provoked someone he shouldn't have. The capital's Tang family... Junyang City and the capital were only a few hundred kilometers apart. While the Su family did not hold the Tang family in high regard, for someone without status or background, the Tang family was a mountain that could easily crush a person to death.

"Keep a close eye on this man named Tang Xuan. Report to me whenever he leaves or returns to the hotel."

After leaving the hotel, Su Qing immediately returned to the Su family estate. As the number one family in Junyang City, the Su family had built a garden estate in the most prosperous part of the city. Stepping into the estate felt like moving from a concrete jungle into a primeval forest. A single tree here was worth enough to support an ordinary person for a lifetime.

In a pavilion, an old man played a game of chess against himself. The match had reached the final stages. Su Qing walked into the pavilion, remaining silent until the old man placed his final stone.

"Grandfather." Su Qing walked behind him and began to massage his shoulders.
Su Hu smiled and asked, "Did you gain anything from your trip?" As the head of the Su family, Su Hu held supreme status in Junyang City. However, even a man like him had his worries. The younger generation of the Su family consisted only of Su Qing and her sister Su Qin; there were no sons. Who would shoulder the burden of the Su family in the future had become Su Hu's greatest concern. While both sisters were capable, in the old man's eyes, a man was ultimately needed to hold up the sky.

"Grandfather, what kind of gains are you looking for?"
"Neither you nor your sister brings a boyfriend home for me to see. Are you trying to be the death of me?"
"Pfft, pfft, pfft—Grandfather will live to be a hundred."

Su Hu smiled helplessly.
Su Qing suddenly said, "Grandfather, I actually met a very strange person today."