-Tongcheng City, Sihai Corporate-
Assistant Chairman Li Qianqian brought Lin Huai into the chairman’s office.
“Mr. Lin,” she said, smiling professionally, “please have a seat. The chairman will be with you shortly.”
Lin Huai couldn't help stare a bit. Li Qianqian looked surprisingly good in a business suit and gold rimmed classes. She had an angelic face, but her suit showed off the curves of a devilishly sexy body.
“If the chairman isn’t here yet, why don't you keep me company?”
Li Qianqian gave a slight smile, eyes
“Pretty gutsy, flirting with the chairman's assistant,” she said playfully. “Are all of Dragon Sheild's bodyguards this bold?”
Li Qianqian gulped. Her soft voice was enough to charm almost any man.
“I'm not brave. My mouth just listens to my heart instead of my brain.”
Li Qianqian chuckled.
“How old are you now, Mr. Lin?”
“Nineteen years old.”
“Oh, you’re much younger than me. You should be obedient, little boy.” Li Qianqian looked like she was in her late twenties.
Lin Huai smiled slyly.
“Trust me, I'm hardly little. Take me somewhere private, beautiful young miss, and I can show you how big I am.”
Li Qianqian blushed.
“You’re getting lewder every time you speak. But I’m curious, Sihai Group is regarded as one of the top three commercial companies in Tongcheng. We should be Dragon Sheild's top priority, and our chairman paid for an expert. So why did he get a nineteen-year-old boy like you?”
Lin Huai looked between his legs with a wicked smile.
“I told you, I’m not little at all…” he said. “If it weren’t for business being a bit slow right now, I’m afraid your chairman wouldn't be qualified to hire me, even if he does play an important role in Tongcheng’s business community.”
Li Qianqian frowned.
“You’re too arrogant.”
“I’m just being honest. Why isn't the chairman here yet? I don't have the patience to wait much longer.”
The office door opened and Li Qianqian snapped back into her professional denouement. The man who walked in was powerfully build, muscles so firm he looked almost made of metal. At a glance, Lin Huai suspected he was a master of one of the more aggressive martial arts. Behind him was Lin Huai's employer, Wei Sihai. He had been shown the man's picture when he took the job.
Wei Sihai looked to be somewhere in his forties. He was going grey at the temples and had a tired looking face, but there was something swift and fierce in his eyes. He went straight to his office chair and sat down, clasping his hands. He examined his new employee with surprise.
“Mr. Lin Huai?”
“Yes!” Lin Huai crossed his legs. In front of his employer, Lin Huai became more serious, something deep and dangerous in his eyes.
“You're so young.” Wei Sihai’s expression calmed. “But this is better. We no longer have to worry about disguising your age.”
“Pay sixty percent of my fee upfront and the remaining forty percent after the mission is completed,” Lin Huai said casually.
Wei Sihai clapped his hands and the large man beside him pulled a small leather suitcase from under the table. He opened it up to show the money inside.
“This is six hundred thousand yuan. The remaining four hundred thousand will be paid after the mission is completed.”
“No problem.” Lin Huai stepped forward to collect the money.
Wei Sihai nodded.
“I've proved I have the money. I’d like to see your strength.”
The muscular man, Li Tie, stepped forward, pulling back his fist to punch Lin Huai in the head. Li Qianqian froze in horror. The man was strong enough to crack somebody's skull. Aiming for the head was practically attempted murder.
His fist stopped just before Lin Huai's face. Li Tie's fist was wrapped in Lin Huai's palm.
Li Tie gave a frustrated growl as he tried to pull back and found his fist held firmly in place.
“Well, it would be rude not to return the favor,” Lin Huai said fiercely.
His punch sent Li Tie flying into the far wall. The entire building quivered, the wall he'd hit cracking.
Considering his age, Lin Huai knew he needed to show some real strength to gain Wei Sihai's trust, so he punched with around forty percent of his strength. If he's gone much higher, he'd have left Li Tie in the hospital for the next few months.
Wei Sihai and Li Qianqian both stared, speechless. Lin Huai looked back at them with a slight smile.
“Did you get enough proof of my strength, Chairman Wei?”
Wei Sihai looked horrified. Eventually, he let out a long breath.
“Yes. You've proved yourself,” he said respectfully.
The muscular man patted his face with his hands, each hand as big as a lily pads, trying to wake himself up. He staggered up and moved back to his place behind Wei Sihai, looking at Lin Huai.
“Li Tie will acknowledge Mr. Lin.” There was a slight hint of terror in Li Tie’s voice.
Lin Huai smiled,
“Tie? Like iron? Yes, your body is as tough as an iron, and you're as strong as an ox. But you haven’t reached true mastery.”
If this were said by someone else, Li Tie wouldn't take them seriously. From Lin Huai, however, the thirty year old listened as obediently as a school child.
“Mr. Lin Huai, your strength has broadened my horizon,” Wei Sihai said, voice full of admiration. “The future, as always, seems to be in the youth. The bodyguard Dragon Shield sent me is truly extraordinary. I was disrespectful to doubt you.”
“Now that my strength has been evaluated,” Lin Huai replied lazily, “let’s get straight to the mission. Your bodyguard’s strength is decent. Why don’t you just have him protect your daughter?”
“I plan for you to pose as a transfer student,” Wei Sihai explained. “You’ll protect her while she's on campus and my bodyguard will protect her when she's off campus. My bodyguard would stand out too much in a classroom. Besides that, my daughter refuses to have a bodyguard while she's on campus. therefore you have to conceal your identity.”
Lin Huai looked at Wei Sihai in astonishment.
“How many people have you pissed that makes you this concerned about your daughter’s safety?”
Wei Sihai scratched his head, looking miserable. When he finally smoke, his voice was heavy with remorse.
“If she'd chosen any other school, she'd be fine. But she just happened to choose Yulan College. Even if she couldn’t get into Peking University or Tsinghua University, she could have gotten into any other first-class university in the country. But she just happened to choose Yulan College…”
It was evident that Wei Sihai was deeply distressed by his daughter’s choice. Lin Huai couldn’t help trying to learn more.
“Why can’t she go to Yulan College?”
“Yulan College is a private vocational college,” Li Qianqian explained. “The original intention of the founder was to give a high quality education for students who might be forced out of normal programs due to poor academic performance or personal probelms. The college has low requirements for test scores and grades, yet provides teaching staff who are nearly as professionally competent as the ones in first-class universities. Other than that, students only have to pay a small tuition fee each year as the founder makes a lot from subsidies.”
There was a hint of respect in Lin Huai’s eyes.
“The founder is very admirable,” he said solemnly.
“It's a nice dream, but impractical in reality.” Li Qianqian said with a sigh. “The founder hopes to allow students with poor family conditions and bad grades to attend good university. However, the students have long lost faith in learning and have no discipline. There are fights every day and there was even a homicide last year. No matter how you look at it, Yulan College is not the paradise the founder hoped.”
Lin Huai was sorry to hear that. These students had been given a chance at a first class education. The founder must have been so disappointed. Still, he was confused.
“Students are generally excited to attend Harvard or Peking University. Why does your daughter insist on Yulan College?”
Wei Sihai sat silently for a few seconds.
“The founder of this college was her late mother,” he said, “and it bears the weight of her mother’s ideals. No matter how I try to stop her, she insists on going!”
Lin Huai could see a shadow of himself in this young lady…
“My daughter has attended school for about a month,” Wei Sihai said solemnly. “I’ve sent someone onto campus to secretly protect her, but they attracted her suspicion. I’ll hand it over to you from now on. The one million yuan is your payment for two months as her guard. At the end of the quarter, I’ll persuade her to transfer. Once you're my daughter’s classmate, I hope you can also help persuade her to leave this dangerous school.”
Wei Sihai took a photo out of the drawer. Lin Huai glanced at the photo. Lin Huai had seen a lot of beautiful women, but the crystal-clear eyes and unrivaled beauty of this beautiful girl made his heart tremble. Her skin was as delicate as a freshly bloomed waterlily, gaze clear and intelligent. He involuntarily gave a soft gasp.
“I've never seen such somebody so beautiful.”
Wei Sihai’s looked on in pride.
“This is my daughter, Wei Qimian, the princess of the Wei Family.”
Lin Huai took a deep breath, centering himself.
“First, to protect your daughter, the seat next to her needs to be vacant when I arrive. Have your daughter’s desk-mate transferred to another school or switched to a different seat tonight. Second, I'll my paperwork appropriately in order and flawlessly forged. I’ll be a poor student from the countryside who transferred to Yulan College from Tongcheng Music College when I couldn’t afford the tuition fees.”
Li Qianqian looked surprised by Lin Huai's level headed organization, but Wei Sihai just smiled in satisfaction.
After both parties had talked over some details, Wei Sihai instructed Li Qianqian to send Lin Huai to the five-star hotel that he would be staying tonight so that he could get some rest. As soon as Lin Huai left, Wei Sihai's expression became troubled.
“Chairman, what are you worried about?” Li Tie said cautiously.
“This Lin Huai has an unusual energy in him. There's a frightening amount of righteousness underneath his relaxed appearance… I’m afraid that he’ll mess up my plans once he gets into the school.” Wei Sihai sounded somewhat distraught, “But he’s the best candidate to protect my daughter.”
“I don’t think he’ll affect anything. It’s just a two-month mission…” Li Tie responded.
“You’re right.” Wei Sihai nodded, relaxing, but he still reached into the drawer and pulled out a pistol. “If he performs the mission normally, we’ll do our best to cooperate with him. However, if he starts to get in the way of my plans or he notices anything, use this to kill him.”
Even before he took it, Li Tie could feel the chill that drifted from the pistol's muzzle.
The moment Lin Huai entered Yulan College’s main gate, he already saw a group of boys chasing a guy across the field. They grab him and began to beat him up.Barely through the school date, and already, he saw a fight. The students in this school really were reckless. Still, they were all at the age where being a bit of aggression wasn't strange.A middle-aged man with glasses passed by the fighting students. The nearby students addressed him as “teacher”. This middle-aged teacher nodded in reply, walking past the fight. He didn't seem even slightly distracted, let alone inclined to help.Lin Huai’s stared. Even if those students were in another class, wasn't it his job to stop this? Who ignored their own students fighting right in front of him. Lin Huai looked over to where a couple was making out under a tree. Their hands had started to stray, and he could hear soft moans. He noticed the guy's body was starting to... get excited, and he looked away hurried
Lin Huai laughed softly. “It looks like I'm making enemies on my first day.”"Relax, I won't let them trouble you,” Wei Qiamian said apologetically.Lin Huai's grinned confidently.“They can't bother me.” “Oh my God,” one of their classmates said. “He's the one who just beat up Zhang Jindong on the basketball court. No wonder I felt like I'd seen him.”“I was there too. He beat Brother Dong until his face was covered in blood!”“Brother Dong is one of the toughest freshmen in the sports department. We shouldn't mess with this guy.”For a moment, those hostile gazes lessened, but plenty of people looked smug. Zhang Jindong wasn't the type to just give up. They looked forward to watching him teach Lin Huai a lesson.Hearing to the surrounding discussion, Wei Qimian's scooted her chair away from Lin Huai.Lin Huai noticed it, and sighed, putting on a hurt frown.“I thought transferring to Yulan would mean I could final
Lin Huai grabbed Zhang Chunyu's fist easily. He jabbed the soft hollow of Zhang Chunyu's arm, twisting it the wrong way. Zhang Chunyu screamed in agony as Lin Huai kicked him to the ground.The other three people did not expect tall, well built Zhang Chunyu to be taken down by so quickly. They stood frozen. Without hesitation, Lin Huai slapped one of the students, sending him flying. He kicked the other two students to the ground with one leg.“You really think you can mess with me when you're so weak?” he asked scornfully.Zhang Chunyu covered his injured arm, his face was sore and pale and sweating. He set his jaw stubbornly.“You bastard! You may be ruthless, but I won't give in!”“Good, you have some backbone. I like people with resolve, so you'll get some special treatment!” Lin Huai grabbed Zhang Chunyu by his hair and forced his head towards the urinal. Zhang Chunyu howled in pain as his hair was almost yanked out by Lin Huai.The th
Ling Huai laughed. Pu Chengji looked absolutely dumbstruck. “Who is she?”“No way, Brother Huai, you don't even know about Fairy Qi? Right, you're new here…” Pu Chengji’s eyes were shining, his breathing became quick. “She's a freshman in the music department. Her real name is Liu Meiqi, but she's known as a Fairy Qi. She's not just beautiful, she’s very good at seducing people. There's at least seven guys chasing after her, but she usually changes who she's dating every other day. She's one of the four freshman princesses. Wei Qimian is one too.”“Four princesses? You guys ridiculous…”Even though it was silly, Lin Huai had to admit that Liu Meiqi had a naturally flirtatious aura. She might not even do it intentionally, but her every move was smooth and seductive. Even he found it hard to resist. These boys in this school didn't stand a chance.Liu Meiqi walked towards them, the entrancing scent of her perfume drifting with her. Liu Meiqi grabbed Lin
Afternoon classes began, and the teacher lectured while the students chatted with each other. Some of them were playing cards; some were doing live broadcasts, and some were gossiping. There were even a few boys with their feet up on the desk smoking cigarettes. Zhang Chunyu returned half an hour into the lecture, taking a nervous glance at Lin Huai before slinking to his seat.Wei Qimian frowned as she looked around the classroom and sighed."Don't you hate trying to study in this environment?" Lin Huai asked."Can you still learn anything like this?" Wei Qimian asked.Lin Huai smiled bitterly. "This classroom is a mess. I can barely hear the teacher. We're lucky we're up front or I couldn't hear him at all.”"Yeah." Wei Qimian sighed. "I doubt the kids in the back row can here anything."Lin Huai glanced around and sneered. "I think most of these guys just go to school to hang out. They don't even consider studying or think about w
Lin Huai jumped down from the wall, Wei Qimian still in his arms, and ran until they reached a busy street."Hey, why are you so quiet? Have you fallen for me?"The people chasing them were nowhere to be seen, but Lin Huai hadn't set Wei Qimian down yet. One arm was wrapped around Wei Qimian's hip, and the other arm was around Wei Qimian's slim waist. She felt so delicate and soft, Lin Huai couldn't help but to hold her tight.Wei Qimian thumped Lin Huai's chest gently."Hey, they didn’t chase us here. Let me down?" she said with a pout.Lin Huai grinned. "What if they attack out of nowhere? I might not have time to pick you up.""You- You're such a scoundrel."Lin Huai's heart was melting."C'mon, set me down." Wei Qimian said playfully."Your foot's hurt. I need to help you with your ankle first." Lin Huai began to carry her towards a hotel. Lin Huai could afford a luxury hotel, but that wouldn't match his current
Pu Chengji was lying at the door of dormitory 101 at this moment. He seemed miserable with his clothes covered with footprints. There was a bloody rip on his forehead, and his face was covered with blood.There were more than a dozen underlings standing around Zhang Chunlei, each holding a weapon in their hand. He stepped on Pu Chengji's face and crushed it hard. He said ruthlessly, "Stupid fatty, let’s see if your bro will come to save you. "Pu Chengji's eyes were so swollen that they couldn't open, and his voice was shaking, "Second Lei ... he ... he's not my bro."Zhang Chunyu kicked Pu Chengji and scolded, "F*ck you, isn’t it you who told Lin Huai?"Pu Chengji stopped talking. Many people around him had witnessed, and he knew it was useless to say anything.Zhang Chunlei cruelly kicked Pu Chengji's face again and smirked, "If Lin Huai doesn't come, I'll kick your head, and then you will be no different from a pig.
Lin Huai crossed his legs while sitting on the chair, looked at Pu Chengji on the hospital bed and smiled. “You said before that you wanted to cut all ties with me, and yet you still got into this state because of me. From now onwards, you’ll surely be branded as “Lin Huai’s brother”. Tell me, how do you feel?”Pu Chengji held onto his pain and smiled. “Brother Huai. From now onwards, I’ll be able to follow you loyally.”Lin Huai asked, “Who is that Xuan Yuzhai?”Lin Huai didn’t care about Zhang Chunyu nor Zhang Chunlei. However, now that he found out about Xuan Yuzhai’s plans towards Xuan Yuzhai, he had to keep an eye out for him.As he mentioned about Xuan Yuzhai, Pu Chengji’s eyes glowed. His tone was filled with excitement. “His father opened up two clothing factories in our Tong City, so his family’s net worth would definitely be around tens of millions. He is also good in basketball, has good grades, and is the prince charmin