Chapter 283 - Long Night (III) (1/2)

The atmosphere in the room sank into freezing temperatures after Guan Gao Huan made the unpleasant joke.

It was an obvious mockery meant to insult Linfeng and Jang Shin.

After a brief silence, Linfeng nonchalantly leaned back on his headboard. He sarcastically said,

”I never knew you have such a hidden yearning of having us serve you personally. Unfortunately, you have to go against the Xiong and the Tang families if you wish for us to serve you.”

”Oh?”

”It appears you seem to not know, but according to the rules of our family, even the Xiong family could never force the Zhou family's first in line, which happened to be me, to serve another person outside the Xiong family's main branch.”

Guan Gao Huan went to his bed and flopped on top of it.

”Is that so? Then, you also might not know of it, so let me tell you a secret.” He lazily propped up his head on top of his arm, looking up at Linfeng with a mysterious smile.

”The Xiong family and the Guan family have been close for generations. As someone surnamed Zhou serving the first in line of the Xiong family, you must have an idea who my fiancée will be.”

Linfeng's hands under the blanket slowly clenched into a fist.

The hateful Young Master Guan lazily drawled out, ”I will soon be part of the main branch, as the spouse of the first in line. You would be calling me 'Master' soon. So, why not let us get to know each other now, to save some time in the future?”

Linfeng's peach blossom eyes narrowed down, killing intent faintly rising behind their depths. His face remained expressionless.

Jang Shin, on the other hand, had stiffened on his bed at this sudden bomb.

Guan Gao Huan tilted his head on top of his arm and continued to look at Linfeng, challenging him.

”Unless, you have some 'hidden' motive for your 'Young Miss'.”

Silence reigned over the room as the two men stared at each other without any of them backing down. Jang Shin who sat frozen on his bed began to sweat nervously.

Why the hell did he choose the middle bed?!

Over his dead body were these two guys staring down at each other, shooting laser from their eyes. What kind of f***king awkward position is this?!

Suddenly, Linfeng mockingly laughed. All tension seemed to disappear from his face as he suddenly relaxed.

”What a nice story you have there. I almost believed it. Unfortunately, my Young Miss is so special and assertive. Her personality will never let her like someone who was sent to tie her down,” he meaningfully said with a smile on his face. ”My Young Miss happened to be very smart, more than enough to make a way out for herself from the elder's arrangements. It seems Young Master Guan would be disappointed.”

Guan Gao Huan's brownish gold eyes flashed.

'So it is true. It is Xiong Zhi who put a stop on our supposed engagement.'

Old Guan had never told him nor confirmed who his fiancée was. He put him in TIHS with a task of letting him find out who his fiancée was by himself, but all of a sudden, his grandfather changed his mind and said that Guan Gao Huan did not need to bother himself with it for a while.

Nonetheless, his grandfather assured him that his fiancée was still the same person, it was only that the announcement would have to be postponed for a while.

At first, he thought it was because of Old Xiong. He thought the old man suddenly wanted to haggle with his old man, thus, resulting the two old masters to not come in agreement and put a temporary hold in his engagement.

However, with his observation on Xiong Zhi's actions and in their interactions, he began to doubt. The young miss was so repulsive of him. He began to have ideas that maybe the young miss of Xiong doesn't like him. Like how a person doesn't like the taste of cheese or a certain food.

Now, he was sure it was because of Xiong Zhi.

But how did she manage to change the elder's mind? That was quite a feat. It was an accepted fact within their circles that the ladies of the families in high society were to be used as bridges to build up the power of their respective families. Normally, these delicate ladies would never disobey when an arrangement was already made for them by their elders.

Of course, despite all those discoveries he gathered before, Guan Gao Huan had still been very confident that Xiong Zhi would still end up with him.