Chapter 58: If You Can't Finish, I'll Take Care of the Rest

Before meeting Su Qianqian for the first time, Xu Zhaocai kept wondering just how stunningly beautiful a woman had to be to completely captivate his younger brother. But when Su Qianqian stepped out of the car, Xu Zhaocai was dumbstruck.

My goodness, is this woman even real? She’s breathtaking!

Yet Su Qianqian’s face was tinged with anger as she strode forward alongside Lu Ye and demanded, “Xu Zhaocai, what is the meaning of this?”

“President Su, it really wasn’t easy to meet you. Wait a moment, come down and let’s have a proper talk.”

The cab of this massive excavator was nearly two meters above the ground.

Lu Ye chuckled from the side, “Second Young Master Xu, should I fetch you a ladder?”

Xu Zhaocai patted his chest. “No need, I’m trained for this. You know that phrase, ‘the waist and horse move as one’?”

With one hand gripping the door handle, Xu Zhaocai tried to launch himself up, planning to show off with a front flip in front of the beauty. But he forgot to let go—

Smack!

He landed face-first in a patch of mud.

Lu Ye reacted quickly, pulling Su Qianqian aside just in time to avoid the splattering mud. With a grin, he called out, “Second Young Master Xu, you all right over there?”

Awkward…

Xu Zhaocai clambered up from the mud, trying to wipe his face, only to smear the dirt even more. He forced a grin. “I’m fine! I’m used to this!”

“Sure, sure, you’re well trained,” Lu Ye teased.

Su Qianqian looked at him with utter disdain. “Xu Zhaocai, what exactly do you want?”

Xu Zhaocai explained, “My little brother was blinded by lust and signed an extremely unfair cooperation agreement with you. Now that he’s gone, I’m taking over at Prosperity Real Estate. I want to renegotiate. The profit concessions to Yiren Group should be cut to at least thirty percent. Prosperity Real Estate is the main investor—we deserve the bigger share!”

Lu Ye snorted, “Second Young Master Xu, are you dreaming? The contract we signed with Xu Fugui is legally binding. You can’t just change it on a whim.”

Xu Zhaocai shrugged, his tone carrying a hint of threat. “Does Yiren Group really have what it takes to withstand the wrath of the Xu family from the capital?”

If not for his mud-splattered, disheveled state, Xu Zhaocai might have looked the part of a domineering CEO—albeit one with a severe case of adolescent narcissism.

Lu Ye’s sneer was icy. “There’s no way we’re changing the agreement. Now move your junk excavators out of the way, or face the consequences.”

Noticing Lu Ye was still in his Yiren Group security uniform, Xu Zhaocai scoffed, “You’re just a lowly security guard. Do you really think you can threaten me?”

“So you’re not moving them?”

“That’s right. As long as the contract isn’t changed, you’re not breaking ground.”

“OK!”

Without another word, Lu Ye bent down, scooped Su Qianqian up in his arms, and leapt onto the very excavator Xu Zhaocai had been sitting in.

Rumble!

A plume of black smoke shot up, and the powerful engine roared deafeningly to life.

Su Qianqian exclaimed in surprise, “What are you doing, you scoundrel?”

Lu Ye grinned, “Old lady, how about I teach you how to drive an excavator?”

Su Qianqian clapped excitedly. “Yes, yes!”

Under Lu Ye’s guidance, Su Qianqian awkwardly worked the control levers and swung the bucket forcefully toward the excavator on the left. Seeing danger, the driver inside leapt out in a panic.

Crash!

In the next instant, the excavator was shoved off the bridge embankment, tumbling over and over before plunging into the surging Pearl River. Great bubbles rose to the surface, and then it disappeared into the depths.

“Isn’t this fun?”

“Hahaha, it’s amazing!”

“There’s one more over there!”

Su Qianqian repeated the performance, sending the right-side excavator into the river as well.

But that wasn’t all; Lu Ye taught her to push the throttle lever forward. The heavy steel tracks screeched as the machine turned swiftly toward the construction site entrance.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

With each move, Su Qianqian grew more adept. First, she overturned all the excavators blocking the road, then swung the bucket, smashing every engine compartment to pieces.

Finally, even the one she and Lu Ye were in didn’t escape destruction. Lu Ye grabbed a wrench from the toolbox, jammed the throttle wide open toward the river, then jumped out of the cab with Su Qianqian in his arms, landing steadily.

With no one at the controls, the excavator charged valiantly into the Pearl River.

All the excavators Xu Zhaocai had hired were wiped out, and traffic at the construction site immediately returned to normal.

Even now, Su Qianqian was still unsatisfied and called out with a laugh, “Xu Zhaocai, do you have any more excavators? I haven’t had enough fun!”

Xu Zhaocai’s mouth twitched. Damn it! All of these were imported heavy-duty machines—each one worth twice as much as a Bentley. Now he’d have to compensate the owner for more than a dozen of them…

Wait! Why should I pay? It wasn’t me who destroyed them!

“President Su, you—Hey? Where’d she go?”

He turned around, only to see Su Qianqian and Lu Ye already back in their car, a Passat, which made a stylish U-turn and drove off.

Not far away, the burly owner of the excavators—muscular as a wrestler—was charging toward him with his men, eyes blazing with fury. “You damned scoundrel, you’d better pay for my excavators!”

A dozen men surrounded Xu Zhaocai, their eyes burning with rage.

The excavator owner shouted, voice trembling with emotion, “Those were good machines, nearly new! Unless you cough up eighty million, don’t even think about leaving Jiangbei District!”

Xu Zhaocai gulped. “Big brother, this is a misunderstanding—those two just now are the ones who destroyed your machines!”

The owner cursed, “A misunderstanding? I rented those excavators to you, so it’s your responsibility!”

“You rented my excavators, didn’t use them properly, and brought them here to block the site and bully the most beautiful woman in Pearl City. Now you dare pin the blame on her? Cut the nonsense and pay up!”

What rotten luck!

The excavator owner happened to be the largest beneficiary of the old shantytown’s demolition, pocketing over eighty million in compensation. He’d turned around and bought a fleet of excavators, becoming a successful businessman. He was deeply grateful to Su Qianqian.

And now, here was Xu Zhaocai, an outsider, coming to Pearl City to bully their Lady of Fortune. How could he expect any sympathy?

What could Xu Zhaocai do? Admit defeat and pay up!

Was he really going to rely on his “waist and horse as one” skills to take on the excavator owner and his burly crew?

Su Qianqian, you win this round!

If I don’t erase your Su family from Pearl City’s business map, I’m not worthy of the Xu family name!

Eighty million flowed into the excavator owner’s account before he finally relented and left, allowing Xu Zhaocai to escape back to Prosperity Real Estate.

He summoned his assistant. “Arrange a dinner with the scions of the other five noble families. I want to form a Young Masters’ Alliance and have them all at my command—together, we’ll take down the Su family!”

Little did he know that his brother had already tried this tactic. Truly, he was Xu Fugui’s brother—even his harebrained schemes were identical.

It was past seven in the evening, an hour after office hours at Yiren Group, yet the chairman’s office was still brightly lit.

Su Qianqian was fully absorbed in drafting next year’s plans for Yiren Group. Lu Ye lay quietly on the sofa, headphones on, scrolling through short videos.

“Ha ha ha ha!”

Suddenly, his laughter startled Su Qianqian, who snapped, “Have you lost your mind?”

Lu Ye took off his headphones, barely able to contain his laughter. “Check the Young Masters’ Alliance group chat!”

Puzzled, Su Qianqian opened the chat and saw that Yang Tianyu had secretly filmed several short videos and posted them.

The footage showed a dinner gathering. Xu Zhaocai was boasting endlessly to the heirs of the five great families, singing the praises of the Xu family from the capital.

Amused but clueless, Su Qianqian joined in the chat.

Big Sis: ???

Little Brother Yun Jie: Xu Zhaocai is as much a fool as his brother, trying to recruit our five families to bring down the Su family.

Little Brother Lin Bei: Honestly, it’s just a repeat of when Xu Fugui first tried to form the Young Masters’ Alliance.

Big Sis: Hahaha.

Ye Ye: That’s not enough dishes! Order a few more expensive ones, and bring out the restaurant’s best wine. If you can’t finish, just take it home!

Two minutes later, Zhang Yunjie posted another video.

In it, Lin Bei grinned at the waiter, “Your Buddha Jumps Over the Wall soup is great. Bring us twenty more bowls, and two dozen bottles of ‘82 Lafite. Take all these glasses away—we’ll drink the Lafite straight from the bottle like beer!”

The camera panned to Xu Zhaocai’s twitching lips. “Young Master Lin, can you really finish all that?”

“No worries. If I can’t, I’ll just take it home!”