Chapter 76 "Give me some time to grow up."

Duan Feiyi said on the phone: "On New Year's Eve, I said some nonsense about you and my brother. After reflecting on it, I feel that it was really inappropriate, so I want to invite you for a drink, apologize to you face to face, and by the way, talk about some of my brother's past little secrets."

Jiang Yao said calmly, "There's no need to apologize. As for the secrets, he'll naturally tell me what he wants to share. There's no need for you to interfere."

After saying that, he hung up the phone, glanced at his phone, and looked like he had met an idiot.

After watching the sunrise that time, Duan Zhuxian told him some things about Duan Feiyi.

Based on the clues he had provided to Duan Zhuxian about Duan Feiyi's addiction to gambling abroad, Duan Zhuxian sent people to follow the clues and indeed found out a lot of information.

For example, in the project that Huayan assisted Cheng'an Group in going public, Duan Feiyi, with the help of He Lu, snatched it from Duan Zhuxian, and then took advantage of his position to collude with a man named Liu from Cheng'an for a long time to engage in insider trading and other illegal activities.

Not only that, Duan Feiyi is also suspected of several other criminal cases. The combined punishment for multiple crimes is enough to keep him in prison for ten to eight years.

It's already autumn, and he still wants to jump around. Jiang Yao has never seen anyone so stupid.

That evening, on the way home from work, Jiang Yao received a call from an old friend: "Years ago, you asked me to help you investigate Duan Feiyi's case. Recently, there is another old news, and it is related to your family, but it may not be true."

Jiang Yao: "It's okay, you speak first."

Friend: "About a decade ago, the younger one tampered with the car that was picking up the older one, and it nearly caused a major accident. Later, the Duan family suppressed the matter, and no one mentioned it again."

Jiang Yao's brows suddenly furrowed when he heard this.

This old friend of his is known as "Lingbei Know-it-all". He has a wide network of contacts and generally doesn't believe in hearsay, so this incident is most likely to have happened.

He knew that Duan Feiyi was a complete loser who indulged in drinking, gambling and whoring, but he didn't expect that he would even dare to kill someone.

To steal money is one thing, to kill is another.

After ending the call with his friend, Jiang Yao called Duan Feiyi back with a gloomy expression: "Where should we meet?"

Duan Feiyi reported the name of a private club.

*

Three days later, on Saturday night, Jiang Yao went to the club and came to the corresponding room.

Duan Feiyi was already sitting on the sofa. On the table in front of him was a bottle of decanted red wine and two glasses.

Jiang Yao glanced at the corner of the ceiling and saw that the surveillance camera was turned off.

He strode to the sofa opposite Duan Feiyi, sat down with his hands in his pockets, and raised his chin: "Tell me, do you have any secrets to tell me?"

Duan Feiyi smiled and said, "No hurry, you must be tired after traveling all the way here, have a drink first."

As he spoke, he poured wine into two glasses and pushed one in front of Jiang Yao.

At this moment, there was a sudden thud under the table.

Jiang Yao asked, "Did you drop something?"

As if he was in some kind of nervous state, Duan Feiyi immediately subconsciously lowered his head to look under the table. When he didn't see anything, he sat up straight again.

Seeing that Jiang Yao hadn't touched his wine for a long time, he asked, "Why aren't you drinking? It seems my sister-in-law still has a lot of complaints about me."

Jiang Yao took a hand out of his pocket and pointed at Duan Feiyi's glass of wine: "You drink first."

Duan Feiyi paused: "Ah? What do you mean?"

Jiang Yao leaned back in his chair and said half-jokingly, "I'm afraid you'll add something to the wine."

Duan Feiyi showed a very surprised expression when he heard this. He picked up the wine glass and drank it in one gulp in front of Jiang Yao. Then he stared at Jiang Yao until Jiang Yao also took a few sips, and then he talked about other topics.

More than ten minutes passed, and Duan Feiyi was still talking about something else. Jiang Yao put his wine glass on the table with a muffled sound. "Since you don't want to explain why you called me here, let me ask you a question first."

Duan Feiyi: "What's the problem?"

Jiang Yao stared at Duan Feiyi, and without warning, a layer of ice covered his beautiful eyebrows. "Why did you tamper with the car that was picking up Duan Zhuxian?"

Duan Feiyi lowered his head and remained silent for a moment, then raised his eyes and smiled strangely: "Duan Zhuxian told you?"

It seems to be true.

I was almost there, and I would never meet Duan Zhuxian in this life.

Jiang Yao took a deep breath and suppressed the anger in his chest that wanted to tear the person in front of him to pieces.

"Who told him to be kicked out by my dad? He still dared to show up and take credit in front of grandpa." Duan Feiyi said with a playful look, "It is my lifelong regret that he didn't die back then."

"Do you think that without Duan Zhuxian, those who look down on you will take a second look at you?"

Jiang Yao's voice was extremely calm when he said this, but Duan Feiyi seemed to be being mocked. His face flushed red and he slammed his fist on the table. "You know what, what I hate most is your arrogant and self-righteous attitude. You're just like Duan Zhuxian!"

After the excitement subsided, Duan Feiyi regained some seriousness, with a hint of malice in his eyes: "You actually guessed right just now. I added something good to your glass of wine. A few men will come over to play with you later."

Jiang Yao glanced at his wine glass, crossed his arms, and said with an unchanging expression, "Do you know that this is a crime?"

Duan Feiyi laughed heartily. "Those people are desperate criminals who took money to do the job. They don't know me at all. No one can prove that I hired them. Besides, Duan Zhuxian has so many things on me that this one is not the only one."

Jiang Yao: "What's your purpose in doing this? To mess with me?"

Duan Feiyi: "Trouble you? Who do you think you are? I want to make Duan Zhuxian regret it! My good brother, when my private company was facing a crisis, enthusiastically introduced me to investment, but guess what? That investment company managed to take away my controlling stake and then sold me out. That was my only way out. Now I have nothing!"

Jiang Yao sneered.

Duan Feiyi's expression froze: "What are you laughing at?"

Jiang Yao said calmly, "I'm laughing at you for being a clown from the beginning to the end. You tried your best in front of Duan Zhuxian, and in the end, he slapped you in the face."

"Yeah, so as long as I can disgust him once, I win! I heard he really took you to the little place where his mother was born for his honeymoon? Fortunately, you are here. He fell deeply in love with you and you became his weak spot."

Duan Feiyi's face became more distorted as he spoke, breathing heavily like a bellows. "Actually, at first I wanted to just find a roadside spot, knock you out and tie you up, and then go find Duan Zhuxian to exchange for the evidence against me."

Jiang Yao: "Don't dream, will he be threatened by your tricks?"

Duan Feiyi nodded: "That's why I didn't bother. No matter how much he likes you, he can't give up the plan he has painstakingly worked on for many years."

As he spoke, he observed Jiang Yao's face, but could not find any fear on it.

Even though a disaster is imminent, she still pretends to be calm. But it doesn't matter, soon this beautiful face will collapse along with Duan Zhuxian's relaxed face.

"I've booked this floor. No one will disturb us tonight." Duan Feiyi glanced at his watch. "It's almost time."

After he finished speaking, he was about to stand up when his body suddenly swayed and he fell heavily back onto the sofa, his limbs limp as if all the strength had been taken away.

Realizing something, Duan Feiyi looked horrified: "You, you changed the wine?"

Jiang Yao didn't answer. He stood up and stretched his muscles. When he kicked the chair away and turned around, Duan Feiyi hugged his thigh.

"You... stop..."

Jiang Yao lowered his head, frowning as if something was dirty on him. He kicked Duan Feiyi back onto the sofa with an easy kick, and smiled with his lips curved. He said condescendingly like a judge, "Enjoy this night."

Leaving the room and walking through the dim corridor, Jiang Yao passed by several men with wretched faces.

After a while, a pig-slaughtering sound came from the room behind him.

Standing in the elevator, Jiang Yao took out his cell phone, which showed a 25-minute conversation with Chen Yiqi.

He said to the phone: "I'll be right out, hang up first."

Then he called the anti-pornography brigade: "Hello, this is... there's a group of people engaging in promiscuity."

*

When Jiang Yao walked out of the club, Chen Yiqi was waiting for him under the tree.

There were a few tall and strong guys standing not far away. They were helpers arranged by Jiang Yao in advance in case of emergency. Unexpectedly, Duan Feiyi was so stupid that the support group was of no use at all.

Chen Yiqi gave a thumbs-up and walked towards Jiang Yao with admiration on his face: "Fuck, this is amazing! It has to be my brother Yao. His style is still as good as before!"

Since Jiang Yao entered the club, he and Jiang Yao have been in constant contact and heard the whole process.

When he was in junior high school, Jiang Yao taught the bullies a lesson without bloodshed, forcing the bullies to cry and repent. During the break, they admitted to committing school violence in each class and kowtowed to the unnamed victims from a distance to repent. For at least three years after that, there was no bullying incident in their school.

At that time, Chen Yiqi and several other good friends were full of admiration and thought their Brother Yao was so handsome.

Jiang Yao and Chen Yiqi made an appointment to take everyone out for a midnight snack later.

When Chen Yiqi went to get the car, Jiang Yao suddenly heard a rapid car engine sound. He turned around and saw a familiar SUV driving through the night.

The car stopped abruptly in front of him. Duan Zhuxian got out of the driver's seat, looked at Jiang Yao carefully several times, and asked, "What are you doing here?"

"Let out some anger." Jiang Yao said with a curl of his lips.

Then he briefly recounted what had just happened.

"It's too easy for a scum like him to just be thrown into jail and waste taxpayers' money. He will never forget this night." Jiang Yao said, blinking, and asked Duan Zhuxian, "Do you feel relieved?"

Duan Zhuxian didn't say anything. He raised his hand, grabbed Jiang Yao's wrist and pulled it with terrifying force.

From a distance, Chen Yiqi, who was coming to get the car, saw with his own eyes that his arrogant good brother was forced into the car by his husband, leaned over to fasten his seat belt, slammed the car door, and then drove away with a bang.

Jiang Yao was not scared by Duan Feiyi just now, but now he was frightened by Duan Zhuxian while sitting in the car.

After replying to Chen Yiqi's message of condolence, he secretly looked at Duan Zhuxian's profile several times. The other party's expression was very tense, and even his breathing frequency was obviously faster.

Is this... angry?

In fact, he had never seen Duan Zhuxian angry.

When faced with any displeasure, Duan Zhuxian would just keep a cold face and would not reveal any emotional fluctuations.

Jiang Yao was thinking about what to say when he suddenly heard Duan Zhuxian say, "Why didn't you tell me about your meeting with Duan Feiyi?"

Jiang Yao was not surprised that Duan Zhuxian knew about this. It was probably the spy he had planted next to Duan Feiyi who reported Duan Feiyi's movements to him.

Jiang Yao explained: "You've been too busy these days. This kind of small matter is not difficult to handle."

"It's a small matter?" Duan Zhuxian's breathing quickened. "This is an attempted crime!"

It was the first time Jiang Yao heard Duan Zhuxian's angry tone, and it took him a long time to react. It turned out that Duan Zhuxian was afraid that he would be in danger... He thought he had ruined Duan Zhuxian's plan.

He breathed a sigh of relief. "You're worrying too much, Mr. Duan. Do you think I'm the type to put myself in danger? I know exactly where Duan Feiyi has been these past few days, who he's dealing with, and even how he bought the drugs. Besides, I've got people guarding outside, and I've been on the phone the whole time. I won't take any risks unless I'm absolutely sure."

After hearing Jiang Yao's seemingly foolproof preparations, Duan Zhuxian's expression not only did not return to normal, but became even uglier.

Jiang Yao was at a loss as to what to do. After a while, he remembered something: "Oh, right, Duan Feiyi seems to have known that you have a lot of evidence against him. He even thought of kidnapping me and blackmailing you. So, how do you plan to deal with him next?"

Duan Zhuxian: "He's dead."

Jiang Yao was stunned.

It was a bit hard for him to react. These four emotional words actually came out of Duan Zhuxian's mouth, and even with the impulsiveness of a young boy.

Whenever Duan Feiyi was mentioned in the past, Duan Zhuxian was always indifferent, as if he never took the stink bug seriously and stepping on it to death was just a matter of convenience.

At this moment, Jiang Yao could clearly feel that Duan Zhuxian wanted to strangle Duan Feiyi to death immediately.

"You're so naive." Jiang Yao said with a smile, then asked, "If he really kidnapped me, would you use the evidence to get me back?"

Duan Zhuxian: “Yes.”

Jiang Yao's eyes widened. "Don't you even consider a better solution? That's the chance for revenge you've been waiting for all these years..."

"But I know better what is most important in my life." Duan Zhuxian interrupted him mercilessly.

Jiang Yao opened his mouth silently, and the hot blood in his head suddenly cooled down.

His actions today were indeed impulsive and ill-considered. He even mocked Duan Zhuxian for being childish, but he was not much more mature than Duan Zhuxian.

Neither of them spoke again until the car drove into the underground garage.

Slowly unbuckling his seatbelt, Jiang Yao looked up at the person beside him: "Duan Zhuxian, are you still angry?"

Duan Zhuxian sat back in his chair, pinching his brows, his voice a little hoarse and tired: "Yaoyao, I know you are smart, good at planning, and not used to being protected, but I am afraid too."

An hour ago, he was still attending a dinner party. When he heard that Jiang Yao came alone, he almost got scared to death.

"I was wrong."

Jiang Yao said in a low voice.

"Personal heroism without considering the other person's feelings is not cool or romantic at all."

He paused for a moment and reached out to tug at Duan Zhuxian's clothes.

"I have a bad temper, I always want to protect the people I care about, and I have a bit of a Chuunibyou. You know all this, so give me some time to grow up, okay?"

This was the first time Jiang Yao acted like a spoiled child in her life. She wasn't very skilled, even a little clumsy.

But he really wanted to become more calm for Duan Zhuxian.

He looked at Duan Zhuxian's profile hidden in the shadows and waited obediently for a long time. What responded to him was a hand hooked around the back of his neck and a predatory hug.