Chapter 925 Jiang Ruan Discerns the Pros and Cons
"I know," Qin Luofeng replied.
The two chatted about other things for a while before Qin Luofeng got up and left.
As he was leaving, Yu Peiyun seemed to remember something and called out to Qin Luofeng, "Oh, right."
Qin Luofeng: "What's wrong?"
Yu Peiyun looked at him, hesitant to speak, her eyes filled with complex emotions: "Does your brother hate me now?"
Qin Luofeng: "?"
I was just about to ask her why she asked that.
Yu Peiyun continued, "After thinking about it carefully, I realized that I had indeed neglected him from childhood to adulthood, and I paid even less attention to him after you were born. He clearly sacrificed a lot for your father, yet I still treated him that way."
Perhaps it was Lin Tan's honesty and sincerity that touched her.
Or perhaps it was Qin Mo's "thank you" just now.
The emotions she had suppressed surged up again, becoming complex and painful.
"I don't think I dislike you now," Qin Luofeng said gently, a faint smile on his face. "I might even care about you more than before."
Yu Peiyun frowned: "Because of Lin Tan?"
"Hmm." Qin Luofeng nodded. "Although I don't know you very well, it's difficult for someone who is usually quiet to say thank you, especially to you."
"You!" Yu Peiyun pretended to be angry.
“But he told you today,” Qin Luofeng said. “His attitude towards you has been quite good lately. I think if you’re willing to take the initiative to chat with him and talk about how you’ve treated him badly, with Lin Tan mediating between you, your relationship won’t be any worse than Xie Yi’s with Aunt Jun.”
Yu Peiyun remained silent.
Qin Luofeng began to use reverse psychology: "However, I don't think you can do it."
"Don't give me that." Yu Peiyun saw through him at a glance, her gaze landing on him, setting the stage for her question, "And you?"
Qin Luofeng: "What about me?"
Yu Peiyun looked into his eyes: "Are you still thinking about fighting for power and making enemies with Jiang Ruan and Qin An?"
"I don't want to think about it anymore." Qin Luofeng smiled with relief.
"You really don't want to? Or is it because you're not capable enough?" Yu Peiyun asked directly.
She wasn't worried about anything else; she was only worried about Luo Feng.
She had made many mistakes while she was with Qin Muchuan in the past, and now... she wasn't sure if he was lying low waiting for an opportunity, or if he had truly given up the struggle for power.
"Both are true." Qin Luofeng was quite frank with Yu Peiyun. "Whether I want to or not, Jiang Ruan is not someone I can handle right now. She has made rapid progress in the past year or two and has won over many people's hearts."
Yu Peiyun remained silent.
Although she hadn't been following the Qin Group's situation closely, she had heard some descriptions of it through banquets and gatherings within the industry.
At first, people referred to her as Qin An's daughter, Li Zhishen's daughter, and Huo Zhizhou's ex-wife, but gradually she became known as Jiang Ruan, Director Jiang, and President Jiang.
At first, we just talked about her gossip, then we talked about her methods, and later we talked about her achievements.
She couldn't even imagine how powerful Jiang Ruan would have been if Qin An hadn't been disappointed with this industry from the start, but instead had cultivated her as a tool to compete for power.
"Not to mention she has so many powerful backers: her aunt, Chairman Li, Huo Zhizhou—any one of them is someone I can't handle," Qin Luofeng sighed.
"Will you feel resentful?" Yu Peiyun asked him.
Personally, she didn't want Qin Luofeng to go down the wrong path.
She hopes he stays healthy and enjoys his life.
"No, I accept defeat wholeheartedly." Qin Luofeng is very clear-headed now. "So you don't need to worry that I will follow the same path as before. The Qin family is in my brother's hands. Now I just need to be a good Second Young Master Qin."
Yu Peiyun nodded: "Go ahead and get busy. Ask your brother if there's anything you can help with. This wedding probably won't go too smoothly."
Qin Luofeng: "?"
Qin Luofeng: "What do you mean?"
Yu Peiyun: "Just go when I tell you to. Don't ask questions."
"You don't love me anymore," Qin Luofeng said in his usual coquettish tone. "You used to tell me that."
"Don't give me that," Yu Peiyun said. "Go now."
Qin Luofeng smiled and went anyway.
Unable to get any results from here, she had no choice but to ask Qin Mo.
That evening.
He asked Qin Mo, who was arranging everything for the wedding, directly: "Brother, why did Mom say your wedding wouldn't go smoothly? What did you say to her? Or did she find out something?"
"Huo Sinian might come to steal the bride," Qin Mo didn't hide it.
"Really?" Qin Luofeng remained skeptical. "You've already got your marriage certificate, so what if he steals it?"
Qin Mo pursed his thin lips into a straight line.
No, I didn't say.
Qin Luofeng: "Furthermore, as the leader of the Huo Group and the Huo family, won't his reckless behavior cause dissatisfaction from the family and the company's board of directors?"
"His power came from Huo Zhizhou," Qin Mo reminded him.
"And then?" Qin Luofeng didn't think that far ahead, or perhaps he just stopped thinking about power struggles and became too lazy to use his brain.
“When Huo Zhizhou was in charge, he managed to subdue everyone,” Qin Mo said. “Huo Sinian will have far fewer problems if he takes over, and his methods have always been more underhanded than Huo Zhizhou’s.”
"You mean he got hold of those people's dirt?" Qin Luofeng asked.
"Hmm." Qin Mo nodded. "Besides this, I can't think of any other way he could do whatever he wants."
Qin Luofeng remained silent.
After a while.
He then asked, "So, what are your plans for this wedding?"
“Control the people coming to the island,” Qin Mo said. “Have someone keep an eye on the boats approaching the island. As long as we are prepared in this regard, Huo Sinian shouldn’t be able to accomplish anything significant.”
To steal a bride, you first need people.
He would definitely notice if a large number of people approached.
"I don't know if I'm overestimating him or if he has psychological trauma from the past." Qin Luofeng's expression became more serious. "I always feel that this is all there is to it, and there's no way to completely stop him."
That person was cunning and scheming, a smiling tiger with a refined and gentle demeanor.
I'm just glad we didn't work out back then, otherwise I wouldn't even know I'd been scammed.
"I'll figure something out." There was a hint of calculation in Qin Mo's eyes.
"What method?" Qin Luofeng asked.
Qin Mo didn't say anything.
That evening.
Qin Mo sent a message to Jiang Ruan, wanting her to stay with Lin Tan throughout the wedding day, because she had previously had a wedding of the century with Huo Zhizhou, and he didn't want Lin Tan to have any regrets.
Jiang Ruan had just finished dealing with matters concerning the company she had invested in when she received the message.
She stared at the message for a while, then sent a reply: 【You want me to protect Lin Tan for you?】
Qin Mo was stunned when he saw the message.
To be honest.
Even though he thought Jiang Ruan was capable, he didn't expect her to figure out his intentions so quickly. After all, there was nothing to doubt about her relationship with Lin Tan or the reasons he gave.
He paused for a moment, then called Jiang Ruan directly.
"I'm sorry, I should have just told you to choose instead of doing it this way." Qin Mo chose to be honest.
"Are you worried that Huo Sinian will steal the bride?" Jiang Ruan asked directly.
Qin Mo: "Yes."
Jiang Ruan: "I can agree to that, but I can't guarantee that I can protect her 100%."
Qin Mo: "How could that be? Beside you..."
"All I can use is my own power," Jiang Ruan confessed to him. "Huo Zhizhou won't get involved."
She knew exactly what Qin Mo was thinking.
He used her to help him protect Lin Tan. If danger really occurred, Huo Zhizhou wouldn't stand idly by, given how much he cared about her. Huo Sinian, on the other hand, couldn't defeat Huo Zhizhou.
But since it was a matter of using him, she wouldn't let Huo Zhizhou break the agreement between him and Huo Sinian. Besides, she didn't want to provoke Huo Sinian over something that hadn't even happened yet.
She will protect Lin Tan, but only to the extent she is capable of doing so.
This moment.
Qin Mo realized that the Jiang Ruan opposite him was not the Jiang Ruan who had first arrived in Haicheng. If it were the Jiang Ruan of the past, she would have agreed without hesitation and stood on the opposite side of Huo Sinian.
But now she can distinguish between the pros and cons.
"Okay," he replied. "I'm already very satisfied with this. Thank you."
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