Defrosting The Cold Young Master

Chapter 628: Chapter 631 will be even worse

Ye Xingbei shook his head. “It’s not like I have any pursuers. A few did bother me, but they stopped after Brother Li dealt with them.”

Gu Junzhu raised an eyebrow, “Bothered?”

“Not exactly bothered,” quickly clarified Ye Xingli, as Gu Junzhu’s aura was intimidating. “Fifth Brother, you know how it goes – one fair lady, a thousand eager suitors. In our circle, Beibei is known as the beauty, and she has many admirers. Among them, there were two or three from Ye Tao’s gang who used to have feelings for Beibei. I’m not implying anything, but… they got a bit out of line and that’s when I had to deal with them. Ever since, they’ve been careful not to mess with Beibei.”

“Two or three?” Gu Junzhu frowned, “If it’s two or three, it becomes hard to identify the target.”

If there was only one, then he would be the person who had pursued Ye Xingbei, and it would make sense to go after him directly.

But he couldn’t go after all two or three of them.

Too much commotion could cause panic and chaos.

If the person got provoked and uploaded the video online, or let many people watch it, he was afraid it would become a lifetime nightmare for Ye Xingbei.

Preventing collateral damage during a conflict was imperative.

He felt the pressure of the current situation, akin to the proverb of avoiding injury on the prized object while catching a mouse.

“We should grab Ye Tao right away and interrogate her!” Ye Xingli clenched his fists in fury. “Knowing the type of person she is, a few lashes will make her confess everything.”

“She warned us,” Ye Xingbei said, lowering his head. “She claimed to have given the video to a friend. If anything were to happen to her, the friend would upload the video for everyone to see.”

“Damn it!” Ye Xingli’s face turned green with rage, and he slammed his fist onto the table.

Like a trapped beast, he paced anxiously around the room, repeating, “What are we going to do… what are we going to do… what are we going to do?”

Gu Junzhu suggested, “Firstly, find someone who can tell us if there was a guard outside the room when Beibei was locked in the basement. If there was, bring them to me. I need to ask them a few questions.”

“Okay.” Ye Xingli agreed, took out his phone, and sent a quick message, his fingers trembling slightly on the screen.

Once the message was sent, he pocketed his phone, walked over to Ye Xingbei, knelt down on one knee, took a deep breath, and looked up at her. “Beibei, I’m sorry, I’m really, really, really sorry…”

The debt his family owed Beibei was probably impossible to settle in a lifetime.

His eldest brother always harbored resentment towards Beibei. Whenever their father fell ill, the eldest would take out his hatred for Jiang Zhengxing on Beibei, displacing his anger onto her.

He would always defend Beibei whenever he was home.

But he loved to travel far and wide, spending more time away from home than at home in a year.

He knew that life had been hard for Beibei and Xiao Shu in their house, but he underestimated the extent of her struggles.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

Being locked in the basement until she passed out was a horror he had never known.

Ye Xingbei shook her head, “No, Brother Li, you’ve never wronged me.”

“Yes, I have.” Ye Xingli said, lowering his head. “I brought you home, but I failed to protect you.”

Ye Xingbei chuckled, “But if you hadn’t taken me from Jiang City back then, things would have been much worse.”

Jiang Zhengxing’s family were a pack of schemers and plotters.

If she hadn’t come to the States with Ye Xingli, even if she hadn’t died of starvation on the streets, she would have surely been killed by Jiang Zhengxing and his family.

No matter what, without Ye Xingli’s protection and persistence, there would be no Ye Xingbei today.