Chapter 359 — Beaten for Nothing
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Who was Li Cihua, after all? There was no way a man whose nose had just been bloodied by a punch would simply let the matter drop.
"Young Master An, about what happened earlier, I can only apologize. I hope you won't hold it against me — though as you can see, I've ended up in this state myself!" Li Cihua pointed at his face and gave a shrug. The power behind Li Cihua was hardly weak, but the An family behind An Liwen was no weakling either — and now there was Su Taizao's Su family on top of that. There was all the less reason for Li Cihua to make new enemies, especially since the two of them had never been enemies to begin with; they were supposed to be partners. Everything that had happened was the work of that bastard Wei Zhao!
"It's fine!" An Liwen waved a hand. A true man bends and stretches as the occasion demands, and he knew perfectly well that today's business was not Li Cihua's fault. If there was anyone to blame, it was Wei Zhao — the man was simply beyond rotten.
Su Taizao, however, was rather indignant. Yes, Wei Zhao had started all this, but that was no reason to go beating people senseless without so much as a by-your-leave. Besides, he had never even heard the name Li Cihua before — who knew what sort of nobody this fellow was?
But seeing that even An Liwen had let it go, he could hardly keep complaining, so he simply sat off to one side in a huff. At least the beating had not been too severe; his face had merely been turned into a pig's head.
"Xuexue, Huahua, go keep this Young Master Su company and cool his temper for him!" Li Cihua had read the resentment in Su Taizao's heart and beckoned to the twin top girls, gesturing for them to attend to Su Taizao.
Pig's head or not, Xuexue and Huahua were no fools. They knew this man had status — anyone who could sit as an equal with Li Cihua was no simple matter.
And true, he was a pig's head now, but when he had first walked in he had been quite the handsome fellow. Keeping him company was no loss to them.
"Young Master Su…" Two swaying, alluring figures closed in around Su Taizao. He had been full of grievance, but now that Li Cihua had yielded both top girls to him, the resentment in his heart vanished clean away in an instant.
He was not a man of much guile. The purpose of his visit to the private room this time had simply been to snatch the women, and now that the purpose had been achieved, he had face! Since Li Cihua had been so sensible as to give him face, Su Taizao naturally had nothing more to say. Happily, he threw his arms around the two top girls and headed into the resting room in the inner part of the private room.
Li Cihua smiled faintly. He understood well enough what Su Taizao was thinking, but he did not take the man seriously in the least. The one he truly valued was An Liwen — the man who could bring him profit.
"Young Master An, forgive my bluntness, but why did you invite Wei Zhao to dinner? Are you and he friends?" Li Cihua first had to get clear on the relationship between An Liwen and Wei Zhao. True, he had seen with his own eyes how furious An Liwen was after Wei Zhao had set him up, but that was only on the surface. Who knew whether there might not be some deeper connection between them?
He himself was about to enter into a partnership with An Liwen. If An Liwen and Wei Zhao really were friends, then this partnership would likely go nowhere.
"Friends?" An Liwen gave a cold laugh. "More like rivals in love."
"Oh?" Li Cihua narrowed his eyes. He had caught a useful piece of information. "No wonder he set you two up!"
"I underestimated the brat's intelligence. It seems he knew all along that I meant him no good. He came, ate a meal at my expense, and then left a trap for me!" An Liwen said furiously. "Brother Cihua, you and Wei Zhao…"