Beauty Chairwoman’s Bodyguard Expert

Chapter 682: Chapter 678: The Past of Rose (4th Update)

After a brief moment of being stunned, Han Zifeng quickly regained his composure and hurriedly greeted the bodyguards to step forward, wearing a radiant smile as he said, ”Sister-in-law, you’ve finally arrived. My name is Han Zifeng, and Brother Lu asked me to wait for you here.”

”Han Zifeng.”

At this moment, Lin Yafei also noticed the sign the bodyguard beside Han Zifeng was holding. Looking at Han Zifeng, a flash of surprise crossed her beautiful eyes. Before coming to Beijing, she had done quite a bit of investigation. Han Zifeng, the Third Young Master of the Beijing Han Family, was naturally not unknown to her.

”Hello, my name is Lin Yafei.”

A faint smile crossed Lin Yafei’s lips. She had received a text from Lu Tianxing the day before, knowing that he had arranged for someone to pick her up in Beijing. However, she hadn’t expected the person meeting her to be Han Zifeng. It seemed her hero was far more mysterious than she had thought, with connections even in Beijing, and with such a high status.

”Sister-in-law, you are too polite. After sitting on the plane for so long, you must be tired. I’ve already arranged the hotel for you. Let me take you there now to rest for a while,” Han Zifeng said with a smile.

”No problem, thanks a lot, Third Young Master Han.”

Lin Yafei nodded with a smile. She had just arrived in Beijing and wasn’t very clear about the distribution of power in the city. It was a good opportunity to ask Han Zifeng, a local authority in Beijing, to understand the power dynamics of the city and decide where it would be best for her to start.

...

Meanwhile, inside a private dining room of the Xiangjiang Peninsula Hotel’s restaurant.

Lu Tianxing sat across from Bai Zhiqing with a sheepish grin, while Bai Zhiqing’s pretty face was tinged with an indelible blush, her legs unnaturally crossed, and her beautiful eyes filled with anger as she glared at Lu Tianxing.

Touching his nose and smiling awkwardly, Lu Tianxing said, ”Wife, can you not look at me with those eyes? I’m getting the chills. Whatever it is, we can talk about it later. I’m about to starve to death.”

”It would be best if you starved to death. Lu Tianxing, give it to me straight. Do you have any designs on that enchantress, Huangfu Meigui?”

Bai Zhiqing’s beautiful eyes emitted a chilly glint. Just a while ago, Lu Tianxing had actually told her that Rose would be coming to Xiangjiang today, and, more critically, it was Lu Tianxing who had called her here. This revelation made her mood suddenly less beautiful.

Lu Tianxing immediately broke out in an embarrassed sweat, saying with a bitter smile, ”Wife, please don’t think nonsense. I just asked her to come to Xiangjiang to help out.”

”Help out?”

Bai Zhiqing let out a cold laugh and said, ”What kind of help do you need in Xiangjiang that requires her involvement? Aren’t the Huang Family’s aid not enough for you? Lu Tianxing, I didn’t realize you were so bold, eating from the bowl while looking at the pot. Come clean, have you been keeping me in the dark and rolled under the covers with Huangfu Meigui? I always knew you were never up to any good...”

Lu Tianxing looked at Bai Zhiqing with a face full of speechlessness, suddenly realizing that a woman consumed by jealousy could be scarier than anything else. Perhaps one moment she would be rolling under the covers with you, and the next she might slap you across the face. One simply could not apply common sense to a woman’s behavior.

”Honey, when did I ever roll in the sheets with Rose? This was entirely out of necessity. Have you forgotten how great the danger we are facing now is? The mastermind behind the bounty on your head still can’t be traced. Without strength, if we encounter something similar again, what should we do? Moreover, in Modu, you know I’ve cooperated with the Rose Society. When you were kidnapped by the Zhang Family, it was the Rose Society’s help that allowed me to find you in the shortest time,” Lu Tianxing explained to Bai Zhiqing.

”That was in Modu, not Xiangjiang.”

”I am aware of that.”

Lu Tianxing nodded and said, ”But it’s undeniable that there are also crises in Xiangjiang, and the power behind the person who put a bounty on you is more terrifying than we imagined. In order to protect you better, I had to expand the influence of the Rose Society and enhance its strength. Only then, when I find the mastermind, will I have the capacity to deal with them. And, speaking of which, Rose is just like you, a pitiful woman.”

Upon hearing this, Bai Zhiqing was slightly taken aback and looked at Lu Tianxing with a puzzled expression and asked, ”What do you mean by that?”

She knew Huangfu Meigui to be a dominant figure in the Underworld, always glamorous, never changing, and behaving like a seductress. How could she be pitiful?

”She, like you, was deeply hurt by her own father. Do you remember how I met Rose?”

Lu Tianxing took a drag of his cigarette; he decided to tell Bai Zhiqing about Rose’s situation, but not everything. He had to keep his relationship with Rose hidden, at least until he resolved Bai Zhiqing’s issues. Otherwise, the sky would truly fall.

Bai Zhiqing didn’t speak but looked at Lu Tianxing with a perplexed face, waiting for what he would say next.

”I met Rose one year ago, at night. At that time, I had just returned to Modu not long before. One night, when I was coming home a bit late, I ran into a woman who was being hunted down. And that woman was Rose.”

Lu Tianxing glanced at Bai Zhiqing and sighed deeply before saying, ”The person behind the pursuit was Huang Fuhu, her own biological father.”

”What are you saying, how could that be possible? How could a father hunt down his own daughter? I...”

Bai Zhiqing’s eyes widened with disbelief at what she heard. A biological father sending assassins after his own daughter was something she found hard to believe. However, when she thought about the incidents that had occurred to her, Bai Zhiqing became silent again. Why couldn’t it be possible? If a father could betray his own daughter for money, why couldn’t such things happen?

”Nothing is impossible.”

Lu Tianxing took a deep breath and continued, ”Do you know why Rose’s father wanted to kill her? Because she wanted to avenge her mother. When she was young, she accompanied her parents on a trip and witnessed her mother dying right in front of her eyes while her father just coldly watched, indifferent as the killer went scot-free. To seek revenge, Rose started to build up her own power, and her father, fearing trouble she could cause, decided to get rid of her. If she hadn’t run into me that night, there might not be a Huangfu Meigui in Modu anymore.”

Bai Zhiqing didn’t interrupt Lu Tianxing, listening quietly instead. How could she have never realized that Rose, who enjoyed such a glamorous life on the outside, feared by everyone, had such an unknown side? Witnessing her own mother’s death, her father unsympathetic, even trying to kill her—what profound sadness and pain that must have been.

The things that happened to Rose were almost a mirror image of her own, but she had been much luckier than Rose; because she still had family, loved ones, and a man who loved her. Whereas Rose had nothing, she had to bear it all alone, unable to share with anyone—such pain was unimaginable.