Chapter 457: Chapter 457 - 451: The Doorknob Moves Slightly...

"Grandpa is critically ill, he was just pushed into the emergency room the night before last, and hasn’t woken up yet. Your dad, Shi Lingkang, has spent the past two years in the Imperial Capital winning people’s hearts. His bargaining chip to get steady on his feet again is you, Shi Su, and that absurd marriage announcement of yours!"

As Shi Dongyang spoke, he suddenly raised his hand and forcefully gripped Shi Su’s wrist, giving a hard yank. Shi Su had been somewhat on guard, but with the sofa right behind her, she couldn’t avoid it and ended up having her wrist seized by him, and was simultaneously thrown heavily onto the sofa.

"What kind of seductive tricks did you use to ensnare Jing Jihan? I damned thought that after breaking ties with the Shi Family, you’d just be a little orphan girl with nothing to worry about, but I didn’t expect you’d still have such a card up your sleeve. You’ve even gotten involved with Yu Jing Group! And you dare say you have no ambitions?"

"Ambition? You really are a coward year after year, always guarding against me. If I truly had such ambition, would it even be your turn to stand here?" Shi Su slightly raised her eyelids, evidently about to stand up again.

Shi Dongyang, however, raised his hand again and forcefully grabbed her wrist: "At first, I didn’t think a woman without any proper background could make any mark. It seems grandpa had already inquired all about your situation from multiple sources. He’s always believed you’d return to the Shi Family. Even if he didn’t say it, everyone could tell he was intent on waiting for your comeback. And I kept wondering where you had gained his approval. Now it seems, it’s nothing more than Jing Jihan behind you that caught his eye!"

Shi Su suddenly let out a cold laugh, violently shaking off his hand, stepped forward abruptly: "What? My marriage into the Jing Family frightens you so much, terrifies you? You blame the old man for seeing you as an incompetent fool, never intending to leave the family estate to you, and never thought about how stupid and useless you are yourself?"

Shi Su stepped forward, causing the originally fierce-looking Shi Dongyang to subconsciously take a step back, until he suddenly realized he was being pressed back by this woman’s aura and immediately darkened his face, standing still.

"For these two years, you’ve been so bothered by me, a cousin who merely struggles in the entertainment industry, let alone hearing the name Jing Jihan." Shi Su said as she suddenly glanced up and down at him with a sort of mocking curiosity: "Shi Dongyang, your persistent entanglement with me cannot be just your own wish. I don’t know the extent of the infighting between your parents and the old man, nor do I care to get involved with the affairs of Imperial Capital the Shi Family. Even though Shi Lingkang is my biological father, his actions have never sought my consent. You repeatedly come to trouble me, just because you see me as a woman, with a child, and if you really forced me to a dead end, I’d just be an unarmed, abusable existence to you. You’ve been playing your calculations out loud. It’s been two years already, yet you’ve learned nothing about legitimate business tactics, only these petty revenge schemes. I have to wonder what Mr. Shi really thinks of you, this fool. Was he pushed into the emergency room out of anger at you?"

Shi Dongyang suddenly turned his head viciously, laughed coldly, and looked back at her: "Shi Su, are you provoking me?"

"If I don’t provoke you, you’re already stupid and impulsive enough as it is. If you don’t kill me, you probably won’t sleep soundly for the rest of your life, isn’t this your sole purpose for coming?" Shi Su said, glancing at Shi Dongyang’s hand continually probing into his pants pocket.

He was deliberately scaring her.

She was sure that even if he had paid a lot to bribe the security to enter this building, a routine check for outsiders would have been conducted before he came in, making it impossible for him to carry any controlled blades or anything else that could harm her.

That meant his main purpose today was probing and intimidation.

Even if he really wanted her dead, he wouldn’t be foolish enough to murder with so many surveillance cameras in the halls, which would be no different than sentencing himself to death.

"You’re right, not killing you really makes me sleepless," Shi Dongyang said as he suddenly stepped forward, raised his hand, and roughly grabbed Shi Su’s hair, dragging her toward the window with a ferocious intent.

Shi Su’s apartment was on the sixteenth floor, and the windows in the living room were open. If he wanted to throw her down, it would be effortless.

Amidst her struggles, her gaze swept toward the bedroom door, and she heard the faint sound of the doorknob turning. She suddenly gave up struggling and shouted, "Shi Dongyang, I’m warning you not to mess around! This is the sixteenth floor!"

Upon hearing the words "sixteenth floor", Shi Dongyang’s eyes, already reddened with agitation, were stirred further by his emotions. He was merely trying to scare her, yet he suddenly yanked Shi Su by her hair, throwing the person towards the window.

The bedroom door, which should have swung open a moment ago, remained closed following Shi Su’s overly deliberate shout, staying as quiet as ever.

Sensing no third presence in the apartment, Shi Dongyang’s emotions were swayed by the anger boiling inside, while Shi Su, as she struggled, looked up at him, noting the gradual loss of rationality in his eyes due to impulse. She suddenly raised her hand, simultaneously acting in terror to resist, trying to pull her hair free from his grip.

Damn it, why couldn’t he grab her somewhere else? Pulling her hair hurt like hell!

Seeing Shi Su’s terrified and pain-stricken pale face, Shi Dongyang forcefully dragged her towards the window, pressing her against the window, which was only covered by a screen. With eyes burning red from anger, he viciously stared at her, gripping her hair, and threatened, "I’ll send you to the underworld today! Mrs. Jing? You can be Mrs. Jing underground!"

Shi Su’s hand groped beside the potted plant near the window, swiftly finding the drawer handle next to the side table beside the sofa. She suddenly yanked it open, grabbed the safety hammer inside, and unexpectedly smashed it on his arm.

"Ah—!!! Damn it!!!" Shi Dongyang swore angrily in pain, the hand gripping her hair loosening instinctively due to the shock of pain.

Taking advantage of the split second when he recoiled his pained arm, Shi Su grabbed everything within reach and hurled it at him. The potted plant was too heavy to lift with one hand, so with one hand holding the safety hammer, she grabbed the dirt from the plant and flung it into his face. As Shi Dongyang stumbled backward, swearing in a mixture of pain and anger, she quickly shut the window behind her. Then, seeing him about to trip on the carpet behind him, she mercilessly kicked his lower abdomen with her high-heeled shoe.

"You bitch! Shi Su, you fucking bitch!" Shi Dongyang staggered to the ground, his face covered in dirt as he barely forced his eyes open. Before he could clearly see what Shi Su was holding, he was suddenly slapped ferociously across the face, his eyes instantly turning blood-red as he lifted his dust-covered face in disbelief.