Chapter 50: The Promise of Saint Guan
Video? The relationship exposed? What… what is going on?
Without a moment’s hesitation, Li Yuyan quickly pulled out her phone and opened the Li family group chat. Sure enough, a pinned message caught her eye—it was a video.
At that very moment, the entire group chat was flooded with vile insults. The Li family members were furiously condemning her, calling her despicable names.
The messages kept refreshing the screen, shaking her moral compass, and lowering the bar for abuse with each passing second.
Just a glance was enough.
Li Yuyan felt as if a thousand blades were tearing through her heart; the pain was unbearable, as if her heart was bleeding.
She seemed to realize something. Her hand holding the phone trembled uncontrollably. She frantically scrolled up through the chat history until she finally found the sender of the video.
Li Yuxue!
It was her…
Li Yuyan immediately clicked on the video to watch it. The screen revealed the figures of her and Guan Sheng, and the familiar voices from that day echoed in her ears.
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“Honey, don’t worry! No one will ever bully you.”
“But you’re not Young Master Qi. If your identity is exposed, my parents and my grandfather will hate you.”
“They all think you’re Young Master Qi, that’s why they allowed us to register our marriage.”
“…”
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Meanwhile, the chat screen continued to refresh with even more insults.
“I told you from the start, Yuyan is no good. She’s a shameless woman, secretly doing such a treacherous thing. She’s dragging the Li family down a dead end.”
“Yeah, now I finally understand why Guan Sheng was made head of security as soon as he joined the company. So it’s because he married her! Li Feng, Xu Hong, do you deserve the old man’s trust?”
“Why hasn’t that shameless woman died sooner? Young Master Qi already decreed he would marry her, and she still hooked up with another man?”
“That fickle woman has ruined the reputation of the entire Li family. She deserves to go to hell. Now the whole upper society of Jiangcheng has seen this video. How are we supposed to save face?”
“Kick Li Yuyan out of the Li family.”
“Yes, kick her out!”
“…”
At that moment, the fury of the Li family reached its peak. The typing was incessant and explosive, like firecrackers going off.
Especially that video—it was a carefully edited clip of the conversation between Li Yuyan and Guan Sheng, played on an endless loop.
The message was clear and simple:
Li Yuyan had registered her marriage.
But the person she married was not Young Master Qi—it was an imposter named Guan Sheng.
In an instant, Li Yuyan’s face paled. Her eyes widened, brows furrowed, and her breath became rapid and uncontrollable.
It’s over… it’s all over…
The appearance of this video threw Li Yuyan’s mind into chaos. For a moment, she didn’t know whether to feel relief or dread.
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She had only told her parents about her relationship with Guan Sheng to have an answer for herself.
She had considered confessing everything to the family early on, but wanted to arrange certain matters first. She feared that if Guan Sheng’s identity were revealed prematurely and the Qi family flew into a rage, she wouldn’t be prepared.
But now—
It was too late.
Everything was too late.
The Li family knew.
The high society of Jiangcheng had seen it too, and that meant the Qi family would surely be furious…
What should she do?
What could she do?
Just then, her phone rang again.
“Beep beep beep—”
Nervously, Li Yuyan answered, “Hello… hello?”
On the other end came a voice dripping with sarcasm.
“Yo, old classmate, you got married and didn’t even tell us! So it’s not with that Young Master Qi, huh!”
“Click!” Li Yuyan hung up angrily.
No sooner had she done so than the phone rang again—another unknown number.
She picked up once more, only to hear the same mocking tone.
“Hey, Ms. Li, you’ve got some nerve—ignoring the Qi family to marry some unknown guy. Playing with fire, aren’t you?”
“Click!” She hung up again.
But—
The phone kept ringing.
She hung up repeatedly, the calls incessant.
Tears welled in Li Yuyan’s eyes. Since the incident, no one had comforted her.
Her thoughts were a tangled mess. Her hand trembled, and the phone slipped from her grasp, crashing to the floor with a sharp crack.
At that moment, Guan Sheng also saw the messages in the group chat. Unlike Li Yuyan’s reaction, he remained remarkably calm.
“Looks like everyone else knows,” he said. This was something that should have been said long ago. After all, he had married Li Yuyan. In a way, it was an honor for the Li family.
Li Yuyan’s voice was hoarse as she said, “I’m booking you a flight now. You need to leave Jiangcheng.”
Leave Jiangcheng again? Does he not see himself as a man? Running away when trouble comes, leaving his woman to bear it alone?
That was not Guan Sheng’s style.
He picked up the phone, dusted it off, and said in a low voice, “Don’t be afraid. I’m here.”
“So what if they know I’m not Young Master Qi?”
“I never wanted anyone to mistake me for Young Master Qi to begin with.”
What a joke. If people overseas knew that the infamous Killing Blade was mistaken for just a minor scion of a first-tier wealthy family, they’d definitely look down on him.
Someone like that wouldn’t even be worthy to shine Guan Sheng’s shoes in the assassin’s city.
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Li Yuyan was still anxious. “Grandfather will force me to divorce you.”
Guan Sheng smiled. “And will you agree?”
Li Yuyan responded resolutely, “No.”
“But he will take back control of the company.”
Guan Sheng slipped his hands into his pockets. “If I can bring in tens of billions in donations for the company in just one day, do you think he’ll still take back control?”
“Huh?”
Li Yuyan was momentarily stunned. Normally, if that much money came in at once, the old man… probably wouldn’t take back control!
Because—
Who would turn down that kind of money?
After all—
The old man was passionate about charity. He had long wanted to make amends to those poor but resilient comrades from the war years.
Before she could react, Guan Sheng said, “Let’s go home. Tell them we’re hosting a charity gala and inviting all the major families of Jiangnan Province to donate.”
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“Guan Sheng, how dare you show your face at the Li family’s old mansion?”
“Kneel immediately!”
Late at night, the Li family’s old mansion was brightly lit.
Countless eyes, sharp as blades, fixed on him as if they wanted to devour him alive.
The Li family members all wore gloomy expressions, their faces darkened by the shame brought on by the video spreading throughout Jiangcheng.
In just one afternoon, the Li family had received numerous congratulatory calls.
Calls of congratulations that were in fact funeral dirges.
Especially Old Master Li Jianjun, seated in the main hall. His gaze was so fierce it seemed as though it could consume a man. He stared directly at Guan Sheng.
On the table beside him lay a jet-black, cold shotgun.
Slowly rising, he took the gun in hand and aimed it straight at Guan Sheng’s head!
The once highly honored national general commanded with grave authority:
“Kneel!”
Facing the barrel, Guan Sheng showed no sign of humiliation. As always, with a flick of his sleeve, a half-arm-long blade shimmered coldly in his hand.
He raised his head. “I won’t kneel.”
“And what if you don’t?”