Chapter 14: Demanding Accountability

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To spite Ye Huan, Lin Xi deliberately raised her voice, intending for the girl wearing a baseball cap to overhear and sow discord between Ye Huan and the girl. Her plan worked perfectly.

As a war deity, Hong Luan’s hearing was extraordinary, and with Lin Xi speaking so loudly, she caught every word clearly.

Hong Luan was shocked, thinking Lin Xi was incredibly bold—daring to call the Underworld King a scumbag and even order him to sing while standing on his head. Was she courting death?

This thought made Hong Luan extremely anxious. If the Underworld King wanted to kill Lin Xi, she wouldn’t be able to stop him!

“Is that little weakling who wants to marry you?”

Not only Hong Luan but also the enchanting woman holding Ye Huan heard Lin Xi’s voice and asked.

Since she was right beside Ye Huan and hadn’t lowered her voice, Lin Xi on the other end of the phone heard everything clearly.

This infuriated Lin Xi, especially when the girl with the baseball cap called her a “little weakling.”

Poor Hong Luan was caught in the crossfire on behalf of the enchantress.

“Yes,” Ye Huan nodded, his face darkening as he replied to Lin Xi, “I’m busy right now. Can I sing later?”

The enchantress, realizing the caller was the “queen,” was thrilled. She thought the queen was courting disaster, which was the perfect opportunity for her, the favored concubine, to rise.

She was about to stir up trouble when Lin Xi’s voice rang out again:

“No, right now! Immediately! Sing standing on your head! Don’t sing those disgusting thug songs; sing... sing ‘Conquer.’”

Hong Luan’s face turned pale upon hearing this. Lin Xi was really asking for trouble—calling the Underworld King a scumbag was one thing, ordering him to sing upside down another, but demanding he sing “Conquer” was just outrageous.

This was it—Lin Xi was doomed, and the entire Lin family was at risk!

“That’s too much!”

The enchantress finally seized the chance to speak, barely restraining her excitement as she said angrily:

“How can a little weakling act like that? Marrying you is like smoke rising from her ancestral tomb—if she’s not grateful, that’s one thing, but calling you a scumbag and ordering you to sing upside down, and to sing such a humiliating song as ‘Conquer’—why marry a woman like that? To worship her as an ancestor? I suggest you don’t marry her.”

Lin Xi heard every word clearly—it was impossible to miss the enchantress’s loud voice.

She immediately retorted:

“Who are you calling a little weakling? You’re the little weakling! Your whole family are little weaklings. If I can marry you, it’s because smoke is rising from the Underworld King’s ancestral tomb. To me, he’s just a pile of stinking dog poop.”

The enchantress was furious and said to Ye Huan:

“Did you hear that? Did you hear? She called you stinking dog poop—can you tolerate that? I can’t. Nod your head, and I’ll go deal with her for not cleaning up last year’s mess.”

Ye Huan watched the enchantress and Lin Xi exchanging insults across the line, nearly laughing out loud. But he understood why the enchantress acted this way and guessed Lin Xi’s little scheme.

“Are you not going to start?”

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At that moment, Lin Xi’s urging voice came through.

“Alright, alright, I’m starting right now!”

Ye Huan glanced at the pale-faced Hong Luan and smiled.

Lin Xi said, “Turn on the video. I want to watch you sing ‘Conquer’ upside down.”

After saying that, she hung up and sent a video call request.

Ye Huan handed the phone to Hong Luan and said, “Please hold this and record well.”

Then he moved to an open space in the living room and stood on his head.

Hong Luan was dumbfounded, stunned beyond words, thinking, “Could this really be the Underworld King? Otherwise, how could he do such a thing?”

“Are you ready to start?” Ye Huan asked while upside down.

“Uh, uh...” Hong Luan quickly answered and accepted Lin Xi’s video request, standing up to face Ye Huan.

“Finally, you found a way to decide the winner and loser. The price of losing is to be utterly destroyed…”

Upside down, Ye Huan began to sing.

Hong Luan’s thoughts exploded—he was actually singing!

On the other end of the phone, Lin Xi froze for a moment upon seeing Ye Huan on video. She wondered why the scumbag was still wearing clothes.

Had she miscalculated the time? Could it be that Ye Huan and the girl in the baseball cap were catching up, planning to warm up their relationship before going to bathe, heh heh?

Just then, she suddenly heard the enchantress’s voice from the phone:

“You’ve been on the plane so long and then dragged around by the little weakling for hours. After you finish singing, go take a bath.”

Bath time, bath time... Lin Xi became excited and said:

“Alright, I have something to do now. You can stop singing here.”

She disconnected the video call, planning to wait until Ye Huan finished bathing and was about to get intimate with the girl in the baseball cap—or perhaps had already started—before calling again to make him sing upside down.

“I’ll make you suffer!” Lin Xi said fiercely.

Meanwhile, Ye Huan stopped singing upside down and said:

“I should take a bath now. Hong Luan, wait for me. I’ll come down after I’m done.”

“Okay!” Hong Luan nodded. After Ye Huan went upstairs, she turned to the enchantress and asked:

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“What’s the relationship between the Underworld King and Lin Xi?”

The enchantress curled her lips disdainfully. “They’re bosom buddies!”

Hong Luan gasped inwardly. The legendary super assassin enchantress was actually this shameless. She asked:

“Did the Underworld King really come to Peng City just to marry Lin Xi?”

“What do you think?”

The enchantress ignored Hong Luan, tiptoed upstairs, and sneaked a peek at Ye Huan while he bathed.

Hong Luan fell into deep thought. She still couldn’t believe the Underworld King came to Peng City purely to marry Lin Xi and become a son-in-law to the Lin family.

Someone like the Underworld King could never become a mere son-in-law!

Elsewhere, Lin Xi stared at the time on her phone with eager anticipation. After twenty minutes, she thought it was about right—how could a restless man take such a long bath?

She guessed the scumbag was probably already with the girl in the baseball cap by now.

Just as she was about to call Ye Huan, her secretary knocked and entered:

“President Lin, Jin Jiu, chairman of Jin Group, wants to see you!”

So soon... Lin Xi’s heart trembled violently as she said:

“Please send him in.”

“Alright!” The secretary left immediately.

Soon, a burly, imposing middle-aged man with slicked-back hair kicked the door open and stormed in, demanding:

“Lin Xi, how did my son Jin Feiyu offend you? Why did you report him to the police?”

“I didn’t report him. The police came to him on their own,” Lin Xi replied expressionlessly.

“Bullshit!” Jin Jiu cursed loudly, slamming his phone onto her desk in anger:

“Look for yourself. This is surveillance footage from Shangyang Restaurant’s manager.”

“Jin Feiyu brought people to your Lin family’s private room. They were taken away from that room, and the people Jin Feiyu brought were carried out, bleeding from their heads.”

At this, Jin Jiu pointed at Lin Xi furiously:

“Lin Xi, Lin Xi, Jin Feiyu likes you so much, yet you had the people he brought beaten like this and even reported them to the police. You’re too cruel!”