There’re Always Paranoid Thoughts to Monopolize Me - Extra 8.1

“Huo Zhonglou, what do you think?”

As soon as Qin Ke said this, all three members of the Qin family were stunned. Facing Qin Ke directly, Qin Yan felt her heart skip a beat, inexplicably producing a sense of unease.

Yin Chuanfang wasn’t that sensitive, nor did she have much brains. Almost immediately after being stunned, she became excited—in her view, addressing Huo Zhonglou so disrespectfully in the Huo family home meant Qin Ke was simply asking for trouble.

This way, even without them having to scheme further, Huo Zhonglou would surely find this disrespectful Qin Ke intolerable and drive her out of the Huo family.

As if fearing Huo Zhonglou hadn’t heard Qin Ke’s words, she quickly hid the excitement in her eyes and face, raised her voice, and said coldly.

“Qin Ke! You really don’t know your manners! Mr. Huo is the eldest young master of the Huo family, and even your future brother-in-law, how can you call him directly by his name!? Quickly apologize to Mr. Huo, then get as far away as possible before he gets angry—…leave as far as you can!”

After speaking, Yin Chuanfang turned her back to Huo Zhonglou and looked coldly at Qin Ke with smug satisfaction.

She had hoped to see a panicked reaction on Qin Ke’s face, but was disappointed—this girl, whose personality had changed drastically since coming to the Huo family, seemed to have lost the emotion of fear, and still remained calm after her speech.

There was even a faint hint of a smile.

The way she looked at Yin Chuanfang and the other two was like looking at clowns, clearly a kind of light mockery.

Yin Chuanfang couldn’t keep face anymore.

She was about to say something else when she suddenly remembered something.

—

Everyone in the Huo family had said that this eldest young master had a violent temper and was unpredictable, but why hadn’t he reacted at all when he heard Qin Ke call him by name?

This was too abnormal!

Yin Chuanfang gritted her teeth and turned to look at Huo Zhonglou, who hadn’t spoken all this time.

The man was still standing in his original spot, behind Qin Yan.

That strange white fox mask, which looked particularly incongruous with his status, completely concealed all his expressions, with only a pair of pitch-black eyes exposed.

It wasn’t until Yin Chuanfang turned around that she realized the man’s eyes were actually looking at her.

With a cold and suppressed anger.

“…!”

Yin Chuanfang’s back suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

The words she had originally intended to continue provoking were all swallowed back, not daring to utter a single word. She lowered her head, her eyes darting around rapidly, trying to quickly recall which of her words had offended Huo Zhonglou.

But even after thinking it through, she couldn’t come up with an answer.

Meanwhile.

Huo Zhonglou finally withdrew his cold gaze from Yin Chuanfang and turned his attention to Qin Ke.

Standing in front of the living room sofa, the girl neither retreated nor avoided, fearless and carefree, just quietly looking at him with her beautifully contoured chin slightly raised.

How could she trust him so much?

Huo Zhonglou sighed inwardly, and started walking again, entering the main hall without a word.

He stopped beside Qin Ke, looking down at her.

“You’ve really decided?”

The man’s voice was slightly hoarse, hiding a tremor and desire that even he might not have noticed.

“I have never changed or wavered,” Qin Ke said.

This conversation without context left everyone in the hall, except for Huo Zhonglou, somewhat bewildered.

Even Huo Jingyan looked at the two with a strange gaze, then glanced coldly and pityingly at the three members of the Qin family.

—

Although he didn’t know about the agreement between Qin Ke and Huo Zhonglou, he had obviously guessed something.

Qin Yan’s face had already turned pale.

From the moment Huo Zhonglou silently entered the hall, passing by her without a glance and walking directly towards Qin Ke, she felt that something had slipped out of control.

Now, the seemingly intimate conversation between Huo Zhonglou and Qin Ke clearly further verified her thoughts.

――

Qin Ke had really seduced Huo Zhonglou while she was inattentive and absent!

Anger almost burned away Qin Yan’s rationality, causing her originally rather pretty face to show traces of ferocity.

But Qin Yan still remembered where she was, and knew even more that compared to the Huo family of Sijiu City, the Qin family didn’t even count as a tiny ant.

She could only forcefully hold back, staring intently at Huo Zhonglou.

Qin Yan could endure it, but someone else couldn’t.

“Mr. Huo, I don’t understand, what do you mean by this?”

Qin Hanyi, who had been silent all along, only putting on the appearance of a good-natured man allowing his wife and daughter to “bully” Qin Ke, finally couldn’t hold back anymore.

He stepped forward, walking towards the hall.

“…What is there not to understand.”

After receiving Qin Ke’s answer, Huo Zhonglou’s pitch-black pupils trembled for a few seconds, but he had now slowly calmed down.

He had obtained something he didn’t even dare to hope for, and that extreme joy burned like fire in his heart. Yet he suppressed it, not letting even a bit show, only masochistically yet enjoyably feeling that burning sensation spread through his entire body.

Huo Zhonglou unbuttoned one button of his suit jacket and calmly sat down on the sofa.

He leaned back against the soft leather of the sofa, his gaze sweeping towards Qin Hanyi who had spoken up.

Qin Hanyi was intimidated by that gaze, unconsciously stopping in his tracks.

—

Come to think of it, this was the first time the three members of the Qin family had face-to-face conversation with Huo Zhonglou at such close range.

Before this, regardless of big or small matters, it had always been Huo Jingyan representing Huo Zhonglou, and even if the Qin family wanted to see him, they simply couldn’t.

Naturally, Qin Hanyi hadn’t imagined that such a young man—even if rumored to be violent and frightening—could completely overpower him in terms of presence.

Qin Hanyi’s original boldness had already disappeared by the time he walked to the side of the sofa.

But with his wife and daughter behind him, he could only force himself to speak.

“Mr. Huo, your current attitude is a bit confusing. We have failed in educating our daughter, allowing Qin Ke to disrespect her elders, and since we are guests, we naturally should let Qin Ke go home to reflect, to avoid delaying the wedding matters—but you don’t seem to mean this?”

“You indeed failed in educating your daughter,” Huo Zhonglou laughed hoarsely, his voice slightly harsh.

“However, it shouldn’t be reflected in Qin Ke, but rather in your real daughter, right?”

“…!”

With Qin Yan at the forefront, the expressions of the three Qin family members instantly became extremely unpleasant.

Yin Chuanfang said in a shrill voice. “Mr. Huo! What are you saying! Previously, it was you who sent Butler Huo to Qian City, saying you had admired our Yan Yan for a long time and wanted to form a marriage alliance with the Qin family! How come you’re now saying such things, could it be that Yan Yan did something to displease you, Mr. Huo?? If so, Mr. Huo, just say it directly, I’ll make Yan Yan change!”

Huo Zhonglou: “Change?”

He laughed with a hiss, shaking his head, “There’s no need. A person has already grown into this mentality, I see no hope for correction—moreover, isn’t she just inheriting your two’s insidiousness and selfishness?”

“…!”

Qin Yan’s face turned pale.

And Qin Hanyi’s face finally couldn’t suppress his anger.

“Mr. Huo, even if the Huo family is much more powerful than the Qin family, you can’t humiliate us like this!”

Yin Chuanfang’s thoughts were different.

She stood in place for a long time with a pale face, as if unable to accept that her daughter’s beautiful dream of transforming from a sparrow into a phoenix had shattered before her eyes.

After being frozen for a few seconds, she suddenly reacted, hysterically glaring at Qin Ke—

“Was it you!? Was it you who spoke ill of our family in front of Mr. Huo!? I knew you were an ungrateful wretch—you’re just jealous of Qin Yan! That’s why you want to drive a wedge between Mr. Huo and us, to ruin her marriage!”

While speaking, Yin Chuanfang was almost pouncing forward with a ferocious expression.

However, at some point, Huo family bodyguards had appeared in the hall. At Huo Jingyan’s signal, they quickly stepped forward, directly restraining the hysterical Yin Chuanfang.

Yin Chuanfang was probably driven mad by the shattering of her beautiful dream, and she actually turned her head to bite one of the bodyguards restraining her.

Unable to avoid it while restraining her movements, the bodyguard was bitten on the tiger’s mouth position, and exasperatedly slapped Yin Chuanfang.

A crisp and loud “slap” sound.

All three members of the Qin family were stunned.

Yin Chuanfang, coming to her senses, seemed to go even more mad—

“I’ll sue you! I’ll sue all of you!… You dare to grab me, and even dare to hit me!? I’ll sue you to death!!”

“Mrs. Yin, you’re misunderstanding one thing,” Huo Jingyan suddenly spoke up at this moment, incredibly calm and composed.

“The ones who will be sent to the judgment seat are not the Huo family, but your Qin family.”

Naturally, Yin Chuanfang, who was throwing a tantrum like a madwoman, couldn’t care less about this issue, but Qin Hanyi’s face changed dramatically.

He seemed to have some guesses, but still holding onto a last shred of hope, he asked through gritted teeth.

“Butler Huo—Huo Jingyan, what do you mean by this!?”

“The meaning is simple.”

Huo Jingyan brought his hand from behind his back to the front, using his forearm as support, he opened the folder in his hand, then reached in and pulled out the white pages, and shook them.

With a “whoosh” sound,

Papers long enough to drag on the ground and pile up were pulled into the air by Huo Jingyan, holding their top edge.

Huo Jingyan smiled slightly.

“The Huo family recently lost two unlimited credit cards, and then we discovered that these cards were somehow fraudulently used by someone—these are the evidence of the bills from your week of extravagance in Sijiu City.”

“You—you’re committing fraud! That money, that money was spent by you! We were just guests!”

“Yes, if you weren’t guests at the Huo family, how would you have had the chance to get Young Master Zhonglou’s unlimited black card?”

“…!”

Qin Hanyi’s face turned ashen, and he stumbled back several steps.

By this point, how could he not understand—what pie falling from the sky, what long-time admiration leading to a bold proposal, what dream of climbing up to the wealthy Huo family of Sijiu City…

It was all fake!

From the beginning, this was a trap!

The money was spent by them!

Every boutique, every service staff, and those surveillance videos could all prove that the three of them had pounced on the opportunity like locusts seeing a farmer, recklessly indulging in greedy enjoyment… plus these bills…

Their unrestrained spending over these few days was undoubtedly an unimaginably large sum, and definitely enough to send the three of them to prison for many years!

Seeing that the couple, Qin Hanyi and Yin Chuanfang, were on the verge of collapse, Huo Jingyan gave a signal to several bodyguards with his eyes.

“‘Invite’ them back to their room, and show them the contract I drafted. Let them think carefully about the pros and cons of their choices.”

“Yes, Butler Huo.”

No matter how they struggled, Qin Hanyi and Yin Chuanfang were taken away.