Chapter 48: A Tough Guy You Can’t Afford to Offend

Chapter 48: A Tough Guy You Can't Afford to Offend

"You gigolo, you should have been satisfied after taking advantage of Li Mengxue; yet you still dare to hit on Ivanova. Don't you know I've set my sights on Ivanova? You dare to pursue a woman I've taken a liking to? Don't forget your status; you're just an undergraduate student. If you weren't a gigolo, you'd still be just a part-time waiter right now."

Zhang Deyuan glared at Zhou Lang and casually grabbed a wine bottle from the coffee table in front of him. Since they had already dropped the facade and the thugs hadn't taken action, he prepared to do it himself.

"Is that so? Zhang Deyuan, you're a married man with a family. Do you really think Ivanova would look at you? Have you forgotten so quickly how she beat you into a pig's head? Other people forget the pain once the scar heals, but you—your scars haven't even healed yet, and you've already forgotten the pain."

Zhou Lang laughed.

"If she isn't willing, can't I just force myself on her?" Zhang Deyuan was furious at Zhou Lang. He gripped the wine bottle and walked toward Zhou Lang, saying, "Today, I'm going to crack your head open first."

"Whoosh!"

This guy really had a bit of ruthlessness in him; he swung the bottle right at Zhou Lang's head, completely unafraid of causing trouble.

The corners of Zhou Lang's mouth curled into a look of disdain. Just as the wine bottle was about to smash onto his head, he suddenly kicked out like lightning, sweeping his leg at Zhang Deyuan's lower leg.

Zhang Deyuan, having no footing, couldn't steady himself. He immediately lunged forward and fell face-first onto the ground.

The most miserable part was that the wine bottle shattered on the floor first. There were many glass shards on the floor, and his face scraped directly against them.

"Ah!"

Many glass shards pierced into Zhang Deyuan's face, which hadn't fully recovered from the swelling. He couldn't help but scream in agony. After the scream, he touched his face and found it covered in blood.

"Get up. Didn't you want to beat me up? Is that all you've got?" Zhou Lang stood to the side, calm and composed.

"I'll kill you!"

Zhang Deyuan was truly furious and humiliated. He forced himself to climb up from the ground, pulled out a dagger, and approached step by step, intending to stab Zhou Lang.

Zhou Lang stood still. Only when Zhang Deyuan's gleaming dagger was thrust right in front of him did he reach out two fingers and clamp onto the blade.

Zhou Lang was now a Cultivator. Those two fingers could cut gold and break jade; the sharp dagger was actually snapped in two by his grip!

Zhang Deyuan was instantly dumbfounded. Holding the broken half of the dagger, he didn't dare to make another move.

"Manager Zhang, Ivanova is already my woman. It's true that men like beautiful women, but you shouldn't pester them relentlessly. If you want to compete with me for a woman, as you said yourself, you should know your own worth."

Zhou Lang threw the broken dagger on the ground and said coldly. For someone like Zhang Deyuan, he couldn't possibly kill him, so he just showed a bit of his capability to intimidate him.

After speaking, Zhou Lang turned and left. He had a good grasp of the situation; he knew that after showing such a feat, Zhang Deyuan wouldn't dare harbor any evil thoughts toward him and Ivanova again.

…

"Am I seeing things? He snapped my dagger with his fingers? My dagger was forged from fine steel. This guy isn't a gigolo; he's a monster-level character hiding in plain sight. Why am I so unlucky to run into such a ruthless person?"

It wasn't until Zhou Lang left the private room that Zhang Deyuan regained his senses.

"Ouch, I have to go to the hospital again. This is fucking bad luck."

The injury on his face caused him intense pain. Afterward, he covered his face, left the KTV, and took a taxi to the hospital.

On the way to the hospital, he seemed to think of something and called Supervisor Cao Yushan back.

"Manager Zhang, you haven't taken action against Zhou Lang yet, have you?" As soon as the call connected, before Zhang Deyuan could speak, Supervisor Cao Yushan asked.

"What's wrong?" Zhang Deyuan asked. "Why did you call me so many times?"

"Manager Zhang, I wanted to tell you that Zhou Lang is a tough guy we can't afford to offend. He can crush Tiedan like a pancake, and even someone like Duan Wei is respectful to him. We absolutely cannot afford to offend him."

Supervisor Cao Yushan said.

"This… what exactly is going on?" Zhang Deyuan asked after a shock.

So, Supervisor Cao Yushan recounted what happened at the Lovers Bar last night.

"Why the fuck didn't you tell me sooner?" Zhang Deyuan said, covering his face. If he had known earlier that Zhou Lang was such an awesome figure, he never would have dared to call thugs to cause trouble for Zhou Lang.

"General Manager Zhang, you hung up the phone in a hurry before I could say anything, and you didn't answer when I called you back. You can't blame me for that," Supervisor Cao Yushan said, feeling aggrieved.

…

After leaving the Sisters KTV, Zhou Lang called Ivanova, roughly explained what had happened, and returned to his rented apartment.

Although it was the weekend, Zhao Xiaorou still went to work. She was doing very well at the real estate company, and even on weekends, she wanted to sell properties to make money.

"Brother Lang, I want to come out of the 'Qiankun Palace' and experience the mundane life."

Just after returning to his room, the voice of Xiao Xi, the spirit of the ancestral copper coin, came into Zhou Lang's mind.

"Then I have to take you to buy some clothes first," Zhou Lang said.

"Then hurry and take me!"

A figure flashed in the room, and Xiao Xi appeared in front of Zhou Lang, looking somewhat impatient. She was still wearing only that white cloth that looked like a bath towel, making her look sexy and alluring, causing a surge of lust in Zhou Lang's lower abdomen.

"What identity you will use to appear by my side is still a problem."

Zhou Lang thought with a headache. If such a sexy beauty suddenly appeared by his side for no reason, Zhao Xiaorou, Ivanova, and even Li Mengxue would ask questions.

"Brother Lang, is it true that Zhao Xiaorou, Ivanova, and Li Mengxue all like you? If I'm by your side, will they have objections?"

Xiao Xi asked. The reason she wanted to come out of the 'Qiankun Palace' wasn't entirely because she wanted to experience the mundane life, but because she wanted to be by Zhou Lang's side. She was jealous of Zhou Lang's flirtatious relationships with women like Li Mengxue. She felt that if she didn't appear openly in Zhou Lang's life soon, she wouldn't have any status with him in the future. However, there was one thing she was very proud of: she was the first woman to sleep with Zhou Lang.

"I reckon they will. They are people of the mundane world and find it hard to accept that I have many women."

Zhou Lang sighed. Although Ivanova had come to terms with this issue, if she were to really discover other women by his side, jealousy would still be inevitable.

"Then you can just say I'm your cousin who came to rely on you," Xiao Xi said. She hadn't experienced much of the mundane life, but she was very clever.

"Cousin? With that identity, you can't be too intimate with me," Zhou Lang thought for a moment and said. It seemed like that was the only way for now.

"I will be careful when they are with you. If we need to perform Dual Cultivation, we can still return to the 'Qiankun Palace'," Xiao Xi smiled slightly, looking very cute.

"I don't have any money on me right now. I'll borrow some from Li Mengxue tonight, and then I'll take you to buy clothes. After that, you can appear by my side openly," Zhou Lang said.

"Brother Lang, there is jade inside the 'Qiankun Palace'. If we pawn a piece of jade, wouldn't we have money?" Xiao Xi reminded him.