Chapter 10: He Arrived Like a Heavenly God Descending to Earth

"How about that?" Wen Nanping sneered indifferently to Ou Lan being beaten. "You'll have to leave Capital City immediately!"

"That's impossible, Dad left a will, and Lanlan just got accepted into university."

"Mom, why waste words with them? These kinds of people need to be beaten until they submit."

As she spoke, Gu Manli waved her hand and the two bodyguards behind her immediately stepped forward and began to beat Ou Lan and her father.

Wen Nanping watched with cold indifference.

She absolutely despised Ou Lan and her father; they were like stains in her life, and she dreaded every day that someone would discover she had once had a child with a man from the slum.

As a lady of high society, she feared exceedingly being ridiculed and pointed at over this affair.

Because of the existence of this father and daughter, there was always a barrier between her and her current husband, who would even use this issue to humiliate her during occasional arguments.

Being Wen Nanping's daughter and a well-known socialite, Gu Manli also loathed Ou Lan and her father, because she feared people finding out that she had such a lowly half-sister from the same mother.

For a long time, Wen Nanping and Gu Manli had exhausted every method to force Ou Lan and her father out of Capital City, but the duo was tough, never yielding no matter how they were bullied.

Specifically, Ou Lan was tough. Many times, Ou Chenghai had cried and begged her to compromise and give in, but Ou Lan simply would not, even if she was bullied every day, determined to become a persistent irritant in Wen Nanping's eyes.

Not only would she not leave Capital City, but she also intended to make something of herself there, which is why she had strived hard and been admitted to Yinghua University.

This enraged Wen Nanping so intensely that when Ou Lan received her university admission notice, she had furiously caused a scene and even damaged a lot of furniture.

Although Ou Lan was never really good at fighting, she refused to sit and wait for disaster, protecting her father behind her and charging at the bodyguards as they advanced.

"Stop!"

A clear, penetrating male voice rang out at the door, spreading a cold chill through the air.

Everyone turned in the direction of the voice, inhaling sharply.

At that moment, the setting sun painted the window sills crimson, as if the room were lightly brushed with rosy light.

Flanked by two rows of imposing, well-built bodyguards in black, a man, as stiff as a pine, elegantly stepped into the cramped, shabby living room, making the already-small space feel even more claustrophobic.

His sharp gaze and aura, mighty as a dragon, adorned in a high-end, handcrafted pure black suit, radiated a divine and inviolable aura as if a heavenly god descended to earth.

"Xiao, Master Xiao?" Gu Manli, both terrified and excited, her excitement tinged with a hint of coy, couldn't believe it. After all, becoming Zhan Moxiao's second wife was her life's ambition.

But Zhan Moxiao didn't even glance at her, his piercing gaze fixed directly on Wen Nanping's face, and he said, "Madam Gu, what brings you here?"

Wen Nanping, of course, would not let anyone know Ou Lan was her daughter, and she didn't know the relationship between Zhan Moxiao and Ou Lan, nor did she understand why the Empire's Richest Man would come to this slum alley.

Everyone knew Master Xiao was an elegant tiger, not to be trifled with, and if angered, you'd be flayed without any chance to retaliate.

After thinking hard, Wen Nanping cautiously replied, "I came to expedite the demolition; the development rights to this old alley have been granted to Gu's."

Zhan Moxiao nodded in understanding, a mocking smile curling at his lips, "So you mean to forcibly demolish it?"

At the foot of Imperial City, who would dare forcibly demolish anything in front of Master Xiao, radiating pure righteousness?

Frightened and unsure how to respond, Wen Nanping froze, while Gu Manli stepped forward opportunistically, her smile radiant, her voice ingratiating, "Master Xiao, what brings you here?"