Chapter 76: Losing His Temper — Where Are You
Wu Zongbai immediately explained the whole sequence of events. He didn’t embellish anything, but his description was vivid all the same.
“…Fourth Master, this is my failure. I let Miss Su be bullied.”
Qin Mochen’s face, already dark, turned even darker.
Wu Zongbai secretly observed the Fourth Master’s expression and, at just the right moment, added, “You didn’t see how pitiful Miss Su looked. She was bullied like that, yet she didn’t say a word of grievance—she was still worrying about you the whole time.”
Qin Mochen sighed inwardly. How could she not have complained? She clearly sent me those crying messages. I just didn’t see them in time.
The man suddenly turned his head. His dark, heavy gaze swept across the men and women in the banquet hall, quickly locking onto his second brother and sister-in-law. Then, expressionless, he walked straight over.
Huang Yueshan had already made a fool of herself at the banquet and had left with her elders. Although the main parties were gone, only a few minutes had passed since the incident, and plenty of people were still whispering and laughing about it.
Wherever Qin Mochen passed, people fell silent one after another, secretly glancing at him.
Even so, he still caught fragments of conversation that, to him, were no different from verbal filth.
Only after he had walked past did the murmurs slowly resume.
“Fourth Master Qin is even more handsome than a celebrity, with a figure better than an international model. It’s just that when he puts on that cold face, he’s really intimidating. Who offended this Buddha?” a socialite whispered.
“I wanted to say earlier—the woman Qin Dashao took away seems to have been brought here by Fourth Master Qin.”
“Hiss—no way. Could that woman be Fourth Master Qin’s…?”
At this moment, Qin Junchi’s father had just finished cleaning up the mess.
Old Master Xu was elderly and tired and had already left the banquet, so Qin Tianhao could only apologize to the Xu family’s host.
Although the Xu family said it was no big deal, Qin Tianhao was still seething.
Seeing Qin Mochen approach, he spoke before the other could even open his mouth. “Fourth Brother, you’ve got to help me discipline that little bastard Qin Junchi. Look at the mess he caused! He completely disgraced the Qin family! Arguing loudly with the Huang family’s girl in public is bad enough, but then he even dragged some wild girl away. It’s infuriating!”
“Enough, enough. Stop talking. We’ll deal with Junchi when he gets back,” Qin Tianhao’s wife, Fang Peiqi, hurriedly interjected.
“This is all because you spoil him! When he gets back this time, I’m breaking his legs!”
“Oh, listen to you, Qin Tianhao. You’re never home, I raised Junchi on my own with great effort, and now you’re saying I taught him badly?”
“Second Brother.”
Qin Mochen suddenly spoke. His dark eyes fixed on him as he said calmly, “That ‘wild girl’ you mentioned—” He paused slightly. “—is my person.”
Qin Tianhao and Fang Peiqi froze at the same time.
“So, you can scold your own son if you want, but don’t drag her into it.”
Qin Tianhao and Fang Peiqi: “…”
“Qin Junchi not only got her splashed with alcohol, but also let these idle people point fingers at her. He really does deserve a beating. I’ll help you discipline him later—just don’t feel sorry for him, Second Brother and Second Sister-in-law.”
After saying that, Qin Mochen turned and left, striding swiftly out of the banquet hall.
His second brother and sister-in-law were left standing there, utterly stunned.
Fang Peiqi tugged at her husband’s sleeve. “Tianhao, did Fourth Brother take the wrong medicine today?”
Qin Tianhao was just as shocked. “That little girl is his person?”
Fang Peiqi suddenly remembered something and said nervously, “Tianhao, you can’t let your fourth brother discipline Junchi. He’s trained—he hits hard.”
“It’s too late. Can’t you tell? Fourth Brother is angry. Don’t let his age fool you—when he gets ruthless, no one in the Qin family dares provoke him except our father.”
“So what, we just leave it? What if your son gets beaten lame by his fourth uncle?”
“If he gets beaten lame, good. It’ll save him from fooling around all day!”
At present, Qin Junchi had no mood to fool around at all. The car he’d only bought not long ago had broken down just like that, making him furious.
He stretched out his leg and kicked the car body hard, then took out his phone to call someone.
It was hot outside, so Su Keke stayed in the car. When he kicked it, the car shook, and she jolted along with it.
Why was she having such a streak of bad luck today? She wasn’t even being haunted by any bad spirits.
Just then, Su Keke’s phone rang.
She slowly took it out. One second ago she still looked listless; the next, when she saw the caller ID, her eyes lit up instantly.
The little girl hurriedly answered. Before she could even say “Uncle,” the other party spoke first:
“Where are you?”
“At… I—I don’t know where I am either. Just on some road.”
“Give the phone to Qin Junchi.”
“Oh.”
Qin Junchi had just hung up his own call when Su Keke obediently handed him her phone.
“Who is it? Why give it to me?” Qin Junchi muttered. But as soon as he put the phone to his ear, he heard his Fourth Uncle’s low voice, laced with anger:
“Location.”
“F-Fourth Uncle?”
“I—I—I’m on it… I’ll send my location right away.”
After hanging up, Qin Junchi slowly turned his head to look at Su Keke, wearing a look of utter despair. “It’s over. I can feel the calm before the storm.”
Only a few minutes later, Qin Junchi spotted a familiar black sedan driving toward them.
His Fourth Uncle was the nostalgic type. Take this sedan, for example—back when he bought it, it was the most luxurious limited edition, absurdly expensive. After all these years, anyone else would have replaced it long ago.
But his Fourth Uncle refused to change it. Even Assistant Wu followed his lead and became frugal, driving a beat-up car for years. That brand-new, high-end SUV his Fourth Uncle now owned had only been bought because Qin Junchi himself nagged him into it.
The car door opened, and a tall, handsome man with an icy expression stepped out.
Qin Junchi looked at his Ninth-Heads-Tall, devastatingly handsome Fourth Uncle and walked over with a smile. “Fourth Uncle.”
Qin Mochen ignored him completely and walked straight past.
The smile froze on Qin Junchi’s face, though he secretly let out a sigh of relief.
When Su Keke learned that her uncle had arrived so quickly, she hurried to open the car door to get out.
But before the door was even halfway open, Qin Mochen had already strode over, yanked it fully open, fixed his gaze on her face for a split second, then suddenly scooped her up by the waist and hauled her out.
“Ah!”
Su Keke let out a short cry. Her feet were already off the ground, and she was tucked under his arm like a little chick.
Before she could even process what was happening, she was transferred from one car straight into another.
“Uncle,” Su Keke looked at him and called softly.
After stuffing her into the passenger seat, Qin Mochen took several long strides around to the driver’s side. His arm swung through the air in a sharp arc as he opened the door, then slammed it shut with a loud bang.
The heavy sound made Qin Junchi’s heart thump along with it.
