After Being Betrayed I Married the Glamorous CEO-Chapter 287 - 285: You Really Think You’re Something!

After a long while, Liu Bing finally realized what she had just been through—what kind of humiliating treatment she had endured. Shen Fanyun had actually hit her, and the slap had been vicious. With just one blow, she felt her face had been ruined. Red blood seeped through the gaps in her fingers. In her entire life, this was the first time she had ever been treated this way. This was intolerable. After all these years of living a glamorous life, accustomed to being superior to others, when had she ever been slapped like a dog?

"You... you hit me!" Liu Bing gritted her teeth, her eyes filled with resentment and rage toward Shen Fanyun. This was the same guy who Han Feng used to torment until he was a pariah. He used to act inferior to everyone, especially her, Liu Bing; he wouldn't even dare speak to her. On what grounds could he act this way now? On what grounds could he flaunt his power in front of her? Did he really think he could hit her, Liu Bing, and not pay a price? This man should have spent his entire life crushed under her heel, unable to move, yet now he was turning the world on its head. He had slapped her in public. What gave him the nerve?! "Do you have any idea what you've done? You hit me! Just you wait, I'll make you regret this!" she snarled.

The last time they had encountered Shen Fanyun, he hadn't been so direct and brutal. He had seemed like the same old guy, not much different from his youth. At least, Liu Bing hadn't felt he was someone to be feared. But now?

"I even beat up Han Feng. Who do you think you are? Some stray dog? What price could you possibly make me pay for hitting you?" Shen Fanyun retorted. "Are you tougher than Han Feng, or what?"

Liu Bing was speechless.

SLAP!

Shen Fanyun stepped forward and, without another word, struck Liu Bing across the face again. "What price?"

"What price?"

SLAP!

Another heavy slap caught Liu Bing completely off guard, sending her to her knees. The bleeding was uncontrollable now, blood flowing down her face and staining her clothes red. She was utterly stunned. Before she could even react, the sharp pain from her cheek made her eyes burn, and tears welled up.

Hong Tao was so terrified he barely dared to breathe, slowly inching away from Shen Fanyun. He was afraid that if he got too close, he would suffer the same fate as Liu Bing. Those solid slaps looked like they could permanently disfigure someone.

"If you don't have the fate of a noble, then show some restraint," Shen Fanyun said, looming over the kneeling Liu Bing. "You think acting tough makes people fear you? Go on, keep shouting. I'm listening. You're nothing but trash, and you really think you're something special?" he sneered.

These two are quite something. It's one thing to tell bald-faced lies and twist the truth, but to get into trouble and then blame the outsiders who ridicule them? Aren't they just reaping what they sow? And to think they wanted Li Ruoshui to act as a middleman and sort out their mess. The crucial part was, if you're asking for a favor, then ask properly. Why did they act so superior, as if they were magnanimously granting Li Ruoshui a golden opportunity? Anyone who didn't know better would think some great personage was issuing commands. Does Liu Bing live in a dream world, honestly believing she's a big shot? Where did she get the gall to be so high and mighty here?

"We... we're classmates, after all! You... you're going too far!" Liu Bing couldn't take it anymore and shrieked at Shen Fanyun. "Does our time as classmates mean nothing to you? Shen Fanyun, what will the others think of you for doing this?" The more she thought about it, the more humiliated and aggrieved she felt, her face a mask of shame.

"So now you remember we're classmates?" Shen Fanyun shot back. "When you were ignoring the facts and spreading slanderous rumors about me, why didn't you remember we were classmates then? Now that you're in trouble, you decide to play the classmate card?"

Liu Bing was speechless again.

BOOM!

Shen Fanyun kicked out, his foot landing squarely on Liu Bing's head. She cried out in pain as her body convulsed and twitched.

"You worthless thing, stop putting on such righteous airs. Don't you have any self-awareness? I gave you a chance last time and didn't bother with you. You still dare to be so arrogant and bossy? How many lives do you have to throw away? Classmate? What kind of classmate are you? Licking the Han Family's boots like a dog? Did that make you feel proud?"

CRACK!

Shen Fanyun ground his heel, and a smear of blood blossomed beneath Liu Bing's head like a blooming blood-red rose.

HISS!

Hong Tao gasped, scrambling even farther away from Shen Fanyun. This was too brutal. Liu Bing was a girl, after all. To suffer such abuse... this would likely leave psychological scars for life. It was too tragic.

"Hong Tao, are you an idiot? Didn't you see me getting beaten?" Liu Bing, desperate and clutching at straws, started yelling at him. "Aren't you going to step in and stop him! Are you just going to stand there and watch me get bullied? Ah!"

But Hong Tao was already too frightened to breathe, let alone pay her any mind. He even regretted his whim to follow Liu Bing here to seek Li Ruoshui's intervention. If he hadn't come, he wouldn't have run into Shen Fanyun. No, wait. Li Ruoshui clearly called Shen Fanyun here. These people are all on the same side. They're not to be provoked right now!

"I... I..." Hong Tao stammered, waving his hands in a placating manner as he explained to Shen Fanyun. "This has nothing to do with me! It was Liu Bing's idea to have Li Ruoshui mediate and help her with this problem. I... I just tagged along!"

"Oh?" Shen Fanyun raised an eyebrow.

BAM!

Hong Tao immediately dropped to his knees before Shen Fanyun. There's no running from this, and I can't afford to offend him. Fight? I'd definitely lose. "I'm sorry! I know I was wrong!" he kowtowed frantically, terrified that the slightest hesitation would earn him a beating too.

At this moment, Hong Tao felt an agony worse than eating shit. The day he'd first met Shen Fanyun again, he had looked down on him, even secretly planning to find a chance to put him in his place. In his eyes, Shen Fanyun had been a pathetic, insignificant stray dog. He had imagined that if he so much as decided to target him, Shen Fanyun would be too terrified to sleep at night. He had seen himself as a giant, an entity Shen Fanyun would never dare to offend.

How wrong he had been. Utterly and ridiculously wrong. This Shen Fanyun was hardly some harmless saint. That day, Shen Fanyun had merely been showing them some face, too lazy to be bothered, but Hong Tao had mistaken it for fear.

"I... I truly know I was wrong," Hong Tao said as he watched Shen Fanyun stroll toward him. His heart hammered in his chest, and he kowtowed again without a second's pause, each bow heavier than the last until his scalp broke and bled.

"Wrong about what?" Shen Fanyun asked, a humorless smile on his face as he looked down at Hong Tao with cold, emotionless eyes.

"I... I was wrong to lie through my teeth! Wrong to ignore right and wrong! I knew the truth about what happened back then, but I... I still went against my conscience to slander you. Fanyun, I'm sorry. I see the light now, I really do!" Hong Tao trembled, his tone utterly sincere.

He had never acted this subservient before in his life.

Li Ruoshui's lips curled into a scornful smile. They were all classmates once. Those days were so pure, so good. Now, Hong Tao and Liu Bing have turned themselves into something worse than dogs. It's truly contemptible. She felt ashamed to have classmates like them. To be fair, if they had truly wanted to stay out of it, silence would have been the best option. But no, they had to jump out, stir up trouble, and fan the flames, terrified they'd miss their chance to curry favor with the Han Family and Han Feng.

"I'll give you one chance. Go to Lu Feiyan," Shen Fanyun said with a cold smile, then added with emphasis, "Explain what really happened all those years ago. If your explanation isn't clear, or if you try to be perfunctory, you know the consequences."

"What?" Cold sweat broke out on Hong Tao's back. That's opposing the Han Family! In Hangcheng City, who would dare to go against Han Long? That's no different from seeking death! If I tell the truth, I might not even know how I die tomorrow.

"I... I'm your classmate, after all. Can't you give me a way out?" Hong Tao begged, still kneeling.

Shen Fanyun smiled, revealing a set of bright white teeth. "A way out? Did you give me one? Back then, you seemed to enjoy kicking me when I was down. Now that trouble's at your door, you expect someone else to give you a way out? Do you deserve it?"

For a moment, Hong Tao was speechless.

Shen Fanyun slowly squatted in front of him, his eyes glinting with a cold, eerie light. "You refuse? Or you're unwilling?"

"I..."

SLAP!

A single strike sent several of Hong Tao's teeth flying from his mouth. This guy's methods are ruthless. No wonder Han Feng, even with so many men, was beaten half to death by him. Is the Han Family really going to be capsized by Shen Fanyun? Has he really become that powerful? He doesn't even care about the most dominant clan in Hangcheng City?

"I... I understand," Hong Tao mumbled, covering his bloody mouth. He couldn't even find the courage to meet Shen Fanyun's eyes. Who knows what this old classmate of his had been through in the last ten years? He's become so overbearing, so dominant. He's like a new man entirely, unfathomable to those who once knew him. It's impossible to see through him!

"Remember, you only get one chance," Shen Fanyun said with a smile. "If you don't take it, you know the consequences. Of course, you can also choose to stand firmly with the Han Family. I won't force you. The choice is yours, but after you choose, you'll have to bear the consequences yourself!"

Hong Tao remained silent, his mind racing. He's forcing me to choose. If I choose wrong, I could lose my life. The Han Family? Or do as Shen Fanyun says and oppose the Han Family, following this path to the bitter end?