Urban Peerless Expert
Chapter 229 - 249: Whatever Conditions She Offers, I’ll Double! _1

Chapter 229: Chapter 249: Whatever Conditions She Offers, I’ll Double! _1

The sound of high heels striking the ground rang out as Xu Meiling’s figure appeared around the corner.

"Sister Ling, save me!"

The man kneeling on the ground cried out miserably. He was already panicking. If Lin Chen really knew Xu Meiling, his end would be near.

No matter if what Lin Chen said was true or false, it couldn’t hurt to make his suffering more dramatic.

Xu Meiling walked over, followed by a sharp-eyed middle-aged man with a swift figure. His eyes fell on Lin Chen, filled with wariness. It was clear that he was Xu Meiling’s bodyguard.

Lin Chen secretly sighed in admiration. The Cultivation Family did indeed take the protection of their descendants very seriously. Nearly everyone had a bodyguard. Lin Chen had seen Liu Zhen Hao, Leng Ying, Zuo Yingying, Xu Meiling and others all with bodyguards, and all of them were very strong.

These bodyguards were partly hired at high salaries, but many more were actually trained within the family.

Ordinary people with cultivation talent could hardly afford the cost of cultivation, but the family possessed vast resources and would recruit potential cultivators, providing resources for them to improve their strength and grow. In return, they had to serve the family.

It’s like a company discovering talent: they’d spend money on your training and enhancement, but in return, you had to work for the company for a number of years to regain your freedom. Otherwise, you’d face a huge penalty.

For the chosen cultivators, this was a fair deal: working for the cultivator family brought considerable rewards.

Although they lost some freedom, being backed by the family brought status and wealth, and many people entered the family to stay for a lifetime.

Xu Meiling looked at the man’s exaggerated broken leg and a hint of anger appeared on her face.

Someone beating up her people on Xu Family’s territory was showing absolutely no respect for her or the Xu Family.

Although this guy was just an errand boy who usually followed her around and not a very important person, even when beating a dog, one must respect its master.

Because it was already dark, and this area was in shadow, Xu Meiling didn’t recognize Lin Chen from a distance. As she approached and looked at him, her angry expression suddenly froze.

"Lin Chen?"

Lin Chen smiled, "Miss Xu."

Xu Meiling looked at Lin Chen in surprise, "You’re the one who hurt him?"

"Yes," Lin Chen answered calmly.

Xu Meiling frowned, "Why?"

Lin Chen pointed to the uneasy-looking Liao Chengzhi, "I have a grudge with him, and your boy stood up for him. He tried to make me kneel and apologize, or else he’d break my legs and force me to kneel."

Xu Meiling looked at Lin Chen with a slightly surprised expression, "So you broke his leg?"

Lin Chen said with a laugh, "Seems quite fair, doesn’t it?"

Xu Meiling turned her gaze to Liao Chengzhi, staring at him inquisitively, "What kind of grudge do you have with Lin Chen?"

By now, Liao Chengzhi was completely numb.

Lin Chen indeed knew Xu Meiling, and there was no sense of humility or caution in their conversation. Liao Chengzhi knew he had struck an iron plate again.

"Miss Xu, he beat up a bunch of my men. I went looking for him for trouble, but because someone else stepped in, the matter was dropped. But since I saw him here today, I wanted to teach him a lesson. And I didn’t know that he and Miss Xu were friends..."

Xu Meiling chuckled, "I’m not exactly friends with him either. We just met today. Why did he beat up your men?"

Liao Chengzhi was slightly embarrassed, "My men were hired to cause trouble at the entrance of a factory. He was a security guard and came out to drive people away, and that’s when the fight started..."

"Security guard?"

Xu Meiling’s eyes suddenly widened in surprise, looking at Lin Chen, "You said you were going to work as a security guard?"

Lin Chen answered naturally, "Yes."

Xu Meiling suddenly laughed, "Is Zuo Yingying so close to you because she thinks you’re good at fighting and have potential? She wants to recruit you into the Zuo Family and have you under her control?"

Lin Chen looked at Xu Meiling in amazement, wondering how her thoughts had leaped to such a conclusion.

Xu Meiling saw the surprise on Lin Chen’s face and assumed she had guessed right, so she continued with a laugh, "What kind of offer did she make you? If you don’t like it, come work for me. I’ll give you double."

Lin Chen laughed, "Miss Xu, you misunderstand. I have no business dealings with her. We’re simply friends."

"She’s not trying to win you over?"

Xu Meiling looked at Lin Chen in astonishment, "Then why is she so close to you? Does she really fancy you and want you to be the Zuo Family’s son-in-law?"

Zuo Yingying?

Zuo Family’s son-in-law?

The man on the ground stopped howling and even shrank his feet, for fear that he would become the target of Lin Chen and Xu Meiling’s attention. He wanted nothing more than to find a crack in the ground to hide in.

Liao Chengzhi’s face went two shades paler, and the sweat on his forehead grew even more plentiful.

Just now, when Xu Meiling said they had met for the first time and weren’t friends, Liao Chengzhi had breathed a sigh of relief. But now a Miss Zuo from the Zuo Family had suddenly appeared, and by the sound of it, she was very close to Lin Chen?

Liao Chengzhi’s mind went blank, and he just wanted to curse in despair.

With such power and connections to the likes of Miss Zuo, why the hell were you working as a security guard?

Are you insane?