Chapter 12: A Martial Arts Family?

Creak, creak.

Liu Dongming twisted his neck and asked coldly, “You bastard, do you understand me?”

“Oh?” Ye Fei replied unhurriedly, pointing at the surrounding security guards with a half-smile. “Are you so sure they’ll all listen to you? Maybe you don’t know yet—Liu Dongming has just been fired. From now on, I’m the one sitting in the head of security’s chair.”

At these words, quite a few of the younger security guards frowned.

“Don’t listen to his nonsense!” Liu Dongming suddenly grew agitated, his face flushing with anger. “I’ve been with this company for five years, kid!” He reached out and grabbed Ye Fei by the collar, bellowing, “What makes you think a greenhorn like you deserves to be head of security? I don’t know what trick you used to fool the higher-ups, but let me tell you—even if I’m fired, I’m still in charge here!”

“Is that so?” Ye Fei smiled. “So in the security department, you’re the supreme ruler?”

“I’ll show you what kind of ruler I am!” Liu Dongming snarled. Without warning, he swung his fist at Ye Fei’s stomach.

The punch came fast, the kind that only someone trained could throw—sharp and precise. While it lacked a bit in power, it was more than enough to knock the wind out of an ordinary man, perhaps even worse.

But Ye Fei was no ordinary man.

With a casual motion, Ye Fei lifted his wrist and caught Liu Dongming’s punch at a bizarre angle.

Liu Dongming’s pupils shrank in astonishment.

How could this kid react so fast? He just caught my punch, just like that?

Before he could recover, Ye Fei’s other hand shifted like a shadow, reaching for his throat with uncanny speed.

Startled, Liu Dongming retreated, but Ye Fei’s hand seemed to be guided by a tracker, closing in on him relentlessly.

“So fast!”

“A trained fighter?” Panic flickered in Liu Dongming’s eyes. He saw that hand about to seize his throat, yet found himself unable to dodge.

But at that very moment—

Ye Fei’s hand paused, then lightly landed on Liu Dongming’s shoulder with a gentle pat.

“Don’t be so ungrateful. My temper’s improved a lot over the years.”

“If this were the old days, you wouldn’t even know how you died.” The mocking voice drifted over.

Liu Dongming shuddered violently, but rather than backing down, he glared at Ye Fei’s back and cursed, “A rookie like you thinks you can teach me a lesson? Who the hell do you think you are?”

“Oh, a trained fighter? You think that matters? Today I’ll show you that two fists are no match for four hands.”

“Brothers, get him!”

At Liu Dongming’s roar, the thirty-odd security guards surrounding Ye Fei exchanged uneasy glances, hesitant.

Ye Fei, who had originally intended to let Liu Dongming off with a warning, paused at these words and turned to look at the guards.

Seeing that they still hadn’t moved, he crooked a finger at them, smiling. “First day on the job, and isn’t it said a new broom sweeps clean? Here’s your chance—let’s see what you’ve got.”

His words had barely faded.

“What are you waiting for? Get him!” Liu Dongming shouted desperately.

The security guards’ eyes hardened, and they lunged at Ye Fei.

But in the very next instant—

Ye Fei’s figure vanished from their sight.

Then came the screams.

“Ah!”

“Ow!”

“Damn it!”

With each scream, another security guard fell to the ground.

Liu Dongming, standing off to the side, was stunned into silence. He rubbed his eyes, thinking he was hallucinating, trying desperately to follow the blur darting through the crowd.

But no matter how he focused, the man seemed like a ghost, flitting through the throng, leaving only fleeting shadows in his wake.

A minute later.

All thirty-plus security guards lay groaning on the floor.

Ye Fei stood in their midst, smiling as he looked up at Liu Dongming. “Well? Do you think I’m qualified to be head of security? If you don’t think so, we can have a private match.”

At this, Liu Dongming trembled from head to toe. Seeing his former brothers all writhing in pain, he was more than a little shaken and stammered awkwardly, “Well… um… it seems I misjudged you, brother. No hard feelings—I just remembered I have something to do, so I’ll be going…”

With that, he turned and ran.

Before Ye Fei could even react, Liu Dongming had already vanished.

“All right, get up. I went easy—anyone who’s not seriously hurt, get back to your posts,” Ye Fei said, giving a nearby guard a nudge. “Don’t think I can’t handle you lot. If you can’t even manage this much, what am I here for?”

Back in South Africa, he’d commanded several divisions single-handedly as if it were a game.

A handful of security guards were nothing.

With the commotion over, Ye Fei yawned and strolled into his new office.

Meanwhile.

Five minutes later.

On the top floor of the Eternal Group Tower, in the chairman’s office.

Lin Qiqing sat at her desk, her slender, fair legs propped up on the table, gazing lazily at the surveillance screen.

When she saw her junior brother single-handedly take down all those security guards, her brows arched in surprise, a hint of puzzlement crossing her face.

“How strange,” she murmured. “Master never told me what skills little junior learned from him.”

“Could it be…”

A bold idea flashed through Lin Qiqing’s mind.

But soon she saw, on another screen, Ye Fei sprawled out on the desk, fast asleep.

She instantly dismissed the thought, a self-mocking smile playing in her eyes.

“Even if he’s incredibly gifted, there’s no way he could have mastered that legendary manual.”

“Looks like I was overthinking it.”

Night fell.

Six o’clock.

After sleeping the whole day, Ye Fei got off work right on time. Just as he was about to ask his second senior sister for a ride home, he spotted her waiting at the building entrance.

“Well, well, senior sister, waiting here just for me?” Ye Fei strolled over, opened the car door, and slid in. Glancing at Lin Qiqing’s voluptuous figure, he grinned. “Hungry? How about we buy some groceries, and I’ll cook for you tonight?”

“Watch where you’re looking!” Lin Qiqing shot him a glare as she started the engine, her tone cool. “I have a gathering at Royal KTV tonight—it’s all the young heirs of Hangzhou’s elite. You’re coming with me.”