Rebirth of the Peak Young Master

Chapter 1499: Chapter 1499: A Life of Satisfaction

Jiang Guangyao helplessly used his phone to take a picture of the little bunny girl. The little bunny saw Qin Yanran on the video, and her eyes went wide like an O. She nervously stretched out her right hand to greet Qin Yanran: "Hi, wow, beauty, you’re really gorgeous. You’re prettier than any girl I’ve ever seen. Even the big stars on TV aren’t as good as you!"

No girl dislikes being told she’s pretty, especially praise coming from another girl. The bunny’s words made Qin Yanran very happy. Qin Yanran also politely waved and greeted her: "Thanks, beauty, you’re also the best-looking girl I’ve ever seen!"

"Hehe..."

The little bunny wanted to say more, but Jiang Guangyao reached out his right hand and pressed it on her forehead: "Quit stalling, hurry up, keep screaming!"

"Humph!" The bunny glared at Jiang Guangyao and reluctantly went back to the chair to keep shrieking.

Jiang Guangyao nodded in satisfaction and turned the phone’s camera back toward his face.

Qin Yanran’s expression grew even stranger: "You... is this a horror movie?"

"Uh... this thing... it’s a long story. When I was in the capital, a friend dragged me to this kind of place to play. That’s what I was talking about."

"Oh, right!" Qin Yanran was sharp as ice and snow; she instantly understood what Jiang Guangrong meant, and she smiled thoughtfully. "Is that really your ’friend’?"

"Kind of..." Jiang Guangyao nodded blankly.

"Yikes... what a terrible friend you made!"

"Pfft..." Jiang Guangyao almost burst out laughing. Ji Feng had actually become a "terrible friend" in Qin Yanran’s mouth. He wondered how Ji Feng would feel if he knew Qin Yanran thought of him that way.

"Isn’t he?!" Qin Yanran pouted and said, "I’m telling you, it’s a good thing you’re not the type to go whoring around, otherwise I wouldn’t bother with you anymore!"

Jiang Guangyao patted his chest without hesitation: "Come on, do I look like that kind of guy? I’m a straight-up guy, I don’t like messing around!"

"Haha, fine, you pass. I was actually thinking of inviting you to the capital city to have some fun, but looking at you now, you’re basically living a life of pure bliss already!"

"Alright, alright..." Jiang Guangyao laughed. "What about you? How’s life in the capital?"

"So-so. I’m having a pretty good time this trip to Beijing. Seeing so many old friends I hadn’t seen in years, it feels like I’m back in my childhood again."

"Isn’t that even better? Forever young! Haha!"

"Hehe..." The corners of Qin Yanran’s mouth lifted slightly, revealing a faint dimple on her right cheek.

Although this wasn’t the first time Jiang Guangyao had seen this kind of bewitching-but-unbuyable smile from Qin Yanran, he still froze, utterly speechless, just staring dumbly at the girl on the screen who made him lose his bearings.

Qin Yanran also wanted to say something, but a woman’s voice came from offscreen: "Ranran, who are you chatting with?"

"A friend!" Qin Yanran smiled, glanced to her right, then turned back to look at the phone. "I’ll stop here for now, I’ll contact you later when I’m free!"

"Okay!" Jiang Guangyao nodded.

Very quickly, Qin Yanran hung up the video call as decisively as she had initiated it.

Jiang Guangyao couldn’t help but laugh. She really was a special girl. He then remembered the advice Li Mubai had given him, and he couldn’t help mumbling to himself: I’m just being ordinary friends with her, yeah, yeah, just ordinary friends. I shouldn’t cross the line, right?

About half an hour later, Jiang Guangyao finally couldn’t stand the rabbit demon’s screeching anymore. Smiling, he walked over to the bunny, covered her mouth with his right hand, and said with a grin: "You can go now!"

"Huh? You’re kicking me out now?" The bunny stared at him.

Maybe because his ears had suddenly become quiet, Jiang Guangyao was in a great mood: "If you don’t want to go, you can keep staying here, but I’m not paying for the room!"

"Oh?" The bunny jumped up like someone had stepped on her tail and bolted for the door.

After opening the door, she seemed to remember something. Reluctantly, she turned back and looked at Jiang Guangyao: "Mr. Jiang, I don’t know what you’re called, my name is..."

"Shhh!" Jiang Guangyao pressed his right index finger against his lips. "We just met by chance; better if we don’t know each other’s names! Go on! You should be able to cash in those chips, right?"

The little bunny couldn’t help but show a disappointed expression: "I can cash these chips for money. If I follow you into the elevator, they won’t make things hard for me. Mr. Jiang, you’re a good person!"

The little bunny smiled, lightly kissed the back of her right hand where Jiang Guangyao had tossed her a "good guy" line, then left without looking back.

"I’m a good person?" Jiang Guangyao felt like he’d just heard a really funny joke and couldn’t help laughing, shaking his head. If he were a good person, would he have plotted against the City Lord? If he were a good person, would he have forced Zhao Zhong to stand on his side? If he were a good person, would he have coerced Xiao Zheng into killing the woman he loved just to control him? If he were a good person, would he have killed those innocent pilots on the plane? How few bad things had he actually done himself?

Jiang Guangrong suddenly felt a strange sense toward himself. Before, when he killed a chicken, he couldn’t bear to be ruthless, but now he could mercilessly slaughter so many innocent people. At this moment, Jiang Guangrong finally understood a famous saying that circulated in the Underworld—down here, very few people have a good ending!

Jiang Guangyao couldn’t help feeling confused. What would his ending be like? A bullet to the head? Hacked to death at noon? Stabbed at home in the middle of the night?

He let out a bitter smile. Whatever his ending, it definitely wouldn’t be a good one. But no matter what awaited him, as long as it was to avenge the young lady, even if he had to go down to the eighteenth level of hell, so be it!

Thinking of this, Jiang Guangrong’s previously confused gaze suddenly became firm.

Jiang Guangyao closed the door downstairs, didn’t bother with any goodbyes, and called Zhang Xianhai.

The next day at noon, Jiang Guangyao and his group arrived early at the hotel for the dark meeting. Since there were still more than ten minutes before the earliest time to enter, they all casually sat in the lobby on the first floor and chatted.

While Jiang Guangrong was happily chatting with his crew, a dark-skinned middle-aged man walked over with a dozen men behind him.

The dark-skinned middle-aged man enthusiastically extended his right hand to Jiang Guangyao: "Mr. Jiang, you’re early!"

Having watched the details of these dark meetings countless times, Jiang Guangyao immediately recognized the man in front of him as Chen Lai, the boss of the Scorpion Gang, the third-largest gang in the province. Facing Chen Lai, Jiang Guangyao naturally couldn’t afford to be careless. He smiled and also extended his right hand, firmly shaking Chen Lai’s: "Boss Chen, you’re early too!"

Chen Lan smiled: "Hahaha, if us small-time gangs don’t show up early, the big gangs will find any excuse to pick on us!"

From Chen Lan’s words, Jiang Guangyao heard what he meant and laughed: "Exactly. That’s why we have to unite these small gangs; otherwise we’ll just end up as the big gangs’ cannon fodder!"

Chen Lan chuckled in agreement: "That’s only natural. In fact, not just at this dark meeting—I, Chen, think that even back in our own turf, we can still unite with Mr. Jiang!"

"Oh?" Jiang Guangyao paused slightly. From the sound of it, Chen Lan seemed to want more than just a short-term alliance during the dark meeting; even after the meeting ended and they returned to the province, Chen Lan seemed interested in forming a long-term alliance with him.

Jiang Guangyao smiled deeply: "So you’re saying that after the black meeting ends, I should find some time to visit Dezhou and pay Boss Chen a visit—and I also hope Boss Chen doesn’t end up so busy that he has to drink the Northwest wind instead!"

"Hahaha, not at all. If Mr. Jiang comes to Dezhou, that’ll be like a little bear cub coming to my Scorpion den. When the time comes, I just hope Mr. Jiang won’t look down on our poor and boring little Dezhou!"

"How could I? Then, Boss Chen, we have a deal!"

"Deal!