Yang Fei gently patted Liang Jiayi's shoulder, his voice soft with comfort.

"It's okay now, it's all in the past."

Listening to Yang Fei's comfort, Liang Jiayi cried even harder.

Yang Fei also thought of his sacrificed brother, Long Ci, and felt a slight sourness in his heart.

This time, if he hadn't been looking for Liang Jiayi and coincidentally came across her.

He really didn't know what kind of insult this girl would have suffered.

Fang Tang's forehead hit the edge of the table, swelling up and turning black, as if a horn had grown on it.

His head buzzed, stars flashing before his eyes.

Fang Tang used all his strength to finally lift his head with difficulty.

He caught sight of Yang Fei right away, with his arm around Liang Jiayi.

Fang Tang's eyes blazed with fury, "You son of a bitch, how did you get in here?"

Sometimes, Fang Tang even wondered.

If this odd-job man was arranged by heaven specifically to go against him.

How come he appeared everywhere?

Yang Fei, with his arm still around Liang Jiayi, walked over with determined steps.

Fang Tang was scared by his beating, shrinking back the moment he saw him approach.

He looked at Yang Fei with fear, "What... what do you want to do?"

Yang Fei grabbed Fang Tang's throat and lifted him high with one hand.

Without any courtesy, he delivered slaps to both of Fang Tang's cheeks, leaving him dizzy and seeing stars.

Fang Tang's mouth was bloodied from the blows, his cheeks swelling up like inflated pigskin.

The wretch trembled all over and covered his face.

"Don't hit me, I won't dare do it again."

Fists can't solve problems.

However, sometimes, for some people, talking with fists is more effective than anything else.

Yang Fei snorted and spit onto Fang Tang's face.

"Listen here, as long as I'm alive, no one is going to bully Jiayi."

"If there's a next time, I'll kill you."

As he spoke, an overwhelming, steely murderous intent emanated from his entire being.

Fang Tang looked into Yang Fei's eyes only once before feeling an icy chill throughout his body, as if he had fallen into an ice pit.

That reckless air, treating human lives like grass, absolutely could not be faked.

Fang Tang clearly felt that if he really angered this monster, he would dare to kill him.

After Yang Fei finished speaking, he tossed Fang Tang aside like throwing out trash.

He wrapped his arm around Liang Jiayi, ready to walk out of the Secretary Office.

Fang Tang fell to the ground like a broken sack.

He was both afraid and humiliated.

After all, he was also from the upper echelons of society, an elite offspring.

Why was he repeatedly humiliated by this lowly odd-job man?

Watching Liang Jiayi's graceful figure about to walk out the door.

Fang Tang's heart was torn apart, and he suddenly roared desperately.

"Jiayi, don't forget, it's this odd-job man who caused your trouble."

"Do you still not understand his purpose for being with you?"

Liang Jiayi's heart shuddered.

That statement, like a poisoned arrow, struck her tender heart accurately and ruthlessly.

Yang Fei, too lazy to argue with Fang Tang, with his arm around Liang Jiayi's shoulder, was about to leave.

But Liang Jiayi, as if nailed to the floor, stood still and immobile.

Yang Fei felt Liang Jiayi's stubbornness and was a bit surprised.

"Jiayi, what's wrong?"

Slap!

The next second, Liang Jiayi sent a slap flying towards him.

Yang Fei frowned and grabbed Liang Jiayi's hand.

"What's the matter? What happened?"

"You liar!"

Liang Jiayi struggled fiercely, her eyes filled with tears.

"You promised me, not to tell anyone the content on Secretary Luo's note."

"Why does everyone know now?"

Yang Fei was slightly taken aback, then chuckled.

"Jiayi, this matter was indeed my doing."

"You bastard!"

Liang Jiayi's last glimmer of hope vanished, and she couldn't help but try to hit him again.

Her hand was tightly grasped by Yang Fei's larger one.

Yang Fei glanced at Fang Tang, seemingly helpless.

"I did promise to keep it a secret, but do you know why I had to spread the news?"

Liang Jiayi struggled furiously, "How would I know? You've ruined me."

Yang Fei gently patted her shoulder and sighed.

"Calm down, I didn't do anything wrong in this matter."

He didn't wait for the angry Liang Jiayi to question him but coldly hummed, pointing at Fang Tang.

"Who leaked the confidential documents of the old city district's redevelopment?"

"Secretary Fang, you should know better than I do, right?"

Fang Tang faced his fierce gaze and immediately trembled inside.

He couldn't help shrinking back, feeling guilty, "What... what do you mean?"

Yang Fei shrugged his shoulders, his face expressionless as he started to flex his wrists and knuckles.

"Nothing much, it just so happened I was nearby, watching the stars at Little Mirror Lake Pavilions, when you leaked the redevelopment news to Fan Song."

The sarcasm in his eyes was deep.

"You gave Fan Song the redevelopment planning map, letting him encircle a lot of land to scam compensation from the government office. I'm not wrong, am I?"

Fan Song, hearing this, was instantly petrified.

"That night you... no, I don't know what you're talking about."

He cried out involuntarily, but then quickly came to his senses and vehemently denied it.

As things took a sharp turn, Liang Jiayi was also shocked.

"Fang Tang, it was actually you?"

Although Fang Tang immediately denied it.

But the instant fear in his eyes, the panicked expression, had already aroused Liang Jiayi's suspicions.

"No, I didn't."

Fang Tang indeed was a character; he had managed to calm himself down completely in that instant.

He coldly began to counterattack, "Yang Fei, I know you want to help Liang Jiayi clear her name."

"But pinning this on me is absolutely impossible. I, Fang Tang, am a person with discipline and organizational skills."

Yang Fei let out a heh heh and slowly moved his fist, edging towards Fang Tang.

"Guess what I want to do now?"

His wrists and knuckles cracked loudly.

To Fang Tang, this bean-popping noise was the most terrifying sound in the world.

He shrank back in fear.

"You… don't mess around, I can call the police to arrest you at any moment…"

Just then, Liang Jiayi grabbed the corner of Yang Fei's clothes.

She had begun to grasp the complexity of the matter and said lightly, "Yang Fei, don't do anything rash."

Yang Fei was actually only intending to scare this pretty boy.

Such a despicable person wasn't worth his time to argue with.

Yang Fei stopped in his tracks and decided to clarify everything.

"I know Fang Tang and Fan Song colluded to use the information gap to encircle land and earn dirty money from the people."

"Jiayi, if you knew about this, would you care?"

By now, Liang Jiayi understood.

"So, you let the news of the old city district's redevelopment out, so they would have no land to encircle?"

Yang Fei nodded and said indifferently, "I did break my oath, and for that, I'm truly sorry."

"However, what I've done is right by the world. If you blame me, I have nothing to say. I apologize."

"Let's go, I'm tired. I want to go home."

For some reason, after Fang Tang's outburst, Liang Jiayi knew that Yang Fei's intentions were not as despicable as Fang Tang had suggested.

Her heart suddenly felt much more at ease.

Just then, Fang Tang burst into hysterical laughter.

"Nicely said, you really are the saint, the Bodhisattva," he sneered.

"But do you dare say you haven't secretly encircled land yourself?"

"You haven't sought personal gain?"

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