Chapter 91: A Five-Thousand-Year Legacy Cannot Be Slandered

In the courtyard of the Zhou family villa on Scenic Mountain, Wang Huawen gazed at Zhou Fuqu with an admiring smile. She looked stunning tonight, and that blue-and-white porcelain qipao suited her perfectly.

“Zhou Luyang said you had something to tell me. You can say it now,” Zhou Fuqu asked, as if she had not heard his praise at all.

“Fuqu, it has been three months since we parted in Chicago. I returned to the country for you...” Wang Huawen began with a speech meant to move the heart.

But before he could finish, Zhou Fuqu cut him off.

“Enough. If you have something to say, say it. If not, I’m going back. My grandfather still needs someone to care for him.”

Wang Huawen hurriedly reached out and caught her arm, then took a beautiful gift box from his pocket and handed it to her. “For you.”

Zhou Fuqu glanced at the box and refused at once. “Sorry, I don’t accept expensive gifts.”

“This isn’t expensive. Less than two hundred thousand. I had it custom-made for you. I’m sure you’ll like it once you see it.” As he spoke, Wang Huawen opened the box and took out a platinum necklace set with diamonds. “Let me put it on for you, all right? You’re so beautiful tonight, but you’re missing a necklace like this.”

“Let go!”

Zhou Fuqu’s refusal was firm.

“Fuqu, don’t keep refusing me. In truth, our union is what both our parents hope to see. I only want to let you see my excellence and win your heart before the elders announce the marriage alliance,” Wang Huawen said.

Zhou Fuqu turned and glared at him. She knew something of the marriage alliance. When Old Master Zhou had fallen ill before, the Zhou family, in order to strengthen its power and standing, needed to draw close to another powerful family after his passing, and the Wang family was indeed a good choice.

As the eldest daughter of the Zhou family’s main branch, Zhou Fuqu had responsibilities of her own. If the Zhou family truly reached a point where it needed a marriage alliance to shore up its influence, she would have chosen to compromise. But now that Old Master Zhou had recovered, the Zhou family still had at least another five to ten years of prosperity ahead of it. There was no longer any need to rely on marriage to secure its position.

For that reason, Zhou Fuqu was deeply grateful to Lu Feng. Not only had he cured her grandfather, he had also spared her the humiliation of being married off to some spoiled young heir.

Hearing Wang Huawen’s words, Zhou Fuqu could not help shaking her head with a smile. “We’ve known each other for quite a while, haven’t we? Aside from going out at night to drink and race cars, what exactly makes you excellent? I’m not some fifteen- or sixteen-year-old girl who screams at the sight of street racing. A useless rich heir like you should stop pretending to be impressive in front of me. Come back when you’ve actually earned a degree from the University of Chicago, and then you can brag.”

Her words were cutting. Wang Huawen’s expression darkened instantly, and he said through gritted teeth, “What the hell is a degree worth? Do I need that kind of thing? I already have a company under my name worth fifty million in market value. Go ask around. How many top graduates from Chicago can build a company worth fifty million?”

Capital is ruthless, and the truth was indeed as Wang Huawen said. Among the graduates of the world’s great universities, the proportion who truly managed to build a business to a market value of fifty million was very small. More people, after earning their master’s degrees, could only work as professional managers for companies.

“We’re not suited for each other. Let go,” Zhou Fuqu said. She did not want to argue with Wang Huawen any longer. Their values were too different; no matter how much they argued, there would be no result.

Wang Huawen was unwilling to give up. He seized Zhou Fuqu’s hand and shoved her hard against the wall, using the standard rich-heir flirtation move of pinning her there. “Fuqu, if I told you I know who caused your grandfather to become possessed, how would you repay me?”

At those words, Zhou Fuqu froze, frowning as she pressed him. “You know?”

“Let me into your heart, and I’ll let you know everything I have.” As he spoke, Wang Huawen lowered his head and slowly moved in to kiss her red lips.

The wall-pin and the forced kiss—Wang Huawen’s two favorite moves for courting women had always worked well, so long as the car he drove was a Lamborghini.

Zhou Fuqu hurriedly pushed him away and asked again, “Say it quickly. Who was it?”

“Damn it!”

His failed forced kiss left him displeased. “Fuqu, a little reserve is fine. You’ve already got me hooked. Enough is enough. Keep acting like this and it’ll just make people sick.”

“Who’s acting with you?” Zhou Fuqu frowned.

“Isn’t that it? You used to ignore me, sure, but you haven’t found a boyfriend all this time, haven’t you? You were waiting for me, weren’t you? Fine, I’ve had my fun and I’m ready to settle down. As long as you agree, I can have my father come tomorrow and discuss the marriage with your father.”

“You’re insane. Who would be waiting for you?” Zhou Fuqu felt a strong resistance to Wang Huawen’s self-importance.

At that moment, Du Zitong pulled Lu Feng out of the study and into the courtyard, pointing toward the spot where Zhou Fuqu and Wang Huawen stood. “Big brother doctor, someone’s stealing your girl! Look, my cousin is being pinned against the wall!”

Seeing Zhou Fuqu standing with Wang Huawen and hearing Du Zitong’s gleeful, trouble-loving commentary, Lu Feng rolled his eyes and was about to walk away.

Having been refused again and again, Wang Huawen was starting to lose his temper. He said bitterly, “Zhou Fuqu, don’t think I don’t know. Today you kept smiling seductively at that Chinese medicine doctor just to provoke me, didn’t you? Fine, I’ve been provoked. Happy now?”

“Who’s trying to provoke you? You’re crazy!” Zhou Fuqu was nearly speechless at his self-importance.

“Isn’t it? Zhou Luyang said you always keep that frosty face on, yet the moment I arrived, you started exchanging glances with someone else. Don’t tell me you’d actually fall for some country quack of a doctor!” Wang Huawen sneered.

Zhou Fuqu was also angered and blurted out, “I do like Lu Feng. So what? What business is it of yours!”

From a distance, Du Zitong had been eavesdropping. Hearing that, she immediately cried out, “So my cousin really does like the handsome doctor! Oh my God, this is huge news! Big brother doctor, don’t go!”

At her shout, Zhou Fuqu and Wang Huawen both turned their heads at once.

When Wang Huawen saw Lu Feng, and then remembered what Zhou Fuqu had just said, his anger flared at once. He said sarcastically, “What’s so great about some lousy Chinese medicine doctor? He just got lucky and cured your grandfather, and you’ve already started treating him like a divine physician. If I had known the old man was ill, I’d have gone to the University of California and brought back a medical professor. He would’ve been cured long ago, and it never would’ve been this kind of Chinese medicine fraud putting on an act!”

Lu Feng had studied Chinese medicine under his master since childhood. He could not care less if people laughed at him for anything else, but when it came to medical skill, he would not allow anyone to slander it.

“Chinese medicine has been passed down for five thousand years. I will not allow anyone to defame it!” Lu Feng said solemnly.

“Heh, heh, heh...” Wang Huawen let out a few cold laughs. “I think you’ve been brainwashed too deeply. Who still trusts Chinese medicine now? No matter what illness it is, Western medicine is more effective than Chinese medicine. Only people like you, who use Chinese medicine to cheat people out of money, still go around saying it’s good!”

“Is that so? Then go see Western medicine and find out whether it can cure your kidney weakness,” Lu Feng said.