Chapter 2 I Object

With this exclamation, there was a moment of dead silence. A needle could be heard dropping to the ground.

Ignoring the presence of Edward Chen, a few guests ran up to the table directly in curiosity and mimicked Edward's actions on the sword.

"Sure it is! It is real diamond!"

"Let me weigh it…Ouch! It is so heavy! It must be diamond!"

"Let me have a try…Wow! It is diamond artwork! It must be priceless!"

As everyone gaped, their eyes on Edward changed to a dazed way.

A carat of diamond costs much, let alone such piece of art.

That is to say, such a sword was worth at least 1,000,000 yuan.

Moreover, if adding its artistic value, this sword should be more precious.

Edward took such a precious art as a gift to his sister’s engagement rather than keep it as a family heritage treasure.

Was he really that rich? Was he being played by the rich or the rich were being played by him now?

The mustached was not totally ignorant. He also did some experiments on the sword.

The diamond was authentic.

Its reflection, the weight, and hardness, absolutely diamond.

Jian Lei was laughing at Edward and waiting to see Edward’s jokes, but did not expect being crushed by the other side in the most brutal way. His face had turned blue.

Nothing can hurt one more than money except for love.

Edward had been working for the Great Wall Agency for ten years, and he had been the Guardian of the country for more than three years.

Large amount of rewards, gifts, resources and supplies were supported by national strength for the soldiers fighting their lives to protect the country and its people. Edward, as the best and leader of them, earned his honor and fortune fair and square.

Edward looked at frozen Jian Lei and said slightly: "Well, now kneel down and call me Grandpa."

The guests burst into an uproar.

It was a bet to be fulfilled.

Looking at Edward, Jian stammered.

"I…I was only just saying it casually."

Squinting his eyes, Edward’s attitudes and manners suddenly changed, an astonishing force of pressure like a wave of water swung around.

"No one can talk to me casually."

The guests all hold their breath.

With sweat dripping from his forehead, Jian refused to kneel down in the public. He drew back slowly and had an intention to slip away.

"Want to get out? Impossible!"

Wu Qi, who was standing behind Edward, stepped up to the mustached, with her arms akimbo, eyebrows inverted, pretty eyes glaring at the mustached as if he had done something unforgivable.

Seeing that the other side was a woman, the mustached came forward, wanting to attack her.

In the astonishment of the crowd's eyes, Wu turned around in the air and drew a big arc on her slender right leg and hit the mustached first.

Bang!

With a dull sound, her high top leather boots kicked exactly in the face of the mustached.

Poof!

The mustached spewed out blood mixed with saliva. Before he could even scream, he was kicked over after a somersault.

His face quickly swelled up into a watermelon, and then he passed out.

Wu looked at the passed-out mustached lying in front of her and scratched her head suspiciously.

"I used only a fiftieth of my strength, he can' t be dead..."

Edward shook his head.

"He might need one month to stand up again. Stay here. I'll go in."

"Yes Sir."

Wu nodded and watched Edward walk up the steps of the villa.

Behind them, the guests there were completely dumbfounded by the force of Wu. Everyone was meditating in their hearts.

Who was this man?

Who was this woman?

Even a female bodyguard was so strong, who was this young man who called himself a relative of Shen family?

...

Entering the villa lobby, the noise was even louder.

Edward spotted his adoptive parents right away.

The reason was rather simple, the seat was divided by the status.

His adoptive parents and a few relatives of the Shen family sat at a banquet table which was a circle smaller than the standard table.

No one came to toast, or to say hello. They seemed to be out of the entire engagement banquet atmosphere.

Edward frowned slightly. It was clear that they just disrespected his family and made his family embarrassed for purpose.

Would his sister really marry into this kind of family?

Past the crowd, Edward came straight to the table of his adoptive parents.

"Dad, mom, I'm back."

Dong Shen, his adoptive father, was a robust middle-aged man in Edward's memory, had became an old dully man who was slightly bent and gray at the temples with the sadness between his eyebrows.

Yurong Wu, his adoptive mother, with her hair coiled, dressed formally and old-fashioned, had became old too. She greeted relatives on such supposedly happy occasions yet given out a sense of unhappiness behind the smiley face as well.

Hearing the voice, everyone at the table raised their heads in surprise and looked towards Edward.

"You are... Edward!"

Yurong recognized her adopted son immediately who had been away from home for ten years, trembling with excitement, and got up nervously.

"Mom, I'm back."

Dong rubbed his eyes with an incredulous expression.

"Edward! You...you've finally returned safely."

Then, the old man’s eyes were flushed, and he looked at the tall and handsome young man standing in front of him, eyes full of tears and speechless for a long time.

His sister Menghan Shen was not at this table, probably with the groom-to-be.

The parents got up and surrounded their long-lost son excitedly. The father took his son's hand, looking up and down carefully, as if he were afraid that their son would be gone again.

At that moment, a discordant voice rang out.

Dong's sister, Mei Shen, eating the melon seeds, said in a bitter voice:

"What are you coming back for? Just got out of prison, right?"

"What are you talking about, Mei! Edward couldn't have killed anyone, he was wronged!" Yurong retorted excitedly.

"Wronged? Why did he come back after ten years? If he was not in prison, why haven't you ever heard anything from him?"

His parents also had doubts, without saying anything though. After a minute, Edward said blandly:

"Mom, Dad, I didn't commit any crime. In the past ten years, I’ve gone to war."

Mei said with her mouth twitched: "Hmph. Tell that to the marines."

A few relatives sitting next to her also echoed.

"It's because of him that Shen family has been so hard these years. Unfortunately, they have raised a white eyed ungrateful son."

"He must know that Menghan is going to marry a rich family and wants to take some advantages. Don’t be naive."

"Yes, if the Lei family know that Menghan has a brother who just came out of prison, they will definitely look down on the Shen family even more."

Mei shook her head worriedly, "Maybe they'll just quit the marriage, that would be terrible! It's hard to find such a good match again."

Dong's face became more and more stormy in the noise of tongues.

"Quitting the marriage is fine, Menghan doesn't want to marry him anyway! If I hadn't been forced, I wouldn't have let her sacrifice her own happiness!"

Mei covered a hand over Dong's mouth.

"Be quiet! Here is Lei family’s territory. Don't get excited for Edward. It's your fortune that Menghan can marry the master of Lei family!"

"He even promised to help us with our jobs! Who in the whole city doesn’t want to work for the Lei Group? If Menghan doesn't marry him, how do you repay the 300,000 loan usury of your family debts?" It turned out that since Edward was sent to prison, the old couple had been borrowing money around to pay the damages to the Yun family and the lawyers etc to get him out.

Hearing this, Edward frowned.

He originally though it was an engagement party, but there should be secrets behind it!

When Dong heard Mei's words, he suddenly seemed to have lost his strength and hatefully hammered his head.

"It's my fault, it’s all my fault! Such a lovely and beautiful child shouldn’t be forced into marriage, I’m not a good father! They said they would pay off all our family’s debts! Now I regretted, I'd rather die than let my daughter marry that dandy of Lei family! I’m so sorry, my baby girl, Lei family threatened me with your life! I'm sorry I can't protect you..."

Then, Dong held his head in his hands and leaned on the table with tears and despair.

Edward's adoptive mother also wept in silence.

Edward understood.

His sister, Menghan, was forced to get married! She was going to sacrifice her happiness under the threat of Lei family.

How could someone forcibly occupy his sister?

At this moment, in the middle of the hall, a young man in a suit with a greasy face and a beautiful young girl in a purple cheongsam walked over to the elaborately-arranged microphone.

"Today, thank you all for coming to the engagement party of me Bo Lei and the Shen family girl. If there is anything you need, feel free to tell us."

The crowd was quiet and then burst into laughter. Unusually politeness from Bo.

However, he did not mention the name of the bride-to-be. He just said "the Shen family girl", which was a naked insulting.

Was Shen not even worthy of being publicly mentioned or related to Lei?

Edward, who was at the Shen family table, turned cold-stoned with anger.

Slightly raising his right hand, he said slowly:

"I object."

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