Chapter 69: Go to Hell

"I will say this one more time: do not ever say that this matter must remain an eternal secret, and no one is allowed to know."

Yun Jiannan stood motionless, his voice freezing cold as he glared fiercely at Shen Qing.

Seeing Yun Jiannan's ruthless demeanor, Shen Qing's expression suddenly changed. She had never seen Yun Jiannan looking so dead serious, and not a single word he uttered sounded like a joke.

"Hey, hey! Say something! Auntie, say something! Why aren't you speaking?"

He Lingfeng's voice came through the receiver. Yun Jiannan looked up at the phone for a second, then mustered all his strength to smash the device violently onto the ground.

It shattered into pieces.

"Yun Jiannan, have you lost your mind?!"

Shen Qing watched helplessly as her phone was smashed to smithereens. She squatted down to look at the scattered debris across the floor, her eyes filled with distress and heartache.

"Yun Jiannan, why are you picking a fight with money? What can't you do? Why did you have to smash my phone? You really are a fool."

Panicking, Shen Qing stood up and began to hurl abuses at him.

"I'll say it again: you are forbidden to speak of this matter. The fact that Qiuya has woken up must be treated as an eternal secret. No one is allowed to tell a soul. If you tell anyone else, don't blame me for being discourteous to you."

Yun Jiannan spat out the words through clenched teeth, word by word.

"My mouth belongs to me. Do you really think you can control what I say? You expect me to keep my mouth shut just because you said so? Have you forgotten that I've always been the one calling the shots in this household?"

Shen Qing listened to Yun Jiannan's words as if she were hearing a joke. She stood up, planted her hands on her hips, and glared fiercely at him, baring her teeth.

The shattered remains of the phone on the ground were agonizingly glaring, and Shen Qing's anger flared to its peak as the two stood right there on the main road.

"I am telling you one more time: you are not allowed to speak of this. This matter must be treated as a permanent secret. Aside from this, I won't care about anything else you do or say. This is my only demand."

Yun Jiannan's eyes were bloodshot, and he looked like a completely different person. Standing there frostily, every single word he spat out seemed to carry a sharp blade.

"And what if I refuse? I just refuse! It doesn't matter that you smashed my phone today; I'm going to drive over to see my son-in-law He right now. I'm going to make sure he finds out about this immediately, and I'll have him come up with a countermeasure right away. Yun Qiuya might have woken up, but she is still going to become a dead person."

Shen Qing let out a cold laugh, glanced at Yun Jiannan, and immediately reached for the car door handle.

"No! You won't! I said no! Are you deaf?"

Suddenly, Yun Jiannan reached out and grabbed Shen Qing by the throat, slamming her entire body against the car door. Standing only about one and a half meters tall, Shen Qing was pinned to the door by a single hand around her neck. Her face instantly flushed crimson, her feet lifted off the ground, and her hands flailed wildly in the air, trying to grope for Yun Jiannan's arm and pry that hand away from her throat.

"Ugh... ugh..."

At the same time, muffled sounds of agony escaped her throat.

"I said no! I told you not to talk about it! Didn't I give you a choice? Why must you go against me? Why on earth do you insist on telling He Lingfeng? Only Qiuya herself has the right to speak of this matter, and I will not allow anyone to hurt her again."

Yun Jiannan growled in a low voice, looking like a man driven blind by murderous intent.

"I—"

"Jiannan, let go first."

"I'm running out of air... let go of me first."

Shen Qing's face was contorted in extreme agony. Rolling her eyes back, she grabbed Yun Jiannan's hand with even greater desperation. Soon, bloody scratch marks from her fingernails covered the back of his hand as she exerted all her might trying to pry those fingers apart.

"I won't let go! I am never letting go!" Yun Jiannan roared again at the top of his lungs.

"I was wrong, I was wrong! Jiannan, I'll listen to you on this matter! I won't tell a single soul, and I definitely won't tell my son-in-law! I'll listen to you, okay? I'll really listen to you!"

Feeling as though the air was completely cutting off from her lungs, Shen Qing used every ounce of remaining strength to beg for mercy.

"Now you know what fear feels like? Didn't I give you a chance just now? Why didn't you listen? Why didn't you listen?! I gave you so many chances, so why did you insist on having your own way?"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Jiannan! I shouldn't have disobeyed you. I'll listen to you from now on, alright? I really will listen to everything you say! I'm begging you, I really can't breathe anymore!"

Yun Jiannan's grip loosened just a fraction, and seizing the opportunity, Shen Qing gasped and screamed.

"No more chances for you! I'm done giving them! I've had enough of this after all these years. It's time for me to act like a real man for once."

Panic truly set in for Shen Qing. She thrashed her hands and feet wildly in the air, exerting every last bit of her strength as her entire face turned as red as a ripe tomato.

"Daddy, what are you doing?"

Suddenly, Xiao An's voice rang out from behind.