Chapter 99: Letter of Challenge (Add to Bookshelf to Keep Track)

As Tian Li had predicted, the motorcycles of the Che Chi Hui didn't actually hit them.

Just as they were about to make contact, the riders would twist their bodies dramatically, forcing their bikes to brush past them.

Then they'd ride off into the distance, turn around at the corner, and come back to repeat the same maneuver—essentially circling endlessly around the two of them.

Some riders even took advantage of Wang Ming's inattention to slam their helmets right onto his head, leaving him completely disoriented and utterly embarrassed!

Tian Li was long accustomed to this kind of game. She used to play it on others herself. So even as motorcycle after motorcycle whizzed by at high speed, she didn't even blink.

Seeing the helmet stuck on Wang Ming's head, she yanked it off in one go and slapped him hard on the head. "Can you stand up straight?! The more panicked you look, the more they enjoy it! Stand there and don't move—be a man!"

"Alright!" Wang Ming replied, his impulsive nature flaring up again.

He raised his steel pipe, aiming at the nearest motorcycle, ready to swing.

But before he could strike, Tian Li forced his arm down.

She glared at him. "Brother Tian isn't here. Do you think you can take on all thirty-plus of them and their dozen bikes?"

"No..." Wang Ming's expression dimmed.

"Then what the hell are you swinging for?" Tian Li shot back.

"...Fine." Wang Ming had no choice but to plant the steel pipe on the ground and brace himself, no longer dodging left and right.

Che Peiqing was having a grand time scaring Wang Ming, showing off his power. But before long, after a few scoldings from Tian Li, Wang Ming stopped hopping around like a monkey.

"Shit, this is boring!" Che Peiqing cursed inwardly, his enthusiasm plummeting.

Despite roaring their bikes at people like they were going to run them over, they didn't actually have the guts to follow through! This bunch purely got their kicks from scaring people.

Now that Tian Li was no longer frightened, and that weakling had also stopped flinching, the whole group instantly lost interest!

After another two or three minutes of messing around, Che Peiqing swung his bike sideways and came to a stop.

"Tian Li, this weakling is your man?" He pointed at Wang Ming arrogantly.

"Tian Li, are you fucking blind?"

"Tian Li, you didn't really hook up with this coward, did you?"

Seeing their boss stop, the other riders also turned their bikes sideways and came to a halt.

Now they all looked at Wang Ming with disdain, hurling insults one after another.

"He's just one of our younger brothers—he's not my man!" Tian Li shot back.

"Listen here, Che: my man could pin you to the ground with one hand and grind you eighty-one times! You believe that?" Seeing they'd all stopped their bikes, Tian Li's mouth—which never backed down from anyone except Hua Tianyu—was out for blood.

"Oh ho, our little Lily's getting cocky now, huh?" Che Peiqing sneered.

"Scram! 'Little Lily' is not for you to call! If you can win the race, then you can call me that. But if you lose, I'll be calling you Little Green!" When it came to trash talk, Tian Li had never feared anyone.

"You really think you're hot shit?" Che Peiqing reached into his jacket and pulled out a red challenge letter with gilded lettering. With a "smack," he tossed it at Tian Li's feet.

"Tomorrow night, Central Street One. Don't show up, and you're born of a bitch!"

With those words, Che Peiqing twisted the throttle. "ROAR—" The motorcycle let out a deafening scream as it carried him and the girl on the back seat away without a backward glance.

"Don't show up and you're born of a bitch!"

The rest of the Che Chi Hui roared with arrogant laughter, echoing their boss's parting words. Then they all gunned their engines, hitting top speed, and vanished from Tian Li's sight in no time.

"Whew!" Tian Li let out a heavy breath and picked up the challenge letter in front of her.

Finally gone. Tian Li knew Che Peiqing wasn't entirely lawless, but facing their thirty people with just the two of them was genuinely stressful.

Besides, she knew that while Che Peiqing still had some bottom lines, a few of his underlings had none at all.

Good thing she hadn't provoked them further, or Tian Li would have been in for a rough time.

"Let's head back!" Tian Li said to Wang Ming, who had finally composed himself. He nodded and walked back into the bar in silence.

Tian Li pulled out her phone and started messaging Hua Tianyu on WeChat.

"Brother Tian, help me race tomorrow night. We agreed last time."

"Alright, got it. Time and place."

"Tomorrow night 11 PM, Central Street One."

"Central Street One? I remember that area has a lot of small alleys. Can you even race there?"

"It's a motorcycle, bro—just a bike! Even the smallest road works!"

At Swan Tower, Hua Tianyu held his phone and let out a deep sigh. Then he typed another message.

"When I get back today, I'm going to straighten out that tongue of yours and fix that Taiwanese accent of yours! You know that accent will get us killed?"

"Brother Tian, I'm sorry!"

"Where's the motorcycle?"

"When I used to run with the Che Chi Hui, I had one parked at the back door of Xingyu Bar. I'll drive it back today so you can get familiar with it."

"Got it."

Wang Hong watched Hua Tianyu put down his phone and asked with concern, "I saw you sigh. Is something wrong?"

Hua Tianyu smiled and shook his head. "Nothing much. Just some small business with a friend tomorrow night."

"Mm." Wang Hong nodded obediently. "Well, congratulations to you anyway! President Wei personally signed a commendation order saying you made an important contribution to securing a 400-million-yuan project for the group!"

Although Wei Xueying had said verbally that Hua Tianyu's reward was a one-time offer, and if he didn't take it, it would expire.

But Wei Xueying was the type to repay kindness, and she never forgot anyone who contributed to the company.

That much was clear from the fact that even when the company was at its most difficult, she'd thought about transferring the entire company rather than letting her employees lose their jobs.

So after Hua Tianyu left her office, she still signed the presidential order commending him, and had HR announce it to the entire group.

Wang Hong now held the presidential order Liang Hui had given her, congratulating Hua Tianyu, her eyes full of admiring stars.

To Wang Hong, Hua Tianyu was practically synonymous with the miraculous. He was hired as a security guard and was specially recruited by the president on his very first day.

Then, in less than a month, he became the security department manager.

Now, as a security department manager, he'd negotiated a 400-million-yuan project for the company, earned significant merit, and directly prompted the president to personally sign a commendation order for him.

Wasn't a man like that miraculous enough?

And besides, this miraculous man was also... kind of handsome!