17 Yei Yi and Tang Fang

"Ahhh! Why!? Why!?"

Yei Yi smashed another vase of flowers, the broken shreds flying everywhere before crashing onto the already littered floor. But her anger, resentment, and bitterness didn't abate, the raging inferno devouring her heart in a flood of hatred.

Yei Yi couldn't take it anymore.

With another shriek of enraged cry, she swept everything on her dressing table to the ground. The bottles of perfumes and nail polish smashed and shattered, the various fumes and fragrances mixing and drifting in the room, filling the air with their pungent scent.

Tired and drained, Yei Yi collapsed on her bed with tears swimming in her dark eyes.

Why!? Why in the world did Li Qing Yue always get everything?

Why did she always get the best of everything without even trying?

She was obviously better than the reticent Li Qing Yue in everything. She was more educated, more outgoing, more assertive, and a lot smarter.

So why did everything good always land in her hands?

"Marry the only son of Great Commander Long Hongwu, Long Tian?"

If Li Chen was the wealth and prosperity of the LiLong Country, then Long Hongwu was the unannounced King and great general of the LiLong Country.

With the title of the only daughter of the richest man in the New World Formation, Li Qing Yue was already considered a goddess. She was an existence everyone wanted to form connections with but had no means of even finding her shadow.

Now with the additional status of Long Hongwu's daughter-in-law, she'd become an existence that others could only envy and feel jealous of, but would never be able to match or surpass.

No one would be her equal.

Because in the entire LiLong Country, there was only one Great Commander's son and one treasure-sage's daughter. And when both titles fell on the same individual, no one in the world would be able to compete or stand on equal footing with her...

"No, no, no! I will not allow Li Qing Yue to rise even higher above my head! She'll have to drop down to my level or lower... After all, we're best friends and best friends should always be on the same wavelength."

Pushing herself up, Yei Yi grabbed her purse and walked out of her room with determined and firm steps.

Qing Yue, who sat in the Sitting Room, saw her pass by and stood.

"Yei Yi, we need to talk." But as if deaf, Yei Yi didn't respond.

"Yei Yi, didn't you hear me?" Qing Yue took a step forward, but Yei Yi didn't glance back as she walked out of the golden door.

"What's wrong with her? Lately, she's been behaving really strange."

Qing Yue's eyes narrowed and a frown appeared on her face as she watched Yei Yi's receding back.

Yei Yi walked out of the Li Mansion with a vicious gleam in her eyes.

She pressed on her wristband and a pink hover appeared before her. The top slid and retracted, as the vehicle spread apart. She hopped into the driver's seat and the automatic belts stripped her to the seat. Then the hover slid back into place and raced towards the sea of grey skyscrapers.

Tang Fang sat in a corner of the Ivy Club. Thanks to Li Qing Yue, the guards and waitresses of the club recognized him as a friend of hers and allowed him entry with his silver membership card.

He looked at his watch again and cursed under his breath.

This Yei Yi, she called him whenever she liked without considering the time. If he didn't have uses for her, then he would've already cut her off!

"Tang Fang, calm down. She's your only ticket to Li Qing Yue."

Tang Fang met Yei Yi in Junior High. Even though the two attended the same school, they didn't have much interaction until the day he saw Li Qing Yue.

Serene, noble with an appearance that could turn a female the other way, the girl stood next to white hover with her sleek-black hair swaying in the afternoon breeze.

Tang Fang fell in love with her at first sight.

But this love of his was doomed for failure because the one he loved was Li Qing Yue. At least, that's what he thought until Yei Yi approached him and confessed to him.

Tang Fang saw the girl around Li Qing Yue. Many times, she even dropped her off at Junior High. Seeing this as an opportunity to breach the gap between himself and the girl he liked, he accepted Yei Yi's confession.

The two frolicked together for two years before he finally met the Li Qing Yue at a party. Excited and exhilarated at the thought of finally meeting the goddess of his heart, he forgot about the Yei Yi standing beside him and went forth to introduce himself.

Unfortunately, the quest to conquer his dream girl turned out to be more difficult than he expected. Because before his outstretched hand, Li Qing Yue only coldly glanced at him and nodded before completely ignoring him.

That day, he realized what shame, embarrassment, and conquest meant. His ardent love morphed into a searing desire to conquer and possess the noble and unattainable Li Qing Yue.

And just as it happened, Yei Yi saw through his thoughts, but instead of raging and going made with jealousy, she proposed to work together to help him gain what he wanted.

In return? She wanted to become his legal wife after he gained possession of all the Li Industries.

It wasn't a deal he minded because, at the end of the day, he'd get Li Qing Yue and her ginormous inheritance.

The only problem was, it wasn't easy to befriend Li Qing Yue, let alone gain her heart.

"Sigh, I've already come so far. From a nobody to Brother Tang. Just a little more and she'll be calling me hubby...hahaha!" A malicious gleam flashed in the usually gentle and soft eyes of Tang Fang, giving him a sinister aura as he coldly laughed.

When Yei Yi arrived at the Ivy Club, she found Tang Fang drinking in a private room.

Bang!

She slammed her purse on the side table and casually sat across from him.

"Tang Fang, you are really useless, aren't you? Only one Li Qing Yue and you're unable to win her heart?" Her eyes condescending roamed over his body, the disdain and scorn within their depths rising dark anger in his heart.

Tang Fang clenched his fist and lowered his drink.

"What happened now?" He was used to Yei Yi's temper tantrums.

Whenever something happened at the Li Mansion, she would call and run over to vent at him. He was used to it, but that didn't mean he liked it.

"What happened? Oh, nothing much, just that the goddess of your heart, Li Qing Yue, is getting engaged to Long Tian, the only son of Great Commander Long Hongwu."

Twing!

"What!?" Tang Fang's eyes widened in disbelief. Blood oozed from his clenched fist as shreds of glass from his drink cup, stuck out from his bloodied flesh.

His hammering heartbeat resounded in his ears and he glared at Yei Yi with red eyes.

"Yei Yi, say that again. Who is getting engaged to who?"

"Oh, you want to hear it again? I didn't know you enjoyed hearing your goddess mentioned with another man. If I knew, I swear I would've mentioned it every day." Yei Yi smiled amusedly, finding Tang Fang's current appearance heartening and pleasing to her eyes.

At least she wasn't the only one burning in rage and jealousy.

Her smirk widened even further and she crossed her arms and legs, looking at the man like a clown about to perform.

"Yei Yi..." Tang Fang trembled from overwhelming rage, his teeth chattering as he hissed in warning.

Yei Yi sensed the threat and dissatisfiedly uncrossed her arms and picked up a cup. Filling it to the brim, she raised it to her lips and took a sip.

"Tang Fang, Li Chen fixed Li Qing Yue's marriage with Long Tian. With the speed you've been progressing, it'd be years before you can capture that arrogant wench's heart. If you don't take any drastic step to make Li Qing Yue yours, then prepare yourself to lose her and her great inheritance forever."

Tang Fang slumped into his seat and blankly stared at his bloodied hand.

Li Qing Yue and Long Tian...?

An angry flame roared in his heart, clouding his mind as he clenched his bleeding fist. The pain, metallic scent of blood, and fury rage crashed into him like an angry beast, and Tang Fang sprung to his feet and smashed the glass table.

Crash!

"Ahh! Tang Fang, you're crazy!" Yei Yi leaped to her feet and moved back, narrowly avoiding a flying shred.

"Are you trying to disfigure me? If you want to break things, do it when no one is around." She complained annoyedly and dabbed at the wet spots on her dress.

"Li Qing Yue is mine! She is mine and can only be mine!"

Crash! Crash!

"She is mine!"

Tang Fang stomped and crushed every shred of glass in the room, panting and gasping as he hopped and stomped for a half hour.

A while later, when all the anger and blind rage left him, he weakly fell back in his seat and covered his eyes, seemingly in tears.

"Tutt, tutt, what a deep love! I'm amazed and envious. Li Qing Yue is so lucky, isn't she? She got all these devoted men chasing after her." Yei Yi remained in her corner, coldly clapping her hands as she sneered at the wretched-looking Tang Fang.

"But Tang Fang, what do you think you've achieved by breaking everything here? Li Qing Yue is still out of your reach. And she'll never be yours if this is all you're capable of."

"Yei Yi, since you're here, you must have a plan. Stop wasting time and tell me what's our next step." Tang Fang had calmed down. His erratic breathing restored and as his gaze swept over the aftermath of his anger, a cold and dark gleam flashed in his eyes.

Li Qing Yue...she can only be his!

"Heh...that's all I was waiting for." Walking across the room, Yei Yi sat back in her seat and looked at Tang Fang.

"If you want to get Li Qing Yue, you're little seduction will have to end. It's taking too long and the results are too minimal. To speed up your conquest, I'd even brought the relationship between the two of you into question. But you saw the result for yourself."

"Having an ambiguous relationship with multiple men is an ordinary matter. In this age, having multiple relations is a display of one's fame and a way to hype one's popularity. But Yue'er lost her temper when you only mentioned us having feelings for each other. She's truly different." Tang Fang sighed in wonder.

This made Yei Yi grit her teeth in jealousy. She has known Tang Fang for over 5 years, yet he never spoke or talked about her with such reverie.

It's fine. As long as he can bring Li Qing Yue down, he can revere her however much he wants.

She took a deep breath and focused on the task at hand.

"So the method of stringing the two of you together and worming your way into her heart won't work. We also don't have time to scheme anything foolproof. The only way to get what you want is to commit the deed with her, record it, and make it public."

"You mean...?"

"If not that, then what else could I mean? Stop acting like a gentleman before me. Save it for your goddess. You and I both know what kind of person you are, Tang Fang. Li Qing Yue will go to the City Orphanage tomorrow afternoon. If you don't take advantage of that opportunity, then you can just wait and watch her belong to someone else."