Chapter 390

Chapter 390 You Have No Right to Represent Gao Qi

In Su Rui’s view, Bikang had never offended anyone, yet there were always people looking to cause trouble for Bikang, and that was really not a good habit.

At least… it was a habit that was asking for death.

Su Rui grabbed Cousins’ arm with one hand, twisted it back with a sharp wrench, and the entire arm instantly bent at a horrifying angle. With a crack, the shoulder was dislocated on the spot!

Su Rui didn’t like anyone badmouthing Bikang, because in his own words, Bikang was under his protection!

And so, what followed was the thunderous, earth-shaking scream of Cousins, the head of British Bank.

After twisting his arm out of its socket, Su Rui’s right foot delivered two sharp kicks between the man’s legs. The latter had absolutely no way to defend against this attack — his feet were kicked out from under him, and his tall frame crashed to its knees on the floor with a thud! Another agonized scream rang out!

Everyone present was a financial elite — when had any of them ever witnessed such a scene of violence? They were all instantly stunned with shock! This was way too far off the beaten path!

“Apologize to Zhou Anke. Apologize to Bikang.”

Su Rui flung Cousins’ arm aside and said coldly!

Kneeling on the ground, Cousins felt as though both his legs had shattered — the pain was so intense he couldn’t move at all!

His face twisted with malice, he glared at Su Rui with venomous eyes and said, “Why should I… why should I apologize… I was telling the truth… Bikang Company is the one throwing its weight around… who would dare work with you people after this?”

It had to be said that Su Rui’s way of handling things had only given Cousins more ammunition.

One disagreement and he immediately resorted to violence — wasn’t that a blatant display of using force to bully others?

Bai Wangchuan stood to one side, nodding and shaking his head by turns, with flashes of contempt occasionally crossing his eyes. In his mind, Su Rui had always been nothing more than a common brute — how could someone like that receive such high praise? How could he have earned Su Wuxian’s favor? Why was it that even his own grandfather couldn’t help but say a few words of admiration whenever Su Rui’s name came up?

“The world is full of surprises.” Bai Wangchuan narrowed his eyes and murmured something that sounded rather cryptic.

“It looks like Bikang’s new round of financing is going to take a serious hit because of this brawl.” A middle-aged man standing beside Bai Wangchuan said thoughtfully, “If word gets out, Bikang’s stock is probably going to drop too.”

“Then let’s make sure word gets out.” Bai Wangchuan suddenly cut in.

The middle-aged man looked surprised, then his gaze met Bai Wangchuan’s and caught the serious expression in the latter’s eyes. He quickly nodded and lowered his voice, “Please don’t worry, Young Master Bai. I’ll arrange it right now. Within an hour, news that a Bikang executive assaulted someone after a failed financing deal will be all over the internet.”

Bai Wangchuan gave a slight nod, the corner of his mouth curving into a faint arc, “Very good, Director Li. I hear you enjoy playing golf — when you have time, we should get together for a round.”

Hearing Bai Wangchuan say this, the middle-aged man’s face instantly flooded with wild joy! The fact that Bai Wangchuan could say something like that meant he had successfully connected himself to the Bai family!

“Of course, the timing is entirely up to you.” Director Li suppressed his excitement and replied in a quiet, respectful tone.

At that moment, several envious and resentful gazes from those nearby landed on Director Li, who straightened up and held his head high, completely indifferent.

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“I said, apologize to me!” Su Rui grabbed Cousins by the collar and practically lifted this tall, burly man off the ground with one hand!

Cousins was startled — he apparently hadn’t expected Su Rui to possess that kind of strength. But surprise aside, even though he had taken a beating, he still held a certain moral high ground in terms of “righteousness,” and there was simply no way he could bow his head and apologize. If he did, this circle would treat him as a laughingstock, and he’d have no place left in it.

“I will not bow to evil forces! I will fight you to the end!” Cousins shouted with a ferocious expression, looking every bit the picture of righteous defiance.

Watching Su Rui’s figure in the middle of the room, Zhou Anke felt a wave of emotion rise in her eyes. As Bikang’s Deputy CFO, she naturally understood just how much damage Su Rui’s actions were causing to the financing of Bikang’s new project. Yet Zhou Anke had no intention of blaming Su Rui at all. She understood — if she hadn’t been insulted in the first place, how could Su Rui possibly have done something as brazen as publicly assaulting someone at a financial summit banquet?

After the wave of emotion passed, what remained in Zhou Anke’s heart was nothing but worry and anxiety. If Su Rui ended up at the police station for beating Cousins, that was the last thing she wanted to see.

“Next time I must not be so reckless and bring so much trouble to Su Rui.” Zhou Anke quietly reminded herself.

“What should I do now?”

Sensing several rather unfriendly gazes from those around her, and after much deliberation, Zhou Anke took out her phone and sent a message each to Lin Aoxue and her brother Zhou Xianwei.

“I’m going to denounce Bikang Group! Everyone, please do not invest in Bikang!” Cousins continued to shout.

“Let’s see how tough you can stay after this.”

Su Rui let out a cold snort, his eyes turning ice-cold. He couldn’t care less whether this was a financial summit or not, and he didn’t care whether the people around him were financial elites. He only needed to follow what his heart told him — whatever he wanted to do, he would do it, and no one could stop him.

He lifted Cousins with one hand, then swung his right fist with savage force, slamming it squarely into Cousins’ mouth!

Su Rui’s fist struck and withdrew in an instant — just that single blow sent the man’s body flying several meters through the air before crashing heavily to the ground!

Cousins lay on the floor, his entire face knocked askew. That one punch from Su Rui had dislocated his jaw, and his mouth couldn’t close at all!

Blood mixed with teeth spilled from his mouth — the scene was quite a horrifying sight!

The elites present were all somewhat panicked, yet not a single person stepped forward to stop Su Rui’s “brutality”!

Su Rui looked down at Cousins, whose eyes were filled with venom and terror, and said with a smile, “I don’t know who put you up to this, but you have to pay the price for what you’ve done.”

“……” At this point, Cousins’ jaw was dislocated and his mouth wouldn’t close — he couldn’t speak at all, and could only let out a continuous string of muffled groans.

Su Rui hadn’t expected to get anything out of him anyway. He reached out, grabbed Cousins’ dislocated arm, and with a powerful swing, hurled this man of over two hundred pounds straight toward the window!

The dislocated arm being wrenched like that nearly made Cousins pass out from the pain, but just as his vision was about to go black, his bare forehead slammed into something cold and hard!

Crash!

The massive pane of glass shattered across the floor!

Cousins went tumbling down, his head split open and bleeding!

And this hall was on the second floor!

Everyone heard a gut-wrenching thud ring out from beyond the window!

Some people’s fingers were trembling so badly they couldn’t even hold their wine glasses — red wine spilled all over them!

Bai Wangchuan took a light sip of his drink and said in a detached tone, “This kind of behavior is more than enough to constitute a crime, wouldn’t you say?”

The person beside him suddenly came to their senses and quickly reached for their phone, saying, “I’ll contact Chen Zhishan, the chief of the Ninghai City Bureau directly — we’ve had dinner together a few times before.”

From start to finish, Bai Wangchuan had simply stood to one side, casually stirring things up with a few words here and there, and had managed to bring the entire situation to where it was now.

It had to be said that the second young master of the Bai family was quite skilled when it came to sowing discord.

After throwing Cousins, Su Rui turned around and noticed that everyone was looking at him with rather unusual expressions — seemingly tinged with a degree of fear. He dusted off his hands, smiled, and said, “Just now, someone was being disrespectful and trying to harass my companion. The problem has been taken care of. Everyone, please carry on dancing.”

The problem has been taken care of?

Everyone looked at the now-glassless window frame, then at the bloodstains and teeth on the floor, and suddenly found it a little hard to breathe.

That’s it, problem solved?

And you want us to keep dancing? Who could possibly be in the mood to keep dancing!

He beat someone up and still managed to be this calm about it — people had seen shameless before, but never quite this shameless!

Zhou Anke quickly stepped forward and looked at Su Rui with some concern, saying, “Are you alright?”

Looking at her clear, pure eyes, Su Rui laughed and said, “Do I look like something’s wrong?”

“Good, as long as you’re alright.” Zhou Anke glanced out the window, “Should we go check if he got hurt from the fall?”

“It’s only five or six meters from the second floor — he won’t die.” This was actually Su Rui having controlled his force and direction when throwing him, to avoid Cousins landing head-first. Otherwise, the head of British Bank’s China division might very well have died on impact.

The waitstaff had already come rushing in to clean up the scene. With something like this happening, even the hotel manager had no idea what to do. Everyone present was either a bank director or a senior executive — no one could afford to offend any of them.

Looking at Zhou Anke in her yellow dress, blooming like a flower, Su Rui extended his hand with the air of a perfect gentleman and said, “Beautiful Ann, may I have this dance?”

Now it was Zhou Anke’s turn to be surprised. Su Rui had just beaten someone to a bloody pulp with their fate unknown, and yet he was still in the mood to dance?

It wasn’t just Zhou Anke — every elite in the room was stunned by Su Rui’s composure!

Should one say his nerves were made of steel, or that his skin was made of something even thicker?

“Don’t turn me down, beautiful.” Su Rui winked at the dazed Zhou Anke.

“Alright then.”

The eldest daughter of the Zhou family decided not to overthink it. With a slight smile, she reached out her hand and placed it in Su Rui’s.

Su Rui smoothly wrapped his arm around Zhou Anke’s slender waist and called out to the musician, “Hey, what are you standing there for? Play a dance number, please.”

Only then did the musician snap back to reality, fingers moving somewhat stiffly across the piano keys.

Everyone’s eyes froze once again — the two representatives of Bikang Group were actually going to keep dancing? This was beyond what the word “audacious” could even describe!

Apart from the dance music, the room fell into an eerily quiet stillness.

Xu Wenjie let out a cold snort and said in fairly authentic American-accented English, “After a display like this, who would still dare to continue working with Bikang Group?”

Xu Wenjie was still holding a grudge. He figured that with Su Rui’s behavior being so disgraceful in front of everyone, public outrage had practically already been stirred up — all he needed to do was step forward and take the lead, and everything would fall into place naturally.

With so many people watching, could Su Rui really kill him?

Su Rui stopped dancing and said with a hint of contempt, “Someone like you, fawning over foreigners like that, and you think you have the right to lecture me? After a few years abroad, you can’t even speak straight anymore?”

Su Rui had the least respect for the kind of person who spent a few years studying overseas and came back to China still speaking English at every turn — the fake foreign type. Of course, this was the same breed as those who went away for a few years of university and then came back to their hometown claiming they could only speak Mandarin and had somehow forgotten how to pronounce the dialect they’d spoken for twenty years.

Xu Wenjie’s cheeks trembled with rage. He pointed at Su Rui and said through gritted teeth, “On behalf of American Gaoqi Bank, I hereby announce that from this day forward, Gaoqi will not participate in any investment matters related to Bikang Group!”

This was a complete and total break — many people were thinking exactly that. They had long heard that Xu Wenjie opposed Bikang’s financing, but they hadn’t expected his stance to be this resolute!

“Is that your call to make?” Su Rui said with a slightly mocking tone.

“Of course it is. I’m the Asia Regional Director of Gaoqi Bank, and I have the authority to make this kind of decision.” Xu Wenjie gave a sinister smile.

“No, it’s not your call to make! You will never be able to represent Gaoqi Bank again!”

That voice didn’t come from Su Rui — a foreign man who looked drenched in sweat and out of breath was standing at the entrance to the banquet hall, shouting at Xu Wenjie at the top of his lungs!