Golden Scale [EN]: Chapter 101

Hou Longtao stood there dumbfounded for a while before getting up to chase after Yuqian. When he got downstairs, he saw the Cherokee with the license plate “Jing Dan A” driving towards the gate. He quickly hailed a taxi to follow. He knew that Yuqian’s emotions were very unstable and was afraid that something might happen to her. He didn’t stop worrying until he confirmed that she had driven the car back to her grandfather’s house.

Sitting in the taxi, looking at the brightly lit Beijing city outside the window, Hou Longtao felt a little dazed. He really didn’t know what to do or how to resolve his relationship with Yuqian. He suddenly realized how helpless he was in the face of such a powerful and unimaginable potential threat. If Yuqian really wanted to deal with his beloved wives, he couldn’t think of any countermeasures. Ruyun would be okay, but he was simply unable to protect the others. *If a man can’t even ensure the safety of the women he loves, how can he talk about giving them happiness?*

The thought that his beloved wives might be harmed because of him made Hou Longtao feel so sad that he wanted to cry. He hated himself, hated his philandering nature, hated his affectionate heart, and hated his wild dog-like attitude towards life. For the first time, he realized how insignificant he was compared to the outside world…

As soon as Yuqian entered the house, she went straight to the living room on the second floor. She knew that her mother was probably there watching TV. She hadn’t stopped crying the whole way, and she felt so wronged. “Mom…”

Hearing her daughter’s mournful cry, Feng Jie immediately got up from the sofa. When she turned around and saw her swollen eyes, she was shocked. “Oh dear! What happened?”

“Mom…” Yuqian threw herself into her mother’s arms. With the care of her loved one, she cried even harder, tears flowing like a dam had burst.

“What’s wrong?” Zhang Yuqiang was also in the room. He walked over and nudged his sister. “Don’t just cry, tell us what happened?”

“Qiang,” Feng Jie glared at her son and pulled her daughter to sit on the sofa, letting her lean on her shoulder and continue to sob.

“Is it because of Hou Longtao?” Zhang Yuqiang wasn’t stupid. The only person who could make his sister so sad was probably Hou Longtao. Plus, he had just confronted him yesterday, so a little association made it obvious.

Hearing someone mention the name of the “heartless man,” Yuqian cried even harder, almost unable to breathe.

“Girl,” Feng Jie stroked her daughter’s long hair lovingly, “Is that it? Did Longtao bully you? Come on, tell Mom, and Mom will help you teach him a lesson. I’ll make him apologize to you, okay? Don’t cry, be good, tell Mom.”

Yuqian was already exhausted from crying. She sat up straight, took a few tissues from the box her brother threw over, wiped her tears, and recounted the “battle” with Hou Longtao earlier that day in a fragmented but detailed manner. “Mom, do you think I can stand this? He never intended to marry me. Even if we got married, he never planned to break up with those other women. He’s not like Dad; at least Dad only loves you. He’s so good, he loves everyone…”

“…” Feng Jie didn’t answer. Her marriage was a combination of the interests of two major groups. Not to mention whether her husband only loved her, did he even love her at all? From this point of view, who was better, Hou Longtao or her husband? She didn’t know, but one thing was clear: she would never let her daughter follow her old path, and she didn’t want her precious darling to become a bargaining chip in a game of power and money.

When Feng Jie learned that Yuqian had found a man she loved, she was really happy. So, before she even met Hou Longtao, she had a good impression of him. Later, there was a misunderstanding, which made her impression of him even better. She didn’t expect it to turn out like this. Although Feng Jie was always on her daughter’s side, she still hoped that they could resolve their conflicts and reconcile. After all, they still loved each other, and the most painful thing in the world was a marriage without love.

“That Wang Ba Dan [bastard]!” Zhang Yuqiang didn’t think as much as his mother did. He was not only angry that Hou Longtao had hurt his sister, but also felt that his warning had been ignored. He simply didn’t take him seriously. He walked aggressively towards the door, “I’ll make him regret it!”

“Qiang, stop!” Feng Jie called out to her son.

“Brother, what are you going to do?” Yuqian also turned her head and looked at her brother pitifully.

“What am I going to do? What do you think I’m going to do? Whoever dares to bully my sister, I’ll make them pay the price!” Zhang Yuqiang walked out with a sneer.

The corners of Yuqian’s mouth suddenly turned up slightly, and then her lips pouted again. This subtle change in her daughter’s expression did not escape her careful mother’s notice. Feng Jie frowned, “Girl, what are you smiling about?”

“Me? I’m not smiling. How can I smile right now?”

“Girl.”

“Okay, okay, I was smiling. Hmph, he made me sad, I hope my brother teaches him a good lesson.”

“When you were little, whoever bullied you, Qiang would help you beat them up. But now you are no longer children. Do you think your brother is going to beat up Hou Longtao to vent your anger? He’s going to take your sweetheart’s life. You need to think clearly about how you want to deal with him. Do you want him dead?”

Yuqian didn’t say anything, suddenly got up and ran out. Feng Jie and her daughter went downstairs together, got into the Cherokee, and followed Zhang Yuqiang’s taillights. Not far after driving out of the yard, Zhang Yuqiang noticed his sister’s car flashing its headlights behind him. He pulled over to the side of the road. “What’s wrong?”

“Brother, what are you going to do? What do you want to do to him?” Yuqian and her mother also got out of the car.

“Never mind, I’ll just make you feel better.”

“No, you have to tell me first.”

“Yes, Qiang, you have to think carefully first, don’t be too impulsive.”

“Mom,” Zhang Yuqiang rolled his eyes dismissively, “I’m not stupid, do you think I’m going to find him for a one-on-one fight? I’m going back to the bureau to sort out all of that Wang Ba Dan’s materials. I’ll submit them tomorrow morning. Not only him, but also his so-called brothers and friends, I’ll make them all finished. With those few crimes of his, a quick trial and a quick sentence, he’ll be shot within three months. Dare to mess with my sister, hmph.”

“No, no,” Yuqian didn’t want to beat Hou Longtao to death with one blow.

“What do you mean? Are you protecting him? Are you still not giving up on him? What are you being silly for? I’m telling you, this is no longer a matter between you and him. He’s looking down on our Zhang family, we can’t just let it go.”

“What are you saying? What do you mean it’s not a matter between me and him? I didn’t say I’d let it go.”

At this time, a police-licensed Passat B5 pulled over. It was Yuqian’s father’s car. After the last time his daughter made a scene, although he went out for “dinner” again tonight, he didn’t dare to stay out overnight. As a result, he saw his wife and children before he even reached the gate of his house. “What are you all doing here?”

After briefly listening to the “report of the case,” Yuqian’s father basically agreed with his son’s opinion. “That bastard, he doesn’t know what’s good for him, what’s so good about him? Qiang, do whatever you need to do, just let Lao Gu [Old Gu, likely a contact in the legal system] know, he won’t have any objections.”

“Mom, say something,” Yuqian nudged her mother.

“I think you should all stay out of this matter and let the girl handle it herself. Whatever she wants to do, just listen to her.”

“A woman’s kindness,” Yuqian’s father glanced at Feng Jie, his eyes slightly disgusted. In terms of appearance and family background, his wife was impeccable, but he particularly disliked her personality. She was clearly a lady from a respectable family, but she had the habits of a small family’s jade, without any ambition, without any domineering spirit, not even a temper, just like a rural housewife. “That kid is messing with your daughter, you should go and fight him directly, and you’re still speaking up for him? What kind of mother are you?”

“Does someone have to put someone to death just because they messed with someone’s daughter? It doesn’t necessarily have to be a daughter, a niece counts too, right?” Feng Jie said coldly.

Yuqian’s father immediately understood what his wife was implying, knowing that dwelling on this issue would not be in his favor, he quickly changed the subject. “Look at the way you are now, running out like this!” Feng Jie came out in a hurry, still wearing slippers and a two-piece pajama set.

“Bang, bang, bang,” Yuqian patted the roof of the “B5” several times. “We’re talking about my business now, what are you two arguing about? Hou Longtao’s life and death are up to me, how to deal with him, when to deal with him are all up to me. If I need your help, then help, if I don’t need your help, none of you are allowed to touch him.”

“What kind of attitude is that? Is that how you talk to your elders?” Yuqian’s father shouted, but his tone immediately softened, “We’re doing this for your own good.”

“No need,” Yuqian’s attitude didn’t change at all. “I’m making it clear, if any of you mess around, I…I…” She suddenly became teary-eyed again, “I’ll never talk to you again!” After she finished speaking, she pulled her mother back into the car and drove away, kicking up dust. The two men looked at each other, really unable to do anything with that little devil. They both knew Yuqian too well, knowing that she could do whatever she said she would do. In this family, young and old combined, besides Feng Yun, no one could control her…

Ruyun untied her silk robe, letting it slide down her full, fair body onto the tiled floor of the bathroom. She climbed into the jacuzzi and smoothed the wet hair of the man who was meditating with his eyes closed. “Why didn’t you tell me about Zhang Yuqian’s background earlier?”

Hou Longtao reached out and held the Chang’e sister’s [Chang’e is the Chinese goddess of the moon] hips, stroking the smooth curves of her buttocks and legs. “I didn’t expect it to come to this.”

“I don’t think you didn’t expect it; I think you just didn’t want to think about it, or you just didn’t want to think about it at all,” Ruyun poked her lover’s temple. “Your blood isn’t in your brain at all. You know that if you told me, I would have reminded you, but you really didn’t want to face reality, but no matter how unwilling you are, reality has already happened.”

“Are you blaming me?” Hou Longtao turned the woman’s body around.

“Oh, I’m not blaming you; it’s no use blaming you now.” Ruyun slightly raised her buttocks, reached between her legs with her right hand, groped in the water, held her lover’s thick, straight yang tool [penis], and opened her yin lips [vulva] from the front with her left hand, covering the round gui head [glans], and began to slowly sit down, “Mmm…”

Hou Longtao pinched his beloved wife’s slender waist with one hand and pressed down gently, and caressed her smooth back with the other. After his sex tool was completely wrapped in her warm yin passage [vagina], he wrapped his hands around her body and pinched the two heavy, beautiful breasts. “Ah…Yunyun, help me think of a countermeasure; I’m at a loss.”

Ruyun closed her eyes and frowned, supporting her lover’s split legs with her hands. She didn’t lift her buttocks up and down greatly, but just twisted her waist slightly, drawing circles slowly but powerfully with her giant buttocks, simply enjoying the fullness of her body cavity being filled and the numbness of her uterus being pushed up and ground. “Hoo…mmm…if her family is really as powerful as you said, ah…then there’s really no way to…mmm…deal with it…”

“No,” Hou Longtao straightened his upper body, supported his beloved wife’s buttocks, and admired the wonderful appearance of the combination of the two people’s sex tools. “You have to give me some good ideas, not for me, but for Ling’er and the others; I’m most afraid of something happening to them.” He and Chang’e sister often discussed important issues at this time, because only during sex can they reach the realm of “spiritual and physical unity.”

“I…I’m more worried about you, ah…ah…”

“What’s there to worry about me? Yuqian wants to vent her anger on you.”

“According to…according to the details you just said, mmm…that’s just her venting her anger in extreme excitement. Although I don’t know if she hates you now, ah…ah…even if she hates you, it’s hate born of love. There are three types of this kind of hate, mmm…one is crazy, one is almost rational, and the other is rational. The crazy one only exists in people who are in a disadvantageous social position, a psychological position, ah ah ah…” Ruyun was unable to continue speaking in the climax.

Hou Longtao enjoyed the wriggling of the woman’s tight yin passage for a while, then hugged her waist tightly and kissed her back. “Continue.”

“Rational hatred is not something everyone can do, especially for people in Zhang Yuqian’s environment. She’s used to getting whatever she wants since she was a child. You’re the only thing she wants to get but can’t get, so she’ll use every means to get you, but she also knows very well that if she does something particularly excessive, like hurting your family and friends, she will forever lose the opportunity to win you back.”

“Hoo…then I’m relieved.” Hou Longtao breathed a sigh of relief. Although he knew that not all emotional problems could be explained logically, he trusted Ruyun’s understanding of human nature and women’s psychology more.

“Don’t be too happy too soon; she will definitely deal with you. No one can guess what means she will use; you must be careful, think twice before doing anything.”

“I will,” Hou Longtao felt that his beloved wife was really worried about him, and his heart warmed. He grabbed the two big nai zi [breasts], his buttocks left the seat, and began to shake back and forth quickly, the water in the bathtub rippling violently. “Good wife, Yunyun, should you tell Ruyan and the others about this?”

“Ah ah ah ah…mmm…no…ah…don’t…mmm…it will…will make them worry…ah ah…”

“Okay, okay, I’ll listen to you.”

“Oh dear, you two didn’t wait for me again!” Yue Ling walked into the bathroom and saw her lover fiercely fucking her sister from behind. She quickly took off her suspender pajamas and climbed into the bathtub. “It’s always like this.”

“Hehe, it’s your fault for watching that rotten TV series.” Hou Longtao hugged Ruyun’s body and sat down again.

“That’s right, how can you blame us.” Ruyun got up from the man’s body. She had already been satisfied twice, and it was time for her sister to have fun. She suddenly grabbed Yue Ling’s hand and pushed her towards her lover. “You’re in such a hurry, Longtao, fuck this girl to death.”

“Don’t worry, I’ll make her call me daddy in a while.” As soon as the shapely female body entered his arms, Hou Longtao immediately began to molest her wantonly. The pressure in his heart had been reduced by half. On the one hand, as long as his beloved wives were safe, he didn’t care how he was treated. But on the other hand, he really felt sorry for Yuqian and really wanted to reconcile with her…

“Why did you call me here?” Tian Donghua walked into a private room in “Fuli Hua” and sat next to Yuqian, who looked angry. It seemed that she had been waiting for a while.

“Why are you always late every time I ask you out for dinner!?”

“No one told you to wait for me; you can leave if you have something urgent.”

“Nonsense, of course I have something to talk to you about,” If it were normal, Yuqian would have left if Tian Donghua said that, but not today. “I’m informing you now, you should find another job as soon as possible. I’ll have ‘Dongxing’ closed down in a few days.”

“Huh?” This time, Tian Donghua’s attention was attracted.

“Huh what? Which word don’t you understand?”

“Why?”

“Hou Longtao offended me, so I’m going to make it impossible for him to continue.”

“How did he offend you? Isn’t he your darling?” Tian Donghua’s words were somewhat jealous.

“Why do you have so many questions? What do you care what he is to me? I’m just informing you; you can do whatever you want.” Yuqian finished speaking and got up to leave. Tian Donghua grabbed the girl’s arm. “Sit down, let’s talk.”

“What’s there to talk about? I have other things to do.”

“Sit down!”

“What are you shouting for!?”

“I told you to sit down!”

“Only a stray dog barks like that.” Yuqian cursed, but still sat down again.

“You broke up with him?”

“What’s it to you?”

“Yuqian, this isn’t the way to get revenge on him,” the smile on Tian Donghua’s face flashed away. “You clearly still love President Hou and want to force him to a dead end, to make him understand how important you are to him. Do you think he’ll come back to you if you do that? He’ll ignore you even more if you do that.”

Yuqian glanced at the man, not expecting him to see through her intentions. In fact, her intentions were obvious, and anyone with a little brain could see through them, but she just overestimated her own plan. “Why?”

“Put your personal relationship with President Hou aside first. ‘Dongxing’ is no longer President Hou’s personal property. Do you know how many provincial and municipal figures’ interests are linked to ‘Dongxing’s’ purifiers [products]? If you want to close ‘Dongxing’ down, you’ll have to rely on your grandfather and uncle’s connections, right? They’ll have to come forward, right? Of course, no one will dare to disrespect them on the surface, but do you know how many people will secretly resent them? The consequences will be endless.”

“I don’t care about that much.”

“Yuqian, you’re not a girl anymore; you should understand the principles. This kind of thing that involves such a wide range of people isn’t something you can do however you want. You have to consider the pros and cons. If the governors of several major provinces speak up together, even the biggest tree will shake three times.” Tian Donghua lied here; in fact, “Dongxing’s” business hadn’t even reached the provincial level yet.

“Okay, then I won’t touch ‘Dongxing’; I’ll deal with him directly. My brother has plenty of evidence of his crimes; any one of them is enough to get him into trouble.”

“Let me guess, let me guess, President Hou will realize that he’s facing an inevitable prison sentence and will definitely beg you. Then you can do whatever you want with him, right?”

“Isn’t that right?”

“Not everyone will succumb to strong pressure. Some people become more resilient the more pressure they’re under. Don’t you understand President Hou’s character?”

“I understand him, but even the hardest thing has a BreakPoint [weakness].”

“Do you think President Hou loves you?”

“I’m sure of that. If he didn’t love me, he would have agreed to marry me. If he didn’t love me, I wouldn’t need to go to so much trouble.”

“Why did you two break up?”

“He has a lot of women, sigh, I want him to treat me as his only one. He cried, he said he couldn’t leave them,” Yuqian lowered her head, a faint sadness on her face. “He cried, he knelt down to me.”

“I see,” Tian Donghua nodded. “If you deal with him personally, he may be willing to take responsibility out of guilt towards you.”

“Will he?”

“If he doesn’t, it’ll still be very troublesome. If the crime is minor, he won’t care. If the crime is major, because he now has a certain social influence, not to mention whether his people will be working everywhere, it’ll be difficult for you to bail him out in the end. And if you really ruin his reputation, he won’t have any political or economic future. Even if he’s willing to be with you alone at that time, how much pressure will come from your family? Have you thought about that?”

“Then…then I’ll deal with those other women…” Yuqian didn’t finish speaking, and shook her head. She knew that if she wanted Hou Longtao to change his mind, she couldn’t touch those women.

“What other tricks do you have?”

“Oh right, two of his friends climbed up the ladder because of my family’s connections; I’ll knock them back to their original form.”

“What’s the use of that?” Tian Donghua almost laughed out loud. “You know President Hou’s financial resources. You don’t let them be officials anymore; President Hou is so loyal, knowing that they lost their positions because of him, he’ll definitely support them, giving them millions a year. It’s not bad to be rich.”

“Hey!” Yuqian slammed the table and stood up. “According to what you said, I have no way to deal with him!? Don’t tell me you want me to just let it go!”

“Look, look, what’s the rush? You still can’t change your temper. You asked me here, didn’t you just want me to give you ideas? Can I ignore you?”

“Who asked you to give me ideas; I was just here to inform you.”

“Alright, I have a way; do you want to listen? If you don’t listen, I’ll leave.” Tian Donghua turned around, pretending to leave.

“You’re putting on airs, so much nonsense, order first.” Yuqian pulled the menu over…(Jin Lin Qi Shi Chi Zhong Wu) [To order food first].