"Grandpa sent me. How are you feeling, Little Uncle?"
"Get lost! I'm doing just fine!"
"So fine that you can't touch a woman for a month? The place where you got injured this time, Little Uncle, is quite an embarrassing spot to speak of."
"Li Yanchen!! I don't want to hear you talk now, get out!"
Li Qing was the child Old Master Li had in his middle age with another woman, the youngest son of the Li Family, and Yanchen's own Little Uncle — only two years older than him.
As the pampered prodigal son who had always been doted on at home, Yanchen had never taken much of a liking to this Little Uncle.
But his grandfather cared for him and forced Yanchen to visit.
He hoped it would improve their strained uncle-nephew relationship, but both Li Qing and Yanchen knew that the feud they had had since childhood was impossible to mend in this lifetime.
Thus, Yanchen didn't bother to waste any more time there. Making a token appearance to satisfy his grandfather was enough.
He said, "I wish my Little Uncle a speedy recovery and a swift return to vigor~!"
Then he turned and left the hospital room.
Li Qing felt that the so-called well-wishes were simply a mockery, his face turning with anger.
"Li Yanchen, you just wait for me! Last time, you got lucky and escaped, I refuse to believe your luck will be that good every time!"
On hearing that, Yanchen's footsteps paused.
He turned around with a chill in his eyes and gave him a piercing look.
"So the mastermind behind that incident was you."
"What else? You're twenty-eight and still don't have a woman by your side. As your Little Uncle, of course, I have to be concerned about your personal issues, to see if you're in the same situation as I am now after my injury, or... is it true, as the rumors say, that you prefer men?"
Yanchen burst into laughter at the sheer ridiculousness.
"Whichever it is, as long as it gets to Grandpa, I suppose I won't be able to continue as the Person in Charge, right?"
"Exactly! I am the most beloved son of the Li Family! Your tubercular ghost of a father died early! If it weren't for you, that position would have been mine long ago!"
"Is that so? Little Uncle seems to have forgotten that you still have a Second Uncle and a Third Uncle above you!"
Just a bastard child brought into the family, yet filled with such ambition.
Not wanting to stoop to the level of an idiot, Yanchen was about to step out after speaking.
Then he heard Li Qing sneer, "Those two old geezers past their prime? I never took them seriously! And don't forget, Yanchen, your father's mother and the mothers of your Second and Third Uncle, they've all been buried for many years now. Only my mother is alive; she is the current Family Matriarch of the Li Family!"
Yanchen's grandmother was Old Master Li's first wife and the mother of Yanchen's father and Second Uncle.
The mother of Third Uncle was the second wife of Old Master Li.
And Li Qing's mother was the current Family Matriarch, the only woman now favored by Old Master Li.
So it was no wonder Li Qing had the confidence to vie with Yanchen for the position of the Person in Charge of the Li Family.
Without a backward glance, Yanchen said, "Not for long."
"What do you mean by that?" Li Qing asked with a frown.
Yanchen had already left the hospital room, not wanting to engage further with an idiot.
It was Lee Ming who couldn't help but look at Li Qing as if he were looking at a fool and said, "If the Person in Charge of the Li Family gets a wife, the Lady of the Li Family will change hands."
That's what their CEO meant.
Li Qing was dumbfounded upon hearing this.
Li Yanchen... was he getting married?
But there had been no news of the Li Family arranging a marriage with the daughter of a Prestigious Family!
Could it be that Qin Yuan had turned traitor?