“Damn it. Who do you think you are, you good-for-nothing?! How dare you talk like that in front of us?!”“How dare you say you won’t let us off easily? We just chose not to bother with you on account of Douglas! If you provoke us, I’ll get someone to come and break your legs right away!”“How damned ignorant! It’s your blessing that Douglas was kind enough to let you come in and join us here. Yet you’re still being so fussy and speaking to us so rudely. Are you tired of living?”All of a sudden, the scions in the room began lashing out at William, and a few exceptionally hot-tempered ones even stood up and rolled up their sleeves, feeling a strong urge to teach William a lesson.They were all Douglas’s friends and a gang of scoundrels, just like him.Before William and Victoria arrived, they had heard Tess badmouthing William and all the insults she said about him.Meanwhile, Douglas had also shown interest in Victoria in front of them, so they naturally loathed William and wanted to

Unable to tolerate it any longer, Tess slammed the glass in her hand onto the table and snapped, “William Belmont, are you deliberately messing with me? I toasted you with kind intentions, but you kept turning me down and refusing to reciprocate!”William’s face suddenly turned gloomy. “Hmph, kind intentions? You? Do you take me for a fool?”“What?”“You should know very well what’s in that glass of wine! Listen up. You’d better behave yourself, or else don’t blame me for being merciless if you really provoke me!”Then William tightened his grip on the teacup in his hand, causing the hard porcelain to shatter with a loud bang.By the time he let go, his hand was full of white powdered porcelain.There weren’t even any porcelain pieces.His move took everyone by storm!Crushing a teacup with bare hands wasn’t that surprising, as those who were strong could do so easily by applying some tricks.But it was extremely terrifying to be able to crush a teacup into powder!Tess subconsciously

“Hah, I suggest you sit down obediently and quit putting up an intimidating front in front of me. Otherwise, you won’t want to know what the consequences will be.” William simply disregarded the scions and slowly poured himself another cup of tea as he spoke relaxedly.Although his tone wasn’t harsh, Douglas suddenly and inexplicably got the chills.It seemed that William was a terrifying person not to be trifled with!The entire private room fell into a bizarre silence again.At this moment, the door of the room opened, and Victoria entered together with Tess.She immediately sensed the strange tension in the room.It was especially so because more than ten of them, including Douglas, were standing around William, seemingly trying to force him to do something.“What are you guys doing?” Victoria hollered and immediately walked toward William while staring at them warily.William patted Victoria’s arm and told her to relax.He even picked up the check in front of him and handed it to

“Hah, who do you think you are, punk? Do you think your status is higher than Douglas’s?”“Exactly! We know all the scions and heirs of significant status. Where did you come from, scoundrel? Why are you pretending to be a big shot in front of us?”“Hmph, how dare you be a nuisance here? We’re going to kill you!”The rich scions beat the drunkard up badly, to the point that he was shrieking incessantly and bleeding from the nose. His body was battered with unbearable bruises.In the end, Douglas decided to be kind and told his friends to stop when he saw how badly beaten up the drunkard was. “Forget it. We are from prestigious families. We shouldn’t stoop so low and beat up a drunkard. Let’s just throw him out and continue drinking!”Douglas remained seated and looked disdainfully at the ground that was dirtied and stained by the blood from the drunkard’s nose.“Douglas is kind enough to let you off! Hurry up and scram!”The scions cursed at the drunkard and threw him out of the priva

After Victoria heard what Tess said, her eyes widened in disbelief. “Tess! William is my friend and the family's benefactor. How could you say that?”Although she had always known that Tess looked down on William and detested him, Tess was going overboard by telling William to do something humiliating like kneeling down to Douglas in front of so many people!“Hah, Victoria, I’m not afraid to tell you the truth now. Today’s dinner is specially meant for setting you up with Douglas! If not for this good-for-nothing coming to mess our plans up, you would have been Douglas’s woman by now!”After pretending for so long, Tess finally revealed her true intentions.She said with a smug expression, “Victoria, it’s your blessing that Douglas is interested in you! Look, Douglas is the successor of the Raymond family, while you are just a used woman who likes playing around with paupers. Douglas is actually at a loss! So just stop being so pretentious and quickly obey Douglas!”Victoria didn’t da