Chapter 53

Wu Haoyu's POV:

When I received the urgent summons to the school, irritation had spiked through me like a hot poker. Being dragged away from my afternoon business dealings to address some trivial school matter was an unconscionable imposition. The Wu family enterprises didn't simply tend themselves, after all.

That fleeting pique rapidly ignited into outright fury once the grisly details started trickling in, however. Reports of a vicious brawl leaving multiple students hospitalized, with eyewitness accounts identifying Huang Yanyan as the brutal clash's instigating force. 

A cold knot of dread clenched in my gut at the thought of that uncouth harridan potentially bringing ruinous consequences down upon us all. If any harm had befallen the newly-minted Huang heiress, Grandfather Jiang's wrath would have been apocalyptic in its scope - and I would be directly in the line of fire as her assigned guardian during the patriarch's travels.