Yuanfeng frowned, placing his fork down carefully. "That's not the landlord. He usually calls first."
Huaijin's spine straightened instantly. She recognised the arrogance in that sound.
That authoritative, impatient force could only belong to one side of the family she was trying to avoid.
Yuanfeng went to the door and opened it, revealing the figure of his elder brother, Chi Yuantian.
Chi Yuantian was everything Yuanfeng was not: impeccably dressed in a tailored suit, radiating an aura of crisp professionalism and financial success, and possessed of a perpetually tense expression that suggested he viewed the world as an inefficient ledger needing correction.
He was the eldest son of the powerful Chi family. This man viewed his brilliant but impoverished younger brother with a mixture of pity and contempt for failing to capitalize on his potential.
