He was still angry nonetheless, but it wasn't directed towards Vivian.
Vivian belonged to him. He would not allow anyone else to cast disdainful eyes on his possession.
Chow stopped in his steps and turned to a girl who had the biggest sneer on her lips. His gaze was so piercing that it was almost suffocating.
The girl quickly noticed his glare and stopped sneering. She wanted to seem nonchalant about the whole thing, but a few seconds later, she lowered her head in guilt.
However, Chow did not intend to let her go that easily.
He thought it was pointless to deliberately embarrass a nobody like her, but he still wanted to leave her with a warning because of whatever awkward situation Vivian would face from her classmates later.
Chow walked over to the girl's side and said in a low voice, "What did you just say? Repeat it to my face."
People who liked gossiping about other people usually feared face-to-face confrontation like this. Hearing his direct question, the girl suddenly felt uneasy and glanced around nervously. "I-I didn't say anything."
Chow narrowed his eyes dangerously. Despite it being a hot, sunny day, the students couldn't help feeling a shiver down their spines as the atmosphere turned frosty and more daunting than last night's storm. It was so silent that one could hear a pin drop.
"If I learn of you bullying Vivian again, I will make your whole family suffer. This includes everyone standing here," Chow said. "Whoever bullies Vivian will have to answer to me!" It would have been absurd if it was another person in his twenties threatening a group of high school students like this, but this was Chow, who was on a completely different level altogether.
Everyone knew that Chow wasn't joking when he said that.
They could feel the chill exuding from him.
A simple sentence, spoken with such authority, made it hard for the others not to believe that Chow wouldn't follow through with his threat.
The girl that he called out felt rather embarrassed. "Who do you think you are?" she questioned back, although feeling intimidated by him. "Did you really think you can threaten me like that?"
Just then, someone in the crowd blurted out, "Oh my goodness, it's Chow Howard!"
Chow's name was a legend in Holy City.
Because of him, the Howard Group, which Chow had taken over from his grandfather at a young age, had expanded its branch offices to more than 30 countries worldwide in just a few years.
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