Chapter 164 — Who Is the Fool, Who the Innocent?
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"Haha!" Li Cihua looked at Wei Zhao as though he were an idiot. "Since I have said it aloud, naturally I am not afraid of you going to the police."
"Is that so?" Wei Zhao looked at Li Cihua with a half-smile.
"If you don't believe me, you can try..." Li Cihua waved a hand. "Evidence. There is no evidence! Words without proof are nothing, and I leave no evidence of any kind! Wei Zhao, I must say you are quite stupid and rather naive. At our level, in the struggles between people like us, the only ones who can be dragged out are the small fry. Do you think the police don't know what I am doing? No, they know. They know better than you do! But they cannot touch me. Why? Because they cannot afford to offend the people behind me, and they have no evidence sufficient to move against me!"
"You mean that if I killed you, and the police had no evidence, you would have died for nothing all the same?" Wei Zhao asked.
"Though your analogy is rather laughable, I can tell you this: if you really did kill me, and you were clever enough to leave no evidence whatsoever, then so long as Gu Pengzhan stands behind you, no one could do anything to you either." Li Cihua said, "This is the rule of struggle in high society. No one goes out of his way to break the rules."
"Heh, I understand." Wei Zhao nodded, cursing inwardly: You fool, and you are smiling so happily? I could snuff you out as easily as playing a game. But since you have said as much, I cannot snuff you out after all; once you were dead, the one behind you would certainly not let the matter rest. What Wei Zhao was weighing now was the overall situation. Until Gu Pengzhan launched a full-scale offensive, Wei Zhao would not act rashly either. Striking at a few key figures on the other side to give them a warning was one thing, but killing them... that was a little too early.
"I am glad you understand that much. Then I will not waste words with you, nor beat about the bush!" Li Cihua said. "As the saying goes, 'He who knows the times is a wise man.' I take it Mr. Lin has also grasped this: finishing you off is in fact a very easy thing for us. While you live, Gu Pengzhan may still have some use for you, but once you are dead, do you think he would step forward for a mere guard... or even for his daughter's lover? If he knew about you and his daughter, he would wish you dead all the sooner, would he not?"
Watching Li Cihua spit as he spoke, Wei Zhao felt only contempt in his heart. This fellow's mind was far too foul; he had actually imagined the relationship between Wei Zhao and Gu Mengyao to be something filthy and complicated. Did he look like the sort of man who would steal a young lady's heart?
Looking at Li Cihua, so smug in the belief that he had seen through to the inside truth, Wei Zhao found him pitiful, and lamentable, and thoroughly foolish.
The kind of person who thinks he has seen the truth while knowing nothing at all is the most foolish kind there is.
"What are you trying to say?" Wei Zhao did not refute Li Cihua's words; let him misunderstand however he pleased. Since he had misread the relationship between Wei Zhao and Gu Mengyao, so much the better: it would give Wei Zhao all the more justification for moving against him later. You lay hands on my woman, I lay hands on your whole family.
"Work with us." Li Cihua said this with great confidence.
"Work with you?" This time Wei Zhao was rather taken aback; he had not expected Li Cihua to say such a thing.