Chapter 640 — Zhong Yongliang's Mission
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Though the deed was against the law, Zhong Yongliang carried not the slightest trace of a guilty conscience. To his mind, the more vicious a thing was, the more exhilarating it became to carry it out; causing some stir at the school was something he would gladly see.
His uncle was no longer a shareholder of the school, so naturally it would be best if something happened there! Toward Gu Mengyao he had gone from love to hatred, and toward Wei Zhao the same!
With a ruthless rival like An Liwen in the way, Zhong Yongliang dared not entertain any lingering notions about Gu Mengyao—but not pursuing Gu Mengyao did not mean he did not hate her! This time, he would ruin Gu Pengzhan financially and make Gu Mengyao know what it felt like to fall from a lofty little princess straight into the life of a penniless Cinderella!
Only a great upheaval can make a man see the truth; and at this moment Zhong Yongliang understood completely that Gu Mengyao had merely been playing him all along, that she had never liked him, and that even if she had not done it herself, she had tacitly permitted Shen Yushu to do so!
Those two girls—and Wei Zhao—he would never let them off! And An Liwen too: when Zhang Naipao descended the mountain, that would be their death day!
Zhong Yongliang's wounds had healed. Through the Medicine King, Zhong Fabai had obtained some of Divine Physician Kang's golden wound medicine, so apart from missing a kidney, Zhong Yongliang suffered no other discomfort.
But though he had returned to school, Zhong Yongliang found that his classmates looked at him oddly. He did not know whether he was being oversensitive, or whether everyone was mocking him for having only one kidney left—in any case, Zhong Yongliang was in an exceedingly foul mood.
These humiliations would be washed away sooner or later!
The Zhong Yongliang of this moment was no longer the Zhong Yongliang of before. Having gone through this upheaval, he had matured, grown steadier, and grasped one truth: to take revenge, one must have absolute strength, and before one has absolute strength, one must never clash head-on with the likes of Wei Zhao!
Of course, that did not mean letting Wei Zhao off; it meant playing dirty. He refused to believe that if he kept at it, he would not drive Wei Zhao and Gu Pengzhan to a breakdown.
Before the last class of the morning, Zhong Yongliang skipped class together with Gao Xiaofu. He had not kept the matter from Gao Xiaofu: as another of his trusted confidants, Gao Xiaofu had joined him in plenty of wicked deeds, so there was no chance he would betray him.
"Brother Liang, when the time comes we just split up and sprinkle this stuff into the cafeteria's food tubs, right?" Gao Xiaofu looked at the little bottles in his hand and asked.
"Right. I'll do four and you do three, and we scatter them separately so we don't draw anyone's attention!" Zhong Yongliang nodded and said.
"But does this stuff really work, Brother Liang?" Gao Xiaofu did not quite believe that these little bottles, each harmless on its own, would turn into a deadly poison once mixed.
"Of course it does. You don't know—this poison was compounded by a legendary recluse of great skill. It's called the Seven-Herb Death Powder, made from seven herbs; colorless and tasteless, any single herb on its own has no toxicity whatsoever. Only when the seven are taken together does it become deadly. It's wonderfully covert—the indispensable wonder drug for murder and robbery!" Zhong Yongliang said smugly.
"My God, that's impressive. So this time, any student who eats the seven dishes together is bound to drop dead?" Gao Xiaofu marveled.
"That's right. And when the forensic examiners come, they won't be able to spot a thing, because if you take a single dish away to test it, there's no poison in it. Even if those students are sent to the hospital, there's no antidote—they can only lie there waiting to die!" Zhong Yongliang nodded and said.