Chapter 2566 — Meeting Him in Person
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It had begun on the very first day Wei Zhao took her in hand to do her hair, with that domineering, high-handed manner of his—from that moment on, Ying Ziyu had fallen for him, a little at a time.
But her fondness had crept in unnoticed. By the time she realized it, Chen Xi had already confessed to her that she liked Wei Zhao too. So Ying Ziyu could not go and compete with her sister for a man—that was beneath the code of a big sister, and so she had no choice but to bury the whole thing quietly in her heart.
True, she often helped Chen Xi plot and scheme, but were not those schemes, in the end, her own ideas—realized through Chen Xi?
"You old bastard, are you pretending I don't exist?" Tyrant Chen, hearing Foreman Zhu and Ying Ziyu chatting away as though he were not there at all, grew irritated. He was, after all, the underground king of a city, a boss of the underworld—being ignored like this, how could he possibly be pleased?
"Hmph. A little shrimp dares to make noise in front of a cultivator?" Foreman Zhu sneered, and with a casual wave of his palm, said mildly, "I won't take your life. Your life—I'll leave that for Mr. Lin to decide."
A cultivator? Tyrant Chen was horrified—that was his last thought before he lost consciousness. His backing was the Hidden Zhuang family, so of course he knew what a cultivator was, and how formidable cultivators could be. He had never imagined that this old man before him was actually a cultivator... Then whose faction did he belong to? But Tyrant Chen had no mind left to consider it—he had already blacked out.
Foreman Zhu then dialed Wei Zhao's number. "Mr. Lin, Miss Ying is fine—all is well. Young Chen got his balls kicked to bursting by Miss Ying, and when Tyrant Chen tried to pull a gun, I severed his meridians and broke his bones. He's a cripple now, nothing more."
"Well done. I'm on my way to the temporary Hidden Zhuang family estate—bring them along and come over as well." Wei Zhao breathed a sigh of relief. He had known that with Foreman Zhu at Ying Ziyu's side, nothing could possibly go wrong, but hearing the outcome still lifted a boulder from his heart.
"To the Hidden Zhuang family?" Foreman Zhu was briefly taken aback. "Mr. Lin, you still haven't settled things on your end? Are we going to storm the Hidden Zhuang family?"
The very thought set Foreman Zhu's blood racing. Was Wei Zhao about to bathe the Hidden Zhuang family in blood? That would be a thrilling sight indeed—only, with his own level of strength, would following at Wei Zhao's side just mean going to his death?
"Storm what?" Wei Zhao laughed at that. "The Hidden Zhuang family seems to be leaning toward submitting to my Heaven Alliance. I'll go have a look first, and we'll see."
"Ah? They want to..." Foreman Zhu was no fool; hearing Wei Zhao say it, he understood at once. The Hidden Zhuang family meant to acknowledge Wei Zhao as their leader? At that thought, Foreman Zhu felt a certain bitterness. Why was it that the Hidden Han family, the Hidden Pi family, and now even the Hidden Zhuang family were all so astute about the times, knowing that throwing in their lot with Wei Zhao was their only way out?
But the Hidden Zhao family—why did they insist on courting death? What damn good did opposing Wei Zhao do them? When Wei Zhao's patience ran out, he would go and wipe out the entire Hidden Zhao family! Foreman Zhu felt somewhat aggrieved. Other families had submitted to Wei Zhao, and for their people to cooperate with him was only natural—yet he himself still had to skulk about in secret. What kind of nonsense was that?
"Heh, no need to be so glum." Wei Zhao caught the note of grievance in Foreman Zhu's voice and smiled. "The Zhao family—don't they still have Zhao Qilei?"