"Call an ambulance, quickly!" Xiao Ji was frantic too, glaring at Gou Huli. "What are you standing there staring for? Get on the phone and call an ambulance!"

"Oh—oh! Right!" Gou Huli nodded hurriedly, pulled out her phone, and dialed the emergency center...

Inside the villa, Wei Zhao too was staring wide-eyed at the scene unfolding before him, scarcely able to believe it. This was absurd. How on earth had Uncle Pi died? Had he been slapped to death by Wei Zhao, or run down by the car?

"Yaoyao, that Gou Huli is really pitiful—she ran over the Xiao family's best fighter! Brother Arrow's mercy went to waste!" Shen Yushu said with some regret. "I bet when she gets home tonight they'll string her up and beat her. I'd love to go watch!"

Bloody as the scene was, the sheer theatricality of the ending made Gu Mengyao smile in spite of herself. "Yes... that family really is unlucky."

Gu Pengzhan had never expected things to end this way either: the Xiao family's finest hand, run down by the Xiao family's own daughter-in-law. That clan had sunk to such depths of misfortune that Gu Pengzhan almost could not bring himself to bully them anymore.

"Go see to the funeral first," Wei Zhao said, looking at the Xiao brothers and shaking his head. "When that's done, send someone to discuss the four hundred million and the four businesses with me. You've seen it for yourselves—life is full of accidents. Who knows, you might be the next one."

At the threat in Wei Zhao's words, Xiao Ji and Xiao Ben shuddered violently. Only in that instant did they truly feel fear.

Wei Zhao's strength had never vanished at all. But that was not even the crux of it—the crux was that Uncle Pi was dead! With the Xiao family's pillar gone, what were they now but clay to be kneaded by any hand?

Xiao Ji and Xiao Ben were both shocked and furious. They had never imagined that with Uncle Pi dead, Wei Zhao still would not let the matter rest, and would even extort a sum of money and the deeds to four businesses from them! This was pushing people too far—far too far!

Yet at that moment it never occurred to them that when they had set Uncle Pi on Wei Zhizun and left him injured, they too had pressed forward step by step, driving Gu Pengzhan to the very edge of ruin. And what property did the Xiao family even have? If they had businesses of their own, would they have needed to rob Gu Pengzhan in the first place?

As for the four hundred million, the Xiao family could produce it—but only by selling off every asset they held in Yanjing. They had just scraped the sum together and were about to make their grand play in Songshan City. How could they possibly hand it straight to Wei Zhao?

But the situation was this: if the Xiao family did not want to pay, could they refuse? Would Wei Zhao let them off?

Watching Uncle Pi and the Xiao family carried away in the ambulance, Wei Zhao felt not the slightest pity. Perhaps this was what they meant by self-made calamity admitting no escape.

"Next household, then." Wei Zhao shrugged and turned to Gu Pengzhan. "Uncle Chu, I'm going to drop by the Gelivable Floating Cloud Bar."

"Oh? Xiaoyi, you're going after Zhao Qibing as well?" Gu Pengzhan was startled.

"They came to our door to push us around. If I don't push back, how will they ever learn?" Wei Zhao shook his head. "Though it seems Zhao Qibing's memory isn't very good..."

"All right, then—be careful!" Seeing Wei Zhao's resolve, Gu Pengzhan said no more. He knew the law of the jungle well enough: if someone bullies you and you never strike back, they take you for a coward, and next time they will come at you again.

Only when, after being wronged, you crush the other party ruthlessly and with interest—only when you trample them until they are afraid—will they ever fear you.

"Still, you had best go and come back quickly!" Gu Pengzhan added, with some hesitation. "This is a critical period, after all. I worry the Yu and Xiao families will rally and come back for revenge against Yaoyao and Xiaoshu..."

"Don't worry." Wei Zhao smiled. "General Weiwu is no vegetarian either. Besides, would they dare come again? Though you, Uncle Chu, will have to pay out of your own pocket to fix this villa gate. Who knows when the Yu family's assets will actually be recovered."

So long as the Yu and Xiao families retained enough strength, revenge was certain—but probably not now.

"Naturally." Gu Pengzhan smiled bitterly to himself. Only Wei Zhao would dare say such a thing: to kill Yu Bide and then still go demand compensation from the Yu family.

And yet his father had been right after all. Wei Zhao, worthy of the name, would have to be the one to resolve Songshan City's passive stalemate in the end.

It seemed that in the blink of an eye, every trouble had dissolved into mist. The side that had been weak became the strong in an instant. Gu Pengzhan could hardly adjust to such a rapid reversal of roles. Only this morning he had been fretting over the Gu family's future and his daughter's future—and now it was the Yu family, the Xiao family, and Zhao Qibing, who was about to get his, who had cause to worry.

"Wei Zhao, be careful!" Gu Mengyao waited until Wei Zhao had reached the doorway before she spoke.

Her tone was as flat as ever, but the moment Wei Zhao turned back and looked at the young lady, he read a deep concern in her eyes.

"Heh... all right." Wei Zhao nodded. The young lady was always like this—cold on the outside, warm within. He had long since grown used to it.

"Go get them, Brother Arrow!" Shen Yushu pumped her fist. "I have always had faith in you!"

Wei Zhao nodded to them both, turned, and left the villa. He got into Shen Yushu's Beetle and drove off toward the Gelivable Floating Cloud Bar.

An Jianwen had stirred up both the Yu and the Xiao families to go make trouble for Gu Pengzhan, and now he was waiting smugly for Gu Pengzhan to call him begging for help. In his view, with the Yu and Xiao families closing in step by step, Gu Pengzhan was sure to agree to his proposal.

For no other reason than this: Gu Mengyao might not like An Jianwen, but compared with being married off to the unfamiliar Yu family as a concubine, marrying him was the best way out available to her. Surely Gu Pengzhan was no fool; he ought to understand that much.

If Gu Mengyao married him, Gu Pengzhan would not only save the Gu Group but preserve his daughter's happiness as well. An Jianwen truly liked Gu Mengyao; even if he took her as his wife, he would surely cherish her and never mistreat her.

An Jianwen glanced at his watch. Had the Yu family not said they would go first thing in the morning? It was already past eight—he wondered whether there was any result yet. And from the Xiao family's side, not a whisper had come. Had they gone at all?

At last An Jianwen grew impatient. It looked as though Gu Pengzhan was holding out well—still no compromise? Fine. If he would not compromise, then An Jianwen would add more fuel to the fire. He meant to call Zhao Qibing again and tell him that Gu Pengzhan was planning to flee with Gu Mengyao—let Zhao Qibing join the fun as well.

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