Bai Jinghong feigned shock. “You say it was, and I’m supposed to believe you? Empty words are no proof!”
Wu Tao smiled. “Back then, the Shen family were the number three power in Su Province. At that time…”
Wu Tao really began to narrate the story.
All the details, the cause, the process, and the result, were described with extreme clarity.
Someone who hadn’t been at the scene could never have described it so vividly.
Bai Jinghong listened until he had heard enough and completely understood.
In the end, it was all political maneuvering.
The Shen family had offended someone, threatening their interests and pushing them into a corner, which led to this calamity.
The other party had been a cornered dog jumping over the wall.
“Enough!” Bai Jinghong directly interrupted.
He couldn’t allow Shen Yaoyao’s wounds to be ripped open again.
To confirm things, letting the other party speak just now had already been an injustice to Shen Yaoyao.
“Our conversation today, I’ve recorded it all. From now on, we’re brothers on the same boat.”
Bai Jinghong smiled.
Wu Tao also knew they had officially hitched a ride on Bai Jinghong’s boat.
They could truly walk sideways in Dragon Sea from now on.
They knew about all of Bai Jinghong’s shady businesses, even drugs!
And Bai Jinghong knew about some of their murder cases.
Both sides knew each other’s secrets; they were now grasshoppers tied to the same rope.
“Mr. Wu, I have a batch of goods right now. Let me give it to you first. Go test the market, what do you say?”
Wu Tao was overjoyed. It was starting already?
“Of course, no problem!”
Bai Jinghong nodded and beckoned to one of the bodyguards in the corner.
That bodyguard looked completely baffled. Where would he have any goods on him?
But he still walked over to Bai Jinghong’s side, hands clasped in front of him, head bowed.
Bai Jinghong’s hand reached around the bodyguard’s back and drew the pistol from his waist.
This action made the bodyguard understand something, and he immediately became vigilant towards the four men opposite them.
“Mr. Wu, we were chatting so happily just now, my woman didn’t say a single word.”
“Allow me to formally introduce my woman to you.”
Wu Tao, still unaware of the impending doom, nodded repeatedly. “The Young Madam is divinely beautiful, a match made in heaven with Young Master Bai!”
Under the table, Bai Jinghong’s hand chambered a round.
“Yes, ah, a match made in heaven. I do like her very much.”
“For her, I can do many things.”
“Oh, right, her name is Shen Yaoyao. Of the Shen family.”
“Shen family?” Wu Tao was stunned.
Bai Jinghong stood up. “Right, the Shen family. The very Shen family you exterminated!”
In the next instant, a jet-black pistol was aimed directly at Wu Tao’s son.
“Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!”
Bai Jinghong fired almost without any hesitation.
The gunshots echoed through the private room, deafening.
Twelve rounds were emptied in one go, all striking Wu Tao’s son!
Before Wu Tao’s son could even react, he died violently on the spot.
Bullet holes riddled his face, heart, chest, and abdomen.
The blood spurting from his body stained the tabletop red.
All of this happened in a mere instant.
Wu Tao’s eyes bulged wide. His entire being was stupefied.
“Ah~ Bai Jinghong, you…”
Wu Tao flew into a rage and was about to rise and fight to the death.
But the surrounding bodyguards, along with those outside who had heard the gunshots and burst in, immediately pinned the remaining three, Wu Tao included, firmly onto the table.
Bowls, chopsticks, and wine glasses crashed to the floor.
“Hahahaha!” Bai Jinghong suddenly laughed, a laugh filled with utter cruelty.
“The feeling of your own flesh and blood dying right before your eyes, not a good one, is it?”
“Feeling quite powerless, aren’t you?”
Even Shen Yaoyao was caught off guard, staring blankly at Bai Jinghong.
Tears gushed uncontrollably from her eyes.
“Bai Jinghong, I’ll kill you! You beast! Beast!”
Wu Tao was indeed powerless, struggling madly and roaring.
He could never have imagined that what was meant to be paying respects to the local boss would turn into a banquet of death.
And his own son had died tragically before his eyes.
“Curse me. Curse me to your heart’s content!”
“Your son just died, his body’s still warm. Yet my woman has endured twenty years of torment. This is just the tip of the iceberg; it can’t even begin to offset it!”
“I’ll keep you alive for my woman to deal with personally. But before that, there are many things I want to know.”
Wu Tao was in a state of frenzy. Even while being pinned down, he struggled frantically.
“Bai Jinghong, you brute! You devil!”
“I won’t let you off even in death!”
Bai Jinghong paid him no mind, merely curling his lip. “Mr. Wu seems a bit un-calm right now.”
“A Fei, prepare a resting place for Mr. Wu and his two friends!”
“Twenty-four-hour uninterrupted hospitality. Don’t let them die; I still have questions to ask.”
“Yes, Young Master Bai!” Duan Fei also gave a cold laugh, casting a cruel glance at Wu Tao and the other two.
“Young Master Bai, what about… the dead one?”
Ah Kun asked at that moment.
Bai Jinghong tossed the pistol to a bodyguard, picked up a napkin, and wiped his hands.
“Store him properly for now. We’ll talk when Mr. Wu calms down. Of course, if he doesn’t cooperate later or something, just chop him up and feed him to the dogs!”
“Oh, right. Chop him up right in front of Mr. Wu. And feed him to the dogs right in front of Mr. Wu.”
Bai Jinghong added emphasis.
Right now, the aura Bai Jinghong exuded was profoundly chilling.
He was a living, breathing devil incarnate.
Making a father watch his dead son be chopped into pieces and fed to dogs was the epitome of killing the heart.
Worse than death itself.
“Ah~ Bai Jinghong! May you die a wretched death! Ah~~”
Wu Tao roared hysterically, his face scraping frantically against the tabletop, now covered in bloody scratches.
“I’m full. I’ll take my leave. You all clean up here!”
“Mr. Wu, sorry for the poor hospitality. Please forgive me!”
Bai Jinghong smiled, even waving a hand at Wu Tao and the others.
With that, Bai Jinghong took Shen Yaoyao’s slender hand.
While Shen Yaoyao was still in a daze, the two had already left the private room.
Bai Jinghong led Shen Yaoyao all the way to the car.
Once inside the vehicle, Bai Jinghong pulled Shen Yaoyao onto his lap.
He gently stroked her pretty face.
Shen Yaoyao, at this moment, was in a completely absent-minded state.
Bai Jinghong’s voice softened. “Yaoyao, I know what you’re feeling right now. Don’t hold it in. Cry if you want to. I’m here.”
Shen Yaoyao bit her lip tightly and looked at Bai Jinghong. The rims of her eyes were red, but she didn’t shed a tear.
In her eyes, at this moment, there was only Bai Jinghong.
The feeling was as if she wanted to etch this man deeply into her very heart.
Bai Jinghong felt a pang of heartache and held her tightly.
Shen Yaoyao wrapped her arms around Bai Jinghong’s waist, pressing her whole body into his embrace.
Bai Jinghong didn’t take Shen Yaoyao back to the company. Instead, he drove around, looking at the night scenery.
It was also to help Shen Yaoyao relax her emotions a bit.
The wound of a slaughtered family. Now, the murderers had been apprehended.
For Shen Yaoyao to be able to suppress the hatred within her, that was already remarkable.
Bai Jinghong also understood that Shen Yaoyao was enduring it.
Her target wasn’t just these few; she wanted to drag out everyone involved.
Only when everyone was dead could the souls of her family finally rest in peace.
They drove around outside for a long while. Shen Yaoyao remained in that absent state, not uttering a single word.
And then, Bai Jinghong’s phone received a message from Duan Fei.
The content informed Bai Jinghong of the location where Wu Tao and the others were being held.
“Yaoyao, how about we go there now?”
Bai Jinghong couldn’t help but ask.
He had originally intended to let Shen Yaoyao calm down first, then interrogate Wu Tao and the others once her emotions had settled.
But seeing her current state, if this wasn’t resolved quickly, Shen Yaoyao might remain like this indefinitely.
Better to have short, sharp pain than prolonged agony. Resolve it all in one go.
