The truck driver who was about to open the door to save someone heard this voice before he could plunge the knife into Zhang Chen’s neck.
His body tensed, his pupils rapidly dilated.
His strength and speed surged, wanting to sever Zhang Chen’s throat with the utmost speed.
*Snap!*
But his shoulder was firmly gripped by a powerful hand, its fingers locking onto his clavicle.
Pain, as if his collarbone had been pierced by an iron ring, shot through his entire body, causing him to twist and scream.
“Ah—!”
Zhang Chen, who was on the verge of death, weakly raised his eyes to look out the car window, his bloodshot eyes lighting up.
“Master…”
As soon as he spoke, his vision went black, and he lost consciousness.
*Snap!*
The moment he fainted, the truck driver was grabbed like a rag by Li Chonglou and thrown to the ground with one hand.
His internal organs felt as if they had been run over by his own truck, and he coughed up large mouthfuls of blood.
Li Chonglou’s eyes were icy as he stomped directly on the killer’s head. “Why did you want to kill him?”
“Who… who are you?” The killer’s face was filled with terror, breathing in gasps.
His meticulously planned murder had gone wrong at the crucial moment.
He had been stopped by someone, and a terrifying expert at that.
With just one move, he had been made to vomit blood.
“I am his master. If you tell me, I’ll hand you over to the police. If you don’t, you die right now,” Li Chonglou’s gaze was sharp.
As he spoke, He Yin was already walking towards them.
Zhang Chen hadn’t contacted him in a while, and to be ambushed and then have him encounter it…
It instantly reminded him of Lü Yunxu’s experience in Qin Zhou.
He didn’t know if Tian Shan was responsible, but he would rather kill the innocent than let the guilty go.
This kind of killer, who was just an ordinary person, he was confident he could kill without leaving a trace before He Yin arrived.
“I’ll… I’ll tell you. Someone named Luo Wanghai sent me… He said he was Zhang Chen’s competitor…” The killer trembled, not daring to gamble whether Li Chonglou would kill him.
After all, his own life was the most important thing.
He was just taking money to kill someone, there was no need to kill himself.
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Chonglou released his foot. He Yin rushed over and immediately handcuffed the killer.
She hadn’t seen the killing, but she had seen Li Chonglou grab him and slam him to the ground, his foot on his head.
Li Chonglou wouldn’t do something like that for no reason. Having seen too many cases, she immediately understood.
After handcuffing him, she asked, “Brother Li, what’s going on?”
“Probably some unfair business competition. We’ll ask again when he wakes up,” Li Chonglou, knowing it wasn’t Tian Shan’s doing, didn’t trouble the killer further.
Such matters were for the law to handle.
However, if it were related to Tian Shan, he would break the law and kill the perpetrator on the spot.
That was his bottom line.
He wouldn’t allow anyone to cross it.
After this incident, they couldn’t return to the hotel for the time being, so they put Zhang Chen directly into the car and sent him to the hospital.
Two hours later.
When Zhang Chen woke up, he found himself lying in a hospital bed with two uniformed law enforcement officers standing by.
“Where is this?” Zhang Chen tried to struggle up, but felt pain all over his body.
Only then did he realize that his arms and legs were bandaged and casted.
“Don’t move. You have two fractures and multiple soft tissue contusions. You’ll have to lie down for a while,” Li Chonglou’s voice came as he entered the room.
He Yin was also by his side.
“Master, did you save me?” Zhang Chen looked grateful.
He no longer felt the same way about Li Chonglou as he did initially; he was now convinced by Li Chonglou’s abilities and character.
His address of “Master” felt very natural now.
“What do you think?” Li Chonglou asked. “Do you have a competitor named Luo Haiwang in your family?”
“He sent someone to kill you. Do you have any idea why?”
Upon hearing the name Luo Haiwang, Zhang Chen’s face immediately contorted with rage. “Bastard, so it was him!”
“He actually went so far as to send someone to take my life. What a beast.”
“It’s just because I slept with his girlfriend, and he’s this ruthless…”
The first two sentences were fine; the law enforcement officers by the bedside were diligently taking notes.
Upon hearing the last sentence, everyone looked up and glared at Zhang Chen, including Li Chonglou.
“Damn it, it was over a woman! I thought it was your father’s business rival. If I had known, I would have let them cut your throat. You were too much of a bother,” Li Chonglou cursed him furiously, frustrated that he had been mistaken.
He wished he could slap the guy to death.
He thought it was Tian Shan playing tricks, but it turned out this kid Zhang Chen couldn’t control his lower half.
“Master… You can’t blame me…” Zhang Chen cowered like a quail, his voice filled with grievance. “You didn’t let me pursue our martial aunt, and I can’t always be single, can I?”
“I usually go to bars when I have free time. Isn’t it normal to see a girl you like and take her to a hotel?”
“Who knew… Who knew her boyfriend would see, and that her boyfriend just happened to know me…”
He couldn’t really be blamed for this.
At the bar, he didn’t know that the woman was married. He just thought she was pretty and alone, so he invited her for a drink.
One thing led to another, and they ended up in bed together.
Who knew that the woman had a tracker on her, and the man broke in with people shortly after.
At the time, he wasn’t even hit; they let him go directly.
It had been at least a week, so why was someone coming to kill him now?
Li Chonglou suppressed the urge to beat him. After listening to Zhang Chen’s woes, his eyes narrowed slightly.
It was clear that the person named Luo Haiwang was someone who understood the law. If he had acted at the time, he would have been the one at fault, turning into a criminal.
Hiring someone to commit murder afterwards was likely because he couldn’t stomach his wife being slept with.
Li Chonglou had originally planned to help him deal with this matter, especially since He Yin was present. Resolving it through legal means would be better.
But now he had completely abandoned that intention. “Lust leads to death. If you don’t want to change, keep going. If you want to live longer, be careful.”
After saying that, he turned and left.
“Master… Master, I’ll treat you to a meal when I’m better…” Zhang Chen shouted from the hospital bed.
—
Meanwhile, in the center of Yong’an City, on the twenty-eighth floor office of the Twin Trade Building.
A young man with a buzz cut looked somewhat pale after receiving a phone call.
“It must be the police calling, right?” On the sofa next to him, a middle-aged man wearing an eye patch asked in a cold voice.
“Master… The police said I hired someone to commit murder…” The young man’s voice was filled with panic and anger. “How could this happen? I never thought about retaliating against that Zhang Chen.”
“Bastard, he slept with my wife and then framed me.”
“The Zhang family is simply inhuman!”
Hearing this, the middle-aged man revealed a cold smile. “Luo Haiwang, you are my disciple after all. Have your business dealings over the years made you lose your nerve?”
“Don’t forget, you have blood on your hands.”
“For that bitch, you’ve really turned yourself into a simpering dog?”
“Zhang Chen was killed by my men. The police won’t find anything on you!”
Luo Haiwang looked bewildered, staring at the middle-aged man with confusion in his eyes.
“Li Chonglou, our rivalry has just begun,” the middle-aged man said no more, but his heart seethed with hatred. “I will make the people you care about die one by one.”
“In the end, I will flay you, tear out your tendons, and dismember your corpse!”