The thugs Zhao Hongming brought were all lying on the ground, defeated.

All of this happened in the blink of an eye.

No one saw what happened. Zhao Hongming and Lin Yixin only saw the result: the thugs groaning on the ground…

Chen Xiao was in a good mood today, so he was merciful and didn't directly take the lives of those thugs, but only seriously injured them, depriving them of their fighting ability.

But even so, it was enough to shock Zhao Hongming and Lin Yixin.

"Zhao Hongming, didn't you want to kill me? Come on, I'm standing here waiting for you to kill me!"

Li Ziqing looked at Zhao Hongming with contempt, raising her chin in provocation.

"Li Ziqing, don't be so arrogant with me!"

Zhao Hongming gritted his teeth, his cheeks bulging, every word seeming to be squeezed out from between his teeth, "Don't forget, this is Huangcheng (Imperial City), not a place for you to be arrogant!"

"So what if it's Huangcheng (Imperial City)?"

Chen Xiao, who had been silent, finally spoke, "Is Huangcheng (Imperial City) so great? I've heard of the reputation of the five great families of Huangcheng (Imperial City), but to be honest, you disappoint me. A bunch of notorious people living on empty reputations, nothing to brag about!"

Lin Yixin looked at Chen Xiao in disbelief. Who was this person? How ignorant could he be to say such a thing?

"Hahahaha, brat, you're not old but you have a big mouth! Li Ziqing, is this the man you found? I didn't expect your taste to be so bad!"

Zhao Hongming suddenly burst into wild laughter.

Although the people he brought had all been knocked to the ground by Chen Xiao, he was not panicked at all.

He even felt that the situation was still firmly under his control.

Because he believed that this was Huangcheng (Imperial City), the territory of the five great families.

Even if the sky fell, there were elders in the family to hold it up, and it would definitely not fall on him.

"Boy, I admit you're good at fighting, but what's the use of being good at fighting? Have you heard of Xiao Tian Ce? Is he good at fighting? In the end, wasn't he still being played by the Song family, one of the five great families?"

"Someone like you, I can find ten or eight with just a phone call!"

"I'm telling you, it's still too late to kneel down and apologize to me. Otherwise, when I call people over later, you won't have a chance!"

Hearing this, Chen Xiao's only thought was that Zhao Hongming had been squeezed out of the core circle of the five great families.

Because if he was still within the core circle, he wouldn't have said that Xiao Tian Ce was being played by the Song family.

After all, Song Anbang, who represented the Song family, was already dead cold.

And Zhao Hongming obviously didn't know this news yet.

"You still want to call people, right? Fine, go ahead and call them. I really want to see what kind of experts Huangcheng (Imperial City) has."

Chen Xiao crossed his arms and said calmly.

Lin Yixin almost rolled her eyes to the sky.

She really couldn't understand how Li Ziqing, who had always prided herself on being shrewd, could have found such an arrogant and conceited man.

Even if Li Ziqing was just using him, wasn't she afraid of getting into trouble because of his blind arrogance?

"Boy, you're really arrogant enough. Maybe you're a big shot in your small hometown, but unfortunately, this isn't your hometown, this is Huangcheng (Imperial City)!"

"In Huangcheng (Imperial City), if you're a tiger, you have to lie down, if you're a dragon, you have to coil up! Otherwise, you won't even know how you died!"

Zhao Hongming said with a look of contempt.

In his opinion, the other party was obviously just a crude and vulgar person who was arrogant because of his strength, and there was no need to take him seriously.

Chen Xiao laughed, "I really can't imagine how I'll die, but I know that if you don't call people soon, you'll die from talking too much nonsense!"

As he spoke, Chen Xiao rotated his fist.

Zhao Hongming's eyes narrowed, because he knew that, judging from the strength Chen Xiao had displayed, it was indeed not difficult to kill him.

"Boy, give me your name. Today, I'll let you die knowing who killed you!"

Zhao Hongming planned to use the experts from his family.

But just as Chen Xiao had guessed, Zhao Hongming was just a marginal figure in the Zhao family, and had long been squeezed out of the core of power.

If he didn't even know who the person he wanted to deal with was, those experts in the family would definitely not be willing to help him.

"My name is Chen Xiao."

Chen Xiao said his name lightly.

"Humph, Chen Xiao... Wait, you're that Chen Xiao?"

Zhao Hongming still had a look of disdain at first, but then he remembered that there was a person who had been in the limelight recently who also had this name.

"Maybe... I might be the Chen Xiao you've heard of."

Chen Xiao looked at Zhao Hongming with a playful expression.

He knew that, based on what he had done, even if Zhao Hongming had moved away from the core of power, it was impossible that he hadn't heard of his name.

Zhao Hongming's face changed from disdain to shock, then to fear, to panic, to bewilderment...

Realizing that Zhao Hongming's face was not right, Lin Yixin also realized something.

She asked in a low voice, "Brother Ming, who is he? Is he, is he very powerful..."

"My younger brother, Zhao Hongyuan, was killed by him..."

Zhao Hongming swallowed and his teeth were chattering.

Lin Yixin's expression changed drastically. She was not a fool, and on the contrary, in many cases, she was smarter than most people.

Zhao Hongyuan had been dead for several months, and she knew about this.

But the Zhao family had not sought revenge for Zhao Hongyuan, so there was only one reason... The person who killed Zhao Hongyuan was someone the Zhao family had to fear.

That is to say, this person who seemed to her to be hopelessly arrogant and conceited was someone the Zhao family had to fear.

Thinking of this, Lin Yixin felt a darkness in front of her eyes, her body swayed, and she almost fell to the ground.

Now, she finally understood where Li Ziqing's confidence came from.

She also knew why Li Ziqing dared to come and seek revenge alone.

No, that's not right... Li Ziqing wasn't coming alone at all. The man she brought was simply comparable to an army!

Someone the Zhao family feared, it was not an exaggeration to say that he alone was worth an army.

For a moment, Zhao Hongming felt like crying.

He had thought that he could avenge his previous humiliation when he received Lin Yixin's call, but he did not expect that in the end, he would lose both his wife and his army.

Not only had the most embarrassing thing about him been exposed by Li Ziqing, but he had also provoked someone he could not afford to provoke at all.

"Oh, well..."

Zhao Hongming sighed, "Today, I was blind. Li Ziqing, you are indeed ruthless enough. You played us between your palms back then. So many years have passed, and I am still not your opponent. I accept my fate. From now on, I will never come to trouble you again. Let's write off the grievances between us and say goodbye!"

As he spoke, Zhao Hongming turned to leave.

Chen Xiao was dumbfounded. He asked in disbelief, "You don't think you can just leave like that, do you?"