Return to Gu Family Manor.
【Damn it, I've been fooled by that crazy woman all day!】
【She said she would tell me about Lin Yu's next plan, but it was purely a lie to trick me!】
【I shouldn't have believed her honeyed words!】
Gu Chenan angrily closed the car door and got out.
【Speaking of which, although Hoshino Kannon said she didn't intend to kill Xiao Jian, let's assume she was telling the truth. But the Black Owl will definitely not give up so easily.】
【I should notify the Xiao Family later and tell them not to let their guard down just because Lin Yu failed.】
Thinking of this, Gu Chenan walked to the front hall.
Just then, a guard walked over.
"Young Master Gu, Miss Xiao is here."
Hearing this, Gu Chenan's eyebrows twitched slightly.
"I was just about to go to the Xiao Family, and she happened to come, saving me the trip."
The guard added: "Miss Xiao is waiting for you in the main hall."
"Got it."
Gu Chenan walked a few steps and turned back to instruct the guard, "Strengthen security around the house recently, and install electric shockers on the windows of my room."
"Yes, Young Master Gu."
Gu Chenan entered the main hall and saw Xiao Yajie dressed in a professional OL uniform and flesh-colored high heels.
"Miss Xiao, why are you here? Is there something?" Gu Chenan asked.
"Young Master Gu," Xiao Yajie got up and pursed her lips, "Nothing really, my dad asked me to come and ask what you want as a token of thanks."
When speaking, Xiao Yajie didn't even dare to look Gu Chenan in the eye.
Xiao Jian didn't ask her to come and ask this question at all, she came completely on her own initiative.
"Hmm."
Gu Chenan sat on the sofa with a grin, "Miss Xiao, I appreciate Master Xiao's kindness, but isn't it a bit insulting to keep asking me what I want from your family?"
"I don't lack anything. I didn't help your Xiao family for anything else."
"You don't have to ask about the token of thanks anymore."
Xiao Yajie's eyes panicked, "No, it's not like that. Young Master Gu, you misunderstood."
"Our Xiao family just feels that you have helped us so much, we should at least do something." Xiao Yajie lowered her head.
"It’s really not necessary." Gu Chenan waved his hand.
"That's right." After speaking, Gu Chenan suddenly seemed to remember something and said, "Although the Lin Yu incident is over, it doesn't mean that Master Xiao is absolutely safe."
Xiao Yajie was stunned when she heard this and suddenly looked up, "W-What do you mean?"
"It's very simple." Gu Chenan spread his hands and said, "Although this was led by Lin Yu, he was just trying to complete the mission.
"Now that Lin Yu has failed, the Black Owl will send someone else."
Hearing this, Xiao Yajie's expression became flustered.
"Then, then what should we do? Should I ask my dad to leave Suhang first to avoid it?"
Gu Chenan shook his head: "The Black Owl organization is all over the world. There is nowhere for Master Xiao to escape. On the contrary, Suhang is the safest place for him."
Xiao Yajie nodded and thought deeply for a moment.
She wanted to think of a way to keep the Xiao family safe and sound. It seemed that only one person could do it after racking her brains.
She looked at Gu Chenan and suddenly stood up, "Can I ask Young Master Gu to help my dad? If it's Young Master Gu, you must be able to keep my dad safe and sound."
Saying that, she bowed deeply to Gu Chenan.
Then she stood up straight with her eyes blazing, "Please, Young Master Gu!"
Originally, Gu Chenan only wanted to prevent Lin Yu from taking over the Xiao Family's power.
But now the Xiao Family owed him a huge favor, in other words, the Xiao Family had become one of the forces in Suhang that he could use.
So for both personal and business reasons, he had to help.
If the Black Owl really killed Xiao Jian, it would be like cutting off Gu Chenan's arm.
"It’s very difficult to get the Black Owl to stop." Gu Chenan murmured.
As soon as Xiao Yajie heard this, her beautiful eyes instantly turned red.
In his opinion, even if Gu Chenan was powerless, who else could save her father?
Just as she thought Gu Chenan was also at a loss, she heard Gu Chenan turn around and say, "But it's not impossible."
Hearing this, Xiao Yajie's eyes lit up instantly.
"Does Young Master Gu have a way?"
Gu Chenan nodded: "I guess so."
He instructed: "Go back and tell Master Xiao about this. Ask him to continue strengthening security and not be negligent in the slightest."
Xiao Yajie nodded: "Then...be careful."
"Hmm." Gu Chenan urged, "Go quickly, I guess the Black Owl has already sent someone else to Suhang."
"Okay, got it."
Xiao Yajie got up to leave, walked a few steps but turned back shyly and said, "Young Master Gu, if you need my help, feel free to ask."
After saying that, she hurried away in high heels.
Hearing this, Gu Chenan frowned.
【Hiss~ Why do I feel like Xiao Yajie is quite looking forward to me asking for her help?】
【Forget it, think about the serious stuff.】
Gu Chenan stroked his chin and analyzed the current situation.
Hoshino Kannon had already come to Suhang. If it was really as she said that she had no intention of killing Xiao Jian, then the Black Owl would definitely send someone else.
So in order to get the Black Owl to stop, obviously just getting rid of the assassin sent by the Black Owl would be treating the symptoms but not the cause.
There was only one way to make the Black Owl stop.
That was to deal with the client!
Whether it was to make the client withdraw the commission, or directly kill the client, in short, once the client was dealt with, the Black Owl would never make a move against Xiao Jian.
And the identity of this client, Gu Chenan knew very well.
It was the Liu Family of Suhang!
The Liu Family of Suhang was the second largest family after the Xiao Family, and the Liu Family and the Xiao Family cooperated in business and had frequent exchanges between the two families.
No one would have imagined that it was the Liu Family who wanted to get rid of Xiao Jian.
As for the reason why the Liu Family wanted to eliminate the Xiao Family, it was quite simple to explain.
In the business cooperation between the two families, the Xiao Family always took the lion's share, and over time, the Liu Family became dissatisfied. They had also communicated with Xiao Jian several times.
It's just that the Xiao Family was after all the top family in Suhang, and they naturally wouldn't make concessions to the Liu Family.
In addition, the Liu Family's repeated matchmaking of the Young Master of Liu Family with Xiao Yajie was also rejected by Xiao Jian, so these things added up to the Liu Family's idea of getting rid of Xiao Jian.
In their opinion, without Xiao Jian, the business cooperation between the Xiao Family and the Liu Family would be fifty-fifty.
Moreover, without Xiao Jian's interference, Xiao Yajie would also marry the Young Master of Liu Family.
Xiao Jian had no sons. If Xiao Yajie really married into the Liu Family, the Xiao Family's power would eventually be absorbed by the Liu Family.
It's just that at this point in time, the Liu Family's patriarch and his family were on vacation abroad, which was to show that they had nothing to do with the assassination attempt on Xiao Jian.
But Gu Chenan also had a way.
After all, a guilty conscience needed no accuser, right?
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
n Our Village Many years later, Xiushui Village had transformed from a remote, impoverished hamlet into the renowned and flourishing Xiushui City of the Shifang Continent. All of this, solely because it was the birthplace of the Shifang Continent's number one sect—the Lingxian Sect. This is the story of a group of village youths, family, and friends, building a sect and growing together. Lin Xiao: As the sect master, my days are filled with countless tasks. Cultivating really gets in the way of building the sect. System: Received. Understood. Arranging it immediately. [Ding—Congratulations, Host, on successfully activating the Auto-Cultivation Function] Lin Xiao: Oh no, we're out of spirit stones. System: Received. Understood. Arranging it immediately. [Ding—Sect Mission issued. Mission Reward: Spirit Stones xN] No one loves their host more profoundly than this System!
't think I'm that capable, I'm just trying my best to stay alive. I've been kind all my life, never did anything bad, yet worldly suffering spared me not one bit. The human world is a nice place, but I won't come back in my next life. A kind young man, who wanted to just get by singing, but through repeated deceits and betrayals, has gone down an irredeemable path.
