The Wrong Person? No, I Found the Right One

"Pfft~~"

Le Erya was unusually carefree. Despite the tense situation, she could actually still laugh.

Everyone from the Zheng Family was dumbfounded, especially Zheng Shaobai’s parents. So their son had taken that brutal beating for nothing! Not only had he failed to save the people at home, but he had also ended up seriously injured.

"Shaobai! Shaobai, how are you?"

Zheng Shaobai’s mother had rushed over to lift her son up. On the ground, Zheng Ruilong also crawled toward his son with both hands and feet.

Zheng Jianguo stood rooted to the spot, staring blankly at the bloodstained cane in his hand. He knew his hands were dirty. They had been stained with outsiders’ blood countless times before, but how many times had he used them against his own people? And this was his own grandson—he had personally beaten him into this state.

"Shaobai, wake up! Don’t scare Mom!"

Zheng Ruilong and his wife held the unconscious Zheng Shaobai. Though both of them had committed plenty of evil and acted arrogantly and tyrannically outside, they truly cherished their precious son.

"Isn’t this person going too far? Zheng Shaobai won’t be in danger of dying, will he? He-jie, that man has already put down his gun and isn’t on guard anymore. How about we make our move?"

Le Erya had become somewhat fickle. The moment she saw Zheng Ruilong and his wife embracing Zheng Shaobai and crying out in distress, her heart softened.

"No."

Lin Qinghe silently observed the situation for a long while, looking up and down. In the end, she still shook her head. "Today’s incident was a premeditated operation. To carry out something like this, at least two people would have had to cooperate. He definitely has accomplices. The situation is unclear, so we can’t act yet."

"Who else? Who else has done something wrong? Who did this? Step forward!"

After standing there in a daze, Zheng Jianguo suddenly flew into a rage and shouted at his sons, nephews, daughters-in-law, and grandchildren. He was genuinely furious. How had he always taught them to behave? A person should take responsibility. Yet now that things had come to this and someone had come to their doorstep, they still thought they could hide and get away with it!

"All right, stop shouting. I’ll invite him out myself!"

Gu Sheng impatiently waved his hand, yanked away the cloth that had been covering the grandfather clock, and threw it toward the Zheng Family members more than ten meters away.

"Rip~~~"

The four-meter-long square piece of cloth split with a tearing sound in midair. Under everyone’s astonished gazes, it transformed into a strip of cloth more than ten meters long. After flying over several panicked Zheng Family members, it wrapped around the neck of Zheng Shaotian, who was not yet eighteen. When Gu Sheng pulled it back, he flew three meters into the air, crossed the distance, and crashed at Gu Sheng’s feet.

"Shaotian!"

Zheng Ruqiu and his wife panicked when they saw their younger son being dragged away. The lesson Zheng Shaobai had just suffered was still fresh in their minds!

"Cough, cough~~"

Zheng Shaotian felt pain all over his body. Although he had trained in sports and had greater resistance to blows than ordinary people, being dragged like a kite from three meters in the air across a distance of more than ten meters and smashed into the ground—couldn’t that kind of impact break someone’s bones?

"Whoosh~~ swish~~"

Gu Sheng flicked the cloth strip in his hand. The strip wrapped around Zheng Shaotian’s neck instantly loosened, while Zheng Shaotian felt an upward force carry his entire body into the air. Since the force was concentrated at his neck, his throat felt as though it had been ruined, leaving him in unbearable agony. He could not even open his mouth to call for help.

"Ugh~~"

Before Zheng Shaotian could recover, a pair of powerful hands had already clamped around his neck. His breathing instantly became labored. No matter how hard he opened his mouth and inhaled through his nose, hardly any air entered his lungs. Within seconds, his face turned a deep purplish red.

"Stop!"

Zheng Shaotian’s mother ignored her husband Zheng Ruqiu’s attempt to hold her back and ran out. "Let go of my Shaotian! He’s still a child! Even if he did something wrong, he shouldn’t be treated like this!"

"A child? Hmph."

The moment Gu Sheng heard that, he became furious. Calling Zheng Shaotian a brat was no longer enough to describe this scumbag.

In his previous life, he had hated it when people said that someone was "still a child" and that others should indulge and forgive him. Now that this woman was saying the same thing, could it be that he had come after the Zheng Family by mistake?

Besides, this foul-mouthed shrew was no good person either. She had once driven a Porsche and hit someone, then slapped the victim and the people handling the matter before driving away. Her evil deeds were no less serious than her son’s.

"Whoosh."

Gu Sheng flicked the left hand holding the strip of cloth. The loose end snapped through the air and struck Zheng Shaotian’s shrewish mother across the face. Her screams stopped in an instant. Covering her blood-flowing face, she kept letting out low growls but could not scream; her vocal cords had also been injured just now.

"Wife!"

Zheng Ruqiu hurriedly helped her up. A long whip mark ran across her face, splitting it in two. Her skin was torn and blood flowed freely. It looked as if her face was ruined.

"How ruthless!"

Everyone who clearly saw the scene shrank back. The women subconsciously covered their own faces. Women all shared a love of beauty, and surely no woman would not care about her face. If they were struck like that, probably few of them could go on living.

"You’ve been waiting for a call on that phone, haven’t you?"

Gu Sheng had noticed Zheng Shaotian taking out his phone from time to time. He took the phone, turned on the screen, and saw dozens of identical unanswered numbers on the dialing interface. It looked as though he really had come to the right place this time. There was an eighty-to-ninety percent chance that Zheng Shaotian had sent those people to deal with Chu Xin.

Gu Sheng pulled him before his eyes and whispered in his ear, "Tell me, were you the one who found those people who attacked Chu Xin this afternoon?"

"Mm-mm~~"

A moment of panic appeared on Zheng Shaotian’s face, and his heartbeat suddenly accelerated. Then his eyes shifted. He shook his head while making muffled sounds and waved both hands toward his mouth, as if asking Gu Sheng to let go of him and trying to say that he had not done it. Unfortunately, his heartbeat had already betrayed him.

People who lied, or intended to lie, would unconsciously develop faster heartbeats. This reaction could be controlled through later training, but Zheng Shaotian clearly did not possess that ability.

"Heh~~ hehehehe~~~~"

Gu Sheng got his answer and began laughing uncontrollably. He had only come to the Zheng Family to follow the clues. After all, they had not been certain that the Zheng Shao behind this was Zheng Shaotian. Even if they had found the wrong person, it would not have mattered. The Zheng Family were no good people anyway; at most, he would have made things easier for them.

He would spare their lives, teach them a lesson, and force them to turn themselves in. But since he had not found the wrong person today, the Zheng Family was truly going to suffer.

"Something happened today that made me very unhappy, but I didn’t have many clues. I only knew that the person behind it was probably surnamed Zheng, so I came to your Zheng Family."

Gu Sheng sneered at Zheng Jianguo. "If I had found the wrong people, at most I would have made you turn yourselves in. After all, I don’t have that much free time to deal with you. But unfortunately, I didn’t find the wrong people. It really was your Zheng Family."