Late at night, south of the Provincial City.
Inside a splendid, luxurious manor.
Everyone familiar with the city's elite knows this is the Qi Family's territory.
This manor is the main residence and the core stronghold of the Qi Family.
At this mont, Qi ngge, who returned to her parents' ho, is anxiously pacing in her childhood room.
An hour ago, she had called the Dongfang Family.
But neither Dongfang Xiao's phone nor anyone else's could be reached.
This put her in a state of intense worry.
Surely, with four hundred people deployed, plus Dongfang Yunbao and three top disciples, they couldn't fail to handle that Jiang Feng, right?
If that's really the case, she could never accept it, and she'd go mad!
She's already secretly sent soone back to Dongfang Manor to check the real situation there.
Currently, she waits uneasily, unable to sit still.
Suddenly, footsteps are heard outside, and the trusted aide she sent out finally returns.
"How is it? What's the situation over there?" Qi ngge imdiately approaches, anxiously asking.
"Madam, it's bizarre! There isn't a single person in the manor now! Even the old master and the forr family head are gone, the main house is completely in ruins, and I don't know what happened there!"
The aide says with a nervous expression.
"What did you say?"
Qi ngge turns pale upon hearing this!
Could it be that she guessed right?
That Jiang Feng actually destroyed the entire Dongfang Family single-handedly?
But even if he did, how could there be no trace of anyone left at the scene? It's got to be—if alive, see the person; if dead, see the body, right?!
"Are you sure? Four hundred people, how could not a single one be found, have they vanished into thin air?" Qi ngge asks incredulously.
"Madam, it's true, I've searched everywhere multiple tis—from the hillside path to the innermost main house, there's no sign of anyone! I can't understand how the Dongfang Family turned into such a state, like a haunted mansion, I was so scared that I quickly ca back..." the aide says, full of fear.
"Thud!"
Qi ngge drops into a chair, her face filled with bewildernt: "How is this possible, how... is this possible??"
"So, the body of that Jiang Feng hasn't been found either?" Qi ngge swallows hard, asking.
"No!" The aide shakes his head bitterly: "None at all, whether he's dead or alive, I equally don't know, it's so strange..."
Qi ngge looks despondent.
She now doesn't dare harbor any resentnt nor anger, only a deep sense of relief.
Luckily, she foresaw it; otherwise, she might have been among the mysteriously vanished Dongfang Family mbers!
"I need to tell Father, I must let him know about this, only Father can protect now!"
Saying this nervously, Qi ngge imdiately gets up and quickly walks out of her room, heading to the Family Head's main house.
...
The Family Head of the Qi Family is Qi Xingchun.
If there's anyone in the nine major families of the Provincial City who is most restless and eager for change, it's definitely Qi Xingchun.
The Yan Family is now ranked fourth in the city, but those truly familiar with the Qi Family's foundation know it can easily rank third, or even rival the second!
The Qi Family suffered setbacks in the competition among the nine major families many years ago, and Qi Xingchun has been accumulating power ever since.
He is playing a big ga, and even agreeing for his daughter to marry into the Dongfang Family is a key part of it.
With him backing her, once his daughter marries into the Dongfang Family, she can completely dominate and practically swallow the Dongfang Family's power, turning it into a vassal of the Qi Family.
This explains why before Dongfang Xiao's demise, he was filled with regret and remorse, albeit too late to change anything.
Thus, if anything really happened on the Dongfang side, it would have significantly impacted Qi Xingchun's plans.
Possibly leading to a complete failure!
"Father!"
At this mont, Qi ngge arrives at the main house with a bitter expression, nervously calling out to Qi Xingchun.
Despite her normally fierce and sinister deanor, in front of Qi Xingchun she resembles a timid quail, barely daring to breathe.
"Why the long face?"
Qi Xingchun, drinking tea, looks at his daughter and asks with authority, without raising his voice.
"Father, the situation with the Dongfang Family might disappoint you! What we feared the most has happened; it seems the Dongfang Family couldn't hold off that young brat Jiang..." Qi ngge cautiously says.
"What did you say?!"
Qi Xingchun smashes his tea cup, his expression turning cold.
"It's true, I received the news and rushed right over to tell you, I couldn't get through on the phone before..." Qi ngge says, cold sweat dripping down in fear.
Then she repeats the words her aide had just told her to Qi Xingchun verbatim.
"Useless! Useless!!"
Qi Xingchun stands up, furious, roaring repeatedly: "Is everyone in the Dongfang Family useless? Four hundred people, plus two old fogeys, and they still couldn't handle a young man in his early twenties? Dongfang Xiao and Dongfang Yunbao have lived their lives like dogs?"
"Father, it seems that young Jiang really is a bit uncanny. No wonder my precious son and that coward Dongfang Yu both died at his hands, and Uncle Zhou died too. Does he have so expert backing him?"
Qi ngge, a little fearful of Jiang Feng, speculates: "I've also heard that that coward Dongfang Yu threw Jiang Feng into detention, but he was mysteriously released in a short ti! I personally questioned the relevant departnts, and their explanations were vague and secretive; is there a hidden issue here..."
"What issue could there be?"
Qi Xingchun says angrily: "In this entire Provincial City, you know well, there are only three families the Qi Family truly considers, anyone else, any other force is just ants!"
"That young brat Jiang has nothing to do with those three families, so what's his background? Don't scare yourself!"
"Father, you make sense, from the information I have, he's just a Binhai person, and there's no one in Binhai with the power to cover him, maybe it's just a coincidence?" When Qi ngge hears this from her father, she calms down a bit.
"Shut up!"
Qi Xingchun says viciously: "Nevertheless, the Qi Family's matter was ssed up by you, it concerns the Qi Family's revival and great rise. If you let waste my efforts, even if you're my daughter, I won't spare you!"
Qi ngge imdiately shudders, her face turning pale, wanting to cry but unable...
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