Hearing this, Liu Gaoze slightly furrowed his brow, adjusted his clothes, and politely asked:
"May I know in what way has Liu offended the Zhou Family, for Elder Zhou to speak in such a manner?"
"You haven’t offended our Zhou Family, but the bodyguard you hired, that Tang Ming, has deeply offended us."
Zhou Haotian said sarcastically.
"Tang Ming?" Liu Gaoze realized suddenly: So they were indeed here to trouble Tang Ming.
"Young Liu, I won’t beat around the bush and will just make things clear."
Elder Zhou began slowly, speaking indifferently, "You must make Tang Ming hand over a Detoxification Pill to imdiately, otherwise the Zhou Family will sanction the Liu Family, leaving you with no foothold in Songlan City."
Liu Gaoze’s expression turned cold, he straightened his back and sat down opposite Elder Zhou.
"How dare you sit down, who gave you permission to be on equal footing with my father?"
Seeing Liu Gaoze sit down without permission, Zhou Xianren yelled angrily.
"The one being presumptuous is you, isn’t it?" Liu Gaoze tugged at his tie and said coldly:
"This is the CEO office of Liu City Group, my territory, Liu Gaoze’s domain. Do you have the right to yell here?"
"Liu Gaoze, you dare speak to like this?"
Zhou Xianren glared with narrowed eyes, radiating a murderous aura at Liu Gaoze.
Liu Gaoze ignored Zhou Xianren and turned to ask Elder Zhou:
"If I’m not mistaken, Elder, you were just threatening , right?"
"So what if it was? What if it wasn’t?" Elder Zhou smiled dismissively, disdainfully saying:
"Just with your comrcial family, you think you dare challenge ?"
"Hahahaha!" Liu Gaoze laughed heartily, "Very well, if that is the case, then the downfall of the Zhou Family is not far off."
"I never realized before, Liu Gaoze, that you were so arrogant." Hearing this, Zhou Xianren was pissed and laughed:
"Believe it or not, I can cripple you right now."
"Elder, if Zhou Xianren speaks like this again, I assure you he won’t live past tomorrow."
Liu Gaoze glanced at Zhou Xianren and handed a small notebook to Elder Zhou.
Elder Zhou slightly furrowed his brows, he could see from Liu Gaoze’s deanor that he had so backing, but he didn’t know where this confidence ca from.
Upon opening the notebook and seeing for himself, Elder Zhou’s expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly handed the credentials back to Liu Gaoze.
"Elder, you must know my identity now. To dare threaten and my family is to make enemies with the organization behind , you might want to think this through."
Liu Gaoze put away the credentials and solemnly warned.
"Let’s pretend the issue just now never happened, I take back what I said."
Elder Zhou felt nauseated inside, but he dared not openly make an enemy of the Dark Group, whose backing was none other than the state itself, sothing even Martial Arts Families weren’t qualified to oppose.
"Father (Grandfather)..."
Zhou Xianren and Zhou Haotian looked bewilderedly at Elder Zhou.
"Shut up." Elder Zhou coldly cut off the Zhou father and son, then looked helplessly at Liu Gaoze:
"Director Liu, the Detoxification Pill is of utmost importance to . Would it be possible for you to ask Tang Ming to spare one for ? I’m willing to purchase it."
"Sorry, although Tang Ming is a bodyguard hired by , I don’t have the authority to command him," Liu Gaoze sighed and shook his head as he spoke:
"You should also be aware that a person like Tang Ming is not under my control, so whether you get the Detoxification Pill or not, you’ll have to communicate directly with Tang Ming."
"Alright then, I won’t bother you anymore," the elder Zhou sighed, stood up, and left with Zhou Xianren and Zhou Haotian.
The three mbers of the Zhou Family had arrived furiously, intending to intimidate Liu Gaoze into compliance, but they had unexpectedly hit a snag—Liu Gaoze’s backing was not sothing they could afford to offend!
On the way back to the Zhou Family, Zhou Xianren, while driving, said in frustration:
"Father, why were you so polite to that Liu Gaoze? He is just a chairman of a business family; wouldn’t it be easy for us to crush him?"
"You know nothing," the elder Zhou scolded, reluctantly continuing:
"It’s true that our Zhou Family is a Martial Arts Family, but we don’t have the status to threaten soone from the Dark Group. If Liu Gaoze really reports us, our Zhou Family could be finished."
"Soone from the Dark Group?" Zhou Xianren’s expression drastically changed, and he asked in disbelief:
"How could Liu Gaoze be a person from the Dark Group?"
"How should I know? Not only is he a mber of the Dark Group, but he is also an official inside mber, representing national interests. We can no longer target the Liu Family."
The elder Zhou sighed helplessly.
Hearing this, Zhou Haotian shrunk his neck; originally, he had planned to kidnap Liu ngting to threaten Tang Ming, but it seed now that this was no longer feasible.
"Father, why don’t we go all out and kidnap Tang Ming?" Zhou Xianren said fiercely:
"Although Liu Gaoze is a person from the Dark Group, he also stated that Tang Ming is just a bodyguard he hired, not a mber of the Liu Family. If we deal with Tang Ming, it wouldn’t count as being enemies with the Dark Group."
"Hmm, we only have this option," the elder Zhou’s eyes glead as he spoke cautiously:
"Once we get back, you imdiately arrange for all the Nine-star Martial Artists in our family to strike together. We must succeed in one hit, clean and with no loose ends."
"Yes!" Zhou Xianren nodded repeatedly, excitedly thinking:
"Wang Zhiling is also hoping I can avenge her; this ti, with all the top masters from our family, I don’t believe we can’t take down that Tang Ming. It’s a good chance to get even on behalf of that lady as well."
After sending off the Zhou Family’s people, Tang Ming returned to the classroom to continue sleeping, while Liu ngting and others focused on their studies.
With midterms approaching soon, after school, Liu ngting and Li Xiaoli hurriedly went ho to review their lessons in preparation for the exams, which eased Tang Ming’s worries considerably.
Once ho, the three got out of the car, and Liu ngting along with Li Xiaoli quickly went inside to study.
"Eh!" Just as Tang Ming was about to enter the house, he suddenly turned around and looked towards a villa diagonally across the yard, sensing soone secretly spying there.
"Strange, doesn’t that wolfdog woman live right across from my house? Why would soone be surveilling from that villa?"
Tang Ming stroked his chin, becoming alert. Could it be that organization targeting the Liu Family?
With this suspicion, Tang Ming casually walked towards that villa.
Inside a room on the second floor of the villa, with thick curtains drawn, a heat-sensing telescope was mounted at the window, while Shen Yan was standing next to the window against the wall.
"Who exactly is this guy, to be able to detect soone surveilling him."
Shen Yan was startled, secretly glancing outside, only to see Tang Ming heading this way.
"Good opportunity."
Shen Yan was overjoyed, imdiately pulling over a suitcase and taking out a bundle, then pouring out a bunch of parts and quickly assembling them.
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