"You vile bitch!"
Commander Guo's sudden revelation finally made Ling Hongfeng, who had been shrinking in a corner all this time, unable to hold back. He burst into curses. "I must've been blind to marry you!"
Under everyone's gaze, he dropped to his knees before Wang Chen with a thud, tears and snot streaming down his face as he pleaded, "Zhiyuan, I really didn't kill your father! He was my own eldest brother! It was all the Tong Family's doing!"
"I lost five hundred thousand taels at the Tong Family's gambling house and couldn't pay it back. They seized on that weakness and forced me to become head of the Ling Family, then made me marry that bitch Tong Baodai, so they could occupy the magpie's nest and swallow up our Ling Family."
"Believe me—I'm your Third Uncle!"
The Ling Family members present were all dumbstruck, especially the clan elders, who could scarcely believe their ears.
The true culprits behind Ling Hongyun's death really were the Tong Family.
Although Ling Hongfeng tried his utmost to shirk responsibility, no one here was a fool. How could they fail to understand the truth?
Tong Wanshan flew into a rage. "Ling Hongfeng, are you fucking courting death?!"
Before his words had even faded, he suddenly raised his right palm and slammed it viciously toward Ling Hongfeng. "How dare you slander the Tong Family!"
Tong Wanshan was a Fourth Tier Martial General, immensely powerful. Ling Hongfeng, a wastrel hollowed out by wine and women, was no match for either the Tong Family head or his own father-in-law!
Tong Wanshan had erupted into violence without warning, and the people around them were largely unprepared. Just as Ling Hongfeng was about to be killed beneath his palm, someone suddenly seized his wrist.
His palm was only