Jiang Yuanzheng swung the long whip and lashed it down viciously once more!
At that moment, a figure darted forward and took the whip for Jiang Xiaogou.
"Mm—!"
Lu Chengwen's clothes split open across his back, leaving a gash with the flesh curled outward.
Jiang Yuanzheng froze. "CEO Lu, what are you doing!?"
Lu Chengwen waved a hand, already too winded to speak. After a long while, he drew a breath and said haltingly, "Fourth Uncle... you... were too ruthless..."
Jiang Yuanzheng stomped his foot. "How am I supposed to carry out the family punishment with you acting like this? Hurry, take CEO Lu away to be treated!"
Zhao Ritian and Long Aotian quickly helped him up. Lu Chengwen grimaced in pain.
"Fourth Uncle, I know the Jiang Family enforces its laws without mercy, and I know you are impartial and incorruptible. With the patriarchs of several great families all here today, they have seen everything clearly. The Jiang Family has not lost face, and no member of the Jiang Family has disgraced himself. Jiang Xiaohou is mentally ill—how can you take her words seriously?"
"As for Brother Gou's crimes, the things he clearly did, you doubled the sentence for; the things he might not have done, you tacitly treated as if he had; and some things he did not do at all, things he did not even know about, you handled as though he were the mastermind... From beginning to end, this has been excessively harsh. Forgive this junior for speaking bluntly, but that is also a form of injustice!"
Everyone looked at one another.
Lu Chengwen said, "Just because his surname is Jiang, just because he is your son, Fourth Uncle, does that mean he has to die more miserably than anyone else? For the crimes he committed,