Was this the person who had taken part in the assassination attempt against him?
Lu Xin looked up at him, narrowing his eyes slightly as he studied him carefully.
Mr. Song, one of the five men who held the highest authority in Qinggang.
There was no clichéd twist where the person who had appeared to assassinate him turned out to be someone familiar.
This also proved that Lu Xin's intuition about people had not been wrong.
Actually, Lu Xin had already guessed it when he realized that the trap set for him was excessively sinister and far too coincidental.
After Chen Jing received the security team's report, she had also figured it out immediately. After all, only someone who knew Lu Xin extremely well could have made such a targeted arrangement, and information about Lu Xin was a top-level secret in Qinggang.
There were only a few people who could have accessed it.
A glance at who had happened to leave Qinggang at the time made everything clear.
Once this was discovered, it caused an uproar in many people's hearts.
It was not merely because it was shocking. The nature of the matter was simply too vile.
The five gentlemen of Qinggang had all made enormous contributions when Qinggang was first established. Yet now, one of them had chosen to participate in Lu Xin's assassination, leaving many people with the feeling that they had to choose between Ability Users and those in power.
That was what weighed most heavily on the people of Qinggang.
"Could we... talk in the study first?"
Even Mr. Song sounded somewhat lacking in confidence when he spoke.
He did not dare look directly at Lu Xin. Even when he looked at Chen Jing, his eyes carried a faint hint of pleading.
"I won't