He just hadn't expected this day to come so soon.
He didn't struggle. Enduring the excruciating pain, he looked at the black-clad figure before him and immediately realized that she was a woman.
"You... who exactly are you?" He had been through plenty and weathered many storms, but he had never imagined that a woman could be this formidable.
One top figure after another in Haicheng had fallen into her hands.
Su Qiao didn't even bother with him. "Where's the ledger?"
"What ledger?" Ninth Master Tian didn't know what she was after, but he actually had a guess in his heart.
"Obviously, the one for smuggling opium and poppies, as well as smuggling Cultural Relics from the palace."
Su Qiao sneered. He still wanted to deny it?
Ninth Master Tian was sweating profusely from the pain, yet he didn't show too much anguish. He did his best to remain calm and avoid angering the person before him.
"You've got it wrong. I don't do those businesses, nor would I allow the people in the chamber of commerce under me to do them."
"Opium harms our countrymen, and privately selling Cultural Relics from the palace to foreigners is an act of treason. I, Tian, would never touch either of those things."
Although he had lived to this age and enjoyed all the comforts he could, why give up his life when he could still live?
Ninth Master Tian had weathered storms both large and small. It was precisely because he had never given up any chance to stay alive that he had survived until now and risen to his current position.
Su Qiao kicked him right in his injured foot and said viciously, "Hmph. I believe Chairman Cheng doesn't touch these businesses and doesn't allow the people under him to do