But Grandpa and Jin Weixie were both worried that resisting would anger Shen Heng, the financial tycoon. They would rather push him out to take the blame and drag the Gu family into it than confront Shen Heng head-on.
Who could have imagined that Gu Jiuque was even more ruthless than Shen Heng? He gave Jin Zhongxuan no room to maneuver, pinning both Jin Zhongxuan and the High-End Auction House to the pillar of shame for deliberately switching out the auction's headline lot with just a few words.
If they had known the Gu family's boy would be this difficult to deal with, they never should have used this auction to scheme against Gu Eight Blades.
But it was too late to say any of that now. Jin Zhongxuan stood there in regret. He looked painfully at Gu Jiuque, then hatefully at Shen Heng, the fury in his chest burning hotter and hotter.
Chapter 27
After struggling for a long while, Jin Zhongxuan's hateful gaze kept shifting between the aloof and indifferent Gu Jiuque and the smiling Shen Heng. In the end, he still did not dare speak carelessly.
After all, he had no conclusive evidence that this had all been Shen Heng's own doing. Even now, they did not know when Shen Heng had discovered their scheme, how he had found Pei Liujun, or what terms he had offered to persuade Pei Liujun to enter the fray at the critical moment and betray the Jin family.
Nor did they know how much Pei Liujun had revealed. Had he only spoken about forging the Emperor Yongzheng's Imperial White Jade Nine-Dragon Seal, or had he...
And that grandfather-grandson pair from the Gu family—on the surface, they seemed utterly clueless, no more than prey Zhou Mu had lured over with a hefty