The vast presidential suite fell deathly silent once more.
The air reeked of alcohol, blood, and... urine.
Xu Yaoyang and the remaining Young Master Zhang stood frozen like two soulless statues.
Their minds had turned to mush.
What had just happened?
Brigade Commander Lei Zhan had arrived.
Brigade Commander Lei Zhan had been cursed out.
Brigade Commander Lei Zhan had apologized.
Brigade Commander Lei Zhan had knocked his own nephew unconscious and dragged him away.
Brigade Commander Lei Zhan had... left?
The whole thing had played out like an absurd fever dream. Every moment shattered the understanding of the world they had built over more than twenty years.
They couldn't make sense of it.
Why?
Why had a Special Operations Brigade commander, a renowned figure in the Longdu Theater, let a young man dress him down like a child?
Why hadn't Lei Zhan dared utter a word of protest? Why had he dealt with his own nephew himself?
That Red Booklet...
What on earth was it?!
Su Wanning was just as stunned. She stared at Yue Xiaofei's back, her beautiful eyes filled with confusion, bewilderment, and a trace of admiration she hadn't even noticed herself.
She knew she had been wrong.
Terribly wrong.
From the beginning, she had judged Yue Xiaofei through a lens of prejudice. She had seen him as a poor country boy, a criminal's son, a parasite clinging to the powerful through an old family connection.
But everything that had happened today had smashed those assumptions to pieces.
How many secrets was this man still hiding from her?
Just then, a look of sudden "realization" flashed through Xu Yaoyang's eyes.
He remembered!
Elder Xu!
It had to be Elder Xu!
At Elder Xu's birthday banquet a few days ago, Yue Xiaofei had won his favor because of