"Enough, you two. You're getting off track, so get back on it. Put your sleeves down. You think you can win a fight?" Lü Mu glared at them. He looked pretty intimidating.
Yang Xing lowered his sleeves, huffed, and turned his face away.
Bo Hanmo thought it was a shame. There went his punching bag.
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"Chen Qing has had a hand in your families' troubles, one way or another. Keep an eye out for anything—or anyone—suspicious," Bo Hanmo warned.
"What do you mean? Is the Chen Family that greedy? They want to swallow all of us at once? Do they even have what it takes?" Lu Shang was baffled. Their families were in the same boat; if one suffered, they all did. But it wasn't as though they'd refused to let anyone else have a share.
Why would anyone want to bring them down, much less wipe them out?
"The Chen Family alone couldn't pull it off, of course. But what if someone else is involved?" Bo Hanmo gave a cold laugh. It wasn't clear who it was aimed at.
"What does that mean? Can't you just tell us straight? Why speak in riddles?"
"Go downstairs in a bit. Listen for anything that sounds different."
Bo Hanmo stopped there and said no more, only kept glancing at the watch on his wrist. Lu Shang and the others didn't press him. After so many years, they understood each other that much.
Downstairs, Fang Yao listened to the unfamiliar voice on the phone and said flatly, "I'm just an ordinary person. Am I worth all the breath you're wasting trying to scam me?"
The unknown number kept calling back every time she hung up. On the fifth interruption to her anime, Fang Yao answered and spent the next ten minutes giving