"Are you kidding? William has always been careful. He never leaves anything out there that could be used against him. Luckily, we pretended to lie low for a while, which finally got his men to let their guard down around us."
Wilang waved the handgun one of his men had passed him. "He's never kept a lover by his side before. You're the first. Naturally, that makes you different to him."
An Shi showed no reaction. "No wonder you're no match for William."
Wilang's expression changed sharply. "What did you say?"
"No matter how incompetent William might be, he wouldn't go after your friends, would he?" An Shi gave two cold laughs. "Only scum would resort to something this low."
Wilang's face turned green with rage, but An Shi was absolutely right. Even when they had been at their most brazen, William had never tried to capture their friends or the people who mattered to them.
Unless it was to give them a taste of their own medicine.
"Do you think we'd be as overconfident as William and leave such a glaring weakness for our enemies to exploit?" Wilang kept trying to justify himself, refusing to admit that he was worse than William.
He aimed the gun at An Shi's wrists and threatened, "You're a doctor, aren't you? What will you do if you lose those hands?"
He waited for fear to appear on An Shi's face, but An Shi merely shook his head as though he didn't care. "Then I can focus on research."
"You, on the other hand, had better never get sick. William can make sure no one in your family gets treatment." An Shi couldn't be bothered with him. Who didn't know how to threaten someone?
Borrowing someone else's power to throw his weight around was