Chen Zhongming's words were harsh, all but declaring that disaster was about to befall Shao Xiaoxiang.
Shao Xiaoxiang could not help panicking a little. "Governor Chen, have you heard something?"
"Even if I haven't heard anything, I have eyes. I can see for myself. How long has it been since your brother Shao Xiaozhan died? I doubt you've even cleaned the blood off your hall floor, yet you dared stir up this much trouble. Minister Qin and the others spared you, but you went rushing back to offer your neck to the blade. The Shao Family will have earned its fate."
"Well... Governor Chen, don't scare me."
Chen Zhongming's tone remained indifferent. "The only reason I've said this much is that this is our first conversation, and most likely our last. People must pay for what they've done."
With that, Chen Zhongming hung up.
He harbored tremendous anger toward Shao Xiaoxiang. If not for the man's sinister intentions, his son would never have been dragged into this mess.
Although Chen Gongrang was not particularly bright, he would never have done something so heinous without someone deliberately leading him astray.
It was like this: if there were no human traffickers in the world, then even if children accidentally wandered out of their parents' or elders' sight, they would never disappear.
But faced with someone like Shao Xiaoxiang, who was about to be utterly ruined, he could not simply vent his anger.
Shao Xiaoxiang was about to pay for his depravity and stupidity. Even an execution ended with a single stroke; Chen Zhongming had no intention of piling on more humiliation. He might as well let the man understand why he was going to die.
Leaving people some room had always been his habit, because there was no telling when he himself