"Ding-"
Jiang Yuanrui had been lying awake at home all night. The chime of a text message made him shudder like a bird startled by the twang of a bow.
Ma Shi glanced at him disdainfully. "It's just a text."
"Oh, right."
Jiang Yuanrui took a deep breath and gave Ma Shi a friendly smile, but his hands were still trembling.
When he read the message from his elder brother, Jiang Hao, his eyes widened.
[Over a thousand Bright Sun Merchants' Association clubs have been destroyed by explosions.]
His mind went utterly blank.
He had expected Lu Daoxing to come for him. He had never imagined that, rather than taking an eye for an eye against him personally, Lu Daoxing would turn the flames directly on the Jiang Family behind him.
The Bright Sun Merchants' Association was the Jiang Family's foundation and its financial mainstay.
Over a thousand clubs had been wiped out in one sweep, reduced to rubble overnight.
He had no idea how much the Jiang Family would lose, but he was certain it would be an astronomical sum.
And part of that astronomical sum belonged to him.
Jiang Yuanrui felt as though his throat had been seized. Even breathing became difficult.
He stood, staggered to the window, pulled back the curtains, and looked out at the courtyard.
The night was dark and the lights flickered. Apart from the guards standing watch, nothing stirred.
Yet he felt as though he could hear Lu Daoxing's footsteps approaching from afar.
"Lu Daoxing... when are you coming?"
While the Jiang Family's leaders were busy calculating their losses and discussing countermeasures, Lu Daoxing struck again.
The first assassination took place at the Jiang Family compound in Zone 1239.
Jiang Hao's son Jiang Changming, who had never awakened a Sequence Ability, had just