A trace of pain showed in Chen Zhengyi's eyes. He opened his mouth, but his voice seemed caught in his throat.
Gu Sheng was in no hurry either. He sat waiting for him to continue.
By the time he had smoked half his cigarette, Gu Sheng crossed his other leg and began to grow impatient.
Fuck, just spit it out. You can't even get the words out? Are you fucking stupid?
Chen Zhengyi took a deep breath before slowly speaking. "I once had a daughter. She was beautiful, but she died."
Gu Sheng nodded in understanding.
"Three years ago, I bought a plot of land to build a hotel. Construction had only been underway for half a month when some people drove all the workers away and injured several of them. They insisted I use their construction crew... Their crew charged twice as much."
"I agreed, but after the hotel was finished, they wanted a stake in it. They offered one-tenth of the money for half the shares. This time, I refused. A month later, my daughter was kidnapped."
"The kidnappers demanded ten million in cash. I paid, as long as I could get my daughter back. But when I took some people to the address they gave me, my daughter was lying there cold... She suffered many terrible things before she died..."
"The police investigated for six months, fobbing me off the whole time. In the end, they simply stopped investigating!"
Chen Zhengyi's eyes reddened, and his fists clenched tight. "I want them to pay!"
Gu Sheng looked Chen Zhengyi over, stubbed his cigarette out in the ashtray, and said flatly, "There's more to it than that, isn't there?"
Gangs were after money. Though they were unscrupulous, they usually did not go that far.
Gu Sheng figured Chen Zhengyi