Several days later, in the living room of the Xiao Family villa.
"Master Xiao, we've brought them to you."
"Thank you for your efforts. Please, take a seat. Liu Shan, Zhao Yan, go pour everyone some tea!"
Li Ningyue hurriedly said, "Please rest, both of you. I'll do it, I'll do it!"
There were six visitors.
Li Ningyue's father, Li Hengyu.
The housekeeper, Li Tingzhou.
Housekeeper Li's girlfriend, Head Maid Cen Yao.
And General Alec, who had personally escorted the captives over from Africa to curry favor, find a powerful backer, and ask for a fortune reading.
The four had escorted the married couple behind everything here for a visit.
Watching his precious daughter behave so respectfully and diligently, Li Hengyu felt nothing but gratification and joy.
Xiao Yu, however, had no time to entertain them.
His eyes were fixed squarely on the middle-aged couple, who stood with their heads lowered, at a loss.
"You two came a long way. That couldn't have been easy."
"Oh, right. I regret to inform you."
"You spent a hundred million hiring the world's top-ranked assassin organization."
"But our police arrested them as soon as they got off the plane. What a shame."
"Thank you both for spending so much money to have those assassins walk straight into our trap."
"But that assassin organization hates your guts. They even think you deliberately set them up."
"I divined that... they've just finished their meeting and decided to grind your bones to dust and scatter the ashes."
Already bedraggled and trembling, Lanny and Beryl were now kneeling on the floor.
Hearing this, they turned even paler with fright.
Regret devoured them like maggots burrowing into their bones.
Instead of enjoying their perfectly good lives, they just had to go and threaten him.
They had money to