Chapter 679 - Bait Taken (1/2)

Xiong Zhi quietly watched every change in the expression of the man in front of her.

Even a man like him was still a father and could still feel a father's loss despite his evil deeds. He had unscrupulously killed others' loved ones before for his own interests, whether to secure business success or through illegal trading.

Now, his retribution had come.

Xiong Zhi lowered her eyes indifferently.

Too bad, she was not the right person to pity him nor offer him alms of comfort, because she had plans to make use of his bottled up emotions.

The more he burned in hell, the more that she wanted it.

Towards the enemies who had made her suffer hell, she would only be more cruel.

”I wonder what is the deal between you two. After you went to prison, he went all out and launched a multi-billion project, Univ One. This helped him win the fight for the successor in the Guan Empire. And guess what? He actually won. Did you help him with that?” Xiong Zhi turned a blind eye at Xiong De's grief and casually threw more pits for him.

Xiong De's eyes turned red with fury and grief, as well as an underlying torrent of remorse.

There was no reason for this woman to lie to him.

He asked in a hoarse voice, ”He won...? ”

”Yes. He is the new chairman. If you don't believe me, you can check this…” Xiong Zhi already prepared the printed picture with the news where Guan Gao Huan was declared as the new chairman of the Guan Empire.

”After Headmaster Old Guan died, he won the fight for the successor and is now the current head. Tell me, did you help him kill Old Guan too like how you almost did to my grandfather?”

Xiong De was stunned.

The old headmaster of the Guan family died..?

He was kept inside the prison where there were no television nor electric fans installed. He was naturally unaware of the happenings in the outside world.

He fell deathly silent.

They failed to kill Old Xiong, so Gao Huan turned to his own grandfather?

His daughter, his poor daughter... He should have persuaded her not to be careless in front of that ruthless man!

Xiong Zhi spoke more clearly and slowly. She fanned the doubts in Xiong De's hearts.

”Though I wonder, why did he previously set his eyes on the Xiong family if he has the power to get the Guan family's heir position on his own. Do you perhaps have something that Guan Gao Huan needed? ”

Xiong De: …!

Something that Gao Huan needed from him?

His frozen mind began to turn.

Suddenly, the Country E dealings that he had with Guan Gao Huan before came to his mind. It was a successful trade and if not for his imprisonment and his people's betrayal, it would have become a massive treasure hove. On the day where everything started to fall, he was suddenly cut off from that trade and could not use his connections and his men.

And Guan Gao Huan did not even contact him.

Xiong De slowed down.

He then caught up with Xiong Zhi's previous words.

The multi-billion dollar project that Guan Gao Huan used as a winning chip to win the fight for succession in the Guan Empire...

Suddenly, it clicked in him.