A master of both medicine and martial arts, he picked up a beautiful CEO as his wife.

The Zhao family returned the money.

The fire that had engulfed the entire Lin family gradually subsided.

Zhao Dehai was stripped of his position, and the shares he had regained were taken back. He slunk out of the Lin family in disgrace!

After CDH Capital launched a joint attack at the board meeting, they left in a panic. Those small shareholders who had previously hesitated became extremely polite and obsequious when they saw Lin Yuqing!

The Lin family's large ship, after being tossed about in a great storm, has finally gotten back on track!

Lin Zhenshan's body also recovered day by day with the help of Ye Feng's gentle and nourishing tonics.

The old man can now stroll around the manor with a cane, his complexion is much better, and even his voice is stronger. He praises everyone he meets for choosing the right bodyguard.

Everything looks fine now.

But Ye Feng was still very tense!

The Zhao family, the Qin family, and the Li family—these groups of people were all after the Lin family. The Zhao family lost this round and has temporarily backed down. But two other groups remain hidden in the shadows, especially the Li family.

They were the first to make a move!

During the chaotic battle that night when they came down the mountain, the first man in black to break into his rented room, the one who drugged Lin Yu and chased after him with a machete, was one of those men in black who kept talking about the Li family.

This hatred has been buried here for a long time, and it has never been settled!

It was the dead of night.

After finishing his breathing exercises in his room, Ye Feng pulled something out from the bottom corner of his faded old travel bag.

It's a broken thorn!

That kick during the chaotic battle on the night of the descent down the mountain, when it knocked over the leader of the group of men in black, fell from their sleeve.

Ye Feng casually put it in his pocket at the time, but later he was too busy to think about it and forgot about it.

I only found it when I was packing my luggage today.

The broken thorn was about half a palm's length long, jet black, and felt icy to the touch.

A faint, eerie blue shimmered on the broken stubble.

He picked up a broken thorn with his finger and smelled it.

The next moment, his brows furrowed tightly together.

"It's a deadly poison, and it's even been treated with Seven Star Begonia!" Ye Feng murmured, his eyes gradually turning cold.

Having worked as a doctor for over a decade, he can identify almost 80-90% of the strange and unusual poisons and medicines in the world!

The broken thorn was coated with one of the most ruthless poisons in the martial arts world—the Seven Star Begonia!

Once this poison enters the bloodstream, it will cause blood to seep from all the orifices of the body and rupture the meridians within half an hour, beyond the help of even a god.

The preparation process is extremely complicated and has almost been lost to history. Nowadays, there are very few people in the world who can make such a poison as Seven Star Begonia and dare to use it to coat an inconspicuous little hidden weapon.

This is definitely not something that some thugs could pull off.

The thugs who call themselves hooligans, the street urchins they pick up, and the small-time thugs who hire hitmen in shopping malls use machetes and sticks—things that can draw blood and intimidate people.

But none of them had ever come into contact with the "Seven Star Begonia".

"If they have the money to buy such potent poison, they must be from a very powerful family!"

"The Li family..."

Ye Feng touched the cold blade, his eyes filled with complex emotions.

He initially thought the stalking that night was the work of a faction within the Li family, or a lackey hired by a rival for money who resented Lin Yuqing's obstruction! But the poisoned blade told Ye Feng that what happened that night wasn't ordinary intimidation or robbery and murder, but rather silencing her—the other party wanted Lin Yuqing's life from the very beginning, not her money or shares!

"Why?" Ye Feng's brows furrowed tightly. No matter how much the female boss hated his business war, she wouldn't resort to such a vicious move as wiping out an entire family, unless there was something deeper and darker hidden behind it than the business war.

Ye Feng examined the broken blade thoroughly, his brows furrowing even deeper.

The insidious nature of the Seven Star Begonia lies not in its deadly nature, but in the fact that its symptoms after onset are no different from those of a common "sudden death from illness." If the coroner were unaware of this, they might classify it as a "sudden illness."

The person who uses this toxin doesn't want to kill, but to kill without leaving a trace and escape unscathed. Generally speaking, business rivals only want money and territory, but those willing to take such a huge risk to make someone "die suddenly from an illness" are often not after profit, but to eliminate someone who knows something or is blocking something bigger and more important.

Suddenly, Ye Feng remembered Lin Yuqing's sorrowful eyes more than once. She mentioned her mother—the kind-hearted Aunt Zhao—who had passed away too quickly and suddenly.

How did the lady die? Was it fate or something shameful?

Lin Yuqing's 15% stake, the powerful Zhao family (Lin Yuqing's mother's family), and the broken blade that had been there for over a decade—seemingly unrelated clues inexplicably converged in Ye Feng's mind.

He carefully wrapped the broken blade again and put it on his person. Since the Li family dared to fight, there must be marks left behind.

A cold crescent moon hung outside.

Ye Feng pressed his hand to his chest—a sharp pain, hidden deep within his veins, grew increasingly intense, like a hand constantly beckoning him. His death was imminent; time was running out. Some old scores needed to be settled one by one.

The Li family, just you wait.

Early the next morning, Ye Feng made an excuse to leave Lin Family Village.

That night, they were beaten half to death, and the man in black who was captured was the only hair he had left. He had been watching for the past few days, hesitant to act, because he had been waiting for this moment to arrive!

Sure enough! He asked a friend for information and soon got a clue: two of the four men in black who were seriously injured had their condition suddenly worsen and they were inexplicably arrested and taken to a private clinic halfway through the trial.

On the surface, this clinic is just a small pharmacy, but digging deeper reveals that it has close ties to a pharmaceutical company owned by the Li family!

"Killing someone to silence them, that's quite a thoughtful move!" Ye Feng sneered.

The Li family probably worried that these survivors wouldn't last long at the police station and would implicate the people behind the Li family, so they rushed to rescue them, either to shut them up or...

"Looks like I need to find these guys before they make a move!"

Ye Feng gripped the poisoned broken thorn in his arms, a sinister look on his face.

If he digs along this path, he might be able to uncover everything from that night, the Li family's intentions, and even Lin Yuqing's mother's past cases, bit by bit.

He recalled the photo he had seen when he visited the Lin family that morning. The woman standing next to the young Lin Zhenshan, who looked seven or eight parts like Lin Yuqing, must be Zhao Shi. She looked so gentle in the photo. Who would have thought that such a beautiful woman would "die suddenly from an illness"?

Poisoned daggers, meticulously planned murder to silence witnesses, the Li family's ruthless extermination of Lin Yuqing's mother's orphans... When these things are connected, it seems that the death of this long-deceased lady is not just an ordinary "fate".

Ye Feng gripped the poisoned broken thorn in his hand: "This debt has been owed for over ten years. Now, who should pay it back!"

Ye Feng took a step and headed towards the clinic in the east of the city.