My father's inheritance is my mortal enemy.

Shu Lang scoffed coldly, "Of course it's not my place to speak here. What am I? Mr. Bo and I are just pawns paving the way for Young Master Zhou. But there's one difference between Mr. Bo and me. I'm exchanging benefits for benefits, and Mr. Bo is doing it willingly. Because he's willing, you know how important Zhou Yanshao is to Mr. Bo. He's always forcing him to compromise and back down."

"What does President Bo owe you?"

"No one is born obligated to make way for anyone else!"

"You keep saying that you're doing this for the young master's good, but everything you do is based on weighing the pros and cons. Have you ever really cared about or understood what the young master likes? No. If you had, if you had known, you wouldn't have forced Li Bo to leave the capital five years ago."

Shu Lang's words struck Wan Gong like a dagger: "No wonder he severed ties with you."

Wan Gong angrily retorted, "What's wrong with me planning for the Wan and Zhou families?!"

Shu Lang refused to say anything more and turned to leave, but was stopped by Wan Gong's men. Wan Gong didn't want Zhou Yanshao to know, so he wouldn't let Shu Lang leave.

When the subordinate had already prepared the cash and came to tell Wan Gong, Wan Gong frowned, glanced at the bodyguards, and found one of similar build, "You go and deliver it."

The bodyguard set off with the cash to the agreed location.

Shu Lang felt a chill run down his spine.

……

Li Bo was locked in an abandoned wooden house and remained unconscious for a day and a night.

When he woke up, his hands were being heated, and he was lying on his back on the cold wooden bed, with a surveillance camera directly above him. Li Bo's first reaction was confusion: why was he being locked in a wooden house? Compared to concrete walls and tin shacks, this was hardly a safe place.

But soon... he smelled a strong odor of gasoline in the air.

Li Bo's sense of taste has deteriorated due to a problem with his sense of smell. Li Bo knows that the level of pungent odor he can smell... could probably easily burn down the entire wooden house.

The damp cold of Russia, accompanied by fear, was like a venomous snake flicking its tongue, encircling Li Bo completely.

He took a cold breath.

Li Bo didn't understand how Li Yao had survived, nor did he understand why he was tied up instead of being killed immediately. Who were they waiting for?

While I was thinking, the wooden door was opened.

Li Yao stood in the doorway, a cold smile on his face: "Surprised, aren't you?"

Li Bo chuckled.

Li Yao: "Actually, I'm not surprised at all that you're alive. I watched Wan Gong's men take you away."

"...?"

"The person who chased you and slashed at you in the fire that day must have been terrifying, right?" Li Yao looked up and laughed. "That was my younger brother. My half-brother, an illegitimate child. He was brought home when he was eight, and when he was ten, I killed his mother in front of him, and he went insane. The family has always suggested that I send him out of the Li family and lock him up in a mental hospital."

"I didn't do that. I liked to lock him in a small house and put a dog door for him. The servants would bring him food through the dog door. I would visit him often, and each time I visited, I would pull out one of his fingernails. Every time I visited, his desire to kill me would become stronger."

"Later, whenever someone entered his room, he would pounce on them like a wild beast and bite them."

"I started that fire at the Li family's house. Before letting him out, I even threw him a knife." Li Yao approached Li Bo, looking at his face. "Although you're not my biological son, you do resemble me somewhat. He... he mistook you for me!"

The reason Li Yao brought Li Bo back from the remote mountain village was not only to train Li Cheng, but also to have Li Bo replace his illegitimate younger brother and become the second "dog" who would bite anyone he saw.

Li Yao hadn't expected Zhou Huiyuan to be so cunning, pulling off a switcheroo.

Li Yao and Li Bo recounted the scene of their mad brother chasing Li Bo, and Li Bo's memories flooded back. He broke out in a cold sweat, the terror like a tidal wave, threatening to overwhelm him.

Li Yao is absolutely insane!

Li Yao saw the anger in Li Bo's eyes, suddenly grabbed Li Bo's neck, and revealed a row of sinister teeth: "I asked Wan Gong for 5000 million US dollars to ransom you, and he agreed. However, I added one more condition—"

Li Yao leaned down and whispered in Li Bo's ear, enunciating each word clearly: "I want Zhou Yanshao to deliver it."

"You killed Li Cheng on the Australian island, and I'll kill Zhou Huiyuan in Russia. It's an eye for an eye!"

"Do you think Grandpa Wan would be willing to risk his own grandson for you?"

Li Yao gripped Li Bo's hand tightly, as if he wanted to break and crush Li Bo's throat.

Li Bo laughed so hard he coughed, unable to speak.

But he was relieved, relieved that the person Li Yao notified was Wan Gong.

Wan Gong would never be willing to let Zhou Yanshao take such a risk...

Seeing that Li Bo's neck was red and he was about to suffocate, Li Yao released his grip and said with a smile, "If it's not, I'll set this place on fire. If it is, I'll burn both of you together. It would be a good thing if you could die together."

"Oh right... I bribed an athlete in Northern Europe who will cause some minor accidents for Zhou Yanshao while he's skiing... He'll be coming to join you soon. You're willing to do so much for him, so waiting for him a little longer isn't a difficult thing."

Li Yao laughed heartily and left the small wooden house filled with the smell of paint.

A single hot tear rolled down his cheek.

Li Bo tried to leave, frantically struggling to break free of the handcuffs, his hands becoming raw and chafed.