Chapter 98: Revenge

"Then what should we do?"

【Holy crap, bros, the moment to show my manliness has arrived.】

【From this moment on, I am the Urban Soldier King, reborn and returned.】

Shen Mo asked on the surface, but inwardly he was thrilled to the point of madness.

Liu Yue glanced at Shen Mo with amusement — your mind sure wanders a lot.

On the surface, Liu Yue said with a light smile: "It's nothing. Tonight, Henry's leg will be broken. Can this matter be cleared up by tomorrow?"

Shen Mo was stunned.

【What does that mean?】

Liu Yue wrapped her arm around Shen Mo — meaning, this matter is easy to resolve, as long as you're tough enough.

This was something Uncle Qin Meng had taught her before they came out.

With the nation standing behind you, there are some things, some people, you simply cannot back down from.

So that night, Liu Yue slept soundly with Shen Mo in her arms.

On that very same night, Henry had his leg broken while sleeping in the hospital.

That night, inside the Xifo residence, everyone sat together.

After receiving news of Henry's broken leg, Old Xifo exhaled deeply and gave a self-mocking smile:

"That Eastern country has truly risen."

The other family members exchanged glances and sighed together.

"Have Linda deliver the list of attackers to Liu Yue tomorrow morning."

Old Xifo gave the order and left.

The attack wasn't their doing, but their family had tacitly approved it.

If Liu Yue had been foolish enough to investigate alone, the Xifo Family would have been happy to sit back and watch.

Unfortunately, Liu Yue chose another approach: I don't know a single person in this country, I only know your Xifo Family, and I've already had a conflict with your grandson.

So, without saying anything more, everything I've suffered will be repaid through your grandson. Old man, accept your fate.

This was a rogue's method of fighting.

But it was precisely this rogue's method that left people with no way to deal with it.

They would just keep targeting this one local snake family.

Either you solve the problem, or you provide a way to solve it.

Old Xifo hated Liu Yue's way of handling things, but he had no particularly good countermeasure.

With a sigh, Old Xifo could only accept his fate.

The next day, when Shen Mo and Liu Yue got up and went to the hotel restaurant for breakfast, Linda arrived carrying a tray and sat down, first handing over a list, then immediately pulling out a new profit-sharing contract for the short-drama company.

"I'm here to apologize," Linda said softly.

Liu Yue glanced at it, nodded, indicating she accepted the apology.

Liu Yue took a photo of the list and sent it out.

Over breakfast, Linda offered to serve as tour guide for Shen Mo and Liu Yue.

To show them around the city.

Liu Yue gladly agreed.

【I feel like the two of you women are smiling in a really scary way.】

Shen Mo muttered inwardly.

Though the route was the one Liu Yue had planned.

After breakfast, the first stop was the city's old town district.

While Linda was introducing the history and stories of the old town, a car accident happened nearby.

Linda glanced over and said: "That's a car from the Gaodeng Family. They used to be rivals of our Xifo Family, but they've declined in recent years."

Liu Yue shook her head and sighed: "How terrifying."

The second stop was an antique collection shop. Linda explained that this shop was very famous, had been around for a hundred years, and was one of the city's landmarks.

The owner's family had run the pawning and exhibition of antiques for generations.

While Liu Yue and Shen Mo were admiring the treasures there, a shooting broke out outside.

Linda went out to look, then came back and explained: "It's nothing major. The eldest daughter of the Feiluna Family was attacked while out shopping. It's quite normal — most likely done by a rival family."

"Sigh, this country is getting more and more dangerous." "It's much better where you are from — guns are banned."

Liu Yue smiled and nodded. That's right, our place is plenty civilized; this country is getting more and more degenerate.

The third stop was to look at the river. Linda explained with a smile that several heavyweight meetings in this country had been held on the river.

While she was explaining, a boat on the river suddenly caught fire.

Liu Yue said with a smile: "Today really isn't a good day to go out."

【Not just unsuitable for going out — it's downright dangerous.】

【So scary, I want to go home.】

Liu Yue sighed — they couldn't go back yet.

When Liu Yue and Shen Mo returned to the hotel, the current-affairs news on TV was playing all the sudden incidents of the day.

In the anchor's words, it wasn't a big deal — the frequency had only risen by one percentage point compared to yesterday.

Shen Mo was utterly speechless.

Come on, in a single day you've had car accidents, shootings, a tour boat catching fire, and all sorts of other incidents — and you people don't even care?

Isn't that just too outrageous?

In fact, it wasn't outrageous enough.

That evening, in the city's largest and oldest hotel, Old Xifo hosted a banquet, and Liu Yue attended together with Shen Mo and Shen Jiajia.

The moment Shen Mo stepped into the banquet hall, he spotted quite a few prominent old-timers.

They smiled and invited the three of them—Shen Mo, Liu Yue, and Shen Jiajia—up to a small conference room on the upper floor, and in a few words made clear that Liu Yue truly was a young hero, then generously stated that whatever business Liu Yue did afterward, they could discuss it freely; from now on, everyone would only talk business, nothing else.

Liu Yue also smiled and said that what had happened before was just a greeting, taken to the point and no further, and that going forward everyone still had to cooperate on more and bigger projects.

One of the old-timers even asked Liu Yue if he was interested in the arms business, saying they could bring him in for a share.

Liu Yue declined with a smile, saying he wasn't interested, but that he could introduce Qin Meng to everyone.

The two words "Qin Meng" made the old-timers' brows twitch wildly.

As if they had heard some great horror.

The old-timers tactfully expressed to Liu Yue their desire to go live in the East for a while.

To invest in some private industries, set up some contract-processing factories, and earn some local money.

Liu Yue generously agreed and proposed several decent projects.

Cooperation, making money—no problem at all.

Everyone discussed things very pleasantly.

After the talks were done and they came out, the people in the banquet hall saw Liu Yue chatting and laughing with the old-timers, and their pupils shrank sharply; they immediately understood—this was a ruthless man.

But at the banquet there were still some unknown young people who had drunk too much and came to provoke.

To provoke Shen Mo.

The meaning between the lines was that Shen Mo wasn't worthy of Liu Yue.

Shen Mo charged forward without hesitation and gave them a thorough beating.

His swift moves drew loud praise from the old-timers represented by Old Xifo, who said the young man was really cool.

Shen Mo said with a grin: "Can't be helped, my grandfather and great-grandfather were both soldiers who fought their way out on the battlefield."

Shen Jiajia raised her glass and followed up: "The very battlefield that led to the West's defeat."

The group of old-timers immediately looked at him with respect.

As a group of elite old-timers, they knew that war of those years all too well.

Perhaps they hadn't taken part in it, but they had definitely learned about it.

And they had all, more or less, seen war with their own eyes.

Back at the hotel that night, Liu Yue began a new lesson for Shen Mo: "Why do they respect us?"

"Because we're ruthless enough, and behind us stands a powerful nation."

"So, hubby, you must remember—for wild wolves, don't back down, just hit back directly."

"For those who provoke you, just hit them right back."

"Only this way can they respect you."

"Weakness won't do."

(End of this chapter)