Chapter 19: Everyone's Reaction

"Well, Your Highness, you see, this..." Hearing Wang Xuan's words, Dao Ge was all smiles, smiling so much that he felt embarrassed himself.

Just now on the road, he had already made up his mind: from now on, he shouldn't call Wang Xuan "Young Master Wang," but rather "Your Highness," or even "Grandfather."

"What, do you want the antidote?" Wang Xuan said indifferently.

"This... this one wouldn't dare." Dao Ge immediately lowered his head.

"To tell you the truth, what you just swallowed was a cold pill," Wang Xuan said expressionlessly.

"What?" Dao Ge gasped.

"If it were a poison that kills within eight hours, your body should have felt uncomfortable long ago. How do you feel yourself?"

Dao Ge immediately took a breath and moved his body; he truly didn't find anything uncomfortable.

"Your Highness, then?" Dao Ge's face was extremely awkward.

"If you want to get lost, then get lost." Wang Xuan looked at Dao Ge, his face as calm as an ancient well.

Beside him, Starry Sky was also staring at Brother Dao.

"This, Your Highness, this one wouldn't dare!"

At this moment, Brother Dao truly did not dare to leave. First, he was worried about Starry Sky, who was by Wang Xuan's side; this person had assassinated his subordinates just now as silently as spring rain moistening things, which was truly terrifying.

Furthermore, what this Wang Xuan before him had just done to him made Dao Ge genuinely afraid of him. Moreover, Dao Ge was a man with a brain; he had assassinated him, the assassination had failed, and he wanted to leave after only doing one thing for him.

Additionally, Dao Ge had just figured it out, and the bespectacled man had also told him that the owner of this Villa No. 1 was indeed the Wang Xuan before him.

Dao Ge was currently following Zhang Fan, but even with Zhang Fan's influence, he couldn't buy this Villa No. 1. Not to mention the issue of money, first of all, in terms of status, Zhang Fan was not as high as the Wang Xuan before him.

The matter was definitely not that simple.

At this moment, Dao Ge naturally wanted to save his life; he had cast everything else to the back of his mind.

He knelt on the ground.

"Your Highness, this one is willing to follow you and do anything for you." As for the sincerity of these words, half of it was that Dao Ge genuinely wanted to follow Wang Xuan, and the other half was that he truly wanted to save his life.

"I won't take your life for now. When I call for you later, you should know what to do, right?" Wang Xuan said coldly.

"I know, I know! As long as Your Highness calls for me to do anything, this one will definitely accomplish it for Your Highness, even if it costs my life."

"Get lost."

"Yes, yes, yes!"

As Brother Dao exited, he gave Starry Sky an awkward smile.

However, after walking a few steps, he came back.

"Your Highness, do you want me to arrange a dozen bodyguards for you to specifically protect your safety?"

"The Young Master has me, and that is enough," Starry Sky said expressionlessly.

"Yes, yes, yes, Your Highness, then this one will head back first."

After Dao Ge left.

"Young Master, are you just letting him go like that?"

"Keeping him by my side is useless for now. If I truly need him in the future, we shall see."

Wang Xuan yawned, "Starry Sky, I am going to rest; you should get some rest too."

"Very well, Young Master. I will be in the bedroom next door. Please rest at ease, Young Master."

Wang Xuan slept soundly.

However, the others could not sleep.

In a bedroom, Yang Meixue was lying on the bed wearing only a white camisole and a thong.

If it were before, she might be looking at fashion magazines to learn about the latest fashion trends.

But at this moment, she was staring at Wang Xuan's WeChat chat interface, lost in thought.

She was replaying the events of this evening in her mind.

"Wang Xuan, explain today's events to me immediately! Are you really the owner of that Villa No. 1?"

However, Wang Xuan did not reply to her message; Wang Xuan had already fallen asleep.

"Actually, you were just acting with someone else, right?"

"Hmph! You are one hundred percent a loser; how could that Villa No. 1 possibly be yours! Absolutely impossible!"

Yang Meixue sent three messages. Seeing that Wang Xuan did not reply to her, and having thought of a perfect explanation, she went to sleep happily.

On the other side.

Just as Dao Ge exited the residential complex gate, he realized he had wet his pants. He went straight to a nearby shopping mall, and after changing his pants, his phone rang.

It was a call from Zhang Fan.

"How is it? Was Wang Xuan killed?"

"Reporting to Young Master Zhang, not yet," Dao Ge said in a flat tone.

This tone actually startled Zhang Fan.

Because the tasks he had previously arranged for Dao Ge had never failed; this was the first time. There was another reason: since the mission failed, shouldn't he be apologizing to him?

This tone.

"Li Dao, are you saying the mission failed?"

"You can understand it that way."

"Have you defected to Wang Xuan?"

"There is no future following you," Dao Ge admitted.

"So you have also exposed my identity, haven't you?" Zhang Fan asked angrily.

"Wang Xuan found you out through the identities of Zhang Longtian and Zhu Jun."

"You just wait for me, Li Dao. I will kill anyone who betrays me."

Beep, beep, beep—Zhang Fan hung up the phone.

He slumped into his chair, cold sweat pouring over his entire body.

After thinking for a long time, he finally decided to call his father, Zhang Zhifu.

After explaining the ins and outs of the matter to Zhang Zhifu.

"Are you brain-dead? That piece of trash Zhu Jun has no ability at all; he only knows how to brag, bully the weak, and fear the strong. When he asked you to stand up for him, how did you think of taking Wang Xuan's life? And Zhang Longtian is even more of a piece of shit—you'd help him too?"

"It's not that, Dad... I only had Li Dao make a sneak attack when I heard Wang Xuan had no bodyguards with him. Who knew Li Dao would defect to Wang Xuan? Now tell me, what should I do?" Zhang Fan finally realized the gravity of the situation.

"Wait for me to get back." Zhang Fan's father's voice on the other end of the line was extremely impatient.

"Mm."

"Also, you had better not cause any trouble for me these next few days. Old Gao, the Guanjia of the venerable Wang Zhenfan, has invited me to attend a gathering the day after tomorrow afternoon. He has invited all the celebrities in Gangzhou and will also introduce a young man to everyone. I will take this opportunity to introduce you to other celebrities as well. Behave yourself these next few days, understand?"

"Old Gao? I will definitely listen to you and attend," Zhang Fan said earnestly; he was very clear in his heart about the influence Old Gao held.

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Fan's cell phone rang again.

"Hello, Zhang Shao, Zhang Longtian was beaten into a vegetative state at the hospital. I heard from his underlings that it was done by Dao Ge."

"I know."

"Then should we find someone to take out Dao Ge?"

"Don't make a move for now."

Zhang Fan's head was splitting with pain; now that Dao Ge had become one of Wang Xuan's people, he dared not act rashly.