Chapter 1651: The Masked Man is Zhu Qingrui

Fast Chinese.

"Trash, all of you are trash. To think you couldn't even handle such a small matter; what use do I have for you?"

A flash of ruthlessness crossed his eyes.

He coldly ordered the person standing beside him: "Bury him. If he can't even handle this little task, he doesn't deserve to live in this world..."

"No, Boss! Boss, I was wrong! Give me a chance to make up for my crimes, Boss, I beg you, Boss..."

The man had already been dragged to the doorway, and he could clearly see the despair in the man's eyes!

"Bring him back."

The man who was about to be dragged outside was dragged back in, kneeling before him and kowtowing like a pestle hitting garlic.

"Thank you, Boss! Thank you, Boss, for sparing my life! From now on, I am your dog; whatever you tell me to do, I will do!"

"Is that what you said? Very good!"

He took off his mask, and the person kneeling on the ground only glanced at it once before fainting from fright.

The people beside the masked man let out an "Ah!" and involuntarily took two steps back.

What kind of face was this?

There wasn't a single intact spot on the face; it was crisscrossed with many scars, and the features seemed to be intertwined with these scars.

It was too terrifying.

They were in L Country; what kind of people had they not seen?

But this was the first time they had seen such a face.

The masked man... Zhu Qingrui said sinisterly: "Scared, aren't you? Let me tell you, this face of mine was caused by my enemies. If you don't do your work with dedication and fall into their hands, you will end up just like me..."

The reason he was in such a rage was that a plan he had been plotting for a long time had failed yet again.

One day ago.

Jiangzhou.

Shi Ran walked out of the office with her large belly, heading toward the main entrance.

Today was her and her husband's wedding anniversary, so she got off work early, and the couple planned to celebrate the anniversary.

At the main entrance.

Her car was parked at the entrance, and the driver, Lao Zhang, was waiting respectfully outside, having even opened the car door for her.

Seeing the driver, she realized her mistake; her husband was going to drive over to pick her up today, so she didn't need the driver, but she had actually forgotten to tell him.

Truly, pregnancy makes one foolish for three years.

When pregnant, it is indeed easy to be scatterbrained and always forget things.

Shi Ran told Lao Zhang to go back on his own, as she would wait for her husband's car to pick her up.

So Lao Zhang left, but the car suddenly exploded less than fifty meters away!

The massive shockwave from the explosion flipped the car over, and people scrambled to rescue Lao Zhang from the vehicle.

Fortunately, he didn't die, only suffering injuries. It was lucky that Shi Ran wasn't in the car at the time; if she had been, the consequences would have been unthinkable.

But the visual impact was too strong; all of this happened right before Shi Ran's eyes. She barely managed to hold onto the door frame, which kept her from falling.

However, something felt wrong with her lower body; blood was flowing down from under her skirt.

At this moment, Yun Qitian happened to arrive and hurriedly rushed her to the hospital for emergency treatment.

After the emergency treatment, the fetus was saved, but Shi Ran had suffered a great shock and needed to rest quietly!

Upon receiving the news, Shi Youxuan rushed to the hospital to take care of her eldest daughter, while the old and young at home were temporarily entrusted to her sister, Shi Yuke, to look after.

Shi Ran urged her mother not to tell her father about this, so as to spare him from worrying about her while he was abroad.

Shi Youxuan wiped away her tears and nodded in agreement: "Don't worry, I won't tell your father. You rest well and don't overexert your mind."

"Mm." Shi Ran fell asleep, but her sleep was very restless, and she kept waking up in a fright.

The driver, Lao Zhang, was also sent to the same hospital, and the cause of the accident was investigated: it wasn't a vehicle malfunction, but someone had installed a remote-controlled bomb on the car's chassis.

Fortunately, Shi Ran's car was sturdy; it was a bulletproof car custom-imported from abroad, very heavy and thick, which was why the driver only suffered minor injuries. If it had been an ordinary luxury car, he would have been done for.

The Jiangzhou police took this heinous case very seriously and immediately launched an investigation, and the results came out quickly.

The explosives installed on the car's undercarriage had been stolen from a fireworks factory in Jiangzhou, and the person who stole the explosives had already vanished.

He was a temporary loader at the factory, introduced to work there a month ago. He had suddenly disappeared just before completing his first month, and he couldn't be contacted; he didn't even collect his wages.

If it hadn't been for this incident coming to light, the factory would have wanted to hush things up and suppress the matter, but because such a major event had occurred, it couldn't be suppressed, and thus it was exposed.

The police followed the clues and discovered that this matter was related to foreign forces, but the relevant evidence had been mostly destroyed, and that person had fled Jiangzhou immediately after the incident.

That person was now kneeling before Zhu Qingrui.

He was trembling with fear, nearly fainting!

"Alright, you go and rest. This matter cannot be blamed entirely on you."

"Clang!"

Accompanied by a crisp sound, two small gold bars were tossed in front of the man: "This is the reward I promised you initially. Even though you didn't complete the mission, we agreed that I would give it to you."

"Thank you, Boss! Thank you, Boss!"

The man who had almost been buried alive had experienced great sorrow and great joy within a single day!

He hadn't completed the mission assigned by his patron; if he had been buried alive, it would have been expected, and there would have been nothing to say.

But at the final moment, the boss changed his mind. Not only did he not let him die, but he also gave him two gold bars, which were enough for his whole family to live without worry for a lifetime.

Although he had been terrified, it was worth it!

He expressed his endless gratitude, then took the gold bars and left.

Zhu Qingrui's tactic of combining kindness with severity was used very successfully, and he had gained another loyal subordinate.

"You all leave as well. Let me be alone for a while to think things through properly."

"Yes."

His subordinates answered and all went out, leaving him alone in the cold, gloomy room.

He used his only remaining, mangled finger to press the switch for the electronic curtains; the curtains opened, and sunlight flooded every corner of the room.

The people in the courtyard had never seen this window opened before.

Now that the window was open, the guards outside looked toward it instinctively, but after just one glance, they wished they could gouge their own eyes out.

What kind of face was this?

"Ah!"

"A monster!"

People fled in terror, but they were quickly called back by the subordinates of Zhu Qingrui.

"Come back, what are you shouting about?"

"Do you not want to live? Stop yelling!"

"Quickly close the main gate, don't let them escape; if a single word about the Head of the Family's affairs is leaked, the lives of your entire families won't be enough to pay for it..."

The person presiding over the "big picture" was the one who had raised Zhu Qingrui from childhood, and also the one most loyal to him.

Zhu Qingrui called him the butler, but the two shared a bond like father and son.

He was very happy that the young master had finally stepped out of his psychological shadow and no longer cared about his appearance.

The young master... no, the Head of the Family, being able to overcome his psychological shadow meant he would be even more powerful in the future, and it was not impossible for the Zhu Family to be restored.

Zhu Qingrui stood before the window, looking at the sun with his only eye, staring straight at it until his eye stung, only then did he withdraw his gaze.