Everyone in the outside world and even inside the company knew that Mu Yanchen's body was at the end of its strength, and his actual condition might be even worse than Ji Zhengxuan who had his limbs amputated. Everyone was waiting in secret for the fall of this emperor, and then would go over to get a piece of the pie.

But the scratches on the face and the broken cup lid on the ground slapped the onlookers in the face.

At what speed and strength can such a result be achieved? Even a healthy person may not be able to do it.

Ji Zhengxuan looked in shock at the man sitting on the throne, who had already suppressed his anger and was slowly wiping his fingers with a silk handkerchief. He was even more terrifying than he had imagined. Was this the dying body in the rumors?

The living room was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

Situ Rui walked towards Du Ren and asked him to leave. Although Du Ren was extremely reluctant, he still left angrily after Ji Zhengxuan nodded in agreement.

There was a hint of fear in Ji Zhengxuan's eyes. He had been planning and confident from the beginning, thinking that Mu Yanchen would always deal with Mu Guichao, and that he would be able to gain more help by joining him. But now he was full of regret. He shouldn't have commented too much about that woman in front of him.

Mu Yanchen was looking out of the manor, which was what he often did in the afternoon. He said calmly, "That's true. You know how much I value her, so I will definitely cut the murderer into pieces. I will go down to accompany her later, so," he lowered his eyes and stared at Ji Zhengxuan, "What kind of help can you bring to me?"

When you are surrounded by mountains and rivers and think there is no way out, suddenly you see a new village with willows and flowers. This may be the way to describe Ji Zhengxuan's state of mind at this time. His emotions are experiencing great ups and downs.

He said respectfully: "I will definitely find the real murderer for her, and I am willing to swear my loyalty to you until death and never betray you!"

Du Ren looked at the lowered head in shock. Was his brother Xuan going to join Mu Yanchen's formation? At first, he thought that Brother Xuan came here just to make a deal, but he didn't expect that he was going to offer himself.

"And what about your remaining property in the East End?"

"All transferred to your side."

"Oh," Mu Yanchen laughed, somewhat mockingly, "Since you've given me both the person and the property, what do you want? The world is bustling with people for profit. Don't tell me you have no other agenda. I don't believe it. People must have weaknesses in order to be controlled."

When Ji Zhengxuan heard this, he knew that this trip would not be smooth. "I am already disabled," he lowered his head to hide the pain in his eyes, "I don't ask for anything else, just that Duan Lu Chong dies, and that the people who follow me have a place to go."

I can't wander around like him for half my life.

Mu Yanchen only guessed the first half of the sentence, and the second half also moved him a little, "I didn't expect you to be such a loyal person, but you want Duan Lu Chong to die, what about Mu Guichao? Don't you want him to die too? If it weren't for him, you wouldn't have ended up like this."

Ji Zhengxuan did not hide it, "It is not my wish whether Mu Guichao lives or not. My leg was indeed injured by Duan Luchong and his gang, so I will just go find him. As for Mu Guichao, you have to take action anyway. Either he dies or you die."

So Sheng Baiyi might have died in such a turmoil, a victim of the internal strife in the Mu family.

Ji Zhengxuan was waiting for Mu Yanchen's reply, but Mu Yanchen suddenly stood up, said something to Situ Rui, and hurried towards the door. His steps were so vigorous that it was indeed not possible for a terminally ill person to have.

Could it be possible that Mu Yanchen could recover without the newly developed medicine?

Ji Zhengxuan's eyes flickered, and he saw Situ Rui walking towards him, "Then we will be colleagues from now on. I hope you won't betray your master. After all, you've already betrayed him once."

Ji Zhengxuan looked up and said, "That's because the master betrayed me first."

Situ Rui raised his eyebrows without comment.

Then Ji Zhengxuan asked, "If Mu Yanchen betrayed you, how would you treat him?"

Situ Rui looked down at him, as if he was watching a joke, "There is no such possibility."

After hearing this, Ji Zhengxuan laughed at himself, with a bitter smile. He followed the wrong person, but maybe it was not too late to change now.

Situ Rui arranged a room for Ji Zhengxuan, which was a courtesy only for important employees. Firstly, it was for surveillance, and secondly, it was for protection. Ji Zhengxuan knew a lot of secrets. After all, he had followed Mu Guichao for some years and was once one of the people around Mu Guichao. After this incident, although the people in the East District's industries were quickly replaced, the degree of chaos inside can be imagined.

Besides, now that Ji Zhengxuan is still alive, Mu Guichao must cut the weeds and eradicate them completely, otherwise it will always be a disaster if he is buried. No place is safer than Mu Yanchen's manor.

The original intention of capturing Ji Zhengxuan that day was to kill him and silence him, but Ji Zhengxuan was lucky enough to survive even after bleeding all over the floor and having his limbs amputated. Now he has joined Mu Yanchen's team.

There were footsteps outside, and a cheerful female voice came from the door. She called Mu Yanchen's name joyfully, and then whispered something, but Ji Zhengxuan couldn't make out what she said.

The person pushing the wheelchair was replaced. Du Ren was not qualified to stay in the manor for a long time. Situ Rui pushed Ji Zhengxuan's wheelchair slowly, as if he was pushing it slowly on purpose. Ji Zhengxuan then spoke in confusion.

"Who is the girl outside? She sounds so quiet."

"Don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask." Situ Rui tried to slow down his pace.

"Are you pushing so slowly on purpose? So I can't see you?"

Situ Rui's silence confirmed Ji Zhengxuan's words. A picture suddenly flashed through his mind. The girl who walked slowly to him in the back street, raised her cold and beautiful face, and stared at him neither humbly nor arrogantly. Because she looked too much like Sheng Baiyi, he didn't mention her to Mu Guichao out of guilt.

Is it her?

As soon as they left the reception room, they saw Shen Zhao walking towards them. She had a puzzled look in her eyes. All she saw was Ji Zhengxuan's embarrassed appearance. There was a flash of shock in her eyes, but no fear at all. She seemed to be used to this.

Mu Yanchen came from behind Shen Zhao, and there was a frost in his narrow and long phoenix eyes when he glanced at Situ Rui. Situ Rui felt his heart skip a beat. It was over, he had messed up and let Shen Zhao meet Ji Zhengxuan!

Shen Zhao felt a little guilty for having hidden the fact that she had gone to Luhu Yajing from Mu Yanchen, so she wanted to go home quickly after class today. But on the way home, she saw Du Ren walking along the road. She asked the driver to stop the car and stuck her head out of the window.

"Duren," she called to him.

Du Ren turned around and saw Shen Zhao, "Why are you here?"

"Has Ji Zhengxuan been found?" Shen Zhao was not angry at Du Ren's reckless behavior that day, but asked softly, which made Du Ren's eyes red. Thinking of Brother Xuan's mutilated body, he nodded and shook his head.

"What's going on?" Shen Zhao asked deliberately.

But Du Ren still didn't say anything. Shen Zhao pursed his lips and told the driver to keep driving.

When she returned to the manor, she saw Mu Yanchen already waiting at the door. This was not very usual, but she still ran towards him with a smile.

As she walked, she felt that the manor seemed too quiet today. Even the number of servants who came to greet her was much less. She looked at Mu Yanchen suspiciously, "Where are all the servants today? Did you fire them all?"

Mu Yanchen rubbed Shen Zhao's hand and said, "No, Situ Rui may have told them to do something else."

Shen Zhao didn't take it seriously. Mu Yanchen pulled her and wanted to go upstairs, but the more she did so, the more something seemed wrong. Shen Zhao let go of Mu Yanchen's hand and asked, "Do you have any guests today? Can't I see them?"

Shen Zhao's sharpness was beyond his expectations, so Mu Yanchen had no choice but to nod.

Shen Zhao didn't say anything. If Mu Yanchen didn't want her to see him, then she wouldn't see him. With her current status as a senior high school student, it was indeed not easy for her to show up in front of others, but she would still feel a little disappointed, because that meant that Mu Yanchen did not approve of her.

Seeing Shen Zhao's entire dejection, Mu Yanchen couldn't bear to see it, "He's in the living room. It's not that I don't want you to see him, but that person is a little special."

Shen Zhao perked up when he heard this. Just as he was about to push the door and walk into the reception room, he saw Situ Rui pushing someone out from inside and bumped into Shen Zhao and the others.

Shen Zhao stared at Ji Zhengxuan steadily. From his scarred face to his sunken lower body covered with a blanket, there was almost no intact part. Even the ostentatious decorations were stripped off. She and he were just casual acquaintances and it was not possible to say that they had deep feelings for each other after just meeting once. However, Ji Zhengxuan's cell phone number was still in her address book. But people are all made of flesh and blood. He was a spirited man a few days ago, but now he had become a disabled person despised by everyone.

Her eyes suddenly turned red, and when she wanted to walk over, she was stopped by Mu Yanchen behind her. She turned her head away, not knowing why.

Mu Yanchen pulled her closer to him and whispered in her ear, "Don't reveal that you know medical skills. Everything else is up to you, okay?"

Shen Zhao nodded.

Ji Zhengxuan looked at the interaction between Mu Yanchen and Shen Zhao and felt a little disgusted. He just said that he would go down to accompany her after avenging Sheng Baiyi, but what about now?

He looked at Shen Zhao's face, which was almost the same as Sheng Baiyi's, with mockery in his eyes, and realized that Mu Yanchen liked to play this trick. He immediately felt that the oath he made was not worth it. But now he really could only rely on Mu Yanchen, otherwise he would not be able to overthrow Mu Guichao.

Shen Zhao walked over and looked down at him, "How did you become like this?"

Ji Zhengxuan didn't want to say more, "None of your business! Let's go."

He was talking to Situ Rui, who had long been driven crazy by Mu Yanchen's gaze. Now that he had such a good excuse, he had no choice but to leave.

Shen Zhao watched Situ Rui push Ji Zhengxuan out of the villa and walk towards a house nearby.

The main house in the manor is a villa, so Mu Yanchen lives in the main house, and the houses next to it were allocated by Situ Rui. Ji Zhengxuan was assigned to the same house as him, which made it easier to take care of him and protect him.

Shen Zhao was pulled into the room by Mu Yanchen. Mu Yanchen sat down and pulled her in front of him. He glanced at her slightly red eyes and scolded Ji Zhengxuan in his heart, but still asked gently, "What's wrong?" While asking, he wiped the moisture from the corners of her eyes with his hand.

"You know him, right? He was fine a few days ago, why did he become like this today?"

It is always hard to accept what happens around you.

Mu Yanchen pondered for a moment, "His boss doesn't want him anymore, so the people below abuse him."

"But this is a civilized society, how could something like this happen?" Shen Zhao paused for a moment when he asked. Yes, this is a civilized society, but she is dead. Who said there are no murders in a civilized society?

When she asked this question, she realized that she was too excited and almost forgot about it.

"What will he do in the future?"

"He will stay here from now on, so," Mu Yanchen looked at Shen Zhao seriously and kneaded her little hand, "When you see him in the future, just turn around and leave. Don't have excessive contact with him, understand? That man is still a little dangerous. After all, Du Ren threatened you like that before. If the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will be crooked."

When Shen Zhao heard him say this about Ji Zhengxuan, he laughed and said, "Why do you always say bad things about others? Aren't you one of them? He is under your control now. According to what you said, aren't you a good person either?"

Mu Yanchen glanced at her sideways, surprisingly serious, "If I'm not a good person, will you still love me?"

Shen Zhao stood there in a daze. Love?

She didn't know what love was, but she knew she liked to be with him. No matter when, he could give her a sense of security.

Shen Zhao looked at him steadily, as if she wanted to see into his heart, and then hugged him. She could feel his thin waist and back, where the protruding bones hurt, but she still hugged him tightly without hesitation. She buried her head in his shoulder and murmured, "No matter who you are, I only believe what I see. I love you, regardless of who you are."

Mu Yanchen pushed her away, and just when Shen Zhao thought that Mu Yanchen was rejecting her, his thin lips with a hint of coolness pressed down and pressed heavily on her lips. Unlike a light taste, he forced her to raise her head, and then forcefully pried open her lips, sucked with her teeth, and entwined his tongue with hers to explore everything inside. Shen Zhao's cheeks were hot, and the wonderful comfort brought by the kiss paralyzed her nerves little by little. Her panting and heartbeat were amplified countless times, arousing a numbing electric current that traveled through her body.

She pushed him, but it only elicited a stronger and more domineering move from him.

"Hmm..." A broken moan unconsciously escaped from his lips.

Mu Yanchen held her cheeks and looked at her face which was red from the kiss. She kept panting, and her lips were moist and red from being kissed.

Shen Zhao lost all her strength from the kiss and fell limply into his arms. When she heard his low laugh, she realized that she had fallen for it again. Whenever he pretended to be pitiful like this, she couldn't help but soften her heart. She thought, that was probably her love for him.

Mu Yanchen took her hand and kissed it gently, his narrow and long phoenix eyes filled with deep affection as he gazed at her, "You said it, you can't go back on your word."

Shen Zhao said "hmm" lightly.

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