Chapter 70: What Goes Around Comes Around

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Chapter 70: What Goes Around Comes Around

Young Master Mu was never kind to his enemies. In fact, under normal circumstances, he wasn’t particularly kind to anyone. He saved all his gentleness for bonding with his pet. As far as he was concerned, what did anyone else have to do with him? So, after deciding without batting an eye to take advantage of his little cousin, Young Master Mu had his pet send a text message.

[The deal can go ahead, but the information must be important and unknown to us. Otherwise, the deal is off.]

A reply came from the other end of the phone soon after.

[Don’t worry. I’ll tell you directly! Someone will come to the hospital to see you soon, or perhaps he’s already there. That person is working with Zheng Yuhu. He’s the one who made the psychotropic drug in your drink, and when you were hospitalized a few days ago, he was also planning to inject you with more hallucinogens. So, do you want to know who this person is? Or have you already seen him?]

Lin You the husky repeated the text message in an adorably cute tone. Mu Yanxiao raised an eyebrow when he heard it. “He actually told us about Lu Yuan.”

Lin You nodded solemnly. “That guy must have been bullied terribly by his older cousin! Otherwise, how could he surrender to the enemy? He’s so spineless!”

Young Master Mu twitched the corner of his mouth, then narrowed his eyes.

“Send him a message and tell him that this information isn’t particularly useful. We’ve already found out some things about Lu Yuan. However, since he voluntarily surrendered, and did so for the sake of his parents, I can help ensure that his parents remain safe in prison. If he wants to see his parents, he can wait in the square in front of Central Mall. We’ll send someone to accompany him in an hour.”

Hearing how long the message was, Lin You the husky disdainfully pushed the phone into Mu Yanxiao’s hand with his paw.

“Whine.”

“There’s already a voice-recognition system that can automatically write text messages, so why do you still need me to press the buttons with my paws?! I’m all paws now! They’re so short I can barely even tell my toes apart, okay?! Is this how you treat a pet?!”

Young Master Mu clicked his tongue softly. Then, somewhat reluctantly, he picked up the phone and recorded the message himself. However, after he finished, Lin You looked rather puzzled.

“Why are you still taking him to visit his parents in prison? He’s already told us the information, so isn’t he useless now? Wait, what?!”

The chubby husky suddenly sat upright, his glassy eyes rolling around. “You’re so mean.”

Mu Yanxiao calmly pushed his pet back into his arms.

“I’m just letting their family reunite. Besides, Chen Yuhe has already leaked information about Lu Yuan. If he stays with Zheng Yuhu, he’ll only end up losing his life.” At this point, Young Master Mu gave a cold chuckle. “That annoying fellow who’s always following Zheng Yuhu around, making trouble and doing every despicable thing imaginable, should be grateful that I, his Second Cousin, put aside past grievances and saved his life. Otherwise, given Zheng Yuhu’s personality, even if Chen Yuhe is his cousin, he wouldn’t show him any mercy.”

Husky Lin rolled his eyes and snorted.

So, you send someone to prison, where he has to eat prison food and do hard labor every day, and he’s supposed to thank you for saving his life?! You’re absolutely shameless.

“Let’s not talk about the person who’s about to go to prison. What about Lu Yuan? He’s completely exposed now.”

Mu Yanxiao sneered when he heard this. “Just wait and see. He won’t be able to keep bouncing around for much longer.”

Lin You the husky was somewhat dissatisfied that his master hadn’t answered his question directly, so he turned his head and lay down.

Hmm. He wondered if it was because his body was that of a puppy. He’d been eating and sleeping a lot lately. He was probably growing.

Hehe, sleep, sleep. He’d heard puppies grew quickly. In another month, he’d be a majestic wolf of the Eastern Capital!

Hehe.

……

Lu Yuan had recently felt that everything was going wrong for him. Over the past month, his popularity in the entertainment industry had plummeted, and the number of scripts coming his way had steadily decreased, to the point that he felt like he was about to become a has-been.

But Lu Yuan didn’t really care whether he was famous or not. Not to mention that he was the young master of the Lu Family. Although the Lu Family wasn’t one of the famous families in City A, it was still a wealthy family, so he had no worries about food or money.

More importantly, he had a fast and highly lucrative source of income of his own. Compared to that, the money he made from the entertainment industry was insignificant.

It was just that, around ten days ago, Lu Yuan discovered that his second and most important source of income, the one he had built through the entertainment industry, was gradually running into trouble.

First, every person who made a deal with him would be exposed online afterward. Most of the people who dealt with him were celebrities in the entertainment industry, or wealthy people and officials who kept these celebrities. Such exposures were nothing short of a massive earthquake for both the entertainment and financial circles.

At first, Lu Yuan and those celebrities and officials could find people to smooth things over or use their own methods to suppress the news. But as more and more people were exposed and the secrets uncovered became increasingly deep, Lu Yuan was horrified to discover that his entire network had been wiped out in just ten short days.

It was like a raging fire that had burned everything around him, leaving only wild flames surrounding him, waiting to swallow him whole.

The drug trade absolutely could not continue. Without the slightest guilt or hesitation, Lu Yuan betrayed all his subordinates. He anonymously reported their transactions and drug storage locations to the police. Since all his subordinates operated remotely through their phones, Lu Yuan was certain that even if they were arrested, the anti-drug squad and the police wouldn’t be able to trace the operation back to him. Instead, this would allow him to cut the whole matter off completely.

Although he had lost a great deal of money and drugs, Lu Yuan believed this was a necessary sacrifice, like a gecko abandoning its tail. As long as he remained safe, that was enough. Sure enough, those people were all arrested afterward. At the same time, just as Lu Yuan had expected, the anti-drug squad and the police were unable to find out who was at the very top of the drug trafficking organization, no matter how they investigated.

It was probably the fifth day after his unsuccessful visit to the First Hospital to see Mu Yanxiao. The largest drug trafficking case involving the entertainment industry in City A had been cracked. Watching the news on television, Lu Yuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Heaven knew how anxious he’d been these past few days. But in the end, he was safe. Just then, someone began pounding loudly on the door of Lu Yuan’s villa.

Lu Yuan frowned. It was only seven in the morning. Who would come looking for him this early?

But before Lu Yuan could open the door himself, it was violently forced open. More than a dozen heavily armed anti-drug police officers stormed into his home and pinned him firmly to the floor.

!!

“What are you doing?! Breaking into someone’s home for no reason!! Do you know who I am?! Are you blind?! Let me go right now, or you won’t be able to bear the consequences!!”

Pinned to the floor, Lu Yuan could hear his heart pounding wildly. Even so, he still acted as though he wasn’t afraid at all, loudly and righteously berating the police officers. Suddenly, Lu Yuan saw a person wearing black leather shoes standing in front of him.

“Hehe, Second Young Master Lu! Looks like we’re truly destined to meet! A year ago, you tricked my sister into going to a club to take drugs, where those bastards violated her. Now those bastards are all in prison. Even if it costs me my position, I’ll make sure they pay for what they did in there. As for you, no matter how powerful the Lu Family is, they won’t be able to protect you, the biggest drug lord of them all!! Just wait until you go in. We’ll make sure you’re well taken care of! There are plenty of people waiting for you!!”

The narcotics officer’s face was filled with a sinister smile.

“But with those looks of yours, they might not even be willing to beat you up. They might even take especially good care of you. Don’t you think?”

Lu Yuan’s face instantly turned deathly pale. Then he began struggling frantically.

“Zhang Dahu!! You dare arrest me?! I’ll have your entire family killed!!”

The hatred in Zhang Dahu’s eyes grew even more intense.

“Go ahead! I’m waiting for you!! All that’s left of my family now is my insane sister and two boxes of ashes! If you’ve got the guts, kill her and then come kill me! Otherwise, I’ll torture you to death just to vent the hatred in my heart!!”

If it hadn’t been for investigating what happened to his sister, how could his parents have died in a car accident? His perfectly good family had been destroyed because of the person standing before him!

He should thank the person who provided the evidence. Otherwise, relying on his own power alone, he would never have been able to touch the Second Young Master of the Lu Family, a major celebrity in the entertainment industry!

“You’re exactly the kind of scum people mean when they say ‘a beast in human clothing’!” Zhang Dahu spat viciously. “Take him away!!”

With a deafening slam of the door, Lu Yuan’s arrogance was completely shattered. That morning, when Zheng Yuhu received the news, his expression turned grim, and he angrily overturned the entire table.

He had never expected that within five days of their parents being arrested and sent to prison, Chen Yuhe and Lu Yuan would both run into trouble one after another!

Chen Yuhe, that practically useless cousin, wasn’t worth mentioning. He had actually been stupid enough to get himself arrested in Central Square! He deserved to go to prison, and it saved Zheng Yuhu the trouble of dealing with him himself.

But Lu Yuan!

That man possessed the latest drug-making methods and was practically a mobile gold mine. Before Zheng Yuhu had even managed to pry those methods out of him, Lu Yuan had been arrested, and so quietly and without warning that Zheng Yuhu hadn’t even had time to react!

It was an enormous loss.

But no matter how regretful and furious he was now, he couldn’t rashly try to rescue Lu Yuan. He knew very well that someone was watching everything from the shadows, keeping a close eye on every movement, trying to find him through the slightest clue and send him to that dark, sunless place as well.

Zheng Yuhu gritted his teeth hard.

Mu Yanxiao! Mu Yanxiao!!

Don’t think you’ve won just because you’ve had them arrested and acquired the Zheng and Chen families!! As long as I’m still alive and you haven’t caught me, don’t expect to live peacefully!! A gentleman can wait ten years to take revenge. Just you wait and see!!

“Boss, everything has been packed.”

Ling You stood at the bedroom door, looking at Zheng Yuhu, whose expression had already become somewhat frantic. His own expression was complicated.

In his impression, the boss had always been calm, confident, and powerful. He provided everything for his followers and had always believed that he was the most successful person of all. But now, because of that man named Mu Yanxiao, all of that had been destroyed.

Ling You’s gaze darkened slightly.

He didn’t like this version of his boss. He hoped the boss could return to his former self, the one who could laugh and joke with ease, confident and arrogantly proud.

Even if others saw the boss as someone whose hands were stained with blood, cruel and sinister, in his eyes, the boss was still the boss—powerful and wonderful.

Zheng Yuhu stood up with a cold expression. “We’re going to the Middle East.”

Ling You nodded and followed closely behind Zheng Yuhu, dragging his suitcase. Looking at that deliberately straight back in front of him, Ling You’s thoughts wandered slightly. He thought that if that day ever came, he would be willing to die just to keep that back standing so straight.

One hour later.

Mu Five stormed into the ward, furious. “Boss!! Zheng Yuhu got away! We just found his exit record at the airport!!”

Mu Yanxiao’s hand paused as he played with the husky using a tennis ball, giving Lin You the perfect opportunity to bite it.

“…That guy’s greatest talent is running away. What’s there to be upset about? As long as I’m here, he’ll always think about coming back. Hehe.”

Mu Five, “…” Could you please stop making this sound like a love confession?! You’re clearly mortal enemies who wish nothing but death and destruction upon each other!!

Lin You, the husky, was also a little speechless at those words. The tennis ball he had been chasing and biting accidentally fell from the hospital bed to the floor. Lin You stared fixedly at it, his tail unconsciously lifting slightly as he prepared to pounce on it like a hungry tiger. And then? Then he saw the round, bouncy tennis ball being pinned down by a fat paw. His gaze moved upward, and, oh!

Hehe! What a familiar, punchable, flat face!! And what a familiar, hefty bulk!! Lin You, the valiant wolf of the Eastern Capital, suddenly rose to his feet, baring his teeth as he let out a low growl.

What goes around comes around. Let’s see who topples who this time!!

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