If the members of the Netherworld King’s Hall heard someone demanding their king kneel, they would tear Zhao Shaocai to pieces.
No one in this world could bear the consequences of angering the Netherworld King!
But as Lin Haochen listened to Zhao Shaocai, he found it almost laughable.
‘Zhao Shaocai, young master of the Zhao Family?
What a coincidence.’
‘Everyone in the Zhao Family will die.
But not yet.’
‘I’ll make sure your parents die before you do.’
‘Make me kneel, though?
It’s been a long time since anyone dared to speak to me that way.
The last one who did, if I recall, was that second prince of some Empire…
the one who lost both his legs.’
Zhao Shaocai’s words finally made Lin Haochen give him a proper look.
However, Lin Haochen only chuckled softly and said,
“The person who can make me kneel hasn’t been born yet!”
Zhao Shaocai froze for a second before it registered.
This guy, Lin Haochen, actually dared to posture in front of him?
He was courting death!
“Looks like you won’t learn your lesson the easy way.
Today, I’m going to teach you some manners!”
With that, Zhao Shaocai stepped forward, his hands shooting out to grab Lin Haochen’s shoulders.
He intended to throw him to the ground and force him to his knees.
But the moment his hands made contact, he felt an immense, unmovable force.
Lin Haochen had effortlessly caught his wrists, holding him completely still!
‘How is this possible?’
‘He was a taekwondo black belt!
How could he be so easily overpowered by this slender-looking man?’
Zhao Shaocai was stunned by the man’s strength, but he had no idea that this was only the beginning.
“CRACK!”
“AAAAH—”
The bones in Zhao Shaocai’s arm had been shattered!
A piercing scream of agony tore through the Muchen Group’s lobby.
Zhao Shaocai collapsed to his knees, his face twisted in pain as he writhed on the floor.
The young master of the Zhao Family, one of the five great families of Jin City!
Young Master Zhao Shaocai, a man whose word was practically law in Jin City, had his arm broken in public.
Such a thing was unprecedented!
Making an enemy of Zhao Shaocai in Jin City was a death sentence!
Yet Lin Haochen’s expression remained placid.
Amidst the stunned silence of the crowd, he continued,
“Go back and tell everyone in the Zhao Family that their days are numbered!”
How arrogant!
Unbelievably arrogant!
Lin Haochen, the man claiming to be President Lin’s brother, could only be described as boundlessly arrogant.
The only sound in the entire Muchen Building lobby was Zhao Shaocai’s agonizing screams.
Some of the more timid onlookers didn’t even dare to look at Lin Haochen.
‘These people have had it too easy.
It’s just a broken arm, and they’re acting like it’s the end of the world.’
Lin Haochen shook his head, then turned to the stunned receptionist.
“Can you notify your president now?”
“I-I-I’ll call President Lin right now.”
The receptionist frantically picked up the internal phone and dialed Lin Mushu’s extension.
“P-P-President Lin isn’t answering.
Her office is on the twenty-eighth floor.”
‘Not answering?
That was an internal call from the front desk.
She’d only ignore that if she were in a critical meeting.
Or have they already made their move?’
Lin Haochen didn’t hesitate.
He immediately strode toward the elevator, leaving the stunned crowd in the lobby to stare at one another in disbelief.
‘According to King Yama’s intel, those people have already arrived in Jin City.
I can’t be careless.
I have nothing to fear, but Lin Mushu is just an ordinary person.’
But just as he stepped into the elevator and glanced up, his expression sharpened.
‘I didn’t think they’d move this fast.
They’ve actually planted a bomb in the elevator!’
‘He was in the VIP elevator, reserved for Muchen Group’s top executives and major clients.’
‘If Lin Mushu had been in here, the bomb would have already been detonated.’
‘Looks like the bomb was just planted today.
They’re pretty efficient.’
Lin Haochen discreetly scanned the elevator.
He confirmed a single bomb on the ceiling panel, but nothing else—no new surveillance cameras or other devices.
‘That means whoever has the remote is either in the security monitoring room or still in the Muchen Group’s main lobby.
Those are the only two ways to guarantee they could detonate it while Lin Mushu was inside.’
‘It seems they don’t want to make a big scene.
They want to handle this quietly, which is why they chose to bribe a Muchen Group employee to do their dirty work.’
‘Hmph.
You’ve already missed your last chance.’
Lin Haochen rode the elevator all the way to the twenty-eighth floor.
He didn’t defuse the bomb, not wanting to alert his enemies.
Even if it needed to be dismantled, he’d have to find someone who could believably discover it and have the skills to handle it.
‘My identity can’t be exposed yet!’
Lin Haochen arrived on the twenty-eighth floor.
As he exited the elevator, he saw the president’s office not far away.
The door was closed, but he could still hear voices from within.
“President Lin, all you have to do is spend one night with me, your famous ‘Ice Beauty,’ and I promise I’ll help your Muchen Group recover those nine hundred million in losses.”
“What do you say?
It’s a very good deal.”