Chapter 281

Chapter 281

Doom

"Their family operates businesses in Nanshi!" Lu Hang explained earnestly.

"Oh," Lin Nannan responded in surprise, looking at Zheng Jie with admiration. "Your family must be really something! Despite how chaotic Nanshi is, your family still manages to establish itself here!"

Whether sincere or not, the praise rubbed Zheng Jie the wrong way. But it made others wonder...

They had witnessed the chaos in Nanshi when they first arrived, which was only suppressed after Lin Kangnian stepped in with forceful measures. So how exactly did the Zheng family manage to thrive in such a turbulent environment?

There’s more to this than meets the eye, and the Zheng family was likely far more complicated than it appeared on the surface.

Though everyone harbored their own thoughts, since there was no direct conflict, no one wanted to blow their cover yet...

Lin Kangnian spotted the young girl standing beside Lu Hang; she looked like a sly little fox. A hint of amusement flickered in his eyes as he stepped forward to clarify her identity, ensuring the two—who lacked prestigious backgrounds—wouldn’t be looked down upon.

"Lin Nannan!" he called out, feigning anger. When the girl turned to look at him, he said sternly, "Running away from home without a word, even getting the cops to call home along the way—you terrified both sets of elders and threw the whole city into chaos!"

At first, Lin Nannan felt a pang of guilt at the reprimand, but the more she listened, the more something felt off. She quickly interrupted him, "Hold on, hold on..." Puzzled, she asked, "I checked in, didn’t I? Who exactly did I scare? And how did I 'stir up the entire capital'? Stop pinning stuff on me!"

The clueless bystanders who had only come to join the commotion—hoping to cash in on the drama—finally realized, after hearing the siblings' exchange, that the person who had shaken the entire capital was this clever little troublemaker standing before them.

Lin Kangnian took a deep breath, reminding himself not to push too hard. He didn’t want to wreck the truce he had just managed to restore, nor did he want to risk getting scolded by his parents now that he was a father himself. Suppressing his frustration, he turned to Lu Hang and asked, "Do you know what she’s done?"

Lu Hang massaged his forehead and nodded.

Seeing how furious Lin Kangnian was, he decided it was best to keep Lin Nannan’s more outrageous actions to himself—lest the guy actually pass out from rage...

Lin Nannan, indignant, was about to retort when Lu Hang pulled her back. "Alright, let’s settle in first. We can talk about everything else later."

With Lu Hang around, even Lin Nannan’s fiercest temper could be soothed. This led those unfamiliar with her to assume she was easygoing. But given that she had managed to rattle the entire capital, they knew better than to underestimate her. Many now saw befriending her as a wise move and swarmed them, brushing Zheng Jie aside.

This infuriated Zheng Jie.

In the capital, he had always been the overlooked one. Now, in Nanshi—his own territory—he had been overshadowed by two nobodies. He burned to teach them who the Zhengs really were, to make them understand just who they were dealing with.

But alas...

His gaze lingered on the couple surrounded by the crowd. He knew that if he missed this opportunity, he would never get another chance to capture them.

Lin Nannan was secondary. The real issue was Nanshi. If the situation here remained unresolved, Lu Hang would remain a loose cannon. Sooner or later, he would start questioning why Zheng Jie coincidentally appeared in Nanshi every time—and if that happened, it would mean the end of the Zheng family.

They were now at a crossroads, forced to make a choice. Otherwise, sooner or later, everything would go up in flames.