Chen Zheng had stolen the person he loved, destroyed his life, and taken his entire future!

"Yang Xiu! This has nothing to do with Brother Chen Zheng! I can kowtow to you, I'll do anything you say, just please let my father go!" As Liu Qianqian spoke, she tried to kneel before Yang Xiu, but Chen Zheng held her back.

Her words, however, struck a nerve deep inside Yang Xiu, twisting his expression into something even more ferocious.

"You're still protecting that Chen Zheng, aren't you! You think he's more important than your own parents, don't you?! You only care about rich men, right!"

Liu Qianqian broke down, sobbing, "Brother Chen Zheng and I are just friends! Nothing happened between us!"

Yang Xiu refused to listen, bursting into laughter instead.

"Just friends?! Bullshit!"

"Let me tell you, I saw through you a long time ago. You, Liu Qianqian, are nothing but a gold digger, ready to do anything for money!"

"I bet at night, you'd even kneel at Chen Zheng's feet and bark like a dog!"

Yang Xiu had gone completely mad, spewing filth that was barely human.

"What the hell are you talking about!" Chen Zheng couldn't help but interject.

Yang Xiu sneered, "Oh, did I hit the nail on the head?"

"If you don't know how to talk, then shut your mouth!"

Chen Zheng narrowed his eyes. "You're saying if I kowtow to you three times, you'll let Liu Qianqian's father go?"

"Ha!" Yang Xiu froze for a second, then erupted into laughter. "Get on your knees! Then you can talk to me!"

Liu Qianqian quickly tried to stop him. "Brother Chen Zheng, this has nothing to do with you, you can't..."

Chen Zheng smiled and waved his hand. "When I was a kid asking for red envelopes during the New Year, I'd kowtow to everyone I saw. Because of that, to this day, everyone in the village claims to be one of my elders."

"My knees aren't worth much. If kneeling a few times can save your father, then it's a worthy trade."

As he spoke, Chen Zheng patted Liu Qianqian on the back, offering a bit of comfort.

Liu Qianqian bit her lip as tears streamed uncontrollably down her face.

"If you're a man, be a man of your word," Chen Zheng said to Yang Xiu, then slowly started to bend his knees.

Standing outside the door, the Li siblings and Elder Liu were furious, but for the moment, they had no better options.

Watching Chen Zheng slowly sink to his knees, Yang Xiu felt a surge of smug satisfaction. He couldn't help but laugh hysterically.

"Hahahahaha!"

He shook with laughter. "Chen Zheng, with all your money and power, you still have to kowtow to me! Hahahahaha!"

"Liu Qianqian, do you see? This is the man you follow! No matter how powerful he is, he still has to kneel before me!"

Liu Qianqian had bitten her lip so hard it was bleeding, her tear-filled eyes fixed on Chen Zheng.

But no one noticed that Chen Zheng was staring intently at Yang Xiu, his right hand clutching the car keys in his pocket.

Just as everyone assumed Chen Zheng was about to kneel, and just as Yang Xiu's laughter reached its most maniacal peak, Chen Zheng's hand shot out of his pocket. He flung his car keys, which struck Yang Xiu's knife hand with incredible force.

CRACK!

Yang Xiu cried out in pain as the knife clattered to the floor.

The next second, Chen Zheng launched himself toward Yang Xiu.

"Die!"

The word exploded like thunder in Yang Xiu's ears, a terrifying wail that seemed to come from Hell itself.

Panic seized Yang Xiu. He wanted to counterattack, but it was too late. In the blink of an eye, Chen Zheng was upon him.

Chen Zheng channeled all of his physical power, even his Inner Strength, into a single point. He unleashed everything he had in that one strike!

The spinning fist warped the very air around it, generating a hurricane inside the living room that threatened to tear the house apart!

If that punch landed, Yang Xiu wouldn't even get a chance at reincarnation.

But just then, Li Yitong suddenly shouted, "Don't kill him!"

Her voice snapped Chen Zheng back to his senses.

He retracted his Inner Strength, causing the focused power to dissipate. The attack became an ordinary punch.

BANG!

Even so, the blow sent Yang Xiu flying. He slammed hard against the wall before crumpling to the floor.

Yang Xiu felt as if the punch had gone straight through him, and he coughed up a spray of blood.

But Chen Zheng wasn't done with him yet.

The instant Yang Xiu hit the floor, Chen Zheng was on top of him. He grabbed both of Yang Xiu's shoulders and squeezed with immense force.

CRACK!

A sickening snap echoed through the room. Yang Xiu let out a gut-wrenching scream that tore his throat raw.

With that one move, Chen Zheng had shattered the bones in both of Yang Xiu's shoulders. They were completely ruined; not even a hospital could fix them.

Li Yifeng couldn't help but mutter, "Dislocations and comminuted fractures. Tsk, tsk... He'll probably need an amputation, right?"

Yang Xiu now lay on the ground like a broken heap, having passed out.

From Chen Zheng's explosive move to Yang Xiu being crippled, less than two seconds had passed. It all happened so fast that Liu Qianqian couldn't even process it.

She was still sitting on the floor, a look of utter bewilderment on her face.

Li Yitong, however, was a true professional. While she untied the ropes binding Liu Qianqian's parents, she was already on the phone calling for an ambulance and the police.

"Mom! Dad!"

Liu Qianqian finally came to her senses and scrambled over to her parents.

Meanwhile, Li Yifeng and Elder Liu stood outside, speaking in low voices.

"Elder Liu, did you feel that just now?"

Elder Liu exhaled slowly. "It was Inner Strength. I never would have expected it. For someone as young as Chen Zheng to have already developed Inner Strength!"

Li Yifeng gritted his teeth. "He seems even younger than me... Damn, he's incredible!"

He had never truly admired anyone before. Chen Zheng was the first.

...

"Mom, Dad, how are you?" Liu Qianqian asked anxiously.

Liu Qianqian's mother replied through her tears, "I'm fine, but that monster beat your father for a long time! He was even coughing up blood!"

Just then, Li Yitong came over to check on him. "Don't worry, Auntie. Uncle is unconscious, but his injuries aren't life-threatening. He'll recover quickly!"

Hearing this, Liu Qianqian's mother could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

"Thank you... Thank you all! Thank you!"

Everyone ignored Yang Xiu, who lay like a broken heap on the floor, unconscious and covered in blood.

Before long, the ambulance and police cars arrived.

Liu Qianqian accompanied her parents to the hospital. Chen Zheng, Li Yitong, and Li Yifeng waited until Yang Xiu was taken away before they drove to the hospital as well.

They arrived at the nearby county hospital in no time. Liu Qianqian's parents had only sustained superficial injuries, so treating them locally was sufficient.

After parking the car, Chen Zheng walked into the hospital lobby and saw Liu Qianqian in line to pay the bills.

As he got closer, he noticed she looked despondent.

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