Long Yuqing sat opposite Qin Ruomeng, her face gloomy. She had initially thought Leng Xingfeng had asked her to discuss business, but never imagined it would be a trap set by Elder Qin: "Speak, what do you want to talk about?"

"Cooperation."

"Cooperation?" Long Yuqing's eyes suddenly turned cold: "Did I hear wrong? Miss Qin actually wants to discuss cooperation with me?"

Qin Ruomeng frowned slightly: "The Long Family and the Qin Family have been at odds for sixty years, fighting openly and secretly. The stalemate between the two should end."

Before she finished speaking, Qin Ruomeng pulled an envelope out of her bag and handed it to Long Yuqing: "Don't rush to refuse. After reading this letter, you might change your mind."

Ye Tianfan looked at the letter in Qin Ruomeng's hand, feeling puzzled. From the moment Qin Ruomeng suggested talking to Long Yuqing, Ye Tianfan sensed something was amiss, and now seeing this letter made him even more confused.

Judging from the old age of the envelope, the letter was quite aged. Long Yuqing was full of doubt, but she still accepted the letter from Qin Ruomeng's hand.

As Long Yuqing opened the envelope and unfolded the letter, her facial expression suddenly froze.

"This is... grandpa's handwriting..."

At this moment, Long Yuqing felt a thunderbolt in her heart, as the beginning of the letter had three prominent words.

Long Guiyun!

This was Elder of the Long Family, Long Guiyun, who drowned himself sixty years ago.

This letter was actually handwritten by Long Guiyun! And at the signature on the envelope, there was also Qin Wujue's name.

At this moment, Long Yuqing's beautiful eyes glanced up, casting a glare at Leng Xingfeng, clearly not wanting him to know the contents of the letter.

"Young Master Leng, since this is none of your business, shouldn't you be leaving?"

Long Yuqing showed no courtesy in issuing an expulsion order.

"Miss Long, I would like to..." Leng Xingfeng was about to speak.

"You are overthinking it." Long Yuqing curtly interrupted, seemingly having guessed what Leng Xingfeng wanted to say.

Leng Xingfeng's smile appeared somewhat awkward. Since Qin Ruomeng was already married, Leng Xingfeng had naturally shifted his focus to Long Yuqing, who was still single. He wanted to take the opportunity to invite Long Yuqing to a meal, but before he could even voice it, Long Yuqing shot him down, leaving him feeling as though a breath got stuck in his throat, extremely uncomfortable.

"Not leaving yet?" Long Yuqing's eyebrows raised, looking at Leng Xingfeng, her face clearly showing displeasure.

"Fine, fine, I'll leave, alright!" Leng Xingfeng, full of helplessness, left the western restaurant in dismay.

At this point, Long Yuqing's expression turned serious as she placed the letter on the table and asked somberly, "Is everything written here true?"

Long Yuqing could hardly conceal the shock in her heart. The handwriting on the letter was unmistakably Long Guiyun's, but the events it described were too incredible.

The matter pertained to the business war from sixty years ago, which turned out to be orchestrated by Long Guiyun alone. Moreover, the Long Family took the initiative to give up the position of overlord in Jiangzhou City's business world, and Long Guiyun even secretly helped the Qin Family advance.

"It is true," Qin Ruomeng nodded and said, "I only discovered this letter after Grandpa disappeared."

"Why? How could it be like this?" Long Yuqing was full of confusion. Compared to Elder Qin's disappearance, the letter's content was even more shocking. Since her birth, Long Yuqing had never seen Long Guiyun, only knowing he drowned himself, and it was rumored to have been the Qin Family that drove him to it.

But now, this handwritten letter from Long Guiyun overturns everything.

All this was a set-up jointly orchestrated by the Qin Family and the Long Family!

In shock, Long Yuqing recalled that, although the Qin Family held the position of business overlord in Jiangzhou City, the Long Family had never been weak. Although they had gone underground, in terms of power, they were more than enough to rival the Qin Family.

With Long Guiyun's skills and talents at that time, fighting back against the Qin Family would have been no problem.

Yet, Long Guiyun chose to drown himself!

This was something Long Yuqing never understood.

Someone who once stood at the pinnacle, even when faced with setbacks and frustrations, could always make a comeback. There was no reason to resort to suicide.

It was only upon seeing this letter that Long Yuqing realized.

However, Long Yuqing could not understand why two families, who were originally close for generations, would orchestrate such a scheme?

Sixty years ago, the Qin Family was merely a minor player in the business world. It was Long Guiyun who initiated the commercial storm, elevating the Qin Family to the position of dominance in Jiangzhou City's business world. Since then, the Long Family went underground, and the two transformed from close allies to adversaries.

"Why exactly is this?" Long Yuqing asked, trembling slightly.

Qin Ruomeng shook her head, not understanding why Long Guiyun had done this: "Perhaps he encountered some hidden danger, or maybe he intended to draw out some mysterious power, thus forcing the two families to oppose each other."

Speaking, Qin Ruomeng pointed to a red seal on the letter and said, "What I am most curious about is this seal; it looks quite strange."

Seal?

At this time, Ye Tianfan frowned, and his peripheral vision also spotted the strange seal. He then said, "May I see it?"

Long Yuqing nodded and directly handed the letter to Ye Tianfan.

After receiving the letter, Ye Tianfan carefully examined the strange seal, and his expression subtly changed.

The seal bore a dragon head pattern in the center, with seven star-like points arranged around it like a star chart.

"I've seen this seal before; just outside the forbidden area of the Ye Family's Ancient Mansion, there's an identical seal!"

Ye Tianfan's heart flashed with astonishment. Although he did not know what the seal represented, he was certain of one thing—within the Ye Family, any place with this seal was designated as a restricted area.

Even Ye Tianfan was barred from entry.

"This seal must hide a significant secret!" Ye Tianfan frowned, speaking with firm conviction.

"A significant secret?" Qin Ruomeng and Long Yuqing couldn't help but exchange glances, their eyes filled with wonder.

While the trio was engrossed in the peculiar seal, a loud noise suddenly erupted outside the door.

"Boom..."

A wave of force surged forward, making Ye Tianfan's face change abruptly: "Get down!"

With no time to explain, Ye Tianfan quickly embraced Qin Ruomeng and Long Yuqing in front of him, taking cover under the table.

Soon after, the glass of the western restaurant was shattered, scattering shards everywhere. As Qin Ruomeng and Long Yuqing poked their heads out from under the table, they realized it was a car parked on the street that had exploded.

"That… isn't that Eldest Young Master Leng's car?" Qin Ruomeng exclaimed in shock.

Ye Tianfan's heart sank quickly. Raising his eyes, he saw the person in the car had been blown beyond recognition, leaving only a charred corpse.

Leng Xingfeng had been blown to pieces!

At this moment, Long Yuqing's expression suddenly altered, and she exclaimed, "No, we've fallen into someone else's trap!"

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