96: Breaking news! Zheng Ziyang has gone mad!

At the entrance of the Zheng family mansion.

The night wind was slightly cool, but the atmosphere here was scorching hot.

Zheng Ziyang knelt on the ground, gasping for breath.

After shouting that apology, he felt as if the entire skeletal frame of his body had been pulled out.

Especially with his beloved woman, Chu Yueli, watching from the side.

Humiliation!

A monstrous humiliation!

He lowered his head, staring at the ants on the ground, his teeth grinding audibly while the bloodshot veins in his eyes looked ready to burst.

His internal calculator was clicking away rapidly:

"Lin Chuan! You just wait!"

"As long as I get through this today, I have ten thousand ways to kill you!"

"I'll find someone to kidnap you and play with your woman right in front of your face! Then I'll chop you into pieces and feed you to the dogs!"

"And this dead old man, actually helping an outsider force me to kneel!"

Although he wished he could punch a hole in the sky out of hatred, Zheng Ziyang's words were submissive.

After all, a wise man knows when to yield.

Lin Chuan stood there, looking at Zheng Ziyang's trembling back and that sky-piercing resentment.

Under the Golden Eyes, this kid's micro-expressions were like slow-motion footage.

The twitching at the corners of his eyes, the tightly clenched fists.

Lin Chuan's heart was as clear as a mirror.

'Heh, so he's submissive in word but not in heart!'

'Fine, since you want to play dirty, I'll let you lay all your dirty laundry out on the table.'

Lin Chuan laughed heartily; the laughter was so bright that no trace of a grudge could be heard.

He took a few steps forward and bent down.

He patted Zheng Ziyang's shoulder very cordially.

"Oh, Young Master Zheng, you're being too formal."

"Young people, who doesn't make mistakes sometimes?"

"To know one's mistakes and change them is the greatest virtue!"

At the exact moment Lin Chuan's generous palm patted Zheng Ziyang's shoulder.

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[Truth Sticker (Potent Version) is now in effect! Duration: 10 minutes.]

An invisible sticker instantly merged into Zheng Ziyang's body.

This sticker was incredibly domineering; it could spill out the deepest, darkest, and most unspeakable thoughts in a person's heart like pouring beans from a bag!

It was completely beyond control!

"Get up, Young Master Zheng."

Lin Chuan hypocritically reached out to help him up.

Zheng Ziyang jerked his shoulder violently, throwing off Lin Chuan's hand.

He wanted to say: "Don't touch me, get lost."

But when he opened his mouth, his mind was thinking of something else, and that suppressed rage and his true thoughts erupted like a volcano!

"Don't touch me with your filthy hands!!"

Zheng Ziyang sprang up from the ground.

He pointed at Lin Chuan's nose, his expression as hideous as a demon's.

"You stinking beggar of a nouveau riche! Who do you think you're fooling with that act?!"

"Me, apologizing to you? Ptooey!!"

"That was just a stalling tactic, don't you get it?!"

"Once I get through tonight, the first thing I'll do is hire a hitman to take you out! I'll wipe out your whole family! I'll make you regret ever coming into this world!!"

Boom—!

The whole place erupted in an uproar.

Everyone was stunned.

What was the situation?

Wasn't he just crying and apologizing a moment ago?

How did he suddenly start blabbing all the honest truths in his heart in the blink of an eye?

And he said it so bluntly?

So viciously?

Even Chu Jiaojiao's hand holding the video camera shook.

This material... was too explosive!

"Ziyang!! What nonsense are you talking!!"

Zheng Yun screamed in fright and rushed to cover his mouth.

"Have you had too much to drink!!"

"Get lost!!"

Zheng Ziyang shoved Zheng Yun away with surprising force, sending his First Aunt stumbling back.

He felt fantastic right now!

All those stifled words in his heart could finally be vented out satisfyingly!

He turned around and glared fiercely at Old Master Zheng, who was sitting in a wheelchair, trembling with rage.

His finger was almost poking the old man's face.

"And you!!"

"You old, unkillable jinx!!"

"You're already so old, with half your body in the grave, why aren't you dead yet?!"

"I'm almost thirty! I've been going crazy wanting to be the head of the family! You're just hogging the spot and not doing a damn thing!"

"I am the eldest grandson of the Zheng family! The future head! And you actually made me kneel in public for an outsider?!"

"I think you've really gone senile! You old, dim-witted thing!!"

Silence.

A deathly silence.

Only the rustling of leaves in the night wind could be heard.

Old Master Zheng sat there with his mouth wide open, gasping for air like a fish out of water.

He couldn't believe his ears.

Was this the same grandson who was usually submissive in front of him, affectionately calling him 'Grandpa' with every breath?

"You... what did you say..."

Old Master Zheng clutched his chest, tears streaming down his wrinkled cheeks.

"I want you to die!!"

Zheng Ziyang roared hysterically, his eyes blood-red.

"When you die, the Zheng family will belong to my dad! Which means it'll be mine!"

"Then no one will control me! I can do whatever I want!"

"Do you have any idea how exhausting it is to play the good grandson for you every single day?! Huh?!"

"You animal!!!!"

Old Master Zheng let out a cry of anguish, and failing to catch his breath, his eyes rolled back as he began to collapse.

"Dad!! Dad!!"

Zheng Yun was scared out of her wits; she quickly pinched his philtrum, crying and shouting.

"Call a doctor!! Quickly!!"

Just then.

A figure rushed out from the house.

It was Zheng Wei.

He had been secretly watching from upstairs. He originally wanted his son to yield first to get past this incident.

Who knew his son would suddenly go mad!

If he let him keep talking, it would really be over!

"Ziyang! You're crazy!!"

Zheng Wei rushed up and, without a second word, swung his arm wide.

Slap!!

A resounding slap landed on Zheng Ziyang's face.

"How much fake liquor did you drink?! To be talking such nonsense here!!"

After hitting his son, Zheng Wei quickly turned around and shouted at the stunned police officers and Lin Chuan:

"Everyone! It's a misunderstanding! This child is in a bad mood today and drank too much; he's just acting out a drunken frenzy!"

Having said that, Zheng Wei pointed at Lin Chuan, his eyes darting as he began to shift the conflict.

"Dad! First Aunt! Don't believe this Lin Chuan!"

"I just had someone check upstairs!"

"This kid isn't from some divine doctor lineage at all!"

"He's just a college student studying in the Imperial Capital! And he comes from the countryside!"

"It's written clearly in the files! He's a peasant from Red Mangrove Village in our province!"

"A rural farmer who read a few medical books dares to come and treat you?"

"He's a complete and utter fraud!!"

Zheng Wei's move to divert the trouble was indeed quite skillful.

He attempted to use the issue of status to dismantle Lin Chuan's authority while providing an excuse for his son's loss of composure.

But he never expected.

His words didn't affect Lin Chuan much.

Instead, they were like pouring a bucket of oil onto the fire of Zheng Ziyang, who was under the influence of the Truth Sticker!

Zheng Ziyang jumped up again, clutching his swollen face, looking at Lin Chuan with disdain and then at his father.

"Dad! You're right!"

"He's just a bumpkin! A lowly rural person!"

"In the eyes of aristocrats like us, people like this are just pests! They're meant to be stepped on!"

Zheng Ziyang got more excited as he spoke, completely unable to control his mouth.

"Lin Chuan! Did you hear that?"

"My dad has checked everything!"

"A farmer like you thinks he's worthy of fighting me?"

"Don't think you're safe just because Chu Yueli is protecting you!"

"Once this heat dies down, I'll find some brothers from the underworld to kidnap you to an abandoned factory in the suburbs!"

"When the time comes, I'll chop off your ten fingers one by one and feed them to the dogs!"

"Then I'll let you watch with your own eyes how I play with your woman!"

"Hahahaha! Scared now?!"

Zheng Ziyang laughed manically; that laughter in the night was bone-chilling.

This was a lunatic!

A complete and utter pervert!

Old Master Zheng had just caught his breath when he heard this; in his rage, he grabbed the cane from the ground.

"A family misfortune... what a family misfortune!!"

"How did I, Zheng Guoqiang, raise such an animal!!"

"Get out!! Get out of the Zheng family!!"

"From today on, you are not a member of my Zheng family! I will strike your name from the genealogy!!"

The old man was being serious now.

Expelled from the genealogy!

For children of wealthy families, that was more painful than being killed!

It meant losing all privileges and wealth!

Zheng Wei completely panicked upon hearing this.

"Dad!! You can't do that!"

"Ziyang is your eldest grandson! He's the only son of our branch!"

While pleading, Zheng Wei turned back to frantically signal Zheng Ziyang with his eyes, kicking and hitting him.

"You little bastard! Shut up already!!"

"Hurry up and kowtow to your grandfather to admit your mistake! Say you drank too much!!"

"Are you trying to kill me with anger!!"

Zheng Wei was desperate, punching and kicking, trying to beat his son into his senses.

But Zheng Ziyang was in truth-mode now and didn't back down at all.

The more his body hurt, the greater the resentment in his heart, and the more explosive the secrets he blurted out!

"Dad! Why are you hitting me?!"

Zheng Ziyang shouted while dodging, his eyes full of grievance and confusion.

"Didn't we agree on this?"

"As long as we outlast this old thing, the Zheng family will belong to the two of us!"

"Why are you hitting me!!"

Boom—!

Those words were like a thunderclap, striking Zheng Wei dead in his tracks.

Old Master Zheng and Zheng Yun were even more thunderstruck.

"What did you say..." Zheng Wei's face was deathly pale, his whole body shaking.

"Shut up! Shut your mouth!!"

"Why should I shut up?!"

Zheng Ziyang shoved Zheng Wei away, straightened his ruffled clothes, and spoke with an air of righteous indignation.

"Dad, stop pretending."

"You've done plenty of bad things yourself! And you have the nerve to hit me!"

Lin Chuan: "Oh? What bad things did your father do?"

Lin Chuan's question acted as a prompt.

Zheng Ziyang wanted to hold back in his mind, but his mouth simply wouldn't stop.

He pointed at Zheng Wei and began to list the secrets like he was counting his treasures.

"Dad, didn't you secretly transfer thirty million from the company the year before last and lose it all gambling in Macau?"

"To balance the books when you came back, you deliberately set a trap to make the project First Aunt was responsible for lose money, and then pinned the blame on her!"

"Did you forget about that? You even praised me for giving you such a good idea back then!"

Zheng Yun listened in stunned silence, her whole body turning cold.

"That year's loss... so it was you two..."

"And there's more!!"

Once Zheng Ziyang started, he couldn't stop; he was spilling everything, even the metaphorical nuclear bombs.

He pointed at Zheng Yun, a cruel smile appearing on his face.

"First Aunt, have you always thought that your eldest son falling into the Songhua River and drowning fifteen years ago was an accident?"

That was the eternal pain in Zheng Yun's heart!

Upon hearing those words, Zheng Yun's entire being trembled, and she stared fixedly at Zheng Ziyang.

"You... what did you say?!"

"Hahahaha!"

Zheng Ziyang laughed until he was doubled over.

"How could that have been an accident!"

"It was winter! He insisted on going ice skating on the river."

"It was me!!"

Zheng Ziyang pointed at his own nose with a look of smugness.

"I had someone cut a hole in the ice beforehand and cover it with a thin layer of snow!"

"Why was he more talented than me? Why did Grandpa always praise him back then?"

"As long as he was alive, the position of family head would never fall to me!"

"So I sent him to feed the fish!"

"I even watched with my own eyes as he thrashed around in that ice hole! His hand reached out for help, and I just stood on the bank smoking and watching!"

"Until he sank! And the bubbles stopped! Hahahaha!!"

"Aaaaaah!!!!!"

A shrill, piercing scream tore through the night sky.

Zheng Yun had snapped.

Completely snapped.

Like a lioness that had lost all reason, she charged forward recklessly and squeezed Zheng Ziyang's neck with a death grip.

"I'm going to kill you!! I'm going to kill you!!"

"That was my son!!!"

Five security guards rushed up to break up the fight, and the scene descended into chaos.

Zheng Ziyang was being choked until his eyes rolled, but his mouth still hadn't stopped.

"And Grandpa!!"

Zheng Ziyang shouted between coughs.

"How do you think you got this uremia?"

"You think it's the heavens punishing you?"

"Bullshit!!"

"It was a folk prescription my dad found from an old doctor!"

"Colorless and tasteless! It was put in your ginseng soup every day!"

"That stuff specifically damages the kidneys! Drink it for three to five years, and even an immortal would get renal failure!"

"Since you didn't want to die, we could only help you along!!"

Thud.

The cane in Old Master Zheng's hand fell.

His whole being seemed to have its soul sucked out, and he slumped into the wheelchair.

Old tears flowed freely.

In his life, he had weathered many storms and fought countless enemies.

He never imagined.

That in the end, he was meant to die at the hands of his own biological son and grandson!

"Animals... you animals..."

Old Master Zheng's lips trembled, and a mouthful of fresh blood sprayed out.

Pfft—!!

It stained his lapel red.

Beside him, Zheng Wei's face was now ashen as he slumped onto the ground.

It was over.

Everything was over.

Now, not even a god could save them.

He wanted to cover his son's mouth, but it was already too late.

Everything that should and shouldn't have been said had been spilled clean by this family-ruining brat!

Lin Chuan stood to the side, watching this high-society ethical drama, and shook his head.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk."

"Splendid, truly splendid."

"Young Master Zheng, you're just too honest!"

The red light on the video camera in Chu Jiaojiao's hand kept flashing.

It recorded all this evidence, along with Zheng Ziyang's smug expression, with perfect clarity.

And at the main gate.

That police officer, Old Liu, and several other officers.

Their faces were all deathly pale, wishing they were deaf.

They had just heard the shocking secret scandals of a wealthy family!

Murder!

Poisoning!

Massive embezzlement!

These were major cases that would cost people their heads!