In one of the lavish apartments where Charles Millers was currently staying, he chuckled while sipping on a glass of wine as he heard the report.

  "Kill me?"

  He traced his fingers across his scar that gave him a hideous look. "Not so soon, Jiang Zhen. I have to take back my Underworld from you. Neither am I dying so soon, nor will you. We go so far back."

  His scar wasn't painful anymore, but the memories leading up to the bruise on his face were. He swore he would afflict Jiang Zhen with a pain a hundred times much worse than the torture he had to suffer.

  At first, he disagreed with Wei over getting his hands into his drugs business. His mission was to engage with Li Dong and spread that information up to the highest chain, which was Jiang Zhen.

  "Hm. But now that I think about it, it feels amazing. He must be so rattled and furious over the loss of his business," he laughed.

  His girlfriend Anna straddled on his lap and kissed his scar. "Indeed. Jiang Zhen is getting cornered from all sides. Both from the inside and the outside."

  He tapped on her nose. "I dislike it when you kiss my scar."

  Her lips curled into a beautiful, seductive smirk. "But I do. I always have. The scar is the proof of your fight for your Underworld and for your men. I am proud of it. You should be too."

  He sighed. "But I lost."

  "It doesn't matter. Jiang Wei lost too. But he isn't giving up."

  Charles gritted his teeth. "This fucking family. They brought their family feud all the way to America and those Jiangs fought for control for what? To take revenge from their own kin. Why drag us in between?"

  Anna rolled her eyes. "Pot calling the kettle black. You forgot how your scheming cousin hid in the European Underworld and to catch him, you waged a war against them who wanted to use him against you. So you better not talk about families messing up the international Underworld. In a way, the fight between the Jiangs is the same like you two had. Two cousins are fighting with each other."

  Charles coughed. "You didn't have to mention that."

  "Because I don't want you to needlessly hate the Jiangs, especially not Jiang Wei. He is cute."

  "Hey!" Charles whined. "I am cute too! Don't praise some other man so openly in front of your dashing and sexy boyfriend."

  She laughed. "Who would think that you were once the American Mafia King? Just look at how cute you act in the bedroom."

  He smirked. "I can act way more than just cute, honey."

  He pushed her on the bed and soon enough, sounds of their lovemaking filled the air. Anna gasped breathlessly in satisfaction and nuzzled her naked body glistening with sweat against Charles as it ended.

  "So, what's next?"

  Charles, who was still playing with her breasts, replied. "Next is notching up the temperature~ As you said, the preparations are done. Time for Jiang Zhen to come crashing down."

  —


  Late at night, Wei stared at the ceiling as he lay on the bed. He wasn't getting any sleep. The thoughts about Lihua endlessly were hovering in his mind.

  His fist clenched and unclenched with a bloodthirsty feeling pumping into each and every cell of his like adrenaline gushing out of a dam.

  The time was here. The trap was laid from all sides.

  He had planned it in a way to force Jiang Zhen give a killing order for Charles. But he also figured that he would give a command to attack Li Dong's base too. If he died, then the link between Charles and Li Dong would be broken, and Charles would be helpless.

  Jiang Zhen was cautious all this time only because Li Dong had the research subjects under him which he could use anytime to unleash them in a dire situation.

  But now seeing Charles destroying his Underworld and business, Jiang Zhen wouldn't be so patient anymore.

  And then there was a threat from Shen Yang too who was betraying him.

  Wei smiled.

  It was himself at one time who Jiang Zhen trapped like a mouse.

  "Now it is your turn. Let's begin, Jiang Zhen."

  —


  The morning at Li Dong's base was the usual. He was humming a merry tune, feeling in a good mood.

  He opened the door which Jiming was guarding. "Boss," she bowed.

  He smiled. "Ah, Jiming."

  She said, "I will bring Lu Bojing out."

  "Nope. I don't want Bojing this time."

  She narrowed her eyes. "So?"

  "You will know."

  Li Dong stepped inside the room and saw Bojing and Zexi sitting at a corner of the room.

  Zexi straightened up, alarmed.

  Why is the big boss here so suddenly!?

  "Ah, Bojing my love~ How are you?"

  Bojing didn't respond. He cowered back further in fear. His eyes looked lost, and his expression was blank.

  "You will be happy to know that I have almost perfected my research!" He beamed. "You were very helpful, I must say."

  Though Li Dong wasn't quite sure why Bojing didn't seem to look more…ghastly? His experiments were quite harsh, but Bojing seemed to be fine. He seemed in pain during the process but overall, he didn't look any different.

  Unknown to him, Jia had been administering him with Mingshen's special drug that negated pain or any damage to his body which Li Dong would try to do on him.

  She also took care of him such that she secretly fed him good food that boosted and strengthened his immunity even more.

  Li Dong wondered about this, but he attributed this to Bojing having a naturally strong composition.

  Bojing trembled and looked away.

  Li Dong chuckled. "Anyway, where was I? Ah yes! Now that I have perfected my research, I would like to test it on a new subject. And I think I will start with this young lady here."

  Zexi froze, so did Bojing.