Chapter 224: Chapter 223: Then Let This Knight Be Our Scapegoat

"What are you screaming about?"

Huang Haibo asked impatiently.

He was already on edge, and his wife’s strange cry made his temper flare, his brow furrowing deeply.

His wife didn’t say another word, simply holding her phone up in front of his face.

Huang Qiucheng and a briefly lucid Zhang Jiancheng also leaned in to look.

After seeing what was on the screen, all three of them wore expressions of pure shock.

The screen was filled with scathing attacks against Zhang Jiancheng, Huang Haibo, and their Martial Arts Academy.

It struck right at the heart of their shadiest dealings, and what’s more, it was all backed by irrefutable proof.

"Looks like you were right. Someone really might be out to get us.

That fool who fancies himself a Knight couldn’t possibly have the means to investigate everything we and the Martial Arts Academy have done in such detail."

Huang Haibo clenched his fists, his eyes blazing with killing intent.

Huang Haibo had handled these matters with the utmost secrecy. Even on the rare occasion that something was noticed,

to the point of alerting local authorities, he had personally stepped in to make it all go away.

To make these problems disappear, he had spent a fortune and even resorted to ruthless, underhanded tactics.

Anyone who couldn’t be controlled was slowly "taken care of" after Huang Haibo had smoothed things over.

Those bastards have probably been reincarnated many times over by now.

So why were all these secrets suddenly seeing the light of day, as if someone had been keeping a detailed ledger all this time?

Huang Haibo couldn’t help but wonder.

"What do we do? What are we going to do?

If this gets out, it’s bound to attract Chu He’s attention! We’ll all be finished!"

The woman said, fraught with panic as she sat there.

She was in a total panic, completely at a loss.

The things they had done were simply too severe. As one of the perpetrators,

she knew better than anyone just how serious the consequences would be if this all came out.

"If you don’t want to die right now, shut your mouth. Otherwise, I’ll kill you myself."

Huang Haibo snarled, his patience gone.

The woman immediately fell silent, not daring to say another word.

But her body, still trembling as she sat on the sofa, betrayed her inner terror.

"Afraid? Afraid my ass!"

Huang Haibo said coldly. "You had no problem spending every last cent of the money we made."

"So why are you panicking now? Did you think you’d be the only one to go down if this got out?"

"We’ll handle whatever comes our way."

"In all my decades in Huamen City, what kind of storm haven’t I weathered?"

"But I’ve always understood one thing: the rougher the seas, the more valuable the fish."

"This might even be our chance to rise higher than ever and solve all our problems once and for all."

A flicker of panic had initially crossed Huang Haibo’s eyes,

but his temperament, honed over many years, allowed him to quickly calm down. He had even formulated a counter-plan already.

"Father, do you have a plan?"

Huang Qiucheng asked quickly.

As Huang Haibo’s daughter, she knew her father’s style and methods better than anyone.

Seeing him sitting there so calm and composed, she knew he must have a plan.

Just as her father said, this was hardly the first major storm the family had faced over the years.

And every time, her father had acted decisively to turn the situation around.

So, seeing that Huang Haibo was unfazed, Huang Qiucheng’s own heart began to calm.

The wife looked at Huang Haibo, her eyes filled with expectation. Her husband was her only hope now.

As for Zhang Jiancheng, he just sat there, his eyes glazing over once more.

"If someone with enough power and a grudge wants to investigate our past deeds, it’s only a matter of time before they’re exposed. It’s a ticking time bomb."

Huang Haibo glanced at the local forum where netizens were furiously cursing his family in the comments below the post.

A disdainful smile spread across his face. "A bunch of idiotic rabble. All they can do is curse us from behind a keyboard."

"If they dared to stand in front of me, I’d slap them to death with a single palm strike."

"In fact, if I wanted to,"

"I could have my men find the home addresses of every netizen insulting my family in that comment section in minutes. We could go there and execute their entire families."

"That’s the kind of power I, Huang Haibo, wield in this city. It’s something this common rabble could never even imagine."

Zhang Jiancheng’s focus returned. He, along with Huang Qiucheng and her mother, remained silent, waiting for what Huang Haibo would say next.

"Isn’t there someone out there who wants to play the righteous Knight, lurking in the shadows,

trying to take down my family and wipe us out of Huamen City?"

"Fine. We’ll pin everything on this ’Knight.’ Let him be the scapegoat."

"Over eighty percent of the top brass in Huamen City are on my side,"

"because our relationships are so intertwined that you can’t tell where one begins and the other ends."

"If I go down, they’ll be ruined, if not destroyed completely. That’s the last thing they want to see happen."

"So, whether it’s for my sake or their own, they will never allow me to fall."

"Whoever is trying to take me down from the shadows has seriously underestimated the situation."

"As long as we pin everything on him, our family will be in the clear for good."

Huang Haibo said with complete confidence, "However, I will find the person who posted this. I’ll drag them out of the woodwork."

"That bastard actually claimed I wouldn’t even spare an eighty-year-old woman,"

"he even made up a ridiculous story that I went to their village and inseminated over three hundred sows at a pig farm."

Huang Haibo, who fancied himself a formidable figure, couldn’t tolerate having his name smeared with such rumors.

Zhang Jiancheng’s mouth twitched. ’Could my father-in-law have really done something like that?’ he thought.

’Who would have thought!’

At that thought, his eyes unconsciously drifted down toward Huang Haibo’s crotch.

"What the hell are you looking at, you useless piece of trash!"

"You let some coward hiding in the shadows nearly kill you. If my daughter hadn’t been protecting you,"

"and used the death-substitute doll I spent a fortune on to save you, you’d be long dead by now, you hear me?"

Seeing Zhang Jiancheng sizing him up with that strange look, Huang Haibo was instantly enraged.

Huang Haibo raised his hand and slapped him hard across the face, nearly knocking him unconscious.

In his current state, Zhang Jiancheng was extremely frail.

Zhang Jiancheng clutched his face, an expression of pure grievance on it.

Fortunately, due to his body’s condition, the area he was struck was covered in lividity spots and was almost numb.

So while he nearly fainted, he didn’t feel much pain.

The main thing was, he knew the earlier accusations in that exposé post were all true.

’He had personally handled many of those matters, so of course he knew they were real.’

’So, since the person behind it had such solid proof for the other claims, was there any need to mix in lies?’

Zhang Jiancheng felt there was only one possibility.

’The part about "not even sparing an eighty-year-old woman" and "inseminating over three hundred sows at a pig farm" must also be true.’

’That was over three hundred sows!’

’My father-in-law is truly on another level... terrifyingly so!’

"It seems the problems in Huamen City are even worse than we imagined. I doubt Bi Hongda will be the only one to fall."

Facing the strange looks from Chu He and Yumizakura, Qi Chaoyu awkwardly tried to change the subject.