Chapter 395: Chapter 395: Even If I Die, I Want Them to Be Buried with You
“You’re truly clever, no wonder they say you’re so much like your grandfather.”
“That’s right. The ‘Deep Sea Heart’ is nothing more than an ordinary gemstone. There’s no miraculous secret formula for longevity hidden inside. All of that—it’s just rumors deliberately planted into the ears of certain people.”
Chu Zhan, upon discovering their involvent in biological experints, had people track and investigate their related activities.
Apart from those hundreds of unknown labs, the most significant one was the Royal Cruise that endlessly drifted across the ocean.
This cruise was like their shield, appearing sporadically in other territories, protected by those ‘green forces.’ As long as their father held that position, it wouldn’t be easy to eliminate these people.
But Chu Zhan refused to surrender to fate.
Even if he had to use his own life as collateral, he was determined to bury these people alongside his wife!
Among the seven people involved in that brutal act years ago, three were children of dostic elites, and four were from abroad.
Exacting revenge on each of them wasn’t just a matter of ti—it would also make others, upon hearing the news, go into hiding.
After all… these so-called elites feared death in their bones.
The dostic trio of “sons of disaster” were sent overseas by their fathers to seek refuge after the incident. Using certain exchanges of information, they persuaded the overseas ‘green forces’ to shield their sons under their wings, thus eluding Chu Zhan’s revenge.
But what perplexed them was…
Chu Zhan, after his wife’s death, didn’t imdiately retaliate against those people. He behaved as if nothing had changed.
With his wife’s remains rged into the soil of that humble lodge, Chu Zhan took so of that earth and built her a symbolic grave near the Chu family’s hills, where he could live close by, staying near his “wife.”
The fathers of the dostic trio constantly deployed people to monitor the Chu family from the shadows. They exerted pressure through other wealthy and influential families, forbidding them from cooperating with the Chu family.
Yet, Port City isn’t the mainland; many affairs aren’t so easily interfered with by them.
“A gentleman’s revenge is never too late.”
Chu Zhan knew that as long as the fathers of those dostic offenders clung to their positions of power, dealing with the fugitives would be extrely difficult. So, he put all his energy into expanding his influence.
Whether legal or illegal, overt or covert.
For three full years, he painstakingly maneuvered to topple those three figures tightly safeguarding one another.
Once that position beca “vacant,” it wouldn’t take long before replacents surfaced. Chu Zhan then elevated soone he’d backed into power.
As part of the deal, he acquired the exact locations of the three dostic offenders who’d fled.
The dostic offenders now knew the fate of their fathers—they were dead. Their mothers, in the public eye, had succumbed to ‘suicidal grief.’ Their retired grandparents were uncovered for a history of legal and ethical misconduct. Their maternal family—grandparents, uncles, and other relatives—t miserable ends too.
Chu Zhan was never a good man to begin with.
His wife’s existence once sparked a flicker of goodness within him.
But when the lock containing his dark instincts broke, all his benevolence drowned beneath his malevolence.
He made them regret ever bringing those bastards into the world.
Yet! Of those guilty of murdering his wife, only three had been dealt with—a number far too minuscule to illuminate his wife’s path in the cycle of reincarnation.
And those four beasts abroad were even more cowardly and desperate to cling to life than the dostic offenders.
Upon returning ho, they vanished deep into the shadows, never daring to show themselves.
Chu Zhan leveraged his wealth to collaborate with rival families battling against the four beasts’ clans, thodically dismantling their grasp on power.
The good news was that the green forces in their holand had abandoned supporting their families.
The bad news? Their exact whereabouts remained unknown—they refused to surface.
To “lure the snake out of its hole,” Chu Zhan deliberately leaked information to the public suggesting he’d discovered a treasure. Allegedly, it was this windfall that gave him the capital to launch his flourishing career.
And his increasingly successful ventures, coupled with his rapidly mounting wealth, ignited greed among those who’d been keeping tabs on him from the shadows.
But this was rely the setup.
When word spread that the foreign offenders were involved in biological experints, Chu Zhan began taking so restricted dications left behind by his wife.
These were items she’d once used for pharmaceutical experints.
During her research, she found that these substances could temporarily rejuvenate soone, visibly reversing age-related features. While the effect could make a forty-year-old appear twenty years younger, the price was severe damage to one’s internal organs, followed by inevitable death.
So, she’d halted further study and sealed away the substances, intending to eventually destroy them entirely.
Coincidentally, at the ti, the seven unconscious individuals had co seeking help, interrupting her plans for disposal.
To bait his adversaries, Chu Zhan used himself as the lure.
During that period, his public appearances made him seem ten to twenty years younger. dia speculation ran wild, with many guessing he’d undergone so miraculous “dical aesthetic” procedure to achieve such results.
Chu Zhan successfully drew the attention of those foreign experint-obsessed maniacs, prompting them to secretly infiltrate the country to investigate.
The “Deep Sea Heart” ca into play during that period.
“So, the secret of youth tied to the inside of the ‘Deep Sea Heart’—my grandfather intentionally spread that rumor?”
Cheng Cang nodded. “The original stone of the ‘Deep Sea Heart’ and the original stone of the jade bracelet you’re wearing were both gifts your grandfather prepared for your grandmother.”
Cheng Cang’s foster father had disclosed these mories on his deathbed.
According to him, Chu Zhan’s love for his wife bordered on obsession.
Lu Xining’s voice turned somber. “So, the operation of the Beicheng Family coalition against my grandfather was led by him?”
Cheng Cang confird, “…Yes.”
In truth, Chu Zhan was living on borrowed ti after consuming the forbidden drugs.
If he simply died without resistance, those people would never appear on their own.
He wanted them to present themselves at the Chu family’s front door, offering their necks for the blade that would sever them—splitting open their treacherous hearts!
“And the chanism outside the ‘Deep Sea Heart’—was that also designed by my grandfather?”
Lu Xining furrowed her brow in puzzlent. If luring them out through her grandfather’s death alone had been enough, then why go to such lengths, complicating the sche further?
Hearing this, Cheng Cang sneered. “No, that contraption was a fabrication by those four beasts, ant to amplify the allure of the gem.”
No such powerful glass enclosure exists—nothing capable of withstanding modern technological advances.
The ‘Deep Sea Heart’ had already undergone exhaustive examination, yet yielded no secrets. And still, they remained fixated on achieving Chu Zhan’s pre-death, mystifying rejuvenation.
“Don’t be fooled by how grandiose and formidable these foreign families seem. Deep down, their blood carries the stain of looting, greed baked into their marrow, monstrous cris upon monstrous cris!”
Cheng Cang appeared even angrier than Lu Xining as he rembered his foster father’s regret.
Not witnessing the deaths of those four beasts was the greatest sha he carried regarding Chu Zhan.
“They rely wanted to use this opportunity to find soone who could decrypt the mysteries of the ‘Deep Sea Heart.'”
Layer by layer, the puzzle unraveled.
Lu Xining drew a deep breath to suppress the turbulent rage boiling inside her, gathering her thoughts to plan the next move.
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