Chapter 68: The Butcher's Blade Suspended at the Throat

While a profound sense of shock washed over Shen Lin and Shen Mingxuan, panic quickly set in. Ye Huan’s formidable capability far exceeded their wildest imaginations.

Right now, they had no way of knowing whether Ye Huan was aware that they were members of the Slaughter Forest Chamber of Commerce!

"Not thrilled? Not surprised?" Ye Huan asked with a cunning and mocking smile.

*Thrilled? Thrilled your mother’s cunt, surprised your grandmother’s leg...* Su Yunting and the other three cursed fiercely in their hearts, but not a single word dared to escape their lips.

At this very moment, Ye Huan’s executioner's blade was suspended directly above their heads; they certainly wouldn't dare provoke him.

"Brilliant, absolutely brilliant!"

At this juncture, Shen Mingxuan began to clap his hands, looking at Ye Huan with an expression of profound admiration as he said, "Mr. Ye is truly Zhuge Liang reincarnated, playing that old fox Su Yunting right in the palm of his hand. I am impressed, truly impressed!"

Shen Lin quickly chimed in, "Heroes truly emerge from the youths! In all my years of reading people, I have never once laid eyes on anyone superior to Mr. Ye. Utterly ruthless yet brilliant at such a tender age!"

Ye Huan looked at the two idiots, Shen Lin and Shen Mingxuan, with the gaze one might reserve for the mentally disabled, and asked:

"I honestly admire you two for your psychological fortitude. You actually still have the leisure to flatter me at a time like this. Didn't you wonder why I brought you here to watch this little play?"

"Oh?"

Shen Mingxuan wore a look of curiosity and asked unhurriedly, "Could there be another reason why Mr. Ye invited us to watch this fine performance?"

Without answering, Ye Huan simply glanced sideways at Tian Nong.

Tian Nong immediately took out his phone and sent an email to Shen Mingxuan.

The very next second, the chime for a new email rang out from Shen Mingxuan’s phone.

"Young Master Shen, your subordinate Tian Nong has just sent you an email. Don't you plan to take a look?" Ye Huan sneered.

The smile on Shen Mingxuan’s face froze. He stared at Ye Huan in sheer disbelief and asked, "Y-you... how did you know?"

As soon as those words were spoken, Shen Lin whipped his head around to stare at Shen Mingxuan, his face written all over with absolute disbelief.

Only now did he realize that his own subordinate was actually his very own son!

"Not only do I know that Tian Nong reports to you, but I also know that you report to Shen Lin," Ye Huan stated calmly.

"What?"

Shen Mingxuan abruptly snapped his head toward Shen Lin, and at that exact moment, Shen Lin was looking back at Shen Mingxuan in profound shock.

Thus, the gazes of father and son collided dead-on.

"Dad, y-y-you... is this true?" Shen Mingxuan asked incredulously.

Instead of answering, Shen Lin turned his gloomy face toward Ye Huan and demanded, "How did you find out?"

That question served as an affirmative answer to Shen Mingxuan.

"Is the answer to that question still important?" Ye Huan asked coldly.

It was no longer important!

Shen Lin and Shen Mingxuan turned ashen-faced. They knew all too well that they were likely about to follow in the footsteps of Su Yunting, Su Danchen, and Su Lei, and that the Shen Group was about to meet the same fate as the Su Group!

"Mr. Ye, Dad, Brother, what on earth are you all talking about?"

At this moment, Shen Huamei could no longer hold back her confusion and spoke up. She hadn't understood a single word of what the three men had been discussing.

Xue Fengmei was equally clueless.

"The Slaughter Forest Chamber of Commerce is an organization whose ultimate goal is the destruction of the Lin Group. Your father and brother are both members of this chamber, yet neither of them knew each other's identity, communicating entirely through encrypted emails!"

Ye Huan explained unhurriedly:

"Your father, Shen Lin, is the superior of your brother, Shen Mingxuan, while Shen Mingxuan is the superior of Tian Nong. Shen Lin instructed Shen Mingxuan to direct Tian Nong via email to collude with the Su family, the Jin family, and the Sacred Dragon Martial Arts Gym in order to destroy the Lin Group and assassinate me!"

*Bam!*

The expressions on the faces of Shen Huamei and Xue Fengmei looked as though they had been struck by lightning!

In that fleeting instant, Shen Huamei finally understood. It wasn't because she had tormented and humiliated Ye Huan that the First Under Heaven Restaurant had sanctioned the Shen family and the Shen Group.

Rather, it was because her father and brother had plotted to murder Ye Huan and destroy the Lin Group that Ye Huan had flown into a rage and ordered the First Under Heaven Restaurant to sanction them.

"Why?"

Shen Huamei glared angrily at Shen Lin and Shen Mingxuan.

"Xixi and I grew up together like sisters. The Lin family and the Lin Group have never once done anything to wrong the Shen family or the Shen Group. Why on earth would you want to destroy them?"

Shen Lin and Shen Mingxuan offered no reply. Only now did they finally grasp why Ye Huan had demanded that their family of four write self-criticism letters.

That had clearly been Ye Huan’s final chance for the Shen family.

Yet not only had they had employees of the Shen Group ghostwrite the letters to fool Ye Huan, but when that deception failed, they had flown into a rage of shame and ordered his assassination.

It was returning kindness with enmity!

"Who is your superior?" Ye Huan asked, his gaze chilling as he stared at Shen Lin.

"I don't have a superior. I am a core member of the Slaughter Forest Chamber of Commerce," Shen Lin blurted out quickly.

Oh?

Ye Huan was genuinely somewhat surprised. An idiot like Shen Lin actually held the status of a core member within the organization; that meant the intelligence of the other core members couldn't possibly be much higher.

He inquired, "Who are the core members of the Slaughter Forest Chamber of Commerce?"

"All of us core members are in a WeChat group called 'Slaughter Forest Chamber of Commerce'. Look!"

Shen Lin hurriedly produced his phone and pulled up the chamber's group chat.

"Can you add me to the group?" Ye Huan asked.

"There are three conditions to join: First, one must be in the same industry, with a verifiable identity and company; second, one must harbor hostility toward the Lin Group; third, one must post a security deposit of ten million," Shen Lin explained.

Ye Huan pondered for a moment. "Just say I am Su Yunting. As for the security deposit, you can pay it on my behalf."

Shen Lin: "..."

Ye Huan glared at him. "Unwilling?"

"Willing, willing, I'm completely willing!"

Startled into a shiver, Shen Lin quickly expressed his compliance. "Uhm, what is your WeChat ID, Mr. Ye? I—I'll add you right now!"

Ye Huan immediately recited his WeChat ID.

Shen Lin quickly punched it in and sent the request.

The moment Ye Huan accepted it, he suddenly lashed out, kicking downward to snap the legs of both Shen Lin and Shen Mingxuan.

"Agh..."

Collapsing to the ground, Shen Lin and Shen Mingxuan let out blood-curdling shrieks. The agony of shattered bones—especially having both legs broken at once—was a piercing torment beyond the power of words to describe.

"I'll spare you your lives for Lin Xi’s sake and only break your legs. If any of you ever dare to make an enemy of me or the Lin Group again, I won't be nearly this gentle!"

Hnorting coldly, Ye Huan turned to Xu Baichuan and commanded, "Take them away for emergency medical treatment."

"Understood!"

Xu Baichuan immediately summoned his apprentices, and together they carried the wailing Shen Lin and Shen Mingxuan out of the room.

"Th-Thank you..."

Biting through their teeth with blood spilling from the corners of their mouths, Shen Lin and Shen Mingxuan managed to wheeze out their gratitude through the blinding agony of their broken limbs.

With complex expressions in their eyes, Shen Huamei and Xue Fengmei cast one final glance at Ye Huan before hurriedly following the stretcher out.

Witnessing this, Su Yunting, Su Danchen, Su Lei, and Su Rui panicked completely.

Su Rui’s legs went so weak with terror that he collapsed heavily onto the floor!

With the Shen family evacuated, Ye Huan’s butcher’s knife was about to descend upon their necks next!

"It's your turn."

Ye Huan turned his gaze toward Su Yunting, Su Danchen, Su Lei, and Su Rui, his voice chillingly flat.

"I refuse to accept this!" Su Lei shrieked in absolute terror.

"Unaccepting of what?"

Ye Huan stepped over to Su Lei’s hospital bed, reached out, and clamped his hand around Su Lei’s throat.

Trembling violently from head to toe in sheer panic, Su Lei wailed, "The Shen family made an enemy of you and the Lin Group, yet you merely broke the legs of Shen Lin and Shen Mingxuan! Why is it that when our Su family crosses you, you deal with us so ruthlessly? This isn't fair!"

*Crack!*

With a sharp twist, Ye Huan snapped Su Lei's neck.