The strong smell of gunpowder, along with the shrapnel from the explosions, and the smell of burnt cloth and hair, filled the air instantly.

Chen Rou initially used the semi-automatic mode of the 30-round automatic AK. She fired one bullet at a time, but still felt unsatisfied. She switched to automatic mode and unleashed a barrage of bullets at the already fallen Nie Yao.

...

With a muffled thud, Liang Lisheng landed hard on his backside.

As the key figure of the Nie family, this old man had dominated Hong Kong for half his life, daring to challenge the big shots in Kowloon. But he never expected that Chen Rou would be able to fire the gun so decisively and resolutely.

So Nie Yao is dead, right?

Liang Lisheng clutched his head with both hands and howled, "Mei Lu, I'm going to kill you!"

Nie Yao was the child he used to pick up and drop off at school every day and accompany to work. If it weren't for Mei Lu, he wouldn't have died so young.

But things didn't seem to go as Liang Lisheng had imagined.

The gunfire finally stopped. With a clatter, Chen Rou tossed the AK to Liang Lisheng, then picked up the pistol he had thrown on the ground. She knelt down, grabbed Nie Yao by the collar, and pressed the gun against his chin: "Do you still think you're innocent?"

Nie Yao's hair was scorched by the hot bullet that had just left the barrel, and his suit was full of holes burned by the bullet. Shrapnel fell off with the slightest movement. His face was paler than a sheet of paper, but he was still alive.

Because Chen Rou only aimed at him, she didn't fire a bullet at him.

However, Chen Rou in front of Nie Yao was no longer the obedient girl he would pick up from school every weekend.

There was fire in her eyes, and her gaze was like that of a vengeful goddess descending.

No one knows how she escaped the clutches of more than three hundred pirates, but at this moment, Nie Yao finally understood.

He said, "I'm sorry, Arou, I'm not wronged at all!"

He suddenly grabbed Chen Rou's hand holding the gun and said tremblingly, "Go ahead and shoot. I won't blame you, really."

Chen Rou said, "From Mei Baoshan to Zeng Aming, Xiang Tiange, Gui Tou Rong, and Gui Tou Chang, they all want me and A Zhao dead. They would be happy to cooperate with you because compared to A Zhao, you are just a puppet to be manipulated."

Nie Yao disagrees with this, saying, "I am not a puppet. I have always been working hard to run the company well."

"Because of your efforts, we were kidnapped. And because of your efforts, if we hadn't abandoned ship halfway, we would have been blown to bits in Central Harbour. But even now, you still haven't given up. You even dared to crash into Ghost Head Rong's car. You're so stupid. The more you try, the more mistakes you make and the more people you harm!" Chen Rou asked sternly.

Nie Yao is like that.

Because Nie Rong had doubts about the DNA results, although he transferred all the shares from Nie Yao to Nie Zhao at the company level and has now relinquished all power except for the position of chairman of the board, he has not discussed the matter of bloodline with Nie Yao.

Therefore, Nie Yao was unaware that he was a 'bastard', and he was even unaware that his position as president had been revoked.

He was afraid that Nie Zhao would kill him, and he didn't want to die; he only wanted to survive, which is why he was running around aimlessly.

But at that moment, although he was still unaware of the matter of bloodline unification, he realized his own foolishness and failure.

The more you do, the more mistakes you make; the harder you try, the worse things get—that's a perfect description of him.

Glancing at his younger brother, who had miraculously survived and made a triumphant return, and then at Chen Rou, whom he had grown up with, Nie Yao finally said, "I'm sorry, Rou. I think I really was terribly wrong. You... you should kill me!"

For the past twenty-odd days, he had been watching movies and documentaries about Unit 731. He knew what his mother had done and had been enduring hellish torment, but only now did he realize that he had made a mistake.

A kind and sincere child, he was once Mei Lu's most powerful weapon.

But now, his sincerity and kindness are also a sharp blade piercing himself.

The thought that his niece and the girl he liked almost died because of him fills him with shame, sadness, and utter disgrace.

Chen Rou nodded and slowly released the gun in her hand. At the same time, Liang Lisheng, who was sitting on the ground, suddenly raised his AK. Nie Zhao also had a gun in his pocket, and he raised it without anyone noticing.

“You’re my friend. You’ve always been good to me, to Ahan, and to Jiayu and Jiajun. I won’t kill you. If you really want to die, choose suicide. But even if you survive, the law won’t punish you, but you’ll still have to pay the price for your mistakes until the threat to our lives is completely eliminated. But that’s no different from going to jail. So if you have any guts and are a real man, I suggest you…” Chen Rou stood up: “Commit suicide.”

Chen Rou stood up, gave Nie Zhao a deep look, and walked past him out the door.

He entrusted her with the power of life and death over his second brother, but Chen Rou was neither a bloodthirsty demon nor an executioner who would kill at will.

Nie Yao was certainly wrong, but he was also deceived—a Truman-style deception that began from birth. In Chen Rou's eyes, he did not deserve to die.

...

As soon as Chen Rou stepped outside, she noticed that the sky was dazzlingly bright, but everything in front of her was extremely dark.

Police sirens blared on the highway, and the noise was incessant.

Looking up and scanning the surroundings, Chen Rou understood the reason for this strange celestial phenomenon.

By now, a large number of paparazzi had gathered above the pier, and the police had also arrived. Because the pier belongs to the Nie family, Hong Kong police rules state that they cannot enter and conduct searches without the Nie family's permission.

Paparazzi are afraid of being silenced by bodyguards, so they don't dare to go to the dock, but they have high-powered lenses and will take pictures indiscriminately.

In response, Wade turned all the lights on the entire dock towards the road to expose the paparazzi's shots.

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